Chapter 31 Chapter Thirty-One

The revolution came as soon as it was said, and it came quickly and arrogantly. In the autumn of this year, the first cannon rang in Wuchang City, and the Hubei Military Government of the Republic of China was established, shaking the whole country.The Qing court panicked, and in desperation used Yuan Xiangcheng.Xiang Cheng led the Beiyang officers and soldiers to swear to Guo De, and immediately sent his troops southward, advancing into the three towns of Wuhan, and forming a confrontation with the new Republic of China across the river. When the news reached Shicheng, the Revolutionary Party took advantage of the momentum in Wuchang to make a big fuss.

In just ten days after the Wuchang incident, the Jiang Fanghui Office and the prefect's yamen were bombed three times. Twice it went off, and once it didn't. The most praised by the people of Shicheng is the third time, the bombing of the Jiangfang will run the government. More than a dozen male and female students who were new to the school, not afraid of death, rushed into the gate of Huiban Mansion in broad daylight with bombs in their hands and earthen guns in their hands.The green battalion soldiers fired indiscriminately, knocking down all the students on Yanjiang Avenue, and the students still blew the bombs they brought.

A female student hissed after detonating the bomb: "Long live the Republic of China!" The government was terrified, and Mr. Huiban and Mr. Deng sent out all the officers and soldiers from the Green Battalion and the Patrol Battalion to arrest the revolutionaries day and night.Regardless of whether it is true or false, if the suspected revolutionary party is arrested, they will be killed if they are caught. If they are killed, their heads will be put in special wooden cages and hung at the gate of the city for public display. For a time, Shicheng was full of blood and blood, and it was unknown how many wild ghosts and innocent souls were created in the name of revolution.

This shocked Liu Jiachang, the commander of the Eighth Association of the New Army stationed outside the east gate of Shicheng. Liu Xietong was not prepared to respond to the government of the Republic of Wuchang and carry out a revolution to restore Shicheng, but the officers and soldiers of the Green Battalion of the Manchus arrested and killed people like this under the orders of the Jiangfang Council and Mr. Deng. Liu Xietong couldn't stand it anymore. Just want to move. However, the revolutionary situation was still unclear at that time, and the two thousand brothers under Liu Xietong's horse and artillery were outside the city. Liu Xietong wanted to move but couldn't, so he endured it first.The revolutionary party students of the Road and Mine School knelt in front of Liu Xietong and begged Liu Xietong to raise troops, but Liu Xietong did not respond.

Liu Xietong said to the students of the Road and Mine School: "You must know that if you do many unrighteous actions, you will die yourself. Their good days will not be too long." Sure enough, not long after, news came from all over the country that this province is independent today, and that province will be independent tomorrow. After counting, most of China belongs to the Republic of China.The independent provinces also held a meeting in Shanghai and unanimously recognized the Hubei military government of the Republic of China as the interim government representing the whole of China.

The territory under the rule of the Qing Dynasty was pitifully small. Only then did Liu Xietong decide that his new army was "bearable", so on the night of the 15th day of the lunar calendar, he personally led more than 2,000 brothers from the whole Association, and under the support of Qian Guandai of the patrol battalion, they secretly entered Shicheng from Jubaomen, and set out to destroy them. Man Xinghan's banner suddenly raised an alarm. This is a day that determines the history of Shicheng. On this history-determining day, Liu Xietong quietly came to the large garden opposite the Jiangfanghui Office in the middle of the night, sitting in eight sedan chairs and dragging a dozen iron cannons. Fight to the death.

When Liu Xietong came to the big garden, he actually got under the nose of the master who would do it, but the master would not know it. It's no wonder that Liu Xietong is too cunning and knows how to use suspicious soldiers. During the day, Liu Xietong also invited the director of the association to watch the New Army drills in the eastern suburbs, but at night, troubles broke out, and no one could prevent it.When we got to the big garden, the brothers of Paobiao had set up the iron cannons against the Jiangfanghui Office, and many brothers hadn't seen Liu Xietong's face yet.

Liu Xietong didn't get out of the eight-carried sedan chair at all that night. After setting up the iron cannon, Liu Xietong decided to give courtesy first and then soldiers, so he personally drafted the "Letter of Advice" to Mr. Huiban, Mr. Deng, and the green camp in the eight-carried sedan chair. Liu Xietong is capable of martial arts as well as literature, and the "Admonition Book" is written with great literary talent. It begins with the passage: "The country is a country where the people are a million people, and the world is a world where a great Han is the world. Is there anyone who steals the country and the world from a foreign race and survives for hundreds of millions of years? Wuchang It is God's will that the world responds to a righteous deed. Don't you see that the general trend of the revolution has been achieved, and the people of the Republic of China want to..."

