In July 1950, Chairman Mao received a telegram from the Hunan Provincial Party Committee in Zhongnanhai.
The telegram said that Long Yunfei, the leader of the bandits in western Hunan Province, had recently openly displayed the banner of "The People's Anti-Communist Self-Defense Army of the Border Areas of the Four Provinces of Xiang'e, Sichuan, and Qian," and with one town as a base, attacked two towns in two ways, in an attempt to encircle them from the east and west, and the target was directly aimed at the county seat of Fenghuang County.
The telegram also said that Long Yunfei was a loyal subordinate of Chen Quzhen, a great bandit in Hunan and the "King of Xiangxi", and that his rebellion must have been ordered by Chen Quzhen, and that he suggested that Chen Quzhen, the old bandit leader, should also be killed and killed to make an example of a hundred.
In fact, the Hunan Provincial Party Committee has proposed this more than once.
As early as the end of 1949, the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and the Central and Southern Bureau sent such a telegram.
At that time, Mao Zedong replied:
"We should take a cautious attitude in dealing with him (Chen Quzhen), and not deal with it rashly and cause us to fall into passivity."
After half a year, Mao Zedong's attitude has not changed, and he does not advocate killing him.
He also said that regardless of Chen Quzhen's past, he is now a friend of the Communists.
Mao Zedong's words saved Chen Quzhen.
Not only was Chen Quzhen not killed, but he also became a guest of the Communist Party and attended a meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, during which he was also invited to a banquet by Mao Zedong.
During the banquet, Zhou Enlai personally introduced him to Mao Zedong:
This is Mr. Chen Quzhen from Xiangxi, Hunan.
Mao Zedong shook his hand and said in a loud voice:
Long smell! Long smell!
After the meeting, Mao Zedong also summoned Chen Quzhen and presented him with dozens of agricultural tools, including oil presses and pumping machines, to encourage him to contribute to the construction of his hometown.
Chen Quzhen's old subordinate He Long also personally came to chen Quzhen's hotel to visit his old boss.
Bandits and communists are inseparable, so why did Mao Zedong twice come forward to save the life of Chen Quzhen, the "King of Xiangxi"?
Chen Quzhen, a native of Fenghuang, Hunan, was born in 1882.
In the West Hunan Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, there is a national-level historical and cultural city, which was originally called Zhenzhencheng, later changed to Phoenix Hall, and renamed Phoenix County after the Republic of China.
The ancient city of Phoenix has a long history and is full of people.
In modern China, many generals have come out of here.
During the Qing Dynasty, the army of Zhenzhencheng was called "Zhenjun".
In the short 36 years from the 20th year of Daoguang (1840) to the first year of Qing Guangxu (1875), 20 admirals, 21 generals, and more than 100 officers of three grades or more were selected from the "Zhen Army".
In the Republic of China period, the glory of the "Zhen Army" continued to exist, and 7 lieutenant generals, 17 major generals, and 230 officers above the brigade and regiment level were born in succession.
On the eve of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Phoenix, which had a total of no more than 10,000 households, maintained the size of five divisions (including reserves).
During the eight-year War of Resistance, Phoenix produced more than 3,000 widows, and without exception, their husbands sacrificed their lives for the country.
Having said all this, it is nothing more than to explain to everyone that the people of Xiangxi are fierce and famous in the world.
Since the people are fierce, the people here can become heroes and bandits.
Because bandits are the product of a chaotic world, they are the officials who force the people to rebel, in this sense, bandits are not born bad people, but also "taken from the people.".
In any case, in that era, it was an indisputable fact that Xiangxi was rich in bandits.
In 1987, Xiaoxiang Film Studio once filmed a movie "Xiangxi Bandits", in which Qu Tianhua, the leader of the bandits in Fengshan County, has a history of 24 generations of bandits.
Here, it is not surprising who has a bandit, and it is rare for poor young people in the countryside who have not experienced being bandits.
Chen Quzhen, the "King of Xiangxi" whom Chairman Mao tried to protect, was the best among the bandits.
Chen Quzhen, like most bandits, was not born a bandit, and his ancestors were not born as bandits.
Not only that, Chen Quzhen's father and grandfather were law-abiding citizens and belonged to the local squires.
