Wake up（276）

 

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It started to rain outside the car window, raindrops one by one, God's tears suddenly flourished. The broken raindrops began to hit the car window. In that sad melody, it's better to see the world blurry, but if you see it too clearly, the more painful you will be hurt.

In the conversation in the taxi, the two old professors combined the fragmented memories of "cleaning up the class ranks" into a cruel and sad memory painting, which made me feel very sad. In the real society, it is better for us to be imaginary, otherwise these painful memories will ruin us all over the body.

But the two old professors Hong Wenxuan and Shen Zhirui always have different ideas from ordinary people.

Hong Wenxuan said: When we lose something, we can gain something else. Only by not forgetting the painful experience can we reflect on our society and realize the true meaning of life.

Shen Zhirui said: Whoever responds to whose calamity becomes whose obsession. People's mood is used to migrating with migratory birds, but it's just a little panic. We have escaped the catastrophe, but we will not forget those who left during the catastrophe. Although they have all left, as long as we remember them, they will all come back one by one. We no longer cry, just as firmly as they decided to leave us.

  Two old professors, Hong Wenxuan and Shen Zhirui, believe that "cleaning up the ranks of the class" is the cruelest political struggle in the world. They talked about what happened in the movement

Several major injustice cases.

"Anti-Party rebellion and counter-revolutionary incident" in Zaozhuang, Shandong. In this incident... 11,720 people were detained, 10,659 people were severely beaten, 2,425 people suffered sequelae after the injuries, 692 people were disabled, and 94 people were beaten to death. A "Maling Mountain Guerrilla Bandit Group" was set up in the Linyi area. In this incident, more than 40,000 people in the whole area were arrested, detained and brutally beaten, and more than 9,000 people were injured and disabled. 569 people were beaten to death or forced to death.

Li Chuli, deputy head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, served as the leader of the Jidong Party and led the 1938 Jidong uprising. After he was labeled a traitor, the Jidong party organization also became a "KMT" organization. This was another major case during the Cultural Revolution. More than 80,000 people were implicated and 3,000 people died.

In September 1967, Huang Yongsheng wrote a letter to Jiang Qing, suggesting that the issue of the CCP's "Guangdong underground party" be reviewed. As a result, more than 7,000 people were criticized and imprisoned. Among the dead were Vice Governor Lin Qiangyun and his wife.

Because Jiang Qing said that the Tianjin Municipal Public Security Bureau "specialized our politics." As a result, more than 1,200 police officers from the Tianjin Municipal Public Security Bureau were investigated. The so-called "censorship" is actually "indiscriminate torture, various punishments, and cruel methods, which are appalling and heinous." As many as 44 police officers of the bureau were forced to death, including Jiang Feng, director of the Public Security Bureau. 10 chiefs and deputy chiefs and 72 directors, sub-bureaus and county bureau chiefs of the Beijing Public Security Bureau were designated as "traitors, secret agents" and "current counter-revolutionaries". Go to the labor camp.

Shenze County, Hebei Province is the hometown of Tianjin Party Secretary Wang Kangzhi. After Jiang Qing pointed out that "there is a very large traitor group" in Shenze County, 307 people in Tianjin were labeled as members of the "Shenze traitor group". The Revolutionary Committee of Shijiazhuang District specially allocated funds to Shenze County to catch traitors. Shenze County’s “Traitor Catch Office” ordered that the identified traitors be brought to the county fair for “bright goods”: Rows of “black goods” bent over to list or wearing large top hats stood in the houses facing the streets and alleys. On the top (the local houses are all flat-roofed), anyone can watch it. More than 1,500 people have displayed their "goods" in the market successively, and more than 30,000 people have been implicated, accounting for one-fifth of the total population of the county. Only one village, Zhongbaizhuang, killed 3 people while "digging out traitors".

Jiangxi has a slogan in the "Three Investigations", which is "the masses handle cases, the masses characterize, and the masses sentence." As a result, they massacre indiscriminately.

The Huangsha Brigade of Wuning County tortured and killed 3 people during the "Three Investigations". The person in charge of the brigade went to the county to listen to the report of "igniting thousands of fires for three investigations", and then went back to convey, "The superiors said, kill a few counter-revolutionaries and save a few bullets." Wuning County's "Three Investigations" , there is a special punishment, cutting off the ears. "Cut off the ear and threw it on the ground, and the dog ran away with it in its mouth." When he returned to the brigade, he immediately held a meeting, and Zheng Jiashu, an accountant of the "Anti-Communist and National Salvation Army" team (grandfather was a landlord, father He used to be a township head during the Kuomintang period), and his younger brother cut off his right ear. After Zheng Jiashu passed out, he was carried home. The brigade sent someone to issue an order to him: "Come to the brigade tomorrow night to explain the problem. If you don't tell me, you will not be spared." In order to find a way to survive, he had to flee and wandered incognito for 11 years.

