100 upstarts

It was midnight when Li Xiang returned to Wuchang Luojia Mountain from the Hankou Yangtze River Business Association. This night was drinking and socializing, and also talking about business at the wine table. He promoted his first five-year economic development plan, and the final result made him very satisfied.

Although Li Xiang was dizzy from drinking, he was extremely excited and didn't feel sleepy at all. He just wanted to find someone to talk to. When he saw Narcissus bring tea, he smiled with a spring breeze on his face and said, "Sit down and talk with me. I won the first prize tonight. I'm so anxious if I don't talk to anyone!"

"I also have something to report to you," the Narcissus sat down on the sofa beside Li Xiang, handed the teacup she brought to Li Xiang, and said, "What happened in Xinjiang."

"Xinjiang?" Li wanted to roll his sleeves, picked up the teacup and took a sip, "Huh? What is this? It tastes really strange?

"Shen soup."

"I'm afraid I can't sleep at night if I drink it."

"Don't stop!" The narcissus bulged her face and patted the salted pig's hand, "There's something wrong in Xinjiang."

Listening to her tone, Li Xiang felt that the situation was serious. He put away a cheap smile and asked, "What's the matter?"

The matter in Xinjiang has been resolved in a peaceful way, and Jin Zhaolong and Liu Xianjun have been secretly sent to Xinjiang for activities. The two of them, one is the elder brother at the bottom of the Qing army in Xinjiang, and the other has a deep network in the high-level old Xiang army system of the Qing army in Xinjiang, which can be said to be the best candidate for activities in Xinjiang. Did something happen to them?

"The matter of Liu Xianjun's movement was leaked. Yuan Dahua was extremely stubborn and arrested the revolutionary party. They could only act in a hurry." The Narcissus once again told the story of the failure of the Dihua Uprising.

Li wanted to listen, but there was no word for a while. He listened to Narcissus quietly and meditated for a while before saying, "Liu Xianjun killed himself and became benevolent. This is our great loss. After he was the general of the old Hunan army, the former official of the Hunan general was Mantianshan. He was originally the best choice for the governor of Xinjiang.

The narcissus saw that Li Xiangshen had finished drinking the soup, got up and made a cup of Pu'er tea for him. She sat down and said, "Jin Zhaolong sneaked to the southern Xinjiang, Wanxiang Spring sneaked to Yili, Liu Xianjun was bravely righteous, and there were 143 martyrs who died in the Dihua uprising, and more than 200 people were sent to southern Xinjiang. What should I do next?"

"Southern Xinjiang? Ili?" Li wanted to stand up and think, stared at the dark sky outside the window and said, "Dihua's revolutionary power is very weak and the reactionary force is relatively strong, so the established policy must be changed. You can take Ili first, and then map the whole territory. It's right for Wanxiangchun to go to Yili.

The narcissus got up and smiled and said, "Where is the southern border where Jin Zhaolong sneaked?"

"Southern Xinjiang..." Li said without thinking about it, "The area of southern Xinjiang is a rich area in Xinjiang Province, and the source of the relationship is very important. If we quarrel in southern Xinjiang, it will be equivalent to cutting off Yuan Dahua's financial resources, and it will completely shake the foundation of his rule in Xinjiang.

The area of southern Xinjiang accounts for half of Xinjiang, far away from Dihua. The situation is complicated. It is the base where Yuan Dahua tried to make the final struggle in Xinjiang, and also the base for the main war faction of Xinjiang to plan against the peaceful uprising.

"Come on!" Li Xiang suddenly shouted. He thought he was going to do it, and he couldn't delay for a moment. "Call Zeng Gao and Li Xiping!"

"Yes!" The guard on duty outside the door agreed and sent someone there.

"My Li Shuai," the Narcissus said with a smile, "Aren't you tired today? It's past midnight, do you still want to ask them to come over? If you don't sleep, they won't sleep?"

"They have to drag them out of the quilt even if they are asleep." Li Xiang took a sigh of relief and handed the tea cup to the Narcissus, "Change the cup of hot - the earlier this kind of thing is handled, the better. If such a change happens in Xinjiang, I guess they can't sleep. Maybe they are also thinking about countermeasures?

