In 1950, an underground CCP member named Wu Shi in Taiwan wrote a masterpiece poem before being pushed and shoved by Kuomintang soldiers to the execution ground.
The poem expresses his feelings about the unknown providence and the unknowable things in the world, as well as his regret for his lifelong dedication to loyalty and kindness. After being shot, news of his death reached the mainland, causing tears to come to the eyes of Wu Shaocheng, a teenager in a dormitory at Nanjing University.
Wu Shaocheng deeply felt his father's expectation for the reunification of the motherland and his protection for himself. Let's follow together and learn more about Wu Shi's story and historical events.
Born in Fuzhou in 1894, Wu Shi joined the Xinhai Revolution in 1911 and later studied at the Military Academy, a contemporary of Bai Chongxi. After studying in Japan, he was awarded the rank of major general, and although he was a Kuomintang general, he was very disgusted by Chiang Kai-shek's betrayal of the revolution.
Introduced by his friend Wu Zhongxi, he secretly joined the Communist Party in 1948. Wu Shaocheng has a particularly deep memory of his father, he feels that he has too little, so that the time when his father accompanies him is always extremely clear, and he can even circulate in his mind like a movie**.
Wu Shaocheng recalled that although his father was very busy at work, he would personally drive the family on weekends and teach the children to read Mencius and some Confucian classics.
Wu Shaocheng's father was a different kind of man, he didn't smoke, he didn't play cards, and his only hobby was writing poetry. Once, he was grinding ink next to his father, who told him: "To practice calligraphy, you must concentrate on learning willow style first, which is the only way for primary school students to lay a foundation." ”
In 1948, Wu Shaocheng was admitted to the Department of Economics of Nanjing University, while his father Wu Shi assisted in some affairs at Li Zongren in Nanjing.
When the winter break began, Wu Shi told his son: "I tried to persuade Li Zongren to accept the eight conditions proposed by the Communist Party to establish a union, but he did not accept them. I don't have much more to do in this place. ”
may be the frustration of feeling powerless to return to the sky, which made Wu Shi, who is usually taciturn, reveal his inner world to his son for the first time. And the careful Wu Shaocheng also began to realize that his father's identity was not ordinary, judging from his words and deeds, it was more like a bright red sword buried deep in the soil.
However, the two of them tacitly did not reveal the secret. Subtly, Wu Shaocheng was influenced by his father and began to pay attention to the relevant policies in the liberated areas.
However, Wu Shaocheng did not realize that it would be the last time he would see his father. In April 1948, Wu Shi left Nanjing and returned to Fuzhou, and before parting, he gave his son $20 in his pocket, which was all his savings.
Wu Shaocheng didn't feel abnormal, but he didn't know that this was his last farewell to his father. After that, the war of liberation became increasingly fierce, and Wu Shaocheng received ** from his father many times, asking him to leave Nanjing to study in Beijing or Hong Kong.
However, Wu Shaocheng was bent on staying in Nanjing to witness the birth of New China, and did not follow his father's advice.
In the new year, Nanjing was liberated, Wu Shi once again entrusted an old friend to send his son away from home, and the car drove to the door, but Wu Shaocheng resolutely did not get out of the car and chose to stay in Nanjing. Looking back on the past, Wu Shaocheng couldn't help but smile bitterly: "My father rarely uses relationships to solve personal problems, this is the only time I have seen it, and he did his best to protect me." ”
However, just as Wu Shaocheng was basking in the joy of Nanjing's liberation, he lost all contact with his parents and could only occasionally contact his sister, who was studying at Shanghai Medical College.
The younger brother and sister have doubts about their father", Wu Shaocheng and the eldest sister knew nothing about their parents' whereabouts, as if they had suddenly disappeared from the world. However, when Wu Shaocheng learned that the Kuomintang had fled to Taiwan, he realized that his father had left the mainland with his mother and younger siblings.
However, he didn't understand why his father had to leave since he was an underground member of the CCP? Wu Shaocheng found the answer in the memoirs of his father's friend Wu Zhongxi.
In August 1949, Wu Shi suddenly received an urgent telegram from Taiwan, stating that Chiang Kai-shek had ordered him to immediately take his family to Taiwan. Wu Shi realizes that his mission is over and that staying on the mainland to meet the dawn of victory is his best choice, but he decides to embark on a path full of dangers.
He approached Wu Zhongxi and said: "I have been appointed as the deputy defense minister of the Kuomintang and need to go to Taiwan to take up a post. Wu Zhongxi was shocked when he heard this, and he knew that Wu Shi's decision was to go to Taiwan to continue his mission.
He advised Wu Shi: "You should think carefully about whether you are sure of success in going to Taiwan." If you don't go, you can stay here and go to the liberated areas. ”
Wu Shi was determined and decided to go to Taiwan. He took the code name "Secret Envoy No. 1" given to him by the East China Bureau of the Communist Party of China, and left the mainland without hesitation, leaving behind a pair of children. After arriving in Taiwan, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
However, Chiang Kai-shek's brutal suppression of the CCP's underground organization in Taiwan severed Wu Shi's connection with the underground party organization. When the People's Liberation Army attacked Kinmen, Wu Shi's important information could not be transmitted.
During the difficult period, Wu Shi got in touch with Ms. Zhu Feng, an underground CCP member in Hong Kong, and Cai Xiaoqian, head of the Taiwan Working Committee of the East China Bureau. Their joint efforts have passed on important military intelligence to ***, and for this reason, *** also specially wrote poems to praise the exploits of Wu Shi and others.
However, due to Cai Xiaoqian's betrayal, the identities of Wu Shi, Zhu Feng and the other two underground members were exposed, and unfortunately **. They were tortured and finally died heroically.
I don't know what else I can do besides be sad. Wu Shaocheng said helplessly. He was still a student at the time, and the news of his father's death was like a bolt from the blue, and he felt like he couldn't do anything but deep sadness.
So, he cut out the news of his father's heroic death in the newspaper and kept it close to his body to express his thoughts. In 1981, Wu Shaocheng and his eldest sister finally met their long-lost mother and younger brother and sister in the United States.
After learning about her father**, her mother was also arrested and put in prison, and the 16-year-old sister matured overnight, dropped out of school to work, and did her best to take care of her 7-year-old brother.
Although life was difficult, the mother and daughter never gave up hope. With perseverance, they resisted all kinds of difficulties in life and finally ushered in a beautiful day.
In those days of countless family changes, the little sister and the younger brother lived a hard life, until 1977, the younger brother won a full scholarship from a university in the United States to study in the United States.
After graduating, he brought his mother to the United States, and the family was finally reunited. Although their appearance has changed dramatically after decades of separation, the family bond remains.
Now, the 81-year-old mother cooks a table of Fujian dishes for the children, and the family talks about the experience of the past ten years while tasting the food. However, this reunion was not as good as they imagined.
I understand the complaints and incomprehension of my younger siblings about my father, because I have not experienced what happened to them, but I have also faced difficulties in the mainland. But I never complained about my father's choice, because I knew that the reunification of the motherland was an inevitable trend of history.
My father was a great man, and I respected and admired him immensely, so when I heard what my younger siblings were saying, I felt very uncomfortable. Wu Shaocheng explained.
Fortunately, the younger siblings gradually changed their initial attitude after visiting relatives in the mainland many times. In 1991, Wu's youngest sister brought back her father's ashes from Taiwan and her mother's ashes from the United States back to her homeland.
In 1994, the ashes of Wu Shi and his wife were buried together, and Wu Shaocheng personally wrote the epitaph for his parents.