Chapter 45 1. Heroes from all walks of life gathered in the city to jointly plan a great cause

As early as three months ago, Liu Kui hurried back to Hunan from Tokyo at the request of Huang Xing.While in Tokyo, they discussed repeatedly the establishment of a revolutionary group.As soon as Liu Kui arrived in Changsha, he devoted himself to the activities of forming this group.After half a month of preparation, all aspects are ready.The group was named Huaxinghui, and it was called Huaxing Company to the outside world. It took mining as its business, rented a house outside the south gate of Changsha City, and officially listed it for business.Those who join the membership are called shares, and they are issued stock, which is the membership card.The password for contacting is: concentric piggy bank, and face-to-face settlement.These two sentences sound like jargon in the business world, but they are actually a metaphor for the meaning of "putting out the Qing Dynasty".

Huang Xing's public identity at the time was a physical education teacher at Mingde Academy.Hu Yuantan, the supervisor of Mingde Academy, was also a student studying in Japan. He knew that Huang Xing was engaged in revolutionary activities, but he did not interfere.In order to better protect himself, Huang Xing attended a religious ceremony in St. Peter's Church in Shanghai on his way back to China, and Wu Guoguang, the Chinese president of the church, issued a letter of introduction.As soon as he arrived in Changsha, he transferred to the Changsha Anglican Church and became friends with the president, Pastor Huang Jiting.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Huaxing Association, there were nearly a hundred members. Huang Xing was elected as the chairman, Liu Kuiyi was the vice-chairman, and there were several very active members among the members.One is Zhang Shizhao, from Changsha, 20 years old.One is Song Jiaoren, from Taoyuan, 22 years old.Both of them are radical anti-Manchurians.There is also Hu Ying, who is only 16 years old.Hu Ying is from Hubei, and came to Hunan with her parents when she was young.Soon after, both his father and elder brother died, and he was brought up by an old friend of his father's.He was studying in the Mingde Academy at that time, and was influenced by Huang Xing and was inclined to revolution.Although Hu Ying is small, he is smart and courageous. Huang Xing likes him and lets him join the Huaxing Club.There is another 22-year-old Zhang Ji from Hebei.He was also a student studying in Japan, and he was good friends with Zhang Shizhao. At this time, he was teaching history at Mingde Academy.

The purpose of Huaxing Society is to "expel the Tartars and revive China".Huang Xing and Liu Kuiyi believed that the method of launching the French Revolution in Paris and the British Revolution in London could not be followed, because Britain and France were civil revolutions, not national revolutions. The way the revolution succeeds.They analyzed the situation in Hunan and believed that Hunan has the conditions for the first righteous province: first, the gentry circles in Hunan's academic circles are becoming more and more thoughtful; second, the thinking of Hunan citizens is becoming more and more enlightened;In addition, Hunan also has a more favorable condition than other provinces, that is, there are many parties in Hunan, the most powerful of which is the Gelaohui.

Various factions of the Hunan Gelaohui took up the mountain one after another to form meetings and open halls to release votes.Not only do they communicate with each other, but they also have close ties with the Gelaohui in Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and other provinces.According to various investigations, Huang Xing and Liu Kuiyi estimated that there were about 120,000 disciples of various mountain churches in Hunan. If the people in Sichuan and the provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River were added up, the number would be 600,000 to 700,000.Many of the leaders of these parties have already formed a great enmity with the imperial court and are willing to join the ranks of the full ranks.Many members of the party have martial arts, can shoot and fire cannons, and are not afraid of death, and dare to take risks.If they are organized, they will quickly become a powerful army to overthrow the imperial court.Huang Xing has always paid attention to the party, and knows that the elders in the provinces along the Yangtze River will have a leader who is admired by all the leaders, and this person is named Ma Fuyi.

