Chen qimei

My brother Chen Qicai, also known as Aishi. My brother Chen Qiye, also known as Qin Shi (the father of Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu). Chen Qimei had a close relationship with Chiang Kai-shek. She was Chiang Kai-shek's close brother and introduced Chiang Kai-shek to Sun Yat-sen. On May 18, 1916, Zhang Zongchang, instructed by Yuan Shikai, sent Cheng Guorui to shoot Chen Qimei on the spot at the residence of Junsaburo Yamada, a Japanese man, under the guise of signing a contract for aid to collect Yuan's funds. After the assassination of Chen Qimei, Sun Yat-sen spoke highly of Chen Yingshi as "the chief minister of the revolution."

Chen Qimei, also known as Yingshi, was born in a merchant family in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province. She attended private school for seven years. Her father died at the age of 15. She worked as an apprentice in a small town's pawnshop for more than 12 years. At the age of 27, she went to Shanghai to work as an assistant accountant at Contes Inn for two years. In the spring of 1906, when he was 29 years old, he traveled eastward to Japan with the support of his brother and others.

In his two years in Japan, he studied police, law and military science. In the winter of the same year, he joined the Alliance and introduced fellow villagers Huang Wei and Chiang Kai-shek to join the Alliance. Compared with Zhejiang revolutionaries of his time, he started late and had no connection with the Restoration Association. At that time, he was not outstanding. He remained unknown until he returned to China, leaving no trace in Sun Yat-sen's memory.

His emergence came from his activities in Shanghai after returning to China in 1908. After Xu Xilin and Qiu Jin were killed in 1907, the revolutionary forces in Shanghai suffered serious setbacks and almost stopped all activities. Sun Yat-sen was facing a crisis. The uprisings in Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan failed repeatedly. Opinions within the Alliance were divided, the upper levels were seriously divided, and the Restoration Association established itself again. The period from 1907 to 1910 was the most difficult period since the League was established. In this dilemma, Chen Qimei regrouped and opened up the situation in Shanghai, gradually moving from empty words to implementation,"giving rise to the party's momentum," which attracted the attention of Sun Yat-sen, who was far overseas.

In Shanghai, he made friends with the Qing Gang as wings and became the leader of the Qing Gang in Shanghai: he went to restaurants, teahouses, theaters, bathhouses, and brothels, and "had many followers": he founded the Jingwu Martial Arts School, with Huo Yuanjia as the chief teacher, and attracted a large number of Jiangsu and Zhejiang capitalists such as Yu Qiaqing, Wang Yiting, Shen Manyun, etc. to join the Alliance: By making friends with celebrities in the business and social circles such as Li Pingshu and Zhu Baosan, they promoted them to sponsor the revolution, thereby gaining control of the Chamber of Commerce and the Armed Forces of Commerce, etc., so that the Alliance had a relatively solid social foundation in Shanghai. He also successively organized the "China Bulletin" and "People's Voice Cong Newspaper", and assisted Yu Youren in founding the famous "People's Daily"(Yu Youren wrote the poem "Friends of the Mourning Society" after Chen's death, which contained the sentence "The domineering Jiangdong has been scattered for a long time, and the heroic cause has been established"). Song Jiaoren, Tan Renfeng, Yang Pusheng and others organized the Central General Assembly of the Alliance. Because he had a social foundation in Shanghai, was familiar with the situation, and was Yang Pusheng's relative, they entrusted him with general affairs and daily work.

This was the beginning of Chen Qimei's rise to Shanghai. Sun Yat-sen said that he "before the restoration of China, he ran for revolution... During this period, he was generous with righteousness and secretly advanced bravely. Many of his comrades were endangered.¡»

After Sun Yat-sen resigned as interim president, Chen Qimei also resigned as the commander of the Shanghai Army, but he did not go to Beijing to become the chief of industry and commerce. It was not until the autumn of 1912 that he and Huang Xing followed Sun Yat-sen into Beijing. Sun Yat-sen once optimistically suggested to Yuan Shikai that he could enrich the country and strengthen the army by asking Yuan to train troops for ten years, build railways for ten years, Huang Xing to develop mines for ten years, and Chen Qimei to develop industry and commerce for ten years. Sun was appointed as the National Railway Supervisor and Huang was appointed as the General Mining Office. According to a British diplomat's report, Chen "will be sent abroad to investigate the political system." Yuan once offered to send Chen Qimei 170,000 yuan as a gift for traveling abroad. He advised him not to ask about state affairs, but he refused. Soon after, Song Jiaoren was assassinated at the Shanghai Railway Station. Sun Yat-sen proposed to resort to force. Chen Qimei supported Huang Xing's "legal solution" proposition at that time. The "Second Revolution" was irretrievably and quickly failed, and he also became one of the "leaders" of the "Ninghu Rebellion." Yuan Shikai offered a reward of 50,000 yuan to arrest him. In November 1913, Chen Qimei was forced to flee to Japan. At this time, he accused Huang Xing-"Nanjing is Huang's old place, and the Yuan army was under Huang's old troops. They collapsed without fighting and abandoned the land. Huang Xing cannot abdicate his responsibility! "His famous long letter summarized lessons and held accountable, and finally created an image of Sun Yat-sen who was always correct and correct in everything. There is no doubt that he was the initiator of deifying Sun Yat-sen. It is no wonder that Sun Yat-sen's "Strategy for the Founding of the Country" requires an appendix to the full text.

Chen Qimei raised troops to attack Yuan several times and became a thorn in Yuan Shikai's side. Yuan Xian sent someone to send 700,000 yuan to Chen Qimei to travel abroad, and threatened to use the money as funds to bribe assassins to attack him. Chen Qimei laughed after hearing this and refused. Yuan Shikai then ordered Zhang Zongchang, who was stationed in Shanghai, to be responsible for the assassination of Chen Qimei. After two failed assassinations of Chen Qimei, Yuan Shikai sent his personal guard Yuan Jiliang to Shanghai with a man named Li Haiqiu.

At that time, the Chinese Revolutionary Party was extremely short of funds, and Chen Qimei worried about this all day long. Li Haiqiu opened a "Hongfeng Coal Mining Company" and threatened that he would need to borrow from a Japanese bank to buy Japanese machinery. He wanted to ask Chen Qimei to be an intermediary and borrow 1 million yuan and get a 30% rebate. Chen immediately agreed. On the afternoon of May 18, 1916, Li Haiqiu and his accomplice Cheng Guorui came to the Chen residence to "discuss business"(Note: The reason and circumstances of Chen Qimei's assassination. For another explanation, see "The Case of Zheng Jicheng's Assassination of Zhang Zongchang" published in Bian Yun: "Bloody Blade: The Ups and Dies of the Republic of China"), taking the opportunity to assassinate Chen Qimei.

When Chiang Kai-shek heard the news of Chen Qimei's assassination, he immediately rushed to soothe the body and cried bitterly. Sun Yat-sen had just returned from Japan when he rushed over immediately. He shed tears and wrote the four words "Lost the Great Wall" in calligraphy on the spot to express his grief. After Chen Qimei's death, there was an endless stream of messages of condolence, tributes, couplets, and tributes from various groups and people from all walks of life at home and abroad.

In 1927, the Northern Expedition Army occupied Shanghai. On May 18, a meeting commemorating the 11th anniversary of Chen Qimei's death was held. Chiang Kai-shek made a special trip from Nanjing to deliver a speech: "The reason why Shanghai has such achievements in revolution is that Mr. Chen Yingshi initiated the revolution. Without Mr Chen Yingshi, there would be no current Kuomintang in China and no current National Revolution.¡»