On June 8, Zhong Yang and his team finally arrived at the destination of this trip, Guangzhou.

Although Guangzhou in this era is still prosperous, it has no particular highlight. Zhong Yang and his group got off the boat with the crowd and finally set foot on this land. The happiest person is Chen Ze. He can finally be down-to-earth and no longer need to endure the torturous seasickness.

The place where Zhong Yang and the others got off the boat was a simple pier. The disrepaired pontoon bridge made them think that this thing would be broken immediately. The broken and rotten wooden structure really made people frightened. They had to admire the other passengers who turned a blind eye to it and walked calmly.

After carefully walking through the long floating bridge, Zhong Yang and the others finally stepped on the land. The plants and trees floating in the air of the breather felt the not-so-polluted air quality in this time and space.

Because it had just rained, the land seemed a little muddy and wet. For Zhong Yang, the original southerner, this was nothing. But it was obvious that neither Liu Jinyang nor Chen Ze could adapt. The high-end leather shoes with pretty good quality were quickly covered with mud, which made them feel very depressed.

Guangzhou itself is a port city, so the wharf and the city are directly integrated. After walking out of the dirty and messy wharf, the group of them finally walked on the spacious road paved with cement as they wished. Pedestrians and vehicles came and went back and forth on the road, which was quite lively.

Zhong Yang carefully observed that in this time and space, there were actually only a small number of wealthy residents. Because on the street, Zhong Yang had seen many streets covered with mud without shoes. He wore a gray cloth gown, and there were still many patches on it. Most people had a face full of vegetables, which was the result of long-term malnutrition.

In the original time and space, I have always heard of the wealth of Guangdong, but I didn’t expect that it was not like that 100 years ago. Guangzhou is a very unique city. It itself is a cultural city with a long history, a cultural city with a long history of more than 2,200 years. It was first built in 214 BC. The earliest city was called Ren Xiaocheng. In the eighth year of Zhou Yiwang in the Zhou Dynasty in the ninth century BC, "Baiyue" had already been in contact with the Chu people in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and built "Chuting", which was the earliest name of Guangzhou. In 226, Sun Quan divided Jiaozhou into Jiaozhou and Guangzhou, and "Guangzhou" was named after it.

In ancient times, Guangzhou was the ancient capital of the three dynasties. In 917, Liu founded the Southern Han Kingdom and established the capital Xingwangfu (Guangzhou). In 1680, Emperor Shaowu of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yu, established the capital in Guangzhou. Until the establishment of the city hall in 1921, it specifically refers to the city of Guangzhou. Guangzhou is a historical city, a famous city during the Qin and Han Dynasties. It was transferred from Jiaozhi to Guangzhou during the overseas trade centers of the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties. After the Middle Tang Dynasty, the "Marine Silk Road" emerged. It was one of the originating ports and hubs of the Maritime Silk Road, and became the earliest world-class that China opened to the outside world and had never closed.

The trading port was still the largest trading port until the Northern Song Dynasty. After the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty, Quanzhou Port surpassed Guangzhou Port and became the largest port. Guangzhou in the Yuan Dynasty was the second largest port in the country after Quanzhou. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, Italian traveler Edolki said that Guangzhou was three times larger than Venice, a world-famous trading city at that time. In the early Ming Dynasty, the maritime ban was implemented, and Guangzhou became the only trade port open to most countries, and became the largest port in the country again. In 1567, the maritime ban was opened, and Guangzhou's specialized service for foreign businesses continued to expand.

