"The sooner we go to Beijing, the better, but how do we get there?" Zhang Taiyan also wanted to go to Beijing, but now the sea is full of ships of the Manchu Qing Division, and even if they fly the flag of foreigners like an arms ship, they cannot land under the encirclement of the Manchu Qing Division.

"Mr. Taiyan, there are forty-five people in the entire command. The airships on the Beijing side are transporting the captured munitions everywhere, and now four airships are coming to Shanghai and will arrive early tomorrow morning. When they have unloaded their munitions, we can take an airship to Beijing, and we will be able to arrive early the next morning. Yang Rui hadn't answered yet, but Chen Guangshou had made the arrangement first.

"Didn't you say that the airship was not allowed to carry people?" Several other people had never seen an airship, and they didn't understand what it was, although Zhang Taiyan hadn't seen it, he still knew something.

"Oh. The two ships that came back from the United States were loaded with helium instead of hydrogen, and there was no danger of fire. These two ships can hold more than 60 people, and they can move the entire command headquarters over......" Speaking of helium airships, it only made Yang Rui feel a pain in his flesh, which was the price of one top three. "Don't worry about going to Beijing, everyone should set the power first, send the power out earlier, and settle the people's hearts as soon as possible."

"Sir, are you really going to reopen the imperial examination?" Wang Xiaolin asked, he had no opinion on the rest, he only felt that there was something wrong with this article, "The Manchu Qing Dynasty tossed for several years, and finally made a lot of ways to abolish the imperial examination." Now once we resume the imperial examination, the students of the new school will all disperse, and there will be no one to learn the new school. ”

"This imperial examination is not another imperial examination." Yang Rui replied that he didn't know how to explain the civil service exam to everyone. I had to say: "Bagu will not be re-examined, and it is not possible to become an official only by relying on relationship money." For those who are really talented, the fairest selection method is still examination. We are now keeping the form of the imperial examination unchanged, but the content will change, there will be new and old studies, the examination syllabus will be different, and the salaries of officials will be announced immediately, so that everyone will think that they can make a fortune by becoming an official......

The more Yang Rui talked, the longer he talked. In the end, I didn't want to say anything, but said: "If the words reopening the scientific examination are in the way, then let's say it differently." Anyway, it means to take the exam. ”

When Yang Rui was talking, a report came from outside, "Sir, Beijing emergency call!" ”

One said that Beijing emergency electricity. The discussion in the room stopped. I saw Chen Guangshou take the telegram, and was about to turn the corner to Yang Rui after browsing, but Yang Rui asked him to say the telegram, so he had no choice but to say: "The legation over there in Beijing still has different opinions on recognizing us as a belligerent group, and now Mr. Chong'an has rejected the mention that the legation wants to send troops out of the embassy to inspect and guard the churches and expatriates everywhere, and he believes that according to the Xinchou clause, the armies of various countries only have military rights in the embassy area and on the Beijing-Tianjin railway line, and no troops can be sent to garrison other places." The current situation is. If we don't agree with countries sending troops, then countries don't agree to talk to us in person. ”

"Do foreigners really want to send troops to patrol and defend everywhere?" Yang Rui asked.

That's what the telegram said. In the morning, the Counsellor of the British Legation, Mamuller, personally addressed Mr. Chong'an, asking for troops to be sent to inspect churches and expatriate residences, and to send troops to guard these places. Mr. Chong'an only agreed that they would send unarmed personnel to inspect the patrol, and that the military would not be able to patrol other parts of Beijing. Chen Guangshou said, "Now there is a stalemate over there because of this." ”

"How long is that going to be a stalemate?" Yang Rui also understands that foreigners are not easy to speak, but it is not a way to stay deadlocked like this.

Mr. Chongan has asked some foreign journalists to look at the situation in Beijing, but he does not think that the reporters' reports will make countries compromise. He believes that in order to be recognized by the countries, it depends on how many places we occupy, and if the ministers of the countries find out that we occupy most of the country, then they will have to recognize us. In addition, there was also bad news, the Japanese Legation Guard took advantage of the chaos at night to take Prince Su Shanqi to the embassy. ”

"What! Shanqi ran away? Yang Rui exclaimed, and then continued: "His daughter...... No, what about his family? ”

"I ran away, Shanqi, one and two followers, and the others didn't run." Chen Guangshou didn't understand why Yang Rui asked about Shanqi's daughter, but he still explained the situation.

