Wake up（162）

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Pan Guangfu smiled wryly and said to the three elderly people in front of him, Chai Jianmin, He Jiafu and Li Tiandao: During the Cultural Revolution, I was involved in a cruel political movement, and what I got was fatal bad luck. My father, Pan Renshu, had an even worse fate.

Pan Guangfu said, I still remember Chairman Mao Zedong's exposition on "May 7th" and the "three strikes" policy announced by Lin Biao to cadres during the Cultural Revolution: Dismissal from office for opposing Mao Zedong Thought; Dismissal from office for disrupting political and ideological work; Dismissal at all Enthusiastically dismissed from office. He said that one group should be dismissed, one group should be promoted, and one group should be kept.

Pan Guangfu talked about the past events his father told him:

At the turn of spring and summer in 1966, Lin Biao approved the Nanjing Military Region to reclaim the West Lake in Huoqiu County, Anhui Province. The Nanjing Military Region invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources in reclamation of this farm. One division of the 178th Infantry Division of the 60th Group Army drove in, the 83rd Regiment of the Engineering Corps Pontoon Bridge drove in, 100,000 migrant workers drove in, and a large number of construction materials, military supplies, and food drove in. Commander Xu Shiyou personally took the command, and the Nanjing Military Region Command, Political Department, and Logistics Department went all out. The reclamation project is going on vigorously. The logistics and transportation department of the Nanjing Military Region was ordered to mobilize a large number of various vehicles for the West Lake Farm in the development city, supplying a large amount of fuel and equipment, which were not controlled by standards and responded to requests. No expense was spared. After nearly 10 years of hard work and painstaking efforts, Chengxihu Farm is still unable to support itself and is still losing money.

Chengxi Lake is located in the west of Huoqiu County, Anhui Province, on the south bank of the main stream of the Huaihe River. It is the largest natural lake flood storage area in the middle reaches of the Huaihe River, with an annual water storage area of 140 square kilometers (210,000 mu). When the Huaihe River was governed in 1951, the state listed Chengxi Lake as one of the key lake flood storage areas in the middle reaches of the Huaihe River. The design control water level is 26.5 meters, and the water storage is 2.95 billion cubic meters. It can not only store floods, irrigate, breed, and ship, but also protect Huaibei Levee, coal mines on both sides of the river, power plants, and Jinpu Railway from flooding.

However, in 1966, Lin Biao approved the Nanjing Military Region to reclaim the city's West Lake, and reported to Mao Zedong for important instructions, namely the "May 7th" instruction. After that, the situation changed.

Pan Guangfu said that now the media have reported those events in detail:

In October 1966, the Reclamation Headquarters was established and 100,000 migrant workers were mobilized to build embankments. Since then, the bottom of the lake, which used to be the lowest, has become a "good field" for Junwei. 110 square kilometers of the lowest-lying water storage area of Chengxi Lake were reclaimed, reducing the original water storage area of 140 square kilometers to 30 square kilometers. Due to the reduction of the water capacity of the lake, the incoming water in an area of more than 1,700 square kilometers in the surrounding area was forced to a high place, and the fertile land along the lake, which was originally protected by drought and flood, became a new submerged area, and the local people had great opinions. The masses said: "Surround the bottom of the pot and flood the platform of the pot." Every rainy season, the flood hits the "pot platform" and cannot enter the "bottom of the pot". A large area of farmland outside the polder was flooded and damaged.

From August 5th to August 8th, 1975, Zhumadian, Xuchang, and Nanyang areas in Henan Province, located in the Funiu Mountains and Tongbai Mountains in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River, suffered consecutive torrential rains and flash floods. 56 large, medium and small reservoirs were almost simultaneously When the dam collapsed, billions of cubic meters of floods rushed down, resulting in vast oceans in Henan and Anhui along the Huaihe River, causing huge losses in people's lives and property. According to statistics, 32 counties, 347 communes and 18 million mu of arable land were flooded in Henan. The population of the affected area was 10 million, and more than 30,000 people died. Nearly one million large livestock died and more than 5 million houses collapsed. The flood destroyed the 103-kilometer section from Xiaoshangqiao to Queshan County on the Beijing-Guangzhou line of the railway artery. All the bridges were destroyed, the rails were washed away, and some were twisted into "twists". A passenger train traveling here was overturned by the sudden huge flood. The driver and passengers could not escape and were all drowned in the compartment. Anhui Province was mainly affected by the disaster in 6 counties in Fuyang area, with more than 3 million mu of arable land and a population of 1.5 million. After the disaster, the Party Central Committee and the State Council sent a condolence team headed by Ji Dengkui to deal with the aftermath, but they were not allowed to make public reports. Ji Dengkui said: "The loss of people's lives and properties caused by the collapse of two large reservoirs and so many small and medium-sized reservoirs is equivalent to a small atomic bomb."

"Only Chengxi Lake is special." After more than two days of intense embankment breaking, all the flood storage areas on both sides of the Huaihe River have diverted the flood water. This time when the flood came, for the benefit of the people, it is logical that the West Lake should break the embankment to store the flood. However, the relevant leaders of Anhui Province who came to direct the breaking of the embankment said: "Chengxi Lake is now owned by the army and managed by the Central Military Commission. It is the birthplace of the 'May 7th Directive' and is not under the jurisdiction of the province. We have no right to decide, and we have no such As a result, Chengxi Lake, the largest flood storage area along the Huaihe River, was preserved without broken polders or water storage. However, the lives and properties of the people along the lake were not “preserved”.

Two years later, Wan Li became the first secretary of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee. He inspected Chengxi Lake twice. But in the end, because it involved the Nanjing Military Region, as well as the Central Military Commission and Chairman Mao's "May 7th Instructions", it could not be resolved.

In 1986, the disaster caused by the reclamation of Chengxi Lake became an internal reference. At this time, Wan Li, who was already a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, a vice premier, and a secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, was deeply moved when he saw this internal reference, and he attached great importance to it. On the same day, that is, April 14, 1986, an instruction was issued: "All the troops here should withdraw and be dealt with by the local government. However, from the time I personally dealt with it to Comrade Ziyang's personal inspection last year and put forward suggestions on how to deal with it, nothing has been effective. It has been several In 2010, it seems that this matter can only be done under the instructions of Comrade Deng Xiaoping. I am pleading for the people." On April 18, Deng Xiaoping issued a clear instruction: "Comrade Shang Kun is requested to deal with it, and the reclamation troops should be withdrawn quickly within a time limit. These troops, if there is no other way to resettle them, can be demobilized." So far, Chengxi Lake has stopped farming and returned to the lake, which has been warmly welcomed by the broad masses of farmers.

Neither the secretary of the provincial party committee nor the general secretary of the party can do anything about Chengxi Lake, a military reclamation farm managed by the Nanjing Military Region, knowing that it is harmful to the people. In the end, Comrade Wan Li, the leader of the party and the country, issued an appeal to Deng Xiaoping to "plead for the people" in desperation. Afterwards, Deng Xiaoping drew a pen and ordered the withdrawal of troops, return of lakes and fields, and then the problem was solved.

Pan Guangfu said to the three elders Chai Jianmin, He Jiafu and Li Tiandao in front of him: My father Pan Renshu experienced that period of history, but these were not his worst days. The worst time was spent during the Cultural Revolution.