When he was still in Tokyo, as soon as Huang Xing told Liu Kui about Ma Fuyi, Liu told Huang Xing about his past with Ma.Huang Xing hoped that Liu Kuiyi would take advantage of this relationship.After returning to China, they searched everywhere for Ma Fuyi's whereabouts, but they couldn't find him.More than a month later, Liu Daoyi came back from Tokyo and told Huang Xing and his brother about the search method Yang Du said.Huang Xing said with a smile: "The domestic heroes don't know it, but a scholar abroad has his contact code. It's really interesting!" According to the signal of the three horses provided by Yang Du, Liu Daoyi got in touch with Ma Shude, Ma Fuyi's subordinate, in Leidashi Kiln, and met Ma Fuyi through Ma Shude.Inspired by the righteousness of the nation, Ma Fuyi agreed to meet Huang Xing.On a cold snowy night, Ma Fuyi and Huang Xing met in the waste coal cave in Xiangtan Tea Garden.When Ma Fuyi learned that the young man who came with Huang Xing was Liu Kuiyi, the savior he had not met for many years, he was very excited. He respectfully kowtowed three times to Liu Kuiyi to thank him, and then He generously obeyed his orders, and without hesitation, he swore a blood alliance with Huang and Liu to achieve a great cause together.

In view of the internal complexity of Ma Fuyi's Gelaohui and the mixed good and bad, Huang Xing refused to let Mabu collectively join the Huaxinghui. Instead, he established a peripheral organization called the Tongqiuhui outside the Huaxinghui. Major general, appointed himself a general, and scheduled an uprising in the provincial capital Changsha on the night of October 10, the birthday of Empress Dowager Cixi. When Huang Xing, Liu Kui and others were worried about the money for the uprising, Yang Du remitted 20,000 silver dollars from Tokyo.It's like sending charcoal in the middle of the snow. The comrades of Huaxing Association are all deeply moved by Yang Du's generous support.They didn't go into the details of how a poor student studying in Japan could suddenly have such a huge sum of money, and after sending a thank you message, they distributed the silver dollars to great use.

The first thing to do is to buy a gun.They plan to buy 500 long guns, 100 short guns, and 100,000 rounds of ammunition.Of course, twenty thousand silver dollars is far from enough.So he allocated 10,000 yuan to the Hanyang Arsenal to open up joints, first to buy 50 long guns, 10 short guns, 5,000 rounds of ammunition, and then buy a big white horse. Dao sent someone to secretly give it to Ma Fuyi, asking him to train the backbone first.The remaining 10,000 yuan was reserved for activities.Huang Xing sent Song Jiaoren and Hu Ying to Wuchang to establish a branch of the Huaxing Society, and sent Zhang Shizhao to Shanghai to lobby officials and businessmen from Hunan to donate. They must raise all the money to buy guns and ammunition before the end of August.They also sent Chen Tianhua to Jiangxi and Anhui to develop Huaxing Association members, and sent Zhang Jichang to live in Beijing as a spy.

After Ma Fuyi received the gift from Huaxing Club, he stepped up his training.At the same time, he also sent people to contact the leaders of the Gelaohui in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in several ways, and told them the plan of the Changsha uprising, asking them to be prepared to respond to the first uprising at that time. During this period of time, Zhang Shizhao worked hard in various ways in Shanghai and raised 120,000 silver dollars for the army.Huang Xing sold the 20 mu of paddy fields and five tiled houses under his name for 5,000 silver dollars.Inspired by Huang Xing, Liu Kuiyi and other members of the Huaxing Association actively donated money, or sold their properties, or borrowed money from various places, and received a total of 25,000 silver dollars.Huang Xing used all the 150,000 silver dollars to buy guns and ammunition.

The liaison organization of the personnel and the weapons and equipment are roughly in place. Huang Xing and Ma Fuyi discussed that in order to boost morale, a grand awarding ceremony will be held in Puji City, Liuyang County.The time was chosen to be the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th. On the 13th, Huang Xing and Liu Kuiyi received unexpected good news that Yang Du had returned to China, and came to Changsha a few days ago to live in Hengsheng Grocery Store on Beizheng Street. Why did Yang Du suddenly return to China? When Huang and Ma were plotting an uprising in central Hunan, the overseas students living in Japan were making a commotion over the Guangdong-Han Railway.

