In the long river of changes in Chinese history, a number of national backbones have emerged.
With the mortal body comparable to the gods, they stirred up the storm in the tide of the times and pushed the society forward in great strides.
Among them, there are both seven-foot men who are rushing with blood, and there are also heroic women who do not let their eyebrows be shaved, Qiu Jin, is one of them, and after Qiu Jin calmly and righteously, strange things happen one after another, and none of the officials involved have a good ending.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > (1) Generous death, sacrifice for the ideal</h1>
Qiu Jin was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, and her ancestors were officials for generations, and she grew up under the influence of the family's bookish atmosphere and the protection of her brothers.
Of course, Qiu Jin is different from those big ladies of the rich family, conforming to the old ways, following the tradition of "women without talent is morality", but reading and reading, riding horses and archery, Wen Neng chanting poems against each other, and wu neng believing in horses and reins.
In 1894, Qiu Jin followed her father Qiu Shounan to Xiangxiang County as an official, and she was born in a pavilion and a cluster, which had the demeanor of everyone.
Wang Diancheng, who was quite powerful in the Xiangtan area, saw Qiu Jin and liked it very much in his heart.
Wang Diancheng first tested Qiu Shounan's tone and learned that he was not married. Then, he arranged for a matchmaker to go to the Qiu family and propose to his son Wang Tingjun.
Although Qiu Jin did not want to spend her life with someone she had never met, her father's fate was difficult, so she had to agree.
Within a few years of marriage, Qiu Jin followed her husband to Beijing.
In the capital, Qiu Jin was baptized by new ideas, and the seeds of salvation and female revolution slowly sprouted in her heart.
Watching the soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance plundering Beijing wantonly, Qiu Jin only hated that she had given birth to a daughter.
At the same time, she was fed up with the feudal idea of male superiority and female inferiority in her family, and resisted with practical actions, and in 1904, Qiu Jin had made up her mind and traveled east to Japan to receive a new education.
At that time, Sun Yat-sen, Lu Xun, Huang Xing and others all studied there, and like-minded people gathered with Qiu Jin.
Qiu Jin set up a group to care for women, the Common Love Association, and joined the Hongmen, Sun Yat-sen saw Qiu Jin grow step by step, very pleased, but also admired Qiu Jin a female stream, can have such eloquence and courage.
He told Qiu Jin: "According to the specialty, use propaganda tools, report current affairs, solve practical matters, the more direct and rapid the effect, the better."
Inspired by Sun Yat-sen, Qiu Jin founded the Vernacular Newspaper.
Qiu Jin gave herself a pen name of "Jian Hu Woman" and announced to the world: "Women are not happy in learning, the race is not strong; women's rights are not strong, the country is bound to be weak", and want equality between men and women, "Women must be learned, seek self-reliance, and do not rely on men for everything." ”
Qiu Jin hopes that women can awaken, and hopes that all the descendants of Yanhuang can awaken.
However, in 1906, Japan promulgated the rules for banning international students, and Qiu Jin, who was indignant, returned to China in anger.
Qiu Jin, who came to Zhejiang, popularized women's education on the one hand, and on the other hand, contacted the local parties and launched the Pingliuli Uprising.
Despite the failure of the uprising, Qiu Jin was still reluctant to give up, and moved around Jinhua, Zhuji, and Lanxi, preparing to revive the righteous deeds.
However, Xu Xilin, who responded to her, was leaked in an uprising in Anqing and ended in failure. The Qing court began to hunt down figures related to Xu Xilin, and Qiu Jin, who had always been "deeply resentful", was also among them.
Qiu Jin knew that sooner or later she would fall into the hands of the miscreants, and she had the opportunity to escape by boat in the Chase Academy, but she sternly refused all suggestions for her to retreat, wearing a white shirt and sitting quietly upstairs.
