In 1934, the anti-Japanese hero Ji Hongchang was executed by shooting, and his life was forever fixed at the age of 39.
At the last moment of his life, Ji Hongchang chose to be heroic and righteous for the sake of the firm revolutionary ideal in his heart.
Before Ji Hongchang was sent to the execution ground, what he missed most was his wife and children, and after his own sacrifice, they were helpless and doomed to live a very difficult life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > joined the army in his early years and was "deported" abroad</h1>
Ji Hongchang was born in a small mountain village in Henan Province to ordinary working parents.
His mother died young, and his father, Yoshimomatsu, made ends meet by running a small teahouse in the town.
Ji Hongchang has been very sensible since childhood, in order to help his father reduce the burden of life, Ji Hongchang often does agricultural work such as carrying water and planting crops at home, or carrying bamboo baskets to the town to sell eggs, adding some meager income to the family, and he will also take time to help his father take care of the business of the tea house.
However, as he grew older, Ji Hongchang was no longer willing to work as a farmer at home, and when he was fourteen years old, he went out on his own and apprenticed in a jewelry store in the county, which was Ji Hongchang's first job in life.
It wasn't long before the jewelry store closed, and Ji Hongchang had to go to a grocery store in Zhoukou Town as an apprentice, where the sixteen-year-old Ji Hongchang was bullied and experienced human suffering.
When Ji Hongchang was eighteen years old, he happened to encounter Feng Yuxiang recruiting soldiers in the Henan area, and he did not want to live such a life of being instructed by others, so he resolutely ran to join the army, and his career as a horseman began.
Ji Hongchang was a man of integrity and integrity, after joining the army, he performed heroically on the battlefield, he was simple and had a clear goal, since he chose to join the army, he decided to bow down to defend the country and die, and never slackened off in the slightest.
Ji Hongchang was in his youth when he joined the army, he was one meter and nine meters tall, and he could still bear hardships and stand hard work, and he was soon included in Feng Yuxiang's command and received special training.
Because of Ji Hongchang's outstanding performance in the army, in July 1917, Ji Hongchang was transferred to Feng Yuxiang's pistol special training team, and soon after, he was promoted to company commander.
In 1931, the northeast region of our country was mercilessly trampled by the iron hooves of the Japanese army, and Ji Hongchang's first reaction after learning this news was to resolutely resist Japan and never compromise, but his superiors actually ordered him to engage the Red Army!
Before the national hatred, Ji Hongchang was able to distinguish between right and wrong, and the "stubborn" resolute disobedience to this order, and the consequences could be imagined, he was deprived of military power, and was sent abroad to study and reflect.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > hearts for the motherland, heroic sacrifice</h1>
Ji Hongchang's exotic journey was a turning point in his destiny.
During his life abroad, Ji Hongchang's deepest feeling was that the life of the Chinese people was too hard, so he made up his mind that he would drive the invaders out of China after he returned.
After returning to China, he began secret cooperation with our Party and later developed into an excellent Communist Party member.
When Ji Hongchang was in the United States, in order to resist the imperialists' discrimination against the Chinese people and safeguard the dignity of the Chinese nation, he specially found a wooden plaque to hang on his body and wrote a sentence in red English font: "I am Chinese!"
He also angrily rebuked the embassy staff accompanying him: "Do you feel ashamed because you are Chinese?" I won't! I am proud to be a Chinese! China will definitely become strong! ”。
Through interviews with reporters, he also exposed Japan's heinous crimes of invading China with bloody facts, and at the same time condemned Britain's connivance with Japan's aggression against China and Chiang Kai-shek's compromise policy toward Japan.
In 1932, when the 1.28 Incident broke out in Shanghai, Ji Hongchang, after learning of this news, insisted on interrupting his "study and investigation" abroad and returned to the motherland after painstaking efforts to get rid of the surveillance of secret agents.
After Ji Hongchang arrived in Shanghai, he secretly contacted the North China Political Protection Bureau of the CPC through the underground members of the former Northwest Army and the Shanghai Party Organization.
In the autumn of 1933, Ji Hongchang came to Tianjin several times. In order to ensure his own safety, he first found a humble tavern to live in.
