Chapter 14 Remarks: I Killed the Wrong Person (Cao Juren)

The day before yesterday, a certain newspaper reported a conversation of a gentleman returning from Changchun, saying: The Japanese had completed the two major policies of "monopolizing opium" and "unifying the currency system" in the puppet country.These two things, in the days of Lao Zhang and Xiao Zhang, were thought to be impossible to sort out, but now they can handle them in a organized way with a single gesture of hand.So a certain gentleman sighed and said: "It is foolish to discuss the harm of currency disorder with people from the Northeast, and it is difficult to get rid of it because it is hard to get back. Why do Japanese people finish things in a flash?" It is a major disease of the Chinese people!"

It's not just the "root of the disease"!The demise of the Chinese nation and the overthrow of the Republic of China were all due to tuberculosis.When a society or a nation is aging, everything is "hard to return to", so "revolution" is necessary. A revolution is a sudden change in society; in the process, good people, bad people, and half-bad people will always be killed.Killing some people is not without cost: it has the effect of isolating the society, the old society and the new society are completely divided into two parts, and the evil forces will not infect the new organization.Therefore, there should be standards for revolutionary killings, and more people above middle age should be killed, and more people representing the old forces should be killed.The success of the French Revolution, that is, the sweeping up of the old forces during the period of the Great Panic.

But every revolution in China is always abnormal.Many young people made sacrifices because of their participation in the revolutionary movement. During the revolution, the old forces hid for a while, but some were never eliminated. .Mr. Sun Yat-sen worked hard for more than ten years of revolutionary work. The Revolution of 1911 was successful. Yuan Shikai took power and killed party members every day, even children under the age of fifteen or sixteen. The old forces act as bodyguards; therefore, since the Republic of China, there has only been slumber, no vitality, and there is no need to talk about reform in any business.Its evil forces have been pouring into the present.

I call this abnormal state "killing the wrong person".I often say to my friends: "There is no revolution without bloodshed, but 'bloodshed' must not go to the wrong person. It is the great fortune of the state to kill Puyi early and kill Zheng Xiaoxu more.If young people under the age of twenty-five are killed indiscriminately, doing the opposite, and destroying the vitality of the society, you can get the "retribution" of "destroying the country and destroying the species". " "Free Talk", April 10. [1] This article was originally published in "Shen Shen Free Talk" on April 12, 1933, signed by He Jiaqian.

〔2〕Cao Juren (1900-1972) was born in Pujiang, Zhejiang. He was a professor at Jinan University and the editor-in-chief of the weekly "Sound of the Waves". [3] Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), courtesy name Weiting, was born in Xiangcheng, Henan.He was originally the governor of Zhili in the Qing Dynasty, the minister of Beiyang, and the prime minister of the cabinet; after the Revolution of 1911, he stole the positions of the interim president and the official president of the Republic of China in 1912 and 1913.In January 1916, the imperial system was restored, and he was called the "Hongxian" emperor. In March of the same year, he was forced to abolish the imperial system during the national condemnation, and died of illness in June.

〔4〕Second Revolution After usurping the fruits of the 1911 Revolution, Yuan Shikai planned restoration, destroyed the Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China, and killed revolutionaries.In July 1913, Sun Yat-sen launched a war against Yuan, known as the "Second Revolution", but was soon defeated by Yuan Shikai with the support of imperialism.After the failure of the second revolution, Yuan Shikai hunted and killed revolutionaries even more frantically, and issued an amnesty decree of "self-surrender" to divide the revolutionary forces. 〔5〕The "public servant" Yuan Shikai once claimed to be "a member of the nation" when he stole the presidency of the Republic of China, and said that "the president always calls himself a public servant". 〔6〕The "Military and Political Law Enforcement Office" is a secret service agency set up by Yuan Shikai to hunt and kill revolutionaries and patriotic people.

[7] The old emperor refers to Puyi (1906-1967), Xuantong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.After the Revolution of 1911, the Nanjing Provisional Government negotiated with the Qing court to give preferential treatment to the abdicated Qing emperor and retain his title of emperor.When Yuan Shikai restored the monarchy, he "declared that the preferential treatment conditions for the Qing Dynasty will never change".