Chen Quzhen's living conditions were superior, and he also received a good education, first studying at the Zhijiang Mingshan Academy of the county school, and then studying at the Yuanshui School at the age of 16.
It is no exaggeration to say that Chen Quzhen was once an ambitious young man with lofty ideals.
It is said that bandits are not terrible, they are afraid that bandits have culture, and Chen Quzhen not only has culture, but also has a low level of education.
In 1937, Chen Quzhen published a notebook travel novel "Dream of Wild Dust".
The secretary recounted his entry into Tibet with the army at the end of the Qing Dynasty to calm the chaotic affairs of Tibet due to the Invasion of the British Army, the several wars he participated in from Chengdu, and the arduous conquest and life experience of taking qinghai and Lanzhou to Xi'an after the Xinhai Revolution.
In this book, in addition to using a lot of ink and ink to introduce the customs and customs of various places, the shape and history of mountains and rivers, he also recorded his adventures in Tibet and the love of life and death with Tibetan girls.
The novel was a sensation after its publication, and this is an afterthought.
Moreover, in the thirty-second year of Qing Guangxu (1906), the 24-year-old Chen Quzhen graduated from the Hunan Wubei Academy and was assigned to the forty-ninth biao of the New Army as a team officer, and began his career as a horseman.
During his studies at the Wubei Academy, he embraced revolutionary ideas and joined the League.
However, later, he was not optimistic about the Alliance, and felt that he still had a head to follow the imperial court, so he turned to Zhao Erfeng, the governor of Sichuan in the Qing Dynasty.
In February 1908, Zhao Erfeng was reappointed as a minister stationed in Tibet, and during his term of office, he led his troops to quell the rebellion planned by the upper nobility of Tibet.
Chen Quzhen followed his superiors into Tibet and, as an officer of the three battalions of the Tibetan Aid Army, participated in the battles of Gongbu Jiangda and Bomi, and made contributions to the suppression of the rebellion in Tibet.
After the fall of the Qing court, Chen Quzhen transformed into a revolutionary, defected to Tian Yingzhao of the League, and embarked on a fast track in life.
Tian Yingzhao was also a Phoenix man, he was a meritorious minister of the Xinhai Revolution, as early as 1904, when Tian Yingzhao went to Japan to study, he became acquainted with Sun Yat-sen and joined the League. After returning to China, he participated in the Wuchang Uprising and served as the captain of the death squad.
After the restoration of Nanjing, Tian Yingzhao was promoted to brigade commander of the Twentieth Brigade and garrisoned Nanjing.
When Yuan became emperor, Tian Yingzhao declared independence in Phoenix, proclaimed himself the commander-in-chief of the Xiangxi Protectorate Army, and became a prince of the party.
Tian Yingzhao was later addicted to opium and was mentally depressed all the time, so in order to consolidate the territory of western Hunan and maintain the power of the Phoenix people, he ordered his close confidant Chen Quzhen to take over as the commander-in-chief of the First Army.
Since then, Chen Quzhen has gradually become the Emperor Taishang of Xiangxi. He not only monopolized local taxes, but also opened a bank, issued his own banknotes, and circulated in 13 counties in western Hunan Province, turning Phoenix into his own independent kingdom.
Not only that, Chen Quzhen set up an arsenal in Fenghuang County.
Due to the high mountains and dense forests in the western Hunan region, the complex terrain, and the fact that the local people were still armed and belligerent, successive hunan governments had no choice but to provoke them easily, and they mainly appeased and recognized his rule there.
After Chen Quzhen received the recognition from above, under the banner of "protecting the territory and protecting the people," he began to implement the "Xiangxi Autonomy" in a dignified manner.
He also went to Shanxi to learn from the advanced experience of the warlord Yan Xishan and conduct education on a large scale.
Chen Quzhen founded an officer school and a cadet training battalion in Phoenix, cultivating a large number of military talents to serve their own side. He also set up various schools to cultivate talents for the new era for the local area.
In order to get enough military funds, he vigorously developed the economy, opening a model forest farm and six small factories in the local area.
So, how did the revolutionary He Long become a subordinate of Chen Quzhen?
Yuan Shikai claimed to be the empress, and He Long responded to Sun Yat-sen's call to persuade Yuan to lead the Xiangxi Rebellion in 1916 and pulled up a peasant army. Soon after, He Long chose to join Tian Yingzhao's troops and became the commander of the second battalion of the left wing of the Xiangxi Protectorate Army.