After Wanli, comprador merchants appeared. In 1757, Guangzhou was declared the only foreign trade port in the country, known as "one-door trade", and the designated Guangzhou Thirteen Banks monopolized the foreign trade of China. "one-door trade" allowed Guangzhou to monopolize the national foreign trade at that time, and its international reputation increased rapidly, becoming the third largest city in the world, second to Beijing and London in the UK, and was one of the most glorious periods in Guangzhou's history. In May 1841, the people's spontaneous fight against the British invaders occurred in Sanyuanli, the suburbs of Guangzhou. The "Nanjing Treaty" was signed and the "five-door trade" was implemented. Guangzhou immediately lost its unique position in foreign trade, and the status of the national foreign trade center was gradually lost. In the third year of Xianfeng, most of the British trade with China had turned to Shanghai, and the central position of Guangzhou Port in foreign trade was replaced by Shanghai Port.

After Hong Kong was ceded to Britain, it was established as a free port. With the development of the Westernization Movement, modern industry began to appear in Guangzhou. Lingnan culture was the first to be popular. At the end of the 19th and early 20th century, He Ziyuan, the founder of modern Chinese education in the 19th century, He Ziyuan, Qiu Fengjia and others eliminated the many interferences of the stubborn and conservative forces, successfully introduced American education and founded new schools. Under pressure from the situation, the Qing government promulgated a new school system at the end of 1905, abolished the imperial examination system, and promoted new schools. A large number of social elites who had progressive ideas and innovative young newcomers immediately stood out, accumulating huge energy for the subsequent surging revolution. Guangzhou is also the source of modern and modern revolution in China. The famous Sanyuanli people's anti-British struggle, Huanghuagang Uprising, and Guangzhou Uprising all took place in Guangzhou.

Now, Zhong Yang has followed the footsteps of the Chinese Revolutionary Party and came to this thousand-year-old ancient city. Walking on the streets after the rain, Zhong Yang began to comfortably observe every view of Guangzhou City in this time and space. What caught everyone's eyes were the house structures with arcade architectural style. After the Opium War in 1840, the development of modern architecture in Guangzhou went through several stages, including the migration of Western architecture, the revival of traditional architecture, and the introduction of modernist architecture.

Western architecture has the following types in Guangzhou, such as the Catholic Sacred Heart Hall, religious buildings similar to stone chambers: such as the Guangzhou Postal Administration Building, Guangdong Customs Building, Municipal Government Building, Provincial Finance Department Building, Provincial Federation of Trade Unions Building; such as Xiguan Big House, Bamboo Tube House, Dongshan Garden Bungalow, Small Western Building; such as monumental buildings such as Zhongshan Memorial Hall and Seaman Pavilion; and there are also commercial arcade buildings such as Aiqun Building, Southern Building, Municipal Bank Building, Provincial Bank Building, Xinya Hotel, and commercial arcade buildings throughout the major commercial streets (carriage commercial streets) in Guangzhou.

In fact, commercial arcade buildings were first seen in ancient Greece more than 2,000 years ago, and later became popular in Europe and spread to all over the world in modern times. It is because the "archway" part of commercial buildings is built across the sidewalk in the front half of the building, and is connected to each other on the sidewalk to form a free-walking corridor, which can be as long as several hundred meters or even one or two thousand meters long. Guangzhou has the saying "Mayday, the child's face changes whenever he says", so "archways" just adapts to this climate characteristic, and it was popular throughout Guangzhou City for a while, and gradually formed the main pattern of Guangzhou street scene."

Walking on the street is not to stroll around, Liu Jinyang is paying attention to find a suitable hotel to make it easier for everyone to stay. After all, if you are not familiar with the place, it is better to find a place to settle down first. Fortunately, they are not people who are short of money, so they can find a slightly better place to live.

When Zhong Yang was studying history, he didn't look at the details carefully, and he was even more unprepared before traveling over. He didn't know that the boss in Guangdong is Mo Rongxin, and Sun Dapao has been no longer a big brother for many years.

From July 1917 to May 1918, the bourgeois revolutionaries led by Sun Yat-sen restored the parliament in order to maintain the provisional constitution and jointly fought against the dictatorship of the Beiyang warlords, also known as the law protection war. The so-called "law protection" refers to the false republic that protected the "Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China", overthrow the dictatorship of the Beiyang warlords, and re-established the democratic legal system of a new republic.

