Now, the time had come for Mr. Sun to really stage the revolution!

Mr. Sun returned to Hong Kong in January 1895 and immediately fetched back Chan Siu-bak, who was on holiday, from his home village in Guangzhou. Together they opened the Qianheng Company at 13 Staunton Street. They were not, of course, setting up a business. It was all for the revolution!

The Qianheng Company was a camouflage. Soon after Mr. Sun and Chan Siu-back headquartered the Revive China Society in Hong Kong and merged it with the Furen Literary Society, they decided to launch insurrections inland to overthrow the Qing government. The Qianheng Company was where they made secret meetings to plan the revolt.

To put the Revive China Society in place, Chan Siu-bak went about to drum up support from different sectors. He found, for example, Cheng Si-leung in Macau and Chan Ting-wai in Shanghai. Cheng Si-leung was, like Mr. Sun and Chan, a Christian and a medical man; he was also a good fighter, being the regional head of a triad. Chan Ting-wai on the other hand came from the Naval School, and his participation enhanced the military strength of the insurgents. Back then, the Society had already pulled in more than thirty members, including Yeung Kui-wan, Tse Tsan-tai, Yau Lit, Yeung Hok-ling, Wong Wing-seung, Au Fung-chi and Lu Hao-tung, all of them old friends of Mr. Sun in his powwow circle. The mission of the Revive China Society was to "expel the Tartar barbarians, revive Chinese rule and establish a Republic".