166th Mass Movement and Japanese Revolutionaries
In a dilapidated theater in Beijing, there was a sign of a charity performance outside, as if it was why the "Tianjin Workers Association" was raising funds. The drama inside had not officially started yet, but a few young men and women in student costumes were standing on the stage, holding horns made of iron in their hands, and were giving speeches! The audience was noisy, drowned out the sound of speeches on the stage.
The handkerchiefs flew around the heads, the vendors were selling peanuts and fruits, and some policemen in Beijing. The infantry men also held their arms and watched the speeches of the students on the stage with interest, as if they had no intention of suppressing them - they were probably just watching the sermons?
In a private room on the second floor of the theater, two men wearing top hats and long silk gowns were sitting on both sides of a table, leisurely crossing their legs, holding a cup of tea in their hands, and whispering from time to time.
"Comrade Zuomin, now our party is in Beijing, and the development situation in Tianjin is very good. During this period, the people in Beijing and Tianjin are also very enthusiastic about anti-imperialism and patriotism. We have also established the Red Trade Union in Tianjin and are joining forces with some other small and medium-sized trade unions to launch a general strike! However, this funding is a bit insufficient ****??"
The person who spoke was a middle-aged man with a mustache, with a low hat. It was Comrade Li Dazhao, vice chairman of the China GCD Preparatory Committee. He did not stay in Fujian with Chen Duxiu, but returned to Beijing to continue to develop the party organization. During this period, the party's development situation was very good due to the stimulation of the Russian October Revolution, the Sino-Russian New Testament, and the Red Brigade anti-imperialist terrorist activities. Moreover, the anti-imperialist patriotism of the people in Beijing and Tianjin were also inspired, and it seemed that there was a lot of intention to advance the May Fourth Movement ****??
And the one who talked to Comrade Li Dazhao was our Chang Da Warlord! This warlord and terrorist guy was also shocked by the development of mass movements in Beijing and Tianjin. The "terrorist attack" caused by the Red Brigade easily reminded the rebels and regiments, but it was quite in line with the tastes of young people. The middle school students and workers' organizations, which were somewhat similar to the Red Brigade's proposal, quickly expanded.
"You want to go on strike?" Chang Ruiqing frowned: "But you have to wait for another two days. You will stop after I get on the ship to the south."
"I know. I know." Li Dazhao smiled and waved his hand: "It will take some time for the organization of the strike to be prepared. The main reason is that the funds are insufficient, and whether it depends on fundraising or not. I wonder if Red Brigade can support us more?"
Chang Ruiqing looked at the Li Da Revolutionary with an excited expression and smiled bitterly: "Mr. Li, I can think of a way to make the funding. But you can't move like you are now*****? I still recommend you to go to Fujian, which is my territory, and it is absolutely safe."
Of course, he was not really concerned about Li Dazhao's life or death, but was afraid that the "reactionaries" would be arrested and tortured, and tortured himself, Comrade Zuomin! He thought for a while and said, "Mr. Li, how many people in the party organizations in Beijing and Tianjin know that I am Zuomin?"
Li Dazhao was stunned and knew what the other party meant. He waved his hand and smiled and said, "I am the only one. No one else knows it."
Chang Ruiqing sighed softly and smiled and said, "Mr. Li, tell you the truth. After I return to Fujian this time, I am planning to launch a larger anti-imperialist patriotic movement! The China G and mass movements should play a greater role in Fujian's anti-imperialist patriotic movement, so you need to go south to preside over the work."
"Oh?" Li Dazhao showed a curious expression on his face: "Brother Yaoru. You are the supervisor of Fujian Military Affairs. You have three divisions of troops under your command. Just go to the imperialist empire and give the next order. Why do you still have to rely on mass movements?"
Chang Ruiqing sighed: "Mr. Li, imperialism is powerful after all, so the anti-imperialist struggle cannot rely solely on the attacks of the Red Brigade. It cannot rely solely on me, a feudal warlord, but must concentrate all forces to work together. This time, the anti-imperialist and patriotic struggle in Fujian, I want the mass movement to play the leading role."
