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One day in the eighties of the last century, the home of Li Kecai, an old man in Cangzhou, Hebei Province, ushered in several uninvited guests.
The visitors were three young people, who looked only in their early thirties, and looking at the three guests they had never met, Li Kecai had a trace of doubt in his heart.
After introducing himself, Li Kecai learned that the three people were brothers, and they came to visit him from other places, looking at the polite appearance of the three people, Li Kecai could be regarded as letting down the guard in his heart, but in the next second, he heard a surprising name from the mouths of the three brothers: Liu Qingshan.
It turned out that these three brothers were Liu Qingshan's three sons.
Looking at the familiar faces of the three people, at this moment, Li Kecai's heart was mixed, like turning over the river and the sea, because thirty years ago, it was he who reported Liu Qingshan's crime, but he didn't expect that thirty years later, Liu Qingshan's son actually came to the door.
And what is even more unexpected is that the three brothers then said an incredible request, that is, they hope that Li Ke can rehabilitate their father Liu Qingshan!
So, why did Li Kecai report Liu Qingshan back then? What are the hidden secrets of Liu Qingshan's death?
Anti-scorn guru
On February 10, 1952, in the campus of Dongguan University in Baoding, Hebei Province, two gunshots of "bang" and "bang" broke the silence of the ancient city, and two prisoners immediately fell down, they were the famous Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan.
When it comes to Liu Qingshan, it can be said that he is a household name in China, and he and Zhang Zishan were shot by the central government in the 50s for embezzlement, which has become synonymous with big embezzlement.
Because the two embezzled huge sums of money, and they were both revolutionary cadres with outstanding meritorious contributions, the incident had a great impact, so the Liu Zhang case is also known as the "No. 1 anti-corruption case in the Republic." However, most people only know that Liu Qingshan, the No. 1 corrupt official in the republic, does not know that the "No. 1 anti-corruption person" who reported Liu Qingshan and arrested him was Li Kecai.
In August 1949, the 32-year-old Li Kecai was transferred to the deputy commissioner of the Tianjin Special Administration as a revolutionary cadre, and his immediate superiors were Zhang Zishan, who was then the commissioner of the Tianjin Special Administration, and Liu Qingshan, secretary of the Tianjin Prefectural Party Committee.
Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan were both veteran revolutionary cadres with great merits at that time, especially Liu Qingshan, who joined the party at the age of 15 to participate in the revolution and became a Red Army at the age of 16.
Compared with them, Li Ke did not participate in the revolution until 1937, so at the beginning, he was still more respectful and polite to the two old revolutionaries and top bosses.
But as the time spent together and the understanding deepened, Li Ke gradually realized that he was wrong. Although Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan are old revolutionary cadres, they do not have the qualities that revolutionaries should have in their work and life.
As the secretary of the prefectural party committee, Liu Qingshan moved to a two-story villa in downtown Tianjin soon after taking office, and then left his work behind and began to indulge in extravagant pleasures on the grounds of "recuperation".
For example, because Liu Qingshan disliked the American jeep he was riding in was too shabby, he embezzled 300 million old public funds to buy two American luxury cars from Hong Kong.
In addition to extravagance in food, clothing, housing and transportation, Liu Qingshan also became addicted to drugs, once, Li Kecai went to report to Liu Qingshan, and found that Liu Qingshan was swallowing clouds and spitting smoke, which shocked him very much.
Later, Liu Qingshan made no secret of it, wrapped the "white noodles" in paper cigarettes, and smoked them in a grand manner.
And another embezzler, Zhang Zishan, is also very similar to Liu Qingshan, in addition to living a luxurious and corrupt life, he is also embezzling state assets, not only that, but he also took the initiative to provide conditions for Liu Qingshan's corruption, and visited brothels in the name of "visiting" and so on.
As a member of the Communist Party, he could not tolerate such a thing, so Li Kecai went to report Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan to the provincial party committee twice.
