There was once such a "other person's family" child:
He entered a private school at the age of 6, was able to write at the age of 10, and won the Xiucai at the age of 12;
At the age of 15, he was admitted to the Changsha Shiwu School, studied under Liang Qichao, and went to Japan to study the following year;
Later, he threw himself into the pen and was determined to save China with national defense, and was admitted to the Tokyo Non-Commissioned Officer School.
He was only 20 years old.
Only a few years after graduation, when he was 29 years old, he sat in the seat of the governor of Yunnan, and such a resume is also very dazzling today.
The owner of this brilliant resume is the defending general known as "Lü Bu among people, red rabbit in horses" - Cai Yi.
When it comes to Cai Yi, people can't help but think of his amazing love affair with Xiao Fengxian.
However, compared with this legendary love, his brilliant and legendary life is more worthy of our taste and praise.
Do things with a fierce heart and be kind to people
Cai Yi was born in the bloody and loyal Xiaoxiang land, and is an authentic Hunan native.
Hunan people were famous at that time for being "not afraid of death, impatient, bitter, and brutal."
The knife is just hot and does not accept defeat, tenacious and persistent, and Cai Yi has such a blood flowing on his body.
Although he was born in a peasant family and lived a hard life, at the age of 6, his parents sent Cai Yi to study, hoping that he could get a meritorious name and shine on the lintel.
Cai Yi did not disappoint his parents, and at the age of 12, he passed the Xiucai examination and became a young talent praised by the neighbors.
However, in this year, the Sino-Japanese War broke out, the Qing court was defeated, and the shame of losing power and humiliating the country hung over every countryman like a dense cloud.
Cai Yi was naturally no exception, and at this time he was very confused: did he follow his parents' expectations to step into the official arena and become a defender of the Qing court at the end of the road? Or do you change your mind and be the leader of new ideas?
Wrapped in the torrent of the times, Cai Yi went all the way forward, but he did not know where the road was.
It was also at this time that the movement to save the country and make the country strong surged up, and new-style schools began to appear in various places to cultivate new-style talents.
The first new-style school in Hunan, the Changsha Shiwu School, was also established under the initiative and sponsorship of Tan Si and others.
Cai Yi, who was drifting in the torrent, vaguely saw the direction of progress, and he decided to break in this direction.
Cai Yi seized every opportunity to run to the future as much as possible, he planned and then moved, identified the target, and then attacked with all his might, and finally successfully entered the Changsha Shiwu School.
This year, he was only 15 years old.
I thought that I could save the country by completing my studies, but when I thought that I had not yet truly learned the truth of salvation, I suddenly dropped out of school.
Due to the failure of the Penghu Reform Law, Tan Si and others were killed, and the Shiwu Academy was forced to close. In desperation, Cai Yi had to go to Wuhan and Guangzhou to study, and finally went to Japan to study.
If nothing else, he will embark on a path of cultural restoration and reform. But the world is unpredictable, and the next thing completely changed the direction of his expected life.
In the summer of 1900, Cai Yi, who was studying in Japan, hurried back to China.
The reason is that his former teacher, Tang Caichang, a former teacher of the Changsha Shiwu Academy, led a self-reliant army that prepared to revolt against the Qing.
At that time, the teachers and students of the Shiwu Academy responded one after another, and Cai Yi, as his proud protégé, naturally returned to China to help him.
The uprising was discovered by the Qing court and was soon stillborn. Tang Caichang and others were arrested and finally brutally killed. Cai Yi also escaped the disaster because of Tang Caichang's ingenious arrangement.
However, he did not have the ease of the rest of his life, and some were just sad and indignant.
"Bleeding to save the people for generations, a thousand autumns of liver and gallbladder self-rotisserie".
In the face of his teachers and friends who were dying, he turned the cry of compassion into an earth-shaking courage, changed his name to "Yi", and was determined to use the blade of the sword to recommend Xuanyuan with blood.
There are only things in the world that people don't want to do, and there are no things that people can't do.
Just do one thing with all your heart, and the whole world will make way for you.
With the determination to save China from peril, Cai Yi followed the example of the famous Han dynasty general Ban Chao and resolutely entered the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, thus opening up his road of "tao casting the soul of the country" with the concept of "military and national".
It begins with kindness and ends with righteousness
In 1904, Cai graduated with honors from the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School.
It is called: a gentleman hides his instrument in his body and waits for the time to move. Chance tends to favor those who are prepared.
Coinciding with the formation of the new army in the imperial court, Cai Yi, as a scarce military talent graduated from a famous school, naturally became a sought-after fragrant feast. He successively served in Jiangxi, Hunan and Guangxi, serving as the principal of various military academies.