During this period, Chen Quzhen was serving as chief of staff under Tian Yingzhao and concurrently served as the head of the First Regiment.
In terms of position, Chen Quzhen was He Long's superior.
However, at that time, Chen Quzhen had already passed the age of establishment, and He Long was only in his early 20s, and his future was immeasurable.
In 1920, Chen Quzhen took over Tian Yingzhao's class and became the envoy of Xiangxi Town, becoming a veritable "King of Xiangxi".
At that time, He Long led his troops to stay in his hometown Sangzhi.
Chen Quzhen appointed his close associate Xiao Mou as the county magistrate of Sangzhi County, and appointed He Long as the commander of the detachment to win him over.
At that time, Chen Quzhen was one step too late, and He Long had already accepted the appointment of The Prince of Lizhou and served as the commander of the regiment in Wang's "Wuzi Army".
Wang Zifeng participated in the Wuchang Uprising and also followed Sun Yat-sen.
In July 1920, Wang Zifeng was murdered by his deputy qingheng, and Chen Quzhen persuaded He Long to appoint He Long as the commander of the 2nd detachment of the Xiangxi Patrol Army.
The reason why He Long defected to Chen Quzhen was because at that time, Chen was still a more progressive image.
In that year, a major drought broke out in western Hunan Province, and eight counties, including Baojing, Longshan, Yongshun, and Sangzhi, had a total of one million victims, and hunger was everywhere in the wilderness and thousands of miles. Chen Quzhen carried out great righteous deeds in various counties, setting up porridge shacks to help the hungry, which was well received by the people. It was precisely because of this that He Long, who was concerned about the people, chose to follow Chen Quzhen.
Chen Quzhen's thinking at that time was pursuing progress, and he hated the warlords who had brought calamity to the country and the people, and expressed deep sympathy for the people who were crying hunger and cold.
On a hill in western Hunan Province, there is a temple of Ma Yuanci, a famous general of the Han Dynasty, Fu Bo.
Chen Quzhen and He Long climbed to the top of the mountain together and came to the Ma Yuan Temple, recalling that Ma Yuannan had returned from the Southern Expedition, and because of the rumors of the villains, he finally felt a lot of emotions about the history of his dismissal and raiding his family.
He said to He Long: "Politics is bad, villains have dictatorship, loyalty suffers, and the people suffer." Over the years, I have traveled to Kangzang, Sichuan, And Shaanxi through Gansu, through thousands of rivers and mountains, and everywhere I went, most of the people I saw lived in the depths of the water. ”
"The heart said that the Great Qing Dynasty had fallen, and the country should be revitalized, but then a great thief who stole the country, Yuan Shikai, popped up."
"Yuan Shikai is finished, warlords are fighting, and the country is even more chaotic."
He Long also felt the same way: "Yes, I originally thought that by overthrowing Yuan Shikai, the country would be on the right track." Now it seems that there is a long way to go, as Mr. Sun said, 'The revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still have to work hard'. ”
Later, Feng Yuxiang was appointed as an envoy to Xiangxi Town, and He Long and Chen Quzhen's troops were forced to leave there.
In early 1922, He Long parted ways with Chen Quzhen.
After the two broke up, He Long left Xiangxi and followed the Kuomintang general Shi Qingyang to launch the second dharma protection campaign.
In fact, when He Longzhi left Xiangxi, Chen Quzhen played a great role, and he recommended He Long to Shi Qingyang.
At this time, Chen Quzhen had already metamorphosed, seeing Xiangxi as his own territory, and he was worried about He Long's high prestige among the people, and he tried to get rid of him.
However, after leaving Hunan, He Long was like a fish in the water, and later joined the Communist Party of China, together with Zhu Dezhou Enlai and others to launch the Nanchang Uprising, and grew into a founding marshal.
Later, he Long wrote about this in his autobiography:
Chen Quzhen felt that I was too much of a threat to him, so he ordered me to follow Shi Qingyang to Sichuan. I asked Chen Quzhen for a formal appointment, but he did not give it. As a result, after entering Sichuan, Chen Quzhen said that He Long had defected. "
However, Chen Quzhen also remembered this friendship with He Long and still had a little affection for him.
