One day in 1950, the director of the Xinjiang Public Security Department, Liu Huping, reported to Chairman Mao: The murderer who killed comrades such as Mao Zemin and Chen Tanqiu have been arrested!
After hearing this, Chairman Mao felt sad and sad in his heart for a moment, but he still gritted his teeth and insisted on not saying a word.
In 1943, Chairman Mao's younger brother Mao Zemin was killed by the Xinjiang warlord Sheng Shicai, but on the eve of liberation, our party learned about the death of the martyrs, so he sent people to investigate the criminals and search for the remains of the martyrs.
So, how did Martyr Mao Zemin and others be framed and sacrificed? After many years, how did our party find the remains of the martyr Mao Zemin? And what difficult and tortuous stories happened in this process?
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Special Task
In mid-September 1 Liu Huping , who was then the director of the Political Department of the Fourth Column of the Second Corps of the Northwest Field Army, received a secret telegram from Peng Dehuai, commander of the Northwest Field Army.
General Peng said on the phone, "I'm going to tell you a long story! There is a special command in the organization that you want to execute. For specific details, go to the Political Department of the Nobel Prison to find Director Gan!"
Special command? After hearing this, Liu Huping felt shocked.
At this time, it was the last stage of the Liberation War on the mainland. The enemy north of Yangtze River had been completely defeated and eaten by our army, and the stubborn enemy south of the Yangtze River was about to be completely eaten by our army.
At this time, a "mopping up" war sweeping across the northwest is underway. The northwest field army led by Peng Dehuai is "cleaning" the northwest region with a huge force and preparing to clean up the "two horses" in Gansu and Ningxia.
After making a call, a part of the Northwest Field Army was approaching Lanzhou and was ready to "clean up" the enemy in Lanzhou at any time. At this time, the army that can fight a big battle is the key to strategy. What role can my column director do to execute "special orders"?
Liu Huping was puzzled, but if Mr. Peng didn't say it, he wouldn't ask because he knew that there must be an answer in the political department of Noji.
So, Liu Huping came to the Yeshi Department’s headquarters and found Gan Siqi, director of the Political Department.
Gan Siqi has always been a decisive person. He did not beat around the bush and said directly to Liu Huping, "When we finish Lanzhou, our next goal is to march into Tibet. The liberation of Tibet is only a matter of time. Before that, the central government has prepared all personnel appointments after the liberation of Tibet. You are the first director of the Xinjiang Public Security Department!"
"Ah?" Liu Huping was surprised.
But before he was surprised, Gan Siqi said again, "The organization decided to transfer you to Tibet in advance, and while preparing for the preparations, complete a secret task. first, you must find the remains of comrades Mao Zemin, Chen Tanqiu and others who were killed by the Xinjiang reactionary warlord Sheng Shicai, and restrain yourself. Secondly, you must also catch the murderer who murdered these martyrs! "
Finally, Gan Siqi patted Liu Huping on the shoulder and encouraged him, "The party organization has special considerations to hand over this glorious task to you. The task on your shoulder is very heavy!"
Liu Huping nodded silently, without saying anything, but his heart was full of excitement and sadness.
He finally understood why this task fell on him and also understood the good intentions of the party organization in this matter.
It is only because of that Liu Huping was once arrested and detained by the reactionary warlord Sheng Shicai, and later rescued by the party organization. The three martyrs, including Mao Zemin, Chen Tanqiu, Chen Tanqiu, Linjilu, , and martyrs, were the prisoners when Liu Huping was detained.
Over the years, Liu Huping has always wanted to avenge his comrades in common troubles, especially Mao Zemin is Chairman Mao’s younger brother. He believes that it is not just him, but all the People’s Liberation Army soldiers who support Chairman Mao are like the Sun, who want to avenge Chairman Mao.
Linjilu (second from right)
However, in recent years, the War of Liberation has been in full swing, and he has not made time and opportunity to find the murderer who killed Mao Zemin. Now, he is being appointed by the party organization to handle this case specifically. How could he not be excited?
Finally, Gan Siqi emphasized to him, "The criminal must arrest all without missing a single one. This is not my request, but the order of the Party Central Committee!"
Liu Huping saluted, "Please ensure the completion of the task!"
Blood Debt
On the way to Xinjiang to take office, Liu Huping rushes to check the information he carried, and on the head of the information, three words "Shengshicai" were clearly written.
Although he had been in prison for a long time and endured many hardships, Liu Huping did not know much about Sheng Shicai, an old reactionary warlord. At this time, Sheng Shicai had already followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan, so he could not see Sheng Shicai.
So Liu Huping could only look and think about how to take advantage of the limited conditions to get this answer after arriving in Xinjiang?
