During the Kuomintang rule, Wang Jingwei and Chiang Kai-shek vied for leadership, sometimes cooperating, sometimes splitting. On the whole, they are a mountain dog. In the more than 20 years from the Northern Expedition to the War of Resistance Against Japan, they have always been fighting each other and fighting endlessly. Now I am narrating the last scene of Jiang Wang's "double reed drama" - Jiang Wang's tomb. I was involved in this scene.
After the surrender of the Japanese in 1945, I worked in the 74th Army of the Army. In early October, on the orders of He Yingqin, the army arrived in Nanjing by air from Zhijiang, Xiangxi, and directly under the command of the Army General Headquarters, serving as a garrison in Nanjing and assisting the Army Headquarters in handling the work of disarming Japanese and Wang puppet troops and repatriating Japanese prisoners and Japanese overseas Chinese. On the night of 15 January 1946, I received a telegram from Xiao Yixu, chief of staff of the Army Headquarters, saying that he had been instructed by He Yingqin to immediately attend an important meeting at the headquarters.
When I arrived at the conference hall of the Army Headquarters on Huangpu Road, Ma Chaojun, mayor of Nanjing, Ma Chongliu, commander of the engineers of the Army Headquarters, Zhang Zhen, commander of the Nanjing Military Police, and Xiao Yisu, chief of staff of the Army Headquarters, were all waiting there. He Yingqin, who personally attended the meeting, first said: "Please come and discuss one thing, I hope to keep it absolutely secret and not leak it in any direction." The chairman of the committee will soon return the capital, and the grave of Wang Jingwei, a big traitor, is actually buried in Meihua Mountain (a small earth mountain south of the Ming Xiao Mausoleum, with plum trees planted on the mountain, hence the name), juxtaposed with Premier Sun's mausoleum, which is too unusual. If you don't remove it, you must be angry when you see it. At the same time, it also hinders all aspects of audio-visual information. If you study in detail, how to change the law must be handled with caution. After that, he withdrew first.
Later, Xiao Yisu continued to express his opinion, still stating what he meant. He said: "The commander-in-chief has received instructions from Chongqing, and this issue concerns domestic and international audiovisual issues, and we have limited ourselves to deal with it within ten days." "At that time, it was designated that the seventy-fourth army send an engineering unit to carry out the relocation; During the relocation, the gendarmerie command sent troops to serve as internal and external guards, cut off pedestrian traffic, and did not allow any access; During the relocation, the Nanjing Municipal Government should send personnel to assist.
After roughly assigning the tasks, Ma Chongliu briefed me on the situation of Wang's tomb. He said: "The work of this tomb, which has been inspected, is a reinforced concrete structure, and the tomb is not too large, but it is quite solid. "He asked me what method I used to get it started. I talked casually and said that the problem was very simple, the sappers had explosives, but they demanded absolute secrecy, otherwise it was not appropriate to use blasting; There has to be plenty of time.
Ma told me, "The meaning of the main seat is to get better sooner and better, because you have to organize and build other things." It is best to deal with it overnight when everything is fully prepared. "Due to the short time, it was decided that only blasting could be used, and other speakers were used to cover it up to prevent leakage. After the meeting, all the offices actively prepared.
It was originally decided to start blowing up the graves at 12 p.m. on January 20, but since the preparations had not yet been completed, the operation was temporarily moved to the 21st.
Three days before this, between the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum and the Ming Xiao Mausoleum, travel was cut off and no tour was allowed. At this time, there were some rumors outside, saying that they wanted to arrest the traitors again, and some people who had done bad things during the enemy and puppet period became terrified, some fled outside, and some hid everywhere.
Regarding the task of blasting the graves, I personally assigned Li Dongyang, commander of the engineering battalion of the 51st Division of the 74th Army, to be in charge of handling it. According to the estimates of the technical reconnaissance of the sappers, about 150 kilograms of TNT high explosives would be needed to blow it all up. At the time of the explosion, Ma Chongliu, Ma Chaojun, and I were supervising at the scene.
Wang Jingwei died in Japan in 1944, and his body was shipped back to China in a small Nanmu coffin and buried here. The Wang puppet government was also prepared to spend a huge amount of money to build a mausoleum of scale and size. According to an engineer surnamed Kong, the mausoleum design was modeled after Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum, and the cost budget was Wu tens of millions of counterfeit coins. As soon as the core work of the tomb was preliminarily completed, the Japanese invaders surrendered and the construction stopped.
The sapper blasting operation is divided into two steps: the first step is to blow open the outer concrete reinforcement part of the tomb; The second step is to open the inner cellar of the coffin. After the inner cellar exploded, the coffin was found; When the lid of the coffin was opened, I saw that the corpse was covered with a red flag covering the blue sky and the sun, and the corpse was dressed in a puppet government civilian dress, wearing a navy blue robe and horse coat, wearing a machine hat on his head, and wearing a large waist with a large bow; The face is slightly brown with some dark spots. Because "preservatives" were used in the coffin, the entire body remained intact and did not decompose.
After the lid of the coffin was uncovered, Ma Chongliu instructed unnecessary personnel to temporarily withdraw from the cemetery, and Ma Chaojun conducted all the inspections in the coffin, mainly to find what burial objects were there. As a result, there were no relics other than a white note about three inches long found in the pocket of the deceased's horse coat. On this piece of paper, the four words "Return of the Soul" were written with a brush, and the next paragraph was signed Chen Bijun. It is said that the writing on the piece of paper was written by Wang's wife, Chen Bijun, when she was returning from Japan to China, to show the meaning of calling spirits.
