The shareholders of Sichuan Railway Construction are not only gentlemen, businessmen and landlords, but also farmers, who buy a large proportion of shares. Promulgated by Qing government
After the "state-owned railway" policy, the right of way was taken back, but the compensation investment of private capital in the early stage was not returned, which caused opposition from all walks of life in Sichuan, especially the working people in urban and rural areas, thus setting off a vigorous movement to protect the road.
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1.On September 7th,191,Zhao Erfeng, governor of Sichuan, arrested Luo Lun, Pu Dianjun and other representatives of the Lu Bao Comrades' Association and shot and killed hundreds of petitioners. The next day, he ordered the dissolution of the local railway protection gay association. It aroused even greater anger among Sichuan people, destroying power lines everywhere, setting up checkpoints along the way and cutting off official communications. 19 1 1 year, Rongxian became the first regime in China to break away from the Qing Dynasty. Pushing the road protection movement to a climax became the first sound of Wuchang Uprising.
Second, in order to put out the people's uprising in Sichuan, the Qing court sent Duan Fang, a minister, to lead some new Hubei troops into Sichuan to suppress it, which weakened the defense force of the Qing army in Hubei, and the revolutionaries decided to launch an uprising in Wuchang. 191114 In September, the Literary Society and the * * * Progressive Association, under the impetus of the League, set up a unified uprising leading organ to jointly fight against the Qing Dynasty. And decided to invite Huang Xing, Song, or go to Hubei to direct the uprising and preside over the plan.
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Baidu encyclopedia-Wuchang uprising