In April 1898, the 17-year-old Lu Xun walked out of Shaoxing to study in Nanjing, and was admitted to the "Jiangnan Water Teacher School", which was the product of the "Foreign Affairs Movement", founded in 1890, with driving classes, torpedo classes, pipe shifts and so on.
Because the school not only exempted tuition fees, but also provided a small amount of subsidies, attracting many poor people's children to apply for the examination, and Lu Xun, because of his grandfather Zhou Fuqing's "bribery case in the field of science", he already hated the road of taking the examination, so he applied for the "Jiangnan Water Teachers School" in order to seek a career after graduation and take on the heavy responsibility of supporting his family.
Lu Xun was assigned to study in the guan shift, but Lu Xun only studied in the "Jiangnan Water Teacher's School" for more than half a year, and then dropped out of school in November 1898, and the main reason for his withdrawal is not very clear.
In December 1898, Lu Xun was admitted to the "Mining Road School" attached to the "Jiangnan Lushi School", which was founded in Nanjing in 1896, 6 years later than the establishment of the "Jiangnan Lushi School".
Lu Xun's "Keshishi" mentioned many times in "Lu Xun's Diary" is his teacher Yu Mingzhen, because Yu Mingzhen's word is "Keshi", Lu Xun also had a more detailed account of his "Keshishi" in the article "Chaohua Xishi Trivia", and Yu Mingzhen is the supervisor (principal) of the "Jiangnan Lushi School" and the "Mining Road School", so what kind of person is Yu Mingzhen? Let Lu Xun never forget.
Yu Mingzhen
Yu Mingzhen (1860-1918) was born in 1860 in Hunan, his father Yu Wenbao was an official in Hunan, and he was an official in Xinning and Dong'anzhi Counties in Hunan, the highest official position was prefect, and his family was also considered to be a Hunan Wang clan at that time.
Yu Wenbao had three sons and a daughter, namely the eldest son Yu Mingzhen, the second son Yu Mingguan, the third son Yu Mingyi and the eldest daughter Yu Mingshi, Yu Wenbao benefited greatly from the marriage of his children, because he married Zeng Jihong and Chen Baozhen, Yu Wenbao's third son Yu Mingyi married Zeng Guofan's granddaughter Zeng Guangshan, and his daughter Yu Mingshi married Chen Sanli, the eldest son of Chen Baozhen, and after Yu Wenbao married Zeng Guofan and Chen Baozhen, the "Yu family" became even more famous.
Because of his family's academic origins, Yu Mingzhen was already able to compose poetry in his youth, studied hard along the road of the imperial examination, in order to seek fame, and finally entered the priesthood in the middle of 1890, and entered the Hanlin Academy shujishi in that year, which was also the year of Yu Mingzhen's establishment.
In May 1892, Yu Mingzhen was appointed by the Qing court as the head of the Punishment Department, as the official of Zhengliupin, and was an official of the same level as his brother-in-law Chen Sanli, who was the chief of the bureaucracy and also an official of Zhengliupin, but Yu Mingzhen served three years later than Chen Sanli, who was in charge of the national penal decrees, similar to some functions of the current Department of Public Prosecutions and Law.
On September 17, 1894, China and Japan fought a naval battle in the Yellow Sea, known in history as the "Sino-Japanese War", which ended in the defeat of the Beiyang Marine Division, and the Qing government sent plenipotentiary Li Hongzhang to Japan to sign the Treaty of Maguan with Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi.
After the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, the defense of the isolated island of Taiwan became increasingly tight, and Shao Youlian, who was then the inspector of Taiwan, was overwhelmed by his heavy responsibilities and was transferred back to the interior, and Tang Jingsong, the envoy of Taiwan's government, was promoted to inspector of Taiwan and was in charge of Taiwan's military and political plans.
In 1895, yu Mingzhen, under the coordination and mediation of Tang Jingsong, went to Taiwan to succeed Gu Zhaoxi as Taiwan's envoy, but soon after Yu Mingzhen arrived in Taiwan to perform his duties, the Qing government ceded Taiwan to Japan in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Treaty of Maguan.
Yu Mingzhen (first from left) poses with colleagues
When this news reached Taiwan, the people of Taiwan did not agree, so the officials in charge of Taiwan led the Taiwanese defenders to heroically resist Japan and established the "Taiwan Democratic State", and Yu Mingzhen became the minister of internal affairs, but he soon left Taiwan in a hurry due to military defeat and crossed the sea to Xiamen.
In 1898, when the "Pengshu Reform Law" was held, Yu Mingzhen supported Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao's proposal to restore and change the law, and participated in the new policy implemented by Chen Baozhen, the governor of Hunan Province, in Hunan Province.
Yu Mingzhen did not seem to be connected by Chen's father and son, but two years after the "Penghu Reform Law", in 1900, he served as the supervisor of the "Jiangnan Lushi School" and the attached "Mining Road School", and soon Yu Mingzhen was appointed as a "Governor of Liangjiang" and the "Jiangnan Lushi School" as a sipin official.
