On June 9, 1955, Chairman Mao Zedong inscribed an inscription on the Monument to the People’s Heroes in Tiananmen Square: “The People’s Heroes will live forever!” That night, Chairman Mao took a special train south and arrived in Hangzhou the next morning, staying at Liuzhuang.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong was not often in Beijing. He spent more time on special trains visiting various parts of the country. But this time when Mao Zedong went to Hangzhou, his main purpose was not to conduct an inspection, but to draft an important document. A year ago, it was in Hangzhou that he drafted the first draft of the Constitution of New China.
During his stay in Hangzhou, he was in a good mood and was very interested in traveling. He climbed the South Peak, North Peak, Yuhuangding, Mogan Mountain, Wuyun Mountain, etc. one after another with great interest. On the way up the mountain, he was often attracted by the scenic spots and historic sites and the beautiful and beautiful scenery of the southern mountains, and was full of poetry. During this period, he wrote three poems in a row, and "Five Rhymes: Looking at the Mountains" is one of them:
Three climbs to the North Peak, Hangzhou can be seen in the sky.
Feifeng Pavilion is surrounded by trees and Peach Blossom Ridge is on the upper side.
When it’s hot, I look for a fan, but when I’m cold, I look for a beautiful woman.
There is a flurry of air, and the late hawks are welcome.
This was Mao Zedong’s third trip to the North Peak. He took an old road that was rarely visited. Although it was paved with stone slabs, it was in disrepair and the road was dilapidated. Weeds grew out of the cracks in the cracked stones and were still very lush. The mountain road is very steep and there are no trees on both sides. The weather was a bit hot that day, and he started to sweat soon, so Mao Zedong opened his clothes and started shaking a fan in his hand.
Mao Zedong lived in the revolution for half his life. Although he became the president of the country, he never had any airs. When he opened his clothes and fanned himself, he was no different from an ordinary farmer's old man. I have to say that this is one of Mao Zedong's virtues and an important reason why he can always be with the working people. When he was in northern Shaanxi, American reporter Snow once saw Mao Zedong sitting cross-legged on the kang, chatting with him, taking off his cotton-padded clothes, and catching lice as if nothing had happened.
Compared with Mao Zedong's complacency, Wang Fang, the director of the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department in charge of security work, was not relaxed. At that time, the domestic class struggle was very complicated. Zhejiang was Chiang Kai-shek's hometown, and the enemy's sabotage activities were frequent. In order to ensure nothing goes wrong, we were fully prepared wherever Mao Zedong's activities passed.
Wang Fang's excessive nervousness even made Mao Zedong unhappy. Before going up the mountain that day, Wang Fang sent people to evacuate and control tourists in advance. Mao Zedong could not see the masses along the way, so he was very unhappy and did not say anything. Mao Zedong always advocated not being separated from the masses. When he returned from the Soviet Union in 1950 and passed through Changchun, he became angry because local cadres evacuated the masses.
Wang Fang estimated that Mao Zedong’s song "Five Rhymes: Looking at the Mountain" was conceived that day. "Three times on the North Peak, one can see the sky above Hangzhou" refers to the fact that he climbed to the North Peak three times and saw the city of Hangzhou in the distance, but no ordinary people in Hangzhou. "Under the flying breeze, the evening hawk is welcome." Next to the closed farmhouse, only a big rooster came to welcome him.
It was when Mao Zedong climbed the North Peak for the second time. He passed by a farmhouse and saw that the door was closed and no one was there. While he was resting under a pine tree next to the farmhouse, suddenly a big rooster jumped out from behind the house and swaggered over. Mao Zedong smiled and said to Wang Fang: "Director, Director, you have controlled the masses, but you have not controlled the big rooster. Is this big rooster not listening to you, or are you unable to control it? We are here Here, there are no masses to welcome us, but there are big roosters to welcome us! "
Precisely because he could not be separated from the masses at any time, even though Mao Zedong was over sixty years old, he never refused to climb mountains in a sedan chair. Not only does he himself not ride in a sedan, but the old comrades from the central government also never ride in a sedan when they come to Hangzhou to climb mountains. Once, Wang Fang quietly transferred two horses from the garrison, planning to let the chairman ride up the mountain when he got tired halfway. Not surprisingly, Wang Fang received another scolding and quickly sent the horse back.
Wang Fang is an old security guard. In 1938, at the age of 18, he served as the Chief of the Security Section of the Fourth Detachment of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army. Later, he successively served as the Director of the Security Department of the Central Shandong Military Region, the Director of the Security Department of the Eighth Column of Sanye, and the Director of the Security Department of Sanye. Director of the Security Department of the Seventh Corps. After the founding of New China, Wang Fang moved to the front line of public security and served successively as deputy director of the Public Security Department of the Hangzhou Municipal Military Control Commission, deputy director and director of the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, and deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department. In November 1952, he was appointed director of the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department. From September 1954, he concurrently served as deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Political and Legal Committee, director of the First Office of the Provincial People's Committee, and member of the Provincial Party Committee.
