When it comes to the Xinhai Revolution, we have to mention the Wuchang Uprising, and when we mention the Wuchang Uprising, we have to mention the "Three Wus of Xinhai", that is, Jiang Yiwu, Zhang Zhenwu, and Sun Wu.
Jiang Yiwu (21 December 1884 – 9 September 1913) was a native of Lizhou (present-day Lixian County), Hunan.
Jiang Yiwu was the most revolutionary and virtuous person in the "Three Martial Arts", but his ending was not very good, and he was killed at a young age. Because in 1913, Jiang Yiwu opposed Yuan Shikai, so he prepared to take refuge in Hong Kong. Most people go to Hong Kong by boat from Hankou, along the Yangtze River to the sea, and then to Hong Kong. However, Jiang Yiwu took the land route, and he probably felt that it would be dangerous to take the water route, and Yuan Shikai would send people to intercept and kill him halfway.
However, he did not think about it, and when he reached the boundary of Guangxi, he was caught by the warlord Lu Rongting. At that time, Lu Rongting fell to Yuan Shikai, and after capturing Jiang Yiwu, Lu Rongting asked Yuan Shikai and Li Yuanhong for instructions (after all, Li Yuanhong was vice president, so he also had to ask Li Yuanhong for instructions). Both Yuan Shikai and Li Yuanhong said that they should kill this person quickly to avoid future troubles.
Yuan Shikai wanted to kill Jiang Yiwu, which was understandable, and people opposed him. And Li Yuanhong, however, rebelled in Wuchang with Jiang Yiwu and experienced life and death, but he did not expect that Li Yuanhong was also eager to kill Jiang Yiwu. Jiang Yiwu was only 29 years old when he was killed, and as a hero who overthrew the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty, he was finally killed by the so-called republican people, who of course pretended to support the republic.
Li Yuanhong did not seem to be very satisfied with the revolutionaries of the Wuchang Uprising, and I don't know if it was because others forcibly dragged him into the company, and he always had resentment and wanted to take the opportunity to take revenge. Because Li Yuanhong not only killed Jiang Yiwu, Zhang Zhenwu was also killed by him.
Zhang Zhenwu (1877-1912) was a native of Luotian, Hubei Province
In 1912, Zhang Zhenwu accepted Yuan Shikai's invitation to Beijing, but after arriving in Beijing, he was caught by Yuan Shikai, executed military law, and shot. Yuan Shikai did this only because Li Yuanhong wrote a letter asking Yuan Shikai to kill Zhang Zhenwu. The relationship between Li Yuanhong and Zhang Zhenwu has always been very stiff, he has always wanted to kill Zhang Zhenwu, and now he borrows a knife to kill people through Yuan Shikai.
I didn't expect Yuan Shikai to be more yin, and old Yuan and Li Yuanhong were not wearing a pair of pants after all. After Yuan Shikai killed Zhang Zhenwu, he stabbed the letter to the newspaper. The meaning is very clear, it is not someone yuan who wants to kill Zhang Zhenwu, it is our vice president Li who wants to kill him. Vice President Lai asked me to do so, and I had to listen, because we are good colleagues, good friends. Old Yuan pretended to be innocent at this time.
Sun Wu (1879-1939) was a native of Xiakou, Hubei Province
In Shouyi's "Three Martial Arts", the only one who did not die was Sun Wu. But Sun Wu's virtue is indeed not impressive, although he has a certain degree of revolution (the Communist Progressive Association was established by him), but this person has too many small calculations in his own heart. After the success of the Wuchang Uprising, Sun Wu presented himself as a hero, a bit arrogant, and colluded with Li Yuanhong to constantly exclude dissidents, which is not what a revolutionary should do.
Maybe it was also because he fell to Li Yuanhong's side, so he was not killed by Li Yuanhong like Jiang Yiwu and Zhang Zhenwu. Sun Wu died of natural causes.
This is not the biggest stain on Sun Wu's life, the biggest stain on Sun Wu's life is to support Yuan Shikai as emperor. When Yuan Shikai claimed to be emperor, Sun Wu had to live in seclusion until his death in 1939.
Li Yuanhong (October 19, 1864 – June 3, 1928) was a native of Huangpi, Hubei Province.
Li Yuanhong was not a revolutionary at all, he did not want to overthrow the rule of the Qing Dynasty, but he encountered the Wuchang Uprising at that time, and the blind cat met the dead rat and was artificially pushed into that position.
At that time, the leaders of the Wuchang Uprising were all relatively low-ranking officers of the New Army, and there did not seem to be a high-ranking official who seemed to be able to live in the town. At that time, Li Yuanhong was the co-commander of the Twenty-first Mixed Association of the Hubei New Army and was a relatively high-level officer. Moreover, Li Yuanhong was also better for the soldiers in peacetime, so the revolutionary soldiers of the New Army felt that Li Yuanhong could take on this big responsibility. In this way, Li Fatzi was pushed to the position of metropolitan governor of the military government, walked into a corner point in history, and became an important historical figure in the Beiyang government period.
