133 quiet night

The night is dark, and the speech in the consulate is over. In the study, Li Xiang, Wang Jingwei and his wife and Zhang Yongfu, Wu Shirong and Chen Gengji from all over Nanyang drank tea together and had a serious talk.

Wang Jingwei asked Li Xiang and said, "Where are you going to start with the Suramid negotiations?"

"I've thought about it, but it's not a fore. I don't know what you mean?" Li wanted to meditate.

"We don't know what to do." Zhang Yongfu said, "I only know how to build public opinion."

"I said, this is a wonderful move! The continuous exposure of the abuse of Nanyang Chinese workers is actually very simple, but it is necessary for the Netherlands and East India to become the target of world public opinion. Li wanted to meditate and said, "The news about the abuse of Nanyang Chinese workers is ready-made!" Even if you let the roadside community report, it won't take much trouble. On the contrary, the masses mobilize a layer, and there needs to be a general idea. Plan well.

"I think," Chen Bijun said, "Mobilizing the masses is the strength of our alliance."

Li wants to sneer. Although he believes that Sun Yat-sen is a "deep thinker" and that the Alliance is a nationalist revolutionary group, and enthusiastically supports his strong nationalism, anti-imperialism, anti-feudalism, and the basic program of tripartism, Sun Yat-sen and his alliance have failed to fully understand the importance of social issues. It lost the truly combative people; after the Xinhai Revolution, it participated in the parliament, which made it lose its important driving force and stained with all the weaknesses unique to the parliament; blindly pandering to the bureaucratic forces of the Constitutional Council, it also deprived it of countless of the best revolutionaries who were proud of the people...

However, in Li Xianglai, the most serious mistake of the Pan-Union is that it failed to arouse the masses or even understand the psychology of ordinary people. In his opinion, this is the most serious mistake.

Li wants not to make this mistake when establishing his own political movement.

The alliance will also make a mistake that Li Xiang doesn't want to make. That is, it has failed to win the support of at least some of the powerful and unwavering institutions in the country, which is the army. The gun comes out of power! The young man understands that it is difficult for any political movement to gain power without such support.

On the night when Li Xiang decided on the overall situation in Wuchang, it was this kind of support that he and his colleagues could complete the glorious mission of the 1911 Revolution and become the most powerful prince at present.

Li Xiang is good at using all available means to win the support of the unswerving army, so that he can obtain the most favorable conditions for his movement from these existing sources of power.

The barrel of the gun comes out of power! This sentence of the great man briefly summarizes the thoughts and means that Li Xiang used to organize his own political party and guide it to gain power in Ezhou. His uniqueness is that he is the only one among the revolutionary politicians who applied this idea and means to the new national political situation after the Xinhai Revolution. It was at that time that the revolutionary movement organized by Li Xiang was the only one among all the nationalist and revolutionary political parties, which obtained the most powerful gun to support his rights. After that, it gained the support of a wide range of the masses and the Federation of Chinese Business Enterprises in the Yangtze River Basin. These two positions of great power have been established. The support of the relocated institutions finally gained the rights of the five provinces under the rule of Ezhou.

The Mingxun that Li wanted to learn from the great man turned out to be indeed very useful.

Li Xiang also admitted that there are many outstanding oratories and oratorists who are good at words. This is the inevitable result of the important role of speech in politics.

The power to promote the greatest religious and political movement in history has been a magical power to speak since ancient times, and it is only a magical power to speak.

Only by relying on the power of speech can we impress the masses of the people. All great movements are the movement of the people, the volcanic bursts of human enthusiasm and feelings. They are not triggered by the achievements of cruel poverty, but by the torch of the language thrown into the masses; they are not the lemonade-like talk of lyphlogists and living room heroes.

"Although the inspiring speech ability and radical attitude and comprehensive program are important for a newly established political party that strives to attract people's attention and gain the support of the masses, these conditions alone are not enough." Li thought about it carefully.

Li Xiang thinks more than they think. He is already beginning to pay attention to providing more conditions - much more conditions: "I think what the masses need is not only some propositions - not only some simple propositions that can constantly enter their hearts - but also signs and symbols, so that's To be able to gain their trust; it needs a big scene to arouse their enthusiasm; it needs violent and horrible actions, which, if successful, can attract followers and make them feel overwhelmed by the weak.

Chen Gengji was a little worried when he heard what he meant, but it was inconvenient to say many words to him. However, since Li wanted to have this, and it involved violence and terror, he said, "How big is this to create in Nanyang? Is this Li Shuai's plan? Then this thunderstorm will shock the world, and we can't think about it carefully.

"There is a seven-point certainty about things, but 'I'm not afraid of ten thousand, just in case', I think," Li Xiang looked at Chen Gengji and said, "I think it is necessary to implement shameful mental and physical terror against the enemy, and there is also a lot of success."

"No, no!" Chen Gengji shook his hand and said, "This is the territory of foreigners."

