Chapter XXIII: The Death of the Nation 1
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Seeing that Ao Jiaxiong had a headache, Zhong Mei smiled and said, "Meng Jiang doesn't need to worry, let's persuade each other with good words first, and those who are not convinced can be dispersed and then reorganized." ”
Ao Jiaxiong was shocked, he hadn't thought of this method before, and hurriedly said: "In this case, then it is the enemy of all the gangs, in case these guilds surrender to the Manchu Qing, it will be very bad for the revolution." ”
Zhong Mei said: "Then if I don't fight them, won't I surrender to the Manchus?" ”
Zhong Mei's words made the eloquent Ao Jiaxiong choke, which is indeed the case. Although there are many salt lords, the number of people in each gang is very small, and the government basically does not take them seriously, so there is no discussion of appeasement. But even so, there are people who take the initiative to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, such as Shen Xiaomei, who took the initiative to join the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
"No matter how many parties there are, only those who grasp it in their hands are the power, and it is useless to only join the alliance and not join the union. Xu Baoshan in Jiangsu can use the power of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to exterminate the party in various places, so we can also unite all the congregations with anti-Qing righteousness on the one hand, and sell illicit salt to expand the organization on the other. Among them, if they are not convinced, they are Manchu lackeys, and it is okay to kill them quickly. Zhong Mei's words were murderous, and Ao Jiaxiong was shocked when he heard it, knowing that it would be difficult for this Taihu Lake to be quiet in the future. But thinking about it, most of those heroes are evildoers, and it's useless to kill them. There is no need to object at the moment.
Wang Jitong first asked Zhong Mei to rest, and then went to another place with Ao Jiaxiong to talk about the Wentai hall, in addition to Ao Jiaxiong, there were also Feng Bao and Chen Mengxiong, who were both members of the Jiaxing branch of the Fuxing Association.
Jiaxing was originally the hardest hit area of the Hongyang Rebellion, after the chaos was pacified, there were nine out of ten acres of land, so the local officials went around to recruit displaced people to reclaim and cultivate, and the people of Wentai were the most. At the time of the initial recruitment, these ownerless barren fields were very few, and they generally only paid local taxes and did not pay national grain taxes, but the Chinese practice has always been that officials go to government and rest, after decades of recuperation. Jiaxing has restored its prosperity in the past, and seeing this scene, officials either say that they will increase donations, or rent increases, or obstruct their property purchases, anyway, they are full of tricks and try their best to make money. And the people of Wentai have always been tough and have a spirit of resistance. So last year, Ao Jiaxiong wanted to set up a Wentai hall to pay taxes on behalf of the "guests", and even wanted to hold a group drill to control the two powers of wealth and soldiers.
As soon as his plan was mentioned, Yang Rui was taken aback, isn't this a simplified version of the agrarian revolution? Anti-rent and anti-donation. Once the landlord or the government persecuted, it will definitely rise up in rebellion. At present, the mention of Ao Jia Xiong is extremely important, not only specially transferred funds for the construction of the hall, but also specially sent people to absorb rural work experience, in order to promote Jiaxing's experience to all parts of Guannai.
"Brother Xu, the hall will be completed at the end of the year. The impact is quite great, if another in Songjiang, Huzhou, Hangzhou these three places to build a hall, then the liaison party, only wait for the time is ripe, then ......" Ao Jiaxiong for the previous meeting to sponsor him to see the hall is very happy, at the end of last year the hall was completed, and want to spread throughout the Hangjiahu area.
Wang Jitong frowned and said, "Meng Jiang is the old wisdom of wanting to be a self-reliant army? ”
"Yes, there is a lot of money in the meeting. If we can put 'rich votes' like the self-reliant army, then the revolution is just around the corner." Ao Jiaxiong often corresponded with Tao Chengzhang, who opened a brothel in Beijing, and the brothel in Beijing was expected to cost 200,000 taels, which surprised him greatly, if it cost 200,000 taels to open a brothel, then the Fuxing Society would handle more than one million taels of money every year, so he naturally thought of Tang Caichang's method back then: 1. Open a guild hall in major cities in the Hangjiahu area. set up an organ to entertain the party; 2. In accordance with the tradition of the party's worship, the hall is open and the votes are released, and the tickets can be changed for 1,000 yuan, 3. With the money won by Guangsa, the party was unified under the name of the guild and an army was built.
