The most influential case in the late Qing Dynasty was the Shanghai Su Bao case.
The "Su Bao" newspaper library is located in the Shanghai Concession, and there was no excessive remarks or influence when it was founded. In 1903, the newspaper hired Zhang Shizhao as the main writer, and Cai Yuanpei, Zhang Taiyan, and Wu Zhihui as writers, and since then it has become a propaganda position for revolutionaries.
After the publication of Zou Rong's "Revolutionary Army," the "Su Bao" warmly recommended it, and in its "Introduction to the New Book" column, it gave high praise to the "Revolutionary Army", praising it for its "extremely sharp pen and extremely painful writing, and when it is read by slightly ethnic thinkers, they all draw their swords and dance, and their eyebrows are raised." If this can be used to popularize the minds of 40 million people, China will also flourish. The response was good, and a few days later, Zhang Shizhao published "Reading the Revolutionary Army." The next day, Zhang Taiyan published "Preface to the Revolutionary Army".
Not only that, Zhang Taiyan also published the "Book on Revolution with Kang Youwei" in the "Su Bao", refuting that Kang Youwei's constitution was not feasible, and at the same time, he actually took Emperor Dezong with him, saying that the Guangxu Emperor "carried a clown and did not distinguish the wheat" and attacked the emperor's intelligence.
In the feudal era, the emperor was the honor of the Ninth Five, and this kind of attack was an absolute "great disrespect" act in the feudal etiquette, catching up with the early years of the Qing Dynasty when the literary prison was most prosperous, and the car cracked the waist and beheaded himself, and even the nine tribes could not say it.
Although the era has reached the end of the Qing Dynasty, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty are still "intolerable and intolerable", and the Qing court sent the governor of Liangjiang and the Shanghai Daotai to seal the pavilion and arrest people. Unfortunately, the newspaper was on the ground of the concession, and Zou Rongzhang taiyan also lived in the concession, and the Qing government said that it did not count. It was not easy to do the work of the consular group, but the Ministry of Works bureau did not agree, the Qing court had no choice, had to act as a plaintiff to sue the local court in the concession, and the court of the hall actually took the initiative to take the legal process, which was embarrassing.
After painstaking efforts, Zhang Taiyan was finally caught, and Zou Rong, fearing that he would involve others, voluntarily surrendered himself, and the special court set up by the triage office was instigated by the Qing court and disregarded the opposition of the Ministry of Works and Bureau, and forcibly sentenced Zou Rongzhang and Taiyan to eternal imprisonment. The consular corps was no longer in charge, and the following year's sentence was changed to Zhang Taiyan's three-year prison sentence and Zou Rong's two-year imprisonment.
In December 1905, Zou Rong died in prison only 70 days after completing his sentence, at the age of 21.
After Zhang Taiyan was released from prison, he was taken to Japan by Sun Yat-sen.