Before reading this article, please click "Follow", which is not only convenient for you to discuss and share, but also can bring you a different sense of participation, thank you for your support [send heart].One day in 2006, Zhouzhuang Village, Luohe, Henan.
A middle-aged man who was very well-dressed stood in front of an ordinary farmhouse courtyard, hesitated for a while, and gently knocked on the courtyard door.
The door was opened by an old man with a stiff back, who looked at the visitor with cloudy eyes.
Come on in. The old man did not ask for the name of the other party, because he knew who it was.
Because this middle-aged man had already come yesterday, this was the second time after a day.
The yard is not large, and it is full of all kinds of furniture and sundries.
The old man trembled and pulled two chairs over and motioned for the middle-aged man to sit down.
"I'm guilty, but I'm not the one who directly killed General Yang Hucheng.
The old man, who had been silent, finally spit out this sentence that he had been holding back for a long time with tears in his eyes.
"Old man, I didn't come here to ask about the guilt, I just wanted to know about the situation back then. ”
The middle-aged man took the old man's hand and said softly.
Back then—" The old man paused for a moment, but still endured self-blame and pain, revealing the scene that had been hidden in his heart for 57 years.
Listening to the old man's narration, the middle-aged man sometimes sighed and sometimes wept.
His tall body couldn't stop shrinking with trembling.
But there was no hatred in his eyes when he looked at the old man, and he didn't even blame.
Finally, the middle-aged man stood up and took the hands of the old man who got up"Old man, you don't have to blame yourself too much, in that historical period, many people were forced to do something involuntarily, I came here this time, just to understand that history in more detail from your mouth. ”
While patting the old man's wrinkled hand: "I hope you take care of your body, live a long and healthy life, and if you have time, I will come to see you again." ”
After that, the middle-aged man restrained his grief and a smile appeared on his face.
Although, the old man in front of him is also one of his enemies, but time has passed, and the deceased has passed awayHe chose to "laugh and enmity".
This middle-aged man is the grandson of General "Yang Hucheng", a famous historical figure who launched the "Xi'an Incident", Yang Han.
And the old man who told him the bloody history 57 years ago was one of the ** who assassinated his own grandfather, General Yang HuchengYang Qindian
At 5 a.m. on December 12, 1936, Huaqingchi Mansion in Xi'an.
A group of men and horses took advantage of the darkness of the night and quietly gathered around.
After a few sporadic gunshots, Huaqing Pool fell completely silent.
However, underneath the quiet, there is still an undercurrent.
Except for a very small number of people in the ancient capital of Xi'an, they do not know what exactly happened, nor do they know how much impact this incident will have on the historical direction of the whole of China.
This is the famous "Xi'an Incident", also known as the "Double Twelve Incident".
The initiators of this incident are, first, Zhang Xueliang, and second, Yang Hucheng.
The purpose of this incident was to force Chiang to resist Japan.
Before the Xi'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek also ordered that the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army stationed in Xi'an strengthen the siege of Yan'an, and at this time, the Japanese troops in the three northeastern provinces were staring at the entire territory of China.
If you go outside, you must first settle inside!”
At a time when the country and the nation were already in the midst of life and death, Chiang Kai-shek, as the military commander of the Kuomintang, stubbornly adhered to this reactionary proposition.
In the city of Xi'an, there were two people, frowning at Chiang Kai-shek's general telegram.
One isZhang Xueliang
After the "918" incident, he followed Chiang Kai-shek's strategy of non-resistance, and hundreds of thousands of Northeast troops surrendered the three northeastern provinces to the Japanese army without firing a single shot.
He and hundreds of thousands of Northeast Army watched the land that gave birth to them fall into the hands of the Japanese army, and watched their relatives being brutally counted and ** by Japan, and did nothing.
Zhang Xueliang's heart has always been full of pain and self-blame, and at this time, Chiang Kai-shek did not let him point his gun at the Japanese army, but asked him to turn the gun and point it at the Communist Party of China, which has always advocated the all-people war of resistance.
He was furious. Also angry was the then commander of the 17th Route Army of the Kuomintang and chairman of Shaanxi ProvinceYang Hucheng
Yang Hucheng is a standard Shaanxi man, he had the enthusiasm to save the country and the people in his early years, and it is precisely because of this that he was willing to risk his life and resolutely participated in the Xinhai Revolution.
But Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang's approach disappointed him again and again.
Han Qing, you should not give up Northeast China so easily, the Japanese ambition is not only the three northeastern provinces, but the whole of China, and the Northeast you give up will surely become a springboard for them to invade the whole of China. ”
Yang Hucheng said this to Zhang Xueliang more than once.
Zhang Xueliang doesn't regret it.
He knew that Yang Hucheng was a straight person, and Yang Hucheng didn't care too much about his feelings, because he was angry from the bottom of his heart.
At this time when the life and death of the people and the nation were at stake, when he saw Chiang Kai-shek's telegram, the intensity of his anger can be imagined.
