Chapter 226: The worldly chaos arises (Part 2)

This method is to let the court take advantage of this power to eliminate the revolutionary army's great victory and promulgate a state-owned railway policy to bring the Sichuan-Han and Guangdong-Han railway construction rights that had been sold to the public, and then sell them to foreigners. In this way, just a decree is issued to make the treasury abundant. As for those who are dissatisfied with this, they will be arrested directly in the name of a rebellion, which is enough to suppress public grievances.

Because this memorial was so vague, and the treasury was indeed empty, and the Beiyang faction did not object to this, the veteran faction led by Prince Qing Yikuang insisted on this matter and sent the most capable officials to Huguang and Sichuan to supervise the matter. The official was named Duan Fang, who was once the Governor of Zhili. He also participated in the reform and constitutional amendment movement in the 1980s and the Constitutional Amendment Movement. He wrote "Ask the State to Decide the Country and the Political Essences of Europe and the United States" and "European and American Political Essences" as one of the important documents of the constitutional movement. When Cixi was in the funeral, he had doubts about Cixi's death, so he rashly stopped the funeral team and used the name of taking photos to check. Zaifeng, who was controlled by Xuangang Demon, was just his official position and had been idle at home.

Such a rare capable official in the Qing court should have made the veterans feel relieved, but unfortunately Duan Fang was eager to show himself and regained the high position. After taking office as the supervisor of the Yu-Han Railway, he competed for merit with Ruicheng, the governor of Huguang, the royalist faction. He nationalized the local private railway in Sichuan with extremely tough measures, and Zhao Erfeng, the governor of Sichuan, who was also a veteran, also cooperated vigorously and massacred the petitioners, which aroused great public anger for a while.

The Tongmenghui, which had been suppressed by the Qing court during this period, immediately felt that this was an opportunity to turn things around, so he asked the members of the Tongmenghui from all over the country to organize the people on the grounds of protecting the road and establish the Tongmenghui Comrade Association. At the same time, the people of the Tongmenghui secretly attracted gentry and landlords from all over the country. Among the many Tongmenghui Comrade Associations, Sichuan was the most powerful, with more than 100,000 members. Pu Dianjun, a former constitutionalist, served as important positions such as president, while the Tongmenghui people were controlled in the dark.

In order to avoid the spread of the situation, Zhao Erfeng took the initiative without discussing with anyone and arrested more than ten famous gentry celebrities including Pu Dianjun, who were quite prestigious in Sichuan. However, what he did not expect was that this incident made the situation even more intensified. The people of the Tongmenghui secretly instructed the people to destroy the power lines in various places and set up checkpoints along the road, cutting off the contact between the Sichuan government and the outside world, and completely isolated Sichuan. Then, the Tongmenghui members were asked to organize fierce movements such as mass gatherings, workers' strikes, merchants' strikes, and student strikes, which will completely intensify the conflicts between the Qing court and the people.

The Tongmenghui's methods were indeed very successful. With their agitation, Liangjiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Lianghu, Fujian, Yunnan and other places launched various movements. The Qing court immediately panicked and immediately ordered the governor's offices in various places to do their best to suppress various rallying movements. When the Qing court's tough measures aroused public anger to the extreme, the Tongmenghui made a quick decision and decided to launch the largest uprising in history. The center of the uprising was Wuhan, the military industry center of the Qing court.

The reason why he chose Wuhan was not only that this was an important military center of the Qing court, but the most important thing was that in order to suppress the riots in Sichuan, the Qing court sent the capable official Duanfang to Sichuan. With him, the most elite New Army's 8th Town, the 16th Association, the 31st and 32nd Divisions under Ruicheng, two of the most elite New Army's 8th Town, the 16th Association, and Zhang Xun was also transferred to Liangjiang. Now the Qing court's military strength in Wuhan can be said to be the weakest time ever. Although the Qing court had noticed it in advance, the governor of Huguang Ruicheng also issued martial law orders and searched for members of the revolutionary army throughout the city, but he did not know that many of the people he sent were also members of the revolutionary army.

With a gunshot, the Eighth Battalion of the New Army under the control of Tongmenghui first launched an uprising in Wuchang, seizing the Chuwangtai Ordnance near Zhonghemen, and confiscated a large number of guns, ammunition and other weapons. Then the baggage team, artillery battalion, engineering team, the 29th and 30th flags of the Eighth Town, and other revolutionary army members lurking in the New Army launched an uprising and gathered at the Chuwangtai Ordnance.

After obtaining the guns, the members of the Revolutionary Army immediately marched towards the Governor's Office. Although they encountered a strong counterattack from the Governor's Office, they were unable to resist under the fierce firepower of the Revolutionary Army. In less than two hours, the Governor's Office was captured, and the Governor of Huguang Ruicheng and the Governor of the Eighth Town Zhang Biao fled from Wuchang, and Wuchang completely fell into the hands of the Revolutionary Army. Two days later, Hanyang and Hankou were successfully revolted. By this time, all the three towns in Wuhan were under the control of the Revolutionary Army. The Revolutionary Army immediately overturned the Qing Dynasty flag, established the Hubei Military Government of the Revolutionary Army, and changed the country's name to the Republic of China.

With the Wuhan Uprising, uprisings were launched in all parts of the country. The senior officials in the eight provinces of Jiangnan, including Hunan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangxi, Anhui, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian, etc., surrendered one after another without resisting. Zhang Xun, Zhang Renjun and other Qing troops were defeated and fled back to the capital in a hurry. Sichuan was killed by their generals halfway, and the troops also surrendered under the agitation of the members of the Revolutionary Army.

The current revolutionary military government in Sichuan. Cai E, the 37th General of the 19th Town of Yunnan, launched an uprising in Kunming, and soon controlled the military and political affairs of Yunnan. He immediately sent a capable general Tang Jiyao to Guizhou to control the military and political affairs of Guizhou. He and Tang Jiyao were appointed as the governors of the military and political affairs of Yunnan and Guizhou. With the success of the uprisings in the southern provinces, Shaanxi and Shanxi, two northern provinces close to the capital, also launched uprisings one after another and established military governments.

The reason why the revolutionary army's uprising was so successful and quickly mastered the southern provinces, among which Hu Yueniang of the Heretic League played a crucial role. Over the years, Hu Yueniang made every effort to develop secular forces and gradually mastered most of the powerful officials in Jiangnan provinces through various means by practitioners. Later, because of the relationship between Shanghai tycoons such as Huang Jinrong, Hu Yueniang contacted Chen Qimei, who was acquainted with Huang Jinrong and the senior management of the Tongmenghui. With the Chen family's direct industry moving out and the Chen family's sidelines excluded the revolutionary army, the Tongmenghui urgently needed a strong ally, and Hu Yueniang's appearance just agreed. The two hit it off and immediately launched close cooperation in all aspects. Many disciples of the Heretic League became members of the Tongmenghui, and the members of the Tongmenghui gradually penetrated into the Jiangnan official army through the Heretic League.
Chapter completed!