At noon on a Sunday in April 1950, the entrance to the Asian Cinema on Minguo Road (now Zhangye Road) in Chengguan District, Lanzhou, was crowded with people who came to see the movie, and the scene was very noisy. It turned out that the screening time of the movie was approaching, and people rushed to hold the movie tickets, crowding each other and shouting for the ticket inspectors to move faster, so as not to delay everyone's time to enter the movie. At this moment, however, there was a sudden spat of heat in the crowd.
A man with a northwest accent yelled at the ticket inspector: "The movie is about to start, everyone can't get in at the door, what do you eat as a ticket inspector?" Can you do things slowly, can you do it? The ticket inspector was a middle-aged man with a slightly fat body and a numb face, and when he heard this, he immediately became angry and shouted: "There are still five minutes, what are you anxious about?" Have the ability not to come to the movie, see what you can, here the scum whining, who do you think you are! ”
As soon as the ticket inspector finished speaking, many people present were stunned, because the accent of the ticket inspector was not a local accent, but a thick Northeastern accent. The quarrel subsided temporarily, but after a while, the ticket inspector quarreled with the person just now- it turned out that the ticket inspector deliberately failed to check the ticket of the person just now, and let the person go to the back of the line to re-queue on the grounds of cutting in line. The quarrel between the two of them became so loud that those who walked on the Minguo Road (present-day Zhangye Road) stopped and observed what was happening.
At this time, a middle-aged man who drove a carriage to the Yellow River to fetch water walked over the Minguo Road (present-day Zhangye Road), and he was quickly attracted by the quarrel at the entrance of the Asian Cinema. The middle-aged man stopped the carriage, stretched his neck and looked far away at the door of the Asian Cinema, and then suddenly froze in place. The middle-aged man's facial expression instantly changed from doubt to horror, because he was so familiar with the ticket inspector's thick Northeastern accent that he had the courage to go to the door of the movie theater and observe the appearance of the ticket inspector through the gap in the crowd.
Immediately after, the middle-aged man who drove the carriage quickly withdrew again, and drove the carriage away from the scene with trembling. The middle-aged man who drove the carriage to the Yellow River to pull water was named Li Yuechen, who in his early years served as a platoon leader in the police regiment of Sheng Shicai, the leader of the Kuomintang warlords in Xinjiang, and was later transferred to the Kuomintang Dihua (now Urumqi) police station as a patrol officer. Before the peaceful liberation of Xinjiang, Li Yuechen ran from Xinjiang to Lanzhou and lived an ordinary life of anonymity.
One day in December 1949, the Lanzhou public security department arrested Li Yuechen, a worker in an auto repair shop, based on public revelations and reports from the masses. At this time, Li Yuechen was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment by the people's government for counter-revolutionary crimes and imprisoned in Gaolan No. 1 Prison in Gansu. During his imprisonment, Li Yuechen conscientiously received ideological education and labor reform and showed great enthusiasm. Within a few months, Li Yuechen was transferred to catch a carriage and became a foreign servant, responsible for driving a carriage three times a day to fetch water from under the Yellow River Iron Bridge for the prisoners in prison to drink.
One day in May 1951, Li Yuechen took the initiative to find the administrators of Gaolan No. 1 Prison and told the truth about what he had heard and seen at the entrance of the Asian Cinema a year ago, as well as his own conjecture. Why did Li Yuechen choose to tell the truth a year later? First, because he was not 100 percent sure of the authenticity, and second, at this time, the suppression of counter-revolutionary movements was being carried out throughout the country, and Li Yuechen wanted to make meritorious contributions and make meritorious atonement for his crimes.
So, what did Li Yuechen truthfully say to the prison administrators? Li Yuechen's words surprised the prison administrators and hurriedly reported it to the Lanzhou public security department. It turned out that Mr. Li said that the ticket inspector with a thick northeastern accent that he had seen at the entrance of the Asian cinema a year earlier was most likely his immediate boss in Xinjiang, Lu Binglin, the police chief of the Kuomintang's Dihua (now Urumqi), and that lu Binglin was the murderer of the martyr Chen Tanqiu.
Chen Tanqiu ,名澄,字云先,号潭秋,Born in 1896 in a lonely Shuxiang Mendi in Chen Ce Lou, Huanggang, Hubei Province. Chen Tanqiu has been smart and studious since childhood, and during his studies in Huanggang Primary School and Wuchang Middle School, Chen Tanqiu's academic performance is always among the best, so he is deeply loved by teachers and comrades. In 1916, at the age of 20, Chen Tanqiu was admitted to the Department of Foreign Languages of the National Wuchang Higher Normal School with excellent results.
