Original Yan Tao
It is not because I have a preference for that era, but I really want to know some truth.
Physical government publications and the mayor of the pseudo-government
In front of me is an old magazine called "Han Sheng". Several photos in the magazine attracted me. It told me that when Hankou fell, there was such a place - Liyuan.
Liyuan
"Han Sheng" is a journal of the pseudo-Wuhan Special Municipal Government after the fall of Wuhan. While whitewashing the peace and beautifying the invasion, it inevitably reflects some traces of Wuhan's changes. When it comes to the pseudo-Wuhan Special Municipal Government, we must mention Zhang Renli.
Zhang Renli is the youngest son of Zhang Zhidong . He was only 9 years old when Zhang Zhidong died. With the help of his brothers, he completed his studies at Peking University , and later worked as county magistrate in Tongxian, Jixian and other places in Hebei for 10 years. After the Japanese invaders occupied Wuhan, they recruited a group of traitors to establish a "maintenance meeting", and at the same time they stepped up planning to establish a "municipal government", and finally selected Zhang Zhidong's son Zhang Renli to be the "mayor". Zhang Zhidong is well-known in Wuhan and is well-known. His son has political qualifications, is famous among the people, and is obeyed the Japanese's command. All conditions "meet the requirements".
Zhang Renli (1900-1951)
Zhang Renli first took office and wanted to change his reputation as a traitor, establish a public image of a son who inherited his father's business, and seek welfare for the people of Hankou, and did a "practical thing" like repairing Hankou dikes. In the winter solstice of 1939, in the spring of 1940, Zhang Renli was repairing the Zhanggong Dike and vigorously building the northern wall of Changfeng. While repairing Zhanggong Dike and Changfeng North Street, a 3,700-meter-long stone waterproof wall was built at the Qiaokou to Jijiazui River. At the same time, Liji Road, Wusheng Road, were widened, and a road with passable cars was opened along the river.
Pseudo-Hankou Municipal Government (now Wuhan Children's Library)
According to Japanese and puppet archives, on May 12, 1940, the vice president and minister of finance of the "Wang Puppet Executive Yuan" came to Han Dynasty and met with Zhang Renli in the VIP room of Wuhua Hotel, Lihuangpi Road, Hankou. Zhou Fohai asked Zhang Renli to pay 50% of the salt tax, tobacco and alcohol tax and opium tax in Hankou to the "Central", Zhang Renli rejected Zhou Fohai's request because the cost of the Hankou embankment project was too high.
The above behavior is indeed helpful in improving Zhang Renli's reputation, so some old people say, "Zhang Renli did some good things in Hankou!" And Liyuan is another "political achievement" of Zhang Renli.
Stone statue of Zhang Zhidong in Liyuan
According to "Han Sheng", in July of the 29th year of the Republic of China (1940), Japanese invaders stationed in Hanyang Arsenal dug the ground in the factory and dug out a stone statue of Zhang Zhidong. Later, the Japanese "Hanyang Military Police Detachment Captain" gave it to Zhang Renli.
Zhang Renli learned from Wang Zihua, the Han Yeping Company , that after Zhang Zhidong's death, the company made a vow to create a statue of Zhang Zhidong. Initially, I bought land near Qingchuan Pavilion and prepared to build Zhanggong Temple for sacrifice. However, "the agreement failed and the matter was not completed, so it was temporarily resettled in the factory." The stone statue was probably formed during the Gengxin period of the Qing Dynasty Xuantong (1910 or 1911).
Stone statue of Zhang Zhidong in front of the pseudo-city government
Zhang Renli said pretentiously, "The image of the stolen is established, out of the sincerity of the love of the masses, and I cannot be owned by private ownership." Therefore, Zhang Zhidong statue "was honored the head of the municipal government", the so-called "city government", is the Japanese puppet government renamed from the "Wuhan Special Municipal Government" to the "Hankou Special Municipal Government".
In March of the 30th year of the Republic of China (1941), the pseudo-government "in the corner of Hubei Street (now Jianghan Road to the section of Jiangshan Avenue, Zhongshan Avenue), built a land and several bows, and built a garden." He moved the statue of Zhang Zhidong to "the center of the garden to worship it", "so that those who come and visit can calmly admire it."
The traitor led by Zhang Renli unveiled the Liyuan
This article named Zhang Renli "The Stone Statue of Duke Zhang Wenxiang's Stone Statue of Fengliyuan" was signed on "April 20, 19th year of the Republic of China". Although Zhang Renli is despised, this short article contains a lot of information. The origin, location, completion time of Liyuan and the inheritance of Zhangzhidong stone statue were explained. This park can be said to be the shortest-lived park in Wuhan's history. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Liyuan was demolished. The completion time of Li Garden was in Wuhan local chronicles: "In December 1941, the construction of Li Garden in Hankou this month". This time should be wrong, and the actual time was April 20, 1941.
Four photos are included in "Han Sheng", which gives us a direct feeling of past history. The four photos are: one is the stone statue of Zhang Zhidong, the other is the panoramic view of Li Garden, the other is the group photo of the traitors in front of Zhang Zhidong, and the other is a wall. Duke Zhang Wenxiang was alone in the garden, behind him was the sun flag and the four words "peaceful country building", and on the wall were several propaganda posters. The stone statue of Zhang Zhidong is a seated figure with a full body, wearing a court robes, and there are six large characters "Portrait of Zhang Wenxiang" on the base: "Story of Duke Zhang Wenxiang". Because the base was built back and was quite inconsistent with the stone statue, Mr. Zhang seemed too thin and was blocked by the 17 traitors in front of him.
