On the evening of December 25, 1915, In San Francisco, USA, Chinatown. A melancholy-looking man with black-rimmed glasses and a friend of his Chinese committee members at the Panama Exposition walked out of the building slowly after dinner at a Shanghai restaurant. The two stood on the street in front of the restaurant, smoking cigars and chatting. Suddenly, someone fired three shots in a row from behind, and the man with black-rimmed glasses fell to the ground and bled to death. Soon, American newspapers published news that the Chinese man who was shot to the ground was the famous Chinese journalist Huang Yuansheng, and who the murderer really was, there were many opinions and people did not know what to do. The truth will eventually come out to the world. In 1985, Huang Liusha, the former director of the Guangzhou Museum, proved that Huang Yuansheng was actually assassinated by the "American Branch of the Chinese Revolutionary Party" based on conclusive historical data.
Reporter of the National Congress of the Republic of China: Huang Yuansheng, he was a rare journalist with the name of "Jinshi" in the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty
On July 8, 1914, Sun Yat-sen officially founded the Chinese Revolutionary Party in Japan. In view of the bitter failures of the Second Revolution, Sun Yat-sen stressed that Party members should be absolutely loyal to the Party leader. All party members who join the party are required to take an oath and lay their fingerprints, even Sun Yat-sen. Sun Yat-sen proclaimed himself Prime Minister of the Chinese Revolutionary Party on July 8, 1914. On the same day, introduced by the Hu-Han Democratic League, Chen Qimei and Ju Zheng, Sun Yat-sen personally wrote the oath:
Sun Wen, the oath-taker, in order to save China from peril and save the people from hardship, is willing to sacrifice his own life and freedom, command comrades, re-enact the revolution, ensure the two principles of civil rights and people's livelihood, and create a constitution of five powers, so that politics can be made clear, the people's livelihood is happy, the country is based on consolidation, and the peace of the world is maintained, and the oath is sincere and sincere: First, to implement the purpose; second, to give orders cautiously; third, to fulfill one's duties; fourth, to strictly observe secrets; and fifth, to swear to live and die together. From now on, he will always keep this covenant until he dies, and if he has two hearts, he will be willing to be punished with capital punishment.
In late November 1914, Sun Yat-sen sent a telegram from Japan to the American Hongmen Brothers, informing them of the reorganization of the American Hongmen and asking them to fill in all their oaths and join the Chinese Revolutionary Party to "jointly plan the revolutionary cause." San Francisco's Chinatown is the home of The Hongmen in the United States. Since then, Hongmen here has naturally become the American branch of the Chinese Revolutionary Party, and its head is Sun Yat-sen's confidant Lin Sen.
Sun Yat-sen and the American Hongmen brothers came to take a group photo. Sun Yat-sen's position in Hongmen was extremely high, belonging to the "Red Stick", that is, the leader of the Hongmen Armed Forces
In 1915, Yuan Shikai carried out the imperial restoration movement, forcing Huang Yuansheng to write articles advocating the imperial system. Cornered, Huang Yuansheng wrote a plausible argument in Beijing that supported the imperial system. In September of that year, Huang Yuansheng left Beijing and headed south to Shanghai. In early to mid-September 1915, the "Declaration" headline advertisement published a series of notices announcing his disassociation from the domestic press; at the same time, Huang also showed that he was not in favor of the imperial movement. However, Huang Yuansheng was involved in the imperial movement after all, although he had to go against his will. In addition, Huang Yuansheng originally belonged to Liang Qichao's Progressive Party, which once helped Yuan Shikai fight against the Kuomintang. Because of this new vendetta, when Huang Yuansheng came to San Francisco's Chinatown in December 1915, he inadvertently entered the territory of the Chinese Revolutionary Party in San Francisco. At this time, his death date is also coming. On December 25, the gunshots rang out that brother Hongmen of the Americas, that is, the members of the American branch of the Chinese Revolutionary Party, took Huang Yuansheng as their "name" in order to show their boundless loyalty to the revolutionary cause led by Sun Yat-sen.
