After the war began, someone always had to face the rain of bullets and bullets and plunge into the sea of swords and fires.
The historical figure to be introduced today is Zhong Qi, the red agent of our Party, who, when he was four years old, went to Jinggangshan and died on the battlefield after participating in the revolution.
A similar tragic fate befell the family again, and even more unfortunate than the previous generation, Zhong Qi joined the revolution and was arrested by the Kuomintang in 1949, and his wife was only less than four months pregnant.
The originally happy family, encountering the terrifying waves of the times, Zhong Qi lost his father when he was four years old, and his son's small life, which had only sprouted for less than four months, lost Zhong Qi.
In this life, Zhong Qi has a particularly deep understanding of orphans, and since his arrest, he knows that he will not be able to escape the disaster, so he quietly wrote a suicide note on the cigarette box in prison, saying: I still love you in the end, you must get married again...
Regarding Zhong Qi's life, we must start from 1922, he was born in Liling, Hunan Province, from a middle-class peasant family, although not rich, but not hungry.
Zhong Qi's father, named Zhong Weixu, was a famous teacher in the eight villages of Ten Mile, who had been wandering in Shanghai for several months.
When Zhong Qi was four years old, his father returned from the big city to his hometown in Hunan, began to propagate revolutionary ideas in the village, and began to lead the local peasant movement, beating up local tycoons, dividing up the land, and overthrowing warlords and landlords.
In the Hunan region, the peasant movement was in full swing, and Zhong Weixu was an early participant in the Chinese peasant movement.
Zhong Qi was young at that time, and when he slept at night, his father always talked to his mother about revolutionary ideas.
Her mother's name was Jiang Shufan, and she knew nothing about the Bolsheviks, but she knew that warlords and landlords had always been a mountain that weighed down on the people.
Zhong Qi's father, Zhong Weixu, often said: "It only takes twenty years for us to establish a new country, this is the world of our Communist Party, and the red flag will definitely be planted all over the country!" We must revolutionize! ”
Jiang Shufan was an ordinary woman, she asked the questions that countless ordinary women in that era would ask, she asked her husband: "What is revolution?" Can you tell us about it? ”
Zhong Wei continued: "Revolution, first of all, to reform ourselves, we must not covet pleasure, let alone be greedy for life and afraid of death, we must become pure communists, dedicate everything in our lives to the peasant movement, and overthrow the landlord warlords!" ”
Zhong Qi had just remembered that although his understanding of revolution was vague, his life already had a direction.
The peasant movement in Hunan was suppressed by warlords, and Zhong Qi's father, Zhong Weixu, went to Jinggangshan, Jiangxi province in 1927, and since then there has been no news, and the father and son have never said goodbye.
The landlord bully immediately retaliated against Jiang Shufan and Zhong Qi, the orphan and widowed mother had no choice but to escape from their hometown and beg along the street from Hunan, and the mother and son did not know where to go, but only wanted to find a place that could fill their stomachs and not be hunted down by the landlord bully.
Mother Jiang Shufan, leading her four-year-old son Zhong Qi, carrying a large sewing bag, while running for his life, doing needlework, showing off the flowery and green upper, hoping that there will be well-meaning people to buy.
In today's world, beggars ask for food by reaching out for money; but when Zhong Qi was a child, beggars had to sing a few folds of opera at worst and exaggerate people before they could get enough food.
Jiang Shufan was not even the worst beggar, but she was a hard-working woman who could embroider flowers and grass with needle and thread.
The mother and son fled for three years, which was the most difficult period of Zhong Qi's childhood life, and fled to Luotian County in Hubei Province, where they met distant relatives.
The mother and son settled down, the mother went to the landlord's house to work, while Zhong Qi stood at the door of the private school to eavesdrop, stood outside the window of the primary school to eavesdrop, and worked hard to study.
It is also Zhong Qi's good fortune that he met a lot of well-meaning people in Hubei, so he learned a lot of cultural knowledge, but primary school knowledge can eavesdrop, and it is difficult to get to middle school.
Zhong Qi can only work while reading, and since he can't afford to buy new books, he waits for the children in the school to borrow or buy other people's broken books after the holidays.
