During the Liberation War, many nationalist generals who understood the great righteousness chose to abandon the dark and lead the army to revolt and became advocates of peace. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, even if some of them were forced to choose the uprising under pressure, they were also regarded as meritorious people, and the central authorities attached great importance to and leniently the generals of the uprising of the National Army, gave them better treatment, and became the meritorious figures in the construction of new China, and most of them later had a good home.
However, among the many rebel generals of the Nationalist Army, there was a lieutenant general of the Nationalist Army, who was considered to be of special merit, given special care, and enjoyed special treatment in his life, and even arranged for their family to live in the former "Prince Gong's Mansion", subsidizing 300 yuan per month for living expenses, with secretaries, security personnel and special cars for him to use. At the same time, he was also invited to climb the Tiananmen Tower like many founding heroes to participate in the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China and witness the establishment of this great country.
First of all, the matter of living in the royal palace, it is naturally not something that ordinary people can enjoy, gongwangfu is located in the southwest corner of the scenic Shichahai in Beijing, located in a quiet and long, green willow-lined street alley, it is the most complete preservation of the royal palace in existence. The predecessor of Prince Gong's mansion was originally the residence of the Qianlong Dynasty's chancellor and Kun's di and Jiaqing's younger brother. Gong Wangfu is a grand scale, covering a total area of 60,000 square meters, divided into two parts: mansion and garden, with more than 30 architectural complexes of various types, which has experienced the historical process of the Qing Dynasty from its peak to its decline, carrying extremely rich historical and cultural information, so there is a saying that "a Gongwang Mansion, half of the history of the Qing Dynasty".
The architectural layout of Prince Gong's mansion is regular, the craftsmanship is exquisite, and the pavilions are staggered, which fully reflects the glorious and rich style of the royal family and the elegant charm of the folk. Gongwangfu is composed of two parts: the mansion and the garden, with a length of about 330 meters from north to south, a width of more than 180 meters from east to west, and an area of about 61,120 square meters, of which the mansion covers an area of 32,260 square meters and the garden covers an area of 28,860 square meters.
"The Crescent River surrounds the house like a dragon pan, and the West Mountain looks like a tiger in the distance", this is the description of gong wangfu in the history books. It is said that the Feng Shui of Gong Wangfu is excellent, the ancients took water as wealth, in the GongWang Mansion "everywhere to see water", the largest water of the Huxin Pavilion, is imported from Yuquan Lake, and only in and out, the people who live here are very long-lived, can be described as a treasure of feng shui, choose such a good place for an uprising of the national army lieutenant general to live, it can be said that the central government attaches great importance to him.
At the founding ceremony, the people were full of people's voices, the liveliness was extraordinary, the masses of the people cheered enthusiastically, and the central leaders and many founding heroes on the city tower in the distance were full of smiles. Who is this man, and what has he done?
Living in the Gong King's Mansion and participating in the founding ceremony of the people's republic at the same time, that is, yang hu, a lieutenant general in the national army.
Yang Hu, the fourteenth year of Qing Guangxu (1888), was born in Yangshan Village, southeast of Nanningguo County, Anhui Province, in a kiln shed in the northeast corner of the village, where the third child of Hu Kiln Smith fell to the ground. Hu kiln craftsmen burn bricks and tiles as a business, the family is poor, with his wife and children wandering here to spend the sun and the moon. Originally, a family of four had a rare food and clothing, and now they have added a child, how will they live in the future? Poor families do not attach importance to the name of their children, and the newborn boy ranks third, so he calls him the third son. The mother, who lacked clothes and food, was skinny and bone-thin, and her milk was insufficient, so she often begged the villagers for milk to feed her third son. In the second year of the birth of the third child, the frail and sick mother died. The potter dried his tears and had no money to take care of the aftermath, so he wrapped his body in straw and buried his dead wife with the help of his neighbors. After that, Hu Kiln Craftsman became a father and a mother, with three children, it was really difficult, and in desperation, he decided to sell the little third son to others to find a way to live.
In this way, Yang Hu gave it to someone else's family as a son, and his adoptive father Yang Yunlong was kind and kind, but his wife Liu Shi was fierce and fierce, because of the hemp on his face, nicknamed Ma Po, often scolded him. At a young age, he ate leftover meals and wore ragged clothes. A few years later, Yang Yunlong and his wife died of illness, and he became an orphan again, herding cattle for his employer all year round. When he was 11 years old, his cousin who lived in the county town saw that he was of extraordinary character, smart and cute, and he immediately felt pity, so he took him back to the county town and sent him to a private school to study, and then went to west street pharmacy as an apprentice.
