In the late 1920s, there was a "landlady" in Meihua on the outskirts of Shanghai who generously funded a down-and-out beggar.
Twenty years later, this beggar would become a well-known expert in military theory. He was the commander of the Ninth Corps and the famous general Song Shilun in the "Battle of Chosin Lake" to resist the United States and aid Korea.
This "landlady" who funded Song Shilun, the story of her life is even more legendary.
Her experience is far more tortuous than that of "Ah Qing's sister-in-law" in "Sha Jiabang",
She is Dong Zhujun, the owner of the "Jin Jiang Hotel".
The meeting of Dong Zhujun and Song Shilun in Shanghai seems to be a historical coincidence, but in fact, it also belongs to the inevitability of history.
Because the two of them, in about the same time, embarked on the road of revolution in different forms. Later, they did their best on their respective battlefields and made great contributions to New China.
First, legendary heroes meet at the most depressed time
Born in August 1907 in rural Hunan, Song Shilun attended a few years of private school in his early years and studied traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts with his father. At the age of 12, he entered the "foreign school" and was exposed to new ideas, so he wanted to join the revolution very early.
In 1926, only 19 years old
Together with his friends, Song Shilun was admitted to the fifth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy.
In 1927, Song Shilun joined the Communist Party of China.
After the outbreak of "April 12", the Kuomintang attacked in Shanghai Beach, and many Communists and revolutionaries were arrested and killed.
Song Shilun was imprisoned in a "stone prison" in Guangzhou because he was suspected of being a communist.
After Song Shilun sat in prison for more than a year,
With the help of friends, he was released from prison in 1929.
At that time, the Kuomintang was engaged in "white terror", and it was very difficult for Song Shilun to find an organization.
That year, when Song Shilun wandered to Shanghai, he had only a few cents left on him. Luckily, I met
A comrade from Sichuan introduced him to Shanghai Meihuali to find help from the "second landlord" Dong Zhujun.
Dong Zhujun, a native of Shanghai, was a 9-year-old because her father was ill and her family was in financial difficulties, so her family bet her to a bookstore on Shanghai's Wuma Road for 300 oceans as a "Qingqi person".
When he was 14 years old, Dong Zhujun met the revolutionary Xia Shi in Shuyu. At that time, Xia Shi was being passed by Yuan Shikai. The two fell in love at first sight, and then Natsuki took her to Japan.
After Dong Zhujun arrived in Japan, he worked hard to study and make progress, and later after returning to Shanghai, he held a "new-style wedding" with Xia Shi in a foreign firm.
unexpectedly
Xia Shi later returned to Sichuan, became a warlord, changed his thinking and life style dramatically, and became addicted to smoking.
Dong Zhujun and Xia Shi later had a conflict over the issue of their children's education. thereupon
Dong Zhujun left Sichuan alone with his 4 daughters and returned to Shanghai.
When Dong Zhujun first met Song Shilun, it was the year she first arrived in Shanghai. At that time, Dong Zhujun had not yet opened a spinning factory, let alone the later "Jin Jiang Hotel".
Because of the difficulties in life, Dong Zhujun spent all his savings with the help of friends, rented a two-story building of others, and then became a "second landlord" in the form of sublease, and then used this income to support himself and his four daughters.
Dong Zhujun had contact with the underground party as early as Sichuan, so after returning to Shanghai to open a rental house, he would often take in communists for free. However, her own life at that time was also difficult.
When the second landlord did not earn enough money to support the family, Dong Zhujun could only arrange for his eldest daughter to participate in the performance work in the song and dance troupe when she did not attend classes on weekends, and the performance costumes were rented.
In Shanghai, where white terror was rife, a beggar in his early twenties came to ask for help, and Dong Zhujun still took a big risk and gave the other party funds. It wasn't until after liberation, when the two of them were reunited, that she knew she hadn't helped the wrong person.
Second, the seemingly accidental inevitability
As the saying goes, a penny is hard to die a hero.
When Song Shilun found Dong Zhujun, if the latter refused to help, Although Song Shilun might not starve to death, he would definitely encounter great twists and turns and troubles later.
After Song Shilun got dong zhujun's money, he decided to return to his hometown and pull up a team to make a revolution. He was frugal along the way, reluctant to spend a dime. It wasn't until the autumn of that year that I returned home.
Later, Song Shilun organized a "guerrilla group" in the local area that specialized in fighting white bandits and frightening the enemy. Because of its reputation, it attracted the attention of local organizations. In the end, this force was incorporated into the Red Sixth Army.
At that time, the mobilization of troops in the countryside was mainly based on the mobilization of the revolutionary enthusiasm of the masses, but it was impossible not to spend money at all.
Presumably, among the start-up funds used by the start-up team, there is Dong Zhujun's share.
History always has a certain degree of contingency, which is the same for Dong Zhujun.
When Dong Zhujun was in Sichuan, in order to find a tutor for his daughter, he met Sha Mei, a communist party member and composer
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With Sha Mei's encouragement, Dong Zhujun began to support his daughters to learn music. Later, he fell out with her husband because of educational problems. When Dong Zhujun returned to Shanghai in 1929, he also received help from the Communists when his life was difficult.
Therefore, Dong Zhujun
After becoming a "second landlord", he immediately and without hesitation, he in turn funded the Communists.
Because of her generous temperament, the friends of the three religions and nine streams on the ground in Shanghai have difficulties, and they all love to come to her door to help, and as a result, she has made more and more friends.
In 1937, Dong Zhujun finally divorced Xia Shi. afterward
She opened the Jin Jiang Hotel, and the business became better and better, and it was famous throughout the country. When Xia Shi learned about it, he was dissatisfied, so he bought fan Shaozeng, the "Commander of the Hal Division", and wanted to push her into the lake and drown her.
Before Fan Shaozeng was about to act, he met Dong Zhujun's friend Yang Hu. Under the persuasion of Yang Hu, Fan Shaozeng finally dispelled this idea.
In the years from the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to the War of Liberation, Song Shilun killed the enemy on the frontal battlefield, and Dong Zhujun passed on intelligence and saved people on the underground battlefield. They each played their own legend on their own battlefield.
It wasn't until after the victory that the two met again and looked at each other in amazement. At that time, the two of them, one had become the commander of the corps on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the other had become a legendary "red" businesswoman.
epilogue
I don't know if you have found a phenomenon, that is, celebrities and celebrities are always easier to get together.
The meeting between Dong Zhujun and Song Shilun is both a historical coincidence and a historical inevitability.
When Song Shilun needed to find help from the organization in Shanghai, Dong Zhujun was like "Ah Qing's sister-in-law", opening the "inn" and opening the gate, waiting for people like him to arrive. The Song Wheel of Time happened to go, which may also be a coincidence.
However, people like Song Shilun and Dong Zhujun accounted for only a small part of that era and situation. Therefore, their meeting became inevitable. They are all so special, so it is not unusual that they have achieved amazing things later.