Zhong Qi wants to change his destiny through hard work, and in this difficult juvenile period, he has cultivated a tenacious and fearless character, and he has become stronger and braver.
The turning point of Zhong Qi's fate occurred when he was seventeen years old, he had to save a little money, he wanted to go to school to buy a few broken books, but he encountered a bully and robbery.
In this case, Zhong Qi naturally resisted desperately, but in the end he was outnumbered, the money was robbed by others, and he was beaten.
Zhong Qi sat under the big tree, one did not cry, two did not despair, but thought of snatching back his own money, must make the bully pay the price. After investigation, he learned that the bully's father was a patrolman, so he dared to bully the honest man without fear.
One night, Zhong Qi hid a steel cone in his arms, hid behind a tree and waited, crouching in front of the bully's door.
Poof!
Zhong Qi stabbed down, and the bully's screaming voice immediately sounded, and he was seriously injured.
Zhong Qi turned around and ran away, regardless of whether the enemy behind him was dead or alive, and from then on embarked on the wandering road of no fixed place.
When Zhong Qi later recalled this history, he said to his wife that he regretted it in his heart, because although he could run, his mother was still in Hubei. But that's a story for another day.
As the saying goes, skills do not press the body, in these years of study, Zhong Qi laid a solid cultural foundation, and he loves to create and wants to become a writer.
For Zhong Qi, although the emergence and destruction of that bully changed his life, the flame of his dream has never been extinguished, and as he grows older, his dream of becoming a writer is becoming more and more determined.
Zhong Qi first fled back to Hunan, entered a porcelain factory in Hengyang as an glazer, and after working for more than half a year, saved a little savings, and then went to learn engraving, and spent two years from apprentice to master.
Zhong Qi has never given up learning, this is a habit he has developed from childhood to adulthood, the more in the era of poverty, the more people believe that knowledge changes fate, zhong Qi is the same, so read more and more books.
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was in full swing, and in 1943, Zhong Qi met the first noble man in his life in the era of war and chaos...
At that time, it was in Hengyang, Hunan, and the master of the engraving factory invited him to dinner and invited his relatives in Guilin to drink, and the master saw that Zhong Qi was smart, so he brought it with him.
The relative of guilin, named Li Ruyi, was a reporter for the Guilin newspaper, and he chatted with Zhong Qi in this small restaurant, and the more he talked, the more speculative he became, and the more he talked, the more he liked the young man.
The reporter Li Ruyi said: "Guilin Newspaper is recruiting people, now it is the period of the War of Resistance, there is a lack of talents everywhere, do you know any classmates, recommend it to me?" ”
Zhong Qi suddenly realized that he had a chance to become a writer, and hurriedly said, "Can I go over and try?" ”
After Li Ruyi asked Zhong Qi about his age and education, he said: "Forget it, your qualifications are not enough, in case after you go, the leader of our newspaper says no, then aren't you running in vain?" ”
Zhong Qi did not want to miss this opportunity, he quickly said: "I don't want a salary, as long as I give food to eat, can I enter your newspaper office?" ”
The master of the engraving factory quickly came forward to help speak, hoping that Zhong Qi could enter the newspaper, after all, the young people should break in more and exercise more, and the master hoped that Zhong Qi would go out for a walk.
Li Ruyi, who was in his forties, looked at the young man in front of him, and after pondering for a while, he said: "Well, I will write you a letter of introduction, and after you went to the Guilin newspaper, you said that it was my distant nephew, and said that I wanted to find a place to eat, and I thought the leader would arrange it for you." ”
Zhong Qi was overjoyed, and immediately took the introduction letter and went to the Guilin newspaper in Guangxi, and after reading the introduction letter, the newspaper arranged the most unskilled "proofreading" work for Zhong Qi.
This means to check the manuscript for typos, review the geographical location, timeline, character logic, and whether there are any errors.
It was also from this moment that Zhong Qiqi embarked on the road of his dream step by step, getting closer and closer to the writer.
In October 1944, the famous Guilin Defense War broke out, and there were traitors within the newspaper, and Zhong Qi was quite dissatisfied with the content of the newspaper, he hoped to publicize the anti-Japanese content, but the newspaper liked lace news.
