Chapter 17 16. The Assassination of Song Jiaoren and the Possible Truth

In February 1913, Song Jiaoren bid farewell to his mother and wife, gave speeches in Changsha, Wuhan, Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places, returned to Shanghai after traveling, and planned to take the train to Beijing on March 20.Wherever Song Jiaoren went, he often gave speeches, and some of them criticized Yuan Shikai's government.At that time, someone advised him not to show his sharpness too much, so as to avoid the danger of accidents.Song Jiaoren didn't take it seriously. He said, "I have been upright in my life. I have neither old grudges nor personal enmities. How can there be such despicable and cruel methods in the competition between politicians in broad daylight?"

Alas, after all, Song Jiaoren was young and inexperienced, so he was too careless. He underestimated China's deep-rooted autocratic power too much. This so-called "being dazzled by victory" really left a bloody lesson for the latecomers. At around ten o'clock in the evening on March 20, Song Jiaoren, accompanied by Huang Xing, Yu Youren and others, came to Shanghai-Nanjing Railway Station to prepare for the northward journey.Since many elected members of Congress also departed from Shanghai at that time, the station also set up a lounge for members of parliament, where Song Jiaoren and others took a short rest first.The atmosphere in the Congressman's Lounge is warm, and everyone's spirits are high.Just as everyone was happily planning the beautiful blueprint for the future of the Republic of China, the whistle of the train suddenly sounded, reminding the train that it had arrived, and the passengers got on the train quickly.

It is only tens of meters from the member's lounge to the ticket gate, and it takes two or three minutes to walk there, but at this time it suddenly started to rain.Surrounded by everyone, Song Jiaoren and Huang Xing walked side by side in front, talking and laughing along the way, but when they were about to reach the ticket gate, a black shadow suddenly appeared from the diagonal, saying it was too late Hurry up, there was only a "bang" gunshot, and Song Jiaoren, who was walking in front of the team, had a painful expression on his face. He held on to the iron fence beside him and cried out with pain: "I've been shot!"

Immediately afterwards, there were two more gunshots, but this time the bullets bounced to the ground and did not hurt anyone.Amidst everyone's exclamation, the murderer was agile, and before the police arrived, the man had disappeared into the misty night rain, and he ran away without a trace.After this accident, the joyful atmosphere was swept away, and the night was so tense that it changed its face. In the drizzle, the street lights seemed even more dim. After everyone calmed down, they found that Song Jiaoren had fallen to the ground, his hands still clutching his injured waist tightly.When his companions found a car to take him to the hospital, blood had already flowed all over the place.Soon, Song Jiaoren was sent to a nearby railway hospital. After the doctor's examination, Song Jiaoren was shot in the back. It turned out to be poisonous!

There is no doubt that this is a well-planned political assassination, the purpose is to kill Song Jiaoren. After the surgeon arrived, he immediately operated on Song Jiaoren, and took out the bullet in Song Jiaoren's body after a lot of trouble, but it was already too late.After the operation, Song Jiaoren's face was as white as a sheet of paper. Knowing that his life was coming to an end, he moaned and dictated his will to Yu Youren, who was his escort, saying that there were three things that needed comrades' help. All the books stored in Tokyo will be donated to the Nanjing Library; second, his family has always been poor, and his mother is still alive, and I hope Huang Xing and other old friends will take care of him after his death; third, comrades should continue to fight to save the country, and don’t think of him And give up responsibility.

After speaking, Song Jiaoren was in extreme pain, sometimes he put his arms around his shoulders, sometimes he made a cross, it seemed that there was an endless suffering, and the group of friends beside him also wept for it.After the second intestinal suturing operation, Song Jiaoren's injury worsened. He also moaned and said: "I have worked so hard to reconcile the north and the south, but the rumormongers and ordinary people don't know the reason. Every time there are more misunderstandings, I really feel guilty." I will die with peace." At four o'clock in the morning on March 22, surrounded by Huang Xing, Yu Youren and others, Song Jiaoren finally passed away in tossing and tossing pain at the age of 32.Before he died, Song Jiaoren stared straight into his eyes, clenched his fists tightly, and there were still tears in his eyes, which showed how nostalgic and reluctant he was for this beautiful world.

When Song Jiaoren was visiting the West Lake in Hangzhou, Zengkou accounted for two of the five unique poems. One said: "Sunrise is snowy and slippery, and the mountains are dry and forests are empty; Xu searched for the winding path and went to the highest peak." At the bottom, the river sails through the trees; the Haimen tide is surging, and I want to draw the bow by force." If the last lines of the two poems are combined, it is "I have reached the highest peak, and I want to draw the bow by force", which is quite ominous. up.Maybe it's a trick of fate, Song Jiaoren's too young body may really not be able to bear such great ambitions.When he was about to reach the pinnacle of his political life, a dark trap had already been laid, and the fire of Song Jiaoren's life at the age of 32 and the ideal of constitutionalism that countless people were excited about were also mercilessly extinguished.

