In March 1937, He Yingqin (front row, second from right) picked up Han Fuyu at Nanjing Railway Station (front row, center)
Dictation | Written by Han Zihua | Zhou Haibin
Born in 1923, Han Zihua joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army in June 1949 and later served as a deputy to the Lanzhou Municipal People's Congress and a member of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. After 1984, he served as the secretary general of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee and a member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee. On May 17, 2013, Han Zihua passed away. In his memories, he clarified the various legends added to Han Fuyu and restored a real warlord of the Republic of China.
Many people think that my father is from Shandong, which is wrong. Born in Hebei Province, his father was a typical Northern Chinese Man. He was about 1.80 meters tall, slightly thin, but very strong; fair-skinned, when swimming in the Yuanjiang River in Hunan, Robe Ze jokingly called him "White Stripe in the Waves" (nicknamed Zhang Shun, the leader of the Liangshan Water Army in "Water Margin"),Li Zongren's first impression of him was not the expected Takefu Zhao, but a "white-faced scholar".
There are many jokes about his father, and some people think that Han Fuyu, who was born in the army, is just a martial artist, slightly literate, but in fact, this is a big misunderstanding. My father came from a farming family, and my grandfather was a talented person who taught private schools. He studied with his father in the school for many years since childhood, had a foundation in Confucian classics, and joined the army to conquer the north and south, but still maintained good reading habits. During his reign, Sha Mingyuan, a well-known scholar consulted by the Shandong provincial government, often gave him lectures on scriptures and history books, such as the I Ching and zuo zhuan.
Later, his father, Lord Lu, saw that the Shandong soldiers were full of disasters, devastated, political darkness, and official corruption. At the beginning of his reign, he was anxious to seek governance, and took office on September 5, 1930, and on the 15th, he announced four "administrative plans" for his rule of Lu, the first of which was "clarifying the rule of officials". He made up his mind, hesitated and full of ambition, and threatened to make the Shandong under his rule "politically new and increasing with each year, with the image of abundant local production and the song of the people's happiness and profit." "Change Lu and change Qi", "Open a new era for my Shandong".
My father hated officials the most for embezzlement and bribery, and in Shandong, civil servants who embezzled more than 500 yuan were shot. Father's inspection of the county magistrate was very strict. In addition to the county chiefs, the most stringent ones are the directors of public security and tax bureaus, because these people hold special powers, are the most prone to bribery and perverting the law, and are the most vigilant and self-theft. He will severely punish those who are corrupt and pervert the law and commit adultery among the county chiefs and public security bureau chiefs, and once they are caught or reported, they will not be punished. According to statistics, from September 1930 to July 1931, in less than a year, 55 county chiefs were dismissed for corruption and bribery, accounting for half of the total number of county chiefs in the province; 158 other civil servants were dismissed.
His father was in Shandong, and he also won a nickname of "Han Qingtian" because he was keen on trying cases. My father was influenced by traditional Chinese culture since childhood, lacking a modern concept of the rule of law, and hoped that a clean official like Bao Zheng would be born out of nowhere to eliminate violence and peace for Tianxing.
Absurd stories about my father's trial are often found at the end of the book, and to put it bluntly, they are all made up. It turned out that in 1935, a close relative of a reporter in the Ta Kung Pao was serving as the county magistrate in Lubei and was imprisoned in a prison in Shandong Province awaiting execution for smuggling opium smoke. The reporter went to Shandong to intercede with his father, who did not give face and upheld the original sentence. The reporter became angry and embarrassed, planted all the scandalous jokes in the official arena on him, and made up an article every day to be published in the "Ta Kung Pao". The father's handling of the case is open and transparent, and the speedy trial is quick, or life or death, or beating or punishment, depending on one word. All the cases he tried were pre-examined by the Judicial Section or the Military Justice Department, and his main job was to "judge" rather than "try".
Han Fuyu poses with Chiang Kai-shek
In August 1932, his father and Zhang Xueliang exchanged Lan Pu in Beijing and married as brothers with different surnames. My father was ten years old, and their friendship should be regarded as a year-old friendship. Once, Zhang Xueliang asked my father where he was staying in Beiping for a meeting. The father replied that he was staying at a relative's house. Zhang was very surprised, he did not expect that his father had been stationed in Beiping for many years, and there was no house. So he insisted on giving a property, No. 47 Dongrong Line Hutong in Beiping, to his father.
On December 12, 1936, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng carried out military advice in Xi'an. On the evening of the incident, Zhang Xueliang sent a secret telegram to his father, explaining the reasons for the military advice, and asking him to quickly send a representative to Xi'an to "discuss the state of the country."
I remember that night, my mother and we both slept. My father came home and called us up, smiled and said, "Tell you a big thing, Zhang Hanqing has detained Mr. Jiang!" "We still don't understand what happened, the phone rang, it turned out that the "Shandong Republic of China Daily" came to the phone to ask for instructions: Tomorrow the news will see the newspaper, do you want to call Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng "Zhang Reverse" and "Yang Reverse"? The father replied, "What 'Zhang Rebellion' and 'Yang Rebellion' are, just say General Zhang Xueliang and General Yang Hucheng!" ”
Nanjing He Yingqin and other main war factions were aggressive, and my father was very disgusted. He changed his previous cautious attitude and called Zhang Xueliang in the form of a code on the 21st, praising Zhang Shizhi's extraordinary actions as a "wise feat" and informing Zhang and Yang that his troops would "be ordered to move west and hope that there would be no misunderstandings when the two armies came into contact." The father's "horse electricity" was immediately deciphered by The Nanjing agents, and a stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the nanjing high-level was extremely shaken.
