There is a saying that others are hell. It cannot be said that this sentence is very evil, and the reality is that people, in many cases, cannot grasp their own destiny. So, when it is manipulated by evil, that hell is formed. Therefore, how to grasp one's own destiny is more important than how one's destiny is.
Let's start with this photo.
The photograph first appeared in the Huashang Bao, with a text description: In April 2006, Yang Han made a special trip to Luohe City, Henan Province, to meet Yang Qindian.
The photo shows only Yang Han, the grandson of Yang Hucheng, and Yang Qindian, one of the participants in the murder of Yang Hucheng.
Yang Han was very calm and sat very straight. Yang Qindian was not like this, he cried, wiping his tears with his hands.
Through the photos, it is not difficult to see that Yang Qindian is very old, his hair and eyebrows are somewhat white; it is also through the photos that people can see that Yang Qindian is not very rich: there is an old wooden box on the windowsill, and there is something like used shampoo, and there is a wooden board in front of it, like it is used to let children learn to write, which is painted in chalk.
The meeting and dialogue between the two was in the courtyard of Yang Qindian's house, under the window of Yang Qindian's house.
It is said that the dialogue is very simple.
Yang Qindian said: "At that time, I was just a soldier..."
Yang Han said: "I came just to find history and wish you a life of 110 years old." ”
In Yang Han's words, people can hear that Yang Qindian's body was no longer good at that time, and Yang Han also brought him some shaanxi specialties. History in that moment becomes a heartache that makes people feel the pain, and the warmth of tolerance that has been recognized by time. Listening to Yang Han's blessing, Yang Qindian said, "Thank you for still coming to see me..."
Later, of course, the photo was posted in the newspaper, and the editor did some special effects on the photo, using Yang Han's handwriting to replace the words that the children had scribbled. The photo was also given a title: Yang Hucheng's grandson Henan Meets the "Enemy". The enemy is in quotation marks, both in special meaning and prominent in emphasis. That is to say, these two people are not enemies, but the complex experience makes their relationship only expressed in quotation marks as enemies.
Here, it is clear that Yang Qindian's resume can be launched, but I noticed a detail in the report that year: the family told Yang Qindian that Yang Han was going to visit, but Yang Han went to his own yard, and Yang Qindian did not leave the house for a long time. The reporter said that after a while, he went out, very tall, very thin, somewhat shaky. It is also said that Yang Qindian may be higher when he is younger.
Yang Qindian (1918-2007), male, Han ethnicity, was born in 1918 to a poor peasant family in Zhouzhuang Village, Daliu Town, Luocheng County (now part of Yuanhui District, Luohe City), Henan Province. In April 1940, he was admitted to the teaching regiment of the Seventh Branch of the Xi'an Military Academy run by Hu Zongnan; in 1942, he was assigned to a cavalry unit in the south of Huzong and became a cavalryman, during which time he was selected by Chiang Kai-shek as a guard of the guard regiment; soon after, Yang Qindian was transferred from Xi'an to Sichuan, where he was assigned to the special task force of the traffic police corps as a squad leader, and once served as a security guard for Kuomintang politicians such as Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi.
What I want to say is that through this resume, it is not difficult for people to analyze that when Yang Qindian was young, he was very tall and powerful, and even knew some martial arts, and the quality of the soldiers was good. Moreover, his appearance should be very good, otherwise he can't be the security guard of those "big people". This should be inevitable. However, in 1948, Yang Qindian was sent to the Gele Mountain concentration camp as the head of the white mansion guard squad, responsible for guarding the important "prisoners" detained in the white mansion.
It can be imagined that the security guard next to a "big man" becomes a guard squad leader, and there must be a gap in the middle. Generally speaking, he should be promoted, but Yang Qindian does not, and there should be some of his "bad work" component, right?
First, a brief introduction to the White Mansion: originally the suburban villa of the Sichuan warlord Baiju. Bai Ju claimed to be a descendant of Bai Juyi, so he borrowed Bai Juyi's nickname "Xiangshan Jushi" and named his villa "Xiangshan Villa". In 1939, Dai Kasa took a fancy to it when he chose a site under The Hill of Gele, so he bought it with a lot of money and converted it into a prison for the persecution of revolutionaries. Together with the Slag Cave, it is known as the "Two Living Coffins". But there is a difference between them, and the white mansion is full of political prisoners that the military commander believes are "serious cases.". The gate of the former White Mansion is closed all day long, and a small door is entered and exited from the side, the original storage room is changed to a dungeon, and the original air raid shelter is changed to a torture cave. For the sake of secrecy of interrogation and detention, Dai Kasa regarded it as a detention center directly under the headquarters of the Military Command Bureau. Many revolutionaries died here, so to this day, it is still a revolutionary relic that remembers the heroes and makes people sigh.
