Humanistic perspective
Edited the I Nine Song
During the Republic of China period, warlords fought and bandits ran rampant. Zhang Zuolin made his fortune from horse bandits, and eventually became a local warlord on the side of the Ling, and there are also some local bandits, who are also very powerful.
Sun Meiyao, this name, it is estimated that few people know, but in Zaozhuang, Shandong during the Republic of China period, his big name is known to everyone, and no one knows it. He was born in Shandong Shanting, Sun Meiyao was the fifth oldest in the family, and people in the countryside called him Sun Laowu.
Sun Meiyao's family is a prestigious family of rich merchants in the local area, and his brother Sun Meizhu, who was born in the late Qing Dynasty, is a famous intellectual in the local area.
It is precisely because the Sun family has a certain influence in the local area, in 1918, Sun Meizhu and others contacted local armed forces and various "poles" to build a village in Baoligu. Relying on Sun Meizhu's solicitation, the number of hungry people in dozens of counties in Suzhou, Lu, Henan, and Anhui provinces soon gathered, with nearly 7,000 or 8,000 people.
On the occasion of the Qingming Festival in 1920, the "Shandong Jianguo Autonomous Army" was officially formed, with Sun Meizhu as the commander-in-chief of the Five-Way Coalition Army. However, within two years, Sun Meizhu was killed by the officers and soldiers in an encounter in Xiji.
After Sun Meizhu's death, many people saw that the dragons were leaderless, and because Sun Meiyao was very active in the army and was Sun Meizhu's younger brother, many people recommended him to be the commander-in-chief. Sun Meiyao's army was not recognized by the Beiyang government at the time.
In order to eliminate Sun Meiyao's Shandong Jianguo Autonomous Army, the Beiyang government entrusted The Shandong Overseer Tanaka Yu as the commander of the bandits, commanded the Fifth and Sixth Mixed Brigades of Shandong, the 20th Brigade, the Old Fifth Division, and other units, and continued to encircle and suppress the Baoligu Mountains.
In April 1923, the water and food in the Baoligu Mountains were cut off, and the autonomous army led by Sun Meiyao was in danger of being wiped out at any time. In this dangerous situation, Sun Meiyao decided to send a backbone force to highlight the siege.
In May, Sun Meiyao did not know where to get the news, the Jinpu Railway has a special express train carrying people from Britain, the United States and other imperialist countries to China. Sun Meiyao did not know where the courage was, and decided to plunder the "foreigners" in order to blackmail the warlords directly under their direct lineage, so as to get rid of the encirclement and suppression of them by the Beiyang government army.
Sun Meiyao's incident also caused him a sensation, and after the express train carrying foreigners was hijacked, it was learned that it was carrying a number of Chinese and foreign journalists and foreign tourists attending the inauguration ceremony of the Gongjiaba embankment of the Yellow River in Shandong Province. In addition to the British rothmen sleeping in the first-class sleeping car trying to resist and being shot and killed by bandits, a total of 19 foreign passengers were kidnapped (Powell, the chief writer of the Millers Review, was also among them), as well as more than 100 Chinese tourists.
As soon as this news was announced, it was a sensation, and this "lincheng carjacking case" immediately became the focus of news at that time. The Beiyang government was immediately frightened, and the ministers of various countries, fearing that they would hurt the lives of overseas Chinese, resolutely opposed the use of force, but several times a day they urged President Li Yuanhong to find a way.
On June 12, the last batch of eight Western prisoners were all released, and on the 13th, all returned to Shanghai, a sensational carjacking case, from the beginning to the end, lasted 37 days. Sun Meiyao's autonomous army was eventually incorporated into the newly organized 11th Brigade in Shandong. Sun Meiyao, who became the brigade commander, did not begin to relent, but became more arrogant.
In order to completely eliminate Sun Meiyao's forces, Cao Kun sent Zheng Shiqi, the governor of Shandong, who commanded his subordinate Zhang Peirong, the defender of Yanzhou Town, to set up a "Hongmen Feast" at Zaozhuang. As soon as Sun Meiyao entered the door, he sprinkled powder on Sun Meiyao's face, and several people solved Sun Meiyao.
If Sun Meiyao had not been in the "Lincheng carjacking case", it is estimated that it would not be known to us. After his death, Bing Xin and Lu Xun spoke highly of him, saying that the "lincheng carjacking case" he had done was a heroic act. At that time, Western imperialism had a huge influence in China, and Sun Meiyao's approach was undoubtedly something that many people did not dare to do, and Bing Xin and Lu Xun would have such a high evaluation of him.