What happened to the criminals involved in the Song Jiaoren case?

On March 20, 1913, Song Jiaoren, a 31-year-old young political activist and acting chairman of the KMT, was assassinated. When he was dying, he also said to Shikai, "I hope that the President will be sincere, impartial, and do his best to protect civil rights."

Sun Yat-sen rushed back to Shanghai from Tokyo on the 25th and made an essay in person: For civil rights protection, who is not the latter. Bleeding for the Constitution, the first person to be honest. After the

Song case happened, Yuan Shikai pretended to give an order to arrest the murderer. Two days later, on the 23rd, an antique dealer Wang Afa provided clues that Shanghai gangster Ying Guixin was suspected of hiring a murderer. According to the clues, the arresting house caught Ying Guixin, and the next day, the murderous warrior Ying was caught in Yingzhai. Also found in the Ying’s house were the secret messages and correspondence between Ying Guixin and the Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Hong Shuzu, as well as a five-ring pistol.

These evidences have fully shown that Premier Zhao Bingjun was the chief messenger of the assassination, and President Yuan Shikai seemed unable to clean up the relationship.

On March 26, there was a power-up to the provinces in the name of the State Council. "According to Ying Kuicheng (Guixin)’s letter on the 23rd, a kind of judicial organ supervising the government and political parties was discovered in Shanghai, declaring that Song Jiaoren, Liang Qichao, The crimes of Yuan Shikai, Zhao Bingjun, Wang Rongbao, etc., were first sentenced to death by Song Jiaoren and executed immediately." The purpose of this telegram is of course very clear. It wants to divert the attention of the Chinese people to a so-called "judiciary" that does not exist at all. It is said that Yuan Shikai and Zhao Bingjun are also on the list to be assassinated. It seems to confuse the facts.

At this time, Zhao Bingjun proposed to resign. Yuan Shikai allowed him to ask for leave, and Zhao Yi renewed it later. Finally, Zhao Bingjun was transferred to the post of the governor of Zhili.

After Song Jiaoren was shot, Zhao Bingjun tried every means to get rid of his relationship. He made a statement to the outside world, claiming that he and Song Jiaoren are best friends. He said, "Yanchu (Song Jiaoren) often lives in my house and talks with each other. He owed a debt of 5,000 yuan when he left Beijing, and I paid him back." For Hong Shuzu, he said that Tang Shaoyi introduced him. When talking about himself, he said, "I am a negativeist at forty years old, and a world-weary at fifty years old."

However, the evidence is there, and Hong Shuzu is his confidential secretary. No matter how he confessed, it is difficult to get rid of the relationship.

When the Qing emperor abdicated, Zhao Bingjun once acted as the "Hua Xin" Hua Taiwei on the stage. Nor is it what a "world-weary" should do.

Hong Shuzu and Yuan Shikai also have a direct connection. Yuan Zeng called Ying Zhuxin through Hong Shuzu, and Xu Yi "destroyed the honorary position of Song Dynasty".

At this time, the KMT suggested that a special court should be organized to handle the Song case. Yuan Shikai tried his best to agree and wanted to "investigate the name of the Lord, be sure of the truth, and act strictly according to the law." He secretly instructed the Chief of Justice Xu Shiying to stop it with "incompatible organization".

On April 24, Ying Guixin and Wu Shiying were transferred to the Shanghai local prosecutor's office for custody. The murderer Wu Shiying died in prison for unknown reasons. On July 25th, Ying Guixin escaped from prison with the help of a group of gangsters. He blatantly ran to Beijing and asked Yuan Shikai to give him a "second honor" and 50 million in cash. Yuan Shikai sent Hao Zhan, the detective chief of the Military and Political Enforcement Department, to stabbed him to death.

Zhao Bingjun, who feels that Yuan Shikai’s methods of cooking and killing people are too spicy, once made a long-distance call to complain to Yuan Shikai: “Ying Guixin ended up like this, who dares to act for the president in the future?”

February 17, 1924 On April 5, 1919, Qi Bingjun, the governor of Zhili at the time, died of food poisoning (a "stroke"), and Hong Shuzu was sentenced to murder on April 5, 1919, after several years at large. Hanging.