preface
New China has just been founded, everything is in ruins to be rebuilt, the relevant legal system is not very perfect, and the new cultural ideas and social concepts after the revolution are very different from the old society. According to relevant statistics, in the civil cases in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, marriage cases accounted for the vast majority, in the final analysis, there are still certain remnants of the old concept of marriage and family order, which have a fierce collision with the principles of equality between men and women and freedom of marriage stipulated in the "Marriage Law" promulgated to improve the judiciary after the founding of the People's Republic of China, showing a series of contradictory phenomena, Suiyang County Mayor Li Min is a typical representative...
A pile of complaint paper that triggered thunderous wrath
In 1952, a plainly dressed rural woman stood on the street opposite the southwest station of Chongqing, next to a girl of about seven or eight years old, only to see her look panicked, looking left and right, as if looking for something. The woman's name was Ding Hua, next to her daughter, and the reason why she was here was to wait for someone—Deng Xiaoping, then secretary of the Southwest Bureau. At this time, the streets are full of people, and no one knows that a "thousand miles to sue the emperor" drama is about to be staged here.
Near noon, a jeep stopped at the gate of the Southwest Bureau's station, the rear door opened, and a figure hurried down, it was Deng Xiaoping, who was taking care of everything, and he was rushing to the office to deal with state affairs after a day of work. Just two steps down from the car, I saw a woman holding a girl and kneeling in front of her, prostrating her head while asking Deng Gong to uphold justice. Deng Xiaoping was startled by the sudden situation, but immediately reacted, immediately lifting up the kneeling women and inviting them to come in and speak.
In the reception room of the organ, Deng Xiaoping asked the staff to pour tea for the mother and daughter, so that they could calm their mood and tell them in detail what had happened. Under Deng Xiaoping's appeasement, Ding Hua's mood gradually calmed down, and she pulled out about seven or eight pieces of paper from her baggage, which had been written before leaving, and Ding Hua handed it to Deng Xiaoping with both hands. Deng Xiaoping took the complaint and watched it carefully, but the more he looked at it, the heavier his face became, and finally he was angry and rushed to the crown, shot up the case, and loudly rebuked: "It is really bold, and the mayor of Suiyang County must be severely punished." The reason why Deng Xiaoping made such a big fire has a lot to do with what is said in the letter and what Ding Hua personally experienced.
A pair of revolutionary companions separated by two places
Ding Hua was originally a township cadre in Feicheng County, Shandong's Liberated Region, and her husband was a glorious revolutionary fighter named Li Min. During the War of Liberation, Li Min forged ahead on the battlefield and made great contributions to the founding of New China. The husband and wife fought for the revolutionary cause together, gathered less and left more, separated the two places, and often wrote letters to each other to express their heartfelt feelings. After the Battle of Huaihai, when Li Min reported a letter of safety to his wife, he said that he was summing up his work and would soon be able to return to his hometown for reunion. At this time, all localities were liberating, there was a serious shortage of cadres and personnel, and Li Min was unable to return home as scheduled because of the needs of the organization.
In 1950, he sent a letter to his wife in his hometown, telling that he had been appointed president of the Suiyang County Court in Guizhou Province because of the vacancy of the county chief, and that he also held the position of county chief. In his letter, Li Min also promised that when the situation calmed down, he would take the mother and daughter to live together. Ding Hua, who received the letter, was immersed in the fantasy of a beautiful and happy life in the future, looking forward to the return of her husband.
After this letter, Ding Hua never had any news of her husband, and everything about Li Min seemed to have sunk into the sea. Ding Hua was very worried, afraid that her husband had already died, after all, the place where he worked was located in the mountainous forest area of Guizhou, and in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the banditry here was still relatively serious. Ding Hua thought day and night, tossing and turning, and finally couldn't resist the speculation in his heart, and decided to go to Suiyang to find out in person. However, when Ding Hua came to Suiyang County with her young daughter who had suffered day and night, what he got was a shocking news, and her husband was the county magistrate of Suiyang County, and he had just been newly married.
A fair and rigorous judicial trial
Originally, when Li Min first served as the county magistrate of Suiyang County, he was still a good comrade with high ideological consciousness, holding the attitude of doing practical things for the people, and he was also very concerned about his wife and daughter in his hometown in his free time. But as time went on, being in the center of power, Li Min felt a kind of enjoyment that he had never enjoyed in his life, and money and power gradually corroded the mind of the revolutionary hero. Slowly, he began to slack off at work, followed by the indulgence of pleasure, and what was even more excessive was that Li Min's heart was great, and he met a female student who had just graduated and was a teacher at Suiyang School, who looked very beautiful, and threatened to seduce the girl as his wife.
As party members and cadres, this practice is undoubtedly contrary to the "Marriage Law" just promulgated by the mainland, and Deng Xiaoping and other state leaders have even specifically emphasized that cadres should correct the erroneous concept of marriage. After the matter was revealed, Li Min not only did not want to repent, but also turned away Ding Hua and his daughter, who had traveled thousands of miles to find the door, Ding Hua was not willing to do so, and noisily asked for an explanation, afraid that Li Min, who was in an unstable position, went so far as to slander the chaff wife as a mental patient, and let the police arrest their mother and daughter and secretly dispose of them. Fortunately, the woman who was forced to marry by Li Min took pity on Ding Hua's suffering and quietly let her go, so that the mother and daughter had the opportunity to get out of the control of the devil and come to Chongqing to find Deng Xiaoping and seek justice.
On January 2, 1953, Li Min's case was tried in Chongqing, and more than 2,000 cadres were present. After the judge found out, Li Min was convicted of bigamy in accordance with the law and sentenced to one and a half years' imprisonment. The case attracted the attention of the people of the whole country, who condemned Li Min's actions and applauded Deng Xiaoping's fair handling.
epilogue
Nowadays, China's judicial system has been basically perfected, and cases of legal bigamy have become extremely rare, but the phenomenon of abandoning the wife of the chaff is still common in real life. The law is only the bottom line, morality should be the norm that restricts our daily life behavior, whether it is party members and cadres or ordinary people, we should be strict with ourselves, worthy of the cultivation of the party and the state, and worthy of the trust and trust of the people.