On July 20, 1953, the people of Rongxian gathered together. They put down their work, and some even walked for more than ten miles to witness the death of a "devil" who had worked in the Zhazidong Prison.
When it comes to the three words Zhazidong, I believe everyone is familiar with it. It was originally just an inconspicuous small coal mine located outside Chongqing. However, in order to cover up the people's eyes and ears, the Kuomintang changed this hidden coal mine into a prison. Among the people who have stayed in this prison, there are the famous "Jiang Jie" Jiang Zhuyun and "Little Radish Head".
. Those who are guarding and lackeys of the Kuomintang in such places are probably stained with the blood of innocent comrades. The people of Rong County’s disgust and hatred for this “demon” can be imagined. They want to witness the moment when the laws of nature are revealed and blood debts are paid for in vain!
But something that no one expected happened.
Usually, those who have done things that have done sorry to the Party and the people will be submissive when facing the anger of the masses and do not dare to say anything, but kneel down on their faces and wait for punishment. However, this Kuomintang spy named Huang Maocai suddenly raised his head and shouted: " I am wronged, I am not a murderer, I have done a lot of things for Sister Jiang! "
As soon as he said this, there was an uproar around him. Some people even thought that the prisoner had something wrong with his brain, otherwise how dare he lie like this for life?
Faced with the prisoner who had participated in the persecution of the Communists, the execution personnel present were of course deeply disgusted, but they must act according to the law, rather than sentenced to death for a person just based on their likes and dislikes. Since the prisoner is dissatisfied, check it.
If there is another hidden truth in this matter, an innocent person can be prevented from being injustice. If it is found that Huang Maocai did indeed do evil, he can also be convinced!
Therefore, the executives changed the sentence on the spot, and the death sentence on Huang Maocai was turned into life imprisonment, and they were temporarily escorted to the labor reform team to serve their sentences, and people were arranged to investigate the incident of his public complaints.
Before the matter was thoroughly investigated, no one would have thought that in the vicious guards of Zhazidong Prison, there was actually a warrior who risked his life to do things for our party, and he was Huang Maocai who shouted for injustice on the execution ground.
1942, Huang Mao was only 17 years old.
He was lucky than many people in that era. He had the opportunity to finish middle school, recognize some words, and understand some truths. At that time, he happened to meet the Kuomintang arrested strong men. As long as the soldiers saw people of the right age and gender, they would take them away without caring about it.
Huang Maocai didn't know what to do in war. He was just an ordinary commoner. So in order to avoid disaster, Huang Maocai ran to Chengdu and successfully contacted his fellow villager Liu Chongwei .
Liu Chongwei is the deputy director of the Kuomintang Sichuan-Kang Pacification Office. After knowing about Huang Maocai's situation, he arranged a job for him to do odd jobs. Although he couldn't make much money, he would not starve to death.
Later, because Huang Maocai was down-to-earth and willing to work hard, and had studied and wrote well, he was promoted to the second lieutenant of the office.
But in 1948, Huang Maocai's originally peaceful life was broken, and an arrangement of his superior changed his destiny, but if Huang Maocai stood at the end of his life, he believed that he would never regret accepting the arrangement and going to a "Purgatory on Earth".
That place is Zhazidong Prison.
The first day after arriving at Zhazidong, Huang Maocai encountered two lectures:
First, Li Lei, the director of the detention center, and then the head of the "prisoner" management team Xu Guilin .
The content of the conversation between the two people is similar. In addition to asking Huang Maocai to be vigilant and work hard, it means the "inmates" in the prison.
Li Lei and Xu Guilin told Huang Maocai that these people are all traitors and evil people. They have done countless bad things and killed them, and they are very good at hiding their evil side.
They asked Huang Maocai to chat and get along with these people less, and not to be ruthless to these people. They should beat them and beat them as soon as they should.
Although Huang Maocai agreed, he did not beat the "criminals" at all times according to the orders of Li and Xu, because he had eyes and ears. In his opinion, compared with those "criminals", the guards of Zhazidong during the execution looked more like demons.
Moreover, in order to ensure that the guards in the prison were loyal to their work, the Kuomintang also set up a "Patriotic Youth Training Brigade" to brainwash everyone and make them think that everything the Kuomintang did was right.
But I have also said before that the reason why Huang Maocai defected to his fellow countrymen was to avoid the forced recruitment of the Kuomintang.
