Chapter 13 12. Kang Youwei Escapes

Kang Youwei left Beijing on the morning of the fifth day of August, and when he arrived in Tanggu in the evening, he boarded the China Merchants Haiyan Ferry.The Haiyan Ferry was postponed, but on the morning of the sixth day of the sixth day, the Chongqing Ferry of Swire was changed and sailed at 11:00.At this time, the Queen Mother had seized the power of Guangxu, and the Beijing coup had broken out.But Kang Youwei didn't know anything on board the ship. When the Chongqing boat was moored in Yantai, he went ashore to buy fruits and stones. When Kang Youwei fled by ship, he left two suicide notes.

One was written to his disciple Xu Qin, entrusting future affairs, the book says: "I wanted to save China, so I took the risk of a change, and it was unexpected. It was my fate. However, the gods never died. Jun Mian (Xu Qin's nickname) is a strong husband. I have an old mother. I trust you to take care of my family and do my best. No worries. Whoever in the same sect can protect our family and our country with justice will be praised by the central gods. Confucius was born in 2475 years, that is, on August 9th in the 25th year of Guangxu. It shows that there are aspiring scholars in the same school."

Twenty years later, on Kang Youwei's 60th birthday, he added a postscript to this last letter, narrating how he fled at that time. The postscript says: "This time I arrived in Shanghai on August 9th, 1898, and entrusted my disciple Xu Qinmian with the final letter. First, it was difficult to write, and my disciple Lin Xu came with two titles of Emperor Dezong Zhu Yu. The first edict ordered rescue with comrades. Bao, extremely anxious. He conspired with Tan Fusheng to summon Yuan Shikai to plan him. The second edict knew that he was about to fall into danger, so he still pretended to issue an official newspaper and ordered him to go to Shanghai. He said that you are very warm-hearted. As I know, it will be more effective every day I have high hopes to drive and build a great cause together. I also said: You love your body, and you are good at self-regulation. It is safe to be outside, but it is dangerous inside, so I sent it out to save it. The first emperor's heart. Although he was ordered to do it immediately, he still wanted to stay in Beijing to rescue him. Tan Fusheng took it upon himself to rescue him. Youbo praised him and urged me to go. Please, I will die for my life. The young man was killed by falling bricks in Huadeli in Guangdong, as if he had died for a long time. Still going to Tianjin, passing through the Ronglu Supervision Office, first boarded the China Merchants ship, and then changed to the British Chongqing with no upper cabin. The boat sailed at 10 o'clock on the sixth day. It was difficult for the Japanese to invade at dawn, and the first emperor was deposed. At six o'clock, the infantry soldiers surrounded the Nanhai Guild Hall. Young Bodi and his disciples Cheng Dazhang and Qian Weiji were arrested. That is to say, the nine cities were closed and the railways were cut off. Tiqi three thousand, Dasuo in the capital, Tan, Lin, Yang, Liu Sijunji and Yang Yichuan, Xu Zijing, Zhang Qiaoye, two servants were arrested, and the party prison was prosperous. If you don't want me, you will search Tianjin Luhai , sent across the country, entrusted my image to the consuls of various countries, and the boats in Shanghai searched and arrested closely for several days, but I left Beijing on the fifth day of dawn, but I didn’t know. The boat was moored on the seventh day. Basket and then board the ship. At that time, Yantai Dao had already received a telegram of secret arrest, but he didn't know what happened to him when he received the telegram. When it was detected, he returned the rope, and our ship was already sailing. He ordered the Flying Eagle warship to chase I was in Chongqing, but Flying Eagle didn't have enough charcoal to carry, so I couldn't reach the middle road. When we came to Shanghai, my family members were very worried, and rented small boats out of Wusong to meet them, but there was really nothing to do, because we had already prepared for observation and prevention.

Thirty nautical miles outside Wusong on the 9th, the British officials boarded the boat and held my portrait to look at me all over the place. They reached me and went into the bedroom.I asked in amazement, but I looked at each other out of the decree of false Yi, saying that Kang Youwei entered the pill poison and killed the emperor of Daxing, and he immediately executed the law on the spot, I respect this!I cried loudly and threw myself into the sea. The British official hugged me and said: "The rumors are not true, so my aunt waited for him, so he helped me to cross the British ship. I thought that I would be unlucky, so I should throw myself into the sea."Nai Fu's poem said: "Suddenly sprinkle the dragon and shade the sun, the purple slightly shifts the seat and the emperor's star sinks, the lonely minister lives up to the belt of the passerby, the blue sea waves are heartbroken every night."What's more, the old mother has nothing to support, and all the disciples are loyal and courageous. They don't change their hearts with death and life, and don't change their festivals with cold and heat. There is no one who can entrust them, such as Xu Qinjun in Sanshui. He wrote this book and a book with my wife, Mrs. Zhang Miaohua, to make her Do good deeds to my mother, attach poems, and let the servants keep them, in case anything happens to me.Twenty years ago, Jun Mian survived the change in Haizhu, and Mrs. Zhang and I survived. Today, the disciples offered wine for my and Mrs. Zhang’s birthday. Mrs. Zhang was also arrested in 1898, and escaped.