At this time, Cai Yi was in that year, with both the grace and elegance of a literati and the fortitude of a soldier, and his charm was unbeatable.
Later, Cai Yi accepted the invitation of Li Jingxi, the governor of Yunnan, and went to Yunnan to take up a post.
Li Jingxi was the nephew of Li Hongzhang, a major minister of the late Qing Dynasty, and the last governor of Yungui in the Qing Dynasty. He was originally an enlightened man, with a tolerant attitude toward the revolution, and he had the grace of knowing Cai Yi.
After arriving in Yunnan, Cai Yi, with the trust and support of Li Jingxi, completed the "Quotations of Zeng Hu Zhibing", which was later used as a military textbook by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and had more room to display his ambitions.
At that time, the revolutionary momentum of overthrowing the Qing government had already spread throughout the country, and the Yunnan Lecture Hall, where Cai Yi was also an instructor, had become a gathering place for revolutionaries.
The dark tide of revolution is becoming more and more surging and has become unstoppable. On October 10, 1911, it finally broke out in Wuchang.
"Once a revolution occurs, absolute support must be given," Cai Said and Did.
On October 30 of that year, on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, Cai Yi and others launched the Chongjiu Uprising, responding to the Wuchang Uprising and overthrowing the Qing Dynasty's rule in Yunnan in one fell swoop.
Cai Yi was highly regarded and elected as the governor of Yunnan, when he was only 29 years old.
Overnight, people in the streets and alleys were talking about how heroic General Cai was, but what they saw was the infinite scenery of Cai Yi, but they did not know what kind of pain and suffering he had in his heart.
In the great national righteousness, overthrowing the feudal Qing court is the trend of the times, and saving the country and the people is his lifelong pursuit.
In terms of personal feelings, the uprising in Yunnan is equivalent to revolutionizing Li Jingxi's life. And Li Jingxi was kind to himself, how could he bear to send the benefactor to the guillotine with his own hands?
However, under the dilemma, he soon had a choice.
Righteousness is important, and private feelings are light.
Cai Yi knows well:
Li Jingxi was not an incurable royalist, much less an executioner whose hands were stained with the blood of revolutionaries. He hoped that the other party would openly side with him, but Li Jingxi refused on the grounds that the Qing court had been kind to the Li family for generations.
Soft doesn't work, only hard ones come. He arranged for his cronies to forcibly send Li Jingxi's family to the French consulate for temporary refuge, and later escorted him out of Yunnan. It wasn't until they arrived safely in Shanghai that Cai Yi put his mind at ease.
The "Augmentation of the Sages" says: "Kindness does not control the soldiers, affection does not establish things, righteousness does not manage money, and goodness does not serve officials." ”
However, Cai Yi, who was in charge of the army, was very kind, Cai Yi, who was an official, was very kind, and Cai Yi, who was a man, was very affectionate.
He eventually became a generation of military giants at the beginning of the revolution and enjoyed a reputation for decades, in addition to his profound military ability, probably bequeathed a profound spiritual personality, which is also one of the major reasons.
It has always been deep, but the fate is shallow
"The seven-foot body has already promised the country, and it is difficult to xu Qing again."
On the platform of the cold wind, after Cai Yi said these words to Xiao Fengxian both affectionately and resolutely, he boarded the train leaving Beiping and embarked on the road of protecting the country and seeking Yuan.
Because of Andy Lau's performance in the movie "The Great Cause of Party Building", we have the privilege of appreciating the style of General Cai Yi's tall and handsome Confucian general. And "the beauty took away General Cai", but there is a legendary story that lovers are difficult to become dependents, which cannot help but make people sigh.
In fact, behind each legendary story there is an unknown helplessness, not so much that it is unpredictable, but rather that the world is making people.
The legendary story of Cai Yi and Xiao Fengxian was achieved by Yuan Shikai.
Yuan Shikai and Cai Yi were old acquaintances and admired each other.
Yuan Shikai once said to others: "Cai Yi is far above Huang Xing and the People's Party, and the essence of this person is song Jiaoren or unmatched." ”
In his letter to Li Yuanhong, Cai Yi also praised Yuan Shikai as "a great man of Hong Cai and a great man in modern times."
In particular, Cai Yi, he has always believed that Yuan Shikai is the best candidate in the world to tame various warlords and end the chaos of chaos.
But what he did not expect was that the later Yuan Shikai swelled up, swelled to the point that he wanted to be emperor and hold the power of a country alone.
At this time, Song Jiaoren, who opposed Yuan Shikai and advocated a cabinet system, was stabbed to death while preparing to go north to form a cabinet.
A stone stirs up a thousand layers of waves. For a time, the spearheads were aimed at Yuan Shikai, and the voices of force against Yuan Yuan were everywhere.
