In May 1949, in the Shuangqing Villa in Xiangshan, ** and several ** leaders looked solemn.
In the Shuangqing Villa, **In the joy of the liberation of Beiping, I saw the turbulent tide behind the calm waves on the surface. A large number of reactionary enemy agents, local ruffians, gangsters, and gangsters are still on the streets of Beiping**.
* The leaders were busy preparing for the establishment of the state and attached great importance to the peaceful takeover of Beiping. When receiving patriots, ** deeply felt the arrogance of the dirty forces in the city of Beiping.
One night, during an unannounced visit, he witnessed the shameful scene of the bustard bullying the weak woman, which made him extremely angry. Other leaders have seen similar bad incidents.
All this prompted the President to send it"Clean the house"of the appeal. After he issued this appeal, led by the Minister of Public Security, a clean-up operation of the underworld forces in the capital began.
Beijing, a famous historical and cultural city through ancient and modern times, has finally ushered in the dawn of liberation after vicissitudes. However, the devastation is shocking.
In the turbulent years of war, the underworld and evil forces were particularly rampant, and they were intertwined and seriously threatened the peace of Beiping City. Whether it is as small as a ruffian hooligan or as big as a bully, coupled with a large number of reactionary enemies left behind by Chiang Kai-shek's retreat to Taiwan, Beiping City is like a stinky but unusually calm backwaterhole.
At the beginning of 1949, Fu Zuoyi judged the situation and telegraphed the whole country to draw a clear line with Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary clique and lead his troops to revolt peacefully. On January 31, the People's Liberation Army's million-strong army peacefully entered Beiping City and began this in-depth governance operation.
In 1949, the Chinese Revolution was about to win, and the historic city of Beiping was about to usher in a new era. However, at this important moment, there is a dark force entrenched in the city, acting recklessly, seriously threatening the stability of the new regime and the tranquility of the people.
In the picture, Comrade Li Kenong, who has intelligence in his hand, took the lead and came to Beiping City to clear up the remnants of the enemy and clear the way for the establishment of the new regime. However, he knew very well that only by finding out the real situation in Beiping City in an all-round and in-depth way could he effectively deal with these dirty forces of all kinds.
In March, ** discussed the great cause of the founding of the country with patriotic revolutionaries from all walks of life in Beiping, and learned from them that the five major underworld forces such as the Youth Gang were rampant throughout China, and Beiping City was also under its control.
Among them, the "Four Tyrants" are the most famous, they colluded with the Kuomintang army and ran rampant, making the people in the city dare not speak out, all kinds of prostitutes in Qinglou emerged in endlessly, and countless ordinary families were separated from their wives and families.
In the face of such a situation, he was not discouraged, and he firmly believed that as long as we are united, we will be able to defeat these dark forces and establish a peaceful and just new China.
In that era, Beiping was like a dead city, full of feudal and dim atmosphere, only innovation and innovation can make Beiping rejuvenated, and this burden finally fell on the shoulders of our party leaders.
As *** said before entering the city, "don't do Li Zicheng" and "hand in a satisfactory answer", this is the result of his careful consideration, and *** was entrusted with an important task, so that the social governance of Beiping and even the whole country can usher in a new life.
After the victory of the Pingjin Campaign, he led his troops into Beiping, and the Military Commission instructed him to march to the northwest after a short rest. On the day when the troops were about to leave, he received *** in Xiangshan and invited him to go to Xiangshan for a gathering.
So, he hurried from Qingdao, but he didn't know what kind of heavy task he was about to face.
When the People's Liberation Army entered Beiping, ** had already moved into Beiping, ** lived in Xiangshan. At this time, ** was urgently summoned by *** and came to the office in Zhongnanhai.
Ruiqing, listen to me, New China is about to be established, and you will take up the position of Minister of Public Security. Hearing this, **'s first reaction was to express his opposition, hoping to go south with Siye to participate in the battle to liberate the whole of China.
