Cai Yuanpei and others had just organized the Liberation Meeting, whose members included members of the Shanghai Assassination Group and Tao Chengzhang, Gong Baoquan and others from Zhejiang. Unexpectedly, within two days, less than half of its members were arrested and taken to the patrol room.
The Guangfuhui got off to a bad start as soon as it was established.
The revolutionary party in Shanghai, Cai Yuanpei, Yang Dusheng, Cai E, Lin Changmin and others, tried to clear up connections and organize a rescue. What made Lin Shuo angry was that two reserve officer students, Jiang Chengyue and Tao Deyao, who he was going to send to Japan to study military affairs, were also arrested together for some reason.
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Because Wan Fuhua insisted that he was responsible for the assassination, while others denied it, the concession authorities first released Guo Renzhang, Huang Xing, Liu Kueyi, Chen Tianhua, Zhang Ji and others who had nothing to do with the case. It was ridiculous.
The person who vouched for Huang Xing was Shanghai Daotai Yuan Shuxun.
Huang Xing was wanted with a reward for leaking secrets for instigating the Hunan Uprising.
But the identity he fabricated was Li Guizhi, a follower of Guo Renzhang, the commander of the Jiangxi patrol battalion.
Guo Renzhang and Huang Xing participated in the Anti-Russian Volunteer Team in Japan. After returning to China, they became the commander of the Jiangxi Patrol Battalion because of Zu Yin. The assassination team happened to be in Shanghai on business on the day of the incident. They went to Yuqingli to catch up with their classmate Yang Dusheng, who was from the patrol room.
Talents, regardless of whether they were officers of the Qing Dynasty or not, were also brought into the patrol room.
Commander Guo had no choice but to admit that he was unlucky.
The most dangerous person among those arrested was Huang Xing. If he was recognized, he would probably be executed immediately as soon as he was handed over to the Qing government.
During the interrogation, Guo Renzhang came forward and said that this man was one of my followers.
Yang Dusheng went to find Long Zhang, the magistrate of Shouzhou County, his hometown in Hunan. This magistrate of the Qing Dynasty sympathized with the Revolutionary M Party and found Yuan Shuxun to be Guo Renzhang's guarantor. Yuan Shuxun did not think much and called the concession authorities.
How can our officers in the Qing Dynasty be revolutionaries?
With Mr. Yuan's guarantee, the concession authorities quickly released him, and Huang Xing followed Guo Renzhang and walked out of the patrol room without any danger.
The remaining captured members of the Liberation Society were released one after another.
Wan Fuhua was sentenced to ten years in prison, and Zhou Laisu, who was implicated, was sentenced to one and a half years in prison for "disturbing public security" because a pistol was found on him when he was arrested.
Lin Shuo was holding a roster in his hand and reprimanding Jiang Chengyue and Tao Deyao who had been released. Basically, all the Hua arresters in the concession were bribed by Lin Shuo. After seeing that these two people were said to be from the Dongjun Navy Camp, he was afraid that he would have to deal with Lin Shuo over this matter.
If Shuo was involved, he hid the roster of the Liberation Association and sent it to Lin Shuo.
Jiang Chengyue and Tao Deyao were disqualified from being sent to Japan to study. Lin Shuo was afraid that these two daredevils would cause trouble under the instigation of the Revolutionary M Party after arriving in Japan. In fact, the two of them were very innocent. They were raped by Teacher Wang.
Sent to find Yang Dusheng to get a book of information. Yang Tusheng discovered the legendary "alchemy" from a liar book published in Japan. The revolutionary comrades who were suffering from financial problems were deeply inspired. Teacher Wang asked them to get the book.
Prepare to do the experiment according to the method in the book.
Teacher Wang is Wang Xiaoxu. This international student who returned from abroad majored in electrical physics and is now a physics teacher at the Merchant Marine School. He was also encouraged by Cai Yuanpei to join the Assassination Group and the Liberation Society.
Lin Shuo felt that he needed to have a good talk with Cai Yuanpei. The teachers and students of the Patriotic Society were all the elites of this era. It would be a pity if they were all encouraged to commit assassinations.
Cai Yuanpei and Yu Ziyi responded to the appointment and went to the Hudong Shipyard. The Zhang brothers, who had just come out of the patrol room, also followed them. They were afraid that Lin Shuo, a "dog official", would be detrimental to Mr. Cai.
In the three-story Baroque-style office building of the Hudong Shipyard, if you look out the window, you can see more than half of the shipyard. On the south side are the machine factory and the forging plant, connected by two light railways to a row of slipways in the north, and further north
, are the four docks connected to the Hudong Shipyard. Among them, the Haitian cruiser in the No. 2 dock is undergoing repairs, and further away in the No. 4 dock and the shipyard wharf, several Russian warships are being dismantled.
Not far away, on the Huangpu River, three Japanese warships were monitoring the dismantling of Russian warships. Lin Shuo asked a few people to go to the window and use the eight-fold telescope placed there to carefully watch the Japanese warships, especially those close to them.
The warship in Pudong.
"Do you understand that ship?" Lin Shuobu asked.
Cai Yuanpei and Yu Ziyi didn't know why, but the Zhang brothers studied military affairs, and they quickly recognized the old-looking armored ship. "That's the Zhenyuan of the Beiyang Navy!" Zhang Taoyan said with resentment on his face.
Lin Shuo nodded, "After the Japanese captured the Zhenyuan ship in Weihai, they didn't even bother to change the nameplate. This ship, which was once the pride of the Beiyang Navy, is now flying the Japanese naval flag in the Huangpu River to show off its power. This is not obviously
What an insult to the Chinese people! Everyone is looking south. That large pier belongs to Nippon Yusen Co., Ltd. Next to it is the original Huasheng Textile Factory of Sheng Xuanhuai. It has been acquired by the Japanese and the business is very prosperous. Although now due to the Russo-Japanese War
The amount of Japanese yarn and cloth exported to China has decreased, but the Japanese yarn mills in Shanghai are still making a lot of Chinese money. Seeing this, what do you think?"