In 1934, Ji Hongchang, together with Ren Yingqi, Nan Hanchen, Xuanxia's father, and others, "plotted" the Central Plains Rebellion, in which more than 100,000 people participated.
In order to facilitate communication and propaganda, Ji Hongchang also set up a secret printing house in the corner of the third floor of his home for printing the organ publication "National Battle Flag".
In August 1934, those sent to Anhui to infiltrate and launch armed anti-Japanese forces were arrested, exposing Ji Hongchang's work in organizing and training armed forces in Tianjin.
On the evening of November 9, 1934, Kuomintang agents Zheng Jiemin, Chen Gongshu, Lü Yimin, and others broke into Room 45 on the second floor of the Tianjin National Hotel with guns -- the room where Ji Hongchang, Ren Yingqi, Liu Shaonan, and Li Gansan were secretly meeting.
On November 24, 1934, The Beiping Army Prison sentenced Ji Hongchang and Ren Yingqi to death on charges of "disturbing public order, joining the Communist Party, endangering the Republic of China" and "the two criminals have confessed."
According to tianjin's "Ta Kung Pao", in the last moments of his life, Ji Hongchang put on a black cloak and strode to the execution ground, with a calm attitude along the way, as if he were returning home.
Ji Hongchang fell on the snow and shouted loudly at the executioner: "I died for the anti-Japanese resistance, I can't kneel down and be shot, I can't fall down when I die, get me a chair, I have to sit and die!" ”。
Sitting on the chair, Ji Hongchang shouted again: "I died for the Chinese nation's War of Resistance Against Japan, I died in a just and just way, you must not shoot me in the back, you can only shoot in front of me, I want to see the enemy's bullets come out!" ”
When the executioner raised his gun in front of Ji Hongchang, Ji Hongchang finally shouted: "Long live the anti-Japanese resistance!" Long live the Communist Party of China! Then the heroic righteousness was taken.
After Ji Hongchang's death, his fourth brother Ji Jiachang personally went to Beiping and, together with his sister-in-law Hu Hongxia and his young son and daughter, transported the coffin by train to Xuchang.
Then the villagers transported the coffin back to their hometown of Lütan town by horse-drawn carriage and placed it in the house of the former residence hall, and a spiritual shed was built in the courtyard to accept condolences from relatives, friends, former friends, and villagers for several days.
After Ji Hongchang's sacrifice, his boyhood playmate Tong Yunliang, who ran around for his posthumous affairs, made a lot of efforts, and offered to guard the grave for his friend.
Ji Hongchang founded the Zhongshan School before his death, and after his death, the students here will carry out tomb sweeping and commemoration activities every year during the Qingming Festival.
In 1964, the Henan Provincial CPC Committee and the Provincial People's Government, in accordance with the suggestion of the masses throughout the country to facilitate mourning, and with the consent of the widow Hu Hongxia, made a resolution to relocate the remains of the martyr Ji Hongchang to the "Henan Provincial Martyrs Cemetery" in Zhengzhou.
In fact, as early as when Ji Hongchang was wanted by the Kuomintang, he expected that he would eventually die. Although he regarded death as a homecoming when he was heroic and righteous, he was very concerned about his wife and children in his heart.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > wives and children, and have a hard time</h1>
After Ji Hongchang's heroic righteousness, his wife Hu Hongxia lived a hard life alone with her children.
After learning that her husband had sacrificed his life for the country, Hu Hongxia braved the cold to come to the Beiping Army Branch of the Kuomintang in order to retrieve her husband's body as soon as possible and understand the contents of the suicide note, but the authorities did not allow Hu Hongxia to take away her husband's body and retrieve the suicide note.
Hu Hongxia was extremely anxious, she had to mortgage her house in exchange for 80,000 yuan, and then went to great lengths to buy the prison director, and finally ransomed her husband's bones.
In the pocket of Ji Hongchang's close-fitting coat, Hu Hongxia found a small pencil tip and a small piece of cigarette paper with a few lines written on it, one line saying 'Don't tell my wife knows'; the other line was 'Don't bury thickly'.
When Ji Hongchang died for the country, their son Lan Tai was only five years old, their daughter Ruizhi was only three years old, and Hu Hongxia was only twenty-seven years old at the time.
