Chapter 2: Qiu Jin's Havoc in Guangzhou (II)

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In the conference hall, Qiu Jin's women's army rushed up, and the first to be attacked was Vice President Feng Heqing. He was slapped twice by a woman with his head and face, and the glasses on the bridge of his nose were hit to the ground, and he wanted to cry without tears.

Qiu Jin's women's army is usually trained, and the national representatives of the Guangzhou Council are all weak scholars, and some are still old. There are young and strong parliamentarians, such as Hong Chengfu, who also abide by the principle of "good men don't fight with women"

The concept of courtesy to these troublesome women. The lawmakers took refuge in the lounge. Some of those who did not have time to escape shouted that the speaker of the parliament would uphold justice, and some of the parliamentarians even ran to the blackboard to write: "The speaker of the parliament is incompetent, and we have suffered this great shame." However, the women's army believes that the speaker of the parliament, Zhong Shengguo, is presiding over justice and supporting their legitimate demands, and he is a good person.

Qiu Jin's women's army was very strong, and in less than a pillar of incense, they controlled the council's meeting hall. Some of the women felt that they were in control of the council and had a voice, and they were so excited that they burst into tears. They began to reaffirm their positions and demands for equality between men and women. Qiu Jin sat down in the chairman's seat and rattled the bell to announce the resumption of the meeting. A representative of the Women's Party, Dong Wenfang, took the podium and accused Vice Speaker Feng Heqinggang of breaking her left wrist, pushing her to the ground, and bruising her face when he was pulling with her, and demanded that Qiu Jin uphold justice.

Qiu Jin pulled out his pistol, handed it to Dong Wenfang's hand, and said, "Feng Heqing has handed it over to you." At your disposal. ”

At this time, Feng Heqing was escorted by two women's soldiers with thick arms, shouting that he was wronged: "I didn't mean it just now. You are abusing lynching. ”

Meanwhile. The lawmakers who had escaped the chamber had already called Mr. Chen and asked the Guangzhou government to send troops to protect them. Chen Jiongming first replied: "I told you a long time ago not to amend my proposal, but to directly pass the bill to allow women to have the right to vote. I can't help you get out of this. Now, show what you are, because equality between men and women is unstoppable. ”

The parliamentarians were helpless. I had to give it to Zhang Renjun, the chief of civil affairs of Guangdong Province, who is Li Hongzhang's family, and his uncle is Zhang Peilun. Ask for his support. When Zhang Renjun heard that Qiu Jin's women's army occupied the Guangzhou Municipal Council, he was afraid of causing trouble. Quickly send troops to rescue the trapped councillors.

After Qiu Jin heard that Zhang Renjun had sent troops. took the councillors in the council hall hostage, and then called Tang Qunying, asked her to communicate with the girls' school, and sent female students to the assembly to help. Tang Qunying organized nearly 8,000 people to assemble in front of the Guangzhou Council Hall and confront the soldiers. After Tang Qunying gave a speech at the rally, he organized them to march in the streets. They marched and handed out leaflets. It reads to the effect that "both men and women are nationals, and women should have the same rights as men, and now we are determined to take back the rights that belong to us, after thousands of years of great oppression by men." ”

The procession marched from the Guangzhou Municipal Assembly Hall to the Guangdong Provincial Government Building, where gongs, drums and slogans shook the sky, and they set off firecrackers everywhere. It was already evening, and the sunset burned half of the sky in Guangzhou, revealing a surprising light, as if cheering for them. Journalists from many Taixi newspapers and news agencies in Guangzhou also took to the streets to report on the Chinese women's rally.

Zhang Renjun, the chief of civil affairs of Guangdong Province, had to come out and negotiate with Tang Qunying, promising to do his best to meet the demands of the women's deputies and to give the women the right to vote as soon as possible. Tang Qunying also demanded that the national representatives who attacked and insulted Qiu Jin that day come out and apologize, and accept their punishment, otherwise they will go on a hunger strike in protest. This made Zhang Renjun very difficult. Because the national representatives at that time were very backbone, and they also wanted to save face. Zhang Renjun persuaded them to apologize to the women's representatives, and they replied: "We would rather kill ourselves in shame." I will never apologize to these unreasonable women. ”

As a result, Tang Qunying and others continued to occupy the meeting hall in Guangzhou and confronted the government troops and police who maintained order. Qiu Jin and the others persevered for three days and three nights, bringing great chaos to Guangzhou. The citizens of Guangzhou have always attached importance to the rule of law, stressed rationality, and treated people in a peaceful manner. After this incident, the citizens clearly saw that Tang Qunying and other women's parties wantonly provoked the government agencies in an orderly manner, and the desperate manic and violent atmosphere made people shocked. Many Guangzhou citizens also spontaneously took to the streets to demonstrate and demand that the provincial government forcefully clear the site.