Qiu Jin wants to use her death to awaken more Chinese.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" > (ii) Heroic righteousness, martyrdom for the light</h1>
Hu Daonan, bent on receiving the bounty, took the initiative to expose Qiu Jin's whereabouts to the Qing court.
Li Yizhi took the elite soldiers and went to arrest them. During the whole process, Qiu Jin's face was full of waves, and there was no trace of resistance.
San'in County ordered Li Zhongyue to put the place where Qiu Jin was interrogated in the Flower Hall.
He knew that Qiu Jin was a strong-willed person, and even if he used torture, Qiu Jin would not say a word; he also admired Qiu Jin, a family of women, who went south and north, and still had a heart to serve the country.
It's just that Li Zhongyue is also acting according to orders, and there are orders in his body, and he does not dare to secretly release Qiu Jin.
The rain outside the hall turned the sweltering summer into a cold and bone-chilling summer.
Qiu Jin sat on the bench, did not say a word, just took a pen and wrote on the paper: Autumn wind and autumn rain, these seven big words.
Li Zhongyue handed this "confession" to Guifu, the prefect of Shaoxing.
Guifu believed that this was Li Zhongyue's intention to favor Qiu Jin, and in order to establish his power, he immediately ordered Qiu Jin to be put on the spot to correct the law, and then greeted Zhang Zengyang, who was the governor of Zhejiang.
Li Zhongyue saw that these two people were so unjust, found Guifu, and angrily asked:
"Confessions and testimonies are two nothing, and Ann can kill people."
Unexpectedly, Guifu said, "If it is the order of the Constitution, who dares not obey it?" Today's affairs, killing, are in the King, and you are also in the King. Do it for yourself, and do not let future generations of kings be virtuous and not pawned."
Seeing that the order was in front of him, Li Zhongyue could do nothing.
On the eve of Qiu Jin's execution, he dragged his clothes, which had long been soaked with tears, to the cell and said to Qiu Jin: "The matter has come to this point, and the rest of the people are humble and light, and they are ashamed of their inability to complete it." However, ru died not my intentions, but fortunately forgive me."
On July 15, 1907, Qiu Jin died calmly at the age of 32 at the xuanting entrance of Shaoxing.
Curiously, of all the people involved in Qiu Jin's execution, there were almost no good people.
Li Zhongyue, the county commander whose conscience was not broken, saw Qiu Jin calmly and righteously, and he was ashamed and embarrassed.
After Qiu Jin's death, he sat on the desk all day, recalling over and over again the past after qiu Jin's arrest.
In fact, in order to protect Qiu Jin and his family, Li Zhongyue made a lot of efforts.
Li Zhongyue had great admiration for Qiu Jin, and he often used Qiu Jin's "Driving the Horse Zhongyuan Dream, Shattering the Shame of the Mountains and Rivers" to educate his son.
After receiving Gui fu's order to arrest Qiu Jin, he immediately found him and said: "The school has no deviant actions, and it cannot be destroyed by force to alarm the locality; Rong Qian secretly investigates whether it is true or not, and then decides the method."
Guifu knew that the will of the people could not be violated, and for a while there was no action. Li Zhongyue immediately went to the local gentry and asked them to quickly go to the academy and ask Qiu Jin to evacuate as soon as possible.
When he had to be arrested, Li Zhongyue also specially let his car walk in front of the line, so as to avoid soldiers from killing people indiscriminately.
After entering the academy, Li Zhongyue told the soldiers in a loud voice that only arrests were allowed, not shots.
After the arrest of Qiu Jin, Li Zhongyue was ordered to search Qiu Jin's home.
Li Zhongyue learned that Qiu Jin had a small building that hid a lot of secret information, so he deliberately did not check it, otherwise more people of the Qiu family would be implicated.
After Qiu Jin's death, Li Zhongyue looked at the "autumn wind and autumn rain sadness" written by her, often alone but drooling, washing her face with tears all day long.
He had thought about committing suicide many times, first throwing himself into a well, and then hanging himself in an old tree, and was saved by his family.