When he was a teenager, he saw how the people living in dire straits under the oppression of the Kuomintang, and how the Kuomintang soldiers responsible for catching the strong men were vicious.
In the face of a large number of facts, the Kuomintang said that everything it did was for the people, how could Huang Maocai believe it?
Moreover, Huang Maocai was surprised to find in his contact with those "prisoners" that these people not only studied, but also had a strong sense of morality and justice. Even if they were imprisoned, they did not give up on themselves, but faced everything positively and optimistically, as if as long as they had faith in their hearts, they were soldiers fighting for liberation no matter where they were.
Huang Maocai secretly admired the integrity of these people in his heart, but due to the surveillance of Li Lei and Xu Guilin, he did not dare to show his sympathy for the "criminals".
Huang Maocai had been in Zhazidong Prison for only a month and found something wrong, that is, there were too many people sent to the prison, and one day there were even more than a dozen new "inmates" added.
He could guess with his toes that under normal circumstances, so many people who "deal with crime" would not suddenly appear in a place. The Kuomintang was definitely committing false charges and arresting good people.
In June 1948, Huang Maocai happened to be on duty on this day, and the Kuomintang spies escorted two "criminals" in to register.
These two people are a man and a woman. Huang Maocai didn't talk to each other at the beginning. It was not until the woman wrote the words "White Horse Temple in Neijiang, Sichuan" when registering her hometown that he couldn't help but smile and said, "Oh, then you are half of my fellow villager."
This woman is called Zeng Zixia , and she is a glorious Communist Party member.
Zeng Zixia raised her head in surprise and vigilantly, because she didn't expect that in such a place there would be "enemy" to speak kindly to her. After a while, she asked cautiously: "Where are you from?"
Huang Maocai saw that she was willing to answer the conversation, and also raised her spirits and said, "I am Yang Jiaren of Rong County, and my hometown is just next to Neijiang ." He looked at Zeng Zixia and her companions, hesitated for a moment, and said softly: "If you need help in the future, you can find me."
Huang Maocai took a great risk when he said this. This is enough to see that although he is the guardian of Zhazidong, he is completely working for the Kuomintang in a confused manner, and he is not "loyal" to the Kuomintang like other guards.
As a poor peasant, Huang Maocai has the precious qualities unique to the working people in his bones. He is simple, honest, enthusiastic, and full of justice. Therefore, Xu Guilin and Li Lei have taken a few more attention and always stared at Huang Maocai's every move, so as not to fall into the embrace of the Communist Party and ruin their affairs.
Zeng Zixia and Huang Maocai are fellow villagers, so they are always more intimate than others.
When chatting, Zeng Zixia would ask Huang Maocai about her past experiences from time to time, and Huang Maocai did not hide anything and answered truthfully. When she heard Zeng Zixia talk about some revolutionary principles, Huang Maocai listened very seriously and nodded frequently to express her recognition.
After a while, Huang Mao found that when he was calling out, Zeng Zixia found that Zeng Zixia stuffed a note into his pocket. He vaguely realized the content on the note, and also realized that the revolutionaries led by Zeng Zixia extended friendly hands to him.
Huang Maocai suppressed his excitement and returned to his dormitory and unfolded the small note, which had a sentence on it:
"Do good things for the people more."
He agreed to Zeng Zixia's request and used his identity as a guard to provide convenience to the comrades in prison. If the Kuomintang people assigned him some cruel tasks, such as torture the "criminal", he would also show mercy in secret and try to make the comrades better.
About half a month later, the spy brought a "female prisoner" into Zhazidong, the famous Jiang Jie Jiang Zhuyun.
Huang Maocai recalled his first encounter with Jiang Jie and said:
" She was not tall, wearing a light blue cheongsam, carrying a white handbag in her hand, her hair was cut short, and she only reached her shoulders. "
At that time, Huang Maocai focused more on Jiang Zhuyun's registration information, because the address she filled in was Zigong Dashan Shop. Huang Maocai laughed as soon as he saw it. He greeted him kindly and said, "I didn't expect it, I also met my hometown here! "
Jiang Zhuyun only regarded Huang Maocai in spy costumes as an enemy. She glanced at him contemptuously and replied coldly:
"Oh, you are also Zigong people."
Huang Maocai nodded hurriedly and said, "Yes, I am from Rong County, Zigong. If you need anything, you can tell me directly."
Jiang Zhuyun frowned slightly, looked at the enthusiastic Huang Maocai in front of her in confusion, and refused the other party's request to help clean the cell.
