April Fool's Day is a popular folk festival in the West from the 19th century, not a legal holiday, this day allows everyone to lie, tease others, but to understand the degree of teasing others whether it is daily or on April Fool's Day, there must be a degree, otherwise the unlucky or their own, and later April Fool's Day also introduced to our country.
During the Republic of China period, the reporter published a blockbuster news on April Fool's Day, but he did not expect that the prediction came true in the end. This happened on April 1, 1946, when the newspaper published more exclusive news than usual, some of which alarmed many people, but later found that it was April Fool's Day, and had to do it, and a newspaper in Shanghai published the exclusive news "Jiang Gongmei Shot Today".
Jiang Gongmei is a very famous figure in Shanghai beach after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he is in a high position, but he bent the law for personal gain, wantonly occupied houses, privately detained vehicles, etc. After filing a case to accuse him of more than 20 criminal acts, on October 12, 1945, Jiang Gongmei was arrested and later tried.
But Jiang Gongmei was not as the people of Shanghai thought, was brought to justice, went to prison, on February 12, 1946 Jiang Gongmei was acquitted, for a time the anger in the hearts of the People of Shanghai was burning, eager to personally go up and cut Jiang Gongmei a thousand knives, but Jiang Gongmei was released but lived a very dashing life.
It was at this time that Chiang Kai-shek inspected Shanghai and heard about the Jiang Gongmei case, so Qian Dajun, who was serving as mayor, showed Chiang Kai-shek all the case files of the Jiang Gongmei case.
On April 1, Shanghai newspapers published "exclusive news" "Jiang Gongmei Shot Today", many people took it seriously, their hearts were happy, and they also set off firecrackers to celebrate, but on this day there was no movement of Jiang Gongmei being shot, and later people found that it was April Fool's Day, and the smile on their faces could not be hung up in an instant.
By May 1, Jiang Gongmei's case was reopened, and in late May the court pronounced that Jiang Gongmei was sentenced to 5 years and 6 months in prison, and the Shanghai side reported Jiang Gongmei's case to the above, and then there was no news of Jiang Gongmei's case for 5 consecutive months, but Jiang Gongmei has been locked up in prison and is waiting to be released.
Just after people speculated that Jiang Gongmei was about to be released again, the above news came, sentenced Jiang Gongmei to death, immediately executed, and on October 15, Jiang Gongmei was executed by shooting. The people of Shanghai were also stunned for a while, and then remembered the april fool's Day news of "Jiang Gongmei's Shooting Today", and sure enough, it was true.
On April 1, there was also an exclusive news "Feng Yuxiang flew to Shanghai yesterday", the report was very detailed and realistic, and the secret agent structure in Shanghai was also confused, looking for Feng Yuxiang, and then found that it was April Fool's Day, it was gone, and soon after Feng Yuxiang flew to Shanghai.