"We still don't have a baby, I want to give you a baby!"
Hearing the heart-rending cry of his wife in the audience, Tan Si couldn't help but feel sad in his heart, but for the sake of the future of the country, he said something that shocked the world.
So what did Tan Sitong say at that time, and he would be called a "true gentleman" by future generations?
Resurrected by mission
At that time, Tan Sitong's family conditions were very good, and his father Tan Jixun was a man in the Daoguang period, and later served as a governor, which was already a good official position.
Because he attaches great importance to education, Tan Jixun has high requirements for several children.
However, due to her busy schedule, it is usually Mrs. Tan who educates the children.
Relying on the favorable conditions of his family, Tan Jixun invited a teacher surnamed Ouyang. This teacher was highly respected, and his knowledge was extremely rich, and many children of local aristocratic families came to him to study.
Influenced by this teacher, Tan Sitong admired Wang Fuzhi very much during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
This Wang Fuzhi is very patriotic, even though the Ming Dynasty was destroyed and Emperor Chongzhen is dead, he is still trying to restore the Ming Dynasty and resist the Qing Dynasty.
But even if they work hard, the general trend can no longer be stopped, so after the Qing Dynasty unified the mainland, Wang Fuzhi did not enter the Qing Dynasty as an official, but went into seclusion.
Tan Sitong was really moved by Wang Fuzhi at that time, so he was inspired to be a patriotic person.
But patriotism is not something that can be believed by just talking, you really want to show that you are patriotic, and when the enemy's knife is on your neck, the truth will appear.
But before that moment, Tan Sitong fell seriously ill.
Many of his brothers and sisters died because of this, and Tan Sitong was almost dying.
That serious illness was really scary, Tan Sitong passed out for three days without eating or drinking at home, Tan Jixun was ready to buy a coffin for his son when he saw this.
At that critical moment when he was almost grounded, Tan Sitong miraculously came back to life, and he was judged to be two people in an instant.
In Tan Sitong's opinion, this experience was no different from reincarnation, so he changed his character to "resurrection" to commemorate his very big life this time.
As far as the current situation is concerned, Tan Sitong does seem to be reborn, but in fact, he is "returning to the light", but it lasts a little long, because he still has a mission to complete.
After his resurrection, Tan Sitong continued to study hard, because he had vowed to serve the motherland, for which he also visited many famous teachers.
But it is a pity that Tan Sitong failed to pass the imperial examination for several years in a row, which made him really angry.
After all, in the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, when it was a very chaotic era, you wanted to be an official without paying some money? That's impossible.
However, this did not dispel Tan Sitong's idea of continuing to study hard, because he felt that his efforts were not enough.
It didn't take long for a news that shocked the whole country to come, that is, the Qing army was completely defeated in the Sino-Japanese War, and the army and land forces could not defeat it, and even the Beiyang Fleet, which could be ranked in Asia, was gone.
The betrayal of a teammate
As soon as these news came out, the reputation of the Qing government became worse and worse.
Seeing that the country was so corrupt, Tan Sitong was very angry, so he followed the trend and embarked on the road of changing the law.
The real beginning was that he organized and participated in the bus book with Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and others. Although the scale is quite large, the effect is actually not very good.
Who is the Qing Dynasty, how could the former empire be willing to follow the old path of others?
However, Kang Youwei and they were not discouraged by this, but continued to write to the Qing government every day, and it was those two sentences every day, you should reform it quickly, and if you don't change the whole country, it will be over.
In the end, the Qing government was forced to let Emperor Guangxu see this long-lost scene.
Seeing this, Kang Youwei realized that the opportunity had come, so he proposed many new policies, a large part of which was to learn from the West, after all, people are now at the peak of their careers, and it is not wrong to learn from the strong.
Emperor Guangxu was also very satisfied with these new policies, and he wanted to meet a group of people who proposed these policies, so Kang Youwei and others were invited to the Forbidden City, and it is said that they also took a photo with Emperor Guangxu.
Hearing everyone's thoughts, Emperor Guangxu agreed very much and chatted very happily.
After this meeting, Emperor Guangxu began to carry out drastic reforms in accordance with those policies.
In this way, the famous Wuxu Reform of the Qing Dynasty began, and Kang Youwei and them became a member of the Restoration, and Tan Sitong was among them.
Although the reformers said that they were reused by the emperor, what was helpless was that Emperor Guangxu was not reliable at all, and they may have found the wrong person.
Although Guangxu is the Ninth Five-Year Honor, it is like an ornament, because he has no actual power in his hands.
If the Empress Dowager Cixi, who was in power at this time, intervened in this matter, it would not have succeeded.
However, fortunately, at the beginning, Cixi did not intervene in this matter, so the Wuxu reform was still in a stable state at first, but the problem was that this change touched the interests of the diehards.
Among the policies proposed by Kang Youwei for them, many were unacceptable to the diehards, such as the abolition of the Baguwen and the imperial examination, and then the abolition of the Green Battalion and the Eight Banners Army.
