Chapter 127 Section 5 Who blew up the arsenal?

The first meeting in Hunan was disrupted by the old man Tan Renfeng, and no results were produced. How come there is no result? It is related to the safety of the people in Hunan, and there must be a result.Tan Yankai asked everyone to continue the meeting, but the moderate faction was afraid of old man Tan Renfeng, so they dared not go to the meeting.In the end, after all, they reached an agreement with the revolutionaries that no one was allowed to bring dangerous items to the meeting, so everyone went to the meeting.Without Tan Renfeng's pistol, the meeting immediately became one-sided. The moderate faction suppressed the revolutionary party, but because the revolutionary party's emotions were too impulsive, there were loud voices of mourning and threats of riots, which made the moderate faction say no. It was awkward, so this meeting did not produce any results.

Two meetings went nowhere, and that was the outcome. But Tan Renfeng, Jiang Lingwu and other party members would never accept this result.So, the party members went to find Cheng Qian, who held the military power. Cheng Qian became very famous after that, but when Tan Renfeng, Jiang Lingwu and others found him, he was crying loudly. Why is Cheng Qian crying? It's hard not to cry about this.It is said that after Cheng Qian took control of the military power in a province in Hunan, he recruited troops and brought in three infantry regiments and one artillery regiment, but they were far from enough for a division.It doesn't matter if you don't have enough, as long as you pay a salary, some people are willing to come to serve as soldiers.The problem is that ammunition is the most difficult thing to get. Once there is a war, no amount of ammunition is enough to consume.

The Hehuachi Military Uniform Bureau in Changsha has some ammunition stored. Although it is not enough, it is enough to make Cheng Qian feel more at ease.So every now and then, Cheng Qian would go to the Military Uniform Bureau to take a look, touch the ammunition, and think about the scene when these ammunition came in handy. As a soldier, Cheng Qian felt very useful in his heart. But one day, Cheng Qian was on his way to the Military Uniform Bureau, and touched his ammunition again, when he suddenly saw flames bursting into the sky from the direction of the lotus pond, followed by an earth-shattering loud noise, and the military uniform bureau's ammunition flew into the sky.

That unexpected incident made Cheng Qian shed tears at the time: Who did this, ah, which prodigal son did it, how many people can be killed by these ammunition, it is such a waste to burn it with such a fire up. Some sources say that these munitions were burned by Yuan Shikai's minions, the purpose was to prevent Hunan from raising troops.This statement is justified.Anyway, the revolutionaries would not blow up the ammunition depot by themselves, and this matter must be blamed on Yuan Shikai. We can say with complete certainty that it was the explosion of the lotus pond ammunition depot that inspired Tan Yankai, the governor of Hunan Province, to have a strong desire for independence.

Where does this desire come from? Speaking of Tan Yankai, like Cheng Dequan, the governor of Jiangsu, he is a bureaucrat of the old era. His characteristic is to serve his hometown and consider the people wholeheartedly.Therefore, these people are particularly unwilling to engage in any kind of revolution. Good life is lived day by day. How can there be any reason why fighting and killing will become more and more prosperous? But the reason why these old bureaucrats are old is that they have contacts with various forces, and they have very close personal relationships.To put it plainly, they and Yuan Shikai are close friends who eat in the same pot, and they are close friends with the Revolutionary Party who flirt with each other.Let’s not carry out the second revolution, I’m sorry for the friends of the Kuomintang, let’s carry out the second revolution, and I’m sorry for Yuan Shikai.

Therefore, their common choice is: to carry out the second revolution, but also not to carry out the second revolution, and to explain to friends on both sides. So, how can we carry out a second revolution and not make a second revolution? It's very simple. For example, like Tan Yankai, after discovering that the arsenal in the lotus pond exploded, Tan Yankai immediately seized this opportunity and declared Hunan's independence.When the party members cheered enthusiastically and Yuan Shikai was about to get angry, he announced the cancellation of independence. Tan Yankai has declared his independence, which is an explanation to the party friends.But to organize a campaign against Yuan Jun, there is not even a bullet, so canceling independence at this time will not only make Yuan Shikai happy, but also make party members and friends find no reason to complain.

Therefore, even Mao Zedong praised Tan Yankai, saying that he was a clever bureaucrat. So now, we should know who blew up the arsenal in the lotus pond, right? The only suspect is the governor Tan Yankai.