"It's okay that he only ran away with Shanqi, but I'm afraid that his whole family will run away." Yang Rui whispered, and then said to everyone, "Let's talk about it, what should this foreigner do like this?" ”

The question was actually asked to Yang Du and Cen Chi, and Yang Du said: "Mr. Chong'an is reasonable and responsible, it is excellent to do this now, as long as we take most of the country, then they will have to admit it." ”

After Yang Du finished speaking, Cen Chi said: "I am not proficient in foreign affairs, but there is a person in Shanghai who still hopes that he can go to ask for advice, he has always been skilled in foreign affairs, and asking his opinion should be beneficial to the present." ”

"Who is this person, and the difficulty is Wu Tingfang?" Yang Du asked.

"It's not Mr. Wu Zhiyong, it's Mr. Zhao Zhujun. He was in the Xiyin Hall on Nanyang Road in the Public Concession, and sent someone over to invite him for two teas. In today's situation, he may have a good solution. Cen Chi said, "If you go north to the capital tomorrow, you need him, even if he doesn't want to go, you have to force him to go." ”

Cen Chi's statement only shocked everyone sitting in their hearts, and Zhang Taiyan asked, "Is this ...... Isn't this forcibly tying people? ”

"Mr. Taiyan, this is to invite someone, not to tie someone up." Cen Chi replied, "Mr. Zhujun has too many plans in his chest, and he facilitated the southeast mutual insurance during the Gengzi period. For the gentry, the merchant gentry is pulled, and the local gentry is beaten, but the merchant gentry and the local gentry are originally a family, and no matter how the land reform is in the future, there will be voices of resistance. Now invite Mr. Zhujun to Beijing, first, to give advice on dealing with foreigners, and second, to make the gentry have no clever strategists in Dingding in these months, and after the world is settled, the gentry will have no chance to make any more famous names. ”

Cen Chi is worthy of being a ruthless strategist who instigated Cen Chunxuan to kill officials frantically and gain popularity, and he is simply the same virtue as Wu Yong, the military advisor of Liangshan. Yang Rui smiled when he heard that he was going to force Zhao Fengchang to invite him, and said to Chen Guangshou: "Let Shu Zhai's special department go and invite Mr. Zhao, just say that I, Yang Rui, have been invited, if he doesn't come." Tell him again that Beijing is occupied by us, and Guangxu has committed suicide by poisoning. ”

Zhao Fengchang woke up early in the morning, this is his habit. However, the gunshots on the side of the Jiangnan Bureau in the middle of the night last night surprised him very much, so he sent someone to inquire about the news in the morning, but the people who passed by hurriedly ran back before they arrived at the Jiangnan Bureau, and the reported news only made Zhao Fengchang jump up from the chair violently.

"You can see it clearly!! Jiangnan Bureau, the county government is hanging, is it the flag of the Fuxing Association? Zhao Fengchang asked.

"Yes, Father! It's all the flag of the Revival Society. My sister has gone over to help. Zhao Zunyue said, he volunteered to take the servants out in the morning, and he didn't want to obey his father's orders and only probe in the concession. But when he saw that the Chinese community was full of the banners of the Revival Association, he hurriedly went back to report the news.

Ignoring the daughter who had been bewitched by the Revival Association for a long time, Zhao Fengchang twisted his beard and said to himself, "So to speak." Revival will be going on the Northern Expedition?! That's going to be a big fight! ”

Zhao Fengchang was thinking about how to avoid the war. The porter outside ran in and said, "Master, Mr. Fourth is here." ”

"Oh, he's coming fast!" Zhao Fengchang said, "Invite him in!" ”

Zhang Jian was also startled by the gunfire of the Jiangnan Bureau last night and didn't sleep well all night, so he sent someone to the telegraph office to send a telegram to Haimen before dawn, but his subordinates ensured that the telegram could not be sent. The people who said the telegraph office said that the line was broken. As soon as he said that the line was broken, Zhang Jian was shocked, and the revival society would cut off the telegram every time it fought. Now the telegraph in Shanghai is not connected, and there is no communication in Jiangsu, I am afraid that there will be a war. When they saw that Shanghai had been occupied by them, they hurriedly came to Zhao Fengchang to ask for advice.

"Brother Ji, I'm afraid the world is going to change this day." Looking at Zhang Jian, whose eyes were red, Zhao Fengchang sighed. He had guessed it a few years ago, but he didn't expect them to be so fast.

