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In 2010, a lively incident occurred in Dayi, Sichuan, and more than a thousand descendants of the Liu family worshiped their ancestors together. As soon as the news came out, public opinion was in an uproar, because they paid tribute to the former brutal landlord "Liu Wencai". In addition, they also meant to reverse the case for Liu Wencai. How will this ridiculous farce of
end? What crimes have Liu Wencai committed in history?
The infamous landlord
The name Liu Wencai may sound a bit unfamiliar with everyone, but in his early years, he was called a bully landlord.
In the past few decades, there have been countless rumors about Liu Wencai.
Some people say that Liu Wencai levies heavy taxes and creates various names to collect taxes. It is said that there were more than 40 tax items in the place of the Xu Prefecture alone. What's more, Liu Wencai will force farmers to plant poppy to satisfy his drug use and trafficking. If he doesn't plant, he will have to collect lazy taxes, causing countless farmers' families to be destroyed.
Some people say that Liu Wencai lives an extravagant life and squeezes farmers.
Liu Wencai's old house usually lives in only five or six people, but there are sixty or seventy workers and maids responsible for serving.
These people do hard work every day, and if they donโt do well, they have to endure abuse and torture.
In order to satisfy his luxurious life, Liu Wencai also used various means to occupy the farmland of farmers' homes.
Farmers have no arable land and can only rent land or work at their homes, which is more conducive to his exploitation.
Some people also say that Liu Wencai Can also have many Communists and progressive people who are determined to revolution.
In 1928, Comrade Li Jiaxun, who was responsible for leading the anti-donation riot in the Syrian Prefecture area, was murdered by Liu Wencai.
In 1929, the uprising of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army in southern Sichuan was suppressed by Liu Wencai, and countless comrades died...
It is precisely because of these rumors that people's disgust of Liu Wencai is worse than that of Zhou Papi, Huang Shiren and others.
As a local landlord, Liu Wencai is so rampant that his background is naturally quite strong.
His younger brother Liu Wenhui was a great warlord who ruled the country and once fought for the position of "King of Sichuan".
Another Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang , also has the same clan as Liu Wencai. From the perspective of generation, he has to call Liu Wencai Uncle.
With these two people supporting him, Liu Wencai can be regarded as a major "local emperor" in the area, so I will beg you to take it.
It was not until the end of the fall of the warlords, and the attempt to dictatorship of Chiang Kai-shek was defeated, and Liu Wencai gradually withdrew from the stage of history.
Because of the numerous crimes he committed in the past, he was later punished. Not only did he return the rent and remand his debts, his family's wealth was dispersed, but he was also despised and unable to raise his head.
It turns out that the judgment of this character in history has basically been concluded by the bottom of the coffin.
But by 2010, thousands of Liu descendants gathered together to subvert people's perception of Liu Wencai. What's going on?
Sensational storm of ancestor worship
On March 25, 2010, thousands of descendants of the Liu family gathered together to hold a banquet and carry out an ancestor worship movement.
The organizer of this movement was named Liu Xiaofei, who was Liu Wencai's grandson. As for the "descendants of Liu" he summoned, there were actually many who did not know each other. Some of
were found according to the genealogy, while others just scrambled in according to rumors to make up the numbers.
As for Liu Xiaofei's method to identify whether he is a Liu family, it is also very simple, that is, look at his toes.
It is said that influenced by ancestors, many of the descendants of the Liu family's toenails were cracked into two pieces, but this is just a rumor, so there is no way to distinguish the authenticity.
Although this is just a ancestor worship in name, the specifications are so big that it is obviously trying to take the opportunity to attract people's attention.The ultimate goal of
is to give Liu Wencai enough exposure and then take the opportunity to change his image in the public's mind.
As expected, after this ancestor worship, many so-called descendants of the Liu family spoke out on public platforms.
They said that the real Liu Wencai in history was not a landlord who committed all kinds of evil, and many of the crimes were framed.
The real Liu Wencai is not only not bad, but is a great charity who likes to help others.
But is this really the case?