Jiangxi frantically killed so-called "class enemies" during the "Three Investigations". Xingguo County killed more than 270 people, Ruijin County killed more than 300 people, and Yudu County killed more than 500 people.

How did you kill it? There is a small barbershop in Ruijin County with three barbers. Two of them said they were revolutionary masses, while the other was an "active counter-revolutionary." These two people set up a "Revolutionary Mass Tribunal", picked up "Quotations from Chairman Mao", and said to the other: "According to the article on the page of "Quotations from Chairman Mao", you are now sentenced to death and executed immediately." Two men killed him. After the killing, a notice was posted in front of the barber shop. the

There is a people's commune that gathers all kinds of "elements" that have been picked out and asks them to go to the mountains to dig tree holes and disperse them so that they cannot see each other. Whoever reported that "the digging has been completed", before he finished speaking, the poor and lower-middle peasants in custody beat him to death with an iron pick, and buried him in the "tree hole".

The children of various "elements" were also killed. In a commune, more than a dozen children of members of the fifth category were arrested in the yard of the commune and tied to trees one by one. At this time, the county party committee came to inform that because there were too many killings, they asked the communes to stop. The person in charge of the commune said: "Anyway, we won't kill them tomorrow, let's kill them today." The children of more than a dozen of the five types of elements were killed in this way.

Hong Wenxuan told Shen Zhirui about the "Dao County Massacre" in Hunan.

In the Lingling area of Hunan Province, the massacre mainly occurred in Dao County. In August 1967, the faction that lost power in the city went to Daoxian County to mobilize the poor and lower-middle peasants who supported the Communist Party to eliminate landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements, and rightists. A total of 7,700 people were killed or forced to commit suicide. Nearly half are "children of rich land".

There is a farmer named He. Just because his father is a small landlord, he and his children are also considered "class enemies". He was forced by the militiamen to dig a hole at gunpoint and buried his three youngest children, who were only 5 years old, alive. Then he dug a hole for himself and the militiamen buried him alive. Jiang Hanzheng, a primary school teacher, was born in a landlord family and deserved to be killed; his wife Zhou Qun, who was also a primary school teacher, was born in a poor peasant family, but she married someone who deserved to be killed, and she deserved to die; Down. After the militia battalion commander led the militia to escort the 20 people from the village to the mountain, the party branch secretary announced: "We are the Supreme Court of the poor and lower-middle peasants, and today we will sentence you to death!" Then they were pushed into the limestone cave one by one.

The massacre in Hunan is not limited to Dao County. In September 1967, in Tanping, Guangfa, Lianhe and other communes of Jiahe County in Chenzhou Prefecture, some landlords, rich peasants and their children were killed. On the 20th, an emergency order was issued by the left branch stationed in the province to stop the spread of the wind.

Shen Zhirui said to Hong Wenxuan: As far as I know, many people from ethnic minorities also died.

After the "Democratic Reform" in 1956 in the "Luoluo Kingdom" in the Yi area of Liangshan, Sichuan, the black Yi Ahou (slave owner) handed over all his property, leaving only a little land and livestock for his livelihood. Twelve years later, Ahou is still regarded as a slave owner. The deputy county magistrate approved the director of the District Revolutionary Committee to lead the Red Guards to shoot and kill all the Ahous and their families in the township. Only one baby suckling under the daughter-in-law of Ahou's family lying in a pool of blood was rescued by a former female slave, hid in another tribe, and raised him. And the director of the District Revolutionary Committee was promoted to deputy county magistrate for his meritorious service in the murder.

In Jiangcheng Hani and Yi Autonomous County of Yunnan Province, the "four types of elements" were tortured to extract confessions. Six people were beaten to death or stabbed to death at the criticism meeting, and 10 people were forced to commit suicide.

The main content of "clearing the team" in Yunnan Province is "drawing lines". Those who "stand in line" and stand on the wrong line during the struggle between the two factions are the targets of censorship. For a while, the streets of Kunming were covered with "shoot" notices. Some people were beaten to death, and the notice was made up. According to statistics in 1975, 300,000 people were tortured to extract confessions, censored and imprisoned, and 37,000 of them died unexpectedly.

For example, on November 19 in Mengzi County, at the meeting to celebrate the establishment of the County Revolutionary Committee, the director of the Revolutionary Committee and the representative of the 640th Army announced that the "Paopai" organization was "on the wrong team, and it was Liu Shaoqi and Yan Hongyan (formerly the first provincial party committee member). secretary), Zhao Jianmin (former secretary of the Provincial Party Committee) in Mengzi's agent." More than 200 people were arrested that night, and dozens were seriously injured. On December 28, Tan Furen, director of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee, went to Mengzi and said, "If there are thousands, one thousand will be caught, and if there are ten thousand, ten thousand will be caught. There will be no mercy." 7,823 people in the county were classified as "on the wrong team." Among them, 2624 people were tied up and criticized, 385 people were injured, 103 people were maimed, and 67 people died of abnormal conditions. More than 10,000 relatives and children were implicated.

