Chapter 57 1. Sun Yuyun was arrested for rebellion, but unexpectedly received courtesy

Many revolutionaries were originally dissatisfied with "China News"'s moderate attitude between revolution and royalism. After reading this poem, they felt that Yang Du was still his comrade. Among the members of the Tongmenghui who returned to China to support the Pingliuli uprising, there were two special figures, they were Sun Yuyun and Hu Ying.Before leaving Tokyo, Sun Yat-sen hosted a banquet for them at his apartment in Niuda District, and instructed Sun Yuyun to go to Nanjing to campaign for the Jiangsu New Army, and Hu Ying to go to Wuhan to instigate the Rizhi Conference. Sun Yuyun is currently serving as the general secretary of the Tongmenghui headquarters.This position was held by Huang Xing when the Tongmenghui was first established. Its status is second only to Prime Minister Sun Yat-sen, and he can act on his behalf when the prime minister leaves office.Huang Xing left Japan at the beginning of the year to go to Hong Kong and Singapore to discuss with the local branch of the Tongmenghui about the uprising in southern China. Therefore, Sun Yuyun, who was formerly a member of the evaluation department, assumed the post of General Affairs Director. Sun Yuyun is from Shouzhou, Anhui.His ancestor was from Jining Prefecture, Shandong Province. He came to the outside of Shouzhou City because of the famine. He saw a surprisingly tall willow tree there. Willow Village.A deserter named Sun had two sons. He asked the eldest son to learn business and the second son to study.He thought in his heart that whether it was getting rich or being an official, his family could get involved. The feng shui of Daliushu Village was indeed chosen.Changfang started his business as a cloth seller, passed down to the third generation and his family became wealthy, and he bought hundreds of acres of good land.The second family studied from generation to generation, and in the fourth generation, there was a once-in-three-year first person in the world. He was the current university scholar Sun Jianai who was born as the number one scholar. lock up. Sun Yuyun is the sixth generation of Changfang.Seeing the high prestige of his family uncle, he envied him very much, so he studied angrily and passed the examination of scholar at the age of eighteen.After failing the exam once, Sun Yuyun became impatient to wait longer, anyway, the family had plenty of money, so she donated money to a fellow acquaintance, and got the official title of Cong Sipin.Still not reconciled, he donated an extra amount to a fourth-rank Taoist.He thought that as long as there is something missing, he will be a current Daotai master who is all-round and majestic if he gives two or three thousand taels of silver.After waiting for a long time, he fell in love with Buddhist scriptures at home again.A copy of "Shurangama" and "Yuanjue" fascinated him. Thinking of all kinds of troubles and hardships in the world, he wanted to go to the mountains several times to become a monk.The old mother and wife begged hard, so they had no choice but to give up this idea. Last year, Wu Yue's feat of bombing the five ministers and killing himself won the praise of many vigorous young people. People regard him as the contemporary Jing Ke and Nie Zheng.Although Wu Yue died, his reputation spread throughout Kyushu.Although Sun Yuyun is a son of a rich family, he is pampered and pampered, but he can clearly see the evils of society and the corruption of the imperial court.From the public opinion that Wu Yue was honored even though he died, he saw that the revolution was a just act that followed the people and the trend, so he decided to abandon the idea of ​​being a Manchu bureaucrat and a disciple of the Shi family, and go on the road of revolution wholeheartedly. Once Sun Yuyun made up his mind, he took decisive action.He sold the fertile land in his family, opened a small school in Shouzhou, and hired teachers to educate students about the democratic revolution.He was a spendthrift by nature, and he spent a lot of money from his family to support the anti-Qing fighters who were in trouble nearby, and thus made a lot of friends.He also asked his wife Wang Yu to take their two sons to study in Japan.In March of this year, he himself came to Tokyo, participated in the Tongmenghui, and donated 100,000 silver dollars as funds for the revolution.Sun Yuyun's enthusiasm for the revolution won the respect of Sun Yat-sen and other leaders of the Tongmenghui, and everyone elected him as the general secretary. After Sun Yuyun arrived in Nanjing, he tried to get in touch with the new army.At that time, the Jiangsu New Army was called the Ninth Town, and there were many revolutionaries active in it, as well as many soldiers and