However, Cai Yi called the provinces and strongly discouraged them.
Why?
For the murder of Song Jiaoren, Cai Yi "made a painful statement, and his voice and tears went hand in hand." Watching the newborn republic being dragged into an endless war, he was even more distressed than anyone else.
As Zhang Juzheng said: "The affairs of the world are not difficult to legislate, but it is difficult to implement the law; it is not difficult to listen to words, but it is difficult to be effective in words." ”
The government is established, and the system must be followed. If the president commits misconduct, he can be impeached or brought to justice.
If the president refuses to accept sanctions with power, the use of force is justified. If anyone can attack the president, what is the difference between that and those who oppose republicanism?
But Cai Yi's bitter persuasion did not work.
The second revolution broke out, Yuan Shikai won, he almost cleared all obstacles on the road to becoming emperor, but he was still not at ease.
He was jealous of Cai Yi, who was far away in Yunnan.
On the surface, he transferred Cai E to Beiping, tried his best to satisfy the cai e family's food and clothing, and also asked his son Yuan Keding to worship Cai E as a teacher; secretly, he sent people to follow Cai E, and even searched the residence.
Cai Yi, whose freedom was restricted, met Xiao Fengxian of Yunjiban when he went to the Bada Hutong with his friends to play tea, and soon ransomed her.
Some people say that Xiao Fengxian is beautiful and understanding, and meeting general Cai, a confidant, is a blessing she cultivated in her previous life.
Some people also say that Cai Yi does not love the country and the mountains, loves the beauty, lingers in the land of fireworks, abandons the family and abandons the room, which is really living up to the reputation of the general.
Some people also say that everything cannot be counted, after all, the past is like a floating cloud, mixed with the affair of political games, some of which are true feelings, and some of which are dramas, who can say clearly.
When people were still talking to him and Xiao Fengxian, they didn't know that Cai Yi had already embraced the heart of the country and put his true love and affection into the country.
Looking north at the stars, the sword stood, and the growth became a national worry.
Cai Yi knew that he could not prevent Yuan Shikai from restoring the imperial system, so he had to return to Yunnan after several twists and turns with the help of his friends, and took the lead in raising the banner of courting Yuan, and raised his arms to defend the swaddled republic.
In the end, the heavens did not deserve the "love" of the people, cai Yi finally won the victory, became everyone known as the hero of the country and the god of war in the world.
But "the flower of success, people only envy her current brilliance, but her buds were soaked with tears and sprinkled with blood rain." ”
What people don't know is that in order to balance the interests of all parties, Cai Yi gave up the title of commander-in-chief of the National Guard Army. He personally served as the commander of the First Army, led the "Three Thousand Victory Divisions" into Sichuan, and in a few months, fought against the enemy who had more than thirty times the strength of his own troops.
He "knew that there was no hope, but he lived on his knees, rather than beheading his head and dying", in order to fight for the personality of forty million people.
The battle was earth-shattering and arduous, dragging down his already weak body.
In 1916, Cai Yi died of illness at the age of 34.
To oppose force is for the sake of the republic, to hold high the banner of righteousness, and also to do so for the sake of the republic.
As the love of his life, he felt guilty about this devastated country until his death, saying in his will: "In order to live a short life, he failed to do his best for the Republic of China, and should be buried thinly." ”
As a poem is sung: "How can death be calm, and how can love be indifferent?" ”
It is only because of the depth of my love that I want to sacrifice everything I have, including my short life, to you, only to be safe for a long time.
There is a saying in the Tao Te Ching: "Knowing its whiteness and keeping its blackness is the style of the world." ”
The most frightening thing for people in the darkness and torrents is not to lose their way, but to lose their faith.
Only by firmly believing that you can get out of the predicament can you really get out of the predicament.
In the turbulent situation, Cai Yi can be diligent and honest with himself, help others to drown in thirst, be selfless and loyal to the country, not covet power, and retire when he succeeds, because he has always held the "original intention of serving the country and not for rights."
As tao Juyin, a fellow hunan countryman, once said: "Since the Republic of China, the warriors have disarmed their troops, tang loves the survivors, and Cai Songpo is only one person." ”
In 1917, Cai Yi's soul returned to his hometown, and the National Government held a state funeral for him in Yuelu Mountain, Changsha, and Cai Yi also became the first person in the history of the Republic of China to be buried.
Born in Shihan Yu Lin Lang, he first rode with Yuyang.
He who knows not to suffer from the side court, let him die like a chivalrous bone.
The Slovaks have passed away, but what remains with the world should not only be a period of affair, but also its hot and enthusiastic service to the country and the people.
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