Looking at the Western Capital, meaning hesitant / Sad Qin and Han Meridian / Palace Que Wanjian has done the soil / Xing, the people suffer; death, the people suffer.
——Zhang Yanghao, "Hillside Sheep Tong Cares for The Ancients"
In 1329 AD, Zhang Yanghao, a famous composer of the Yuan Dynasty, had already returned to the hidden mountains and forests, and he had lost interest in the officialdom in his life, and was determined not to enter the army for the rest of his life. However, in this year, Emperor Wenzong of Yuan once again personally drafted an edict, hoping that Zhang Yanghao would be responsible for the disaster relief in Shaanxi.
Zhang Yanghao heard that it was disaster relief, and immediately agreed, he spent his life for the country and the people and not for the emperor, before more than ten times he refused to recruit, but the relief of the people can not be delayed. So he went to the land of Western Qin to relieve the disaster and the people, and when he saw the suffering people, he made this song "Tong Care For the Ancients", which has been passed down through the ages, a sentence "Xing, the people suffer; death, the people suffer" I don't know how many people were moved.
And the "rise and fall" here means turmoil, when it comes to turbulent times, I think everyone will not forget the modern history of our humiliation, from the humiliation at the end of the Qing Dynasty, to the warlord rebellion, the Japanese invasion, the civil war, the people in this history is suffering a lot, until the founding of the country in 1949 did not see the real dawn.
But before that, it was a long night.
Since 1948, the Kuomintang army has been gradually defeated in the battlefields of the whole country, and in 1949, after the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin, it completely lost control of the north of the Yangtze River, and chiang kai-shek's government was already like a remnant of the wind at any time.
Since the failure of the negotiations on "crossing the river and ruling by river," our army has begun to launch a final decisive battle -- the Battle of Crossing the River. The Nationalist army collapsed and continued to flee to the southwest and southeast, and everyone began to pack up their things and run away, including Chiang Kai-shek.
But Old Jiang also had pride and was not willing to give up so easily. The land of Xiangqian is the hinterland of China, which is an important strategic place to enter Yunnan and Sichuan and barrier the land of Jiangxi and Guangxi, and here in addition to the national army, there is also a force that should not be underestimated, that is, the Bandits in Xiangdi.
Hunan people are known as "Jiangnan Northeast people", do not emphasize business and revolution, both men and women pay attention to a "hegemonic", many uprisings in history have originated in this place. Therefore, countless revolutionary heroes were born here, and at the same time many bandits were born, so that the "Xiangxi Bandit Record" is still remembered today.
Therefore, Old Jiang decided to recruit the Xiangxi Bandit Gang. In May 1949, he sent a plane carrying 100,000 silver dollars to fly directly to the land of Xiangxi. However, the people on the plane were divided into two factions, one faction loyal to Lao Jiang and wanting to send the silver dollar to Xiangxi, and the other faction wanted to embezzle the money and flee overseas to enjoy a lifetime.
The two groups of men and horses argued and opened fire, but the bullets penetrated the gas tank of the aircraft, and the aircraft immediately burst into flames filled with smoke, and with a loud bang, all the people on board were killed, and the plane fell in a mountainous area in Fenghuang County, Hunan Province.
On the one hand, the local people were oppressed by the National Government, and on the other hand, they were also disturbed by the bandits in western Hunan Province, and they never had a peaceful birthday, and they all lived very hard. When they see a crashing plane, their biggest fear is to crush their crops, or they will go hungry.
Fortunately, the plane finally fell into the mountains, the villagers rushed to check thousands, found that there are no living people, but there are countless shining silver pieces, among which a little insight point out that this is a silver dollar, people who have suffered all their lives immediately began to rob these silver dollars, and the people in neighboring villages also noticed the fireballs falling from the sky, and after learning the news, they also rushed to rob them.
When they hold these silver dollars of white flowers and finally feel that they can live a more comfortable life, they do not know that the disaster behind them is quietly coming.
The news of the plane crash soon reached Lao Jiang's ears, and Lao Jiang was furious and immediately called the Xiangxi garrison to recover the silver dollar. So, not long after, armies with live ammunition surrounded the small villages, rallying the people and coercing them into handing over the silver dollars by force.
The unarmed people dared to disobey, so they handed over the silver dollars they saw, but because a large part of the silver dollars were scattered in the barren mountains and mountains before the plane crashed, not all the silver dollars picked up by the villagers at the fall point, so the commander in charge of the pursuit, Yu Zikun, tortured the people one by one, without their family property to offset the loss of silver dollars.
After Yu Zikun raided most of the local villagers' homes, he only recovered 70,000 silver dollars, but for him, this amount can already be made, so he returned to the county with silver dollars, and when old Jiang called, he kept prevaricating that he was still looking for them, in fact, he understood that the Kuomintang had been defeated and wanted to swallow these silver dollars alone.
The people of Xiangxi who lost their family wealth did not have such a good life, they lost their houses and lost their fields, and from then on they could only become refugees living in other places, and some of those who loved their homeland remained, but they were invaded by bandits in Xiangxi, after all, this silver dollar was originally given to them by Lao Jiang, but now it has fallen into the hands of Yu Zikun, so that they are not angry.
However, Yu Zikun was heavily armed and well-equipped, and they could not engage them head-on, so they could only take the ordinary people and lose their temper. Therefore, the lives of the people in western Hunan are even more in full swing. Fortunately, after the liberation of the whole country, after two years of arduous fighting against bandits, the Xiangxi bandit gang was completely suppressed, and since then people have been completely liberated and able to live a stable and happy life.