Li Dazhao nodded and asked again: "What is the goal of the Fujian anti-imperialist movement?"
Chang Ruiqing smiled: "It is to take back Fujian Customs and Xiamen British Concession."
Li Dazhao looked solemn: "Yaoru, do you overestimate the power of the mass movement? I don't know how the masses in Fujian started, but in terms of the situation in Beijing and Tianjin, it is absolutely impossible to rely on the mass movement to reclaim the Tianjin Concession and Tianjin Customs."
Chang Ruiqing showed a confident expression on his face: "I can't say how the people in Fujian started, but I can organize hundreds of thousands of farmers in a short period of time! Mr. Li, don't forget that Fujian is now my territory, and I have built the regime into every township in Fujian!"
Li Dazhao frowned and asked back, "But the farmers in Fujian are willing to obey your order?"
Chang Ruiqing smiled and said, "I have a gun, I have a bag of money, I have minions in more than a thousand towns in Fujian! With just one order, each township will send 100 people, which is more than 100,000 people**** Mr. Li, these people are all given to you to command. You can select a group of capable cadres from the comrades in Beijing and Tianjin to go south together. At that time, you will lead the mass movement to take back the concession and customs."
"Let us come forward? Why aren't you and Mr. Chen?" Li Dazhao asked back.
Chang Ruiqing smiled and said, "Mr. Chen and I are now officials of the Chinese government, so it is not convenient to make this happen. Otherwise, the situation will not end later. My current power and strength are the capital of the revolution!
By the way, Mr. Li, we must be polite, well-founded and conservative in this fight. I will invite British and American lawyers from Shanghai to serve as legal counsel for the protests through figures from the Revolutionary Party and the Kuomintang. There will also be reporters from major European and American newspapers on site to report on the spot."
Li Dazhao asked lightly: "What's the point of doing this? Do you still expect those imperialist lawyers and journalists to help us speak?"
Chang Ruiqing smiled and said, "The target of our struggle this time is Britain, Mr. Li. Don't think that those Eastern and Western powers are really solid! Besides, even British journalists and lawyers may not necessarily speak for their government."
As he said that, he lowered his voice again: "Mr. Li, compared with their British Empire, we are at a disadvantage, so we must dress ourselves up as a victim and make the Western media and the public realize that the violent activities of China's Red Brigade are the inevitable result of their government's excessive oppression of the Chinese people!"
Li Dazhao said coldly: "Yaoru. What exactly do you want to do?"
Chang Ruiqing smiled deeply: "Of course I want to save the country and the people. But ****? Such a great cause will inevitably lead to sacrifice and bloodshed! And only the bleeding and sacrifice of some people can arouse more people to participate in this great cause! So certain sacrifices are necessary! Mr. Li, I think you can understand what I mean, right?"
"So you want the people to sacrifice and then pick the fruits of victory by yourself?" Li Dazhao asked with a sneer.
Chang Ruiqing shrugged and said solemnly: "That's right! Mr. Li, do you want to sacrifice yourself and let others pick fruits?"
The private room was silent. The two of them looked at each other, frowned, as if they were thinking about something. Even the short plays that had already started on the stage not far away seemed to affect their thoughts.
Li Dazhao had a stern face for a while and suddenly burst into laughter: "Yes! Yaoru, your idea makes sense! We want to save China, so we cannot sacrifice ourselves easily. If we all sacrificed, no one in China will come to save ****? Let's do this. From now on, I will openly act as the leader of China G, responsible for leading the people to fight against imperialism and feudal warlords! As for the way to fight, we will discuss it. We cannot sacrifice blindly. We must make the comrades sacrifice valuable! Yaoru. Do you think so?"
Chang Ruiqing clapped his hands and laughed: "It's great that Mr. Li can understand these truths! Let's do this, we will set off on December 6th, go to Shanghai to meet a Japanese friend, and then go back to Fujian."