Song Jiaoren, courtesy name Dunchu, nicknamed Yufu, was born in Taoyuan, Hunan. He was born in a farming and studying family. At the beginning, his family was relatively well-off. began to decline.Song Jiaoren was gifted and intelligent since he was a child. He passed the examination of scholar in 1901. When he applied for Wuchang Wentong School in 1903, he entered the school with the first grade.Wentong School is a new school established by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Huguang, which played a great role in the dissemination of Chinese and foreign knowledge and new ideas at that time.In the same year that Song Jiaoren entered school, Huang Xing returned from Japan to promote the revolution. Song Jiaoren was very impressed after hearing his speech, and he followed Huang Xing on the same path ever since.

In February 1904, Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren and others established the Huaxing Association, with Huang Xing as the president and Song Jiaoren and Liu Kui as the vice presidents.In November of that year, Huaxinghui was preparing to hold an anti-Qing uprising in Changsha, but unfortunately the news leaked before it was launched, and the attempted uprising failed.At the end of the year, Song Jiaoren went into exile in Japan after learning that he had been expelled from school. At the beginning of 1905, Song Jiaoren and revolutionary comrades founded the magazine "China of the Twentieth Century" in Tokyo to promote the revolution. Song Jiaoren was promoted as a manager and took on the main task of writing, although this magazine only published two issues It was forced to stop publication by the Japanese side, but Song Jiaoren's passionate articles have already attracted a lot of attention among Chinese students studying abroad.

After the establishment of the Tongmenghui, the magazine "China in the Twentieth Century" was renamed "Min Bao" (the official newspaper of the Tongmenghui), and Song Jiaoren was still in charge of daily affairs.When Song Jiaoren first arrived in Japan, because he didn't know Japanese, he often went to bookstores to buy books for self-study, and signed up to learn Japanese, English, and even went to the sports club to practice military gymnastics in preparation for launching an armed uprising in the future.After having a certain foundation in Japanese, Song Jiaoren took the examination of Waseda University and became a preparatory student of the International Students Department.

During this period, Song Jiaoren translated some books on constitutionalism (at that time, the similarity between Japanese and Chinese was 70%, and there were not as many katakana as there are now. Chinese people who study in Japan can roughly understand Japanese books and newspapers), Including "Japanese Constitution", "Summary of the British System", "Summary of the American System", "The Police System of Various Countries", "German Government System", etc. Although these academic activities are not profound, they basically laid the foundation for him in constitutionalism and law. The basis of cognition. Judging from Song Jiaoren's diary, his life in Japan was not so pleasant.For example, on March 27, 1906, Song Jiaoren wrote in his diary that when he received a letter from his family, his brother said that life at home was very difficult, that all the clothes were taken out to be pawned, and the fields that had just grown green seedlings were also sold. Now, the old mother misses him very much and hopes that he will go home, and hopes that he can send money home or take it home by himself to alleviate the financial difficulties of the family.After Song Jiaoren finished reading the letter, he was distressed and helpless. He wished he could grow wings and fly home to visit his mother, and he wanted to find a way to get a sum of money to send back, but he thought about it, and finally came up with a solution nor! In 1907, when Japan was planning to seize the Chinese territory "Jiandao" (i.e. the Yanji area), Song Jiaoren broke into the Japanese secret organization "Changbaishan Society" under the pseudonym of a Japanese, and obtained the "Jiandao" residence leave forged by the Japanese. evidence.As a result, he wrote a book called "Jiandao Issue" and helped the Qing government succeed in maintaining the sovereignty of "Jiandao". In order to reward Song Jiaoren for his patriotic actions, Yuan Shikai, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, personally ordered the Minister in Japan to reward Song Jiaoren with 1,000 yuan.However, Song Jiaoren’s behavior also brought him passiveness. First, the comrades of the Tongmenghui suspected that he had defected to the Qing court. Second, the Japanese government regarded him as a spy of the Qing government and monitored him. At this time, the Tongmenghui also Repeated disturbances, Song Jiaoren was also involved in the conflict. In January 1911, Song Jiaoren returned to Shanghai, and at the invitation of Yu Youren, he served as the editor-in-chief of Minli Daily, and wrote a large number of political commentaries and revolutionary propaganda articles.During this period, Song Jiaoren, Tan Renfeng, Chen Qimei and others organized the Central Headquarters of the Tongmenghui in an attempt to launch an uprising in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.Before the Wuchang Uprising (September 25), Hubei Revolutionary Party members Juzheng and Yang Yuru went to Shanghai to negotiate with Song Jiaoren and