lower-level military officials who sympathized with the revolution.Seeing that the Ninth Town has a good foundation, Sun Yuyun relaxed his vigilance, soon exposed his identity, and was arrested by the government. Sun Yuyun waited for the trial and verdict of the government with the wish of dying for justice.But the strange thing is that the government treated him very well, and placed him in a garden villa in Nanjing, with two people around him to greet him.Good wine and good food are delivered every day, and there is also a study room for him to read and write. Everything is no less than the life of a noble son in Shouzhou.The only difference is that there are people guarding with guns outside the courtyard wall, and he is not allowed to take a step out of the gate.Sun Yuyun was so strange, but she never asked the people around her, she read, wrote, drank, ate meat every day, she didn't think too much about it, and lived a carefree life. After nearly a month like this, Sun Yuyun's sense of benevolence gradually weakened, and his attachment to life and his wife and children became stronger and stronger. However, he was unwilling to surrender himself in exchange for freedom. He thought it was a shameful act.He also guessed that there must be a fact behind this extraordinary treatment, that some unusual activities might be going on outside the courtyard walls. Yes, Sun Yuyun's analysis is not wrong.When his dossier was submitted by the Nanjing Patrol Battalion to the Yamen of the Governor of Liangjiang, Duan, who had just been promoted to Governor of Jiang from his post in Xiangfu, was able to review it in person because of his meritorious service in studying constitutionalism abroad. Duanfang, styled Wuqiao, was a man from Zhengbai Banner of Manchuria who was proficient in eunuchs.In the year of Gengzi, Cixi fled to Xi'an, where he was the governor of Shaanxi.He saw the right time, flattered Cixi in every possible way, and personally led the army to guard her side day and night.Duanfang's loyalty won Cixi's favor, and he has since become Cixi's confidant.Going abroad and being promoted were all Cixi's rewards to him later. In view of the reality that the revolutionary party's actions to platoon Manchurians were generally supported by Han people, after returning to China, he gave Cixi a secret letter asking to flatten the Manchu-Han border, suggesting that the palace system should be changed, except for the lack of titles between Manchu and Han, and the withdrawal of bannermen from all provinces. In order to show that the imperial court is at ease with the Han people; abolishing the regulations that Manchus and Hans do not intermarry, allowing Manchus and Hans to marry freely, integrating Manchus and Hans into one family, so that the Revolutionary Party has no chance to take advantage of it.His secret statement was acquiesced by Cixi.He tried his best to maintain a relatively friendly relationship with the Han officials, and saw that Yuan Shikai was the most outstanding figure among the Han officials and had a bright future, so he made a private marriage with Yuan and betrothed his eldest daughter to Yuan's fifth son Restraining power, once the rule of non-intermarriage between Manchu and Han is abolished, the daughter will be sent to Yuan's mansion.Yuan Shikai was naturally eager to have this marriage, so he agreed. Opening the file, Sun Yuyun's birthplace in Shouzhou immediately aroused Duanfang's vigilance: Sun Jianai is also from Shouzhou, is this grandson and that grandson in the same family?He sent a telegram to Sun Jianai, asking if Sun Yuyun was Chinese?The reply soon arrived in Nanjing, but the answer was irrelevant: "This son is very stubborn, please control him strictly." Duan Fang took this telegram and carefully considered it: "This son is very stubborn" is obviously the tone of the elder accusing the younger, and it is tantamount to admitting that they are in the same family. The sentence "Please be strict with yourself" seems to be strict, but it is actually asking him to be lenient.Because the revolutionary party who incited the army to rebel has already exceeded the scope of "control" and should be sentenced to death by beheading.After all, it was the number one scholar, and the telegram replied with a clear meaning and no excuses. Duan Fang admired it very much, and he wanted to use this case to please the elder among the Han officials. At this time, the headquarters of the Tokyo Tongmenghui was also actively trying to rescue Sun Yuyun.Someone suggested that Yang Du wrote an investigation report for the five ministers who went abroad to investigate, and Duan Fang was one of the five ministers, so he must have contacts with Yang Du.Since Yang Du was able to publish an elegy in memory of Liu Daoyi in "China News", he would