Tomb of Martyr Xiong Chengji
On February 27, 1910, Xiong Chengji was taken to the execution ground outside the Barhumen Gate in Jilin City. Xiong Chengji held his head high and said to the onlookers, "Gentlemen! Gentlemen! There is no doubt that I am a thief, a traitor, a murderer, and I am a revolutionary soldier of charity! I may the one who rises after me be a great disciple! "After saying that, go to the execution ground, and be generous and righteous." He is only 23 years old.
Xiong Chengji wrote in the "Self-Confession Book": "My life is upright and fallen, and I do not spit out words, and I accept the Ming Department and answer with a straight heart. Purpose: To overthrow the barbaric autocratic government, to reorganize the new government, to share the happiness of our compatriots, and to wash away the great shame in the history of our motherland. Reason: The reason why China is weak is that because of its bad politics, it is also ,...... Or cloud, constitutional monarchy, is synonymous with special despotism, and non-people must participate in the government also ... To overthrow the Qing government, so as to remove a major obstacle today, my compatriots should know that my revolution today is not only for the racial issue, but also for the political issue. ”
After writing the confession, Xiong Chengji finally signed: Revolution.
The Xiong Chengji Martyrs Exhibition Hall in Yangzhou today
Xiong Chengji character flavor root, Jiangsu Ganquan people. He once said that "it is very shameful that the eldest husband cannot contribute to the country, and now the country is weak and bullied by the great powers, and only by learning martial arts from the military can he strengthen the country with shame." In 1902, he entered the Anhui Armed Training Academy, and later entered the Nanyang Artillery Academy, and after graduation, he was assigned to serve as an artillery platoon leader in the Ninth Town of the New Army, and later transferred to the Anhui New Army's mixed horse battalion and artillery officer. He participated in revolutionary groups such as the Anhui YuewangHui and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang GuangfuHui. In 1907, after the failure of Xu Xilin's Anqing Uprising, Yue Wanghui decided to launch another uprising, he was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the uprising, in the winter of 1908, the Qing court ordered the Nanyang New Army and the Hubei New Army to assemble in Taihu Lake, Anhui province to hold autumn exercises, and when Guangxu and Cixi died one after another, they took the opportunity to launch the Anhui New Army uprising, and fled to Tokyo after failure. At the beginning of 1909, in Tokyo, Japan, he was introduced to the League by the revolutionary Xiao Yikun. In 1910, he returned to Changchun in disguise, lived in Zang Guansan's home, and planned to engage in reclamation in Honey Mountain with Sun Yuan, Shang Zhen and others in order to store grain and purchase weapons, and contacted the new and old revolutionaries and the Mahuzi Uprising. In January 1910, when the Qing Navy Minister Zai Xun and Sa Zhenbing returned to China via the Russian-Siberian Railway, passing through Harbin, Xiong Chengji decided to assassinate Zai Xun. He was whistleblown by Zang Guansan and arrested. Recently, some scholars have declassified from the Qing history archives that Xiong was not killed because of the assassination of Zaixun, but because of the Anqing Uprising. At that time, the Shengjing Times reported that the bear did not have a gun on his body and could not be counted as an assassin.
Yangzhou Xiong Chengji Tomb
Xiong Chengji smiled at the crowd before he died and said: "The kings are precious for the country, although I am as alive as I am, I am willing to pour the flower of freedom with a heart of blood", "I am willing to follow me up, and there are many people." ”