Later, when fighting with the Red Army led by He Long, Chen Quzhen was very flexible in his strategy in order to preserve his strength, and he was all compared to the point.
When He Long's army borrowed the xiangxi, Chen would sometimes open a side and let it pass.
Even sometimes the He Long team encountered difficulties, and Chen also came to the rescue.
However, Chen Quzhen could not change the essence of the reactionary warlord, and he was essentially not the same person as the Red Army, which was seeking the welfare of the people.
In November of the 23rd year of the Republic of China (1934), the Second and Sixth Armies of the Red Army captured the county seat of Yongshun.
Under the persecution of He Jian, the chairman of Hunan Province, Chen Quzhen accepted the reorganization of the Kuomintang and launched an attack on the Second and Sixth Armies of the Red Army as the commander of the Kuomintang Fourteenth Division.
Under the leadership of He Long and Xiao Ke, the Red Army adopted the tactic of luring the enemy to go deeper, and set up an ambush circle in the 100,000 Ping area of 30 miles north of the city.
Chen Quzhen was very conceited, and did not pay attention to his former subordinate He Long at all.
As a result, his three brigades of about 10,000 people fell into the Ambush Circle of the Red Army, and He Jian received Chen's request for help, ostensibly agreed, but did not move, leaving Chen's troops to fight alone. The intention is very obvious, that is, to drain him.
As a result, Chen Bu was severely wounded by the Red Army, killing and wounding more than half of them, and losing combat effectiveness.
In the spring of the 24th year of the Republic of China (1935), He Jian once again fell into the well and told Chiang Kai-shek that Chen Quzhen was suspected of "communism".
Chiang Kai-shek believed it to be true and decided to send him to a military court to investigate Chen Quzhen for his defeat.
In order to save his life, Chen Quzhen had to surrender his military power and moved to Changsha with the vacant titles of "Member of the Hunan Provincial Government" and "General Counselor of the Changsha Appeasement Office".
The "King of Xiangxi", who once dominated for a while, withdrew from the stage of history for the first time, ending his division of xiangxi.
Since then, Chen Quzhen had to spare Changsha, and the memoir mentioned above was written during that period.
However, Chen Quzhen is not willing to fail, he is learning to practice, lying down to taste courage, recuperating, waiting for the opportunity to make a comeback.
In September of the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), the opportunity finally arrived. Relying on Long Yunfei, Chen Quzhen drove away He Jian, took revenge for the arrow of the year, and achieved the purpose of making a comeback.
Long Yunfei was also a fierce general, who was as well-known as He Long at that time, and the two were called "two dragons of the pole army".
However, the two embarked on different paths in life, He Long became the marshal of New China, and Long Yunfei became a bandit.
Long Yunfei is a Miao ethnic group, born in 1886 in Shanjiang Town, Fenghuang County.
Affected by the local environment, he liked to dance knives and sticks since he was a child, and dropped out of school after only two years of private school, and since then he has been following a group of people all day to cause trouble, specializing in fighting and killing.
At the age of eighteen, Long Yunfei officially joined the local brotherhood of elders, which was considered to have stepped onto the big stage of modern history.
Long Yunfei is more bold and righteous, surrounded by many little brothers, everyone is very convinced of him, it can be said that he has done a hundred responses.
After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, the Brotherhood of elders, as a branch of the League, immediately responded with troops. Long Yunfei immediately led his troops to rebel and captured Phoenix City.
In 1918, Long Yunfei served as the commander of the 1st Route Army and participated in the Protector War.
After Chen Quzhen returned to Xiangxi, Long Yunfei immediately defected and became his right-hand man. After Chen Quzhen was forced by He Jian to surrender military power, Long Yunfei also "disarmed and returned to the field".
However, after Long Yunfei returned to his hometown, he did not keep to himself, but pulled up a team to confront the National Government and waited for the opportunity.
In July of the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), the Anti-Japanese War broke out in full swing, and Chen Quzhen, seeing that the opportunity had come, instigated the Phoenix Miao compatriots to create turmoil in the name of anti-rent.
Long Yunfei took the opportunity to attack Qiancheng with local armed forces and drove out the local officials appointed by the Kuomintang.
This move shook Xiangxi, and He Jian, the chief executive of Hunan, was disgraced and transferred away from Hunan.
