Chapter Seventy-Six: Preparation

The telegram sent by the Revival Society soon arrived at its destination. Regarding the matter, Liu Jing'an of the Japanese Notification Society was the first to receive it, and he was very happy when he looked at the telegram handed over by Feng Temin, and shouted: "Haha, you also raise righteousness, and the Alliance Association also acts for righteousness, I think this Manchu Qing Dynasty is exhausted." Haha......"

Liu Jing'an's white goose feather fan also fanned happily, everyone stared at his goose feather fan, and the excitement increased little by little, and when the atmosphere of everyone came up, someone began to pour cold water.

"Isn't your revival meeting royalist, why are you here to raise righteousness now, is it to inquire about the news of our uprising?"

It was Yu Cheng who spoke, a native of Macheng, Hubei, who participated in a science cram school in his early years, and fled to Japan with Huaxinghui and others after the Tanzhou Uprising, and studied at Waseda University, and he participated in the preparation of the League. At the end of last year, the alliance began to arrange for representatives of various provinces to return to China to form provincial branches. pushed Zhang Fang and Chen Zhenfan again, but they didn't go; Push it again, but Tao won't go. The reason is not because the revolution is not active, for example, like Dantao, for the sake of the revolution, Yale University in the United States has given up the official funds, in the final analysis, it is the maintenance of the association last year, especially from the maintenance of the meeting, everyone has seen the true face of the separation of powers in the name of the Sun family, but in fact it is an autocratic dictatorship, so what the Sun family wants to do is ignored. And Yu Cheng is only twenty-one years old, as soon as he talks about the revolution, his blood is boiling, when Chen Tianhua went to the sea, he also wanted to commit suicide, but he was not as shrewd as Shi Gongjiu, these old birds, and when he saw that no one returned to China, he automatically asked Ying to come back. He originally wanted to develop all the Rizhi Society into an alliance association, but Liu Jing'an didn't allow it. It was only after the arrival of the Frenchman Euquiro that the work of the League in Hubei progressed.

"When did the Revival Society say that it was going to protect the emperor, and when did it say that it would not be revolutionary?" Feng Temin looked at him strangely. Do you just think that the people in the alliance are all having brain convulsions?

"You ......" Yu Cheng still wanted to speak, but was stopped by Liu Jing'an on the side, he didn't want to mess things up because of the fight between the two associations, he asked Feng Temin, "Ti'an, where do you want to do this time?" ”

"It should be in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, I don't know where it is. In fact, this time I just want to know the approximate time of the move, so that everyone can have an echo. The telegram to Feng Temin did not elaborate on the specific plan, but Feng Temin felt that the meeting would ask for the time of the uprising. I'm afraid I'm really going to make a move.

Feng Temin's words were in line with Liu Jing'an's mind, and he wanted the whole country to make a good comeback. In fact, it seems that the Zhihui is very powerful, claiming to have nearly 10,000 people, but how many people will really revolutionize together. He estimated no more than three hundred. Of course. If the whole country can raise things together, it is estimated that there will be a lot of people, and it is very likely that more than half of the 29 standards will follow - in fact, in addition to the scholars, the Japanese Notification Society also has more members in the 29 standards in the Hubei New Army, and more than 30 people have joined the association, and there are many people in the engineering camp who are inclined to revolution when they are in the science tutorial school, except for these two pieces that are somewhat certain. The rest of the forces are completely uncertain.

"Ti'an, now the capital is in chaos. It's too early to do it! We're going to do it in four days, can you make it? After meditating in her heart, Liu Jing'an still told Feng Temin the time agreed with the Alliance, and the Alliance actually didn't say where to raise righteousness, so the time of righteousness was not important.

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Hubei because of Liu Jing'an's trust in Feng Temin's name, so the time of the uprising is not kept secret from the Revival Society, but this is not the case in Tokyo, Hu Hanmin wanted to directly send Yu Youren who came to the door, but he knew that the matter between the two sessions was not something he could decide, so he still informed Sun Wen of the news of Yu Youren's visit, but he didn't come out after he went in. Yu Youren heard a person in the back room say loudly: "But this flag is like a Japanese flag......"

