Huang WeiRefuse the invitation to win respect
On December 4, 1959, the first batch of war criminals were amnestied, but Huang Wei was not on the list. In this regard, his wife expressed understanding and said to Huang Wei: "* It's not that you didn't release you, but that you didn't reform well. ”
In fact, Huang Wei should have been on the first batch of internal lists to be released, but because of his poor attitude in admitting guilt, the War Criminals Management Office did not approve it. So, how was Huang Wei later released?
When he received an invitation from Taiwan, how did he refuse?
Huang Wei's thought process after the amnesty When he was just captured, Huang Wei sat on the ground and only felt aggrieved and unconvinced. In just one month of campaigning, how could a well-equipped and well-equipped corps with sufficient talents be wiped out so completely, which made him feel extremely unwilling.
However, during the interrogation, he also admitted his command mistakes and expressed his shame that he had not won the battle as a soldier and was captured. While this was the biggest insult of his career, he deserves praise for his courage and honesty.
Huang Wei's career as a war criminal lasted for 26 years, from 1948 to 1975. During this period, his thinking underwent four phases of change, from refusal to repent to later reform.
Before the Huaihai Campaign ended, the liaison minister of the Central Plains Field Army mobilized Huang Wei to write letters of persuasion to Du Yuming and Qiu Qingquan, but when it was his turn to sign, he insisted on not signing.
However, in the 20 days after his captivity, Huang Wei began to show a desire to pursue the truth, and in writing his autobiography, he expressed the hope that he would be able to study the issues in detail in conjunction with materials from the CCP.
However, when he was transferred to Gongdelin Prison and Qincheng Prison in 1950, he began to resist being a war criminal, and even refused to confess his crimes and accept reform.
He claimed that his only sin was that he had lost the battle, and he denied anything else.
For example, the use of poison gas in the Huaihai Campaign led to Huang Wei being included in the list of prime war criminals. However, he has always defended himself, trying to reduce his guilt, or even shirk responsibility altogether.
He knew that our army would not execute him, but this meant that he would not be able to regain his freedom in a short time. In order to be able to leave openly, he decided to invent a perpetual motion machine to find a way out.
If he succeeds, he can also become an inventor, regain his freedom, and live an upright life. Over the years, Huang Wei has been deeply involved in military engineering. Since the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, he has been in contact with many new ** imported from the United States, and after being transferred to the deputy commander-in-chief of the Joint Logistics Department of the Ministry of National Defense, equipment has become his main job, which has given him a broad understanding of the new **.
In addition, he also has his own views on the history of science and absolute confidence in the manufacture of perpetual motion machines.
Huang Wei was rejected by the Chinese Academy of Sciences for his design, and in order to appease his emotions, his wife was also invited to persuade him. However, Huang Wei did not listen to anyone's opinions, and even spoke ill of his wife.
Cai Ruoshu tried to persuade him with reason: "Don't think that you are a great person, how much effect can it be if you are released." It's fantasy. If the transformation is not good, you will not be released.
This is not a question of perpetual motion machines, but a political one. Like you, there won't be you this year and next year. Hearing this, Huang Wei's attitude softened, and he admitted that he also wanted to go out.
Cai Ruoshu suggested that he could ask his teachers *** and *** for help, and not be obsessed with perpetual motion machines. But Huang Wei scoffed at this and said bluntly: "You are dreaming! ”
Huang Wei did not achieve the research results of the perpetual motion machine model while in prison, but it was his insistence on the theory of perpetual motion machine that stimulated his deep thinking. He gradually realized his mistakes, honestly self-examined and apologized to his wife, and even took the initiative to expose his historical crimes.
From the Battle of Ganzhou in 1932 to the Battle of Huaihai in 1948, Huang Wei faced the problem frankly and admitted his mistakes. By his own admission, 1948 was the year of the collapse of the Kuomintang, and 1958 was a year of radical ideological transformation.
He once admired Chiang Kai-shek and began to express gratitude for the policies of the Communist Party, and his change of thinking was palpable.
Huang Wei was pardoned in 1975, ending a third of his life in prison. He is full of gratitude to the War Criminals Management Center, believing that Qincheng is the place where he confesses his crimes, and Fushun is the place where he re-examines himself and faces it honestly.
On the day of the amnesty, Jin Yuan, the director of the Fushun War Criminals Management Center, accompanied him back to Beijing to settle down, and then prepared to return to Fushun. When Huang Wei saw him off at the station, he cried in public and was silent for a long time after returning home.
He has a special affection for Fushun and is known as his second hometown. So, ten years after the amnesty, he returned there again and spent one night in prison. After his release from prison, his life gradually improved for the better, and he was finally reunited with his wife and children, but this reunion only lasted for a year.
His wife resolutely returned to the mainland, but died after being reunited. Some people will ask, why did Chiang Kai-shek not take Huang Wei to Taiwan after they were captured? In fact, they lived in Taiwan for two years.
Cai Ruoshu lost the news of her father Huang Wei in the Huaihai Campaign, and although the Kuomintang told her to break through, she always missed her father in her heart. When the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan and brought her family to Taiwan, they lived in Taiwan for two years before moving to Hong Kong a year later.
While in Taiwan, Cai Ruoshu returned to the mainland and learned that his father was not dead, so he decided to return to Shanghai with his children to settle down. It was only later that they understood that they had been under the protection of the Communist Party all these years.
After returning to Shanghai, Cai Ruoshu was successfully admitted to work in the Shanghai Library, and although the library hesitated about her identity, it finally decided to admit her. In talks with democrats, she was mentioned as self-reliant and worthy of recognition.
