On February 7, 1993, Yang Hucheng's widow Zhang Huilan died of illness at the age of 90. When she was dying, she made a request for "violation" to her children who were guarding the bedside. The children were in great pain after hearing this and didn't know what to do.
In order to fulfill the mother's last wish, the children hurriedly found the Shaanxi government. After some exchanges and explanations, the Shaanxi government finally agreed to Zhang Huilan's "violation" request.
What's going on? What kind of request did Zhang Huilan make for “violating the rules”? Why did the Shaanxi government agree?
The marriage of three people
The marriage of Zhang Huilan and Yang Hucheng was very ups and downs, and all this started with Yang Hucheng's first wife Roperland .
Yang Hucheng
Ro Perlin is from Guanghan, Sichuan. When he was a child, his family was not in good condition, and there were many sisters. She was the eldest, so she often helped her mother work. At that time, Luo's mother worked at the home of Zhang Ximing, a Shaanxi businessman. Since Roperin often helped her mother, Zhang Ximing also met the clever and cute Roperin.
Zhang Ximing saw that Ropelin was smart and smart, so he regarded her as his goddaughter. When Zhang Ximing was about to return to Shaanxi, he brought Roperland to his home in Dali County, Shaanxi. At that time, Yang Hucheng was the battalion commander of the Independent Battalion of the National Revolutionary Army, stationed in , Dali County, and by chance, he met Zhang Ximing and also met Ropelin.
As we slowly contacted, the relationship between Yang Hucheng and Roperin gradually warmed up. Not long after, Yang Hucheng asked a matchmaker to propose marriage to Zhang's family. After obtaining Zhang Ximing's consent, 23-year-old Yang Hucheng and 15-year-old Roperin got married in 1916.
After getting married, the two had a good relationship. Roperin has been following her husband to fight, and never complained about hardship and fatigue. Roperin left his hometown at a young age and came to Shaanxi from Sichuan over mountains and ridges. He was well-informed among the many women at that time.
In addition, Roperin believed that he had to be able to ride a horse and shoot arrows when he was a wife, so she took the time to learn how to ride a horse and shoot a gun. Not only that, Roperin is also good at contacting Yang Hucheng's subordinates and aides, and is the "woman behind Yang Hucheng".
However, just as the relationship between the two was getting better and better, Yang Hucheng's younger brother Yang Maosan suddenly appeared and said, "Brother, I'm going to have a marriage for you at home!" This was like a bolt from the blue, which shocked Yang Hucheng and Roperin to death for a long time. The marriage partner of Yang's mother was Zhang Huilan, so what's going on?
Yang Hucheng and Zhang Huilan
It turns out that after leaving home from Yang Hucheng to join the army, Yang's mother, Sun Yilian, went back to her parents' home, Sun Town, to relieve the sorrow in her heart. At that time, there was a Chinese medicine shop in Sun Town. The owner was named Zhang Yangqing. She was not only kind, but also had an inexplicable favoritism towards soldiers. When he learned about Yang Hucheng's experience and character, he even praised him and wanted to make friends.
Therefore, when Zhang Yangqing heard that Yang's mother was at her parents' home, she took the initiative to visit her and called her "aunt" and Sun Yilian called Zhang Yangqing the "Brother Yangqing". Perhaps because she was too worried about her son, Sun Yilian fell seriously ill as soon as she arrived in Sun Town. When Zhang Yangqing learned about it, she hurriedly treated her and sent her medicine, and she was very caring.
Zhang Yangqing's family has a daughter named Zhang Huilan. She is not only obedient, but also gives Sun Yilian soup every day. She is also loved by Sun Yilian regardless of wind and rain. While chatting with her mother's family, Sun Yilian touched Zhang Huilan's head and sighed: "Oh, I don't have such a good life. I didn't have a daughter. How great is my daughter, just like a little cotton jacket. It would be great if I had this daughter. Even if I couldn't be a daughter, it would be fine if I could be a daughter-in-law!"
When Zhang Yangqing learned about this, he was very happy. He wanted to get to know Yang Hucheng, but he didn't expect that there would be such a good opportunity. So Zhang Yangqing immediately found Sun Yilian and said: "If my aunt doesn't dislike it, then we will have a family of children. Whether it is a daughter or a daughter-in-law, it's okay to be a maid!"
Just like that, with the consent of Sun Yilian and Zhang Yangqing, both parties decided on this marriage.
