Author: Elegant Beard (Wu Yonggang-Max)
In April 1912, after the victory of the Xinhai Revolution, officials, merchants, gentlemen and gentry of Jilin City gathered outside the BalhuMen Gate to hold a solemn and solemn memorial service to commemorate the martyr Xiong Chengji, who died in Jilin on February 27, 1910. At the memorial service site, a large number of people's tributes were placed, and the words and sentences written not only expressed mourning from all angles, but also aggravated the atmosphere of mourning in the venue after the participants read it. Among them, a pair of elegy is particularly eye-catching, attracting many people around, while perusing it, while occasionally looking at a "high-ranking official" attending the meeting.
Martyr Xiong Chengji
Before the Xinhai Revolution, the League led by Sun Yat-sen began to set its sights on the northeast region, and successively sent Lin Boqu, Liao Zhongkai, Song Jiaoren and other cadres to Jilin City to carry out revolutionary activities. Among them, Liao Zhongkai's work was the most effective. In 1909, Liao Zhongkai went to Jilin and, on the pretext of being a fellow villager in Guangdong with Inspector Chen Zhaochang of Jilin Province, was able to serve as a translator for the Eastern Chinese of the Inspectorate of Jilin Office. Under the cover of this identity, Liao Zhongkai actively contacted progressive people in Jilin and propagated revolutionary ideas. Under his propaganda and encouragement, Song Yu (Qiren), a local progressive figure in Jilin Province, organized the founding of minbao, and Manchu progressives, including Yang Ce and others, also actively participated in and instigated the revolution against the Qing Dynasty.
In 1909, Xiong Chengji, who had participated in the Anqing Uprising, was assigned by Huang Xing, under the pseudonym Zhang Jianxun, to contact and organize a revolutionary uprising in the northeast. At that time, Xiong Chengji settled in Changchun to open the "Xudongyang Candle Soap Company" and "Shunhe Transfer Company" businessman Zang Guansanjia. Because Xiong Chengji's identity was exposed after drinking, Zang Guansan teamed up with secret agent Dong Guansan to inform Chen Zhaochang. On January 30, 1910, Chen Zhaochang sent Liu Songxie and Chen Youzhang (changchun police chief) to chase after him and arrest Xiong Chengji at the Binru Inn in Harbin. On February 2, after the first trial in Changchun, Xiong Chengji was taken to the Jilin Prison in the provincial capital (now Guanghua Road, Jilin City).
As early as the interrogation in Changchun, Xiong Chengji had admitted that he was the commander-in-chief of the Anqing Uprising, but in the face of torture, he never confessed to the "same party" and protected Liao Zhongkai, a member of the alliance who was also in Jilin City, and others. After being taken into custody in Jilin Prison, Xiong Chengji wrote a book on the Lunar New Year and wrote the righteous "Xiong Chengji's Confession from Self-Book". The 2,000-word essay recounts his personal experience of worrying about the people and saving the country, as well as his ambition to "sacrifice his body for the benefit of society." When detained, Xiong Chengji used the word "revolution" instead of hand detention, and the above move made Chen Zhaochang and others tremble with fear.
Chen Zhaochang
It was precisely because of Xiong Chengji's decision that Chen Zhaochang, contrary to the convention of "Sealing the Year Pass", hastily fulfilled the formalities and decided to kill Xiong Chengji. Although Liao Zhongkai and others tried their best to rescue them, some of the league members even planned to rob the prison, but in the end they were unsuccessful. On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Xiong Chengji was escorted to the execution site via Balhumen. He proclaimed the purpose of the revolution to the onlookers all the way, and repeatedly shouted: "Gentlemen! Gentlemen! There is no doubt that I am a murderer who steals and commits adultery, and I am a revolutionary soldier who is a charity! At the time of Xiong Chengji's heroic sacrifice, Chen Zhaochang, the inspector of Jilin Province, breathed a sigh of relief, immersed himself in his photography hobbies, played with the photos of Xiong Chengji that he sent people to take, and examined the inscription on his back: "Portrait of Xiong Chengji after his arrest"...