But unfortunately, Sun Dapao was busy bragging all day long, with no soldiers or food under his command. He relied on a group of small warlords who had cheated him and wanted to join forces to fight for the sect, but the result was naturally a tragic one.

On July 17, 1917, accompanied by Zhang Taiyan, Sun Dapao led two warships to Guangzhou from Shanghai and officially lifted the banner of protecting the law. At this time, Zhang Xun's restoration had been shattered by Duan Qirui's re-creation of the rebel army on July 12, but Duan Qirui expressed his refusal to restore the old parliament and planned to re-election the new parliament. On the evening of the day when he arrived in Guangzhou, Sun Yat-sen delivered a speech, clearly proposing that the purpose of protecting the law was to defeat the fake republic and build a new republic, and called on all walks of life to rise up and fight for the protection of the law.

The old members of Beijing were summoned to go south to participate in the guardianship to Guangzhou to form a new government. The chief of the Navy Cheng Biguang opposed Duan Qirui's ravage of the law and undermined the Republic of China, supported Sun Dapao's guardianship proposal, and announced his separation from the Beijing government. From Shanghai, nine warships including the Yongfeng ship supported Sun Yat-sen, arrived in Guangzhou on July 22, strengthening the momentum of the guardianship. Xu Shaozhen was invited by Sun Dapao to jointly protect the law from Shanghai to Guangdong. Wu Tingfang, Wang Zhengting, Tang Shaoyi, Sun Hongyi and other old members of Congress went south to Guangzhou at the call of Sun Dapao.

The Protective Movement also received some support from the southwest warlords composed of the original Protective Movement to some extent. In addition to dealing with the revolutionary factions, Duan Qirui's policy of unifying force also directly endangered the territory of the southwest warlords. Therefore, they wanted to use Sun Yat-sen's reputation to fight against Duan Qirui's unifying force and expand their strength. Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan successively announced that they would break away from the Beiyang government and join the Protective Movement, and the southwest was connected to the Protective Movement, becoming the Protective Center.

On August 25, more than 150 members of the old parliament went south. Due to insufficient statutory number, the official meeting was not held, so according to Sun Yat-sen's proposal, he decided to hold a "Party Extraordinary Meeting" in Guangzhou. On August 25, the Extraordinary Congress opened and decided to organize a meeting of the law-protecting military government to pass: In order to maintain the "Provisional Constitution", the Government of the Republic of China was formed in Guangzhou, and one Marshal and three Marshals were appointed to exercise the administrative power of the Republic of China.

On September 1, 91 people from the Extraordinary Congress voted, and 84 votes were elected as the Grand Marshal of the Republic of China. Later, the Yunnan Governor Tang Jiyao was elected, and the Guangxi Governor Lu Rongting was appointed as the Marshal; in addition, Wu Tingfang was appointed as the Chief of Foreign Affairs and Tang Shaoyi was appointed as the Chief of Finance, but he did not take office. Cheng Biguang was appointed as the Chief of the Navy and Hu Hanmin was appointed as the Chief of Transportation. Sun Dapao took office on September 10, appointed Li Liejun as the Chief of Staff, Li Fulin as the Chief of the Personal Army, Xu Chongzhi as the Chief of the Army, Chen Jiongming as the Chief of the First Army, and the Protection of the Law Government was established. Duan Qirui and others were declared rebellious and vowed to fight in the Northern Expedition. Under the call of Sun Dapao, the War of Protection of the Law officially began.

Sun Dapao once served as the acting president. From late February to early May 1919, the military government and Beijing government representatives held a North-South Peace Conference in Shanghai, which was broken due to repeated stalemates. Although under Sun Dapao's initiative, warlords from other factions expressed their desire to cooperate in the fight. Sun Dapao's army was not under his own hands, and his orders could only be stopped in his Grand Marshal's office.

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