Zhong Qi resigned and went to Chongqing, by which time he already had the identity of a "newspaperman", or a media practitioner, rather than the proofreader who volunteered to work.
Chongqing was the temporary capital of China at that time, the newspaper naturally publicized more of the War of Resistance, Zhong Qi became a trainee reporter of the "Sweeping Newspaper", he took out two hundred percent of his bravery and strength, went to the battlefield to report on those iron-blooded heroes in the rain of bullets and bullets, and praised the merits and dedication of the anti-Japanese troops.
Don't underestimate the fact that this "Sweeping Newspaper" belonged to the army newspaper that was rooted in The Red, and was completely controlled by the Kuomintang army.
In contrast, the army of our new Communist Party of China has ten marshals, and the Army of the Kuomintang also has eight great Marshals, of which the first rank is He Yingqin, who has a nickname called the First Brother of the Nationalist Army.
The chairman of this "Sweeping Newspaper" is He Yingqin, Chiang Kai-shek's son-in-law Chen Cheng, who is the vice chairman, and Zhang Zhizhong, a red man of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, also serves as vice chairman.
That is to say, behind the "Sweeping Newspaper" are the first, second, and fifth generals of the Eight Great Kongs of the Kuomintang. The social status of this newspaper at that time was equivalent to our people's Liberation Army Daily today!
The leader of the "Sweeping Newspaper" newspaper was very appreciative of Zhong Qi, and just walking back and forth on the battlefield and writing a large number of battlefield documentary articles was enough to promote him from a trainee reporter to a senior war correspondent.
There are editors-in-chief of newspapers, and naturally there are military representatives, government workers responsible for reviewing the contents of newspapers and periodicals.
The editor-in-chief strongly recommended Zhong Qi to take up an important position, admired Zhong Qi's writing, and commented: Both beautiful and powerful!
The military representative commented: You boy has a kind!
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Zhong Qi has become a real writer and has been publishing articles in newspapers, but he does not like the malicious smear of the Communist Party in newspapers.
With the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, under the impetus of the Fifth King Kong Zhang Zhizhong, the name was changed from a military unit to an enterprise unit, and it also took over the newspaper and periodical units left by the Japanese and puppets in Shanghai.
Although the name has been changed, the nature of the "Peace Daily" has not changed, it was anti-Japanese and anti-communist before, and today I have been beaten away, and I have completely become an accomplice of the Kuomintang's anti-communism and anti-people.
What happened next was the outbreak of the War of Liberation, and the Kuomintang dictatorship headed by Chiang Kai-shek brazenly launched a civil war.
Zhong Qi was particularly disgusted by the civil war, and his identity at this time was no longer that of a humble teenager who broke into society, but a pen in his hand, blowing the charge of public opinion, opposing civil war and calling for peace.
Because Zhong Qi hated the kuomintang's reactionary regime, he took the initiative to contact the Communist Party, especially at a press conference in 1945, when Zhou Enlai made a speech strongly criticizing the Kuomintang for provoking a civil war.
As we said earlier, Zhong Qi's father was a communist who died in the revolutionary movement in Jinggangshan, so he has always longed for communism in his heart, and the revolutionary seeds in his heart when he was a child took root when he grew up.
A humble nobleman like Zhong Qi, who has more independent thinking and rational judgment, believes that the Kuomintang will certainly not be able to rule China for a long time, and the masses of the people will inevitably stand up and rise up to resist.
Zhong Qi decided to join the ranks of the people, so he joined the "China Democratic Practice Society", an organization that sounds prosaic and is actually an intelligence organization of the ccp's underground party.
In other words, Zhong Qi became an underground agent of our party, and his task was to contact the underground party agents in Guizhou and transport intelligence back and forth.
Looking at the "Peace Daily" side, we do not know Zhong Qi's true identity, and now that the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is over and the War of Liberation is about to be fully launched, the newspaper side says that it is okay to reward meritorious deeds and encourage subordinates, and it is necessary to appoint Zhong Qi as the director of the interview room and reporter.
