Chapter 114 era of assassination

When Zhang Taiyan and others opposed Sun Yat-sen everywhere, Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin, the two self-employed, did not have as many thoughts as those small groups. Instead, they followed Sun Yat-sen loyally and fled to Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and other places in Southeast Asia. With all sincerity, he became Sun Yat-sen's most trusted confidant. Therefore, when Sun Yat-sen heard that his most trusted subordinate was going to carry out an assassination, he became anxious: You are a revolutionary leader, how can you be an assassin? Wang Jingwei's good friend Hu Hanmin also firmly opposed it.

To this, Wang Jingwei responded: Revolution is like cooking, it needs a cauldron and a salary.Those who are in the cauldron are not afraid of water and fire and endure long-term tempering; those who are paid are temporarily vigorous and brilliant, and Wang is willing to pay for it. Everyone saw that Wang Jingwei's death was decided, and at the same time they also felt that this was indeed the only way to restore the reputation of the Revolutionary Party, so they had to agree. Tuansha has the wish to rise and fall Chu, beat the waves without spines to attack Qin! Ever since Wu Yue assassinated the five foreign ministers, there have been constant performances of heroic elegy, such as Xu Xilin's assassination of En Ming, and Jianhu heroine Qiu Jin's heroic sacrifice.They thought that such a heroic individual fight alone could awaken the people and seize the world.For this reason, the elite elements among the revolutionaries at that time were all obsessed with assassination.

Take Cai Yuanpei, the president of Peking University, as an example. In 1904, Cai Yuanpei asked someone to get a cat and let it take the cyanic acid he had prepared. The cat was poisoned and died.Later, Cai Yuanpei felt that cyanic acid, a liquid poison, was inconvenient to use, and planned to transform it into a solid. After half a day of research, he felt that explosives were better and more powerful, so he began to make explosives. Cai Yuanpei also believed that women’s assassination was more concealed than men’s, so he paid special attention to the teaching of chemistry in girls’ schools in order to cultivate the seeds of assassination ("Cai Yuanpei's Self-written Chronicle", Wu Liyang's "Ghosts and Gods Weeping Heroes: On Assassination in the Late Qing and Early Republic").

Therefore, you don't have to feel sorry for Wang Jingwei's resolute begging for death. After all, that era was an era of sacrifice and assassination.