When Yang Hu was 17 years old, he had a good Fang Cheng's uncle Chen Qiang, who was the commander of the Xuancheng Garrison Battalion, and with the help of his friends, he left him by his side as a service soldier, and just happened to be learned of his origins by Du Zhongyi, the capital of Ningguo Province, and when he saw that he was tall, thick-eyed, and good-looking, he was very fond of him, so he recognized him as a righteous son, and recommended him to study at the Qing Army's Marine Division Wubei Academy, and then transferred to the Liangjiang Lecture Martial Arts Academy to study, and after graduation, he was promoted to the Nanyang Higher Police Academy, and joined the Anti-Qing Alliance in that year.
Since then, Yang Hu followed Sun Yat-sen to join the Xingshi and Yuan campaign, and made great achievements, Chen Jiongming launched the "Yangcheng Mutiny" and plotted to kill Sun Yat-sen, at that time, among the senior generals who escorted Mr. Zhongshan on the Yongfeng ship, Yang Hu was yang hu. Yang Hu was then a member of the army of Sun Yat-sen's Grand Marshal's Office and the inspector of the Grand Marshal's camp guard. Only to see him holding a double gun, a pioneer soldier, and killed a bloody road in the pile of people, and let the other guards take Sun Yat-sen to the Yongfeng ship first, and he himself evacuated after ensuring Sun Yat-sen's safety.
Because of his meritorious rescue efforts, during the Northern Expedition, Sun Yat-sen appointed Yang Hu as the commander of the First Division of the Second Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and then changed Yang Hu to the commander of the Second Army. After Sun Yat-sen's death, Yang Hu followed Chiang Kai-shek and became a brother in worship. At chiang's behest, Yang Hu, then director of the Special Services Department of the General Headquarters, secretly contacted the leaders of the Shanghai Gang, Jin Jinrong, Du Yuesheng, and Zhang Xiaolin, to secretly discuss the specific counter-revolutionary coup action plan, and then launched a surprise attack on the workers' pickets in the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions and other places. Subsequently, a large number of revolutionary volunteers were arrested and killed in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo and other places. Among them were Chen Yannian, the secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the eldest son of Chen Duxiu, who was secretly shot.
During his years in Shanghai, Yang Hu successively served as the commander of the Shanghai Police, the director of the Shanghai Security Department, and the commander of the Songhu Police. He was both the Emperor of Shanghai and the head of the Shanghai Gang, and his power reached its peak. After the fall of Shanghai during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yang Hu began to find another way, no longer stubbornly following the road paved by Chiang Kai-shek, began to contact our underground workers, and then did some useful things.
In the period of the Liberation War, Yang Hu weighed the pros and cons and decided to do a lot of work for the organization, and refused to go to Taiwan, and then transferred to Beijing, at this time the whole country had been liberated, in view of the fact that he had done some things for the cause of liberation, the new people's power regarded him as a good friend, implemented a policy of leniency regardless of the past, let him enjoy better treatment than other rebel generals, and also appointed him the title of adviser to the Government Council, Yang Hu lived a carefree life.
however. Yang Hu was still not satisfied with the preferential treatment he had given, and repeatedly asked the people's government to become a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Relevant parties gently advised him: We know that Mr. Yang did some work during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, but considering the impact of the April 12 coup in Shanghai and the Qing Party, it is best not to show his face. However, Yang Hu did not think so, could not understand, when his wishes were not satisfied, he became dissatisfied with the people's government, often complaining, complaining that the organization did not give him high-ranking officials Houlu.
Subsequently, he went so far as to collude with Taiwan spies in an attempt to instigate a rebellion; after the incident, Yang Hu was arrested and tried, and in the face of overwhelming evidence, the Supreme People's Court, on the basis of the facts of his crime, placed Yang Hu's death sentence suspended for two years and deprived him of his political rights for life. In view of Yang Hu's advanced age and illness, from a humanitarian point of view, the court allowed Yang Hu to execute outside of prison. In March 1966, Yang Hu died at the age of 79 at Beijing Fuxing Hospital. Posterity sighed, originally Yang Hu could have enjoyed his old age in peace, but in the end it was late and unsafe, and it was indeed regrettable to embark on such an ending.