Ji Hongchang was a famous anti-Japanese general and revolutionary martyr, and in his life experience, the two wives also stood in different landscapes.
General Ji Hongchang's first wife was named Liu Xiurong, and his second wife was called Hu Hongxia, and in General Ji Hongchang's resume, it seems that there are two events or two events that can "correspond" to these two people, illustrating their different realms of life.
The correspondence with Liu Xiurong happened around 1920. That year, Ji Hongchang was a battalion commander under Feng Yuxiang of the Northwest Army, only 25 years old. In May of that year, his father fell ill, and Ji Hongchang returned home to visit. When the son came, the father's heart was very happy, but when the son wanted to leave, it was inevitable that he would not be in love with the son and confess a few words to the son.
Looking at his father's appearance, Ji Hongchang said, "Father, if you have anything to say, just say it, I will definitely write it down." The father paused for a moment and said, "Son, you are all right everywhere, I am very relieved... However, I still want to say to you, when you are an official in a foreign country, you must think more about the poor people like us, and I will allow you to become an official, but I will not allow you to get rich by being an official! After saying this, my father breathed a sigh of relief and added, "If you make a fortune by being an official, I will not be blind when I die!" ”
Ji Hongchang tearfully agreed. After returning to the army, he wrote the 7 words "if you are an official, you are not allowed to get rich" on a fine porcelain tea bowl and handed it to the ceramic factory to imitate and burn. After a short time, the bowl was burned, and he used the cart to pull the bowl back to the troops, gathered all the officers and men of the battalion, and held a very serious "bowling ceremony."
At this ceremony, Ji Hongchang said to everyone: "Why do you want to send this bowl?" It is because my father taught me that when I am an official, I should do good things for the poor in the world, and to be an official is not to get rich, and I give everyone such a bowl to each of them, because I want to invite everyone to supervise me, and also ask everyone to remember the words on the bowl like me, and be honest and honest! ”
The "bowling ceremony" caused a great sensation in Ji Hongchang's troops, but there was one person who was indifferent, and this person was Ji Hongchang's original wife, Liu Xiurong.
Ji Hongchang was born in 1895 to a poor peasant family in Lütan Town, Fugou County, Henan Province, where his father, Ji Maosong, opened a small tea house. Due to the poor family road, Ji Hongchang helped his father in the tea house since he was a child, but he was very naughty, not bullied, always fighting outside, and his father always beat him with a flat burden to discipline him, so he had a nickname called "flat burden".
About looking at his son is very mischievous, not easy to manage, Ji Maosong, like many people, thought of finding a daughter-in-law for his son, and felt that it was better to let his daughter-in-law manage his son than to manage his son himself. Of course, there are also the contents of the marriage of the male eldest, and the fact that Yoshimotsu fulfills the duties and obligations of the father for his son. Therefore, in 1911, Ji Maosong asked someone to talk about the media, and married Liu Xiurong, a woman from the same town, for Ji Hongchang.
Liu Xiurong has no culture, does not know a few words, and cannot communicate with Ji Hongchang in many things, and Ji Hongchang is somewhat distressed about this. After this, naturally, in the autumn of 1913, when Feng Yuxiang was recruiting troops in Henan, Ji Hongchang concealed the fact that his family had gone to Yancheng to join the army.
Liu Xiurong was thrown at home by Ji Hongchang alone, but what she did not expect was that after Ji Hongchang joined the army, he was appreciated by Feng Yuxiang for his hard-working, wisdom and integrity, and it took only a few short years to go from a student to a company commander to a battalion commander. Seeing that her husband was out, Liu Xiurong packed up her luggage and chased after her hometown, staying by Ji Hongchang's side and not leaving.
Ji Hongchang is not easy to say anything, only to accept Liu Xiurong, about before and after the "bowling ceremony", Liu Xiurong gave birth to a daughter for Ji Hongchang, And Ji Hongchang was very happy. Unfortunately, when the child was only 18 days old, because Liu Xiurong was sleepy, he actually crushed the child to death. Ji Hongchang was very sad and complained about Liu Xiurong, Liu Xiurong was like a person who had nothing to do, and even said that it was a big deal to have another one.
Ji Hongchang couldn't bear it any longer, raised his hand and slapped Liu Xiurong, Liu Xiurong couldn't think straight, and made a fuss about this matter, so that the whole camp was spreading that "the battalion commander beat his wife". Ji Hongchang was very miserable, on the one hand, he was a tea bowl of "being an official, you are not allowed to get rich", and on the other hand, he wanted to be the wife of the "official wife", which made him determined not to live with Liu Xiurong again, and then lost interest in marriage.
