Chapter 24 The Second Conversation
Zhang Xingyan's aphasia made the farewell end soon. Although the dock was in the concession, it was a place where humans and snakes were mixed. The two major figures of the revolutionary organizations were here, and they could not tolerate any mistakes. In particular, both sides had extremely important tasks, and everyone went back after each of them explained some important things.
After Cai Yuanpei and Huang Xiaowu met, they boarded the passenger ship heading to Wuchang together. It was just because the two had different cabins. Cai Yuanpei was on the passenger ship, while Huang Xiaowu was on the third-class cabin, and they got separated when they boarded the ship. The Fuxing Association operated under Yang Rui's operation as meticulous as a company in later generations. The regulations for business travelers were detailed. Because the journey was long, Cai Yuanpei lived in the first-class cabin. Not long after the Huaxing Association was established, an uprising was imminent. Although most of the gun problem was solved, the funds were still tight. In order to raise funds, Huang Xiaowu even sold the 300 stone of good land left by his ancestors. Other backbones in the association also broke their families and borrowed money. In order to save funds, Huang Xiaowu went out this time and kept everything simple. He bought the third-class cabin. It was said that it was a third-class cabin, which was actually a bed and there was no bed to find open space.
The difference between the revolution is so big. Cai Yuanpei saw it and sighed in his heart. It would take at least half a month to go from Shanghai to Hankou. It was really hard to live in Xiacang. He hurried to make up the first-class ticket, and then settled in a no-one cabin with Huang Xiaowu. Cai Yuanpei looked at him and said, "It's too hard for Keqiang to do this. If everyone in China was like you, the national power would not be so."
Huang Xiaowu was happy to hear this. Seeing that there was no one around, he laughed in a low voice: "Mr. Cai may not know that the funding for this event was insufficient, and everyone in the meeting was ruined for the country. It doesn't matter whether the cabin or not. We only hope that the revolution can succeed, and we will do our best to put it into our lives." Huang Xiaowu was originally a person who didn't like to speak much, and this statement was just that he would express his feelings on behalf of Huaxing.
Cai Yuanpei knew the passionate spirit of the revolutionaries, and the same was true for the Revival Society, but the passionate elements in the Association went to the Northeast to go to the war with Yang Rui. He said frankly: "Revival will feel that the conditions for the uprising are not very mature under the current circumstances, so there is little support, so Keqiang must forgive him."
Huang Xiaowu originally wanted to communicate with Cai Yuanpei about this matter. Wang Jitong was rigid and rational, and always only said the result and not the reason. When asked again, it was that the revival would be disciplined, which made Yang Dusheng always say that revival would be a false revolution. This time he happened to meet Cai Yuanpei and knew that he was kind and was one of the people in charge of the association. He wanted to start from him to persuade Revival to join the uprising. "When will Mr. Cai think it will be a good opportunity for the uprising?" He asked with retreating to advance.
"This," Cai Yuanpei looked around and said no one, "We mean that we have to wait for the great changes in the palace...for example, the empress dowager ascends to heaven..." He spoke very quietly in the last few words, and only then did Huang Wu get close to him to understand.
He completely denied Cai Yuanpei’s statement, and he immediately asked: “But if this matter doesn’t happen… when will we wait?”
Cai Yuanpei actually didn't know much about Yang Rui's base model, and his long-standing idea was to save the country. The reason why he told Huang Xiaowu to do something after Cixi's death was to read the article of Yang Rui's monthly report. After reading it, he thought that Cixi was almost 70 years old, and it was probably not a few years since death. But today, when Huang Xiaowu asked this question, he couldn't answer. "Wu Wu, everyone in the Revival Association has a division of labor, and the people are only responsible for education, and they really don't know about the military and national affairs." Cai Yuanpei couldn't tell any good solutions and had to tell the truth. "This time, several people in the association thought it was too risky, and whether it was successful or not. Therefore, it was better to decide not to intervene, and only send firearms to show their support."
