Rebirth of the Spanish Empire

Chapter 379 Revolution of 1911

After another two months of still no news, while everyone's focus continued to be on the Red Sea and Madrid, something happened in the Far East that attracted the world's attention, and it didn't even attract as much attention as Alfonso is missing less.

On the night of October 10, 1911, when the uprising led by Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing failed in Huanghuagang, Guangzhou, on this night, Wuchang of the Qing Dynasty launched another revolutionary uprising three years later and achieved success. , then Wuhan's Hanyang, Hankou and others followed the trend and raised the flag of rebellion for three days on October 11 and October 12 respectively. In just three days, the rebels took control of the three most important towns in Wuhan. At the same time, with the support of everyone, Li Yuanhong took office and became the first governor of the Wuhan military government and changed the country's name to the Republic of China. He also called on people in all provinces across the country to revolt against the brutal rule of the Qing government and respond to them.

After that, in just one or two months, with guns, ammunition and personnel deployment ready, Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing personally led in Guangdong, and Lu Xun led in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The leaders of Fujian are Chen Shaobai and Hu Hanmin, and the leaders of Jiangxi are Cai E and Tan Yankai.

Then on November 1, 1911, the royal cabinet was reformed. Under such circumstances, the Qing government finally allowed Han people to dominate the cabinet and appointed Yuan Shikai as the prime minister. It wanted to use his Han identity and former military identity to save it. Manchu power in the world. But. Things seemed to come a little too late. [

On November 3, Huang Xing went to Wuhan on the order of Sun Yat-sen to accept the revolutionary government. Afterwards, the Guizhou uprising under the leadership of Yang Gaicheng was victorious, while Chen Qimei uprising in Shanghai, Wu Luzhen and Yan Xishan succeeded in the Shanxi uprising, and Guangxi governor Shen Bing uprising. success. Shen Bing, the governor of Guangxi, was comforted to follow suit and the uprising was successful. Sun Baoyi of Shandong successfully revolted, and Zhang Peijue succeeded in revolting in Chongqing. Pu Dianjun successfully revolted in Chengdu. In this way, most of the country has overturned the rule of the Qing government, and the leaders have become military commanders in their respective places. They became the kings of their respective mountains.

On December 3, 1911, representatives from a total of fourteen independent provinces gathered in Nanjing to discuss leadership issues and secretly negotiate the establishment of a constitutional government with Yuan Shikai, the owner of the largest power in the north and the current prime minister of the Qing Dynasty. After the North and South negotiated an armistice at the same time. The question of the status of North and South. Especially the issue of the head of state.

On December 4, Sun Yat-sen was elected interim president, Huang Xing was appointed general marshal, and Li Yuanhong and Lu Xun were appointed deputy marshals. The deputy marshal was also elected as the organizer of the provisional government.

Perhaps it was Sun Yat-sen's appointment as interim president that brought great excitement. Yuan Shikai's northern government became eager. So another consultation was held on December 29, 1911. However, in the end, Sun Yat-sen was chosen to continue to serve as interim president. For Yuan Shikai, this was definitely an act of dissatisfaction. The capital was chosen in Nanjing.

However, this is a dwarf-like government. Because Sun Yat-sen is nothing more than a spiritual leader in this government, he has fully felt how embarrassed he is without the support of the military.

Therefore, he resorted to the strategy of driving away tigers and devouring wolves. He appointed Huang Xing, who was loyal to him, as the country's grand marshal, and supported Li Yuanhong as the deputy marshal. Together with Huang Xing, he managed the army in various uprisings. As for Lu Xun, Sun Yat-sen had some This different kind of sentiment allowed Lu Xun to continue to control the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi. In the name of his interim president, he was appointed as the naval marshal of the Republic of China and established a navy.

Of course, Sun Yat-sen also knew at that time that even if he had not been appointed in this way, these three provinces had already been completely and firmly ruled by Lu Xun. The main reason why he appointed Lu as the naval marshal and gave him the name there was mainly for The purpose of appeasing the Spanish navy on the nearby island of Guam is to provide a check and balance to Japan, which has been thinking about entering China in the two provinces of Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and to allow Spain to clamp down on Japan's expansion of strength in the south.

Everyone knows that those places where Japan is in Northeast China are now the sphere of influence of the Japanese, and Yuan Shikai controls the north now. They can't control it in the south. They simply turn a blind eye and see. But the south It’s not yyng. Although Sun Yat-sen also knew that nothing good would happen to him when he was with those great powers, but when he was forced to do so, he chose a great power that was more powerful to him to safeguard his power and country. , that’s the most important thing.

Just like the United States he chose, now the United States owns the smallest share among the great powers, so the Americans have definitely the greatest desires. The injustice in their hearts will definitely make the United States accept many of its opinions. The same is true for Spain. Precisely because he saw Spain's huge strength, the reason why the Association for Advancement, which had not been part of the Alliance, could continue to exist in this revolutionary group was that he wanted these people to check and balance the pro-Japanese and pro-British elements within the Alliance. Characters, after all, no one in the Alliance is an elite who is not worthy of attention. Each of them is a leader in their respective areas. Such an existence will definitely not make him feel at ease if he does not find some opponents for them. things.

Thinking of this, he thought of Yuan Shikai's dead Yuan Datou, who actually wanted to directly steal the country he had fought so hard to conquer, and openly wanted to take his position. This made Sun Yat-sen really angry.

However, Sun Yat-sen was also a little worried, because he thought of a problem, and that was what he had thought before. He did not have much actual military power. Without hard power and military power, it would be quite difficult to subdue him only by relying on his position as a spiritual leader. Those who are arrogant, especially those like the Guangxi warlords and the Yunnan warlords, are far away from the emperor. As long as Yuan Shikai gives them enough benefits, it is not even impossible for him to dedicate himself to seek fame.

So for now, it is better to stabilize Yuan Shikai and rectify these miscellaneous troops before talking about it. Right, that is it.

Sun Yat-sen had made up his mind, but there were some things that he didn't expect, because when he planned to further implement his idea the next day, he was forced to go to the palace this time, and Or the North and the South together.

Second update, there are two more updates. (To be continued...)