The commander of the Red Army division was lost in GuangxiDan silver dollarsCarrying guns is a mystery.
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This nursery rhyme tells the story of a Red Army division commander who buried a huge amount of money, and if there were six silver dollars in reality, how many people would not be attracted by its wealth?
According to the purchasing power at that time, these six taels of silver dollars were converted into ** yuan, and the value was about 19 million yuan. So is the treasure mentioned in this nursery rhyme real?
Later generations began their treasure hunt with a persistent yearning for this treasure, but in the end they found nothing. So, what kind of secrets are hidden in this treasure?
In the Battle of Xiangjiang, the Red Army suffered a major setback, and Qiao Mingzeng's corps was responsible for covering. The battle was fierce, the Red Army suffered heavy losses, and the rivers were stained red with blood. Qiao Mingzeng's 34th Division suffered heavy losses, the division commander died bravely, and most of his comrades were killed.
Qiao Mingzeng was lucky to escape on the verge of life and death, and the Red Army organization entrusted him with a heavy task.
In the midst of endless pain and despair, he received an important task: his superiors appointed him as the "division commander" of the containment division, responsible for protecting the troops' valuable supplies and classified documents, and searching for their lost comrades.
He was given six silver dollars and three guns to house the survivors and build his troops. He could choose to take these fortunes away from the battlefield and live a carefree life, but Qiao Mingzeng did not do so.
He stuck to the battlefield, and in order to protect the property of his troops and find his comrades, he demonstrated tenacity and courage with his actions.
Born into a poor family, Qiao Mingzeng had to find odd jobs to make ends meet when he was young, while other children spent their childhood playing.
As an adult, in order to support his family, he joined Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army. However, as time went on, he began to feel unbearable about certain things, so he decided to leave the Northwest Army and join the Red Army with Dong Zhentang during the Ningdu Uprising.
Subsequently, he was reorganized to the 34th Division of the Red Fifth Army. Under the influence of the people around him, Qiao Mingzeng gradually became a qualified fighter with responsibility and responsibility.
He is well aware of his mission and responsibilities, and has always maintained his loyalty to the organization and a strong belief in the mission. Although his heart was full of mixed emotions after watching the sacrifice of his former close comrades-in-arms, he always firmly believed that he must complete the tasks assigned to him by the organization, no matter how difficult the road ahead was.
2. Qiao Mingzeng was trapped in a nearby village and met Wen Yousui for the first time. After finding himself alone, he decided to find his other surviving comrades first. So he found a hidden place and hid the silver dollar and the gun.
In order to regain his strength, he chose to find a place to live in a nearby village. Here, he met a kind-hearted landlord named Wen Yousui. Wen You then saw Qiao Mingzeng's weak body and injured leg, and he didn't even have the strength to speak, so he kindly took him in.
Dressed in an octagonal military cap, Qiao Mingsen looked no more than a teenager and spoke with a thick northern accent. Wen Yongsui listened to his words, and gradually had an answer in his heart. Qiao Mingsen, as a porter of the Red Army, shouldered a lot of responsibilities, and only replied lightly to Wen Yongsui's inquiry, saying that the team was broken up when crossing the Xiangjiang River, and he was alone and did not keep up with the large army, passing by the village just to rest.
However, Wen Yongsui looked at Qiao Mingsen's appearance and felt that he did not look like a porter, but had the temperament of a teacher. Although Qiao Mingsen was reluctant to say more, Wen Yongsui also understood that he was not good at asking too much.
Qiao Mingzeng came to a quiet village with a population of less than 200 people, located on the border of Hunan and Guangxi, adjacent to the Xiangjiang River. The people here live a simple life, relying on industrious hands to work on the land, and drought and flood protection are their norm.
Wen Yongsui's family was not well-off, but he was hospitable, and took out the wild vegetable porridge that he cherished on weekdays to entertain guests. Qiao Mingzeng looked at the shriveled rice bag in Wen Yongsui's hand, and his heart was full of mixed feelings, but his gratitude was beyond words.
After lunch, Wen Yongsui saw Qiao Mingzeng's injured leg, so he did not hesitate to take out the herbs at home and put them on him, and let him rest assured that he was recuperating at home. A month later, Qiao Mingzeng's leg was completely **.
During this time, although Qiao Mingzeng did not help Wen Yongsui much, he lived in Wen Yongsui's house for nothing. Although Wen Yongsui knew his identity, he didn't say much, just silently accepted and helped him.
Qiao Mingzeng missed the feeling of starting home and decided to go home to visit his elderly mother. When he said goodbye to Wen Yongsui, Wen Yongsui became suspicious of his identity, because Qiao Mingzeng had no calluses on his hands, and there were no traces of carrying burdens on his shoulders.
Qiao Mingzeng hurriedly explained that he was an ordinary soldier of the Red Army who had fallen behind when crossing the Xiangjiang River, and he did not say a word about the batch of important materials entrusted by the organization. Wen Yong then sympathized with the Red Army and told him that the Workers' Corps would inquire about the wounded and sick of the Red Army in the local town, and that if they were discovered, they would be taken away.
Qiao Mingzeng decided to stay, in order to repay Wen Yongsui for taking him in, he was willing to go to the field with Wen Yongsui to do farm work to relieve his pressure.
Qiao Mingzeng and Wen Yongsui have been together for a long time, and their relationship is close, just like brothers. In his spare time, Qiao Mingzeng likes to read and write.
It was learned that he could read and write, and he was often asked to help write letters and couplets. Gradually, Qiao Mingzeng was accepted by the people of the village, and he also fully integrated into the village. Despite the bad weather that year, with the help of Qiao Mingzeng, the villagers still had a bumper harvest.