That is to say, Zhong Qi was promoted to an official, and his interviewees were high-level military and political officials of the Kuomintang, who could enter and leave various important organs of the National Government.
In the eyes of his colleagues, Zhong Qi belongs to the role model of a noble son who is out of the cold door, and is a classic positive teaching material for self-learning to rebel against fate; they do not know that Zhong Qi's true identity is already an underground agent of the Communist Party.
According to the research of contemporary scholars, at that time, the Kuomintang was very happy and meritorious, and all kinds of false reports of military information were said to be "annihilated" in what places and how many people's liberation army were "annihilated", and these fake news were punctured by Zhong Qi one by one.
In particular, Hu Zongnan's troops, that is, the nationalist troops besieging Yan'an in the northwest, were even more cowhide to the sky, saying how many PLA troops had been captured, how many battles had been won, and how many "battle achievements" could be said to be ten.
Zhong Qi's article in the newspaper was to expose the real Kuomintang troops to the people in the Kuomintang area, and to oppose the civil war and call for peace.
When Zhong Qi was working in the Kuomintang area, his mood became more and more bored, especially when he saw that the Kuomintang army was corrupt and engaged in the five sons of Dengke, which was even more infuriating.
Therefore, Zhong Qi decided to leave the Kuomintang's "Peace Daily" to work in the liberated areas of the Communist Party, to report on the revolutionary process of the Communist Party, and to report on the enthusiasm of the masses for construction.
In 1947, Zhang Youyu, then vice chairman of the government of the Jin-Hebei Luyu Border Region, that is, the leader of our party, began to do Zhong Qi's ideological work.
Zhang Youyu said: "Jiang Guan District still needs people very much, you better not go to the Liberated Areas, stay in the Peace Daily, and make greater contributions..."
Zhang Youyu quickly completed Zhong Qi's ideological work, so Zhong Qi decided to continue to serve as the director of the interview room in Peace Daily and continue to be a media celebrity in the Kuomintang area.
Although Zhong Qi's main job was to collect and provide intelligence, he could not bear the anger in his heart, so he wrote an article criticizing the Kuomintang reactionaries.
Then again, Zhong Qi's bitter criticism of the Kuomintang authorities' articles naturally could not be published in the Peace Daily, let alone in his own name.
Therefore, Zhong Qi used the pen name "Cheng Lan" to secretly send his manuscript to other newspapers for publication, and the content was all the transcript of his interview, from the perspective of the people in the Kuomintang area, to criticize the fainting and decaying incompetence of the Kuomintang at that time.
Zhong Qi's writing is sophisticated, both literary beauty and depth of thought, so it has attracted many readers, including a beautiful college student named Xiao Deqi.
In the war-torn era, Xiao Deqi liked Zhong Qi's articles very much, and the two exchanged letters many times.
The young intellectuals of that generation always had one way or another of thinking about society, and the ideas of Zhong Qi and Xiao Deqi were all against the Kuomintang authorities and called for clean politics and saving the people.
At the end of 1948, the relationship between Zhong Qi and Xiao Deqi entered the reality from the words in the letters, a pair of talented women.
The relationship between the two sublimated from literary friends to lovers, and in early June 1949, they sublimated from lovers to husband and wife, and entered the palace of marriage.
When Zhong Qi was a child, he often listened to his father tell his mother about the revolutionary ideas of the Communist Party, but now that Zhong Qi has grown up and married, he never mentions the Communist Party to his wife.
The reason is very simple, because Zhong Qi is an underground agent, and even if his wife mentions the Communist Party, Zhong Qi only shifts the topic to the corruption of the Kuomintang and to the insensitivity of the Kuomintang officials.
In fact, Zhong Qi wanted to tell his wife in a fair and just manner that he was a communist and that he was saving the nation and the country.
But the underground party has discipline, and Zhong Qi can't violate it, so he has not told his wife his true identity.
At this time, the Kuomintang had dispersed the hearts of the people, and the People's Liberation Army launched a magnificent and magnificent armageddon with a thunderous momentum.
In October of the same year, the underground party instructed Zhong Qi to send a radio to communist guerrillas in Guizhou to prepare for the ensuing war.
