Wake up（28）

 

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After Lin Huiting and Wanyan couple left, Chai Jianhua, an old doctor of Chinese medicine, listened to what Lin Huiting said to him when he said goodbye. He dug out the "Life Catastrophe" from the wooden box, and began to focus on reading about various "great disasters" in the Great Leap Forward. do" Shi Wen.

During the Great Leap Forward, various "big businesses" once blew a gust of hurricane across the country: big agriculture, big industry, big water conservancy, big steel, big transportation, big grain, big pig farms, big Commodity production base, large-scale collective new village...

The funds and materials for the "big office" were obtained from the confiscation of farmers' properties without compensation or even the forced demolition of farmers' houses. Every kind of "big operation" is a large-scale battle and a crowd of people. Thousands of people come and go when they are called. "The red flag is like a tide during the day, and the torch is like a sea at night." Some county leaders stood on the top of the hill to supervise the battle at night, and when they saw the most torches, they thought that was the best place to do it.

This kind of large corps combat and forced labor not only resulted in wasted labor and waste of money, but also caused cadres at all levels to command blindly, force orders, and bully the masses, resulting in beatings and corporal punishment to the extreme. During the Great Leap Forward, 2,535 members of Peiying Commune in Deng County, Henan Province were beaten to death, 2,840 were held in meetings and struggled, 1,842 were subjected to corporal punishment, and more than 11,000 houses were damaged.

In Nanping Commune, Hechuan County, Sichuan Province, 496 people were beaten to death, including 42 people who were hanged, beaten to death, or buried alive; 62 people were maimed or injured; 80% of the people in Lizhuang and Lulou Villages in Yucheng County, Henan Province were beaten by Deputy Captain Dai Mingyang, who beat and fought 17 people at one time. In order to rape the daughter of a poor peasant, Fu Shaofa, a cadre of the Youxin Brigade of Mengxi Commune in Lixian County, Hunan Province, actually notified the girl's parents face to face.

It is almost difficult to find such examples in the world, and even the Chinese dynasties, which claim to have a history of 5,000 years, could not find such cruel examples. In order to work hard as hard as possible, Yongcheng County, Henan Province requires everyone to take off their shirts to work in winter. A farmer named Dou Xingzhi was a little too slow to undress and his spine was broken. The Dong'an Brigade of Dongfanghong Commune in Pingjiang County, Hunan Province requires that when working, "Men should be shirtless, and women should be shirtless; daughters-in-law should be shirtless, and girls should be shirtless." Being labeled saboteurs, cadres and activists rushed forward and forcibly stripped off their shirts.

This "experience" was extended to the commune, and the "Great Communism Contest" for "going shirtless" and the competition for "pulling out the white flag and planting the red flag" were launched immediately. Some team cadres held sticks and ropes and surrounded the shirtless women. Supervisor. Several girls and daughters-in-law shouted "Help" in embarrassment, and none of them, including their family members, dared to come forward to help.

Li Yuelian from the Sanhe Brigade of Shita Commune in Pingjiang County was asked to take off her trousers for inspection when she was on menstruation leave. The "touching" of the Sanhe Brigade has become an advanced experience and spread among the cadres. Hongqi Commune, Yongjiang Commune, Red Commune, etc. have followed suit, and some of them are endless. Hong Xiaoying from the Shiping Brigade of Sanyang Commune came to the reservoir construction site and her menstrual blood flowed to her instep. She asked Tang Xupu, a member of the brigade general branch, to ask for leave. Tang Xupu not only refused to leave, but also severely slapped her twice.

The rightists who were sent down for reform were even forced to work day and night. The forced labor farm in Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan often drives out rightists and others for "eight days and eight nights of bitter struggle" and another "eight days and eight nights of hard struggle". All the seedlings were shoveled out, and sweet potatoes with high yields were replanted to ensure the satellite's launch. Therefore, the inmates were forced to "fight hard for ten days and ten nights" one after another to eradicate thousands of acres of seedlings and replant the land.

After half a year of tossing like this, how many people were killed by the "high-yield satellite" without seeing it. Then he was ordered to mine iron ore and then release "steel satellites". Without any safety precautions, the mining rightists were either killed or injured. If there is no stove for making steel, they dig people’s ancestral graves everywhere, whether they are modern or ancient, they dig them when they see the graves, and take out bricks to make earthen stoves; The stove was burned to ashes, turning the green hills into bare barren slopes.

