It was soon May 15, 1911, and Li Tiancheng was holding a declaration in his hand. The headline on the front page was published: On May 14, a rally of 10,000 people occurred in Changsha, Hunan.

"The road protection movement is finally about to begin, and my opportunity is here!" Of course, Li Tiancheng would not be unaware of the famous road protection movement in history. He has been waiting for this day for a long time, and his next big move has begun to be brewed in his heart.

The road protection movement was the patriotic movement of the Sichuan people in the late Qing Dynasty and an important fuse of the Xinhai Revolution. In the early 20th century, in order to resist imperialism, the Sichuan people plundered China's railway sovereignty, and were first initiated by students studying in Japan in Sichuan Province. At the request of the Sichuan Governor Xi Liang, the "Chuan-Han Railway Company" was established in Chengdu in 1904. The second year was changed to joint office of officials and businessmen, and in 1907 it was changed to commercial offices.

In May 1911, the Qing government announced the "state-owned policy of railway trunk lines" and forced the Sichuan-Hanzhou Railway to be "state-owned". It also concluded a loan contract with the bank group of the United States, Britain, France and Germany, with a total amount of 6 million pounds, and publicly sold the construction rights of the Sichuan-Hanzhou Railway and the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway. The news reached Sichuan, and the Sichuan people were extremely indignant.

On June 17, more than 2,000 people from various groups in Chengdu held a meeting at the railway company to establish the "Sichuan Road Protection Comrades Association", elected constitutionalists Pu Dianjun and Luo Lun as the chief and vice presidents, put forward the purpose of "breaking the agreement and protecting the road", issued the "Declaration on the Road Protection Comrades Association" and published the "Sichuan Road Protection Comrades Association Report", posted everywhere to promote the road protection. Members also sent to give speeches in separate routes, and representatives went to Beijing to petition. The news responded in all parts of Sichuan. Sichuan Women's Road Protection Comrades Association, Chongqing Road Protection Comrades Association and various prefectures, counties, towns, streets, and groups, with hundreds of thousands of members.

The road protection movement quickly developed into an armed struggle. Sichuan was in chaos, and various places were invaded to fight against the Qing government. The Qing government quickly sent Hubei's new army into Sichuan to suppress the rebellion, which directly led to the emptiness of the Wuchang city in Hubei, and the world-famous Wuchang Uprising broke out. Since then, the revolutionary fires spread across the country, and provinces have declared independence from the Qing government, and the Republic of China was born.

This excellent historical opportunity has long been within Li Tiancheng's calculations. He has secretly accumulated strength in recent years. In order to wait for this day to come, he is still planning to find some opportunity to surface and step onto the stage of history.

According to Li Tiancheng's plan, when the road protection movement reaches its climax and several provinces such as Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, and Guangdong quickly enter into chaos, he can do something in the East China region. At that time, the power of the Qing court will inevitably be dispersed and cannot take into account both the world. It will be easier to achieve the goal of controlling East China by himself and establishing himself on one side.

Because Li Tiancheng has no absolute control over the local area, the industrial development and education expansion in recent years have been greatly restricted by local governments. Not long ago, he received a policy document from Songjiang Prefecture, saying that after New Year's Day in 1912, he would no longer approve him to continue investing in and running factories. All technical research results of Zhenhua Technical School in the future will only be used for official enterprises, and he can only withdraw a small amount of "technical subsidies" from the technical achievements.

The Qing government had already felt that Li Tiancheng's strength grew too fast, and they would never allow local forces like him to expand without restrictions until they overwhelmed the powerful princes and nobles in the capital. Therefore, the emergence of this policy also reflects their intention to suppress private enterprises.

Li Tiancheng estimated that the Qing government would likely attract the attention of Zhenhua Technical School in the future, give him a public-private joint operation, or directly use funds to nationalize it, so he must prepare in advance.

Zhenhua Technical School can only maintain the scale of 6,000 students and cannot continue to expand. Every year, only about 1,000 students graduate and enrich themselves in all walks of life and R&D centers. Such speed simply cannot meet its goal of building a strong country in education and science and technology. As the year of Xinhai, this goal has hope of gradually realizing it.

"Report!" Li Tiancheng was thinking carefully about the next work he had to do in the office. At this time, a crisp sound sounded at the door, interrupting his thoughts.

"Please come in!" Li Tiancheng immediately raised his head and shouted to the door.

Then the door was gently pushed open, and then a young man in his early twenties came in. He was about the same age as Li Tiancheng, with a round face, sharp eyes, short and concise appearance, wearing a long light blue jacket and a pair of brown glasses, which was quite scholarly.

"Ye Wuyan, you are here, sit down!" Li Tianzhen immediately recognized the person. It was Ye Wuyan, a student who graduated from the military intelligence group of Zhenhua Technical School. He immediately called him to sit on the chair next to him. He had asked someone to notify Ye Wuyan to come over and talk.

