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Chapter 76 Preparation

The telegram sent by the Revival Society soon arrived at the destination. Regarding the matter, Liu Jing'an of the Rizhihui received the first one. He looked at the telegram sent by Feng Temin and shouted: "Haha, you are also righteous, and the Tongmenghui is also righteous. I see that the Qing Dynasty's energy is over. Haha..."

Liu Jing'an's white goose feather fan also suffused happily. Everyone stared at his goose feather fan, and their excitement increased little by little. When everyone's atmosphere was rising, someone started to pour cold water on them.

"Will you not be a royal priest in your revival? Why are you here to prove your righteousness now? Are you trying to inquire about our righteousness?"

The person who spoke was Yu Cheng, a native of Macheng, Hubei. He participated in a science cram school in his early years. When the Houtanzhou Uprising happened, he fled to Japan with Huaxinghui and others and studied at Waseda University. He participated in the preparations for the Tongmenghui. At the end of last year, the Tongmenghui began to arrange representatives of various provinces to return to China to form branch committees of various provinces. At the beginning, Hubei was recommended Shi Gongjiu, but Shi Gongjiu did not go; Zhang Fang and Chen Zhenfan did not go; he recommended Tan Tao, but Tan Tao did not go; the reason was not because the revolution was not active, such as Tan Tao, for the sake of the revolution, the official fee of Yale University in the United States gave up.

After all, it was the case that the Maintenance Meeting was caused last year. Especially in the Maintenance Meeting, everyone saw that the Sun was called the separation of powers, but in fact it was autocratic and dictatorial, so the Sun was ignored. Yu Cheng was only twenty-one years old, and his blood was boiling when he talked about the revolution. At that time, Chen Tianhua wanted to commit suicide, but he was not as smart as Shi Gongjiu and other old birds. He volunteered to come back when he saw no one returning to China. He originally wanted to develop all the Rizhihui into the Tongmenghuihui, but Liu Jing'an refused. He just waited for the Frenchman Euclidao to arrive, and the Tongmenghui's work in Hubei made progress.

"When did the Revival Society say that they would be royal, and when did they say that they would not be revolutionary?" Feng Temin looked at him strangely. He just thought that the people of the Tongmenghui were all confused?

"You..." Yu Cheng wanted to speak, but he was grabbed by Liu Jing'an on the side. He didn't want to mess up the matter because of the two sessions. He asked Feng Temin, "Ti'an. Where do you want to do something this time?"

"It should be in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang area. I don't know where it is. In fact, this time I just want to know the approximate time of the matter, so that everyone can respond." The telegram to Feng Temin did not explain the specific plan in detail, but Feng Temin felt that he would ask about the time of the righteousness in the meeting, and he was afraid that he would really have to take action.

Feng Temin's words were exactly what Liu Jing'an wanted. He thought that the whole country would have a strong momentum. In fact, Rizhihui seemed very strong, claiming to have nearly 10,000 people, but to be honest, how many people would really revolution together, he probably would not exceed 300 people. Of course, if he could do it together, there would probably be a lot of people. It is very likely that most of the 29th Batch would follow suit. In fact, in addition to scholars, Rizhihui had more members in the Hubei New Army, with more than 30 people joining the association, and in the engineering camp, there were many people in the engineering camp in the science cram school. Except for these two things, the other troops were completely inaccurate.

"Ti'an. The capital is in chaos now, so we should do things as soon as possible! We will take action in four days. Can you hurry up?" Liu Jing'an thought in his heart and told Feng Temin the time he agreed with Tongmenghui. Tongmenghui actually did not say where to promote righteousness, so the time for righteousness is not important.

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Because of Liu Jing'an's trust in Feng Teminming, the time for the righteousness was not kept secret from the Revival, but in Tokyo, Hu Hanmin wanted to directly dismiss Yu Youren, who came to the door, but knew that the matter between the two sessions was not something he could decide, so he informed Sun Wen about Yu Youren's visit. However, he did not come out after he entered. Yu Youren heard a man in the inner room and shouted: "But this flag is like a Japanese flag..."