Chai Jianhua has been quietly reading the "Life Catastrophe". It was already dusk, and the heavy night began to fall, and the great world seemed to freeze. On this summer night, everything was silent and lifeless. All life has quietly and tragically entered the nightmare.

The vast island of Kyushu, watching the chaotic world silently, shows the unfathomable depth of Chinese politics. Behind the torment, those government officials, big and small, showed cruel faces, staring coldly at the ignorant and ignorant grassroots. The grassroots felt cold, but they were helpless.

Chai Jianhua's company was only Liao Liao's few cold stars, which made him lament the loneliness and coldness of the night. Look, his eyes are full of sadness. He was still reading the "Life Catastrophe".

In 1958, at the same time as the People’s Commune, the communist style and public canteens emerged first. Xushui County, Hebei Province took the lead in proposing to build socialism in 1959 and enter communism in 1963. Lao Mao visited here one after another, highly praised it and publicized it to the whole country. The central government also sent people to try it out here. More than 320,000 people from all over the country visited Xushui. typical of -

In October 1958, Shouzhang County in Shandong made a plan to "basically build a decent communism" within two years; Junan County proposed to work hard for 200 days to transition to communism. In November 1958, "Propaganda News" compiled and printed by the Central Propaganda Department published "Shandong Fan County Proposes the Transition to Communism in 1960", including realizing the industrialization and electrification of the whole county within two years; 6 universities and one Academy of Sciences; a distribution system in which each contributes to his ability and each takes what he needs.

The commune secretary of Paoma Township, Dangyang County, Hubei Province announced in public on November 7, 1958: Today is the day when socialism in the whole town ends, and tomorrow it will enter communism, and everything will be done in a communist way. After the meeting adjourned, the masses took to the streets to "communist". When the shops were empty, they went to other people's houses to get them.

I will catch your chickens and eat them, and you can dig the vegetables in my team. Some people even go to the nursery to adopt other people's children as their own. More than 5,800 members of the commune were also concentrated in 62 settlements from the original 1,200 places where they lived, resulting in the destruction of a large number of houses and the death of livestock. After the concentration, there are often several families in the same room, which is extremely crowded, like a prison for prisoners. After the schools were concentrated, the four children covered themselves with a quilt, and the children brought the quilts to school, so the parents had to cover them with coir raincoats to sleep.

Wherever the wind of communism blew, the peasants went bankrupt, a large number of houses were forcibly demolished, personal belongings were confiscated, and the things of the production team were arbitrarily "leveled and transferred".

The Shengli District of Fangjia Commune in Renshou County, Sichuan Province assembled before starting work and forced all commune members to hand over their house keys. At the same time, a large number of production tools were lost, and productivity was greatly affected. In 1958, there were 2,686 pieces of medium-sized agricultural tools in the Boyang Management District of Tongjiang Commune in Leshan County. By 1961, there were only 515 pieces left, and the loss rate reached 82%.

The fourth production team in the district originally had 110 drying mats, but lost 93 of them. When rice was harvested in 1960, over 20,000 kg of rice germinated due to lack of drying mats. The first production team originally had 106 plows and harrows, but 96 of them were lost. Therefore, the whole field could not catch up with the transplanting in time, so that the 80 mu of middle-aged rice was transplanted more than 20 days late, and 30 mu of land and 60 mu of land were returned to waste, reducing the grain output by more than 30,000 catties. .

The forced operation of public canteens is a process of destroying families and plundering farmers. Farmers’ grain was confiscated, stoves were dismantled and smashed, iron pots were thrown into blast furnaces, and those who hid grain were severely punished by being tied up and beaten. The food is collected in the cafeteria, and the members are not allowed to cook and eat at home, so that the cadres have a deadly power-they can "deduct the food" at will, depriving the members of the right to eat and the right to live, and it also embezzles public property and makes life special for the cadres. Open the door wide open.

Zhu Haiqing, a commune member in Jiangbei County, Chongqing, suffered from swelling and was unable to go to work, and was starved to death by the cadres for two consecutive months. Lan Quan, a commune member who was sick and could not go to work, was deprived of food for 30 days, and soon died of starvation on the hillside digging wild vegetables. Many commune teams in Yingjing County have a few thugs. When they are full, they carry guns and carry guns to patrol day and night.

