Speaking of the six gentlemen of Wushu, Tan Sitong should be the most familiar of the six people, before dying Tan Citong wrote a poem, the last two sentences are the death of the place, fast and fast, from these two poems can be seen that Tan Sitong is willing to die.
In fact, after the failure of the Penghu Reform Law, many people who changed the law, including Tan Si Tongfang, had already received the news, so they had already begun to flee and hide before Empress Dowager Cixi ordered someone to arrest them, and Tan Citong also received the news early and had the opportunity to get a ticket to Japan, thus escaping a disaster.
But Tan Sitong refused. Tan Sitong said: Throughout the ancient and modern times, there has been no bloodless sacrifice for changing the law in China and abroad, and so far there has been no one who has shed blood and sacrificed for the Qing government's change of law, so I have come to be the first person to sacrifice for this change of law, so Tan Sitong is generous and righteous.
Regarding Tan Sitong, he was a second-generation official, his father Tan Jixun was a feudal official, and his official position in the Qing government was very important, and the power in his hands was also very large, but after Tan Sitong's accident, Tan Jixun, as a father, did not intercede for his son, but only wrote a poem, why?
There are three reasons for this:
The first reason is that Tan Jixun is well versed in the psychology of Empress Dowager Cixi. Tan Jixun knew that Empress Dowager Cixi had eaten the scales and iron this time and wanted to kill Tan Si and the like, and her purpose was to kill chickens and monkeys in order to make an example of a hundred. It is useless for anyone to intercede.
And since Tan Jixun knew that there was no use, naturally he would not waste his efforts. What's more, Tan Sitong touching the dragon whiskers of Empress Dowager Cixi is a major crime to destroy the Nine Tribes, not to mention that Tan Sitong will undoubtedly die, and he and his whole family may be implicated.
So Tan Jixun quickly dredged up the relationship, and when Tan Si was on the execution ground, Tan Jixun was busy saving his life. In the end, tan jixun and his family's lives were saved, but they were also implicated and resigned.
The second reason is that Tan Jixun and Tan Si are both political enemies. Tan Citong was young and promising, deeply influenced by advanced Western ideas, and advocated reform and change of the law, but Tan Jixun was a diehard, believing that the law of the ancestors could not be easily changed, and the great powers of the Heavenly Dynasty could not learn from the political system of the Western barbarian countries.
It is precisely because of this that Tan Jixun and Tan Sitong are not the same heart, and because of their political views, the two have quarreled many times, almost breaking up, and tan Jixun will not help at the last moment. It was precisely because Tan Jixun's thoughts were as old as Empress Dowager Cixi's, tan Jixun, as a member of the diehard faction, was only deposed and returned home, not implicated in the Nine Tribes.
The third reason is that Tan Jixun does not have the same son as Tan Si. In ancient times, it was said that there were three filial pieties, and no queen was greater, if Tan Sitong was tan Jixun's only son, in order not to let himself die, even if he knew that there was little hope, Tan Jixun would do his best to save Tan Sitong.
However, a feudal official like Tan Jixun, not only a lot of wives and concubines, but also many sons and daughters, these children are divided into father's love, so the father-son relationship between Tan Jixun and Tan Sitong is not as cordial as we think, so Tan Jixun will not have the pain of tearing his heart and lungs when he sees Tan Sitong die.
So what did Tan Jixun write about the bangs that he gave to his son? "Rumors spread all over the country and nine states, which are nothing more than scolding; Zhao Xue is unknown in thousands of years." The unknown in Tan Jixun's mouth now knows that Tan Si is a hero and not a traitor to the state, and now everyone knows that Tan Si is also a hero, and it is obvious that he has shown the snow.