Master Yuan, start!

The remaining French people in the concession called this spontaneous organization of patriotic people the "Great Encirclement Movement"

While recording what they had witnessed in their diaries, they trembled and asked for help from their homeland, hoping that the Paris government would send troops to protect their safety.

Seeing that national sentiment was high, Yuan Shikai exchanged views with a number of Central Executive Committee members of the Social Revolutionary Party via telegram, and decided to go all out and announced the recovery of the French Concession across the country.

The National Revolutionary Army from Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places marched into the French Concession with live ammunition and removed the symbols of the colonial authorities there.

Just when the French felt that China had lost its mind and planned to contact Britain, exaggerating that China's recovery of the French Concession would have an impact on or even subvert the colonial rule of the British Concession, they wanted to use this as an opportunity to discuss with the British about containing China.

The Chinese officials sent here immediately hung up a sign indicating that the French Concession was a bonded area.

For a moment, the French were stunned, and before they could react, Britain responded quickly.

British Minister to Europe, Sir Arthur Claude MacDonald, claimed that these newly established customs territories were the common property of every European country.

He brought the Germans into the picture, saying that war was war, but he would never want to see the French navy disrupt the trade peace of coastal ports across China.

In order to demonstrate its determination to protect trade routes, the British Far East Second Fleet set out from Hong Kong, headed north along the southeast coastline, and decided to carry out offshore cruises in the northwest Pacific to survey hydrology.

Before leaving the port, the British Hong Kong Fleet issued a notice announcing that it would resupply fuel and food at ports along the way, and attached the resupply locations.

They are Ningbo, Shanghai, Lushun, Tianjin, Yantai, Incheon, Nagasaki, Tokyo and other cities. The Chinese part happens to be the target that the French Navy claims to "bombard".

The French hated the British for this behavior, but they could not find any good excuse to retaliate, so they could only let the fleet give up its plan to go to the coast of northern China for a short period of time.

The attempt to force the emperor to abdicate in the north failed, and all the concessions in China were lost.

The French were so angry that they turned their fleet back to the waters near Vietnam and, unexpectedly, landed at the southern tip of Hainan Island in Qiongzhou Prefecture.

There were only a small number of local Green Camps in the southern part of Qiongzhou Prefecture. Before the National Revolutionary Army could enter here, the French army suddenly occupied Yazhou in the south and Changhua in the west.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Frenchman was getting furious and was starting to resort to any means necessary.

"Let's quit while we're ahead, President. France is a major European power after all. If we mobilize the entire nation to send troops, the National Revolutionary Army may not be able to defeat us!"

"The Yuan family's current prowess is very similar to that of Fu Jian during the Former Qin Dynasty, dominating the Central Plains and possessing an army of millions gathered in a corner of the southern kingdom.

Little did they know that in the Battle of Feishui, Fu Jian died and his country was destroyed.

Does Yuan want today's republican China to follow the same path as the Former Qin Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Zhen and Emperor Liang?"

There were voices of persuasion, as well as open and implicit ridicule. Of course, these so-called "voices of reason" were quickly drowned out by the voices of support from 400 million people.

"China rises, this is the battle!"

"First they invaded Xiamen, then they seized Taiwan, and now they have occupied Qiongzhou. This is intolerable and we must not tolerate it any longer!"

With the enthusiastic support of the people across the country, war bonds against France were quickly put on sale.

The bond plan has a term of 10 years, 1500 million taels, issued in three installments, with an annual interest rate of 3%, or 2%.

The initial issuance was 500 million taels, sold in Incheon, Tianjin, Yantai and Shanghai.

To be honest, this is an extremely low interest rate, or even no profit at all. However, at 9 o'clock on the day of the sale, the doors of Northeast Border Industry Bank in various places were still crowded with people, and people waiting in line to buy bonds stretched to the end of the street.

Most buyers don't even look at the face value. They just drop the silver or banknotes in their hands, then casually take a receipt from the bank staff, put it in their arms, and walk away leisurely.

There are also some buyers, no, it cannot even be called buyers, but patriots.

Seeing that there were so many people queuing, they threw the cloth bag containing silver onto the securities selling table from more than ten meters away, and then left satisfied without taking the bonds.

Seeing this, many people who bought bonds hurriedly took out the bonds in their pockets and tore them up in front of the people present to show that they would not take a penny.

At 16 p.m. that day, seven hours later, all 7 million bonds were sold out, and the remaining 300 million were also sold out within a few days.

Those who have money contribute money, and those who have no money contribute efforts.

Inspired by patriotic enthusiasm, the National Revolutionary Army Recruiting Department once again ushered in an explosive influx of people.

Young people with accents from all over the world, and even overseas Chinese from Southeast Asia and America, chose to join the National Revolutionary Army.

The fire is boiling and the flowers are blooming.

The national spirit and the spirit of nationalism are gradually emerging among this ancient nation.

Chapter 439 Chain Reaction III Munich Conference

The Munich region in southern Germany, located in the heart of continental Europe, was once the capital of the state of Bavaria.

Even after Prussia unified Germany, Munich still enjoyed a high status in the entire German-speaking region and was known as one of the three major cities in Germany along with Berlin and Vienna.

Tall, straight oak trees cover the entire southern German land, and in the distance you can vaguely see the Swiss snow-capped mountains that reach the sky, creating a poetic scene.

The rumbling train spewed thick black smoke from its head and continued to move forward with a grunting sound, breaking the tranquility here. Amidst the escaping steam, the train stopped at Munich Station.