Cai Yuanpei's frankness made Huang Xiaowu have nothing to say. He said: "I have contacted tens of thousands of congresses to initiate affairs. As long as the charity flag is launched, everyone will respond. After the attack, we will first occupy the Hunan and Hunan provinces. At that time, other provinces will launch anti-Qing again, and the success of the revolution is just around the corner."
Huang Xiaowu's words were passionate. If Cai Yuanpei had been before, he would have applauded him and responded with all his strength, but now he has more important things to do. Looking at Huang Xiaowu's excited expression, he said earnestly: "Keqiang. We all believe that only revolution can save China, but revolution also has an urgent need. The Revival Society has only been established for one year and all matters are being prepared. If the Qing court really collapsed so easily, the predecessors have already succeeded. Today, China has external humiliation and internal troubles, but the people's wisdom has not yet been opened. How difficult is it to succeed in the revolution."
Huang Xiaowu said: "Mr. Cai's words are reasonable. However, since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the country's power has declined, and now Russia has started again. China will be in trouble. How can we sit and wait?"
Looking at his sad face, Cai Yuanpei seemed to see an old friend from the past. He couldn't sit still, and stood up and pushed open the window. At this time, the passenger ship was already on. Jiang Feng rushed in from outside the window, and the room suddenly became cool. He had thought about Huang Xiaowu's problem before, but later he joined the Fuxing Association to be responsible for education. All matters made him forget the anxiety of looking at the current situation in China for a while. He seemed to see Tan Fusheng's Ling Ran who looked at the death of the Kang Party again. Although the Kang Party was very popular at that time, he was very respectful to him in his heart.
"I am determined to kill the thief, but I am powerless to turn the world back. I die at the place where I am. How happy." Looking at the surging river water being stirred up by the passenger ship in the opposite direction, Cai Yuanpei unconsciously thought of Tan Sitong's last words, and his heart was ups and downs. "Keqiang, Tan Fusheng is also from Hunan, right?"
Huang Xiaowu was unclear and replied: "Yes. Mr. Tan is from Liuyang, Hunan."
Cai Yuanpei said again: "Do you know how the matter of Wuxu will fail?"
Huang Xiaowu knew that what he asked was not a simple answer like Yuan Shikai's betrayal. So he said, "The world has many reasons, but it may not be all correct. Please give me advice."
Cai Yuanpei said: "At the time of Wuxu, I was an official in Beijing and knew a lot about the Kang Party. In the end, it was because I did not cultivate innovative talents first, but wanted to take power with a few people, and finally I was calculated by the old Party. Today's revolution is like the past. How many people really understand the way of revolution? Not to mention your association, I saw that there were only dozens of people who truly understood the revolution in the Revival Association. From this, I can imagine how many people there are in the country. Without the support of talents, the people's wisdom has not been fully developed. If the revolution is successful, what will happen to those conservatives? Will they revolution be another revolution?"
Cai Yuanpei was talking about the insights he had gained from seeing the changes in the court over the years. After Wuxu, he thought that the court had no hope, and abandoned his position in Beijing and returned to his hometown to teach, and implemented education to save the country. Huang Xiaowu actually understood what he said, but in the face of this situation, "Mr. Cai said very much, but Wu believed that the matter was no different from what Mr. Tan Fusheng did back then. It was indeed impossible to succeed in one step, but every matter would be responded by more young people, and the Qing court would be defeated in these matters. We wanted to use the blood of revolution to awaken the patriotism of the people in order to achieve the success of the revolution as soon as possible."
It is normal for the revolutionary party to hold this idea, but do those members of the sect also hold this idea?! Use the blood of revolution to awaken the patriotism of the people, but are the people who die of blood really unswerving? In ancient times, rebellion was the main force, and are they willing to sacrifice among those who act righteously? Cai Yuanpei, who has always been gentle, dare not ask such sharp words in person, but he knew in his heart that those who acted in the sect were afraid that they would think so.
The second conversation between the Fuxing Association and the Huaxing Association ended in such a flawless manner, which made the relationship between the Huaxing Association and the Fuxing Association increasingly alienated in the future. Of course, even if you know that such a disposition will result in alienation, Yang Rui would still choose to alienate from the Huaxing Association. The Fuxing Association really relies on talents cultivated from his own system. Although these people may now be just child laborers who work part-time and half-study in the mainland factory and students from various branches of the Education Association, they will be the real foundation of the Fuxing Association in a few years.
