Editor's note: On March 19 and 20, 1949, the Nanjing Evening News published two reports on "The Situation After Yangzhou Changed Hands" in the form of "Shanghai Newsletter".
The interview was with a businessman who crossed the river from northern Jiangsu to ShanghaiZhang EnjiZhang is the manager of a wood shop in the Fairy Temple in Dongxiang, Yangzhou, and this time he went to Shanghai not for "exile", but to send tuition fees to his eldest son who is studying in Shanghai. Therefore, Zhang's description of the situation after the Fairy Temple changed hands is quite objective.
In order to facilitate reading, Jiangdu Memory excerpted part of the content of the report and added subheadings.
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This time, on the third day after all the retreats to Yangzhou, more than 100 people from the ** department entered the west from Yiling and Brick Bridge to Wenchang Pavilion outside the Fairy Temple Town, so they did not hear a single shot. They live in Wenchang Pavilion, and they don't need to be in the town to ** them anything. (Editor's note: The date should be January 23, 1949).
After another three days, the politicians of ** came, first posted an Anmin notice, and looked for the president of the chamber of commerce but did not find it. I found the chairman of the Wood Industry Association in Qizha Hexi, who was sixty-eight years oldCold apricot fieldOld gentleman. After the meeting, the politician said: "Mr. Leng, we have admired you for a long time." Your eldest gentleman (Leng Zhi's eldest son) works as an engineer in Shanghai China Merchants Bureau and is a very diligent and thrifty technician. We admire! Your old gentleman also has no place to be sorry for the people. Please tell everyone that the People's Liberation Army is the people's army. Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, we will invite local people to meet and talk in Yuwang Palace. ”
The next morning, after a conversation in the Yuwang Palace, each settled in its own business, and the market also recovered after a few days.
More than 100 people stationed in Wenchang Pavilion drove to Yangzhou, and only three or five politicians were left in the town to distribute a lot of propaganda materials. They pointed out that they wanted to find out the background of an elementary school teacher who had been the head of the fairy temple, because the head of the district had made a fortune and begged for a little wifeWu HaofuAnd that by the eighteenth year of the "Kuomintang rice", later served as a member of the county party department, opened a newspaper and opened a bank accountYang Zuojie。In fact, Wu Yang and the others had already crossed the river and he went!
At every meeting, the CPC personnel reported on the past deeds of this rural administrative chief and a Yangzhou "party official."
After they took over all the public undertakings in the locality, the post office, the telegraph office, etc., were not all in the class, and they did not change any of them, but they only sent an instructor. The instructor sent at the post office of the Fairy TempleFang ShanshengThe woman, a native of Chen Jiaji, used to work at the post office before she disappeared when she was discovered to be a communist. Until now, he has returned to his hometown and still runs the postal service.
The situation of the teachers in the school is the same as before, the primary school has opened early, and many new teachers have been added, and some of the old teachers have been transferred to other places to "study".
The People's Bank of China has also opened its doors, and it is located at the entrance of Meijia Alley on the street. There are people's coupons, Beihai coupons, and Huaihai coupons. The ratio of receiving and redeeming gold yuan coupons is set within 10 days, and the people are not allowed to collect gold yuan coupons, and gold and silver are not concerned. Now there is no longer a single gold yuan coupon in the market, all the people who are forced to leave the CCP area will be issued by them to the gold yuan coupon needed after leaving the country, and the people themselves leave the country, for example, if they cross the river to Shanghai, they have to secretly go to Hangjiaji and Bajiangkou to exchange the people's coupons in the black market for a part of the gold yuan coupons before leaving, and there are also brokers in the black market who send guests across the river. There are quite a few people who do this business, and the CCP doesn't ask a question.
As for leaving the communist area, you will come to the world of "wealth and energy", so it is not difficult for people who are familiar with it to come and go, and there are many people who run orders to help, and sometimes the communists announce to the people what they need, although they are sold, someone will naturally buy it.
After the establishment of the town, the first step was to register the members of the Kuomintang, and the second step was to check the population, and they explained in advance that all Kuomintang members would not bother if they did not do anything ashamed of the people; It doesn't matter if you feel guilty about yourself, everyone who "has a mistake and should not be afraid to change" should be "liberated".
The party members of the fairy temple feel that they can neither go, if they do not go to register, they may not have investigated in advance, so there are a lot of people who go to the town to register, and after registration, there are often politicians to the house to chat, and invite a group of Kuomintang members to the political officer's office every three or five days to talk, hoping that they will name some Kuomintang comrades.
The small headmaster of the temple of the fairiesLing Shanye, is the nephew of Ling Renshan, a former member of the Beijing ** parliament, and the son of Ling Zhujun, the only local talent who is inferior to the last showman, was asked to talk to him after registration, and asked him to hand over 20 Kuomintang members within ten days. The days are long, sitting and eating the mountains are empty, how to get it. At this time, someone wrote to him, saying that it didn't matter if he couldn't hand over someone. He went back to town and still taught.
The big landlords of the fairy temple all live in Caowang City and Liujiazhuang, and the landlords surnamed Zhu in Caowang City have fled to Shanghai and LiujiazhuangZhu LifuThe old lady didn't leave, and the communist side said to her: Write to your two sons and tell your two sons that your family's land is still yours. If you can't collect rent on a grange somewhere, you can tell us and help you collect it.
* When retreating, the first bridge from the fairy temple to Yangzhou, the second bridge was burned, and now it has been repaired. The longest Wanfu Bridge west of the Erdao Bridge was blown up by steel reinforced concrete, and until now, Yangtai Automobile has not been opened to traffic.
Everything in the town has returned to normal, but because of the closure of the river, the price of wood in northern Jiangsu has risen very highly, and foreign goods have also risen terribly.
The reporter will ask Mr. Zhang if he is still returning to the Fairy Temple? He nodded, and said, "This time, I want to transport some caustic soda, gauze, and Wuyang back, which are all needed in the communal area." Now Shanghai pork is terriblely expensive, and at the moment, the pork in the Northern Jiangsu Communist Zone is extremely cheap because it cannot be shipped for a while. ”
In the end, he said: "I'm afraid the Communist Party can't get used to life like Shanghai."
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