Li Yuanhong is a person who has too good luck in his life, and he can always choose the right one when there is a major historical inflection point. During the Wuchang uprising, he chose the revolutionaries and chose the right one.
When Yuan Shikai was proclaimed emperor, he gave him many high-ranking officials Houlu and gave him the title of Prince of Wuyi, who was the only one of Yuan Shikai's claims to be crowned kings, and the other Beiyang warlords who followed Yuan Shikai to fight the world did not receive this honor. But in this matter, Li Yuanhong did not faint, he chose to oppose Yuan Shikai's claim to the emperor. This time it was the right choice again.
Li Yuanhong's deepest impression is still the dispute between the government and the court, but he has no real power as president, and the real power is in the hands of The Prime Minister Duan Qirui. Duan Qirui had a heavy army, and Li Yuanhong was the commander of the Light Pole. Although you are the president of the first righteousness, he is useless, has no gun in his hand, and does not speak hard.
It was also because of the dispute between Li Yuanhong and Duan Qirui that this led to the later restoration of Zhang Xun, the so-called running to Beijing to mediate the dispute, in fact, Zhang Xun had his own abacus and wanted to restore the rule of the Qing Dynasty.
Li Yuanhong is also very sad, Zhang Xun once again became the president after the restoration, but he always could not hold power himself, and he was always controlled by others.
In the second half of Li Yuanhong's life, he may have figured it out, the political bureaucracy is not easy to mix, just do business. Unexpectedly, Li Fatzi was indeed a business wizard, having served as the chairman of the coal mine, the director of Huangpi Commercial Bank (Huangpi is his hometown), the director of Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company... He has also invested in more than 70 properties, more than 40 enterprises, 17 banks, 12 factories, 6 coal mines...
Li Yuanhong is really blind, he has been engaged in politics for so long, from the official to the president, in fact, it is not the highlight of his life. On the contrary, it was the commercial activities he engaged in late in his life that were the highlights of his life.
Li Yuanhong died in 1928 and was treated as a state funeral after his death. It can be described as a great honor.
The above are all big figures in the Wuchang Uprising, but we know that it was actually the small people who really fired the first shot of the Xinhai Revolution. For example, Xiong Bingkun, Jin Zhaolong, Cheng Zhengying, the later ending of these small characters does not seem to be very good.
Cheng Zhengying (1885-1916), a native of Ezhou, Hubei Province.
Cheng Zhengying, who fired the first shot of the Xinhai Revolution, later threw himself into the arms of Yuan Shikai, advocating the title of emperor and persecuting the revolutionaries. After the victory of the Northern Expedition, Cheng Zhengying was thrown into the river by the revolutionary army and drowned.
Jin Zhaolong (1889-1933) was a native of Huanggang, Hubei Province
Jin Zhaolong also voted for Yuan Shikai's side. After the Northern Expedition, although he was not executed, he was relieved of all his duties and died of poverty and illness in 1933.
Wu Zhaolin (1882-1942) was a native of Echeng, Hubei Province.
Another person who has to be mentioned is the interim commander-in-chief of the Wuchang Uprising, Wu Zhaolin. Compared with Jin Zhaolong and Cheng Zhengying, Wu Zhaolin's realm was much higher, and after the victory of the Wuchang Uprising, he quickly withdrew from politics and became a monk. And committed to the philanthropy of the community.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wuhan fell, and the Japanese wanted to invite this former leader to go out of the mountains as a traitor, but Wu Zhaolin refused, and the angry and corrupt Japanese put him under house arrest. After three years of house arrest, Wu Zhaolin was tortured to death.
Xiong Bingkun (1885-1969) Hubei Jiangxia people
Among these small people who were heroes of the Wuchang Uprising, the one who lived longer was Xiong Bingkun. At that time, he was a small platoon leader of the Eighth Battalion of the Hubei New Army's Engineer Corps, and the first shot of the Xinhai Revolution began with their platoon, and Jin Zhaolong and Cheng Zhengying were his soldiers. Someone gave Xiong Bingkun the honor of firing the first shot of the Xinhai Revolution, but in fact, it was inaccurate, and it was Cheng Zhengying who really fired the first shot.
Xiong Bingkun served as the mayor of Wuchang City during the Kuomintang period, served as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference after the founding of New China, and was also received by Premier Zhou.
On the 50th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution in 1961, Xiong Bingkun attended a celebration banquet organized by the State Council. At the banquet, he met Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who was overthrown by him. Puyi took the initiative to come over and toast Xiong Bingkun, saying: "You fired the first shot in the Xinhai Revolution, which can be called a hero of the world, overthrew the feudal rule, and hit me, the emperor who was still a child, so that I can conform to the trend of history and transform into a new person." ”
Xiong Bingkun replied, saying: "I can't afford it, we used to be old enemies, you are the emperor and I am a chaotic people, today is the leader of the Communist Party, the road is wide, everyone chooses the good and follows, becomes a friend, and has become a new person." ”
If Xiong Bingkun recalled the brothers who participated in the Xinhai Revolution together 50 years ago, he must have sighed.
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