As early as seven years ago, Sheng Xuanhuai, the Minister of Railways supervised by the Qing government, signed a loan contract for the Luhan Railway with the Belgian Bank.In the second year, Wu Tingfang, the Qing government's minister in the United States, signed the "Guangdong-Han Railway Loan Contract" with the American-American Hexing Company.There are 26 clauses in this contract, which are basically modeled on the contract of Luhan Railway.The main contents are as follows: the total loan amount is 40 million U.S. dollars, with an annual interest of 5%, 10% of the actual payment, the repayment period is 50 years, guaranteed by the railway property, and the project is contracted by the Meihua Hexing Company. Give one-fifth of the net profit to the shares every year.Before the principal and interest were repaid, the railway was represented by Meihua Hexing Company.At the same time, it is also stipulated that the construction of parallel railways is not allowed in the areas where the Guangdong-Han Railway and its branch roads pass.The Qing government stipulated in the contract that Meihua Hexing Company could not transfer this contract to other countries and people from other countries. This contract was formally signed in Washington four years ago, and it is obvious that the United States benefits from the contract.In particular, the prohibition of building parallel railways in the three provinces of Hubei, Hunan, and Guangdong that the Guangdong-Han Railway passes through is an insulting stipulation to the sovereign state, and the politically corrupt and financially distressed Qing court also agreed.Later, the shares of Meihua Hexing Company were bought by a Belgian syndicate, which became the owner of the Luhan and Yuehan railways, and the Belgian syndicate represented the interests of Russia and France.In this way, Russia and France gained control over the main artery running through China's north and south, which was extremely detrimental to China's politics and economy.In particular, the transfer of construction rights by the American-Chinese Hexing Company to the Belgian syndicate blatantly violated the contract, and the weak and incompetent Qing court did not intervene. The imperial court's act of losing power and humiliating the country once again aroused the public indignation of students studying in Japan, especially the students studying in Hubei, Hunan, and Guangdong provinces.Except for a very small number of people, they all advocated the immediate abolition of the contract signed with the American-Chinese Hexing Company, and the construction of the Guangdong-Han Railway by itself. International students from Hunan, Hubei, and Guangdong provinces account for almost one-third of all international students in the country, and they are very influential in the international student community.Yang Du, the chairman of the International Students Association, is even more active in advocating the abolition of the contract and self-management.With high enthusiasm, he organized various debates.Regardless of the conference or meeting, he would give a speech and express his opinions generously and fiercely, which won the unprecedented trust of the international students.The views of students studying in the United States are the same as those of students studying in Japan.There were few of them, so they entrusted the matter to the Students' Association studying in Japan.On behalf of students from Japan and the United States, Yang Du called Qu Hongji, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zhang Zhidong, Governor of Huguang, and Lu Yuanding, Acting Governor of Hunan, respectively, pointing out the harmfulness of foreign construction of railways to China, and mercilessly exposed Wu Tingfang and Sheng Xuanhuai's acceptance of The scandal of huge sums of money bribed by the United States and China Hexing Company, and explained that the abolition of the contract is different from the abolition of the treaty, because the contract is concluded with the company, and the treaty is concluded with the government, and this matter has nothing to do with diplomatic relations.It is hoped that Qu, Zhang and others will use their authority and influence to uphold the righteousness of the nation and seek benefits for the country to build the Guangdong-Han Railway by themselves. When the international students were talking about it, Yang Du was the only one who could keep a clear head and settle down to seriously study the handling of this matter.He collected materials extensively, used the legal knowledge he had learned after coming to Japan, and through detailed dissection, wrote a "Guangdong-Han Railway Discussion" with a