others about launching the uprising, and hoped that the Tongmenghui would send someone to lead it. Unfortunately, Song Jiaoren believed that the time was not yet ripe. No action was taken. After the Wuchang Uprising, Song Jiaoren served as the dean of the Legal System in the Nanjing Provisional Government and assisted Sun Yat-sen in formulating laws and regulations.But on the issue of the political system, Song Jiaoren advocated the responsible cabinet system, which conflicted with the grand presidential system advocated by Sun Yat-sen. Later, when the peace talks between the North and the South were successful, Tang Shaoyi, the first prime minister of the cabinet, nominated him to be the chief of agriculture and forestry, but this position obviously could not satisfy Song Jiaoren's ambition.After Tang Shaoyi resigned, Song Jiaoren also resigned from the cabinet and returned to his hometown in Hunan to visit his mother who had been away for nearly ten years. After the Tongmenghui was reorganized into the Kuomintang and won the congressional election, Song Jiaoren was very hopeful that he would become the new prime minister, but no one expected that this would be the final result. Who is the culprit behind the murder of Song Jiaoren? Of course, the first object of suspicion was Yuan Shikai, because he had too many reasons to kill Song Jiaoren.Yuan Shikai once admired Song Jiaoren very much and tried to pull him into his team. For example, when Song Jiaoren was going back to his hometown in Hunan to visit his relatives, Yuan Shikai once gave him a check of 500,000 yuan from the Bank of Communications for Song Jiaoren. You can spend it at will, but Song Jiaoren will return the basic original of the check except that he spent two or three hundred yuan.In addition, Yuan Shikai also ordered suits for Song Jiaoren, and even the measurements were very accurate, which shows his good intentions. It's a pity that under Yuan Shikai's goodwill and win-win, Song Jiaoren seemed to be so "ignorant of flattery". Arousing Yuan Shikai's anger and hatred seems to be in the words.Now that the Kuomintang has won the congressional election, Song Jiaoren is about to become a formidable opponent. How could Yuan Shikai not want to kill him? What makes people speechless is that before his death, Song Jiaoren asked Huang Xing to call Beijing as a ghostwriter, and reported the assassination to Yuan Shikai. If it is not solidified, the people's well-being will not increase, and if you let go suddenly, there will be lingering regrets after death. President Fuji sincerely preached justice and tried his best to protect the rights of the people so that the country can establish an indomitable constitution. Although the day of death is still alive. Death mourning, I still pray for appreciation." People who are about to die are eagerly looking forward to it. Zhang Shizhao said that he "doesn't realize it until death". Does it make people feel sad to hear it? When Yuan Shikai heard the news of Song Jiaoren's assassination, he was also very surprised. He immediately called Cheng Dequan, the governor of Jiangsu, and asked for the murderer to be arrested quickly and dealt with strictly according to the law to maintain the country's discipline.After the bad news of Song Jiaoren's death came, Yuan Shikai issued an order requesting the State Council to give preferential treatment, saying: "The former chief of agriculture and forestry, Song Jiaoren, ran the state affairs and created a republic, and made great contributions. It is suitable for the establishment of a unified government. State affairs, especially able to inform the general. Planning and labor, the plan is to make great achievements, why did you hear about the tragic change? The Republic of China was newly established, and talents are rare. The murderer dared to attack Xunliang in full view. Reading the telegram is extremely frustrating. All the citizens of our country are deeply saddened." At that time, it was not yet possible to determine that President Yuan Da was the murderer behind the scenes.The reason is very simple. If Song Jiaoren was stabbed to death at the sensitive time after the congressional election, Yuan Shikai would undoubtedly be the most suspected.Therefore, although the Kuomintang members at that time had doubts in their hearts, they did not show it at least on the surface. In any case, the Sri Lankan is gone, and the breath will last forever. On April 13, in the third week after Song Jiaoren's death, the Kuomintang members held a memorial meeting in Shanghai, and more than 20,000 people came to pay their respects to Song Jiaoren. On April 25, Tan Renfeng and others requested the government to cast a statue of Song Jiaoren and open a park to commemorate it. In June 1914, the park was completed, and the address is not far from the place where Song Jiaoren was killed (now Zhabei Park).On the day when Song Jiaoren's body was moved into the cemetery, tens of thousands of mourners came to the funeral. Tan Renfeng, Wang Huichong, Ju Zheng, Zhang Taiyan and other Kuomintang dignitaries and celebrities also came to attend the funeral. There is a bronze sculpture of an eagle fighting a snake on the top of Song Jiaoren's tomb. The tomb faces south and is approximately square. There are 24 round-headed square columns around it, connecting them into stone railings.There is a large stele in front of the tomb. The inscription "Mr. Song Jiaoren's Tomb" and the number are written in ink by