He pretended to be crazy and stupid for 14 years, and finally escaped from the ghost gate, and after several twists and turns, his wife did not know. A sentence of "It's me, I'm Zidong, I'm finally back!" The crowd burst into tears, and his wife held him and wept bitterly. And who is this begging old man in front of you?
His name is Han Zidong, and he mentions the "crazy old man" in the famous novel "Red Rock", which should be known to everyone and everyone. And Han Zidong is the prototype of the "crazy old man" Hua Ziliang. He was imprisoned for 14 years in a Kuomintang-ruled concentration camp.
What is Han Zidong's identity? Why were they caught in concentration camps ruled by the Kuomintang? What did he go through in the camp? Before the story begins, please watch the officials move the small hands of the fortune, point a note, not only convenient to review the content of the past period will not miss the wonderful after.
Red Rock Books
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > strive for knowledge and pursue a bright future</h1>
In the winter of 1908, Hanzhuang Village, Shifo Town, Yanggu County, Shandong Province, came to a legendary figure, he was Han Zidong. Han Zidong's family was a well-known well-off family in the local area, and the standard of living exceeded 90% of the families at that time. Han Zidong is the youngest child of the Han family, and his father hopes that this youngest child will be able to become a pillar of strength when he grows up, hoping that he can dedicate all his strength to the country, so he named him Guozhen, which is his original name.
Although the Han family is a wealthy family, when Han Zidong was born, the situation of the Han family had already fallen in the middle of the family, and its strength was not as good as before. At that time, the expenses of maintaining the family were all based on the rent of dozens of acres of land handed down from the ancestors. Due to the family's fall, Han's father was also forced to take his youngest son Han Zidong and his uncle to sell winter dates to earn a meager income to subsidize the family. To make matters worse, Han Zidong's father and Han Zidong's uncle broke up, and the life of a large family after the separation of the family was even more difficult, in order to maintain his livelihood, Han's father sold a few acres of land in the family, and Hanzidong, who was only 7 years old, also had to do farm work, such as cutting wood and cutting grass.
After 5 years of such a life, Han Zidong finally had school and started his own learning career. Han Zidong, who is sensible, will also help his family to do housework when completing his studies. And Han Zidong's curiosity is getting stronger and stronger, but the conditions at home are not enough to maintain his studies, Han Father thought to himself, Han Zidong as long as he can read, can help him revive his family business, and did not want him to continue his studies. Han Zidong did not think so, he did not understand what his father had done, but he was more determined that reading was the only way out.
Elderly Han Zidong
His father's incomprehension made him feel helpless, and Han Zidong was listless all day. And Han Zidong's brother lit up his sky like a light. His brother was very distressed to see Han Zidong's decadent appearance, and he understood that his brother had great ambitions and was different from ordinary people. He couldn't just watch Father Han tie his brother's future to this small mountain village. So Han Zidong's brother began to fully support Han Zidong to continue his studies.
Han Zidong returned to studying as he wished, and the learning momentum was more rapid than before, he knew that reading was not only his way out, but also the future of the family.
In 1925, Han Zidong was admitted to Shandong No. 2 Middle School with the best results, and the new learning environment made his thinking imperceptible and gradually moved closer to the new youth thought. Everything is a new beginning. Soon after the outbreak of the National Revolution, Han Zidong, who was full of feelings of home and country, actively conformed to the torrent of revolution and participated in the Northern Expedition. At that time, Han Zidong's thinking was very simple, as long as he thought it was good for the development of the country, he was willing to do it. However, contrary to their wishes, in 1927, Chiang Kai-shek and the right wing of the Kuomintang suddenly launched a counter-revolutionary coup d'état on April 12, and countless revolutionary heroes died heroically and fell under the guns of their own compatriots. Han Zidong looked in his eyes and felt pain in his heart, and he began to doubt whether his path was correct and began to become confused.
But Han Zidong has always firmly believed that there is always a party that is wholeheartedly concerned about the future of China. He then went to Beijing alone to study, while working at the Spring and Autumn Bookstore. I didn't think that this Spring and Autumn Bookstore was a turning point in his life path. Most of the books in this bookstore are about revolution. He longed for the revolutionary spirit in these books and read them eagerly. Gradually, his thinking changed, and Han Zidong became more and more determined in his inner thoughts.
During this period, an underground party member named Zhou Yi often came to the bookstore to buy books, and she gradually discovered that Han Zidong had a different enthusiasm for the revolution, and she was very convinced that Han Zidong was a patriotic and ambitious person. Zhou Yi asked Han Zidong if he would like to join the Communist Party, and Han Zidong reacted very fiercely after listening to Zhou Yi's introduction to the Communist Party, and repeatedly expressed his willingness! At this point, Han Zidong really embarked on his own life path, and he also said, "From this day on, I discovered the sun, found the light, and found the goal of life! Finally, in January 1932, Han Zidong became an official underground member of the Ccp, and the Spring and Autumn Bookstore where he interned was named a contact point for the CCP's Beijing Special Branch Station.
Ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel. Who would have thought that what awaited him was a long fourteen years, fourteen years of life or death, fourteen years of pretending to be crazy and stupid.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" > deep in the disaster and finally unrepentant, all kinds of torture and finally unyielding</h1>
Since then, Han Zidong has started a new journey in his life. Soon after joining the Communist Party, an important task lay before him. In 1933, the Kuomintang Dai Kasa established the Blue Jacket Society, which was the predecessor of the military command and a secret intelligence agency of the Kuomintang. The Blue Jackets, which sold dog meat with sheep's heads hanging on their heads, appeared to be an active anti-Japanese revolutionary contingent, but secretly they were reactionaries who undermined relations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and opposed the Communist Party and opposed the Soviet Union. Simply put, it is to oppose all the tasks of the Communist Party.
The head of the military command, Dai Kasa
The task given to him by the organization was to let Han Zidong infiltrate the Blue Jacket Society, obtain important intelligence for the organization, and help the organization grasp the relevant activities of the Kuomintang. And Han Zidong was still a student, although he knew that Dai Kasa was a well-known secret agent leader, and his methods were very cruel, but he was not afraid, and the tenacity in his bones made him resolutely take on this arduous and difficult task, he obeyed the organizational arrangements, and with the help of his identity as a member of the Kuomintang and a student, he broke into the Blue Jacket Society and obtained intelligence.
After Han Zidong entered the Blue Jacket Society, the situation was more severe than he imagined. The internal management of the Blue Jacket Society is very strict, dividing everyone into small groups and cutting off contact with each other to prevent the leakage of important information. The horizontal relationship was cut off, and the vertical relationship was not easy to develop, which made Han Zidong difficult and did not know what to do for a while. But the clever Han Zidong found that most of the people in the Blue Jacket Society were similar to his age, especially the college students in Beiping, and he began to travel back and forth between the school and the Blue Jacket Society, developing social friends in the school, and contacting alumni in the Blue Jacket Society, so that he obtained important information and provided great convenience for the actions of the ccp's underground organization.
As the saying goes: people walk by the river, where there are shoes that are not wet. Han Zidong frequently contacted people in neighboring departments, and could not help but be suspected, increasing the risk of his exposure. Sure enough, traitors appeared in the Beiping underground party organization, and Han Zidong's behavior was reported by the traitors in real name. Zhou Yi asked him to immediately leave for Shandong to hide, and instructed him to wait until the storm was over before returning. However, Han Zidong's enthusiasm for dedication to the country was very high, and in just a few months, he re-embarked on the road of Beiping. To his surprise, in the past few months, the underground party organization has been seriously damaged, And Han Zidong's identity has been completely exposed, and on the second day after he returned to school, he fell into the trap that the traitor had already set and came to catch a turtle in an urn. In this way, Han Zidong was arrested.
Han Zidong, who was arrested and imprisoned, cheered himself up: everything he did was for the revolution, and as long as the revolution could be victorious, he would not hesitate to sacrifice his life. Unexpectedly, the goddess of luck did not take care of this ambitious Chinese youth, waiting for him not only a major family change, but also an unbearable torture in prison. Han Zidong's arrest and imprisonment were learned by his family that Han's father had become depressed and bedridden and left within a few days; his own brother, who had joined the revolutionary ranks not long ago, was brutally murdered by a Kuomintang rightist; and Han's mother died because she could not bear the pain of losing her son and father. The Han family was left with only his pregnant wife, who raised the child alone.
But Han Zidong was in prison without any knowledge. He was suffering from severe physical pain. Responsible for interrogating Han Zidong was the Third Regiment of Gendarmerie, which had the title of "Hall of the King of Yan". Their goal was clear, to make it impossible for communists who had entered here to get out alive. They hated the Members of the Red Revolution to the bone. Therefore, the torture equipment they used was even more cruel than those on the battlefield, the knives were beaten with sticks, the soldering irons were hot, the hanging people were whipped, and the bamboo sticks were worn through the fingers... However, all the punishment was applied to Han Zidong, just like a stone entering the sea, and there was no news. Han Zidong, who had firm convictions, gritted his teeth and never admitted that he was a member of the Communist Party. Repeated torture caused him to pass out again and again.
Han Zidong (left)
The three regiments of the gendarmerie also had nothing to do about Han Zidong. After Han Zidong passed out once, the interrogators were afraid that the defendant would kill people and kill his mouth, so they urgently contacted the doctor for rescue, and the result of the forensic evaluation was death, and they did not expect that he miraculously came back to life. Since the agents had no choice but to deal with Han Zidong, it was futile to execute him again. So the Kuomintang government charged him with a political prisoner and imprisoned him forever.
