213 Resurrears

Beijing.

At the end of the year, the roaring wind gradually settled down, and only the heavy snow was still falling endlessly, falling on the patio, on the roof, rustling. Yuan Shikai felt that the kang was too hot. He sat up and lay down and was always restless. He frowned and paced back down the lamp.

The beautiful sisters knew what was on his mind and didn't dare to move. They stood aside and thought about their own thoughts. From North Korea to China, from Concubine Min, they remembered themselves who followed Concubine's adopted daughter to marry Yuan Shikai. They didn't feel sad.

There is also a city in the capital that makes people scared. Zhao Bingjun, the first humanoid vicious dog around Yuan Shikai, is also among them, but the corners of his eyes keep peeking at the beautiful sisters.

"Zhi'an," Yuan Shikai suddenly turned around and asked, "The matter of Hubei is really a headache."

Yuan Shikai was dismissed and returned to his hometown. He took advantage of the situation to seize the police power in Beijing. On March 23, Zhao Bingjun was dismissed, and his relatives and nobles in the Qing Dynasty controlled the Beijing police power. He lived idle in Tianjin and often exchanged exchanges between Zhangde and Yuan Shikai and secretly moved to wait for the opportunity. On October 10, 1911, the Xinhai Revolution broke out. On November 13, the Qing court was forced to use Yuan Shikai to form a cabinet. On the 16th, Zhao Bingjun was appointed as the minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Yuan's cabinet. At that time, the Eight Banners soldiers threatened to kill the Han people in Beijing. Zhao Bingjun sent the Eight Banners soldiers back to the floodland outside the city and quickly restored order. Zhao Bingjun was deeply trusted by Yuan Shikai.

Zhao Bingjun was stunned by his question. He quickly withdrew his eyes and hurriedly smiled and said, "Li Kuangzi is far away from the emperor. What can't you do? Foreigners are not afraid of anyone, but they are afraid of this madman. Adults, please wait at ease. A messenger will come to spy on the People's Lane in the eastern suburbs soon. As for Duan Juntong..." Zhao Bingjun muttered, "I'm afraid I still can't deal with the crazy man. After all, the Northern Army is alone in Hubei, and the crazy man has a home advantage..."

"You don't have to go on," Yuan Shikai stopped Zhao Bingjun, and he knew the situation in Hubei well. "This matter is clear, and he should be punished for dereliction of duty."

"Whose crime is the father going to treat?" Yuan Keding lifted the curtain and came in and said with a smile, "My father wants to run the Duan Juntong. At this time, it is inevitable. The Hubei War Bureau will not affect the negotiation of major plans. Why should he compete with villains for the short and length of a day? If you really want to do Duan Juntong, won't you let the world know that we lost to Li Madman in the Hubei battlefield?

"The eldest son is reasonable." Zhao Bingjun also smiled and said, "Why do you have to compete with the madman of Li for a while? Isn't this raising the face of the madman Li? --On the other side, you can't mess with him about a word.

"Can't you deal with him in Hubei?" Yuan Shikai was a little sad when he heard this. He sat back on the edge of the bed and said, "Look at the overwhelming boast of the People's Daily. Can we let the madman Li be so arrogant?"

When Yuan Keding heard this, he was also very angry. After thinking about it for a long time, he said, "Father, foreigners are more anxious than us. Hankou involves great interests in various countries. Let's see what foreigners do first. Just when the tide was chaotic and I didn't know how the situation would develop, the Eastern Suburbs People' Lane had lost confidence in Duan Juntong. They were afraid that Hankou would fall into the hands of the madman Li again, and there was nothing they could do. They sent a London Times Beijing interviewer, a Paris Dieba Daily interviewer, and a German Columbia Daily visitor to Sirahu in an unofficial name. Meet your father with Jin..."

Yuan Shikai was surprised and happy and said with a smile, "Fangcai Zhi'an also said that there should be a messenger in the People's Lane in the Eastern Suburbs, but it's really there. This heavy snow is difficult for them to walk in the dark. Yes, please! Hurry up, please!"

Hubei is on the rise again.

The public opinion of various imperialist countries may show disappointment in the Qing court or place expectations on Yuan Shikai, and expose the weaknesses of the Chinese revolutionaries, saying that capitalists should seize control of China and take advantage of the opportunity to make profits.

Clearing the General Tax Department of Customs and seizing China's customs custody is an important event for imperialism to take advantage of the Chinese revolution to expand its interests.