Ye Wuyan is from Jinhua, Zhejiang, and is a peasant student who entered the first phase of Zhenhua. He graduated with excellent grades two years ago. After graduation, he was sent to Beijing by Li Tiancheng and lurked as a newspaper reporter. He is actually the leader of the intelligence collector. He is responsible for collecting information from various factions of the Beijing authorities in order to promptly grasp the various policies, policies, political trends, finance, military and other information within the Qing government, especially major information such as military mobilization, which is the focus of his collection.

Ye Wuyan is the leader of the Beijing intelligence team. Li Tiancheng has installed seven or eight people in Beijing. They have different identities, including government staff, factory owners, overseas Chinese and other worker natures. They use their positions as cover to contact various officials and forces in the capital, and some have penetrated into them and become staff members around them in order to obtain intelligence, use wireless password transmitters, letters, oral transmissions, and other means to send information back to the Shanghai headquarters.

"Wu Yan, do you know what I asked you to come this time?" Li Tiancheng asked someone to make a cup of tea for Ye Wu Yan, and then looked at him and asked.

"The principal asked me to come. There must be some important task. Please give me instructions. Ye Wuyan will do his best to complete the mission!" Ye Wuyan certainly knew that Li Tiancheng was not as simple as inviting him to have tea, so he immediately performed a military courtesy and said righteously.

"Well, your intelligence work is done well. This time, the Qing government has nationalized the railway. Before you get the exact information from each province, you quickly sent the information back to the headquarters. It shows that you have not done anything in Beijing in the past two years." Li Tiancheng began to praise Ye Wuyan for his effective work.

"I'm calling you this time. First, I want to give you an important position. Now that the road protection movement that caused a sensation across the country has broken out, the domestic situation will gradually become turbulent and unstable. At this time, intelligence work is the top priority. I have learned that your work ability is still very outstanding. I decided to promote you to the Minister of Intelligence and take over the position of Intelligence Minister who is the Chief of Staff Yan Lisan. Are you confident of taking on this important task?" Li Tiancheng then said solemnly.

"As long as the principal trusts me, Ye Wuyan, Ye Wuyan will work harder and achieve better results in his new position." Ye Wuyan felt a little excited when he heard this. His work in the past two years has finally been recognized by Li Tiancheng. Facing Li Tiancheng, who is about the same age as him, he still couldn't hide his excitement.

"That's good. Next, we will set up intelligence branch departments in Nanjing, Wuhan, Guangzhou and other places. If you go on and arrange these tasks, select suitable candidates from the students who graduate later, and enrich them into your team. You must continue to develop the work of cultivating local people as intelligence personnel in various places. In the future, our intelligence work will not only be carried out at home, but also invade the territory of foreign countries. For example, the Western powers such as Japan, Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union, which have been coveting our country for a long time, have a heavy responsibility for intelligence work and must not be slackened. You must seize the time, expand your manpower, and gradually do your work." Li Tiancheng then continued to give instructions.

"Yes! Don't worry, the principal, the students will definitely not let the principal down." Ye Wuyan immediately expressed his opinion.

"Don't call me the principal in the future. Actually, I have never taught you anything. We are about the same age and call the principal seem to be apart. Yan Lisan doesn't call me that now. Usually, they always call me like old Li and old Li." Li Tiancheng then looked a little relaxed and said in a calm tone.

"Then I will call you Mr. Li or Chairman Li from now on. This title should be more appropriate." Ye Wuyan said with a chuckling when he heard this.

"Okay, that's it!"

The two then continued to discuss some details of the intelligence work arrangements, the arrangements of the heads of the intelligence departments in various places, the recruitment and training of intelligence personnel, and activity funds.

At the northern end of the southeastern city of Puxi, there are the public concessions of Britain and the United States in China, located north of Pidgin and north of Yan'an East Road in later generations, covering an area of ​​about 2,800 acres. It is the residence of merchants, missionaries, ordinary civilians, officials at all levels, etc. in Britain and the United States.

In the United Kingdom and the United States, which have concessions in China, they have autonomy, consular jurisdiction, independent administrative and judicial institutions, police and soldiers with police stations, which are actually a country in the country. Foreigners who violate the law must be tried by the courts in the concessions, and the Qing government cannot be responsible for the investigation and trial. The Qing government is not responsible for the protection of the concessions.

This is the mark of China's modern humiliation history and the historical evidence of the powerful forcing the oppression of the Chinese people.

On this day, at an exit south of the British and American Concession, an iron gatekeeper was isolated from the outside world. On both sides of the door, about four or five meters wide, two soldiers in American military uniforms were standing guard with Carbines rifles. Outside the gate of the concession was a street about five or six meters wide. There were shops on both sides of the street, and there were endless streams of pedestrians doing business and passing by. Rickshaws were passing through the market, with endless hawking sounds and bustling around.

At this time, many people gathered at the gate of the concession, surrounding the door, and it seemed that something had happened.
Chapter completed!