Wang Fang has rich experience and has the determination and courage to protect the leader. Due to his outstanding performance, he served as Chairman Mao's guard in Hangzhou for 38 times and was considered Chairman Mao's most trusted guard.
html On June 18, Mao Zedong reviewed a draft of instructions, which pointed out: After liberation, through the suppression of counter-revolutionary movements, the openly exposed counter-revolutionaries were basically eliminated; however, it was not too late to deal with the large number of hidden counter-revolutionaries who adopted double-faced tactics. deal with. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out the struggle on all fronts to eliminate counterrevolutionaries.
Mao Zedong gave the instruction "I think it is available" in the instruction draft, and got on the special train again that night, leaving Hangzhou and returning to Beijing. Unexpectedly, before the train left Zhejiang, it encountered an "attack" incident.
At 19:10 in the evening, the train originally scheduled to depart at 19:30 departed ahead of schedule under the instructions of Mao Zedong himself. Mao Zedong's special trains are generally divided into front-wheel drive cars and service cars. The front-wheel drive cars will go in front to explore the way for the service cars that Mao Zedong rides behind. Front-wheel drive vehicles usually leave ten minutes in advance.
The special train drove smoothly on the railway track for 30 minutes. Just when the vehicle arrived at Xiaoshan County and was crossing the west gate of Xiaoshan, there was a sudden crisp sound from the vehicle body. Wang Fang instinctively looked at her watch and saw that the time was 19:45. Then she summoned the security personnel on the car to inspect each carriage. The carriage where Mao Zedong was in was safe and sound, and Wang Fang was able to calm down a little. After arranging the guards, start patrolling other carriages.
When Wang Fang walked to the sixth car, she found a thumb-sized hole in the glass on the right side of the train. It looked like she had been hit by something. Wang Fang carefully observed the shape of the hole, which looked very much like a bullet. Thinking of this, Wang Fang quickly connected this incident with the attack by enemy agents.
If this is the case, it is a very serious matter. At the end of 1949, before Mao Zedong was preparing to visit the Soviet Union, the staff of the People's Liberation Army's anti-special monitoring station heard a mysterious radio wave. The result of the deciphering was surprising: the Kuomintang agents not only learned the top-secret information about Mao Zedong's visit to the Soviet Union, but also planned to carry out assassination activities during Mao Zedong's visit to the Soviet Union.
Finally, in a tunnel more than 10 hours' drive from Harbin, a soldier suddenly spotted two suspicious persons while patrolling along the railway line. He immediately fired a gun to call the police. Just when the enemy was about to light the explosives, the troops on duty quickly arrived and killed them on the spot. A few hours later, the special train passed through the tunnel safely.
It was precisely because the special train had experienced such risks that Wang Fang felt that the situation was serious when she saw traces of suspected bullets.
The train was still moving. Wang Fang quickly returned to the carriage where Mao Zedong was. Seeing that the chairman was still chatting and laughing with the staff around him, he once again ordered the security personnel to strengthen protection. An additional inspection of the entire train was arranged, and nothing unusual was found. The train drove smoothly to Zhuji Station. Wang Fang immediately ran to the station master's office and talked on the phone with Lu Jianguang, deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department, and informed him of what happened on the special train.
Lu Jianguang immediately called Pan Zhenduo, director of the Xiaoshan Public Security Bureau, and told Director Pan exactly how the special train was "attacked" and the glass was broken by "bullets".Needless to say, Lu Jianguang didn't need to explain the seriousness of the matter. Pan Zhenduo also knew that such a big event happened in his "territory". Director Pan's palms were already sweating before he even put down the phone. Finally, Lu Jianguang issued an order that the case must be solved within 24 hours.
After careful analysis, Director Pan Zhenduo believed that such a big matter was not something that he, the director of the County Public Security Bureau, could handle. While deploying police forces to investigate, he discussed with Lu Jianguang and quickly went to Hangzhou to report to Jiang Hua, Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, and Tan Zhenlin, Vice Premier of the State Council and First Secretary of the East China Bureau.
Xu Jianguo, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security, happened to be in Hangzhou to inspect the situation. Lu Jianguang and Pan Zhenduo came to report, so naturally he could not just sit idly by. After understanding the specific situation, Xu Jianguo immediately devoted himself to the investigation work. After Pan Zhenduo's report, he returned to Xiaoshan urgently, focusing on investigating the former underworld elements from the west gate of Xiaoshan to Bailutang Station to find out whether any of them were the murderers who attacked the station.
At once, all the police forces in Xiaoshan County were dispatched. More than 50 police officers set off immediately and rushed to the villages and towns along the railway overnight, knocking on the doors of every security cadre involved. District and township officials and railway police stations all joined the investigation. The dynamics of more than 60 four-category elements and historically complex elements were reviewed overnight. More than 40 people have been eliminated as suspects, and 21 people are still verifying their actions when the accident happened that night.