In November 1937, Zhang Zhizhong took over as chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government.
Zhang Zhizhong is a man of understanding, he sees the chaos in the phoenix, he knows that things are not so simple, there must be a plot to mastermind.
Xiangxi was originally Chen Quzhen's territory, and the ringer must also be tied to the ringer, and if you want to solve the problem of Phoenix County, you must find a "backstage boss".
So after Zhang Zhizhong came to Hunan, he immediately went to visit Chen Quzhen, who lived in Changsha, and invited him to go out of the mountain and serve as the director of the Yuanling Special Office.
Zhang Zhizhong's invitation was in the arms of Chen Quzhen, and he pretended to give in and accepted the appointment.
As soon as Chen Quzhen came forward, the problem was solved, and he and his old subordinate Long Yunfei sang a double reed.
In the end, Long Yunfei said that he accepted the reorganization, and the unit was organized into the first brigade of the new huxin organization, with Long Yunfei as the brigade commander and 4 regiments under its jurisdiction.
After accepting the reorganization, Long Yunfei led his troops to the anti-Japanese front and participated in four large-scale battles such as the Battle of Changsha until the end of the War of Resistance.
The Xiangxi people fought bravely, the pole army was invincible, and they played a prestige on the anti-Japanese battlefield, shocking the sixth and ninth theaters.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Kai-shek unloaded and killed donkeys, stripped Chen Quzhen and Long Yunfei of their military powers, and gave them a false post.
Chen Quzhen was appointed as a "lieutenant general of the Military Commission" and a "member of the Design Committee" and was stationed in Sichuan, but in fact he was placed under house arrest in disguise. Leaving the old nest of Xiangxi, Chen Quzhen became a tiger whose teeth had been pulled out, and could no longer make any waves.
Long Yunfei was transferred to the 9th Theater Commander's Headquarters Major General Gao Gan, who also had no authority.
He couldn't help but look up at the sky and sigh: "I also came to fight devils, I have no intention of fighting for power, the great China, but why can't I be subordinate?" Indignant, he did not take up his post, and after handing over the troops, he went straight home to live a life of idleness.
Chiang Kai-shek was bent on cleaning up the untamed pole army, and after achieving his goal, of course, he would not care too much about Long Yunfei's feelings.
The time came to March 1949, the three major battles had ended, and the defeat of the Kuomintang on the mainland was inevitable.
No one expected that at this moment, Chen Quzhen had misjudged the situation and returned to the mountain.
On March 2, 1949, a mutiny occurred in Yuanling, and the situation in western Hunan was chaotic. When Chen Quzhen saw that the opportunity had come, he couldn't bear the loneliness and began to stir.
He seized the opportunity to form the Fenghuang County Defense and Suppression Committee, pulled up 3,000 people and horses, and took the military and political power of the whole county into his hands.
In order to stabilize the situation in Hunan, Song Xilian, then commander of the Xiang'e Border Region Appeasement Headquarters, appointed Chen as "Deputy Commander of the Xiang'e Border Region Appeasement."Chen was once again addicted to being the boss of Western Hunan Province.
But the good times did not last long, and on August 4, 1949, a big news came:
Cheng Qian, director of the Kuomintang Changsha Appeasement Office and chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government, and Chen Mingren, commander of the Kuomintang First Corps, led their units to declare an uprising and peacefully liberate Changsha.
After the liberation of Changsha, the troops of the Second Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army advanced to the southwest.
Chen Quzhen was horrified when he heard the news, and retreated from Qiancheng to the Huangsi Bridge in Fenghuang County, intending to resist.
The Yellow Silk Bridge was built as an ancient city during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, with intact ancient city walls and several forts on it.
Chen Quzhen was clearly trying to resist by taking advantage of the favorable terrain. But at this moment, his mood is also very contradictory, the General Trend of the Kuomintang has gone, and with a small yellow silk bridge, it is impossible to resist the offensive of the People's Liberation Army.
But he was once a member of the Kuomintang, can the Communist Party spare himself? So he was undecided and suspicious.
At this moment, a fellow came to him.
This fellow was named Zhu Shouguan, and his brother Zhu Zhaoguan was originally Chen's subordinate.
In 1937, Zhu Zhaoguan defected to the revolution and went to Yan'an and joined the Communist Party of China.
