The Life of Maywood Zhuang Ji

Zhuang Ji Migo (1868— 1934) is a native of Hihamamachi, Nagasaki Prefecture. He was adopted by a childless distant relative, Meiwu Jigoro and his wife. His adoptive father, Yoshigoro, opened a plum house shop, engaged in trade while running rice milling, and was the leader of trade between Nagasaki and Shanghai. Iwasaki Yataro, the founder of Mitsubishi chaebol, worked in the Tosa Chamber of Commerce opened in Tosa Francisco in his early years. He once lived in the rented house of Maywood Store, and it is said that he once took his young Zhuang Ji everywhere.

/kloc-When he was 0/5 years old, Zhuang Ji traveled to Shanghai and Nanyang on his own freighter "Hejiang". After the initial rice speculation was frustrated, Zhuang Ji opened a photo studio in Hongkong on 1893. "Located in the downtown area. Zhuang Ji has a gift for doing business, and the location of the pavement is also very good, so he quickly became popular. 1In the spring of 895, Sun Yat-sen, then 27 years old, returned to Hong Kong from Honolulu and led the Hui people to prepare for the Chongyang Uprising in Guangzhou. Through his teacher Condley, he got to know Mei Wu. He didn't talk about world affairs, but was very speculative and introduced each other as bosom friends. He promised Sun that "if you send troops, I will help you financially". Mei Wu Zhuang Ji is 25 years old. Sun visited Tsunejiro Nakagawa, the Japanese consul in Hong Kong, through the U.S. Museum, seeking funding for 25,000 rifles and 1000 pistols. Nakagawa made a report to jing yuan, then Director of Trade and Industry of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but the Japanese government took a wait-and-see attitude and stuck to its guns. Meizhuang alone raised 600 pistols through personal channels.

When the uprising failed, Sun Yat-sen disguised himself as a coolie and fled to Macau by water, then transferred to Hong Kong, but was pursued by the Qing government with a reward of 1000 yuan, which was in critical condition. However, the Japanese government rejected Sun Yat-sen's request for asylum. In desperation, Sun Yat-sen had to go to the state of Hawaii where his brother Sun Mei was located. In order to express his belief in carrying out the revolution to the end, Sun cut off his braid. When Sun left, he remitted $65,438 +0 to 300 yuan.

As a "great Asian", Mei Wu Zhuang Ji has deep sympathy and great concern not only for China, but also for the independent revolutionary movements in Asian countries, and is committed to supporting these movements. During the Spanish-American War, Zhuang Ji personally rushed to the Philippines with huge sums of money, and had a deep friendship with Emilio Aguinaldo and Burns, leaders of the Philippine independence movement, and introduced Sun Yat-sen to Burns. Sun sent a letter to Peng Sai, and spoke highly of the Philippine Revolution from the standpoint of "Greater Asianism". He believed that "the China Revolution and the Philippine Revolution are both movements of the Asian people to jointly resist the colonial aggression of the great powers and strive for national independence and prosperity, which are of equal significance".

Meiwu Zhuang Ji is generous, attaches importance to friendship, and has a "clean" temperament respected by Japanese Bushido. "Meiwu Photo Studio" soon became a revolutionary stronghold, and most of its contacts were members of Zhong Xing Association or Japanese mainland ronin and revolutionaries, which finally attracted the attention of the Qing court. The Meiwu couple got wind of it and had to move the studio to Singapore 1904. However, Singapore is different from Hong Kong after all. How to establish a new business model to continue to support this revolution, Zhuang Ji has considered a lot. In the carry-on luggage, there is a movie projector and four rolls of EMI film. Zhuang Ji thought of the cinema business, and after the initial running-in, the transformation was quite successful. 1906 In June, when Zhuang Ji, who had been wandering overseas for 12 years, returned to China, he had accumulated a huge wealth of 500,000 yen at the age of 36. After returning to China, Meiwu Zhuang Ji registered and established the "M EMI Chamber of Commerce" (M is the first letter of Japanese spelling of Meiwu Zhuang Ji) and began to enter the domestic film industry. Later, he became the predecessor of the famous film company "Japan Goods Co., Ltd.", and Zhuang Ji also became a leader in the Japanese film industry, and launched many big productions that created an atmosphere.

Since 1895, when Sun Yat-sen first visited and dispatched troops, * * * organized 10 armed revolutions in seven years, and suffered successive setbacks. However, Sun was determined, defeated and fought repeatedly, and persevered. There is always the shadow of Maywood Zhuang Ji behind him. 19 1 1 The Wuchang Uprising became the initiator, and the revolutionary fate rose rapidly and spread throughout the country. Zhuang Ji received a telegram from Wuchang Uprising and cheered. He immediately sent a photographer to the front line of China to track and shoot video materials. Only the offensive and defensive war in Wuchang donated 6.5438+0.7 million yen. He contributed to the league and other activities, and his family was poor, so he was heavily in debt and forced to reorganize the company and sell shares.

