Chapter 106 Cooperation
The afternoon meeting was discussing the collection of oracle bone inscriptions and the protection of Dunhuang scriptures. The mural ended. After the discussion, Cai Yuanpei and Jin Tianfeng ran out of the door without having dinner. They hurried to go to the escort agency. Because there were not many guards in Tonghua that could be sent by the factory, and they had to go to two places, so they could only find some bodyguards to count.
When Yang Rui saw the madness of the two, he asked, "Is the escort agency open now?"
Wang Jitong smiled rare and said, "Don't worry, they will be smashed away even if they are locked up. By the way, there is another thing I forgot to say before. Zhang Xingyan said that an anti-Qing group was also established in Hunan, called the Huaxing Association. They planned to unite with us to fight against the Qing Dynasty. He wanted to find you before, but if you are not here, I have to wait for you to come back before replying to him."
"Huaxing Society!?" History has finally reached this point. Unlike Sun Zhongshan's weak Xingzhong Society, this Huaxing Society is full of talents and is the main force of the Tongmeng Society in the future. Many famous revolutionary parties in the Republic of China were members of the Huaxing Society. "Is the main association called Huang Xing?"
Wang Jitong had never heard of this name, and only said, "No, I have seen the president, called Huang Kwanwu. Last year, when the Su Bao incident broke out, he was in Shanghai and visited Shu Mei and Wei Dan." Not Huang Xing? Yang Rui was a little confused. Where did Huang Xing go? In fact, revolutionaries in this era often changed their names, one because they were evading arrests, and then to show their ambitions. For example, Sun Zhongshan evolved from the pseudonym Zhongshan, Zhongshan, which was given to him by the Japanese. Later, everyone called Sun Zhongshan, not Sun Wen.
"What do they mean?" Yang Rui asked the key point regardless of whether Huang Xiaowu was Huang Xing or not.
"They want to unite to launch a large-scale uprising. Otherwise, you can talk to Zhang Xingyan in person?" Wang Jitong also knew a little about the situation, but it is better for the Huaxing Association to discuss the major issues of cooperation between the two sessions and Yang Rui in person.
Yang Rui thought that Tonghua had been delayed for more than ten days, frowned and said, "Don't let another day, just tonight, is he in Shanghai?"
"He didn't go home during the Chinese New Year, so he helped in the Russian police station. We can go to find them now." Wang Jitong and Zhang Shizhao had a close relationship. He wanted to develop him as a member of the Revival Society and sent him to the Zhu family in Tanzhou. Who knew that when he went home in November, he said that he had joined the Huaxing Society, which was useless to Wang Jitong's efforts.
When Yang Rui met Zhang Shizhao, he was not alone, and he was also a member of Huaxing with him. He was named Yang Yulin, who was also from Hunan. He was over thirty years old, and his eyes seemed to be blind and his expression was quite serious.
They are all revolutionaries, and there is nothing to say about it. Yang Rui asked: "Xing Yan, you told Xiao Xu that Huaxing would want to cooperate with us. What kind of cooperation method is this?"
Zhang Shizhao met Yang Rui when he was in the school. He didn't have much impression of him, but after Su Bao's case, the Revival Association surfaced, which made him pay more and more attention to Yang Rui's situation. Since joining the Huaxing Association, he wanted to mobilize Cai Yuanpei, Chen Qubing and others to join the Huaxing Association, but who knew that they were already members of the Revival Association. In the end, he had to find Wang Jitong to discuss cooperation matters at the Two Sessions. Zhang Shizhao knew that Yang Rui was not good at speaking and had always been pragmatic, so he said directly: "The Huaxing Association is preparing to promote righteousness in Tanzhou, and hopes that Mr. Jingcheng can lead the congregation to respond."
