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    Chapter 207 Uneasiness in Nanjing

    After spending perhaps the most unforgettable night, Yang Qiu boarded an American cruiser and set off back to Shanghai under the protection of the German heavy cruiser Gneisenau and three Haizi-class cruisers. At the same time, Lu Bicheng also left with her. She arrived  After Shanghai, he will first register a Huachen Petroleum Technology Company there, and then go to the United States with technicians and several military officers selected from the Southwest to start a global patent journey to register petroleum catalytic cracking technology.  ¡¶¡·Netizens¡¯ handwriting

    While the whistle was wailing, the north was already in chaos. Yuan Shikai was forced to do nothing by a fake secret treaty. After revealing that he had signed the real secret treaty, Britain, France, Germany, the United States and other countries almost immediately sent diplomatic notes to the Beiyang government. At the same time, Germany, Germany and Belgium  The three countries also sent a diplomatic note to the Japanese government before the United Kingdom, requesting Japan to explain the matter.

    However, all this is not over yet. The news that Song Jiaoren was assassinated at Tianjin Railway Station shocked the world. While people mourned this genius politician of the Democratic Party, they were also waiting for the results of the trial in Tianjin.  Since Beiyang and domestic forces were isolated from this interrogation, the samurai Ying, who wanted to survive, quickly confessed that Ying Guixin bribed him to kill Song Jiaoren. Shanghai and Nanjing immediately issued wanted notices after learning about it.  Message.

    Before Ying Guixin could catch him, Chen Qimei had sent Jiang Zhiqing to Tianjin to hunt down Samurai Ying, and specifically told him to wait for Samurai Ying to kill Song Jiaoren before taking action. The Green Gang killers had also confessed. This news was extremely damaging to the Democratic Party.  It's just devastating!  Who is Chen Qimei?  They were Sun, Huang, and Song, who were second only to them in the foreign party. He was such a big-shot figure, but even though he knew that someone was going to kill Song Jiaoren, he did not send a telegram or send anyone to warn him for several days.  , and had to wait until the killer was finished before silencing him. Such sinister intentions are really chilling.

    On February 6, Ying Guixin was captured and brought to justice in Suzhou. On the same day, she confessed that Beijing Internal Affairs Secretary Hong Shuzu asked him to kill Song Jiaoren. Everyone knew that behind Hong Shuzu was Zhao Bingjun, who was Yuan Shikai's Beiyang government, so the whole country began to agree.  Denounced the arrest of Zhao Bingjun and Hong Shuzu, and asked the president to explain the matter.

    On February 8, Chen Qimei, who had fled to his hometown, was arrested and escorted to Shanghai. On that day, reporters almost surrounded the police station because everyone knew that Mr. Sun Wen was behind him, and it happened to be the day he sent Jiang Zhiqing to Tianjin.  Mr. Sun's order returned to Shanghai to rectify the scattered Democratic Party.

    On the same day, another heavy news broke in Tianjin. Ma Feihu, a barbarian bandit who was traveling outside the customs, was captured by the National Defense Forces who went north to protect Yang Qiu. After being handed over to Germany, he immediately revealed that he had accepted Zhao Bingjun's one hundred thousand taels to kill Yang Qiu, and also brought out  The provider of the money was Yuan Keding, Yuan Shikai¡¯s eldest son!  Explosive news came out one after another, causing the whole of China to fall into turmoil and unrest. With the help of thoughtful people, newspapers spent almost day and night delving into why Yang Qiu and Song Jiaoren were assassinated at the same time when they went north for peace talks.  Why did Yuan Shikai and Chen Qimei join forces to assassinate the two of them?

    Yang Qiu arrived in Shanghai on February 10. In view of the Youth Gang background behind Ying Guixin and Chen Qimei, in an interview with reporters after disembarking, he suggested that the Youth Gang's interference in politics with gangs was a crime against the people. Who could not hear the implication at this moment?  What's more, the Qing Gang's assets in the three places are indeed enviable. Now that Chen Qimei has fallen, the officials in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai did not hesitate to dispatch the military and police to launch a large-scale arrest operation against the Qing Gang. Thousands of Qing Gang members  The members were arrested and killed, and the assets were completely divided. Except for a few big bosses in the concession who had defected to foreigners, no one was left behind.

