Author: Our special guest author Zhu Yingyuejiang
In the last years of the late Qing Dynasty, the wind and rain were fluctuating, there were great powers on the outside, and corrupt officials on the inside were rampant and lawless, and the Qing Dynasty gradually fell into an endless abyss in a state of internal and external troubles.
At a time when the Qing court was in crisis, a "different" official appeared in the official field of the Qing Dynasty, saying that he was different because he not only refused to follow the trend of corruption, but also acted in a special anti-corruption campaign instead, so that when this bloody "butcher" was mentioned up and down the official field, his face changed color.
So, who is this official "butcher" who frightens corrupt officials across the country? How did he single-handedly confront the thousands of corrupt officials of the late Qing Dynasty?
1. Governor of hepatobiliary
In the late Qing Dynasty, the "Three Massacres" in the world were famous all over the world. These "three massacres" are "official slaughter" Cen Chunxuan, "Shi Tu" Zhang Zhidong, and "Mintu" Yuan Shikai, of which This Cen Chunxuan is the anti-corruption overlord who frightens corrupt officials throughout the country.
As early as the time of gengzi's national disaster, Cen Chunxuan won the appreciation of Empress Dowager Cixi for his loyalty to save the car, after which Cixi asked Cen Chunxuan about the plan of rejuvenating the country. Cen Chunxuan put forward the idea of rejuvenating the students and the people, believing that "educating talents" and "saving the time" should be organically combined, and the strategic plan for rejuvenating the country through science and education made Cixi nod his head.
However, Cen Chunxuan's excellence is far more than running a school. He was also a good doctor in the treatment of corruption in the official arena of the Qing Dynasty. When Cen Chunxuan was still a small guangdong envoy, he found that Wang Cunshan, a close subordinate of Tan Zhonglin, the governor of Liangguang, had bullied and oppressed the people, openly demanding bribes, and causing resentment among the people.
So Cen Chunxuan immediately found Tan Zhonglin and asked Tan Zhonglin to remove Wang Cunshan from his post and investigate, but Tan Chunlin played the routine of protecting officials and officials, and categorically refused Cen Chunxuan's request.
Seeing the situation, Cen Chunxuan immediately used his power as a political envoy to remove Wang Cunshan from his post as the general office of the Lijin Bureau, and then played a fold to impeach Tan Chonglin and Wang Cunshan for various illegal acts, and finally wang Cunshan was dismissed from his post and Tan Chonglin dismissed from his post.
To say that Tan Wang and Wang are not alone, there are many corrupt officials in Guangdong who have fallen at the hands of Cen Chunxuan. For example, Cheng Yunhe, the land governor of Qingxiang, and Xu Renjie, a corrupt and cruel Zhizhou, were all the targets of Cen Chunxuan's impeachment.
To fight tigers also to shoot flies, Pei Jingfu of Nanhai Zhi County, although the position in the DPRK is not high, but the embezzled silver dollars are as high as 240,000, cen Chunxuan learned of it, and without saying a word, Pei Jingfu will be brought to justice.
Who expected Pei Jingfu to hear the news in advance and run to Macau to seek refuge with the Dutch. This was to annoy Cen Chunxuan, and the anti-corruption fighter immediately chased him to Macau with his soldiers, and then argued with the director of the Macao-Portuguese Bureau, and insisted on extraditeing the fleeing Pei Jingfu back to justice.
According to incomplete statistics, during Cen Chunxuan's tenure as governor of Liangguang, he impeached more than 1,400 officials in total, causing the official arena to talk about "Cen" discoloration, saying that he was the "governor of liver and gallbladder."
Second, Ding Weizheng tide
In 1907, Cen Chunxuan went to Beijing to serve as Shangshu of the Ministry of Posts and Communications. Although there were countless high-ranking officials at the feet of Tianzi in Beijing, Cen Chunxuan still did not dare to be jealous of the true color of evil and hatred, and as soon as he arrived in Beijing, he impeached more than twenty officials during the summons.
After Cen Chunxuan officially performed his duties, he immediately impeached Zhu Baokui, the left attendant of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, swallowed up huge sums of money, bribed The Waiter, and said that if he was in the Ministry of Posts and Communications, he was really ashamed to be in the company.