"I know." Narcissus nodded and smiled, "It's just late at night. Don't be tired!"

Li Xiang sighed, "I, the revolutionary marshal of Ezhou, is not easy to be. According to those big shots, I am an upstart. There are many people who are coveting, and there are many people who are not convinced. I can't help but be extra careful. You know, I, an upstart who hasn't followed the bottom, can't afford to lose. What others can do, I have to do it with five points and ten points!"

"You are telling the truth." The narcissus nodded sadly and sighed.

"Now it's time for the development and growth of the government of the E Province, and I can't govern it - to be a shopkeeper, I'll ask the next to do it, and it's easy to have drawbacks." Li wanted to say that he couldn't help sighing, sighing that he was miserable before and after crossing. ...How many things, always anxious, the world turns, time is tight, ten thousand years is too long, seize the day." Li wants to think of the poem of the great man, a perfect combination of truth and literature.

Li Xiangzheng expressed his feelings at length and copied the poems of great men. Zeng Gao and Li Xiping came in breathlessly, one after the other.

"Is the general filling in the words again?" Zeng Gao's literary literacy is passed down from his family. He only listened to this headless piece and could speculate that he was inseparable. He yawned and said, "Is it filled in the "Manjianghong" lyrics? ...It is still magnificent and reasonable."

Li Xiping saluted stiffly and asked, "The general sent us here. I don't know what's the matter?"

"You sit down first." Li wanted to blow the tea foam in the cup and turned his face to the narcissus and said, "Tell them what we said before first. I'm really a little tired and want to have a rest."

"Yes!" Narcissus answered, told what had just happened, and asked again, "Yuan Dahua is stubborn. Dihua's reactionary force is too strong. It is impossible to completely solve the Xinjiang issue peacefully. Only starting from Ili and southern Xinjiang can we force Yuan Dahua to accept our peaceful sincerity through violent armed forces in the two regions. What do you think?"

Li Xiping hurriedly replied, "I received information about the accident in Xinjiang, and I'm also in this matter. This is the best way. It's impossible to have complete peace."

Zeng Gao said, "Yuan Shikai was sworn in as the interim president in Beijing, and the national revolution is coming to an end. People are determined, and they are waiting to be happy. At the same time, after the outbreak of the Wuchang Revolution, Russia intensified its aggression against Xinjiang, and the external disaster in Xinjiang was unprecedentedly serious. In the name of protecting overseas Chinese, Russia sent a large number of invading troops to invade Ili and Kashgar. In addition, Russia also encouraged the independence of Outer Mongolia and sent troops to besiege Kobdo, seriously threatening the security of Altai, the gateway to northern Xinjiang..."

Li wanted to listen to the gist and interrupted and asked, "Russian old Maozi is having a headache for the warming up of the Balkans. As long as we put on the posture of a war, Lao Maozi does not dare to fight. I asked you to come here just to ask if there is a possibility of success in Yili Juyi? And how to plan the righteous thing in southern Xinjiang?

"Ili has always been the center of the activities of the League in Xinjiang." Hearing this, Zeng Gao has figured out Li Xiang's intention, "In those years, the Hubei army entered Xinjiang and brought a large number of benevolent people in the democratic revolution. After Yang Zhenxu and others arrived in Yili, they went to the army, organs, schools and people of all ethnic groups to carry out revolutionary propaganda and organizational activities. Feng Temin and others founded the Yili Baihua Newspaper. Through the vernacular newspaper, the revolutionaries vigorously promoted the idea of equality among all ethnic groups and spread the idea of democracy and republic. At that time, on the one hand, the people of all ethnic groups in Ili were dissatisfied with the corrupt rule of the Qing Dynasty. They strongly opposed the invasion of Russia here. They may be hostile in their hearts. At the same time, what kind of road should they take in the future? They were at a loss and had a deep-rooted feudal ideology. However, during the period of Ili, the revolutionaries have made full preparations for the uprising by contacting and guiding people of all ethnic groups and from all walks of life.

