Chapter 31 The Revolutionary Army Is Unreliable
In the area controlled by the Qing army, the power and reputation of the revolutionary party were severely hit!
There was a governor's yamen who even took down a few local officials who did not listen to greet him. With the strong cooperation of local governments, the only one who could buy and understand external things openly was the only newspaper "Anhui Times". Other newspapers were not recognized by the government, which was illegal. If they were caught privately spread, they had to be severely punished. Under the control of such monopoly operations by the government, other newspapers were hit hard for a while, and the Anhui Times became the largest newspaper in Anhui Province! [bsp; The Anhui Times
The issuance caused the Anhui Revolutionary Party to be violently attacked, and some people even showed their own opinions to provide sufficient evidence to point out that the revolutionary party, Sun Yat-sen, accused the revolutionary party of accepting political donations from the Easterners and being affected by the Japanese military subordinates, and the Black Dragon, which attempted to incite the revolution to subvert the Qing Dynasty, pave the way for the Easterners' ambitions to China, and contribute to the expansion of the Easterners' power. For a while, public opinion in the province was in full swing, and even had extremely bad influences in the Liangjiang area. Many revolutionary comrades angrily separated from the revolutionary organization, causing the revolutionary party to greatly reduce their prestige in the southern country.
Since the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, the Chinese people were completely disappointed with the Qing court. Since the huge amount of indemnity was mostly overwhelmed by ordinary people, the people were breathless. When they were angry, they hated the Eastern Japanese devils to the core. In Anhui Province, there was a patriotic incident in which Japanese merchants rode small steamer and hung the sun flag, arousing public anger. If they heard that the leader of the revolutionary party actually "worked" for the Eastern Japanese devils, who would have gritted their teeth? If Sun Yat-sen was not in the country at the moment, he would have been drowned by the angry people with water.
With the advice of fake foreign devils, Zhu Jiabao also made up his mind to touch the revolutionary party. In the temporary garrison of the Governor's yamen, Hefei and the front-line city of Wuhu, a large number of gangsters and hooligans walked on the streets in different clothes, holding up the banner of overthrowing the East Japanese devils and overthrowing the revolutionary party, and even set up a sit-in demonstration in the small square in front of the temporary Governor's yamen, asking the government to arrest the leaders of the traitorous revolutionary party.
The incident happened quickly throughout Anhui and even Liangjiang areas through the Anhui Times, which had an influence on the revolutionary party. Of course, the "spontaneous" protests by the Chinese people also attracted the high attention of foreign consuls of Anhui Province, especially the Eastern consuls. In addition to sending a stern warning to the governor's yamen, it also warned them to be careful in the East-West businessmen in Hui. "Japanese enterprises" in the province were notified that the store doors were closed these days and did not dare to provoke the angry Qing people.
The solemn protests of the Oriental Consul made the Anhui temporary governor's yamen nervous. Fortunately, the purpose of kidnapping the revolutionary party in the dark had been achieved, and Zhu Jiabao hurriedly stopped when he saw the news.
Regarding these people's "spontaneous" march and the behavior of destroying China-Japan friendly relations among the people, Zhu Jiabao ordered the patrol police in the two cities to "suppress". At the same time, he issued a condemnation statement in the Anhui Times, scolding the revolutionary party that "ignored" public opinion. Finally, he called on the people of the province to report and issue the "revolutionary party elements" hidden beside him, and suffocate them with heavy rewards to stimulate the greed of the people. I really don't believe in the guy who doesn't love money.
Sure enough, government offices in various places received many secret reports on the revolutionary party, but unfortunately they found out that they were all small characters later. Zhu Jiabao was very dissatisfied with this and secretly increased the rewards, hoping to catch a big fish in the revolutionary party!
The Qing army and the revolutionary army fought endlessly, and most of the money and food consumed was on the Anhui people. The extra money and food loss that was more than one day in the war had to be borne by the people. In addition, corrupt officials started to do it. Can you imagine the living conditions of the Anhui people who had just experienced a few years of natural disasters?
Now is the critical moment of war, and the people's lives are in a difficult situation, which will be bad if they cause public rebellion. In order to divert the people's attention and resentment, the Anhui Times spent a lot of time attacking the revolutionary party at the instructions of Zhu Jiabao. When the people were a little tired of the news, they immediately changed their direction and reported on the huge changes that have taken place in Anhui Province since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, as well as the major benefits of Governor Zhu's leadership, among which the achievements on the fronts of public education, drug control and other fronts were significant. At the same time, they did not forget to complain, and all the blame for the people's hard life was put on the revolutionary party. Such a method of snatching the shit was really effective. However, anyone with a discerning eye knew that this was just a temporary stopgap solution. If the revolutionary army rebellion was not quelled as soon as possible, there would be many troubles in the future.
The Anhui Governor's Office used the propaganda killing weapon like Anhui Times and deliberately distorted the facts with the huge resources of the court, which aroused dissatisfaction and indignation among the revolutionary colleagues in Anhui and Liangjiang areas. Some even radically claimed at the rally that they wanted to blow up the headquarters of Anhui Times and ruined the minions of the government.
Zhu Jiabao really wanted the Revolutionary Party to do this. Then he had the right to blame the revolutionary Party for its rioters, which once again damaged its reputation among the people. At this time, good news came from the front line. After a series of propaganda offensives, chaos seemed to occur within the Anqing Revolutionary Army. With a great loss of morale, the army retreated for nearly a hundred miles before barely stabilizing its position.
The hidden dangers that Wang Jin was worried about when he left Anqing finally broke out. There were many mountains of revolutionary troops who were dissatisfied with each other. After the severe encirclement of the Qing army, he saw his brothers suffer heavy losses and his strength was seriously damaged, so he was unwilling to work hard to fight the Qing army. He just wanted to retain his own strength and gain a place to survive in troubled times.
As a result, fierce conflict broke out between the top leaders of the Revolutionary Army. If there were no great enemies on their side, they would have been furious. Even so, the chaotic situation involved countless efforts from the Revolutionary Army's superiors. How could they have time to deal with the public opinion brought by the Anhui Times in a timely manner? On this point, the Anqing Revolutionary Army Daily, which failed to respond in time, was caught off guard. In addition, people were panic and had no one in charge. It was no wonder that they were unanimously dissatisfied by comrades inside and outside the Revolutionary Army.
But they didn't care about much and did not handle the sudden changes of the Revolutionary Army properly. The Revolutionary Army could fall apart at any time. In the face of safeguarding the overall interests of the Revolutionary Party and their own lives, they chose the latter!
Chapter completed!