Yang Hucheng was very angry when he learned that his mother had booked him a marriage at home. He should know that he already had a wife. Although Sun Yilian believes that there is no problem with a man having three wives and four concubines, Yang Hucheng, who has a new idea, does not think so. But it is a pity that no matter how Yang Hucheng objected, Sun Yilian insisted on sending Zhang Huilan back. Just like that, Yang Hucheng was forced to marry another wife.
Later, Zhang Huilan served Sun Yilian in her hometown, while Yang Hucheng fought with Ropelan in the south and north. Due to the fatigue of boating and driving, Roperland was infected with a serious disease, but at this time she became pregnant again. In addition, Yang Hucheng's troops were ordered to go to Yulin, northern Shaanxi. The journey was long, so Yang Hucheng must not let his wife continue to run with him. So Yang Hucheng planned to send Ro Perlan back to his hometown and ask Zhang Huilan and his mother to take care of him.
Sun Yilian learned that Roperin was going back from pregnancy and was happy and sad. The joy was that she wanted to have a grandson or granddaughter, and the sad thing was that she was worried that her two daughters-in-law would not be able to live in harmony. Surprisingly, Roperin and Zhang Huilan got along very harmoniously, and they did not fight because they served the same man.
As soon as he entered the door, Zhang Huilan asked Sun Yilian to sit in the main seat, and let Yang Hucheng and Ropelan sit on Sun Yilian's left and right seats. After the three of them sat down, Zhang Huilan respectfully saluted Sun Yilian, and then gave Yang Hucheng and Ropelan each. Immediately afterwards, Zhang Huilan brought a cup of hot tea to her mother-in-law and Yang Hucheng, and then picked up the third cup to Roperin.
Zhang Huilan said softly, "Sister, sister, I'll give you tea." Roperin had never seen such a scene before, and didn't know what to do for a moment. She looked at her husband and mother-in-law at a loss. Yang Hucheng didn't know what to do. Seeing this, Sun Yilian hurriedly said, "You drink it, this is a ritual, not drinking it is not etiquette!"
Roperin nodded, took the teacup from Zhang Huilan's hand, and drank it. Seeing that Ropelan had drunk tea, Zhang Huilan smiled and said: "Sister has drunk this cup of tea. We will be a family in the future. Today I promise you in front of my mother and Hucheng that you will say you go east in the future, but I won't go west. As long as you have something to do, you will tell me, I will make sure you complete it!"
Ropelan smiled happily and walked forward excitedly and hugged Zhang Huilan tightly.
Silently paying
On December 15, 1922, Roperin successfully gave birth to a son. Yang Hucheng, who was far away in Yulin , was very happy to hear the news. He immediately wrote a letter to his younger brother Yang Maosan and his wife Zhang Huilan, and instructed him:
"I am very happy to learn that Perin successfully gave birth to a child. I decided to name my son Yang Zhengmin..."
Not long after, Yang Hucheng suddenly suffered from a disease, had a high fever, and he didn't even have the strength to get up. No matter how many times he saw, the doctor would not improve. Yang Hucheng's men were very worried, but they didn't know what to do. At this moment, Roperin accidentally learned the news, and she immediately took her newly born son to Yulin to visit and take care of her husband.
After more than 20 days of running around, Roperin finally saw Yang Hucheng on the hospital bed. For a moment, the two of them hugged their heads and cried bitterly, crying with joy.
Yang Hucheng's illness was previously treated by a doctor introduced by a friend in charge of Yulin, Jing Yuexiu , but no matter how he treats it, the condition does not improve. Roperin thought that this doctor was not good, so he decided to change his doctor to treat him. In order to avoid Jing Yuexiu's dissatisfaction, Roperin also adopted the method of replacing the pillars:
During the day, the doctor introduced by Jing Yuexiu was treated. The prescription he prescribed was arrested as usual, but he was not taken after decocting, but secretly poured out; at night, he asked the doctor introduced by Zhang Huilan's father Zhang Ximing to see the doctor and take the Chinese medicine prescribed by this doctor.
After the diagnosis of the doctor introduced by Zhang Ximing, it turned out that Yang Hucheng was suffering from a simple typhoid fever disease, and he recovered within a few days after taking the right medicine. Due to Roperland's wit and decisiveness, Yang Hucheng's simple typhoid disease was not delayed by the quack doctor. He also frequently praised his wife for being smart and smart, and their relationship became better and better.