This reminds us of Zhang Yingquan and his "Long Night in the Heavenly Mansion - Still Liu Wencai".
In 1996, a magazine found Zhang Yingquan and wanted him to write a documentary novel for Liu Wencai. The preparations of
magazine were very comprehensive, and even prepared all the materials for Zhang Yingquan. After reading the materials, Zhang Yingquan briefly learned about it, then started writing and quickly wrote a book.
However, during the review of this book, there was a problem and it was not approved in the end.
Some people say that this book does not meet the requirements of documentary novels, and many of the things recorded are false.
Zhang Yingquan was very dissatisfied and studied the materials from the Republic of China period, and even went to Sichuan for investigation in person. After some research on
, Zhang Yingquan was startled and sweated. According to what he said, he was even glad that he had not published the book before.
Because according to the information he collected, the materials provided by the magazine were quite one-sided. The real Liu Wencai was probably not enough to be shot 100 times.
learned from the pain, Zhang Yingquan picked up the pen and rewritten it, and finally the book we mentioned above came into being. The book
deeply exposes the various sins that Liu Wencai has committed in the past.
Liu Wencai, who was greedy and lustful, became very bad when he was a local owner. After gaining certain rights through his brothers, he did not treat the people as human beings at all.
Even today, The older people in Sichuan still gritted their teeth when talking about Liu Wencai, and even couldn't help but scold him a few words.
On the contrary, some young people, because they had never seen Liu Wencai's crimes, were bewitched by some people who were interested, and instead aroused their grievances for Liu Wencaiming.
Is Liu Wencai really as simple as these people imagined?
People's eyes are sharp
The most powerful evidence among the above-mentioned people's arguments should be that Leng Yueying has never been to Liu Wencai's house's water prison .
According to legend, Leng Yueying had just given birth to a child and was thrown into the cold and dirty water prison of Liu Wencai's family.
However, later people found that the water prison where Leng Yueying was detained was not affiliated with Liu Wencai, but from Liu Wencai's nephew's family. The Dayi County Government later clarified this point.
A small number of people took this into consideration that Liu Wencai's crimes were incorrect.
But they were unwilling to think about it. According to legend, Liu Wencai, who is a hero, tolerated his nephew's private water prison?
Besides, in the "cellar" of Liu Wencai Mansion, there are dirty water all over the ground, and rotten corpses are displayed.
Although the Liu family later insisted that this was just a cellar for storing things, this cellar was actually no different from a water prison.
As for what people say that Liu Wencai does good deeds, this should be true.
For example, there were several local farmers who had no oxen and could not cultivate the land, so Liu Wencai sent someone to send the cattle.
Liu Zegao said that an elder in his family died but there was no coffin, so Liu Wencai donated a coffin.
As for other things, such as studying schools and funding students, they can definitely be called good deeds, but does this mean that Liu Wencai is a good person?
of course not, because Liu Wencai's money for doing good deeds is obtained through exploitation, and he is not trying to help others, but just to gain a reputation as a "good person".People like
will not be recognized by people even if they are clever and good at speaking. The most typical proof of
is that he forces tenants who cannot pay the rent to "have to hand in within two days", otherwise a thug will come to the door.
In order to further oppress farmers, he even openly claimed that the dried millet is wet millet, claiming that the plump rice is shriveled rice husks, completely ignoring the farmers' blood and tears.
It is enough to show that talking about Liu Wencai's "goodness" and ignoring his "evil" is a rather stupid and despicable behavior.
Finally, in the late revolution, Liu Wencai did claim on the surface that he wanted to move closer to our party, but behind his back he was actually harming the Communists and other patriotic compatriots.
942, Liu Wenhui gradually started close cooperation with our party, and Liu Wencai also moved closer accordingly. But in 1947, Liu Wencai killed his patriotic compatriot Rong Yuan in Anren and sent someone to ambush the underground armed forces team, resulting in the sacrifice of a large number of comrades.
Even after liberation, Liu Yuanlong and others who followed Liu Wencai in the past organized armed rebellion. How could such a landlord with crimes move closer to our party?
