For Sun Yat-sen to succeed, he must first thank his brother, Sun Mei. This was the norm in the Guangdong area at that time. There was no food to eat at home, so they had to cross the ocean, either to Nanyang, Honolulu, or even South America and other places to beg for food.

Sun Yat-sen can succeed, first of all he has to thank his brother - Sun Mei.

Sun Yat-sen's ancestors were not wealthy, they were from a standard Guangdong peasant family.

After catching up with the first and second Opium War, life became even poorer.

My elder brother, Sun Mei, was only 17 years old and left his hometown to work in Honolulu.

This was the norm in the Guangdong area at that time. There was no food to eat at home, so they had to travel across the ocean, either to Nanyang, Honolulu, or even to South America and other places to beg for food.

Fortunately, Sun Mei is not only able to endure hardships, but also has a flexible mind. She has made a fortune in Honolulu and has become a rich man.

The lives of Sun Yat-sen's family were improved.

When Sun Yat-sen was 12 years old, he went to Honolulu to join his brother Sun Mei, living and studying with Sun Mei.

Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. Honolulu was not yet a beautiful country at that time, but it was getting closer.

The people of Honolulu are engaged in a final struggle with the beautiful country.

Sun Yat-sen knew what politics was, what democracy was, and what the direction of struggle was.

Sun Mei was miserable. From now on, she could only use money to support this "not doing his job properly" brother to realize his ideal.

The beautiful country occupied Honolulu, Sun Mei went bankrupt and returned to her ancestral home in Guangdong.

Sun Yat-sen became a revolutionary leader and the interim president of the Republic of China.

Hu Hanmin and others recommended Sun Mei to be the governor of Guangdong, but Sun Yat-sen rejected it.

Sun Yat-sen believed that Hu Hanmin and others recommended Sun Mei for their own reasons, and Sun Mei himself did not have the ability to hold this important position.

Sun Yat-sen cherished his feathers a little too much.

Sun Mei was still able to make a name for herself in Honolulu. Hu Hanmin and others recommended her not just because Sun Mei was Sun Yat-sen's brother.

In 1915, Sun Mei died in depression at the age of only 61.

In 1883, 17-year-old Sun Yat-sen returned to Guangdong from Honolulu to continue his studies.

In 1887, 21-year-old Sun Yat-sen transferred to the Hong Kong Medical College (Hong Kong University) to study medicine.

In 1892, 26-year-old Sun Yat-sen obtained a master's degree in medicine.

During this period, Sun Yat-sen's thoughts and actions of saving the country never stopped.

He wrote a petition to the county magistrate of Xiangshan , demanding reform of county administration in Xiangshan, especially the popularization of modern education.

He often publishes articles in newspapers in Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong, such as the famous article "Farmers and Workers".

However, no one paid any attention to him.

But Sun Yat-sen met three like-minded compatriots during this period:
Yang Heling, Chen Shaobai, Youlie , plus Sun Yat-sen himself , they formed a small gang.

These four people spent all day talking together, with only one main content:

rebelling and overthrowing the Manchu Qing government!

This was unbelievable at the time, so these four people were called "Four Bandits" .

Lu Haodong , Zheng Shiliang and others later joined the team.

Sun Yat-sen expressed his admiration for Hong Xiuquan and often called himself "the first anti-Qing hero"!

will be the second Hong Xiuquan!

may think that these weak scholars are just bragging, and the government does not take them seriously.

Otherwise, if they are charged with treason, the lives of these people may be in danger.

If you want to fight against the Qing, just fight against the Qing, and if you rebel, just rebel. But at that time, Sun Yat-sen was still a reformist.

Kang Youwei was born in 1858. He was only 8 years older than Sun Yat-sen, but he became famous earlier.

At that time, he established Wanmu Thatched Cottage in Guangzhou to recruit apprentices and promote Western learning, which required "practical application in the world."

Sun Yat-sen wanted to make friends with Kang Youwei, so he went to meet him.

Kang Youwei looked down on Sun Yat-sen, who was still unknown, and was only willing to accept Sun Yat-sen as his student.

With Sun Yat-sen's ambition and loftiness, how could he come to be a disciple of Kang Youwei? He was very angry.

From then on, the two became lifelong enemies.

Sun Yat-sen even once sought connections and prepared to write to Li Hongzhang to explain his ideals of governing the country.

In order to meet Li Hongzhang, Sun Yat-sen did not hesitate to praise Li Hongzhang and expressed his willingness to serve as an official in the Qing court to realize his ideals.

Sun Yat-sen had the opportunity to meet Li Hongzhang. After all, the person Sun Yat-sen entrusted was Sheng Xuanhuai , and Sheng Xuanhuai was the popular person in front of Li Hongzhang.

Unfortunately, it coincided with the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894. Li Hongzhang was so busy that he had no time to meet with Sun Yat-sen.

Sun Yat-sen and Lu Haodong took it easy once they arrived, and simply traveled around in Tianjin and Beijing for a long time.

This is the heart and heart of and in the Qing Dynasty.

's turn made Sun Yat-sen see through the decline and decadence of the Qing Dynasty.

Sun Yat-sen finally sighed: "The law of peace cannot be implemented."

From then on, Sun Yat-sen insisted on using violent means to overthrow the Qing government, and there was no change.

Sun Yat-sen called the period of the "Four Bandits" a "period of revolutionary speech."

In fact, this was not the case. It should have been Sun Yat-sen's "period of revolutionary confusion."

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