Xinyang is becoming more and more unstable during this period. Even though the Guards General Headquarters is stationed here, there are a large number of troops and logistics supplies coming and going every day, but the situation is always difficult to predict. Especially recently.
In the past three or four days, Yuan Su became more and more aware of the entangled mentality of those Beiyang warlords when facing various civil movements. He never expected that those students and workers would actually develop the momentum of the demonstration to Xinyang!
Almost every day or two, many excited people parade along the main roads in the city, sometimes even blocking military passages. But this is still a small matter. In this era, the industry is not developed enough and there are not so many vehicles.
Often, even if the jam is directed or dispersed, traffic can still be restored. But the most troublesome thing is that the crowds who are full of enthusiasm or just come to join in the fun are increasingly unscrupulously organizing various activities and creating chaos.
Slogans and slogans against the imperial system and the Beiyang government.
At first, the Xinyang County Government dispatched a lot of police to stop it, which seemed to have a slight effect. However, the police are a minority after all, and the people always occupy a huge share. So that the situation is like a piece of gummy candy.
, even though it was crushed with force, the subsequent rebound caused a more serious impact.
The number of workers and students marching is increasing, and there are also more and more various rallies and protests. From one such event every one or two days, to finally two such events a day. More
Not to mention that the scale became even larger later on, with more than ten teams in almost every township and county in one day.
The county government is weak, and because it is a major military town, the police do not dare to shoot indiscriminately. Firstly, they are afraid of causing misunderstandings from the military if they open fire. Secondly, they also know that if they shoot civilians, they will inevitably
Granting these population status will only make things more difficult. In addition, the county government is also afraid that these people will suddenly turn into rioters, so they can only deploy police forces to ensure private security and provide
Provide some important government departments with enhanced protection.
It is precisely because of this that the people who demonstrated were even more aggressive.
Yuan Su originally thought that he could tolerate the behavior of these people. After all, he had been influenced by many "new" ideas in the 21st century, and he sympathized with and supported ordinary people in his heart. Therefore, he did not strictly order his security forces to forcibly disperse these people.
, he just strengthened the security around the headquarters and the military passages in and out of the city to ensure that the military institutions were not affected, that's all. Of course, occasionally he would find his conscience and send people to deliver water and dry food to the marchers at noon.
, and issued an announcement emphasizing that it would not take repression, but reminded all marchers to remain rational.
Many people within the headquarters are very worried about Yuan Su's series of actions. They know very well that Yuan Su is an upright person, at least not a bad person. In the past few years since he followed Yuan Su in Luanzhou,
Here I witnessed Yuan Su caring about the people's conditions at the grassroots level, formulating many practical policies to improve people's livelihood, and even creating some unprecedented business models to protect poor farmers and merchants. Yuan Su must have the same attitude towards what happened in Xinyang City this time
Mentality and principles.
It's just that the subordinates are worried that the situation of people in different places is different, and not everyone will give face.
What is even more worrying is the civil unrest in Xinyang. It is very likely that the Chinese revolutionaries sent spies to instigate and instigate it. If this is the case, these ignorant people will not only not give face to the government, but will even think that
The government is weak and incompetent, so it has intensified its protests and opposition activities.
In fact, it is not that Yuan Su has not considered this, but it is not easy to be in his current position. Any action he takes will cause great public repercussions. He cannot let the Beiyang government bear more negative reputation. At the same time, he
I believe that my reasonableness will definitely win the understanding of some people, especially those students with a good background. What's more, during the more than half a year since he came to Henan, he has used various contacts to appease and formulate temporary military plans.
The policy has basically won the support and support of the broad business class.
Therefore, when mass demonstrations were in full swing during this period, only the business community was able to remain calm.
Even if the streets are blocked by these demonstrators, shops will not be able to open, and merchants will close their stores at worst. Anyway, their biggest customers are not these ordinary people, but the Central Guards Headquarters. Headquarters
Since he went south, he has had enough funds to support him. Yuan Su basically purchased the materials he could buy locally. The supply of goods in the local market could not meet the army's expenses. Therefore, most of the materials in many shops have been sold out.
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Because Yuan Su reduced taxes on commercial transportation and canceled unreasonable taxes in some places, the cost of commercial operations was greatly reduced. For this reason, businessmen also spontaneously reached a tacit agreement with Yuan Su, even if the goods purchased by the military were very scarce.
He will never raise prices just by asking. On the contrary, he will spare no effort to go to neighboring provinces to help collect and purchase these materials.
Yuan Su's gentle policy towards the marchers did not have a big effect, but it was not completely beyond his expectation. Two types of people among the marchers still had some objections to the approach of the Guards General Headquarters.
In terms of performance, one type is the intellectuals with certain social experience, and the other type is the most simple common people.
The public opposition in Xinyang no longer lasted only one or two days, but almost half a month.
In this little half month, except for the occasional violent actions taken by the police, the largest number of troops gathered inside and outside the city did not take any action. They basically just maintained order. Intellectuals with certain social experience are naturally reasonable.
They are not like those immature young students who only know that the government's inaction is a staged victory for this demonstration, but do not realize the good intentions involved. As for those simple farmers, they do not dare to follow the government in their bones.
Against all odds, the government is still kind enough to provide water and supplies, so of course they will be grateful.
