What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
"Soldiers and farmers are happy, hands and feet are good, Kyushu has walked all over the Gui xuan garden, and there is an old monkey in the flower and fruit mountain." This is a poem given to Jiang Weiping by Xie Jueya, deputy chairman of the Senate of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, on September 1, 1944.
Who is Jiang Weiping? It is the only soldier in the history of our army who has participated in the Qing Army, the Beiyang Army, the Nationalist Army, and the Eighth Route Army, and was awarded the title after liberation. Just by listening to so many titles, we know how rich Jiang Weiping's life experience is, and what is even more legendary is that the old man was already sixty years old when he joined the Eighth Route Army.
If he joined the army for the first or third time and spent half his life fighting on horseback, he was ill and rushed to the hospital, or he was suffering from the lack of way to save the country
Jiang Weiping was born in 1878, his original name was Jiang Shunfa, alias Ji Binli, a native of Fangshan County, Hebei Province.
Jiang Weiping, whose family is poor, collects firewood and vegetables in the village at the age of 7, and at the age of 15, he went to the city as a clothing shop apprentice, and at the age of 16, he worked for four years.
The poor life did not crush Jiang Weiping, but aroused his struggle against life, and while changing himself, Jiang Weiping was also trying to think about the road to saving the country and the people.
Witnessing the days when the great powers were making a great fortune on the land of China, Jiang Weiping resolutely chose to join the army, hoping to rely on the three-foot Qingfeng in his hands and a peaceful and prosperous life for the Chinese nation, which was also plagued by many disasters and difficulties.
The ideal is beautiful, but reality has dealt Jiang Weiping a blow fiercely.
During the year of Li Hongzhang's military service, Jiang Weiping witnessed first-hand how the Qing government betrayed the country and sought glory, and his strong sense of patriotism made Jiang Weiping resolutely break away from the ranks of the Qing army.
In the days that followed, Jiang Weiping lived a dull life, and in April 1911, Jiang Weiping married Cheng Dexian of Erzhan Village, and after the marriage, the two had a daughter.
The year 1912 was an important year for the Chinese nation, when the Qing Emperor abdicated and the imperial system that prevailed in China for 2,000 years ended.
The once corrupt Qing government officially became a passing cloud, which rekindled Jiang Weiping's hopes of transforming China.
Yuan Shikai, who forced the Qing Emperor to abdicate, became a "great hero" in Jiang Weiping's heart, and Jiang Weiping chose to serve as a soldier under Yuan Shikai.
This was eight years, in which Jiang Weiping rose from a big head soldier to regimental deputy, although Yuan Shikai had died in 1916, but Jiang Weiping always chose to leave.
Jiang Weiping, who had a sense of justice, was later expelled from the army for beating the commander of a cavalry brigade and a regiment, and had no choice but to leave the army where he had been staying for eight years.
It was also in August of that year that Jiang Weiping was placed under the command of Duan Qirui, the then prime minister of the Republic of China, and coincidentally Jiang Weiping also stayed under Duan Qirui for 8 years.
In these 8 years, Jiang Weiping became bigger and bigger, and finally became the commander of a cavalry regiment under Duan Qirui.
Later, because of Zhang Xueliang's change of northeast China, the troops began to shrink, and Jiang Weiping's border defense army was disbanded, and Jiang Weiping was forced to leave the army.
The Northeast Army changed its banner, and the land of China was nominally under the unified leadership of the Kuomintang, and Jiang Weiping had the idea of serving under the Kuomintang and wanted to realize his ideal of saving the country and the people through the Kuomintang.
However, in view of the fact that Jiang Weiping was a "restless" person, the Kuomintang was afraid that Jiang Weiping would adversely affect the troops after joining the army, and chose to reject Jiang Weiping's request.
Jiang Weiping chose to return to his hometown to work as a farmer for medical treatment, thus ending his career as a horseman.
Looking back at the 32 years of Jiang Weiping's military campaign, the southern conquest of the northern war, the head of the warlord melee, the blood flow, suffering from not finding a way to save the country and save the people.
Behind the hope is the disappointment of the warlords on the land of China, so will Jiang Weiping end his life in discouragement?
The answer is no, because Jiang Weiping will meet his own Bole in the next few days.
Second, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was in progress, Jiang Weiping finally met Bole and his long-cherished wish was peaceful
Jiang Weiping built an infirmary and pharmacy on the days of his return to his hometown, and tried to treat and serve the poor, although he could not go into battle to kill the enemy, but Jiang Weiping felt that he was much happier than the days when he was an official under the warlords.
Although Jiang Weiping, who treated the sick and saved people, lived a semi-retired life, he never forgot to care about major state affairs.
Since the September 18 Incident, Japan has occupied the entire northeast and accelerated the pace of aggression against China.
When he first heard that the Northeast Army had withdrawn from the Northeast without firing a shot, Jiang Weiping's heart was humiliated, because Jiang Weiping had once guarded the land in the Northeast, and "the ancestral land cannot be sized and people" is what Jiang Weiping wanted to say to hundreds of thousands of officers and men of the Northeast Army.