Shengshicai 's starting point is different from the "Two Horses" in Qinghai. It was originally the early veteran of the Kuomintang and the core of the Northern Expedition Army . He served as the chief of the General Staff Headquarters of the Northern Expedition Army. He was the same level as him. Later, he was basically promoted to generals in the Kuomintang army and became a general who led his troops.
Only this prosperous talent, because of his often speculative mentality, was disliked by Chiang Kai-shek, so he sent him to Xinjiang, which was farthest away from the Nanjing center, to be the chairman of the Xinjiang Provincial People's Province.
Shengshicai
In Xinjiang, Shengshicai relied on guns, cannons and soldiers and was the "orthodox" personally conferred by Chiang Kai-shek, so he made a lot of money and murdered innocent people, which became a nightmare for the locals. After the Central Plains War, Yan Xishan was called the "King of Shanxi" and Bai Chongxi was called the "King of Yunnan". Therefore, Shengshicai also followed the trend with art and proclaimed himself "King of Xinjiang".
But in fact, Sheng Shicai is just a clown who cannot be on the table. He relies on the speculative mentality of flattery and flattery to mingle among all forces.
Whoever has a strong power will be a vassal of the Shengshicai. For example, the Soviets who occupied Xinjiang for a period of time are strong, so Shengshicai was a vassal of the Soviets. Later, Chiang Kai-shek was strong, so Shengshicai went to pay Chiang Kai-shek back.
Later, in order to regain the support of the Soviet Union, Sheng Shicai disguised himself as a progressive person and began to ally with Russia and the Communist Party to support farmers and workers, and invited Communists to come to Xinjiang to govern people's livelihood with him.
So, in February 1938, our party sent a large number of cadres to Xinjiang to help Sheng Shicai manage Xinjiang, including Mao Zemin, who was known as the "High Steward of the Red Army" and comrades such as Chen Tanqiu and Lin Jilu.
Mao Zemin during the Red Army
However, after 1942, in order to mobilize troops to support the Western Front battlefield, the Soviet Union withdrew its troops stationed in Tibet. Shengshicai suddenly became "uncontrollable". So he was already annoyed with the redness and immediately tore off the masks of progressive people and arrested the Communists in a large manner to flatter Chiang Kai-shek.
At this time, just after returning from studying in the Soviet Union, Liu Huping, who was passing through Tibet, was arrested, and Mao Zemin, Chen Tanqiu, Lin Jilu and others were also arrested.
And then, Liu Huping and others were rescued, but they knew nothing about the whereabouts of Mao Zemin, Chen Tanqiu and others.
Mao Zemin's family
It was not until the end of the War of Liberation that our party learned from other places that comrades such as Mao Zemin, Chen Tanqiu and others had been killed, and the person who ordered the murder was Sheng Shicai.
Now, Sheng Shicai has fled to Taiwan and can't be liberated for a while. So, to avenge Mao Zemin, Chen Tanqiu and others, we can only find those who committed suicide in person.
So, where should I start such a bloody debt?
Mao Zemin in suit
Investigation
On November 28, 1949, Liu Huping came to Dihua City (Urumqi), which had just announced the liberation.
At the end of September 1949, Peng Dehuai and the Kuomintang Xinjiang garrison Tao Zhiyue announced the peaceful liberation of Tibet. From that time, the Northwest Field Army was led by Wang Zhen , and various troops went to Tibet to take over the city and maintain public order.
Just half a month before Liu Huping arrived at Dihua , Wang Zhen's First Corps headquarters just arrived in Dihua on November 6, and then he was involved in the hurrying city taking over.
Founding General Wang Zhen
Although it has only been more than ten days, all work in Dihua City has basically formed a framework, and we are waiting for the arrival of subsequent cadres.
Liu Huping can be said to be the first cadre that Wang Zhen welcomed and the director of the Public Security Department.
After hearing Liu Huping’s purpose, Wang Zhen was not vague, and gave him the money, he would choose the people, and prepare the office location for him.
In just one or two days, Liu Huping's Xinjiang Public Security Department has been built in Dihua and can work normally. The first major case after Liu Huping took office was to investigate the murderer of the death of the martyrs and find the remains of the martyrs.
Liu Huping decided to start with the files that were destroyed before the time of Sheng Shicai's hastily escape to see if there was any gain.
However, Liu Huping and his officers read the file files for several days. Apart from knowing that Dihua's suburbs, there is a wasteland called Liudaowan , and is a mass grave that Sheng Shicai often slaughtered and buried people after being buried, there is no other clue.
Fenshan
But soon after, they found an interrogation record in Chengshan's file, and that interrogation record was the interrogation record of the interrogation record of Sheng Shicai's subordinates interrogating Mao Zemin.
