In the early morning of April 2, 1910, the weather was warm and cold, the Shicha Sea was cold and clear, and the three busy figures under the Ganshui Bridge became more and more suspicious. Just as they were doing their best, they noticed someone peeping on the bridge. However, the 3 people only glanced at the people on the bridge and continued to get busy.
After a while, these 3 people listened to the siren masterpiece, they quickly dropped the things in their hands and ran, the police immediately chased after them, and as a result, they caught 2, or slipped 1.
The police grabbed the two suspects, turned back and searched under the bridge, only to find that they were fiddling with a bomb. At the first trial, the matter was suddenly serious, and it turned out that they planned to put the bomb under the bridge and prepare to kill the regent Zaifeng of the current dynasty.
(Old photo of Wang Zhaoming)
Among them, the young and handsome one is called Wang Zhaoming, who is the mastermind.
The regent Zaifeng was the father of Emperor Xuantong Puyi, and it was a felony to assassinate him. Wang Zhaoming naturally knew it, so why did he still do this?
Speaking of Wang Zhaoming, wang Zhaoming was a progressive young man, he was young and talented, and after the Gengzi Rebellion, he became an official-funded international student and traveled to Japan to study. Soon after being influenced by revolutionary ideas, he joined the League founded by Sun Yat-sen.
However, the road of the revolution was very tortuous, and the initial uprisings, without a solid mass base and not well organized, failed. This also made some revolutionaries demoralized and lost confidence in the revolution.
At this time, Wang Zhaoming was young and vigorous, and it was not an exaggeration to say that he was a hot-blooded youth. He hated the Qing government as a zombie, and he decided to do something for the revolution, so as to increase the confidence of the retreating, skeptical revolutionaries.
Therefore, after fierce discussions with Chen Bijun, Huang Fusheng and Yu Peilun, he finally decided to assassinate zaifeng, the regent of the Qing Dynasty.
(Zaifeng stills)
After the target was locked, Wang Zhaoming took Chen Bijun and several people to Beijing, and secretly investigated the implementation in the name of opening a photo studio.
After several times of tracking Zaifeng, Wang Zhaoming finally chose the place where he started at the Ganshui Bridge near Shichahai.
The reason why Wang Zhaoming chose here is because the flow of people in the Shichahai area is small, and it is not easy to hurt the innocent.
So there is the scene at the beginning of the article.
After the matter was exposed, Wang Zhaoming faced the interrogation of the Qing government, without any fear, fully admitted that the assassination was planned by him alone, and wasted no time in publicizing the revolution to the interrogator Prince Su Shanqi and discussing the future of China.
Although Wang Zhaoming's assassination failed, the case caused an uproar at the time, and at the same time built confidence in those revolutionaries who had lost confidence in the revolution, and the uprisings in various places became more intense for a while.
Originally, Wang Zhaoming's crime should have been sentenced to death, but Prince Su Shanqi was one of the few people in the imperial family who was willing to accept new ideas. He knew that great changes were imminent, and he greatly appreciated Wang Zhaoming's courage and talent in not fearing life and death. Therefore, he strongly dissuaded Zaifeng from punishing him for serious crimes, otherwise it would trigger more uprisings, and then the situation would not be controlled, and the face of the Qing government would be even more embarrassing.
(Yuan Shikai's old photo)
Therefore, after deliberation, the Qing government finally sentenced Wang Zhaoming to life imprisonment.
After Wang Zhaoming was imprisoned, Sun Yat-sen, Chen Bijun and others actively took action, hoping to restore his freedom, but all failed.
It was not until after the victory of the Xinhai Revolution that Yuan Shikai, who held the power of the Beiyang warlords, agreed with the revolutionary Damin that as long as Yuan Shikai could make Puyi announce his abdication, the seat of the president of the Republic of China would be given to Yuan Shikai to sit.
Yuan Shikai made some threats and inducements, and finally forced Puyi to issue the Edict of Abdication. The Qing government has since withdrawn from the stage of history.
It was at this time that Wang Zhaoming was able to regain his freedom.
(Reference historical material: "Biography of Wang Jingwei")