At that time, Zhu Zhaoguan was already a general under Peng Dehuai and served as deputy chief of staff of the Northwest Military Region.
Zhu Shouguan brought a letter from his brother to Chen Quzhen, advising him to conform to the trend of the times and that for the sake of the well-being of the people of western Hunan Province, he should seize the favorable opportunity and lead a peaceful uprising.
Although Chen agreed to the uprising after weighing the gains and losses, he still had many concerns.
At this time, another fellow came to persuade him, and this person's name was Wang Shangqian.
Wang Shangqian turned out to be Chen's secretary and was friends with He Long, and he brought a letter from He Long.
He Long said in the letter that your old superiors Zhang Zhizhong and Cheng Qian have surrendered, and they have all been highly valued by the Communist Party and playing an important role in the new government.
After reading He Long's letter, Chen Quzhen no longer hesitated and made up his mind. In November 1949, the 47th Army of the People's Liberation Army again sent a letter to Chen Quzhen, inviting him to Yuanling to negotiate the peaceful transfer of local government power.
Chen immediately convened a meeting of the old military and political personnel and well-known personalities in Fenghuang County. At the meeting, everyone said that "the order of the Only Yu Gong (Chen Qu Zhen Zi Yu Gong, Yu Gong is an honorific title) is followed."
Therefore, Chen Quzhen replied to the telegram and agreed to negotiate peaceful liberation and administrative transfer with the Communist Party in Qianzhou.
Subsequently, Phoenix County held a peaceful uprising conference, adopted the county's "Decision on Peaceful Uprising", and declared peaceful liberation.
Before organizing the meeting, Chen Quzhen specially summoned his old subordinate Long Yunfei, first, to say goodbye, and second, to brief him on the negotiation of the uprising, so as to arrange for the aftermath.
At that time, Chen Quzhen said to Long Yunfei:
"At present, it seems that the Communist Party is deeply popular with the people, and the old Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army is still difficult to resist, and our phoenix is nothing more than a land of bullets, and to resist others is to hit the stone with an egg."
"Over the years, the Phoenix has been in frequent wars and chaos, and we are poor and white, and even if we can't do a good job of it, we can't smash it, and we can't let future generations scold us."
"Now the only way is for me to go to Beijing to find Zhang Wenbai (Zhang Zhizhong) and He Yunqing (He Long). Handing over guns, surrendering, hosting hospitality, and listening to calls should not be a problem, I think. ”
Before leaving, he told Long Yunfei qianqian, "You must cooperate with the People's Liberation Army, and you must not make any other mistakes."
However, as soon as Chen Quzhen left, Long Yunfei left his words behind, trying in vain to die and struggle.
Chen Jingxiong, a US agent of Chiang Kai-shek, also came to fan the flames, saying that Chiang Kai-shek was about to counterattack and that the Americans would also support the Kuomintang.
Long Yunfei, a warrior with no brains and unable to withstand the temptation, immediately gathered bandits on the borders of Phoenix, Songtao, and Luxi and formed an "anti-communist national salvation army" in Shanjiang, in an attempt to use the mantis arm as a car to oppose the People's Liberation Army.
On January 21, 1951, Long Yunfei was surrounded by our army's bandit troops on the Violent Wood Forest Mountain in Duli Township, and in desperation, he fired six shots in the abdomen and swallowed the gun to commit suicide.
A few days later, Long Yunfei's eldest son, Long Yaoru, commander-in-chief of the "Anti-Communist National Salvation Self-Defense Army", was also captured alive by five peasants.
At this time, Chen Quzhen was already a guest of the CCP, and not only was he received by Mao Zedong, but his old subordinate He Long also went to visit his old boss at the hotel.
After many years, the two reunited, and naturally they were full of emotions.
Chen Quzhen regretted that he was reluctant to put up the altar jar and said "ashamed" that he did not follow He Long to participate in the revolution.
He Long comforted him and said, no matter what, at the last moment, you are on the right path, and it is not too late to make up for it!
On February 8, 1952, Chen Quzhen's life, suffering from throat cancer, came to an end, and the once prominent "King of Xiangxi" died of illness in his apartment in Changsha's Mayuanling "Lonely Heaven and One Lu", at the age of seventy-one.