length of more than 50,000 words. This article is divided into two parts, one is the abolition of the contract.Discuss the issue of annulment of the contract from four aspects: the rights, obligations, and whether the obligations of the US company can be fulfilled, and how the rights should be disposed of.The second is the establishment of the company.He proposed China's own railway company, and also suggested that the railway should be run by business rather than by the government.The article coordinates the overall situation, has a high-level view, is detailed and thoughtful, and has both large and small details. It has both rigorous legal rulings and effective specific measures.When it was published in "Xinmin Congbao", it immediately attracted the attention of intellectuals and political circles at home and abroad, especially the Japanese overseas students who admired Yang Du's profound legal knowledge and precise analysis ability. On Sunday, Yang Zhuang, who had just arrived in Tokyo, came to Tanaka's apartment with Dai Yi and Yang Jun.Yang Zhuang said with a smile that she had read the full text twice carefully and learned a lot about litigation from it, and praised her brother for being a good judge.Yang Jun said that the international student community in Tokyo said that his brother could handle such a complicated and difficult case of the Guangdong-Han Railway, and that there would be no difficult problems that could not be solved in handling state affairs in the future.Yang Du was happy when he said it, and he also believed that he had the talent to dominate the world. At this moment, Empress Dowager Cixi issued an amnesty order in the name of Emperor Guangxu.On the surface, the amnesty decree was intended to celebrate Cixi's 70th birthday, but in essence, it was intended to ease the tense political conflicts in the country. The invasion of Beijing by the Eight-Power Allied Forces in the Year of Gengzi made the people of the whole country more aware of the corruption of the Qing court. At the same time, they also remembered the patriots who were brutally massacred and persecuted two years ago because of the political reform.Cixi herself was also greatly shocked, knowing that if she did not respond, the country would fail.For this reason, on the way back to Luan in the second year, a series of reform orders were issued.Despite the sincere support of Zhang Zhidong, Yuan Shikai, Liu Kun and other wise ministers, Cixi's behavior of self-criticism cannot save people's hearts.The imperial court generally gave favor to those with lofty ideals for the Reform Movement of 1898.Under such political pressure, Empress Dowager Cixi had no choice but to amnesty the world: those who were exiled due to the reform case could return to their hometowns, those who were imprisoned were released and returned home, those implicated were exempted from punishment, and those who fled overseas would not be held accountable after returning home.Even so, there are three people who are not included in the amnesty, that is, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, the leaders of the reform movement, and Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the Xingzhong Society who organized riots in the country many times. After the amnesty came to Tokyo, Yang Zhuang and his brother rejoiced at his elder brother's pardon. Five members of the family, including Xiao Penger, held a small celebration reception at Kanda Restaurant in Tokyo. "Finally he is no longer a person who has a country that is hard to vote for, and a family that is hard to return!" Facing this sudden good news, Yang Du heaved a long sigh of relief in his heart. The matter of Guangdong-Han Railway, which has been hotly discussed overseas, has not received a satisfactory answer from domestic officials, although it has lasted for several months.The International Students Association has long wanted to send a competent person back to lobby the authorities, but there has been no suitable candidate.It's all right now, Yang Du is free, and this matter is none other than him.In this way, Yang Du returned to the motherland after a year of absence. After he landed in Shanghai, he immediately changed to a riverboat and went up the Yangtze River.On the second day after arriving in Wuchang, I went to meet Zhang Zhidong.Unexpectedly, Zhang Zhidong was unwell and went to Wudang Mountain to recuperate. He didn't see anyone, and he had to wait until he returned to the yamen in September to talk about his official and private affairs.Yang Du was rejected, so he left Wuchang and returned to Hunan.The first stop is Changsha. The Hengsheng Grocery Store on Beizheng Street was opened by an