"Meng Jiang, after Tang Cai often cut off his salary, this self-reliant army immediately collapsed, not to mention that the party discipline was corrupted, he didn't listen to commands, and he disturbed the good people." Wang Jitong made a mistake by approving 1,000 taels for him to build a Wentai guild hall last year, and the essence of the people in the movement is not whether there are guild halls or not, but whether or not the people are organized.
Although Wang Jitong was displeased, Ao Jiaxiong still insisted: "Brother Xiao Xu, at this time, we should do our best to mobilize the party and raise righteousness as soon as possible." If Tang Caichang could have another 300,000 taels that year, I am afraid that the result at that time would be unpredictable. Now, in the area of Hangjiahu, as long as there are only 100,000 taels a year, after three years, there will be an army of tens of thousands of people, and when the time comes, Hangzhou in the south and Nanjing in the north, the revolution will be just around the corner. ”
Seeing that he was still obsessed, Wang Jitong sighed: "Meng Jiang, haven't you read the text that came before?" ”
Ao Jiaxiong was stunned for a moment, so he had to defend: "Brother Xiao Xu, the hall was set up last year, but it has passed the time to pay the rent, besides, I am a Xiushui person, and the people of Wentai don't trust me too much, so I invited the land from Yueqing to build and the new hall as the officer, but the guests are very difficult to talk to, and they ignore us, only let us drink tea, and the conversation is not good for us to talk." As for the payment of rent, it was only their leader who negotiated with us, and that person was also very distrustful of us, and after a moment of negotiation, he said that he would talk about it when the rent was paid next year. ”
Ao Jiaxiong's more said that Wang Ji Tongxin is the cooler, the hall was completed at the end of last year, he asked how the work in Jiaxing is carried out, Ao Jiaxiong said that because the autumn rent has been paid close to the New Year, he deduced that things will not be able to operate until the next year. After the year, there are many things in the revival association, and Wang Jitong is busy and forgets to read the monthly work report from his side, as for Yang Rui, the Russo-Japanese war is in full swing, so he has the heart to take care of the real fields where the peasants work thousands of miles away.
"Hey. Meng Jiang ...... "Wang Jitong really didn't know what to say, he suddenly felt that he, the general manager, had not done anything, of course, this was also due to the fact that he did not pay attention to Ao Jiaxiong's work in the early days, in fact, his eagerness for Jiaxing was also because Yang Rui began to remember this matter after the war. "Dream ginger. I don't know if you didn't know how to move the people, so you changed to a sports party, or did you want to have a sports party instead of the people from the beginning? ”
"I ......" Ao Jiaxiong is really hard to explain.
Feng Bao next to him said: "Brother Xiao Xu, the hall is not without sports people, but during the Chinese New Year, Brother Meng Jiang still invited the troupe to sing for the people of Wentai." The people are actually very bad at exercising, we went to the village, everyone thought it was to collect donations and ask for accounts, and then we went a few more times to get better, but once we asked them to join, they all walked away, and the people who were very familiar with the previous talk said that others entered him, and the last person did not enter. ”
"That's true." Chen Mengxiong, another official of the guild hall, also said: "I only came to Jiaxing at the beginning of this year, when I went to the village together. Those village leaders and patriarchs all wanted to drive us away, saying that we were going to join a cult. We didn't let the villagers talk to us, saying that if we came too much, it would bring disaster to the dealer. After several discussions, we still felt that the Games would be better for the party, so that it would be more effective, and in the event of an incident, there would be a force of force immediately. ”
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It can be seen that Jiaxing has really done a lot of work. It's just that the people don't welcome them, Wang Jitong doesn't know what to say about it, he has been studying since he was a child, although his family has land for rent, but he also has a bookkeeper to collect rent, and he doesn't know how to move the peasant association. In the complaint of the three Ao Jia Xiong. The meeting was fruitless, and if he wanted to move the peasants, Ao Jiaxiong and others had no clue and were incompetent; And Ao Jiaxiong and others asked him to approve the plan to expand the hall and recruit the party, but Wang Jitong did not agree. Among the work strategies drafted by the Reconstruction Association, in addition to the strategy of the new army that is still being prepared, there are three fronts in the Sekinai. The movement of the people and the sports party are completely two systems, and the people will not be involved in arming, so it will be more advantageous to carry out the work in the early stage, but when the movement of the people becomes the climate and is suppressed by the landlords and the government, then it is another story.