Zhang Taiyan
In April 1912, at the memorial meeting to commemorate the martyr Xiong Chengji, when people were reading the "Strategy of the Martyrs of Xiong Chengji" issued by Fu Shanqing of Yunnan (when Xiong Chengji was sacrificed, Ren Tifasi signed), they found that Chen Zhaochang, who had been whitewashed as the founding father of the Jilin Province, was also mixed with the mourning crowd with a straight face, and he could not help but be shocked. At that time, as the highest official of Jilin Province, Chen Zhaochang was pretending to perform the trick of rabbit death and fox sorrow. Due to Chen Zhaochang's status, many people dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, and it was not until a pair of couplets appeared at the venue that the situation was reversed.
It was a union of sorrow and indignation. It is written impressively on the link: "As early as three years, I also became a repeat offender of state affairs, and the foolish culprit dared to hang the revolutionary pioneer." His author was Zhang Binglin, who was then the envoy of the Northeast Chip, that is, Zhang Taiyan, a well-known democratic revolutionary in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty and the president of the Guangfu Society. Unlike the other participants who were quiet, Zhang Taiyan, who was outspoken and quick-witted, pointed the spearhead of the memorial directly at chen Zhaochang, the chief culprit who killed the martyr Xiong Chengji. Sure enough, a pair of bangs directly ignited the indignation of most of the participants, and under the gaze of countless pairs of eyes, Chen Zhaochang also felt that it was difficult to "perform" at this memorial service, and in shame, he left the venue in a daze.
At the memorial service, Zhang Taiyan not only paid tribute to the lian, but also read out the "Xiong Chengji's Lamentations" written in his own handwriting. In this lamentation, Zhang Taiyan compared Chen Zhaochang to Zhang Zengxuan, the governor of Zhejiang who killed Qiu Jin, "his crime is regarded as Zeng Zhao and ShiBai, the political construction of the Republic of China, and the feast of Ju Yan in the east table, the special town of Yiyi, the shame of the Sishi state" (Zhang Taiyan Complete Works, episode 4) - Chen Zhaochang is by no means the founder of the Jilin Revolution, but a sinner of the Republic of China!
Old shadow of Tifasi in the Qing Dynasty
In recent years, many people have written books and said that Chen Zhao is often upset. He believes that he killed Xiong Chengji as an upward and downward faction, and it is also due to his duty. Some people even used some of Chen Zhao's colleagues' colleagues to politely reply to him, arguing that Chen Zhaochang was a person who "had his temperament and demeanor, which is really rare among the officials in Xinjiang." In their eyes, every bit of political achievement is the personal virtue of local officials, and as for the stain, it is nothing more than carrying the pot for the chief. Completely disregarding Chen Zhaochang's unusual act of hastily killing Xiong Chengji was an intention to continue the life of the Qing court in an all-out effort, and even more diluted the fact that after the fall of the Qing court, Chen Zhaochang betrayed his original intention of loyalty to the Qing court and speculated on the revolution!
As a bureaucrat who "takes the route of the same village and seeks the prosperity of the officials", in the era of drastic social changes, it is difficult to say that he will not make some "good deeds" for the Jilin region, and his photography hobby has indeed retained many precious historical images of Jilin City. However, looking at Chen Zhao's period of time as an inspector, whether it was the low ability of the government and the poor character of the "burning shipyard", or the killing of the martyr Xiong Chengji and then mixed in the official field of the Republic of China, he was nothing more than a bureaucrat of the old era, and some people praised him as a famous eunuch with a heart of heaven and earth, which was inappropriate.
Sometimes when judging a historical figure, how to be objective and how to be fair is indeed a very complicated thing. However, when talking about the history of the Xinhai Revolution in Jilin City, there is one fact that has been forever recorded in the annals of history: at xiong Chengji's memorial service in April 1912, Chen Zhaochang was painfully poked in the spine by Zhang Taiyan and left the scene in embarrassment...
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