Then another louder voice said: "I am in Nanyang, and tens of thousands of people use this flag! If you want to destroy it, then you will defeat me first!"

Yu Youren Nanfang Yan didn't understand very well, but he felt that the voice of the person who spoke in the end seemed to be Sun Wen. Just as he was about to say, the door inside suddenly opened, and a person seemed to come out, followed by a lot of voices: "Keqiang...Keqiang..."

But the man inside ignored him and did not see Yu Youren who was waiting outside. He just left angrily. However, Song Jiaoren, who was following him, saw Yu Youren, stopped and smiled and said to Youren: "Brother Youren is here?"

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

When Song Jiaoren saw that he was here, he should have visited Sun Wen, but now he had a quarrel inside, and was afraid that Sun Wen would not see him, so he said, "Youren Brother can tell me if you have anything, 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, Prime Minister is not feeling well now, so it's better to come back another day."

Yu Youren was a little surprised when he heard this and said, "But this is here to make a great contribution. Mr. Sun..."

"Sir, the matter will take place within four days. If the Revival will be a real revolution, then we will first express our determination. We welcome the Revival Society to join the Tongmenghui as a whole." Hu Hanmin went in to see Sun Wen and was still angry. He had no intention of meeting Yu Youren. He just let Hu Hanmin talk back and forth after listening to the matter.

Seeing that he was a little rude in his words, Yu Youren smiled and said, "Is the Tongmenghui Association the authentic revolution? Today is a witness." After that, he bowed and left.

As soon as Yu Youren left, Song Jiaoren asked: "Hanmin, what does the Prime Minister really say?"

"What does the Prime Minister say have to do with Revival? They just watched the Qing Dynasty collapse and wanted to join the revolutionary camp. The people of the Revival Society are really both ends of the rat." Hu Hanmin looked at Yu Youren's back and said sneered.

Seeing that he was acting like this, Song Jiaoren was silent and left without saying a word. Huang Xing had always had a gentle temper, but today's anger is really worrying, especially when the matter is about to take action, unity is the most important thing.

All the news gathered at Wan'anli in Shanghai at 8 o'clock in the evening. The Tokyo Tongmenghui and Hubei Rizhihui gave the same time. There will be some action within four days. The other three members' reactions to the matter were within Yang Rui's expectations. Mr. Huafeng believed that the matter should be cautious. Now everything is under construction. If it is later, it is later. If it is a vote of abstention; Yu Zixun voted in favor; Zhong Guanguang said that he did not understand what happened in China and could not decide what. However, he believed that the domestic situation was chaotic. It should be a move, but he emphasized that Yang Rui's judgment of the domestic situation has always been accurate. If Yang Rui thinks that it is impossible to make righteousness, it is better not to act rashly... He did not say that he agreed or opposed in the telegram, but after reading the entire telegram, it also meant to abstain.

Two of the seven members abstained. Three of them agreed, two opposed, and the problem was thrown to Yang Rui's side. Although the president had a veto power and could bring back the opinions of Cai Yuanpei and others, what should we do if the situation was really as chaotic as the speculated? But if it agreed, once the situation stabilized, the Revival Society would become the focus of the Qing Dynasty to clear the people. Now those associations are training in the name of the village league. Once the matter is held, the line of "training the league revolution" may be exposed...

The three of them looked at Yang Rui whose faces were constantly changing, and they only waited for a while before listening to him: "The orders are divided into two parts. The first is an order to prepare for the matter. I will issue them now. Let the troops be prepared; the second is an order to launch the matter, which can be issued in two days. If the Beiyang rebellion is really a result, then the combat order will be issued immediately."

Helplessly, Yang Rui had to use the drag-on technique. Wang Jitong heard this and said, "Tongmenghui, Rizhihui, probably has been preparing for the cause for a long time. Are our four days enough? The troops' ammunition is not enough."