It turned out that this was the case. Yang Rui originally thought that he would establish the Tongmenghui. He knew a lot about the history of the late Qing Dynasty from some clips written in time-travel novels, but he didn't remember the time point very clearly. In history, it seemed that the Huaxing Society was a member of the Tongmenghui. From the limited history of knowledge, the uprisings organized by Sun Yat-sen in the late Qing Dynasty were generally small, partial uprisings, and even these uprisings had no plans to succeed, just to create momentum. In their opinion, as long as the momentum became stronger, revolutionary patriots would follow one after another, and the Qing Dynasty would automatically collapse. In fact, if Cixi's successor had not repeatedly failed to make tricks and led to the constitutionalists' rebellion, this revolution would not have been successful, and the blood of the martyrs who had been in succession would have flown in vain.
Yang Rui didn't want to do such a thing. He failed to revolt ten times. He only wanted to kill one blow, and he had to be ruthless. Otherwise, Japan, Russia and other great powers would wait for an opportunity to rush over to grab food. In history, Japan, Russia was stopped by Britain and the United States did not send troops to intervene, but that was history, and it was the premise that he was ready to support Yuan Shikai to replace the Qing court. Yang Rui did not believe that he would definitely win the favor of the great powers, and he did not bother to please the favor of those turtles. Therefore, he had to take a complete plan and just in case. Not only should he not revolt frequently and waste resources, he could not easily recruit people to the association, and be cautious and endure the time was ripe.
"Xingyan, such an uprising does not meet the purpose of the Revival Society," Yang Rui shook his head regretfully. Many things cannot be explained. He looked at Zhang Xingyan and Yang Dusheng's eager eyes dimming, and felt very guilty, but he still said it, "So we cannot participate. Please forgive me for this."
Before Zhang Shizhao could ask questions, Yang Dusheng next to him immediately asked, "Mr. Jingcheng, didn't your mission to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Han Dynasty? Why couldn't you respond to the righteousness?"
Faced with such questions, Yang Rui really didn't know what to say, "Brother Dusheng, the Revival Association has been established less than a year. He is cultivating personnel and accumulating strength. The time is not yet ripe. The rash uprising is not good for the overall situation. I don't think about anti-Qing for a day, but it doesn't mean that I can resist today if I want to anti-Qing today. Revival Association wants several years to prepare..."
Before Yang Rui finished his words, he was interrupted by Zhang Shizhao. "Mr. Jingcheng, the Huaxing Association was established later than the Revival Association. Now the members of the association are preparing for the rebellion. Why does it take several years to prepare for the Revival Association?"
Yang Rui was speechless and had to ask back: "How many people will be in Huaxing and how do you plan to make a righteous act?"
Zhang Shizhao glanced at Yang Dusheng and saw that he had no objection, so he said, "We plan to contact the association party. When we established our army and promoted righteousness in the year of Gengzi, our member Liu Kuiyi had a life-saving grace against a leader of the association. Now he is planning to contact him to organize tens of thousands of associations to promote righteousness together. Hunan can go down in one go at a time..."
Yang Rui thought Huaxing would have the solution to revolt as soon as it was established, but he knew it when he heard that the association party was in a clear way. Although he had not read the information and did not know the result of this uprising, the prospects for cooperation with the association party that had failed to succeed and had more than failure were known. Yang Rui was a little distracted again. After Zhang Shizhao finished his long discussion, he said: "Well, I will not participate in this revival meeting for righteousness," looking at the disappointed expressions of the two, Yang Rui immediately said: "But it is not that we do not support you. The revival meeting can help you a batch of guns and ammunition. Although the guns are old, they can still kill people if they fight."
Although the person did not participate, it was still good to send a gun. The two of them were immediately happy. Zhang Shizhao asked: "We are preparing guns. I wonder how many of these guns are?"
The guns Yang Rui mentioned were the batch of British rifles brought in as garbage disposal. Although they were priced from garbage, they were indeed usable. Moreover, they had eight magazines, and they had very strong firepower. But these guns could not be all given to Huaxinghui, so Yang Rui said to Wang Jitong: "Xiao Xu, you decide on the number of things. Besides, you only know how many of them are. You can tell me."
Yang Rui's original intention was to let Wang Jitong decide the number of guns, and it would be best to tell them that there were only so many, but Wang Ji was smart, but the human relationship was not very good. "We can only give two hundred shots, each with fifty bullets. The rest of us..."
