Song Jiao Ren, an unarmed scholar, set off a whirlwind of democratic politics in China in the early 20th century. He has a democratic dream, and he will exhaust his conscience and wisdom to realize the constitutional ideal that has never been seen before in the history of China. Unfortunately, he was born in a country where there are no rules and no one wants to follow them seriously. He climbed to the peak of his life at the age of 32, and then came to an abrupt end and died tragically.
Song has rich political knowledge and constitutional cultivation. Song served as the president of the Legislative Yuan of Sun Yat-sen's provisional government in Nanjing, and he made all the decrees of the provisional government. Rushing to the front and launching an uprising will of course rank among the founding fathers; When you shake your arms and shout, the responders will gather and give people a heroic feeling. But after the battle? How should our country be built? How should our people embark on the road to prosperity? Destroying the old order is a catharsis, but how long and painful will it be to establish a new order? Song Jiao Ren consciously shouldered this responsibility in the early 20th century.
Song had firm democratic ideals and moral principles. After the success of Wuchang Uprising, Sun Yat-sen returned from overseas and prepared to set up a government. When discussing the political system, we do not hide our views and stick to the cabinet system. That is, the elected president, the first prime minister of the parliamentary majority party. But Sun Yat-sen claimed that he didn't want anyone to put me in a sacred position, but he couldn't do anything concrete. He disagreed with the cabinet system. After all, his popularity is higher, so colleagues in the alliance have to listen to his suggestion and implement a presidential system, that is, the president is elected by the people and the prime minister is appointed by the president.
However, when the North-South talks were successful and the presidential power was about to be handed over to Yuan Shikai, Sun Yat-sen changed his original intention and advocated cabinet system. The wily Yuan Shikai certainly refused to accept the debt. Yuan Shikai is intolerable from the deepest part of his heart. Without his permission, someone will become the prime minister in power. Then what's the use of being a big president?
Song's good friend said: "Among the Kuomintang figures, Yuan is most taboo about Song."
It is this song "Jiao Ren" that keeps oil and salt out. The size of the suit Yuan Shikai gave him was very accurate, which showed that Yuan had a good intention of "visiting the thatched cottage" in order to win him over. Yuan Shikai also gave him a check for 500,000 yuan from the Bank of Communications, and he only spent two or three hundred yuan. When he left Beijing for the south, he asked Zhao Bingjun to return it to Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai once wanted him to be prime minister, but he refused. He just wants to be an honest and real prime minister and not be intimidated by the president's election. Song let go many times, so Yuan Shikai moved to kill.
But it is not so easy for Yuan to make up his mind to kill a person, let alone a famous elite like Song.
Until 19 13, the Kuomintang won an overwhelming victory in the elections of the two houses of parliament. Song Jiao Ren made speeches everywhere from his hometown Changsha along the Yangtze River, through Wuhan, Anhui and Shanghai, and then to Hangzhou and Nanjing, criticizing Yuan Shikai's government and expounding his constitutional ideal. His speech style, tilted for a while. Deep down, he has decided that his constitutional ideal is about to take the first step. He wrote such a poem in Hangzhou: "Xu seeks twists and turns and strives for the highest peak", and the tone has clearly revealed the heroism of the prime minister.
Yuan realized that if he didn't kill Song, he would lose his painstaking dictatorship, let alone his dream of being an emperor. So Yuan Shikai finally laid hands on him. Time:1965438+March 20th, 2003. Venue: Shanghai Railway Station. Heizai: Warrior Camp, a vendor in Shaanxi. Contact: Ying Guixin, Shanghai rogue. Contact person at higher level: Hong Shuzu, Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Beijing Municipal Government.
In the judicial environment at that time, we could not expect to get more real historical details. The murderer Samurai Ying has been alive and well in the West Capture Room of the Concession, but he just transferred to the prison in China and committed suicide before a careful trial. Then, the mastermind behind the scenes, Premier Zhao Bingjun, was poisoned.
Song is a mature politician. In Beijing, Song once lived in Zhao Bingjun's home and had many in-depth conversations with Zhao. What are they talking about? Is Song's democratic dream understood by Zhao? Didn't Song's personality give Zhao a little impact on his conscience? Zhao arranged the assassination according to Yuan's intention, on the one hand, Yuan's strength, and on the other hand, Song's character. Is it possible for Zhao Bingjun to be tortured by conscience and spirit? All these things were lost because of Zhao's sudden death.
After Song's death, the Shanghai court summoned Premier Zhao Bingjun to testify in court. Yuan Shikai was very angry about this. How dare a little judge stroke the tiger's beard? Later, local courts were simply ordered to be abolished, and county governors were also in charge of justice. If Song has an underground spirit and knows his own blood, he will get such an ending. Will he be so angry that he wants to cry?
The death of Song killed the seeds of democracy in China. Even his political opponent, the leader of the Democratic Party, Tang Hualong, praised him like this: "If I make angry remarks, it means that China will be as powerful as my husband."
China really sank with Song. One Song Jiao Ren fell, but thousands of Song Jiao Ren didn't stand up. Excellent people only appear once, and mediocrity and scum can be mass-produced. Maybe Yuan was the last emperor of China. After Yuan Shikai's death, China immediately entered a period when there was no emperor, but everyone was striving to be the emperor. The warlords scuffled and the lives were ruined. Chiang Kai-shek's so-called success in the Northern Expedition and the unification of the whole country by force in the name of the Kuomintang are far from the original political ideal of Song Dynasty.
Looking back at this period of history, all I can see is dust, which is the power of dancing in the dark. The blood of the martyrs has long dried up. Has the idea that they shed all their blood for this long been forgotten by us?