After Wang Jitong discussed with Ao Jiaxiong and others, he sent the main content of the meeting to the northeast, but Yang Rui's call back was not as fast as before, and he only called back early the next morning to ask Ao Jiaxiong and others to copy a copy of their work notes in Shanghai. Send it to him. In fact, Yang Rui didn't know anything about how to move the masses in a peaceful situation, what he knew was nothing more than the agrarian revolution, the division of fields and the division of guests, now the foundation of the Guannai is not stable, and the Hangjiahu area is not a mountainous area, even if the base area is established, it will not last long, here he just wants to do experiments. It's just that this trial is about to end before it starts. In desperation, he had to find the reason from the first-hand information.
As soon as Wang Jitong arranged for the re-copying of work notes, trouble came. Yu Huizu sent a shopkeeper to deliver a message, saying that something had happened to the Siming Mansion in the French Concession. Wang Jitong asked carefully. Only then did I know that the authorities of the French Concession did not know where they learned that there was a coffin of people from Ningbo in the Siming Office, and they forcibly ordered the office to be moved.
Siming Mansion is the Ningbo people's hall in Shanghai, which is not only used for gathering with fellow villagers, but also as a place to send coffins. Chinese people have always had a tradition of returning to their roots, and the guild hall can unite all the fellow villagers in Shanghai, and even the extremely poor can be paid by the public office to send the coffin back to their hometown. Although this covers an area of 30 acres of Siming Mansion was established in 18o3, when the British and French Concession did not appear, but after the Concession appeared, the French Concession expanded more and more, and the Catholics did not like to have pagan mounds and statues around them, so in 1874, the concession forced the Church to move out on the grounds of road construction, and was later boycotted by the Ningbo Townsmen's Association, so it was abandoned, and recognized the Siming Mansion and the stone as evidence. However, twenty-four years later, the French Concession forced the public office to be relocated, but this time, in addition to the resolute resistance of the Ningbo Association, all walks of life in Shanghai actively supported it, so the French had no choice but to give up.
Wang Jitong recalled all kinds of disputes between the Siming Mansion and the French Concession in his mind, and only felt that this time someone deliberately targeted Zou Rong's case, he was restless in the house, and only waited for Mu Xiangyao, who was sent to inquire about the news, to come back, he asked anxiously: "Ask clearly, what's going on?" ”
"We've been calculated!" Mu Xiangyao said affirmatively. "Sir, there must be a reason for this incident."
Wang Jitong nodded and said, "Yes, I feel the same way." This is the bottom of the kettle, as long as Wei Dan's coffin is out of the office, it is estimated that it will ......"
Mu Xiangyao had long known that he had thought of this possibility, and he said eagerly: "Can't the Siming Mansion not obey the orders of the French?" Where the Chinese are, why still listen to foreigners' fingers. "Mu Xiangyao is crazy, and the current China is actually dictated by foreigners. However, the reason why he was anxious was that the disappearance of what he inquired about was that the martyrs of the Revival Society who entered the Siming Mansion yesterday would also be driven out.
"In the evening, I and ...... Let me talk to Yu Qiaqing. Wang Jitong said heavily.
When he protected the Siming Mansion in 1898, he made a great effort, if he hadn't encouraged the merchants to strike the market, the workers to strike, and the Chinese arrest and dismissal, and promised to give all the strikers a monthly salary, it is estimated that the Siming Mansion would have been gone long ago. However, the situation is different from before: at the time of the second Siming Gongsho incident, there was an agreement between the Gonggong and the French Concession, that is, the Gongban could only serve the people of Ningbo. But Zou Rong and the four coffins that were transported yesterday were not from Ningbo. Yu Qiaqing didn't know how the French knew this. But these don't care, the most tricky thing now is that if the coffin is not moved, then it will be moved, and there will really be a third Siming Gongsho incident, he doesn't want to, especially those people are not fellow villagers.
"With a chapter. You really don't know who the four coffins are in the back? Yu Qiaqing stared at Yu Huizu and asked.
"I don't know, I only know that it was shipped from outside the customs. Ade, what do you mean? "Yu Huizu is not a director, he received the news later, and by the time he arrived at the office, all the directors had already left.
"Hui Dong means to move the coffin out."
