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Li Xiang and Zeng Gao Lian walked into the door of the big house. It was also a spacious three-entry courtyard. The courtyard wall was strong and there was also a corner tower. At a glance, the original intention of the garden was to defend against bandits on the mountain. After all, this year was not peaceful, especially between the countryside. Although the big house door is not as exquisite as Liu Xinsheng's Liu Yuan, let alone the exquisite and strong defense of Yuan Shikai Yangshou Garden, in this village where most of it is an earth-walled thatched hut, this big house door can be called a rich family mansion.

Li Xiang said with emotion, "If you don't walk around the countryside, you can't understand the suffering of the people. The serious land merger and the extremely unfair distribution of wealth have seriously shaken the whole social system.

What Li Xiang said was all new words. As for Zeng Gao, who was influenced by Confucianism since he was a child and later went abroad to receive new Western ideological education, he would not be able to keep up with his ideas for a while. Zeng Gao carefully thought about a few new words that Li wanted to say, and finally understood that it was another saying that the court was incompetent and the people were miserable.

Zeng Gao said, "After all, the two lakes are the hometown of fish and rice. People who lose their land can also cut firewood, catch fish, pick coal to sell, or go to the port wharf to make a living. There is still a way to live."

The two said that they had already entered the inner hall. Li wanted to sit down on the chair casually and said, "The severe winter is coming. The winter in Hubei is not as cold as that in the north, but it is also the heavy snow and the cold wind is piercing. The children we saw at the entrance of the village, without clothes, shoes and socks. It's already the late autumn season. You will feel cold when you wear straw shoes, and you will catch a cold if you don't get a quilt at night. Looking at the skinny appearance of those children, it must be hard to be full. After winter comes, they have to endure hunger and cold.

After Li Xiang entered the village, he walked around the village. What he saw and heard made him faintly painful. The endurance of this nation is beyond the understanding of Li Xiang, a traveler, and it is heartbreaking to see. This kind of deep mood made Li Xiang not pay attention to the war in front of him. This day should change, and this life should be over.

Zeng Gao sat down on the chair beside Li Xiang, but he was speechless. He was a son of the family and was used to this kind of life. When he first heard Li Xiang's exclamation point, he couldn't help but be moved by Li Xiang's feelings. It's not that Li Xiang's feelings are really so high. It's just a modern person. No matter who travels here, as long as he has a little conscience, he will not be used to the tragic fate of the poor in this era.

Li Xiang still said unrelentingly, "Isn't there a cattle herder in this family? I have also inquired about five cents a day in the first year and ten cents a day in the second year. Two buffaloes, big and small, have to cut about 30 catties of grass every day and do other chores. You can't sleep until late at night, get up before dawn, and sleep less than three hours a day. The cattle herder is only ten years old this year. Not far from this village, there is an earthen coal kiln that specializes in collecting child labor, pulling Kongming cars, and pumping water in the coal hole for seven hours a day, with a salary of 30 cents. In order to earn more money, stronger children go to the coal hole to pick coal once or twice a day. This is all heavy work, what a strong man does, and no matter how strong a child is, he can't afford it. The facilities of the earth and coal kilns here are extremely poor. When carrying coal, there are oil lamps overhead, poor ventilation in the roadway, and the hygiene is extremely poor. Accidents often occur - landslides, water, gas explosions, etc., and more than a dozen or dozens of people die. In the event of a mine disaster, the owner of the earth and coal kiln will not rescue it. The salary of the coal mine is one year. Like the construction of the railway, if the coal mine collapses at a loss, the factory owner will run away. A year of hard work is a waste of time. Speaking of this, Li wanted to clenched his fist and knocked on the table, shaking the tea cap, "The exploitation of red fruit."

Li wants to keep narrating, and Zeng Gao is also constantly reflecting on himself. The Zeng family is a local rich family, and what they do is slightly better than that of other places. After all, it is a family of poetry and calligraphy, but it is not good to go there.