However, the leaders encountered in the two reports did not pay attention to this, and on one occasion, a leader of the provincial party committee even privately notified Liu and Zhang of the matter reported by Li Kecai, and Liu Qingshan hated Li Kecai because of this.
On November 21, 1951, the third party congress of Hebei Province was held in Baoding, attended by more than 800 people. In front of many party members and cadres, Li Kecai was the first to speak, exposing the corruption of Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan, which caused a sensation in the entire venue.
A week later, on November 29, Zhang Zishan, a representative of the Party Congress, was arrested at the meeting, and three days later, Liu Qingshan, who had just returned from a trip abroad, was also arrested in Tianjin.
When the news was reported to Chairman Mao, Chairman Mao was furious and said two words categorically: "Death penalty!"
The fate of Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan has been doomed from this moment, but the fate of their family has changed dramatically.
Changed fate
February 10, 1952, this day is the Lantern Festival of the lunar calendar, and it is also the day when Liu Qingshan was shot.
At the same time as Liu Qingshan was shot, a little boy drew the 62nd white line on the wall of his house with chalk, muttering when his father would come back, this little boy was Liu Qingshan's eldest son Liu Tieqi.
Liu Qingshan had three sons before he was shot, namely the eldest son Liu Tieqi, who had just turned 6, the second son Liu Tiejia, who was 4 years old, and the youngest son Liu Tiebing, who had just been born for a few months.
Before his father's accident, Liu Tieqi can be said to have had a happy childhood, at that time, he lived with his mother in the compound of the municipal party committee, because his father was transferred to the deputy secretary of the Shijiazhuang Municipal Party Committee, a small partner in the courtyard was very envious of him, and they were willing to play with him.
In November 1951, Liu Qingshan went to Vienna with the Chinese delegation to attend the World Peace and Friendship Council Conference, which was the last time Liu Tieqi and his younger brothers saw their father.
From the first day his father left, he began to draw horizontal lines on the wall with chalk, one a day, counting the days in the hope that his father would come back early, and on the day Liu Qingshan was shot, he drew exactly 62 lines.
For the news of his father's accident, Liu Tieqi and his younger brothers did not know at first, the day his father was shot, he was still playing with his friends outside, and suddenly someone came to inform him, asking him to change his clothes and shoes to Baoding to see his father, 6-year-old Liu Tieqi did not think much at the time, and showed off with his friends that he was going to see his father.
But when he arrived at the place, he didn't see his father, only his grandmother lying on the bed in tears, his mother who wanted to cry without tears, and next to him sat two strange staff members who had never met.
At this time, Liu Tieqi realized that his father may have had an accident, but he still didn't know what was going on, and asked his mother, who was just shedding tears and didn't speak, until one day soon after, he suddenly learned from the scolding of his friends that his father was a corrupt criminal and had been shot.
In disbelief, he immediately rushed home, crying loudly and asking his mother if it was true or not, looking at his mother's tearful nodding, he knew that what his friends said was true, and his father Liu Qingshan was really a corrupt criminal.
From this day on, the fate of Liu Tieqi's family began to change dramatically. First of all, in terms of life, after his father was shot, his mother Fan Yong had to leave the municipal party committee compound with the three brothers and move to live outside, and their living conditions also plummeted.
Secondly, there is the separation of family members. After Liu Qingshan was executed, the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, in accordance with the organizational arrangements, decided to give Liu Qingshan's eldest son and second son 15 yuan per month in child support, and the youngest son, who had not yet reached the age of one, was personally raised by Liu Qingshan's wife, Fan Yong.
Despite the special care of the organization, Fan Yong was still unable to take care of his three children, so he handed over his second son Liu Tiejia to Liu Qingshan's younger brother Liu Hengshan to raise, and two years later, Fan Yong remarried, and the eldest son Liu Tieqi and the youngest son Liu Tiebing were also taken to live with their uncles.
