"The Presidential Office received a telegram. The Governor Zhao Bingjun died at 8 o'clock earlier. According to Reuters yesterday, it was said that Zhao Bingjun fell ill on the night before and died the afternoon of the next day... Zhao Bingjun is known as a capable official in China's political situation. When he was the prime minister at the beginning of last year, he was quite capable of responding internally and externally to the Song case. The so-called capable official was temporarily embarrassed by his capable official and was embarrassed by others... Li Shigui and Zhang Jiabao, who were extremely strict in the control of theft in Guangzhou, were both poisoned and died recently. The poison was colorless and tasteless, and it occurred within 24 hours. Therefore, I believe that Zhao also died of this poisonous cloud."

On February 14, 1914, on the day of Western Valentine's Day, the headlines of major newspapers in the Republic of China were all replaced. At the end of last year, Yuan Shikai was dismissed from the position of governor of Zhili and transferred back to Beijing to serve as the consultant of the State Affairs General. Zhao Bingjun suddenly died of illness two days ago when he was seriously ill and died at home. Ying Guixin died. There was a lot of suspicion in domestic newspapers.

Zhao Bingjun was born in a humble origin. In his early years, he defected to Zuo Zongtang's subordinates and Li Hongzhang's subordinates. Later, he was appreciated by Yuan Shikai for his "talented and carefulness". He started as a police officer and his position was gradually promoted to the Qing government successively awarded his patrol department, his minister of the Civil Affairs Department, and his minister of the Civil Affairs Department of Yuan Shikai's cabinet. After the founding of the Republic of China, he served as the chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. After the death of the Prime Minister of the State, Yuan Shikai issued an order on the same day: "The General of the State Affairs of the Presidential Office consulted the General of the Army, Zhao Bingjun, with a deep understanding of his knowledge, his principles of great integrity, and his loyalty to serve in his affairs... The merits are in our country... Following the general of the Army, he was kind to give preferential treatment and sent Yinchang to pay 10,000 yuan to pay a mourning expense to show his sincere wishes to honor the heroes."

China is an extremely strange country. Even when facing enemies and their opponents who destroyed themselves, they will forget their past mistakes as long as they die, and even praise them. Zhang Shizhao, a revolutionary party exiled overseas, said in a "Zhao Zhi'an" that "the imperial edict of the 1911 abdication was released as scheduled, and they all rely on the secret route of Zhi'an. Yuan Xiangcheng enjoyed his achievements at that time. At that time, the grassroots cadres in Beiyang all recognized the success of the republic. Zhi'an had no great achievements. The first cabinet prime minister was the only one." Although he was seeking credit for Zhao Bingjun, he actually secretly scolded Yuan Shikai for taking away his achievements. At the same time, the article alluded to Yuan Shikai for poisoning and killing Zhao Bingjun.

Faced with overwhelming accusations, Yuan Shikai ordered the release of Zhao Bingjun's medical information. Several Western doctors who accompanied him in the last period of his statement appeared, proving that he died of heart failure caused by sudden respiratory failure, not caused by poisoning. Then Yuan Shikai not only arranged for Army General Yinchang, but also sent his son Yuan Kewen to the Zhao Mansion twice to pay tribute to him. During the burial, he also appointed his son Yuan Kewen to go to the funeral and to lament that his arm was broken. The military and political officials who went to the Zhao family to pay tribute with him sent more than 1,000 elegiac couplets, which was extremely mourning and honorable. Yuan Shikai's elegiac couplet was: Bishi pursued Gao Yi in a vigorous manner, Kuang Xia Shuxun and Mao managed Xiao, and expressed his condemnation that the people who didn't know really thought he had nothing to do with this matter.

In this forgetful country, people die as if they are extinguished. With the former Prime Minister of State buried, the people quickly forgot about this incident, because in this country where the atmosphere of the New Year has just dissipated, the situation in the north and south suddenly became tense again, and the cause was...Zhejiang

Zhejiang is located on the southeastern coast of China, the southern wing of the Yangtze River Delta, the East China Sea in the east, Fujian in the south, Anhui in the west, Jiangxi in the west, Shanghai in the north, and Jiangsu in the north, but its strategic location is very important due to its special geography.

Since the Opium War, the southeast coast has been the first place to face the collision of Eastern and Western cultures. Therefore, it has not only contributed heavy taxes to the governments of all ages, but also gathered many pioneers who opened their eyes to the world. It has always been the place that members of the Restoration of the Members of the People's Republic of China valued the most.

