The next step of consultation between the two sides is to focus on whether to go south or north after the uprising is successful. The specific details have not been reached. At present, both sides have focused on how to advance Hangzhou City.

Hangzhou is the location of the Zhejiang Governor's Office, the provincial capital of Zhejiang Province, and the richest area in Zhejiang. Both industry and commerce are very developed. As long as Hangzhou is occupied, the Qing soldiers in other parts of Zhejiang may tend to revive the Kuomintang army and the Hangzhou New Army. In fact, this kind of uprising occurred in the history of the 1911 year, and various places responded.

In addition to the principles mentioned above, the alliance agreement reached by the Zhenguo Army and the Hangzhou New Army will also be renamed as the Chinese Revolutionary Army after the uprising in Hangzhou and form the Chinese Alliance Army with the Zhenguo Army. After consultation, the two sides decided to send negotiators to Jiaxing City and first persuade the defender Chen Yishan to surrender, hoping that Chen Yishan could understand the current affairs, and announce the uprising with the new army and join the Alliance Army.

If Chen Yishan agreed to the Alliance Army's request for surrender, the situation would be more conducive to the Alliance Army's capturing the entire province of Zhejiang. If Chen Yishan refused to turn against him, the Alliance Army would also have a backup plan to choose. The Alliance Army would leave Ma Chaoyun's two regiments to restrain the 5,000 old Qing soldiers of Chen Yishan, so that they could not withdraw from the south to participate in the war when the New Army and the Zhenguo Army sent an attack to Hangzhou. In this way, the Qing soldiers had to draw new forces from the troops stationed in Ningbo and Shaoxing to support Hangzhou. However, the revolutionaries of the Tongmenghui would carry out ideological work in the new army of Ningbo and Shaoxing. It is estimated that some new army officers would express their willingness to participate in the uprising. In this way, the new army in various parts of Zhejiang might be disobedient after receiving the orders mobilized by the Qing government, and the Alliance Army was still relatively sure of occupying Hangzhou.

Considering that if Chen Yishan refused to cooperate with the uprising, he would instead inform the Zhejiang Governor Zeng Yun of the new army's preparation for the uprising, the negotiators of the Alliance Army entered the city in the name of Zhenguo Army. On the surface, they unilaterally sent people to negotiate with Chen Yishan, the commander of the Jiaxing defender, and would not explain to Chen Yishan the fact that the Hangzhou New Army had reached an agreement with Zhenguo Army. If Chen Yishan agreed to join forces with Zhenguo Army, the new army would be allowed to join the negotiations.

However, the subsequent negotiations did not achieve satisfactory results. At the negotiating table, Chen Yishan not only did not accept the advice of Zhenguo Army to surrender, but instead stated that he would definitely support the Qing court. However, those who know Chen Yishan knew that this person was a person with a quarrel. He did not care who was his subordinate, but who was stronger and who could guarantee his safety would accept his leadership. Chen Yishan had the same view as many people. He believed that Li Tiancheng was just a person destined to be a flash in the pan. Next, after the Qing government quelled the riots in Sichuan, Hunan, Guangdong and other places, he would inevitably send heavy troops to encircle and suppress the Zhenguo Army. At that time, Li Tiancheng, a young boy, would definitely not be able to withstand the north-south attacks of the powerful Qing soldiers and would be ruthlessly suppressed.

Based on his judgment of the current situation, Chen Yishan came to a more reliable conclusion from the Qing government, so he flatly rejected the proposal of the negotiator. However, Chen Yishan did not make things difficult for these enemy troops to come to negotiate. Instead, he treated them warmly and stated that as long as the Zhenguo army did not take the initiative to attack the city, Chen Yishan's patrol team would never take the initiative to provoke. This was exactly how he dealt with people and would not offend anyone. After Zhenguo army headed south, Chen Yishan did not fire a shot and shot. He did not have the intention to lead the army to fight to the death with the Zhenguo army, nor did he have the courage to do so. He just wanted to preserve his strength and status. Everything else was secondary in his eyes.

This character of both the head and the rat is quite similar to that of Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai once betrayed Emperor Guangxu and gained the trust of Cixi, promoted and made money. Later, he betrayed the Qing court and seized the results of the Xinhai Revolution, which showed that everything he did was just to gain fame and benefit for himself. This selfish nature and forgetfulness of public welfare for personal gain is a good way to survive for individuals, but for the country and nation, it is a huge disaster. In modern Chinese history, a large number of lackeys and traitors were harmed by human excessive selfishness and greed.

