In his later years, Su Yu was worried about Hong Gang Zhu Yaxiong and did not let good people chill
In 1983, General Su Yu, who received ** in the hospital due to physical reasons, although his health was not good, he was concerned about the Zhu Yaxiong brothers. He asked about Zhu Yaxiong's current situation and asked if his matter had been resolved.
Hearing that this matter had not yet been resolved, General Su Yu frowned and said resolutely: "Zhu Yaxiong was once a comrade-in-arms of the New Fourth Army, and we can't let the people who helped us chill, we must give him an explanation, and quickly solve this matter." ”
However, when he learned that Zhu Yaxiong's brother had died, General Su Yu was deeply shocked and dizzy. He deeply misses this comrade-in-arms and hopes that his affairs will be properly handled.
We can't let the kind people down! At that time, Mr. Zhu Yaxiong provided great help to our New Fourth Army. Although there is nothing I can do, even if he is dead, let the court give him a fair verdict. "
The more General Su Yu spoke, the more excited he became, and finally he even coughed. The doctor next to him saw him like this and advised him to rest well. Later, after everyone's efforts, Zhu Yaxiong's matter finally reached a fair conclusion, and the court also rehabilitated him.
So, who is Zhu Yaxiong? Why is General Su Yu so concerned?
Zhu Yaxiong is the leader of the Nanjing Hong Gang, and General Su Yu is the general of the People's Liberation Army. The Honggang originated from the Hongmen, an underground secret organization in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, whose purpose was to resist the rule of the Manchus and protect Han culture.
In China's modern history, the Hong Gang is one of the three major gangs, with extensive influence, and is known as "one line of the Green Gang, a large part of the Hong Gang". Unlike the Green Gang, the Hong Gang was mainly made up of grain carriers and grew rapidly between 1920 and 1930, colluding with the warlords.
* During the period, the Youth Gang mainly engaged in some bad activities in society, such as opening casinos, brothels, extorting others or huge sums of money, and even suppressing progressive patriots.
As a result, they were also often used by the Japanese secret services and the Kuomintang reactionaries to engage in traitorous activities. Although Zhu Yaxiong is not as famous as ** Rong, Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin, he is also the head of the Hong Gang.
In the 40s of the 20th century, Zhu Yaxiong was the leader of Nanjing's largest Hong gang organization, and he shuttled between these three fields with ease, becoming a force to be reckoned with in Nanjing's underground society.
Although Zhu Yaxiong is involved in the illegal industry, he is not a street gangster. He left his hometown to study in Shanghai at an early age, and after graduating from high school, he studied in Japan for a while. In **14 years, he served as a professor at many schools such as Shanghai University of Law and Politics, and is a cultural person in the true sense.
While serving as a professor, he joined the Hong Gang. With the improvement of his ability, Zhu Yaxiong became the leader of the Hong Gang and maintained close contact with the Japanese puppet business community and local people. While wandering among the various forces in Nanjing, Zhu Yaxiong deeply felt the difference between the Communist Eighth Route Army and other armies.
Therefore, he has always wanted to take the initiative to contact the Communist Party, but for various reasons, he has not been able to achieve it. At that time, Nanjing was located in the occupied area, and the movements of the Eighth Route Army were severely restricted, and even if Zhu Yaxiong wanted to take the initiative to contact the Communist Party, he could not find a specific base area.
In March 1942, Zhu Ya's longing for the Eighth Route Army finally took the initiative to find him. At that time, Xu Chuguang, a special commissioner of the intelligence department of the Eighth Route Army, was sent to work in the occupied areas in the south.
He didn't dare to directly expose his identity, but sneaked into Wang Pseudo**. In Wuhan, he approached Zhang Jinlong, an underground party member, and asked him to help him get a pass to Nanjing.
Zhang Jinlong asked him about his intentions, and Xu Chuguang said that he was looking for a big brother in the Hong Gang, hoping to use his strength. And this big brother of the Hong Gang is Zhu Yaxiong. Through Zhang Jinlong's matchmaking, Zhu Yaxiong and Xu Chuguang met.