uncle of his wife Huang's. The upstairs guest room was spacious, and Yang Du stayed here.The next day, I went to the Governor's Yamen to pay a visit to the acting Futai Lu Yuanding.This politician who has been in the officialdom all his life is a very smooth person. Regarding such a major matter as abolishing the contract and running the railway by himself, he knows that it is not something that an acting governor can take charge of.He received Yang Du politely. As for Yang Du's tongue-tied topic, he hardly took a word of it into his heart, which made the chief secretary who was shouldering a heavy responsibility dumbfounded. Last year, on the eighth day, the No. 2 man went to the governor's office, and the news of his return to Changsha spread like wildfire throughout the city. As soon as Huang Xing and Liu Kui got the news, they went to visit Hengsheng grocery store. The three friends reunited in their hometown today, and they were really excited beyond words.Yang Du will tell Huang Xing and Liu Kuiyi about the details of returning to China on the Guangdong-Han Railway.Huang and Liu also told Yang Du the secret of planning an uprising in Changsha on the tenth day of October. Talking about the abolition of the contract, Huang and Liu told Yang Du that Zhang Zhidong would never dare to offend foreigners and annul the contract.Because he wants to rely on Cixi's breath, and since the fist rebellion, that old witch would rather see foreigners eat up and carve up China than touch a hair of them. Didn't the imperial court say that "it is better to give to friends than to be slaves?" "?So there is no need to see Zhang Zhidong.Taking a ten thousand step back, even if Zhang Zhidong agrees to abolish the contract, can such a major event be accomplished in the current state of disunity in China?The only way out for China is revolution, when the Manchus were overthrown, the dynasty was changed, the contract was naturally abolished, and the right to build the railway naturally returned to the hands of the Chinese themselves.Therefore, they tried their best to persuade Yang Du to abandon his illusions about the Manchu court and join them in the uprising. Yang Du was about to use the case of the Guangdong-Han Railway to give full play to his talents in governing the country. Of course, he could not agree with Huang and Liu's views.He has his reasons.Once the Manchus were overthrown, it would directly affect the vested interests of foreigners in China, and the foreigners would fully support the Manchus, and the revolution might not be successful.On the other hand, when the Han people competed with the Manchus, the country would become more chaotic, and the foreigners took the opportunity to carve up China unscrupulously.If the Manchu-Han war was protracted, China would be completely divided up by foreigners, and China would perish.There are many such examples in ancient and modern China and abroad.China can only follow the path of Japan, awaken the people, convene a parliament, formulate a constitution, and organize a responsible cabinet, so that the country can avoid bloodshed and chaos, and steadily embark on the road of prosperity and strength.The case of the Guangdong-Han Railway can be used as a touchstone.If this matter can be done, it proves that the state affairs can still be done. Both sides hold their own, and neither can convince the other.Finally, Huang Xing said: "If you don't participate in the uprising, we won't force you, but you must go to Liuyang to be awarded the title tomorrow." Yang Duben was a little disturbed.For him, there is no clue about what is going on, and he can't be distracted by extraneous things that he doesn't advocate, but it is also a very pleasant thing to think of meeting Ma Fuyi in this way.If it weren't for the ancient Japanese sword he gave as a gift, how could there be such a huge sum of money!You should tell him personally, and let him have fun too. Liuyang Puji City is on the banks of the Liuyang River. Going northeast to Liuyang County is almost as far as going northwest to Changsha Provincial City. There are 130 to 40 miles. It is located at the junction of Liuyang, Changsha, Xiangtan, and Liling counties.Farmers from the four counties all come here for the fair, making Puji City a very lively market town.Every year from the 10th day of August to the 20th day, the Puji City Cattle and Horse Fair has been going on for two to three hundred years and is a well-known big gathering in eastern Hunan.Every year in mid-August, farmers from the four counties drive their cattle and horses to Puji City from dozens of miles away to buy and sell.Merchants from all walks of life also took advantage of this