Huang Yuansheng, a true liberal journalist, exposed Yuan Shikai as emperor and was later killed by the revolutionary party

Huang Yuansheng, a native of Jiujiang, Jiangxi, was born in 1885 and entered the army in 1904. This person has some meaning, as a traditional literati, he later went to Japan to study law, specializing in law at Chuo University. After returning to China, he successively served in the Qing government as a foreign minister of posts and communications, a walker in the Senate Hall, a revisionist in the Compilation Bureau, and a lecturer at the Law and Politics Training Institute.

After the Xinhai Revolution, Huang Yuansheng's personal career took another turning point, he gave up the opportunity to participate in political activities and became a journalist. This was still rare at the time, and perhaps he liked such a life.

Huang Yuansheng successively served as a special correspondent, editor-in-chief and writer of newspapers and periodicals such as The Times, Oriental Daily, Young China, Yongyan, Oriental Magazine, On Balance, and National Gazette, and was considered a well-known journalist. Huang wrote a large number of correspondences, which faithfully recorded and made pungent ridicule of all kinds of chaos in the political arena in the early years of the Republic of China.

Huang Yuansheng was also highly honored and also opposed Yuan Shikai's claim to the title of emperor, and he disclosed in several newspapers a number of issues involving Yuan Shikai's claim to the title of emperor, but Yuan Shikai still wanted to win him over and wanted to hire him as the chief writer of the Shanghai edition of Asia Daily, but Huang Yuansheng refused. He also published "Huang Yuansheng's Notice of Opposition to the Imperial System and Resignation from yuan newspapers" in various newspapers and periodicals in Shanghai as an explanation that different Yuan Shikai was complicit. Later, Huang Yuansheng left the mainland and came to San Francisco. But San Francisco isn't a quiet place either.

On December 25, 1915, Huang Yuansheng, who was drinking tea and eating, was shot to death, and the murderer escaped. For a long time, there have been two speculations, one is that Yuan Shikai sent people to San Francisco for assassination, and the other is that the General Branch of the American Revolutionary Party of china mistakenly recognized Huang Yuansheng as Yuan Shikai's nemesis and killed him by mistake. Even Huang Yuansheng's son Huang Xiqun was not clear when he wrote "Remembering His Father Huang Yuansheng", he wrote: "Who killed my father is still a suspicious case, and my personal opinion is ,...... The root cause of his unfortunate murder was inseparable from the key issue of Yuan Thief's vain attempt to claim the title of emperor. ...... If he had died at the hands of the Kuomintang, it would be to blame the gang for not understanding the facts and mistakenly believing that he was Yuan Shikai's trumpeter..."

But things are far from simple, and Huang Xiqun has never figured out why his father died. Huang Yuansheng's death had little to do with being mistaken by the "revolutionary party for the Yuan Party", but was entirely because Sun Yat-sen could not tolerate his criticism. Because Huang Yuansheng's report also sneered at the activities of Sun Yat-sen and other revolutionaries. So later, in 1986, Liu Beihai, the murderer of Huang Yuansheng, told the truth about everything before his death, which was quite surprising.