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Chen Fan stood at the bow of the boat, looking at Shanghai in the distance, letting the sea breeze blow the pale hair of his sideburns, but he was silent, his eyes full of anger. And his two concubines and second daughter were full of sadness, their eyes were red, and they seemed to have just cried.

After a series of thunderous sounds, "Su Bao" finally reached the apex of its glory, which is also its end.

On June 29, Su Bao published a long article by Zhang Taiyan refuting Kang Youwei, which was published under the title "The Relationship between Kang Youwei and Jue Luojun", and the spearhead was directly aimed at Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty and denounced him as a "clown". At this time, the people in power really couldn't stand it, and immediately colluded with the concession authorities to seize the "Su Bao", creating a sensational "Su Bao Case".

After the incident, Chen Fan fled to Japan by boat with the help of strangers. What a sadness it is to be away from home. Looking at the gradually distant Shanghai, Chen Fan's eyes were moist, and he couldn't help but chant slowly: "The east wind is used to blowing the shirt, and it is not about love." But the strange helm tower looked back, and the old rivers and mountains were still in his eyes. ”

"Father." Chen Chufen walked up to him and said softly, "When I got on the boat, someone secretly stuffed me with an envelope. I just opened it and there was a bank draft, a note and a private letter. ”

"What does the note say?" Chen Fan asked in some surprise.

"The note said that he could go to Tokyo and find Zou Rong, the author of "Revolutionary Army", with a private message, to help him continue to run the newspaper in order to compete for the unfinished business." Chen Chufen paused for a moment, and added: "The note also said that I asked my father to take care of himself, and he will be able to return to his homeland in less than ten years." ”

"In less than ten years, we will be able to return to our homeland?" Chen Fan asked uncertainly.

"Yes." Chen Chufen nodded vigorously and repeated: "The note says that in less than ten years, we should return to our homeland." ”

"Okay, okay." Chen Fan stomped his feet and said two good words in a row, and his spirit was also invigorated.

Giving you hope, giving you a reason to cheer up, this is the panacea that sad and disappointed people need most. Chen Wenqiang told the people of Longxingtang to pay more attention, try their best to rescue, and give a sum of money to Chen Fan, just admiring his spirit of destroying his family and relieving difficulties, but he didn't know that this changed the tragedy of Chen Fan's life.

"Ten years of death, trapped to the end, without any complaints", this is the true portrayal of Chen Fan. Historically, Chen Fan was in exile in Tokyo, and he was almost unable to support himself in poverty, his two concubines remarried, and his eldest son ran away, and he didn't know what to do. After the second son Zhongyi was released from prison, the Qing court forced him to hand over his father, but he had to flee.

The owner of the famous "Su Bao" in Shanghai can be said to be a broken family and a separated wife. In history, when the revolution was completed and the Republic of China was newly established, how many people regarded themselves as meritorious heroes, fathers, great men, and people with lofty ideals, and they all thought that "hand-made republic" should be rewarded for meritorious deeds. And he was willing to be an unknown citizen of the republic, and he only did not mention the glorious history and tragic experience of the revolution he advocated in those years, let alone seek an official position. In the end, Chen Fan was desolate and alone, poor and sick in Shanghai, his young grandson died of illness, and his two daughters were not around, and he was only 54 years old when he died.

If Chen Wenqiang knew this, he would not let a "gentleman in the trend" like Chen Fan fall into such a situation. He is just a simple idea, Zou Rong is strong in blood and has little experience, and with the help of an old newspaper person like Chen Fan, he can rest assured.

However, the outbreak and trial of the Su report actually exposed the incompetence and shamelessness of the Manchu government. The decadent Manchu court was short-sighted and unskilled, and Cixi, the head of the task force for the "Su Bao" case, and members Zhang Zhidong, Duanfang, Wei Guangtao, and others thought they had a plan, but they brought humiliation on themselves, and they lost the face of "national sovereignty" for this.

The upright and upright government of the country has demanded that the "trial of the public party," which is not even at the level of the "residents' committee," preside over the justice of the law, and begged foreigners to kill Chinese civilians. Where is the dignity? Where are the faces? From the moment when the Qing Emperor fell at the feet of the court and asked the judge to execute the Chinese, the Qing Dynasty announced its end to the countrymen.

The fierce confrontation in the courtroom, and the public opinion of various media outside the courtroom was also in full swing, which put the concession authorities under tremendous pressure, and also made the anti-Qing revolutionary ideas hotly discussed by many media, affecting more people.

As the largest case in the late Qing Dynasty, the "Su Report Case" was a highly symbolic event in the period of China's first major transformation in the 20th century. The face-to-face confrontation between the all-powerful autocratic power of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the commoners, who had nothing but blood, was displayed in front of the people without omission. Although Zou Rong was absent, Zhang Taiyan, who is known as "Chapter Nerve" and "Chapter Maniac", was there, laughing and scolding in the trial, and the performance was still wonderful.

In order to fulfill the Empress Dowager's "Yi Decree", the Manchu government sent the prisoners to Nanjing, and Ling Chi executed them to order the purpose of "killing one and making an example of a hundred", first lured the concession authorities with 200,000 taels of silver, but after being refused, it even betrayed the national sovereignty again -- willing to give up the right of way of the Shanghai-Nanjing Road to the foreign powers in exchange for the promise of "extradition". Just when the great powers were a little moved, the sudden outbreak of the "Shen Xin case" suddenly exposed the barbarism, cruelty, and unwisdom of the Qing government, and brought about a fundamental turning point in the "Su Bao" case.

People have personality, report has a report, the state has a national personality, the three grids do not exist, people will not be human, the report will not be reported, and the country will not be a country. In the gloomy dark night of a hundred years ago, countless people with lofty ideals appeared on the horizon of the 20th century like a rising star, holding the persistence of "putting a knife on the neck or still speaking", allowing people to see the light and hope.

Shen Xin was also a newspaperman who was inclined to revolution, and out of patriotic enthusiasm, he disclosed the inside story of the "Sino-Russian Secret Treaty" in the newspaper. The Qing government was in a state of distress by the Su report, and Shen Xin stabbed it in the back again, exposing its "unseemly" traitorous behavior. Cixi's old witch was annoyed and angry, it was the old witch's "longevity month", and she didn't "kill", so she changed from "beheading" to "killing under the rod". Shen Xin thus became the first journalist in Chinese history to be killed.

After Shen Xin's tragic death, it immediately shocked China and foreign countries, and newspapers in Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places published reports and comments one after another. Zhang Taiyan, who was in prison, heard the news and wrote poems such as "The article always breaks the soul" and published it in the newspaper. The Westerners were also frightened, and the ministers and wives in Beijing protested to Cixi against this inhumane atrocity. Subsequently, the British and American governments issued instructions to their envoys in China, saying that they would not extradite the political prisoners who "reported the case to the Soviet Union," let alone allow them to be tried by Chinese officials, on the grounds that the Qing government had seriously trampled on human rights.

After getting the exact news, Chen Wenqiang can finally put his mind at ease. As long as he is not extradited to the Manchu government, then according to international practice, even if a "state criminal" like Zhang Taiyan is punished, he will only be imprisoned. A few years of Western Prison, the achievement of a lifetime of fame, perhaps this is the result of Zhang Taiyan's pursuit, but Zou Rong lost this opportunity to become famous because of his interference, I don't know if he has regrets in his heart?

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