Jun Mian was arrested in Gaodi, along with Mai Meng, Hua Ru, Bo Wu, Jue Ren, and Gong Yu.It has been 20 years since I read it, and I am sixty years old. On the day I read Kui, Jun Mian Ziliang published this book to ask for the title. I feel sympathy for the traces of old dreams. I have experienced tens of thousands of deaths in my life, but if I am caught in the court, the first emperor killed me overnight, and I will always be a rebel. If Fan Weizong, the state affairs can be known immediately.However, I have survived ten deaths, and now I can extend my life, isn't it destiny?However, in the past twenty years, there have been frequent catastrophes, changes in the government and the market, the sunset of state affairs, the difficulties of the people's livelihood, and the lack of power to mend the sky. He bears the great hope of the late emperor to rebuild the great cause. He is deeply ashamed of the edict of his clothes and belts.This paper was written in a small boat that crossed the warship from Chongqing. I got bad paper and bad pens in the boat, and wrote it in a hurry.Jun Mian has been preserved to this day, since I have been in trouble for twenty years, I have been unremitting in respect and respect. There are tens of thousands of people who have traveled with me and joined the party. Those who have been diligent and lazy from the beginning to the end, or have changed in the middle way, are immeasurable. Also, how can it be possible to look across the world.Ding Si posted this when Kang Youwei read Kui on February 5th in his 60th year. "

The second letter was also written in the Chongqing round: "I am dedicated to saving China, mourning the hardships of 400 million people, and reforming the law to save them. I am in this trouble. But I came to the world to make a vow just for the sake of saving people. I hope that all will be ruled by Datong and peace. In the future, I will go through countless calamities. To save all living beings, even though we suffer frequently, we never tire of changing them. May my disciples, I will learn from my ambition and take saving people as a matter of course. Even after suffering, there is no change. The heavens of the earth appear everywhere, and there is no death at all. Li, as for countless kalpas, it is only born in the world. Gathering and dispersing life and death, the reason is constant, and it is so different to go in and out of it! Kang Changsu's posthumous writing on August 9th in the 24th year of Guangxu. There is nothing to read here, and everything is paid , but the kindness of my mother and my lord could not be repaid.”

Kang Youwei also wrote a postscript after this must-write book: "This is the ink I left behind when I threw myself into the sea in August, 1898. At that time, the capital dispatched 3,000 troops, closed the city and cut off the railway, and made great demands. I will go on the 4th with the secret decree, and the 5th will go to Tianjin and take the boat of the China Merchants Bureau. But there was no upper cabin, so at the dawn of the sixth day, I took the British Chongqing boat to Shanghai, and Shanghai was searched again. The British consul sent someone to see it later. The false decree said that a certain official Kang Youwei had been sent to the pill to kill the emperor. Immediately rectify the Dharma on the spot, I admire this. I saw that the above has done a great job, and I can only throw myself into the sea. The British hugged me and said: "I heard that it is true. Although you want to die, please wait for the news. How about the news? I have tried to throw myself into the sea, so I wrote this. I was a disciple of the school, and I wrote a letter with Xu Junmian to make him treat my mother well, and planned to throw him into the sea again. Unexpectedly, after more than 20 years, he returned to the country unharmed, and saw the book again under the double trees of Huanglong Temple in Lushan Mountain. Feeling. Although I am not dead, and China is in danger, we can know that life and death have a destiny, and it is impossible for human beings to do this. In the past twenty years, since the Gengzi boxing and bandit change, the Revolution of 1911, and the struggle between the North and the South, the dead of high officials and rich people are like Ma, there are few survivors of my old scholars. If the poor and lowly people died in the ravines, countless soldiers died, but the old man can still look at the mountains with his stick, and deal with the five elders. He is both emotional and self-satisfied. question".