Prime Minister, I think Li Kenong is more suitable than me to be the Minister of Public Security, he has been the Minister of Social Affairs and has a lot of experience in public security. However, **'s attitude was very resolute, and he told *** that the leaders had unanimously recognized him as the Minister of Public Security, and hoped that he would obey and work hard to do a good job.
Soon, ** will enter the city to work, take over the old state apparatus, and establish a new state power. Now it is necessary to form a cabinet, and the importance of the Ministry of Public Security is self-evident, this is a difficult task, but also the most glorious duty!
After leaving the office, that night, ** came to Xiangshan Shuangqing Villa, **'s temporary residence. In the face of the chairman, the previous resistance was swept away.
Chairman, although I am reluctant to do public security work, I am willing to obey the party's arrangement, and I am determined to be a people's policeman for the rest of my life! I assure you that if I have shortcomings, I can study, I can ask Li Kenong for help, and I will definitely do a good job in the public security work entrusted to me by the party! ”
In fact, ** especially *** strongly supports *** as the Minister of Public Security, mainly because of his extensive security experience. During the war years, his outstanding performance has already impressed all the leaders.
After taking office, with his vigorous and resolute style of work, the Ministry of Public Security was established in the shortest possible time, with six bureaus and general offices, including political security, economic security, border defense, armed forces, public security administration, and personnel.
**, the most powerful Minister of Public Security in the history of New China, directly under the leadership of the **Military Commission, under the establishment of the army, with a strong background. He actively promoted the nationwide anti-gang and evil eradication and contributed to the people's tranquility.
When the chairman and other leaders made an unannounced visit to Beiping City, they deeply realized the urgency of in-depth governance, especially for the official start of "entering Beijing to catch the exam".
**After taking office, he took the opportunity of the meeting to take a jeep with his secretary to conduct a secret investigation of Beiping City.
A car stopped at the entrance of the alley, and the occupants of the car saw a thrilling scene: a prostitute was besieged by a bustard and a group of thugs, and the crowd on the side of the road only watched and did not come forward to help.
Suddenly, the chairman of *** in the car saw this scene, and his face became very serious. He is well aware that this kind of thing is not only happening here, but there are many such suffering people in the dark corners of society.
His heart was filled with anger and helplessness, he knew he couldn't stop it himself, but he couldn't sit idly by. So, he asked the accompanying secretary to quickly get out of the car and stepped forward to protect the little prostitute and prevent this farce from happening.
At this moment, the actions of the chairman and his inner world were revealed, he is a person who truly cares about the people and the society.
When the secretary of the People's Liberation Army negotiated with the bustard, the bustard's expression turned pale, and he even stared at the secretary with round eyes.
The secretary easily fends off the bustard's attack and then asks her to take the little prostitute to the hospital. The old bustard immediately saw the identity of the secretary, with a neat military uniform, a serious expression, and a shiny pistol pinned to his waist.
At this moment, the bustard's attitude changed dramatically, and she immediately smiled and beckoned her subordinates to take the little prostitute to the hospital.
When *** returned to Xiangshan after the matter of the PLA soldiers was resolved, the night under the moonlight seemed extraordinarily long. He combined the information obtained from people from all walks of life in Beiping and found that although he was very prepared for this "entering Beijing to take the exam", the underworld in Beiping City was still rampant beyond his imagination.
Peng Zhen, secretary of the Beiping Municipal Party Committee, came to Xiangshan and talked with ***. The two had witnessed the bustard's bullying of the weak in front of the brothel together. The results of Peng Zhen's secret investigation are even more shocking.
Late one night, he led the main person in charge of the city to the "Eight Hutongs" outside the front gate of Beiping and the area around Nancheng for an unannounced visit, and when he found a little prostitute who was only 15 years old for questioning, the little prostitute burst into tears.
In the description of the little prostitute, she was originally the daughter of an ordinary family, but she was accidentally abducted and trafficked to a brothel, and she was forced to pick up more than ten customers a day at a young age. Despite the bustard's exploitation, she was only able to get 4 nests a day to satisfy her hunger.
