Chapter 82 The sword points to Guangzhou
After Duo and Shanqi met, various situations came like mushrooms after a rain. Although the understanding reached between them was still very suspicious, in Shiduo's view, this vague ambiguity was actually an excellent expression - if you really express your support directly, without saying much, it would definitely be a trap.
It was the Spring Festival of the three years of reform, and the bannermen attached great importance to the etiquette of interacting with each other. As an elder in the royal family, Shi Duo also visited the door to pay New Year's greetings. Among these bustling roles, Zai was included.
"Your Majesty, you've been in contact."
"Hmm!" Shi Duo was secretly happy, but his face remained silent.
"I have connected a bunch of old brothers, and..." Zai lowered his voice, "We are also in the Imperial Guards."
"Don't worry, wait and see." Zai's activity was carried out completely under Shi Duo's instruction. Although he did not name anyone, everyone knew that Zai had a master behind her. Otherwise, just by being a fool, how could there be so many things? Not to mention anything else, such a big money-spending style would not have been what Zai had always had.
Who can't complain? What's more, in such a season when people's hearts are fluctuating, Zai's actions are extremely smooth. He has a large number of agreeables and followers while drinking and chatting. Some people even expressed their opinions on the spot with a blushing face and thick neck, "Brother, I will definitely be at the same time."
In contrast, Kawashima Nasu and Ito and others had to be more concealed. When reporting to the country, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' reply to Ito was ambiguous - this is almost the most iconic reply from the Japanese government to such incidents. Those who receive the reply can arbitrarily understand this reply as their own needs according to their intentions. In terms of the Black Dragon Society, since the Russo-Japanese War, the next target of invasion has been positioned on China. Kawashima once talked about the "separation of Manchuria and Mongolia" in various private occasions. Now the unstable internal legacy of the royal family is regarded as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity by the Black Dragon Society, especially Ito has received the ventriloquial "not support, no objection" through private contact with the military.
The military's "unsupportive" remarks on the issue of China's aggression have never been an objection. On the contrary, this can only refer to the helplessness of "not being able to do it". Although Japan won the Russo-Japanese War, it was very expensive. The heavy debt burden made Japan unable to raise its head. Even if the military wants to take action, it is still subject to insufficient military spending and the people's tired of war and unable to accomplish anything.
The so-called "not opposed" remarks are almost equivalent to a naked and direct approval: the military has always believed that it is necessary to attract the attention of the people with new goals after the Russo-Japanese War. China is a very weak and appropriate prey. What is difficult is only what reasons to use and what excuses to start, rather than hesitating about whether to take action or not.
"Kun Kawashima. I have reported your meaning to the superiors. Do they think that the revolutionary party can be involved together?" The so-called superiors mainly refer to the spiritual leader of the Black Dragon Society, Toyama Manta and the highest leader Uchida Ryohei.
"This?" Kawashima hesitated. He had no close relationship with the revolutionary party and had different attitudes towards Sun Wen and others. "Can they tie together?"
"After Wang Jingwei defected, the revolutionary party was greatly shocked. In the past six months, there were many people who defected or left the revolutionary party. Especially young people studying in the empire. Because of the high civil servant selection exam and the future of becoming an official, they also wavered the revolution." Ito smiled. "This is an old problem with the Chinese people. They have always been pragmatism. They don't know how to insist on and sacrifice for justice. Sun Yat-sen and others were extremely angry about this, but they were helpless. Therefore, as long as there is such an opportunity, not to mention uniting with the royal family, or even joining the devil, he will not frown."
"This is really..."
"And, isn't the inciting civil strife in China the way you and I have been thinking about? This rebellion of the royal family disrupted the order, and the revolutionary party incited the flames, I think there is great hope for things." Ito saw Kawashima openly and wanted to interrupt, and waved his hand to stop him, "I know what you are worried about. Are you afraid that if these two factions will fight directly if they disagree? No, all this is for us to mediate, contact, and not let the two factions connect, otherwise it is possible to have bad things. Of course, for Shi Duo and Sun Yat-sen are the leaders, such arrangements cannot be concealed."
