We all know the famous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement in modern history, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom roared, the world trembled three times, at that time it was an event that shocked the world, and the most important change for the Chinese was that since then the Qing government has never stood up straight and walked on the verge of collapse.
Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement failed in the end, there are still countless heroes created and polished in the movement, of course, the limitations of the peasant class revolution can actually be changed from an individual point of view, such as the father and son we are going to talk about today.
His father's name was Chen Guixin, a native of Guangdong. In Guangdong, he threw himself into the uprising of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with his own enthusiasm, in fact, Chen Guixin was a young man who did carpentry work in his early years, but when he entered the Taiping Army, he was extraordinary and heroic, so Yang Xiuqing discovered that this young man was a material that could be made, so he put it next to him as a personal bodyguard.
Chen Guixin had a great merit, and it was also his first miracle, when the Qing army fought against the Taiping army Wuchang, Chen Guixin built a pontoon bridge with his own good carpenter, so that the Taiping army defeated the Qing army. At that time, it was also the time when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was at its peak, and all the way through the pass, the general was directly established, and the Qing government was an army.
Later, the limitations of the small peasant class appeared when the Kingdom of Heaven was at its peak, and the originally excellent situation was turned upside down by the internal strife of the ruling class within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, especially when Yang Xiuqing was killed, Yang Xiuqing's subordinates fell down and scattered, and those who should have fled for their lives fled, and Chen Guixin was no exception.
At that time, the people of Liangguang and Fujian were running away to the sea to run to a foreign country, Chen Guixin from Hong Kong as a springboard, first as a piglet, the life of selling himself was not good, he took a boat to reach Trinidad, which belonged to britain at that time, in the West Indies.
Life on the island is very difficult, Chen Guixin worked as a shaving craftsman for a while, but barely survived. But Chen Guixin's life began to transit after meeting a rich Chinese businessman on the island, and the rich Chinese businessman was optimistic about Chen Guixin and married his daughter, who was 20 years younger than Chen Guixin, to Chen Guixin, which showed that the rich businessman valued him very much.
After marrying his wife, Chen Guixin soon had his own son, named Chen Youren. The Chinese always have a kind of plot that comes back to the roots, and what Chen Guixin has experienced in his country cannot be forgotten, and he has planted this kind of plot on his son Chen Youren.
Chen Youren knew from an early age that he remembered his father's teachings and studied hard, and eventually became the first Chinese lawyer in Trinidad. Chen Youren's life in Trinidad had already achieved prosperity and stability, and the establishment of a family had been completed, but Chen Youren still felt in his heart that these were not enough to realize his ambitions.
After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, Chen Youren's hidden ambition to serve the country was stimulated, he was on vacation in London at the time, and he happened to hit it off with his friend Dr. Wu Liande, and he would not say a word of Chinese Chen Youren immediately gave up everything and rushed to the motherland in his heart to support the revolutionary cause of the motherland. His father's wish to miss the motherland and return to his roots was thus realized by Chen Youren.
Relying on his own advantages, Chen Youren made great efforts on the road of the Chinese revolution, serving as the editor-in-chief of the famous Newspaper and periodical Beijing Daily, as well as Sun Yat-sen's foreign affairs adviser and English secretary, and later became the foreign minister. As foreign minister, Chen Youren reclaimed the concessions of Jiujiang and Hankou occupied by the British for China.
Just by virtue of this achievement, it is impossible to have no iron wrist, so Chen Youren is also known as an iron-fisted diplomat, if the Qing government could have reused such a person earlier, perhaps China would not have a concession! After the Japanese invaded China on a large scale, Chen Youren also took on part of the anti-Japanese work in Hong Kong.
However, Chen Youren still became a prisoner of the Japanese after the fall of Hong Kong, and was taken back to Shanghai under house arrest, during which the Japanese repeatedly forced Chen Youren to fight for the Japanese, that is, to support the Wang puppet regime, Chen Youren resolutely refused to comply, which made the Japanese very headache.
In 1944, Chen Youren ended his life as a fighter, making immortal contributions to the cause of China's revolution like his father until the end of his life. In Chen Guixin and Chen Youren," we see the concern and selfless dedication of the new and old generations of Chinese to the motherland, which is a loyalty that is difficult to change, let us remember these brave and hard-working patriots!