Chapter 19 Li Yuanhong Fakes Yuan Shikai: The Vice President Killed the Chief Hero

The revolution was successful, and Wuchang's first righteous heroes were all praised to the sky.After all, people took risks and made troubles, and fired the first shot, and the Republic of China came into existence.However, the days of the Republic of China had not yet passed a year. On August 15, 1912, Zhang Zhenwu, a great hero of the Wuchang Uprising, and his subordinate Fang Wei, were arrested by the Military Law Department in Beijing and executed on the same day.Zhang Zhenwu is one of the first three martial arts, the so-called Sun Wu, Jiang Yiwu, and Zhang Zhenwu.All three are veteran revolutionaries. Sun Wu is one of the founders of the Gongjinhui, Zhang Zhenwu is the backbone of the Gongjinhui, and Jiang Yiwu is the head of the Literature Society.During the planning process of the revolution, Zhang Zhenwu, like Liu Gong, belonged to the wealth owner of the Hubei Revolutionary Party because of his wealthy family, and his family property was almost sold out.After the uprising, the three of them were in charge of the Ministry of Military Affairs, which belonged to the core department of the Hubei Military Government.During the defense of Hanyang, Zhang Zhenwu fell into the water and almost lost his life.However, it is indeed a bit strange that the Shouyi hero who survived the war was executed by the Republic of China government established by himself after the war.

When Yuan Shikai killed the first hero, the public opinion was uproarious, the parliament was uproarious, and the Tongmenghui was also uproarious.Faced with overwhelming questions, Yuan Shikai released Li Yuanhong's secret telegram.Only then did everyone understand that it was Li Yuanhong's intention to kill Zhang Zhenwu.In Li Yuanhong's secret telegram, Zhang Zhenwu has two main crimes.One is the current crime, the so-called demagoguery, colluding with bandits, destroying the republic, and advocating evil.Several disturbances in Wuhan were all caused by him.The second is a historical issue. It is said that at the beginning of 1912, he took hundreds of thousands to buy firearms in Shanghai, squandered them, and was suspected of corruption.Moreover, according to Li's confidential telegram, it was said that after he arrived in Beijing, he often used the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway to go back and forth between Beijing and Han. Every time he came back, he made everyone in Wuhan nervous.

Some people say that Zhang Zhenwu was disrespectful to Li Yuanhong, the governor who was forced out by force, and yelled at Li Yuanhong at every turn, which led to the murder. I think this is just an inducement.Although it is said that the combination of the Revolutionary Party and Li Yuanhong was originally helpless.Li Yuanhong has become the number one hero of the Shouyi, and an old revolutionary like Zhang Zhenwu is absolutely impossible to take him seriously.However, it is unlikely that Li Yuanhong would be murderous just because of this.This kind of disrespectful resentment, at most, played the role of fueling the situation.Others said that it was the split among the revolutionaries themselves that contributed to the killing of Zhang Zhenwu, and Sun Wu was responsible for it.Indeed, after the war, the Three Wus already had rifts, especially between Sun Wu and Zhang Zhenwu.Sun Wu is a person who pulls a big banner. He obviously set up a new stove and established a joint progress association, but he still has to borrow the name of Sun Yat-sen. He is originally from Wuhan and has nothing to do with Sun Yat-sen, but he changed his name from Sun Baoren to Sun Wu. Lie Said to be Sun Wen's younger brother, and even changed his nickname to Mengfei and Yaoxian, corresponding to Sun Yat-sen's nicknames Yifei and Yixianyao.After the revolution, due to conflicts with the League, they started anew and established a civil society with Li Yuanhong as the leader, leaving the former "brother" aside.Therefore, those comrades in Hubei who still follow the banner of the Tongmenghui must settle accounts with him.But whether these contradictions will cause Sun Wu to ask Li Yuanhong to kill Zhang Zhenwu is really hard to say, at least, there is no evidence of this at present.