They were very grateful to Qiao Mingzeng, so they named the newly reclaimed two acres of land "Mingzengdi" to commemorate his contribution. Today, "Mingzengdi" has become a local red landmark.
Time passed day by day, and Wen Yongsui felt that it was Qucai to let Qiao Mingzeng, who was full of poems and books, follow him to work in the field, so he wanted to talk to him. After getting along for a long time, Qiao Mingzeng recognized Wen Yongsui's virtue very much, so he told him everything about himself.
It turned out that Qiao Mingzeng was the division commander of the Red Army! Qiao Mingzeng shyly said that he was just the captain of the containment team, but it was better to say it to the people outside, called "division commander".
In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival is approaching, and the originally festive festival has become deserted due to the drought and poor harvest. Qiao Mingzeng, like Wen Yongsui, continued to go out to work. But at this time, the villagers looked at him differently.
It turned out that Qiao Mingzeng had been looking for his comrades in this village and inadvertently revealed some relevant information. Soon, the news slowly spread in the village, and some people even made up a nursery rhyme: "Six silver dollars and three shotguns, the division commander sits under the big maple tree." ”
When the local villagers heard about this, they begged Qiao Mingzeng to come up with some silver dollars to help them. Looking at the villagers who take good care of him on weekdays, Qiao Mingzeng was very entangled in his heart.
But he knew that he did not own the money, and even if he wanted to help the villagers, he had no right to dispose of it. As more and more people become aware of this batch of supplies, it is inevitable that some people will have bad intentions.
At this time, many people began to dig around the village in order to find the silver dollar. Even, when the people in the next village heard about this, they also joined the excavation team with hoes.
Qiao Mingzeng was worried that if his hidden treasure was discovered, he would be used to buy land, become the new landlord, and thus become the object of the revolution. Now that he can't contact the organization or find his surviving comrades, he is overwhelmed by such a huge amount of wealth.
In order to protect the safety of this batch of materials and not cause trouble to Wen Yongsui, Qiao Mingzeng decided to temporarily use the tactic of delaying the army, telling the villagers that he had forgotten where the materials were buried.
However, the villagers did not believe his words and even accused him of being ungrateful. Various rumors began to circulate in the village, some people called him a senior official of the Red Army, raised a young wife to swallow silver dollars alone, and some people thought that he was a Jianghu **, and there was no silver dollar at all.
There were even rumors that the local militia was coming to arrest the Red Army surnamed Qiao. In the face of gossip, Qiao Mingzeng never explained too much, he knew that keeping silent was the best defense.
However, as time went by, his heart became more and more conflicted, and he decided that no matter how many difficulties there were ahead, he would return to his hometown, for the sake of this batch of supplies, for Wen Yongsui, and for himself, Qiao Mingzeng decided to return to the organization as soon as the Anti-Japanese War broke out.
Before leaving, Qiao Mingzeng deliberately ran to the hiding place of the materials to confirm that it was correct. In this regard, Wen Yongsui expressed his understanding and gave him two catties of fried glutinous rice as rations on the road.
Wen Yongsui and Qiao Mingzeng, the two "cousins", reluctantly hugged and said goodbye. After a long journey of more than seven months, Qiao Mingzeng finally returned to his hometown, starving all the way, but the two catties of glutinous rice did not move, and he took it home intact to honor his mother.
He wore a broken straw hat and barely supported his body with a cane, looking at his yellow-faced and skinny son, his mother's tears rolled in his eyes, after all, the mother and son had not seen each other for ten years. His mother cooked delicious food for Qiao Mingzeng, looking at his white-haired mother, Qiao Mingzeng's heart was full of guilt.
After half a month of cultivation, Qiao Mingzeng's body gradually recovered, and he followed his father to sell steamed buns locally to make a living.
Although he feels very happy at home, Qiao Mingzeng is always worried that the supplies will be poached by the local villagers. However, it was more risky to take these supplies with him, so he decided to write a letter to Wen Yongsui and promised to return them to the organization together when the revolutionary cause was successful.
Hearing what happened to her son, Qiao Mingzeng's old mother was deeply grateful for the help of Wen Yongsui's family, so she gathered her relatives to scrape together 75 yuan and sent it to Wen Yongsui to express her gratitude.
With the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Qiao Mingzeng's strong sense of mission and responsibility made him embark on the road of returning to the organization again. At the beginning of 1938, he joined the People's Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Regiment of Shandong New Area led by the Communist Party, which was later reorganized into the Sixth Detachment of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army.
After returning to the organization, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and reported the situation of this batch of materials to his superiors. However, at that time, the place where the materials were buried had become the territory of the Kuomintang, and it was very difficult to bring them back safely, and they could only be successfully retrieved by waiting for the victory of the revolution.
Qiao Mingzeng looked forward to this moment day and night, but he couldn't wait for that day.
Qiao Mingzhen sacrificed his life for the country at the age of 27, his father tearfully took back his son's body, and the family paid all their strength for the establishment of New China. Qiao Mingzhen's tomb is located in the Feicheng Martyrs Cemetery, and rests in peace with 14 martyrs who died in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation.
After Qiao Mingzhen died, the specific location of a batch of materials was unknown, and the organization sent people to Wenshi Town, Guanyang County, Guangxi Province to look for it, but they failed to find it. Some people speculate that the supplies were dug up by the villagers, which has become a mystery, but there are still people who are looking for it with the dream of making a fortune.
Qiao Mingzeng adhered to his mission, and even in the face of life and death, he refused to embezzle revolutionary funds. He interpreted the noble spirit of the heroes of the Red Army with practical actions and left us with valuable spiritual wealth.
It is this spirit that inspires us from generation to generation. In the long history, there are many heroes like Qiao Mingzeng, and their spirit is like a bright star, illuminating our way forward.