Tan Jinyong, rather than being a diplomat, is a military attaché.
In that year, he came to San Francisco on the orders of the Qing Dynasty and became a military attaché of the minister and army stationed in the United States.
And In China, far away from the ocean, it is in turmoil, and the manchu Qing court is also shaking.
In 1903, the world situation was turbulent.
This year, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize, and Hitler's father had just died.
In this year, Henry Ford formed a world-famous automobile company, and the Middle East Railway was officially opened.
This year, under the attack of the Western powers, some major events also occurred on the mainland, such as the death of Rong Lu, such as the death of the patriotic general Feng Zicai.
For another example, a new type of school system that broke the traditional school system of two thousand years was established, which is the famous "decoction school system".
And this year, Tan Jinyong could not have imagined that he would understand his life in such a messy way or in a humiliating way.
In August 1903, Tan Jinyong had just finished his business and was about to go back to rest, when he was just walking to a bridge, he was greeted by an American policeman named Clemo, and when he saw Tan Jinyong's long braids, he suddenly unveiled Tan Jinyong's hat and taunted loudly:
"Haha, yellow-skinned pig! Pig's tail! ”
Far away in a foreign country, Tan Jinyong knows very well the inner feelings of sending people under the fence, he knows that this is not the territory of Chinese, so he suppressed his anger and said very politely in English: "Please respect yourself this gentleman, Chinese is also a person." ”
Unexpectedly, Crimo intensified, and his tone became even higher, and he questioned in a yin and yang manner: "Chinese is also a human?" While shaking his hand, he gave Tan Jinyong a big slap.
The sudden slap made Tan Jinyong's face hurt fiercely, he covered his mouth and watched the other party deceive people too much, and he could no longer hold back the angry flames, and directly performed eighteen martial arts to fight with Klimogan.
But Klimo, where the warrior Tan Jinyong's opponent, saw that he was downwind, and immediately blew a whistle, calling a few nearby police officers to join in this disgraceful group fight.
As a result, the fists of these police officers rained down on Tan Jinyong's face and body, and Tan Jinyong was beaten and exhausted by the poison.
In the end, the men did not intend to spare Tan Jinyong, but instead tied his braid, which symbolized the Chinese, to the railing for public display.
This kind of robber-style humiliation made Tan Jinyong feel mixed and angry in his heart.
It was only in the evening that the officers, after a fierce teasing, handcuffed Tam and brought him into the police station.
And all this is just the beginning of the nightmare.
After the police station, Tam Jinyong thought that the police officer inside would help him to do justice, he instinctively put his work card on the table, but he did not expect to be insulted by the police officer, only to see the blonde police officer who looked like a devil and shouted: "As long as it is a Chinese, no one is an exception, this is the old rule." ”
After this sentence, Tan Jinyong was completely desperate and cold, and he knew that his situation was very difficult.
He endured unwillingness and anger and swallowed his grievances into his stomach.
In this way, Tan Jinyong was bullied by these foreigners until late at night, and as long as he resisted once, he would be severely beaten by splitting his head and covering his face.
Throughout the night, screams and insults filled the police station.
Tan Jinyong's fate was also fundamentally reversed in the scolding of these people, and the people present were just looking at him coldly or watching jokes, and none of them shouted injustice for him.
In this way, Tan Jinyong was tortured until late at night, and the source of everything was whether he was a Chinese or a Chinese who had resisted the police.
In the early hours of the morning, an enthusiastic overseas Chinese heard about his situation and spent a huge amount of money to redeem Tam From the police station. The moment he came out of the police station, a huge sadness rose up in Tan Jinyong's heart.
Behind him, the country has just experienced the crisis of the invasion of the Eight-Power Alliance, and has not yet come out of the shadow of the debt of Gengzi's reparations.
The country is so bullied by a few small countries, let alone a people like Tan Jinyong?
Personality and dignity were devastated, and At that moment, Tan Jinyong only thought of one word: "death"!
Sometimes, it is more difficult to be alive than to die, and there is no pain after death, no feelings, and there are no memories that are unforgettable, and living may still suffer this humiliation.
After all, this bustling city does not belong to its own country, and even the river in front of it is not its own mother river.
Hopelessness and sorrow struck Tan Jinyong, and who could know how isolated and helpless this diplomatic attaché was at the last moment of his life.
He closed his eyes and walked toward the gushing river, jumped down, and the overseas Chinese who was eager to rescue him could only watch helplessly with tears.
If a person has an iron heart to seek death, no amount of encouragement and interference will be in vain, let alone such a great insult to life.
Afterwards, the indignant Chinese united to seek justice for Tam Kam Yong. At Tam's funeral, thousands of Chinese walked the streets to hold a final funeral for the diplomat who had suffered such a great humiliation in his life.
This is a Chinese funeral, a funeral in which all Chinese present are sad and humiliated.
But the policeman, Mr. Crimo, was not punished, and even the video of Mr. Tam's funeral was banned for years.
On August 14, 1903, Tam died in the United States at the age of 31.
Two years after his death, a young man named Gu Weijun came to study at Columbia University in the United States, and he later became an important diplomat in the history of the Republic of China.
Eight years after his death, the Qing court came to an end in the afterglow of the setting sun.
More than 100 years later, diplomats in the United States can say domineeringly: "What qualifications do you have to talk to me like this?" ”
But what about 100 years ago?