Chapter 22 Wang Jinfa: The King of the Mountain is the governor

Wang Jinfa's real name is Wang Yi, with the word Ji Gao, and Jinfa is his baby name. It must be a bit special for a person to be famous by his baby name.In my opinion, it is mostly due to his status as the legendary king of Zhongshan.Undoubtedly, Wang Jinfa is the toughest fighter of the Restoration Society. After Xu Xilin and Qiu Jin's uprising failed in 1907, he fled into the mountains alone, became the king of the mountain, insisted on being an enemy of the Qing Dynasty, and was surrounded and suppressed by the court and the gentry regiment. Counterattack, raid the Qing soldiers in Shengxian County.Later, he left his hometown and roamed the sea, playing the role of a revolutionary chivalrous man with good marksmanship and agility. He punished traitors and assassinated villains.People said that Liu Shipei and his wife, who were traitors from the Tongmenghui and defected to Duanfang, were covered by him. If they hadn't begged for mercy and promised to save them, they would have been the ghosts of Wang Jinfa's gun.But Wang Gongquan, who lured Liu into rebellion, and Hu Daonan, a Shaoxing gentry who informed and killed Qiu Jin, were not so lucky, and both became ghosts under the gun.It is said that Wang Jinfa did it all.

He also led one of the two death squads that attacked Futai Yamen during the Hangzhou Uprising of the Revolutionary Party.After the recovery of Hangzhou, everyone recommended Tang Shouqian, a famous gentleman, to be the governor. However, Wang Jinfa believed that Tang was suspicious in Qiu Jin's case, so he resolutely opposed it.If the objection failed, I took the death squad and went straight to Shaoxing. I learned from the Monkey King, and the Xinghuang Banner was the only tree. I occupied Shaoxing and recruited troops. We also became the governor. In the revolutionary party, Wang Jinfa was a rough man, and in Shaoxing and Shengxian areas, he was well-known as the King of the Mountain.The king of the mountain became the governor, which is easily reminiscent of Li Kui as the county magistrate, and Sancho in "Don Quixote" as the chief steward of the duke's fiefdom.However, Wang Jinfa is actually an educated person. It is said that he was selected as a scholar and studied in Japan.It's just that he prefers Jianghu to being a scholar, and he is more enthusiastic about Jianghu morality than revolutionary principles.The king became the governor, and all the people from the rivers and lakes in Shengxian County came. His army soon expanded from less than a hundred people to a brigade, and then nearly a division.Before he came to Shaoxing, some gentry advocated "independence" and established a new government, but after he came, he drove away all the people and replaced them with his own people. The squire Huang's father and son brothers have become the core figures of the government. No matter good or bad, Wang Jinfa accepts everything based on the loyalty of the world.

It is natural to be sick to rule a place by righteousness.The discipline of his subordinates is not good, but they are all brothers in the past. Wang Jinfa can't restrain him. The army extorts, extorts, takes property by force, and even rapes women.This kind of thing was hit by him, and he was shot and killed. Maybe it would last for a few days, and then everything would go on as usual.The few cronies who control the government can only allow them to engage in personal fraud, power and money.According to Lu Xun's observation, even before the weather was cold, the cloth robes when he first arrived were replaced by leather robes.During the revolution, the Wang family's property was wiped out, and they still owed a lot of debts.Now that he is a governor, he sends people to carry silver dollars to pay off debts everywhere.All relatives from Shengxian County who came to see him in Shaoxing would be rewarded with money, so that the Wang family had relatives who had no match, and they all came to Dudu's mansion to visit relatives.He brought his grandfather to Shaoxing to enjoy the blessings, and he set up a team and fired cannons to welcome him, which frightened his elderly grandfather, saying that he would not stay in Shaoxing anymore, and died soon after returning home.Obviously, for the Chinese, it is not a great immorality to show off their wealth suddenly.The most annoying thing about Wang Jinfa is his own unrestrained behavior.This revolutionary, who had been in Japan for many years, became the governor, and he took his daughters or geisha for outings just like he did in Japan.At that time, someone gave him a beautiful maid to sleep with, and he took this beautiful girl, galloping around every day, drinking, shooting guns, and thought he was proud of himself, a man should be like this.Such a romantic affair, in a small mainland city, the public's perception is naturally not good.In addition, Wang Jinfa is a local, and he started a revolution with Xu Xilin and Qiu Jin at the Datong School, and he himself later became the king of the mountain, so he had too many disputes and entanglements with the local gentry.In addition, Wang Jinfa, who is loyal and loyal, intends to avenge Qiu Jin. When he becomes a politician, the scope for revenge will naturally expand.Unlike other post-liberation new governments, Shaoxing had a law enforcement office that specialized in trialing and shooting criminals. It is said that more than 50 people were killed in total.Such a record of suppressing counter-revolutionaries was rare at the time.Those places where Manchurians resisted did not kill people like this.

