 On the morning of 10 October, Cen left Wuchang and travelled to Shanghai.On the way, he learnt that Li Yuanhong had been named the military leader of the rebels and the Xinhai Revolution was over.In 1913, when the Second Revolution broke out, Cen sent a telegraph from Shanghai to Yuan Shikai in Beijing, requesting that Yuan resolve his conflict with Sun Yat-sen and the revolutionaries in a peaceful manner, but Yuan ignored him.