On July 13, 1907, the people of our country will never forget it. At that time, the heroine Qiu Jin was arrested by the Qing army in Shaoxing's Datong School. That night, Shaoxing Governor Guifu began to interrogate Qiu Jin, and the torture equipment in the lobby was complete, and there was a murderous scene.
Facing Guifu's interrogation, Qiu Jin smiled coldly and arrogantly, looked up at the sky, and said nothing. Guifu was helpless and ordered torture, including kneeling chains and fire bricks, but to no avail.
Although Guifu is well-informed, a resolute prisoner like Qiu Jin is the first time he has met him, and in desperation, he can only announce his retirement. On the morning of the next day, Li Zhongyue, the magistrate of Shanyin, interrogated Qiu Jin.
Although Li Zhongyue was the ** of the Qing Dynasty, he admired the strange woman in front of him very much in his heart, so his attitude was relatively gentle, he did not force Qiu Jin to answer anything, and he did not torture him.
Qiu Jin did not accuse Lee Jong-yue in court, but said: "What I advocate is a revolution of equality between men and women, and I don't know what laws and regulations have been violated." She picked up a brush and wrote the poem "The autumn wind and autumn rain are sad" on the offering paper to express her feelings about the defeat of the revolution.
The prefect Guifu felt that Li Zhongyue's interrogation of Qiu Jin was too lenient, and in order to force Qiu Jin to confess, he assigned his staff member Yu to inflict cruel punishment on Qiu Jin. However, Qiu Jin was tenacious and resolute in keeping secrets, and scolded these corrupt bureaucrats from beginning to end.
Although Qiu Jin gritted her teeth and endured the severe pain and fainted several times, her strong will was as firm as steel. The resolute spirit of the Jianhu Woman makes the corrupt bureaucrats and dogs in the lobby feel intimidated.
Guifu understood that it was impossible to obtain a confession from Qiu Jin, so on July 14 he sent a telegram to the governor of Zhejiang, Zhang Zengyang (Zhang Zhidong's son), requesting that Qiu Jin be "immediately executed" to prevent the revolutionaries from coming to her rescue.
Zhang Zengyang immediately replied and agreed to Guifu's request.
In the early morning of July 15, Qiu Jin was brought out of prison by dozens of armed Qing soldiers. Even in the face of death, Qiu Jin can still maintain a calm and calm attitude, and her face does not change.
She was escorted into the prison car, walked to the entrance of the Xuanting, and after getting out of the prison car, Qiu Jin made three requests to the prison officer Li Zhongyue: first, she was allowed to write a farewell letter to say goodbye to her relatives and friends; Second, do not take off your clothes when you are about to be sentenced; Third, don't be beheaded after death.
Lee Jong-yue rejected the request, considering that the first condition would take too much time and did not meet the regulations. But he agreed to the last two demands. Qiu Jin tidied up his clothes belt, strode towards Xuantingkou, and finally sacrificed his life for the revolution at the age of 33, leaving behind the ambition and bold words of "fighting for 100,000 skulls and blood, and must save the world".
After Qiu Jin was killed, those Qing court** who were directly or indirectly involved in this matter were duly punished. Zhang Zengyang, the governor of Zhejiang, was spurned by the whole country for approving the killing of Qiu Jin, and he first asked to be transferred to Jiangsu, but was refused; Then he asked to be transferred to Shanxi, but he was also refused.
In the end, he could only retire to Hubei for the rest of his life. The prefect of Shaoxing also became the target of public criticism because of this matter, and he asked to be transferred to Ningguo, Anhui, but was also rejected by the people of Ningguo.
In desperation, he could only withdraw from officialdom and remain incognito. Those who reported Qiu Jin, such as Hu Daonan, were soon assassinated; Those who participated in the arrest of Qiu Jin, such as Li Yizhi, later hid in Guangdong, and were also burned to death in the Dashatou flower boat.
Yu Mou, who tortured Qiu Jin, was also scolded by the countrymen, and finally fled to another country, where he went. Only Lee Jong-yue, the governor of San'in, was forgiven by the people and was not punished in any way.
After Qiu Jin's sacrifice, the local area was hastily buried with only a few thin planks and buried in a mass grave. Xu Zihua's sisters wanted to collect Qiu Jin's body regardless of life and death, but they were strongly obstructed by their comrades, so they could only wait for a snowy night in winter.