How much help did Zhuang Ji * * in Maywood help? According to Professor Nakamura of Yi Xue University in Tokyo, the financial aid alone far exceeds 654.38 billion yen (Note: this figure is easily misunderstood. According to Takeo Hashimoto's Strategy and Tactics, Japan's national budget for one year before the Russo-Japanese War was only 40 million yen, and 654.38+0 billion yen was equal to Japan's national budget for 25 years. It is three times as much as the indemnity in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, and the cost of the battleship Yamato of 1 is only 280 million yen, so here 1 billion should be understood as 1 billion, that is,1billion yen, which is the same as the total budget of Genjiro's war against Russian enemy lines in Ming Dynasty). According to the history pamphlet printed by Matsumoto House, the total assets invested by Zhuang Ji in the China Revolution reached 2 trillion yen at the end of the 20th century.

After the failure of the Second Revolution, Sun Yat-sen was forced to go into exile again. The Japanese government adopted a policy of supporting Yuan Shikai, and Foreign Minister Makino Nobuaki ordered to guard against Sun Wen's escape from Japan. In view of this situation, Sun's friend Hiroshi Nagano implored Sun to reconsider the issue of asylum and suggested choosing Singapore. But Sun said frankly: "The only place I should go is Japan." Behind Sun's self-confidence, he obviously has full support. In fact, 19 13 On August 8th, Sun Yat-sen and his party landed in Mensi Port from Taiwan Province Province only 10, and then they secretly lived in Meiwu Mansion, Bairen Town, Okubo, Tokyo. Only a few people, such as Inukai Tsuyoshi, Toushanman and Miyazaki Fujitsu, knew about it for three years. Another great help of Zhuang Ji in Maywood to Sun Yat-sen was the marriage between Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching Ling. When studying in the United States, Soong Ching Ling had a strong * * sound on the revolutionary movement led by Sun Yat-sen.191510. On October 25th, with the help of Zhuang Ji in Meiwu, Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching Ling got married in Tokyo. Sun Song's wedding was held in his home. He became an adopted brother with Sun Cheng, and his wife became an adopted sister with Cheng Song. He supported Sun Yat-sen's movement to protect the law, reorganized the Kuomintang and implemented ethnic cooperation, saying, "I believe what Sun Yat-sen did was for the China revolution."

Dr. Sun Yat-sen is very grateful to the Maywood Zhuang Ji couple for their selfless help. In order to express his gratitude, he once wrote the word "virtuous mother" on the back of Zhuang Ji's kimono coat, praising the Maywood Zhuang Ji couple for supporting the China revolution without asking for anything in return and taking care of themselves and Soong Ching Ling in all aspects like loving mothers. Here, Sun Yat-sen, who is in a foreign country, is full of gratitude to Zhuang Ji. He expressed sympathy and support for Sun's activities such as protecting the law and reorganizing the Kuomintang.

After 19 13, Maya strongly supported the anti-Yuan struggle led by Sun Yat-sen, and introduced Indian scholars studying in Japan to negotiate and cooperate with Sun to form the Yuan Army in Shandong. 19 16 On the 8th, Miwu Zhuang Ji established the Revolutionary Army Flying School in Shiga County to train pilots for the Revolutionary Party. 1965438+ Sun failed to protect the law for the first time in the early summer of 2008. When he returned to Shanghai via Kobe, Japan, Migo met him in Kobe. 1924165438+10 Sun went north to Beijing via Kobe, and Miwu also attended the meeting from Tokyo. 65438+February 1 Sun Dianmei House: "Thank you for your care during your stay in your country. In the future, the Asian nation will be revived. I hope you will work together. "

1925 At the beginning of this year, when it was learned that Sun was seriously ill in Beijing, Maywood was in a hurry, entrusted Nagano to visit him and asked his adopted daughter living in Dalian to rush to Beijing immediately. Hearing the news of Sun's death, he still called with a grain of salt, expressing "great surprise". When the telegram was confirmed, it was "more sad, and I really couldn't bear to mourn." Mei Wu immediately called Soong Ching Ling and praised Sun as "the great benefactor of the China revolution and a great man in the world"; It is pointed out that Sun's death "not only makes your country's future uncertain, but also is the misfortune of Japan". In order to remember Sun Yat-sen and educate future generations to cherish the traditional friendship between the Chinese and Japanese peoples, Maywood overcame all kinds of difficulties and obstacles, raised funds to cast four bronze statues of Sun Yat-sen and presented them to Nanjing Central Military Academy (later moved to Nanjing Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum), Guangzhou Whampoa Military Academy, Guangzhou Sun Yat-sen University, and the former residence of Sun Yat-sen in Zhongshan County, Guangdong Province (later moved to Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Macau). Zhuang Ji, an American, also planned to make a movie "Great Sun Wen", but it failed to come true due to the influence of the 193 1 September 18th Incident.

193 1 After the September 18th Incident, Maywood opposed Japan's invasion of China and was criticized and vilified by Japanese militarists, but she still insisted on the idea of Sino-Japanese friendship. She wrote to Hong Wen, Foreign Minister Hirota, saying that "it is my long-cherished wish to realize Sino-Japanese friendship, and it is also the wish of my old friend Dr. Sun Yat-sen"/KOOC-0/934/KOOC-0/65438+/KOOC-0/0/KOOC-0/5 Zhuang Ji intends to go to China for peaceful mediation. He fainted on the train due to terminal cancer and died on the 23rd.