opportunity to come here to do business.It's the Mid-Autumn Festival, and people who don't trade cattle and horses also come to buy festival food.Therefore, during the ten days in Puji City, cattle and horses roared, people came and went, bustling and steaming, making it the busiest time of the year. August 15th is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is also the middle of the cow and horse market.On this day, people from four counties and all directions came to Puji City in an endless stream.Huang Xing and Ma Fuyi chose this day to gather heroes from all walks of life, deliberately drowning the gathering of the leaders of the Gelao congregation in the noisy transactions, so as not to attract the attention of the Yamen. At dusk on the 14th, Huang Xing, Liu Kuiyi, and Yang Du arrived at the wharf of Puji City in a small wooden boat along the Liuyang River. They were all dressed up as merchants.Ma Shude took them to the Xia Family Ancestral Hall two or three miles away from the town center.The Xia family is a big family in Puji City, and three or four generations ago, there were people who were rich, so the ancestral hall was built very large, and the main hall in the middle for the ancestral tablet can hold twenty tables of banquets.There are twenty-four guest rooms in the east and west. The Xia family is in decline now, and the ancestral hall is deserted.Three days ago, Ma Fuyi, as a big cattle dealer from Xiangtan, offered 20 silver dollars to rent the Wutian ancestral hall, and the humble Xia clan chief happily agreed. Hearing that Huang Xing and others had arrived, Ma Fuyi and Dakong went out to greet them.Seeing that Yang Du had also come, the two of them were very surprised.Yang Du was also very excited when he saw Ma Fuyi and Da Kong in ordinary clothes.Everyone entered the first guest room on the east side, and the little guy brought fragrant tea and fruit.Ma Fuyi told Huang Xing that almost all the leaders of the parties invited were present, and all of them lived in the ancestral hall.Regardless of the fatigue of the journey, Huang Xing went to meet them immediately.Ma Fuyi asked Ma Shude to accompany Huang Xing and Liu Kuiyi to meet the leaders, while he and Dakong accompanied Yang Du to talk in the room.We said goodbye to each other.Yang Du told them the legendary story of the waist knife, and Ma Fuyi and Da Kong couldn't believe that there was such a wonderful thing in the world.Teng Yuan's donation of 50,000 silver dollars, Yang Du intentionally said it was 20,000.Such selfless support for the uprising made the two heroes of the rivers and lakes admire them very much.Ma Fuyi said: "If the uprising succeeds, you are the minister who made the first contribution. Mr. Huang and I must make you a Marquis." Yang Du smiled, noncommittal. Early the next morning, the sky was still bright, and the Xia Clan's Ancestral Hall was busy.Building bricks to build stoves, transporting bowls to carry wine, slaughtering cattle and pigs, frying fish and steaming meat, the strong aroma of wine and meat spread directly to the streets of Pujiu.The villagers who go to the Mid-Autumn Festival market, and the merchants doing business far and near, all say that Ma Da, the owner of Xiangtan, is so bold that he set up 20 tables of wine here to entertain guests from all over the world. Ma Fuyi sent 30 shrewd minions to roam outside the ancestral hall, and anyone who didn't agree with elder brother and knew how to speak slang was stopped outside. At noon, in the Daheping at the entrance of the ancestral hall, the firecrackers of the Wanzi shop were set off one by one.Liuyang is a place rich in firecrackers, and it is the season of high and refreshing autumn, and the sound of the firecrackers is especially sharp and loud, startling the sparrows at the corner of the roof and flying around, and the smashed red and green flower paper mixed with light blue smoke floats into the air, Scattered in the corner of the field.All the people who went to the market stood and watched.The patriarch of the Xia clan lamented: The ancestral hall built by the ancestors has not seen such a scene for more than 20 years! Amidst the deafening sound, thirty-six heroes from all directions in central Hunan entered the table one by one with their hands clasped together and their faces blushing.In addition to the vice leader, vice president hall, vice president and attendants, etc., the nineteen tables were neatly filled, and the chiefs were Huang Xing, Liu Kuiyi, Ma Fuyi, Yang Du, Dakong and others. The large bowls were served one after another. Although they were daily dishes such as fish, meat, chicken, and duck, they were delicious. The bowls of wine were filled