In November 1931, a public trial meeting was being held in the Fire Temple of Baiqueyuan Town in the Eyu-Anhui Su District.
This public trial meeting was a bit special because the presiding officer of the public trial was Zhang Guotao, who had just been sent here by the CPC Central Committee to serve as a leader, and the person on trial was Xu Jishen, an outstanding revolutionary leader who had established the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region.
At that time, Zhang Guotao drew up many crimes for Xu Jishen: such as "disobeying orders", "opposing the leadership of the Central Sub-Bureau", "secretly organizing a third party", "reorganizing factions", establishing a counter-revolutionary military committee opposite the Central Committee, and attempting to launch a counter-revolutionary rebellion after September 15, 1931 and then surrendering to the enemy, and so on...
After the charges were announced, Zhang Guotao roared angrily at Xu Jishen: "Xu Jishen! You hurry to be honest about the crimes you have committed. ”
At this time, Xu Jishen had already been beaten up in the previous torture to force a confession, and this time he was still carried on a stretcher, and after hearing Zhang Guotao's slander, he endured severe pain, struggled to support his body, and angrily rebuked Zhang Guotao: "You are slandering!" All charges are slander! It's all fakes you've created, all of them are fake! ”
After speaking, Xu Jishen breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued to fight back: "I Xu Jishen, whether it is for the party or for the revolution, can pat his chest and say that it is a matter of conscience, in the most difficult environment, I have worked hard and invested all my energy to create the Red First Army, and the Red First Army has been built brick by brick by me today... The unfair treatment I have received today will one day be judged by the Party, and you cannot represent the Party! ”
Xu Jishen responded with awe and righteousness, making Zhang Guotao feel a little weak,Looking at the incessant whispering below the public trial meeting, he knew that if he continued to interrogate him like this, not only would he not be able to ask a famous question, but it was estimated that the masses below would suspect those crimes that he had deliberately given to Xu Jishen'an, so he quickly made a few perfunctory remarks, and then announced the end of the public trial meeting.
However, Zhang Guotao was already killing Xu Jishen at this time, and he would not easily let Xu Jishen go, but he could not blatantly execute him, after all, Xu Jishen had too high prestige in the Red 1 Army and the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region.
Thinking about it, Zhang Guotao felt that only secret hands were the best way, so after the end of the public trial, Zhang Guotao took Xu Jishen back to continue to be imprisoned, and soon after he was secretly killed, at this time Xu Jishen was only 30 years old.
First, look
Zhang Guotao and Xu Jishen have not always been very compatible, because Xu Jishen has always been very opposed to some of Zhang Guotao's policies.
Zhang Guotao is a typical left-leaning adventurist,
After controlling the military and political power in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet region, he put forward the policy of advancing far away from the Soviet region, and such a policy that was divorced from reality would naturally be strongly opposed by Xu Jishen, so the relationship between the two has always been poor.
At this time, the Kuomintang agents added fuel to the fire and took advantage of the contradiction between Xu Jishen and Zhang Guotao to make a counter-plan, which led to the public trial meeting mentioned above, and then Xu Jishen was secretly killed.
The murder of Xu Jishen on trumped-up charges is a major loss to our Party.
It was not until 1945, that is, 14 years later, at the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, when our Party thoroughly liquidated the "Left" mistakes and criticized Zhang Guotao's crimes, that Xu Jishen was rehabilitated and later posthumously recognized as a revolutionary martyr.
Since Xu Jishen has been rehabilitated, the issue of raising and educating the descendants of martyrs needs to be resolved, but because the interval between them is also quite long, and then there is a decade of turmoil, so the issue of finding Xu Jishen's heirs has not been put on the agenda.
Prior to this, Marshal Xu Qianqian, who had always admired Xu Jishen, had personally searched for his descendants, but had not been successful. In 1981, the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the search for descendants of Communist Party martyrs like Xu Jishen was brought up again.
At that time, the relevant staff of Xu Jishen's hometown of Lu'an County wrote to some senior generals who originally belonged to the Red Fourth Front and had intersected with Xu Jishen, hoping that they could provide information about Xu Jishen's widows and orphans.
