Chapter 41 Shanghai No. 2: Storms Grabbing the Land

Anyone who has read it knows that when a warlord occupies a large state, he will inevitably send troops to the state's affiliated or even adjacent counties and counties that are not affiliated to the state, to remove the chief appointed by the original officials and replace them with own people.If there is resistance during this process, it will be resolved by force.This process is called "land grabbing".Many things in Romance are made up, they are stories, but the land grabbing is real.The reason for plundering land was because the Han Dynasty was in decline, the central government was ineffective, and in an era of warlords fighting for land, everyone robbed land, and whoever had the ability to grab it would own it.After winning the state, he became the state shepherd himself, but the counties and counties under him did not necessarily have to obey. If they wanted to actually control it, they had to use force.The principle of the warlords is to grab land, the more they grab, the better. Of course, it is natural to rob across borders. If you want to gain a foothold, you must plunder land.

The Revolution of 1911 also saw the rise of all heroes, everyone vying for the deer, the big deer vying, and the little deer also chasing each other.The revolutionaries in various places did not have a unified organization and deployment, and each worked in his own way.Those who start early and move quickly, and grab the provincial capital, are the governors, and those who start late can only grab larger cities.Snatch it, and it is also known as the governor to the outside world, and it is almost equal to the governor in the province, and no one will buy it.After becoming a governor, similar to the warlords at the end of the Han Dynasty, he also sent troops to plunder land and expand his territory.

Shanghai had a special status in the late Qing Dynasty. According to the administrative division, it was only a county seat, but since the opening of the port, its status has become increasingly important, so a provincial government agency, Daotai, was installed.In view of the fact that the Dao, which governs the place, is actually equivalent to a first-level administrative agency higher than the government, the administrative status of Shanghai is equal to the administrative region second only to the province.By the year of 1911, Shanghai had become the No. 1 commercial port in China and even in the Far East, with a population of more than one million in the urban area.Its actual status, both economically and politically, far exceeds that of Suzhou, the capital of Jiangsu Province, and Nanjing, the seat of the governor of Liangjiang. Its actual status does not match its administrative unit, but no one will underestimate it.At that time, the Revolutionary Party attached great importance to Shanghai.Several well-known figures, Tao Chengzhang, Li Xiehe and Chen Qimei, were planning to instigate an uprising in Shanghai.

Although it is said that members of the Restoration Society represented by Zhang Taiyan and Tao Chengzhang had fallen out with Sun Yat-sen before Xinhai, Chen Qimei, who was pro-grandson, Tao Chengzhang, who was against Sun Yat-sen, and Li Xiehe, who was in the middle, fought against Sun Yat-sen during the uprising. During the process, they were able to cooperate, at least they did not tear each other down.Since most of the new army stationed in Shanghai were in Wusong, and most of the members were from Hunan, it was more convenient for Li Xiehe, as a native of Hunan, to act as an intermediary, and the new army supported him more.But Chen Qimei and Tao Chengzhang are gang leaders and have great influence in the Shanghai Qinghong Gang.In the crucial battle against the manufacturing bureau, Chen Qimei performed outstandingly, rushing in desperately, and was finally caught. He stepped forward to enter the manufacturing bureau and lobbied the opponent to surrender.Although he didn't succeed, this kind of courage to enter the tiger's den won him honor, and soon the head of the manufacturing bureau fled.The Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, founded by Li Hongzhang, is the arms factory second only to the Hanyang Arsenal. After taking over this large factory, the revolutionary army in the southeast, at least in terms of ammunition, will not have to worry about it.Although Chen Qimei cannot be credited with this great contribution, it does have his share.Therefore, although Li Xiehe was the interim commander-in-chief of the attack on the Manufacturing Bureau, at the subsequent meeting to select the governor of the Shanghai Army, a group of youth gang leaders drew their pistols and slapped the table, and forced Chen Qimei to be the governor in a semi-forced and semi-democratic manner.As a result, the contradictions between the people of the Restoration Society and Chen Qimei, who supported Sun, and his party members suddenly became acute.In terms of revolutionary experience, Li Xiehe and Tao Chengzhang are both much older than Chen Qimei, and Li Xiehe has more armed forces in his hands. Therefore, many people who support Li feel aggrieved.Tao Chengzhang and the Hong gang forces in Jiangsu and Zhejiang behind him were also resentful.The two sides were at war, and Chen Qimei felt great pressure.Therefore, the roots of Chen Qimei's assassination of Tao Chengzhang by Chiang Kai-shek were also planted the following year.