definitely be willing to ask Duanfang to pardon Sun Yuyun. After Sun Yuyun left Tokyo, it was Song Jiaoren who took over the position of general secretary general.After the failure of the Huangma Uprising, Song Jiaoren fled from Wuhan to Shanghai and met Yang Du on the ship to Japan.Song Jiaoren is handsome in appearance and suave in conversation, and the two hit it off right away on the boat.So Song Jiaoren came to Yang Du, asked him for help, and pointed out the relationship between Sun Yuyun and Sun Jianai.Yang Du readily agreed. In fact, Yang Du and Duan Fang have no personal relationship at all.He had only met Xu Shichang once for the five ministers who were originally appointed. Later, Xu never went abroad, and Yang Du did not know any of the five ministers who actually went abroad to investigate constitutional government.The reason why Yang Du agreed to write a letter to Duan Fang to intercede, there are several considerations. Firstly, the alliance is the result of his introduction of Sun Huang's acquaintance. The main leaders of the Tokyo headquarters are all his good friends, and he has feelings for the alliance.Second, Song Jiaoren came to beg him.Yang Du's character, when others come to ask him for urgent matters, no matter whether he has the ability to help, he always agrees first, and then finds a way.What's more, Sun Yuyun ruined his family and started a school to promote education. Based on this, Yang Du believed that Sun was a person with a good heart, and he was willing to help him with all his strength.Thirdly, he wants to use this to test Duanfang's attitude towards him, whether to buy his favor or not. From Duanfang's attitude, he can infer the attitude of the other four ministers who went abroad towards him, and even the entire Qing court's attitude towards him. importance.Sun Jianai, a scholar of the four majors, is Sun Yuyun's clan uncle, this is a relationship that can be used, and if you give him a piece of friendship, there will be no guarantee that it will be useful in the future. Yang Du wrote a book, not talking about Sun Yujun's joining the Tongmenghui, and avoiding the purpose of his return to China. He talked about Sun selling his property to run a primary school, and praised him as responding to the call of the imperial court to set up a school, which is patriotic The performance of loving the people, and I am born in a family, with excellent knowledge, is a useful talent for the country.The letter ends with: Duan Fang was very happy after receiving this letter.He already knew Yang Du's talent and learning. Seeing that this learned constitutional expert regarded him as a figure like Ito and Sakagaki, he used these two oriental names to himself, and tried to use Yang Du and Sun Yuyun to match him with overseas students. Get in touch online, recruit talents among them, form your own team, and do a great job in the future. With this in mind, Duanfang wrote back a letter to Yang Du himself: "Sun Sheng is well-versed in literature and science, and he came from Tsinghua University. He should be kind and considerate of others." It was precisely because of such complicated outside transactions that Sun Yuyun was able to live comfortably in the small courtyard, and this comfortable life was an important means for Duanfang to soften Sun's fighting spirit. In the afternoon of that day, just after Sun Yuyun took a nap, a middle-aged man in his fifties walked in with a happy face and said to him: "Xiaogui, you don't know me, I'm your fellow villager Du Zonglu!" Sun Yuyun looked at the visitor suspiciously. The authentic Shouzhou dialect was good, but the face was very strange, and the name was unknown. The strangest thing was, how did he know my baby name?Sun shook his head. Du Zonglu sat down next to him, still smiling and said: "Xiaogui, of course you won't know me. I visited your house when I left Shouzhou, and you were only seven years old. Twenty years have passed in a flash. I met you yesterday Returning to Nanjing from Subei, I was shocked to hear that Wu Shuai put you under house arrest. Although you have grown into an adult, your facial features are still the same as when you were a child, and I recognized it immediately." Du Zonglu talked endlessly, but Sun Yuyun couldn't think of this person in his mind: "Do you know my father?" "It's not just that we know each other, we are still very good friends! Your father is eight years older than me, and I have always treated him as an elder brother. To be honest, when I was short of money, my father often gave me money, I am still grateful to him to this day." Sun Yuyun's father was generous, and his relatives and friends were willing to help whenever they asked for money. This character was also passed on to his son.Sun Yuyun saw that he was telling the truth, believed