After Wang Hengyue left, the newly appointed governor Pu Dianjun, who was "the Han Sichuan military government returned to the government", ignored dissuasion and insisted on holding a grand military parade within a few days of taking office!
At 9 a.m. on December 8, 1911, the military parade was held as scheduled outside the Chengdu East Campus.
As expected from the intelligence Wang Hengyue had received before, a mutiny broke out midway through the military parade. Governor Pu Dianjun and Deputy Governor Zhu Qinglan who were standing on the reviewing stand fled in panic. The rebels swarmed out of the school grounds and looted everywhere in Chengdu.
"At one time, the whole place was robbed, and every vegetation was robbed by soldiers. They were robbed again and again, and some were even robbed five or six times." "The beautiful Chengdu has turned into a barbaric world."
, what is the difference between those road defenders and old officers under the banner of the Communist Party, and the return bandits? What they brought to Chengdu was not the joy after victory, but a tragedy.
At this moment, Wei Shunzhi and Jiang Naihe, together with a large number of officers and more than 1,500 soldiers, rushed into the Chengdu Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, the Silver Dollar Bureau, etc. in the name of rebels, and almost destroyed all the people in these places. Machines and supplies were looted!
Subsequently, the soldiers transporting these supplies left Chengdu through the east gate, and moved to Rong County with the support of Ma Xiao and Wu Qianlong.
In the subsequent loss statistics of Chengdu, it was recorded that the Chengdu Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, Silver Dollar Bureau and other places suffered heavy losses and almost became empty rooms. Silver coins and materials were not included, but those machines were the hard work of generations of people. The belongings are now gone in the blink of an eye
As the head of the Military and Political Department, Yin Changheng broke out from the chaos and went to the new army garrison in Fenghuang Mountain. He summoned hundreds of new soldiers and made an impassioned speech with tears streaming down his face: "The survival of the whole Sichuan depends on this one move, as long as all the troops obey orders." , Changheng is willing to be a pioneer, regardless of life or death!"
He also drew his saber and chopped off a tree, "If you shrink back, it will be the same as this tree."
The soldiers were deeply moved and were willing to fight to the death. So Yin Changheng led the student army to ride their horses and pick up their guns, and entered Chengdu to quell the rebellion. In this year, Yin Changheng was 27 years old.
The "comrade army" of the Ge Lao Hui also entered the city in large numbers and hunted and killed the rebels. There was a bloody storm in Chengdu for a while.
At the most critical moment in Chengdu, people thought of Zhao Erfeng, the abdicated governor. After all, he had great prestige, and he also had 3,000 patrol troops serving as his bodyguards. As a result, the businessmen knelt in front of Erfeng and appealed to him. Please maintain law and order.
At first, Zhao Erfeng was afraid of being suspected and was unable to intervene. The gentry and the people insisted on asking, and he felt extremely sad. He also heard that the army was causing trouble, and if he didn't act quickly, he didn't know how far the situation would develop.
Therefore, Zhao Erfeng issued a notice, requiring all rebels to return to camp immediately and forget the blame, otherwise they would be subject to military law. The notice was signed "Retired Governor of Sichuan, now Minister of Sichuan and Yunnan Border Affairs". There was no seal, only a red ink stroke. A word "print".
On the night of the mutiny, the three groups in Chengdu, the Tongmenhui, the leaders of the road protection movement and the garrison officers, held three meetings to discuss how their gangs should gain more benefits from the aftermath.
The next day, all the factions met in the court hall in the imperial city. Yin Changheng, the strongest and thickest man, was elected as the governor, while Luo Lun, the deputy chairman of the Sichuan Consultative Bureau and the boss of the Ge Laohui, served as the deputy governor. Dong Xiuwu of the Tongmenghui was elected as the deputy governor. Served as General Manager of the General Political Department and Minister of Finance.
Zhao Erfeng's announcement at the critical moment brought him great trouble. Some rumors with ulterior motives said that he instigated the mutiny behind the scenes in order to restore him to office.
In response to this, an angry Zhao Erfeng wrote an article "Defending False Accusations" to defend himself: "When I have the power in my hands, there is nothing I can't do. Instead of destroying it later, I would rather not give it up first."
The Communist Party decided to deal with Zhao Erfeng, the biggest threat to them in Chengdu!
The biggest reason for Zhao Erfeng's execution was that he incited the mutiny on December 8. But all the evidence could not show that Zhao Erfeng was trying to regain the power he had given away. On the contrary, the evidence almost all pointed to those who accused him, tried him, and The people who executed him.
The two people most likely to launch a rebellion, the 27-year-old young officer Yin Changheng, and the 34-year-old Luo Lun, the deputy chairman of the Sichuan Consultative Council and the leader of the Ge Laohui, sat on the thrones of the governor and deputy governor as they wished. However, the one who was the governor-general Zhao Erfeng, who was armed and reclusive in the high walls of the mansion, made them feel a huge threat. Moreover, they really needed to do one thing. In this era when the soft are afraid of the hard, the hard are afraid of risking their lives, and the desperate are afraid of cheating. , come and establish authority for yourself!
The border guards who were still loyal to the Qing Dynasty, led by Fu Huafeng, the Sichuan and Yunnan Border Minister, were marching towards Chengdu. Some people accused Zhao Erfeng of secretly ordering this old subordinate to return to Chengdu.
When the Shu military government in Chongqing returned to the capital, Deputy Governor Xia Zhi also led his troops to march westward, coveting the sacred land of Chengdu. Both the Governor and Deputy Governor who had not yet taken their seats felt a great threat. These days, everyone He may be overthrown at any time and slapped with an easy-to-find crime. What a usurper fears most is the same kind of usurper.