But even so, those simple farmers still come to participate in the parade every day, but their real intention is not to oppose the imperial system or the Beiyang government, but just to covet the small benefits of eating and drinking. The number of these people is not large, they just
They would follow the parade into the city, and then they would honestly find some closed shop gates or squat under the eaves of other houses, gathering together in twos and threes, chatting or laughing, and talking to other students who were waving flags.
The crowd pointed and pointed, suddenly becoming onlookers again.
By mid-May, the situation in Xinyang City, which was originally stable, suddenly changed.
Just as the staff and subordinates of the General Headquarters were worried, most of the civil opposition activities in Xinyang City and even throughout Henan were secretly controlled by members of the Chinese Revolutionary Party. As the crowds who participated in the parade were called during this period
As the scale grew larger and larger, the Chinese Revolutionary Party naturally began to plan more drastic actions.
On this day, suddenly, the leaders of the Revolutionary Party who led the protestors and demonstrators into the city threw the gasoline bottles and other throwing objects they had prepared at the county government compound. The original plan was to make a surprise attack on the headquarters of the Guards.
, but the defense around the headquarters is too tight, and at this time, the parade team is accustomed to only moving around the county government, and has no intention of diverting to the headquarters.
A peaceful demonstration suddenly turned into an atrocity.
Fortunately, many police officers had been prepared near the county government, and the turmoil was finally stopped in time, and several leaders of the mutiny were arrested. However, the outer wall of the county government and some internal buildings were damaged to some extent.
In particular, the thrown gasoline bottle almost caused a fire.
I thought that after arresting the leader of the trouble, the matter would come to an end, and even the entire march in Xinyang City would disband because of the loss of their leader. The county government officials could finally breathe a long sigh of relief.
But what no one expected was that this was just the beginning.
With the arrest of the first batch of Chinese Revolutionary Party leaders, the anger of the Chinese Revolutionary Party was further aroused. They continued to advocate that the county government was arresting innocent people indiscriminately, claiming to protect the people's rights and interests, but not preventing the people from exercising their right to march.
In short, with the Chinese Revolutionary Party sparing no effort to build momentum, they did not care at all yesterday about throwing gasoline bottles at the county government and inciting the people to riot. They just focused on the county government arresting or even beating people.
Among the people participating in these demonstrations, the backbone is naturally the young students. These young students have been influenced by the fierce revolutionary ideas early on and cannot look at things rationally. Not only that, among the people participating in the demonstrations, there are also
A considerable number of them are local party members. These people are very cruel in nature and have always been cruel and ruthless. They will do anything. The Chinese Revolutionary Party conspired with these party members to take advantage of the next demonstration.
The party brothers took the lead and attacked the county government directly. After seizing the county government's weapons, they attacked the headquarters.
These plans were told to the backbone of the young students in advance, and the backbone of the students passed the news to other students first. Such a sudden big move did make many students feel abrupt and a little suspicious. After all, the headquarters and
The county government has not taken any tough measures against them during this period, but now it is their turn to take violent measures, which is neither reasonable nor reasonable.
But after all, young students want to save face, and they are easy to worship blindly. Since it is a task assigned by the Chinese Revolutionary Party and it is an actual participation in the "revolutionary movement", of course they cannot shrink from the battle. Even if someone raises questions, it will be because of those
I felt embarrassed because of the scolding from key students and the cold looks from other students, so I had no choice but to participate.
But the next day, the streets that I thought would be quiet became agitated in the early morning.
The demonstrators gathered from all over the country had already formed a huge torrent on the main road at dawn. At first, the students thought that they would just gradually mobilize their momentum towards the organization as before.
Then they launched an attack. However, those party members started violent activities from the moment they entered the city, not only attacking government agencies, but even attacking the homes of county government officials that had been planned earlier.
Even though most of the official residences were guarded by nursing homes and police, the situation suddenly became chaotic when faced with out-of-control crowds and almost lunatic attacks. In panic, the police could only fire back, and the bullets passed through the dense crowd, and soon
It quickly caused a lot of casualties.
As the county government was violently attacked, the crowd gradually changed direction, creating greater chaos and turmoil, rushing all the way towards the Guards Headquarters. The streets near the Guards Headquarters had already been under martial law with soldiers on duty. For yesterday
The riots in the city were reported and recorded as soon as possible. The turmoil that occurred in the city early this morning was also communicated to Yuan Su from all aspects.
Even though Yuan Su advocated a gentle policy, he still made a quick decision once the situation got out of control. He immediately ordered the troops enforcing martial law in each street to move into the city immediately to rescue the county government and other areas that had been attacked early.
.At the same time, he also mobilized more troops from the headquarters security regiment to stop the masses who were rushing towards the headquarters. Among all action orders, he gave instructions that force could be used to stop them.
Perhaps for the people of Xinyang City, everything that happened today will be recorded in the annals of history, or at least leave a mark in the local annals. For a whole day, gunshots came one after another, and screams pierced the ears.
It was not until the evening that the turmoil in the city gradually calmed down.
After the gunfire disappeared, some people boldly opened a crack in the door and took a peek outside the street. What they saw were groups of soldiers with live ammunition enforcing martial law, while a group of handymen and arrested marchers were
He was ordered to clean up the mess on the main road. Even though it was dark now, he could still see bloodstains everywhere on the main road, various leaflets, flags, banners, and many damaged items.
Although it is not a war, the whole scene seems to have just experienced one!