Chapter 80 Chapter 12

Continue to investigate the murder of Song Jiaoren. At this juncture, suddenly there was an old man from Hubei named Qiu Pingzhi who rushed out to add to the chaos. This man was originally a businessman, and it was difficult to make money from a small business, so he thought: Well, is there any business that makes money easily in this world? Have!Suddenly, he was enlightened, and Qiu Pingzhi came up with a good idea: to write a letter to persuade President Yuan Shikai to proclaim himself emperor. Qiu Pingzhi thought this way. Since Yuan Shikai became the president, he is equivalent to the emperor, but he is not yet the emperor.Therefore, Yuan Shikai must have wanted to be emperor very much in his heart.If he wrote a letter to persuade him to advance at this time, he would be a hero who made a national policy, and he would not be poor in food and drink in this life.

Such a profitable business, what are you waiting for?Qiu Pingzhi immediately found an old Confucian scholar, wrote a letter of persuasion, and then waited every day for promotion.However, he did not wait for the official promotion, but Yuan Shikai was furious when he waited. In all fairness, it's not that Lao Yuan doesn't want to be emperor.Who in this world doesn't want to be an emperor?People who don’t want to be emperors are not Chinese—the idea of ​​imperial power has been steeped in thousands of years, and every Chinese has a dream of being an emperor in their hearts.No matter how you say it, Lao Yuan is still a soldier of the old era, and it is impossible not to covet the position of emperor.However, at this time the revolutionaries were staring at him like a tiger, watching him like a thief every day. Lao Yuan tried his best to show that he could not win the trust of the revolutionaries, but Qiu Pingzhi rushed to this critical point to write a letter to persuade him, obviously to slap him.

Yuan Shikai was furious and ordered Qiu Pingzhi to be arrested.Qiu Pingzhi hid it. As the saying goes, before the world was in chaos, Chu was in chaos first, and the world was already at peace before Chu was at peace.Some people say that there are nine-headed birds in the sky, and Hubei guys underground, and those people from Hubei are smart at the top of their heads.On one side, Qiu Pingzhi was thinking about finding an opportunity to make money from Yuan Shikai, and on the other side, someone raised the banner of revolutionary righteousness to repeat the grand scene of the Great Wuchang First Uprising.

This person who raised the banner of revolutionary righteousness is really not unfamiliar at all. He is well-known in the history of Chinese revolution, has a long history, and is a soldier of the Eighth Town Engineering Battalion of the Wuchang New Army. He took the lead in firing the first shot of the Revolution of 1911. Xiong Bingkun. When the Qunyinghui rebellion broke out in Wuchang, trying to kill Sun Wu, the leader of the Gongjin Association, but killed Zhang Tingfu of a literary club, Xiong Bingkun was stationed outside and had no chance to participate.Afterwards he sighed and said:

Call!The republic has not yet been organized, and those who have such a riot related to the current situation can sigh a long time. (Xiong Bingkun's "March Chronicle", February 28, 1912) Judging from this statement, Xiong Bingkun doesn't really support the nonsense of the Qunyinghui.Next, Zhang Zhenwu organized the iron blood group, trying to get rid of Fatty Li Yuanhong, but was instead trapped and killed by Li Fatty and Yuan Shikai.Xiong Bingkun also failed to catch up with this incident.Then, Zhang Zhenwu's late wife, Lu Shi, was furious and offered a high salary to apply for Kuicheng to take off Li Yuanhong's head. So the party members sneaked into Dawuchang and instigated the South Lake Cavalry Riot, and Lao Xiong did not participate.

Xiong Bingkun stayed out of several major incidents. Yuan Shikai sent a congratulatory message specifically for this event, conferring on Xiong Bingkun as a major general of the army, with five honors. Lianji, merit is not ahead of Shouyi... It means: Old Xiong, you are very good, you must continue to be good. But this certificate was not yet hot, and the assassination of Song Jiaoren happened, so Tian Tong, the Kuomintang messenger, came with Huang Xing's secret letter, contacted Xiong Bingkun, Jiang Lingwu and others, and deployed Hubei to discuss Yuan's army.The letter says: At the beginning of the escape, he was brutally attacked, and the murderer told the truth, which is shocking.If the scorpion is not removed, it will cause future troubles. Comrades in our party, we must cheer up our spirits and work hard again.

This time, Lao Xiong was too embarrassed not to participate, so he secretly recruited people, contacted the old department, gathered in a restaurant in Hankou, and decided to set up an improvement group organization. Improvement means to improve Hubei's military administration and continue the revolutionary cause.In essence, the Improvement Group is a secret organization under the Wuhan Communications Department of the Kuomintang. The Improvement Group was active, with the goal of overthrowing Yuan Shikai and Li Yuanhong. In addition to the members of the literary society who had not been killed, and the gangsters, gradually more than 10,000 people expressed interest in continuing the revolution.But Xiong Bingkun forgot that Li Yuanhong was staring at him all the time.

In fact, Fatty Li Yuanhong has never forgotten the old bear. As early as the Qunyinghui rebellion, the Iron Blood Rebellion, and the Nanhu Cavalry Rebellion, Li Fatty has been wondering: No, this is wrong, why are there so many? People make trouble, but the old bear doesn't make trouble?This old bear is the most rowdy... Suddenly, Fatty Li figured it out, if the old bear doesn't make trouble, there must be someone behind him.If it is the old bear who is going to make a fuss, it must be the same as the Wuchang Shouyi, and there will be another earth-shattering. It can't be earth-shattering, it's okay to be earth-shattering.Li Yuanhong held his breath, widened his eyes, and finally waited for the old bear to make trouble. Suddenly, Fatty Li was elated, drove the detective horse team, ran to the secret agency of the improvement regiment, smashed many agencies, arrested several people, and hurriedly Call Yuan Dafa, and the Beiyang warships immediately entered Hubei to arrest them. When the consulates of various countries in Hankou heard that it was Lao Xiong who was making trouble this time, they were all horrified, and even dispatched seven warships to moor on the river.The strict security is even worse than that of the 1911 Revolution when Lao Xiong first made a big disturbance in Wuchang.

On April 14, 1913, Yuan Shikai ordered the arrest of Xiong Bingkun, who fired the first shot of the 1911 Revolution, and Zhao Bingjun and Duan Qirui signed the arrest order.