"(I) only talked about patriotism before I died, and after I died, I still had to do things that would benefit the country and society, and after I died, I was cremated and scattered my ashes in the Minjiang River, no longer existing, no longer buried." I do not burn incense or foil on the New Year's Day, but only tell my children and grandchildren about my life, and cultivate a family style of talking about science and not superstition. This is Gao Zhenyun's will before his death, and every word reflects the simplicity of the revolutionary predecessors. Gao Zhenyun was once the head of the Gao family compound, and this Gaojia compound, located at No. 16 Shanzaili, Taiping Mountain in Taijiang, is also the former site of the Fuzhou General Liaison Station of the Fujian-Zhejiang-Gansu Provincial Party Committee.
"Before the liberation, my father took great risks to participate in the revolution, took the initiative to use dozens of taels of gold for the revolution, and the compound also became the radio reporting point twice, and many important military intelligence was sent from here to northern Fujian, contributing to the liberation of Fuzhou." The reporter followed the footsteps of Gao Wenxiu, the eldest son of Gao Zhenyun, and walked into this ancient house with a history of more than 130 years. In Gao Wenxiu's narration, it seems that there is a "click" sound in the Gao family compound, and time seems to return to that period of time.
A radio station, leading to the revolutionary road
Gao Wenxiu has an old photograph of his second uncle Gao Zhenyang with the words "From Xu7ck", a string of characters that is the radio station logo of the Seventh Theater of Operations and the code name of Gao Zhenyang – highlighting the family's close ties with the radio station.
In 1938, the newly formed Fujian Provincial Party Committee urgently needed a person who knew radio telegraphy in order to seek instructions and reports to the Party Central Committee and the New Fourth Army, and at the same time to contact northern Fujian, eastern Fujian, and central Fujian.
"My second uncle Gao Zhenyang has always liked to fiddle with radio, and after graduating from Fuzhou Sanshan Middle School, he joined the Chinese National Liberation Vanguard and the Anti-Japanese Salvation Propaganda Team, so he was recommended to go to Chong'an to take charge of the radio work of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, becoming the first person in the Gao family to participate in the revolution." Gao Wenxiu said.
In January 1940, Gao Zhenyang left home with a radio station and went to Chong'an under the pretext of studying at Jinhua University in Zhejiang Province. At that time, the parts of the tube radio were not durable and often needed to be replaced, and Gao Zhenyang thought that there were still some materials at home, so he wrote a letter and was sent by Li Qing to Gao Zhenyun by the Fujian Zhejiang Gan province. The letter only said that he was working in the field, the location was not fixed, and asked Gao Zhenyun to help prepare some daily necessities and radio parts.
When Li Qing, who had done a good job in handling related matters, returned to Chong'an with supplies and Gao Zhenyun's reply, for safety, he put the letter and luggage at the Chong'an Water and Land Intermodal Transport Station for safekeeping. Unexpectedly betrayed by traitors, although Li Qing successfully escaped, the things fell into the hands of the Kuomintang. The enemy immediately pointed his spearhead at Gao Zhenyun in an attempt to force him to reveal Gao Zhenyang's whereabouts. From September to December of the lunar calendar in 1940, Gao Zhenyun was tormented by the enemy, which also made him gradually understand that under the national disaster, the Kuomintang was not really anti-Japanese. His thinking began to shift closer to the Communist Party.
Liaison stations were established to radiate progressive ideas
On the night of July 1946, the Gao family compound in Shanzai often quietly set up antennas. Gao Zhenyang quickly assembled the radio station and sent a telegram to the Central East China Bureau. His brother Gao Zhenfeng used a hand-cranked generator to generate electricity for the radio. The sound of hand-cranked generators was particularly pronounced at night, and Gao Zhenfeng used several quilts to cover the generators insulation, often making him sweat profusely. Gao Zhenyun was always nervously guarding them under the lychee tree outside the house.
After the end of 1945, the Gaojia compound became the location of the Fuzhou General Liaison Station of the Provincial Party Committee, and for convenience, everyone liked to call it the Taiping Mountain Underground Traffic Liaison Station, with Gao Zhenyun as a correspondent. At the beginning, the provincial party committee set up the liaison station in Gao Zhenyunkai's "Tonghe Tin Foil Grocery Store", which was precisely the proximity of the wharf here, which was convenient for transportation, business and trade, and people coming and going, which was an excellent cover place. Later, due to changes in the situation, it was transferred to Shanzaili.
After the establishment of the liaison station, the Fujian-Zhejiang-Gansu Provincial Party Committee set up a radio station with the same frequency as the East China Bureau, and at the same time, Gao Zhenyun used his status as a senator of Linsen County as a cover to play for the underground party, issue permits, and arrange accommodation for the underground party through the relationship of the township chief, and also used his own financial resources to purchase radio equipment, medicines and other materials for the party organization and provide economic support. Gao Wenxiu was also responsible for some telegraph translation, delivering letters to the underground party, and leading the way.
Because there were frequent contacts between revolutionaries and the young students around them also learned about the revolutionary situation and learned progressive ideas from them, more and more progressive young people joined the Communist Party and went up to the mountains to join the guerrillas. In the second half of 1946, the Taipingshan Party Branch was established.
In the lychee forest, red radio waves are emitted
In June 1949, the Tenth Corps of the People's Liberation Army marched south, and the liberation of Fuzhou was imminent. However, the local situation in Fuzhou was still grim, and Mao Sen, a Kuomintang agent, came to Fuzhou to arrange for the liquidation and suppression of the Fuzhou underground party. In the tense atmosphere of the white terror, a radio station was quietly transported into the Gaojia compound to collect and send intelligence for the liberation of Fuzhou by the Tenth Corps.
One day in June, Su Hua, a member of the Fujian-Zhejiang-Gansu Provincial Party Committee, took Chen Ming from Nanping to Fuzhou in a small wooden boat. At that time, Su Hua dressed up as a woman with a serious infectious disease, wrapped in a quilt full of lice, the radio was wrapped in a quilt roll, and the codebook was sandwiched in a menstrual belt, escaping the enemy's search.
As soon as they entered Fuzhou, Chen Deyi, the instructor of the guard company of the Fujian-Zhejiang-Gansu Provincial Party Committee, and his wife immediately took over the escort work. They wrapped the radio in a quilt, carried a pile of altar jars and jars, pretended to be a fleeing couple, and finally sent the radio to the Compound of the Gao Family. Chen Ming, as a dispatcher, also lived in with him.
Gao Wenxiu still remembers that it was a season when the lychees were ripe, Chen Ming tasted the taste of lychees for the first time, and the lush lychee trees outside the Gao family compound also became the sentry post when Chen Ming sent the news, and the reliable youth in the village took turns to send the sentry.
At the same time, Li Qing bought a radio after being released from prison on bail, and through listening to xinhua news, he and together with progressive youth set up the "Izvestia" newspaper in Shanzai, which was published once a day to carry out revolutionary propaganda. On the morning of August 17, 1947, the words "message" had just been engraved on the wax paper, and the news of liberation came like a whirlwind. The wax paper inscribed only with the word "message" is still preserved in the exhibition hall of the Gaojia compound.
With the liberation of Fuzhou, the TaipingShan Underground Traffic Liaison Station ended its historical mission, the radio station was put under the custody of the party organization, and the Gaojia compound in Shanzai ushered in a new era.
Fuzhou Daily reporter Lin Yiting
Source: Fuzhou News Network