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01. Assassin Samurai Ying fell ill and died in prison
Wu Shiying, a Shanxi soldier who had been a battalion commander (battalion commander) in Yunnan, had fallen to the point where he could not even pay the rent and had to borrow money from others to find a job before he assassinated Song Jiaoren in 1913. So samurai Ying, who had experience in the military, played the role of a killer under the temptation of 1,000 pieces of modern ocean. However, what Wu Shiying did not expect was that the person he killed was the famous young leader of the Kuomintang, Song Jiaoren, and the reward after the killing was captured by the patrol house before he could squander it. According to The Confession of Samurai Ying after his arrest, he was introduced by a gangster figure and took on a murder errand with a reward of 1,000 present oceans. This underworld figure surnamed Chen introduced him to the Communist Progressive Association (a triad organization with the Qinghong Gang gangsters as the main member), and it was learned that the boss who hired him to kill people was ying Guixin, the leader of the Communist Progressive Association.
On the afternoon of March 20, 1913, a broker surnamed Chen handed The pistol and bullets used in the assassination to Wu Shiying, helped him buy tickets to and from the Shanghai Railway Station, and sent someone to identify the person who needed to be assassinated. In this way, Wu Shiying killed the killer when Song Jiaoren was receiving a ticket inspection, shot and injured Song Jiaoren, and then fled the scene in chaos. After Song Jiaoren was stabbed, he was seriously injured and sent to the hospital for rescue two days later, he was declared dead.
On March 21, 1913, the murderer Wu Shiying was arrested by the French Concession Patrol House for reporting from the owner of the rented house. After more than a month of interrogation, the French Concession extradited Wu Shiying to the Chinese government and transferred him to the heavily guarded Shanghai Model Prison. Unfortunately, during his imprisonment in the Fazu Realm, Wu Shiying was infected with wind and cold, and after knowing that he had no way to live, the psychological pressure was too great, which aggravated his condition, and he died in prison on April 24, 1913. In order to find out about Wu Shiying's death, the government hired a number of doctors to perform an autopsy on Wu Shiying's body, proving that he died of illness, rather than being killed by Chen Qimei, as Yuan Shikai claimed.
02. Ying Guixin, the hired mastermind, was sent by Yuan Shikai to kill him
After Song Jiaoren was assassinated on March 20, 1913, Ying Guixin had not yet confirmed the news of Song Jiaoren's death, and he could not wait to go online - Hong Shuzu Baoxi, then secretary general of the State Council: "The bandits have been destroyed, and our army has no casualties. "。 As a result, only two days later, he was arrested because of the report of the antique dealer Wang Afa. What is even more shocking is that when the French Concession patrols searched Ying Guixin's home, they not only found the pistol used to assassinate Song Jiaoren and the unused three-particle bullet, but also discovered the secret telegram exchanges between Hong Shuzu, then secretary general of the State Council, and Ying Guixin, as well as the secret telegram book, from which it was learned that the leader of the assassination of Song Jiaoren was the Beiyang government headed by Yuan Shikai.
On April 17, 1913, Ying Guixin and Wu Shiying were extradited by the French Concession to the Chinese government and imprisoned in the Shanghai Model Prison. After Wu Shiying's death on 24 April, the revolutionary party transferred Ying Guixin to a military camp controlled by the revolutionary army (in the barracks of the 61st Regiment of the Shanghai Naval Bureau) just in case. As a result, more than three months later, Ying Guixin took advantage of the revolutionaries' war with the Beiyang Army (the second revolution) and successfully escaped from prison under the reception of the party members and fled to Beijing.
After Ying Guixin arrived in Beijing, he openly declared that he had killed Song Jiaoren to eliminate harm for the people and that he was a great hero of the Republic of China, and demanded that the government rehabilitate himself. Yuan Shikai instructed Zhao Bingjun to stabilize Ying Guixin first, and promised to give her the title of general. Ying Guixin took credit for himself, spent a lot of time with his party disciples in Beijing, and never shied away from his order to assassinate Song Jiaoren, which made Yuan Shikai feel very nervous.
On January 19, 1914, Yuan Shikai sent someone to inform Ying Guixin and asked him to go to Tianjin for a few days to avoid the wind. As a result, Ying Guixin was inexplicably killed in the first-class carriage of the train on the train from Beijing to Tianjin. Many years later, Yuan Shikai's close confidant Lei Zhenchun confessed that as early as December 1913, Yuan Shikai was angry about Ying Guixin's public order to assassinate Song Jiaoren, and ordered people to secretly kill Guixin, and the person in charge of the operation was called Hao Zhanyi, who was the chief detective of the Military and Political Law Enforcement Department, and the murder weapon used to assassinate Ying Guixin was a special electric knife, and ordinary people could not get it according to it. If it had not been arranged in advance, with Ying Guixin's means and the two armed bodyguards with him, how could the murderer stab Ying Guixin to death with several knives and still escape smoothly? Afterwards, in order to prevent retaliation, Ying Guixin's family had to swallow their anger and buried it hastily.