Li thought: "People without land work short-term workers, push carts, cut firewood, and catch fish at home. In the Taiping years, they can barely make a living. In the case of great droughts, disasters and severe famines, they can't live. The landlords and rich businessmen will not care about their lives at all, and will also take this opportunity to hoard. As a result, Changsha has made a trend of robbing rice. It can be seen that once the unbearable people break out, it will be unstoppable. After that, the road protection movement directly achieved the victory of the Wuchang Uprising.

The rural problems that Li wants to talk about have shocked Zeng Gao. Influenced by the new ideological trend of the Western revolution, I had the impulse to innovate the society for a long time, and then I had a meeting with Li Xiang in Wuchang and the gate tower. However, his revolutionary eyes have always been on the city, so he attaches great importance to Hankou, and the war is also dominated by the competition of the city. He has always had a trace of disapproval for Li's desire to disperse the army in the countryside. Through Li Xiang's description, Zeng Gao couldn't help saying, "So the victory of the Wuchang Uprising is not an accident, but a historical necessity, the general trend and the hearts of the people. The national revolution is surging, and it is precisely the rise of the trend. The countryside is the main position for the people's efforts, but we have done a lot of work, but with little effect. Look at this village. When the villagers see us, it's like seeing ghosts.

Li wanted to sigh that Zeng Gao was really a talent to think of the countryside. It should be noted that during the Xinhai Revolution, the new leaders of Chinese nationalism did not come directly from the traditional rural society. They were all Western-style figures of the specialist faction, gentry landlords, rich merchants, and only these people could come into contact with Western-style education. They basically changed their faith to Emperor Ye. What they are saying is no longer Amitabha but Hallilu. They are not mainly concerned about rural social issues, or they have never been concerned about rural issues at all. At this time, Taizu had not yet appeared. Farmers have always been a group forgotten by revolutionaries, and they have always been outside the scope and ability of concern of revolutionaries who are centered on cities and inspired by foreign revolutionary models. In China's revolution, it is not easy to find a foreign model for reference. In fact, there is no foreign model for reference. Whether it's Japan or Germany, it's too different from China's national conditions. Due to the extremely large, dense and stable number of farmers in China, the social revolution has been destroyed by the changes inspired by the cities. The largest group of the revolution, no one had ever looked at it before Taizu came to the political stage. Li wants to make up his mind to blow the revolutionary trend to the countryside. No matter how uncertain, bumpy and tortuous the future is, it is always bright.

Thinking of this, Li Xiang habitually touched the wound on his forehead and thought about it. In those years, the Red Army also encountered such a problem. "Shang Yang Limu as a letter made the people believe his determination to change his law. We can only show our revolutionary determination with practical actions and win the support of the people.

"Reputation is like a century-old gold signboard. It is not established overnight. What we lack now is time." Zeng Gao put forward the biggest problem in front of him.

Just when Li Xiang had a headache, Tang Yuewan rolled up a fragrant wind and appeared in front of her. She came from the telegraph room and sent a telegram.

Li wanted to read it and said, "The navy finally pulled the flag."

Zeng Gao's previous speculation is fulfilled.

