On November 13, 1934, Shi Liangcai, the newspaper king and general manager of the declaration who had returned from illness, accompanied by shen Qiushui, the second wife, and his son Shi Yonggeng, took a bulletproof car and returned to Shanghai from the villa by Hangzhou's West Lake along the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway. Accompanying her were niece Shen Lijuan and her son's classmate Deng Zuqian.
It was a cold autumn, the sky was dark, and there were very few vehicles coming and going, which added a bit of desolation. When we arrived near Wengjiabu in Haining County, we suddenly saw an open-top Buick in front of us, as if something had malfunctioned, and the driver quickly slowed down and prepared to slowly pass through. Suddenly, 6 gangsters armed with shell guns and dressed in black shorts were thrown out of the Buick car...
The 6 killers who participated in this criminal operation were Zhao Lijun, Wang Kequan, Li Ada, Shi Yunzhi, and Xu Jianye, agents of the Kuomintang military command. Shi Liangcai and his son's classmates and drivers were killed on the spot.
Why did the secret agents of the military command assassinate Shi Liangcai? This has to start from the grudge between Shi Liangcai and Chiang Kai-shek. In that bloody and rainy era, Shi Liangcai once sighed: The word "Declaration" was printed in the newspaper, and it looked black in the eyes of others, but it looked red in my eyes.
Shi Liangcai, formerly known as Jia Xiu, was born in 1880 in Qingpu County, Shanghai, to a merchant family. In 1899, he was admitted to the Lou County School in Songjiang Province as an appendage, but soon under the influence of new ideas, he gave up his career and became the chief writer of the Shanghai Times in 1908. In 1913, he became the general manager of the Declaration. In 1929, he successively purchased most of the equity of "News" and "Current Affairs News", becoming the largest newspaper capitalist in China.
Shi Liangcai often said: "People have personality, they have a newspaper, the state has a national character, the three grids do not exist, people will not be human, the report will not be reported, and the country will not be a country!" "He believes that newspapers are the tongue of the people, and they always have to speak for the people to stand firm." After the September 18 Incident, he became more patriotic and democratic. He hired Huang Yanpei, a patriotic democrat, as the design minister of the "Declaration" and asked Li Gongpu to preside over the circulation library and amateur tuition school of the "Declaration". He changed the appearance of "free talk" and hired the progressive writer Li Liewen to preside over it, specifically to publish new literary and artistic works, often publishing works by relatively progressive left-wing writers such as Ba Jin's "Shading" and Mao Dun's "Lin Jia Puzi". Progressive articles such as Hu Yuzhi's "World Politics in Turmoil" were published in the inaugural issue of the "Declaration Monthly".
The Kuomintang government could not help him in the Shanghai Concession, which held the tools of public opinion in his hands, and the Kuomintang government often criticized the actions of the Kuomintang government. The "Declaration" presided over by him also successively published articles opposing Chiang Kai-shek's regime under the pseudonym Lu Xun and Tao Xingzhi under the pseudonym "No Tingcao Jaifu", and published several "Comments on Suppression of Bandits" opposing Chiang Kai-shek's siege of the Red Army. When he attended the Nanjing Economic Conference in the name of the Zhongnan Bank, he refused to subscribe to huge bonds, and donated a huge amount of money during the Shanghai Anti-Japanese War of the Nineteenth Route Army. These actions aroused chiang kai-shek's jealousy.
In June 1932, the beating of Duan Xipeng, the president of Nanjing Central University, occurred. At that time, the post of president of the Central University was vacant for nearly half a year, and there were many arrears in funds, so the Executive Yuan sent Duan Xipeng, vice minister of education, to act as president of the Central University, and the students were extremely dissatisfied with the bureaucratic politician Duan Xipeng as president, and the masses rose up to attack him, and Duan Xipeng threatened to arrest the students who took the lead in making trouble, which caused a student tide. In August 1932, the Shanghai Garrison Headquarters was instructed by Chiang Kai-shek to prohibit the mailing of the "Declaration" in all areas of the State outside the Shanghai Concession.
At the end of 1933, Soong Ching-ling, in the name of the Chinese Civil Rights Protection League, drafted an English manifesto to protest the assassination of Deng Yanda by Chiang Kai-shek, and Yang Xingfo translated it into Chinese and asked Shi Liangcai to try to publish it. All this forced Chiang Kai-shek to make up his mind to assassinate Shi Liangcai. On November 13, 1934, Shi Liangcai, his wife and children, and others returned to Shanghai from Hangzhou, and while driving to the Gate of Wengjiabu near Haining, they were shot and killed by Kuomintang agents.
The murder of Shi Liangcai was one of the three major political murders ordered by the supreme ruler after the founding of the Republic of China, and it was another bloody case after the assassination of Song Jiaoren and Yang Xingfo.