Seeing that Cen Chunxuan wanted to pick a son, Cixi hurriedly said, "Since Zhu Baokui is like this, he can dismiss it, but according to what purpose?" ”
Cen Chunxuan said without hesitation: "Empress Dowager, you can directly say that it is impeached by the courtiers."
With Cen Chunxuan's words, Cixi deposed Zhu Baokui on the same day. Who knew that just after dealing with Zhu Baokui, Cen Chunxuan found out that Duan Zhigui, a directly subordinate Daoist, had given Yi Li a birthday gift of 100,000 taels in an attempt to seek the illegal behavior of the Inspector of Heilongjiang. So Cen Chunxuan did not do one, two did not stop, and continued to impeach Duan Zhigui under his real name.
Under cen Chunxuan's impeachment, Duan Zhigui was soon dismissed from his post, but Cen Chunxuan's move offended another protagonist in this incident, Prince Qing Yili, and Yi Li, who was resentful, used the attack on the government of Qinzhou and other places in Guangdong as an excuse to ask Empress Dowager Cixi to send Cen Chunxuan to suppress bandits and push Cen Chunxuan far away from the capital.
However, although Cen Chunxuan was far away from the Beijing Master, he was still quite valued by Cixi. Yi Li was worried that Cen Chunxuan would be activated again, so he joined forces with Yuan Shikai to set up a poisonous plan to deal with Cen Chunxuan.
Third, they were tragically framed
Yi Li and Yuan Shikai knew that Cixi hated the most than the leaders of the reformists Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, so their plan to frame Cen Chunxuan began with the reformers.
Yi Li and others first secretly played Cixi, falsely accusing Cen Chunxuan of having joined the Baohui and being an undercover agent in the restoration faction, who had been plotting to return to Guangxu, and viciously disgusted Cen Chunxuan.
In order to make this secret performance look more like the real thing, Yi Li and others sent someone to the photo studio, hired a master craftsman, and put together the photos of Cen Chunxuan and Kang Youwei into one, and the stitching angle was very tricky, at first glance, it looked like the two were discussing an ulterior motive.
This photo of PS was quickly sent to Cixi as evidence of Cen Chunxuan's friendship with the chaotic party, and Cixi naturally did not understand the doorway, but only felt that now "there is a picture and the truth", Cen Chunxuan, a member of the chaotic party, is properly ironclad evidence.
Just when Cixi suspected Cen Chunxuan, Yuan Shikai staged another god assist. He instigated his subordinate Cen Chunxuan to stay in Shanghai privately, colluded with Kang Liang, and tried to overthrow the Qing Dynasty by the japanese.
How much Cixi had valued Cen Chunxuan before, how disappointed she was now. Disappointed, Cixi made a will to open Cen Chunxuan to the lack of recuperation, and never mentioned Cen Chunxuan again.
After the fall of Cen Chunxuan, the corruption of the Qing Dynasty was no longer a good doctor, and the Qing Dynasty ran wild on the road to the fall of the country, and finally after the death of Cixi, it provoked a vigorous road protection movement.
At this time, the imperial court remembered Cen Chunxuan again and reinstated him as the governor of Sichuan, but at this time, Cen Chunxuan's position had quietly changed, and he was no longer the "loyal dog" who only looked after the imperial court.
After the outbreak of the Baolu Movement, Cen Chunxuan declared that "he must ask for the people's life, and never kill a single person in vain", and on the way to Sichuan, Cen Chunxuan realized that the imperial court was trying to suppress it by force, and immediately said that he was ill and resigned.
Soon after Cen Chunxuan's resignation, the spark of the Road Preservation Movement quickly spread to the whole of Sichuan with a burning force, becoming a prelude to the Xinhai Revolution, and the Qing Dynasty also came to the end of its life in a "republic" sound.
After the establishment of the Republic of China government, Cen Chunxuan once again "played" the Qing court, only this time he held a rafters in his hand and wrote down the "Public Telegram to the Qing Nobles", asking the Qing court to "directly descend the Ming Dynasty and declare China and foreign countries", and issued the sound of the times that "the national organization of republican politics".
It can be said that on the eve of the abdication of the Qing Dynasty, this former loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty used this way to send him the last journey of the Qing Dynasty that he had sworn allegiance to the death. After all, the Great Qing, which was corrupt and rotten to the bone, could not tolerate Cen Chunxuan, nor was it saved by Cen Chunxuan.
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