Then a louder voice said: "I am in Nanyang, tens of thousands of people use this flag!" If you want to destroy it, then take me down first! ”

Yu Youren's southern dialect didn't understand very well, but he felt that the voice of the last person to speak seemed to be Sun Wen, he was thinking about it, but he heard the door open suddenly, and a person seemed to come out, followed by a lot of voices: "Keqiang...... Keqiang ......"

But the person inside ignored it, and when he went outside, he didn't look at Yu Youren who was waiting on the side, but he just left angrily, but Song Jiaoren, who followed behind, saw Yu Youren, stopped and said to Youren with a smile: "Brother Youren is here?" ”

Yu Youren got up and said, "Yes, I just happened to have something to visit Premier Sun." ”

Song Jiaoren should have visited Sun Wen when he saw him here, but now that there was a quarrel inside, he was afraid that Sun Wen would not see him, so he said: "Brother Youren can tell me anything about it, as long as I can help." ”

As soon as Song Jiaoren finished speaking, Hu Hanmin came over, he glanced at Song Jiaoren, and said to Yu Youren: "Mr. Yu, the prime minister is not feeling well now, so let's come back another day." ”

Yu Youren was a little surprised when he heard this, and said, "But I came here for a righteous event." Mr. Sun......"

"Sir said that the event will be held within four days, and if the revival will be a real revolution, then it will be raised first to show its determination, and we welcome the revival society as a whole to join the alliance." Hu Hanmin went in and saw that Sun Wen was still angry, and he didn't have the heart to see Yu Youren at all, but after hearing about the matter, he asked Hu Hanmin to talk back.

Yu Youren saw that his words were a little unpolite, so he smiled and said: "Could it be that the League will be the true revolution, and today is considered to be an insight." With that, he gave up and left.

As soon as Yu Yi left, Song Jiaoren asked, "Han Min, did the prime minister really say so?" ”

"What does the Prime Minister say has to do with revival? They just watched the Manchus fall and thought about throwing themselves into the revolutionary camp. The people of the Revival Society are really the first two ends of the rat. Hu Hanmin looked at Yu Youren's back and said with a sneer.

Seeing him behave like this, Song Jiaoren was silent in his heart and left without speaking. Huang Xing has always had a mild temper, but being so angry today is really worrying, especially when things are about to happen, unity is the most important thing.

All the news gathered at eight o'clock in the evening in Wan'anli, Shanghai, and the time given by the Tokyo Alliance and the Hubei Rizhi Association was the same. There will be action within four days, and the reaction of the other three committee members to the incident is within Yang Rui's expectations. Mr. Hua Feng believes that things should be done cautiously, and now everything is under construction, and it will be later if it can be later, and he will abstain from voting; Yu Zixun was the yes vote; Zhong Guanguan said that he did not know what was happening in the country and could not decide what to do. However, he thinks that the domestic situation has been chaotic and should have taken action, but he also emphasized that Yang Rui's judgment on the domestic situation has always been accurate. If Yang Rui thinks that he can't act righteously, then it's better not to act rashly...... In the telegram he did not say whether he was in favor or against, but read the whole telegram. It also means abstention.

Two of the seven committee members abstained, three were in favor and two were against, and the question was thrown to Yang Rui's side. Although according to the rules of the meeting, the president has a veto. You can send back the opinions of Cai Yuanpei and others. But what if the situation is really as speculated? However, if it is agreed, once the situation is stabilized, then the Revival Society will become the focus of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's purge, and now those Hui parties are training in the name of the Township League, and once the incident is raised, the line of the "training group revolution" may be exposed......

The three of them all looked at Yang Rui, whose expressions were constantly changing, and only waited for a while before listening to him: "The order is divided into two, the first is the order to prepare for the event." Give it now, so that the troops are prepared; The second is the order to initiate the action. This can be issued two days later, and if there is a real Beiyang rebellion by then, then the battle order will be issued immediately. ”

In desperation, Yang Rui had no choice but to use the procrastination trick. Wang Jitong said when he heard this: "The Alliance and the Rizhi Association are estimated to have been prepared for a long time in order to do something, is our four days enough?" There was not enough ammunition for the troops. ”

"It's better to do things together, a day or two late. As for the ammunition, if it is not enough, it can only be captured by the Qing army. In fact, these four days were still reconnaissance time, and the General Staff Department had already made a plan for Zhejiang's move. Yang Rui recalled the previous plan of Zhejiang, and said: "Now we can only occupy Hangzhou first, as for the rest of the province, according to our troops, we can't take care of it." ”