up.These heroes, all of them are bold and unrestrained, they don't need orders, and they don't care about etiquette. As soon as the food and wine are served, they drink and chew. Ma Fuyi knocked heavily on the table several times with his fist, and said loudly, "Brothers, calm down, the award ceremony begins!" Ma Shude, who was the master of ceremonies, walked in.He had a yellow cloth belt wrapped around his head, a brightly colored wild cone-hair stuck in the back of his head, his big mouth was smeared red with chicken blood, and he wore a dirty apricot-yellow cloth robe, Wear a pair of thick-soled official boots that are common on the stage.Seeing Ma Shude's attire, Yang Du looked a little ridiculous, turned his face to look at the leaders at the banquet, but they didn't show any strange expressions. Facing the gate, Ma Shude shouted loudly: "Fire the cannon!" A small leader standing at the door passed the order to Heping: "Fire the cannon!" At this time, the thirty-six hunting earth cannons on Heping fired at Tianming.Some made a deep roar, some only rang softly, and some shooters were not prepared at all in advance, and they couldn't let go when they moved left and right temporarily.The sound of cannons was sparse, which was very unlawful.The little boss in charge was quick to think, and quickly ordered someone to find some copper washbasins. Although the sound of the copper basin of "嘡嘡" was not as majestic and solemn as the sound of cannons, it finally made the atmosphere lively. After the sound of cannons and copper basins stopped, Ma Shude shouted again: "Brother Dapao!" A little thread held up a cloth painting about five feet high and two feet wide, and walked in with a solemn expression, and did not stop until he reached the tablet of Xia's ancestors right in front of the ancestral hall.Turning around again, the cloth painting blocked the small thread.When Yang Du looked at it, what was painted on the cloth was a young man wearing a dragon robe with white lips and red lips, which was the image of the legendary third prince Zhu. Then a few little fellows raised a dozen three- or five-seat candlesticks for ancestor worship, with a basket of big red candles behind them.Candlesticks surround the canvas and are inserted into the ground.The candles were lit, one by one stuck in the candlestick.Candles flickered and smoke filled.After this process was completed, not only did the crude cloth painting become sacred, but the atmosphere of the entire ancestral hall immediately became solemn, and all noises stopped consciously. A little guy walked up to Ma Fuyi, sowed three long and wide wild hairs on his turban, and handed him a mahogany sword.Ma Fuyi left the table and walked to the portrait, raised the mahogany sword in his right hand, and raised the five fingers of his left palm to his chest. After concentrating on the portrait for a moment, he uttered a series of vague words, and then danced and danced with the sword while walking. , Walked seven or eight times around the candle. When Ma Fuyi stood still in front of Dapao's portrait again, Ma Shude shouted: "Thank you, Dapao!" Ma Fuyi knelt down on both knees.Huang Xing, Liu Kuiyi and Da Kong also left the table and knelt down.Yang Du didn't know what to do.He is not a congregation of older brothers, and he is unwilling to kneel in front of this vague portrait of a child.Looking back, the thirty-six heroes in the hall knelt down in unison, and a few of them were still staring at him fiercely.Yang Du felt uncomfortable all over.He had no choice but to leave the table and kneel.All the leaders and the main hall followed Ma Fuyi and kowtowed three times to the cloth painting, and then sat down again. "Mr. Huang Xing, please confer the title!" Ma Shude yelled again, tearing his throat open. Huang Xing walked up to the portrait.He changed into a black woolen uniform brought back from Japan today, and deliberately trimmed his beard. His slightly fat square face is solemn and serious, his small eyes shoot out firm gazes, and his whole body is full of enterprising and high-spirited spirit. Compared with Ma Fuyi with wild pheasant feathers on his head, he has a completely different image. "Brothers!" Huang Xing's resounding and generous baritone voice sounded from the declining Xia's ancestral hall: "Today, our Huaxing Association and the Gelaohui formed an alliance to stage an armed riot to overthrow the Manchu court and restore our Han people's own land. To make the uprising plan come true, we have been discussing with Ma Dalongtou for several months to unite the hills and synagogues of the Xiangzhong Gelaohui to take concerted action, and to use the Japanese army building system