On September 18, 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army blew up the Shenyang South Manchuria Railway, blamed the Chinese defenders, and used this as an excuse to launch a 14-year War of Resistance Against Japan, during which both the soldiers who fought on the front line and those who supported the War of Resistance in obscurity were admired.
Ant Guangyan, born in 1879 in Guangdong Chenghai Dongli Nanpanzhou Village, the family is very poor, when he was 3 years old, his parents died one after another, Ant Guangyan lived with his brother and sister-in-law, at the age of 10, his brother fell ill and died, his sister-in-law supported a family, Ant Guangyan in order to save some expenses, he dropped out of school, all day with a hoe, but still poor.
At the age of 17, Ant Guangyan planned to go out, with the help of his sister-in-law, he followed the people who went out to work together to Vietnam, in order to save travel expenses, he went to Cambodia on two legs, he worked as a handyman in a cambodian winery, and the monthly wage was two yuan.
He sent half of the salary to the lonely sister-in-law, he left a dollar as a meal, a dollar for a month is not enough, Ant Guangyan survived by drinking porridge, a bowl of porridge and a fritter is a penny, he consulted with the vendor, a penny to drink two bowls of porridge, do not fritters, the vendor agreed.
In this way, Ant Guangyan worked in Cambodia for six years, these six years he had nothing but a coarse cloth shirt, he did this after all, it was still a headless abyss, Ant Guangyan left the winery, went to Bangkok, Thailand, and became a handyman in the Xiangji Sauce Garden.
The boss is also a Chinese who goes out to work hard, he sees that Ant Guangyan is diligent and honest, he let him be the foreman of the miscellaneous service, and soon let him escort the goods, and also handed over the errand of imported goods to him, he holds three positions, although tired, but learned a lot of things, for their own development, Ant Guangyan plans to start his own business.
When he left, the boss also gave a venture capital, Ant Guangyan bought an old cargo ship, rented two small boats, hired two guys, and began to run his own transportation industry, due to the previous accumulation of contacts and experience, many people are looking for him to pull goods, and the career has gradually improved.
Ant Guangyan has a good business, the cause is as good as day and day, he set up shipping, created factories, careers throughout Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, at its peak, he hired workers to reach 100,000, became a Thai billionaire, self-made Ant Guangyan knows that the people in his hometown are suffering from poverty, he actively improves his hometown, builds factories and roads, so that many people have a job.
He single-handedly founded Nanzhou Primary School, and strongly supported Chenghai Middle School, Chaoyang Xiguan School and Shantou Haibin Middle School, poor children also read with his help, Ant Guangyan was quite famous in the Overseas Chinese community in Thailand, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, he refused to transport goods for Japanese businessmen, and refused to sell Siamese rice to Japan.
He actively mobilized overseas Chinese to boycott Japanese goods, and set up a "Bao de Shan Tang" overseas, leading overseas Chinese to collect donations for the domestic anti-Japanese resistance, after the opening of the Burma Highway, he drove his own trucks to deliver grain, medicine, and batches of sophisticated guns to the hands of frontline soldiers.
Whether it is our army or the Kuomintang, he does not distinguish between you and me, he often said that "we are all Chinese, everyone has the responsibility to save the country", when the Japanese army cut off the transportation of resources in the rear area, Ant Guangyan found the Ma Gang alone and let them transport supplies, and at that time he was almost killed by the Ma Gang bandits.
However, under his persuasion, the Ma Gang also threw themselves into the torrent of anti-Japanese resistance, the Ma Gang transferred a batch of materials from him, how much an ant Guangyan donated, it is unknown, the silver dollars donated alone reached 6 million, and the 6 million at that time was worth 500 million or 600 million now, which should be more than that.
On November 21, 1939, Ant Guangyan and his wife Rene Liu were assassinated in Bangkok, Thailand, and were shot three times, and on the occasion of his death, he told his family in a weak voice: Although I am dead, Er wait to avoid pain, and China will surely win.
A generation of patriotic overseas Chinese was bold and loyal, shed the last drop of blood, martyred heroically, only sixty-one years old, and could sing and cry.