During the three-year natural disaster period, a nursery rhyme circulated in Guangshan County in southern Henan: "Guangshan County, with the two tips at the tips, and there is a Malong Mountain in the middle, Malong Mountain, a big villain, starving thousands of people to death." Ma Longshan, among the nursery rhymes, served as the first secretary of the Guangshan County Party Committee (equivalent to today's county party secretary) from 1956 to 1960, and was a parent official of Guangshan County.
However, during his tenure as a presided over Guangshan County, Malongshan made a big flamboyant trend, causing large-scale abnormal deaths in Guangshan County. What is even more infuriating is that when the deputy secretary of the county party committee made a suggestion, Malongshan ordered people to beat him to death alive. So, what is the story about Ma Longshan?
Malongshan was born in 1922 and is from Feicheng, Shandong Province. He joined the army in his early years and was a company instructor of the 20th Brigade of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region. After the founding of New China, Malongshan was transferred to the local area and served as deputy secretary of Guangshan County Party Committee. In 1956, Malongshan was promoted to the first secretary of Guangshan County Party Committee and actually presided over the overall work of Guangshan County.
Time soon came to 1958, and this year, the "Great Leap Forward" movement began. The so-called "Great Leap Forward" movement refers to a mass movement that blindly pursues high output value of industrial and agricultural industries. This movement seriously damaged the fragile economic structure at that time and was a serious setback encountered by our country in exploring the path of socialism.
During the "Great Leap Forward", "exaggeration" was prevalent in various places, especially in Henan, and Guangshan County was the "leading leader" in Henan. At that time, there was a commune under Guangshan County called Xinghuo Society. The wheat yield per mu was 7,400 kilograms, and the rice yield was even more exaggerated, reaching 42,000 kilograms per mu. The grain is purchased according to the reported output, and high output means high purchase, which leads to a decrease in the grain left in the hands of the people. In addition, when the cafeteria was opened, the members ate openly, and the food was stored quickly. The result can be imagined.
In the autumn of 1959, Guangshan County encountered another continuous drought, and grain production was further reduced during the season. Because people could not eat, abnormal deaths began. However, Malongshan continued to implement the "left-leaning" line in Guangshan County, and he even believed that the people secretly hid their food and led cadres everywhere to the countryside to check whether the people "concealed their production"?
After this, the situation in Guangshan County continued to intensify, and there was a nursery rhyme singing "Malongshan, a big villain, starving thousands of people to death." At that time, there was a deputy secretary of the county party committee in Guangshan County named Zhang Fuhong (some people also said that he served as secretary of the county party committee secretariat). He pointed out the problems in Guangshan County and suggested timely disaster relief. However, in order to cover up the mistake, Ma Longshan instructed the personnel to beat Zhang Fuhong to death.
1960, the Central Committee sent a working group headed by Wang Congwu, deputy secretary of the Central Supervisory Commission, to Xinyang (Guangshan County belongs to Xinyang) to investigate the Guangshan incident on the spot, and Malongshan's crimes were also exposed. After that, the Central Committee arranged for Wang Renzhong, the leader of the Central South Bureau, to solve the Xinyang problem, and the lives of the people gradually improved.
On September 6, 1960, Ma Longshan was detained. In November, Wu Zhipu, then the first secretary of the Henan Provincial Party Committee, went to Xinyang to convene a meeting of 10,000 people. At the meeting, he announced the news of Ma Longshan's arrest, and Ma Longshan's wife and mother-in-law were also imprisoned. After being arrested, Ma Longshan was detained in Xinyang Prison. In 1963, the Henan Provincial Higher People's Court tried Ma Longshan, and Ma Longshan was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve.
After this, Malongshan entered the Henan First Prison in Kaifeng to serve his sentence. After the two-year reprieve , he changed to life imprisonment. In 1977, Malongshan was released early and went to a farm to continue labor reform. In his later years, Ma Longshan was in poor health, and he also lived in endless self-blame, regretting the impact he had in Guangshan County.
