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Run away, the officers and soldiers are about to arrest you! ”
I'm not going! "Aren't you afraid of death? ”
"What is there to be afraid of death, if my bloody sacrifice alone can awaken the country, I am willing to die! ”
This righteous man who has the courage to sacrifice is called Tan Sitong, one of the six gentlemen of Wuxu. After the failure of the reform, he refused to flee, and finally died heroically.
"The change of the law in all countries is made from the shedding of blood, and today China has not heard of anyone who shed blood because of the change of the law, and the reason why this country is not prosperous. Yes, please start from the beginning! ”
This is what Tan Sitong said before his inauguration, and this spirit of willing sacrifice for the sake of China's survival is really admirable. Since then, thousands of people with lofty ideals have followed in his footsteps and saved China from danger with their blood and lives.
Although he died, his spirit will inspire more people to continue on his path.
This includes his wife, Li Yan.
Li Yan and Tan Sitong were both born in the family of the eunuchs, her father was talented, he was a Jinshi born in the Eight Classics, and later became an official to the household department. He and Tan Sitong's father are fellow villagers, and they live close to each other, and the two families have been in contact from time to time.
In the feudal era, if the parents had a suitable candidate, they would set up a family affair for them at a very early age. The relationship between the two families is relatively good, and there happens to be a son and a daughter of the same age in the family, so this family affair was decided when they were very young.
But fortunately, although Li Yan is a woman with small feet, she is full of poetry and books, and she is a well-known lady.
Li Yan and Tan Si are connected by poetry, and the husband and wife are very affectionate.
Soon after marriage, Li Yan gave birth to a son for Tan Sitong, but unfortunately died within a few years, and he has not been seen since.
Although the two had no children, they lived lovingly for 15 years.
There was once someone who disliked Li Yan for not being worthy of him, and Tan Sitong scolded him back. In his opinion, his wife is talented, like-minded with him, and is a natural pair, and cannot tolerate the beak of others.
They can not only discuss poetry, calligraphy and painting together, but also discuss national affairs.
After Tan Sitong devoted himself to changing the law, he was so busy every day that his feet did not touch the ground, and the husband and wife often did not see each other. But their correspondence never stopped.
Until Tan Sitong**, they kept in touch.
After the disastrous defeat in the Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese, who felt humiliated, decided to change the law to become stronger, and Kang Youwei wrote to Emperor Guangxu for Liang Qichao and other restoration fighters, demanding the implementation of a new policy to save the Qing ** rule that the edifice was about to fall.
Guangxu also had the heart to save the country, so he summoned the reformers and began to change the law.
However, this move aroused the displeasure of the Empress Dowager Cixi, who staged a coup d'état to imprison the Guangxu Emperor, monopolized power, and vigorously searched for those who changed the law. At this time, many people fled abroad, and Liang Qichao persuaded Tan Sitong to go with him before going to Japan.
But Tan Sitong refused.
At this time, Emperor Guangxu was not dead, and he tried to rescue the emperor, thinking that this would save the new deal. But if an emperor is reduced to the point where he has to rely on his own courtiers to save him, then his situation can be imagined.
Soon after, Emperor Guangxu died inexplicably in his own bedroomHopes for a change in the law were completely dashed.
The reformers were subjected to a massive manhunt.
After Tan Sitong**, according to the usual practice, the Minister of Military Aircraft and the Criminal Department should be interrogated before making a verdict, but the feudal diehards are afraid of long nights and dreams, so they will be executed directly!
Tan Sitong was directly escorted to the execution ground.
Before Tan Sitong, he had countless opportunities to escape, but he refused. He was not killed, but chose to end his own life.
This kind of sacrifice is completely unnecessary in the eyes of many people, they feel that it doesn't matter if they fail once, there will be a next time, if it doesn't work, the next time, as long as they persevere, there will always be a victory. It's called perseverance.
But Tan Sitong's spirit cannot be measured by the values of gains and losses. It was a martyrdom in which he dedicated his life to the revolt while mocking the fleeting victory of the feudal diehards with a fearless spirit.
Heroes can't be killed, there are many people with lofty ideals like him, and one day, these feudal diehards will go to extinction.
After Tan Sitong's death, his father Tan Jixun was also deposed and returned to his hometown with the family. At first, they did not tell Li Yan that Tan Sitong had died.
Li Yan is looking forward to her husband's return as soon as possible every day, and even washes her face with tears every day, and her family doesn't dare to tell her the truth when they see her like this, they just say that he will definitely return, but they still have to wait.