After the Wuchang Uprising, the Wuchang Revolutionary Authorities did not immediately ask about the local customs. However, Li Xiang recovered the Hankou Concession by thunderous means and firmly control the Hankou Customs at the same time. But the time was very short. Li Xiang was quickly squeezed out of Hankou, and the Hankou Concession and customs returned to the hands of foreigners.

The first revolutionary regime to contact the customs issue and confront the customs authorities by legitimate means was the Hunan Military Government. It immediately asked Wei Kefei of the British Tax Department of Changsha Customs to take over the customs. On the one hand, Weikefei refused, and on the other hand, he asked for instructions from the General Tax Department of British Customs in Beijing. Anger United is already planning a customs response to the revolution. On October 15, he has instructed the Hankou Tax Department not to "let the tax run into the treasury of the Revolutionary Party".

On the 23rd, he told Hu Weide, the assistant minister of the tax department of the Qing government, that "a certain approach should be taken to ensure that tariffs are not used for military expenses for the revolutionary party and reserved for the repayment of foreign debts."

This sets out the basic principles for them to deal with tariffs at revolutionary ports. Based on this principle, Weikefei negotiated with the Hunan military government. At this time, the military government proposed to deposit tariff revenue in the government's Dahan Bank, which was temporarily frozen, and the military government and the tax department did not use it. This has taken a step back from the original position of taking over the customs, but Wei Kefei still does not accept it. He claimed that the banks of the revolutionary government were unreliable, and the military government had not been recognized by the powers. He hinted that if he did not listen to him, the customs staff would go on a collective strike. During this period, gunboats from imperialist countries continued to appear on the Changsha River, which actually played a role in intimidating the military government.

In this case, the Hunan Military Government made concessions in just a few days in early November: step 1, agree to deposit the tax in HSBC; step 2, agree to store it in the name of the General Tax Department; Step 3, agree not to use it under the condition that the General Tax Department is not unauthorized to withdraw.

In this way, the right to control and use the taxation of Changsha Customs was waived, and the custody of customs duties was handed over to the General Taxation Department, and it also agreed that the taxation of Yuezhou Customs would also be handled accordingly. Changsha opened a precedent, and Anger Union and others decided to extend this method to other trade ports where revolutions are taking place.

Especially when Shanghai turned to revolution, British Minister Zhu Erdian immediately ordered the British Consul General in Shanghai, stipulating that the "rebellious party government" should not touch customs revenue.

When British embassy and consulate officials and Chinese customs officers coordinated with each other to deal with the Chinese revolution, the Chinese revolutionaries lacked unity and worked independently. The revolutionary authorities in different places have different attitudes towards customs and tariff issues, and their treatment methods are different from each other, but the results are roughly the same. In a short period of time, almost all of them have followed Changsha. In Guangzhou, Mei Lehe, the British Tax Department of Guangdong Customs, also won the right to issue tariffs for the General Taxation Department. The practice of the great powers made it difficult for revolutionaries to use tariffs, which was approved by the Qing government.

On November 20, the Qing government announced in a note to Zhu Erdian that the customs revenue in various places where the revolution has broken out has been reported to the General Tax Department of the Customs, and all of it should be used to pay foreign debts and Gengzi compensation. But imperialism is not satisfied with seizing tariffs in revolutionary areas. They want to wipe out all the tariffs of the country. On November 19, after consultation between Anger and Zhu Erdian, they asked the Qing government to put all taxes, including all ports that have been separated from the Qing government and still controlled by the Qing government, under the management of the General Taxation Department, in order to pay off foreign debts and compensation. The Qing government did not dare to disobey and agreed on November 27. In accordance with this spirit, Anger United quickly decided on four methods. On the one hand, all customs duties should be transferred to Shanghai HSBC by the respective customs departments and deposited under the accounts of the General Tax Department. On the other hand, national ministers are required to select "foreign banking committees" to agree on the order of foreign debt repayment, so that the general tax can follow the order. Pay back on time.

After these four measures were examined and approved by the Qing government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs transmitted it to the ministers of various countries in a note dated December 2.

The ministers of various countries consulted the heads of relevant foreign banks in Shanghai on how to implement these measures. The directors made six resolutions at a meeting, and then the ministers of each country reported to their respective governments. After the approval of the governments, the Beijing Foreign Mission met to discuss and make a decision on the six resolutions and the four measures proposed by Agging Union.

