Today, 125 years ago, on August 9, 1900 (July 15, 1900 in the lunar calendar), Tang Caichang failed to "beg thieves and diligent kings". Tang Caichang (1867 ~ 1900) was the leader of the reformists in the late Qing Dynasty. The word is Fucheng, Buddha dust. A native of Liuyang, Hunan. Born in Gong Sheng. In his early years, he studied in Changsha College of Classics, Yuelu College and Wuchang Lianghu College. He studied at Lianghu Academy in 1894. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, he actively advocated reform and reform. In the 23rd year of Guangxu (1897), he and Tan Sitong set up an arithmetic museum in Liuyang, advocated new learning, set up a current affairs school in Changsha, and edited the Journal of Xiangxue. The following year, Xiang Newspaper was founded to publicize the reform and reform. In 1898, he founded the South Society and Qunmeng Society with Tan Sitong, and became an important figure in the southern reform and reform. In the summer of the same year, I wanted to go to Beijing to participate in the New Deal, and went to Hankou. I learned that Empress Dowager Cixi had launched the coup of 1898. After the failure of the reform, I fled to Japan and contacted Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, Sun Yat-sen and others. In twenty-five years, he cooperated with Bi Yongnian of the Xingzhong Association to prepare to contact the party along the Yangtze River to rise. Returned to China in the winter of the same year In 1900, he organized the Zhengqi Association in Shanghai, which was later renamed the Self-reliance Association, and contacted the party in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, with more than 100,000 members. Self-appointed commander-in-chief, set up a switchboard about Hankou. In July, he also invited celebrities and leaders of the Hui Party to hold a parliament (also known as the "Chinese Parliament") in Zhangyuan, Shanghai. Vice President Rong Hong and Yan Fuzheng, permanent director-general of Tang Cai, announced that "China's right to self-reliance should be preserved and a new self-reliant country should be created" and Emperor Guangxu should be in power. After the meeting, he went to Hankou, organized a self-reliant army, served as the supervisor of the armies, and planned to revolt on August 9th. The uprising was postponed due to Kang Youwei's remittance. He was arrested by Zhang Zhidong on the evening of August 21st and killed the next day. He is the author of "Juedian Mingzhai Neiyan" and so on. There is "Tang Cai Chang Ji". Comment: Social progress is driven by these people who advocate reform.