After Kang Youwei fled to Hong Kong, although there were a lot of news in Beijing, it was extremely bad, especially after the death of the Six Gentlemen, there was no one to collect the corpses.Although Kang had to live, there was nothing he could do, so he had to ask Timothy Richard, an Englishman.Timothy Lee was a missionary who contributed a lot to China's reform movement at that time, especially after the Reform Movement of 1898, he spared no effort in the middle, which is very rare.The following is Kang's confidential letter to Timothy Lee: The first letter—— "Mr. Timothy Li: Farewell every four days, and he said that the palace of our country has changed. The servant received the emperor's secret edict every day to try to ask for help, but it is still too late without your minister's envoy. There will be a big change in five days. I am a sage and hero, the emperor who tried to change the new law was abolished, and he was murdered immediately after hearing it. Woah, it hurts! The puppet dynasty Cixi is obscene, corrupt, old-fashioned and foolish. He dared to usurp the throne and pretend to be a political trainer. The husband is the same. Day, the people have no two masters, and there is an emperor who has been in power for 20 years. The wise reform is like this, but what about those who need to be trained? According to Chinese scriptures, the emperor takes his aunt as his mother, not his concubine. The false Cixi gave birth to his mother in Tongzhi. In today's world, she is the concubine of the first emperor. How can she become a concubine who is obscene and obsolete and abolish the holy emperor? The empress of adultery poisoned me to show empress, and empress to poison me to resoluteness. My Majesty, the gods and men are indignant, and the heavens and the earth will not tolerate those who have always suppressed the New Deal, and the 30 million railways and the 30 million navy are all proposed to build the Summer Palace. It is all because of this that in the future, entrusting the country to its strong neighbors will not only worry our country, but also the overall situation of the earth. The servant died ten times, and he was protected by your country, so he got his whole life. Minister Dian Dagui's government presides over justice, protects my emperor's sacred bow, and grants my emperor's power, bestows my great virtue, and is immortal. My emperor will definitely have special plans to support the overall situation of East Asia, and the strength of your country depends on it I would like to thank you for my protection in front of your minister, and I would like to ask for help on behalf of my great emperor, but I am mourning. The name is different. My younger brother was killed innocently, his liver and intestines were broken. I don’t know where his remains are? I am afraid that no one dares to accept them. The gentleman has a benevolent heart and a sense of righteousness, and he has always held his lapel. Fortunately, he asked each other to know each other, and his younger brother also asked him to hand over the remains. He Dong, the comprador of Dianhang, will receive it if he reposts it. I hope that all the freight and shipping papers will be written for remittance. Mr. Ji regards morality as a matter of saving people, so he must promise it. It is presumptuous to rely on the ability of a benevolent person to save people. Please be safe. The name is different.

Another letter is sent to Rong Chunfu, who hopes to be a close friend on behalf of him, and inform each other of his feelings, and this letter also shows it.If the bone is transported back, it is not necessary to specify who will receive the ferry ticket to Hong Kong, but please put the ticket in a letter in Western characters and send it directly to Hong Kong. When it arrives at Hong Kong, He Dong will naturally take care of it with his younger brother.And later.There is also a letter of condolences to Yang Xiaolian Mishang, hoping that the trustee will hand it over properly. This person is the son of Yang Shenxiu's censor. His father was killed innocently, and it is very sad.And open.

At the same time, Yang Shiyu Shenxiu and Tan Jingqing, who were killed at the same time, were all close friends and righteous men. Among them, Lin Jingqingxu was a disciple of his younger brother, Yang Jingqingrui, and Liu Jingqing Guangdi were all people of righteousness. Is it bone?If you can show love and benevolence, collect his remains, bury them, and wait for his family to take them, I will be very grateful and pray.Disciple Kai. " Kang Youwei thought that Timothy Li was still in Beijing, so he asked Li to collect the remains of the Six Gentlemen, but Li had actually gone to Shanghai, so the letter was not delivered to Li.From this letter, we can see that Kang Youwei was under the cover of Sir Ho Tung in Hong Kong. At that time, Ho Tung was just a comprador of Jardine & Co., and he sponsored a lot of reforms in China.