This is the scenery of Liu Xiurong, in that tea bowl, she met a battalion commander who beat his wife, and finally in Ji Hongchang's slap, she and Ji Hongchang went their separate ways.
The historical event that "corresponds" to Hu Hongxia is the Wuyuan Oath Master.
After the Start of the Northern Expedition on June 24, 1926, Feng Yuxiang, with the help of the Soviet Advisory Group and the Communist Liu Bojian and others, decided to lead his troops to join the National Revolutionary Army and assist the National Revolutionary Army in the Northern Expedition from the north. On September 17 of the same year, he swore an oath at Suiyuan Wuyuan (now part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region) and announced that the troops would be reorganized into the National Coalition Army, and Feng himself would be appointed as the commander-in-chief. Subsequently, Feng led his troops through Ningxia into Gansu and Shaanxi, and joined the Northern Expeditionary Army in the Central Plains.
Ji Hongchang responded to the Northern Expedition and was then the brigade commander of the 36th Brigade, and led his troops to participate in the Battle of Xi'an. In April 1927, he was promoted to division commander, led his troops to conquer Luoyang and Gong County, and then forcibly crossed the Yellow River and occupied Xinxiang, an important town in northern Henan. After the oath-taking meeting, General Feng Yuxiang adopted the advice of the CPC leader Li Dazhao and marched westward, through Ningxia, out of Shaanxi and Gansu, and relieved the siege of Xi'an. Then he marched north and entered Beijing to overthrow the rule of the Beiyang warlords and complete the great Northern Expedition.
Ji Hongchang met Hu Hongxia before taking the oath, and it is said that he fell in love with Hu Hongxia at first sight, and Hu Hongxia did not rush to agree to him, because Hu Hongxia was still studying at the normal school. In 1926, when Wuyuan was sworn to the master, Hu Hongxia graduated from the normal school, married Ji Hongchang, and began a life accompanied by the general's eastern expedition to the west. A year later, ji hongchang gave birth to his eldest son, Ji Lantai.
Hu Hongxia is 11 years younger than Ji Hongchang, and unlike Liu Xiurong, she is from a scholarly and virtuous family, gentle and virtuous, and is Ji Hongchang's inner helper, and whenever Ji Hongchang feels pain and confusion, she can get some comfort there.
Hu Hongxia and Ji Hongchang
In July 1929, Ji Hongchang entered Ningxia, served as the chairman of the Ningxia Provincial Government and the commander of the 10th Army, straightened out the army and the rule of officials, devoted himself to the unity of Han and Hui, put forward the slogan of "developing the Great Northwest", and was determined to eliminate the advantages and disadvantages of the people. In April 1930, the Great War of Jiang, Feng, and Yan Zhongyuan broke out, and Ji Hongchang was ordered to lead his troops from Ningxia out of Tongguan to participate in the Great War against Jiang. In September, Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army was defeated, and Ji Hongchang accepted Chiang Kai-shek's reorganization in order to preserve his strength.
During this period, Hu Hongxia has been following Ji Hongchang around and silently supporting Ji Hongchang's work and career.
On September 21, 1931, General Ji Hongchang, who was committed to resisting Japan, was forced by Chiang Kai-shek to go abroad to "investigate industry", and in this year, Hu Hongxia gave birth to a daughter Ji Ruizhi for Ji Hongchang, which was undoubtedly a great comfort for Ji Hongchang, whose career had entered a low period.
In 1932, after the outbreak of the January 28 Incident in Shanghai, Ji Hongchang immediately returned to China, secretly got in touch with the CCP organization, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in the autumn of the same year, transforming from a patriotic old soldier into a communist fighter and embarking on a new revolutionary journey. Hu Hongxia's support for him also became more selfless, becoming total and unconditional.
There is a story like this: In 1933, Ji Hongchang and several anti-Japanese generals set up an alliance association, the troops lacked money, food, and even more guns and ammunition, in order to support her husband, Hu Hongxia even sold her jewelry and gave all the family money to Ji Hongchang.
Once, ji Hongchangto's subordinates bought a batch of weapons, but who would escort them to the garrison became a problem, and when Hu Hongxia learned of it, she entrusted her two children to someone else, made up with her mother to the place of delivery, and then transported the guns and ammunition to Zhangjiakou in batches. In order not to attract attention, Hu Hongxia and her mother even packed some guns in suitcases one by one, making people mistakenly think that they were their private belongings, jewelry or cosmetics or something.
Seeing his wife's appearance as a dusty servant, Ji Hongchang sighed a lot, but Hu Hongxia didn't have time to sigh like him, and only said to him: "This is the old bottom of our family, you have to save some use!" In this regard, Ji Hongchang's colleagues said with admiration that Ji Hongchang found a female warrior and heroine.