"It is best to engage in a joint operation together, one or two days later. As for ammunition, if there is not enough, you can only seize the Qing army. These four days are actually the time for reconnaissance, and the General Staff had already had a plan to engage in Zhejiang." Yang Rui recalled the previous plan of Zhejiang and said, "Now we can only occupy Hangzhou first. As for other parts of the province, we can't take care of our troops according to our strength."

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

Yang Rui shook his head and smiled, "Brother Mei. In this way, our orders can only be passed through the city of Hangzhou without any obstacles. If you leave the city, then..." Seeing everyone's surprised gaze, Yang Rui still smiled: "According to our current strength in Zhejiang, this is the only thing we can do. This is actually just a change of a governor. Nothing else can be changed. We have not gone deep into the countryside at all."

Feeling Yang Rui's concern, Zhang Taiyan said: "It turns out that the revolution is always completed step by step. If you occupy Hangzhou, then we can control Hangzhou Jiahu Road. As long as we control Hangzhou Jiahu Road, other places can also control them one by one."

"But this takes time. Will the Qing Dynasty give us time?" Yang Rui still didn't believe in anything to join forces, and he didn't believe in Tongmenghui. As for the Rizhihui, he didn't remember that there was such an organization. Although they had members in the army, it would be impossible to launch an uprising like Xinhai.

Zhang Taiyan and Yang Rui were discussing future strategies, while Cai Yuanpei thought of another question. He said: "It turns out, will Shanghai also move?"

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

Zhang Taiyan said: "Shanghai involves many great powers. Before they express their opinions on the incident, they will not act rashly. If they send troops, what should we do? Or not fight? If we don't fight, lose the heart of the army and the hearts of the people, and fight, and then fight, and then put forward a strong enemy, it is really unwise."

Wang Jitong next to him also said: "It's better not to touch the great powers first. There is a Japanese concession in Hangzhou, so be careful about this. Once the Japanese die, they will definitely send troops to interfere."

Seeing that everyone disagrees, Cai Yuanpei had to not mention this proposal. At this time, Yang Rui also called Chen Guangshou in, read the committee's resolution to him, and then he would draft a telegram for preparation. After he finished writing the telegram, he repeated it again. After Yang Rui heard it, he signed it immediately. Then he took out a password seal from his arms, checked it out before he opened it, and then filled in the identification code inside, and then handed the telegram to Chen Guangshou, who would hand it to the military radio station to send a message.

After many improvements in the wireless telegraph technology, although the problem of wire oxidation caused by incomplete vacuum tube exhaust has not been solved, the emission distance has been greatly improved, especially in the absence of electromagnetic pollution, a radio station with a few dozen watts can send a report of nearly a thousand kilometers. The military communications office is also located in Wan'anli. Not long after Chen Guangshou passed, a radio wave cut through the night sky and headed south.

Zhong Mei, who was in Jiaxing, first received a telegram from the General Office. His troops had three identities. For the government, it was a township regiment and the Red Flower Association Qingmutang. In fact, the number in the army was the First Regiment of the Independent Brigade of the Zhejiang Front Army. It was said that it was a regiment, but according to the organization of the Fuxing Army, there were only less than six companies, totaling 1,154 people; and there were not enough weapons, and the entire regiment had only 300 military rifles. More than 100 single-shot rifles seized, and dozens of fire systems were fired; there were no machine guns in terms of heavy firepower, and the artillery, except for a few local cannons, only two training mortars were trained, but the shells were training bullets - they could be fired. However, because they were solid warheads, they would not explode.

Zhong Mei was not surprised when she received the telegram. She checked the identification code first and confirmed that it was correct before ordering the correspondents to go to Ao Jiaxiong and the company commanders of each company to discuss. At the same time, she deduced it based on the previous uprising plan based on the map. In fact, the Revival Club actually had three troops in Zhejiang, namely three regiments. The first regiment was located in Jiaxing, the second regiment was in Shengxian, and the third regiment was in Jinhua, Lishui. If you want to attack Hangzhou, the third regiment was too far away to come.