Chairman, look at it, this is a life of people? We, the Communist Party, must not sit idly by! ”
When the prostitutes in Peking heard what the chairman and Peng Zhen had seen, they were filled with righteous indignation. He said categorically: The chairman was determined to start with the brothel first, because he knew that the brothel covered almost all the dark forces in Beiping City, and was the focus of social contradictions at that time.
Starting with the brothels, the gradual elimination of small people can not only quickly enhance the image of our party in the hearts of the people, but also bring a new atmosphere to the lives of the citizens of Peiping. However, this problem has been around for thousands of years, and it will take time and patience to solve it once and for all.
Fortunately, *** calmly and methodically led the team, and finally kicked off the prelude to this unusual brothel clean-up operation, which was also the first confrontation between our party and the dark forces in Beiping.
According to statistics, at that time, an average of 1 in every 250 women in Beiping was a prostitute, and the density of brothels was second only to Shanghai. At the beginning of the 40s, there were as many as 263 brothels of all kinds, and the total number of prostitutes reached 2,597.
Although by 1949 the number of brothels in Peiping had decreased, there were still 1,268 prostitutes.
The first-class brothel is famous for the "first-class Qingyin small class" and "big alley", and most of the prostitutes here come from the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, who are young and beautiful, and are also good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Most of these brothels are set up in regular courtyard houses, and most of the prostitutes are military and political personnel, gentry, big businessmen, brokers and other upper-class people in society. In these brothels, the prostitutes are busy having fun, and some people buy and sell official positions here, and even defect to the enemy and provoke civil war, all of which are invisibly eroding the crumbling old China.
Second-class brothels are represented by "middle places" and "tea rooms", and the facilities are not as good as first-class brothels, but most of the prostitutes are eliminated from first-class brothels, and the customers of prostitutes are also rich people such as landlords, businessmen, and ** sons.
The third-class brothel of the Peiping brothel, also known as the "lower place", was inhabited by old or mediocre prostitutes in simple houses, and mainly received prostitutes such as small merchants, clerks and merchants.
Fourth-class brothels, also known as "Lao Ma Tang" and "Kiln", are the darkest and most cluttered places of all brothels, and the prostitutes are older and bad-looking, mainly receiving manual laborers with limited income, such as tricycle drivers, porters, day laborers, etc.
This shows that the harm of brothels is not limited to the abuse of prostitutes, but also has a negative impact on society as a whole. In these places, venereal diseases are difficult to control, theft, drug trafficking, fraud and other acts are not uncommon, and criminals of all walks of life are stirring up trouble here, and a disgusting smell is everywhere.
Therefore, in order to completely eradicate the cancer of brothels, it is necessary to start from the source, solve big problems with small forces, and eliminate the remaining underworld forces in Beiping in one fell swoop.
This will not only benefit the prestige and image of our party, but will also help improve the social atmosphere.
The Joint Military Control Commission of the Beiping Municipal Party Committee strictly managed brothels and put forward "four regulations and seven prohibitions," which included reporting suspicious persons to the police station every day, restricting the behavior of prostitutes, and strictly prohibiting the abuse of prostitutes.
Through these measures, the police stations have strengthened surprise inspections, arrested all the prostitutes, and stamped the prostitutes' documents to make their ** behavior public, so as to curb the development of brothels and reduce the number of prostitutes.
Although these restrictions have been effective, the number of overt prostitutes has dropped sharply, while the number of covert prostitutes has increased significantly. In order to address the underlying problem, an exhaustive study of brothels in all aspects of society has been conducted.
After half a year of in-depth investigation, it was found that the reason why brothels have become a unique "service industry" in Beiping is that in addition to the professional group of prostitutes, there are also many low-level people whose livelihoods also depend on it, and they are called practitioners.
For example, there are bookkeepers, mothers, men, thugs, baths, barber shops, theaters and other facilities in the brothel, and even singers, disabled people, singers, etc.