Juldian, on behalf of the diplomatic corps, wrote his decision to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Then, Anger Union has formulated eight measures on China's tariffs based on various opinions. Its main contents are: 1A establishes a bank committee of various countries in Shanghai to determine the order of foreign debt repayment; 2 The General Tax Department of Customs shall explain the situation of customs net tax to the committee; 3 The General Tax Department of Customs A shall make an assessment. Arrange, so that each tax collection office remits its net deposit tax to Shanghai once a week; 4 The General Taxation Department of Customs shall make arrangements to deposit the A net deposit tax concentrated in Shanghai in HSBC, Dehua and Russia as evenly as possible every week for the repayment of relevant foreign debts and reparations, etc. Both the diplomatic mission and the Qing government approved these measures, and issued instructions to nine foreign banks and the General Tax Department of Customs in Shanghai on January 30 and February 3, respectively, to put these measures into practice immediately.

The eight methods are not only a summary of the various activities that imperialism and Chinese customs officers colluded to seize the custody of China's tariffs, but also the basis for imperialists to control China's tariffs for many years to follow.

Since then, the whole process of China's tariffs from requisition to payment has been separated from the hands of the Chinese people and belongs to the General Taxation Department. Three foreign banks in China and banks in Shanghai are managed and awarded separately, and finally flowed into the hands of foreign bondholders. And it legalized the diplomatic corps' interference in China's tariffs. This is a new shackle put on China by the great powers during the Chinese revolution.

Yuan Shikai also felt a headache because of the insatiable greed of foreigners.

Three foreign adults, arrogant.

The British gentleman's beard was raised and he said, "This time the revolutionary army saved China's death. Because of the corruption of the Manchu government, the country was weakened, so he rose up and eliminated it to preserve sovereignty. The purpose of the revolution is to try to communicate to grow the power of the nation, not to separate. Now that the independent provinces have made up their common determination, they will not be overthrown. The Manchu government is in chaos and the people are separated, and it can never be preserved. The British monarchy is constitutional, and its monarch is believed by the people. The monarch of the Qing Dynasty is not believed by the people, and it cannot be equal to Britain.

Germany said mechanically with a straight face: "In the future, China's political system will be changed to a republic, and it will still be a constitutional monarchy, which has nothing to do with Germany. The benefits of this are that Chinese people should self-examine, and there are no outsiders to take care of them. The majority of his people have reached the level of republicanism, or they have made great progress in political and economic aspects after it was changed to republic. It must be familiar in China. This is all about China's internal affairs, and Wude has never thought about or intervened. I hope that the chaos will be settled quickly. No matter what aspect the sovereign is, he will continue to have a good friendship with virtue, which is the deep desire of virtue.

Yuan Shikai raised his eyebrows imperceptiblely and said, "All parties should still resolutely remain neutral?"

"Exact" The three foreign adults spoke with one voice.

Yuan Shikai laughed dumbly: "Japan's Touyama Man, Kono Hironaka, Sugita Dingyi, Nezuichi, Ogawa Hirayoshi, etc., organized the Japanese good neighbor comrades to issue a declaration in favor of the Chinese revolution. It is said that we have a good friendship with our neighbors, according to the interests of our country and the people, pray for the revolutionary army to implement its purpose quickly, and hope that the country can learn from the situation of the current situation, without interference in the fallacy of the political system.

As for the Chinese revolution, Japanese ambitious people think it is an opportunity to take advantage of, and there are many people who advocate sending troops to interfere. On the 6th of October, Ishimoto Shinliu, the land minister, ordered the Nagoya Third Division to select a battalion of infantry within the thirty-third and fifty-one standards of the infantry, and a team of machine gun teams (750 soldiers) to form a mixed team. They set out from Yupin on Huataimaru and arrived at Qinhuang Island on the 30th. The guard commander Abe Shao The command will be assigned to Beijing, Tianjin, Shanhaiguan and other places. Hankou was also transferred to 500 people in the army, on the pretext of protecting the concession and sending 13,000 troops to land in Liushutun, Dalian Bay, Fengtian (now Liaoning). At that time, the diplomatic community suspected that Japan sent troops or intervened in the initial way, but the original agreement of concerted action of the Beijing diplomatic corps should not interfere alone, and Mete paid attention to it. Although Britain is allied, it is also in close contact with Virtue, and there is no excuse for the actions of the civilian army, so it is fine. At that time, Russia was full of Mongolia, and the wind and clouds were extremely sinister. The whole territory under Hulun's jurisdiction had been occupied, and the Russian-Mongolian private contract was negotiated..."