that he was his father's friend, and said, "In this way, I should call you Uncle Du." "Don't dare!" Du Zonglu said, "I'm the third, so you can call me Du San!" "How can I do that!" Sun Yuyun said, "Uncle Du, where do you work now?" Du Zonglu was no longer polite, and replied with a smile: "Because I failed the township examination, I left Shouzhou. I was introduced to Qimen County Yamen to learn to be a teacher, and then I went to Jixi and Qingyang to be a teacher. I have been a teacher for more than ten years. Very proud. Later I heard that Wu Shuai was one of the three talents in Manchuria, and he loved talent the most, so I went to join him. At that time, Wu Shuai was still working as a Daoist in Zhili. The first official document I wrote was appreciated by Wu Shuai , Since then, I have been with Marshal Wu for ten years. Every time he has a chance, he recommends me, and I am now an alternate magistrate of the fifth rank." Sun Yujun said with a smile: "It's really not low for the master to achieve this position." "It all depends on the grace of Marshal Wu." Du Laosan said, "Young Master Sun, why do you let the rich and noble son not do it, but insist on going to the city of death? Fortunately, I met the pity Marshal Duanwu this time. In the hands of others, it would have been dead." Sun Yuyun already understood that this Duan San was a lobbyist sent by Duan Fang.If this lobbyist had come a month ago, he would have slammed him out of the room without ceremony.But now, a burning desire for life is prompting him to welcome the lobbyists.Sun Yuyun is not a despicable villain, he does not want to be a traitor just to survive.These days, he had thought in his mind that it would be best to get out of the cell without losing his integrity, but he couldn't think of a good idea for a while. "I don't want to go to the dead city with all my heart, because there are too many ills in the country, and someone must rise up and mobilize everyone to get rid of these ills!" "Master Sun, you are a young man who cares about the country and the people. I admire you very much. There are indeed many problems in our country, which need to be eradicated." Du Laosan's attitude is very sincere. "Now the imperial court has also seen this problem. From the Empress Dowager to your uncle Sun Zhongtang to Yuan Shuai and Wu Shuai are all trying to get rid of the country's ills. Wu Shuai appreciates your ambition, but regrets the way you chose. " Sun Yuyun remained silent and listened quietly.Du San knew that his mind was moving, and continued to persuade: "Young Master Sun, Marshal Wu wants to protect you. He can't talk to you face to face, so he asked me to give you a message. As long as you admit that what you advocate is political. Revolution instead of racial revolution, Marshal Wu will ask the court to forgive you." Sun Yuyun said: "Uncle Du, you may not know that I advocate both political revolution and racial revolution. In terms of the order of the two revolutions, I think that the only way to do the racial revolution is to overthrow the Manchurian court first, and then to carry out the political revolution. .” "Xiaogui, you call me Uncle Du, I don't dare to call me Uncle Du, but after all, I am more than 20 years older than you, I will enlighten you today as an elder brother, please listen to me." Du San patted lightly. Holding Sun Yuyun's shoulder, he said with a kind paternal attitude, "You are a Han Chinese, and I am also a Han Chinese. Why don't I understand that you want to restore the Han Chinese regime from the hands of the Manchus? To tell you the truth, more than 20 years A while ago, my lord father and I often talked about the issue between the Manchus and the Han in our hometown in Shouzhou, and also talked about whether Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang and others were traitors. The ethnic conflict between the Manchus and the Han has been going on since the Manchus entered the customs. It has always existed. For more than two hundred years, many outstanding figures among the Han people, not to mention Lin Zexu and Tao Shu in modern times, have served the Manchu court loyally, and like the uncle Ling Shouzhou Xiangguo They are also officials of the imperial court. Are they all traitors who pursue wealth and forget their ancestors? No! Xiaogui, you are still young and don’t know much about the world. Brother, I will be fifty years old next year. See you Too much. Brother, let me tell you the truth. It is not important which nationality the emperor is. The key is to have political clarity. Kangxi and Qianlong among the Manchus are not inferior to those wise monarchs among the Han people in the past dynasties , and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty among the Han people would never be better than Emperor Tongzhi