However, not long after the happy days, Roperin suffered from tuberculosis .Tuberculosis was an incurable disease during that period of underdeveloped medical standards. Despite this, Roperin did not give up his life, but instead used his last time to ask someone to buy food from rural areas of other counties to help those people with poor conditions.
At this moment, Roperin suddenly heard a message: "Yang Hucheng is missing and his whereabouts are unknown." She didn't know if her husband died in battle or if there was any trouble or something unexpected? In this way, Roperin's health became worse and worse with the worry day by day.
On his dying day, Ropelan called Yang Zhengmin and Yang Zhengkun to the bed, pointed at Zhang Huilan and said, "She will be your biological mother in the future, you must be filial to her." Ropelan took Zhang Huilan's hand and said, "My Huilan, my two children will ask you to take care of you in the future. Please treat them as your biological children..." After saying that, Ropelan closed his eyes and left...
Ropelan's funeral was according to the previous system, but because her husband did not go home, everything was handled by his friends and Yang Hucheng's subordinates. Out of respect for Roperrin, everyone held the funeral very grand. When the spirit was stopped, there was still no news about Yang Hucheng, so Zhang Huilan sent people to search everywhere.
Three days later, Yang Hucheng still had no news, so Zhang Huilan had no choice but to put Ropelan's body into the coffin first. However, in order to wait for Yang Hucheng to come back, the coffin did not be nailed. Another day passed, and a man in a black robe quickly rushed to the coffin, shouted "Perran" and fainted. The mourning hall in was suddenly in chaos. Zhang Huilan bravely stepped forward to check it out, and then she realized that it was Yang Hucheng who was back.
Not long after, Yang Hucheng was supported by adjutants Zhang Guoguang and Bai Zhijun, and walked step by step in the mud to attend the funeral of his wife. In that era, it was rare for a husband to wear mourning for his wife, but it was enough to show Yang Hucheng's feelings for Ro Perlan, which also made Zhang Huilan very envious.
After Roperin's death, Yang Hucheng treated Zhang Huilan as his wife and introduced her to everyone in front of relatives and friends as his wife. But it is worth mentioning that on some major political occasions, Yang Hucheng never brought Zhang Huilan to the stage.
Whenever Yang Hucheng returns to his home in Xi'an from another place, he always greets Zhang Huilan first. When he leaves, as long as his mother is not in front of him, Yang Hucheng will always bow to Zhang Huilan and take back. To Yang Hucheng, Zhang Huilan does not seem to be a wife, but a respectable person.
Yang Hucheng knelt down and bid farewell to his wife
In May 1927, Yang Hucheng served as the commander-in-chief of the 10th Route Army of the National Army, and soon became the commander of the 10th Army. Zhang Huilan was very happy to learn about this situation. She thought she could enjoy the happiness with her children. Who would have thought that Yang Hucheng would marry Xie Baozhen again...
Xie Baozhen
Zhang Huilan received feudal education since she was a child, so she could accept men with three wives and four concubines in her heart. She did not think this was wrong. When she took Yang Zhengmin and Yang Zhengkun to Yang Hucheng, the children didn't know how to call Xie Baozhen. Yang Hucheng thought for a while and said, "You call your biological mother as your mother, Huilan as your mother, and you call him Baozhen's bride!"
December 12, 1936, Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang supported the " Anti-Japanese National United Front " policy proposed by our party, insisted on anti-Japanese, opposed civil war, and launched the " Xi'an Incident " that shocked China and the world.
After the Xi'an Incident, the rebels of Pucheng were worried that Yang Hucheng would punish him, so they took the lead in seizing Sun Yilian as a "protective cover". After learning about it, Yang Hucheng quickly sent a delivery general to rescue his mother and escort him to a safe place.
When Sun Yilian saw his son, he said sadly: "You have been fighting for half your life! Do you even understand such a simple truth? You have offended Chiang Kai-shek now, why should you agree to let him go? He will definitely take revenge on you after he is safe. You are letting the tiger go back to the mountain!" Sun Yilian fell ill in anger, and Yang Hucheng also caused a heart attack after the end of the Xi'an Incident.
At this time, Xie Baozhen was cured in Beiping . His eldest son Yang Zhengmin studied in Peking. The whole family relied on Zhang Huilan alone.She had to take care of her sick mother-in-law and her husband who had an old disease, so she had no extra time to take care of her biological son Yang Zhengren. It was such a negligence that Zhang Huilan's only biological son died of scarlet fever...
