Chapter 188: Go to Hubei, Corrupt Officials
After years of sharpening the sword, it was finally time to unsheathed the eyebrows. Chen Wenqiang sat on the ship heading to Hankou, and his thoughts continued to swell with the ups and downs of the ship. Although it was less than ten years, the hardships he had put in and the achievements he had achieved might not be able to achieve even if he spent another ten years.
After taking a look, the strength of the Revival Society is definitely beyond the imagination of most people.
Joint venture banks, this treasure pot of financing, not only possesses the right to issue paper money, but also absorbs a large number of merchants and private capital. Unlike other money banks, United Bank's banknotes are exquisitely printed, stable currency value and rapid expansion, and have already had a very strong credit level in the south.
In particular, the injection and attachment of overseas Chinese capital, German capital and American capital have a great influence on United Bank's ability to be famous and have the function of a quasi-international bank. In 1907, when United Bank increased its capital and expanded its shares, domestic giants who had originally wanted to wait and see took action one after another, and United Bank's new shares were snatched up.
Steel plants, grey plants, match factories, and alkaline plants have been completed and put into production. Although Chen Wenqiang only tried it briefly and the scale of these factories is not large, it is the basis of development and the cradle of cultivating talents. Due to the absorption of a large number of Chinese studying abroad and the employment of a large number of German and American engineers, the strength of science and technology has been greatly improved.
The Revival Society not only has a strong development momentum abroad, but also has achieved considerable results in its development at home. Since it has always focused its work on infiltration of the new army and adopted a strategy of accumulating strength and waiting for the opportunity, although there is little movement in other provinces except the southwest, the explosive power contained in it is already very considerable. The development of the revolutionary situation and the standing of the revolutionary banner have made countless heroes and heroes devoted themselves to it, and countless first-class elites have become the backbone of the Revival Society.
Due to Chen Wenqiang's persistence and efforts, the Revival Association focused its work on the movement of the new army at the beginning. In particular, the Tokyo branch tried its best to develop non-commissioned officers in Japan. After enduring for many years, it has achieved great results. Among them, Hubei and Guangdong have the best results. Now there are more than 3,000 officers and soldiers joining the Guangdong Book and Newspaper Reading Club, an external organization of the Revival Association, accounting for more than half of the Guangdong New Army.
The development of new troops in various places can achieve such achievements, which really depends on the complete and meticulous arrangements that the Revival Society has formed, and the Qing government's control over the newspaper industry became increasingly loose in the late Qing Dynasty.
The first is to establish a revolutionary propaganda team based on the local and powerful. According to the archives of the Revival Society disclosed in later generations, thousands of people devoted themselves to the revolutionary propaganda cause in various places. When their newspapers were seized by the Qing government, they were reorganized or published in a name. As for the cases of destroying their families to raise funds and relieving their difficulties, it is even more common.
Since its inception, the revolutionary newspapers were based on the mobilization of the new army and small intellectuals, with the "lower society" as the main propaganda target. They also set up newspaper distribution offices and special correspondents in the military camps. At the same time, they also established a strict propaganda system. They not only established an effective propaganda network and directly distributed newspapers to the distribution system of the new military camp team, but also secretly transmitted messages through the establishment of the "battle representatives", which made the information conveyed quickly and was rarely cracked.
Because of mobilizing many members of the Revival Society to join the New Army as soldiers, they have carried out long-term mobilization and organization work in the New Army. The peripheral organizations of Revival Society, such as Science Tutoring Institute, Newspaper and Publications Reading Institute, and Literature Society, have sprung out like mushrooms after a rain. The number of people and the length of time is unimaginable to ordinary people. The results have also been very huge.
Taking Hubei's new army as an example, among the 15,000 new army in Hubei, there were nearly 2,000 pure revolutionaries. About 4,000 people who sympathized with the revolution, the number of enemies of the revolution was 3,000, and the rest were shaky.
Besides, the newspaper industry is loose, according to the tradition since the late Qing Dynasty, there is a saying in the newspaper industry that newspapers and prisons are next door. When Chen Hu was beaten to death, the Qing government almost had no choice but to report people, and the newspaper people were arrogant day by day. The government could not stand it anymore. So they sent police to seal the newspaper office. They would open another place, or hide in places you could not control. At worst, they would go into the concession and run newspapers as usual.
Of course, it is not a good strategy to promote revolution too bluntly. As long as you repeatedly describe advanced democratic ideas and the characteristics of Western politics, and tell the humiliation suffered by the country and the corruption of bureaucrats to arouse people's dissatisfaction, the goal will be achieved.
Revolutions will have their own understandings based on people's ideological education, cognitive level, etc. Some people regard revolution as a change of dynasty; some people regard revolution as a necessary means to strengthen the country and revitalize the nation; some people want to speculate on revolution to achieve their personal goals...
Since it is impossible to achieve consistency in the public's perception, or to be precise, to reach the ideological level that a true revolutionary wants to achieve, most people are dissatisfied with the current regime, and believe that change will be beneficial to them, and stand by and watch when the bad regime is likely to be overthrown or help them, the success of the revolutionary cause will also have a social foundation.
Chen Wenqiang has this kind of ability to complicate seemingly simple things and simplify seemingly complicated things. Complexity is for professionals, and simplification is to be understood or believed by the public.
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Just as Chen Wenqiang was thinking, measuring, analyzing, and judging many things, a pair of soft little hands reached out from behind and gently grasped his shoulders.
There is probably only one person who can walk behind Chen Wenqiang without being alert and even keep Chen Wenqiang relaxed, now, that is her wife Axuan.
Chen Wenqiang has a big career, but Axuan does not want to interfere inquiries. To be precise, what Chen Wenqiang told her knew, and she would not follow the truth if she didn't tell her. Perhaps it was this easy-going temperament that made Chen Wenqiang feel satisfied and comfortable.
Love, romance? Chen Wenqiang feels that he has passed that psychological age. But this does not mean that he does not love Axuan, and he also confirms that Axuan loves him.
"I heard that the new governor of Huguang, Chen Kuilong, is a corrupt official?" Axuan was grabbed by Chen Wenqiang, and then lay on his back and spoke in his ear, "Why don't you hide from him and go to Wuhan? I'm afraid it's going to spend some money?"
"Do you feel sorry for money?" Chen Wenqiang smiled and patted Axuan's little hand.
"It is better to help the poor than to give corrupt officials." A Xuan curled her lips and said, "By flattering and pleasing her boss to become the governor of Huguang, is it still a good thing."
"It's really not a good thing." Chen Wenqiang stroked A Xuan's hand and didn't say anything for a long time.
Chapter completed!