Jiang Zhuyun thought this was a cunning method that the Kuomintang had come up with, and deliberately showed kindness to herself and softened herself. It was not until she was transferred to the women's room and imprisoned with Zeng Zixia that she confirmed that Huang Mao could fight for it.
But before Jiang Zhuyun moved to the women's room, her tenacity and tenacity had already convinced Huang Maocai.
In just a few days, because the spies determined that Jiang Zhuyun was an important figure in the Communist Party, they used all kinds of means to torture her. Jiang Zhuyun was beaten to the point of blood, but she still held her head stubbornly and refused to bow to the enemy under torture.
A spy squad leader who participated in the torture said to Huang Maocai:
" This woman is such a tough guy. You don't know that Director Xu wants to ask something from her mouth. If she doesn't say it, she will be punished severely. If she doesn't say it, Director Xu was furious and wanted to take off her clothes and insult her. As a result, the woman was not afraid at all and even scolded Director Xu, saying: 'If you insult me, then It is equivalent to insulting your mother, sister and daughter. ’Director Xu was so angry that he was so angry that he could not do anything to her. ”
Jiang's torture in prison is simply in words. If she must describe her pain, it is that she cannot survive or die, but even in this case, she still sticks to all the information of the party and does not succumb to the enemy.
Even after meeting Zeng Zixia, the first thought that came to her mind, who was seriously injured and had not healed, was to understand the situation of all comrades, including Huang Maocai, and to study strategies to deal with the enemy.
With the active efforts of the comrades in prison headed by Jiang Jie, Huang Maocai, who had longed for the Communist Party, took on a very dangerous task - to help the comrades in prison bring a letter to the party organization.
Jiang Zhuyun said gently:
"You don't have to worry. On the surface, you are a member of the Kuomintang. They generally don't doubt you. It is more convenient for you to enter and exit some places. In addition, when sending the letter, you change your pseudonym. Even if the matter is exposed, you won't doubt it."
Huang Maocai didn't say anything for a moment. He was thinking about the consequences he had to bear after agreeing to help Jiang Jie and the others.
If something is wrong by Xu Guilin and Li Lei, they will definitely not be able to escape death.
However, after just thinking for a moment, he let out a long sigh and made a decision in his heart: just one life.
On the third day, Huang Maocai, who was completely prepared to sacrifice, came to Jiang Zhuyun and Zeng Zixia while letting go. He only asked one sentence: "Have you written your letter?"
There are only a few words in this sentence, which sounds as light as a feather, but its actual meaning is as heavy as Mount Tai.
Zeng Zixia stared at Huang Maocai, took out a letter that had been prepared from her bag and secretly stuffed it into his hand, and whispered: "You must be careful, there can be no mistakes in this matter."
Huang Maocai answered firmly: "Don't worry, I will definitely deliver the letter to the recipient according to your requirements."
The day after receiving the letter was Huang Maocai's turnover, he still put on the Kuomintang uniform and walked out of the gate of the Zhazidong Detention Center and the checkpoints along the way.
When those Kuomintang soldiers saw this outfit, they regarded Huang Maocai as their own, and just asked a few questions and let him pass.
At that time, Huang Maocai actually had a secret letter sent by Zeng Zixia to him.
Huang Maocai came to No. 4, Xieheli, Zhongshan 1st Road, Chongqing. This place is very remote and the door of the house is also locked. He repeatedly confirmed the address and knocked on the door. Not long after, a young girl came out to open the door.
As soon as she saw the clothes Huang Maocai was wearing, she became a little more vigilant in her eyes and asked, "Who are you looking for?"
Huang Maocai said, "I'm looking for Kuang Shuhua." The girl frowned and immediately replied, "She is not here."
Huang Maocai quickly revealed her identity: "It was Zeng Zixia who asked me to come. She had a letter for me to pass it on to Kuang Shuhua."
Hearing this, the girl's originally tense expression loosened a little, and she said, "Oh, that You give me the letter, I will pass it on it for you."
Huang Maocai said worriedly: "This letter is very important and must be received by Kuang Shuhua."
The girl nodded and promised: "Don't worry, I will hand it over to her and will definitely bring it to you."
Seeing that she was so persistent, Huang Maocai could not stay here for a long time. He confirmed again that the door sign was the household mentioned by Zeng Zixia. While no one around quickly took out the letter and stuffed it into the girl's hand. After
, he whispered to her that she must bring the letter and left after receiving the other party's affirmative answer.
