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Huang Xing, the founder of the Republic of China, said a word to his daughter before he died, and still did not forget to care about the development of the country

Huang Xing, the founder of the Republic of China, said a word to his daughter before he died, and still did not forget to care about the development of the country

Text/Xu Yongchao

"But the ancients saw in the book that boys should be strange to the world." In modern Hunan, heroes have emerged, and they have sought from top to bottom for the survival of the survival of the people and made immortal contributions to the rejuvenation of China. The modern figure I want to introduce today is Huang Xing, the elder of the Kuomintang, the founder of the Republic of China, and "Sun Huang", who was called "Sun Huang" together with Sun Yat-sen.

Huang Xing (1874-1916), originally known as 轸, later renamed Xing, Zi Keqiang, a native of Changsha, Hunan. The young Huang Xing, not smart, and diligent. A man surnamed Xiao who had been his enlightenment teacher could not help but sigh: "Only Chu has talent, and this son will certainly be of great use in the future." He also did not live up to the expectations of his teachers and was escorted to Wuchang Lianghu Academy with excellent results. Here, he was appreciated by Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang at the time. In 1902, Huang Xing studied in Japan at official expense. In a foreign country, Huang Xing realized the great power of Western military skills, so he insisted on practicing guns and bullets every day, although he did not quit in the cold and summer. Under years of hard training, his marksmanship can almost be bullet-free.

Huang Xing only spent one year in Japan, but this year was of great significance to him. He not only cut the braids off his head, but also renamed himself Xing. "My name is the ultimate goal of my revolution, and this ultimate purpose is to rejuvenate our Chinese nation, our nation, and overcome rape."

Huang Xing, who embarked on the revolutionary road, deliberately gathered his comrades. In Shanghai, he met Song Jiaoren, and the two saw each other as they were. After that, they and Chen Tianhua, Zhang Shizhao, Liu Yiyi and others founded the Huaxing Association in Changsha. Later, because the planning of the armed uprising failed, Huang Xing had to disguise himself as a customs clerk and go to Shanghai, and then to Dongying.

In Tokyo, he met Sun Yat-sen, who was also engaged in anti-Qing activities. The two decided to form an alliance. On August 4, 1905, the Chinese League was officially established. Originally, with his prestige not inferior to Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing could have become the premier of the League, but he took the initiative to propose that Sun Yat-sen be appointed as the premier and do the executive work himself. Since then, Huang Xing has begun to cooperate with Sun Yat-sen.

To solve the China problem, it is inseparable from an armed force. Therefore, after the establishment of the League, they organized many armed uprisings. Because Huang Xing was proficient in the military, he was the specific planner and organizer of a series of armed uprisings. Among them, the Huanghuagang Uprising was the most tragic. Prior to this, due to the lack of weapons, the date of the uprising was repeatedly delayed, and the Qing government had already learned of the information that the revolutionaries were going to revolt in Guangzhou, and had mobilized heavy troops. On April 23, 1911, Huang Xing arrived in Guangzhou, and four days later, he personally sounded the horn of the Guangzhou Uprising and fought against the Qing army in advance. In the end, due to the disparity in power, the battle was lost. More than a hundred soldiers fought bravely, and afterwards, the revolutionary comrades found the remains of 72 of them and buried them together in Huanghuagang on the outskirts of the city.

Although the Huanghuagang Uprising failed, the spirit of the martyrs who were public and selfless prepared the seeds for the Wuchang Uprising. "Although the seventy-two martyrs died, their value is immeasurable."

After the Wuchang Uprising, representatives of the independent provinces gathered in Nanjing to elect Sun Yat-sen as interim president. But in fact, it is Huang Xing who is in charge of all aspects of affairs. He not only had to devote his energy to the preparation of the inauguration ceremony of the provisional president, but also in military, peace, foreign relations, and other large and small affairs, but also inseparable from his planning. Huang Xing did not shy away from difficulties and was bent on consolidating the new regime.

After Yuan Shikai took office, Huang Xing stepped down and returned to his hometown to contribute to the development of industry. However, the assassination of Song Jiaoren never gave him the opportunity to realize his dream of a rich country. The assassination of Song Jiaoren made the relationship between the Kuomintang and Yuan Shikai extremely deteriorate, but Huang Xing still remained calm, thinking that Yuan Shikai was after all the titular president, and it was not appropriate to openly oppose each other; in addition, the diplomatic problems caused by civil unrest could not be ignored; more importantly, the southern army was not a rival of the Beiyang Army; so he advocated using legal means to try the mastermind and let Yuan Shikai's conspiracy be exposed to the world. However, they could not resist the call of Sun Yat-sen and others to use force to curry favor with Yuan, and they had no choice but to participate in the second revolution, and the result was, of course, failure.

After his exile in Japan, Sun Yat-sen prepared to establish a highly unified Chinese Revolutionary Party, and in order to strengthen the centralization of power, demanded absolute obedience to himself according to the fingerprints. Huang Xing resolutely opposed this. In order not to let the contradictions intensify, Huang Xing chose to go away to the United States. In 1915, with the rise of the nationwide clamor for Yuan, Sun Huang united again, and he made irreplaceable contributions to promoting the unity of anti-Yuan forces.

In 1916, he returned to his homeland after a three-year absence. On October 31 of that year, Huang Xing passed away. On his deathbed, he said to his children, "If I die, I will not weep, but I shall keep this tear, and if I weep for him, then I will have a son."

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