The Republic of China was a truly chaotic world, during which many warlords occupied their own turf. They have a lot of power in their hands, and the ranks are also very large, especially in the northwest region, which is more turbulent because it is relatively backward and has a large number of warlords, the most famous of which is Ma Hongkui, who is known as the Emperor of Ningxia. Later, when the man escaped, he directly took 7.5 tons of gold to the United States, but in his later years he said that he wanted to return to his homeland, and in the end he failed to do so.
Brutally exploit the people of Ningxia
There are indeed many warlords in the Northwest, but not all of them are extremely brutal, and some are in the service of the people. But Ma Hongkui is a typical notorious warlord, there is no one in the local people who does not dislike this person, he is cunning and cruel, so many people have given him a nickname "Slippery Horse", in fact, from this name, we can hear that everyone dislikes him, this nickname is actually a hint at his cunning and treachery.
Ma Hongkui was actually a very capable person, in the chaotic world at that time, he was keenly aware of the turbulence of the situation, so he decisively turned to Feng Yuxiang, and later Chiang Kai-shek's strength became stronger and stronger, and he immediately chose to defect to Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek also trusted him, and almost most of the power in the army was in the hands of Ma Hongkui. Because of Chiang Kai-shek as a patron, he was even more tyrannical in the Ningxia region, and no one could uphold justice for the local people, he was the Tu Emperor of Ningxia.
He was a mighty man in the Ningxia region, but no one could control him. In order to have more money, he desperately exploited the local people, introduced a lot of taxes, and almost everything in the lives of the people had to be taxed. In the turbulent society of that time, the life of the people was very difficult, and they could only barely make ends meet. However, Ma Hongkui still had to exploit the local people through his own means, which was really infuriating.
Although the people also knew that Ma Hongkui had been collecting money indiscriminately, after all, the people were unarmed, and they could not resist this group of warlords at all. The warlords have a large number of troops, and they all have guns in their hands, and with the ability of the common people, they have no ability to resist them at all. In the society at that time, being able to save one's life was the luckiest thing, and if you wanted to live a quality life, it was nonsense.
Forced conscription and defection to the Kuomintang
Ma Hongkui not only collected various taxes, he also arranged his relatives to work in the local government departments, and the government officials in the whole region were all Ma Hongkui's cronies, so in the Ningxia area, he could be called a hand covering the sky. After stabilizing the situation in Ningxia, he recruited soldiers from the local people, and whether these young people wanted to join the army or not, he forcibly pulled them into the army for training. In doing so, he wanted to expand his armed forces and stabilize his dominance, and as he continued to recruit talents, his army had reached more than 70,000 people.
According to real data, during that period, there were only 700,000 people in Ningxia, and there were 70,000 people in his troops, which means that he pulled one-tenth of the people of Ningxia into the ranks, and this was only to expand his own power. At that time, the common people were also unwilling to help and abett the abuse, so some of them chose to flee to other provinces, and some people directly chose to self-harm, just so as not to be captured by Ma Hongkui. The sins that Ma Hongkui committed in the Ningxia region at that time are too numerous to describe.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he fled to the United States with his golden family
But his beautiful life soon came to an abrupt end, after all, the Kuomintang was gone. In 1949, Chinese mainland was completely liberated, and Ma Hongkui had already smelled that his good time was coming to an end soon, so he had already made every preparation. Over the years in the Ningxia region, he has plundered the people's money, so he has prepared 7.5 tons of gold before he escapes.
The escape route to the United States was relatively smooth, and after arriving in the United States, he lived happily with his three wives. At the beginning, the family also came to the United States and felt particularly fresh, so their lives were not bad.
But later, the family began to become chicken and dog, and there were always contradictions between the three wives, large and small. Later, in order to compete for the family property, the relationship between the sons gradually became more and more bad, and even once went to court for trial. Ma Hongkui originally thought that his old age life could be a little more stable and happy, but he never thought that this pile of things in the family really gave him a headache, and there was no day of safe life.
Life is not satisfactory, miss the motherland
During this time of living in the United States, he was very unsatisfactory, because he was not familiar with life, and the family did not give himself warmth, so as he grew older, his longing for his hometown became deeper and deeper. Therefore, his biggest dream at that time was to hope that the leaves would return to their roots and return to the hot land of China again.
Sometimes he often looks in the direction of China from afar and says to his family, "I want to go home." "After a person grows older, he always has a special attachment to the place where he grew up when he was a child, and Chinese has always had the concept of returning to the roots of the fallen leaves, but for Ma Hongkui, returning to China can only become a fantasy after all."
After their family came to the United States, many people chose to join the Nationality of the United States, but Ma Hongkui was unwilling to give up his Chinese nationality no matter what. Ma Hongkui did do a lot of wrong things in this life, but perhaps he still has an infinite attachment to China. For him, the greatest punishment in life is that when he is old, he cannot return to his homeland. On January 4, 1970, Ma Hongkui died at the age of 79, and he did not return to Chinese land until his death.
epilogue
In fact, the development of things is cause and effect, and Ma Hongkui does not have to complain that he did not return to China in his last days, did not return to the embrace of his mother of the motherland. After all, he made many mistakes when he was young, causing a lot of harm to the people of Ningxia, which is also a stain that he cannot erase in his life. The pain he left for the people still affects generations of people, so for him, not being able to return to the country is also a disguised punishment.