Mr. Sun Yat-sen.In the middle of the tomb area, there is a sitting statue of Song Jiaoren in a full-body suit. On the front of the statue is engraved the word "Fisherman", written in seal script by Zhang Taiyan; on the back is an inscription: "Mr. What do I remember? Is it a straight pen? A straight pen kills people! Is it a curved pen? It is a good history. It is written by Yu Youren. Song Jiaoren’s cemetery was originally in the countryside. After decades of development, it has already lived in the downtown area of ​​Shanghai. In today’s Zhabei Park, Song Jiaoren’s tomb still stands, and there are many people around here. It is lively and lively, but the deeds of Song Jiaoren, the pioneer of constitutionalism, have long been seldom known.In this forgotten corner, the statue of Song Jiaoren seems somewhat lonely and lonely. After the Song case happened, Cheng Dequan, governor of Jiangsu Province, ordered Shanghai to arrest the murderer immediately, and the concession authorities and the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway Bureau also offered rewards for his arrest.With a heavy reward, there must be a brave man, and the patrolmen and inquisitors in Shanghai have been dispatched one after another, looking for information to solve the case.Contrary to the unsolved assassination cases in the past, the assassination of Song Dynasty was solved unexpectedly smoothly, which can almost be described as unbelievable. History is always so paradoxical.On the third day after Song Jiaoren was assassinated, Wang Afa, an antique calligraphy and painting dealer, went to the British Concession to report the crime, claiming that he had gone to the home of Ying Kuicheng (Ying Guixin), a leader of the Shanghai Youth Gang, because of selling calligraphy and painting a week ago. He took out a photo and offered to stab the person in the photo to death with a reward of 1,000 yuan. At that time, Wang Afa did not agree.After the Song case happened, Wang Afa saw that the photo of Song Jiaoren published in various newspapers was the person in the photo given to him by Ying Guixin, so he rushed to report the case. After getting this information, the police from the International Settlement immediately arrested Ying Guixin in a certain brothel, and immediately went to Ying's house to search.The most interesting thing is that when the patrols searched Ying's house, they found that one of them looked nervous, and this person was the murderer of Song Jiaoren, Samurai Ying.But what is puzzling is that when Ying Guixin was captured by the police, Samurai Ying was also in the brothel, and was entrusted by a friend to report to Ying's family, but was caught by a strange coincidence. According to common sense, if Wu Shiying was the murderer, he should have fled immediately when Ying Guixin was arrested. Why did he throw himself into the trap at Ying's house?What is even more puzzling is that after Wu Shiying was arrested, he quickly and bluntly admitted the act of assassinating Song Jiaoren. He confessed that his real name was Wu Fuming, a native of Shanxi, who had studied in a school in Guizhou and later died in a I used to be a supervisor in the Yunnan military camp, and now I was laid off because of the army. I came to Shanghai for a visit, and met a friend surnamed Chen when I was drinking tea in a teahouse. ), should Guixin ask Samurai Ying to assassinate a person, saying that this person is an anarchist party, killing him is to kill 400 million compatriots, and promised to pay a thousand oceans after the event is completed, so Samurai Ying agreed to go. On the day of the assassination, a friend surnamed Chen told Samurai Ying that the man was surnamed Song, and that he was going to board the train tonight, so he happened to be there to deal with him.After speaking, Chen gave Samurai Ying a five-shot pistol, and recruited two other people to go to the train station.After they bought platform tickets and entered the station, they happened to meet Song Jiaoren entering the reception room, so Chen pointed out the target to Wu Shiying and asked him to do it later.After a while, Song Jiaoren and others came out of the reception room. Halfway through the walk, Samurai Ying shot him, then fled, and returned home to report his meritorious service.After Ying Guixin learned that Song Jiaoren was indeed assassinated, she also praised the warrior for his ability and promised to send him to study abroad in the future.Samurai Ying returned the pistol, which was later found at Ying's house. Speaking of Ying Guixin, the leader of the Green Gang, his original name is Ying Kuicheng, and he is also a well-known figure on the beach.Ying Guixin had two titles at the time, one was the president of the Communist Association of the Republic of China, and the other was the chief inspector of Jiangsu Stationed in Shanghai.Ying Guixin joined the Youth Gang in Shanghai when she was young, and later developed a certain influence.Chen Qimei got acquainted with Ying Guixin when she was planning the revolution in Shanghai. Chen himself often lived in the house provided by Ying Guixin, which became the secret stronghold of the revolutionaries at that time.During this period, Chen Qimei and Ying Guixin joined each other's organizations, that is, Chen Qimei joined the Youth Gang, and Ying Guixin also joined the Tongmenghui. During the Shanghai Restoration War, the Youth Gang became a staunch ally of the revolutionaries. They volunteered to organize death