In Zhu Yaxiong's apartment in Nanjing, Xu Chuguang approached him as the ** of the Japanese puppet military region, and was close to him. However, Zhu Yaxiong did not fully trust Xu Chuguang, but after three rounds of drinking, he thought that he was the ** of the Japanese puppet military region.
Xu Chuguang acted steadily, he did not immediately ask Zhu Yaxiong to help him, nor did he let him contact the affairs of the Eighth Route Army, but always got along with him as a brother and friend.
Zhu Yaxiong is not an ordinary gangster, but a knowledgeable and educated person. Although he knew that there would be a lot of time in society and many people were willing to take the initiative to make friends with the Hong Gang, he firmly believed that Xu Chuguang was different from those brothers who wanted to join the Hong Gang.
The two spent a spring and autumn in the temptation of each other. It was not until the spring of 1943 that Xu Chuguang's true identity was revealed by Zhu Yaxiong. At that time, Japanese imperialism showed its ferocious face, and they accelerated the pace of aggression against North China, trying to incorporate the whole of North China into their territory.
Wang Puppet ** underground prison in Nanjing arrested a Communist Party member Zhang Bing. Zhang Bing was forming a Communist intelligence network underground in Nanjing at that time, and was betrayed by traitors.
In prison, he faced all kinds of torture, but he never betrayed his party and country.
Zhang Bing and Xu Chuguang met in prison, and at that time, Zhang Bing's identity was a high-level political instructor of Wang Pseudo**, and he traveled unhindered in prison. During the conversation, the two revealed their identities to each other.
Zhang Bing learned that it was the underground party organization of the Communist Party of China that sent someone to rescue him, so the two hit it off. Through many efforts, Xu Chuguang rescued Zhang Bing and arranged him to another base to join a new battle.
Zhu Yaxiong is a mutual friend of Zhang Bing and Xu Chuguang, he clearly thinks that Zhang Bing was brought out by Xu Chuguang, but in fact, he has long smelled signs of the activities of the Eighth Route Army in Nanjing, and Zhang Bing** was rescued by Xu Chuguang later, which made him doubt Xu Chuguang's true identity.
When Xu Chuguang came to Hongmen again to talk and laugh with Zhu Yaxiong, Zhu Yaxiong secretly tested him many times. However, Xu Chuguang, as a senior spy, was well hidden, and Zhu Yaxiong felt more and more mysterious about him.
After a drink, Xu Chuguang noticed Zhu Yaxiong's doubts and took the initiative to confess: "Brother, in fact, I am the Eighth Route Army, and my name is Xu Chuguang." Zhu Yaxiong was slightly surprised when he heard this, but he was already ecstatic in his heart, it turned out that Xu Chuguang was really the Eighth Route Army.
Xu Chuguang said firmly to Zhu Yaxiong: "Brother, although I am willing to go to the Japanese, I firmly believe that the Chinese cannot become slaves and traitors. If you want to join the ranks of the Communist Party, I can help you introduce.
and Zhang Bing, he also thinks so. Zhu Yaxiong waited for this sentence, and finally one night in 1945, the three of them became brothers. Xu Chuguang and Zhang Bing ostensibly joined the gang to cover up their underground intelligence work.
Zhu Yaxiong, a person full of a sense of national justice, was won over by them. Since then, Zhu Yaxiong has become a good friend of the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army. And Xu Chuguang's previous hope that Zhu Yaxiong could help him can now be put on the agenda.
At that time, Wang Puppet ** and the Japanese army were very strict in the personnel and materials of Nanjing, and they tried to take Nanjing as their own. In order to ensure the smooth flow of important transportation routes between the north and the south, the Central China Bureau of the Communist Party of China demanded that the underground party members in Nanjing open up a material transportation line to and from the anti-Japanese base areas in northern Jiangsu.
Xu Chuguang and Zhang Bing told Zhu Yaxiong about this, and Zhu Yaxiong agreed without hesitation and promised to help as much as possible. So, he used the relationship of the Hong Gang in society to contact Colonel Kimura, the Japanese puppet Huazhong Railway.
