Sun Naixiang is his own business
Sun Yiliang
Sun Naixiang, as the name of a negative figure, often appears in the reminiscences of veterans who participated in the revolution, and is often mentioned in the literary and historical materials of Sihong, Sixian, Xuyi and Hongze counties.
Born into poor fishermen
Sun Naixiang, a native of Wei Tsui, Nanbahuali, on the western bank of Hongze Lake (now Yugou Village, Chenxu Township, Sihong County), was born in 1896, with four brothers, and the family belonged to the "Nai" character generation, and the milk name was "Xiao Maozi". According to the "granary incense hall", the parents named their four brothers, because they were the third oldest, so the name was "Sun Naixiang". After the Cheng'an Hewa area was hegemonic, the locals called him "Xiang Sanye" and "Fierce Third Master" out of fear or hatred.
"Wei Tsui" is a small place deep into Hongze Lake, and it is also the end of a fuling ridge from the half city to the south through Liu Gang, named after the Wei surname who has lived here for a long time. Wei Tsui is also the end of the original Lao Sui River, after the river channel due to the "Wei Tsui" below the shallow and serious, and changed to the head of the river under the Mudun, the local famous "Eight Big" shoal, and Wei Tsui across the River. In 1944, after the death of The commander of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army, Peng Xuefeng, the coffin was parked on the "Eight Greats" on the banks of the Sui River, and then it was from Wei Tsui ashore and moved to dawangzhuang, where the division headquarters was stationed.
Sun Naixiang was originally a ship carrier on the canal, because of the rise of shipping, the decline of water transport, to Sun Naixiang's generation fell on Hongze Lake and became a poor fisherman, to touch shrimp fishing for a living. The family's only possession was a leaking canopy boat, which could only be built with thatch on the shoals of Hongze Lake, and the fishermen on Hongze Lake were mostly living in the same situation at that time. Sun Naixiang's mother's surname was Zhu, a native of Wei. Sun was later forced to defect to his uncle for his livelihood, and the family also went ashore and moved to Wei Tsui.
Become a hegemon of An Hewa
Because the Sun family was a shipping household in the ancestors, he had a generational relationship with the Anqing Gang that arose from Caoyun, and was a member of the Anqing Gang. Because of his righteous personality and his good friends, Sun Naixiang met many people from other places who fled to Hongze Lake. One year, due to the famine caused by the landlord's exploitation, this group of people robbed the grain of a certain landlord in Xuxuzi, east of Qingyang Town, killed people, robbed guns, came to Hongze Lake to fall into the grass, hid in the lake during the day, and at night they would take advantage of the darkness to find Sun Naixiang in Wei Tsui and maintain close contact with Sun Naixiang. After a long time of coming and going, the local people all know that Sun Naixiang is a bandit, and the people are afraid of him, and let him divide it everywhere. Sun said that if the man was good, the man would be safe and sound; if he said no, a lake bandit would immediately come to him and tell him to ruin his family. This is what Comrade Wang Hao, who was the mayor of the East District of Hongze Lake and huaihe district, mentioned in an article in "The Struggle on the Lake": "There is a Sun Naixiang at the mouth of the An River, who is illiterate in a big character, but people near and far call him Third Master Xiang." Because he has a few guns in his hand that can doom people."
Because Sun is a local, his relatives and friends are in this area, which is very different from the professional bandits who rely on direct burning and looting. In order to meet the needs of survival and to preserve the only means of production in the dark society of "official deception, blackmail, and miscarriage", the poor people took the initiative to come to his door to worship the old man, confess his grandfather, and find a patron, and Sun became a figure in the local area who could "talk about public and private", and the reputation of "Third Master Xiang" spread in the mouth of the Anhe River.
