Chapter 95 Guangzhou robbery

1905 was a wonderful year. The two major events of this year have been mentioned above, and then the third major event is discussed, but this third major event was triggered by a robbery. Back to ten years ago... An attempted "shocking robbery" was successfully solved in Guangzhou, and various controlled weapons such as guns and knives were seized.This was the headline news that rocked Guangzhou during the Double Ninth Festival in 1895. This "robbery" was carried out by a secret organization across the country and abroad, and the patrolmen arrested more than forty criminals.According to the criminal's confession, the target of his robbery was the gambling money of Guangdong's official gambling "surname".

To explain, "surname" is a kind of lottery, which was popular in Guangdong and Guangxi in the late Qing Dynasty. It is a gambling activity for guessing the names of candidates in the imperial examination. Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Tan Zhonglin wrote in the case report to the imperial court: According to the confession of the arrested criminal Lu Haodong and others, they found out that the lottery issuing authority had accumulated millions of tickets, so they wanted to rob the gambling funds and attack the seat of the lottery authority-Xiguan, Guangzhou (now Liwan).Among them, Yang Quyun, the main criminal, recruited 500 people in Hong Kong and entered Guangzhou in batches.Sun Wen, the mastermind behind the scenes, found three places in Guangzhou to arrange for them to live... The plan was to start on the ninth day of the Double Ninth Festival, but the manpower was not available, so it was changed to the twelfth day. Unexpectedly, the police arrested and solved the case on the tenth day.

Of course, this was definitely not a "robbery case", but an armed riot, which is called the first Guangzhou Uprising in the history of the Kuomintang party. However, Tan Zhonglin thinks that this is a simple robbery of gambling money, and he has two reasons: first, this group of people is really aiming at these millions of gambling money, and the goal is clear; second, most of this group of people are green forest heroes , from the rivers and lakes, has a criminal record, it is a bit unconvincing to say that they have transformed into a revolutionary party so quickly. What the imperial court thinks of the people involved in this robbery is actually not important. The important thing is that we saw the long-lost Sun Yat-sen again during the robbery.

To be honest, the timing of the riots chosen by Sun Yat-sen is not bad.At the beginning of the year, the Sino-Japanese War was in full swing, the entire Beiyang Fleet was wiped out, the Japanese army was attacking Beijing, and the Qing Dynasty was shaken. Who cares to pay attention to the movements of such a small man?Therefore, Sun Yat-sen decided to "establish an independent republic in Guangdong and Guangxi". Of course, he did not expect that the Guangzhou riot planned to be held on the Double Ninth Festival (October 26) failed completely because his comrades were spotted by the patrol because of their suspicious behavior.

This time, Sun Yat-sen's right-hand man, Lu Haodong, was arrested and died.However, Lu Haodong left a precious legacy—the blue sky and white sun flag designed by himself, which will become the symbol of the Kuomintang and its regime in the future. Seriously speaking, the failure of uprisings in the early days of a revolution is generally due to one reason: leaked information.I don't know if there are traitors among them, or the people's hearts are for the Qing Dynasty, or they are too high-profile.But one fact is certain: the team is not easy to manage, unorganized, and undisciplined, because they are all people in the rivers and lakes.This time, it was because these bosses were not punctual that Tan Zhonglin was given a chance.

Let's talk about the heroes of the green forest who "didn't succeed, but failed more" in this robbery.