"My life is bright and upright, and I have no wish or selfless vendetta in my life, and the quarrels between politicians under the blue sky and the white sun can use despicable and cruel means." This is before Song Jiaoren left for Beijing, someone advised Song Jiaoren to be careful of poisoning on the road, but Song Jiaoren comforted his friend's concern with this passage.
Unexpectedly, Song Jiaoren was not poisoned on the way, but was shot at the station, and Song Jiaoren, who can be called the "father of Chinese constitutionalism", fell on the altar in a shooting.
And why was Song Jiaoren photographed after his death with two different photos? Was the shooting accidental or a deliberate murder? Who is the mastermind behind it?
Was it accidental or deliberate
At the age of 31, Song Jiaoren was invited to Beijing to organize a cabinet of the Revolutionary Party, and at this time Song Jiaoren was already the acting chairman of the Kuomintang, and his future was immeasurable at a young age. After the KmT parliamentary election, he was elected as the majority leader of the National Assembly because of his popular popularity, and later became the responsible cabinet prime minister.
Song Jiaoren, who had a promising future, was very respected and loved in the political arena at that time, and even existed like a "star" in the eyes of politicians. In the evening of March 20, 1913, Song Jiaoren, Huang Xing, Liao Zhongkai and others arrived at Shanghai's Huning Railway Station to wait for the train, unaware that at this time, the usual station was about to occur a shooting case that affected the trajectory of the Republic of China.
Song Jiaoren has always been known for his brightness and integrity, and he does not think that today's politicians will use dirty means because of different political positions, and it is precisely for this reason that the people closely protected by Song Jiaoren are almost not carrying any weapons to defend themselves.
Until Song Jiaoren had just picked up the ticket that had been checked at the ticket office, there was a deafening gunshot not far away, followed by a second and third sound. Just as everyone was looking for the source of the gunshots, Song Jiaoren fell to the ground after the first gunshot.
Song Jiaoren covered his wounds and trembled and said to the crowd: "I was shot", and the crowd found that Song Jiaoren's abdomen was bleeding, and the news of Song Jiaoren's bullet immediately spread at the station, and the unknown passengers in the station fled in a panic, and the suspect also said that he had fled in a disorderly manner.
After being shot, Song Jiaoren
Yu Youren, who was supposed to be here to send off his friend, heard the gunshots and learned that Song Jiaoren had been shot, and immediately rushed to the ticket gate where Song Jiaoren was located, at this time, Yu Youren did not show panic, but very calmly covered Song Jiaoren's wounds, while asking people to block the exit to prevent the murderer from escaping.
Yu Youren found the car as quickly as possible and sent Song Jiaoren, who had been shot, to the hospital, and after being shot, Song Jiaoren was still very conscious, and the comrades around him were encouraging Song Jiaoren to persevere.
However, Song Jiaoren held Yu Youren's hand, angrily asking him for a will, facing Song Jiaoren, who began to confess his will, Yu Youren did not know how to comfort him. Huang Xing, who accompanied him, even said that if he had checked more carefully in the first place, it might not be like this now.
Less than two hours after Song Jiaoren was shot, Song Jiaoren was pushed into the operating room, and at this time, Song Jiaoren was already unable to hide the pain in his body, and his face was sweating from time to time.
During the operation, although the doctor removed the bullet in Song Jiaoren's abdomen in time, the doctor then found that the bullet was poisonous. In this way, Song Jiaoren, who was still in pain after the bullet was taken, tossed and turned in the hospital bed, and at this time, Song Jiaoren said to the worried people: "I have not complained in this life, and I am clean and self-righteous." ”
Yu Youren, who was on the side, immediately analyzed that the shooting was not a personal grudge. Song Jiaoren, who was slightly better, expressed to everyone his various behaviors since he entered politics, and Huang Xing looked at Song Jiaoren and couldn't help but shed tears.
Song Jiaoren suspected that Yuan Shikai was responsible at this time, because the core of the cabinet that Song Jiaoren was about to organize was to make the head of state become an "empty shell" to prevent another phenomenon of dictatorship, and Song Jiaoren was also worried that if he died as a result, Yuan Shikai was likely to practice dictatorial behavior, and if dictatorship appeared again, everything he had done for the revolution would become a bubble.
Later, until the early hours of the morning, the doctor once again performed surgery for Song Jiaoren, cleaning up the residual poison and dirty blood, and Song Jiaoren, who was in a coma, still chanted: "I have worked hard to reconcile the north and the south, and there are many rumor-mongers, and the misunderstanding has deepened, and I am really not willing to die here." ”
In the face of these rumors, Song Jiaoren never explained it, and has been using his own behavior to show his patriotism to everyone, until the time of Song Jiaoren's death, his mind is still the love of the country, and his instructions to his small family are only a brief sentence: "The family is very poor, and the old mother in the family is afraid to entrust it to its care." ”
Two different photos
After Song Jiaoren was shot and killed, everyone's eyes were filled with tears, and they reluctantly bid farewell to Song Jiaoren, who had made sacrifices and paid everything for the national revolution all his life. Chen Qimei endured the grief in his heart and prepared a beautiful coffin for Song Jiaoren, and even found someone to take a final photo of Song Jiaoren.
However, just when taking pictures, Huang Xing and Fan Hexian had a big dispute over the appearance of the photo, and Huang Xing hoped that the Song Jiaoren seen by posterity was neatly dressed, after all, Song Jiaoren's status was a "star" in the eyes of everyone, and the neatly dressed photos were also in line with Song Jiaoren's status.
However, Fan Hexian believed that when Song Jiaoren encountered this scourge of killing, he must leave a photo of witnessing history, and he must "expose the scarred Song Jiaoren to the public" in order to crush the rumors that were scattered at the beginning, and also to motivate the comrades in the party to track down the murderer.
After the two argued endlessly, in the end, Song Jiaoren still left two different photos, one covered with scars and one dressed neatly. 64 hours after Song Jiaoren's assassination, Huang Xing, Chen Qimei and others who accompanied Song Jiaoren at the time held a final ceremony to bid farewell to Song Jiaoren, and this unexplained shooting case also attracted the attention of many people in China.
Until 68 hours after the assassination of Song Jiaoren, the main person in the shooting case, Ying Chui Cheng, was arrested, and then the murderer Wu Shiying was also caught, and the police also found a large number of correspondence between him and Hong Shuzu, the secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and others in the home of the main envoy, to judge that this was a deliberate murder.
brief summary:
Song Jiaoren, who has dedicated his life to the motherland, never expected to end his life because of this, and never expected that the history of the Republic of China would be rewritten, if Song Jiaoren was not killed, perhaps the Republic of China would become a different situation, but if it is in the end, Song Jiaoren's efforts are admired and praised.