It can be the first regiment and the second regiment cooperated in combat, but considering that Shengxian is 130 kilometers away from Hangzhou, it will still have to capture Shaoxing. It is unrealistic to cross the river and attack Hangzhou at the same time with the first regiment. The plan is that Shengxian will raise an army westward to the city of Shaoxing, and siege the city to attack the aid forces from Hangzhou to eliminate the troops coming from Hangzhou. Jiaxing went south overnight, and Hangzhou was not strictly garrisoned and went down in one go. If the Qing army conscientiously cooperated with friendly troops from Shaoxing to attack the city.

The plan was made by the General Staff, and it cannot be said that it is not strict, but the staff only regard the enemy as normal people, but for the Qing army, they will miscalculate it. For example, the current general Ruixing of Hangzhou is not only a complete canvas, but also a smoker. It is said that the puppy he raised is also addicted to opium. What kind of war can such a general fight? When he sent a water and land defense camp to clear out the Taihu water bandits last year, he only occupied some of the empty camps he had discarded and returned to the court. It is said that in the memorial, "The water bandits were defeated and fled... I don't know the exact number of casualties..." If the Second Regiment feinted Shaoxing, Ruixing would definitely not dare to send troops out of the city. The more likely it would be to shrink in Hangzhou city, and then send a report that the party was in great power and demanded that the court send new troops to reinforce.

When Zhong Mei was thinking about revising the plan for the matter, Ao Jiaxiong came excitedly. He lived closest and came the fastest. The first thing he said when he entered the door was, "When will the matter be done?"

Zhong Mei smiled as he looked at his disheveled look and said, "I don't know yet. I'm just preparing now. I don't know when to take action."

Ao Jiaxiong did not understand the rules of the army and said, "What does this mean? Or not?"

"It means to prepare first. The specific action orders will be issued again the next day." Zhong Mei did not find it strange that there was no final order in the telegram. Hangzhou could be defeated without any surprise, but if it was not able to take advantage of the stability, it would be a different matter. We should think carefully about it.

Ao Jiaxiong was a little disappointed when he heard this. He thought Tao Chengzhang had convinced the members of the committee. Who knew that it was just a preparation, and it was still unknown whether it was really a matter. "Bu Jin, what am I going to do here?"

"Prepare dry food first. There are 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 and said: "We must send people to the event first, but we must prevent the leak of the wind."

Ao Jiaxiong looked at the places he pointed at, nodded heavily, and said, "Okay, I've recorded them all. What else can I do?"

He has been devoted to overthrowing the Qing Dynasty since the year of Renyin. Today, he finally got to see what he wanted and couldn't help but feel a little excited. But Zhong Mei knew that it would not happen when he was excited. After thinking about it, he said: "If there were some civil chaos, it would be of great help to the cause."

"People's chaos?"

"Yes, people are in chaos." Zhong Mei knew that this was an additional request, and I wonder if Ao Jiaxiong could start.

"Okay!" Ao Jiaxiong was a master after all, and he was very clear about the current conflict between officials and the people. "The Hangzhou-Jia-Huzhou area requires 1.7 million dan of grain every year. These large grain households do not receive much, and they basically collect small households. There have been some anti-grain cases a few years ago. If we want to fight against the civil unrest, then our rebel army will have to use the name of "anti-grain" and "anti-donation".

"Okay, then you go and start first, but remember not to leak the news of the incident. There are many water bandits in Hangzhou, Jiahu and Lake, and there are many water and land defense camps. If the news is leaked, it will be bad to be entangled by these brave men." Zhong Mei was afraid that he would reveal the news when he encouraged the people to make trouble, so he gave special advice.

Ao Jiaxiong smiled and said, "Bu Jin, please don't worry. I can save it, I can save it."