to train the brothers well. Today, in the name of the chairman of the Enemy Association, I awarded Ma Fuyi the rank of major general, and after a while, major general Ma will assign the ranks of heroes to various groups, and arrange specific training plans and contact methods." Liu Kuiyi took out a set of military uniform and a three-foot-long saber from the wooden box he brought with him.This set of military uniforms is completely modeled on the uniforms of the Japanese Army, and was secretly tailor-made in Changsha.It is neatly folded, with trousers on the bottom and clothes on the top.The clothes and trousers are all made of yellow wool, and the workmanship is very fine.On the shoulders of the clothes, there are two epaulettes with red stripes on a yellow background and a silver-white chrysanthemum star.A yellow woolen military cap with a large cap and a red trim was placed on top of the clothes. Liu Kui came to Huang Xing with it in his hands.At this time Ma Fuyi had also stood up.Huang Xing took the military uniform from Liu Kui, and solemnly held it up to shoulder level. Ma Fuyi was very excited, his face flushed red.This grassland hero who came from herding cattle and burning lime had never experienced such a grand and solemn occasion.He wiped his hands vigorously on his clothes, fearing that his hands would not be clean and would desecrate the gleaming yellow uniform of a major general, and it took him a long time before he took it from Huang Xing. "Brother, put it on, put it on and show us!" "Big dragon head, shake it!" "Dalongtou, this is an authentic oriental product, it will open our eyes to wear it!" The leaders below were eating and drinking vigorously, while Ma Fuyi was holding his clothes, not knowing what to do. "Put it on, let the brethren take a look!" Huang Xing could well understand the psychology of these quack men: Although they were fearless, they still had a strong sense of inferiority deep down in their hearts.While talking, Huang Xing took off the blue cloth belt on Ma Fuyi's head with his own hands, and put the big cap on his head squarely.Ma Shude hurried over and helped Dalongtou put his clothes on his body in a hurry. The five big and three thick horse dragon heads look extraordinarily glorious and majestic in this exquisite and exquisite Japanese-style major general uniform.The mountain kings at the banquet had never seen such a good military uniform, and all of them opened their eyes wide.Looking at their big dragon heads as if they had changed in an instant, they were both surprised and envious. "This is the real high official!" They sighed from their hearts. Huang Xing hung the saber on Ma Fuyi's waist with his own hands again, and the major general of the Brotherhood became more and more majestic. "Cheers to our leader, Rongfeng Major General!" The chief hall uncle of an unknown hall shouted, looking at the men who were already salivating at the table full of wine and food, he couldn't wait to respond. "cheers!" "cheers!" "cheers!" Ma Fuyi began to speak.His subordinates kept raising big bowls, bowl after bowl, and seemed not enthusiastic about the new major general's military deployment.Although Ma Fuyi was a little unhappy, he didn't want to spoil the excitement of his brothers, so he simply invited Huang Xing and others to sit at the banquet and have a few bowls of wine together before talking. Yang Du, who has been with scholars for a long time and is good at talking about the rise and fall of the world in the living room of his study, feels very uncomfortable in this atmosphere.He glanced around, there were twenty tables with glasses and plates in a mess, most of the drinkers were dressed in nondescript clothes, swear words mixed with party slang, it was unappetizing to hear, alcohol smoke mixed with the smell of sweat, It made him want to vomit.Yang Du really didn't want to stay here anymore, he wanted to find a fresh and quiet place to catch his breath.Seeing Huang Xing and Liu Kui talking and laughing happily with the front and back, Yang Du was inconvenient to invite them, so after whispering a few words to Da Kong, he quietly left the hall alone. Coming out of the filthy ancestral hall full of houses, the fresh air among the grass, trees and grass seedlings brought him comfort all over his body.He walked along the field ridge, with slightly drooping corn ears on one side and clear and flowing canal water on the other. After walking dozens of steps, he found that the mountains and rivers here are beautiful and the scenery is beautiful. Liuyang's scenery is so good!Yang Du looked around and admired it.Suddenly, he remembered something and hurriedly turned back to the ancestral hall.