Li Xiping also said, "After the success of the Wuchang Uprising, the whole country was telegramed, and Yili responded. Feng Temin persuaded Yang Zhenxu for three days to urge Yang to lead the army to revolt. Yang advocated quiet observation. At that time, the Qing court transferred General Zhirui of Hangzhou to General Yili, replacing the former General Guangfu of Yili.

Zhirui, his two cousins are Concubine Jin and Concubine Zhen of Emperor Guangxu. He is emotionally close to Emperor Guangxu and has been suppressed by the Empress Dowager Cixi. After the death of Emperor Guangxu and the Empress Dowager Cixi, Prince Chun, the younger brother of Guangxu, was in power, and Zhirui was reused. His family and background determined that Zhirui must be against the revolution. Along the way, he passed through Xi'an and Dihua, and conspired with Chang Geng, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Yuan Dahua, the governor of Xinjiang, and Zailan, who had been exiled, to support the Xuantong Emperor's move to the west and divide the northwest. On November 15, Zhirui arrived in Yili, when the fire of the 1911 Revolution had ignited all over the country.

"After Zhirui took office, he felt that the situation in Ili was also surging undercurrent. He deeply felt that the situation was unstable and that the revolution could break out at any time. In order to destroy the revolutionary power of Ili, Zhi Rui ordered the closure of the Ili Baihua Newspaper to restrain public opinion. Because the new army responded to the revolution along the Yangtze River, Zhirui was suspicious of the Hubei army led by Yang Zhenxu. On the grounds of a fight between the new army and the students of Wubei School, he ordered the dissolution of the new army and the collection of ammunition. When Zhirui learned that Yang Kaijia, deputy director of the General Staff of the Ezhou Marshal's Office, was Yang Zhenxu's brother, he forced Yang to resign and demobilized all the new officers and soldiers under Yang Tong's jurisdiction. The officers and soldiers who were sent back to the customs were unable to receive the severance fee and were trapped in Huiyuan. They were poor and bitter, and they turned to the revolutionary party one after another. Zhirui is conceited as the uncle of the emperor, and is extremely domineering to his colleagues and subordinates. He excused that the procedures were not clear and did not allow Guangfu to take office. When Zhirui came to Yili, he once wore a felt hat worth only one or two yuan of silver, which was distributed to various places. Each piece of silver was asked for one tael. If there was no silver repayment after the deadline, the price was a sheep, which was dozens of times higher than the original price. This move may be for the purpose of urgently raising military pay, but this kind of high-profit exploitation and extortion is no different from robbing jie in the daytime. The masses are cruelly squeezed by this, and all of them complain. Because Zhirui is arrogant and stingy, the new and old bureaucrats, businessmen and people are indignant, and the flag camp is also separated. Zhirui believes that there are more than 10,000 soldiers in Manchu, Meng and Xibo inside and outside Huiyuan City, which can ensure security. Zeng Gao finally said, "The Ili Uprising has matured so far."

Li wanted to exhale and said, "What are you waiting for?" Do it!"

"The situation of Yili has been clarified--" the Narcissus asked again, "What about Southern Xinjiang?"

"Southern Xinjiang..." Li Xiping thought for a moment and replied, "The elder brother will flow into Xinjiang with Zuo Zongtang's western expedition. Today, the elder brother will have blossomed everywhere in Xinjiang. The elder brother's association has also been an important object of unity and strength. The occurrence and even development of the Wuchang Revolution is inseparable from the great role of the Elder Brother Association. As you know, after the failure of the Dihua Uprising, Yuan Dahua drove the old members of the new army out of Dihua. Some of them were sent to the patrol camp in southern Xinjiang to serve, wearing "crime" to make contributions. Jin Zhaolong went to all parts of southern Xinjiang to contact the brother association to prepare for trouble. Although it is not as fast as Yili, the blow to Yuan Dahua is fatal.

"Good!" Li thought couldn't help laughing and said, "Just ask Jin Zhaolong to contact the old party to rise up in Aksu, Yanqi, Luntai, Kuche, Bachu, Kashgar and other places!"