Early the next morning, Xu Jianguo took everyone to Zhuji and went to the special train to inspect the scene in person. As an old revolutionary who has been engaged in political protection work for a long time, he quickly concluded: "This is not like a hole made by a bullet." Xu Jianguo's reason is that if a bullet hits, it will never just break a piece of glass. It disappears, and it should also break the other glass. And no warheads were found at the scene.
Pan Zhenduo and Lu Jianguang breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Xu Jianguo's judgment. But what caused the holes in the glass? The case remains clueless. Xu Jianguo made another suggestion to Pan Zhenduo, which was to focus on investigating the villages along the railway. Because the holes in the glass were more likely to be broken by throwing stones, and because the train was passing by at that time, most of the villagers would watch from a distance out of curiosity.
In addition, Xu Jianguo also announced the cancellation of the 24-hour order to solve the case. Since it is unlikely to be a counter-revolutionary act of sabotage, let’s broaden the scope of the investigation and search patiently. With the deputy minister's words, Xiaoshan's public security officers not only relaxed a little bit, but also had a direction for their investigation.
On June 23, the fifth day after the special train was "attacked", a villager named Cao Wensheng came into the sight of the police. This Cao Wensheng is an out-and-out poor man. His family is very poor. There is not even an oil lamp in the house. In the middle of the night, you can only see the appearance of his home with the faint moonlight. The house has four walls and only a broken wooden table. Place in the center.
When the public security officers came to arrest Cao Wensheng, his wife was so frightened that she cried. This is no wonder to her. At that time, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security came to investigate the case. In such a small village, word spread quickly. Everyone said that he had committed a major crime, how could he not be afraid?
Cao Wensheng himself was also afraid. Because he was afraid that the crime would be too serious, he refused to give an explanation when he was first interrogated. After asking a little anxiously, Cao Wensheng was so frightened that he couldn't speak. Pan Zhenduo decided to take a more psychological approach. He first talked to Cao Wensheng about the difficulties of poor peasants getting land after liberation and becoming masters, and then told him about the party's policies. He had to tell him honestly in order to win leniency.
Slowly, Cao Wensheng began to lose his fear, and explained in detail what he had done that evening:
"On the evening of the 18th, before the train came, there were five or six people standing on the west side of the train road. chat.I was standing in front of Yougen's house, participating in a chat, holding an angular stone I picked up from the railway and playing with it in my hand. At this time, I saw a very beautiful train coming, so I casually took the stone I was playing with from my bottom. It was thrown upwards, onto the third or fourth car, and hit the windows and doors of the train. "
finally got Cao Wensheng to admit it, but it was only a confession without circumstantial evidence, which probably could not satisfy his superiors. Pan Zhenduo asked Cao Wensheng again why he threw stones and whether anyone saw him when he threw stones. Cao Wensheng replied, “I just threw it out randomly, just for fun. There were five or six of us together. Cao Peixing was closest to me, so he probably saw me. "
The Xiaoshan Public Security Bureau quickly found Cao Peixing. He was an old party member and had been the local township chief for many years. He was relatively reliable politically. But when the police found Cao Peixing, Cao Peixing took the initiative to admit that he had thrown a stone and hit the train. Ask the government for leniency. This time, Pan Zhenduo was confused. Who was the real "murderer"?
Regarding Cao Peixing's interrogation, Pan Zhenduo did the opposite. He was told that throwing stones at the train was a felony, and although he would be lenient if he confessed, he would still be punished by law. When Cao Peixing heard this, he immediately told the truth. It turned out that after Cao Wensheng was arrested, his wife found Cao Peixing. I think Cao Peixing is a party member and has been a township chief. If he confesses, he should not be punished. However, Cao Wensheng has no identity. If he is found guilty, he may not be able to come back.
Cao Peixing is pitiful. The Cao Wensheng family decided to "surrender". With Cao Peixing's confession, the case of Cao Wensheng throwing stones at the special train was finally solved. However, how to deal with Cao Wensheng became a problem in the end. When he went to the central government, relevant leaders of the central government gave their opinions: "Cao Wensheng's destruction of railway traffic safety is a criminal act. Considering that Cao Wensheng was a poor farmer who made mistakes and implemented education as the main policy, he could be treated leniently and given a suspended sentence. "
In the end, Cao Wensheng was sentenced to three years in prison with a suspended sentence by the Xiaoshan County People's Court for violating traffic safety. After being held in the detention center for 23 days, Cao Wensheng was released and returned to his home in Caojiaqiao, Anqiao Township. 1 This "special train attack case" ended in a false alarm. After 23 days of panic, Cao Wensheng returned home safely, but he did not know from the beginning to the end that the stone he threw hit Chairman Mao Zedong's special train
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