Two years ago, the Wuchang Uprising broke out, Hunan first responded to the **, and then Shaanxi, Shanxi, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other people. Zhejiang party members announced the uprising under the leadership of Tong Baoxuan and other members of the Restoration Association, turning Zhejiang into one of the foundation provinces of the revolutionary party. However, Tong Baoxuan, the interim commander of the uprising at that time, was worried that outsiders would think that he was greedy for fame, so after the success of the Zhejiang Revolution, he voluntarily gave up the title of governor of Zhejiang. First, he entrusted the military power to Zhu Rui, Lu Gongwang, and Ye Songqing, and then gave up the position of governor to Tang Shouqian, but did not take the opportunity to capture Shanghai, take over the Jiangnan Manufacturing Administration and Shanghai Finance, etc. These were all problems left by the revolutionaries at that time because of their political naive nature.

After the Revolution of 1911, Zhu Rui, who was originally from the Restoration Association, was very good at being scheming. He secretly swore allegiance to Yuan Shikai when most of the senior leaders of the Restoration Association were inconvenient to compete for the title of Zhejiang Governor for a false reputation. After nodding, he, the interim president who was eager to divide the revolutionary party, he privately used him as a fellow villager with Ye Songqing and Tong Baoxuan. At the same time, another soldier in Zhejiang Province, Lu Gongwang, was dissatisfied with the governor of Zhejiang by Tong Baoxuan during the uprising. After several struggles, he finally got what he wanted and successfully ascended the highest throne of power in Zhejiang and became the governor of Zhejiang.

It is said that Zhejiang has not been calm since the revolution. There are three divisions in Zhejiang Province. Zhu Rui personally led the Third Division of the Zhejiang Army. In order to win over his fellow villagers, Ye Songqing was appointed as the commander of the 1st Division. In order to win over Lu Gongwang, he appointed him as the commander of the 6th Division and also led the commander of the Jiahu garrison. Instead, the former governor Tong Baoxuan was suppressed by him. He used the excuse to first transfer him to the commander of the 1st Division, and then transferred him to the commander of the 12th Brigade, which was not opposite to him.

Lu Gongwang and others were all from the Resurrection Association, because the Taoist sect and the Tongmenghui were closely related to the Kuomintang. On the contrary, although Tong Baoxuan was also from the Resurrection Association, he was very close to the Kuomintang. If Zhang Taiyan had not recruited him personally, he would have led a group of followers to join the Kuomintang, rather than Liang Qi's Democratic Party that merged several times.

Last July, the Kuomintang raised the banner of "anti-Yuan", and Tong Baoxuan kept running around Zhejiang Province, instigating a group of generals to rise up and cooperate with neighboring provinces such as Jiangsu, Jiangxi, and Anhui to attack Yuan, but because Zhu Rui defected to Yuan, Lu Gongwang did not like the style of the Kuomintang and was hostile to Chen Qimei, and many generals in the army were unwilling to confront the central government. In addition, the Kuomintang only persisted for half a month and had a hierarchy near Shanghai, and then collapsed one after another. As a result, Tong Baoxuan's actions in Zhejiang were completely failed.

On the evening of February 11, due to dissatisfaction with Yuan Shikai's closure of the parliament, he drove the members of the MPs of various provinces back home. At the same time, he ordered the provinces to close the parliament. Tong Baoxuan and the young military officer Xia and others drank some wine and mentioned this matter. They were angry. They felt that the country would not exist and hated that they could not defend the national body in the war against Yuan last year. Xia and others encouraged Tong Baoxuan to gather together and shout, and called him the Grand Commander-in-chief, saying that they were the leader of their horses and followed Tong Baoxuan and remembered that he had been suppressed everywhere in Zhejiang for two years. He was also depressed. Although he scolded several people at that time, he did not return to his house. Instead, he went straight to Zhu Rui's general's mansion that was rebuilt from the former Zhejiang Governor's Office.

Tong Baoxuan is also a proud person, but he thought that Zhu Rui was Zhu Rui two years ago, and he was still Tong Baoxuan who could point fingers at Zhu Rui and others two years ago, so he went to Zhu Rui's mansion to attack him with the help of alcohol and criticize him. Although Zhu Rui's face turned gloomy and sent him away, the young man was furious in the mansion. Even his beloved concubine Na was slapped by him. It can be seen that Zhu Rui was angry the next day, so he ordered someone to invite his confidant and instructed him to inquire about Tong Baoxuan's plot to rebel, in order to get the evidence and then defeat the old opponent in one fell swoop after obtaining the evidence.