Zhang Huilan was hit hard, mentally ill, no one knew him, and was crazy all day long. Yang Hucheng's heart was as if he was cut by a knife, but due to the current situation, he could not take his wife to another place for treatment. He could only watch her holding her son's clothes every day.
Just when Yang Hucheng didn't know what to do, Xie Baozhen and Yang Zhengmin returned from Peking. As soon as Yang Hucheng saw his eldest son, he said, "I am most sorry for your mother Huilan. Over the years, she has followed me without any complaints and has done so many things for me, but I can't even protect our only son. I..."
Yang Zhengmin didn't know how to comfort his father, after all, he did something wrong. Yang Hucheng continued, "I can't go out of Xi'an. You can take her and Zheng Kun to live in Peking. If you change the environment, you may be much better for your condition, and you don't have to see things and think of others."
When she was leaving, Zhang Huilan's mental state was not very good. She didn't know her husband in front of her, but only knew to look at the distance foolishly. Yang Hucheng was very heartbroken. He knelt down to Zhang Huilan in front of his son and said, "Huilan, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for you!"
1937, with the outbreak of in the Lugou Bridge Incident in , the situation in Peking was not very good. Yang Zhengmin had no choice but to return to Xi'an with Zheng Kun and Zhang Huilan. After returning to Xi'an, Zhang Huilan was not in good condition. Until three days later, Yang Zhengmin took the newspaper that demanded the war of resistance across the country and told her: "Mom, look, look, the war of resistance across the country is coming, my father is coming back!"
Hearing this, Zhang Huilan suddenly woke up. She looked at Yang Zhengmin in front of her and asked, "Where is your father? Where is your bride?" Yang Zhengmin said excitedly, "Mom, you finally woke up. They have all gone abroad, but they will come back to the war of resistance soon!"
Chiang Kai-shek
However, it is a pity that Yang Hucheng returned to China, but he did not return to China but was locked up by Chiang Kai-shek.
Yang Hucheng's widow made a request for "violation". The Shaanxi government immediately agreed that
After the outbreak of the Xi'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek always regarded Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang as thorns in his eyes. However, he stubbornly believed that the main responsibility for the Xi'an Incident was Yang Hucheng and the Communist Party. As for Zhang Xueliang, he was just young and ignorant and went astray. In other words, in Chiang Kai-shek's heart, Yang Hucheng was the "culprit" of the Xi'an Incident, and he must get rid of the other party.
The second year after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the spies who were guarding Yang Hucheng changed their faces and said with a smile: "Congratulations, sir, you are about to graduate!" But unfortunately, Yang Hucheng never dreamed that even though the Anti-Japanese War was victorious, Chiang Kai-shek was not going to let their family go.
In January 1949, Chiang Kai-shek was forced to step down and Li Zongren became acting president. In order to show his sincerity in the peace talks, Li Zongren immediately released the two generals Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng. However, when the reporters were looking forward to the news that Yang Hucheng was released from prison, there was no movement.
The reporters did not give up and asked Chongqing Mayor Yang Sen . Yang Sen said he was unaware of this. In fact, Yang Sen knew where Yang Hucheng was locked up, but because he was Chiang Kai-shek's confidant, he would never execute Li Zongren's orders. But the reporter is not easy to fool, so Yang Sen had no choice but to say, "This matter is not our responsibility. You can go to the second place of the Southwest Military and Political Office !"
Mao Renfeng
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After transferring Yang Hucheng, Chiang Kai-shek issued an order to Mao Renfeng: "Yang Hucheng cannot be kept, so he should have killed him long ago!" Mao Renfeng understood and Yanghao with his confidant weeks on August 27. Xu Yuanju deploys assassination plan.
On September 1, 1949, Yang Hucheng received news that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to release himself. He was a little unbelievable, but he was still very excited. On September 5, Yang Hucheng took his children and subordinates with his subordinates and followed Zhou Yanghao from Guizhou with hope.
At noon the next day, the convoy escorted Yang Hucheng's family to Songba, a remote suburb of Chongqing. After everyone had lunch, Zhou Yanghao saw that it was still early and could not implement the plan of killing people at night, so he said, "It's still early now, so why don't we take a rest for a while to get on the road well. What's more, entering the city now will attract the attention of the people..."