Of course, Li Yuanhong's secret telegram about Zhang Zhenwu's historical issues is nonsense. The war did not really stop at that time. Of course it is true that the revolutionaries spent money to mess around, but Zhang Zhenwu was not the only one who did this in the Hubei military government. Everyone They are spending indiscriminately, otherwise how would they spend so much money accumulated in Hubei?According to the situation at the time, there was some money spent indiscriminately, but corruption was not necessarily the case.Even if it is embezzled, if you don't catch it at the time and settle the score later, who will be convinced?Apparently, what really cost Zhang Zhenwu his life was the successive turmoil in central Hubei.These trends were a bit bigger, such as the Wuchang Army Qunyinghui incident. These people ransacked Sun Tzu's home, and were later suppressed. The officer Zhu Zhiliu and three others were killed.Then there was the wave of disarmament in Hubei. Veterans rioted and fired guns everywhere.Then there is the mutiny of the Nanhu cavalry against Li, the second bid of the cavalry, the whole team rebelled, and there are cooperating agencies in the city.Fortunately, Li Yuanhong learned the news in advance and took precautions to extinguish the mutiny.As for the small turmoil, almost every day.The demobilized veterans gathered in groups, or took to the streets to beg for food, or gathered crowds to make trouble, or besieged the Yamen to petition, which caused Li Yuanhong to be devastated.It is said that people are not allowed to set off firecrackers during the Chinese New Year. When they hear the firecrackers, everyone thinks that there is a mutiny, and the military and government officials can't stand it anymore.

During the revolution, we recruited troops aggressively for fear of shortage.In Hubei, there are already eight divisions and some scattered troops.After the war was over, in terms of financial resources at the time, Hubei could not afford to support so many troops. The only way was to lay off (before the war, Hubei had only one town and one association, and one division plus one brigade).It has always been easier to recruit troops than to disarm them.It is difficult to lay off officials after laying off soldiers.Hubei has been cut from eight divisions to three at once, and there is no way to keep chaos.It is said that Zhang Zhenwu does not agree with the disarmament.It's really hard to say whether he participated in various "down" winds and instigated a mutiny.Anyway, the reduction of troops will definitely lead to intensified fighting within the army-there are fewer positions.As soon as these revolutionary heroes got mixed up inside, fighting openly and secretly, all of them had so much energy, Li Yuanhong's chair couldn't sit still.Therefore, from a situational point of view, Li Yuanhong's killing to warn others will be of great benefit in suppressing the ground and stabilizing the situation.Having said that, judging from the reaction afterwards, those citizens who wanted peace and those soldiers who were not dismissed also supported the killing of Zhang Zhenwu.In any case, it doesn't matter whether the evidence is convincing or not. Killing a big head with arrogance is absolutely useful for deterring many veterans.

Of course, Li Yuanhong's job was not pretty.If you want to kill, just kill in Wuhan, as long as the evidence is solid, there is nothing wrong with it.However, on the one hand, they were sent to Beijing in a grand manner, saying that President Yuan Da had another appointment; on the other hand, President Yuan secretly sent a secret message to kill these people.Borrowing a knife to kill people, playing tricks on Yuan Shikai's head, of course he will use his axe.On the one hand, Yuan Shikai made a decisive decision and killed Zhang Zhenwu, completely destroying the relationship between the revolutionary party and Li Yuanhong; on the other hand, he published Li's secret telegram, and handed back the knife that Li Yuanhong borrowed to Li Yuanhong himself.This ensures that although the revolutionaries are filled with righteous indignation, they cannot fall out with themselves because of this.

Later, Zhang Zhenwu's body was transported back to Hubei and buried in his hometown.Passing through Wuchang, whether it was Sun Wu or Li Yuanhong, they all held the coffin and wept bitterly, and they were buried with extravagance.However, after this incident, both of them completely broke up with the League.The most important thing is that during the second revolution, Li Yuanhong completely sided with Yuan Shikai.The head of Zhang Zhenwu allowed Yuan Shikai to exchange for Li Yuanhong, a local powerful faction, to stand on his side. Later, in the showdown with the Revolutionary Party, he got a key strategic point.Whether intentional or unintentional, this job is well done, but it is indeed wicked enough.