On the 25th, the "Xi'an Incident" was resolved peacefully, and at 5:50 p.m., the released Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Luoyang. It is said that at that time, my father was playing mahjong in the Jinan Provincial Government, and after hearing this news, in front of Jiang Bocheng, who was sent to Jinan by the Nanjing side, he pushed the card in front of him and said: "What is this called, I didn't expect Zhang Hanqing to do things so sloppily!" Later generations commented: "It is this sentence that planted the gene for him (Han Fuyu) to kill himself after that." ”
Shortly after the "Xi'an Incident", the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing. On September 30, 1937, a unit of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army's Isoya Ryosuke division, which was moving south along the Jinpu Line, occupied the Sangyuan Station at the junction of Hebei and Lu, and the war burned to the gate of Shandong. Han Fuyu's Third Army fought against the Japanese army on the Jinpu Line north of the Yellow River, and suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of TujiaoHe, the Jinpu Line Counterattack, and the Battle of Linyi.
When his father returned from The Siege of Jiyang, he wrote a handwritten letter to his mother and asked an adjutant to send it to Cao County. At that time, my mother had taken our children and then evacuated to Luxicao County.
The full text of the letter is as follows:
"Elder sister: This time, our unit fought a bloody battle with the Japanese Kou, and suffered heavy casualties, which has never been seen in any battle since I joined the army. In the future, the battle will become more serious, and it is difficult to predict life and death. Please don't worry about me anymore, as long as the children are taken care of and educated, I am grateful! He is now sending 5,000 yuan for future home use, hoping to check and receive. Best regards. ”
My mother cried bitterly. In fact, this is already my father's masterpiece.
When Jinan was in crisis, his father ordered the capital of Shandong Province to be moved from Ningyang to Cao County. When the train passed through Xuzhou, the Headquarters of the Commander of the Fifth Theater (commander-in-chief Li Zongren) called to stop it, asking: "Why is the rear of the Third Army in West Henan transported to this place?" My father casually commented on the telegram: "In the all-out war of resistance, how to divide each other", and Yun: "Kaifeng and Zhengzhou are not the rear of the five theaters, why are they storing ammunition and supplies in this area?" "My father's staff office did not know what he was thinking of (the staff office had chiang kai-shek agents, such as liaison staff officer Wang Daosheng, who was intended to stir up relations between Han and Li), but according to the words he casually approved, he directly sent a telegram to the headquarters of the commander of the Fifth Theater, and did not present the reply to him in advance. Li Zongren received the telegram, was furious, and transferred Han Zhifu to Chiang Kai-shek.
After his father was forced to leave Jinan, Li Zongren ordered him to die in Tai'an. My father wrote 8 words in the call: "Nanjing is not guarded, He Shou Tai'an." The Staff Office repeated the same trick, still using the words and sentences approved by his father as a reply telegram, and directly sent it to the Headquarters of the Commander of the Fifth Theater. When Li received the telegram, he was furious again and transferred Han Dian to Chiang Kai-shek, accusing Han of not obeying the command and acting without authorization. The father's refusal to carry out the order to "stick to Tai'an" was a fatal mistake.
Kaifeng Shuanglong Lane Niu Jingting old residence
In January 1938, after the end of the Shandong War, Chiang Kai-shek held a military conference in Kaifeng. When my father and his party arrived in Kaifeng, Liu Zhi and Jiang Bocheng, directors of the Henan Appeasement District, deputy commanders of the First Theater, and commanders-in-chief of the Second Army, arrived at the station to greet them. On the grounds that there were too many troops in Kaifeng City, Liu Zhi arranged for his father's guard battalion to stay in the steel-armored car and drive away from the city.
At 1:30 p.m. on January 11, the military conference was held in the Yuan Family Garden in Nanguan, Kaifeng, and my father, Sun Tongxuan, and others went to attend the meeting by car. It is said that during the meeting, Chiang Kai-shek accused his father of losing Shandong. The father unceremoniously confronted me and said: "The loss of Shandong is my responsibility, and whose responsibility is it for the loss of Nanjing?" ”
The father was taken away from the venue by agent and taken by car to the train station, where a prepared special train was ready to go. My father was just escorted onto the train surrounded by secret agents and military police, and the car started violently. For a time, all trains on the Longhai Line and the Pinghan Line were stopped and gave way. The train carrying his father first sped west along the Longhai Line, to Zhengzhou and then turned south on the Pinghan Line, along the way without stopping, directly to Hankou. In the carriage, the head of the secret service, Wang Zhaohuai, sat with his father all the time.
It is said that his father was detained in a two-story garden building in the military law enforcement department of the Military Commission at No. 30 Pingyue Road in Wuchang, where he lived on the second floor and the secret agent lived on the first floor, and he was treated preferentially in life.
Due to the close surveillance of the secret agents and the blockade of the news, the father was detained in Kaifeng on January 11, 1938, and was killed in Wuchang on the 24th, during which what happened in the 13 days is completely unknown to the outside world, and it is still a mystery.