Chapter 68 Zhang Ji: The Revolutionary Stick Drinking Party Logic

The struggle between revolution and imperialism was a big public case in the late Qing Dynasty.The leaders of the revolution were Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing, and the leaders of the royalist party were Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao. The former advocated revolution and the latter advocated reform.In terms of the qualifications to make troubles, Sun Yat-sen was earlier, but the disturbances were relatively large, and Kang Liang was even more important.The period from the Sino-Japanese War to the beginning of the New Deal was basically the era of the Kang Party.After all, a Hundred Days Restoration is earth-shattering.Until the rise of domestic constitutionalists, their souls were also Kang Liang's thoughts.The Revolutionary Party came from behind. According to textbooks, it was due to a great controversy. The Revolutionary Party defeated the Royalist Party with their brilliant pen.But this is really hard to judge. In a pen battle between the two, it is impossible to calculate who wins and who loses.Until the outbreak of the Revolution of 1911, it was not necessarily true that the Kangliang faction had no market at all.Of course, one thing is certain, since the founding of the League, the momentum of the Revolutionary Party has indeed picked up.But this rise is not just relying on the pen.

During the Reform Movement of 1898, the Kang Party went into exile overseas.As failed exiles of a national transformation, they had a natural advantage.In all parts of the world, especially in places where Chinese and overseas Chinese gather, Kangliang people are not only supported by Chinese who want China to change, but also favored by political groups, politicians, and even governments around the world.Kang Youwei is another politician who knows how to put on a show.A so-called clothing order that was not originally intended for him was hyped up to the extreme by him.This little seventh-rank chief who only met Emperor Guangxu on a routine basis has become the emperor's master, the uncrowned imperial envoy of the Qing Dynasty.Anyone who wants to see him not only has to buy goods, but also has to kneel and kowtow.In this way, overseas admirers flocked to the road.Kang Youwei's scraps of paper have become treasures.As a politician in exile, Kang Youwei really had enough of his addiction—the addiction of acting as an emperor.Not only that, the Kang Party also used the Yidai Zhao to raise money, saying that the Yidai Zhao gave Kang Youwei the power to confer titles on overseas Chinese, princes, uncles, fifth-class nobles, and all kinds of riding captains, Yundu Wei.The rewards are equal, no matter where you are, you will be rewarded whenever you see money.A duke is 10,000, and the following will be reduced successively.I don't know if it's because he didn't bother to do it, or because he wasn't skilled enough in fakery at that time. Anyway, Kang Youwei was just talking like that, and he didn't even bother to make a fake clothes belt edict.Whenever someone proposes to verify their authenticity, they will definitely refute it directly, and the clothes and belts will never be shown to others.

In those days, the emperor was very important in the eyes of overseas Chinese, so the royalist party was very powerful.However, the area of ​​activity of the revolutionaries overlaps with that of the royalists.To launch an uprising in China, not only the funds must come from overseas, but even the key personnel must rely on overseas.Therefore, the location of the overseas Chinese, whether it is Chinatown in America or the Chinese district in Southeast Asia, is bound to become a battleground between the revolutionary royalists and the royalist parties.The Royalist Party held a meeting with a large number of people, but the Revolutionary Party was sparsely populated.Sun Yat-sen was in the American continent, and wherever he went, he was in the territory of the royalists. In every Chinese club, there was probably a portrait of Emperor Guangxu hanging in it.It’s fine if you don’t attack the royalists when you give a speech, but if you scold the royalists, everyone will leave.

The revolution defeated the royalists, relying on the awl (pen) and the speech, but at that time relying on these two was not enough, so the stick came on the stage.The most famous leading actor in martial arts is Zhang Ji, the veteran of the Kuomintang, who later played the role of a civil servant.But at the beginning, he was a master of fighting.At first, he was a student studying in Japan from the Qing Dynasty. After arriving in Japan, he couldn't stand the Japanese squeeze, so he cut off the braids on the back of his head in a rage, which made Yao, the supervisor of studying abroad, make a fuss.Zhang Jiwu was so angry that he made an appointment with Chen Duxiu and Zou Rong, the braid-cutting parties who were also in Japan, and found a scandal. One hugged the waist, the other held the head, and the other swung the scissors. The braids were also cut.From then on, these three treasures can only be professional revolutionaries.

A person who dares to touch the head of the supervisor of studying abroad, who cares about the royalists?Zhang Ji's weapon was a thick jujube cane. Whenever the royalist party held a meeting, he would take a group of people there. Just as Liang Qichao was about to speak, Zhang Ji yelled: "Red deer!" (meaning jerk in Japanese) fly up to the stage, and hit with a stick.Liang Qichao and the others wanted to argue with him at first, but they didn't expect that the jujube stick recruited the meat, and the scholar met the soldier, so he had no choice but to run away.According to Nan Guixin, a member of the Shanxi Revolutionary Party who participated in the party, they defeated the royalist party and continued to give speeches at the original venue.Since then, whenever the royalists gathered, Zhang Ji didn't know what to do, and he would definitely fight. There were many royalists, but not many who could fight, and Zhang Ji couldn't hold back Zhang Ji's stick and call the party brave.The Japanese police don't like to take care of the promiscuous affairs between the Chinese, so just like this, the royalist party's momentum withered.They followed suit, and the revolutionaries in other places also beat them in the same way. Xu Qin, a royalist who came to Singapore to give a speech, couldn't escape quickly, and was beaten so badly that he never wanted to come to this place again.At that time, there were four major thugs in the league, and Zhang Ji ranked first.No matter what year it is, if you want to build momentum, actions and words are more effective than words.

However, the loss of power of the Royalist Party was not entirely due to the beatings of the Revolutionary Party's thugs. They also had their own problems.Pulling people and making money at the same time, the method is to deceive people, and the Menghua people are fine, and sometimes foreigners are deceived.At any time, there are foreigners who are keen to meddle in China's affairs.Some people paid for the titles sold by Kang and Liang. Canadian Comchanber bought a baron from Liang Qichao.Liang Qichao then named him the Generalissimo of the Chinese People's Army, stationed in Auckland, and trained Chinese children.But unexpectedly, his teacher Kang Youwei also appointed another American who had paid, Homer Lee, as a general of the Chinese Imperial Army of the Reformation, with the title of viscount and stationed in Los Angeles.Unfortunately, the two met and each demanded the other's orders.The foreigner was serious, and no one would compromise, so they fought and went to court.There was a lot of trouble, and the reputation of the royalist party was bad.Later, that lotus plum actually defected to Sun Yat-sen.During the Revolution of 1911, Sun Yat-sen returned to China as the interim president, and brought back this foreign fake General Li.According to Liu Chengyu, a member of the revolutionary party, the Meixi Villa in the north of Nanjing City is the mansion of General Li, and the sign "General Li Xingyuan" is hung on the door.I don't know if there are any soldiers under General Li's command besides the servants?

In fact, what really determined the victory or defeat of the revolution and imperialism was not debates or sticks, but the policies of the domestic Qing government.If the policies of the Qing government had always been relatively correct and could fully satisfy the interests of local power factions and gentry, royalists would definitely have the upper hand, and the revolution would basically be out of the question.On the contrary, as long as the imperial court made a mistake, and it was a big mistake that would not be corrected, such as desperately seizing power, defeating the country and sitting on the country, the revolution would have a chance.