In the Qing Dynasty's imperial examination system, only three giants in Guizhou Province took the top three liberal arts scholars in the imperial examination, namely Zhao Yijiong, the first yuan of Guiyang Qingyan, Xia Tonghe of Majiang Zhuangyuan, and Yang Zhaolin of Zunyi. Today we are going to talk about this only Tanhua Yang Zhaolin, who not only passed the Tanhua examination, but also went to Japan to study and obtained a doctorate in law. At that time, he participated in and contributed a lot to the revolutionary movements such as the major events of that era, such as the Book, the League, and the Battle of Yuan.
Yang Zhaolin, originally named Yang Ximo, was born in Lingjiaoyan near the cattle hoof farm in Zunyi County, Guizhou. His father, Yang Jinzhi, once won the first place in the portrait. Although his family was poor, under the influence of his father, after reading his father's original "Four Books" and "Five Classics", although he bought other books in the house, he borrowed them from his relatives and friends to copy them, and then used the copied books to study hard and laid a good foundation. Therefore, in the later township examination, he won the excellent result.
When he entered Beijing to participate in the examination, Zhaolin went through the examination procedures under the original name of Yang Ximo. At this time, it was just in time for Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao to launch the "book on the bus". Zhaolin resolutely signed his original name, Yang Ximo. He did not pass the examination this time, but his education was extremely profound, mainly because he had a relatively profound understanding of the aggression of the great powers and the critical situation and future of the country. After the failure of this meeting, some of his newly befriended friends in Beijing, who were like-minded and relatively wealthy, went out of Sichuan to visit Anhui, Jiangsu, Henan, and Hubei for a period of time, and gained a lot of perceptual knowledge. Then I stayed at the eunuch's house in Hankou for a while, and then took a boat from Hankou to Chongqing, and then walked back to Zunyi.
After Yang Zhaolin returned to his hometown, he successively worked as a mountain chief in the academy of Zheng'an and Renhuai, and later because his mother was often ill, and Zunyi's father and fellow villagers also came to invite him to return to Zunyi to serve as the mountain chief of the old city South Gate MSG Academy, after which Yang Zhaolin taught during the day and read hard at night, and finally in the twenty-ninth year of Guangxu (1903), he took the exam with Yang Zhaolin's name, and went through the temple exam and explored flowers in high school. After that, he served as an editor at Hanlin Academy. However, the Qing court was weak and Cixi was in power, which made the whole of China worry about internal and external troubles, and the people lived in deep trouble. Yang Zhaolin began to look for policies to govern the country and save the people, and germinated the idea of a democratic revolution. Later, because the Qing court sent international students to study in Japan, Yang Zhaolin was selected to study at public expense, and he was admitted to Waseda University to pursue a doctorate. During this period, Dr. Sun Yat-sen established the League in Japan. Yang Zhaolin was infected by the idea of "expelling the Tartars, restoring China, establishing the Republic of China, and equalizing land rights", abandoned the existing wealth and resolutely joined the League.
After Yang Zhaolin returned to China, the Qing government reused him as the prefect of Jiaxing Province, Zhejiang Province, and during his tenure, he was honest and honest, loved the people and diligent administration, and saved the punishment and taxation, which was deeply loved by the local people. In the third year of Xuanun (1911 AD), the Qing government gave Erpin the title of envoy, the current alternate Dao, the prefect of Jiaxing plus five grades, and the title of senior doctor. In the autumn of that year, chu Minyi, a revolutionary at the time, was arrested in Jiaxing and was imprisoned as a Qin prisoner, and Chu knew that he would die. Unexpectedly, Zhaolin conducted a "secret interrogation" in the middle of the night, secretly took Chu Minyi to the back hall of the prefect's yamen, personally opened the shackles and shackles for him, waited for wine and food, and gave him Sichuan funds to help him abscond to Japan. After Chu Minyi escaped from the tiger's mouth, it was inevitable that some people would reveal the wind, but at this time, the gunshots of the Wuchang uprising had already started, the Xinhai Revolution had already broken out, Zhaolin and his family lived in the Shanghai French Concession, and the Qing government was too late to take care of itself, and it was too late to pursue the matter.
Later, Yang Zhaolin returned to Zunyi and received a warm welcome from his father and fellow villagers, and the local government and appointments all hoped that he could do things for his hometown, and he readily agreed. In 1914, the Zunyi prefect decided to renew the Xunyi Fuzhi and make Yang Zhaolin the main seal, so he began to prepare for this work. From 1914 onwards, Zhaolin cooperated with Zhao Kai, Li Ruhuai Zhou Ziyu, Xu Dafan, Wu Guolin, Yang Baochen, Yang Wenxiang, and others who were known for their literature to write manuscripts. At that time, Zhang Binglin sent a letter from Beijing inviting Zhaolin to Beijing to study the history of the country, and Zhaolin was deeply disgusted with Yuan Shikai and his group of Beiyang warlords because Beijing was occupied by Yuan Shikai and his group of Beiyang warlords, and he did not want to go north, so he politely thanked them. In 1918, Yang Zhaolin and Xiu Zhi's colleagues went all out to finally complete the first draft of the "Chronicle of the Continuation of Zunyi Province".
In 1919, Yang Zhaolin went to Guangzhou to participate in the Extraordinary Congress at the invitation of Sun Yat-sen, and unfortunately contracted scarlet fever on the way, because of the backward medical technology at that time, he died on August 16, 1919, at the age of 49. After his death, a solemn memorial ceremony was held, and Sun Yat-sen personally went to mourn. After his death, he was buried in the foothills of Jinding Mountain on the northern outskirts of Zunyi City.