Chapter 28 The shadow of the 8th festival

Speaking of the Russian Volunteer Army, it is also an extremely complicated historical phenomenon. When historians talk about historical figures related to this mass organization, such as Lu Xun, Su Manshu, Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren, and Chen Tianhua, they mainly emphasize What is most important is the fighting, revolutionary and advanced nature of this organization. But when historians talk about other people in this mass organization, such as Zhang Zuolin and Wu Peifu, they generally call this organization the "flower arm team", because the unified symbol of this organization is a flower towel tied on the left arm.And under such circumstances, the role of Xuanyang Society, the predecessor of the Black Dragon Society, will be mentioned as usual.

Xuanyangsha is a Russian-resisting gang founded by Toyama Man, the leader of the Japanese underworld.This Tou Shanman was too vicious in his confrontation with the Russians - Tou Shanman sent many beautiful prostitutes suffering from venereal diseases to the Russians. There is no exact number to indicate how many Russian devils won the bid, but in the end However, Xuan Yangshe himself was notorious for this dirty method, so he had to announce its withdrawal and reorganized the Black Dragon Club. For the Volunteer Army whose goal is to reject Russia, Xuanyangsha must of course give its full support—including support in terms of money and public opinion propaganda.

This is where things get complicated. Rejecting the Russian Volunteer Army is undoubtedly just. Although the Russians were invited by the Qing court, aggression is aggression. There is no reason to say this. The Qing court invited the Russians to fight against the Japanese, so the Japanese will inevitably support the Volunteers to Resist Russia, because this is in the interests of Japan... In short, when it comes to the Russian Volunteer Army, it is inevitable that it will be involved in the theoretical vortex of the Japan-China War, which will lead to confusion among those who do not understand that period of history, and there is no way to draw a convenient conclusion.

The history is a bit too complicated for any conclusions.Therefore, history is not suitable for simple judgments of right and wrong, history is history. Poor historians are so divided by this history. Generally speaking, when historians mention the positive figures of this organization, such as Su Manshu, Lu Xun, etc., they emphasize the revolutionary nature of the organization , progress and justice.But when referring to other people in this organization, such as Zhang Zuolin and Wu Peifu, they called this organization Hualangzi Team, emphasizing the shadow of the Japanese behind this organization.

What else can I do? Simple political views and complex history collide here, so we can only bypass politics and talk about history alone.The history is like this: the Russian Volunteer Army wrote a letter to the Qing court, saying: In the past, the king of Persia, Zeershi, wanted to annex Greece with a crowd of 100,000, and Reunidashi (that is, another transliteration name of Lihe Nituos written by Zhou Yucai) He personally led hundreds of young men, resisted the danger, fought to the death, and wiped out the whole army.Up to now, the battle of Thermopylae has been famous all over the world, and everyone who is three feet tall in Taixi knows it.In Greece, which is a mere peninsula, there are still righteous people who do not humiliate the country. Why do we have an empire of millions of square miles?

If we look at the letter written by the Russian Volunteers to the imperial court, and then at the preface to "The Soul of Sparta" translated and created by Zhou Yucai, we will find that the style of the two paragraphs is exactly the same, even some wording They are all exactly the same, such as "death battle", such as "the whole army wiped out Yan", etc., and Zhou Yucai deliberately added the word "Delmobile" under the word "hot spring gate". The relationship between the person who wrote the letter and the imperial court, and Zhou Yucai's classmate is very important.

The Xuanyang Society, which is full of mountains, is making money everywhere to fund the volunteer army of Chinese students studying in Japan who resist Russia to go to the Northeast and fight the Russians to the death. This situation makes Cai Jun, the Qing court minister in Japan, very nervous and does not know how to deal with it.Later, this old man was afraid of being blamed by the court, so he gritted his teeth and sent a message to the country: Overseas students formed a volunteer army, there were more than 200 people, called Resisting Russia, but they were actually revolutionaries. Well, Cai Jun, the Minister of the Qing Dynasty in Japan, is not responsible for sending this telegram.But the Volunteers who refused to Russia were miserable. In the blink of an eye, all the patriots became criminals.

The actions of the Qing court made the Volunteer Army indignant, and now they truly realized that China's greatest enemy was neither the Japanese nor the Russians, but the Qing court.So the Russia Resisting Volunteer Army was renamed the Army National Education Association. Listening to the name, it seems that it has transformed into a non-governmental education association. In fact, the Military National Education Association has become an assassination organization and embarked on the route of revolutionary insurrection. When the Military National Education Association was sharpening its knives and regarded the Qing court as the enemy of China, Su Manshu, one of the founders of the organization, turned to the cultural front and fought side by side with Zhou Yucai.