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of the province and on the 3rd August to be its to-tuk.
The revolution against the President was rapidly suppressed: the Kuo-min-tang was prescribed as a seditious organiza- tion: the National Assembly at Poking was dissolved:
and thore followed two years of absolute rule by Yuen Shih-k'ai, during which time Lung Tsai-ong Govorned Kuang-tung much after the manner of the former Viceroys.
At the close of 1915 Yuan Shih-k'ai launched his monarchical schome, which was bitterly opposed in sout- orm China. The revolt against him was begun on the 23rd
Docember, 1915, by T'ong Hai-yiu ( I ), general
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issimo and native of Yunnan. T'ong was at once joined by a famous Cantonese scholar, Long i-ch'iu (), by Shan Ch'un-hin (4), a native of Kung-hsi, who had been Viceroy of the Liang Kung provinces in 1900, and by Luk Weng-tons (4), also a native of
Kuang-hsi, who had been at one time a leader of bandits,
but had taken military service under the Manchu dynasty
and became in 1914, after the revolution, to-tuk of his
native provinco. Yunnan and King-hsi declared their independence. Theroupon Lung Tsai-kwong, whom Yurn
Shih-k'ai had elevated to the rank of princo, sent his
brother at the head of an army to invade Kuang-hsi. In a battle fought at Blok Ai ( 隘 near the frontior
between Kuang-hsi and Yunnan, Lung's brother was taken prisoner. With this hostago in their hands, the loaders
of the now revolution called upon Lung Tsci-krong to renounce his allegiance to Yuan Shih-k'hi and to declare kuang-tung indopondont. Meanwhile on the 30th March, 1916, Ch'iu-chou (H) and Stator (CEA) in the past and Yam-chou (H) and Lin-chault) in the south-west of Kuang-tung had declared their indopon-