During this period, Chen Tanqiu came into contact with the education of advanced ideas and began to propagate Marxism. During the May Fourth Movement, Chen Tanqiu actively participated in it and became the most active local activist in Wuhan. In the summer of 1919, Chen Tanqiu came to Shanghai as a member of the Wuhan student delegation and met Comrade Dong Biwu under the introduction of his classmates. In the autumn of 1920, Chen Tanqiu, together with like-minded Dong Biwu and others, formed the wuhan communist group, an early party organization in Wuhan.
In July 1921, Chen Tanqiu attended the first party congress held in the French Concession in Shanghai and Jiaxing, Zhejiang. After that, appointed by the party organization, Chen Tanqiu successively served as a member of the Anyuan Prefectural Committee, the secretary of the Wuchang Prefectural Cpc Committee, the director of the Organization Department of the Hubei District CPC Committee, the secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial CPC Committee, the director of the Organization Department of the Jiangsu Provincial CPC Committee, the secretary general of the Manchurian Provincial CPC Committee, and the secretary general of the Jiangsu Provincial CPC Committee.
At the beginning of 1933, Chen Tanqiu was sent to work in the central base area and was soon appointed secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee. In January 1934, Chen Tanqiu was elected as a member of the Central Executive Committee and minister of the Ministry of Grain of the Central Government. During the jinggangshan struggle, Chen Tanqiu led the staff to make very important contributions to ensuring the grain supply of the Central Soviet Region and the Red Army under extremely difficult conditions. In October 1934, the Central Red Army embarked on a long and arduous long march, at which time Chen Tanqiu was ordered to stay in the Central Soviet Region to continue the struggle.
In February 1935, during the breakthrough in western Fujian, Chen Tanqiu, Tan Zhenlin and others led a reinforced battalion of troops to cross the Wuyi Mountains to advance, resulting in the area around Shanghang being surrounded by the enemy. In the fierce battle, the commander of the reinforcement battalion unfortunately died heroically, so Chen Tanqiu brandished a gun to direct the battle. However, just as Chen Tanqiu was commanding the battle, an enemy bullet hit him in the right ear, and Chen Tanqiu immediately rolled down the cliff and was injured in the head.
At this critical moment, Chen Tanqiu completely ignored his own injuries, he got up and continued to command the battle, and finally successfully broke through the siege.
Soon after, Chen Tanqiu was secretly sent to Shanghai by the organization to receive treatment for his injuries. After recovering from his injuries, Chen Tanqiu's right ear was forever missing a piece. In the years of revolutionary struggle between blood and fire, scars were the most glorious "medals" for revolutionaries, and the first time I saw Chen Tanqiu's comrades, as soon as they saw the scars on his right ear, they immediately stood in awe, because the comrades knew that in front of them was a revolutionary fighter who had rushed out of the rain of bullets and bullets.
After being cured of his wounds in Shanghai, Chen Tanqiu was sent to the former Soviet Union to attend the Seventh Congress of the Communist International, and then sent to the Lenin Institute in Moscow to participate in his studies. In May 1939, Chen Tanqiu was ordered to return to China after completing his studies and was soon appointed head of the Eighth Route Army's office in Xinjiang. During his work in Xinjiang, Chen Tanqiu, together with Comrades Mao Zemin and Lin Jilu, carried out the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement and made outstanding contributions to Xinjiang's economic development and cultural construction.
Unexpectedly, however, in April 1942, Sheng Shicai, then chairman of the Kuomintang's Xinjiang provincial government, joined forces with Chiang Kai-shek and began to secretly arrest and persecute progressives working in Xinjiang. At this time, Chen Tanqiu, who had already sensed the danger, immediately reported the relevant situation to the central authorities and suggested that comrades working in Xinjiang be transferred back in batches as soon as possible. In order to ensure that comrades can leave Xinjiang safely, Chen Tanqiu included himself in the last batch of people who left Xinjiang, and he also said with great righteousness: "As long as there is still one comrade, I cannot leave!" ”
On September 17, 1942, a sad event occurred when Chen Tanqiu was arrested by police and agents sent by the warlord leader Sheng Shicai. In the enemy's prison, Chen Tanqiu remained unyielding and indomitable, denouncing the enemy's numerous crimes of sabotaging the anti-Japanese national united front. On September 27, 1943, Chen Tanqiu was secretly killed by the warlord leader Sheng Shicai, at the age of 47. At that time, along with Chen Tanqiu, there were comrades Mao Zemin and Lin Jilu who sacrificed heroically.