The passenger ship arrived in Hankou more than ten days later. As soon as the two got off the ship, someone came to pick them up. It turned out that the revolutionary party in Hubei had already known that Huang Xiaowu came from Shanghai and had been waiting these days. Huang Xiaowu naturally introduced Cai Yuanpei to these people. In fact, these people were members of the Science Tutorial Institute, most of whom were soldiers from the Engineering Battalion of the Eighth Town of the Hubei Army. Unlike Yuan Shikai who recruited some peasants who could not read big words and govern the army with power and skills, Zhang Zhidong emphasized that soldiers should be literate when preparing to build the Hubei New Army. The revolutionary party took the name of such a scientific Tutorial Institute as a cover to absorb and train revolutionary soldiers in the name of learning.
Cai Yuanpei stayed in Wuchang for a day, and after getting familiar with everyone in the Science Tutorial Institute, he set off for Tanzhou before Huang Wu. It was already July. Although the imperial court said that Tanzhou had just opened its port on July 1 of the Western calendar, foreign passenger ships had already tried their way on the river in Tanzhou, Hankou. After arriving in Tanzhou, they were taken to a yard as soon as they got off the ship. This person was a student of the Patriotic Society in the past. Cai Yuanpei also knew him, but he couldn't name him.
"Sir, stop guessing, I am Cheng Guangshun from Class 2 of Advanced Learning Society." The student smiled. He has not seen his former classmates and friends since he arranged to come to Tanzhou. He is very happy to see his former husband today.
Cai Yuanpei also smiled. There were too many students. If everyone remembered, he would have become a god. He asked, "Are you alone in Tanzhou?"
Cheng Guangshun looked at him and wanted to speak but stopped hearing this. Cai Yuanpei immediately said, "Yes, yes. Don't tell me, don't tell me... I asked wrongly. Haha." Although he was in charge of the education meeting, before leaving, Wang Jitong could explain many things he had not known before, among which the foreign personnel had to abide by those disciplines. "Just tell me what you can tell me." Although he was not used to it, Cai Yuanpei fully understood the role of discipline.
Cheng Guangshun took out the information he had prepared and began to introduce the situation of the Zhu family: "There are now two branches of the Zhu family, one is the elder brother Zhu Changlin, and the other is Zhu Changlin's cousin, named Zhu Zigui. The current patriarch of the Zhu family is Zhu Changlin. He failed the provincial examination many times in his early years, and later forced his family to abandon his articles and go to business. This should be a regret in his life. The Zhu family now has only one fame, called Zhu Fangxu, who was a juren in the 20th year of Guangxu and is now an official in Henan... The Zhu family has some shops and rice shops in Tanzhou City, but the ancestral house is in Tangpo dozens of miles away. The place where the husband is going to go in two days is Tangpo."
Cai Yuanpei was not interested in the various information about the Zhu family. He came here to accept his apprentice. He asked, "Where is the information about the students?"
Cheng Guangshun hurriedly took another envelope, but he did not introduce it this time. This was the information sent by Sheng Shudong to bring the secret level. The envelope was also covered with fire paint, which was not something he could see at his level. He handed the envelope to Cai Yuanpei, poured another cup of tea and gently pushed it out.
After Cai Yuanpei tested the hot paint, he opened the envelope and found portraits and simple materials of the three children, one was Zhu Kuanjun, ten years old; the other was Zhu Kuanhan, eight years old; the other was Zhu Kuanqian, seven years old. There were a few introductions under the portrait, but in order to avoid affecting Cai Yuanpei's judgment, the introductions were all general. The original intention of the information was to make people remember these three children instead of distinguishing the advantages and disadvantages. After Cai Yuanpei remembered the people, he burned the things with foreign torches and went out to call Cheng Guangshun in: "Where is a barber shop here? I want to repair my hair."
Chapter completed!