At the beginning of 1982, the relevant personnel of Lu'an County received a letter from Xu Jishen's former old comrade-in-arms Hu Yungong.
Hu Yungong said in the letter: "Xu Jishen has widows and orphans, the widow's name is Tan Guanyu, she and Xu Jishen were married in Guangzhou after his Second Crusade, Tan Guanyu has an older brother named Tan Zichang, who worked at Lingnan University in Guangzhou. ”
This Hu Yungong was a native of Shou County, Anhui Province, not far from Xu Jishen's hometown of Lu'an County, and had served as a reporter for the Yeting Independent Regiment of the General Political Department of the Northern Expeditionary Army.
That is to say, Xu Jishen is his compatriot and comrade-in-arms, so if Xu Jishen gets married, then Hu Yungong will certainly be clear, so his words have a strong credibility.
After confirming that Xu Jishen had a family, the relevant staff quickly targeted Xu Jishen's other related figures, and quickly found Wang Yichang, a student of the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy.
Wang Yichang is also Xu Jishen's hometown, and they were also admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy at the same time, in the eyes of the relevant staff, he must know some of the circumstances of Xu Jishen's descendants, but unfortunately, he did not know much about Xu Jishen's orphan name Xu Minqing.
The staff was a little frustrated, but he did not give up the search for clues,
He suddenly recalled that Hu Yungong had also mentioned Xu Jishen's brother-in-law Tan Zichang before, and this line could still be found at present, after all, he knew that he had worked at Lingnan University in Guangzhou.
Immediately the staff tentatively sent a letter according to the address of Lingnan University in Guangzhou, and then explained the content of the inquiry, but although there was no reply from Lingnan University, the Hunan Changsha National Defense Technology University took the initiative to come to a letter after hearing about the situation, and the author of this letter was Tan Zichang.
The letter is very long, very detailed, basically summarizing his sister Tan Guanyu, and his nephew Xu Minqing in Guangdong and Hunan some specific deeds, the staff is very excited, but when he turned to the end of the letter with joy, he was poured cold water by the last paragraph of the letter...
Because Tan Zichang mentioned in the end that he (Xu Minqing) may have died during the ten years of turmoil, because he did not get any clues about Xu Minqing during this time.
2. Orphans
Although the road to find Xu Jishen's descendants has been overshadowed, the staff still has a glimmer of hope, and it is not that they have found nothing at present - because at least they know some of Xu Minqing's experiences, and then according to his resume, go to some places where he has lived and worked, presumably there will still be some clues.
In order to expand the scope of the search, the staff also sent requests to some party organizations in Hunan and Guangdong or the companies where Xu Minqing had stayed, hoping to use the resources in their hands to help find Xu Minqing together.
At the same time, Tan Zichang's family did not give up their search for Xu Minqing, they began to carefully recall some details of Xu Minqing, and began to think in their minds: If Xu Minqing is still alive, where will he be?
Soon Tan Zichang and his wife suddenly remembered that Xu Minqing had worked in Hunan Xiangtan Sewing Machine Factory after the founding of New China, so they immediately wrote a letter to the factory to look for Xu Minqing, but it did not respond...
One day, Tan Zichang's son Tan Zhiheng was watching TV, and suddenly saw a news about the Xiangtan Jiangnan Machine Factory from the TV, and he guessed whether Xu Minqing would be in the Jiangnan Machine Factory. After all, Xu Minqing had learned this type of technology.
Anyway, he has tried many times, and there is no shortage of this time, holding the psychology of a dead horse as a live horse doctor, he wrote a letter to Jiangnan Machine Factory, and after Jiangnan Machine Factory received this letter, at first he wanted to return the letter immediately.
After all, Jiangnan Machine Factory is a big factory, there are tens of thousands of workers, and the workers have family members, which is extremely difficult to investigate, not to mention that the letter only gives a name of "Xu Minqing", and nothing else.
