Caishikou outside Xuanwu Gate in Beijing, a place dedicated to beheading.
On September 28, 1898, the sky was low, and there was a great threat of black clouds pressing down on the city. Six people, wearing shackles, slowly walked to the caishikou execution ground, their faces were not afraid, but their eyes revealed their firmness and compassion. One of the thin middle-aged men, facing the knife in the executioner's hand that was longer than a saw and sharper than an axe, shouted, "There is a heart to kill a thief, unable to return to heaven, die where he wants. ”
When the execution time came, the heads of the six people fell to the ground, and a stream of hot blood soaked this place of imperial power and prominence. Later generations referred to them as the "Six Gentlemen of Pengshu". The man who was still shouting before his execution was Tan Sitong, who was only 33 years old when he was righteous.
After Tan Sitong's arrest, many friends tried every means to help him get out of trouble. However, Tan Sitong believes that there is no change in the law of the world that does not sacrifice people, and now China wants to change the law and shed blood, so it will start with him. After Tan Si and his colleagues generously died, the Qing court's heavy ministers celebrated the crown, believing that the Penghu Reform Had failed, the mastermind had been killed, and the great trouble in his heart had been eliminated, after which the imperial power could sit back and relax. But these diehards did not know that the blood of the six gentlemen of Wushu was only the first step in allowing the imperial power to enter the Yellow Spring, and the death knell of the doomsday dynasty had already sounded.
Tan Sitong was not only a representative figure of the Penghu Restoration, but also a core figure of the Party along the Yangtze River. He was generous and righteous, and he did not hope that his generosity and righteousness would awaken the revenge of the Southern Hui Party and give a fierce attack to the Qing court. Sure enough, after his sacrifice, his friend Tang Caichang took over the heavy task and returned to the south to create the "Rich Mountain Hall", and constantly contacted the Southern Hui Party with the intention of making a big plan. At the same time, he also created an armed force, a self-reliant army. The headquarters of this army was set up in Hankou, and a large number of volunteers dedicated to the anti-Qing Dynasty were collected.
In 1900, Tang Caichang was in Hankou to prepare for the uprising of the self-reliant army, but because of leaking secrets, he was arrested by Zhang Zhidong, and finally revolted in Wuhan, realizing his and his old friend Tan Sitong's vow of "living comrades, dying with martyrdom".
Tan and Tang were killed one after another, and the Qing Dynasty was still struggling to die, turning the butcher's knife towards the awakened warriors one by one. Internal and external troubles, wind and rain drifted zero, the sky seemed to have no light. But at this moment of despair, history laid the groundwork here in Tan Sitong and Tang Caichang, they died, but their students were still there. In the future, their students, the students of the students, will let the sun and the moon change into a new day.
Tan Sitong and Tang Cai were often hunan natives. Tang Cai often had a capable general in the self-reliance army, Huang Xing. Tang Caichang's death allowed Huang Xing to see the decay of the Qing Dynasty thoroughly, and from then on he firmly embarked on the revolutionary road of anti-Qing. During the revolution, he became acquainted with Sun Yat-sen and became comrades-in-arms who walked side by side. On April 27, 1911, Huang Xing led the Guangzhou Uprising, but ultimately failed because he was outnumbered. Huanghuagang was bleeding profusely, and Lin Juemin and a large number of other members of the Alliance were killed here. More than 80 people died, but a 19-year-old young man escaped astute and survived. On October 10, 1911, Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing launched the Xinhai Revolution, completely burying the Qing Dynasty, which had ruled China for more than two hundred years. The birthplace of the Xinhai Revolution is in Wuchang, across the river from Hankou.
Tan Sitong also had two very famous students. A man named Cai Yi. This General Songpo spent his life worrying about the country and the people, leaving behind the good story that "the seven-foot body has been xu the country and it is difficult to Xu Qing". After Xinhai, Yuan Shikai intended to restore, the Provisional Covenant Law was useless, and the republic was in jeopardy. Cai Yi formed a patriotic army in Yunnan, launched a patriotic war, and crushed Yuan Shikai's delusions. But the movement ultimately failed, but one of the shogun's students, seeing the limitations of the old army, inherited General Matsupa's legacy, and continued to fight for the future of the nation.
Tan Sitong's other student was named Yang Changji, known as Mr. Itakura. He traveled to Japan and Europe for decades, and after returning to China, he taught at the First Normal School in Hunan. Here he met two promising "talents in the sea", namely Mao Zedong and Cai Hesen. Later stories, everyone is familiar with.
From 1898 to 1900, Tan Sitong and Tang Cai often rebelled one after another, and their revolutions did fail. Did they really fail?
Their students inherit their legacy, carry on the feelings of their homeland and the world, and persist in the revolution to the end. Huang Xing led the Huanghuagang uprising, and the blood of the volunteers spilled all over the city of Guangzhou, and the uprising failed. But did he really fail?
The 19-year-old who survived, 38 years later, heard the rumbling cannon of the founding ceremony and became a general of the republic, he was General Zhang Yunyi.
Cai Yi defended the country all his life, and eventually died of hatred in Japan, and his patriotic movement failed. Did he really fail?
The young man who followed him to the southern expedition to the northern war went to France to find the truth of the revolution, returned to China to practice the oath of revolution, and fired the first shot of the people's army in Nanchang. The young man was Marshal Jude.
On April 28, 1928, Jinggangshan, the red flag was exhibited, and the west wind was swept away. Here Mao Zedong and Zhu De achieved a historic meeting, and from then on, the spark of JinggangShan ignited the whole of China. The East first saw a faint light, and the journey was no longer deserted.
From Tan Sitong to Huang Xing, Yang Changji, and then to Mao Zedong, this is not some amazing coincidence of history, but a road of salvation created by three generations of young people with action, blood, and even life. The road is full of mud, bumpy, and straight, slowly stretching from a small road to a kangzhuang avenue. At one end of the road is the storm of the old world, and at the other end is the bright future of the new world. When we look back at this road, we can see the continuation of civilization, the quest of history, the succession of the revolution, and the fearlessness of youth.