Sun Naixiang's exploitation of the common people takes several forms: (1) "sending things." After the New Year's Festival, if you can't sell something, find an acquaintance to help send things to your neighbors, and come back in a few months to collect money. The people did not dare not want things sent by Sun, did not dare to say how much money they charged, and even more did not dare not give. (2) Collect a "protection fee". In the beginning, some fishermen wanted to compete with each other for a good slip, and the grass people wanted to fight for a good beachhead to cut grass, and often used Sun's "prestige" to support themselves. For example, "This is what Third Master Xiang asked me to do here", others dare not say anything more. Every New Year's Festival, it is inevitable that he will send some things to please and kowtow, hoping that Third Master Xiang will take more care. If there really is a person who does not know the goods and comes to crowd out other people's ponds and beachheads, Sun will tell the bandits on the lake to teach them a lesson. After a long time, he felt that it was natural to collect this kind of "protection fee", and many people were naturally happy to "make offerings" in order to have a backer for themselves. (3) "Speaking publicly and privately" intercede for others and obtain benefits. Due to political corruption at that time, some local adulterers were arrested by the government, and the family entrusted people to find Sun Naixiang to intercede.
Sun Naixiang used these primitive accumulations to purchase a large area of land in Wei Tsui by the semi-urban squire Wang Dunian, transforming from a proletarian to a kulak class. The people surnamed Sun in the Anhewa of Hongze Lake gathered under his big tree and organized the Daqi Gang to fish, produce and live around the South Beach; at the same time, monopolized the local grass fishing market in Bancheng, and became a very influential figure in Anhewa, Hongze Lake, and was elected as the president of the Bancheng Chamber of Commerce.
Sun Guan's bandits ate everything and gained huge political benefits, and some of the hooligans and chicken-singing dog thieves who were exempt from punishment for their intercession were grateful to him, recognized him as a dry grandfather and a dry father, and gathered them together, so it is also reasonable that some literary and historical materials call him the leader of the half-town hooligans.
In order to obstruct the bandits and bandits from other places from robbing and plundering the local areas and to protect the people in the border, Sun came forward to organize the Merchants' Self-Defense Brigade (Commercial Brigade), and the "black armed forces" that had been lurking on Hongze Lake to make misfortunes for Sun Zemin were transformed into a commercial brigade with an open identity. Since Sun formed the climate, with the Qing Gang as a channel, he and another force on Hongze Lake have cast nine parts, secretly communicated with each other, called brothers and brothers, and strengthened each other's momentum. Gao Zhujiu, a longji Yingshan person, was born in the army and had a rough understanding of literature and ink, and Sun Naixiang was greatly influenced by it. At this time, Xu Kezhen also became the cargo of "one thing and two masters", and secretly had already surrendered to Gao Zhujiu.
From accepting adaptations to mutinies
From the summer of 1939, the CCP carried out anti-Japanese rescue activities in the bancheng area, and the situation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China jointly resisting Japan gradually took shape. However, due to the fact that the construction of the base area in northeast Anhui is in its infancy, the situation in the half-city area is rather complicated, and the enemy, puppet, stubborn bandits, and other forces are also eager to move, and the CPC is also actively striving for local enlightened gentry and local armed forces to resist Japan together. After sending people to contact Sun Naixiang, he found that Sun Naixiang did not know a single character, had no political consciousness, and guided him well to be used by me, and if he did not guide well, his armed forces were likely to be used by the enemy, but Sun was still more obedient and had a positive attitude.
At the end of October 1940, the Shangmin Self-Defense Force under Sun Naixiang was incorporated into the guard battalion of the Administrative Commissioner's Office of Northeast Anhui Province, and the establishment of the company was later transferred to Ronghuashu Village with its exclusive ownership. After Sun arrived at Ronghuashu, he was transferred to the battalion department, and the company commander was replaced by Xu Kezhen, the deputy commander of the former commercial brigade. Due to the hasty and low vigilance of the reorganization, Xu Kezhen and others were not screened, and real powers were entrusted, and the positions of all the people in the company were still according to Sun's original deployment, and one did not move, but only changed the number (for details, see Zhu Shaohua's article "In the Difficult Years -- Chronicle of the Guard Battalion of the Northeast Anhui Special Bureau"). At the same time, Gao Zhujiu, Chen Peihua and other stubborn bandit forces on the lake also secretly infiltrated Sun's ranks.