Regarding this experience, the second brother Liu Tiejia once said to the eldest brother: "Brother, our three brothers have their father died, and their mother has remarried, and now they can only send people under the fence.
However, whether it is helpless or under the fence, it is not the most difficult moment, and for the three Liu brothers, the "test" brought to them by their father is far more than that.
一失足成千古恨
If the plummeting living conditions and the separation of relatives are physical ordeals for the three Liu brothers, then the ubiquitous discrimination can be regarded as a spiritual hardship.
In 1965, Liu Tieqi was admitted to the university with excellent results, when filling in the school, he chose the Beijing Petroleum Institute, the teacher of the admissions office saw Liu Tieqi's transcript, and couldn't help but fall into deep doubts, because Liu Tieqi's grades can go to Tsinghua University, why should he apply for a little-known school.
With a stomach full of questions, the admissions teacher flipped through Liu Tieqi's personal file, and was startled when he saw that the column of family situation clearly wrote "Father Liu Qingshan, who was the secretary of the Tianjin Prefectural Party Committee, was shot by the government in 1952."
Knowing that Liu Tieqi turned out to be the son of Liu Qingshan, a big embezzler, the admissions teacher immediately understood everything and realized the seriousness of the problem, so he reported the matter to the school leaders overnight, and finally agreed to let Liu Tieqi enroll in the school after careful research by the school leaders.
After entering the school, Liu Tieqi's "reputation" also spread quickly, and everyone knew that "the son of the big embezzler Liu Qingshan is in this school, in a certain department and a certain class", and no matter where he goes, there will be a bunch of people pointing fingers behind his back.
For example, whenever Liu Tieqi went to the cafeteria with a lunch box to eat, some classmates would whisper behind his back: "Look! It's him, Liu Qingshan's son is here!"
In 1970, Liu Tieqi, who graduated from university, was assigned to a workshop in Fushun Petroleum Factory, where he deeply experienced the discrimination in the physical sense, as long as there was any hard work and tiring work in the workshop, all of them were assigned to him.
In addition to being discriminated against in work and study, the same is true in marriage, Liu Tieqi had met the daughter of his uncle and neighbor in his early years, and the two had a good impression of each other, after graduating from college, the two reached the point of talking about marriage, however, the woman's parents have always been concerned about Liu Tieqi's family history, and in the end, it was under the girl's firm attitude that the two were able to successfully get married.
Liu Tieqi, who graduated from college, is still like this, not to mention the two younger brothers, the second brother Liu Tiejia was affected by the special period of ten years, only dropped out of high school in his second year of high school and went home to farm, and later suffered all the hardships of life, until the mid-seventies with the help of his brother to become an oil worker.
The third brother Liu Tiebing had a dream of being a soldier since he was a child, and after graduating from high school, he wanted to join the army, but in the end he failed to pass the political examination because of his father, and finally he could only go to the coal kiln to dig coal, so that he could turn agriculture into non-farming and return to his hometown.
Despite the twists and turns, in the end, all three brothers also got a relatively peaceful life, but over the years, they have always felt that they are living in the shadow of their father, and they can't hold their heads up.
In the 80s, the country began a large-scale rectification of chaos and rehabilitated some people who had been wronged in the ten-year political movement.
At this time, Li Kecai was already an old man over sixty years old, and in the face of the request of the three Liu brothers, he was surprised at first, but after calming down, he firmly said to the Liu Tieqi brothers:
"The sins committed by your father are real and not wronged, so they cannot be rehabilitated, and the most important thing for you should be to train the next generation and let them go on the right path."
After listening to Li Kecai's words, the three brothers of the Liu family looked very ashamed, apologized and left, and never mentioned this matter again.
Liu Qingshan made a big mistake and was severely punished by the organization, but what he left to future generations was an injury that was difficult to heal, if Liu Qingshan could know that his sons suffered all kinds of setbacks and tribulations because of him, I don't know if he would regret the corruption of the year.
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