Chapter 3 second quarter

Xu Xilin is undoubtedly the most prominent one among the countless rebellions in the era of the transition from the old to the new. Born in a rich merchant family in 1873, he received a good education since he was a child, but he was never restless.At the age of twelve, in order to find a monk to "learn martial arts", he went deep into the mountains and disappeared without a trace. The family made great efforts to find him and strictly restrained him; Woke up in the middle of the night to "watch the stars at night", never tired of it; married Xu Zhenhan as his wife as an adult, and was infertile for several years after marriage. His family wanted to marry another house for him, but he firmly refused, and then ran away with his wife.

Before making up his mind to enter the officialdom and take up the incident, Xu Xilin had contacted a large number of revolutionary comrades in Zhejiang.In order to lay a good foundation for this arduous undertaking, Xu Xilin worked so hard that he never took off his shoes and socks when he went to sleep. When he woke up, he found that he couldn’t take off his shoes and socks because the blood from his worn-out feet had glued his feet to the shoes and socks. together. This passionate person will definitely go deep into history! After arriving in Anqing, Xu Xilin was in charge of school affairs in the post run by the Wubei Academy. With the trust and promotion of Tu Enming, he obtained a more favorable position, while secretly preparing for the major events in the plan.Because he was recommended by his teacher Yu Lian-san, En Ming had no doubts about him, and admired his school achievements, and planned to cultivate and reuse him.And Xu Xilin soon felt that this military training school was not at all confidential, and the salary of tens of silver dollars a month was not enough for him to engage in underground activities, so he wrote to ask his cousin Yu Liansan to invite Tuo Enming again.

At that time, Xu Xilin bought a Taoist priest and spent a lot of money, but the money was not taken from his family by Xu Xilin, but was donated by Xu Zhongqing, a member of the party and a wealthy businessman. Bought prefect, co-prefect and other positions.Now that he is not being reused, his cousin Yu Liansan, who had been active for Xu Xilin's donation, felt sorry, so he wrote to Enming again, asking him to mention his nephew. Enming replied respectfully and politely: "The students are just about to use it, so there is no need for the teacher to worry about it... It is suitable to set up a patrol school. With the talent of Bosun (Xu Xilin), he is expected to be competent."

At the beginning of 1907, Xu Xilin was indeed promoted by En Ming to be the president of the police academy and the president of the police department. The Anhui Patrol Academy is located in Baihuating (now Anqing No. 2 Middle School) in the northeast corner of Anqing City. It was founded in 1906 when the Qing government ordered the provinces to set up patrol schools. It is a place for the Qing government to train the backbone of the patrol police.The students are divided into two classes, A and B, with 200 students in each class, and each term is three months (later changed to half a year).Class B will be trained after class A graduates.The students who participated in the training each fired a nine-shot Mauser. After graduation, most of them were assigned to serve as police officers in various parts of the province, so it was also called the Police Academy.

Xu Xilin was delighted by this position.The Patrol Academy is similar to today's Police Academy, where the vice-president is the general office, and the general office is the dean.At that time, the general office of the Anhui Patrol Academy was an old man who had retired from the second line and was recuperating, so Xu Xilin was the actual person in charge.The Police Academy is very important to Anhui Province. If you are in charge of this academy, you don’t have to worry about not having the opportunity to meet En Ming, the number one official in Anhui Province. In addition, the students in this academy are all armed with guns. strength.

While strictly training the students, he instilled revolutionary principles in the students. At the same time, Xu Xilin was still in contact with the four directions, and led the backbone of the students out of Jixian Pass, visited Longzhu Mountain and Guanyin Pavilion, secretly observed the terrain, and drew military maps. The performance of Xu Xilin who conspired to start an incident gradually attracted the attention of the witty people.A revenue and expenditure committee member named Gu Song in the school found that Xu Xilin had several accounts that were unclear, and also found that this confidant had bold speeches in class and secretive whereabouts after class, so he secretly observed and opened Xu Xilin's letters privately.

Gu Song quickly confirmed Xu Xilin's plot, and was startled, and hurriedly reported to En Ming, saying that this seemingly loyal Xu Xilin was a revolutionary party.En Ming smiled and said, "Revolution is not made by bluffing, and the Revolutionary Party is not just bluffing and bluffing; Xu Huifan is just bluffing, not revolution. You are overthinking." This border official and relative of the emperor with two bushy mustaches on his lips is very confident in his judgment: Xu Xilin's recommendation is his teacher Yu Liansan, how could Yu's former governor's nephew be a revolutionary party?Can you kill yourself?The second is that after Xu Xilin came to Anqing, under his esteem, his official career went smoothly, and his future was promising--was Xu Xilin crazy to be a revolutionary party with his head tied to his belt instead of being a good official?Moreover, a person of En Ming's age and experience could not understand an intellectual youth like Xu Xilin very well. He was nothing more than an "angry youth" who liked to express some new ideas and was proud of daring to speak strange things.

He didn't take Gu Song's report seriously, but out of vigilance and a warning to Xu Xilin, En Ming deliberately said to him face to face: Some people say you are a revolutionary party.Xu Xilin replied disdainfully: My lord has learned a lot.With a look of being too lazy to argue, En Ming felt more at ease. En Ming's carelessness brought him one step closer to the gate of hell.