There is also the "white terror" in the 19 era. Revolutionaries like Li Dazhao and Qu Qiubai all died "tragically" in the hands of the Kuomintang. For example, when Li Dazhao was executed, the enemy used a special tripod to prolong his pain and let him die for more than 20 minutes. It's already "miserable"! ! There are many such "tragedies", so I won't list them one by one.
There is also the "Six Gentlemen Tragedy of the 1898 Movement"
Most scholars believe that the 1898 coup took place not because of Yuan Shikai's informer, but because Yuan Shikai's informer greatly aggravated the intensity of the coup.
In fact, after getting the news of the coup, Yuan Shikai quickly told Rong Lu all Tan Sitong's conspiracies in order to save himself. Empress Dowager Cixi was furious when she learned that the reformists were going to murder her. She became "feminine" and turned peaceful political training into a bloody coup.
As a result, Empress Dowager Cixi immediately issued a secret order, dismissing "Zhang, Xu Zhijing, Yang Rui, Tan Sitong and Liu Guangdi first, handing them over to the army to lead the yamen and bringing them to the punishments department." Then the revolutionaries were further eliminated, and many reformers such as Song Bolu and Xu Zhijing were dismissed and imprisoned, or Chen Baozhen and Xiong Xiling were dismissed and never used, or Xu Zhijing was convicted and exiled. The eunuchs around Emperor Guangxu and Princess Zhen were also in big trouble. Four people were killed by sticks and ten people were flailed. Even Guangxu was placed under house arrest in Shetai.
The most tragic thing is, of course, the "six gentlemen of the 1898 Movement" who were killed. Among these people, Kang Youwei's younger brother Kang Ren Guang may be the most wronged. He is the only one of the six gentlemen who has not been an official, nor is he a man of the hour of the reformists. His death was entirely due to the rumor that Yang Chongyi had informed the Kang brothers to "enter the palace and leave the palace". It is said that before Kang was killed, he bumped into a wall in prison and cried bitterly, which was terrible!
Among the six gentlemen, Tan Sitong is the most impressive. After the coup, Tan Sitong had a chance to escape. He could have taken refuge in the Japanese embassy like Liang Qichao, but Tan Sitong insisted. Hit the floor and say, "Without walkers, there is no future; Without the dead, there is no reward for the Lord. " "Political reforms in all countries are born out of bloodshed. Today, China has never heard of bloodshed due to political reform, which is not prosperous. " If so, please start from the beginning! "
Good people are rewarded, and Tan Sitong is truly a bloody martyr patriot.
Later, Tan Sitong waited for the captors at Mangcangzhai in Liuyang Guild Hall. After his arrest, Tan Sitong wrote this poem in prison: "Watch the door, stay in James Zhang and wait for Dugan. I laughed at myself and went to save my courage. " Four days later, Liu Junzi was killed in the execution ground of Caishikou without trial or specific charges.
Before being killed, Tan Sitong decisively called the prison officer and said, "I have something to tell you!" " "Resolutely turned his head and ignored. Tan sitong went to the resolute figure and shouted, "There is no way to save the world by killing a thief; "A fair death honors the whole life!"
On the day of death, the audience was deserted. Six gentlemen lead their necks to be slaughtered, and the wind and rain are like ashes, but many Ah Q people are holding steamed bread dipped in blood in their arms.
Besides, Kang Youwei. When Empress Dowager Cixi ordered the arrest of the Kang brothers, our Kang teacher was ordered by Guangxu to go to Shanghai to run his official newspaper, and now he is leisurely going to Tianjin. As everyone knows, at this time, the situation in Beijing changed suddenly, and his own brother had just been arrested, and the pursuer had already chased Tianjin.
Fortunately, someone tipped him off at that time, and Mr. Kang was able to transfer to an English ship to escape. Later, Empress Dowager Cixi sent a navy warship to chase her. Unexpectedly, the ship ran out of fuel on the way and turned back. Teacher Kang is lucky. Finally, he changed to a British warship and went directly to Hong Kong, and then diverted to Japan, which escaped.
Liang Qichao took refuge in the Japanese Embassy after the coup. Later, under the cover of the Japanese, he cut off his hair, put on a kimono, boarded a Japanese warship and fled. Soon, Liang Qichao and his teacher Kang Youwei met in Japan, and tried to save Emperor Guangxu with the help of Japan, but ultimately failed.
At this time in Beijing, after Tan Sitong and others were killed, the conservative forces were crowned. Ironically, while these dirty vested interests are cheering for the last dying struggle, those young people who are really worried about the future of the country and the nation are bleeding in the streets. No one expected that the Reform Movement of 1898 would end in such a result.
After the death of the six gentlemen, the new party reformers either fled, imprisoned or exiled, and fell for a while; However, Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong and Liu Kunyi, the enlightened bureaucrats of the Westernization School who were originally in the same strain as the reformists, had to keep their mouths shut or simply stand aside. China, hordes, only those old and fatuous conservative ministers cheered.
Under the protection of Empress Dowager Cixi, these people mastered the internal affairs and diplomacy of the Qing Empire and regarded new affairs as enemies, which was also the darkest period of the whole late Qing Dynasty. It was under the rule of these people that the most absurd Boxer Movement and the Eight-Nation Alliance disaster were caused.
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/kloc-during the coup in 0/898, the feudal die-hards headed by Empress Dowager Cixi pursued the reformists. 1On September 28th, 898, six reformists, Tan Sitong, Kang, Yang Rui and Liu Guangdi, were killed in Beijing, which was known as the "Six Gentlemen of the 1898 Movement".
Because you are talking about modern times, not including the Cultural Revolution (modern times).