Chapter 20 Section VI

After the Wuchang Uprising and the establishment of the Hubei Military Government, the news spread throughout the country. The fortresses of the Qing Dynasty were quickly destroyed, and the new local regimes declared "independence" to the Qing court. Twelve days after the Wuchang Uprising, on October 22, Changsha in Hunan and Xi'an in Shaanxi declared independence; A day later, Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province declared independence; Five days later, Shanxi Taiyuan declared independence; Two days later, Kunming, Yunnan Province declared independence; A day later, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province declared independence;

Three days later, Shanghai declared independence; A day later, Guiyang, Guizhou and Hangzhou, Zhejiang declared independence; A day later, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province declared independence; Two days later, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province declared independence; A day later, Anqing, Anhui declared independence; ... It was relatively late to voluntarily announce their separation from the Qing government. One was Yili in Xinjiang on the border, and the other was Luanzhou in Zhili, which was close to Beijing, the heart of the Qing Dynasty. Day announced anyway. It is worth mentioning that Yunnan, which is also a frontier province, launched the "Chongjiu Uprising" on October 30, 1911, less than three weeks after the Wuchang Uprising (the ninth day of September in the lunar calendar). Many officers and soldiers spilled blood on the city of Kunming.This battle ended the 252-year feudal autocratic rule of the Qing Dynasty over Yunnan since 1659.During the uprising, the two names Cai E and Tang Jiyao began to appear in the history of China in the 20th century.

Because it is located in the frontier and far away from the center, there will inevitably be a lag in information and action. At the beginning of the 20th century, the route from Kunming to Beijing was: go abroad first, go to Vietnam, go north by sea boat from Vietnam, go to Tianjin, and then go to Beijing, the journey takes one or two months; if you go by land, it takes more than half a year ! Therefore, it is very rare for Yunnan to be among the first in the country to respond to the Wuchang Uprising, the first to declare independence, and the remote areas to be at the forefront of history.The people of Yunnan cherish this glorious history very much.When I started smoking in middle school, I used to smoke a kind of cloud-produced cigarette called "Da Chong Nine". I never understood what "Da Chong Nine" meant. Only later did I find out that it turned out that Yunnan people commemorated the "Chong Nine Uprising".

It should also be mentioned that during the battle to recover Hangzhou, a 24-year-old Zhejiang youth took a photo of his death and left it to his mother, and then led a death squad to storm the Zhejiang governor's yamen and capture Zhejiang governor Zeng Yun alive. This young man was named Jiang Zhiqing—yes, he was the later Chiang Kai-shek. Since the Qing regime was so corrupt that it lacked any loyalty, it was generally not difficult to "change the sky" in various places. During the entire Xinhai Revolution, there were not many major battles.Nanjing, however, was guarded by Zhang Xun, who was later known as the "monster". After Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Zhenjiang declared independence, he organized the "Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Shanghai Town Allied Forces." After ten days of fierce fighting, Zhang Xun was driven away. to Xuzhou.Nanjing was restored on December 2.

In just over a month, seventeen of the twenty-two provinces in the country declared independence.In the autumn of 1911, the fire of China's new birth burned the sky of the Eastern Hemisphere red.