On November 9, 1934, Ji Hongchang was assassinated and injured by military agents in the French Concession of Tianjin, arrested, and later extradited to the Beiping Army Branch. On November 24 of the same year, he was killed in the Beiping Army Prison at the age of 39. Just before the uprising, Ji Hongchang shouted at the Kuomintang in a loud voice: "I died for the anti-Japanese resistance, for the revolution, I can't kneel down and be shot, and I can't fall down after death, so bring me a chair!" Then he wrote a poem on the ground with a branch.
After the uprising, General Ji Hongchang's former colleagues informed Hu Hongxia of this unfortunate news, and Hu Hongxia came to the authorities with her children to ask for the general's body to be returned, but those people refused to do so, on the grounds that they had not received orders from their superiors. Hu Hongxia got into a big fight with the people, and the end result was that the people agreed to let her transport the body back, but had to hand over 80,000 pieces of ocean.
Hu Hongxia did not have any savings at that time, 80,000 pieces of ocean was undoubtedly an astronomical number for her, some relatives and friends came to persuade her, people are gone, or forget it, but she said that she would not say anything, want to come and go, can only mortgage her own property.
In this way, Hu Hongxia transported the body of General Ji Hongchang back, she changed the general's clean clothes, asked someone to take a photo of the general, and then buried the general in his hometown in Henan, so that the general could walk decently. Although she cried bitterly with her two children at the general's grave, she did not fall because of it.
After returning home, Hu Hongxia found that even though the general was gone, there were still spies following her and keeping a close eye on one of her children, which made her feel that the danger was always there. After that, a "escape plan" began to gradually arise in my mind:
First, Hu Hongxia entrusted her son and daughter to two relatives and friends, and she thought that if there was a mistake among them, she would be able to save at least one of them; then Hu Hongxia herself was "crazy", saw those who stared at her and laughed foolishly, and then asked them if they were Ji Hongchang or if they were her sons and daughters. For this reason, Hu Hongxia became unkempt, no matter day or night, always wandering the streets like a ghost, crying and laughing and shouting... Over time, those who followed and spied on her felt bored and thought she was crazy.
One day, the agents were summoned by the head of the secret service and asked, "Is that woman really crazy?" The agents said, "Crazy, really..." "Dead husbands have lost their children, and ordinary people can't stand this!" "So, is there any need to spy on her?" "It shouldn't be interesting, she's really crazy... Besides, from our observation, she was a housewife, and she was of no use..."
Soon, the agents evacuated, and Hu Hongxia disappeared a few days after they had evacuated. The head of the secret service asked the agents again, "Didn't you say that the woman was crazy?" The agents said, "It's crazy... But she should be dead by now, without eating or drinking, and starving to death on a certain street! The agent's superior said, "Well, she's dead now..."
However, after the founding of New China, Hu Hongxia became normal and "lived" again--in those years, she hid her name, disguised herself, and had been teaching in a mountainous area. Around 1952, she took her own pair of adult children to the tomb of General Ji Hongchang, knelt down with her children, and cried uncontrollably: "Now, I have brought them to you, they are adults, and I have completed the tasks you have given!" ”
The sons and daughters of General Ji Hongchang later made their own contributions to the country and the people, the son Ji Lantai was a professor at a university in Tianjin, and the daughter Ji Ruizhi became a writer and wrote a book for his father, "The Biography of Ji Hongchang". They said that there was always a way for their mothers to educate them, always telling them that their father was a hero and that they should continue to do what was good for the country and the people in his father's footsteps.
This pair of children of General Ji Hongchang also said that what the mother cherished most in her life was the will that her father left to her mother before she was righteous: The husband died today, and he sacrificed for the times. You don't have to grieve when I die, because there are still children to be taken care of by you, and the surplus property in the family cannot be divided among others, and it is reserved for the purpose of raising children. And the poem that my father wrote with a branch before he was righteous:
Hate not to resist japan and die, leave it as a shame today.
The country is still broken, why should I pity this head!
In today's society, far from the smoke of war, some "chicken soup" occupies people's lives and is called the wisdom of survival by some people, and what I want to say is that in front of General Ji Hongchang's "Poetry of Righteousness" and in Hu Hongxia's pretending to be crazy and stupid, they are just some soups and waters that are filled with flies and I enjoy myself! People who enjoy and enjoy the rice bowl should think of the words that the general burned on the bowl in the past, which is the true state that our society needs. The so-called what years are quiet, but someone has carried the weight for you!
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