Huang Min is Cai Ruoshu's eldest daughter, and when she applied for Fudan University, the school did not dare to accept her, but later she was able to enroll by asking the prime minister for help. Cai Ruoshu accompanied the children and waited for Huang Wei for eleven years.
In 1959, the Beijing authorities informed her that they were going to let Huang Wei go home and let her pay attention to the radio. However, on December 4, Huang Wei's name was not on the radio.
For years, she had been hoping that her husband would come back, and that was what kept her alive. However, when hopes were dashed and everything was disappointed, Cai Ruoshu seemed unable to withstand the blow.
On this day, she went to the library with a large amount of sleeping pills, intending to end her life, but was later found by a colleague and rushed to the hospital. Actually, her behavior is understandable.
During this time, she lived a depressed life for a long time, and after her hopes were dashed, she felt lost about the future, and eventually suffered from psychosis, experiencing symptoms such as auditory hallucinations and insomnia, and was unable to continue working.
In the memory of the children, 1975 was the happiest year for them. This year, father Huang Wei and mother Cai Ruoshu finally reunited, and the family was so complete for the first time.
However, after being amnestied, Huang Wei put forward the idea of returning to his hometown in Jiangxi to spend his old age in peace, but ** let him stay in Beijing as the commissioner of culture and history of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, enjoy the treatment of a member of the CPPCC, and give him 200 yuan a month.
At that time, Huang Wei was proud of the 27 years that Cai Ruoshu had waited for him as many as among those released by the amnesty. However, Cai Ruoshu's mental state is not optimistic, and her mental pressure is even greater.
She was worried that Huang Wei had said the wrong thing every day, so she always went downstairs early at noon and evening to wait for him, afraid that something big would happen to him. During this time, she was in a mess all day long, needed to rely on drugs, and Huang Wei's understanding of her was limited, which eventually led to Cai Ruoshu's suicide.
In 1976, Huang Wei found that his wife had disappeared suddenly, and he was anxiously looking for him, and someone told him: "There is an old lady who has thrown herself into the river......Unexpectedly, she waited so long and chose to die a year after Huang Wei returned home, a decision that required great courage.
Huang Wei also fell ill because of this, and was deeply shocked, lying on the hospital bed alone and crying. On the couplet, he wrote "Difficult Wife". Since then, he has rarely mentioned his wife, and in his later years decided to use his identity to contribute to the two sides of the strait.
He once received an invitation from Taiwan, but he refused in seven words: "The Communist Party has been kind to me, first, it did not kill me, and second, it took good care of my family, and the children were educated." ”
Huang Wei's family is in the war criminals management center, and although Huang Wei himself is among them, his wife and children have not suffered any hardship. On the contrary, our party secretly protected them, and even helped his children to study at Fudan University.
He also received a lot of care in prison, especially when he was critically ill, ** personally instructed to make every effort to save him. Medical experts in Beijing consulted and applied for foreign exchange to buy expensive antibiotics for **.
During the most difficult period, the management center provided him with one pound of milk, two eggs and three taels of pork every day, ensuring his nutritional needs. Such treatment will impress even hard-hearted people.
Huang Wei himself expressed his gratitude for this: "My illness was difficult to survive in the past, even if I was a high-ranking general, but now under such care, I am able to **."
Huang Wei suddenly had an angina attack a month before he was amnesty, but fortunately, he was carefully treated in the best hospital in Northeast China, and two staff members from the Ministry of Public Security came to understand the situation.
The hospital even set up a special nursing team to take care of him 24 hours a day. Eventually, he recovered quickly. Although the Taiwanese side offered to let him return to Taiwan, Huang Wei still resolutely refused because he did not want to disappoint anyone.
However, when Taiwan opened up to visiting relatives, he decided to visit Taiwan with **, which made the outside world wonder. It is rumored that "he was not reformed until he died." ”
In Huang Wei's later years, his greatest wish was to use his influence to contribute to ***. He mentioned many times to the past: "While I am still healthy and conscious, I must do my best to realize the sacred cause of peaceful reunification."
I would be very sorry if I could not achieve this goal. Soon after the amnesty, he began to travel frequently to Hong Kong and gradually established ties with Taiwan. When commemorating the 40th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Huang Wei wrote in the article: "We all yearn for the reunification of the motherland, which is the common aspiration of all people.
If reunification can be realized at an early date, I will certainly go to Taiwan to have a drink and a good time with you. ”
Huang Wei has always been looking forward to reuniting with family and friends in Taiwan, so he was very excited when Taiwan opened up for family visits. For this reunion, he spent more than half a year preparing for the formalities.
In January 1989, he returned from Hong Kong, and despite his old age and frailty, he still went to Hong Kong three times to meet with old friends and campaigned for cross-strait reconciliation and peaceful reunification.
On the day he was about to attend the two sessions, he felt unwell and was forced to stay in the hospital after going to the hospital.
Huang Wei, an anti-Japanese general who sacrificed his life for the country, died of a heart attack on March 20, 1989. However, after his death, various rumors and misconceptions about him have sparked widespread discussion.
Some people say that he died of a sudden heart attack on the eve of his departure because he was too excited, and others say that he wanted to settle in Taiwan until he died. But none of this is true. Huang Wei's greatest wish before his death was to hope that the "** War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression could be recognized, and he said that "the War of Resistance does not distinguish between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party", including the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Wuhan in which he participated.
However, his last wish was only fulfilled in 2005. That year, the relevant state departments held a meeting in the Great Hall of the People to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and Huang Wei's family member Huang Huinan also received a commemorative medal.
If Huang Wei knew all this, he would definitely feel very relieved.