However, just when the party committee office of Jiangnan Machinery Factory was about to put away the letter, a deputy secretary of the transportation department accidentally passed by and scanned the letter, saw the name Xu Minqing, and hurriedly said: "There is this person, Xu Minqing is in our section." ”
Since then, Xu Jishen's orphan Xu Minqing was finally found in 1982 after thousands of years.
After Xu Minqing was found, not only Bao Jinfu, a lu'an county worker who had been in charge of this work, was very happy, but also the entire old Red Army soldier group, as well as some senior generals of the People's Liberation Army, were very excited, and they conveyed this news to each other and shared the joy of the moment with their old comrades-in-arms.
Soon, Xu Minqing immediately received a letter from Xu Jishen's hometown of Lu'an County, Anhui Province, at this time Xu Minqing was 53 years old, before this, he never knew who his father was, he only faintly heard from his mother's words, his father seemed to be called "Xu Continue"...
Moreover, it is also because this Kuomintang father "Xu Continues" has not been able to find this person, and he has lived a considerable hardship over the years.
When he learned that his father's name was Xu Jishen, the early leader of the Communist Party, not Xu Continuance, at that moment he could no longer suppress his inner excitement and burst into tears, and the teardrops like raindrops seemed to wash away the bitterness and bitterness that he had been depressed for decades.
At the same moment, the knot that had been hidden in his heart for decades since the beginning of his understanding was also unraveled, and Xu Minqing's mood was suddenly cheerful.
In fact, this kind of more than half a hundred years old, only to know his father's real name, real identity, and shout out the first real "father" in his life in his heart, which may be a little absurd for ordinary people, but it is very true for him.
At the time of Xu Jishen's sacrifice, Xu Minqing was no more than 4 years old.
Therefore, Xu Minqing's memory of his father is very vague, and after his father Xu Jishen's sacrifice, his mother was out of protection, but also because of the inability to raise (at that time to go north to find her husband Xu Jishen, I did not know that he had died), so I did not take him with me, but put him in a brother's home, in Xu Minqing's impression, since he understood things, he had only seen his mother a few times.
And he probably remembered it best twice.
The first time was after his mother was seriously ill, Xu Minqing came to visit his mother's residence and talked with his mother about the situation in his hometown, Xu Minqing had never heard of his hometown, so he listened very carefully.
His mother told Xu Minqing: "[His] hometown was originally in Lu'an County, Anhui Province, and he once had uncles and brothers and other relatives, but they were all killed, so it is estimated that there are no relatives there, and you should not go looking for them in the future..."
Then he said to him in a serious tone: "Your name was given to you by your father, and he hopes that when you grow up, you will do things for the people, that the people will celebrate you, and that you will not fail to live up to your father's wishes." ”
And from these short two words of entrustment, we can also see his mother's love and expectations for Xu Minqing, and he also used his life to implement his father's expectations.
The second time was also when Xu Minqing was very young, when his mother was critically ill, and he told Xu Minqing a little news about his father, that is, "Your father's name is Xu Jishen. ”
However, he was still young at that time, and as time went on, he actually had some mistakes in his father's name, and wrote down the "caution" in Xu Jishen as "continuation". And it was this only one word difference that made him suffer in the days that followed...
Third, suffering
When registering personal information, Xu Minqing wrote the three words "Xu Continue" in his father's column, while the column of the position was filled in with "Kuomintang Leader".
There is no doubt that these two figures are wrong, the name is written xu to continue, we explained it earlier, so why is he written as the head of the Kuomintang in the column of the post?
After all, Xu Jishen is
Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
Early outstanding military men,
It should be said that he was the regimental commander and the commander of the Seventy-second Regiment of the Twenty-fourth Division of the Eleventh Army of the National Revolutionary Army during the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and belonged to Ye Ting's division, not the later Kuomintang.
In fact, "My father is the head of the Kuomintang" was told to him by Xu Minqing's mother, and many people may be a little curious when they see this, but it is not difficult for us to understand as long as we relate to the background at that time.
Later, due to the joint resistance against Japan, although the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated, the Kuomintang reactionaries were constantly entangled in private, and Xu Minqing's mother was naturally afraid of revealing Xu Jishen's true position, and her son would be brutalized by the Kuomintang reactionaries, so she still hid something from her son in her post.