After the "historical case" occurred, public opinion throughout the country was in an uproar. In particular, Gu Zhutong brazenly killed journalist Liu Yusheng during his presidency of the Jiangsu Provincial Government, causing an uproar in the press circles and all walks of life throughout the country, for which the Kuomintang Military and Political Department had to issue a "directive on protecting journalists." However, shortly after the "Liu case", there was another assassination of The Chinese news magnate Shi Liangcai. In view of the pressure of Chinese and foreign public opinion, Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram of condolences to Shi Liangcai's relatives to express his condolences, and at the same time, he wrote an elegy for Shi Liangcai's inscription "Philosophers wither away." The Kuomintang government also had to pretend, arrange for investigation and solving of cases, and offer a reward of 50,000 yuan to arrest the murderer.
Who knows, the investigation of Shi Liangcai's murder has led to a series of cases: Lu Diping, a famous Kuomintang general and former chairman of Zhejiang Province, and his concubines have been killed one after another.
Here's the thing: Because the "historical case" took place in Zhejiang, Lu Diping, who was the chairman of the provincial government, presided over the investigation of the case. Originally, this was a trick to prevaricate public opinion, that is, this was "making a play" for people to see and cover up. Unexpectedly, Lu Diping, who did not know the details, actually "faked the drama and really sang" and began to seriously investigate. In addition to the fact that he did not know that Chiang Kai-shek's order to solve the case within a time limit was another "catty", some people said that this was also due to his sincere admiration for Shi Liangcai. Some people also say that Lu Diping, because he was not a concubine of Chiang Kai-shek, was afraid that he would become a victim in the "historical case," so he simply let go of his hands and feet and clearly investigated the facts of the case, so as to save himself. Therefore, during his tenure in Zhejiang, he would for the first time ever place the importance of his duties and even pursue the facts of the case with illness, and after Chiang Kai-shek had ordered three consecutive times to strictly investigate and reward the murderers in Zhejiang Province, he issued an "ultimatum" and demanded that the responsible organs at all levels in Zhejiang and Hangzhou report the results of the investigation, otherwise they would be severely punished.
Soon, Lu Diping discovered some strange points in the "historical case" - why did the case occur in the Haining Wengjiabu section of the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway, but the license plate of the car in which the murderer was riding was abandoned on the Su Causeway in the West Lake? Moreover, how could this car be the Zhejiang Provincial Police Academy? In this way, the facts of the case are not without suspicion with Dai Kasa (principal of the police academy), Zhao Wenlong (director of public security), Yu Jishi (head of security and commander of the police).
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek was afraid that Lu Diping, who did not know the inside story of the killing and who had been informed of the reasons, would seriously investigate and crack the case, so he used the excuse of ineffective handling of the case as an excuse to transfer Lu Diping out of Zhejiang, succeed Chen Diyuan, and go to Nanjing to take up the idle post of so-called president of the military senate. And Lu Diping's original post was held by Huang Shaohu.
Chiang Kai-shek was annoyed that Dai Kasa and others had not done a good job in the course of the "historical case", and gave Lu Diping a handle, plus heard some "complaints" that Lu Diping had privately wrought, so in a fit of rage, he ordered Dai Ka to secretly instruct Zhao Wenlong to attack Lu Diping. Therefore, at a banquet on March 15, 1935, Lu Diping was secretly poisoned in his drinking food. As a result, poisoning in the middle of the night, Lu Diping died in the shadows. Chiang Kai-shek also pretended to be sorry for Lu Diping: He saw Bai Su's political achievements in Qiantang, and the great star Meteor HengYue left a praise for Exun's name.
Pressed the gourd, and floated up the scoop again, it was really a wave of uneven, a wave of rise. Lu Diping's sudden death aroused the suspicion of his wife Ding Jing'an and his concubine Sha Zuo'an. At that time, it was said that Lu Diping died of a stroke and could not be rescued, and most people believed it to be true. But his wife and concubine didn't see it that way. Because the pair of wives and concubines who accompanied Lu Diping knew that although the master had always been in poor health, he did not have diseases such as high blood pressure. They also learned from Lu Diping's speech before his death that "Shi Liangcai was assassinated" was unusual. When Lu Diping died suddenly, they saw the embarrassment of his death with their own eyes, especially in his murmuring when he was dying, and some of the hidden feelings that were intermittently revealed were also heard by them. However, Lu Diping's wives and concubines, who were in the high-walled courtyard, did not know the danger of the "jianghu", and Lu Diping's concubine Sha Zuoan actually threatened to wash away Lu Diping's grievances when he was funeral.
Zhao Wenlong and the others, who had only revealed their flaws in the assassination of Shi Liang, were extremely panicked after hearing this, and they simply did not stop and raised the claws of extinction again. Therefore, Lu Diping's concubine Sha Zuoan actually jumped off the building and was martyred on the eve of Lu Diping's hanging. The truth should be "being jumped off a building".
In that era when the Kuomintang forces single-handedly covered the sky, Shi Liangcai was assassinated and the serial cases he triggered, and after a while of clamor, they all fell silent, and they all disappeared, leaving a heavy sigh of the old man of history. (Liu Jixing)