Leaving the official arena to run education was also the first priority at that time, because the Qing government had been awakened by little Japan, and the policy of closing the country off was gradually liberalized, turning to the outside world, many people with lofty ideals went abroad to study in order to seek the way to strengthen the country, and running education for the country to cultivate talents also became the consensus of the society at that time.
In September 1898, because the "Qinglongshan Coal Mine" near Nanjing was handling mining affairs and was in urgent need of mining technical personnel, Liu Kunyi, who had just served as the governor of Liangjiang, played the Guangxu Emperor and "added a mining road study in the Lushi Academy, and selected students to study gravity, vaporization, geology and other studies", Lu Xun was admitted to the second phase of the "Mining Road Academy" under this background, at that time, there were 24 students in the same class, and Chen Sanli's eldest son Chen Hengke was one of them, and he and Lu Xun were classmates.
Chen Hengke and Lu Xun
Strictly speaking, Yu Mingzhen and Lu Xun do not have a teacher-student relationship, Lu Xun said that Yu Mingzhen is his own teacher is not inevitably a bit far-fetched, Yu Mingzhen is a member of the Four Pins, and Lu Xun is an ordinary student, in the hierarchical feudal society seems unlikely to intersect, and the age difference between them is 21 years old, a whole generation gap.
However, Lu Xun's situation is somewhat special, Lu Xun's grandfather Zhou Fuqing is Yu Mingzhen's predecessor in the official field, and Yu Mingzhen's career path is also quite similar to Zhou Fuqing, and Zhou Fuqing's "bribery case in the scientific field" cannot but be heard of.
When Yu Mingzhen went to Nanjing to take up his post, it was also the time when Zhou Fuqing was released, and they were all fellow villagers in Shaoxing, and it was also possible that the enlightened Yu Mingzhen and Lu Xun intersected, because Yu Mingzhen had given an exam question for students, "On Washington", which also showed that Yu Mingzhen's vision was broad at that time.
And Lu Xun graduated with the third grade of the first class, was a first-class third-class excellent student, was a top student of the "Mining Road Academy", and the head of the school always loved the outstanding students, after all, the scale of the school was too small at that time, and the number of students was extremely limited.
On March 24, 1902, Yu Mingzhen personally led the officials Fei Sheng Lu Xun, Zhang Banghua, Gu Lang, Wu Chongxue, Liu Naibi and Chen Hengke, who was self-funded, to study in Japan, and by the way, he once again inspected Japanese education.
The "Su Bao" case, which occurred in Shanghai in 1903, was a major event in China's modern history, and Yu Mingzhen was one of the "senior members" who investigated and handled the case at the behest of the Qing court; Yu Mingzhen was then a member of the "Governor of Liangjiang" and an alternate dao of Jiangsu, investigating and handling the anti-Qing revolutionaries involved in the "Su Bao" case.
Sue
After 1907, Yu Mingzhen successively served as an envoy to Ganning Province, Jiangxi, Gansu to study and act as a political envoy, and in the early years of the Republic of China, he also served as an envoy to the Pingzheng Yuan, and after the Republic of China was on the right track, Yu Mingzhen returned to his hometown as a former courtier.
In his later years, Yu Mingzhen lived in Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places, spent the rest of his life in poetry, often sang harmony with his brother-in-law Chen Sanli and other former Qing dynasty elders, and wrote four volumes of "Yao'an Poetry", as well as "Eight Diaries of Taiwan" and "Yao'an Manbi". On December 24, 1918, Yu Mingzhen died of illness in Hangzhou at the age of 58, which was not yet the year of Hua Jia, which was a pity.
"Poetry of Yao'an"
Yu Mingzhen had a son and five daughters, the only son Yu Dachun (1883-1941) studied in Japan twice, in November 1902 into the Japanese Chengcheng School, in April 1908 into Japan's first higher school, during the study abroad in Japan, Yu Dachun participated in the revolutionaries' anti-Qing activities, Yu Mingzhen was horrified, dissatisfied with what his son did, and led to a discordant relationship between father and son, because this is equivalent to holding the Rice Bowl of the Qing Court and smashing the pot of the Qing Court.
Yu Dachun also studied in Germany and graduated from the Berlin University of Technology, and after returning to China, he served as the president of the Beijing Municipal Higher Industrial School, the director of the Beiyang Government Craft Bureau, and the director of the Longhai Railway Bureau of the Ministry of Communications of the National Government, and died at the age of 58, like his father Yu Mingzhen.
Yu Dachun married Bian Jiejun as his wife, had four sons and two daughters, his children have different personalities and different occupations, they each take their own life paths, but most of his children are scholars, only the third son Yu Qiwei is a professional revolutionary, he studied at the National Qingdao University, is the head of the school's underground party, and is also "one or two. One of the main leaders of the Nine Movements.
The "Yu family" can shock everyone's attention, because the "Yu family" is one of the most prominent families in China's modern and contemporary history, after more than a hundred years without exhaustion, heroes and heroes emerge in an endless stream, leaving a deep imprint in China's modern and modern history, and to this day, there is still considerable influence, which is also rare in China's modern history.