However, Li Zhongyue had already made up his mind, and on October 29, 1907, taking advantage of his family's lack of preparation, he committed suicide on the beam of the house at the age of 53.
After Li Zhongyue's death, public opinion was in an uproar.
Shanghai's "Declaration" and "China and Foreign Daily" have successively issued articles praising his behavior.
Later, when Qiu Jin's close friend built the "JianHu Female Hero Shrine" on the shore of Hangzhou Lake, he also specially enshrined Li Zhongyue's tablet in it.
The book is "The Divine Position of Li Zhongyue of Qingshan Yinzhi County", and the next book is "Mr. Li Zhongyue, a native of Anqiu County, Shandong, and there is virtue in the Autumn Case".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="21" > (3), heavenly good reincarnation</h1>
When people sentenced Qiu Jin's case against their will because of Li Zhongyue and did not end well, they also targeted Zhang Zengyang, the governor of Zhejiang, and Guifu, the governor of Shaoxing.
Zhang Zengyang is Zhang Zhidong's nephew, and he can have this official position, and he is inseparable from his uncle.
According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, death row prisoners were sent to the Ministry of Punishment for review, and the emperor's royal pen personal approval was also required, in addition to the relevant witnesses and confessions.
However, Zhang Zengyang did not play the invitation to Beijing, and the second did not get the evidence, so he executed without authorization, which was unreasonable.
In the face of verbal criticism from people from all walks of life, Zhang Zengyang had no strength to resist, and he never expected that he would fall into such a situation because of the death of a "female prisoner".
In desperation, he could only change from Inspector of Zhejiang to Inspector of Jiangsu, but the people of Jiangsu were not willing to tolerate him.
Reluctantly, Zhang Zengyang went around looking for connections and went to Shanxi to serve as an inspector.
Zhang Zengyang's repeated transfers have aroused the dissatisfaction of many colleagues.
Zhang Zengyang did not seem to take the Qing court seriously, and he would go wherever he wanted to be an official, so he was always ostracized.
In desperation, Zhang Zengyang had to resign from the government in advance, and hastily ended his political career.
Compared with Zhang Zengyang, Guifu's fate is not necessarily good.
He, the disciple whom he has been referred to by a thousand husbands, knows that the people's resentment is extremely deep, and he is afraid that it will be difficult to continue to serve as an official in Shaoxing, and it will be difficult to continue.
Under the guidance of many parties, he was transferred to Ningguo, Anhui Province, as the prefect.
The people of Ningguo, seeing the arrival of this "dog official" who was playing for the tiger, were very dissatisfied and often gathered around the prefect's courtyard to quarrel.
Guifu, who was really intolerable, dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, so he had to apply for transfer and go to supervise Caoyun.
He had thought that he would be able to work in this position of drought and flood protection until the end of his life. The outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution shattered his illusions.
Guifu knew that Sun Yat-sen and Qiu Jin were both revolutionaries, and the two had a very close relationship, and if they wanted to hold them accountable, they would be difficult to avoid.
He hastily resigned from his official post, returned to Beijing, and changed his name to Zhao Jingqi.
After five years of seclusion, Guifu decided to go out and follow Zhang Zuolin.
During this period, he had close contacts with the Japanese and Puyi, so much so that Puyi invited him to attend the enthronement ceremony of the "puppet Manchukuo" emperor.
Puyi trusted this Manchu Qing widow, appointed him as the general office of the Shengjing Tomb Temple, and married his fourth sister to Guifu.
Guifu was bent on safeguarding Puyi's interests and had many conflicts with the Japanese. In 1936, Japan sent killers to stab Kifuku to death.
The officials involved in Qiu Jin's death, whether it was Li Zhongyue, whose fate was difficult to violate, or Zhang Zengyang and Guifu, who were bent on putting Qiu Jin to death, all had a rare good death in the end.
I don't know if this is providence or pure coincidence.