"Since Ito Jun is so sure, I will follow the order." Kawashima was a little anxious, "How do we arrange our troops?"
"This needs to be negotiated with the superiors, and the funds, weapons and even personnel must be unified." Ito returned to his rigorous expression at this time, "You will find the personnel. I will consider how to arrange the specific plan."
"Then please."
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A secret stronghold of the revolutionary party in Tokyo was in secret. Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren and others were discussing secretly.
"Sir, do you really want to accept this condition?" Huang Xing looked confused, but his tone was extremely calm. "We are more hostile to the party in the royal family. How can we explain to the comrades when we work with them?"
"Explanation, explanation! I have explained 100 to you, so there is no need to explain. It is very simple to explain. At present, the rule of the Qing court is gradually consolidating, and the revolutionary forces are greatly frustrated. Those who are not determined will are increasing day by day. If they do not achieve results and let the situation develop, in a few years, the great cause of the revolution will be over. Do you understand it when it is over? Do you still need to explain it at that time?"
Huang Xing remained silent. Song Jiaoren wanted to speak several times, but was stopped by Huang Xing. The atmosphere in the room was very tense. Since the Wang Jingwei incident, the chances of quarrel between several leaders of the revolutionary faction have risen sharply, and Sun Yat-sen's temper has also increased day by day.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Sun Yat-sen changed his expression: "Comrades, I know you don't look down on these corrupt forces of the Qing Dynasty and don't want to intervene in the struggle between dog biting dogs in the Qing Dynasty. But now the development of the situation no longer allows us to follow the steps and slowly move forward again. Dunchu, you are in charge of party affairs. Tell yourself, what is the organization and strength of the Tongmenghui over the past year?"
The revolutionary arrest, especially the Gyeonggi region, has almost reached the point where there is no reliable organization or a reliable stronghold." Song Jiaoren's voice was very low, "In the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, since the Restoration Association became independent, the revolutionary organization has also been greatly impacted and almost dying. Many speculators have transformed into the Restoration Association. Now the Restoration Association is getting further and further on the road to compromise with the Qing court. It is even absurd to advocate participating in the congress and obtaining local power by being a member of the congress. On the two lakes, after the Wuchang Uprising was cruelly suppressed by the Qing court, the revolutionary forces entered a low tide, especially Xiliang took office as a lake.
After Governor Guang and Li Yuanhong unified the new army of the two lakes, our organization in the army was destroyed one after another, and the revolutionaries were captured and killed. Even those who survived were still discontinued and were discouraged. Now only the revolutionary forces in the northwest and Guangdong and Guangxi were normal, but the distribution of points in the northwest has just begun, and the people are closed, so it is really difficult to make achievements in the short term... Over the past year, although the headquarters has developed vigorously, there are many people who have left the party and rebeled people overseas, especially among the three major branches in Japan, Nanyang and America. Many people are obsessed with the constitutional reform of the Qing court, superstitious about the two houses of the Congress, and are even more frightened by the tragic sacrifice after the failure of the revolution. It has reached a dangerous level."
Hu Hanmin interrupted: "I won't say anything else. After the civil service examination was held, many members have transformed back to China to become officials. They are greedy for high officials and generous salaries, so how can they have any revolutionary spirit?"
"You said that in the face of such a situation, if we do not rise up and fight, and do not burst out our strength, will our organization still have a future? Is there still hope for our revolutionary cause?" Sun Yat-sen roared, "In the past year, Kang Liang and others' imperial constitutional parties have successively established major branches in Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe, and America, and are competing for the development of forces among overseas Chinese, with funds flowing in endless streams and newspapers emerging one after another. Every day, it is a fascinating news. Several leaders of the Restoration Association were bewitched by such bewitching and rebelling against the revolution. If we don't fight and stand up to resist, will we disband ourselves in silence?"