The actions of the great powers towards China, all kinds of Zhuangzhuang, were done one by one by Yuan Shikai, and the three foreign adults looked extremely ugly. This is what they call neutrality, but Yuan Shikai is asking for them and naturally swallowed his anger. At this junabling point, they still twisted like this. Yuan simply opened the skylight and talked to them.

"Zhao Erxun, the governor of the three eastern provinces, sent a letter to inquire about the news. Wang Xiaotang is now living in the Daxing Hotel and Shenyang Pavilion at Nanman Station in Shenyang. He has gathered many people and has many bombs and munitions, intending to riot. I. Wang Xiaotang and others claimed that the Japanese Chamber of Commerce borrowed more than 100,000 yuan of silver and received the arms bomb. The daily use of old man's tickets in the concession is so extravagant that the underworld tends to be attached to a lot. I. Yuelai Hall, Daxing Hotel, Shenyang Hall and other places are all places where bandits gather, and every day there are people to help with everything. I. Japanese Kawasaki and three others claimed to be members of the Kanto Governor's Office, and they were the masterminds of the bandits. Now they went to Dalian to ask for instructions and rioted. I. Japanese soldiers modified the residence firms stationed in the city, and intervened as soon as they planned to riot. I. Blue Sky changed his name and recruited soldiers with fake notes in Dalian Shenyang Museum. I. Zhuanghe, Fuzhou Pan Si, Gu Renyi and other banditers hid in pits, sandwich and other places, and bought many Russian and Japanese guns at a heavy price in the hands of Japanese merchants. I. The remaining bandits in Fuzhou are suitable to live in the 6th Brigade of Japan. There are four Japanese people who are the masters of their Zhuangfu Party. I. On the fifth day and night of the first lunar month, a Japanese officer led more than 20 soldiers, entered the city with a gun, and inspected the vicinity of the Ordnance Bureau, which made the people quite confused. I. The Japanese agreed that as soon as they heard the riot, they entered the city with a brigade to intervene. I. Today, on the sixth day of the first lunar month, Wang Xiaotang, Liu Danian and others have fired more than 20 pistols and more than 170 big guns. There are 80 or 90 people sitting together for dinner tonight. I. All bandit parties will be issued free tickets by the South Manchurian Railway. All of the above are indeed reported. There are four Japanese people, including Moto Shigeo, Tashiro Hidesaku, Yamane Masujiro and Kobayashi Juro, who threw three bombs at the provincial clock tower and Hanmoxuan Hutong. Fortunately, the military police immediately chased two people, Arimoto and Tiandai, and found two bombs.

The British gentleman said innocently, "According to the evidence, this bomb was purchased by Wang Xiaotang, the Kingdom Pillar."

Yuan Shikai said coldly: "Reaptly, Liaoyang, Fenghuang, Zhuang Fu and other places have been in chaos. They intend to disturb the order from the provincial capital, so I don't have time to look outside, so I can get it. And it is scheduled to rise at the same time outside the province on the 14th. Among the Japanese people, Dongxiang Shanshu subsidizes the equipment. There are also Mizuho Ezaki, Shinnosuke Yano, Ohara, Hamada, Kawasaki, Miyazaki, etc., all of whom are in collusion with Wang Guozhu. It has not been a day since the Wang Guozhu disappeared from the Japanese station and recruited soldiers to buy equipment. He asked the Japanese merchants to cooperate with them, and they often swung the swd. Bandits from outside the province obstructed us from transporting troops again. In the words of a special order from the government, it was deliberately postponed, causing the army to march on foot, which was extremely difficult. According to the confessions of the people on that day, it is actually intended to undermine public security and collect profits. The evidence is conclusive, and it is by no means comparable to rumors. It is planned to ask for serious negotiations, and the Japanese envoy will send a quick telegram to the day and hand over the Kingdom Pillar to curb the chaos. It is still necessary to strictly restrain the people of the country, not to help sell equipment, and collude with bandits. If there is another act like this, the leader should be responsible for it. And I hope to notify the ministers of various countries to attack their plots. It's what I'm looking forward to."

The feud between Yuan Shikai and Xiao Dongyang starts from North Korea. The three foreign adults are well aware of it, but they are only unofficial representatives, which they dare not accept. They came here to know if Yuan Shikai had the intention to continue fighting in Hubei, but they didn't listen to his complaints. They were tall and small. It's just that the conversation has seriously deviated from their original intention, and they can't ask any more.

They can only say routinely: "Civilized countries agree that anyone who acts in China must be negotiated and cannot intervene alone. If people of all countries violate neutrality, they will definitely stop it.