Li Xiehe is a veteran who has joined the three revolutionary associations of the Tongmenghui, the Restoration Society and the Huaxing Society. Relatively speaking, his temperament is relatively peaceful.Judging the situation, I don't want to conflict with Chen Qimei.But the new army who supported him couldn't swallow this breath, so they established another military government in Wusong, and made Li the governor of Wusong.Therefore, in fact, the recovery of Shanghai gave birth to two revolutionary governments. Both governments need to seize land and expand their power.Both are in the territory of Jiangsu, so the hand reaches out to Jiangsu.In the place of Taicang, a battle for land was staged.In the Qing Dynasty, Taicang had two administrative units, one was Taicang Prefecture of Zhili Prefecture and the other was Zhenyang County.The state is virtual, and the county is real.Before the Shanghai Army and the Wusong Military Government sent people to plunder the land, the governor of Jiangsu, Cheng Dequan, had already declared independence, ordering all prefectures and counties to hang a white flag for independence.Zhizhou has only been in office for less than five days, and he doesn't want to be an official in the new dynasty when the situation is not clear, so he handed over the seal as soon as possible.The county magistrate is an honest man, but he is a bit obsessed. Immediately after receiving the power, a white flag was hung up, and a letter was written "Independence by the Constitution", which means independence by the governor's will.At this time, fifty soldiers from the Wusong military government came to the city. After entering the city, they opened up their posture to fight and attacked the county office.Local people came forward and said that it has become independent.However, the revolutionary soldiers on the Wusong side were not satisfied with this. The revolution required not only a change of family, but also a change of content.So the person in charge was changed, the magistrate handed over the seal and left, and the person in charge was changed to the head of civil affairs.At this moment, the military government of the Shanghai Army also sent more than 30 people to arrive.When they discovered that there was already a revolutionary party in the city, they claimed that it was false.Of course people from Wu Song's side will not do it, and the two sides will fight.There are no fewer than two or three hundred people in Taicang who come to watch the excitement.It was a fashion in that era to treat war as a drama. It was not until the 1920s that the war became more intense and the bullets did not have eyes, so the audience disappeared.

Of course, if you really want to move guys, there are many people on one side and few people on the other. The originally aggressive Shanghai military personnel feel that they lack confidence.After the Taicang gentry, who were very unwilling to start a war, made peace, the two sides finally found out that everyone was their own, and they were both revolutionary comrades. The misunderstanding was only due to poor coordination.The Shanghai Army recognized the administrators selected by Wu Song, and a conflict became invisible.The Shanghai Army withdrew, and the Wusong Army left behind 20 guards.Of course, with this result, the Shanghai Army was furious. Too few people came. If there were more people, the result would be Wu Song's concession.They all forgot that what they robbed twice was actually Cheng Dequan's territory.

There are some such plundered lands in various places.The plundering made the revolutionary party even more disunity.In comparison, Chen Qimei's power expanded the fastest and played a pivotal role in the revolutionary process.Tao Chengzhang was finally assassinated in the hospital by his revolutionary comrades. Li Xiehe gradually became disheartened. He was the first to quit politics and became a business tycoon. He was closely related to the Yuan Shikai government after the Second Revolution. The Six Gentlemen of the Chou'an Association have become counter-revolutionaries advocating restoration in the eyes of the world.