"If you change the sky, you will change the sky, and that is also the sins created by the Qing court itself. If Guangxu agrees to the request of the provincial petition groups, I am afraid that the Revival Society will not dare to go on the Northern Expedition so early. Zhang Jian also participated in the congressional petition group and was very angry at the Qing court's forced closure of the congress.

"Ji Zhi, the world is changing, aren't you afraid that revival will really implement the policy of nationalizing land? If so, what about your farm? Zhao Fengchang asked.

"Now the members of the provincial councils are all gentry, these people have not thousands of acres in their homes, as long as Yang Jingcheng owns all the land, then there will be no chaos in the whole country? The forcible state-owned land is to rob the people's wealth, and such an act is probably intolerable. Zhang Jian was asked by Zhao Fengchang for a while, and it took him a while to remember Liang Qichao's article in the Times, and then he said those words. In order to have sufficient raw materials, the Dasheng Yarn Factory he set up was able to harvest acres of land and plant American cotton in the Nantong area, and once the land was state-owned and then distributed to the peasants, the planting farms would only be in chaos. The spinning industry is not fighting for the process, more often than not, it is the price of flowers, once the price of flowers rises, the yarn factory is equivalent to bankruptcy.

After Zhang Jian finished speaking, he thought about Yang Jingcheng who he had seen in the past, and then said: "Then Yang Jingcheng is pushing for an industrial power, if the land is state-owned, so that everyone has no money to run an industry, but it is against his original intention." ”

"Brother Ji, how can people who sit in the world talk about righteousness and heavenly principles! As long as the country can sit firmly, nothing else can be ignored. Zhao Fengchang said, "The current Yang Jingcheng is not the Yang Jingcheng of the past." If the Fuxing Society really wants to go on the Northern Expedition, no matter whether the capital is defeated or not, the money and grain spent will be days, and the gentry's property and land will not be confiscated, and while buying people's hearts for the people, and confiscating public funds for military expenses, where will he get the soldiers' food and grass for the revival meeting? For the sake of today's plan, we are still negotiating peace. ”

As soon as Zhao Fengchang's words fell, the porter ran in again and said, "Master, outside... There were a few people from the Revival Association outside, saying that it was Yang Jingcheng who invited Mr. to go to the French Concession for a talk. ”

"Yang Jingcheng?!" Zhao Fengchang and Zhang Jian were both shocked. Zhang Jian said: "Did you hear it wrong, is it really Yang Jingcheng?" ”

"Mr. Four, what they said is really Yang Jingcheng." The porter turned over the greeting post in his hand, and on the red piece of paper, it was really the two big words 'Yang Rui'. Zhang Jian looked at it and handed the post to Zhao Fengchang, "It's Yang Jingcheng's post." Zhujun, are you going or not going? ”

*

When the sky was bright on July 22, the city was full of newsboys' shouts and various messages as far north as Qiqihar, south as Hong Kong, east as Shanghai, and west as Xinjiang. Some people say that this is false news made by the revolutionary party, but others say that the news was sent by a foreign reporter, and there is absolutely no falsehood.

The situation in the country is chaotic. And abroad is full of jubilation, South Seas, America and other places, firecrackers are all sold out early in the morning. Firecrackers were set off in the Chinese districts and Chinatowns everywhere, and the clerks of the Overseas Chinese Commercial Bank, who had been prepared for a long time, began to spread around and sell the founding bonds. In the end, all that can be done is to register in the notebook and agree that the Chinese businessman will pay the debt to the bank by himself. Titles don't matter. Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Beijing full of houses, first come, first served.

Shau Kei Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Huang Xing listened to the firecrackers all morning and didn't know what was going on. When his son Huang Yiou ran in with the newspaper outside shouting, he heard "the fall of the Manchu Dynasty", and grabbed the newspaper, only to see a few fist-sized black characters printed on the outside of the number: Beijing fell and the emperor collapsed!!