At that time, the leaders of the special bureau also had a certain vigilance against Sun Naixiang's department. Once, when discussing how to strengthen the construction of Sun Bu's team, the content of the conversation of the leader of the special office was overheard by the personnel standing guard, and the personnel who stood guard reported to their squad leader, who happened to be Sun's niece and son-in-law Zhang Guiqing. Whether Zhang was bribed by Gao Zhujiu and Chen Peihua is unknown, but Zhang went to Sun Naixiang to secretly report that "the Communist Party is ready to solve Sun Naixiang on the spot." Sun was terrified and sneaked back to half the city alone overnight. The next morning at about 9 o'clock, arrived at the market west of the city, when people were rushing to the market, Sun stood on the grave, emotionally and emotionally gave a speech, probably meaning that he was still interesting enough, loved the local people, there was nothing sorry for the people, say something to defend himself.
After the speech, in order not to arouse the suspicion of the local bureau, Sun Naixiang visited the district office in the East Grand Temple of bancheng in his capacity as a senator of the battalion headquarters of the exclusive guard battalion, and Pan Daoyi received him. Sun made it clear that the troops were going to be transferred, and he would return home to see the old woman. After sitting down and chatting for a while, he pointed to the main hall of the great temple and said, "This great temple was originally built by me, and I am afraid that it will be destroyed in my hands", and Pan did not understand his meaning at that time. (For details, see Pan Daoyi's "Personal Experience Trivia" in the first series of Si County's literary and historical materials.)
After Sun returned to Wei Tsui, he immediately arranged for his family to put the family's grain and livestock in the neighbor's collection, and then collected some gold and silver, and sent someone to inform the family brothers nicknamed "Eight Old Masters" on the Nantan Gang to punch a boat to meet them at the Wei Tsui wharf, and the family all withdrew to a big flood boat (1916 HongXian system, later called the Big Flood Ship).
After Sun Naixiang left Ronghuashu, the people of the business brigade floated, and Xu Kezhen accepted Gao Zhujiu's secret instructions to plot a rebellion among his subordinates. In the evening of the next day, after Sun Naixiang picked up his family and fled to the lake, Xu led the former Shangmin Self-Defense Force to shoot under the nose of the guard battalion, from the Ronghua tree along the embankment of the Sui River to Mudun Beach, and at more than 9 o'clock in the evening, the subordinates of the Great Temple in the East of Bancheng received a call at more than 9 o'clock in the evening, "Sun Naixiang rebelled, went to attack Bancheng, and hoped to withdraw quickly." At the same time, the special guard battalion sent people to pursue, and when they reached the half-city, it was nearly dawn, and Sun Naixiang had already fled. In the afternoon, Wang Peixuan, the mayor of the CPC Bancheng District, led a team to raid the Sun and Xu families, set fire to the courtyard of Sun Naixiang's family, and detained several people who helped Sun Naixiang's family store grain and "related" personnel as hostages. Sun Naixiang saw the fire in the direction of Wei Tsui on the lake, and naturally knew that the family house was burned down by the Communists. He also heard reports that his neighbors were implicated and were very angry, and decided to attack half the city that night and take back the "hostages." The two platoons of the special guard battalion did not return to ronghua tree that day, and they were stationed at the Great Temple of the East of Bancheng, and that night there was an incident in which Sun Naixiang's troops attacked Bancheng.
