In the 19th century, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, a thick dark cloud was accumulating on the land of Shenzhou, and many Chinese felt that something big might happen in the near future.
In a hutong in Beijing. A young man in a robe was pacing anxiously, and several people around him seemed to be trying to persuade him of something, only to see that the young man shook his head firmly, as if he had made up his mind, and the people around him could only sigh and leave the place when they saw this.
This young man was Tan Sitong, who participated in leading the Wushu Reform Law, and after the failure, his colleagues fled one after another, but Tan Sitong refused to listen to advice and stubbornly stayed in his Liuyang Guild Hall, and was soon captured by the Qing Dynasty soldiers sent by Cixi.
When we look back again today, Tan Si is alone in his residence, looking at the howling wind in front of him, and the sound of the Qing soldiers breaking the door in his ears, will he be afraid?
At the mouth of the Beijing Caishikou where the beheading was carried out, the bustling people crowded to the execution ground, wanting to see the confession of this imperial court criminal who cried bitterly, but even if the knife head was about to fall, it was a deafening roar: "There is a heart to kill a thief, powerless to return to heaven, die where it is, hurry up!" At the time of his death, Tan Sitong was only 33 years old.
Tan Sitong was not born in The Cold Gate, his father was a heavy minister of the Qing Dynasty, Hubei Inspector Tan Jixun, but Tan Jixun never made any move when his son was in prison and was about to be beheaded.
Is this father so indifferent to this son? Or was it because he was a thorn in Cixi's eye, afraid that he would implicate himself? Tan Jixun is indeed a very conservative person, who has read Confucian poetry since childhood, and pays the most attention to the father and son of the monarch and the subject.
Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang at the time, wanted to join him, and he refused to play Cixi to carry out the new policy, and treated his son Tan Sitong, because the two people disagreed, and they were also very unhappy, Tan Jixun often said: "Keeping the treasure of the old clan, I do not want to be the first in the world." ”
However, this did not mean that he did not love his son, after Tan Sitong's death, Tan Jixun mourned and personally wrote the elegy: "The rumors are all over the nine continents of the world, nothing more than scolding; ZhaoXue is unknown in thousands of years." ”
In fact, Tan Sitong only had three days to go to prison and ask for a beheading, what could Tan Jixun, who was far away in Hubei, do? Even if he learned the news that Cixi was going to ask Tan Sitong, he was afraid that there was nothing he could do, a father's heart that wanted to save his son could not stop the vicious state apparatus.
At that time, in addition to Tan Sitong, who asked for the beheading, there were also Yang Rui, the proud protégé of Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, who loved this wise disciple very much, Zhang Zhidong was bigger than Tan Jixun's official position, and he was also a powerful general around Cixi, even he did not dare to say a word in this matter.
Tan Si and his colleagues hoped to continue to change the law, and to release the Guangxu Emperor under Cixi's house arrest and transfer power, which was nothing more than a violation of Cixi's reverse scales that started with power. Cixi Longyan was furious and demanded that the restorationists be beheaded
Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao fled the country one after another, but Tan Si and others were unwilling to bow his arrogant head. "All countries have changed their laws from shedding blood, and today China has not heard of anyone who has shed blood because of changes in the law, and the reason why this country is not prosperous." If so, please start with the same heir. ”
His blood slowly flowed into this aspect of the land and became the soul of the nation.