Seeing this, Yang Rui was afraid that he would miss it, so he immediately interrupted him and said, "Actually, these are all obtained from overseas. There are more than 400 poles in total. Now I have given half of them. If you don't have enough quantity, you can sell the rest to you first. We will sell as much as we can. But if something happens, don't involve the Revival Society."
Although the smuggled gun can be bought, it is expensive. The two hundred guns cost about 10,000 yuan. Zhang Shizhao and Yang Dusheng were both very happy and thanked him quickly, and they also asked for the remaining guns.
Two hundred guns eased the atmosphere in the room, but Yang Dusheng's speech made the atmosphere awkward, "Mr. Jingcheng, we think there are only three types of revolutions, one is advocacy, such as hosting newspapers and speeches; the second is riot, such as Huaxing, now Huaxing will make righteousness, and the third is assassination. If Li Zhi assassinates Qingji, the Revival Society will take time to prepare, then why not assassinate? Although it cannot assassinate the Qing emperor, assassinate several princes, Beile or first- and second-rank dog officials can also boost our morale and make the Qing court frightened."
Although Wang Jitong said in his usual monthly newspaper that the revolutionaries have followed the assassination method of the Russian nihilist, Yang Rui has only seen the admirers now. He never thought that assassination could be a big deal, especially the purposeless assassination. "Brother Du Sheng, so far, the Revival will have no assassination plan, and I personally think that assassination cannot actually cause substantial damage to the Qing Dynasty. If an official kills an official today, another official will be sent tomorrow. There is no court in history that collapsed because of assassination. It is a good idea to eradicate the Qing Dynasty's court in real and fundamental way, but to do this, you have to spend time cultivating talents and raising funds. Too hasty actions will not only not succeed, but will also make the resistance to overthrowing the Qing Dynasty. They will repair loopholes and improve themselves according to our practices."
Yang Rui's bitter thoughts did not touch the two fanatical revolutionaries. The conversation that night ended soon. Originally, Yang Rui wanted to have some deeper contact with Huaxing, but according to Yang Dusheng's attitude, it was probably not possible. Yang Rui felt that Revival would be made like an assassin himself, never making any noise, not attracting attention, and only seeking to hit a single blow. However, in the eyes of those who are uninformed, Revival is a revolutionary party that only promotes the revolution and does not launch a revolution.
On the way back, Yang Rui asked Wang Jitong: "Do you think we did this right? Isn't it a bit cowardly?"
Wang Jitong replied: "I never think anything is cowardly. I just feel that our strength is getting stronger and stronger. One day we will make a splash and reach the sky in one step."
He is worthy of being a math specialist, and he is very rational in his understanding of problems. Yang Rui corrected: "How can we say it is a step to reach the top. We don't know how many years it takes to go."
After Yang Rui left, Yang Dusheng said with a little contempt: "This is what you said about Yang Jingcheng? I know that I have to prepare for the righteousness, but what else should I prepare for assassinating the Tartars? It's over the killing. Any assassination has no effect. I think he is a disciple of Kang Liang. He only dares to shout and does not dare to take action."
Zhang Shizhao originally thought that as the first anti-Qing organization in China to shout anti-Qing slogans, he would definitely actively promote justice with Huaxing. Who knew that Yang Rui said that the time was not yet ripe, which was beyond his expectations. According to the truth, it should not be like this. "Brother Dusheng, this matter cannot be so simple to think that they are the Kangliang Party. At least the Kangliang Party will not give us two hundred guns for free."
"What's not for free? How do you think this gun came from? Yang Jingcheng just said that he returned from overseas. I don't have to guess that he must have gone overseas to deceive overseas Chinese. Like Kang's party, he asked overseas Chinese to donate money and materials. These guns were bought by overseas Chinese. What's not for free?" Kang's party relies on overseas Chinese to donate huge amounts of money overseas. Some newspapers said that it was a huge amount of millions of dollars. In addition, Yang Rui said that he had gone overseas for a while, which forced Yang Dusheng to think about this.
Chapter completed!