Although Li Yan was very worried, he had no other way but to continue to wait for news.
Originally, she wanted to stay at home and continue to wait for news, but Li Jixun was deposed, and she had to take a large family back to her hometown, which was very hard, so she had to put her husband's affairs aside first, follow her family, and take care of the elderly on the way.
But on the way, I don't know who leaked the news, Li Yan fainted directly after learning the news, and everyone hurriedly sent her back to the room to rest.
Since then, although Li Yan still works as hard as before to honor his in-laws, there has been a dead silence in his heart, and there is no smile on his face.
Because of the depression in his heart, Li Yan soon fell ill.
But she didn't care and let her condition progress.
Tan Jixun knew that she had the will to die, but he had already lost a son, how could he lose a child?
Besides, this is the daughter of an old friend, if he doesn't take good care of her, what face will he have to see her father in the future?
He knew that Li Yan was a strong woman, and no matter how much persuasion he tried, it was uselessOnly with responsibility can she be tethered.
Because the couple has never had a child of their own, he passed on one of his grandsons to Tan Sitong, hoping that Li Yan can turn his attention to the child and forget his sadness.
When Tan's father sent the child to Li Yan, she suddenly realized how irresponsible her thoughts were during this time.
looked at the elderly father Tan and the young child in front of him,She decided to keep the house for her husband.
She hangs her husband's portrait on the bedroom wall as a way to remember their good old days.
Then he put all his body and mind into presiding over the family business.
After Tan's father was deposed, there was no income in the family, so Li Yan cleaned up the house in his hometown and opened an inn, which barely made ends meet. Because both brothers and sisters-in-law are illiterate, the burden of educating children at home falls on Li Yan's head.
Li Yan is very strict with the discipline of the children, and is both a strict father and a loving mother. Watching the children study seriously, she couldn't help but fall into memories again.
Tan Sitong used to be very concerned about education, and he also participated in the preparation of the women's school, but the donation was in his own name.
Suddenly, she seemed to understand something.
It was not only the reformist men who participated in the reform of the law who were exposed to the new ideas, but also their family members who gradually became enlightened under their influence. Li Yan reads poetry and books and accepts new things relatively quickly.
Under the influence of her husband, she not only recognized the new idea of emancipating women, but also decided to put it into practice.
Although she has left her husband's guidance, she is already able to think independently.
When she returned to her hometown, she noticed that girls here were generally not well educated. Although both girls in the family read and read under her teaching, there are many girls who are illiterate like her brother and sister-in-law.
Some are constrained by feudal ideology and feel that girls do not need to study, but some have no education at all.
In China, which is in the midst of ideological enlightenment, the idea of girls going to school has gradually spread, but the educational facilities have not changed, and there are few schools for girls to learn knowledge.
So she secretly decided,A girls' school is to be established.
In order to prepare for the construction of the school, she donated part of her family property, which the family also agreed very much, and they all unconditionally supported Li Yan's decision.
The money was available, but it was not enough to build a school building, so she found a dilapidated local Buddhist temple to renovate it and use it as a school building temporarily.
After the school was completed, many people who admired Tan Sitong came to support, and they donated money and materials to build the school vigorously.
Since then, she has one more task, which is to manage the academic affairs.
After taking care of the chores at home every day, she hurried to the school to work, not only teaching the children herself, but also taking care of the school's affairs.
She told the girls to be self-reliant and contribute to the country after they graduated.
In addition to setting up a girls' school, she also cares about local baby girls. Because of the poison of feudal thinking, some families will drown or abandon girls directly after giving birth to them, and many lives will be lost.
Li Yan used to be a mother herself, so she hated this phenomenon. In order to save these infant lives, Li Yan founded the Yuying Bureau and donated part of his family property again.
Under her leadership, everyone also extended a helping hand and successfully rescued many girls.
In 1912, the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty finally came to an end, and in order to commemorate Tan Sitong's achievements, ** funded the construction of Tan Sitong Memorial Hall. A year later, the memorial hall was finally completed, and Li Yan stood at the door crying silently.
In 1925, this heroine finally finished her life, and what she has done for so many years has not discredited her husband, and under Jiuquan, she can also meet him without shame.
Although Tan Sitong's transformation failed, his blood belonging to the Chinese will always inspire the Chinese.
As he said, starting from his sacrifice, China has been bloodshed and sacrificed for change. But it is precisely because of his bravery that more people have the courage to fight for it.
"I smiled at the sky with my horizontal knife, and went to save the liver and gallbladder two Kunlun. ”
His bravery will always be one of the most colorful in the books of modern history.