Therefore, Liu Xietong advised Mr. Huiban and Mr. Deng to follow the trend of the people, persuade Lvying to put down his arms, and work with him to achieve the peaceful restoration of Shicheng. Mr. Huiban and Mr. Deng who were loyal to the Qing Dynasty were neither moved by Liu Xietong's literary talents, nor did they want the peace that Liu Xietong sent to them. They killed the brothers who sent the "Admonition Letter", and ordered to bombard the big garden where Liu Xietong was in. . Only then did Liu Xietong get serious and ordered to fire. Dozens of cannons rumbled. Flames and smoke instantly flooded the Jiang Fanghui Office.

It will be urgent for the government. Master Huiban didn't know that Qian Guandai had participated in the uprising, so he ordered Qian Guandai to lead the officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion to come for reinforcements. Liu Xietong of the army formed a pincer attack trend. Master Huiban and Mr. Deng, the magistrate's yamen, panicked. They abandoned the Jiangfang Huiban Mansion, which could have been guarded for a while, and fled across the river with hundreds of remnants of the green battalion.Running in a hurry, Mr. Huiban and Mr. Deng's boat capsized accidentally, and the two adults fell into the river and drowned, and Shicheng was restored.

This changed the dynasty and entered the Republic of China. Liu Xie has made great contributions in resolving the people's misfortune, restored Shicheng, and has the support of his two thousand brothers, so it is logical that he becomes the new master of Shicheng. This new master was originally called the Military Governor's Office, which was appointed by Liu Xietong.Not long after, Liu Xietong was officially appointed by the President of the Republic of China, and then changed his name in accordance with the establishment of the Republic of China, and was called the guard envoy. To be a revolutionary party is no longer beheading, and the revolutionary party will become popular. Less than a month after the liberation, the revolutionary party was everywhere in the street, and even Ma Wuye and his gang brothers became the revolutionary party, and they cut men's braids everywhere in a high-spirited way. Ma Wuye warmly welcomes the revolution, brags about the revolutionary party friends he made in the past, and goes to Ma Erye's house to scare Ma Erye with a five-gun Mauser, making a fool of himself. With a very caring look, he asked Second Master Ma to be careful about his old life. Ma Erye and some of the gentry in the city were dumbfounded by this change, and always felt that they were dreaming. No matter what they said, they just didn't believe that the Qing Dynasty was over like this. They also encouraged each other not to forget the past. If you don't forget the previous dynasty, you can't cut your braids. This violates the "Braid Cutting Order" clearly promulgated by the government of the Republic of China, and it also gives Ma Wuye an excuse to blackmail. Ma Wuye charges pigtail protection fees to Ma Erye and his group of antiques who don't cut their braids one by one, and the monthly standard is two taels of silver.Because of Bu Shouru's relationship, Ma Wuye took extra care of Ma Erye, and the monthly guide actually collected twelve taels.After collecting the protection fee, they did not carry out the responsibility of protection, but told the second master Ma to be careful and tie up their braids so that no one's head would fall to the ground. Ma Wuye said convincingly: "When the Ming Dynasty was changed to the Qing Dynasty, the hair was kept but not the head, and the head was not kept; now the revolution, the Qing Dynasty was replaced by the Republic of China, and the Han people took over the country again, so the rules were changed and the rules were kept. Keep the braids but not the braids, keep the hair but not the braids." Ma Erye was so angry that he didn't have Mr. Deng as his backer, so he didn't dare to fight head-on with Ma Wuye, so he hid at home every day and smoked opium. Lying on the cigarette couch, I recalled the good times when the Great Qing Emperor sat on the Dragon Court.Sometimes when I think about it, tears and snot flow all over my face. As time went on, Master Ma's hatred for the revolution grew day by day. In the midst of hatred, Second Master Ma pointed a bong at Bu Shouru more than once, saying that revolution was treason, and there was no good thing in the revolutionary party. Even if the second master ends here, he will never have any more contact with a bastard like Ma Wuye. Whenever Bu Shouru heard what Ma Erye said, he always pretended not to hear it and ignored it at all. At that time, his son Tianci was born, and Bu Shouru nursed him himself. Erye Ma wanted to hire a nanny for Tianci, but Bu Shouru didn't want it. Bu Shouru was afraid that the