Chapter 10 The second act is amazing!Late Qing!

In 1900, taking advantage of the Gengzi Change, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded, the Qing royal family fled, and at the time of the chaos in northern China, Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary party launched an armed uprising in Huizhou, Guangdong, the Huizhou Sanzhoutian Uprising.This uprising, in Sun Yat-sen's view, was the key to changing the situation.After this battle, the people of the country no longer regard them as traitors and traitors, but feel a little sympathetic to them.In fact, Sun Yat-sen would have misunderstood the meaning. The change in Chinese people's attitude towards them had little to do with this uprising, and it was mainly due to the perverse actions of the Qing court in the Gengzi Change.In Huizhou, which is considered a corner area even in Guangdong, a few rioters made trouble. At that time, there was no decent media and communication was not developed. How many people in the whole country knew about it?But in any case, the Sanzhoutian Uprising in Huizhou has a high status in the uprising pedigree of the revolutionaries.

The uprising, like the uprising of most revolutionaries, used the power of the party.Specifically in Huizhou, it is the congregation of the Hongmen Triad Society or the Three Points Society.Originally, the Hongmen in the late Qing Dynasty might not have had a strong political nature. The so-called anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty mission and the legendary history of resisting the imperial court were largely added after being oppressed by the imperial court.There are many people who have escaped from the land in the society. It is relatively easy to break away from the local patriarchal system to seek a living and have an organization. Whether it is a gang or a folk religion, it has emerged as the times require.The court didn't like such an organization, so it was natural to suppress it.However, the ancient imperial court was a weak government with weak control, and it was impossible to suppress this kind of organization.The real counterweight to these organizations is actually the gentry and clan organizations.As a result, the gang survived indiscriminately.Any anti-government forces that want to make a difference in politics will consciously think of them.The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom used them, and the radical reformers who were suppressed during the Reform Movement of 1898 also used gangs.Finally, it was the turn of the Revolutionary Party. As early as the early days of the Xingzhonghui, Sun Yat-sen had joined the Hongmen overseas, and his name was Honggun.It is the most convenient choice to dance guns and clubs in the country, raise the flag to rebel, and recruit this group that was originally regarded as illegal by the imperial court.

Huizhou is a place where the sky is high and the emperor is far away. It has its own system in Guangdong.Before the Wuchang Uprising of 1911, the Revolutionary Party launched a total of ten uprisings, and two of them were in Huizhou. For the Huidang, they are not too afraid of taking risks. They are refugees who often risk their lives and commit crimes and violate the law.Therefore, it is not difficult to instigate their uprising, but to do this kind of thing, you need money and guns.For the gang, this is not a revolution, and they don't understand what a revolution is, it's just a business, a bloody business.Compared with the usual small fights, this time it is just a little bigger.The Revolutionary Party has money. Every time there is an uprising, they will raise money overseas, and only when they have enough money can they start.After the uprising was launched, wages were paid to everyone on a daily basis, and Sun Yat-sen specially exchanged a lot of fragmentary Hong Kong dollars for this purpose.In addition, the leaders of the uprising also had to be rich, and they walked the streets and alleys. Everywhere they went, the uprising had to kill pigs, drink wine, and eat and drink.The things are not stolen, so it can be seen that there is money and he is quite rich.Guns are also easy to handle. Huizhou is close to Fujian. Opposite Fujian is Taiwan occupied by Japan. Fujian is also Japan's sphere of influence. Smuggling guns through Taiwan to Xiamen is generally not a problem.Therefore, the rebellious Hongmen has the latest quick grab.

The timing of the uprising was good.Beijing was occupied by the Eight-Power Allied Forces, and the world was in chaos.Taking advantage of the chaos is always a good opportunity.At the same time, Gentaro Kodama, the Japanese governor of Taiwan, had direct support for Sun Yat-sen's move (this is almost always the Japanese practice, always supporting the rebels of the Chinese government).Therefore, there were also a group of Japanese who participated in the uprising.There are more than a dozen people with names and surnames including Miyazaki Tozo, Hirayama Shu, Fukumoto Makoto, Haraguchi Bunichi, Endo Takao, Yamashita Ina, Ito Masaki, Osaki, Ito Iwasaki, and Yamada Yoshimasa, most of whom are related to the Black Dragon Association. Ronin, can be regarded as an "international column".The plan is for Zheng Shiliang and others to sneak into Sanzhoutian, Huizhou and organize it first.Then Sun Yat-sen came with all the "Chinese and Japanese comrades" to plan a great deal.Unexpectedly, after Zheng Shiliang went in to pull him up, the Hong Kong British authorities did not give him face, and Sun Yat-sen and the others were blocked in Hong Kong.Zheng Shiliang saw that the food and wages were almost exhausted, and the people were about to disperse, so he took a risk and launched a campaign. If he succeeded, he would occupy a place by the sea and wait for assistance from Taiwan.

When the uprising was launched, because the insurgents had excellent firearms, including Gatling guns and Mauser breech-loading guns, they took advantage of it for a while and defeated several Qing troops.When the Qing soldiers were captured, their braids were cut off and they were made to do coolies.However, the revolutionary propaganda of the insurgents was not very good. Although later generations called them revolutionary insurgents, the locals still called them red-headed thieves, as if these people were the same thing as the Red Scarf Army that rose up during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.The insurgents really wore red belts around their waists, red scarves on their heads, and red flags.The leader waits, with pheasant feathers on his head and red hydrangea on his chest.After the failure of the uprising, the leader who was killed by the Qing army still wore red silk tied into flower balls.Although the uprising was launched by the revolutionaries, the Hongmen who participated, like other farmers who raised the flag and rebelled, liked to use the skills they learned from the troupe in the uprising.

Although the Chinese imperial court disappeared for a while.But the local officials in Guangdong were considered responsible, and they left without hearing of any rebellion.The local militia didn't buy into the gang's account, and just helped the Qing army fight against the rebels.Although the rebel army once gathered nearly 20,000 people, the momentum was not small.However, at this time, the Japanese cabinet changed, Yamagata Aritomo stepped down, Ito Hirobumi came to power, and the new prime minister changed his policy and did not support Sun Yat-sen.It turned out that the firearms purchased from the Philippines were also cheated by cannibalism.As a result, the expected foreign aid was gone, the money was gone, the bullets were gone, the triad congregation dispersed, and the Japanese Yamada Yoshimasa died. Because he had braids and wore Qing Dynasty clothes, the Qing government pretended not to know , Japan did not pursue it.Zheng Shiliang had no choice but to walk, and the uprising failed.Naturally, the Qing court did not dare to pursue the issue of foreign forces, and negotiated with Japan, pretending that nothing happened, and endured it.Later, Sun Yat-sen went to Japan and erected a monument to Yamada Yoshimasa, saying that he was the first Japanese person to die for the Chinese revolution.

How the Japanese understand Sun Yat-sen's revolution is hard to say, but Hongmen actually has no understanding of revolution and doctrine, and can't understand it.Using them to revolt is tantamount to hiring people to rebel, money gathers with people, money disperses and people disperse.