    On February 12, Yang Qiu stayed in Shanghai for two days and set off for Nanjing on a sea ship. Just an hour after he left, the secret contract signed by Yuan Shikai and Japan was handed over to the desk of the famous reporting reporter Huang Yuansheng.  The big reporter, who is known to be even more venomous than Zhang Taiyan, immediately realized the seriousness of this secret agreement. With his efforts, the secret agreement was published in the newspaper the next day. The clauses in it about betraying the interests of Manchuria and Mongolia made the series of assassinations stop.  People who had been relieved of the case were once again outraged.

    Students began to take to the streets to protest against the Japanese government's plot to permanently occupy Manchuria and Mongolia while China was unstable, and to protest against the traitorous behavior of Yuan Shikai and the Beiyang government. Many people began to go out of their homes to boycott and burn Japanese goods. Workers in Japanese factories in China  Go on strike to demand that the Japanese government terminate the secret treaty.  The most intense movement in this movement was in the southwest. The Southwest United Council issued a statement stating that all workers who left Japanese factories in their jurisdiction could be resettled by the government. Therefore, in just one month, Japanese factories in the southwest were faced with the result that there were no available workers.  Song Weichen, a representative of southwest industry and commerce and the country's largest national cement and electricity tycoon, took the lead in publishing an appeal in newspapers for the national industrial and commercial conglomerates to join forces to acquire Japanese industries in China, mobilizing domestic large businessmen and the capitalist class to join forces to stop providing raw materials to Japan and stop  Initiative to buy Japanese goods and import Japanese machinery and equipment, and publicly stated that he would terminate the contract to purchase two small thermal power plants from Japan, and also worked as a reporterThe contract was transferred to the British company Jardine Matheson.

    The massive movement to boycott Japanese goods made the Japanese government restless. Coupled with the pressure from Germany and the British government that later joined the government, the Katsura Taro cabinet, which had just come to power and was busy with the constitutional protection movement, immediately stated that Japan had not signed a similar secret treaty, except for providing  The announcement that everything except the loan was a malicious fabrication.

    However, the people and newspapers did not believe it. Yuan Shikai's public embarrassment had confirmed the existence of the secret agreement, so the movement to boycott Japanese goods became more and more fierce. According to later data from the Japanese government, Japan's exports to China dropped by 50% in just six months.  More than 400 of more than 1,000 companies cannot obtain raw materials and are facing bankruptcy. Among them, 47 companies operating mercury, tung oil, and raw silk in the southwest were forced to relocate or sell at low prices because they could not find workers and raw materials.  , all direct and indirect losses exceeded 50 million Japanese.

    These are all things for later.

    Yuan Shikai in the north was exposed to a secret contract and assassinated, and it was only a matter of time before his reputation was greatly reduced and he would step down. The Chen Qimei incident exposed the internal struggle for power and collusion with gangs to steal people's wealth. Facing unanimous condemnation from the whole country, a large number of radical young people began to rebel.  Huang Keqiang, who is based in Nanjing, has turned to the embrace of the tough-voiced Southwest National Socialist Party, and his status as the country's largest party is in jeopardy before the election.

    In the office, his eyes were red and his voice was hoarse. He was hit hard by the sacrifices of his friends and revolutionary comrades. Chen Qimei was arrested, Chen Jiongming and Hu Hanmin were far away in Guangdong, and Sun Wen was delayed in Japan, so he had to provoke the people.  The heavy burden of the party's responsibilities made him breathless. Looking at Wu Tingfang, who came back first to take the stand, he asked: "Has Dun Chu's posthumous affairs been properly arranged?"

    Wu Tingfang also felt uncomfortable, but after all he was an old party member and had experienced a lot, so he could still remain calm: "The body has been cremated in accordance with Dun Chu's wishes. He Qing will stay in Tianjin for the time being to take care of the funeral. He will not be able to come back until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month."  ." After he finished speaking, he looked at Huang Keqiang with concern and said: "Keqiang, we are leaderless at this time, you have to hold on."

    Huang Keqiang nodded gratefully: "Brother Wen Jue, don't worry, I can still hold on, but after Dun Chu leaves, who do you think can still stand up and lead the overall situation?"