At this time, things have to be talked about again. This time, Wang Jingwei, as Li Xiang's deputy, always felt that it was difficult to have a perfect solution because his responsibility was too heavy. When he was meditating, Li thought about it.

"This matter should be bent and pretentious." Li wanted to say, "Now we must gradually shift the focus of negotiations to the protection of overseas Chinese workers. At this time, we have to take risks!"

"Ah, ah!" Wang Jingwei suddenly realized, "I understand."

"Just understand my intention." Li wanted to nod and said, "The launch of the anti-Dutch patriotic movement and its methods. First of all, overseas Chinese newspapers and domestic newspapers continue to publish statements demanding the abolition of the harsh 'contract Chinese work system'."

Regarding the contractual Chinese work system, as early as 1880, the Dutch colonial authorities promulgated the KoeliOrdonnantieVon1880Juli13 in the form of Government Announcement No. 133, in which Article 8 stipulates: "Labor fled or refused to work, He shall be sentenced to up to three months of unpaid labor, and if he commits it again, he shall be sentenced to three to twelve months of forced labor in addition to imprisonment. The indentured Chinese workers were cruelly abused and often beaten without any personal security. There are countless Chinese workers who have been violently whipped to death.

For overseas Chinese who do business, various harsh taxes are levied.

Among the various tax rates of Xingma, Chinese people should be particularly aggravated. For example, if a Westerner only pays a private tax of three yuan a year on a desk, the Chinese must double to six yuan; a Westerner in a very comfortable foreign house, the roof tax of 10 yuan to 15 yuan per year, and an old house of the Chinese must be charged 50 to 100 yuan. Moreover, Chinese people do not need to have evidence of violating the law to open stores and operate business, and the resident officials can arbitrarily order to demolish or stop them.

The residence and passage of overseas Chinese and the economic activities of overseas Chinese businessmen are strictly restricted: the Chinese residence is within the scope of ten miles, and shall not be outside its limits, or live with the Dutch and natives... Where the Chinese want, they must give the travel vouchers and report the place within 24 hours to their destination, otherwise they will be guilty. When Chinese come and go for trade on the island, they must get a ticket, so that in addition to the fee, they still pay a certain amount of stamped silver; when they go to another place, they must register, and then pay a certain amount of silver. If there are three or five places a day, there will be three or five times everywhere. If a leak is found, there will be a heavy penalty.

In 1804, the Dutch and Indian government issued a decree stipulating that overseas Chinese can only engage in trade activities as two or three merchants, limiting Chinese businessmen to intermediaries between local European merchants and Indonesians.

In 1808, the Dutch and Indian government promulgated the "Regulations Prohibiting Chinese from Leasing or Owning Land and Paying Loans to Crops in Rural Areas", which prohibited overseas Chinese from owning land, forcing many poor overseas Chinese who used to work in agriculture to abandon farming and switch businesses and engage in individual labor such as small vendors or domestic handicrafts.

The Dutch and Indian authorities also stipulate that overseas Chinese cannot swim in Dutch swimming pools, enter Dutch entertainment venues, or even wear suits. In court, overseas Chinese on trial can only squat, are not allowed to sit or stand, and have no right to appeal.

Dutch-run schools only allow overseas Chinese children to enter school when there is a balance, and they must also be proficient in Dutch and pay expensive tuition fees. Some overseas Chinese children who can attend Dutch schools are also bullied and insulted.

In order to restrict the development of overseas Chinese education founded by overseas Chinese themselves, the Dutch and Indian colonial government has formulated and promulgated the Regulations on the Prohibition of Private Schools, which stipulates strict conditions for the establishment, management, funding, teaching content, teacher qualifications, residence, etc. of overseas Chinese schools. As high as 33 overseas Chinese teachers were suspended and deported by the Dutch and Indian colonial authorities under the pretexts of "the new era textbooks were found when entering the country", "the professors contain political books" and "student compositions are in conflict with the law". Indonesian Chinese newspapers revealed that there are more than 600 kinds of Chinese books banned by the Dutch and Indian governments.

All these discriminatory and insulting anti-hua measures of the Dutch and Indian colonial authorities have made the overseas Chinese who have emigrated to Indonesia deeply excluded and persecuted, which must be widely publicized in the newspapers.

"Secondly," Li Xiang said slowly, "I want to take a two-month period. If the Netherlands does not allow the harsh rule to be abolished, then our Chinese will swear not to sell the goods. Finally, the export of Nanyang Huagong will be terminated immediately, and Dutch and Indian recruitment must find another way out. Colonies like Holland and India, which rely on coolie trade to maintain their prosperity, will face a crisis once the source of Chinese workers is cut off. What do you think?

"Okay!" Wang Jingwei looked at his father-in-law Chen Gengji, and the other two Hualing Wu Shirong and Zhang Yongfu glanced at him and said, "Li Shuai-chen's method is very pertinent."

None of the Chinese leaders here raised their hands in favor.