Chapter 59 Wang Jingwei: An Assassination Ruined by a Poop of Shit

In April 1910, a major case that caused a national sensation occurred in Beijing. Wang Jingwei and Huang Fusheng attempted to assassinate the regent.Good guy, the assassination-loving revolutionary party has finally bombed Beijing.Although he failed, Wang Jingwei became famous from then on. Even if he turned to the enemy and became a traitor later, people would sigh, "You are a beautiful woman, but you can't be a thief."As a by-product of this case, Wang Jingwei also won the heart of a wealthy Nanyang businessman, and she never left her until she was imprisoned in Nanjing Laohuqiao Prison until her death, and she refused to say anything wrong with Wang.

Assassinations are often the turning point that makes history turn a corner. In June 1914, if the Serbian youth Princip had not assassinated the Austrian Crown Prince Ferdinand, even if the First World War would break out sooner or later, it would definitely be postponed for several months.Who can tell what can happen in these few months?If Wang Jingwei's assassination was successful that day, and the regent and the assassin Wang Jingwei died, the future history would be difficult to say.The pro-noble regime in the late Qing Dynasty may not have fundamentally changed because of this, but the history of the Kuomintang will be very different. At least when Japan invaded China later, it was unlikely to find someone with national prestige like Wang Jingwei and establish a national political system. puppet regime.However, all these changes were due to the fact that on the night of April 2, 1910, a resident of Ya’er Hutong in Beijing came out to shit and ruined everything.

Between Prince Chun's Mansion in Beijing, the home of Prince Regent Zaifeng, and Ya'er Hutong, there is a very simple stone bridge, which is the only way for the Prince Regent to go to court every day.This place is very secluded, there are no people. On the night of April 2, a resident of Ya’er Hutong came here to defecate—according to the regulations of the New Deal period, this was an illegal act. Beijing’s hutongs had already set up public toilets, and people were fined for defecating anywhere.However, it is inconvenient to go to the public toilet late at night, so this impatient Beijinger came to this secluded place to pay his respects.Unexpectedly, after squatting down, there were two figures shaking under the small bridge.If it was in another place, maybe you would see it if you saw it, change the place if you were afraid, and leave after shitting if you were not afraid, but old Beijingers are nosy and think that those who are active under the bridge late at night are either rape or robbery.So, after the man finished his convenience, he pulled up his pants, boldly went to look around, then ran away, ran back to the courtyard and started yelling. Immediately, the neighbors called the police through the neighborhood management channel.The police came over and saw that people had already left in shock. A big pit had been dug under the bridge. In the pit was a large iron can about two feet high. There is a telephone connected to a gutter. It is clearly an assassination plot. They want to blow up people, and the person who is going to be bombed is probably the regent.The case was reported layer by layer, which alarmed the admiral Yu Lang of the Nine Gates, Zhang Zongxiang, the Chief of the Inner City Police Department (this person was later listed as one of the three major traitors in May 4th, and was severely beaten by the May 4th youth), and Minister Shushan of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Qi, the well-known Prince Su, and later the more famous Yoshiko Kawashima, was his daughter.

After the bomb was released, the technicians from the Japanese embassy were invited to remove the triggering device.It was found that the explosives in the tank were all foreign dynamites, which were powerful. When a small piece was removed, after a test explosion, a large hole was actually blown out.The place where the explosives were buried was the place where the regent had to go to court, so it was presumed that if the regent passed by there, he would be bombed to pieces, and even the person who detonated it would surely die.Although the bomb disposal relies on outsiders, the police in Beijing already have the skills to solve the case.After all, the new-style police have been operating for five years, and they have learned some western criminal investigation techniques.The police looked for people with things and found the blacksmith shop that made the tin cans. The blacksmith provided clues to the ordering customers.At the same time, the spies squatting near the small stone bridge also found suspicious foreigners who came to explore the wind.Obviously, the assassin committed a big taboo, and instead of evacuating quickly when something happened, he went to the place where the incident happened to find out.It’s so stupid that it’s a bit like the silly roe deer in the legend of the Great Northern Wilderness—it’s said that the roe deer has a special curiosity and is often shot by the hunter. Take another shot.The assassins were all Cantonese. Even if they were well-dressed in Beijing, their looks, expressions, and manners were very different from those of Beijingers. After the incident, they came back to probe their brains, and it would be hell if they didn't reveal themselves.However, it was not easy for the Revolutionary Party to get so much explosives in. They missed it for a while and wondered if it could be recovered, so they made this risky and bad strategy.So, the two clues were traced to a newly opened photo studio in Xijiadao Hutong, Huoshen Temple, east gate of Liulichang, where there were a bunch of revolutionaries.Wang Jingwei and Huang Fusheng were caught in this way.These daring assassins used this photo studio as a cover to plant bombs.Fortunately, after the accident, the other members of the assassination team, Chen Bijun, Yu Peilun, and Li Zhongshi, had already left to find explosives, so only two "principal criminals" were arrested.

The leader of this operation was undoubtedly Wang Jingwei. Both Huang Fusheng and Yu Peilun were bomb experts who installed and debugged the bomb. The person who pressed the button that day was also Wang Jingwei. He deliberately wanted to die with the regent.It’s not that they didn’t think of a better way when they designed it in advance, but only in this way can they guarantee the reliability of the explosion. At that time, the radio detonation device had not been invented, and it could only be detonated by a hand-cranked phone. It was destined to sacrifice one person, so Wang Jingwei decided to sacrifice himself.However, in the face of the interrogation, the two of them competed to be the main culprit, desperately describing each other as their own followers.Wang Jingwei's confession was full of thousands of words. The beauty of the diction, the righteousness of the conception, and the righteousness of fighting each other to the death, Wang Jingwei is also a handsome guy, made the interrogators Zhang Zongxiang and Shanqi feel deeply, and the love for talent suddenly arose, and the intention was to fulfill.In addition, the reform of the criminal law in the Qing Dynasty has achieved initial results, and the original ten heinous crimes have been abolished.Therefore, under the mediation of Shanqi and Zhang Zongxiang, the two were not sentenced to death, and they were given preferential treatment in prison.Wang Jingwei's famous poem in prison: "Singing Yan City generously, being a prisoner of Chu calmly. Draw a sword into one piece, and live up to the boy's head." It also escaped from the prison and was widely read.During the Wuchang Uprising, the Qing government made amends and amnesty the party members. Wang and Huang were released from prison, and Wang Jingwei directly participated in the peace talks between the North and the South.It is said that when Wang Jingwei was released from prison, passers-by rushed to see him, and the roads were blocked.In this way, Wang Jingwei and the regent Zaifeng, together with the citizen who came out in the middle of the night, all survived well. History, after turning a corner, is what we see today.The reason why history turns is often due to some very accidental factors, such as the shit that night.