"Occupy Hangzhou?" Cai Yuanpei and Zhang Taiyan were both overjoyed when they heard this, and Zhang Taiyan said: "You should occupy Hangzhou, Hangzhou, the whole province will be shocked." ”

Yang Rui shook his head and smiled: "Uncle Zhang, in this way, our orders can only pass unimpeded in Hangzhou City, and if we go out of the city, then ......" Seeing everyone's surprised eyes, Yang Rui still smiled: "According to our current strength in Zhejiang, this is the only thing that can be done." In fact, this is just a change of governor, nothing else can be changed, and we have not gone deep into the countryside at all. ”

Sensing Yang Rui's concern, Zhang Taiyan said: "Actually, the revolution is always completed step by step, and if we occupy Hangzhou, then we can control Hangjiahu Road, as long as we control Hangjiahu Road, then other places can also be controlled one by one." ”

"But it's going to take time. Will the Manchus give us time? Yang Rui still doesn't believe in anything to do together, and he doesn't believe in the alliance. As for the Japanese Notification Society, he didn't remember that there was such an organization when he read the time-traveling novel, although they had members in the army, but it was impossible to start an uprising like Xinhai.

Zhang Taiyan and Yang Rui were discussing their future strategies, and Cai Yuanpei thought of another question, he said: "Actually, is it necessary to move here in Shanghai?" ”

Before he finished speaking, Wang Jitong and Zhang Taiyan said together: "No." "Don't move."

Zhang Taiyan said: "There are many powers involved in Shanghai, and it is not good for them to act rashly before they have expressed their stance on the matter. In case they send troops, then what should we do, to fight or not to fight? It is really unwise not to lose the morale of the army and the people, and to fight and build a strong enemy. ”

Wang Jitong next to him also said: "It's better not to touch the powers first, there is a Japanese concession in Hangzhou, so you should be careful about this." Once the Japanese were dead, they would definitely send troops to intervene. ”

Cai Yuanpei saw that everyone disagreed, so he had no choice but not to mention this proposal. At this time, Yang Rui also called Chen Guangshou in, read the committee's resolution to him, and then he drafted the message to prepare for the event. After he finished writing the telegram, he reread it again, and Yang Rui signed it after listening to it, and then took out a password seal from his arms, opened it after checking that it was correct, and then filled in the identification code inside, and then handed the telegram to Chen Guangshou, who handed it over to the military radio station to send a report.

Wireless telegraphy technology has been improved many times, although it has not solved the problem of oxidation of the wire that the vacuum tube does not exhaust, but the transmission distance has been greatly improved, especially in the absence of electromagnetic pollution, tens of watts of radio stations can send reports to nearly 1,000 kilometers. The Military Communications Office is also located in Wan'anli, and Chen Guangshou has not long passed. A single radio wave pierced the night sky and headed south.

Zhong Mei, who was in Jiaxing, was the first to receive a telegram from the main station, and his troops had three identities. For the government, it is the township regiment, and for the party, it is the Aokitang of the Red Flower Society, and the actual number in the army is the first regiment of the independent brigade of the Zhejiang Front Army. It is said that it is a regiment, but in fact, according to the establishment of the revival army, there are only six companies, with a total of 1,154 people; And the weapons were also insufficient, the whole regiment had only 300 military rifles, more than 100 captured single-shot rifles, and dozens of firearms; In terms of heavy firepower, there were no machine guns. And artillery, in addition to a few earthen guns, has only two mortars for training. But the shells are training shells - they can be fired, but because they are solid warheads, they will not explode.

Zhong Mei was not surprised to receive the telegram, and checked the identification code first. After confirming that it was correct, he ordered the signal corps to go to Ao Jiaxiong and the company commanders to come over for discussion. At the same time, he deduced it according to the previous uprising plan against the map. In fact, the Fuxing Society actually has three troops in Zhejiang, that is, three regiments, the position of the first regiment is in Jiaxing, the second regiment is in Shengxian, and the third regiment is in the area of Lishui Jinhua. If they wanted to attack Hangzhou, the third regiment was too far away to come, so they could only cooperate with the first regiment and the second regiment, but considering that Shengxian was one hundred and thirty kilometers away from Hangzhou. It is also necessary to capture Shaoxing, and to cross the river. It is unrealistic to attack Hangzhou at the same time with a regiment. The plan on the plan is that Shengxian will march west to the city of Shaoxing after raising troops, besiege the city and send reinforcements to eliminate the troops coming from Hangzhou, and Jiaxing will go south overnight, and Hangzhou will be not strictly guarded and will go down with a drum.