Liyuan where is
Half a century later, I came to the intersection of Hankou Nanjing Road. In my childhood memory, this is the clothing market, called "Chunpeng". Next to it is the "Huangshi Road Gas Station". For a long time, the name was - Wuhan Children's Library, and initially, it was used as a bank, with the name Hankou Jincheng Bank. Now, the Children's Library has moved away from here and moved to the former Wuhan Library at the intersection of Nanjing Road and Shengli Street . The former predecessor of the former Wuhan Library was also a bank, and its name was Hankou Commercial Bank.
Coincidentally, the two places before and after the Wuhan Children's Library were related to a park that once existed in Hankou, Liyuan. The stone statue of Zhang Zhidong excavated from the ruins of the Hanyang Arsenal was initially transported to the pseudo-Hankou Government, the former Hankou Commercial Bank, and placed in the middle of the second stone step. Later, Li Garden was established on the "Big Japanese Hankou Army Secret Service Department", which is the triangular open space behind the former Hankou Jincheng Bank, and the stone statue of Zhang Zhidong was placed in the Li Garden. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Garden was demolished and the stone statue of Zhang Zhidong was unknown.
entered Jincheng Bank , and there were borrowing cards on the ground, which was a mess. I had no time to read more of these. After passing through Jincheng Bank and coming to Jincheng, an aunt looked at me with great vigilance, and later she realized why she was like this - there was a dead end in front of her! He was desperate, but he was ecstatic - isn't this wall the scene in the photo? A wall is climbing with vines, bathing in the sun. The shape of the wall is exactly the same as the background behind the stone statue in the traitors' photo, but in the opposite direction. I found the answer like this, and it seemed to be too smooth. Is this the ruins of Liyuan?
Turned around facing the wall, and the obvious "illegal buildings" were built on the open space. I imagined looking through them and using the perspective of the photo.You can see the difference at a glance. The building in the middle of the old photo is obviously a spire, but the flat top is clearly in front of you! It was so ecstatic that it was only a few minutes. Quiet and go around to the original gas station to see. Turn left after leaving the gate, it is Zhongshan Avenue . The former site of the gas station and the shops in Guanzhang surrounded the wall in Jincheng. If you want to get close to the other side of the wall, you can only stand on the sidewalk and be in a daze. At this time, I suddenly found that the details of the walls in Jincheng were very similar to the old photos. After walking around this triangle area for a few times, I had no gains and had to go home.
In August 2005, I checked the information and found that the roof of Jincheng Bank was originally a hip-mounted tower, which is the "steeple" seen in the photo. It was bombed during the Anti-Japanese War and changed to a "flat top" during reconstruction. In 1944, US aircraft bombed Wuhan, and the third floor of the No. 9 residential building in Jinchengli was burned by a fire bomb. Fortunately, the Jincheng building was not damaged. I thought I had figured out the matter of Liyuan. Unexpectedly, in 2006, when facing it again, new discoveries were made. Borrowing Jincheng Bank and its building complex, it will be transformed into a new Wuhan Art Museum . The gate of Jincheng Bank in the south is the main entrance to the art museum, and a new entrance is added to the north. The entrance to the north is at the gas station in the former Huangshi Road intersection, which is the original location of Liyuan. The newly built northern entrance communicates with the former Jincheng Bank and Jinchengli through a corridor to form a smooth visiting route.
After knowing the remodeling news, he passed by from time to time, but did not stop and take a closer look. It was not until October 2006, after returning from Northeast China that I had time to take a good look at it. That day was October 26, 2006, and the buildings in the original gas station were demolished. The background of Liyuan in the first old photo is confirmed. The wall can finally be seen from the other side, but it has changed.
After searching in 2005, I suddenly figured it out-the third old photo took this wall. It's just that the direction is different. What is embedded on the wall will only be the "Record of the Movement of Fengli Garden" written by Zhang Renli.
The upper part of the wall has fallen. Looking up, there are patterns on it. Turning to the side of the old photo, in my impression, it has always been a "forbidden zone" surrounded by shops, lifting the veil. Unexpectedly, on the other side, the remains of the special period were still tenaciously preserved. One side of the wall reveals a striking "Wan" pattern. I just don’t know if the dim yellow color is still the color of the past?
On the walls on both sides, on the walls titled "Peaceful Founding of the Country" in "Han Sheng", after the tiles and paint peel off, some intermittent patterns were exposed. One is the face of a character who looks like a soldier, with the words "China" written vertically on the left. Whether it was left by the Japanese pirates or written by the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan is no longer verified. I have been guessing what kind of picture it would be if I connect the content on the wall?
More than a year has passed, and the rain has fallen so smoothly, and the snow has come. I always think that these paintings on the wall should be increasingly apparent. Another day, when I came here, the triangle area was empty, and the walls in Jincheng stood breathlessly against plywood made of steel bars.
Suddenly thought that Liyuan really disappeared.
salvage the memories of Jiangcheng Gouchen the past of the three towns
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