After Zhou Yanghao settled Yang Hucheng's family, he quickly took a car to the city of Chongqing. At 7 pm, Zhou Yanghao met the operation team leader Yang Jinxing who had been waiting for a long time to implement the assassination plan. Yang Jinxing said to him, "Mao Zun asked you to go back, and I will implement the plan next." Zhou Yanghao nodded, then got into the car and went home.
Not long after, Yang Hucheng's family came to the foot of Gele Mountain. The spies opened the door and said: "I would like to ask the director to live in Dai Gong Temple on the mountain for the time being. After the chairman met, you can take a plane to Taiwan."
After saying that, the two spies carried Yang Hucheng to the mountain left and right. Yang Hucheng's son Yang Zhengzhong held his mother Xie Baozhen's ashes and followed his father along the steep stone steps, panting up the stairs.
Yang Zhengzhong was hugged by the spy to the small house next to the stairs. At this time, Yang Jinxing, Xiong Xiang, Wang Shaolin and Lin Yongchang, who had already been ambushed, were hiding in the house up and down the building with knives. Wang Shaolin and Lin Yongchang took advantage of Yang Zhengzhong's entry and rushed out and stabbed the knife into his waist.
Yang Zhengzhong was not prepared at all, and was ambushed by the enemy. He shouted before falling to the ground: "Dad!" Yang Hucheng heard his son's miserable screams and quickly checked backwards. Who would have thought that at this moment, Yang Jinxing and Xiong Xiang stabbed two sharp blades into Yang Hucheng's chest and back one after another, and Yang Hucheng died on the spot...
When the news of Yang Hucheng's death was spread to Zhang Huilan's ears, she fainted again because she could not bear the blow. After several days of being overly sad, she was unable to eat. After she got better, the first thing she did was to go outside Xi'an City with a cane to select a cemetery for Yang Hucheng.
There is a high ground west of the Shegong Temple in Weiqu Township, Chang'an County, where you can overlook the entire plain river from above. Zhang Huilan looked at several places and finally decided to buy this 7 acres of land as a cemetery. At that time, many people did not understand why Zhang Huilan bought such a big one. Zhang Huilan explained:
"The reason is very simple. Chiang Kai-shek was too cruel. Killing my family of four was not enough. He also killed the guard, adjutant and Song Qiyun's family of three, and he refused to let go of the children of a few years old. These people died with their eyes open. I want to bury them all together. As long as I am still alive, I will visit their graves every year on Qingming Festival!"
Zhang Huilan and Yang Zhengmin and his wife
After the funeral, Yang Zhengmin and his wife had to leave Xi'an due to work reasons, and Yang Hucheng's younger brother Yang Maosan also had to leave because of work. Therefore, the places buried in Yang Hucheng and others can only be cleaned and cleaned by Zhang Huilan alone.
From 1950 to 1956, during which time, the repair and management of the entire cemetery were completed by Zhang Huilan alone. On the 20th anniversary of the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Huilan handed over the cemetery to the Chang'an County Government for management.
When Yang Hucheng was designated as a martyr by our party, the cemetery where he buried him was also changed from "Yang Hucheng Cemetery" to "Yang Hucheng Martyrs Cemetery". Later, the government allocated funds to repair the Yanghucheng Martyrs Cemetery, and the appearance of the cemetery was greatly improved. In 1991, Yang Hucheng Martyrs Cemetery was listed as the National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit by the State Council.
The people of Xi'an respect Zhang Huilan very much, and after liberation, she was elected as a representative of the Xi'an Municipal People's Congress for several consecutive terms. In addition, the Party Central Committee is also very concerned about Zhang Huilan. In order to make a settlement in the second half of her life, Deng Yingchao specifically suggested to Chairman Mao, Zhu De and others that she could arrange a position in the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and receive some salary.In this way, Zhang Huilan became a member of the CPPCC of Shaanxi Province for the past .
On February 7, 1993, Zhang Huilan died of illness at the age of 90. When Zhang Huilan was dying, she said to her children who were guarding the bedside: "I have no regrets in my life. The only regret is that I have not been able to go to the end with your father. I have only one wish, that is, to be buried by your father, but I know I am not qualified..."
The children know that it is very difficult to bury an ordinary person in a martyr's cemetery, but in the face of their mother's request, the children are reluctant to refuse. so he made this request to Shaanxi Provincial Government . Surprisingly, the Shaanxi Provincial Government immediately approved the approval. , just like that, Zhang Huilan fulfilled her last wish.