The time indicated by this interrogation record is on the morning of May 5, 1943. The signed interrogator is Ji Yuanpu , and the person to be tried is Zhou Bin .
Zhou Bin, this name made Liu Huping very excited, because during the time they were detained by Sheng Shicai together, Liu Huping learned about the pseudonym of Mao Zemin in , which was Zhou Bin!
Mao Zemin (second from right)
After being excited, Liu Huping quickly calmed down. He ordered his men to follow the list of interrogators listed in the interrogation records to find the Kuomintang spies left in the city and had been arrested. Based on intuition, Liu Huping felt that at least one of these people must have killed someone in the prosperous era.
But what disappointed Liu Huping was that due to the long time, the spies under Sheng Shicai had already changed a lot, and none of these people had interrogated the Communist Mao Zemin under Sheng Shicai.
But it was not completely rewarding. A spy told me that he had met Sheng Shicai's killer leader Zhang Sixin in Wuwei area of Gansu.
This is the clue! Liu Huping was very excited. He immediately ordered someone to take the military and police cadres to find someone to Wuwei .
After waiting for half a month, Zhang Sixin was caught. The officer leading the team said that this man was very cunning and had strong anti-reconnaissance ability. It took a lot of effort to catch him.
Liu Huping began to interrogate Zhang Sixin. Zhang Sixin was no longer the mighty killer under Sheng Shicai back then. Now he is like a fool. Liu Huping only scared him a few words, and he just poured beans into pieces, and he finished all the information he knew in one go.
On September 27, 1942, in order to flatter Chiang Kai-shek at the evening, Sheng Shicai's spy killers Li Yingqi and Fu Baolian used thick wooden sticks and ropes to kill Mao Zemin, Chen Tanqiu and Lin Jilu. The three martyrs died miserably because Sheng Shicai's methods were too cruel.
The final "final" work was done by Zhang Sixin, a person who was just a low-level person at that time.
He said, "People buried in Liudaowan graves to cover the ground. Mao Zemin first buried it, then Chen Tanqiu, and then Linjilu."
But after saying this, Zhang Sixin added another sentence, saying, "Later, Chiang Kai-shek's spies didn't believe it, and insisted that I dig up the grave again to take pictures. I had no choice, so I opened the grave again..."
Hearing this sentence, thinking about the scene where the three martyrs Mao Zemin were in peace after their death and were dug up the graves and took pictures, Liu Huping and his subordinates were already angry.
On a hillside near Liudaowan Cemetery, Zhang Sixin pointed to three graves side by side and said that it was the graves of Mao Zemin and the other two.
Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling
Toward the graves of the three martyrs Mao Zemin, Liu Huping and his soldiers lined up, saluted the martyrs, and swore that they must find out the real murderer and give the martyrs an explanation.
Later, prisoners such as Li Yingqi, Fu Baolian , who had tortured, murdered and killed three martyrs including Mao Zemin, were taken back to Xinjiang as executioners who killed martyrs.
Liu Huping, in the name of the Xinjiang Provincial Public Security Department, issued an announcement and issued an announcement: A person who has been persecuted by Li and Fu Bids will come to the Public Security Department to appeal.
From the issuance of this announcement, a complaint conference began. Every day, many people came to the Public Security Bureau to tell the government about the various harming things that Sheng Shicai and his subordinates had done to the people on this land in those years.
The masses demanded that these two executioners who harmed the people be executed with their own hands.
This request made Liu Huping, the director of the Public Security Bureau, very embarrassed.
It’s not that he can’t feel the hatred of the people of Xinjiang who were persecuted by Li and Fu, but as the saying goes, the families have family rules and state laws. Now that the New China has been established, various legal orders have been gradually repaired and promulgated. It can no longer be used to use lynching as in the past, and the victims will personally deal with the perpetrators.
But Liu Huping has his own way, which is to march to public, which can not only eliminate the anger of the people, but also make everyone punish these two murderers.
Liu Huping asked someone to put Li and Fu on a truck and marched all the way through the city, allowing the people to vent their anger caused by decades of enslaving by Shengshicai.
Li and Fu were almost killed by the anger of the masses.
However, they were not far from death.
Conclusion:
In 1951, prisoners who harmed revolutionary martyrs such as Li Yingqi and Fu Baolian were publicly tried by the Tibetan People's Government, and more than 80,000 people witnessed the public trial with their own eyes.
1956 On the eve of Qingming Festival, 1956, the Urumqi People's Government built a revolutionary cemetery memorial for Mao Zemin and other martyrs in the southern suburbs. Liu Huping, who had been transferred elsewhere, also came to attend the ceremony, in order to bid farewell to his former inmates and comrades.