The time came to 1935, four years after the September 18 Incident, when Jiang Weiping, who was 57 years old, met Li Xiangqian, an underground party member of the Communist Party of China in Beiping.
During this time, Jiang Weiping and Li Xiangqian often discussed major matters of national salvation, and under the impetus of Li Xiangqian, Jiang Weiping germinated initial revolutionary ideas.
On July 7, 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, and Japanese imperialism began the pace of all-out invasion of China.
The war soon reached Jiang Weiping's hometown of Fangshan County, where the Japanese burned and looted, causing the presence of many refugees.
Jiang Weiping's patriotic consciousness made him take the initiative to undertake the work of relieving these refugees, and the people were grateful to Jiang Weiping for this practice.
In March 1938, after Jiang Weiping learned the news that Bao Sen, the leader of the guerrilla detachment of the COMMUNIST Party of Fanglaizhuo United County, had come to Nanjiao to open up an anti-Japanese base area, Jiang Weiping immediately asked his daughter to write an application.
"In order to resist Japan and save the country, I volunteered to join the Eighth Route Army," a dozen words revealed Jiang Weiping's strong patriotic feelings.
After their daughter wrote the application, Jiang Weiping and Yoshiko risked their lives to deliver the application to the Eighth Route Army.
Since then, the 60-year-old Jiang Weiping officially became a soldier of the Eighth Route Army, and in May of the same year, Jiang Weiping was introduced to the Communist Party of China and became a glorious Communist Party member.
In this turbulent era, Jiang Weiping resolutely and resolutely took over the banner of saving the country and the people, and Jiang Weiping at this moment was happy.
After joining the Communist Party of China, Jiang Weiping also actively contributed to the anti-Japanese contingent.
In March 1940, Jiang Weiping followed the troops stationed in Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province, in view of the fact that the troops lacked medical treatment and medicines, Jiang Weiping climbed the mountains and waded through the water to collect herbs and tested the medicines, studied and configured the drugs, and solved the dilemma of the lack of medicines in the troops.
In 1942, Jiang Weiping responded to Chairman Mao's call to "do it yourself and have enough food and clothing" to actively cultivate land and strive to alleviate the growing economic problems in the base areas.
In the days when Jiang Weiping was the director of the farm, he not only realized the self-sufficiency of grain in the base areas, but also handed over a lot of surplus grain, which effectively supported the construction of the anti-Japanese base areas.
On August 8, 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan announced his surrender, and China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression won a complete victory, and Jiang Weiping's anti-Japanese war career also drew a complete end.
Third, the benevolence of the healer, a model of thrift and thrift of the people
Jiang Weiping not only worked hard to treat the wounded in medical skills, but also tried to care for the wounded soldiers in his life, which truly reflected what is called the benevolence of the healer.
When the warrior Yu Zhenjiang was feeding the pigs, his fingers were accidentally bitten off, and there were problems with the demobilization and resettlement, so Jiang Weiping took him to live at home and helped him marry his daughter-in-law and become a family, so that he could live and work in peace and contentment.
Jiang Weiping not only joined the Eighth Route Army himself, but his son Jiang Zhigang also joined the Eighth Route Army under the leadership of Jiang Weiping, after which Jiang Zhigang unfortunately died, and the loss of his son in old age also made Jiang Weiping really sad for a long time.
But sad to sad, Jiang Weiping has never forgotten the style of hard work, Jiang Weiping's grandson Jiang Zhen's wedding was very simple.
He didn't even set up a banquet for guests, but invited relatives and family members to drink some millet porridge and boiled cabbage, and at the wedding ceremony, he also gave two hammers and sickles to his grandson and granddaughter-in-law to remind them not to forget the tradition of hard struggle.
Jiang Weiping is also very "picky" to himself, and he strives to save every penny in his life, and uses the money saved to treat diseases and save people and support the production and construction of his hometown.
In 1956, when the agricultural society in Shigu Village, his hometown, lacked funds, Jiang Weiping did not say anything after listening to the two words and donated all the two thousand yuan he had saved to the agricultural society, helping them buy two double-wheeled birch plows, four sprayers, a horse, and build an orchard.
Jiang Weiping has been away for many years because of his work, but jiang Weiping will return to his hometown to see when he has time, tell the young people in his hometown about the revolutionary story of that year, and encourage them to work hard to contribute to their hometown.
On July 12, 1964, Jiang Weiping died of illness at the age of 86 in Zhangjiakou 251 Hospital. Looking back on the 26 years that Jiang Weiping participated in the revolution, he always struggled in the front line and dedicated the rest of his life to saving the country and the people. Later, at Jiang Weiping's public sacrifice ceremony, the masses of people who sent spirits along the street reached nearly 10,000 people, which also silently demonstrated Jiang Weiping's status in people's hearts.