The guard squad leader was quickly "discovered" by Yang Qindian, and today's historical data show that the imprisoned Song Qiyun and Xu Xiaoxuan are all masters who are good at breaking through the enemy's psychological defense line from within. They found that Yang Qindian was born into poverty, and his original intention as a soldier was only to eat a full meal, so they looked for an opportunity to "impress" him. They explained the situation to him, explained the reasoning, and enlightened Yang Qindian not to fight for Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary government, but to stand on the side of the toiling masses and abandon the dark and turn to the light. After Chen Ran, Wang Pu, Luo Guangbin, Zhou Conghua, and 30 other party members and cadres of the "Kuomintang Revolutionary Revolution" were imprisoned in the White Mansion, they also went all out to educate Yang Qindian. Yang Qindian did respond, and began to deliver messages and exchange letters and newspapers to them within his sphere of competence, and also extended the time for letting go of the wind, trying his best to give convenience.
Yang Qindian's response was very gratifying and touching, but he was soon ordered to participate in the criminal act of assassinating Yang Hucheng, his family and his entourage. During the operation, he grabbed the neck of the 8-year-old turnip head with both hands and joined forces with another agent to kill the young and cute life. The details at that time were as follows: Yang Qindian stuck the neck of the young radish head, but the little radish head strongly resisted, and the leader who came to be ordered to assassinate saw the situation, scolded Yang Qindian for being useless, and then gave the little radish head a knife, and the little radish head left, becoming the youngest martyr in our country.
Here, people can make such an analysis, once as a security guard Yang Qindian if he really wants to kill, he will not take a child for a while, more or less, he should be a little unable to do it. This also contributed to his later performance, that is, after the "11.27" massacre, at 11 o'clock that night, due to the emergency situation in the slag cave and the need for reinforcements, the White Mansion only left Yang Qindian and Li Yusheng to guard the 19 people who did not have time to kill... At a critical juncture, Yang Qindian abandoned the dark and cast light, opened the prison door and released 19 volunteers, including Luo Guangbin, Ren Kefeng, Mao Xiaochu, and Zheng Yeduan.
On November 27, 1949, when the liberation of Chongqing was about to be liberated, the Kuomintang reactionaries ordered agents to massacre the revolutionaries in prison in batches on the eve of the rout, and carried out a crazy large-scale massacre of revolutionaries imprisoned in prisons such as Baigongguan and Zha di Dong. On this day, the bloody rain stained the grass and trees and flowers on the Goraku Mountain, and more than 300 warriors held a round of the sun with their blood and martyred their faith with their lives.
Located 2.5 kilometers from the White Mansion, the cave was originally a small coal kiln on the outskirts of Chongqing, named after the fact that there is more slag and less coal. In 1939, Kuomintang military agents forced the mine owner to die, occupied the coal kiln, and set up a prison here. It is divided into two courtyards, the outer courtyard is the secret service office, the torture room, etc., the 16 rooms on the first floor of the inner courtyard are men's prisons, and the other two bungalows are women's prisons.
Yang Qindian used the situation in the slag cave to release the 19 volunteers of the White Mansion, and after the liberation of Luo Guangbin, who was released, wrote the famous red novel "Red Rock", he said in his memoirs: If there is no Yang Qindian's general merit, the remaining 19 people in the White Mansion will all be killed, then the instructions of the party organization in prison for blood and tears cannot be preserved - therefore, Yang Qindian's final righteous deeds should be said to preserve these historical materials and understand the truth of the massacre. Objectively, it has played an important role.
On this basis, what I want to say most is that if there were no Righteous Deeds of Yang Qindian, there would be no later "Red Rock". As an anonymous person once wrote after visiting the White Mansion: There is no doubt that Yang Qindian is a smart person, a human being. He used the key to gently twist, quietly, saved 19 lives, but also saved himself, since then the future has been guaranteed, life has been settled. This twist is ordinary; this twist requires calmness and courage; this twist makes him gain respect in front of the world; this twist ends the history of the White Mansion as a prison; this twist also brings great contributions to the "Red Rock Culture" after liberation, and Luo Guangbin, the first author of the novel "Red Rock", is one of the rescued. There is a loud sound of unlocking every moment in the world, but which time can it be so significant as this time?
