Cai Yuanpei came to Lin Shuo and told him that more than a dozen students from his Patriotic Society had been arrested by the patrol house in the concession, and asked Lin Shuo to try to smoothen the relationship and rescue them.
Lin Shuo met Cai Yuanpei through Zhang Yuanji. Due to the 1902 Nanyang Public School riot, students dropped out of school because they were dissatisfied with the management of the school authorities. As a school teacher, Cai Yuanpei stood on the side of the students and left Nanyang Public School with the dropouts.
to study and form a patriotic society.
Due to financial difficulties, Cai Yuanpei went around to solicit sponsorship through acquaintances. It was at this time that Lin Shuo met this later famous scholar and educator. Out of respect for this "Father of Peking University", Lin Shuo donated money to the Patriotic Society
Great funding.
Due to its free style of study and the instigation of Wu Zhihui and others who returned from Japan, the Patriotic Society gradually became the first "revolutionary group" in China. These people used "Su Bao" as their base and constantly advocated the "revolution against Manchurians". Zhang Taiyan
It was openly stated in "Refuting Kang Youwei's Theory of Revolution"
He called Emperor Guangxu "a clown who wears clothes and doesn't argue about rice and rice" and advocated that "the M must be revolutionized, and M must be revolutionized". In "Revolution M Army", Zou Rong even encouraged "kill all the Manchus before stopping". From then on,
Zhang Shizhao, who dropped out of the Nanyang Military Academy, wrote in the newspaper that the revolution was "murderism."
As a result, "Su Bao" was banned. Due to the advance tip-off from the concession authorities, the principal criminals in the "Su Bao" case went into hiding or ran to Japan. In the end, only Zhang Taiyan and Zou Rong were caught. The Qing government wanted to find Zhang Taiyan and Zou Rong.
They were extradited and put on trial, and the two men were expected to be executed by execution, but the concession authorities refused to allow it.
In the end, the "Su Bao" case became a rather peculiar and representative case in the history of the late Qing Dynasty. In this case, the government of a country was the plaintiff, and its nationals were the defendants.
"Three" special lawsuits to be tried jointly.
In the end, Zhang Taiyan and Zou Rong were sentenced to three years and two years in prison for defamation. After a long trial process of ten months, the Chinese people saw what freedom of speech and freedom of thought are from the trial of the case.
The trial of the "Su Bao" case also completely exposed the weak nature of the Manchu Qing court. Zhang Taiyan and Zou Rong became "heroes" in people's minds. From then on, everyone, regardless of whether they understood "revolution" or not,
It is an honor to talk about "revolutionary revolution", and it will not lead to beheading anyway. To paraphrase a sentence written by Mr. Lu Xun, "even Ah Q has to compete with the fake foreign devils for the qualifications to revolutionize revolution".
This case stripped away the last fig leaf of the Manchu Qing court.
Cai Yuanpei hid in Qingdao after the Su Bao case. The Patriotic Society was forced to close down. The students of the Patriotic Society were divided into four groups. One group entered the Shanghai Merchant Marine School founded by Lin Shuo, another group went to Japan to study, and some students
Entered Aurora College founded by Ma Xiangbo. Later, because the Catholic Church wanted to turn Aurora College into a church school, students
They chose to drop out of school and follow Ma Xiangbo to reorganize Fudan Public School. For this famous university in later generations, Lin Shuo would never give up this excellent opportunity to gain fame and reputation. He provided the venue and part of the funds. Fudan Public School used to be Chen Yiru's experiment in growing tobacco in Yangshupu.
School opened on Miao's farm, and Lin Shuo and Zhang Jian became the main investors of Fudan Public School.
The last remaining group of people from the Patriotic School moved to Yuqingli in the public concession to continue the revolution.
Members of the "Yokohama Assassination Group" who returned from Japan, including Yang Dusheng, Su Peng, He Haiqiao and others, also moved to Shanghai to join them, and they wanted to form a larger "Shanghai Assassination Group".
Cai Yuanpei returned to Shanghai after hiding in Qingdao for several months. This Hanlin from the Qing Dynasty has now become a complete "revolutionary." Under his instigation, Zhang Ji and Wang Xiaoxu, who were originally members of the Patriotic Society,
Sun Yuyun
, Liu Shipei, Zhang Shizhao, Zhong Guanguang, Yu Ziyi and others all joined the assassination group. Cai Yuanpei also gave the assassination group a more pleasant name - Patriotic Association, and Cai Yuanpei became the leader of the assassination group.
The assassination team was established. Yang Dusheng, Zhang Ji, He Haiqiao, Zhou Laisu and others went to Beijing to prepare for an earth-shattering event - to assassinate Cixi.
It's a pity that this group of people stayed in Beijing for half a year, but they didn't even see Cixi. The Queen Mother of the West lived in seclusion. Even when she traveled, she was accompanied by a large group of ceremonial guards, which could not allow the rest of the people to get close. Seeing the Sichuan Capital
After running out of money, the group had no choice but to head home and return to Shanghai.
Subsequently, the assassination team attempted to assassinate the newly appointed minister of military aircraft in Jiangning. Tie Liang, who was patrolling Jiangnan to make money for the Beiyang New Army, also returned without success.