What the hell does this old Jiang want to do?!”
Yang Hucheng tore Chiang Kai-shek's telegram to shreds.
"The Northeast Army cannot make mistakes again and again, and the Northeast Army will never carry out this order. ”
Zhang Xueliang didn't even think about it, so he directly expressed his attitude.
"Okay, my 17th Route Army will never carry out this order!”
Yang Hucheng looked at Zhang Xueliang, and his eyes showed incomparable firmness.
Zhang Xueliang pondered for a long time: "But that's just it, it's not enough." ”
Does Hanqing have a good plan?”
In the face of Yang Hucheng's question, Zhang Xueliang expressed his opinion: "Even if the two of us join forces to resist Lao Jiang's order, we can't change his thoughts and propositions, I have a plan, since we have come to this point,."It is better to lure him to Xi'an and force him to unite against Japan. ”
Then, Tsai carefully explained his plan to Yang Hucheng.
To tell the truth, this meticulous idea is not unique to the moment, before Chiang Kai-shek's telegram arrived, Zhang Xueliang kept thinking about countermeasures.
Under the sum of the two, a well-thought-out plan was formulated.
So, there is the opening scene.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was jointly invited by the two to Xi'an for military parade and mobilization, was detained in Huaqingchi.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was detained, did not easily relent at Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng's request that he unite to resist Japan and stop the civil war, and he was still resisting stubbornly.
As a result, Zhang Yang and the others simply launched an offensive to force Chiang Kai-shek to change his position.
Not long after, a telegram jointly drafted by the two was sent to newspapers all over the country.
The telegram not only revealed the news that Chiang Kai-shek had been detained by the two men, but also explained the reality of the current national crisis, and advocated that people from all parties and all walks of life should join forces to resist Japan and save the country.
With the fermentation of **, the call for an all-out war of resistance became higher and higher, and one newspaper after another was sent to Chiang Kai-shek, who was under house arrest.
Looking at the call of the whole people for the war of resistance in the report, Chiang Kai-shek knew that he had to compromise.
If he still adheres to his original false ideas of civil war, he will become the public enemy of the whole people.
It was under the impetus of this plan after plan that the Xi'an Incident finally came to fruition.
That is, it contributed to the cooperation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party again to jointly resist Japan.
At the same time, because of this incident, it set off a nationwide anti-Japanese war upsurge.
However, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, who planned and led the Xi'an Incident, made great sacrifices for the sake of national righteousness.
Due to the huge strength of the Northeast Army and Zhang Xueliang's social influence, Chiang Kai-shek did not dare to kill him, but chose insteadZhang Xueliang was sentenced to life imprisonment.
But he was not soft on Yang Hucheng.
First, in order to show his magnanimity, Yang Hucheng was allowed to take his family abroad.
Then, in the name of the Anti-Japanese War, he deceived Yang Hucheng, who was bent on resisting Japan and saving the country, back to China.
As soon as Yang Hucheng returned to China, Chiang Kai-shek immediately changed his face and directly arrested and imprisoned Yang Hucheng, his wife and his youngest son.
After being imprisoned in many places, he was finally transferred to the Dai Gong Temple in Geyue Mountain, Chongqing.
On September 6, 1949, General Yang Hucheng, a son and a daughter, a total of three, was secretly killed by Chiang Kai-shek.
Yang Han is the eldest grandson of General Yang Hucheng.
After General Yang Hucheng launched the Xi'an Incident, with the development of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party's cooperation against Japan, his eldest son Yang Zhengmin did not join the Kuomintang army, but stood on the side of the Communist Party according to his father's wishes.
In 1938, he entered the Xi of Yan'an Anti-Japanese University and became a member of the Communist Party in the same year.
In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yang Zhengmin soon grew into an outstanding military general, and once served as the deputy commander of the 6th Division of the First Field Cavalry, the commander of the Guanzhong Military Division and other important positions in the army.
It can be said to be a typical "Jiangmen Huzi".
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yang Zhengmin, who was only 278 years old and was already in the important post of division commander, and Yang Zhengmin, who could have developed smoothly in the army, gave up his senior post as chief of staff of China's new air force and chose to go to Yumen to explore and develop oil.
Because, he knew that after the founding of New China, all kinds of waste were waiting to be rebuilt, and oil, as the blood of industry, would be the top priority of New China's construction and development, and he wanted to put his blood into the place where it was most needed.
He gave up not only important positions in the army and huge development opportunities, but also a comfortable life and environment.
At that time, Yumen was an inaccessible wilderness.
And his life and life will merge into this wilderness.
With the efforts of Yang Zhengmin, Yumen Oilfield has developed into an oil town with 50,000 employees, 100,000 family members and an annual output of 1 million tons in less than ten years.
It can be said that Yang Zhengmin is the first generation of heroes in China's petroleum industry.
Later, he successively served as Secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Building Materials Industry, and No.