Although Liu Wencai verbally moved closer to our party, his actual actions are enough to prove that he did not have the corresponding enlightenment. This point of
has not changed until Liu Wencai died in 1949.
The third son of Liu family, the final conclusion
Speaking of which, Liu Wencai's family does have a long history, and it was also a hit in Liu Wencai's generation.
According to the Liu family genealogy, Liu Yingliang, the founder of the Liu family, was from Anhui, , Huizhou, and later the situation was turbulent, so he moved to Sichuan during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.
was not revealed in the previous few lives, and it was not until the 7th generation grandson that the Liu family produced a juren Liu Zongxian.
He has three sons, namely Liu Gongjing, Liu Gongjing and Liu Gongzan .
The Liu Xiang we mentioned in the previous article is Liu Gongjing's grandson. As for Liu Wencai and Liu Wenhui, they are Liu Gongzan's fifth and sixth sons respectively.
It is precisely because of this that Liu Xiang wants to call Liu Wencai and Liu Wenhui as uncle.
However, in terms of talent and character, the ranking order of these three people must be completely reversed.
Letโs talk about Liu Xiang first. Although he is a warlord, he is patriotic, and his life is simple and fair, and he does not like nepotism. This is rare.
After the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, Liu Xiang immediately slapped and strongly supported the anti-Japanese war. The reason was only 5 words, "The Sichuan Army wants to serve the country!"
So Sichuan, which was far away from the first line of the anti-Japanese war, burst out with great enthusiasm for anti-Japanese war, and the Sichuan Army also became a major force on the battlefield of the anti-Japanese war.
The National Government was unwilling to give military funds to the Sichuan Army, so Liu Xiang paid out of his own pocket to support the War of Resistance, prompting officials at all levels of the Sichuan Army to take the initiative to donate.
When the military pay was only half of the Central Army and there was not enough supply of weapons, equipment and ammunition supplies, the Sichuan Army set foot on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War and made great contributions.
Finally, he even dragged his sick body to command the Sichuan army to fight and died of illness on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War. Before his death, his will was,
"The war of resistance is to the end, and the enemy will not withdraw from the border for a day, and the Sichuan army will not return home for a day."
's integrity is moving, and Liu Xiang has left a brilliant mark in the history of China's War of Resistance.
Letโs talk about Liu Wenhui, whether from the perspective of enlightenment or personal life, he is inferior to Liu Xiang.
Even himself wrote in his later years,
"My anti-Chiang is not so much for the revolution, but for himself."
But no matter what, Liu Wenhui still contributed to the revolution.
1942 , Liu Wenhui began to use secret radio stations to frequently contact Yan'an, and he also used this to convey a lot of secret information to Yan'an.
At the beginning, Liu Wenhui may have indeed been for political purposes, but with the gradual contact, his ideological awareness has indeed improved.
In the autumn of 1949, Premier Zhou sent Liu Wenhui a telegram asking him to obey Wang Shaochun's opinions and deploy the uprising.
Later, Liu Wenhui officially revolted, which greatly accelerated the liberation of in the southwest region of .
When he was about to die in 1976, he still cared about his motherland and hoped that Taiwan would return as soon as possible.
A warlord of the past, who was able to write these words in the book, shows that he was indeed enlightened.
As for Liu Wencai, he and Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui are incomparable.
Not to mention that in the revolutionary era, he did not make contributions to the revolution, and instead did a lot of things that squeezed farmers and did evil.
People like this are naturally negative examples and must be cursed and whipped to alert future generations that they will never be whitewashed or overturned.
His life not only has nothing worth imitating, but he even does not have the typicality of a landlord.
After all, in the Republic of China, there were very few landlords who did so much evil that they were as good as him and who made money that they were as good as him, so that they had no value to be studied.
Liu's descendants tried their best to change the reputation of their ancestors. In fact, this was just a useless work.
, and not to mention that netizens cannot accept it, the facts are never allowed to be distorted. What happened in the past has been established. Instead of thinking about how to cover up the truth, it is better to base yourself on the present and do more charity.
This is the atonement for their ancestors and the true "filial piety" of future generations.