There was no result achieved at the negotiation table, so they had to fight for it through the battlefield. The Alliance Army soon had to choose the second plan and decided to leave the 4,000 Zhenguo Army troops to remain in place and restrain Chenyi Mountain. The 4,000 two regiments of the Zhenguo Army and the 3,000 six battalions of the Xinjun marched towards Hangzhou at the same time, and the troops were divided into two groups. The 3,000 New Army troops would enter the city from Lanqiao in northeastern Hangzhou, and the Zhenguo Army was preparing to enter the city from northwest Hangzhou. The targets of both sides directly targeted the location of the Zhejiang Governor's Office located in the city. The soldiers of the patrol team in the city would mainly persuade the surrender, and the hostile elements who were fighting stubbornly would resolutely attack them.

The Lanqiao and Meigaoqiao areas in Hangzhou City were originally the defense areas of the new army, and the original garrison of the 3,000 New Army preparing for the uprising was no longer defended. The Alliance Army only needed to deal with the old army of several battalions in the city and the Governor's Yamen Guards. If they did not receive timely support, it would be difficult to compete with the more than 7,000 Alliance Army going south. However, the battlefield situation was unpredictable, and the Alliance Army did not dare to neglect them. They were mentally prepared for all possible situations.

It was soon September 18, 1911. The weather was clear and slightly dry. At this time, there were only more than twenty days left before the Wuchang Uprising.

In Lin'an County, forty kilometers west of Hangzhou, everything seemed very calm. People came and went in the streets and alleys, and a fleet of five or six carriages transporting cloth entered the city and slowly drove towards the market near the Lin'an County Government. Most of these people were dressed as civilians. However, after entering the city, they did not rush to transport the cloth to the market, but walked around in Hangzhou. They did not seem to be in a hurry to do business at all. Instead, their eyes looked around from time to time, especially the streets and alleys near the Lin'an County Government Government, and they paid close attention to the detailed locations of the various entrances and exits of the county government Government.

At the same time, in Qingshan Town, a few kilometers east of Lin'an City, three yamen runners sent by the county government were walking around the town. They were sent by the county to supervise local tax revenue. When they arrived at a shop on Linshi Road, Qingshan Town, the three yamen runners encountered some trouble. They were dealing with the tax resistance incident of a local rice shop owner.

At this time, a large group of people gathered at the door of a shop called Tonghe Rice Shop. A middle-aged man with dark skin was standing at the door of the rice shop. The man was in his forties, short and thick, wearing a beige gown. He was the owner of this rice shop. Standing in front of him were the three yamen runners sent by the county yamen. The rice shop owner was arguing with a yamen runner in his early thirties. The two spoke louder and louder, gradually attracting the shop owners, friends, customers, and pedestrians who were doing business around him. The street was suddenly blocked and unpassable.

"The tax is getting heavier every year. I lost hundreds of taels of silver in my rice business this year, and my family is almost out of business. You have to force me to pay such heavy taxes. How can we, the merchants who operate small businesses, survive?" The rice shop owner was refuting loudly to the yamen runners in front of him, speaking very quickly and spitting everywhere.

"I don't care how you survive. In short, if you open this rice shop, you have to pay all the taxes and fees in full. None of them can be missed. Otherwise, we will arrest you today and take you back to the county magistrate to meet the magistrate. I believe you also know the serious consequences of the matter. Can you bear the crime of tax resistance? You will definitely be sentenced to prison and go to jail. You have to figure it out yourself. If you don't make up for the taxes today, don't blame me for being rude." The yamen runner in his early thirties was fierce, fat and big ears, and glared at him with two tall and strong young men wearing swords. Three days ago, the rice shop refused to pay taxes, so he was sent down to resolve such local disputes. However, when he saw that the rice shop owner still did not give in at all and continued to refuse to pay taxes, he was furious and pointed at the rice shop owner's nose and shouted.

"I can't afford this tax, and I don't plan to pay it anymore. Dear merchants, the tax is getting higher and higher every year. How do we live? Don't pay the tax this year. Everyone united and competed with the county government to the end, so that they would not let them, corrupt officials, borers continue to exploit our hard-earned money and suck our blood." The man was filled with righteous indignation, and his heart became more and more irritated. The blue veins on his forehead were bursting, and then he said angrily.

"Yes, we won't pay taxes in the future, let these corrupt officials go and drink the Northwest Wind!"

Someone immediately echoed in the crowd, and then several people stood up to protest. Finally, the store door gradually became more and more riots, and the crowd surrounding the neighborhood became thicker and thicker, and people on several nearby streets were attracted.

"You unlucky people dare to gather people to make trouble. If you want to rebel, who dares to come over? The knife in my hand is not eye-catching." The yamen runner in his early thirties saw another group of people around him and joined the ranks of tax protesters. He immediately pulled out the white machete hanging around his waist, and slashed the tip of the knife, shook at the rice shop owner in front of him and the rest of the people who made noise, and shouted loudly.
Chapter completed!