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Near Nanping Street in the center of Kunming, Yunnan Province, there is a road called Huguo Road. The road got its name from the famous Patriotic Movement. In 1915, Cai E, commander of the Protectorate Army, swore an oath against Yuan Shikai here, and from then on the road north, all the way to Hunan. Yuan Shikai died of fear, and the Patriotic Movement succeeded.
One of the generals of the Defending Army sold his property for military pay to support the Patriotic Movement. He also served as the acting governor of Sichuan after Cai Yi's illness and death. In the end, because he offended the warlord, he was captured by the bandits on the way to escape, stripped of his clothes, smeared with mud, and thrown into the hot sun and died. This person is the famous general of the Protectorate Army, Luo Peijin.
Luo Peijin, born in 1878, is a native of Qingshan Temple, Fenglu Town, Chengjiang County, Yunnan Province. Bereaved at the age of 9, he lived with his father in other places, was admitted to yunnan higher school with the second place, often talked about current politics with his classmates, and was expelled from the school. With the financial support of a friend, Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Liangguang, who went to Guangzhou to join his grandfather's student. Cen interviewed on the topic of "Governing the Two Broad Strategies", and Luo only gave a 2,000-word "Ten Rules on Political Affairs" in just one hour. Cen praised it after reading it, and was hired to intern at the folding place.
In 1904, Guan Fei Bao was sent to Japan to study, first entering the Dongbin School to learn general subjects, and then entering the sixth term of the Zhenwu School (i.e., the Non-Commissioned Officer School) to study the Army. During his school years, he became acquainted with Yang Zhenhong and other students, often talked about current affairs, and was respected by his classmates. In June 1905, Sun Yat-sen and others founded the League association in Tokyo, and Luo Peijin actively participated, and later formed the Yunnan branch with The Yunnan Revolutionary Heroes Li Gengen and Zhao Kun in Tokyo.
In the spring of 1909, Luo returned to China after graduation, and was recommended by Cen Chunxuan to the Guangxi Governor Longji Guangbu, and appointed as the general office of the school, and worked with Cai Yi. Later, Dragon's subordinates secretly accused Luo of advocating revolution, so they were monitored. Li Gen was already serving as the supervisor of the Yunnan Daowutang at that time, and after learning of Luo's situation, he recommended to Shen Bingkun that Luo Peijin return to Yunnan and serve as the supervisor of the Nineteenth Town Suiying School and the instructor of the infantry section of the Jiaowu Academy. Soon after Luo returned to Kunming, he was also transferred to the staff officer of the Supervision and Training Office of the Tangwu Hall and the general office of the Army Primary School. When Li Jingxi, the governor of Shi Yungui, disagreed with Jin Yunpeng, the general counselor, he summoned Li Gen and Luo Peijin to recommend military talents. Li and Luo recommended that the Hunan people Cai Yi be of great use, and after Li agreed, he ordered Luo Peijin to send a secret telegram to Guangxi to summon Cai Laidian. In April 1910, Cai Yi was summoned to Yunnan to serve as the commander of the Thirty-Seventh Association (equivalent to a brigade). Luo served as the commander of the Seventy-Four Standards (equivalent to regiments) under Cai Yi.
On October 10, 1911, Luo Peijin responded to the Xinhai Revolution in Yunnan and led the revolutionaries to storm the governor's mansion in Yunnan. After a bloody battle, the uprising was successful, and Cai Yi was elected as the governor of the Yunnan military government, and Luo Peijin was appointed as the commander-in-chief of southern defense.
In 1912, the government of the Republic of China awarded Luo Peijin the rank of lieutenant general and proposed to transfer the principal of the Baoding Military Academy. Luo resigned and was appointed civil administrator of Yunnan Province. Cai Yi was soon transferred to Beijing by Yuan Shikai, and Luo Peijin was dismissed from his post and returned to his hometown to do business.