When Ma Chongliu opened the coffin, I found that this was a bit abrupt. At the time of the meeting, Ho's instructions clearly stated that it was a relocation, and now the coffin lid is open, and there is no intention of where to relocate. I knew something was wrong, but I didn't understand what they were up to. Ma Chongliudanglang instructed Li Dongyang, commander of the engineering battalion: "Your task is to load the coffin into the truck now (the car was prepared by General Lu), and tonight you will level the cemetery so that no traces of the original are left." "At that time, in order to clarify this mystery, I hinted to Li Dongyang to pay attention, and he understood my intentions. I deliberately said to him: "In order to be responsible to the end, please accompany the car to avoid accidents along the way." The task here is to give it to your deputy battalion commander. "I told Ma that Camp Commander Li is faithful and reliable, and all problems can be assured. Ma agreed to let Li go with him.
Early the next morning, Li You came back from the scene and reported to me: "Last night, I accompanied Ma Chongliu to send Wang Jingwei's coffin all the way to Qingliangshan and delivered the body to the crematorium, it only took half an hour. "Only then did I understand that Ma Chongliu was implemented according to the planned plan according to another secret instruction of He Yingqin. The so-called migration is nothing more than a pretext at the meeting. The Kuomintang leaders did just that, one thing on the surface, and another thing behind it.
More than half a month later, it was already early February, and spring was shining. One day, I drove to the Ming Xiaoling Tomb for a tour, and by the way I went to Meihua Mountain, I found that the scenery on Meihua Mountain was completely different, and the appearance had been completely changed. On the original tomb of the Wang, a small pavilion has been erected for swimming and resting. On the north and south sides of the mountain, two trails have been opened up to cultivate a variety of flowers and trees. The surroundings have been renovated; It is closely matched with the beautiful scenery of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, and the scenery is indeed good. Who would have imagined that this place was once the burial place of the great traitor Wang Jingwei.
However, as the saying goes: "If people do not know, unless they have nothing to do", let alone build a big civil engineering problem. In the old society, the so-called secrecy became a routine style, and it could only be done temporarily. By early February, the news had leaked out.
One day, a woman in her thirties appeared, saying that she had just returned from abroad and claimed to be Wang Jingwei's daughter. First went to the Nanjing Municipal Government and asked to see Ma Chaojun, who was menacing. Ma Chaojun knew why this person had come, felt overwhelmed, and refused to receive him; In the end, a secretary Zhang was sent out to deal with it, and pushed all the handling of the grave to the army headquarters, pretending that he did not know about it.
This woman ran to the headquarters of the Army Army on Huangpu Road and asked to see He Yingqin, but was blocked by the guard at the head of the door and refused to let him in. Since then she has come once a day, insisting on seeing her, but to no avail. In desperation, she played scoundrels, crying and laughing, scolding, loudly accusing He Yingqin of not having her father's grave destroyed, saying, "Nanjing can't be buried, so let me transport it back to Guangdong to be buried, does it hinder your business?" "
Finally, she used the notoriously ugly history of her father's lifetime as a threatening capital, and the language is too hard to hear. At that time, there were many Chinese onlookers, all of whom looked at this woman with strange eyes. The gatekeeper was afraid of causing some trouble, so a chief guard came out, pretending to everyone that it was a patient with sperm disease, and ordered the order to disperse.
Xiao Yisu knew that if he didn't want to do anything, he couldn't make a mistake, so he called a staff officer out, brought two guards, wearing box guns, and first gave this woman a dismount; She was warned: "You are allowed to leave immediately, otherwise you will be guilty of disorder and favoritor." This suppressed her momentum. Seeing that the situation was wrong, she had to slip away. An episode came to an end.
Why did Chiang Kai-shek instruct He Yingqin to blow up graves and burn corpses? Is it out of hatred for the traitor? Apparently not. Even if he saw Wang Jingwei buried in Meihua Mountain, he would not be "angry". From the actual process of bombing the grave at that time, it can also be seen that there is a special "painstaking heart". If it is out of hatred, then the treatment of the grave of a great traitor can be justified and made public, so why should it be sneaky and secret?
I thought that Wang Jingwei vainly claimed to "save the country by Qu Wei", fled Chongqing, openly defected to the enemy, and under the direction of the Japanese invaders, established the Nanjing traitor regime, and resolutely opposed the communist and anti-people. Chiang Kai-shek was forced to resist Japan, and during the eight years of the War of Resistance, he consistently adhered to the reactionary policy of "actively anti-communism and passive anti-Japanese", and constantly colluded with the enemy and plotted to carry out surrender activities. Chiang Kai-shek played the role of red face, and Wang Jingwei sang white face, and his "national policy" of surrendering to the country, opposing communism and opposing the people echoed from afar.
After Japan's surrender, Chiang Kai-shek regarded himself as a victor, relied on the strength of his American masters, stole the fruits of victory, continued to oppose the communists and the people, and could not but still pretend to be serious, tried a few war criminals, and killed a few traitors to show that the Chinese and the thieves were not at odds. If the grave of the number one traitor is openly buried in the capital Zhongshan Mausoleum, if it is ignored, will that scene of double reed drama not be exposed? Therefore, one side blew up the grave and burned the corpse to show that "there is no silver in this place three hundred taels"; On the one hand, he is also a thief, but he is afraid that this will provoke the inside, and someone will come out to expose the bottom, so he cannot but act secretly.