and Emperor Guangxu. Since the Manchu court is willing to establish a constitution, why don't we urge it to do this well together, and insist on carrying out a racial revolution to make it What about overthrow? Xiaogui, have you ever thought about it, once a racial revolution is carried out, the two sides will inevitably go to war, and the people who will suffer are not ordinary people?" Sun Yuyun's anti-Manchu revolutionary thoughts were not very firm, but after hearing Du San's words, she also felt that they made sense, so she kept silent and nodded her head a few times unconsciously.Du San was happy, and continued to say: "Do you know, your friend Yang Dute wrote to Wu Shuai from Tokyo, asking Wu Shuai to forgive you." Sun Yuyun has heard of Yang Du's name for a long time in Tokyo, but he has never met him, let alone interacted with him, and he is not even a friend.Unexpectedly, Yang Du wrote a letter from thousands of miles away at this time, and Sun Yuyun suddenly felt grateful to Yang Du, and felt that Yang Du was really a good person, no wonder he had a high prestige among the international students in Tokyo. "Wu Shuai said that people like Yang Du are indeed people who think about the country and the people. He only talks about political revolution, not racial revolution. His views on the general trend of the world can be called insightful. Wu Shuai hopes you Don't disappoint your friend's kindness." Sun Yuyun was greatly shocked by Yang Du's intercession letter.He said to Du San: "Uncle Du, go tell Duan Zhongcheng, I have to think about it." "You have to think about it carefully. When you figure it out, just tell me. My brother will definitely help you." Du San finished speaking and went out. Sun Yuyun thought for a whole day and night in the comfortable small courtyard, he thought a lot. If the planning of the new army is successful this time, the uprising starts, and the whole city of Nanjing is turned upside down, it is worthwhile to die in battle or be captured and beheaded, because it will be spread among the population as a leader of the riot who died heroically.But now that things have not been accomplished, it is not worth it to be executed quietly like this.If you can survive, you should strive to survive. Whether it is a political revolution or a racial revolution, it is a revolution.Abandoning the racial revolution without giving up the political revolution cannot be regarded as abandoning the revolution, and therefore not a traitor.Why not do it if you are not chaste and can be forgiven?Besides, Du San's words are not without reason. Racial revolution is not necessarily necessary. Political revolution may be the real way out for China.When I go out in the future, I must visit Yang Du and ask him face-to-face for the principles of saving China.Thinking of this, Sun Yuyun finally made up his mind, he asked the people around him to make a confession to Duan Fangcha.Seeing that Du San's lobbying was successful, Duan Fang immediately sent someone to send a set of valuable Four Treasures of the Study to show his concern. Sun Yuyun spent ten days sorting out her thoughts over the years and wrote a long confession.He first narrates his family background, then writes about the transition from imperial examinations to Buddhist studies, then from Buddhist studies to racial revolution, and finally understands that political revolution is the right choice to save the country.In the end, he suggested to Duanfang that there are many political revolutionaries who use political reforms to enrich the country and strengthen the army, but there are also many people who implement racial revolutions to overthrow the Manchu regime. Those who carry out the racial revolution should not get involved too much, otherwise it will arouse even greater resistance.Amnesty to the revolutionaries is the way to eliminate the catastrophe.In order to reassure the imperial court and Duanfang, he stated at the end of his confession that after his release, he would go to the mountains to re-study Buddhism. According to this confession, Duanfang reported to the imperial court that since the criminal Sun had changed his position, he should be given a lighter punishment and sentenced to five years in prison.In fact, Duan Fang packed up a small house in the back garden of the governor's office and placed Sun Yuyun here to study.Du San told Sun Yuyun that he should tell his family uncle about the care of Duanwu Shuai who intends to preserve him.So Sun Yuyun wrote to Sun Jianai to tell everything in detail.At the same time, he wrote a letter to Yang Du, expressing his gratitude to him, and expressing that he would definitely worship him as a teacher to study constitutionalism after going out.At this time, Yang Du is facing another major change in his life voyage.