No great success can be achieved by one or two people. It is often a team that can achieve great things. This principle is still effective in some evil organizations, such as the Gang of Four that once "makes troubles" in China.
Even if the leaders we are familiar with are Wang Hongwen, Zhang Chunqiao, Jiang Qing and Yao Wenyuan, they are also covered with minions across the country. Otherwise, how could they easily check and balance the decisions made by the central government for ten years?
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Tang Qishan is one of their thousands of minions. He spent the rest of his life almost wholeheartedly serving the "Gang of Four", which caused panic among Henan people. And he went from an ordinary worker who burned a boiler to a member of the Central Committee, to his suspension in 1977, and then to his life sentenced in 1979. Perhaps only on the day the dust settled, Tang Qishan could understand how ridiculous his second half of his life was.
It is said that pitiful people must have something hateful. In 1988, former Central Committee Member Tang Qishan died of a serious illness and was unable to treat it. He was 57 years old. It is worth noting that this once famous Central Committee member spent nine years in prison during his lifetime.
You should know that the 1980s was the period of China's reform and opening up, and people's living standards were improving one by one, but Tang Qishan could no longer witness the moment when his motherland took off because of his greed and shamelessness.
Tang Qishan was born in Kaifeng, Henan in 1931. He received high school education when he was young. Therefore, after the founding of New China, he went to Zhengzhou Railway Bureau to find a job in boiling boilers.
Originally, his life should have been spent in a normal and ordinary way, but no one expected that the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea would begin. At this time, he was very enlightened and volunteered to go to the battlefield, mainly doing some transportation of materials, which could be regarded as a certain contribution to the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.
Therefore, after the war in 1953, he was promoted to a train driver at the Zhengzhou Railway Bureau. He also officially began his own path of "promotion", starting from a grassroots leader in 1959, and by the "Nine National Congress" period in 1969, he had been elected as a member of the Central Committee as a representative of Henan. In just ten years, the "transformation" of ordinary workers' identity as a member of the Central Committee of , is shocking, and all of this is inseparable from the Gang of Four he "served".
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In fact, Tang Qishan was already ready to move on the eve of the turmoil in 1966. At that time, a group of fans gathered around him, and he was also the minions of the Gang of Four, making trouble everywhere.
1967 was his premeditated and malicious plan to create a parking incident that affected transportation in Central China, causing great panic in society.
In 1968, he established the so-called revolutionary committee on his own, which mainly serves the decision-making and control of the Gang of Four in the local area.
1969 was he who fabricated a large number of old revolutionary comrades who were falsely charged. Without the consent of his superiors, he took his own initiative to delegate them to the grassroots level for the so-called "labor reform."
Soon Tang Qishan's "big name" spread to the leaders of the four-person gang in Beijing. They attached great importance to this spontaneous minion and directly operated it into the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee, which led to the fact that its ordinary boiler workers later became the "legend" of the Central Committee.
Tang Qishan, who became a member of the Central Committee, was greatly satisfied with his vanity and his behavior became even more rampant. In 1974, he was crazy and used his power to control more than 300 cadres of the Railway Bureau at that time and became a local tyrant.
Tang Qishan's behavior was not punished accordingly. Instead, some people with ulterior motives secretly conveyed benefits to him, and he accepted them all. What's even more excessive is that he also used 3,000 militias from the armed forces' , which is independent of the military and political system, which shows his ambitions. Later, in 1976, the year when Chairman Mao passed away, he was ordered by the Gang of Four, and organized an armed force of about 500 people to wait for an opportunity.
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Fortunately, the central government had already taken thunderous actions at that time, and quickly and neatly strangled the idea of the Gang of Four trying to seize power in the cradle. Wang, Yao, Zhang and Jiang also received the punishment they deserved, and Tang Qishan's minion was no exception.In fact, Tang Qishan's behavior has long aroused dissatisfaction among people from all walks of life. After the fall of the Gang of Four, he also lost power in an instant.
He was soon quarantined for review. In 1977, he was suspended from all positions and was expelled from the party the following year. Immediately in 1979, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and began his second half of his life in prison. In 1988, Tang Qishan died of a serious illness and failed to treat it. As mentioned at the beginning of the article, in that era when China was about to take off, ended his sinful and tragic life.
It is undeniable that Tang Qishan's first half of his life was still positive and upward for the Chinese revolution. He worked hard in his job and contributed to the country on the front line. Even during the founding of New China, he worked hard for the stability and harmony of the motherland.
However, under the trap of interests, he did not keep the bottom line, insisted on his original intention, and became a "walking dead" dominated by interests. His life is full of tragedy and educational significance. The so-called warning to others is especially the kind of people.