Things came to this point, Zhang Renjun had to call President Song Xiaofei to report for instructions, but he didn't expect Song Xiaofei to change his strength this time and asked Zhang Renjun: "How many women are there in the marching and rally?" ”

Zhang Renjun replied, "About eight thousand." Do you want to arrest them all? ”

Song Xiaofei said: "There are quite a few people. Why arrest them? There is nothing wrong with them demanding equality between men and women. The development trend of modern civilized countries is to achieve equality between men and women. The United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Norway, Portugal, Denmark and other countries have achieved women's political participation. It is not the attitude of a mature government to ask the person who raised the question what his intentions are and whether there is hostile forces behind it, and to try to arrest the person who raised the question, instead of finding out whether the problem exists or whether there is a solution. But this is exactly the consistent thinking of most Chinese officials, how can the nation progress in this way? ”

Zhang Renjun said: "The president has learned the right lesson. I must have deeply reflected. ”

Song Xiaofei said: "Moreover, Qiu Jin and others strive for equality between men and women, which is worthy of recognition. We are now advocating the rule of law, and if the rights in the constitution cannot be guaranteed according to law, they will be laughed at by other countries. If the old legislators insist that women in China are incapable of participating in politics because of their low level of education, we can give some restrictions, such as that only women with a primary school education or higher can vote. Only women with a secondary school education are eligible to participate in elections for local councillors, etc. I also hope to carry out a pilot project in Guangdong to see how it works. ”

Zhang Renjun said: "The president is far-sighted. I'll do it. ”

Song Xiaofei said: "Wait, there is one more thing you have to do." That is to confiscate the firearms of Qiu Jin's Women's Army. Any government in the world allows people to march and demonstrate peacefully, but it absolutely does not allow people to mess around with guns. In the future, no political party in Guangzhou will be allowed to have its own armed forces. This is the bottom line of modern politics. ”

Zhang Renjun said: "I will definitely do it." ”

Zhang Renjun hung up the phone and immediately called the commander of the armed police force stationed in Guangzhou and dispatched 500 armed policemen. They arrived in front of the meeting hall in Guangzhou. He conveyed to Tang Qunying the president's opinion: give women in Guangdong to participate in political power.

When Tang Qunying heard that their struggle had been supported by the president, he rejoiced and shouted among the women: "Long live the equality of men and women!" Long live the President! After that. And the team dispersed.

Then, the heavily armed armed policemen entered the council hall, seized the weapons of Qiu Jin's women's army, and rescued the Guangzhou parliamentarians who were trapped in it. The lawmakers saw the Girl Scouts disarmed. The breath of the heart. It's also mostly gone.

Under the persuasion of Zhang Renjun and Chen Jiongming, Feng Heqing, vice chairman of the Guangzhou Council, apologized to Qiu Jin and shook hands on behalf of the parliamentarians.

Qiu Jin, Tang Qunying, and Zhang Zhujun made such a fuss, and they also won the victory and became famous. Many celebrities at that time were proud to have met them. This trouble also made the Jianhu heroine Qiu Jin and Hong Chengfu, who was about thirty-five years old, tie fate.

Those days. After meeting Qiu Jin in the Guangzhou Council, Qiu Jin's figure. It stayed in Hong Chengfu's heart. After Hong Chengfu returned from studying in the United States, he has never married, and he always looks at the wrong woman. He found out that Qiu Jin had broken up with her husband, so he invited her to watch a play at the teahouse on Upper Ninth Street.

Qiu Jin's husband is Wang Zifang, two years younger than himself, white and clean, in fact, he is a "handsome and rich" in Xiangxiang, Hunan, Zeng Guofan's cousin, and studied at Changsha Yuelu Academy when he was young. On April 20, 1896, the Wang family used Cailuan and sedan chairs to marry Qiu Jin. Later, his grandfather Qiu Jiahe and father Qiu Shounan both passed away, and they belonged to the family of the official eunuch who had just fallen, and naturally looked a little disgraced in front of the Wang family. The Wang family showed Qiu Jin's face at the beginning, and her mother-in-law also disliked that Miss Qiu Jin was not the kind of little daughter-in-law with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes. She usually acts like a man, which is quite unaccustomed to the traditional mother-in-law, because Qiu Jin is a bit like the current female father-in-law, who usually writes a poem, "The girl wants to lose",

"It's hard to make it easy for women"

Something, domineering leakage.

