If some people are born to transform the world, then Li Weiru is one of them.
Born into a wealthy family, he grew up different from other children, and read too many books on national salvation and democracy propaganda since he was a child, which also made him determined to go a different path.
In the entire modern history of China, Li Weiru is a well-known figure, and if he had not been betrayed by his own students and brutally killed, then Li Weiru's influence would have been even greater.
Moreover, a request after Li Weiru's death was even more talked about by many people, and before he died, he asked the coffin to be buried vertically and to stand after death.
Li Weiru
Born for the revolution
In 1883, Li Weiru was born in Fuzhou, Chongqing, his family conditions were quite good at that time, the Qing Dynasty was facing internal and external troubles, and in the process of growing up, Li Weiru also realized that his country was being bullied.
However, at that time, his father still hoped that Li Weiru could go to the imperial examination, and in the last imperial examination in the late Qing Dynasty, Li Weiru also went, and it was a pity that he fell behind in this examination.
In 1904, Li Weiru was 21 years old, which was the age of Fang Gang, and after the Invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Qing Dynasty was completely trapped in a state of survival.
He wanted to find a way to save the country and save the people, so he ignored his father's objections and went east to study in Japan.
Li Weiru was very pragmatic, and in addition to spreading the theory of revolution, he also took on a very important task: making bombs.
Because the revolution needs not only slogans, but also weapons, he and Wu Yuzhang, Xiong Kewu and others, together with the "bomb king" Yu Peilun, Li Weiru is very clever, can quickly make bombs, but also organized a student army and bomb team.
Yu Peilun
Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.
In November 1911, Li Weiru came to Chongqing, and on the 22nd of that month, there was a burst of gunfire from the outskirts, which was an uprising launched by the League in Chongqing, when Xia Shi led the rebel officers and soldiers to Fotuguan, and when everyone's way into the city was blocked by diehards, Li Weiru led the members of the death squad to the scene, he picked up the bomb and wanted to die with the other side.
Summer time
These die-hard conservatives, to put it bluntly, were eating with a dead wage, and did not want to give their lives to this group of revolutionaries who were not afraid of death, and when they saw that the other side had pulled a bunch of bombs, they were frightened and quickly opened the city gates.
When the rebel army entered the city, Chongqing students, democratic groups, etc. went out together, and representatives of the Chongqing prefect and Ba County ZhiXian had to come to the scene in order to reverse the situation.
Li Weiru and others had already made up their minds to die, and surrounded the scene with weapons such as bombs and pistols, and they were determined to achieve their goal before they were willing to give up.
In this huge pressure of force and the excitement of the masses, Qing officials were defeated, cut their braids at the scene, and handed over the big seal.
After these achievements, the revolutionary situation in various parts of Chongqing also developed rapidly, laying a deep foundation for the future overthrow of the Qing Dynasty's rule.
In this revolutionary process, Li Weiru himself made great contributions and laid a profound foundation for ending the rule of the Qing Dynasty.
According to the introduction of the elderly Li Qingzhi, his father once mentioned in his autobiography: the eldest brother Li Weiru studied the internal structure of the bomb in his own remote house, and accidentally detonated the bomb, which also led to his right eye being blinded and his right hand being blown into disability, and because of this incident, Li Weiru later had the title of "one-armed general".
Two years later, Li Weiru participated in the struggle against Yuan led by Xiong Kewu and others, and later followed General Cai Yi and entered Sichuan with the Yunnan Protectorate Army, which also meant that Li Weiru always adhered to his beliefs and was not greedy for power.
In terms of seniority, Li Weiru is definitely an old predecessor in the history of the revolution.
However, since 1917, the warlords in Sichuan have been fighting each other, causing deep harm to the local people, which also made Li Weiru very uncomfortable, when the Qing government fished and meat people, now everyone worked together to overthrow the corrupt rule of the Qing Dynasty, but the people did not live a happy life after all, but suffered a deeper blow.
In this situation, Li Wei was determined to retire from the countryside, so he returned to his hometown in disgrace.
Originally, he thought that from now on, he would no longer ask about political affairs, and that he would be finished by taking care of his own acres and three-quarters of land, but he was helplessly filled with soldiers and bandits, fish and meat people.
In order to rely on Li Weiru's influence, some local forces also deliberately wanted him to come forward, and under the repeated pleading of his old comrades-in-arms, he reluctantly agreed to come forward as the deputy director of the Fuling Four Towns And Townships Joint Regiment Office.
Li Weiru quickly recruited the four local bandits, but at this stage he saw another new hope: communism.
Choose the right faith, but eventually be betrayed
Under wu yuzhang's introduction, Li Weiru got in touch with Yang Minggong, a member of the Chinese Communist Party, and came into contact with communist ideas.
With the further study of Marxism-Leninism, he also gradually realized that only the ideas put forward by the CCP are the only way to put China on the right track.
Wu Yuzhang
He also began to use his "job facilitation" to carry out activities, first in the name of running a regimental training institute, training a group of backbones.
Later, he founded the Renewal Primary School and a Normal School, personally served as the principal, and also entered the students to propagate the principles of the revolution and mobilize the peasants to organize peasant associations.
