Chapter 22 The May Fourth Movement
At the Paris Peace Conference, China's protests on Shandong Province's rights and interests eventually failed. The news came back to China, and naturally there was an uproar in public opinion. The anti-Japanese sentiment began to spread continuously, boycotting Japanese goods and planning protests. The surging undercurrents have turned China into a huge powder barrel.
The May Fourth Movement became the fuse that ignited the entire incident.
May 4, 1919, this day will be remembered forever in China.
Before this, although most Chinese people did not like the rule of the Beiyang warlords, they had never reached the point where they had to be eliminated soon.
But it’s a pity that the soldiers who have no sociological knowledge messed up the matter. Using violent means to suppress them, the result was that most of the potential young students in China were pushed to the revolutionary party. Looking at how many political parties that would rise up in the future by taking advantage of the feast of talents of the May Fourth Movement, we can know what kind of realm the stupidity of the warlords reached.
Standing on the streets of Beijing City and watching the students holding slogans shouting patriotic slogans all over the streets, Zhong Yang really couldn't say what he felt now.
In fact, as early as the afternoon of May 1, a student came to invite Zhong Yang to the Xizhai Dining Room of Peking University, saying that an emergency meeting was to be held, and the incident was discussed in response to the rejection of China's request at the Paris Peace Conference.
Although Zhong Yang refused the other party's invitation that day, he also knew what these students were going to do. Zhong Yang could not persuade these fanatical young people, and he was almost mistakenly mistakenly thought it was a warlord government group.
On the evening of May 3, the students held an interim meeting of all students in the auditorium of the Beijing University of Science and Technology. Representatives from the Higher Teachers, Law and Political Specialties, and Higher Industrial Colleges also attended.
The student representative spoke with great emotion and called on everyone to rise up and save the country. Finally, four methods were formulated, including the plan to gather together for demonstrations on the second day. These four methods were: unite with all walks of life to fight together; send a telegram to the Paris envoy to insist on not signing the peace treaty; send a telegram to various provinces to hold a demonstration on the national humiliation memorial on May 7; and hold a grand demonstration in the academic community on May 4.
On that day, Zhang Yinyin also invited Zhong Yang to attend the conference, but Zhong Yang refused and even broke the relationship with Zhang Yinyin for this.
And today is May 4th, and the anger of the whole of China is ignited.
The streets were still puzzled by the calmness and leisure in the early morning, but Zhong Yang knew that such peace could no longer last. Because large-scale demonstrations had begun.
Zhong Yang also asked Chen Ze and Liu Jinyang to stop their work for the time being and pay attention to the entire process of the incident.
On the morning of that day, representatives from 13 schools including Beijing Normal School and National Peking University held a joint meeting at the Legal and Political College to discuss the demonstrations and decided to issue the "Personal Declaration of Beijing Students" and put forward the political struggle slogan of "fighting for sovereignty outside and eliminating traitors inside".
On the afternoon of that day, the students of Master Gao held a couplet written in white cloth, "Treaching the country for honor, and if they had known that Cao Man had no place to leave his seeds, they would be fascinated by the foreigners, and they would not expect that Zhang Dun would have the potential to die." The first to arrive at the ** Square. Students from other schools also rushed to the square from all directions with their passionate enthusiasm with passionate enthusiasm. More than three students participated in the rally and parades. They held small flags with passionate slogans such as "Cancel Twenty-One", "Give Me Qingdao", and "Severely Punishing the Traitors".
When the march arrived at the embassy area of Dongjiaomin Lane, it was blocked by the military and police, and many negotiations were fruitless. The Chinese land was not allowed to pass by, and the students were immediately angry. Even the students who had always been gentle could not suppress their anger of being bullied by imperialism.
The students were already in a state of fanatical patriotism, but the warlord leaders continued to pour oil on them very strongly, as if they thought the fire was not strong enough. These stupid military leaders were busy holding the thighs of the powers and engaging in internal struggles all day long, and could no longer keep up with the pace of this era.
Using military means to resolve the people's political rights claims will always lead to tragedy.
Angry crowd rushed towards Zhaojialou like a tide. This was beyond the accident of Fu Sinian, a Peking University student in charge of the commander-in-chief. Although he tried his best to stop it, it was ineffective. Kuang Husheng and several other high-level students walked in front of the team, shouting slogans, distributing leaflets, and giving speeches on stage. All the people watching along the way were moved.
It is precisely because of the students' patriotism that many workers have decided to respond. The participation of workers has also inspired the hearts of people in other industries, and things have begun to get big.
But what really angered the warlords was the "burning Zhaojialou" incident. This incident made the upper rulers of the warlords think it was a provocation of their authority by students! At this point, the already bad relationship between the two sides completely deteriorated.
The righteous act of burning the Zhao family and beating Zhang Zongxiang shocked the whole country. The May Fourth Patriotic Movement quickly spread to China, but also triggered the warlord government to continue to implement high-pressure policies, which caused some students with unstable will to shake.
In fact, in Zhong Yang's view, the entire incident was caused by a conflict of ideas between the two sides. The Beiyang warlords relied on imperialism, but were not affiliated with the great powers. In fact, the generals of the Beiyang warlords were all patriotic, at least not traitors. For example, Zhang Zuolin and Duan Qirui, so they would refuse to sign.
