On the eve of Sun Yat-sen's leadership of the revolutionary comrades in the founding of the League, a new social group appeared in China, that is, the bourgeois and petty-bourgeois intellectual contingent, who accepted the new spirit of the times through various means, and most of them had a new intellectual structure; compared with their predecessors, they had a broader field of vision, were more active in accepting advanced ideas from abroad, and were more sensitive to the policies implemented by the Qing government at home and the trend of international politics. They introduced new knowledge in the natural sciences, social politics, and other fields that were closely related to the times.
Sun Yat-sen
Zhang Jingjiang, who was in Paris at the time, was undoubtedly a pioneer in this regard. In July 1905, in the middle of that summer when it was not too hot, he rushed from Paris to London, England, with his body with bone pain, and at the hostel where he stayed, Mr. Sun Kuanbo (Hongzhe) met with Wu Zhihui, Lin Feicheng and others to discuss how to further disseminate advanced political, scientific and cultural knowledge to China. Later, Zhang Jingjiang asked Wu Zhihui to go to France to discuss how to initiate and organize the "World Society".
Wu Zhihui
Wu Jingheng (1865~1953) ( Zizhihui ) The elder Zhang Jingjiang was 12 years old, born in an ordinary small merchant family in Xueyanqiao South Street, Wujin County, Jiangsu Province, and later studied in Tokyo, Britain and France and other countries. He and Zhang Jingjiang have similar interests and are very friendly. The acquaintance between Zhang Jingjiang and Wu Zhihui and the close cooperation that followed, were mainly introduced by Li Shizeng, another Chinese attaché who accompanied Sun Baoqi to France. Because Wu Zhihui and Li Shizeng have already known each other in China.
Li Shizeng
Li Shizeng (known as Yuying) was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty and the son of Li Hongzao, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites. After Li Hongzao's death, the Qing government specially named his son Li Shi as the head of the household in order to show his grace. Although Li Shizeng grew up in a prestigious family, he himself successfully embarked on a career at a young age and entered the Qing government officialdom. However, he recognized the crisis and decay of the Qing Dynasty, and did not want to use his youth as a funeral object for the defeat of the Qing government, so when the Qing government sent Sun Baoqi to France, he seized this opportunity to go to France with Zhang Jingjiang, who was also an envoy. When Lee arrived in France and studied Western culture, he was greatly influenced by the fact that the first teacher who taught him French was an anarchist. In France at that time, Lee was systematically infected by the anarchist ideas of Bakunin and Kropotkin.
Sun Baoqi
Therefore, although Li and Zhang actually had different official titles, different backgrounds, and different hometowns, they went to Paris together, and both were influenced by anarchism in France at the same time. At that time, Zhang Jingjiang's friend Li Shizeng in France was still a young man who had just entered the age of 19.
Because of this relationship, when Zhang Jingjiang planned to set up the "Le Monde Society" in Paris, France, a small group engaged in anti-Qing propaganda, he and Wu Zhihui hit it off at first sight, and Wu agreed to Zhang Jingjiang's invitation in person and jointly founded the "Le Monde Society."
Zhang Jingjiang
In August 1905, when Zhang Jingjiang secured the main personnel and funds for the establishment of the "World Society", he temporarily returned to China, lived in Shanghai, and returned to Paris, France until winter. At that time, it was also shortly after Sun Yat-sen officially announced the establishment of the League in Tokyo, and the cooperation between Zhang Jingjiang and Sun Yat-sen also appeared to be closer.
On his way back to China in March 1906, Zhang Jingjiang joined the League while passing through Singapore. Later, he introduced Li Shizeng to join the League.
Zhang Jingjiang
In this way, the three giants who founded the "Monde Society" in Paris all began to believe in anarchist ideology and entered a common revolutionary organization. Objectively, this is inseparable from the perception of Mr. Sun Yat-sen. Of course, the three of them also need to join an anti-Qing organization from their own different situations and different positions.
Zhang Jingjiang
After Sun Baoqi, the Qing government's minister in France, returned to China at the end of his term, Zhang Jingjiang and Li Shizeng did not return to China with Sun Baoqi as entourage, but instead broke away from Sun Baoqi's interference and obtained the right to freedom of action in France. This also made him like a loose horse, which could run around France to the fullest for the establishment of the World Society.