He didn't read the following text. just grabbed Huang Yiou. "Is this really?! Is this true?! Where did the newspaper come from? ”

Huang Yiou didn't look closely, but he just saw the newsboy selling, and they shouted these things, and now seeing Huang Xing asking anxiously, he hurriedly said: It's true! Jingshi fought fiercely all night last night, the Praetorian Guards were annihilated, Guangxu fled to the coal mountain and committed suicide by taking poison, and there was ......" Huang Yiou couldn't say it in one breath. He took a breath and said, "And those princes and Baylors in the inner city of the capital division have all been arrested, and none of them have been pulled down." Father. The Manchus are dead!! ”

Every time Huang Yiou said a word, Huang Xing seemed to be electrified, just waiting for him to say that in the end, 'The Manchu Qing is dead!' The whole body trembled, and he didn't hold the newspaper in his hand, and fell straight to the ground. The excitement no longer cared about others, but turned his back to the wall and cried. Huang Yiou, who was delighted, looked at his father who was crying and was at a loss, and at this time, his stepmother Xu Zonghan stepped forward, stroked Huang Xing's back and said, "Don't cry, don't cry." The Manchus are now dead, and we should be happy! ”

Xu Zonghan comforted him, and a few more people jumped out of the door, and Hu Hanmin, who was in the lead, shouted: "Keqiang! Keqiang! 100,000 urgent! 100,000 urgent! We should attack Canton right away! Attack Guangzhou now! ”

As soon as Hu Hanmin shouted, Wang Zhaoming, Zhu Zhixin, Hu Yisheng, Chen Qimei, and Huang Mingtang who were with him also shouted. "Keqiang, the revival will capture Beijing, the whole country is in chaos, we must seize this opportunity!"

Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty was overthrown, the war was not over. Huang Xing also understood this truth, he was just too excited to control himself just now. Now the audience said that they were going to attack Guangzhou immediately, and they wiped a handful of tears and said with a crying voice: "No! Guangzhou can't rely on a few hundred of us alone, and the best way now is to persuade us to surrender. It is the best policy to let Zhang Mingqi and Li Zhun surrender to us. ”

Hearing that Huang Xing wanted Zhang Mingqi and Li Zhun to surrender, Zhu Zhixin hurriedly said: "Keqiang, you don't want to spare the lives of these two dog officials, do you?!" Not to mention before, they killed hundreds of us a few months ago! ”

"Zhixin, it was before, and now it is now, if you kill them, then they will surrender to the Revival Society!" Huang Xing finally became normal, "If we want to realize Mr. Zhongshan's Three People's Principles, now at this time, we must quickly occupy Liangguang, and then go north to Hunan and Jiangxi, and fight all the way to Nanjing and Wuhan, so that we can have the strength to fight with the Fuxing Society." By the way, there is also the Central Alliance over there, and it is best to occupy both Wuchang and Changsha, so that it can also echo us. ”

"Keqiang! Zhang Mingqi can be spared, but Li Zhun must not be spared. Last time, a few hundred of us were able to enter Guangzhou, but this time, can't we a few hundred of us enter Guangzhou? Now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has fallen, the people in the city are panicking, and Zhang Mingqi and Li Zhun are also frightened by our assassination. I believe that as soon as we enter the city and shout a few slogans, the Qing soldiers will surrender. Wang Zhaoming was full of excitement, and the current situation only gave him a feeling of pointing to the country from afar.

"Zhaoming." Hu Hanmin glanced at him, "What Keqiang said is right. Now the big and small officials in Guangzhou must have known the news of the capital, as long as we promise not to investigate their crimes, in order to protect themselves, they will definitely be lowered. ”

"Yes! Zhaoming, now is not the time to be frivolous," Hu Yisheng said, "It's better to listen to Keqiang." ”

"Brother Keqiang, I think this Guangzhou still has to fight." Seeing that a few Cantonese people imagined things so well, and actually surrendered after shouting a few times, Chen Qimei laughed secretly in her heart, "Since Yang Jingcheng dares to launch an uprising in Beijing, there must be arrangements throughout the country, Guangzhou is a big province, and there will be no arrangements for the difficulty of the revival meeting?" ”

Chen Qimei came to Hong Kong because she was chased by the Military Intelligence Bureau and Special Branch in Shanghai and other places, and there was nowhere to escape, but here it was Hu Hanmin and others who were in power to speak. He, like Huang Xing, is an outsider and rarely expresses his opinions.

"Ince, are you saying that the Revival will be held in Guangzhou?" Huang Xing listened to Chen Qimei's words. I thought about it immediately.

