In the early years of the Republic of China, after Yuan Shikai stole the fruits of the Revolution of 1911, he became extremely powerful and bribed warlords from various places for his own use. After General Xu Baoshan of the Second Army of the Revolutionary Army took refuge with Yuan Shikai, he targeted the revolutionaries everywhere and seized a large amount of arms sent by the revolutionaries from Shanghai to Anhui. For this reason, the revolutionaries were filled with indignation and arranged for Peking intelligence officer Gong Tianguang to try to get rid of Xu Baoshan. At this time, Xu Baoshan had a hobby of collecting antiques. Hearing that a wealthy folk antique businessman wanted to offer the national treasure "Beauty Horseshoe" vase to him to buy an official position, he ordered his trusted brigade commander Qi Fengjun to supervise the escort. Qi Fengjun's men had an accident during the escort, and the beauty was snatched away by a masked man. After going through many hardships, Gong Tianguang obtained the beauty chestnut, made a fake, and finally sacrificed the beauty chestnut with an explosive device inside. Xu Baoshan died after opening the gift box containing the beauty chestnut, which caused an explosion. This ended a generation of heroes.