The Beiyang warlords first serve themselves and then serve the country. Don’t think that they are only willing to sell the country. However, the students’ requirements and behaviors are not wrong, because they have progressive and revolutionary ideas that are completely different from the past, which we call them progressive ideas.
Although these progressive ideas are not suitable for our national conditions, they are indeed much better than the warlord's ruling ideas. However, if they do that, the interests of the warlords will naturally be damaged, and of course they will not do it, so the two sides will be in trouble.
The military and police dispatched military and police to suppress the demonstrations and arrested students and teachers who led the trouble. The orders given by the warlord leaders may not be very cruel, but most of their men are soldiers who don’t know a single word. What is the right way to do they know?
In addition, they are all fierce and fierce in wars all year round, so they will naturally be as bad as they are when facing strong enemies. However, when facing unarmed teachers and students, they will be as fierce as a tiger descending the mountain.
The students were beaten to death, but the incident of killing the students did not happen. We have to sigh at this dark era of warlord rule, and such an incompetent military government did not dare to kill students in public in the street. Compared with some events in the time and space of the Central Plains, I don’t know how much harmony is.
As for teasing beautiful female students and scavenging property, they will not miss it. Anyway, bullying the common people are their old skills and they are very good at it.
When Zhong Yang and Chen Ze were walking on the road, they encountered several groups of such things. Liu Jinyang originally wanted to help those students who were beaten, but Zhong Yang stopped him.
"We have more important things to do when we enter the country, so don't make trouble!"
Zhong Yang said seriously to Liu Jinyang, who was indignant. After all, they possess power that ordinary people cannot match, and they should not use it to do such things, and they should not put themselves in unnecessary dilemma.
Liu Jinyang was upset, but he knew that Zhong Yang's words were right, so they continued to rush to the warehouse in the suburbs of Feixiong Gang.
"Stop! Who are you!"
They didn't want to cause trouble, but they still came to the door automatically. Seeing that Zhong Yang and the others were dressed in good clothes, they wanted to come over to blackmail for money.
"Sir, we are going to rush to the warehouse to check our goods."
Chen Ze pretended to be flattering and handed over five silver dollars as a bribe.
"Well, why don't I look like it?"
The guy in the lead took the silver dollar in his hand and weighed it, then targeted the three of them. It seemed that the opponent was still unsatisfied with the money and wanted to knock more.
Zhong Yang had long disliked them and did not want to argue with each other. He first observed the situation around him and saw that there were no pedestrians on this section of the road, so he probably was attracted by the demonstrations outside.
Then his eyes flashed coldly, and he immediately planned to kill someone! He let out the anger in his heart.
Chen Ze originally wanted to go forward to explain something, but Zhong Yang flashed and launched a sudden attack on the four soldiers on the opposite side.
He rushed forward in a straight line, and his right hand turned into a hand knife. He stabbed the soldier in the throat, directly shattering the other party's throat. The man covered his throat and sobbed, blood blocked the trachea, unable to breathe, causing his whole face to swell into pig liver.
Although it was the first time to kill someone, Zhong Yang was not afraid. He did not have any advanced martial arts skills, and he could only use his own strong physical fitness to attack the opponent's weaknesses.
Seeing his companions fall down, the other soldiers reacted and quickly picked up the gun in their hands and tinkered with it. It turned out that the bullets had not been filled.
Naturally, Zhong Yang would not give the other party a chance to fight back, and directly launched the attack in a faster and more fierce way than before, and the massacre began!
The soldier on his right hand was Zhong Yang's first target. Seeing the killing god rushing towards him, the soldier instinctively raised the gun in his hand to resist it. But Zhong Yang waved his hand and broke the old rifle. The remaining power also brought the broken barrel into the soldier's chest.
Before the blood could splatter, Zhong Yang met two other people.
With a palm push, the surging force knocked the opponent's sternum into a concave. The blood gushed out of his mouth and flew backwards, as if he couldn't save it.
The last man, seeing Zhong Yang so fierce and powerful, immediately weakened his feet and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy. There was nothing new, and after all, he was talking about the livelihood issues of the whole family. Zhong Yang was too lazy to pay attention to it, so he directly slid his claws and crushed his throat.
After killing four people in a row, Zhong Yang still remained calm, as if he was waving his hand to remove the dust.
But for Chen Ze and Liu Jinyang, it was hard to believe that the four living people died just like this. This was the first time they saw someone being killed with their own eyes, and they still used such a violent way.
Zhong Yang is not a natural bloodthirsty thug, but when he comes to this dark era, he has to force him to make such changes himself. If he doesn't learn to kill, he must be prepared to be killed.
Necessary deterrence is indispensable, whether for enemies or your own people.
At least from now on, Chen Ze and Liu Jinyang dare not choose to betray such a fierce and ruthless way of killing. Even though they had never thought about it before, this also ensured that they would not dare to think about it in the future, after all, people's hearts are unpredictable.
{Piaotian Literature www.piaotian.net Thank you for your support, your support is our greatest motivation}
Chapter completed!