Moreover, by 1927, the four towns and townships had formed an important stronghold in the eastern Sichuan region, and Li Weiru had become a pioneer of the local peasant movement.
Judging from the course of the revolution, his experience is already that of many communists.
The peasant army organized by Li Weiru grew into a force of more than 8,000 people, and in his early years, after experiencing hundreds of battles, he never pinned his hopes on others, and on the basis of developing the number of people, he did not forget to expand his armaments and obtained more than 7,000 guns.
It can be said that Fuling at that time was the center of the revolution in eastern Sichuan.
The warlords in the melee had also heard of Li Weiru's name, knew that he was a bad character, and sometimes needed to borrow it, and would also send some weapons as tolls.
The biggest warlord in Sichuan was Liu Xiang, and to him, Li Weiru's peasant armie was like a sharp knife, making him very uncomfortable.
Liu Xiang
Liu Xiang's fears were not unreasonable, and from a geographical point of view, if Li Weiru was willing to cooperate with Liu Bocheng's rebel army, then he could form a pinch offensive against Chongqing geographically, which was extremely unfavorable to Liu Xiang.
Li Weiru really thought the same thing, he wanted Liu Bocheng to come to sizhen to preside over military work, but unfortunately, when the two letters were about to be delivered, Liu Bocheng had already left Sichuan.
With the gradual expansion of Li Weiru's influence, the peasant armed forces in the Fuling area still had a tendency to expand, but the vicious features of the Kuomintang reactionaries had been revealed, and many revolutionary backbones of the Communist Party would come to eastern Sichuan to survive under Li Weiru's protection.
This eventually angered these warlords, and Liu Xiang, in order to eliminate the hidden dangers in the future, colluded with the nearby regimental valves and prepared to jointly attack the peasant army.
In June 1927, Li Weiru and others were holding a peasant association, and when they heard that Xu Yaoqing's division was preparing to invade Lengshui Pass, they immediately decided to lead their troops to counterattack.
At this time, Li Weiru also knew that the other party was definitely prepared.
A few days later, Guo Rudong, a former student of Li Weiru and commander of the 20th Army of the Fuling Garrison, sent a letter that read: Liu Xiang has invaded the four towns and townships and is going to destroy his troops in one fell swoop, so he plans to follow his teacher and find a way to survive.
After receiving the letter, everyone carefully analyzed it and felt that it was deceitful.
But Li Weiru said that even if he knew that there was deception, he should also boldly fight for it, and now he is facing the situation of the enemy being outnumbered, and Liu Xiang's army has become a foregone conclusion, even if Guo Rudong is not sincere, he wants to fight for Guo Rudong to remain neutral in this matter and eliminate the danger of being attacked by the enemy in his belly and back.
Having made up his mind, he led a small team of more than forty people to set out for Dongzhen, only to arrive at The Village of Shiya in Tongle Town, when Guo Rudong's army suddenly rushed up, and Li Weiru was captured alive.
Guo Rudong
Li Weiru, who originally wanted to strive for neutrality, did not expect that he would be betrayed by the students he trusted, and he thought of the worst result, but he did not expect that the real result was even worse than imagined.
Next, Liu Xiang and the others began to think about how to get rid of him.
According to the normal procedure, Xu Yaoqing was ready to escort Li Weiru to Chongqing to deal with it, but Liu Xiang did not dare to escort Li Weiru to Chongqing after hearing about the situation, so he stayed in Chongqing and killed him in Pig City.
Before his execution, Li Weiru wrote a suicide note.
He was a respected revolutionary, and as early as 1909, he wrote a seven-sentence poem expressing his disappointment in the rule of the feudal dynasty and the revolution to the end.
He did it, and in the Xinhai Revolution, Li Weiru's name was very loud.
Seeing that the fruits of the revolution were about to be stolen by Yuan Shikai, Li Weiru resolutely participated in the revolt of the Yuan Protectorate Army led by General Cai Yi, and he also wrote a couplet for the heroic soldiers, expressing his incomparable indignation and singing the dedication of the soldiers who dared to throw their heads and spill their blood.
For the sake of the revolution, he was willing to die standing, never to live on his knees.
He had already told his wife: "If one day I die, then please bury my coffin upright, the country is not strong, the nation is not prosperous, and I will stand when I die." ”
What Li Weiru's wife did not expect was that this day came so quickly, and it was a pity that he had thrown himself into the revolution in order to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, and finally fell into the warlord melee.
After Li Weiru became righteous, the family members returned to Dashun Township with a sad and indignant mood, and according to Li Weiru's suicide note, the family did not hold a funeral for him, but chose a thin burial.
His wife said to Li Weiru's relatives and friends: "He is a materialist, so he does not believe in feudal superstitions, so there is no need to ask Mr. Yinyang, I simply hope to be able to bury the coffin vertically according to his last wishes, which also means that even if he dies, he will not bow to the feudal forces." ”
A cousin at the scene believes that this has never been the case in the past, and if it is done, it will become a joke.
However, after deliberation, the family still decided to fulfill his last wish and placed his coffin 100 meters away from the gate of Li Weiru's former residence.
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