Tan Sitong was a law changer during the Guangxu period of the late Qing Dynasty, but because he was not born in a big era, he not only failed to change the law in the end. He even led to his own beheading, but when Tan Sitong was killed. Why did his father, who was the governor of Huguang at that time, not save him? Today I will discuss this with you a good discussion.
Who is Tan Sitong's father?
Tan Sitong's father, Tan Jixun, is a man who grew up in traditional society. However, his life experience is also very not simple, and he won the lift at the age of 27. When he was about to become an official, there was the famous Taiping Rebellion, and many people at that time chose to lead soldiers as generals, such as Zeng Guofan at that time, which was a typical example. But Father Tan did not choose to be like others but continued to take his own path of examination with one mind. Therefore, Father Tan is a particularly conservative and very traditional person in his thinking. When Tan was an official, he was particularly cautious and cautious, and he was also very diligent in his work and even received many praises from the imperial court. And Zhang Zhidong at that time, they were very good friends and colleagues. Such a man had achieved the high position of governor of Huguang, and it was really too difficult for him to ask him to risk saving his son.
Circumstances did not allow him to save his son
Because Tan Si and his people wanted to change the law and support the Guangxu Emperor in carrying out reforms. However, at that time, Empress Dowager Cixi was in power, and the Guangxu Emperor was placed under house arrest in Wintai. The change of tan si and the same person without the biggest patron is like a child's play, in this case, tan si and the same person can only be slaughtered. At that time, there was also Kang Youwei who was making trouble with Tan Si, and the forces behind this person were not smaller than Tan Sitong. His backer was Zuo Zongtang, whose real power was even greater than his Tan father at that time. If such a person with a heavy army did not ask for mercy to save his disciple, how dare Old Father Tan save his son?
The prosperity of the family is higher than the life and death of tan si
It was not easy for Father Tan to be able to mix with the position of governor of Huguang, if Father Tan went to intercede for his son. Then his current position does not represent a force or a faction that he himself is likely to be a party. In the late Qing Dynasty, the officials were already very bad, and if they did not have their own circles to sit in the position of governor of Huguang, it would be impossible at all. In addition to Tan's father, it is not only Tan Si's same son who does not have the incense in this son's home, but also can be completely continued. In this case, Old Father Tan had to consider the power he represented and the thousands of people in his own family, and it was not easy for the Tan family to get to where it is today.
Under the conditions at that time, Tan Sitong had to die
At that time, it was already the time of the life and death of Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor, and the huge forces represented by each of them, tan si and the like had to be rushed out of the horse pawn, and it was Cixi who had to personally dismantle it in order to kill the chicken to show the monkeys, so that those who still wanted to change the law would stop, and under such circumstances, whoever came to save Tan Sitong would not be able to save him, and he must die.