The second letter from Kang to Li—— "Mr. Timothy Lee: A few days ago, Tang Juedun, a disciple of the school, came to Shanghai. He was very grateful for his acceptance. I recently heard that your country has gathered troops in Weihai, and it has been proposed to unite Germany, Japan, and the United States to speak out. I will restore my emperor to save my country. My servant obeyed the secret edict and rushed to ask for help. In Hong Kong, I once met the admiral Bai Lihui and said: "I will save my emperor first. I will swear on my neck and be generous. Today, I sincerely win your country." In one fell swoop, the position of our emperor can be restored, and the new government of our country can be implemented. Husband Cixi usurped and abolished, and wanted to be emperor. But he was forced by the small group. It started with the eunuch Li Lianying who was once held by the emperor's court staff. Therefore, he was afraid that the emperor would kill him, so he made slanderous rumors before Cixi, saying that the emperor would abolish it, destroy the money, and Cixi believed it. Ronglu always flattered Li Lianying, and despised the emperor. The situation of the local affairs is down to Cixi, but not to the emperor. The emperor knows it, and the order is strict. Ronglu is afraid of the emperor's wisdom, so it is a matter of forcing Cixi to abolish the establishment. And the emperor wants to implement a new deal, and all absurd veterans should be dismissed. Therefore, the environment Ask Cixi to abolish the establishment. However, the abolition of Cixi is only led by a group of small people to save their lives. If there is a big country that cuts it down and makes an agreement with it to return to power, please the emperor to stay alive and give millions The supply does not mean that it does not return to the government. The servant general went to your country to ask for help, and passed through Japan. The people of the country wanted to save our country, and their affection was enthusiastic, so they stayed here temporarily, planning to leave in November.If you can come here to visit your country in your spare time, so that you can get to know the general talents of your country, it is beyond hope. If you can save our country within a month, I will also send a letter to inform you as soon as possible. In addition, the student magistrate Longze Houzhi is noble, knowledgeable, and heard that the capital has proposed arresting him. He ran to avoid places and had no return.Pay homage to Xingju.The name is different.Eighth day of October" There is also a postscript to Kang's letter: "I would like to press this book as a book on behalf of the knight Liang Tiejun. Liang Jun's name is Erxu, a native of Shunde, and he teaches Wang Xue. Years after the death of the Eighth Century, after the assassination of Nala in the seventh year of Bingwu, for the Killed by Yuan Shikai, Lie Zai. The book is attached here, Kang Youwei in the first month of Guihai." Liang Qichao to Li Han—— "Mr. Timothy Lee: Since the first narration in Beijing on the sixth day of the lunar new year, our country has undergone more and more changes day by day. The emperor was imprisoned, and the people with lofty ideals were brutally killed. The teacher, Mr. Kang, was protected by your country. Fortunately, he escaped from the tiger's mouth. Someone in the city called the consul in Shanghai, thinking that I am very grateful for the generosity of the great country and the loyalty of the friends. After parting, my brother was protected by the Japanese government and arrived in Tokyo safely. , I have met Mr. Kang recently. Every time I think about the beginning of the reforms in various countries on the earth, there is blood all over the ground. Although my brothers and sisters have been subjected to this change, their hearts are getting stronger. But the situation in the East is becoming more and more urgent. If your country and the United States The Japanese and Russians have already made a plan, and the Japanese and Russians have already established wings, and there is nothing to look forward to. I hope that you and the gentlemen of your country will pay attention to it. When Mr. Kang was in Beijing, he asked his subordinates to find a translator. Now there is Tang Junjuedun, a disciple of Mr. Kang, is a disciple of Mr. Kang. He has excellent knowledge and broad knowledge. Now he is specially ordered to come to Shanghai for encouragement. I would like to introduce him with faith. I will beg to see you, that is, I will know my words based on what I have learned. It’s true. I don’t want to wait too long for this post. Please be safe. My younger brother Liang Qichao pays homage. On October 1st.” Timothy Lee not only supported the reform movement, but also helped the Kang Party very much, and he was a confidant in times of trouble, which is really rare.From the letter Kang Youwei sent to Shanghai to Li, it can be seen that the Kang party hoped that Timothy Lee would get through the British government and support Guangxu's restoration with military force.This practice is enough to arouse the resentment of the conservatives and the Chinese scholar-bureaucrat class, and at the same time promote the reactionary tendency of the conservatives, resulting in the outbreak of the Yihemin incident. Timothy Lee was the main force in rescuing Kang Youwei, which can be seen from the memoirs written by Cheng Ji, Li's assistant.Cheng Wen is after Kang Liang gave Li Han, Wen Yun: Between Guangxu and Dingwu, Mr. Li Timothy, a native of Yu Zuoying, organized the Shanghai Cantonese Society.People who have learned widely, and widely translated Western history and scientific books to enlighten our people's wisdom.In the late April of 1898, Emperor Zongjing of the Qing Dynasty suffered from the shame of the Jiawu period, worked hard to