"Japan friend? Who is it?"
"I am a Japanese revolutionary, a Japanese revolutionary who tends to be socialist. In addition, there may be some Japanese friends who want to meet you!"
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Shanghai, Hongkou Japanese overseas Chinese gathering area.
In a residential area where poor people gather, there is a very ordinary Shikumen house. The first and second floors have been rented to Japanese foreign workers who come to work in Shanghai. These people are all working amateurs from work from roosters to ghosts, so the doors and windows of this house are always closed, as if they are uninhabited. People come and go on the streets, which are very lively. But no one would have thought that in the pavilion room on the third floor of this seemingly vacant house, some people have had secret conversations overnight.
"Our comrades have just sent back news from Russia that the Russian Bolshevik Military Committee passed the Resolution on Establishing the Anti-Counterfeiting Committee proposed by Derzhinsky yesterday. According to the situation we have, this Anti-Counterfeiting Committee will be a very powerful secret agency, which is specially used by the Bolsheviks to rectify political enemies!
The full name of this anti-counter-counter-revolutionary and slackdown Committee is the All-Russia Committee for Purge of Counter-Revolutionary and Slackdown! Among them, counter-revolution refers to the Russians who opposed the Soviets and the Bolsheviks, while slackdown refers to the behavior of people who did not work and serve the Soviets****? This is used to eliminate the "counter-revolutionary forces" in the Russian working class.
While they were organizing the so-called Constitutional Assembly elections, they were forming and expanding the Red Army and establishing secret agencies! Their Sima Zhao's intentions are probably well known to everyone **** Mr. Bei, the Russian civil war is approaching!"
The person who said this was Wang Yaqiao. He is now the chairman of the Chinese Workers' Association in Shanghai and the head of the Shanghai GCD Committee, and he has officially become a GCist fighter. However, at this time, he talked about a series of red and terrifying policies implemented by the great mentor Lenin, but his face was full of contempt. It seems that he still cannot understand the greatness of Leninism ****?
The one who sat and listened to him was the owner of the place, who had close contacts with Chinese revolutionaries such as Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren and had some connections in Japan.
Listening to Wang Yaqiao's introduction, Kitaichi's face became colder and colder. Speaking of this person, he was also famous in the history of another time and space, and his name was always associated with fascism, making him look like a Japanese Hitler.
Actually! Well, it seems that there is a certain reason ****? But this Japanese fascist theorist was actually a socialist in the early days. The reason why this happened was that it involved some of the origins of fascism and socialism! In fact, these two ideologies are very close in some aspects, and even the early fascist leaders were many of the original European Socialist Party! The extreme left and extreme right were only separated by a layer of yarn****?
At this time, Kitaichiko had not turned to the extreme right, and the "Outline of the Japanese Reformation Act", which is considered to be a Japanese fascist Bible, has just begun to be compiled. He is full of ****, good feelings, and friendly things about China.
This devil is really interesting. According to his idea, Japan's expansion direction should not be China, but should form a military alliance with China. Together, expand into the Asian territory occupied by the Europeans! The way to achieve the Sino-Japanese alliance is to overthrow the current Japanese political system!
He also had a good impression of the Russian Revolution at the beginning, believing it was an important turning point in the world. It could save Japan and the world. In short, the Japanese revolutionary's thoughts were very chaotic. Perhaps it was precisely because of this reason that Kitaichiko has now become close friends with the Chinese revolutionary Wang Yaqiao, who is also confused. During this period, he often gathered to study the Russian Revolution, as well as the Sino-Japanese Revolution and the Sino-Japanese Military Alliance!
After listening to Wang Yaqiao's introduction, Kitaichi was silent for a while, and finally murmured: "Lenin's skill is indeed superb, but his behavior is too despicable! And the Russian Bolsheviks who can join him must be mostly despicable people who do not do anything to achieve their goals. These Bolsheviks are not trustworthy. Brother Jiuguang, among you, you must be more careful now, so as not to be used and controlled by them!"
