1906 is the fifth year before the collapse of the Qing dynasty. China's feudal monarchy lasted for 2 127 years. The country and society are like rotten watermelons, overflowing with pus and stinking. The eastern land is looking forward to a storm, sweeping away all the decay and ugliness, and letting this ancient nation with braids and kowtows regain its life and keep up with the pace of the world.

This year, Enming, the son-in-law of Anhui Governor and Prince Yi Kuang of Qing Dynasty, received a letter of recommendation. This letter was written by his old superior and former governor of Shaanxi Province, Mr. Lian Sansan, and recommended his cousin, Xu Xilin from Yinshan, Zhejiang. Enming has always been a disciple of Mr. Yu Lian. After reading the teacher's letter, he did not hesitate to arrange a "conference" management position for Xu Xilin, who obtained the status of Taoist priest through "accepting donations".

The so-called donation, to put it bluntly, is to spend money to buy officials. Selling officials and titles is never new, but it can be legalized and institutionalized by the government, and it may only be the Qing Dynasty that sells them at a clear price.

When Kangxi conquered Junggar in the Qing Dynasty, due to lack of funds, he began to sell officials to open up government financial resources, which has continued to this day. Is the price fair? Look at the price of Guangxu for twenty-six years: Beijing official Li Langzhong 2073 Liang, principal 1728 Liang; There are 4,723 Taoist priests among local officials, 3,830 county magistrates, 474 tongzhi/kloc-0, 999 magistrate and 2 10. At that time, one or two pieces of silver are about 170 and 80 yuan today, which is not cheap in conversion.

People who spend a lot of money to buy officials are certainly not here to serve the people. The first thing they do after taking office is to get back the cost and make a big profit. Of course, it is impossible to rely on wages, and that means must be to search for bribes.

Isn't the Qing court afraid that these officials who buy power will die? Not afraid. Li Hongzhang, an important official in the late Qing Dynasty, famously said, "The easiest thing in the world is to be an official." Since anyone can do this job after all, let's sell it. Whoever pays will do it. There is no fear of incompetence and the joy of making money. As for them, they will certainly search for bribes. Unfortunately, the common people are not me. Ask for a bribe. As long as you don't clarify, everyone is still one of us.

From Empress Dowager Cixi at the highest level, to Enming, the governor of Anhui, to Lian San, an old governor of Shanxi who wrote a letter of recommendation to his cousin, he never thought that someone would accept donations, enter the officialdom, and then launch a shocking blow!

This elegant young man with a pair of nearsighted glasses on his nose came back from Japan. Before he took office in Anqing, the capital of Anhui Province, he said this to his comrade-in-arms Qiu Jin and others: "I don't know how much blood was shed during the 80-year war of the French Revolution. In the early days of the revolution, China should also shed blood to water the flowers of the revolution. I went to Anhui this time to prepare for bloodshed. You must not think it is sad and have the idea of retreating. "

Where can eun-Ming know? Xu Xilin's name will be closely linked with his kindness in the future, and the historical story of "Xu Xilin stabbing kindness" will be handed down from generation to generation.

Buying officials into the system is to find opportunities to kill the inside of the system. Xu Xilin and several of his comrades-in-arms are the most unique officials in history.

Xu Xilin is undoubtedly the most prominent of numerous rebellions in the new and old times. From 65438 to 0873, he was born in a rich family. He received a good education since he was a child, but he was never restless. /kloc-when he was 0/2 years old, in order to find a monk to "learn martial arts", he went to the deep mountains and forests without a trace, and his family made great efforts to find it and strictly restrained it; What he is willing to study hard is not the assignment, but astronomy. He often gets up in the middle of the night to "watch the night stars" and enjoys it. As an adult, he married Xu. After several years of marriage, he can't have children. His family wanted to marry him another room, but he resolutely refused and left with his wife.