After Huang Maocai returned to prison, he was worried about the little episode when delivering the letter. Unexpectedly, Zeng Zixia smiled and said to him: "She is Kuang Shuhua, Comrade, you do it very well. "
It's just like that. Huang Maocai, who was guarding Zhazidong, became a "liaison officer". As long as the comrades in the prison have any messages they need to convey, Huang Maocai will do as much as possible.
" Xinhua Daily " reporter Chen Zuoyi, who was detained in prison, suggested that Huang Maocai bring some newspapers outside to facilitate everyone to understand the current progress of the War of Liberation.
At this time, Huang Maocai agreed without saying a word, bought a newspaper outside, and secretly passed it to Chen Zuoyi in the list .
In the dark cell, it was Huang Maocai who brought the good news of the victory of the People's Liberation Army to these comrades who were tenaciously fighting against the enemy.
Before the Spring Festival in 1949, Huang Maocai brought an extremely important letter to his inmates, which stated a major good news: the People's Liberation Army had achieved decisive victory in the Liaoshen Campaign and the Huaihai Campaign and the Pingjin Campaign and the are in the battle.
Jiang Zhuyun was so excited that she almost shed tears. She said tremblingly: "We will win soon!"
In order to celebrate the victory on the front battlefield, Jiang Zhuyun and the prison party organization decided to take advantage of the lively Spring Festival, which of course requires the help of Huang Maocai.
Huang Maocai was also immersed in joy. He immediately ran to check the duty list and confirmed that Li Lei and Xu Guilin would take the children to the city to play on the first day of the first lunar month, and other spies would go home for the New Year, and everyone decided to set the party on the first day of the first lunar month.
It was eight o'clock that morning that day that Huang Mao opened the prison door of the cell. The comrades gathered together to send gifts to each other and sang revolutionary songs. The grand party lasted for a whole day. It was not until they found that the spy came back that everyone hurriedly ended and carried out the aftermath.
But the high singing of the prisoners was still heard by the enemy. After receiving the news, Li Lei called Huang Maocai directly to the office and asked him why he released all the "prisoners" and allowed them to sing revolutionary songs. However, when facing the question, Huang Maocai calmly explained that he was just watching the rare Spring Festival and let the "prisoners" go to the yard, but absolutely no one sang revolutionary songs.
Li Lei had no evidence, so he had to warn him: " Next time you make such a mistake, your head will definitely fall! "
But the seeds of doubt have been planted, and Li Lei no longer trusts Huang Maocai as before.
On October 1, 1949, Chairman Mao solemnly announced the founding of New China on the Tiananmen Gate Tower. The Kuomintang spies gathered in Chongqing hurriedly began to disperse those unreliable people. The first thing Li Lei, director of the Zhazidong Detention Center, thought of Huang Maocai.
Just at this time, Huang Maocai received a letter from his hometown, which stated that Huang Maocai's mother was very ill and hoped that he could go home and fulfill his filial piety.
Huang Mao knew that his old mother would definitely hope to go back, but the comrades in Zhazidong also needed him. He hesitated to tell Jiang Zhuyun about the situation.
Jiang Zhuyun comforted him and said:
"It's time for you to go back. I happened to have a letter here, which was to my son Peng Yun . Please help me bring it to Tan Zhuan."
This letter is the famous "Son Letter" and is also the last letter of Jiang Jie. In addition to stating that he entrusted his son to Tan Zhuan and encouraged his son Peng Yun to continue to strive for the construction of a new China, the last sentence reads "Friends are our good friends, don't be afraid, I hope I can confess."
A short sentence is enough to prove that Jiang Zhuyun has regarded Huang Maocai as a trusted comrade and loyal ally of our party, rather than a cruel and inhuman executioner.
On November 18, Huang Maocai returned to Zhazidong and received the most painful news:
A group of Communist Party members, including Jiang Jie, have been brutally killed by the enemy.
Huang Maocai didn't even see Sister Jiang for the last time, and he couldn't see her off. When talking about this past incident, Huang Maocai still couldn't help crying. He trembled and whispered: "Jiang Jie is a Communist Party member who is truly not afraid of death. He really looks at death!"
Later, Huang Maocai, who was misunderstood by the people because he was a guard of Zhazidong, also clarified his identity under the proof of important witness Zeng Zixia and the joint investigation team. He was always a red heart, towards the party, towards the people, and towards the country.