In 1902, the Qiu family and the Wang family partnered to open a money bank, which was because the in-laws wanted to help the Qiu family. But none of the Qiu family was good at management, and they tossed until the end of the year and went bankrupt. Qiu Jin's life at her mother-in-law's house was even more difficult. In addition, her husband has nothing in common with her in terms of interests and hobbies, and she often sighs: "The piano is strange, and the couple don't get along." ”

By 1903, when the marriage had reached the seven-year itch, Qiu Jin and her husband broke up completely. At that time, her husband worked in the Ministry of Finance of Sheng Xuanhuai's government and became a director, which is equivalent to the current deputy director. Qiu Jin met a very fatal best friend in the journey of life in the capital: Tang Qunying, who opened her eyes and awakened her feminist consciousness. In the Mid-Autumn Festival of this year, Wang Zifang said that he would have a banquet at home and let Qiu Jin prepare at home, but in the evening, he was pulled out by his buddies to eat flowers and wine, and he didn't return at ** o'clock, Qiu Jin naturally waited impatiently, and slammed the door, wearing men's clothes and going to the theater with the little girl to watch the play, and returned in the middle of the night. Qiu Jin's husband was so angry that he beat Qiu Jin when he came back. Qiu Jin practiced sword and equestrian skills when she was a girl, but after all, she was bound with small feet and couldn't beat a man's family. But he couldn't bear it, so he ran away from home and found a hotel to live in. Later, although she was persuaded to return, Qiu Jin's relationship with her husband became very bad, because her husband actually beat a woman, and her evaluation of her husband became "not as good as a beast", so far she concentrated on following Tang Qunying around, never going home, and cheering for China's feminism.

So in the fall of 1906, the tall Hong Chengfu asked her to have tea, Hong Chengfu also joined the school's baseball team when he was at Columbia University, burly and polite, and Hong Chengfu voted for equality between men and women in the parliament, she had a good impression of him, so she didn't think much about it, so she agreed.

The two drank tea and watched the play together, which was very comfortable. When the play ended, the two refused to separate, so they went downstairs together and walked to the river. The two walked side by side, and Hong Chengfu introduced Qiu Jin to the history of the feminist movement in the United States, as well as the political situation in the United States. Qiu Jin listened carefully like a little girl, asking questions from time to time. She was wearing a gray suit and a peaked cap, the brim of the hat pressed the black hair of the shawl, but a red woolen scarf was wrapped, and the whole outfit was actually not very coordinated.

Hong Chengfu asked Qiu Jin softly: "Miss Qiu, why do you wear men's clothes every time I see you." Do you wear men's clothing every day? ”

Qiu Jin laughed and said, "Yes." I want to be as strong as a man. Braids and robes, that is the custom of the Manchus, not the attire of the Chinese, so I wear a suit. ”

Hong Chengfu nodded and said, "I just like an assertive person like Miss Qiu." ”

The man who stayed abroad was so straightforward, Qiu Jin was a little embarrassed, so he changed the topic and said, "Dare to ask, are you a conservative or a reformist?" ”

Hong Chengfu said: "Of course, it is a reformist. ”

Qiu Jin asked, "Are you a follower of Confucius?" The believers of Confucius, that is, the believers who are difficult to raise only women and villains! I hate such hypocrites. ”

Hong Chengfu said: "I am not a believer in Confucius. But I know the words of Confucius, Confucius said, 'Only women and villains are difficult to raise', and the women mentioned here probably have another meaning. Didn't he say that 'a woman is virtuous if she is not talented'? It is said that women have more learning, and the harm is less. This is an insult to women. It can also be said to be a slap in the face. I want us to pay attention to our self-cultivation and not to worry about these things. I have always admired the courage and studiousness of Chinese women, so I voted in parliament to give women the right to vote. Although we met for the first time, we said these words to you completely from the heart. ”

Hearing this, Qiu Jin smiled happily, feeling that she had waited for so many years, and finally waited for a bosom friend, the cool breeze, and the stars in the sky, twinkling in the night sky, illuminated the road under her feet. The two chatted until midnight, and Qiu Jin completely forgot that she was in Beijing, and she had a handsome and rich husband who had a discordant relationship, a nine-year-old son and a five-year-old daughter, and at that time, they had not yet divorced. (To be continued......) u