Ji Hongchang's wife, Hu Hongxia, whose real name is Hu Yueying, graduated from the Girls' Normal School before she met Ji Hongchang.
Hu Yueying has always been particularly fond of reading revolutionary books. In 1926, when Ji Hongchang was stationed in Lanzhou, Hu Yueying met and fell in love with him, and then married, and after the two married, Hu Yueying changed his name to Hu Hongxia.
After the death of her husband, in order to express her thoughts about her husband, Hu Hongxia resolutely decided to change her name again, this time, she changed her name to "Jihu Hongxia", and followed her husband's will, moved out of the concession, and devoted all her energy to raising her children.
For the next 15 years, Tianjin was ruled by the Japanese and the Kuomintang. Therefore, the fifteen years after Ji Hongchang's death were the most painful and difficult years in Ji Hu Hongxia's life.
Ji Hu Hongxia's orphans and widows took their children around "begging for a living" under the eyes of the Kuomintang, and the degree of difficulty was self-evident.
In order to avoid the "harassment" of the Kuomintang agents and ensure the safety of the children, Ji Hu Hongxia was cornered and had no choice but to pretend to be crazy and stupid.
She was ragged and disheveled, like a beggar, and she would run wild in the streets in two shoes of different colors, even her own children.
Her series of actions caused the Kuomintang agents to think: Ji Hongchang's widow may have been so devastated by her husband's death that she was really delirious.
Since this is the case, there is no need to monitor her anymore, let her fend for herself, Jihu Hongxia is how to ensure the safety of herself and her children.
After successfully escaping the surveillance of the Kuomintang, Ji Hu Hongxia did not let down her vigilance, but changed her name to Fu Boying and wandered around, fortunately with the help of friends and underground party organizations, she barely relied on teaching and weaving some small things to survive.
In fact, Ji Hu Hongxia had always been fighting with the Kuomintang, and before she pretended to be crazy and foolish to deceive the secret agents, she had already sent her daughter Ruizhi to the home of One of Ji Hongchang's subordinates, Shao Lanbo, and entrusted him with her care.
After Ruizhi came to the Shao family, she changed her name and surname and lived with several children of the Shao family, and even so, her mother Ji Hu Hongxia often went back to see her.
Ji Hu Hongxia always warned her children that in the future, when they have the opportunity, they must carry forward the deeds of their father Ji Hongchang, and tell future generations that Ji Hongchang is our national hero and that he has made great sacrifices for our nation.
Time flew by, and One of Ji Hongchang's sons and daughters soon grew up. His son worked in the field of education as an adult, devoted himself to teaching and educating people, and told the students about his father's heroic deeds, inspiring them to study hard and grow up to be useful to the motherland.
Ji Hongchang's daughter Ji Ruizhi, like her father, resolutely chose to join the Communist Party and then entered the Civil Aviation Administration. Ji Ruizhi soon reached the age of marriage, and she met an excellent young man named Zheng Ciyun, who was also the captain of the flying brigade of the Tianjin Civil Aviation Administration. In 1965, the two came together with the approval and mediation of the superior leaders and successfully went through the marriage procedures.
When her daughter got married, Ji Hu Hongxia said in a serious tone in front of the two of them: Your life has settled down, I am also relieved, and I sincerely hope that you can be happy. However, I hope that you will be able to help me fulfill my wish, that is, when choosing names for future generations of children, you must bring a "Ji" character, and do not forget that your father sacrificed for the country! Ji Ruizhi did not hesitate to agree, and later added an auspicious word when naming the child. Highly educated, she also wrote several biographies of her father's deeds.
Ji Ruizhi and Zheng Ciyun had a son and two daughters after marriage, and in order to show respect and remembrance of their grandfather, they also participated in the rehearsal of movies such as "Ji Hongchang" and "The Biography of Ji Hongchang".
In 1950, Ji Ruizhi returned to his hometown with his mother to visit the grave of his father Ji Hongchang. In the following sixty years, she preached her father's deeds as soon as she had the opportunity, so that more people could know about the national hero Ji Hongchang.
Ji Hongchang sacrificed his life heroically for the country, and although his wife and children had a difficult life in the early stage, under the care of their respective efforts and relatives and friends, their later life was also stable.