In March 1949, when the People's Liberation Army came to Taiyuan, warlord Yan Xishan abandoned his troops and fled to Nanjing with a small number of his cronies, and finally settled in Taiwan.
Yan Xishan has been the "King of Shanxi" for decades. He has a certain foundation in Shanxi Province and many people are loyal to him, including a woman named Yan Huiqing, who is Yan Xishan's cousin.
When Yan Xishan escaped, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, he deceived Yan Huiqing into returning in a few days and asked her to stay. As a result, Yan Xishan himself left forever, and Yan Huiqing stayed in Taiyuan. After the People's Liberation Army captured Taiyuan, what happened to her?
The emotional life of "Fifth Girl" Yan Huiqing
Yan Huiqing is Yan Xishan's cousin. Because of this relationship, her deeds are also talked about.
Yan Huiqing was born in Shanxi in 1910. Her father was a store clerk and her family had more than ten acres of land. At that time, few women went to school. It was not until Yan Xishan took charge of Shanxi and established a school that Yan Huiqing had the opportunity to study.
Although Yan Huiqing has been studying for a while, her foundation is poor, so her grades are average. She is not a talented woman, but an ordinary housewife.
How did Yan Huiqing get the nickname "Fifth Girl"? After she came to Taiyuan, she lived in Yan Xishan's home because she was ranked fifth and had not yet left the cabinet. Therefore, relatives and servants in Yan Xishan's family called Yan Huiqing "Fifth Girl".
Yan Huiqing had a brief first marriage. Around 1930, she married the Qu family in the same village. The two families were of the same family and had a good relationship.
The Yan family took a fancy to a young man from the Qu family named Qu Peihuan. He had studied abroad and did business after returning to China. After the two families met, Yan Huiqing and Qu Peihuan got engaged.
Arranged marriages were normal in that era. Although Yan Huiqing was unwilling, she had no choice but to follow the orders of her tribe.
After her marriage, Qu Peihuan developed a habit of taking drugs and taking morphine. Her physical condition deteriorated day by day, and Yan Huiqing's life was not happy.
Qu Peihuan knew that she would die soon, so she took the initiative to file for divorce from Yan Huiqing, saying to her: "You should find someone first, don't be a widow!"
Yan Huiqing had no relationship with Qu Peihuan originally, and now her husband is like this It seemed that she also wanted to divorce, so she went to ask the Yan family members for their opinions.
Mr. Yan refused Yan Huiqing’s request for divorce for the sake of face, saying that as long as he was alive, he would not agree to the matter. The helpless Yan Huiqing could only remain a widow until Qu Peihuan died of illness a year later, and the marriage was automatically dissolved.
If Yan Huiqing's first marriage was an arranged marriage, then her second marriage was a political marriage.
Yan Huiqing's second husband was Liang Yanwu, and her grandfather Liang Shanji was an imperial scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. When Yan Xishan was in power in Shanxi, in order to win over all parties, he asked Liang Shanji to serve as Minister of Industry.
Liang Yanwu has experience of studying in Japan and is a graduate of Tsinghua University. He is not at all the same type of person as housewives like Yan Huiqing.
Although Liang Yanwu was rich, he took a fancy to Yan Xishan as his backer and decided to form a "political marriage" with Yan Huiqing.
Because he was married to the Yan family, Liang Yanwu also served as an official next to Yan Xishan. He was very talented and accepted bribes. He was even ordered to collude with the Japanese and puppet troops during the Anti-Japanese War, which was a traitorous act.
After the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War, Liang Yanwu worked beside Yan Xishan and did not retreat to the rear. Yan Huiqing also lived in the home of Yan Xishan's concubine Xu Lansen.
Yan Xishan lacked people around him to take care of his life, so his concubine Xu Lansen asked Yan Huiqing to take care of his daily life. Although Yan Huiqing didn't have much education, she was very observant and took good care of Yan Xishan every time, saying things he liked to hear.
Yan Xishan likes to eat simple meals from his hometown. Yan Huiqing will try every means to make it happen, instructing the cook to cook various meals in different ways. Over time, Yan Xishan was very satisfied with Yan Huiqing and made her his life secretary, entrusting her with all major and minor matters.
Ended his life in fire
During the Anti-Japanese War, Yan Huiqing followed Yan Xishan and was responsible for taking care of his daily life. In April 1940, Yan Huiqing, as one of the Shanxi women representatives, came to Chongqing to participate in the women's work conference chaired by Soong Meiling .
Soong Meiling presided over the Women's Conference. She proposed that all war zones should organize women's associations. At Soong Meiling's request, the Shanxi Women's Association was established, and Yan Huiqing became the secretary-general, but she did not care about specific affairs.
