《A Love Never Lost》Yang Kai's prototype

《A Love Never Lost》The prototype of Yang Kai may be Wu Luzhen, but it was the screenwriter who combined many historical stories to create the character.

In the 23rd year of Guangxu (1897), Wu Luzhen was admitted to Hubei Military Academy.The following year, he was sent to Japan to study at the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School and participated in the Xingzhong Society and the Huaxing Society.Later, he secretly returned to China to join the Self-Reliance Army. After the failure, he returned to Japan to continue his studies.In the 28th year of Guangxu's reign (1902), he graduated and returned to China. He successively served as a teacher at the Hubei Military Preparation School and Jiangbian School, and as the Yanji Border Affairs Assistant.In the second year of Xuantong (1910), he was appointed as a member of the parade of Germany and France, and at the end of the year he was appointed as the commander of the sixth town.In the third year of Xuantong (1911), the Wuchang Uprising broke out. He went to Luanzhou to invite Lan Tianwei, Zhang Shaozeng and others to mobilize Luanzhou soldiers to remonstrate and plot to raise troops to rebel against the Qing Dynasty. He also went to Shijiazhuang to contact the Shanxi Revolutionary Army and plan an uprising of the new northern army.Go straight to Beijing.At the end of the same year, Wu Luzhen was assassinated by Yuan Shikai (some say Liangbi) at Shimen Railway Station.After the founding of the Republic of China, interim President Sun Yat-sen issued the No. 1 Pension Order, granting Wu Luzhen a pension as an Army General.​

Wu Luzhen painstakingly planned border affairs, smashed Japan's fabricated "Jiandao Unsolved Case", and defended national sovereignty and territorial integrity; he led the first uprising in the Yangtze River Basin, founded the Wuchang Garden Mountain Reunion, and laid the foundation for the Wuchang Uprising.

In the play, Liang Xiang, a young nobleman, Yang Kaizhi of the revolutionary party, and Li Renjun, a Beiyang military right guard, became the first batch of progressive young people to study in Japan's military academy. After the Gengzi Revolution, the Qing government was forced to implement the New Deal to cultivate new talents, especiallyThe issue of aristocratic talents received attention.The rulers trusted nothing more than their Manchu and Mongolian relatives, high-ranking officials in the DPRK, and their children. Therefore, the issue of these people going abroad was put on the agenda as the reform deepened.

Historically, Wu Luzhen was a famous patriotic general in the late Qing Dynasty and a martyr of the Revolution of 1911.He painstakingly planned border affairs, smashed the "Jiandao unsolved case" fabricated by Japan, and safeguarded national sovereignty and territorial integrity.He took it as his mission to overthrow the imperial system and founded the Huaxing Society with Huang Xing and others.He led the first uprising in the Yangtze River Basin, founded the Wuchang Garden Mountain Party, and laid the foundation for the Wuchang Uprising.His qualifications in the Tongmenghui were basically equal to those of Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing, and he was called "the most outstanding person in the world" by Sun Yat-sen.

Wu Luzhen was born into a scholarly family. Her great-grandfather was a Jinshi during the Daoguang period and served as the prefect of Changzhou; her grandfather was a high-ranking official and served as an oracle in Huangpi and Gong'an; her father was also a famous scholar and made a living by teaching in Wuchang.Wu Luzhen has been studying with her father since she was young. She studied at her father's Mengze Bookstore in Wuchang. She was diligent and intelligent, and wrote a lot of books.

In 1899, he was recommended by Zhang Zhidong to enter the Japanese Army Cadet School to study the Army Cavalry Department and became the first batch of Chinese cadets studying in Japan.I met Zhang Shaozeng and Lan Tianwei at school. The three of them had outstanding academic performance and extraordinary interests. They were later known as the "Three Outstanding Non-Commissioned Officers".People at that time also listed him as one of the "Three Outstanding Non-Commissioned Officers" along with Cai E and Jiang Baili.

In 1903, the Qing government set up a military training office in Beijing to train the new army and was in urgent need of recruits. Wu Luzhen was recommended by Liangbi, a good friend of the Japanese Military Academy, and was approved.

The character setting of Liangxiang in the play may refer to Liangbi's deeds. Wu Luzhen and Liangbi also had intersections in history, so it is speculated that Yang Kaizhi and Wu Luzhen are related.

At the beginning of 1910, Wu Luzhen was transferred back to Beijing and awarded the title of Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Mongolia with the Red Flag, becoming the first Eight Banners Commander-in-Chief among the cadets studying in Japan.

After the Wuchang Uprising broke out, Wu Luzhen secretly contacted the New Army's 20th Town in Shijiazhuang and Luanzhou, as well as the Shanxi Uprising Army, to prepare for a three-pronged attack on Beijing.But at this time, Zhou Fulin, the former 12th Association Commander of the Sixth Town, Ma Buzhou, the guard battalion commander, and others assassinated Wu Luzhen.Who was the mastermind behind Wu Luzhen’s assassination? The theories surrounding Wu Luzhen’s assassination are summarized as follows.

First, the Qing court killed Wu.It turned out that the Qing government appointed Wu Luzhen as the commander of the Sixth Town in order to defend Yuan Shikai, who had a heavy army; secondly, Yuan Shikai killed Wu.Chen Kuilong, the governor of Zhili at that time, believed that Wu Luzhen: “ sent people to assassinate ” for Xiang Cheng (Yuan Shikai); thirdly, the Qing court and Yuan Shikai jointly killed Wu.Wu Luzhen's adviser He Sui believed that the Qing government and Yuan Shikai murdered Wu Luzhen.

Wu Luzhen's death showed that the northern revolutionaries failed in their struggle for military power with the Qing government and the Beiyang faction.The Qing court sent Wu Luzhen to Luanzhou. On the surface, this was a bad move, because Wu Luzhen seemed to belong to the revolutionary party. However, in fact, the constitutionalists within the Qing court, headed by Military Counselor Zai Tao, were the ones behind the decision.group.So until now, there is no consensus among academic circles as to whether Wu Luzhen was a revolutionary or a constitutionalist.

Wu Luzhen's death has become an unsolved case in history, and the Luanzhou Mutiny and their unfaithful plan are just a muddy corner of history, no longer glimpsed by people.