San Francisco's Chinatown
Since the discovery of gold in San Francisco in the mid-19th century, the people of China's Pearl River Delta region have begun to cross the Pacific Ocean and immigrate to San Francisco to realize their "gold rush dreams". Since then, the Chinese community in San Francisco's Chinatown has been formed. San Francisco's Chinatown in the 19th century was a place of severe imbalance between men and women. Most of the men who came to pan for gold were prostitutes, while a few women were prostitutes. In such an overseas Chinese community with a serious imbalance in gender ratios, it has become a gangster who mixes violent crime and pornography. In 1848, the headquarters of the Hongmen ZhigongTang was established in San Francisco. At the end of the 19th century, when Sun Yat-sen came here to spread the concept of nationalist revolution, Hongmen in San Francisco became the al-Qaida organization for Sun Yat-sen to raise funds for the revolution, and naturally became involved in the historical torrent of the creation of the modern Chinese nation-state.
San Francisco's Hongmen is a very strong underground organization. Even nearly a hundred years later, in 2013, when my friend Dr. Fang Cao and The Editor-in-Chief of the Oriental Historical Review, Xu Zhiyuan, came to the place where Huang Yuansheng was assassinated in San Francisco's Chinatown and interviewed Zhou Guoxiang, the "dragon head big brother" of Hongmen, he could still feel the strong bloody and violent temperament of this jianghu gang from his body.
San Francisco Chinatown: China Zhi Gong Party Headquarters. It is generally believed that this Zhi Gong Party belongs to the Subordinate of Hongmen
Since 16-year-old Zhou Guoxiang came to San Francisco from Hong Kong in 1977, he has spent 22 years in prison. According to people familiar with the matter, he is now being taken into custody by the San Francisco police. Zhou Guoxiang said to my friend Fang Cao: "I entered the Tao at the age of eight, stabbed people at the age of nine, prostituted at the age of twelve, and only read until the third grade of primary school. "He's a tough street killer. The most powerful one was when he was in Chinatown and he was fighting 28 people alone. Therefore, his bravery and good fighting are well known in san Francisco Chinese circles. Zhou Guoxiang's bloodiness and Hongmen "bandit qi" were no different from his Hongmen predecessors a hundred years ago. You know, in the famous 1911 Huanghuagang Uprising, sixty-eight of the seventy-two martyrs who died were Brother Hongmen.
The Hongmen brothers were jealous and hateful, and they were full of blood for China's revolutionary cause.
Zhang Shizhao, the elder of the League. In 1915, Huang Yuansheng once wrote the magazine Jiayin, which he edited, and confessed that he had to write for the imperial movement and was unavoidable. He hoped to gain the understanding of the Revolutionary Party in order to ensure the safety of his family.
At the call of Sun Yat-sen, they were very jealous of Yuan Shikai and his royal party. Although Huang Yuansheng was only a reporter with no power, and although he wrote an article advocating imperialism under persecution, the Hongmen brothers in San Francisco did not let him go. China at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic of China was already an era of developed telecommunications. In 1915, Huang Yuansheng's actions in China were said by the Hongmen brothers in San Francisco, USA, through a well-developed telegraph network, and they knew his whereabouts. Therefore, on the evening of December 25, 1915, when Huang Yuansheng came to the Shanghai Restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown to eat wine, the Hongmen Assassins who were ambushed nearby were already armed and ready to kill him. In this way, he was loyal to Sun Yat-sen's Chinese Revolutionary Party.
The leader of the Progressive Party, Liang Qichao, huang Yuansheng was once the Progressive Party. The Progressive Party was a sworn enemy of the Kuomintang
Huang Yuansheng's death was, of course, unjust. He was an intellectual with a sense of justice and a reader with a certain liberal conception of politics. However, in the harsh political and ecological environment of the Republic of China, there is no place for a reader like him.
He fled from Beijing to Shanghai, and from Shanghai to San Francisco, seeking a place to live. Who knows, his escape path is a road of no return, a bloody road that takes his life! He was a shining meteor of that Dark Age.
His existence is fleeting, but the journalistic impressionist style he pioneered and his fragile and rich heart will always be worthy of the sighs of future generations. Mr. Lu Xun once said, "Tragedy is to tear all beautiful things apart in front of people's eyes and destroy them for people to see." On December 25, 1915, the famous journalist Huang Yuansheng poured blood on San Francisco, which is undoubtedly a microcosm of the political tragedy of the Republic of China. (editing Takayama)