Zhang Taiyan is so fearless. If you mention Liang Dingfen's name in front of him, he will suddenly be flushed and speechless. Who is this Liang Dingfen? Why is Zhang Taiyan afraid of him alone?
Learn from master park.
In the seventh year of Tongzhi, Zhang Taiyan was born in a landlord family, and his grandfather was even more famous as an official in the DPRK. Zhang Taiyan studied with grandpa when he was a little older. Later, during Guangxu period, he was sent to Hangzhou Jingshe, a famous university at that time. At that time, the great scholar in Jing She was Yu Yue, a master of Park Studies.
Pu Xue is a long-standing knowledge handed down by China. From the classic works, there are analytical studies on grammar and rhetoric, including a set of very detailed literary thoughts, and they are masters of park studies in the same strain as Yu Yue. Yu Yue is thoughtful and thoughtful in teaching, and has unique views on many issues. Zhang Taiyan admired Yu Yue's knowledge. Under his influence, he studied hard for eight years.
1900, due to the incompetence of the Qing Dynasty, it was repeatedly bullied by western powers, so the Boxer Rebellion broke out in China with the slogan of helping the Qing Dynasty destroy the foreign countries, which was suppressed by the Qing government and foreigners. Then Eight-Nation Alliance invaded again, causing the Yuanmingyuan to burn down. What the Qing government did during this period also made the people very disappointed and hated them.
Zhang Taiyan witnessed foreigners swaggering all over the country and the inaction and weakness of the Qing government, which greatly shocked him. So Zhang Taiyan decided to go out of his study and, like most scholars, wanted to find a way out for the country. He knows that the decadent old system has too many drawbacks, and he must abandon innovation before he can stand up. It was with this in mind that he was very supportive of the Westernization Movement and came to work as a secretary under Zhang Zhidong.
Writing Anti-Manchu Articles in Sensitive Period
Zhang Zhidong was already one of the main officials of the Westernization Movement, while Zhang Taiyan and Liang Dingfen both worked as secretaries in the shogunate of Zhang Zhidong. Zhang Zhidong is also a thoughtful person. He advocates that I will use you if you are talented, which has nothing to do with your political thoughts. But the smart thing is that Liang Dingfen mainly defends the Qing government, and Zhang Taiyan wants to reform and innovate, so they point the finger at Mai Mang, and both of them don't obey.
At that time, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao were carrying out the Reform Movement. Unfortunately, not long after, Emperor Guangxu was captured by Cixi, and then Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao were put into prison.
Zhang Zhidong's inner thoughts are also quite supportive of the political reform, but he is also afraid that he can't do things well in high positions, so he quickly turned his face and told Cixi that he was actually standing on the opposite side of the political reform movement, and then he founded Chu Magazine, where he sent some articles that belittled the political reform to show his attitude.
In Chu Ci, Zhang Zhidong appointed Liang Dingfen as the general manager and Zhang Taiyan as the editor-in-chief. Therefore, Zhang Taiyan began to play the devil's advocate in this first issue. He wrote 60,000 words in one breath, all of which were anti-Qing and belittled the Qing government.
When Zhang Taiyan showed the written article to Liang Dingfen, Liang Dingfen got angry after reading it and shouted, "This is rebellion! How dare you! You have to behead a dozen times for this crime! " However, Liang Dingfen had no right to kill Zhang Taiyan's head, so he asked Zhang Zhidong what to do, and suggested that Zhang Taiyan be arrested and then put into prison to commit a crime according to law.
Be humiliated by Liang Dingfen in the street
The news that Liang Dingfen filed a complaint against Zhang Taiyan soon spread throughout the shogunate, and Zhang Taiyan's friends were very nervous, because Zhang Zhidong would be afraid of losing his head if he agreed to Liang Dingfen's request.
Everyone thought about it and went to the deputy editor-in-chief of Chu Bao at that time and said to him, "Now Zhang Taiyan has written an anti-Manchu theory in the newspaper, which has caused great disaster. If the upper level wants to make trouble, it will naturally start from the general office and be handled at the first level. If you don't do something, you will definitely be involved. "
As a result, the deputy editor-in-chief was really frightened and went to Zhang Zhidong for mercy, hoping to deal with Zhang Taiyan lightly. Zhang Zhidong does what he can. He knew that Zhang Taiyan was dissatisfied with the Qing government, and if he did not act at this sensitive juncture, he might lose his head.
But he was reluctant to let this talent die like this, so he said to Liang Dingfen, "There is no need to decapitate. It just drives Zhang crazy. When the court asked him, he said that he was no longer here. "
Liang Dingfen naturally understood Zhang Zhidong's idea, so he pulled Zhang Taiyan out of the newspaper and threw all his clothes out. However, the more Liang Dingfen thought about it, the more angry she became. He thought, if it's not Zhang Taiyan, why should he be afraid? This man is really crazy, and he is not afraid of death and doesn't care about other people's feelings! Thinking of this, he asked someone to bring a stick to lift the sedan chair, and then asked someone to hold Zhang Taiyan down, pull open his pants and hit him hard with a wooden stick.
Scholar Zhang Taiyan, who studied in a gentle way since childhood, is now rudely spanked by several people in the street. Such humiliation made Zhang Taiyan want to die.
However, Zhang Taiyan did not let go of this lesson and did not give up his anti-Manchu stance. Instead, he became more and more crazy, publishing articles in newspapers while studying to satirize the Qing government. Provoked the government to send someone to kill him many times. Zhang Taiyan's friends call him crazy, even he thinks he is crazy, a madman who dares to scold and speak.
University experts who dare to scold and speak
However, scholars at that time all wanted to find a way out for the country and the nation. Some people want to oppose the new revolution brought by the Qing government, while others want to make the Qing dynasty stronger and restore the national strength of Kangxi Qianlong at that time. People who have two positions, some argue with each other, and some are killed by force, but in the case of giving up their positions, the private relationship is not bad.
Although Liang Dingfen once humiliated Zhang Taiyan in the street, they were good friends in life before that. Later, Zhang Taiyan was relieved and did not have much hatred for Liang Dingfen.
Besides devoting himself to revolutionary change, Zhang Taiyan has many students in teaching, and Lu Xun is one of them. Zhang Taiyan is also very distinctive in class. He likes smoking very much. In class, he often holds chalk in one hand and cigarettes in the other. Sometimes when it comes to excitement, he will write cigarette butts on the blackboard by mistake, which will cause the students to burst into laughter.
And Zhang Taiyan's teaching is very organized. Once he gave a lecture in Beijing, because many university presidents and professors were his students, so many people surrounded Mr. Zhang Taiyan in class. Some people are in charge of writing, others are in charge of pouring tea. The students can't help but sigh that Mr. Zhang is really full of peaches and plums when they see the serious professors and teachers in front of Zhang Taiyan.
Zhang Taiyan's madness is not only aimed at the Qing government, but sometimes exposed in class. For example, when he was in class, the first sentence was: "You are lucky to come to my class, and of course it is also my luck." Even boasted that "I have never known Zhang Taiyan in my life, and it is futile to visit celebrities." The students laughed, which did not affect their admiration for him, because Mr. Wang had this capital arrogance.
Mr. Zhang Taiyan is a revolutionary and academic, and everyone is willing to call him a great scholar with revolutionary spirit and wisdom. Mr. Zhang Taiyan lived a quiet and relaxed life, scolded people all his life and taught books all his life. He is really a master.