Wang Yaqiao sighed softly and smiled bitterly: "Mr. Bei, Lenin and the Bolsheviks are indeed despicable. But I think they will be the final winners of this Russian revolution! Their despicable and insidious and unscrupulous are the most treasures for them to defeat the enemy! At any time, gentlemen cannot beat villains, let alone they are hypocrites who are more powerful than villains!"
Kitaichiko was silent for a long time, focusing on the key points: "It makes sense. Looking at the revolutions of all countries, people of lofty ideals sacrificed their lives and spit their blood, but in the end they were enjoyed by hypocrites! This is the case with the Meiji Restoration in Japan. The same is true for China's Xinhai Revolution. It seems that the result of the Russian Revolution is nothing more than this! It is really regrettable. But why do you still have to get along with these hypocrites? Do you want to rely on their support to seize power?"
Wang Yaqiao smiled and waved his hand: "The Bolsheviks will be busy defending their new revolutionary regime for a long time in the future. How can they have extra financial and material resources to help us? Even if they have the spare energy, they will definitely use Europe as the main direction for their revolution to export." He said that, and he smiled heavily, lowered his voice and said, "Actually, our Comrade Zuomin arranged this way to promote the union between China and Japan!"
Hearing this, Kitaichi raised his eyebrows slightly: "What do you mean?"
Wang Yaqiao smiled and said, "Russia's Bolshevik Party has a bad relationship with Britain, the United States and France! Once they implement red terror in Russia, they will suppress the Social Revolutionary Party, Mensheviks, Britain, the United States, France and other countries that have won the elections will not ignore it. Even the Social Revolutionary Party, Mensheviks, and the royalists who have been suppressed will not be willing to fail. The forces in these aspects will definitely be combined to jointly oppose the Bolshevik dictatorship, and the Russian civil war will surely break out! Isn't this the best time for your country to turn the direction of expansion from China to Russia? As long as your country's expansion direction changes, how can China not be willing to be friendly with Japan? And if we, China and Japan can form an alliance, why should we not be able to expel the European powers and restore all Asia?"
Kitaichi hesitated for a moment and asked back: "Is it because China and Japan want to jointly send troops to interfere in the Russian revolution?"
Wang Yaqiao waved his hand and said solemnly: "On the contrary, China and Japan are going to form an alliance with the Bolsheviks!"
"What?" Bei Yihui stood up suddenly, stared at Wang Yaqiao with his eyes tightly, and said coldly: "Brother Jiuguang is looking for me to be happy?"
Wang Yaqiao took a deep breath and said loudly: "Mr. Bei! Don't you understand what you mean? The Bolsheviks seized power by conspiracy and tricks, and they made too many enemies at home and abroad, and they will inevitably fall into internal and external troubles! If we, China and Japan, can negotiate alliances with the Bolsheviks at this time, we can definitely get a lot of benefits from them.****? If the situation is not good for the Bolsheviks, in order to preserve the regime and attack political enemies, they may choose to cede land!
All these lands obtained from Russia belong to Japan! China will not take any land!"
Kitaichi took a deep breath, his eyes full of surprise: "Brother Jiuguang, who does your words mean? Has your Mr. Zuomin reached a tacit understanding with Russian Lenin?"
Wang Yaqiao focused on the key point: "That's right! Now it depends on whether Mr. Bei can contact your friends in Japan and promote the Japanese government to accept this plan!"
Kitaichi frowned and did not answer positively, but asked back: "But where is the Chinese government?"
Wang Yaqiao smiled and whispered: "Fujian warlord Chang Yaoru is my brother, and he has an extraordinary relationship with Duan Qirui's confidant Xu Shuzheng. Moreover, the Beiyang government is now oppressing the great powers in the north and the West. If Japan is willing to allege them at this time, they will certainly beg for it!" (To be continued...)
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