Baguwen is a tradition of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the imperial examination has been passed down for thousands of years. In addition, the Green Battalion and the Eight Banners are the only two arms of the Qing Dynasty, and they can't be defeated without disarmament, let alone disarmament.
It is precisely because of this that as time goes by, the contradictions between the diehards and the reformers become more and more acute, and then the two sides begin to openly accuse and scold, and they almost fight.
Although the power of the reformers is weak, they are not inferior to the spray.
The diehards saw that they couldn't spray it, so they used their big backers, that is, to tell the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Originally, Cixi didn't want to take care of this matter, but unexpectedly, Humpty Dumpty Yuan Shikai sent an important piece of information.
Emperor Guangxu and the members of the Restoration faction knew that they were weak and it would be difficult to confront the diehards, so they enlisted Yuan Shikai for help.
Yuan Shikai had a bit of military power at that time, so Emperor Guangxu pressed the treasure on him.
After learning of the plan of the Restorationists and others, Yuan Shikai was very shocked because they actually wanted to assassinate the Empress Dowager Cixi.
If this fails, it will be exterminated by the Nine Clans, so Yuan Shikai, who was frightened, ostensibly agreed to the Restoration, but in fact, he had already wanted to defect.
In order to protect himself and increase the credit for reporting by the way, Yuan Shikai betrayed the reformers.
Knowing that the emperor took the lead and actually wanted to assassinate herself, the old lady Cixi was also carried away by anger, so she ordered Emperor Guangxu to be put under house arrest, and as for the remaining "rabble", kill them all.
In this way, Tan Si and others were arrested.
The words of a true gentleman
Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and others saw that the situation was not good, and they slipped away in advance, or did they know how to save their lives!
After learning that Tan Si and others were arrested, many people began to actively plan a rescue. The people involved in the rescue included Wang Zhengyi, a famous martial arts master at that time, and the people of Jianghu gave him the nickname "Big Sword King Five".
This person, like Huo Yuanjia, Huang Feihong and others, was one of the top ten masters in the late Qing Dynasty.
Tan Sitong had already known Wang Zhengyi when he was more than ten years old, and the two had a deep friendship and became inseparable friends. During this period, Wang Zhengyi taught Tan Sitong a lot of martial arts.
Knowing that his good friend was arrested, Wang Zhengyi hurriedly led people to the rescue.
Although Cixi had already issued a killing order, if Tan Si and them wanted to leave, Wang Zhengyi would still be able to rescue him.
Faced with the rescue of his good friend, Tan Sitong actually politely refused, and the other five also politely declined.
In their opinion, reform always has to die, if you don't die, I won't die, who will dedicate their lives to the future and destiny of the country? So Tan Sitong decided to repay the country with death.
Since the good brother is so obsessed, Wang Zhengyi and others are ready to assassinate Cixi. As long as Cixi is dead, maybe Tan Si and them will wake up.
It's just a pity that the assassination of Cixi was not successful, after all, such a hated character, but he pays great attention to personal safety, and there are no hundred and eighty guards around him who are sorry for her identity.
Although many assassinations were unsuccessful, this made Wang Zhengyi's heart more determined, that is, he must overthrow the Qing Dynasty, so Wang Zhengyi later participated in the Boxer Rebellion.
After the defeat of the Boxer Rebellion, Wang Zhengyi was unfortunately arrested and finally killed, which is really a pity!
Later, with the help of his good brother Huo Yuanjia, Wang Zhengyi's body was buried.
Since he didn't escape, it's time to go to the execution ground. According to the past practice, the execution ground is generally at the entrance of the vegetable market, and this time is no exception.
On the day of the execution, Tan Sitong's wife Li Yan also arrived at the scene, and to put it mildly, Li Yan came to collect her husband's body.
Generally speaking, after a prisoner is killed, he will be carried away and buried by his relatives in the audience. If no one carries them away, the government will send someone to find a random place to bury the prisoner.
Facing her husband who was about to leave, Li Yan cried in despair: "We don't have a child of our own yet, I really want to give you a child!" ”
Although the two have been married for a while, they do not have children yet.
In Li Yan's view, heroes can't have no descendants! But in Tan Sitong's opinion, this child doesn't want it, so he said very resolutely: "I don't want our children to be born in such an era where there is no future and no light can be seen!" ”
"If I could, I would like our children to be born in a bright and peaceful world, but in today's situation, how can we bear to give birth to a child and let him suffer all kinds of suffering? So don't do it, kids! ”
Li Yan couldn't help but be a little stunned after hearing this, because what Tan Sitong said was indeed very reasonable.
In this way, Tan Sitong and the other five people went on the road, and finally they became the "Six Gentlemen of Wuxu" who went down in history.
Tan Sitong is indeed reasonable, if he was born in a peaceful and prosperous world like ours, he must have been full of children and grandchildren!