The plan was made by the General Staff, and it cannot be said that it was not rigorous, but the staff officers only regarded the enemy army as normal people, but for the Qing army, it would be miscalculated when they were normal people. For example, the current Hangzhou general Ruixing is not only a full straw bag, but also a smoker, and it is rumored that his puppy is also addicted to opium, what kind of war can such a general fight? Last year, when the water and land defense battalions were sent to clean up the Taihu Lake bandits, they only occupied some of the empty battalions that they had discarded and returned to the DPRK. The number of casualties is unknown...... "If the second regiment feints to attack Shaoxing, this Ruixing must not dare to send troops out of the city, and it is more likely to shrink in the city of Hangzhou, and then send a report that the chaotic party is strong, and ask the imperial court to send new troops for reinforcements."

When Zhong Mei was thinking about revising the plan, Ao Jiaxiong came in a hurry, he lived the closest, the fastest, and the first thing he said when he entered the door was "When will you do something?" ”

Zhong Mei looked at his disheveled appearance and smiled: "I don't know yet, I'm just preparing now, and I don't know when I will do it." ”

Ao Jiaxiong didn't understand the rules in the army, and said: "What does this mean, to lift or not to lift?" ”

"It means to prepare first, and the specific action order will have to wait for the committee to issue it again the day after tomorrow." Zhong Mei did not think it was strange to see that there was no final order on the telegram, and Hangzhou could be defeated unexpectedly, but it was another matter if it could not be taken steadily. Actions should be deliberate.

Ao Jiaxiong was a little disappointed when he heard this, he also thought that Tao Chengzhang had convinced everyone in the committee, who knows if it was just preparation, whether it was really something that was not yet known, "Bu Jin, then what am I going to do here?" ”

"Let's prepare dry food first. There are also more than 80 kilometers from Jiaxing to Hangzhou, and these places along the way," Zhong Mei pointed to Tongxiang, Chongfu, Yuhang and other places on the map: "We must send people to the activity first, but we must prevent the news from leaking." ”

Ao Jiaxiong looked at the places he pointed to, nodded heavily, and said, "Okay, I've written it down." Is there anything else I can do? ”

He has been bent on overthrowing the Manchu Qing since the beginning of Renyin, and today he finally has a taste of hope, and he can't help but be a little excited. But Zhong Mei knew that nothing could be done when he was excited, so he thought about it and said, "If there can be some civil unrest, it will be of great help to the uprising." ”

"Civil unrest?"

"Yes, civil unrest." Zhong Mei knew that this was an additional requirement, and he didn't know if Ao Jia Xiong could start it.

"Okay!" After all, Ao Jiaxiong has been a master, and he is very clear about the current contradiction between the government and the people, "The Hangjiahu area has to levy 1.7 million quintals of grain every year, and these large grain households can't collect much, basically they all collect small households. ”

"Okay, then you can start first, but remember not to leak the news of the incident. There are many bandits in the area of Hangjia Lake, and there are many water and land defense camps, if the news is leaked, it is not good to be entangled by these brave men. Zhong Mei was afraid that he would reveal the news when he was inciting the people to make trouble, so he specially advised.

Ao Jiaxiong smiled: "Bu Jin." Don't worry. I can save it, I can save it. ”

The two discussed other matters for a while, and only waited for the company commanders to arrive. Zhong Mei stopped talking and went to the war room to arrange the task. When the first regiment in Jiaxing was in session, the second regiment in Shengxian, the third regiment in Lishui, and the government affairs group in Shanghai were also in session. What the troops have to do is to occupy the city, and what the government affairs team has to do is to take over the whole city, the most important of which is the receipt of the silver treasury, the official treasury, the telegraph, the newspaper office, the postal service, etc., and the management of the entire city - once the war starts, then even the dung carriers will hide at home and dare not go out in panic. The dung can't be transported out of the city, let alone the garbage, if you add the extinction of business travel. Prices are skyrocketing, and even if Hangzhou is occupied, it will be a dead city.