This time, they targeted Wang Zhichun, the former governor of Guangxi who worked as an apartment in the Shanghai Concession.
Wang Zhichun was known as the number one traitor at the time. In order to suppress the civil uprising in Guangxi, he did not hesitate to bring French troops into Guangxi and sold all the railway rights and mining rights in Guangxi to France. Wang Zhichun was dismissed by the court due to the protests of his countrymen.
He was appointed governor of Guangxi, but he was still unwilling to accept it.
The initiator of the Su Bao case was also Wang Zhichun.
On the evening of November 19, 1904, the Jingu Xiangfan Restaurant in downtown Shanghai was as lively and noisy as usual. Suddenly, a well-dressed fat man, surrounded by servants in green shirts, hurried down from the second floor and scurried away with his head in his arms.
The group of people escaped from the restaurant door.
"Bitch thief, where are you running!" Suddenly, a strong man rushed out from the passers-by in front of the door, grabbed the mandarin jacket of the fat man who was running away, and pressed the muzzle of the gun in his right hand against the fat man's head. The followers behind him were dumbfounded.
, the fat man’s legs softened, as if he wanted to kneel down and beg for mercy.
"Traitor, I will now execute you on behalf of the 40 million Chinese people. Go to hell!" the strong man shouted, and then pulled the gun in his hand.
Passers-by in front of Jin Guxiang's door looked at this scene in surprise. Some people recognized the fat man and couldn't help but cheer: Isn't that Wang Zhichun, the national thief? He should be killed...
Click!
There was no gunfire.
Misfiring? The hero who fired the gun realized that something was wrong. He pulled back Wang Zhichun’s left hand and pulled the gun. After loading the gun, he clicked the button again, but it still didn’t go off!
Wang Zhichun, who had closed his eyes and waited for death, finally came to his senses, broke free from the hero's control and ran desperately to his carriage. "Help!" Wang Zhichun got under the carriage and shouted for help.
Wang Zhichun's men also reacted, swarmed up, pushed the hero to the ground, and took away the broken gun.
After hearing the news, a large number of Indian patrol officers came, their whistles ringing loudly.
The hero was taken to the patrol room by the patrolmen. The patrolman led Wang Zhichun and his entourage into Jinguxiang to identify the assassin's accomplices. The rest of the assassination team who came with them mingled with the crowd and abandoned their guns and fled.
Although the assassination failed, it set a precedent for assassinations by the Revolutionary Party: traitors and national traitors should be punished by everyone!
The hero who pointed the broken gun at Wang Zhichun was named Wan Fuhua, and he became a hero praised by people for a while.
Zhang Shizhao threw himself into a trap.
Wan Fuhua was arrested and he went to visit the patrol house. He was familiar with the general patrol house of the public concession located on Fourth Road. During the "Su Bao" case, he often visited Zhang Taiyan and Zou Rong who were locked up there.
But he never expected that this time would be different from the last time.
At the time of the Soviet Union, the British Inspector General believed that the anti-Qing speeches and propaganda of the Patriot Society were legal acts and that citizens’ speech should be protected. At that time, the Inspector General turned a blind eye to these revolutionary M parties. You
Even if you walked by him, you would just pretend you didn't see him.
Zhang Shizhao thought this time it would be the same as last time.
But this time it's really different.
Wan Fuhua held a murder weapon in his hand and committed murder with an weapon. This is a serious criminal case.
Wan Fuhua was a good man and claimed that the assassination of Wang Zhichun was entirely out of personal indignation. He refused to acknowledge the accomplices identified by Wang Zhichun and would not say more.
Because Wan Fuhua didn't speak, the patrol room couldn't trace him, but Wang Zhichun identified another accomplice and was worried.
Zhang Shizhao came to his door automatically early in the morning.
The patrolmen immediately detained Zhang Shizhao. When asked casually, Zhang Shizhao casually said that he lived at No. 8 Qingyuli.
Zhang Shizhao's own residence contains thousands of volumes of "Revolutionary M Army" by Zhang Taiyan and Zou Rong, as well as the just-printed copies of "Turn Back" and "Warning Bell" by Chen Tianhua. He had his own difficulties, but he kept the assassination group's
The headquarters spoke out.
Based on Zhang Shizhao's answer, the arrester sent five people, namely Huahua and Red-headed Asan, to Yu Qingli for verification.
As a result, all the members of the assassination group living in Yuqingli, except Yang Dusheng, escaped, and the rest were captured, including Huang Xing, the leader of the Huaxing Society who had just escaped from Hunan.
Fortunately, there was little communication between the concession authorities and Qing officials. Although Wang Zhichun reported these revolutionary M parties to Shanghai Road Yuan Shuxun, Yuan also negotiated with the concession authorities to extradite these revolutionary M parties for trial. Fortunately, these parties
People have learned the lesson from the Su Bao case and mostly use pseudonyms.
The concession authorities found no criminal records among these people, so Yuan Shuxun didn't take them seriously.
Yang Dusheng, who escaped, went to Cai Yuanpei to try to rescue his accomplices.