When it comes to mention Cai Gong, many people are unfamiliar with him. He was a Shandong negotiator of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the Republic of China. He died bravely in the "May 3rd Massacre" in Jinan, which was provoked by the Japanese army on May 3, 1928. He was later called the first anti-Japanese martyr in the Republic of China. Li Liejun praised him as "the first person in diplomatic history"!
Cai Gongshi was born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi in 1881. He met Sun Yat-sen while studying in Japan, joined the Tongmenghui , and started his own revolutionary cause. In 1911, he participated in the Xinhai Revolution with Sun Yat-sen and other revolutionary revolutionary patriots overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty, ending China's feudal imperial system for more than 2,000 years. The fruit of victory then fell into the hands of Yuan Shikai after being assassinated by Song Jiao Ren. After Cai Gongshi participated in the siege of Yuan Shikai's emperor, he ran away from Japan again.
The second Zhifeng War broke out in 1924, Feng Yuxiang Zhang Zuolin controlled the Beijing-Tianjin area and recommended Duan Qirui as Temporary ruling . Then the three invited Sun Yat-sen to go north to discuss state affairs. Sun Yat-sen believed that this was an opportunity to promote national unification, so he went to the appointment before the appointment At this time, Cai Gongshi and Sun Yat-sen arrived in Beijing together. After that, Sun Yat-sen issued several declarations expressing his opposition to imperialism and anti-warlordism, and called on the movement to abolish unequal treaty nationwide, which promoted the outbreak of the later Northern Expedition . In March 1925, Sun Yat-sen passed away. As his close friend, Cai Gongshi, always remembered Sun Yat-sen's last wishes and continued to forge ahead in the revolutionary cause. Sun Yat-sen went north and founded the Army Officer School in Huangpu, Guangzhou, and also provided seeds for the future Northern Expedition .
1926 Northern Expedition broke out, and Chiang Kai-shek was appointed commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition and sent 100,000 troops to attack Beiyang warlords, mainly the Zhili, Fengtian and Anhui corps. At this time, Cai Gongshi served as the field government committee member and director of the diplomatic department of the General Command of the National Revolutionary Army, and followed the army to attack Shandong controlled by Zhang Zongchang. On May 1, 1928, the Northern Expedition Army captured Jinan. Since there were still a large number of Japanese troops in Shandong at this time, Cai Gongshi was appointed to negotiate with Japan to withdraw from Jinan. On May 3, 1928, Mr. Cai, who had just taken office in the Shandong Negotiation Office, was surrounded by the Japanese army, and 17 other colleagues, and searched the office building under the pretext of searching for the Northern Expedition Army and plainclothes team. In fact, the Japanese army wanted to set up cannons on the roof to shoot the Northern Expedition Army. Mr. Cai was prepared to sacrifice before taking office. Faced with the unreasonable demands of the Japanese army, Mr. Cai would rather die than surrender. After being tortured by the Japanese army, he still did not beg for mercy and told me with a strong and strong heart that I was a Chinese. Later, Mr. Cai and his colleagues were brutally killed.
After Cai Gongshi's death, the whole country began to boycott Japanese goods and began to march and protest, which would inevitably severely punish the murderer. On May 12, 1928, the National Government praised Cai Gongshi and 17 other colleagues. In the face of national justice, there are always people who stand up and are not afraid of life and death. Some people are unknown, but they use their own actions to prove that the rise and fall of the world is responsible!