Tengchong County began to "draw lines and stand in line" in December 1968. The number of people who were criticized reached 4,654, 15 people were hanged and beaten to death, 71 people were forced to death, and 247 people were injured and disabled.

On January 21, 1968, Kang Sheng accused Zhao Jianmin of being a traitor, and fabricated a "KMT Yunnan Special Service Team" out of thin air. After ordering Minister of Public Security Xie Fuzhi to arrest Zhao Jianmin on the spot, the whole of Yunnan seized the "execution of Zhao Jianmin's Kuomintang Yunnan Special Service Team plan." molecules come. In this one non-existent case alone, 1.38 million people in Yunnan Province were implicated, more than 17,000 people were beaten to death or forced to death, and more than 61,000 people were maimed. In the Kunming area alone, 1,473 people died and 9,661 were maimed.

Inner Mongolia's Yijinhuoluo Banner redefined class status in the "clearing team", and a total of 6,666 "class enemies" were dug out. 37 people died and 30 were disabled.

The "Insider Party" case in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is still tragic.

On February 4, 1968, Kang Sheng instructed to arrest the "Insider Party" in Inner Mongolia. The "Inner Mongolian People's Party", namely the "Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party", was founded in 1924 with the goal of realizing Inner Mongolian autonomy. In 1946, it accepted the instructions of the Chinese Communist Party to stop its activities. In the entire Inner Mongolia region and the Inner Mongolia military region, more than 346,000 people were censored, fought, and imprisoned, three-quarters of whom were Mongolians.

The so-called "censorship" is completely equivalent to fascist persecution. A young man falsely accused of being an "insider party" refused to confess, but was actually cut off his genitals. A 20-year-old "insider party" was roasted on the fire until he was roasted to death. A young woman was suspected of being an "insider party". During the interrogation, a wooden wedge was inserted into the uterus from the vagina by the special investigators, and she was tortured to death.

The Bahrain Zuoqi Bayi Brigade, where Hans and Mongolians lived together, was under the leadership of Song Zhenting, the deputy secretary of the Han Chinese Party Branch, to arrest the "New Inner Party". There were only more than 120 households, 14 of them were tortured to death, and 16 were tortured for life. crippled. Wuchuan County began digging out "new insider party elements" in October, and by May of the following year, 80 people in the county died unexpectedly, and many were injured and disabled.

In Inner Mongolia, as many as 87,180 people were permanently disabled and 16,222 died because of the "insider party" case.

Hong Wenxuan told Shen Zhirui about the massacre in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

In March 1968, after the revolutionary committee was established in Ningming County, Guangxi, under the auspices of the army's "Supporting the Left", a mass organization "Shangshi Agricultural Federation" was designated as a "counter-revolutionary organization". More than one hundred and ten people were killed." If the massacre in Ningming County was still a sporadic and individual action, it became a large-scale massacre in Guangxi when the team was "cleared".

At the end of 1967, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China appointed Wei Guoqing as the director of the Preparatory Committee of the Guangxi Revolutionary Committee. After Wei Guoqing, the "April 22" faction that supported Wu Jinnan continued to struggle with the "United Finger" faction that supported Wei Guoqing. In order to control the entire autonomous region, Wei Guoqing began to massacre "April 22" in June 1968. This massacre organized by the Guangxi Military Region and carried out by the People's Armed Forces Department of each county dwarfs any other massacres during the Cultural Revolution throughout the country. Since the official recognition of the "April 22" faction was also a "revolutionary mass organization," he did not mention killing the "Four 22" faction. On June 17, 1968, the preparatory group of the Revolutionary Committee of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the Guangxi Military Region issued the "About Announcement on Cracking the Counter-Revolutionary Cases of the "Guangxi Branch of the Anti-Communist National Salvation Corps of the Republic of China", saying that the regiment "crazily killed the poor (farmers) and kept (farmers) protected (landlords) and rich (farmers)", and mobilized all counties and cities to denounce The "Anti-Communist National Salvation Group" called on the people of the whole region to arrest the members of the "Anti-Communist National Salvation Group". Then, on the basis of Mao Zedong's "dictatorship of the masses", members of the "United Finger" were sent to carry out the massacre mission. Immediate arrest and immediate killing, all legal procedures are dispensed with.