In a conversation with Kimura, Zhu Yaxiong discovered that the railroad was often attacked by railway guerrillas, and supplies were often stolen. He immediately proposed that he could use his Honggang forces to set up a railway escort team to help the Japanese side transport the goods and protect the safety of the materials.
Zhu Yaxiong intended to include Zhang Bing and Xu Chuguang in his sphere of influence. After operation, the Central China Railway Road Protection Corps was approved by the Japanese army to be established, and Zhang Bing borrowed Zhu Yaxiong's power to transport intelligence and materials on this road.
Under the protection of Zhu Yaxiong, the national hero Zhang Bing held a certificate of exemption from inspection and good citizenship, and took advantage of this convenience to transport information from the base area in and out. A large number of intelligence exchanges of the New Fourth Army were completed by Zhang Bing.
Xu Chuguang received the organizational task and left Nanjing, and Zhang Bing took over the work in Nanjing. Zhu Yaxiong had more contact with Zhang Bing, and sometimes helped transport intelligence. "Big brother, in recent years, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army have been in a difficult situation under the suppression of the Japanese army and Chiang Kai-shek, and thanks to your help, we can carry out the revolution with difficulty. ”
During the war years, Zhu Yaxiong, as a brother of the Hong Gang, not only was he with the comrades who resisted Japan and saved the country, but he also showed his deep patriotic enthusiasm to the world with his own actions.
Zhu Yaxiong provided our party with a protective umbrella in Nanjing, which enabled Xu Chuguang and Zhang Bing's work to proceed smoothly. Even after the end of the war, Xu Chuguang did not forget Zhu Yaxiong, and he wrote a letter to Zhu Yaxiong in 1946, inviting him to meet his brothers in the liberated areas.
In the Suzhou-Anhui border area, Zhu Yaxiong was warmly welcomed by our party's leaders, and they all wanted to meet this national hero in person, because of Xu Chuguang's report, everyone knew that Zhu Yaxiong had provided a lot of convenience for the New Fourth Army.
In the evening, Commander-in-Chief Su Yu also specially hosted a banquet to entertain Zhu Yaxiong, and the two talked and laughed at the dinner table, which made people feel their deep friendship.
Zhu Yaxiong was excited, he never thought that he would be appreciated by General Su Yu. In his spare time, General Su Yu also asked him to continue to return to Nanjing, so that the Hong Gang could play a greater role.
Zhu Yaxiong did not hesitate after hearing this, and immediately set off back to Nanjing. He worked for the underground party of the Chinese Communist Party in Nanjing until the liberation of Nanjing in 1949, when he finally met Marshal ***.
However, just as everyone was cheering for the liberation of Nanjing, a year later, Zhu Yaxiong, as a national hero, was imprisoned by Nanjing's anti-rebellion movement. At that time, he only wanted to go to Nanjing to pick up his family, but the Nanjing Public Security Bureau arrested him on counter-revolutionary charges and sentenced him to six years in prison.
Although he had formed the Hong Gang and served as the leader of the Hong Gang, what he had done for the nation and the New Fourth Army was known to everyone, so he was dissatisfied with the verdict.
During Zhu Yaxiong's unjust imprisonment, his friend General Su Yu did not forget to rehabilitate him, and he did his best to contact many parties to prove Zhu Yaxiong's innocence, but the result was not ideal.
After his release in 1975, Zhu Yaxiong was determined to seek justice for himself. However, he could not wait for this opportunity and died of illness in 1979. After learning the news, General Su Yu was deeply saddened, and he believed that Zhu Yaxiong, as a national hero and benefactor of the New Fourth Army, should not be treated like this.
Even in his own difficult period, he has always paid attention to Zhu Yaxiong's rehabilitation. Finally, in 1983, the Nanjing Intermediate People's Court re-examined Zhu Yaxiong's life and made an objective evaluation of his life based on relevant materials and regulations.
After the fair judgment of the Su Yu court, Zhu Yaxiong finally got the fair reputation he deserved. After learning the news, the depression in General Su Yu's heart was resolved.
Good people must not be treated unfairly! Although Zhu Yaxiong failed to see his reputation restored, his contribution to the New Fourth Army will always be remembered by the people and the army, and he will always be a national hero.