Stories from afar
Author | Liu Qisheng
Suffering is suffering, there are no good memories, I just want to speak for the victims.
Lead by word
9. Resistance
In slave society, a slave owner lets slaves work, only need a single order, if the slave does not do it, he wants to fight, and he wants to kill.
In feudal society, slaves were liberated and became peasants. The landlord exploits the peasant through the land he controls, making him dependent on him. In order to survive, the peasants had to meet the landlord's demands. The peasants had some autonomy, and the landlords needed to cede some of the benefits. Therefore, in general, the living conditions of peasants have changed compared with slaves, which is social progress.
However, in China in the 1930s and 1940s, there were years of war and plague, and the people were not happy. The warlord melee in Guannei has just ended, the Shaanxi and Jin regions have been in severe drought for many years, and the Yellow River in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, including Anhui, Henan, Hebei and Shandong, floods every year. The disaster victims in Guannei have been displaced for thousands of miles, starving everywhere, and the suffering Chinese nation has once again fallen into the depths of the waters. The victims fled, became rootless pings, lived in a different place, became hard labor, became slaves, this is a social regression, there is no way, they want to live.
The development of modern meteorological science has made us understand that most parts of China have a subtropical monsoon climate and a temperate monsoon climate, which are greatly affected by the monsoon, and the precipitation between regions is uneven, and the precipitation in different years in the same region will vary greatly. Secondly, the precipitation is greatly affected by the season, generally concentrated in the summer period, and the precipitation is large. This has led to the water level of the Yellow River Yangtze River has been changing, coupled with the difference in continental terrain, the terrain is hilly, the water is fierce, and it is very easy to cause floods.
After the july 7 incident on July 7, 1937, Japan launched a large-scale offensive against China.
Countless Chinese people have also suffered more as a result. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, due to Chiang Kai-shek's luck, he underestimated the military strength of the Japanese army. The Japanese army rampaged on the land of China, and a famous battle was also staged in the land of China. In May 1938, the Battle of Taierzhuang was defeated, and on June 9, Chiang Kai-shek replaced the army with water and blew up the Yellow River Garden, and the Yellow River was full of miles. About 800,000 people drowned, and farmland was flooded and even more starved to death. After the formation of the Yellow Pan, plagues, locust plagues, droughts and other disasters poured in, indirectly causing the Great Famine in Henan in 1942, which starved millions of people to death. The author Li Zhun wrote about this disaster in "The Yellow River Flows East" to tears and swing back to the intestines. A nation with a strong national spirit will not disappear into the course of history, and the sympathy, cohesion and traditional morality that history has given to our nation have enabled the Chinese nation to continue and develop. In the face of disaster, human nature is more real.
Similarly, after the great-grandfather gradually became familiar with the surrounding environment and internal structure of the enslaved Liaoyuan Coal Mine, the gradual awakening of the sense of resistance slowly sprouted in the heavy labor day after day.
At first, great-grandfathers and laborers were passive and sluggish. Early every morning, driven by Japanese devils and traitors, they entered the mine. In the mine cave, dark alleys are crisscrossed and the lights are dim. Devils and traitors rarely go down the well. Great-grandfathers, some of them fried coal, some shoveled coal, and some transported coal. They pushed the "rudder horse" (a four-wheeled coal-carrying iron cart with a raised steel beam on top to connect the hooks). Wheels are often dropped (vandalism), and shovels are often broken. In addition to destroying tools, they also "gathered in nests" (gathered together to sleep, kanda mountain). "Grinding foreign workers, grinding foreign workers, going to half an hour, coming back less than a point, continue to grind foreign workers." It was then that the "grinding foreign workers" that we chanted every day began to circulate.
Destroy production tools. Among the large number of laborers, there were quite a few Communists, who led everyone to fight with the devils and traitors. When the "rudder horse" is filled with coal, it is hung with a hook in turn, and the signal on the well is that the electric bell rings intermittently three times, and the people on the well know that they can be electrified to hang the "rudder horse" out of the coal. Party members led the workers to put the wire on the electric bell, as soon as the power was turned on, the electric bell rang non-stop, and could only stop work and maintenance, which greatly reduced the output of coal.
There is also a strike uprising. After the traitors withheld a pay cut, Zuo Gui, a member of the Chinese Communist Party, led a labor strike. They only go down the well, they don't work. Coal production plummeted, the Japanese tried to buy off individual workers, and under the leadership of the "Xi'an Special Branch", more than 2,000 people united in unity. They chanted slogans such as "Overthrow the Japanese Empire" and "Never Work Without a Raise." The strike spread quickly from one coal mine to other coal mines, and the workers went down the well without working, and for seven or eight consecutive days, the devils and traitors were so busy and anxious that there was no way but to promise to give the workers a wage increase and improve their living conditions.
Whenever Grandpa said this, he always stressed that the old ancestor was right, "The hearts of the people are united, Taishan moves", from the beginning we were afraid of the Japanese, and gradually we realized that the Japanese and the traitors were afraid that we would not work and affect the output, and we were also the lords of the inner circle. There was a strike that delayed the production of more than 10,000 tons of coal. The traitors repeatedly abused the people who led the strike, we were very scared at first, the leader also entered the torture room, was beaten with only one breath, after being dragged back, everyone took turns to serve him, with mugwort water and pig fat respectively to clean the wet wounds, half a month later, the wounds were healed, the leader was really a man, leading the workers to continue the strike. Gradually, the workers learned from the struggle, grew up in the struggle, and some launched explosions, followed the team to the Anti-League, and became the backbone of the Anti-League team.
Grandpa said that since the September 18 incident, the Japanese have scared Chinese. Mentioning the Japanese, like hearing that the sloppy tiger is coming, is really "talking about the tiger's discoloration." At that time, the Japanese were well trained and well equipped, and the gun seedlings (barrels) shot long and long, and the marksmanship was accurate. To eliminate a Japanese soldier, it is necessary to sacrifice seven or eight Eighth Route Army soldiers. The devil's soldiers are short and strong, like a "dwarf winter melon", but they do have great strength and strong combat effectiveness.
Grandpa also said that he was seventeen years old at the time, pushing a cart to transport coal in the mine, he did not work with his great-grandfather in a group, because he accidentally injured his foot, he could not work for seven or eight days, the traitors urged the leaders to go down the well every day, and the great-grandfather had no way, so he and the co-workers put together some money to give to the head, and after barely accommodating, grandpa had time to heal the foot injury.
The days were tormented in pain. After the autumn of 1944, great-grandfathers and grandfathers clearly felt that the Japanese were not as arrogant as before.
To be continued...
Liu Qisheng, a native of Wujing Yangcheng, a lover of literature, has been a soldier, driven a big car, and now lives in Qingzhou and is engaged in logistics.