From the end of June to the beginning of July, various communes in Wuming County successively held mass meetings to denounce the "anti-communist and national salvation group." The poor peasants of twenty years ago were mobilized to kill the landlords and rich peasants of twenty years ago. When a commune went to the market, more than 60 people were taken to the market place, lined up, and their foreheads were smashed open one by one with a hammer. In a neighboring commune, more than 40 "anti" brand names were put on the market, and they were all beaten to death with random sticks. Relying on the support of the county armed forces department in Binyang County, the "United Fingers" beat people with sticks to death when they saw "April 22" people in the township market, and the streets were full of dead people. After killing the opposition, the five types of elements were killed. The most famous doctor in the area was born as a landlord and was also killed. The Overseas Chinese Farm in Wuming County has 20,000 to 30,000 people, some are farmers and some are overseas Chinese. Overseas Chinese are generally members of the "April 22" faction, and more than 100 people were beaten to death. Some units of the field army stationed there supported the "April 22" and sent a company to the county armed forces department, and the massacre was stopped only after the armed forces were disarmed.

As many as 856 people were killed on the spot and forced to commit suicide after the meeting in the communes of Wuming County denouncing the "Anti-Communist National Salvation Corps". its relatives. From the denunciation meeting to the end of the investigation in Wuming County, 1,546 people were beaten to death or persecuted to death.

After the Revolutionary Committee of Binyang County, Guangxi launched an "offensive against class enemies," the entire county began beating people frantically. The director of the county hospital, the director of internal medicine and the director of surgery, three people were beaten to death.

On August 16, the Revolutionary Committee of the Sanli District of Shanglin County held a mass meeting to classify "twenty-three kinds of people", that is, various "elements", as well as "those with bad backgrounds", "those with complicated social relations", "criminals" made mistakes", and their relatives and children were all dragged to the venue to criticize and beat 167 people to death on the spot! According to the newly compiled "Shanglin County Chronicle", this is just one of the "mass killings" in the county. the

In order to save trouble, "Four Two Two" was often escorted to the riverside, beaten to death and pushed into the river. One day, the head of the livestock farm in Wuxuan County was fishing in the Liujiang River, and saw corpses floating from the direction of Liuzhou, and counted nine of them within ten minutes. Writer Qin Mu said that at that time in Guangxi, "a large number of corpses were tied to wooden rafts and drifted from Wuzhou to Zhaoqing and other places in Guangdong."

After the settlement of the counties, the Guangxi Military Region launched a general attack on the "April 22" strongholds in Nanning, Liuzhou, Guilin and other cities. Guns, tanks, water and fire are all on the scene. Because the "April 22" guarding the Nanning Exhibition Hall hid in the tunnel, the authorities used water attack, closed the downstream reservoir, released water from the upstream reservoir, and flooded to the highest point of the city, the railway station. No one knows how many "April 22" in the tunnel died.

While eliminating the "April 22" and massacring the "April 22" captives, the ignorant people in the "United Fingers" captured and ate the "April 22" people and their families. In order to show that their cannibalism is a just revolutionary action, they took out the "landers, rich, counter-revolutionaries, bad, rightists" and their families who had to be fought in every movement, and ate them to completely solve the problem. the

By the end of July, when the Preparatory Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Autonomous Region ordered the prohibition of random killings, hundreds of people had been killed in the Guiping Mining Bureau alone. There are not many "April 22" left in the whole district, and there is no need to kill them any more.

How many people did Wei Guoqing kill? The official figure is: "More than 80,000 people were persecuted and indiscriminately killed before and after that." The actual number may be closer to 100,000.

Two old professors, Hong Wenxuan and Shen Zhirui, believed that "cleaning up the ranks of the class" was the cruelest political struggle in human history, and it was also the longest killing campaign during the Cultural Revolution. The "Qing team" lasted for more than a year, and this year was the year with the most deaths during the Cultural Revolution. Except for the war years and the famine created by Mao Zedong in 1960, never before have so many innocent people died. The number of people killed in the "clearing team" was far more than the red terror of the armed struggle and the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

The same bottle, why do some people have poison? The same psychology, why do some people have to be full of hatred? The happiness on the face can be seen by others. But who can feel the pain in the heart?

Some people are actually remembering the Cultural Revolution again, what are they thinking about? The more you want to keep something, the easier it is to lose something. Those who are still singing red songs for the Cultural Revolution believe that history will pay for it.

The taxi is still moving slowly. The rain stopped, the air drenched in the rain, and the tired sadness made the pain in the memory of the two old professors slowly melt away.

The old driver stopped the taxi and said to two old professors, Hong Wenxuan and Shen Zhirui, that your destination has arrived, and this is the Golden Bauhinia Square in Wanchai, Hong Kong.

     Hong Wenxuan and Shen Zhirui saw the large sculpture of "Bauhinia in full bloom" standing on the square, which is an important landmark for the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.