nanny would nurse the child, and that the child would not be considerate to him when the child grew up. In the winter of 1911, Tianci was over one year old. He looked very much like Bu Shouru, and his small appearance was very pleasing. Bu Shouru took it easy because of the gift from God, and only let Third Lord Qiu take care of his sedan chair, so he was fine, and his contact with Fifth Master Ma was also rare.Sometimes looking at Tianci's rosy face, Bu Shouru even thought that from now on, she had to be a good mother. What kind of sedan chair, sedan chair, revolution and restoration are really not her business as a woman. However, Second Master Ma always lay on the couch and cursed the revolution, and kept talking about the good times when Mr. Deng was in charge of Shicheng in the previous dynasty, forcing Bu Shouru to remember a lot of past events in due course. The bloody smell of the past made Bu Shouru tremble in his heart. Only then did Bu Shouru realize that she couldn't just let it go, she had to take advantage of Second Master Ma's good times to end, and try her best to prop up her own world. At that time, Bu Shouru had decided that Erye Ma's life as a man who conquered the world was over.Looking at Erye Ma's old face on the cigarette couch, Bu Shouru thought more than once that this old bastard would one day sleep with his eyes closed and bring his hatred for the revolution with him. This revolution really came at a good time. The things Ma Erye hates must be good things. If you think about it, it's true, the revolution is really good.The revolution caused Mr. Deng, whom Erye Ma relied on, to kill Jiangzhong, and Erye Ma lost his good time.But the revolution didn't take away the Mashi Road in Shicheng. Red and green sedan chairs are still running on the Mashi Road in Shicheng.Liu Xietong, who served as the guardian envoy of the Republic of China, still loves sedan chairs just like Mr. Deng in the former Qing Dynasty. He said that the sedan chairs walking all over the street are a scene of Shicheng and a symbol of local stability. So, one day when Master Ma attacked the revolution again, Bu Shouru smiled and said, "Why are you always scolding? What's wrong with this revolution? Wouldn't the revolution just get rid of you?" Little pigtail? I didn’t take off your sedan chair!” Ma Erye dropped his pipe and said: "You only know the sedan chair number and the sedan chair, but you don't know the righteousness of the world!" Bu Shouru thought it was amused: "What is the righteousness of the world? I know your righteousness. Isn't it easy to hug Mr. Deng's thick legs inside and out?" Ma Erye said: "Lord Deng and I are one thing, but the righteousness of the world is another. If you don't even want the Holy Majesty, will there be a good one in this world?" He also said darkly: "Don't look at the fierce disturbances in the Republic of China today. It's hard to say what will happen in the future! Isn't it very fierce when Changmao was in chaos? So many kings were sealed, but look, Changmao today Where is it? Wasn't Zeng Xiangguo exterminated all of them?" Bu Shouru sneered and said, "It's a pity that your Zeng Xiangguo died long ago, and you can't come back!" Ma Erye sighed again, and said while sighing: "Zeng Xiangguo is not here, there will still be righteous men who work hard to protect the king and protect the country, just watch it..." Bu Shouru said viciously: "Okay, even if there is a righteous man who is diligent and protect the country, even if the old man of the emperor can still sit in the Dragon Court, you and Ma Er are still finished. You can't wait for that day!" Ma Erye was so angry that he grabbed the teacup on the cigarette couch and threw it at Bu Shouru. Bu Shouru tilted his body, and the teacup fell on the opposite wall and shattered. Tianci in his arms cried out in fright. As soon as Tianci cried, Second Master Ma felt distressed, and hurriedly got up from the cigarette couch, trying to snatch the child from Bu Shouru. Bu Shouru refused, pushed Erye Ma away, patted Tianci, gave him a cold look, turned around and left... the heart of supporting the revolution was almost forced out by Erye Ma so little. Naturally, it is also because of the sedan chair, and because of the guard Liu who loves sedan chairs. I heard from Ma Wuye and the brothers in the gang that Liu Zhenshou did not ride a horse when he commanded the incident, but sat in a sedan chair carrying eight.Bu Shouru thought very sincerely, even for Liu Zhenshou who loves sedan chairs so much, she has to support the revolution. However, despite this, Bu Shouru never thought of using the revolutionary leader Liu Zhenshou to expand his territory and prosper his sedan industry.Later, the acquaintance between Bu Shouru and Liu Zhenshou was not the result of deliberate drilling, but Liu Zhenshou came to the door.