"Righteousness is the next policy, and letting Zhang Mingqi and Li Zhun surrender is the best policy. The Revival Society and Zhang Mingqi and others have no blood debts, as long as they surrender to their sincerity, it is not impossible for them to be restored to their positions. Keqiang, this Guangzhou still has to be defeated, now that Guangxu is dead, we have money and guns in our hands. As long as you recruit some rotten boys and promise them three days of robbery all over the city, they will be willing to do it. Occupied Guangzhou. If you try to Guangxi again, it would be best for Song Dunchu to take Hunan. With these three provinces in hand, there will be a chance in the future to map Jiangxi and Hubei. Chen Qimei said.

"Ince is right!" Hu Hanmin said. Although he has always been very taboo about Chen Qimei. But what he said made sense. "Keqiang, now I'm going to recruit rotten boys, if there are not enough guns, then go and collect some everywhere. Zong Han's side can enter the city first, find out the news, and once we are ready, then attack the city immediately. ”

"Good! That's it. Huang Xing also made up his mind, "Zong Han will go to Guangzhou immediately." I immediately drafted a telegram and sent it to Brother Feng, who was still in the early days, and asked them to immediately raise things in Changsha and Wuchang. When the time comes, we will echo each other in the north and south. You can practice it all in one piece. And Ince, can you go back to Shanghai and exercise in Jiangsu and Zhejiang? ”

As soon as Huang Xing said Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Chen Qimei shook his head and said: "Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the base camp of the Revival Association, and nearly 100,000 Revival troops are piled up there, and it is useless to go." Just when everyone thought that he was going to shirk it, he changed his words, "However, in order to find out the movements of the Revival Society, I still have to go back, but I can't do it, so don't count on me." ”

"Good! Ince. Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, he prefers to go to Tiger Mountain, what a good man! Huang Xing patted Chen Qimei's shoulder and praised, with an indescribable heroism in his tone. Then he said to everyone again, "Let's do this, don't be stunned, let's do it immediately, I will also send a telegram to Dunchu immediately." ”

Huang Xing said that he would draft a telegram and send it out after a while, but although the telegram was sent to Wuchang, it was not delivered to Song Jiaoren, because according to the instructions of the Military Intelligence Bureau, some lines would never be opened, and some addresses would never send telegrams, and Song Jiaoren's residence in the Russian Concession in Hankou was the address where the telegram would not be delivered.

Last night, a gunshot rang out in Wuchang on the other side of the river, and there were shouts of killing inside and outside the city, and people in Hanyang and Hankou only watched from afar, and no one dared to go over to investigate. Song Jiaoren was also awakened by the shouting of killing on the other side, but after asking Hu Ying to know that this was not the action of the Alliance, he felt that this was done by the Revival Society. In the morning, the smoke of gunpowder in Wuchang City dissipated, and no one was sent to cross the river, and the flag of the Revival Society in the telescope was displayed in the wind on the tower of Wuchang City.

At noon, Song Jiaoren looked at the outside of the newspaper, and was excited for a long time before he calmed down, and said to Tan Renfeng, "Brother Renfeng, many places in the country have been occupied by the Renaissance Association, so I don't know what about Changsha?" ”

"In Changsha, I think it's also more auspicious." Tan Renfeng said, he went back to Changsha and knew the strength of the Fuxing Society.

"So what do we do?" Song Jiaoren frowned, "We can't watch Yang Jingcheng build another authoritarian China." ”

"At the beginning of the retreat, there will be money, guns and troops for revival, and now it occupies such a large place, what will the alliance have? Not only did the alliance have nothing, but it also fought among themselves. Keqiang still has a friendship with the elder brother and others, if he can come back, everyone will also give some affection, but now he listens to Sun Wen's stay in Liangguang, how do you say this life can be changed? Tan Renfeng complained, thinking that the overall situation was hopeless, and his beard had to stand up.

"Brother Renfeng, I think I can't rely on the barrel of a gun to revolution." Song Jiaoren said. "All we can do now is figure it out in Congress. Even if the Revival Society occupies the world, it still needs to establish a constitution and open a congress, so let's start here. ”

Tan Renfeng also heard Song Jiaoren say it, but he didn't completely agree: "At the beginning of the year, if you don't have a gun in your hand, Yang Jingcheng will still take you in his eyes?" ”

"Brother Renfeng, it doesn't matter if I don't have a gun, Yuan Shikai just needs a gun. There are still several towns in Beiyang, these are elite soldiers, as long as we can persuade Yuan Shikai to form a party with us to participate in the congressional election, then maybe we can really win. The more Song Jiaoren spoke, the more excited he became, and finally said, "I'll go to Anyang to find Yuan Shikai immediately!" (To be continued......)