The information came in great detail. Tang Yuewan smiled sweetly and said, "After the uprising, a platoon leader of the revolutionary army, He Xiegui led a whistle and quickly occupied the Tianjiazhen battery in the upper reaches of the Jiujiang River. The Yangtze River estuary fell into the hands of the revolutionary army. As a result, the Qing Dynasty warships far away in Hankou lost the source of relief. Yang Futian, the general town of the Qing army stationed at Hukou, sent gunboats to resist stubbornly and was defeated by the revolutionary army. With one blow, the revolutionary army took advantage of the victory and occupied the Hukou Fort and the Madang Fort, further controlling the traffic on the Yangtze River. After the Wuchang Uprising, the provinces in the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River were shocked, and the uprising spread like a plague. Now that the winter has fallen, and the river is gradually withered, it is impossible for the fleet to stay above the Jiujiang River for the winter. Therefore, the navy of the Qing Dynasty was actually imprisoned in Hankou, with no grain and no oil, which can be said to be the general trend. Seeing that the general trend of the Qing Dynasty had gone, Sa Zhenbing said that he couldn't bear to see his compatriots kill each other, so he decided to leave the field automatically. He took a merchant ship to Shanghai and left the fleet behind. After Sa Zhenbing left, the fleet did not immediately bleed and revolt. The Han officers and soldiers in the Qing Dynasty navy mobilized and pushed my uncle Tang Qianming to make a request for an uprising. It's also patient to do a few "ideological work" with a full of people. In the end, Xichang, Jisheng and Rong Xu all agreed anyway. Xichang was afraid of being killed afterwards, and also told the soldiers that his ancestors were Han. The fleet automatically left Yangluo, hung a white flag on the way to declare anyway, and then sailed to Jiujiang. Although my father is in Wuchang, you sank 16 foreign warships in Hankou. They dare not go to Wuhan. Therefore, the naval fleet sailed to Jiujiang and sent people to contact the local revolutionary army to cooperate with the uprising.

Li wants to curl the corners of his mouth. Is this my fault? The cat in it is so big that Tang Yuewan naturally can't see it. In terms of the navy, the Qing court was desperate to send the navy to control Sa Zhenbing, two cruisers, Hairong and several gunboats and mine boats, to go up the river and prepare to meet with the army led by Yingchang in Wuhan. The ships of the Qing army slowly arrived downstream of Hankou. I don't know whether it was Sa Zhenbing's cooperation with Yuan Shikai's "look slowly, look" combat policy, or whether there were many officers and soldiers in the Qing army who sympathized with the revolution and deliberately delayed the time. When Xia Zhankui fought on the three bridges, the navy had not yet crossed the Jiujiang River. Nowadays, in the navy, Li Yuanhong and Tang Hualong must have made great efforts. Li thought that he would not take advantage of him, and naturally he would not take advantage of Huang Xing, so he instigated the fleet to go to Jiujiang.

Zeng Gao knew a lot of internal information about the Qing court. He smiled and said, "Actually, as early as a year ago, the Qing court was afraid of the revolution of Han soldiers and wanted to replace all the important positions in the navy with Manchus. Unfortunately, it is rare for people to learn from the navy. They have to replace the pipes on the two big ships, Hairong and Haichen. The pipe belt of the Hairong ship is Xichang, and the belt is full of people; the pipe belt of the Haichen ship is a continuation. Sa Zhenbing is not full of people, but a descendant of Salabra, a general of the Yuan Dynasty. He graduated from Ship Administration School and then studied at Greenwich Naval School in the United Kingdom. He is a new figure. In the First Sino-Japanese War, he led only 30 hands to defend the Liugong Island Fort in Weihaiwei. He fought for ten days and was a hero. He automatically went down and was a handsome man who knew the current affairs.

"Is my uncle a hero?" Tang Yuewan's beautiful eyes floated to Zeng Gao and asked curiously.

Zeng Gao was so high that he had heard of some things about Tang Xiangming. The comments are not very good. He has always had an ambiguous relationship with Yuan Shikai. Like Tang Yuewan's father, the two brothers are masters of wall riding, and they really don't know how to evaluate them for a while.

"I know that my uncle's character is not very good. In this world, honest and decent people, can he be as beautiful as my father and uncle? I was also tired of that family and ran away from home. Tang Yuewan was straightforward and didn't want to embarrass Zeng Gao any more.

Li Xiang smiled and said, "I'm more beautiful than your father now. It seems that I'm not a good person."

"Good people are limited, and they are not bad." Tang Yuewan's eyes were flowing, which was the kind of disdainful look at Li and want to laugh.