squads, and thousands of gang members participated in the battle in armed riots such as the attack on the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.After the recovery of Shanghai, Chen Qimei established the Shanghai Army Governor's Mansion, which also received the full support of the Green Gang at that time.At the beginning of the revolution, the Green Gang and the Revolutionary Party had a honeymoon. For example, Ying Guixin was appointed as the chief of Chen Qimei's intelligence section. When Sun Yat-sen returned to Shanghai, Ying Guixin was sent by Chen Qimei to be directly responsible for receiving and protecting Sun Yat-sen. .When Sun Yat-sen went to Nanjing to take office as interim president, Ying Guixin formed a guard and accompanied him to Nanjing. Originally, Ying Guixin should have a good political future after the success of the revolution, but this person has too much charlatanism and hooliganism. She was more polite, but later when more people came, Ying Guixin just waited for the food to be served, and sometimes spoke harsh words to the guests.Seeing that he was not suitable for this kind of work, Sun Yat-sen transferred him to the chief of general affairs of the interim government, but Ying Guixin was involved in corruption and bribery in his daily work, so Sun Yat-sen sent him back to Shanghai when the interim government was about to dissolve. In June 1912, with the support of Chen Qimei, the governor of Shanghai, Ying Guixin became the president of the Chinese National Communist Association, a quasi-party organization jointly established by the Shanghai Youth Gang, Hongmen and Gongkou. The product of gang organizations being made public.When the revolutionaries in Wuchang tried to launch the Nanhu Cavalry Riot to overthrow Li Yuanhong, Ying Guixin also participated on behalf of the Gongjinhui. Later, she was wanted because of the failure and fled back to Shanghai in a hurry. Since many gangs participated in the Revolution of 1911, the quality of these personnel was generally not high, which caused great chaos in the society. Therefore, after Yuan Shikai came to power, he took measures to solve the gang problem in order to maintain local stability.When the Beijing government learned that Ying Guixin had participated in the riots in Wuchang, it sent Hong Shuzu, Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, hoping to ban the Gongjin Association and properly handle the issues of gangs and local security. Hong Shuzu was not simple. He was the great-grandson of Hong Liangji, a famous scholar in the Qing Dynasty. Zhang Zhidong and others served as staff.However, Hong Shuzu was very greedy and daring, and was expelled every time after being appointed for a period of time.After the Wuchang Uprising, the North and the South negotiated peace, which gave Hong Shuzu a godsend opportunity, because at that time the representatives of the North and the South were discussing affairs with Zhao Fengchang, Zhang Zhidong's chief aide, and Hong Shuzu and Zhao Fengchang were not only old acquaintances, but also relatives.As a result, Hong Shuzu became Yuan Shikai's eyeliner during the peace talks between the North and the South, and made great contributions. After the fall of the Qing court, Tang Shaoyi originally planned to let Hong Shuzu be the secretary of the State Council, but considering his previous bad deeds, he was later changed to the secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.Hong Shuzu didn't have a deep personal relationship with Yuan Shikai and Zhao Bingjun, the chief of internal affairs, so when he got close to new masters like Yuan and Zhao, he worked extra hard and was eager to win favor and make meritorious service. Hong Shuzu was also a member of the gang in Shanghai, so he hit it off with Ying Guixin soon. He represented the Beijing government in dealing with the issue of the Qinghong Gang, and finally adopted the method of bribery, and helped Ying Guixin relieve the opposition His wanted warrant.After the revolution, Ying Guixin was treated coldly by the revolutionaries, so she quickly took advantage of the wind and took refuge in Yuan Shikai's group.At the same time, Ying Guixin did not cut off the relationship with Chen Qimei and others, which was a bit like a "double agent" (after all, Shanghai was still ruled by the Kuomintang at that time). For Ying Guixin's opportunistic behavior, Chen Qimei and others have also been aware of it for a long time. Especially when the Song case was cracked, the Kuomintang members played a very important role, such as exposing and arresting Ying Guixin, and finding Ying Guixin and Hong Shuzu from Ying's family. As well as a large number of confidential telegrams from the Minister of Internal Affairs Zhao Bingjun, etc., there are shadows of Chen Qimei's forces behind them. Among these confidential telegrams, it was mainly the information exchange between Ying Guixin and Hong Shuzu. When the Kuomintang led by Song Jiaoren was in sight of victory in the parliamentary elections, the words "fierce articles" began to appear in their telegrams.For this, historians have two explanations. One is that Ying and Hong planned to assassinate Song Jiaoren, and the other is that Ying and Hong planned to buy Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing, and Song Jiaoren from Japan. To vilify the revolutionaries in the newspapers. After entering March, the words "destroy Song Dynasty" appeared in Ying and Hong's telegrams, and this "destroy" also has two interpretations.To make matters worse, the Chief of Internal Affairs Zhao Bingjun and Ying Guixin also passed two sealed telegrams. Although it was a routine matter, other telegrams between Hong Shuzu and Ying Guixin revealed that Yuan Shikai and Zhao Bingjun knew about "destroying the Song Dynasty". Judging from the analysis of the telegram, the meaning of "ruining the Song Dynasty" at the beginning should be to vilify Sun Song and others through the media, but because Ying Guixin could not produce substantive evidence (the so-called "bad history"), Hong Shuzu raised a considerable level. Therefore, Ying Guixin decided to take the risk, and "destroying the Song Dynasty" became "going to the Song Dynasty", that is, to get rid of Song Jiaoren in order to obtain a huge reward.As far as this point is concerned, only Hong Shuzu and Ying Guixin knew about this matter, and there is no direct evidence to prove that Zhao Bingjun and Yuan Shikai knew about it. What is strange is that Wu Shiying overturned all the previous confessions in the court a week later, claiming that he killed Song Jiaoren this time entirely on his own initiative, and denied that he had ever met Ying Guixin.Not only that, Wu Shiying also claimed that he was killing harm for the Beijing government, and seemed to intend to exonerate Ying Guixin and turn people's attention to the Beijing government.Since Samurai Ying's confessions were too outrageously translated, it has to be suspected that someone colluded and deliberately instigated the confession behind the scenes. What's even more strange is that after being arrested, Wu Shiying has always been calm and shows no signs of fear. One joy." Samurai Ying's repeated behavior makes people feel puzzling, and his background has never been clarified: his arrest is strange, his confession is absurd, and his death is a mystery . Wu Shiying and Ying Guixin were initially detained in the British and French Concession, and were later extradited to a Chinese court. However, the day before the preliminary trial, the fit and healthy Wu Shiying died suddenly, and there was no clue about the whole incident.Since there is no record of outsiders contacting prisoners, Wu is most suspected of being poisoned by guards.What's more terrible is that when Wu was killed, the murderer did it so well that he didn't leave any traces, so that there was no valuable evidence left at that time (of course, the evidence may also be destroyed by the guards). As for Ying Guixin's death later, she basically asked for her own death.After Ying Guixin was arrested, he fled during the Second Revolution. After escaping, he hid in the German Concession in Qingdao.After Yuan Shikai defeated the revolutionaries, Ying Guixin made a serious political mistake. He jumped out unwillingly and publicly sent a telegram to the Beijing government at the end of 1913 requesting "redress of the unjust prison".Ying Guixin used the pretext of rehabilitating the assassin Samurai Ying, saying that "Song Jiaoren is the mastermind of the civil strife, but he has more honors in his death; Samurai Ying sank to the bottom of the sea for the people's rebellion." Not only that, Ying Guixin found Hong Shuzu in Qingdao (Hong Shuzu fled to the Qingdao Concession immediately after the Song incident) and after failing to demand a reward, she ran from Qingdao to Beijing and wrote to Yuan Shikai asking for a reward for killing Song.This Ying Guixin was hot-headed at the time, and he didn't weigh his own weight. He asked for 500,000 yuan in cash and asked him to be awarded the "Second Honor", both of which are indispensable. Yuan Shikai is still very good at dealing with gangsters like Ying Guixin.On the other hand, if Yuan Shikai really ordered Ying Guixin to assassinate Song Jiaoren, it is possible to secretly give him a sum of money to send him away. If it was a scapegoat, it would be normal for Yuan Shikai to have murderous intentions towards Gui Xin. Sure enough, one night, four burly men climbed the wall and entered Ying Guixin's residence under the pretext of searching for smoke and dirt. Fortunately, Ying himself was not there.When Ying Guixin heard the news, he was so frightened that he didn't even dare to pack his luggage, so he fled to Tianjin in a hurry, but he still died in the end.When the train arrived near Langfang, Ying Guixin was stabbed to death in the carriage.In a certain sense, Ying Guixin's murder was considered revenge for Song Jiaoren.Later, there was evidence that it was Hao Zhanyi and Wang Shuangxi from the Beijing Law Enforcement Department who responded, and the person who gave the order was most likely Yuan Shikai.This is what happens to a rogue who goes back and forth and breaks his promise. What is even more disturbing is that just over a month after Ying Guixin was killed, another suspect, Zhao Bingjun, who was most attacked in the Song case, also died suddenly, which made the Song case even more confusing.After the Song case, Zhao Bingjun resigned as prime minister and became the governor of Zhili after the news passed.At present, many history books claim that Zhao Bingjun was poisoned to death by Yuan Shikai, but this kind of major event where the president poisoned the former prime minister would seem a bit bizarre. At least in the relevant records, there is no conclusive evidence that Zhao Bingjun was poisoned to death.In fact, Zhao Bingjun's death is very likely to be a normal death, but because the time of death coincides