Because the enemy deliberately blocked the news that Chen Tanqiu and other comrades had been killed, the organization did not know for a long time that Chen Tanqiu and other comrades had died. So much so that at the Seventh Congress held in 1945, Chen Tanqiu was elected as a member of the Central Committee. It was not until after the peaceful liberation of Xinjiang in 1949 that the organization found the whereabouts of Comrades Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, Lin Jilu, and other comrades who had been unheard of for seven years, based on the archives retained by the Kuomintang side, and they had already been killed. When the bones of the martyrs were found, the comrades present all shook their wrists and vowed to seek justice for Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, Lin Jilu and other martyrs.
Since then, the arrest of the murderers of Chen Tanqiu and other martyrs has been placed on the important agenda. However, what puzzled the comrades of the Xinjiang public security department was that in addition to the warlord leader Sheng Shicai, who fled to Taiwan, the accomplices under Sheng Shicai had disappeared without a trace, so that there were no clues for the public security departments to investigate. What to do? If the murderers of Chen Tanqiu and other martyrs cannot be brought to justice, then it will be impossible to comfort the martyrs' spirits in heaven!
As the saying goes, the legal net is restored and not leaked. With Li Yuechen, a foreign servant in Gansu Gaolan No. 1 Prison, truthfully confessing in May 1951 that a year earlier at the entrance of the Asia Cinema in Lanzhou, he had met the ticket inspector with a thick northeastern accent, most likely his boss in Xinjiang, Lu Binglin, chief of the Kuomintang Dihua (now Urumqi) police station, and the public security department's pursuit of the murderers of Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, Lin Jilu and other martyrs was officially launched.
After receiving the clues provided by Li Yuechen, the Lanzhou public security department deeply felt that the matter was very important, and soon dispatched eight elite public security comrades to form a special case group. Immediately afterward, the public security comrades spared no effort to conduct a secret investigation and visit to the relevant situation of the ticket inspectors in the Asian cinema with a thick Northeastern accent. So, is this ticket inspector the murderer of Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, Lin Jilu and other martyrs -- Lu Binglin, director of the Kuomintang Dihua Police Bureau?
After a secret investigation and visit, the public security comrades soon learned that the ticket inspector was named "Guan Xianzhi", a native of Anshan, Liaoning Province, who had moved from Zhangye to Lanzhou in 1948. After the liberation of Lanzhou, "Guan Xianzhi" signed up for the employment examination and was hired as a ticket inspector for the Asian Film Theater. At present, "Guan Xianzhi" lives in a single-family courtyard on Guangwu Back Street in Lanzhou, and there are three people in his family, in addition to "Guan Xianzhi", there are two young women, they are "Guan Xianzhi's" big wife and little wife.
According to the descriptions of the neighbors, the "Kwan Hyun Chi" family is very strange, they never interact with the neighbors, even if they meet inside and outside, they never say hello. Moreover, the door of the "Kwan Hyun-chi" home is always closed, and it is rare to go out, unless it is to go out to work or buy daily necessities. In addition, "Kwan Hyun-chi" has a very strange place - when he first moved in, the skin on his face was very white, but soon after, a lot of numbness that seemed to be burned suddenly appeared on his face, and for a while he often walked out wearing a large mask.
Foreign servant Li Yuechen once confessed that I listened to the northeastern accent of the ticket inspector at the Asian cinema, much like Lu Binglin, the head of the Kuomintang Dihua Police Bureau, and his body was about the same size, the only difference was that the ticket inspector had hemp on his face, while Lu Binglin did not have hemp on his face. At that time, Li Yuechen was very frightened in his heart, and just looked at the crowd from a distance, and he was frightened and hurried away from the carriage. Therefore, Li Yuechen did not dare to be completely sure that the ticket inspector with the northeastern accent was Lu Binglin, the murderer of Chen Tanqiu and other martyrs.
What's going on? Where is the conductor "Guan Xianzhi" who is sacred? Why did he suddenly appear numb on his face? As the saying goes, there must be a demon out there. Based on the information collected about the ticket inspector "Guan Xianzhi" and combined with the file on Lu Binglin that was sent to the Xinjiang public security department, the public security comrades finally decided to arrest the ticket inspector "Guan Xianzhi" and search his place of residence in order to achieve a substantive breakthrough in the case.
