张澜这个名字首次被人们知道,是在1911年辛亥革命前夕,他英勇地领导了四川人民的保路运动,从此开始了他的革命的一生。1911年,腐败的清政府为了维护其摇摇欲坠的统治,将川汉铁路抵押给英、美、法、德四国银行团,用以举借外债。清政府的这一丧权辱国的可耻行径,激起了四川各阶层人民的愤怒。于是各县推选股东代表在成都开会商讨对策,张澜以南充代表身份出席并当选为川汉铁路股东大会副会长。 For the first time, the name Zhang Lan was known that on the eve of the 1911 Revolution, he bravely led the people’s road protection movement in Sichuan and began his revolutionary life. In 1911, in order to defend its dangling rule, the corrupt Qing government mortgaged the Sichuan-Hankou railway to banking syndicates in Britain, the United States, France, and Germany and borrowed foreign debts. The shameful act of the Qing government, which humiliated and humiliated the country, stirred the anger of people of all walks of life in Sichuan. So selected representatives of the county meeting in Chengdu to discuss measures, Zhang Lan Nanchong representative to attend and was elected as vice chairman of the General Assembly of Sichuan-Wuhan Railway.