After the end of the First World War, 1,000 representatives of the 27 victorious countries sat together at the Palace of Versailles in Paris, France, with the purpose of usurping the interests of other countries, and began a war of words and words.
At that time, China also participated in the conference as a victorious power, but as a result, it was forcibly demanded to cede Shandong to the Japanese Empire as a "defeated country".
This had seriously damaged China's interests, and the Representative of China at the time, the Beiyang Government, intended to sign a traitorous contract.
Paris Peace Conference "Big Three"
Soon the news spread back to China, and the Chinese compatriots were indignant, which led to a patriotic movement of young students on May 4, 1919, known in history as the "May Fourth Movement".
The "May Fourth Movement" in China is in full swing, and in France, a Chinese female student who has stopped this conspiracy through her wisdom and courage and only uses the rose stem all the time, she is Zheng Yuxiu.
Zheng Yuxiu
Zheng Yuxiu is not only a patriotic youth, she is also the "first female killer of the Republic of China", China's first female doctor of law, the first female lawyer, the first female president of the local court, and the director of the two departments of trial and prosecution...
However, in Hu Shi's eyes, she is also the first female corrupt official, what is going on here?
Zheng Yuxiu was not an "honest child" when he was a child, and his bones were full of resistance.
In 1891, Zheng Yuxiu was born into a family of official eunuchs, and his father was an official of the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, women's "wrapping small feet" was prevalent, but Zheng Yuxiu, 5 and 6 years old, resolutely refused to wrap her feet, which was also called strange talk at the time.
Foot binding
At the age of 13, her parents promised her to the son of the Governor of Liangguang, and the door was right in the eyes of outsiders, but it was a constraint in Zheng Yuxiu's eyes.
Therefore, she wrote a letter and personally sent it to the Governor's Palace, directly asking the Governor's son to dissolve the marriage because she did not agree.
The viceroy of Liangguang lost face, and Zheng Yuxiu was forced to leave his hometown and rush to Tianjin to study. However, Sai Weng lost his horse and knew that it was not a blessing, and Zheng Yuxiu also opened his own revolutionary road because of the change.
In 1907, while studying in Japan, Zheng Yuxiu came into contact with the League. The following year, Zheng Yuxiu joined the League.
The League would carry out assassinations in the open and covertly.
For example, Wang Jingwei, who was also named for assassinating Zaifeng at the beginning, although he did not succeed, he also married Chen Bijun.
However, Wang Jingwei was able to carry out assassinations, and zheng Yuxiu's credit was also credited. It was Zheng Yuxiu who, through reconnaissance from all sides, delivered the bomb to Wang Jingwei's hands.
Zheng Yuxiu's own assassination target was Yuan Shikai, the president of the Republic of China.
Yuan Shikai
After the Xinhai Revolution, Yuan Shikai was ordered to suppress the revolutionaries, and Zheng Yuxiu was ordered to carry out assassination arrangements.
Unfortunately, on the eve of the operation, Zheng Yuxiu suddenly received an order from his superiors to revoke the operation, and the target of the assassination became Liangbi.
After receiving the order, Zheng Yuxiu informed 8 comrades-in-arms overnight, but due to the suddenness of the incident, more than a dozen people did not receive the notice. The assassination failed and more than a dozen people were arrested.
Zheng Yuxiu actively rescued his comrades through various means, and soon they were released on bail.
Good bow
However, Zheng Yuxiu still offended Yuan Shikai because of his status as a "killer". In 1914, Zheng Yuxiu fled to France to study.
During her studies in France, Zheng Yuxiu obtained a master's degree in law and a doctorate degree from the University of Paris (formerly the Sorbonne University) in France, becoming the first female doctor of law in Chinese history.
In 1919, the Beiyang government wanted to sign a traitorous treaty at the "Paris Peace Conference". In order to prevent the signing, the students in France jointly elected Zheng Yuxiu as a representative and demanded negotiations with Lu Zhengxiang, the head of the Chinese delegation.
Lu Zhengxiang
On the night of June 27, 1919, more than 300 international students surrounded Lu Zhengxiang's hotel and asked him not to sign the peace treaty.
At this time, Lu Zhengxiang had already been instructed by his superiors to sign, in order to force him to obey, Zheng Yuxiu folded a rose branch in the garden, used it as a gun to resist Lu Zhengxiang, and threatened him that if he signed, this gun would not let him go!
Lu Zhengxiang did not dare to sign, which reserved China's right to take back Shandong, and Zheng Yuxiu and other international students were indispensable.
The May Fourth Movement
However, how did Zheng Yuxiu become the first female corrupt official in the Republic of China?
In 1927, Hu Shi published an article entitled "Remembering a Lady", which recorded a corruption case, and it was verified that the heroine was Zheng Yuxiu.
In Hu Shi's eyes, Zheng Yuxiu has three felonies.
The first felony, Zheng Yuxiu bribed political leaders, and secretly operated to succeed Lu Xingyuan as the president of the court.
In 1926, Zheng Yuxiu and his lover Wei Daoming returned to Shanghai to open a law firm, and Zheng Yuxiu used his reputation and status in the legal profession to bribe and collude with key members of the Nationalist government for personal gain.
Hu shi
For the second felony, ask the "gunman" to write a doctoral dissertation.
According to Hu Shi's diary, when Zheng Yuxiu was studying for a doctorate, because she was in a relationship with Wang Zhonghui, a senior official of the Beiyang government, she not only found someone to write a thesis for her, but also relied on Wang Yuhui's identity as an examiner to defend herself.
It is said that when confronted with questions in reply, Zheng Yuxiu could not answer them, but could only prevaricate: "From the Chinese point of view, is it not?" "The French people present all laughed and fled, and Chinese were ashamed to sweat."
For the third felony, Wei Daoming relied on his wife to "go out of the mountains" and was a political leader of the National Government.
Wei Daoming successively served as mayor of Nanjing, and also squeezed Hu Shi out of the position of ambassador to the United States, and became China's ambassador to the United States himself. During his term of office, Sino-US relations deteriorated sharply, and Wei Daoming could not escape the blame.
Subsequently, Wei Daoming served as vice president of the Legislative Yuan and the first chairman of the Kuomintang "Taiwan Provincial Government."
Zheng Yuxiu and Wei Daoming
The positive image of Zheng Yuxiu in his early years was swept away by Hu Shi's pen.
Leaving aside political struggles or personal grudges, Zheng Yuxiu is a controversial woman.
In 1948, Wei Daoming officially resigned and went to the United States, and the couple lived overseas. On December 16, 1959, Zheng Yuxiu died of illness at the age of 68.
Due to many political factors, Mr. and Mrs. Zheng Yuxiu have not returned to their homeland.
But in her heart, there is neither the glory of a female lawyer nor the glory of a high-ranking female official. All she remembered was the long-dried rose branch she had carried with her.
Perhaps she had been lost in the lust for money and power, but at the end of her life, the only thing that echoed in her mind was the patriotic act in France.
In any case, in the stormy changes of the Republic of China, Zheng Yuxiu's "sonorous rose" has indeed left people with a heavy historical memory.