Once the brothel is completely closed, these low-level people will lose their livelihood**, and how to properly deal with these social problems has become the key to whether the brothel industry can be completely banned.
Therefore, at the meeting of people's deputies from all walks of life in Beijing, it is hoped that all sectors of society will be vigilant against lawless elements spreading rumors and prevent the emergence of counter-revolutionaries who disrupt social order after the closure of brothels.
On November 12, 1949, he presided over the drafting of a proposal for the immediate closure of brothels in Beijing, which was approved by the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government.
The proposal was then urgently sent to the Beijing Municipal People's Congress for final resolution. In order to ensure the smooth progress of the operation, ** served as the commander-in-chief, and the Beijing Public Security Bureau, the Civil Affairs Bureau, the Women's Federation and other units formed a brothel ban command and a prostitute handling committee.
In addition to the follow-up reform of prostitutes, it is also necessary to severely punish and reform brothel owners, bustards, and foremen. On the afternoon of November 21, a resolution was finally passed to close all brothels in Beijing.
At 17 o'clock that night, the mayor of Beijing officially issued an executive order, and at 20 o'clock, more than 2,400 police officers in Beijing were divided into 27 action groups and drove 37 cars to the five major urban districts of Beijing and the eastern and western suburbs, and the Ministry of Health sent a disinfection team to accompany them.
**In the operation of the closure of the brothel in Beiping, he won by outwitting and successfully completing the task using strategy and tactics. He first announced the order to close brothels in Beijing to the brothel owners, bustards, and foremen under strict control, and then placed a double encirclement on the inner and outer sides of the alleys near the brothels, and imposed martial law.
In the end, he registered the prostitutes, prostitutes, and helpers in the brothel separately, and the customers and helpers who had no problems were released, and only the prostitutes were retained.
Although the action was sudden, the prostitutes panicked, but by reading to them the policy of closing brothels and the emancipation of women, they were able to settle down, especially those prostitutes who were already reluctant to become prostitutes.
The capital cleaned up the brothels that had been thriving for thousands of years overnight, but in fact, there were many ** hidden behind them. After an all-night operation, all brothels in Beijing were shut down and people were properly housed, which was unbelievably clean.
It seems that the work of purging the reactionary forces has ended, but in fact the work of purging the reactionary forces is still continuing. In the interrogation of brothel owners and other criminals, more rebellious people who subverted the new Chinese regime were exposed.
Until April 1950, all persons involved in illegal activities were severely punished by law, including 2 sentenced to death, 19 sentenced to more than 10 years in prison, 314 sentenced to less than 10 years in prison, and 989 properties confiscated.
This action is a stern warning to the reactionary forces, and it also demonstrates the determination and ability of New China to defend the country.
The cleaning up of brothels in Peiping is the first step in China's elimination of the brothel system, and it is also the embodiment of our party's unchanging original intention and persistence in serving the country and the people.
In the process, countless underworld forces have been eradicated, and countless toiling masses have been truly liberated. In Beiping, prostitutes are no longer seen as playthings, but are given a dignified life, can be educated and educated, those who have a home can return to their hometowns, the young are sent to schools, and the elderly are arranged to learn production technology and then work in state-owned enterprises.
Since then, the small streets and alleys of Beijing have ushered in a new style of civilization, and most importantly, the chairman's words of "cleaning the house" have finally come true. This clean-up of brothels is a manifestation of our party's people-centered approach and advocacy of "equality for all."
In China, which has a history of 5,000 years, the prostitution system has existed for 3,000 years, and such a tradition is a shame in Chinese history after all. However, it was in the process of eliminating this tradition that our Party made the toiling masses truly emancipate and made "equality for all" a reality.
In ***, the liberated prostitute starts a new life. Their smiles reveal a long-lost freedom and hope. The experiences of these prostitutes, who are symbols of the toiling masses, give us a deeper understanding of what the President said: "All reactionaries are paper tigers." ”