Chapter 408 Strike to return to work, strike to return to school, strike to return to the market!
After Wang Hengyue issued a series of proclamations to the whole country, the Beiyang government finally couldn't sit still!
In particular, students and people from all over the country are even more encouraged.
Beijing students decided to launch a series of speech teams starting from June 30, and hold grand speeches on Tongqu Street. They were prepared to have the military and police arrest them. If all the students who gave speeches on the first day were arrested, then the students who gave speeches on the second day would be arrested.
Double the number of students will be used to give lectures on the streets every day. If they are all arrested on the second day, double the number will be doubled on the third day.
There are 25 students above the middle school in Beijing, and they unanimously decided to support this action. They all followed the example of Tian Heng's five hundred martyrs, united as one, and united tightly.
On June 30, Beijing students were divided into 5 groups to give speeches according to the scheduled plan. This caused a big surprise to the military and police authorities. Duan Zhigui hurriedly declared a strict lockdown, sent horse teams to cooperate with the military and police to disperse the speech students in different directions, and arrested the students.
178 people. The detention center of the Police Department could not accommodate them, so they had to be transferred to the Law Department of Peking University. The arrested students were not given food and food, and their relatives and friends were not allowed to visit. The military and police authorities also sent a large number of armed police to occupy Peking University, set up tents, and set up camps around it.
Cannons were set up in the area and pedestrians were prohibited from passing through.
As planned, the students continued to give speeches on the streets with doubled numbers of people on July 1. The military and police did not show any weakness and continued large-scale arrests. About 7 people were arrested that day. The Law Department of Peking University could not accommodate it, so it temporarily borrowed
Peking University Science Department serves as an extension of the temporary prison.
Not only did the students not evade arrest, but others who were not arrested voluntarily went to the temporary prison in Fako and demanded to be imprisoned. The military and police thought they were coming to rob the prison, so of course they prevented them from entering, so a fight broke out outside the door. Three students were killed.
was injured.
The Christian believers in Beijing witnessed the heroic behavior of the students, so they voluntarily stopped religious propaganda and joined the student parade to promote patriotic propaganda. In the history of China, female students have not paraded on the streets for propaganda, but now female students are also participating.
On July 2nd, more than 5,000 students set out with their baggage on their backs. Citizens along the way paid warm tributes. Countless citizens were inspired and took the initiative to join the procession. As a result, the students no longer gave speeches on the streets. They sang songs.
They chanted slogans and went straight to the Law Department of Peking University. At this time, the military police guarding the Law Department did not dare to take action against them, and the students who were detained in the Law Department climbed to the windows to look out. Then the Law Department echoed inside and outside, and the sound shook the streets. One after another, the military
The police looked at each other in disbelief.
At this most tense and moving time, the government suddenly ordered the withdrawal of the military and police from Peking University and released the detained students unconditionally. The military and police were ordered to withdraw immediately if an amnesty was forthcoming. However, the students detained at Peking University not only refused
After he was released from prison, he automatically organized gate guards to replace the withdrawn military police and detained himself. Some students caught seven policemen who were acting aggressively and seized their two tents. They used these things as government weapons to destroy them.
Education, evidence of the violation of human rights. They sent people to the police station to ask for food, and the police had to obediently send a batch of food to them.
On July 2, the students finally felt proud and proud. They openly stood in front of the police station and gave a loud speech in a place where our military and police were densely packed. The military and police were dumbfounded and did not dare to interfere.
On this day, the Beijing government appointed Fu Yue Cai as the Deputy Minister of Education to replace Yuan Xitao, who resigned and retired. Deputy Minister Fu was ordered to face the crisis. With a smile on his face, he assured the students that the Ministry of Education would be responsible for handling the student rebellion problem in the future.
The police won't ask any more questions.
On July 3, the Beijing government appointed Hu Renyuan as acting president of Peking University. Hu Renyuan did not dare to take office due to student opposition.
After the Beijing student rebellion expanded, it spread to Shanghai. Shanghai had the largest number of schools and its students were patriotic and unconventional. In order to support Beijing, they immediately convened a meeting and issued a declaration.
In order to cooperate with the students, the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce launched a strike. On July 3, various shops in the Nan City went on strike first. The merchants in the French Concession also closed their markets. The public concession followed, and the Yong'an and Xianshi companies in the British Concession also announced a strike.
In the afternoon, all shops in Shanghai were closed. Only students were distributing leaflets on the streets and police officers were patrolling the streets.
White flags were hung outside the shops and a letter was written:
"Everyone is united and calls with one voice to resist the traitors and awaken the government——
Shanghai is the largest city in the country, attracting attention both at home and abroad. Since Shanghai merchants launched the strike against the city, the wave of strikes spread from Shanghai to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and then to Tianjin, Anqing, Wuhu, Xiamen, Jiujiang, Jinan, Wuhan and other cities.
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After the merchants went on strike, the workers also went on strike.
First, workers from the Huashang Tramway in Shanghai Nanshi, followed by workers from the Commercial Press, Jinhua Cotton Mill, Xiang Pig Iron Factory, Shanghai-Nanjing Road, Shanghai-Hangzhou Road, and textile, metal, transportation, and municipal departments responded one after another. The number of strikers reached
As many as 60,000 to 70,000. Then the railway workers from Tangshan on Jingfeng Road, Changxindian on Jinghan Road and the dock workers of Yangtze River steamships all responded one after another!