After the world was at peace, Xu Minqing began to look for his father, so he wrote to his hometown of Lu'an County, Anhui Province, many times, hoping that they could help verify his father's identity.
But whenever the Lu'an County public security organ receives a letter, the reply letter is always four words - "no one can be found", which is also normal, after all, all the data are biased, how can it be found?
Over time, even Xu Minqing himself was a little desperate, and slowly he gave up the idea of looking for his father and gave up. It's just that the matter of the biological father did not end because of Xu Minqing's abandonment, Xu Minqing gave up looking for his father, but others found the door...
At that time, Xu Minqing followed his uncles to Guangzhou, and was admitted to the private automobile driving training class, after the People's Liberation Army came to Guangzhou, he joined the People's Liberation Army as mentioned above, and was incorporated into the People's Liberation Army automobile transport team, stationed in Hunan, so he has been working in Hunan ever since.
Only later, Xu Minqing's identity made him oppressed -- after all, Xu Minqing's father's information was that there was no such person, and his position was actually the head of the Kuomintang, so he would naturally be suspected of deliberately fabricating his identity and hiding it to cause sabotage.
It is worth mentioning here that in my personal opinion, in fact, the identity of the head of the Kuomintang regiment is not the most deadly, mainly because the name is wrong - if you remember the name Xu Jishen, it is easy to find out at that time. If you don't remember, if you can't find this person, it was a big problem at that time.
He didn't know his father, and he couldn't explain his identity.
One day, the Xiangtan Municipal Water and Power Bureau was engaged in activities, but a car of the Water and Power Bureau unfortunately overturned in Jiuquling and fell to death.
Coincidentally, it was night, Xu Minqing just happened to drive through here, and the lights had not yet been turned on, so he mistakenly thought that the chaotic front must be the place where the martial arts were being fought, and Xu Minqing, who was scared, quickly changed the car and took a detour.
But his move just caught the attention of the local villagers, who thought he was an escapee, so he remembered the car number of the vehicle xu Minqing was driving, and then came forward to report Xu Minqing, saying that Xu Minqing had killed people by driving.
Therefore, Xu Minqing was arrested soon after, and after explaining the lack of results, Xu Minqing had no choice but to be forced to confess guilt, and finally the court sentenced Xu Minqing to death.
When they saw that Xu Minqing was about to be dragged out for no reason and shot, fortunately, the comrades in the court department felt that this was too rash, and they took the case out for serious review, and it was also after this review that Xu Minqing's previous death sentence was overturned.
However, although he was not sentenced to be exempted from criminal punishment and released to go home, because the matter was too big, the factory at that time no longer accepted him. Xu Minqing, who was unemployed, had no choice but to follow the organizational arrangements and go to Nanzhushan Town to run a collective enterprise as a worker.
Of course, suffering from such unfair treatment, Xu Minqing has never given up the pursuit of rehabilitation, so from 1971 onwards, when he received the "exemption from criminal punishment" verdict and was released, he began to appeal to the relevant departments for his reputation and rights, demanding that he be rehabilitated organizationally.
It was appealed for 9 years, until 1980, after being investigated and verified again by the Xiangtan Intermediate Court, Xu Minqing was given a final judgment to revoke the original judgment, give rehabilitation, and restore his reputation.
After being rehabilitated, Chen Junqian, deputy director (chief engineer) of Jiangnan Machinery Factory, was very concerned about his suffering, and with his help, Xu Minqing returned to Jiangnan Factory to work until he was found by the state in 1982.
After Xu Minqing's identity was confirmed, the martyr's family card was also issued immediately after that, and he has since enjoyed the treatment that the martyr's family deserves. Previously, due to the unknown identity, he was harassed and never joined the party, at this time the identity has been confirmed, so the application for joining the party that has not been approved has finally been approved, and the employment problem of his two unemployed daughters at home has also been solved.
At this point, the issue of resettlement of the descendants of the martyr Xu Jishen was finally properly resolved, and the heroic soul of the martyr Xu Jishen was comforted!