    Wu Tingfang was silenced by these words. This veteran of law and diplomacy, who was famous for signing the first equality treaty in modern history, the China-Mexico Commerce Treaty, was also exhausted mentally and physically. Chen Qimei's incident was a blow to the Democratic Party.  It is too big, not even much lighter than the assassination of Song Jiaoren. Newspapers expose every day that some people within the Democratic Party used the opportunity of the revolution to collect money and accept bribes. This has seriously affected the reputation of the Democratic Party. In the long run, let alone compare with the National Socialist Party.  Even the nearby Zhang Jizhi Republican Party has surpassed them.

    But who else can shoulder this burden now?

    Seeing that he didn't speak, Huang Keqiang guessed that he might have lost his charter. He waved his hand to Li Shucheng, who stayed in Nanjing and volunteered to be his secretary, and said: "First send a telegram to Mr. Sun and ask him to come back as soon as possible to take charge of the overall situation." Li Shucheng  With a wry smile, would you like him to come back?  That Dai Tianchou hinted at his relationship with Chen Qimei every day in the newspaper, didn't he just want to use this to undermine his authority?  Seeing that the civil war is about to start again, what the Democratic Party wants now is not a big mouth, but a man of iron blood!  But he didn't have any good suggestions at the moment, so he had to send a telegram first.

    After Li Shucheng left, Huang Keqiang immediately locked the door and then asked seriously: "Brother Wen Jue, I heard that Yang Qiu's people were also present at that time. Do you think he had any involvement in Dun Chuchu's murder?"

    Wu Tingfang guessed that he would ask this question and shook his head: "His people were indeed present at the time, and there must be some interference, but this matter cannot shake his foundation. At most, it will be a charge of poor rescue, not to mention that he invited us to a warship  Many people know about my return, and I asked a U.S. Navy officer to notify me of the departure time, so at most I will fire some of the officers."

    Huang Keqiang sighed in his heart and continued: "I am not paranoid. In the past few days, the state and social organizations have been pressing harder and harder. The momentum and public opinion have overwhelmed us, and from the entire peace talks, he is the biggest beneficiary. In the long run, we may have to  It¡¯s been a hard life.¡±

    "I know all this, but now that the National Society is in power, we have to succumb to others. When he came back, He Qing told me that we must not fight against Yang Qiu at this moment. He has grasped the righteousness, and we can only continue to seize the two parties.  The alliance will not let go, and the north must be dealt with first to have a chance of survival."

    Huang Keqiang closed his eyes in pain. Wu Tingfang's words showed that the Democratic Party had actually begun to plan to be a vassal of Yang Qiu and the National Socialist Party, but is it so easy to become a vassal?  Based on his understanding of this person, when the whole country was first determined, he would definitely backhand people like him. He did not want the decades of hard work of the Democratic Party to end up taking advantage of others. He asked: "Jue Wen, look, can we  Can't you win over Zhang Jizhi?"

    Wu Tingfang said: "Zhang JizhiHe was close to Yuan Shikai before, but now that the secret appointment in Beiyang was revealed, he and Liang Qichao must keep a distance, but it is absolutely impossible for him to go against Yang Qiu. At most, it depends on who can gain the upper hand after Yang Qiu and Yuan Shikai fight to the death.  Now that the National Socialist Party is aggressive, it is not a big problem for us to join forces with him. The most important thing is that Yuan Shikai is definitely going to take action this time. Once Jiangsu, Anhui and Nanjing are all at the forefront, can we stop him?  "

    When it comes to military issues, Huang Keqiang has a headache. Although there are still five divisions in Anhui, Nanjing, Jiangsu and Jiangxi, except for Xu Shaozhen's troops who participated in the attack on Nanjing, he knows better than anyone what kind of army they are.  The most important thing is that Nanjing has no money!  So far, we have to rely on Beijing's support to survive. In a real war, raising military pay and food will be a problem. On the other hand, the southwest has many soldiers and generals, sufficient financial resources, and Wushengguan Tianqi to defend it. In a real war, my side will probably suffer the most.

    Wu Tingfang also knew his difficulties, so he thought about it and said, "Yang Qiu will come to Nanjing in two days. Keqiang might as well use Li Yuanhong's brain."

    "he?".

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