After Xu Kezhen fled to Mudun with his men, he directly defected to Gao Zhujiu and Chen Peihua. The "Liu Family Genealogy" in the area of present-day Bancheng and Sun Yuan records that on November 24, 1940, Xu Kezhen of the Nine Departments of Gaozhu attacked the Lianghuai Middle School near the north gate of Bancheng and located in the Liu Family Ancestral Hall, and the principal Wu Yuncun was killed, and more than 30 teachers and students were kidnapped, resulting in the closure of the school and the burning of the Liu Family Ancestral Hall.
At first, Sun Naixiangbu dared to come ashore from Hongze Lake only at night to disrupt and sabotage the area around Bancheng and Chen Wei. Later, they found out that there was no main force in the areas directly under the CPC, and they even sneaked into bancheng and nearby villages during the day, arresting people and kidnapping tickets, and extorting money. In order to persist in the struggle against The Anti-Japanese Democratic Base Areas, consolidate the anti-Japanese democratic regime, and carry out a protracted struggle against Sun Naixiang, the district party committee directly under the district decided to concentrate the district squadron and some cadres, with Zhangtang and Zu yaozhuang as the defensive line, and launched a tug-of-war with Sun Naixiang's reactionary forces.
According to the "History of the People's Revolutionary Struggle in Sihong County," after Sun Naixiang's defection, he deceived and intimidated the masses, slandered the anti-Japanese democratic regime, imprisoned and tortured Communist Party cadres and the families of military personnel, and forcibly distributed money to collect grain. He also colluded with Xu Kezhen and Chen Shijin, a group of stubborn bandits who were entrenched on Hongze Lake, to surround and attack the district offices and semi-town offices directly under him, causing heavy losses to the base areas.
Surrender to Xuyi Day
In February 1941, Zhang Aiping of the New Fourth Army led his troops back from Huaihai District to the west, taking the lead in Qingyang. Soon, the results of the battle were expanded to the surrounding areas, the bandits' land strongholds along the Hongze Lake were swept away, and all the bases in northeast Anhui were restored, and the brigade headquarters was also stationed in the semi-towns along the Hongze Lake. In order to consolidate the base area in northeast Anhui and open up the water connection between the Liberated Areas of Huaibei, Huainan and Huaihai, it was decided to eliminate the bandits in Hongze Lake and launch the famous battle against bandits (for details, see Zhang Aiping's article "Bandits in Hongze Lake").
At this time, Gao Zhujiu, Chen Peihua, Lao Weisan and others were still stubbornly resisting, confronting the Ninth Brigade on the shore and actively preparing for war. Sun Naixiang was no longer able to control his subordinates, and some of them were taken away by Xu Kezhen and surrendered to Gao Zhujiu, who was clamped down by Gao Zhujiu; and some of them were scattered as birds and beasts. Sun himself huddled in the area of Mudun and Xigouzi, burning incense and prostrating his head all day, hoping to get out of the predicament. Sure enough, on a dark and windy night in the month, the northeast wind suddenly rose, and under the leadership of a mysterious figure, the Sun family Dahong ship fled to the vicinity of the Dawang Temple in Xuyi Laozi Mountain. After successfully escaping from danger, Sun played with the feudal superstition of the fishermen "burning big paper", burned paper at the Temple of the Great King to thank the Grand Prince for his apparition, and engaged in pomp and circumstance for three days and three nights.