The rest of them were speechless.
"You always think that I am resentful of Wang Zhaoming and must do everything possible to kill him. But you are wrong. Wang Jingwei does not have such great energy. He is at best a traitor who betrays the revolution. What I really worry about and care about is the future and confidence of the revolution..." Sun Yat-sen smashed his fist on the table, "But even so, it still cannot shake my determination and still cannot destroy my pursuit of revolution. We must take action to show the world that our revolutionary party is not a coward, nor a coward!!"
Huang Xing and several others were infected. Some of the doubts just now were dispelled after Sun Yat-sen's enthusiastic mobilization. He asked, "What do you plan to do?"
"I'm going to have a big uprising here." Sun Yat-sen walked to the wall, pointed to the map, and drew a circle with his hands in a place on the coast of South China...
"Guangzhou?"
"That's right, I plan to launch an uprising in Guangzhou." Sun Yat-sen began to introduce to everyone the plan he had planned for a long time. "This uprising will be based on the new army in Guangzhou, and another 500 revolutionary comrades will be selected to form a "selected front-selling" suicide squad, and first occupy Guangzhou. Complete this goal is only the first step. The second step is only the first step. I plan to lead a army into Hunan by Keqiang, and Zhao Sheng leads an army out of Jiangxi, so that Tan Renfeng, Jiao Dafeng and others can raise troops in the Yangtze River Basin to respond and form a temporary government. After these two steps are successful, we must do a good job of persuasion, let the members of the Restoration of the Congregation, and let them launch an uprising in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang region to become a third army, and then the three armies will meet in Nanjing, and compete with Beijing. Then form a formal government, hold a Northern Expedition, directly attack Beijing, overthrow the Qing court, and restore China!"
The plan was extremely imaginative and inciting, and the other revolutionary leaders were all excited after hearing this.
"This uprising is extraordinary. We must learn from the experience and lessons of the past uprisings and make solid and meticulous preparations. We must have a dedicated person to raise funds and purchase equipment and organize and contact. In order to better lead the uprising, I propose to establish a coordination department as soon as possible, and the location is in Hong Kong. There is a close to Guangzhou and convenient transmission of messages, and the second is the scope of the British, and the Qing court cannot control so much."
This is a good idea, and Song Jiaoren and others all agreed.
"I propose that Keqiang and Dunchu be the director of the coordination department be the general senator, and Zhao Sheng is the general senator. It has dispatching classes, reserve classes, transportation classes, secretary classes, editing classes, cashier classes, general affairs classes, investigation classes and other departments, and is responsible for the leadership. In addition, after the coordination department is established, corresponding secret bases will be set up in Guangzhou as a place for service and storage of weapons. I plan to hand over this task to Zhantang. Not only should we effectively prepare the weapons and materials needed for various uprisings, but we should also receive the revolutionary comrades who have arrived one after another."
Hu Hanmin is from Panyu, Guangdong and is familiar with the local situation in Guangzhou. He accepted the task readily.
"This uprising is not only a large number of people and a wide range, but also organized in unfavorable situations. Everyone can be taken care of by others." Sun Yat-sen repeatedly stated in an aggravated tone, "If those conservative royal families take action after we launch, it will inevitably cause chaos in the world and be beneficial to the realization of our goal in three steps. Comrades, as long as we conquer Nanjing and form a revolutionary government, countries that support internationally and sympathize with our revolution will definitely stand up for support, and we will definitely achieve the goal of winning the country. We are now accepting the advice of Japanese friends. Cooperating with the conservatives of the Tartars does not mean that we want to join the crowd, they are just the targets we use."
"When will sir?"
"It takes a certain amount of time to arrange and launch it. It is currently the Spring Festival. I think it will be decided to compare things at the turn of spring and summer.
Chapter completed!