The two discussed other matters for a while, and waited for the company commanders to arrive. Zhong Mei stopped the negotiations and went to the war room to arrange tasks. When the Jiaxing First Regiment was held, the Second Regiment of Sheng County, the Third Regiment of Lishui, and the Government Affairs Group in Shanghai were also holding meetings. What the troops had to do was to occupy the city, and what the government affairs group had to do was to take over the entire city. The most important of them was the reception of the bank, official treasury, telegraph, newspaper office, postal, etc., and the management of the entire city. Once the war started, even those who transported manure would hide at home and dare not go out. The manure could not be transported out of the city, let alone garbage. If business travelers were extinct and prices soared, then even if Hangzhou was occupied, it would be a dead city.

Government affairs, science and technology, and military talents are the focus of the construction of the Revival Society. Shanghai Law and Political School has been opened for more than a year. Although the students' courses have not been completed, they still have at least some understanding of government affairs management. Two hundred reliable students were selected to form a government affairs group and rushed to Hangzhou in advance. It is extremely important to use it to accept cities.

As soon as the Wan'anli telegram was sent, countless people moved. Zhang Taiyan and others left. Yang Rui was still in Wan'anli's office at this time, looking through the telegrams from Beijing to judge the development of the Beiyang mutiny. However, even if the funeral was over, the dignitaries still had no intention of visiting the Eight Great Hutongs. Gong Baoquan had no valuable news, only sent some rumors. Some said that the Beiyang Army occupied Tianjin, some said that Beijing had been surrounded, and some said that the king-supporting troops from all over the country had already reached Baoding... Anyway, there were all statements, but none of them could be confirmed.

At this time, Yang Rui felt a little regretful that he had not arranged a few women to open a Ziming Building in Beijing, selling Western jewelry, etc., so he could get on the line with the concubines and wives. When the Yichun Garden was deserted, he could take the wife's route and explore the situation in Beijing. But it was too late to remember this route now. He had to write this idea in his work notes.

When talking about the woman, Yang Rui remembered Cheng Liu again. After a month, where did they go? If they were arrested, it must be known to everyone in the whole country. Guangxu did not need to interrogate secretly. Yang Rui only thought that Cheng Liu would appear soon. In fact, in reality, it would be better for her to appear later. Once she appeared, she would naturally surrender herself according to Sun Wen's order to frame Yuan Shikai. If so, the two of them would really not meet again in the next life.

When Yang Rui was distracted, Chen Guangshou knocked on the door and came in from outside and said, "Sir, the martial law is coming soon. Will you go back tonight?" Yang Rui worked at night some time ago, but this is no different from the faction in various departments in the military on duty for 24 hours, so he has been adjusting his work and rest in order to synchronize with the people 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 make arrangements. Yang Rui's safety is the top priority of the special department. It would be fine if he didn't go out, but he would mobilize many troops as soon as he went out. Although there were already many secret whistles in Wan'anli and Ruyili, there were still many arrangements every time he went out.

Accompanied by Chen Guangshou, Yang Rui came out of the alley behind Wan'anli, and took advantage of the night to cross the road and then turned into an alley, and then he turned around and arrived in Ruyili. When entering the door, Yang Rui suddenly asked, "How is the woman I saw today?"

"Today...woman..." Chen Guangshou thought for a while before remembering that when Yang Rui bought the livestock in the afternoon, he kept paying attention to the daughter of the food stall owner. The woman was not very beautiful, but she still had the beauty of a Jiangnan woman. She was very hard to invite customers to clean up the dishes.

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

"Remember, sir, do you think?" Yang Rui said too strangely, and it was a bit like a forced snatching the girl.

"Tomorrow, go and inquire about this family background and see if there is a marriage contract." Yang Rui said extremely absurd words seriously, which made Chen Guangshou confused. "Sir? This..." He couldn't help but think of Miss Cheng in Tianjin. Although the woman was pretty in the afternoon, she was much worse than Miss Cheng in Tianjin. Besides, Miss Cheng also killed Cixi, and she thought she was a hero among women. She happened to be a match for her husband, but now her husband...
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