In 1944, Yan Xishan opened a school called "Shanxi Advanced Midwifery Vocational School" and made Yan Huiqing the principal of the school. Soon she served as the director of a hospital, and during the War of Liberation she was the National Congress representative of the Shanxi women's circle.
Yan Huiqing holds many positions and seems to be active in politics, but the actual situation is not the case. She neither understands education nor medical care, and lives in a reclusive life in the Yan family and does not often have contact with outsiders. Therefore, the major positions held by Yan Huiqing are It's a false position, just in name.
Although Yan Huiqing did not participate in major military and political affairs, she stayed with Yan Xishan for a long time. Their political stances were consistent, and they both had certain prejudices and misunderstandings about our army.
In the autumn of 1948, Taiyuan City was surrounded by our army, and it was impossible for Yan Xishan's army to turn defeat into victory.
At that time, the upper-class people around Yan Xishan were very panicked. Yan Huiqing also specially invited a fortune teller to predict good or bad luck, which shows how panicked she was in her heart.
Yan Xishan knew that there was no hope of a comeback, but he still refused to revolt and chose to resist. To show his determination, Yan Xishan showed his determination to Nanjing Chiang Kai-shek and shouted out his determination to "live and die with Taiyuan. If you don't succeed, you will be benevolent."
At the same time, Yan Xishan also prepared 500 bottles of potassium cyanide poison and asked his trusted people to commit suicide after the city was broken. They must not surrender, let alone be captured, and must be loyal to him.
Under Yan Xishan’s brainwashing, Yan Huiqing’s fate was tied to Taiyuan. But Yan Xishan himself did not want to live or die with Taiyuan, so he contacted Xu Yongchang and others through connections and asked them to recommend him to become an official in Nanjing.
On March 28, 1949, Yan Xishan finally received news from Nanjing, Li Zongren invited him to "discuss major party and state affairs." Taking this opportunity, Yan Xishan held a meeting in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province the next day. He told the senior generals around him that he would be back in as little as three to five days, or as much as ten or eight days, and asked them to defend Taiyuan.
In order to prevent people from suspecting that he was taking advantage of the opportunity to escape, Yan Xishan took only three to five close relatives and medical staff with him when he fled to Nanjing. The only people who went to the airport to see him off were Yan Huiqing and her lover Liang Huazhi.
After Yan Xishan left, those who stayed in Taiyuan felt that he would come back because Yan Huiqing was still there. If Yan Lao didn't come, he would definitely take her away with him.
Therefore, Wang Jingguo and others who had the command of the Taiyuan army at the time misjudged the situation. He rejected our army's request for the peaceful liberation of Taiyuan and chose to resist to the end.
It turned out that Yan Xishan deliberately kept Yan Huiqing here. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, she was kept in the dark about all this.
Waited until April 18. Yan Xishan saw that the situation was not good and asked his adjutant to go to Taiyuan to pick up Yan Huiqing. But that day, there was heavy artillery fire under the city of Taiyuan. Seeing that the situation was not good and they could not land, the US pilots launched their planes and took off.
Looking at the plane that could not land in the sky, Yan Huiqing was very desperate. She had lost the opportunity to escape to Nanjing.
html On April 20, our army launched a general attack on Taiyuan. Yan Huiqing moved to the basement to avoid shell attacks. Liang Huazhi accompanied her to dinner.
At this time, Yan Huiqing was in despair. She began to prepare for the funeral, took out some valuable things and distributed them to the people around her.
As our army launched a fierce attack on Taiyuan, Liang Huazhi, whose hands were stained with the blood of the people, felt that the end had come. He wrote a "Death Message" on behalf of Yan Huiqing and sent it to Yan Xishan. The content was roughly the situation. Difficult, fight to the death, words like this.
After our army entered Taiyuan City, Liang Huazhi ordered his guards to prepare gasoline and set fire to the corpse after taking poison.
html At seven o'clock in the morning on April 24, Liang Huazhi and Yan Huiqing took poison together and died two minutes later. The guards poured the prepared gasoline on the two of them, then knocked over the candle next to them, and the fire immediately burned, and the two bodies were burned. The body was reduced to ashes.
Conclusion
Yan Huiqing's ending is a pity. Her hands are not stained with blood. If she surrenders or rebels, she should be able to save her life, at least she will not be shot.
But Yan Huiqing's fate had already been arranged by Yan Xishan and Liang Huazhi. The two squeezed the last value of Yan Huiqing and arranged a tragedy for her.
It is said on the Internet that Yan Huiqing is the one who calls the shots in Shanxi, the military advisors around Yan Xishan, Shanxi's "Song Meiling", etc. These are completely false. She does not have the power or the ability. Yan Huiqing is only a witness to Yan Xishan's many important events, not a participant.
