Chapter 10 big festival

In 1903, Huang Kan was admitted to Wuhan Wentong School with honors.Under the influence of Sun Yat-sen and others, Wuhan at this time has become an ideological center, and Wentong School gathered a group of passionate young people with progressive thinking such as Dong Biwu, Song Jiaoren, and Tian Tong.At this time, Huang Kan's thoughts also changed dramatically.In particular, progressive books such as Zou Rong's "Revolutionary Army" and Chen Tianhua's "Mighty Turn Back" and "The Alarm Clock" touched him a lot. He soon became an active member of student activities, and finally participated in the anti-Qing revolution. The activity was expelled from the school.

After being expelled, Zhang Zhidong thought that he was the son of an old friend and a rare talent, so he sent him to study in Japan at public expense.During his stay in Japan, Huang Kan joined the Chinese League. In 1908, Huang Kan, who was studying in Japan, learned that his mother was critically ill, so he rushed back to serve the sick and lived in Huang's public house near Qizhou Senior Official School.At that time, Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi died of illness one after another, and the Qing court ordered "national funerals" to be held in various places.Tian Huan, a student of the Higher Official School and a member of the Tongmenghui, expressed dissatisfaction when he was "crying".The head teacher Yang Zixu hangs a tiger head sign at the announcement place the next morning, intending to expel Tian Huan from his student status, causing an uproar in the whole school.Huang Kan was furious when he learned that, he ran into the school, smashed the tiger head card, cursed and left.After mediation by Chen Xiaodan, director of the Encouragement Institute, the matter was settled.A few days later, Tian Huan took the lead in cutting off the braids. Yang Zixu was very annoyed and hung up the tiger head card again.When Huang Kan heard the news, he rushed into the school with a wooden stick in his hand, first smashed the tiger head card, and then beat Yang Zixu.Before long, the Qing court hunted down the revolutionaries, and Hubei Governor Chen Kuilong sent his officials to capture Huang Kan. Huang ran away in a hurry and fled to Japan again.

Huang Kan was wanted by the Qing government and fled back to Japan the following year. He continued to advocate revolution in newspapers, and published articles such as "Mourning the Poor", "Mourning the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", "Single-minded Manchurianism" and "Discussing Manchuria". In 1910, at the invitation of Hubei Revolutionary Party members, Huang Kan returned to his hometown Qichun to organize the Xiaoyi Association, gave a speech, and encouraged the revolution, with tens of thousands of people responding.Because he came from a famous family and was good at speaking, everyone pushed him to be the leader and called him Mr. Huang Shi, just like a young revolutionary activist.

In 1911, Huang Kan wrote an article in "Dajiang Daily", declaring: "Those who are in great chaos are the magic medicine to save China today." .On October 10th, the first Uprising in Wuchang, Huang Kan, Huang Xing and others will be in Wuchang and participate in the work of the military government.After the failure of the Wuchang First Uprising, Huang Kan returned to his hometown in Qichun and organized the "Chonghan Association" volunteer soldiers, numbering two to three thousand, planning to attack Feng Guozhang from behind and break the siege of Wuhan.Because of the squire's informant, Huang Kan was forced to leave again.

In July 1911, Huang Kan was dismissed from Henan Yuhe Middle School for promoting the revolution.When returning to Qichun and passing through Hankou, members of the Tongmenghui, editor-in-chief of Dajiang Daily, the official newspaper of the "Literary Society", fellow villagers Zhan Dabei and deputy editor He Haiming, and others hosted a banquet for Huang to wash away the dust.During the meeting, Huang Kan was very indignant when he talked about the corruption of the Qing court, the vigorous and rising revolutionary tide, and the deception of the "peaceful reform" of the Constitutionalists.That night, Huang Kan wrote a current commentary with the help of alcohol.

Yuan Shikai planned to proclaim himself emperor, because Huang Kan was very famous, and planned to award Huang a first-class gold medal of Jiahe, and instructed Huang Kan to write a "Letter of Encouragement" for him.Huang Bei regarded Yuan as a human being, so he rejected him, and wrote a poem to mock the matter, saying, "It's a pity that twenty pancakes are gold, and it's a pity to attract a pair of prostitutes to get drunk." (It is said that a Golden Harvest medal was worth twenty gold at that time.) In February 1914, after returning from Japan, Zhang Taiyan was put under house arrest because he opposed Yuan Shikai's proclaiming emperor. He was first imprisoned in Bensi Hutong in Beijing, and then in Qianliang Hutong in Dongcheng.At this time, Huang Kan was accepting the invitation of Peking University to come to Beijing to serve as a professor. He found out about Zhang's whereabouts and risked his life to visit.Huang Kan saw that Zhang was lonely, so he stayed with him on the grounds of asking Zhang to talk about literary history.Huang Kan was expelled by the police after months of solidarity with his teacher.

Huang Kan's teacher, Liu Shipei, later became one of the six gentlemen of the "Chou Anhui". In 1915, Liu called a meeting of celebrities in the academic circle in Beijing, and mobilized Huang Kan and others to support Yuan's name as emperor. Let it go!" After saying that, he left in a huff.The people present at the meeting also dispersed. After the establishment of the Republic of China, Huang Kan hosted the "Minsheng Daily" in Shanghai. The "September 18th" incident happened, and he wrote "Mianguo People's Song": "Four hundred trillion people would rather die than fight, and I can't bear to see China as ruins."

When the Nanjing National Government was in power, most of Huang Kan's old friends in the Tongmenghui were dignitaries of the state government, and he was ashamed to associate with them.But when Juzheng was under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek at that time, he was alone and in great pain, and when others couldn't hide, he often came to Juzheng's prison to talk with him to relieve his boredom.Later, after Juzheng made a comeback and regained his high position, he never saw him again!Thinking of his friendship, Juzheng went to Liangshou Lu to ask him why he no longer came to play, and he replied solemnly: "You are not what you used to be, you have a lot of guests, and you have a high position. How can I be a clinging person!"