Because the huai river line from Laozi Mountain to the west at that time was controlled by the Japanese army, the Japanese army had a garrison at Laozi Mountain. After Sun Naixiang arrived at Laozi Mountain, he quickly gathered a group of people through the relationship between the An Qing Gang and connected with Guo Jichuan, the governor of the Japanese pseudo-Xuyi County. Guo Jichuan was originally a helper (equivalent to deputy battalion commander) when Ni Sichong was governor of Anhui in 1913, and had been stationed in Xuyi, and was promoted to pipe belt (equivalent to battalion commander) during the garrison. Guo himself was the "big" character of the An Qing Gang, Sun Naixiang was the "Tong" character of the An Qing Gang, and Sun Naixiang called him a master. In order to recruit his own team, Guo Jichuan appointed Sun Naixiang as the deputy commander of the Self-Defense Regiment (later renamed the Security Brigade) and the captain of the River Defense Brigade. The internal factions of the Japanese and puppets were divided into several factions, and they fell into each other, and when they surrendered, in just five years, they changed 6 county governors. Soon after Guo Jichuan stepped down, he was replaced by Meng Jian as the pseudo-county magistrate, and the two had contradictions with Zhao Ziqin, the pseudo-district governor of the Underground Snake City, while Guo and Meng both relied on Sun Naixiang, the captain of the river defense team. There was also a Han Yubo in Laozi Mountain, who also defected to Guo Jichuan, the governor of the Japanese pseudo-county, and Han Yubo and Sun Naixiang had a good relationship and relied on each other, and Han Yubo also asked his nephew Han Shaowu to recognize Sun Naixiang as a dry master. (For details, see the article "Fragment of Guo Jichuan, The Governor of The Japanese Pseudo-County" in the second series of Xuyi County's literary and historical materials)
Han Yubo's new annex and Sun Naixiang's river defense team had no territory on land, could not collect taxes, had no military salaries, and did not have a good life. However, the interests of Xuyi City were monopolized by Zhao Ziqin, and Han Yubo was later captured and given preferential treatment by our party because of his nephew Han Shaowu, who was ideologically fluctuating, and was successfully rebelled by our party and abandoned the dark and cast the light (for details, see Xue Benhan's article "Han Yubo Abandons the Dark And Throws the Ming" in the second series of Xuyi County's literary and historical materials).
Due to the fierce internal tilt of the Japanese and pseudo-Japanese in Xuyi County, Sun Naixiang was soon ousted from power because of two things. Sun Naixiang heard that there was a person locked up in the puppet army prison, and his hometown was half of the city. Sun Naixiang then went to visit him in prison, and as a guarantee to rescue this person, he also pestered him to leave the country. Later, it was found out that this person was a soldier of the Communist Party; the opponent took the opportunity to rumor to the Japanese army that Sun Naixiang was a communist, and at the same time instigated Sun Naixiang to celebrate his fiftieth birthday. Sun Naixiang did not know what to plan, on the day of his birthday, the pomp was too big, the number of people who came to eat wine and send posts far exceeded imagination, Suzuki, the leader of the Xuyi Japanese army, was invited to attend, causing his concern and vigilance, and arrested Sun Naixiang and imprisoned in the glass spring of the first mountain in Xuyi County, squatting in a water prison. After many efforts, he was fished out of the water prison, but his body collapsed and he contracted tuberculosis.
He died of illness in Wei Tsui's hometown
Since 1942, Sun's family has successively returned to the southern Wei Tsui of the half-city to live and live, and Sun himself continues to lead a group of people along the Huai River to make a living and survive. After the Surrender of the Japanese Army in August 1945, Sun Naixiang was intercepted on the Huai River by Pan Dao's team who was ordered to surround Xuyi on the water and surrendered his weapons. After asking the Bureau, a welcome meeting was held and escorted to the Bureau, respecting his wishes. Sun asked the guns and personnel to stay and go home himself. After Sun arrived at Wei Tsui's hometown, he only said goodbye to his mother in a hurry. Then let people use shuttle boats to send themselves to the other side of Hongze Lake, leaving from Gaoliangjian to Yangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing and other places, and several people followed along the way. Later, due to illness, he returned to Hongze Lake, lived in a boat surnamed Wei, moored in the Shuanggou Wharf, was carried back to Wei Tsui from Shuanggou with a cool bed, and died of illness within a few days, buried in Wei Tsui, at the age of 52. When he died, it coincided with the occupation of half the city by the Kuomintang Homecoming Regiment, and the Kuomintang Homecoming Regiment lined up for it and was buried with a gun.
Sun once married a wife, Shi Shi, but did not have children after difficult childbirth, and had no direct descendants. (As of May 2017)