Before Xu Xilin made up his mind to take photos in officialdom, he had already contacted a large number of revolutionary comrades in Zhejiang. In order to lay a good foundation for this arduous career, Xu Xilin forgot to run and often slept without taking off his shoes and socks. When he woke up, he found that he couldn't take them off any more, because the blood flowing from his worn feet had glued his feet to his shoes and socks.

A passionate person will definitely go deep into history!

After arriving in Anqing, Xu Xilin worked hard to manage school affairs in the post of armament school, in order to gain the trust and promotion of Enming and gain a more favorable position, and at the same time secretly prepared the planned events. Because it was recommended by Mr. Lian San, Enming has no doubt about him and appreciates his school achievements, and is ready to cultivate and reuse him. And Xu Xilin soon felt that this armament school was not secret at all, and the salary of dozens of silver dollars a month was not enough for him to engage in underground activities, so he wrote to ask Uncle Yuliansan to come forward again and ask for help again. At that time, Xu Xilin bought Taoist priests and spent a lot of money, but Xu Xilin didn't take the money from home, but Xu Zhongqing, a Hui middleman and wealthy businessman, donated it. A donation of 50,000 silver dollars enabled Xu Xilin, Tao and others to buy the positions of magistrate and tongzhi respectively. Uncle Yulian, who is not reused now and has been making contributions to Xu Xilin, feels guilty and writes to Enming again, asking him to help his nephew. Enming replied courteously: "Primary school students are eager to use it, and there is no suspense for teachers ... It is appropriate to set up a patrol school, and I hope that I can be competent with the talents of (Xu Xilin)." At the beginning of 1907, Xu Xilin was promoted to patrol school and patrol room by Enming.

Anqing Patrol School is located in Baihua Pavilion (now Anqing Health School) in the northeast corner of Anqing City. Founded in 1906, the Qing court ordered all provinces to run patrol schools, which was the place where the Qing government specially trained patrol cadres. Students are divided into Class A and Class B, with 200 students in each class for 3 months (later changed to half a year). Train class b after class a graduates. Everyone who participated in the training issued a nine-gun musket, and most of them were assigned to be police officers all over the province after graduation, so they were also called police officer schools.

This position makes Xu Xilin very happy. The police academy is very important to Anhui Province. In charge of this school, I am not worried about not having the opportunity to contact Enming, the number one official in Anhui Province. In addition, the students in this school are all armed, and educating them well is the basic force of the uprising.

While strictly training students, he instilled revolutionary truth in them, kept in touch with all directions, took the backbone of students out of Jixian Pass, visited Longzhu Mountain and Guanyin Pavilion, secretly observed the terrain, drew military maps, and gradually attracted the attention of smart people. Gu Song, the school accountant, found that Xu Xilin had several unclear accounts and that he spoke boldly in class and was secretive after class, so he secretly observed and opened Xu Xilin's letters privately. Gu accountant soon confirmed Xu Xilin's conspiracy, and hurriedly reported to Enming in great surprise that this seemingly honest Xu Xilin was a revolutionary party. Enming smiled and said, "The revolution is not like this, and neither is the revolutionary party." Xu Huiban is screaming, not a revolution, you are too oversensitive. "

This government official with a bushy moustache on his lips, who is closely related to the emperor and the country, is confident in his own judgment: one of Xu Xilin's referees is his teacher, Lian Sansan. How can Yu's cousin, the former governor, be a revolutionary party? Create your own life? Second, Enming, a man of his age and experience, knows Xu Xilin's intellectual youth very well, but he is nothing more than an "angry youth", who likes to show off some new ideas and is proud of daring to talk nonsense. Out of vigilance, Enming deliberately said to Xu Xilin's face: Some people say that you are a revolutionary party. Xu Xilin disdainfully replied, your honor, you are a matriarch. Enming looked too lazy to explain, but he was relieved.

Enming's carelessness brought him closer to the death gate.

