When it comes to the founder of the Republic of China, many people first think of Sun Yat-sen, and when asked if there are any other "co-founders", I think 99% of people will be speechless.
After all, the fame of sun yat-sen, the "father of the nation", is too great, and he wears the aura of the pioneer of China's democratic revolution and the first person of democracy, which naturally covers up the light of other revolutionary ancestors in the same period.
Huang Xing is one of them.
Huang Xing's greatest achievement in life is the cause of democratic revolution, in the China League Association, Dr. Sun Yat-sen is the first leader, then the second chair is none other than Huang Xing, because he can be called the majority shareholder of the League. Sun Yat-sen was able to become the premier of the League (the predecessor of the Kuomintang), in addition to his own contribution, part of the reason was Huang Xing's support.
There is an old Chinese saying called "Xiucai rebellion, ten years will not succeed", this sentence is not appropriate to use on Huang Xing's body, because as a Xiucai, he not only rebelled, but also succeeded.
Huang Xing's family is a large landlord class, from a young age to have no worries about food and clothing, and the landlord class began to chase power after solving material needs, so his father was Xiucai, and he was also Xiucai.
Huang Xing was in the twenty-second year of Guangxu (1896) in the examination of Xiucai, when the ideas used throughout the world were widely disseminated throughout the reader class, Western books had a large reserve in the academy, astronomical geography, chemical measurement, etc., even there were many books on Western capitalist thought, so Huang Xing's learning was a combination of Chinese and Western, and there was a great development in ideology.
Thinking has been broadened and vision has become farther, and naturally it is understood that "patriotism" is not the same as loving the "Qing Dynasty", and the inaction of the Qing government in one imperialist invasion after another has made Huang Xing chill, but all those so-called true dragon heavenly sons and royal family relatives with a little bit of bloodiness will not allow those foreigners to bully on their heads, so he has seen through the essence of the Qing government:
Only to safeguard their own vested interests, as for the righteousness of the family and the country, all of them can be left behind.
China's overall situation, the destruction has reached the extreme. Now and then only a revolution can save the danger.
Therefore, in 1903, Huang Xing, together with other democratic progressives, founded the Huaxing Association, aiming to save China from fire and water and jointly realize the rejuvenation of the nation.
In the beginning, Huaxing will have a very good cover identity, which is revealed to be a mining company, secretly operating. But in the end, the matter was leaked, and Huang Xing, as the president, was forced to travel to Japan.
In Japan, Huang Xing was lucky to get to know Sun Yat-sen, and it can also be said that Sun Yat-sen was lucky to get acquainted with Huang Xing.
In 1905, the Chinese League was established, and Huang Xing had the opportunity to fight for the post of prime minister, because
The predecessors of the League were the HuaxingHui and the Xingzhong Association, of which the president of the Huaxing Association was Huang Xing, and the president of the Xingzhong Association was Sun Yat-sen.
Two tigers competing with each other will inevitably hurt one, which is not good for China's democratic revolution, so Huang Xing pointed out:
"The public election of Dr. Sun Yat-sen as the premier of the party does not have to go through the election procedures."
This shows that Huang Xing voluntarily gave up the right to elect the prime minister, allowing Sun Yat-sen to take office more smoothly.
After the establishment of the League, Huang Xing personally came to the front as the second in command, commanded many military operations, including the Huanghuagang Uprising, and served as the chief of the army after the establishment of the National Provisional Government in Nanjing. Later, Yuan Shikai stole the fruits of the revolution, and in order to strengthen the control of the army, he excluded Huang Xing and only granted him a fictitious post of chief of staff, and the original army chief was replaced by Duan Qirui.
Therefore, after the establishment of the Republic of China government in 1912, Huang Xing was excluded from the center of power, which is often referred to as "disappearing".
In 1914, when Sun Yat-sen reorganized the League into the Chinese Revolutionary Party in Japan, Huang Xing and the old partner had a disagreement, so they went to the United States alone.
After Yuan Shikai's death in 1916, Huang Xingcai returned to the mainland from the United States, and at this time his health was not as good as before, and he spent more time recuperating at home and seeking medical treatment, so naturally he did not have extra energy to deal with government affairs.
In the same year, Huang Xing died of cirrhosis, and there is no trace of him in the world.