"What?!" Yu Huizu was a little surprised. "You must know that one of them is a revolutionary party, and the government is waiting for you to move out. Although this Wei Dan is not our fellow villager, he died unjustly and is now fighting a lawsuit with the Ministry of Industry. ”
When Yu Huizu spoke, Yu Qiaqing was staring at his face, looking at his unpretentious expression, Yu Qiaqing sighed. He actually guessed early on that Yang Rui was the leader of the Fuxing Society. It's just that for the sake of his fellow villagers and cooperative friends, he hasn't tracked it down, but this time the four coffins outside the gate made him believe that Yang Rui is the leader of the revival association, and he is in the northeast.
"Hanzhang, don't you really know anything?"
"You know what? I knew it was the French who were trying to find an excuse to force us to relocate. Yu Huizu was very angry when he heard that the board of directors had decided to move the coffin out, he came out late, and he didn't catch up with the last board of directors election. Otherwise, he would not have let everyone make such a decision if he died in the public council.
"But this time it's our fault. We were and ...... before."
"What is the reason to lose money, it is the Chinese who die and not the foreigners, as long as the public office can let it go, what is not good."
"Hanzhang, seven people died in order to keep the public office last time, and twenty people died in order to keep the public office last time. How many people are you going to die this time?! "Yu Qiaqing, who actually experienced the events of 1898, did not want another massacre, especially since he was still a slaughteree.
"I ......" Yu Huizu really couldn't say anything, and his anger was nowhere to vent. I had to slam my fist on the table, and the teacup shook with a "bang". Although he came to Shanghai late, he often heard his fellow villagers talk about the Siming Gong, when the French demolished the walls of the Gonggong, and the march continued until the morning when the French sailors broke up under the fire of the French sailors, killing 17 people on the spot, and several more wounded died afterwards.
Wang Jitong went to the French Concession to meet Yu Qiaqing after dark, but Yu Qiaqing, who had always been relaxed, suddenly felt deep and made Wang Jitong feel strange, so he didn't know how to endure what he had thought of, he wanted to hear what Yu Qiaqing said.
"Xiao Xu, who is Cheng Cheng?" After being silent for a while, Yu Qiaqing suddenly asked.
"Who?" Wang Jitong said a little more nonsense, so as to delay it and see what Yu Qiaqing was going to say.
"Hey, Xiao Xu, everyone is a brother, you know who I am, why are you still hiding it from me?" Yu Qiaqing's feelings seemed to be a little low, and she seemed to be emotional.
"What the hell is going on, Ade?" Wang Jitong hesitated, Yu Qiaqing helped the revival association a lot, especially when the MSG factory was first established, without his endorsement, it is estimated that the 6 lines will be squeezed out in a short time.
"Now the French say that the coffins are all from the revolutionary party, especially those who have returned from outside the customs, and they are all from the Baath Army." Yu Qiaqing didn't know where he heard the news, some people said that it was nonsense, but he felt that it was true, especially when he was in the afternoon, he had an autopsy, and he was wearing a military uniform and covering it with a military flag.
Wang Jitong didn't know that he had seen his hole cards, but with his understanding of Yu Qiaqing, there must be a reason why he would talk to himself like this, so he said: "Well." Yes, they are all members of the Revival Society, and I am also a member of the Revival Society, and I am also a member of the Revival Society. ”
The speculation became a reality, Yu Qiaqing's heart was still shocked, fortunately, he still calmed down, and subconsciously lit a cigarette, but he forgot that he didn't know how to smoke, and coughed for a while before he quieted down, and his blushing face asked, "When did it happen?" ”
"When I rejected Russia in the year of the Chinese New Year, I was the first to get up, and then I participated."
"Constitutional, sealed, and self-honored are all right?"
Glancing at him, Wang Ji said, "Hanzhang is not." Ade, I answered all your questions, what are you going to do now? ”
"It's not what I'm going to do! It was the directors who decided that I would let you get all these coffins out! I...... I know it's against my conscience to do this, but I ...... "Yu Qiaqing was examined after the public discussion, although he understood that these people died for the country, but he knew that he couldn't tell anyone about it.
He stood up suddenly and said, "Xiao Xu, I can't be a revolutionary party, but I have always admired the revolutionary party." Whether it's Zou Rong or a few other righteous people, what they can do, I can't do. Not only can't I do it, but I'm going to chase them away, and I... I can't stop with them!! After he finished speaking, he couldn't help it, so he bowed to Wang Jitong, and then couldn't stand it for a long time.
Looking at his appearance, Wang Jitong sighed softly, bowed slightly to him, and then turned around and left.