strengthen himself, and carried out the New Deal. All the edicts issued at that time were all issued by Mr. Nan Haikang.It is rare among the ancients that Mr. Kang has acquired such expertise as the head of the Ministry of Industry as a minor official.Emperor Shi Jing wanted to open the Maoqin Hall specially, and worshiped Li Jun as his advisor.On July 24th (Note: that is the year of 1898), Li Jun and Yu Hanghai traveled northward, and arrived in Beijing at the end of the month.On the afternoon of August 3, Mr. Kang came to say: "The implementation of the new policy is very difficult. I have been ordered to publish the Shanghai official newspaper, and tomorrow I will go south."It is a pity that I want to beg my friend for advice, but the minister of your country is not in Beijing.Li said: You can't reconcile Nishinomiya?Kang said: "Upholding the new policy, the court is in decline and the ministers are afraid of being deposed. They cry and complain to Cixi, and Cixi believes in it, which will lead to resistance and reconciliation." On the afternoon of the 6th, Liang Qichao and Xu Junhua came to the mirror, and they hugged their necks and cried.Li said: "Who is crying and humiliating?"Seek immediate remedial action.Yu said: What is the situation now?Liang said: "The edict of hanging the curtain has been promulgated, and there is a court post and governors along the river and sea. I am willing to win Mr. Kang!"Tan Fusheng and others are no longer allowed to enter, so there is no new policy.Hastily wiped away tears and left.Suddenly Rong Chunfuhong sent a letter saying that the government is riding everywhere, and the Liang family is in danger, can it be the place for it?Li said: Liang Gu knows those who tend to avoid him, so don't bother me for advice.In the answer book, he stood leaning against the door with his hands behind his back. For a while, he took a branch of Tamba wild rice to reap the rest, and sucked one of them. He sat on a short couch opposite Yu, and said to Yu: "The Westerners who are interested in the country all talk about the politics of your country. If you are on the right track and proceed step by step, it will not be difficult to get rich and strong, so you don't want to have such setbacks.Yu said: If the atmosphere in the whole country is not open, all the stubborn party groups are attached to Cixi and want to reform politics.Li said: You should be safe in the sea, but it will be very dangerous to go to Shanghai.Yu said: Is Bai Linan, the Consul General of Guizhou in Shanghai, not the president of my Cantonese Association?Li said: Yes, but whether you can do your best is unknown.Yu said: All countries protect political prisoners, Mr. Xi sent a telegram to save them.Li didn't say anything, and said again for a long time: "Electricity can be sent, but I'm afraid it won't help your ears."And I don't know what ship it is attached to.If you land in the Huafa Realm, you will be defeated.Yu said: "It's all about doing your best."Li nodded his head again, and all the manuscripts of the changes were given to Yu, saying: "We are the only ones who know this, so we should keep it secret."Although Yu is not afraid of the government of your country, but if you have more contacts in your country, you have to.Yu Qinuoqi went out with the manuscript and returned with power generation. The British Consul Bai Jun got a telegram to ask for instructions from the British Prime Minister Shakespeare of the London Government. Waiting for the reply of the telegram, he sent Pu Lande, a member of the Ministry of Industry, to Wusong on a warship. Mr. Kang took the Chongqing ship and sailed through the wind and waves to Hong Kong. It was for Mr. Kang's escape beginning.Other things are known to many people, so there is no need to repeat them.There are more than ten papers in the handbook that I have kept here, which were written by Kang and Li Jun when he was in Hong Kong.Li Zaihu and Yu Chenxi got together at the meeting place, and wrote letters to pay for the rest, and Yu got it and kept it.In addition, there is still a letter from Mr. Kang to the rest of the people, and a poem for the rest of the family. ... The last letter of the book is Liang Qichao's handwriting. Qichao has betrayed his teacher for a long time, and there is nothing to say.Now let's openly say that the talents of our country were at their peak during the Warring States period. This is the time when Mencius said that leading beasts to eat people means that people will eat each other.It is also said that in the thousands of years since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucius, there has been no progress in learning, and talents have declined day by day. Now it is appropriate to import foreign theories without restriction, and they want to lead the people of the country to abandon their learning and learn from outsiders.This is a speech welcoming the Englishman Russell, which appeared in the newspapers of the North and the South. In contrast to this letter, it is stated that the master and brother are almost in harmony with each other, and there are words that despite this change, the heart has become more vigorous.I want to know the end of his efforts, so I attach this letter to Kangshu to see what it will be.In the twenty-sixth year of the Later Eighteenth Century, in the seventh month of Guihai, the inspection and payment will be installed in the pool, because of its origin.Yanghu Chengji. After Kang Youwei fled to Hong Kong, he lived in the home of Hong Kong gentleman He Dong.On the fifth day of September, he traveled east to Japan.At this time, Liang Qichao also fled to Japan under the cover of the Japanese. The Reform Movement and the Reform Movement of 1898 passed in this way. In this incident, one person got "cheap" and that was Yuan Shikai who was training at the small station.