At this time, Xu Xilin had negotiated with Qiu Jin in Zhejiang, and in July of 1907, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces revolted at the same time. On the day of Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Guangfu Association convened a secret meeting of leaders of various social factions in Zhejiang and Anhui provinces responsible for the uprising at Dayu Tomb in Shaoxing. It was decided at the meeting to set up the Guangfu Army. Everyone elected Xu Xilin as the team leader and Qiu Jin as the team leader. At the meeting, it was decided that1July 8, 907, when a student graduation ceremony was held in Anqing, Xu Xilin led the Guangfu Army to revolt and occupied Anqing City. Qiu Jin is in charge of Zhejiang Rebel Army. /kloc-rose up and captured Hangzhou on 0/9, and then the two armies joined forces and captured Nanjing.

The time of the uprising was changed again and again because of the change of events.

Qiu Jin originally planned the uprising on July 6th, but Xu Xilin said it was not ready, so it was changed to the 8th, that is, the graduation ceremony of the police academy. Eun Ming will deliver an important speech at the scene, just right; It was agreed on the 8th, but there was an accident and party member Ye Yanggao was arrested. After being arrested, Ye Yanggao couldn't bear to be tortured and poured out what he knew about party member, so he searched the whole city of Anqing. Fortunately, Xu Xilin and their contacts are using pseudonyms. So the critical moment appeared: Enming cracked such a big case and immediately recruited his trusted patrol room to Xilin, Xu Run, demanding that Xu Huiban immediately arrest people according to the list; And Xu Xilin got a look, and the first "light man" on the list was himself! Xu Xilin, who is trying to calm himself down, is determined to clean up the chaotic party in two days, while secretly gritting his teeth-take a big sleep, the sooner the better!

Enming, who was completely in the dark, seemed to be very considerate of the revolutionaries' thoughts and took the initiative to push the uprising forward for two days: it was originally the graduation ceremony of the police academy on July 8, but he said that his old mother named Zhang Cishan was celebrating her eightieth birthday, and he wanted to congratulate her and instructed Xu Xilin to advance the graduation ceremony to the 6th.

The date of the uprising turned a circle, so it dramatically returned to the day when Qiu Jin advocated the uprising.

On July 5, Xu Xilin presented an invitation to Enming according to the uprising plan: "Anhui patrol school was established on May 28 (lunar calendar) and held its first graduation meeting. Please come and give instructions to Fu Tai."

On July 6th, 1907, the first graduates of Anhui Patrol School lined up at the following steps outside the auditorium. The school will hold Xu Xilin in uniform and stand on the steps, waiting for the arrival of Governor Enming. His two assistants, Ma and Chen Boping, guard the left and right aisles respectively.

According to the safety requirements of all students in the school, all the guns are empty. Just before Enming appeared, the relevant personnel also deliberately dropped the pistol worn by Xu Xilin. However, revolutionaries are ready for this.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the commander, En Ming, arrived at the school surrounded by several senior officials in Anhui Province, just a snap of his finger from the uprising.

The students in the formal class first salute Enming, and Enming responds.

At this time, Xu Xilin grabbed the first step, knelt down on one leg and put his hands on the student list: "Report to the Commander-in-Chief, there is a revolutionary uprising today!"

The solemn graduation ceremony is going on, and it's very abrupt and inappropriate for Xu Xilin to come here suddenly-if it's urgent, why not report it before the ceremony? Now the ceremony is in progress, can't we report it after it is over? Eun Ming was surprised and annoyed, and was about to be scolded. At this moment, Xu Xilin suddenly dodged. On one side, Chen Boping took out a hidden bomb and threw it at Enming. He is tall here!

It turns out that Xu Xilin's report is a signal to start work!

The earth-shattering noise did not appear, and the bomb did not explode!

Time seems to have stopped.

In Xu Xilin's original detailed plan, after solving Enming with one shot, he took out his gun and shot San Francisco to the left, and then shot Gangsi to the right, while Ma and Chen were sitting on both sides of the road, state, state and county officials. However, the bomb thrown by Chen Boping did not explode, which immediately made everyone feel at a loss.

