Chapter 102 Chapter 1 The world is full of variables

On January 25, 1916, Cai E led his army to Guizhou and sent a telegram to Liu Xianshi, the Guizhou guard, ordering him to raise troops immediately. Speaking of Liu Xianshi, he was originally a local rich man in Guizhou with a wealthy family.In the chaotic times of the late Qing Dynasty, he led the children of the family to organize group training to maintain the village.At the same time, the best among the children are sent out to study.This learning was messed up. Liu Xianshi's nephew, Wang Boqun, learned himself to be the Junxian School and became a member of the National Assembly.And Liu Xianshi's other nephew, Wang Wenhua, was even more ruthless, and taught himself to be a revolutionary party.

Wang Wenhua returned from his studies and strongly demanded to take over the military power.As far as Liu Xianshi is concerned, although Wang Wenhua is a revolutionary party, he is his nephew after all. If the military power is not given to the nephew, who will it be?It can only be handed over to him. After that, a strange situation appeared in Guizhou. The Junxian faction belonged to Liu Xian's family, and the Revolutionary Party also belonged to Liu Xian's family. Whenever major state affairs were discussed, there was bound to be a fight at the family dinner table.Liu Xianshi persuaded this to persuade that, exhausting himself half to death.

After the Revolution of 1911, the Guizhou Junxian faction and the Revolutionary Party joined hands to announce the good news of Guizhou's independence.Just after reading the manifesto, there was a rumble of gunfire. It turned out that Yunnan was too small to accommodate the two big men Cai E and Tang Jiyao, so Tang Jiyao simply came to Guizhou to occupy the land. Tang Jiyao entered Guizhou, snatched the position of governor, and then went on a killing spree. Regarding this period of history, Liu Liqin and Zhang Mingjin co-edited the book "Twenty Great Faction Warlords in the History of the Republic of China".

... At this time, Guizhou had responded to the Wuchang Uprising and established a military government.Cai E immediately ordered Tang to stop marching, and returned troops to reinforce the Sichuan-Yunnan Army, preparing to attack Hubei.However, under the instigation of the Guizhou constitutionalists, Tang Jiyao raided Guiyang and carried out a massacre of officers and soldiers who did not use it for himself. So far, the people call the foot of Luoluo Mountain a mass grave.On the basis of the bloody suppression, Tang became the governor of Guizhou.He did have meritorious service in the 1911 Uprising in Yunnan, but he set a bad precedent in the history of the Republic of China for taking neighboring provinces by force.

Here, the constitutional faction mentioned in the article who instigated Tang Jiyao to raid Guiyang is actually Liu Xianshi's family.But why aren't their names mentioned in the book? This is because Liu Xianshi's family will appear at the back of the book after a while, and when they appear, they are all positive images, which short-circuit the nerves of the writers, who don't know how to write in order to stabilize their emotions. The cause of the evasive and evasive words in the history books lies in the confusion of historical views.Only the expression of human nature can completely describe a living person in the view of history, and any inhuman index or definition will make historical figures one-sided.This one-sided description is not only reflected in Liu Xianshi's family, but also in Tang Jiyao.

For example, when Tang Jiyao smeared Guizhou Province with blood and caused the mass grave in Luoshan Mountain, Tang Xiaoling, a descendant of the Tang family, kept explaining to everyone: ...The bandits in Guizhou were in chaos and sent people to Yunnan to ask for help. The first emperor was ordered to take the army of the Northern Expedition to quell the chaos in Guizhou.In a campaign to suppress bandits, more than a thousand bandits were captured and all gathered at the foot of Luoluo Mountain in the suburbs of Guiyang.Someone advocated using machine guns to shoot them all at once, but the emperor thought it was too cruel, and suppressing them with force was not a good strategy in the end.That is to say, among more than a thousand captives, dozens of people with vicious appearance and violent temperament were selected, and they were executed in the meaning of killing chickens and monkeys.This practice of not indiscriminately exercising power is highly praised by people in Guizhou Province.Therefore, after the chaos in Guizhou was settled, the people of Guizhou unanimously retained the former emperor to deal with the aftermath in Guizhou. ("Warlords of the Republic of China")

The Tang family explained here: It is just a beautiful legend that Tang Jiyao smeared Guizhou Province with blood and caused mass graves.The actual situation is like this.In order to prove that Tang Jiyao was not an indiscriminate murderer, the Tang family also said the following thing: After Yunnan responded to the Revolution of 1911, Tang Jiyao undertook the task of attacking the Zatai Yamen. During the charge, the yamen was suddenly swept by machine guns. Fortunately, a guard pushed Tang Jiyao to the ground at once, otherwise he would surely die.Many years later, Tang Jiyao suddenly became nostalgic for the past, and gathered a group of old people from Xinhai to have a banquet at home, and commented on the most dangerous thing in his life. Tang Jiyao said this is the thing.

At that time, there was a township head named Xu Caichen, who looked at Tang Jiyao, hesitated again and again, and finally said loudly: "Excuse me, let me tell you the truth. That day in the Zhitai Yamen, you were shot at with a machine gun." , it's me. Tang Jiyao was stunned for a while when he heard this, and said: The changes of causes and conditions in the world are so unpredictable. Tang Jiyao's exclamation broke the universal law of human society: the future is unknowable and full of variables.Today you never know what you will do tomorrow.