During the six years, Han Zidong was rounded up and imprisoned at the White Mansion in Chongqing. For more than 2,000 days and nights, he had never seen the sun, moon and stars, nor had he ever felt the refreshing wind. Every day, only torture, dark environment is faced. Such an encounter made him in a confused year, but his face was wrinkled and his hair was gray, like an old man begging. But he was always patient, he was waiting for an opportunity. Han Zidong firmly believes that as long as he can survive, he will certainly be able to wait until the victory of the revolution and see the dawn of victory!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="38" > pretending to be crazy and foolish, and only for the sake of escape</h1>
Because of the torture, Han Zidong's body was extremely weak. In order to survive in the White Mansion better, he always showed a sluggish look, and he stared at the spies all day with huge and empty eyes, making the spies' hearts hairy. Not only the agents, but also the arrested party members also called him a "madman." Han Zidong pretended to be crazy and stupid and talked nonsense all day long, in order to make the agents relax their vigilance against him, and kept picking up things to eat in the palm-sized place. His series of abnormal operations made everyone in the prison think that he had a mental breakdown, could not bear the torture, and really went crazy. Due to the extreme "abnormality" of the spirit, Han Zidong gained a wider range of activities. As soon as he had time, he kept running around the prison, on the one hand, exercising his body, and on the other hand, observing the structure of the prison. Then the Kuomintang simply abandoned him and let him give up on himself. He was so stoic, waiting for the best chance to escape. The first escape was a collective escape, in which he pretended to be crazy and foolish all day long, and obtained various situations in prison for the revolutionary volunteers. But the state agents seemed to smell the smell, reinforced the fence, and pulled on the power grid. In this way, the first collective escape from prison was forced to give up.
In 1946, a full-scale civil war officially broke out. The agents in charge of supervising the White Mansion were also dispatched to fight, and the number of personnel was decreasing, which gave Han Zidong a perfect opportunity to escape. In mid-August, the agent responsible for guarding him, Lu Zhaochun, took him outside to buy vegetables, Lu Zhaochun was a gambler, and halfway called a few agents to play cards at a friend's house. At this moment, Han Zidong ran to him and said to go to the toilet, and Lu Zhaochun was playing vigorously, telling him to go back quickly. As soon as Han Zidong arrived outside the door, he found that there was no one around, pulled out his leg and ran, ran into a remote alley, and according to the planned route, ran to the side of the Jialing River in one breath, got on a small boat, and left Chongqing.
During the 45 days of absconding, Han Zidong did not dare to take the avenue, and all he walked was in the barren mountains and wild mountains. The soles of his feet were festering, he didn't cry out in pain, and every day he thought about how to avoid pursuit and arrest, and where to sleep at night would not be discovered. It wasn't until I saw the slogan of the People's Liberation Army in Shandong that my hanging heart finally let go. After fourteen years, Han Zidong finally got a good night's sleep. From Chongqing to Shandong, Han Zidong has walked nearly 2,000 kilometers, and the hardships and dangers along the way cannot be described in words.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" > abandon the small family for everyone, loyal to the country to show the soul of the party</h1>
After 14 years of upheaval and displacement, Han Zidong finally returned to his hometown again. The long prison life and escape journey have made Han Zidong, who is in his prime, look like a 70-year-old man, and has experienced vicissitudes. In the winter of 1947, he walked into the village, filled with tears, walked to his door, plucked up courage, trembled, pushed open his own door, and was greeted by his wife and daughter, who had been separated for fourteen years. After 14 years of separation, his wife could not believe that the ragged and dirty-haired man in front of him was her own husband. Han Zidong's appearance has undergone a huge change, and his wife has completely recognized him. Before she could speak, Han Zidong said excitedly, "It's me, I'm Zidong!"! The wife was stunned and stayed where she was, and finally the two of them hugged their headaches and cried.
Han Zidong after returning home
For the victory of the revolution, Han Zidong was displaced for 14 years, and his relatives paid a huge price, but he said: As long as it is for the victory of the revolution, all sacrifices are even at the expense of his own life.
In 1948, Han Zidong submitted to the CPC Central Committee a summary of his experiences over the past 14 years, and after organizational review, Han Zidong did not betray the organization and adhered to the original intention of a revolutionary. He reverted to his party membership. The relevant person in charge said: Han Zidong can survive in the White Mansion is a real miracle!
And Han Zidong's legendary experience has also been written into "Red Rock", which is the prototype of "crazy old man" Hua Ziliang. Many Communists like Han Zidong, resourceful and firm in their convictions, fought all their lives for the cause of Chinese communism and for the victory of the revolution, even at the expense of their own lives. The sacrifices of countless silently dedicated Party members have been exchanged for the establishment of New China and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. What we have to do is to remember history, remember the efforts of the martyrs, and strive for the rise of China for life!