In 1915, Yuan Shikai betrayed the revolution and ascended the throne in Beijing as emperor, and Cai Yi fled back to Yunnan in disguise to organize a national army to beg Yuan. Luo Peijin mortgaged all his family property to the Bank of The Frontier, loaned 120,000 oceans, and donated it to the Defending Army for military pay. In 1916, the Protectorate Army swore an oath to woo Yuan at the Kunming Protector road, and Luo Peijin served as the chief of staff of the Protectorate Army and led his troops to attack Sichuan. In order to inspire the soldiers to kill the enemy bravely, Luo personally led the death squad to fight the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, and finally his right shin was injured by a shell. On June 6, 1916, Yuan Shikai died in extreme despair, and the Defending Army invaded Chengdu, and the Patriotic Movement won a victory. At this time, Cai Yi's throat cancer has reached an advanced stage, and he cannot talk and eat, and recommends Luo Peijin to act as the governor of Sichuan.
When Luo Peijin became the governor of Sichuan, he was supposed to seek the well-being of the people of Sichuan and the development of Sichuan's economic construction. However, he listened to the advice of Tang Jiyao, the governor of Yunnan, pursued the policy of "strengthening Yunnan and weakening Sichuan", did his best to plunder Sichuan's wealth, plundered the salt tax, forced the people of Sichuan to bear the salaries of the Sichuan and Qian armies, expanded the Sichuan Dian army, and suppressed the Sichuan army. Luo's policy greatly annoyed the people of Sichuan, so the Sichuan army joined forces to expel Luo Peijin and broke out into a civil war between the warlords of Yunnan and Sichuan. Luo Peijin was defeated in the war, and was dismissed from the post of Sichuan Capital Army by the Beijing government, and was temporarily replaced by Dai Jie of the Qian Army. Luo Peijin made himself clever, and in the battle between Liu Cunhou of the Sichuan Army and Dai Jie of the Qian Army, he stood still in an attempt to reap the benefits of the fishermen. This laid the foundation for future disasters. Tang Jiyao, Luo Peijin, and Dai Jie were originally allies, and Luo Peijin did not rescue Dai Jie, resulting in Dai Jie's death in battle, and this treacherous behavior made Luo's reputation plummet. Tang Jiyao dismissed Luo from all his duties, and Luo Peijin had to return to Kunming to live idly.
In 1920, changes in the political situation in Yunnan again involved Luo Peijin in the whirlpool of warlord melee. Tang Jiyao's old subordinate Gu Pinzhen staged a coup d'état and drove Tang Jiyao out of Kunming. Gu Pinzhen's reputation is low, and he cannot convince the public, so he invited Luo Peijin, who was idle, to preside over the overall situation. Before long, Tang Jiyao led his troops back to Yunnan from Guangxi and invaded the city of Kunming, and Luo Peijin could only lead a small number of troops to flee. Luo originally hoped that Hua Fengge, the commander of the Ninth Mixed Brigade under the old subordinate, would accept it, but as a result, Hua Fengge not only did not accept it, but also handed over Luo Bu's gun. Luo Peijin rushed to cross the Jinsha River and tried to flee to Sichuan, but was captured by the bandit leader Pu Xiaohong.
Pu Xiaohong asked Tang Jiyao for credit and asked for instructions on how to deal with his old classmates, and Tang Jiyao replied and asked him to watch and do it himself! Pu Xiaohong speculated that Tang Jiyao did not mean to forgive Luo Peijin, so he used extremely cruel means to kill this famous general of the defending army. On April 7, 1922, When Pho was in Shuangjinpo, Pu Xiaohong stripped Luo Peijin's clothes and tied them to a wooden stake, coating Luo's body with mud and fixing him to the sun. A few hours later, Luo Peijin's skin fell off and he died of severe dehydration at the age of 44.
Luo Peijin's body was collected by the locals and transported back to Kunming. Tang Jiyao did not allow the coffin to enter the city, and the family had to be buried on the Xiaosong Mountain in the east of Kunming City. Photographed by Tang Jiyao's authority, the old man did not dare to hang on to it, and only Zhou Zhongyue went to the coffin to cry bitterly. After Tang Jiyao's death, the remains of the gentry of Chengjiang County who moved back to Luo were buried in the tomb of Lady Xu at Zhujiashan mountain in the west of the city. In 1987, the People's Government of Chengjiang County was relocated to Phoenix Mountain as a key historical and cultural relics protection unit in the county.