"Traitors will be punished by everyone!" Zhang Taoyan, who was impatient, clenched his fists.
"There are more than 20,000 compradors and businessmen selling Japanese products in Shanghai. Can you kill them?" Lin Shuo said with a smile. Zhang Shizhao was deep in thought. In the past two months in the patrol room, he had been criticized a lot and his thoughts had changed a lot.
Thinking about it the most. Looking back on the past, he felt that he had hurt his colleagues because of his naivety. He felt guilty and felt that his personal abilities were limited. He changed his radical stance to studying to save the country, and was determined to study hard from then on.
"This is a nation that has lost itself. There is nothing wrong with Mr. advocating freedom of thought among classmates and awakening national consciousness, but engaging in assassinations..." Lin Shuo shook his head and continued: "Blood and violence will cause great harm to society.
Huge damage, and our nation is actually very fragile and cannot bear too many setbacks."
"After more than 250 years, are we still allowing the Jianlu to continue to ride on our heads? This country will only become more and more backward." Cai Yuanpei thought for a moment and said.
"Not allowed? Well, even if the Manchus fall now, who will step forward to take charge of this country?" Lin Shuo asked.
"We have a parliament, a parliament like the West!" Yu Ziyi said, he had considered these things.
"Very well, what if someone doesn't listen to your council?"
"We still have the Revolutionary Army!" Zhang Taoyan said.
"Okay, you are the Revolutionary Army, and I am also the Revolutionary Army! We are all the Revolutionary Army, why should I listen to you? Why don't you listen to my orders? You have a parliament, and I can also form one.
Why should I obey you? Have you ever imagined such a result? Everyone thinks they are justified. As a result, everyone is expanding their armies, so you have to beat me and I beat him. The final result is that the country is torn apart and there are a lot of people in the country.
Big warlords and small warlords are like vassal towns in the late Tang Dynasty, ceding territory to the king." Lin Shuo said more and more harshly, "In order to ensure their own power and territory, everyone is working hard to expand their own army. Now even a town's soldiers can be fed.
The province that cannot afford it will then have three towns and five towns. What will the army do if there is no money? They can only plunder people's wealth. The result is that the rule of the Manchus was overthrown, but the result was that the people were in dire straits, and the industry and commerce were withered.
It’s not as good as the current feudal dynasty!”
Lin Shuo seemed very excited. In fact, he was recounting a painful history that had already happened.
Everyone present was lost in thought. These things had never been considered before.
"Xing Yan, you studied at the Jiangnan Army Academy. Do you know how much money it costs to raise a whole town of new recruits in Beiyang?" Lin Shuo felt that the atmosphere was a bit solemn and wanted to change the topic to a lighter topic.
"It seems to be 1.6 million taels," Zhang Shizhao said.
"For example, I am from Jiangsu's army and you are from Zhejiang. We both want to compete for the territory in Shanghai. Shanghai is rich. The annual tax revenue can support two armies. But I have 30,000 people and you only have 20,000.
But you are reluctant to give up this fat piece of Shanghai, what should you do?"
No one said anything, the situation was obvious.
"So, revolution is not as simple as everyone imagines. It is enough to overthrow a dynasty and establish a new country. China's current situation is even more dangerous than in the late Ming Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, there was only one Jianzhou in the north.
Without the civil strife of Li Zicheng and others, the country would never have been subjugated. But now, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and Russia are surrounded by great powers. Once China is in civil strife, they will immediately pounce on it. A divided China is the last resort for them.
What I wish to see is that China is too big. Anyone who wants to devour it all will probably not have such a good appetite. The reason why China was not divided by the great powers during the Gengzi Revolution was actually the result of the great powers restraining each other. If it were divided into five or six pieces
, the great powers each eat a piece of each other, I am afraid this is the result they want most."
"Mr. Cai, you want to set up a school, enlighten the people's wisdom, and carry out agitation and propaganda. I fully support it. But if you want to carry out assassinations, I have no money, and I will most likely be ordered to arrest you. I also have my own interests and plans. That's all.
Speaking of which, please take this seriously!"
The group of people left the Hudong Shipyard in silence. After walking for a while, Zhang Taoyan turned around and walked back.
"What are you doing?" Zhang Shizhao stopped him.
"I want to go to him and see what he wants to do? If he is willing to be the lackey of the Manchus, I will be the first to get rid of him!" Tao Yan broke away from his hands and ran forward quickly.
Zhang Shizhao wanted to pursue him again, but Cai Yuanpei stopped him: "Let him go. Lin Anhua won't do anything to him. I know this person very well."
It started to rain. Zhang Taoyan stood in the rain for three full hours. Lin Shuo finally agreed to take him in and kept him by his side. He was really worried about letting him go because this kid was so trouble-making.
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Zou Rong, who was about to finish his sentence, fell ill due to long-term malnutrition and depression, and was tortured by the guards because of his refusal to give in. He died of illness in prison. He had just turned twenty this year. Zhang Taiyan, who was serving the sentence together, rushed to the prison after hearing the news.
Come, caress the corpse and cry bitterly, feeling extremely sad.
Liu Jiping, his friend who rushed back from Japan, risked his life and buried Zou Rong's body next to Huangye Tower in Huajing, his hometown in Shanghai. Cai Yuanpei led more than 30 people from the Liberation Association to pay homage to Huajing and swore in front of Zou Rong's tomb to overthrow the Manchus.
Under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, amidst the bitter wind and rain, the Liberation Party members began the arduous process of fighting against the Qing Dynasty.