General Yang Hucheng was killed on September 6, 1949, and the time of the "11.27" massacre was just over two months, and it should be noted that in these two months, it was not Yang Qindian's thinking that underwent a major change, but he who had been stuck in the neck of a small turnip, and he had never had the opportunity to come out to mix meals, of course, to do things for people, he was just a small guard squad leader.
If we take Yang Qindian's righteous deeds to a famous phrase, it is: Some lives slowly pass in the mud, some lives are taken away in an instant, and we control the lives of others, but we do not know whether we can control our own destiny. Yang Qindian did this righteous deed and saved 19 heroes, shining in his life that could not control his own destiny, the goodness of human nature.
On December 12, 1949, the third edition of the Ta Kung Pao (Chongqing Edition) published "The Remains of General Yang Hucheng's Tragic Father and Son Discovered Yesterday.". The article says: General Yang Hucheng, one of the leaders of the Double Twelve Incident, was arrested and imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek for twelve years. The fact that General Yang and his young son were finally killed by Chiang Kai-shek's agents at Ciqikou two months ago was confirmed yesterday. At this time, there were only 12 days before the liberation of Chongqing, and on the afternoon of december 1, the afternoon of the second day after the liberation of Chongqing, under the leadership of Luo Guangbin, Yang Qindian registered himself with the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau. Based on the testimony of Luo Guangbin and others, the government confirmed that he "made up for his mistakes" at a critical moment and did not pursue his lenient treatment. The government was even ready to arrange for Yang Qindian to work at the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau, but Yang Qindian said he was homesick, and the government sent him travel expenses according to his wishes.
Why didn't Yang Qindian go to work at the Public Security Bureau? There may also be repentance in this, and he prepared to return to his hometown with the travel expenses, and he also did one thing for the government, that is, to find and identify the remains of General Yang Hucheng and others. Therefore, there is also the news published in the Ta Kung Pao. A former executive participant, a caretaker squad leader who came out to mix meals, has done his best. Perhaps, all he could do was this.
After returning to his hometown, Yang Qindian married and had children and lived the life of a commoner in obscurity, but in the 1960s and 1970s, his "crimes" were turned over, and he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for historical problems and imprisoned in the First Detention Center of Sichuan Province. By 1982, the revocation of the judgment was not prosecuted. During this period, Yang Qindian's eldest son Yang Cunliang was implicated because of a "secret agent" father in the family, and the accountant of the production team who did a good job was removed from his post and did not get married until he was 31 years old. Yang Qindian's wife died in 1977 after being hit by family changes, so that Yang Qindian, who had been away from home for more than 10 years, met her and became a living person and a tomb meeting.
At this time, Yang Qindian was 64 years old and had become an old man with flowery hair, and people should be able to imagine his deep self-blame and apology to his family when he faced a tomb. However, for him, this is not all self-blame and apology, in his later years, from 1998, accompanied by his grandson and other relatives, he went to Chongqing six times and returned to the Geleshan Revolution Memorial Hall to commemorate the martyrs. He also told the history that he did not want to mention, but clearly belonged to him, in the form of a personal statement, to young students and tourists, and tried his best to do something useful for society and the people.
On the evening of November 27, 2004, chongqing municipality held a grand and solemn mourning event for the martyrs of the "11.27 Massacre" at the White Mansion and the Zha Di Dong. The next day, several media outlets in Chongqing reported a scene in which the elderly Yang Qindian squatted in front of the tombstone and tearfully burned the banknotes for the deceased martyrs. He was 86 years old.
In 2007, the year after meeting Yang Han, Yang Qindian died. He did not live to the age of 110 as Yang Han wished, and when he died, he was a little confused, covering his face with his hands and not wanting to see people, but praying for the understanding of Yang Hucheng's descendants. This reminds me of a famous saying: man cannot control his own destiny, but he can grasp the key to his destiny. Where are the keys? Maybe it's the kindness that hasn't been extinguished after being manipulated by evil.
Yang Qindian, figuratively speaking, is nothing more than a knife that has been used in the long river of history, but he has worked hard to blunt himself and even rust. It's not easy, as if sometimes walking on the road and accidentally being buried by the road. Fortunately, he knows his own ideas, and strives to fight for it, to change. In this sense, if others are hell, they can only be their own paradise.
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