Sweaty Xu Xilin finally recovered from this terrible accident, immediately bowed down, swished out two six-ring pistols from his boots and threw them at Enming.

In shock, Enming was shot seven times, once in the lip, once in the left palm, once in the right waist and once in the left and right legs, all of which missed the point. Lu Yongyi, who made a strange call to patrol, jumped up and covered Eun-ming with his body. The rest of the bullets entered Lu Yongyi's back, and Lu Yongyi died on the spot.

Xu Xilin polished the bullets, and then went into a small room to load them. Wu's police car Devon took the opportunity to pick up the badly injured En Ming and ran outside the auditorium. In the confusion and screams, Chen Boping hit Enming's fatal blow from behind. The bullet entered Enming's anus and passed through his abdomen and chest. The bearers stuffed the dying Enming into the sedan chair, shuffled out of the sedan chair and awkwardly carried it back to the government office. During the rescue, western doctors were asked to perform surgery and cut open the intestines, but no bullets were found. Open the thigh again, still can't find it. It is said that the bullet has been poisoned and will melt when it meets blood; It is said that the bullet is made of lead and melts itself as soon as it enters the body. This is a folklore, in fact, it can only rely on the medical skills at that time.

At this point, Enming suddenly realized that he was full of remorse and kept shouting: "confused, confused!" " "

In the police academy, the civil and military officials who suffered from this great change rolled and climbed, and fled in succession. At this time, Xu Xilin was reported to have just fled to the door, jumped out of a sewage ditch and was caught by a horse; Gu Song kowtowed for mercy. Xu Xilin cut it with a knife first, but he couldn't die. He ordered Ma Hanzong to shoot it with a gun. Then, Xu Xilin shouted to the students, "The Governor was killed by Gu Song. Let's occupy the armory and start the revolution from ourselves. " Xu Xilin, Chen Boping and Ma led some students to Anqing West Ordnance College.

The Qing army closed the gate of Anqing, and the liaison officer sent by Xu Xilin couldn't get out of the city. The new army outside the city couldn't get in, and the internal and external contacts of the insurgents were interrupted. At this time, the ordnance general office has escaped from the back door with the warehouse key, and the ammunition is hidden in the underground warehouse, which cannot be taken out at the moment. The soldiers of the Guangfu Army took out a cannon from the warehouse and put it in the back hall of the ordnance warehouse. Chen Boping took a shell and put it in the gun chamber. He said to Xu Xilin, "The situation is critical now. Blow up the Futai Yamen with artillery shells, destroy enemy organs, and then shell the North Gate Tower to open the gap in the city wall. " Xu Xilin saw the dense houses around Futai Yamen, and immediately stopped saying, "Doing so will burn everything, which is not in line with the revolutionary purpose. If we succeed, the people will inevitably be eroded. " Firmly refused to fire.

The city gate is closed, and they don't want to set fire to the city wall. Xu Xilin and his comrades-in-arms are trapped in Anqing, a tiny place, and there is only one dead end.

Soon, the capture battalion and patrol battalion of the Qing army arrived and surrounded the ordnance station. The Guangfu army used the solid walls of the ordnance station, and some climbed onto the roof to shoot at the Qing soldiers.

At this time, the army in the late Qing Dynasty also fought a real battle. The test result of combat effectiveness is: many people were killed or injured 100, and they dared not move forward. Feng Xu immediately sent Taoist Huang Runjiu and Yiling Old Qi Zhi to Douzhen, but the Qing army still delayed. Seeing the Qing government's long-term attack on ordnance, they began to offer a reward to Xu Xilin. At the beginning of 3,000 yuan, it immediately rose to 7,000 yuan, and then it reached 1000 yuan, and the Qing army began to attack. The two sides fought fiercely for nearly five hours. Chen Boping died unfortunately. Then, the enemy broke into the house, only to find that Xu Xilin's military cap and uniform were lying on the ground and disappeared. Feng Xu showed his reward again and ordered a search everywhere.