The Lord carried out torture such as binding, tying, hanging, beating, and kneeling.

Chai Jianhua closed his eyes, and quietly closed the book "The Catastrophe of Life". Gradually, the moon finally reached the end of her journey and quietly disappeared into the night. All that was left was a dark gray echo rippling in Chai Jianhua's heart. After a while, he thought of the things that Chinese people are talking about recently. The communalization and public canteens seem to be revived again, and those red experts are advocating "communist style."

The only difference is the "communist" hurricane that blew up during the Great Leap Forward, advocating: large-scale agriculture, large-scale industry, large-scale water conservancy, large-scale steel, large-scale transportation, large-scale food, large-scale pig farms, large-scale Building a commodity production base, building a collective new village... All the special words are "big building." Today's special words are "powerful country," such as economic power, military power, technological power, sports power, agricultural power, education power... ...the Chinese must work desperately to realize the "Chinese Dream".

What is the dream? Can dreams come true? Don't the stupid people know that there are good dreams and bad dreams? Struggling to realize the so-called dreams, the absurd sleepwalkers are covered in darkness like ghosts.

Suddenly, a shrill cry came from a distance, breaking through the silence of the night. That cry sounded creepy, like weeping and complaining, like anger or complaint. Is it the old dog exiled by the owner, lamenting his life experience by the distant fence, or is he telling the ruthlessness of human beings?

Amidst the desolate and helpless barking of an old dog, Chai Jianhua opened the book "The Great Disaster of Life".

In the book, there is a memory of Li Jin, a veteran reporter from Xinhua News Agency. When the Xingqiao Brigade of his hometown, Sheyang County, Jiangsu Province started to open a cafeteria, he first brought all the food from the farmers’ homes to the cafeteria, and then collected everyone’s grain and oil books. Let's go, every family is not allowed to store food, have a pot, or cook for themselves. The public canteen has been established for more than a month, and there is no rice in the meal. Then I eat starch balls made of corn husks and poles, and then I eat elm bark. The elm tree is white from the bottom to the top. People ate up, and by early 1959 people were starving to death.

Wang Changcai, the author of the book "The Catastrophe of Life", recalled: I was originally in Xichong County, Sichuan Province. Since the urban population was rationed by the state, the overall feeling was much better than that in the rural areas. Generally, people would not starve to death, but cadres ate more The over-occupancy has greatly reduced the amount of food that ordinary residents can eat. I have seen with my own eyes that cadres in Chengguan towns, prefectures, and counties, or some "inspection groups" and "observation groups" often come to street canteens to eat and drink for nothing. Take it, but ordinary residents can only drink a big pot of clear soup and dare not say anything. Canteen cooks also become accomplices and vested interests of cadres because of this, and their food scoops also have eyes, and the losers are naturally powerless ordinary people.

There is also a description of Mo Yan in the book. Mo Yan said: During the Great Famine, Zhang Mazi, a farm cook, used his power to control the rice scoop and used food as bait to almost seduce all the female rightists. A fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl in Henan enjoys a monthly supply of 23 catties of food. In order to save some food for her family in the countryside, she only eats two or three taels a day. The extreme hunger tormented her until she was pale and emaciated, her walking was shaking, and it was difficult for her to go to class normally.

The endless and absurd nightmare, wandering in the wilderness of Kyushu Island, the grassroots all curled up under the suppression and deterrence of totalitarianism and violence, as if they dared not even struggle, living too tired, too bitter and too helpless . The revolutionary slogans everywhere, the democracy and freedom that came and went in a hurry, and the original communist style seemed to be hidden without a trace. Only the few hundred-year-old trees still stretched out their barren branches. The chance of resurrection and rebirth, the times have changed, it seems that the new era has replaced the old era, but the ghosts are still haunting, the bones are still dense, adding new sadness and desolation to the previous catastrophe.

Ah, the night of endless nightmares, a time of terror, trembling and torment for the peasants! Their tears wet their souls, and their bodies have gradually become stiff. The biting communist wind is still coming and going in the world, raging and showing off its power.

Just as Chai Jianhua closed his sleepy eyes, he was woken up again by nightmares.

Chai Jianhua shivered, lying on the bed, shivering, staring at the black world sadly, hoping that the long night would come to an end soon, in exchange for a dawn full of hope.