with Ying Guixin's murder too much, this is probably the charm of historical accident.According to historical records, Zhao Bingjun participated in the Western Expedition with Zuo Zongtang's army in his early years. He once encountered a heavy snowstorm in the Gobi Desert of Xingxing Gorge. As a result, he and his horse were buried in the snow for three days and nights. Close to female sex, but depends on opium smoke for life. Zhao Bingjun has been an official for many years. He made his fortune while training soldiers at Yuan Shikai's small station, and specialized in police administration.After Yuan became the governor of Zhili to carry out the New Deal, Zhao Bingjun prepared to build China's earliest modern police system in Tianjin, creating a precedent for China's modern police system.Zhao Bingjun followed Yuan Shikai all the time in the late Qing Dynasty, and later served as the right servant of the Patrol Department. He was in charge of police affairs and civil affairs all the year round, and he had no special bad deeds.The most interesting thing is that, at least on the surface, the relationship between Zhao Bingjun and Song Jiaoren is fairly close. When Song Jiaoren was working in Beijing, it was inconvenient for Song to live outside the city, so he often stayed at Zhao Bingjun's house.When Song Jiaoren returned the check of 50000 yuan to Yuan Shikai, he also entrusted Zhao Bingjun to handle it and asked Zhao Bingjun to pay the 50000 yuan debt from the check on his behalf.If the relationship between the two is not good, it is absolutely impossible to have this entrustment. After the news of Song Jiaoren's assassination came, Zhao Bingjun was presiding over a regular cabinet meeting. He turned pale when he heard the news, and kept circling around the table while talking to himself: "If people say that I killed Song Jiaoren, wouldn't it be that I am selling friends?" , How can you count as a person?" After a while, the presidential palace sent a telegram to invite the prime minister, and Zhao Bingjun left in a hurry.Judging from the on-site records left by people at the time, it seems that Zhao Bingjun's serious gaffe was not performed intentionally, but because he was at a loss because of ignorance. If he had known the plan to assassinate Song in advance, it probably wouldn't be the case.However, Zhao Bingjun knew about Hong Shuzu's "destruction of the Song Dynasty" activities, so he said, "If people say that I killed Song Jiaoren, wouldn't it be that I betrayed my friends, and I can be counted as a person."It seems that although Prime Minister Zhao also made some small moves against Song Jiaoren politically, he should bear the responsibility for Song Jiaoren's killing for lax control of his subordinates. According to records, Zhao Bingjun had been sick and working before his death, and there was nothing unusual before.At 5 o'clock in the morning, Zhao Bingjun suddenly felt severe pain in his abdomen. His family hurriedly sent people to invite Qu Yongqiu, Xu Deshun and Wang Yannian, the most famous military medical officers in Tianjin, but the three famous doctors were helpless. He died that morning, and his family members, doctors and others did not mention that he died of poisoning.Therefore, it is somewhat too arbitrary to determine that Zhao Bingjun was poisoned to death by Yuan Shikai. Hong Shuzu, the most insidious and cunning secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Song case, fled to the Qingdao German Concession as quickly as possible after Song Jiaoren was stabbed to death.However, the Skynet was fully restored, and Hong Shuzu ran to Shanghai in the spring of 1917. He was recognized by Song Zhenlu, the son of Song Jiaoren (who was only 15 years old at the time) and Song’s secretary Liu Bai. He was confiscated to the Shanghai District Court, and later sent to the Beiping Court, and was finally sentenced to hang in the 8th year of the Republic of China, and this was the first time the use of hanging in the Republic of China.During the execution, for some reason, Hong Shuzu's head and neck were separated (perhaps because he was too fat or the wringer was a substandard product), and his appearance was horrific. When Hong Shuzu was in prison, he knew that his death was inevitable. He once wrote an elegiac couplet to defend himself, saying: "Serving the government will bring disaster to himself, and he feels that he has a clear conscience; in troubled times, life is better than death. Where is the dust?" Since Hong is not convinced, then go to Yincao Difu to see Song Jiaoren and Ying Guixin to argue. As for the other major suspect, Chen Qimei, it is more like retribution for wrongdoing, reaping the fruit of oneself.Chen Qimei is a native of Huzhou, Zhejiang. She was born in a family of small country gentry who worked and studied for several generations. Their three brothers, Chen Qiye, Chen Qimei, and Chen Qicai, are all well-known.Chen Qimei's younger brother, Chen Qicai, was talented in literature and passed the scholar list. Later, he went to Japan to study military affairs. He first went to Zhenwu School to study culture and Japanese, and then entered the first phase of the infantry department of the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer School (classmates included Wu Luzhen, Zhang Shaozeng, Zhang Hongkui, and Jiang Yanxing. et al.), who returned to China after graduation and served as the commander of the New Army stationed in Shanghai. He was only 23 years