After the white mist dissipated a little, the tightly closed door of the carriage opened, and the blond-haired and blue-eyed passengers walked out of the carriage one by one, carrying their luggage.

Among them, there was a young but bald man mixed in the crowd.

Seeing this iconic bald head, the waiting young man rubbed his eyes, then compared it with the portrait in his hand. After confirming that it was correct, he strode forward:

“Excuse me, is this Mr. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov?

I was entrusted by the organizing committee of this conference to come here to welcome you.”

Lenin looked at the young man who had come to greet him with some surprise, but he still admitted frankly: "Yes, I am Ilyich."

"Great, it seems I didn't miss Ms. Luxemburg's instructions." The young man breathed a sigh of relief and planned to guide Lenin to the city center.

"Luxemburg," Lenin repeated the name, and then asked, "Is it Ms. Rosa Luxemburg?"

"Yes, that's right, the editor-in-chief of our newspaper." The young man took Lenin's luggage, took out a copy of the Saxony Workers' Newspaper from his pocket and handed it over.

"Ms. Luxemburg told me that she was busy writing an article refuting Bernstein and others.

I've been writing for a while now, so I haven't been able to find time to meet Mr. Vladimir, who has come all the way from Russia. Therefore, he specifically asked me to come and greet him."

"I've heard of Bernstein as a revisionist." Lenin nodded and asked:

"But what has happened that Mademoiselle Luxemburg is planning to write an article criticizing Bernstein?"

"What a big deal!" The young man smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying:

“You know, Mr. Ilyich, that after the death of Mr. Engels, socialists of all stripes have claimed to be the heirs of Marxism.

Generally speaking, socialists are very tolerant of each other as long as the theories proposed by a person are not too extreme.

But Bernstein was truly too shocking.

Not only did he deny the dialectics of revolution, he also believed that historical materialism was self-contradictory and the theory of surplus value was groundless.

Bernstein can be said to have completely denied Marxism.

This is not a correction at all, it is a complete negation!

He believed that the emergence of capitalist monopoly organizations could completely eliminate economic crises.

Moreover, he opposed the use of violence to move from capitalist society to socialist society.

Mr. Ilyich, do you think such a deviant revisionist can still be called a socialist and be qualified to join the Second International?

The young man told Lenin about Bernstein's shocking revisionist ideas.

Hearing this, Lenin stroked his thick beard, his mind shifting. He pondered quietly, "The Second International had just experienced a split a few years ago. Could it be facing a new split within itself now?"

The Second International was a world organization of the workers' movement founded by European socialists under the organization of Engels and relying on socialist parties in various countries.

It was originally established to solve the many problems arising from the development of capitalism into the monopoly era, and attempted to provide new theoretical guidance for the workers' movement.

In the early days of the Second International, there were three factions: orthodox Marxism, anarchism, and revisionism.

However, after Engels' death in 1895, the struggle within the Second International gradually became more intense.

Orthodox Marxists first united with the revisionists and firmly opposed the anarchists' idea of ​​eliminating the government and all social organizations.

At the insistence of these two factions, the London Congress of the Second International in 1896 refused to allow anarchists to participate.

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After receiving the news, the well-known Dutch anarchist Nieuwenhuis and his followers announced their withdrawal from the conference. At this point, the anarchists within the Second International were completely defeated.

At the subsequent London Congress of the Second International, a group of representatives gave multifaceted expositions on the political and economic struggles of the working class, war issues, land issues, and national colonial issues.

They pointed out that land should be owned by society rather than individuals, condemned the bourgeois colonial policy, and declared that all nations had the right to full self-determination.

It was also at this conference that Yan Fu's telegram introduced an unfamiliar Far Eastern socialist party, the Red Confucian Society, to socialists in European countries.

However, the center of the Second International was still in Europe at that time and did not pay much attention to East Asia.

Originally, after the London Conference in 1896, Marxists thought that the Second International could get back on track.

However, in the past two years, the revisionists have become increasingly powerful, and some of the "surrender" ideas they promote are unbearable for orthodox Marxists.

Therefore, taking advantage of the rapidly changing situation in Europe, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht proposed to convene the Fifth Plenary Congress of the Second International in Munich.

Therefore, this conference is also called the Munich Conference.

Lenin was invited to attend this conference as a representative of the newly established Russian Social Democratic Labor Party.

"In fact, this conference was originally scheduled to be held in Paris." The young man chatted with Lenin as they walked:

"But you may have heard that the French suffered a defeat in the Far East, and there were many riots in Paris in protest against the government.

That’s why the conference changed its address to Munich.”

"The colonists will suffer more and more defeats." Lenin clenched his fist and said, "Colonial policy is unpopular. Their failure is inevitable. It is only a matter of sooner or later.

This defeat precisely demonstrated the correctness of the Second International’s anti-colonial policy.”

The young man approached Lenin and whispered, "But I think there might be another reason why the conference was moved to Munich."

"Oh, what's the reason?" Lenin asked.

"Chinese!"

The young man looked around and lowered his voice, "To protect the Chinese from being attacked by the angry Parisians.

It is said that China's socialist revolutionaries also sent representatives to this conference.

Two years earlier, the Second International had come into contact with Chinese people who called themselves socialists. However, at that time, they were in the midst of a revolution to overthrow the Tatars, and the Second International could not determine whether they were true socialists.

However, during these two years, the Second International sent people to northern China for a field investigation and found that they had indeed implemented proletarian land policies in rural areas, so they decided to accept them as formal members of the Second International.

Mr. Ilyich, this is big news.

Did you know that this is the first time that the Second International has accepted the ruling party of a country into its ranks?

The Chinese are here too?