So Zhong Qi took the radio and prepared to leave early the next morning, and he told the newspaper unit that he was going to Chuandong for an interview, so he had to bring a radio.
Unfortunately, however, the Kuomintang agents set their sights on Zhong Qi and found out that Zhong Qi was an underground party.
In the early morning, Zhong Qi was counting his luggage and bidding farewell to his wife Xiao Deqi, when the Kuomintang agent suddenly smashed open the door and rushed in with a gun.
Zhong Qi was arrested and imprisoned, although he preferred to die rather than claim to be a journalist and scolded the Kuomintang for blocking public opinion, but because of the betrayal of traitors, Zhong Qi's identity was eventually exposed.
Poor wife Xiao Deqi, who was only less than four months pregnant, watched her husband being taken away, she stood up on her stomach and looked around for a relationship, and it was in the process that she learned that her husband Zhong Qi's identity was an underground agent of the Communist Party.
Zhong Qi lost his father when he was four years old, and his Zhong Xiaolan, whose little life had only sprouted for less than four months, lost Zhong Qi forever.
The Kuomintang's Secrecy Bureau (also known as the Military Command) imprisoned Zhong Qi in Detention Center No. 136 in Zaozi Lanya, where he was subjected to various forms of torture.
Although Zhong Qi was thin and weak, he faced the punishment of the Kuomintang, and in the midst of the bars, he insisted that he was a reporter and not a Communist agent, insisting that he was going to Chuandong to cover the interview, and did not do anything to apologize to the Kuomintang.
As long as Zhong Qi's will is slightly relaxed, he can avoid the pain of flesh and skin, and he can save his life, but Zhong Qi ning will not reveal any secrets of the underground party.
At this time, the Kuomintang regime was about to collapse, and after Zhong Qi squatted in prison for more than a month, he heard the roar outside Chongqing, and he knew that it must be the artillery fire of the People's Liberation Army, and he was fiercely fighting the Kuomintang.
Zhong Qi and the People's Liberation Army looked at each other, he knew that he could not wait for the final victory, he had been working inside the Kuomintang all these years, and he naturally knew the means of the Secret Bureau.
Zhong Qi used his pen name Cheng Lan to write his suicide note on a cigarette box, which read: Don't cry, tears can't wash away your misfortune, raise our children well, make him more useful than me. Remember, remember, I still love you in the end. There is another case, you must get married again. Bless my beloved wife! Cheng Lan, November 29, 1949...
After the suicide note was written, Zhong Qi quietly hid the cigarette box, that morning there was no food in the prison, everyone was still hungry, and when they looked at the Kuomintang agents, their eyes had changed, as if they were looking at grasshoppers in the autumn.
At nine o'clock in the morning, a group of agents of the Secret Service rushed to the prison, where more than a hundred revolutionary volunteers, that is, "political prisoners" in the mouth of the Kuomintang, were held, and the agents took away thirty-two revolutionary volunteers and underground party agents.
Zhong Qi was among the thirty-two people and was taken by the agents to the so-called execution ground, which was located on the pine forest slope of Gele Mountain.
A crisp gunshot shattered the tranquility of Gele Mountain, the machine guns of the Kuomintang agents fired criminal bullets, and the thirty-two revolutionary martyrs were generously righteous.
Twenty-seven rounds of bullets hit the twenty-seven-year-old Zhong Qi...
After the liberation of Chongqing, his wife Xiao Deqi received the cigarette box, her fingers trembled, gently tore it open, saw the last words left by her husband, tears rolled out of her eyes, and the whole person was stunned in the room.
Zhong Qi's son, named Zhong Xiaolan, said in an interview with reporters: "When my father was captured by Kuomintang agents, my mother was only three months pregnant for more than three months and less than four months... Before I was even born, my father was already a martyr. Father hopes that I can become a useful person to society..."
At the end of the article, throughout the life of the revolutionary martyr Zhong Qi, the father and son threw their heads and spilled their blood for the revolutionary cause, faced the sword mountain and the sea of fire, and paid for the founding of new China.
The blood-stained red flag will not be forgotten, the red China will not be forgotten, and the people will not forget!