03. The mastermind Hong Shuzu became the first death row prisoner in China to be hanged
At the end of March 1913, the assassination of Song Jiaoren broke out. Zhao Bingjun, the premier of the State Council cabinet involved in the case, was dismissed from his post, and Hong Shuzu, secretary general of the State Council, abandoned his post and fled to the Qingdao German Concession to hide under yuan shikai's authorization. The Germans arrested him in May 1913 and interrogated him. Hong Shuzu did not admit that he had instructed the murderer to assassinate Song Jiaoren, and argued that "destroying Song Jiaoren's position" meant to denigrate Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen, but only attacked in name, not to be physically destroyed. The Germans, believing that the evidence was insufficient, released him.
After Yuan Shikai's death in 1916, Hong Shuzu lost his patron and economic resources, and in order to survive, he assumed the pseudonym Zhang Jiao Factory and mixed with the Shanghai Concession. The Kuomintang never gave up on arresting the murderer of Song Jiaoren and wanted Hong Shuzu all over the country. In April 1917, Hong Shuzu was captured by the concession patrol because his identity was exposed, but he was soon released. Just when Hong Shuzu was complacent and thought that he had once again escaped the pursuit, Song Zhenlu, the son of Song Jiaoren, had already led people to wait at the door of the patrol room for a long time.
On March 27, 1918, Hong Shuzu was sentenced to death by the Dali Court of the Beijing government and decided to carry out hanging. Hong Shuzu was obese, and when he was hanged, he was in a different place, which frightened the executioners. Later, his family found the most famous doctor in Beijing to sew his body and head with needles before he was buried. Hong Shuzu did not admit his guilt until his death, leaving behind his last words: "Serving the government and government, the disasters are in the body, and the self-consciously asking the heart is not ashamed; when the world is chaotic, it is better to live than to die, where is the dust!" "
04. Zhao Bingjun, the mastermind of the plan, died of a bizarre and violent illness
After the assassination of Song Jiaoren broke out, especially after the secret telegram between Hong Shuzu, secretary general of the State Council, and Ying Guixin, the chief conspirator of the hired murderer, was announced, Zhao Bingjun, the premier of the State Council Cabinet, became the target of public criticism. Although Yuan Shikai immediately denied Zhao Bingjun's suspicion of the Song case, in order to dispel the doubts of all sectors of society, he was dismissed.
Zhao Bingjun came from the police system and denied that he was involved in Song Jiaoren's case, which can be completely said to be watertight. At that time, the main suspect, Hong Shuzu, had absconded, and the revolutionaries could not do anything about him. More than 3 months after the Song Jiaoren case, because of his serious dissatisfaction with Yuan Shikai's behavior, a fierce war broke out between the revolutionaries and the Beiyang warlords, which is called the "second revolution" in history. Although the revolutionaries were ultimately defeated by the Beiyang warlords, this incident had a great impact on the Beiyang warlords headed by Yuan Shikai. From then until the Nationalist government unified the country in 1929, China was in a chaotic situation of warlord division and chaos.
On January 19, 1914, Ying Guixin was assassinated on a train. Zhao Bingjun met with Yuan Shikai the next day, and a month later (February 27, 1914) he fell ill and died. According to the recollections of the guards of the presidential palace at that time, Zhao Bingjun had a fierce quarrel with Yuan Shikai that day, and Zhao even accused Yuan Shikai: "The great president acts like this, who will dare to do things for the great president in the future!" Yuan Shikai ordered Zhao Bingjun to retire, and soon after Zhao Bingjun died. Zhao Bingjun's family claimed that Zhao died after a stroke and coma, not because of the rumors of being murdered by the outside world. But people familiar with Zhao Bingjun know that Zhao has been a lifelong tolerance, his health has always been very good, and it is impossible to die suddenly because of a stroke. It was just that kind of political environment at that time, and who dared to offend Yuan Shikai and say a fair word!
05. Yuan Shikai, the main envoy, rebelled and left, and died of uremia
On March 20, 1913, the assassination of Song Jiaoren occurred, and soon the revolutionaries targeted the interim president Yuan Shikai, and even shouted the slogan of revenge by force.
As an old qualified politician, Yuan Shikai naturally killed and did not admit that he was the mastermind of the assassination of Song Jiaoren. In order to get rid of the suspicion, Yuan Shikai dismissed his close confidant Zhao Bingjun from the cabinet premiership and instructed Hong Shuzu, the secretary general of the State Council, who was deeply involved in the case, to abscond. In any case, there is no proof of death, simply bite back, instigate the royal gunmen to write a large number of fake news of Sun Yat-sen and Chen Qimei vying for the power of the Kuomintang premier, killing each other to confuse the public opinion. Judging from the fact that many people believe that Sun Yat-sen instructed Chen Qimei to assassinate Song Jiaoren, Yuan Shikai's plot was quite successful. The revolutionaries could not seek redress for the revolutionary comrades through legal means, and the revolutionaries had no choice but to use force to crusade against Yuan Shikai, and thus a vigorous "second revolution" broke out. However, due to the lack of unity among the revolutionaries, the second revolution was defeated by the Beiyang warlords shortly after its launch, and Sun Yat-sen, Chen Qimei and others fled to Japan.
In 1916, Cai Yi, who had fled from Beijing back to Yunnan, organized a nationalist army to fight against Yuan Shikai, and the situation was like a bamboo, connecting Sichuan, Guizhou, and Hunan. At this critical juncture, 44 senior Beiyang generals led by Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang jointly sent a telegram against the civil war, demanding that Yuan Shikai abolish the imperial system and restore the republic. Yuan Shikai could not bear such a blow, and suffered a uremic attack and died on June 6 of the same year.