old.Soon, Chen Qicai took up the posts of Hunan New Army Standard Commander and Hunan Armed Forces School Supervisor, which can be described as a prosperous official career. The younger brother's successful experience gave Chen Qimei a lot of stimulation and inspiration. He was working as an apprentice in a pawn shop at the time. He was 26 years old and the apprentice had not yet graduated. Unexpectedly, his younger brother had only studied in Japan for a few years and had a bright future. Therefore, Chen Qimei also asked The younger brother gave financial support and went to Japan in 1906 to enter Dongbin School to study military affairs. When Chen Qimei arrived in Japan, there were thousands of Chinese students studying in Tokyo at that time, and the revolutionary trend of thought was widely spread. As a result, he soon joined the Tongmenghui, and got acquainted with Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren, Wang Jingwei, Hu Hanmin and others.Compared with these veteran leaders of the Tongmenghui, Chen Qimei joined the revolution much later and her qualifications were relatively low. However, because Chen Qimei was older, shrewd and capable, and had rich social experience, she quickly became one of the leaders. Although Chen Qimei performed outstandingly in the revolution, her personal reputation is very bad, such as personal life corruption, hooliganism, and so on.When Chen was the governor of Shanghai, public opinion often attacked him as "the governor of Yangmei" due to his frequent visits to indecent places.It is said that once Tao Chengzhang came back from raising funds in Nanyang, Chen Qimei asked Tao Chengzhang for money as a revolutionary fund, Tao not only refused to give it, but also said to Chen Qimei: "Shanghai has enough money for you, and I will give the money to the revolutionary comrades in Zhejiang." You can't use it for whoring." As a result, Chen Qimei also forged a feud with Tao Yuanzhang. Chen Qimei was a double identity of a revolutionary and the Qinghong gang. He was always bold and ruthless, and he was involved in many famous political assassinations in the Republic of China.For example, the assassination of Tao Chengzhang of the Restoration Society was planned by Chen Qimei. It is unimaginable that Chen Qimei had such a black hand on the revolutionary party because of his personal interests.What's even more ironic is that after the Tao case, everyone announced that they would send a telegram to arrest the murderer, and Chen Qimei also said that they would arrest the murderer, but the murderer was none other than Chen Qimei instigated Chiang Kai-shek to do it. Two months after the Song case, when Chen Qimei planned another assassination of Xu Baoshan, the great salt lord of the Hong Gang (who also participated in the revolution at the time), the method used at that time was to make a specially-made antique vase time bomb, and then the counterfeit antique Shang sent to Xu's house and blew up Xu Baoshan to death.It is worth noting that the informant in the Song case was also an antique dealer who claimed to be selling paintings. Xia Ruifang, the founder of the Commercial Press, and Zheng Rucheng, a general of the Northern Army who defended Shanghai, were also planned to be assassinated by Chen Qimei. He also sent someone to assassinate Li Xiehe, the leader of the Restoration Army who was fighting against him for the governorship of Shanghai. Although he failed this time, But it also scared Li Xiehe away from Shanghai.Chen Qimei's style has always been arbitrary. On December 12, 1911, without any legal procedures, he shot Tao Junbao, the chief of staff of the Zhenjiang military government and the chief of staff of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang coalition army who had made great achievements in conquering Nanjing, and planned to assassinate the Zhenjiang military government. Lin Shuqing, the governor and commander-in-chief of the Linhuai Army of the Northern Expedition (Lin Shuqing later died inexplicably in 1912). In the Song case, Chen Qimei's shadow seems to be everywhere, but there is no direct evidence to prove what role Chen Qimei played in it.During the Second Revolution, many original files of the Shanghai Procuratorate were deliberately destroyed by Chen Qimei's soldiers, and the truth was even more difficult to ascertain.Perhaps there is God's will in the dark, and Chen Qimei, who is good at assassination, was finally assassinated in 1916. This time, the main envoy was Zhang Zongchang, a gang figure who also participated in the revolution, and he was from the same sect. Zhang Yilin, a confidential secretary who had followed Yuan Shikai for many years, once commented on the assassination of Song Dynasty. He said: “At the beginning of the Song Dynasty case, Hong Shuzu volunteered to destroy it. , and then caused a huge disaster. Yuan also has no way to explain himself. The villain can't be tricked, so it is." Yu Youren is a good friend of Song Jiaoren. The inscription he wrote for the statue is tragic and painful, but who killed Song Jiaoren? Many historical books have different opinions. At least until now, it is regrettable to say that Song Jiaoren was assassinated The case is still a mystery, and Mr. Yu Youren's wish of "Le Zhikongshan, Qi Zhiliang History" in the inscription has not been realized so far. (Note: The writing of the Song case refers to the blog articles of Mr. Ludi and Mr. Sigong, and I would like to express my gratitude here!)