Although Zhu Rui did a lot of his confidants, many of his confidants were from the Restoration Association. The news that he wanted to attack Tong Baoxuan soon reached Ye Songqing's ears. Ye Songqing, whose courtesy name was Zibu, was once the 84th Army's garrison. Zhenhai was one of the main merits of the Zhejiang uprising. Ye Songqing's temperament was quite repetitive. It's not that he was not good at being a human being. But after the founding of the Republic of China, he was like the revolutionary party who came from most military-borne revolutionaries. He believed that since the Republic of China was established, when he served the government, he completely betrayed the revolution in Zhejiang Province and fought with Tong Baoxuan, who was determined to revolution, he was both not willing to help comrades who did not help the past, nor did he help his friend Zhu Rui.

However, since Li Han had learned from him that Zhejiang would change, how could he sit and watch Zhu Rui stifled the revolution in the fire and waited on the sidelines? No matter what, he had been coveting Zhejiang for a long time. He had been waiting for this opportunity. He didn't know how long he had been waiting for this opportunity. The Investigation Bureau learned from Ye Songqing that Zhu Rui was going to deal with Tong Baoxuan and others. Li Han immediately ordered people to contact him. After a series of coercion and inducement, Ye Songqing finally convinced him. He secretly obeyed his command and secretly sent someone to send troops to capture Tong Baoxuan and his followers. He told him that he was told that Zhu Rui was going to send troops to capture Tong Baoxuan and his followers.

Tong Baoxuan was shocked when he heard the news. It happened that Li Liejun and Chen Qimei also arrived in Hangzhou at this time. It was because he was dissatisfied with the "Chinese Revolutionary Party" established by Sun Wen in Japan that all party members must be criticized and make a vow to absolutely obey the Prime Minister. Li Liejun and many revolutionaries refused to join the organization. He left Japan in January 1914. He was originally going to Nanyang to meet Huang Xing and went to Europe to inspect the political situation of various countries. Only others boarded the ferry to Shanghai. As a result, he met Chen Qimei who secretly sneaked back to China on the boat. At his instigation, Li Liejun finally agreed not to rush to Europe and should stay in the Shanghai Concession for a while in order to contact domestic comrades and inquire about information about Jiangxi.

In Shanghai, Li Liejun was already discouraged because most of his old subordinates in Jiangxi were purged by Li Han, but afterwards, he learned that Yuan Shikai closed the parliament and opened his repatriation to all the members of the parliament. He was furious and accepted Chen Qimei's proposal. He avoided Feng Guozhang's heavy troops and should go to Hangzhou to recruit comrades, and take up the anti-Yuan banner. Li Liejun and others were worried that they could not convince Tong Baoxuan to give up Zhu Rui and resolutely raise their troops. After receiving Ye Songqing's secret notice, Tong Baoxuan finally made up his mind and recruited his old subordinates and was unable to expel Zhu Rui and seize Zhejiang.

Tong Baoxuan was the same age as Li Han. He entered a private school at the age of seven, Gongtaiyuan at the age of sixteen, and a year after entering Zhejiang Martial Arts and Lecture Academy at the age of twenty, he was elected to the Baoding Army Cheng Academy. After graduating from the First Artillery Department, he resigned from the title of acting governor. Although he only retained the title of General Staff Officer, he also served as the head of the Martial Arts and Lecture Academy. The principal of the Army Primary School was appointed as the director of the Army Tutorial Office at the end of last year. The brigade commander of the 12th Brigade had a great influence in the army, and Ruxia and others were all his loyal friends.

After discovering that Zhu Rui had indeed sent troops to surround his residence, Tong Baoxuan launched a mutiny on the evening of February 15, 1914. Taking advantage of Zhu Rui's failure to investigate the troops and surround the general's office, he forcibly expelled Zhu Rui on the pretext that Zhu Rui had lost virtue and Yuru Township, etc., and sent a team of soldiers to drive him and his family out of Zhejiang and Shanghai. After urging the telephone to obey the will of the people, he announced the election of Zhejiang Civil Affairs Chief Qu Yingguang as the governor of Zhejiang.
Chapter completed!