One day in May 1951, two police comrades dressed in plain clothes arrived at the Asian Cinema on Minguo Road (now Zhangye Road). At this time, the ticket inspector "Kwan Hyun-chi" was working at the cinema. After a while, the ticket inspector "Guan Xianzhi" was called to the security room by the person in charge of the movie theater to meet with the two public security comrades. After seeing the ticket inspector "Guan Xianzhi", the two public security comrades said: "Guan Xianzhi, please go with me, there are some things that need your cooperation in the investigation!" ”
The ticket inspector "Guan Xianzhi" was stunned, and quickly reacted, he swallowed a mouthful of spit, stabilized his mind, and then squeezed a smile and said: "Good, good, comrade, I cooperate!" You see, can you let me arrange things at work first, and then go with you? The two public security comrades said solemnly: "No need, you can go with us now!" Hearing these words, Guan Xianzhi's face showed a lost expression, and then followed two public security comrades to the public security bureau.
The flowers bloom in two, one on each side. Another group of public security comrades, while searching the residence of "Guan Xianzhi", made a major discovery - a photograph of a man in a Kuomintang uniform. According to the file on Lu Binglin sent by the Xinjiang public security department, the man in the photo is Lu Binglin. Later, in the face of ironclad evidence, the scrutineer "Guan Xianzhi" finally bowed his head, and he not only admitted his true identity as Lu Binglin, but also truthfully confessed the details of his killing of Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, Lin Jilu and other martyrs.
In this way, Lu Binglin, the murderer of Chen Tanqiu and other martyrs, hid in the Lanzhou movie theater as a ticket inspector, and as a result, he was discovered and reported by his subordinates at that time because of quarrels with people, and finally arrested! According to the confession of the executioner Lu Binglin, on September 17, 1942, he received a secret order from the warlord leader Sheng Shicai to secretly arrest Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, Lin Jilu and others and imprison them in the Second Prison of Dihua (now Urumqi) in Xinjiang.
In prison, in order to force Chen Tanqiu and others to obey, the executioner Lu Binglin instructed Li Yingqi, Zhang Sixin and other lackeys to torture Chen Tanqiu and others. The lackeys used everything to the extreme, they used soldering irons, bamboo sticks, tiger stools, pepper water and other tortures, but Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, Lin Jilu and others were all iron-boned and heroic. On September 27, 1943, the executioner Lu Binglin received a secret order from the warlord leader Sheng Shicai, who led Liu Hansheng, Li Yingqi, Zhang Sixin and others to put Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, Lin Jilu and others around their heads with black cloth and escorted them to an office.
When Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, Lin Jilu and others entered the office, the lackeys who had already been ambushed at this time took sticks, knocked them to the ground, and then strangled them alive with ropes. After the lackeys killed Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, Lin Jilu and others, the executioner Lu Binglin ordered their bodies to be dragged to a deserted mass grave in LiudaoWan and buried in a hasty pit. It is heinous that within a few days, the secret service organization of the military command sent a letter asking the warlord leader Sheng Shicai to take pictures to prove that Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, Lin Jilu, and others had indeed been executed.
Reluctantly, the executioner Lu Binglin, in accordance with the request of the warlord leader Sheng Shicai, dug up the bodies of Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, Lin Jilu, and other martyrs again, and took pictures of the martyrs' bodies. After some tossing, the executioner Lu Binglin asked the lackeys to hastily bury the martyr's body. Soon after, photographs of the corpses of Martyrs Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, and Lin Jilu passed to the hands of Dai Kasa, the head of the secret service, and then to Chiang Kai-shek.
The truth is out! Listening to the confession of the executioner Lu Binglin, the public security comrades' hearts were like a knife, and they were angry at the executioner's ferocity, and they were also proud of the indomitable chastity of Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, Lin Jilu and other martyrs. In the process of interrogation, the public security comrades also understood the origin of the numbness on the face of the executioner Lu Binglin - Lu Binglin, who was originally a thief with a weak heart, had always been afraid of being recognized by others, so he used the peas just fished out of the oil pot to destroy his original appearance and become a hemp!
Before and after the executioner Lu Binglin was arrested, other murderers involved in the murder of Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, Lin Jilu, and other martyrs -- Liu Hansheng, former deputy director of the Kuomintang Xinjiang Secret Trial Court Committee, Li Yingqi, former director of the Kuomintang Xinjiang Public Security Management Office, Zhang Guangqian, former deputy director of the Kuomintang Xinjiang Public Security Management Office, and Zhang Sixin, former director of the Kuomintang Xinjiang Dihua Second Prison, were also arrested and arrested by the public security departments one after another, and their shameful lives ended. As the murderers were arrested one after another, the spirits of Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, Lin Jilu and other martyrs in heaven could finally rest in peace!
Let us pay tribute to Martyrs Such as Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, and Lin Jilu! The people will always remember you!