Li yuerui

Li yuerui

Li yuerui (1862-1927) has the character Meng Fu. He is a native of pili village, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province. Qing Guangxu eight years (1882) in the election, the next year Jinshi, election Shu Jishi, San Guan granted the Ministry of works principal, moved to the Ministry of works tuntian Secretary wailang, and served as prime minister, national affairs yamen Zhang Jing, railway and mining affairs.

Character experience

Li yuerui was born in pili village, Zhengyang Township, Weicheng District in 1852. He studied with Liu Guyu since childhood. Guangxu eight years (1882) in the mid-term election, Guangxu nine years (1883) Jinshi, first granted the Imperial Academy editor, later changed to the Ministry of work member wailang, and then the premier Yamen Zhangjing, by Guangxu emperor reuse. During the "reform movement of 1898", he was responsible for receiving the important mission, organizing the Kansai society with song Bolu, and actively participating in the activities of the National Defense Association. He was also an important contact person between Emperor Guangxu, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and other reformers. During the period of reform, the important information of the imperial court was often conveyed to the reformers and the national news newspaper. Through the newspaper, the reformers advocated the reform and reform, and actively undertook the collection and distribution of the current affairs newspaper in Beijing, so as to expand the publicity of the reform ideas. Li sent 100 copies of the current affairs daily to Liu Guyu to expand his influence in Shaanxi and Northwest China. After the failure of the political reform, he was dismissed in October 1898 and returned to his home in Xianyang. At the invitation of Zhang Yuanji, he went to Shanghai Commercial Press in 1905. After the revolution of 1911, he was the editor of the Qing History Museum and participated in the compilation of the draft of Qing officials. In his later years, he returned to his hometown and wrote three volumes of national history, spring ice room wild ride, regret yizhai pen ride, and six Chinese statesmen with Liang Qichao. He died in 1927.

Family background

Li Shanrong, the grandfather of Li yuerui, was a Bachelor of Hanlin Academy. Her grandmother, Yin family, was a land governor of Guangdong Province, and her father was also a scholar in the Imperial Academy. Li Yin, Li yuerui's father, is close friends with Liu Guyu and Bai Jingwei. Li Yin invited Liu Guyu as a tutor to teach his son Li yuerui. Li Yin died in 1878 at the age of 39.

personal works

Li is well versed in astronomy, geography and mathematics, and always pays attention to major events at home and abroad. In 1890, he wrote some articles, such as the textual research on the establishment of the ship political situation in Fujian Province during the period of tongzhi (Part I and part II), and the book after the deep research on the river in the Wei Dynasty. He put forward some ideas, such as compiling and training the Navy to protect the Chinese merchants, purchasing guns and guns to strengthen national defense. In his later years, he wrote three volumes of commentaries on national history and spring ice room wild ride.

Related events

After the Sino Japanese War, he actively supported and participated in the reform activities. During his tenure in Beijing, he met Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, etc., and introduced Liang to Liu Guyu, who actively promoted western democratic and scientific thought in Shaanxi at that time. He also collected donations for the current affairs newspaper founded by Huang Zunxian and Wang Kangnian, actively helped the newspaper to sell newspapers, and made contributions to publicizing the reform. During the reform movement of 1898, he kept in touch with the reformers such as Kang, Liang and Yan Fu. He often traveled between Emperor Guangxu and the reformers, so that the reformers' new policy proposals were quickly reached, and the reformers were informed of Emperor Guangxu's intentions. He also disclosed the secret information of the center to Yan Fu, who runs the Guowen daily in Tianjin, so that the bureaucrats who supported and sympathized with the reform could understand the trend of the center . He actively explained the new deal. He once told Emperor Guangxu to abolish the red tape etiquette of kneeling three times and worshiping nine times, eliminate the redundant officials in various bureaucracies, remove or merge the Hanlin academy, Zhan Shifu and other casual government offices, simplify the overlapping administrative mechanism, and buy Western-style clothes to replace the long robes and Mandarin coats. Emperor Guangxu confirmed his proposal and prepared to send envoys to western countries secretly to buy suits. However, this move was attacked by Cixi and conservative bureaucrats, who swore that Li was a "traitor" and attempted to "use foreigners to change summer". In the first month of 1898, he and song Bolu founded the Guan society in the capital; in August, the reform movement of 1898 failed, and the obstinate conservative forces led by Cixi imprisoned Emperor Guangxu, and ordered wantonly searching for reformers. Hearing the news, Li quickly informed song Bolu and other reformers to flee from the capital, and he himself took refuge in the Italian Embassy in China. Due to the intervention of foreign ministers, Li was not killed, but he was severely punished. The Qing government decreed that he should be dismissed from his post and asked questions. When he returned to Shaanxi in the same year, he still secretly kept in touch with some progressive intellectuals who emphasized new learning and insisted on fighting against the obstinate and decadent forces. In the autumn of 1905, he went to Shanghai. At the invitation of his good friend Zhang Yuanji, he worked in the commercial press. At one time, he also taught Chinese in Chinese public schools. During this period, he still had correspondence with Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and others, and co authored the book "China's six major politicians" with Liang Qichao. His works "spring ice room wild ride", "Ying Yun CI anthology" and "National History Reader" were also published at this time. After the revolution of 1911, he was invited by the Beijing government to work as the editor of the Qing History Museum in Beijing and wrote many biographies and chronicles. After 1915, he wrote critical articles for Jiayin magazine and other newspapers. When he returned to Xi'an in 1922, he was nominally the Secretary General of the Shaanxi provincial governor's office and the Secretary of the supervision office. In fact, he did nothing. Later, he was invited to edit Xianyang county annals, but failed to write. Because of political frustration, he was depressed in his later years, and later became addicted to opium. He died in 1927.

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