Yu Peilun, one of the famous Seventy-two Martyrs of Huanghuagang. Although he was only 25 years old at the time of his death, he was both literate and martial, and he was extremely well-known in modern history, and he was a famous "Great General Yu Peilun". Today, in his hometown of Neijiang City, Sichuan Province, there are still "Yu Da general monuments" and "Yu Da general memorial halls" to commemorate the martyrs.
However, ordinary people may not know that although Yu Peilun did not hesitate to give generously to righteousness, he resolutely prevented his brother from becoming a martyr before his death.
To know the reason, you need to start with Yu Peilun's family. In 1886, he came from a wealthy sugar merchant family, and three years later, his younger brother Yu Peidi was born. The relatively favorable family situation made the brothers receive a good education from an early age. Yu Peilun was talented and liked machinery, and when he was a teenager, he began to have a strong critical awareness of the late Qing society in which he lived. And the teacher Wei Chushan he met during his growth, the guidance of "reading the scriptures and practicing talents" opened a new door for him.
Under the influence of Yu Peilun, his younger brother Yu Peidi also grew rapidly. In 1905, the brothers went to Japan to study together, during which they joined the League.
In early 1911, in order to break the rule of the Qing court, the League, under the joint leadership of Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing, planned a large-scale uprising in Guangzhou.
This uprising was different from the previous uprisings launched by Sun Huang, instead of using a large amount of money to mobilize a small number of old troops and party figures, it was ready to be launched by the elite of the League, voluntarily signing up to form a "selection front" (that is, a death squad), directly attacking the Governor's Office of Liangguang, capturing Governor Zhang Mingqi, and winning victory in one fell swoop.
However, due to the enemy's outnumbered and disparity in strength, including Huang Xing, before the uprising, they did not dare to be overly optimistic about the outcome, and most of them participated in the election with the determination to die, including the Yu Peilun brothers.
Thus, there was the first major dispute between the Yu brothers in their lives. Yu Peilun did not hesitate to sign up, but resolutely opposed his brother's participation in the "selection of the front". Yu Peidi was very angry: "Raising righteousness, I sincerely know that I will die, but I will die and the righteousness of the country will die." If we refuse to die, who will die? State affairs are irreparable! ”
However, Yu Peilun knew that "reason": there are still two elders in the family, who need to be filial piety, and now that the Yu family's family is gradually declining, if all the brothers die in the uprising, where will the parents be?
In the end, Yu Peilun persuaded his brother with his brother's prestige and the reason that "revolution comes first, and the family and the country take into account". At the time of parting, the brothers hugged and cried, knowing that they would never see each other again after this. Later, Yu Peilun died heroically in the uprising, becoming one of the famous 72 martyrs of Huanghuagang and one of the 11 great generals posthumously awarded by the Provisional Government of Nanjing in 1912 (including two martyrs of Huanghuagang, the other being Rao Guoliang, Dazu of Chongqing).
Yu Peidi settled in Neijiang for a long time after the founding of the Republic of China and raised his parents. In 1950, Yu Peidi died of illness in Neijiang at the age of 61.