However, Wang Jinfa's notoriety for governing Shao was not only due to the fact that he killed many people, the key was that the burden on the common people and even the squires increased.In essence, Wang Jinfa was committed to the Northern Expedition, and the speed of military expansion was extremely fast. A small Shaoxing Mansion actually recruited nearly a division of troops in less than eight months. With a large number of troops, the pressure to raise funds was naturally great.Shaoxing does not have many modern industries and businesses, so it can only find a way in terms of taxation. Not only the traditional two taxes on salt and tea are levied more heavily, but also the land tax reduction and exemption that is common in Guangfu areas has also been levied in Shaoxing in advance.At the same time, Wang Jinfa also used the pretext of suppressing counter-revolutionaries to strictly prohibit opium, blackmail local grain households and gentry, and confiscate land.In this case, the local gentry, who were originally hostile to the King of the Mountain, would inevitably attack his rule.Even the "Yue Duo Daily", which he sponsored, also published articles criticizing him.Wang Jinfa's soldiers went to destroy the newspaper office and injured the newspaperman, which caused even greater backlash.The revolutionaries used force to suppress speech, making Wang Jinfa notorious throughout the country.In fact, with the passage of time, under the attack of public opinion, Wang Jinfa's behavior is gradually restraining.Zhang Jiemei, who was said to be the main informer in the Qiu Jin case, was originally arrested, but in the end he was released after intercession from all parties. "Yue Duo Daily" scolded him with great fanfare, but he didn't close the newspapers in this territory.

Although ordinary people usually like the King of the Mountain, the stories of the green forest heroes robbing the rich and helping the poor are spread everywhere.But once the real king of the mountain came, they were still a little scared.In addition, the king of the mountain's rule was too casual, the burden on the people was heavy, and the local order was not good.The people who originally followed the country gentry politically, naturally complained to Wang Jinfa.Therefore, under the pressure of the nationwide abolition of military sub-governments in various regions, and the complaints of Shaoxing people and the criticism of public opinion, Wang Jinfa left Shaoxing disheartened.The only gain is that there are hundreds of thousands of oceans in hand.

From then on, Wang Jinfa basically became a high-flyer on the beach, a woman who drank alcohol all day long, drank and gambled, took in famous prostitutes and bought a small mansion, enjoying the blessings of the gentle village.Although he could not say that he did not participate in the second revolution of the Kuomintang, he did not come out to show his marksmanship after all.Later, he gradually stopped having much contact with the party members, and there were rumors that he was about to surrender himself to Yuan Shikai and help arrest the revolutionaries.However, this kind of thing did not happen after all, and the approval document from the Army Department of the Beijing government also stated that he had never been arrested, and he had the false name of surrendering himself.Wang Jinfa's final outcome was in the heyday of Yuan Shikai's rule in 1915. The rumors of punishing the revolutionary party had long since passed. When he was about to settle down by the West Lake, he was trapped by the Zhejiang governor Zhu Rui. Shot dead in Hangzhou Military Prison.Looking at the photos of being tied up before his execution, Wang Jinfa has a calm demeanor. Although he committed suicide with women and wine for many years, he is still a man.Zhu Rui, who killed him, was actually a comrade when he attacked Futai Yamen.Judging from the archives at that time, it is clear that Zhu Rui, the governor of Zhejiang, was more motivated than the Beijing government to kill this former comrade.Perhaps, the reputation of the King of the Mountain has hurt Wang Jinfa. With this reputation, when he returns to his hometown, the local officials will always be worried, no matter whether he does something or not.