Deputy Secretary-General of the Fifth and Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and other important positions.
On October 23, 1998, Yang Zhengmin died in Beijing at the age of 76.
As Yang Zhengmin's eldest son, Yang Han sent a note from Yang Zhengmin when he was sorting out his father's relics.
Among them, there was information related to Yang Hucheng, and there was a sentence that caught Yang Han's attention.
Yang Qindian of Luohe, Henan Province, who had participated in the murder of his parents and his younger brother and sister, learned more details about that time from his account. ”
It was according to this clue left by his father that eight years after his father's death, Yang Han came to find Yang Qindian in person.
As he said when the two met,He didn't come to Yang Qindian to ask for the guilt, but like his father, he wanted to know about the situation back then.
Perhaps, this is also another way for him, as the eldest grandson who has never seen his grandfather, to mourn his grandfather, General Yang Hucheng, after a lapse of 57 years.
Yang Qindian, who was born in an ordinary peasant family, perhaps never dreamed that he would be involved in the fate of Yang Hucheng, a famous patriotic general.
His fate was also engulfed by the specific history of the time, and he involuntarily rose and fell in the tide of the times.
In 1948, Yang Qindian, who had been a soldier in the Kuomintang army for many years, was sent to Chongqing to serve as the head of the guard squad of the White Mansion in Geyue Mountain.
He also knew that the guards were a group of extremely important "prisoners", including Luo Guangbin, who later wrote "Red Rock".
At this time, General Yang Hucheng and his family were not here.
But at the behest of Chiang Kai-shek, an assassination plan against Yang Hucheng was in full swing.
Yang Hucheng's family was first transferred from Guizhou to Chongqing, and then to the Dai Gong Temple in Geyue Mountain.
At 11 p.m. on September 6, 1949, when Yang Hucheng and his son and youngest daughter had just entered the room, Yang Jinxing, a Kuomintang assassin hiding behind him, stabbed his youngest son Yang Zhengzhong in the back with his mother's ashes.
Immediately, the assassination began with a bloody **, General Yang Hucheng and his youngest daughter, secretary Song Qiyun's family of three, were brutally killed.
Before this incident, Yang Qindian, who was the leader of the guard squad, had already received an order that he must unconditionally cooperate with the assassination.
The target assigned to him was the youngest son of Song Qiyun, the secretary of General Yang Hucheng, and the child who was also known as the "little radish head".
When he actually put his hands on the child's neck, looking at the child's frightened and painful expression, he really couldn't do it.
But then the development of things was no longer beyond his control, and the spy Yang Jinxing once again stabbed a knife into a child's body.
Yang Qindian knew that although he didn't directly kill the little radish head, he was also one of the ** who killed a child.
He fell into a state of extreme self-reproach and fear.
"Yang Qindian, you can't continue to aid and abuse, if you continue like this, you will definitely be judged by the people. The 19 Communists, including Luo Guangbin, the author of "Red Rock", who were still in custody, saw Yang Qindian's fear and continued to carry out psychological warfare.
Finally, Yang Yindian's conscience began to awaken.
He opened the cell doors one by one and released all the remaining 19 people.
Because he knew that the order from above would soon be issued to execute these 19 people.
He didn't want blood on his hands again.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yang Qindian chose to surrender himself, and with the intervention of Luo Guangbin, the author of "Red Rock", he explained his release of 19 Communists, and finally was acquitted because Yang Qindian was judged to have more merit than fault.
But not long after, as Chongqing once again re-examined the past cases, Yang Qindian was arrested again, and he was sentenced to 20 years in prison because of his identity as a murderer in the Geyue Mountain incident.
It was not until 1982 that Yang was released.
For Yang Qindian, he participated in the assassination of General Yang Hucheng and others because he couldn't help himself, and was punished accordingly;And his conscience, which has not yet been completely extinguished, also gives him a chance to be reborn.
We can't evaluate a person comprehensively in isolation from the historical environment, but we know that Yang Qindian's life is like many people in that unbearable war era, who were coerced by the tide of history and did many things that violated their conscience.
They are guilty and deserve to be punished.
But what is even more sinful is that dark history.
General Yang Hucheng knew that launching the Xi'an Incident against Chiang Kai-shek was a huge risk, and he was ready to sacrifice for it.
But after such a long time, we are still saddened by the death of General Yang Hucheng.
Yang Han, as the grandson of General Yang Hucheng, he is related to General Yang by blood, and the pain in his heart is naturally even worse for his grandfather's tragic death.
When he faced his enemy Yang Qindian, he chose to forbear and let go.
This is exactly General Yang's style, generous and tolerant.
Yang Hucheng's descendants did not insult his reputation, but inherited his excellent traits well.
When we see this past history, we see not only a story, but a deep remembrance and a deep mourning for General Yang Hucheng.
Yang Han worked tirelessly and was not afraid to refuse to meet with Yang Qindian, and his mentality was the same.