Government affairs, science and technology, and military personnel are the focus of the construction of the Renaissance Association, and the Shanghai School of Law and Politics has been open for more than a year, although the students' coursework has not been completed. But at least there is a certain understanding of government management. It is extremely important to send 200 reliable students to form a government affairs team and rush to Hangzhou in advance for the reception of the city.

As soon as Wananli's telegram was sent, countless people moved with it, Zhang Taiyan and everyone left, and Yang Rui was still in Wananli's office at this time, looking through the telegram in Beijing to judge the development of the Beiyang Mutiny, but at this time, even if the funeral was over. The dignitaries still don't have the heart to visit the Bada Hutong, and Gong Baoquan has no valuable news there. Only some rumors were sent, some said that the Beiyang Army had occupied Tianjin, some said that Beijing had been surrounded, and some said that the division of King Qin had already arrived in Baoding...... Anyway, there are all kinds of theories, but none of them can be confirmed.

At this time, Yang Rui regretted a little that he didn't arrange for a few women to go to Beijing to open a Ziming Building, sell Western jewelry or something, so that he could catch up with those Fujin and his wife. But it's too late to remember the route now. He had no choice but to write it down in his work notes.

When it comes to women, Yang Rui thinks of Cheng Ying again, it's been a month, where did they go? If he is caught, it must be known to the whole country, and there is no need for secret interrogation of Guangxu. Yang Rui only thinks that Cheng Ying will appear soon, in fact, according to reality, it is better for her to appear later, once she shows up, she will naturally turn herself in according to Sun Wen's order to frame Yuan Shikai, if this is the case, the two will really have to see each other again in the next life.

When Yang Rui was in a hurry, Chen Guangshou knocked on the door and came in from the outside and said, "Sir, martial law is coming soon, will you go back tonight?" "Some time ago, Yang Rui worked at night, but this is no better than having people on duty 24 hours a day in all departments of the army, so he has been adjusting his schedule and rest, in order to keep pace with everyone in Wan'anli.

"I want to go back." Chen Guangshou pulled Yang Rui's thinking back from Beijing, he knew that the situation was urgent these days, and he couldn't sleep during the day.

As soon as Yang Rui said this, Chen Guangshou went to arrange it. Yang Rui's safety is the first priority of Tek, it's okay if he doesn't go out, but as soon as he goes out, he will work hard. Although there are already a lot of dark whistles in Wan'anli and Ruyi, there are still a lot of arrangements every time they go out.

Yang Rui, accompanied by Chen Guangshou, got out of the alley behind Wan'anli, crossed the back road at night and turned into an alley, and then turned around before arriving at Ruyili. When he entered the door, Yang Rui suddenly asked, "How is the woman you saw today?" ”

"Today...... Woman ......" Chen Guangshou thought for a while before remembering that when Yang Rui bought raw fried food in the afternoon, he had been paying attention to the daughter of the food stall owner. The woman is not very beautiful, but she still has the beauty of a Jiangnan woman, and she works very hard to greet the guests to clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

"Do you remember the woman?" Yang Rui asked again.

"Yes. Sir is thinking? "What Yang Rui said was too strange, it was a bit of a robbery of the people's daughters.

"Tomorrow I will inquire about this family and see what the family background is, whether there is a marriage contract." Yang Rui said extremely absurd things seriously, which made Chen Guangshou incomprehensible. "Sir? This ......" He couldn't help but think of Miss Cheng in Tianjin, although the woman was handsome in the afternoon, but it was much worse than Miss Cheng in Tianjin, and Miss Cheng also sniped Cixi, who was a heroine among women, and Mr. happened to be a matching pair, but now Mr. is ......

"You go check it out first. Let's talk about it or not. After Yang Rui finished speaking, he went upstairs. After the afternoon meeting, he felt that his marriage would become more and more troublesome if he didn't deal with it as soon as possible, and he didn't know what the outcome would be between him and Cheng Ying. Of course, a better choice than this is a prostitute, but in order not to get sick, he can only choose a woman from a good family, after all, in this era, a man with three wives and four concubines will not be blamed. (To be continued......)