They were determined to use Zhao Erfeng's head to make themselves more stable. However, Zhao Erfeng's still ubiquitous strength and influence made them afraid to use force directly.
So Yin Changheng went to see Zhao Erfeng alone, in the name of a junior asking for advice from his elders. The humble junior consulted many administrative issues, and then came back and said: "There are so many guards around the commander, which will cause unnecessary doubts in others." He Lenovo, it is better to hand over these 3,000 people to the military government to take over the government, and then order them to stay in place to protect the commander in the name of the military government, so that the rumors can be put to an end."
Zhao Erfeng, who had experienced countless storms, actually believed it, or rather didn't care, and wrote an order in handwriting, handing over the command of the 3,000 guards.
This move that the plotters felt proud of also proved that their accusations against Zhao Erfeng of plotting for a shady restoration were nothing more than "**'s" tactics and lies.
The guards were transferred out of the Governor's Mansion and assembled in Nanyuan of Chengdu. They drank from large bowls and ate large pieces of meat. They had no idea that another army had surrounded them and brought them within the range of the cannon. If they dared to fulfill their duties loyally, they would will be completely destroyed.
Another unit quietly surrounded the Governor's Mansion in the early morning. Battalion Commander Tao Zekun was appointed as the captain of the death squad, responsible for the key operation to capture Zhao. His reward would be a position as regimental commander, and an unexpected piece of history. Leave your name.
Yin Changheng personally took charge of the cover. He entered through the main entrance and persuaded the remaining guards to put down their weapons. Tao Zekun climbed into the inner courtyard from the back wall and rushed into Zhao Erfeng's bedroom. Yin Changheng told the old commander that for his safety, it was better to go to the Military and Political Return Center together. Go to the house.
Four soldiers swarmed up, picked up the old commander, and dragged him back to the military government's headquarters.
This is the method of outsmarting Zhao Erfeng that is talked about by the "terrorists".
During the whole process, Tao Zekun only hacked to death one guard who tried to resist. Some unofficial historians said that it was just a serving girl.
After Yin Changheng completed this operation, he said that he was completely "forced" to kill the old chief. The people who forced him back were not only members of the Tongmenghui, the "Comrade Army", but also "gentlemen" like Pu Dianjun. Comrade The reason why the army wanted to kill Zhao Erfeng was because they felt that this rebellion had failed.
"It's my original intention to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, and it's my original intention to defeat the Zhao Dynasty. I won't be rewarded for my first achievement, but I will be rewarded for my original intention. How can I stop it?"
Pu Dianjun and others forced Yin Changheng back because they themselves were "forced back" by the "scholars and the people": "If we don't kill Zhao Erfeng, the army and the people will be useless!"
Yin Changheng was "helpless" and delayed for a few days. When he couldn't wait any longer, he took action.
In this defense that is full of loopholes, it can at least be seen that the young man who ordered Zhao Erfeng's head to be chopped off did not really believe that the old man deserved to be killed.
Faced with the sudden intrusion of soldiers, Zhao Erfeng was very calm. He walked down the steps and asked Yin Changheng: "Can we live together?"
Yin Changheng sighed and said: "Since this is not my intention, I should speak to all the gentlemen."
However, everyone's opinion is: "Erfeng massacred the Sichuan people. Hundreds of thousands of Sichuan people died in the war, and millions died in the chaos. Is this husband's flesh enough for him to eat?"
Zhao Erfeng finally became the biggest scapegoat for this disaster!
In fact, when it comes to personal friendship, Zhao Erfeng and his brother, the former governor of Sichuan, Zhao Erxun, can be regarded as Yin Changheng's benefactors in his career.
After Yin Changheng returned from studying in Japan, he first served as a military academy instructor in Guangxi, but was expelled for being too aggressive.
Zhao Erxun was more eclectic and appointed him as the director of the translation section of the Sichuan Supervisory Training Office and the instructor of the Sichuan Lecture Hall. In 1910, at the founding ceremony of the 17th Town of the New Army, he actually refuted Zhao on the spot who came to deliver a congratulatory speech. However, Zhao Erxun thought that he was a talent and valued him very much. Yin Changheng became a spiritual figure in the New Army from then on.
When Zhao Erxun left office, he recommended his successor as governor, his brother Zhao Erfeng. After Zhao Erfeng took office, he immediately appointed Yin Changheng as the acting general manager of the Army Primary School, which provided an important step for Yin Changheng's development in the new army. 's base.
He never thought that he would die in the hands of this young officer whom he trained so hard and trusted so much.
Although Yin Changheng was young, his methods were extremely sophisticated. He relied on the power of Sichuan military officers and cooperated with the frustrated Deputy Speaker Luo Lun of the Advisory Bureau. One used the power of the military and the other used the power of the underworld, and finally succeeded in driving away Pu Dian Jun and Zhu Qinglan seized political power. Zhao Erfeng's head also became a step for them to consolidate their power and establish their power.
Zhao Erfeng's head was hung on a long pole and paraded through the streets of Chengdu. This was not so much a liquidation of the "anti-revolutionary old bureaucracy" as a warning to all potential enemies of the New Deal's return to power. Such enemies are often their internal comrades and brothers who may compete with them!
Therefore, this is the most important reason why Wang Hengyue is determined not to stay in Chengdu and to cooperate with this "rebellion party".
If you cooperate with these people, God knows one day, your head will be hung on the tower like Zhao Erfeng!@.