Source: China Communist Party News Network, author Xu Renjun
Xiang Nan and his wife Wang Zhixin
Xiang Nan, former president of the China Poverty Alleviation Foundation and former first secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. He is approachable, active in thinking, and good at socializing. I have participated in the compilation of "The Biography of Deng Zihui" and "Recalling Deng Zihui" under his leadership, and have many relationships with him. Our two families live not far apart. I often go to his house to chat and listen to his past stories and anecdotes about his past experiences. What I remember most is that before he had a sudden heart attack in early November 1997, he told me the story of his and his father changing their names after joining the revolution, and they were separated from each other. The father and son were separated for more than 20 years, and they were not reunited until the country was liberated. The story is full of joys, sorrows, separations, and tears are tear-jerking.
Xiang and Nian left their wife and son to go to Nanyang to engage in revolutionary activities. After returning to China, they became a red agent of the Communist Party of China, punished traitor spies in Shanghai, and rescued their vulnerable comrades
Xiang Nan, born in 1918. His father Xiang Yu Nian joined the party in the autumn of 1925. At that time, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party implemented cooperation, and the two parties had close ties. Mao Zedong served as the acting minister of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, Tan Pingshan served as the Minister of the Organization Department, Lin Boqu served as the Minister of the Farmers Department, and Peng Zemin, a left-winger of the Kuomintang, served as the Minister of Overseas Minister.
Overseas are responsible for propaganda and organizing overseas Chinese to support the domestic Northern Expedition, but at that time there was a lack of capable personnel. Because Xiang Yu Nian has good friends in Nanyang, he has strong mobility and can speak Fujian dialect, Hakka, Guangzhou dialect, and Chaozhou dialect, the comrades who know him actively recommend it to overseas. Overseas Minister Peng Zemin met and inspected him, feeling that talent was rare and decided to stay at him to work overseas.
In the spring of 1926, Xiang Yunian was sent to Sanmalinda, Borneo, Dutch East India to carry out a secret mission. When he left his hometown of Liancheng, Fujian, he told his family and his fellow villagers that he was going to Nanyang to do business. At that time, Xiang Nan and his mother watched their tall and burly father walk out of the mountain village with a farewell feeling. That was the first time that their father and son had parted.
There are many overseas Chinese from Fujian in Sanmalinda City, and many people work as workers in factories. Xiang Yunian was enthusiastic and generous, good at socializing and helpful. He soon made many friends among Fujian compatriots, won everyone's trust, and became a well-known Chinese worker leader in the local Chinese society. He not only developed a group of Kuomintang members in Sanmalinda and established 5 party branches, but also secretly developed some Communist Party members and established Sanmalinda Communist Party branch, and he served as the party branch secretary.
On May Day, 1927, Xiang Yu Nian mobilized overseas Chinese workers to take to the streets in Balibaban to hold a commemorative meeting. He made a passionate speech, angrily accusing imperialist of persecuting Chinese workers, calling on the vast number of Chinese workers to unite and oppose colonialism, and led everyone to hold colorful flags and protest. The colonial authorities were furious and dispatched military and police to suppress the enemy. Xiang Yunian was at the forefront of the struggle and was unfortunately arrested. During the five-month trial, he fought tenaciously and withstood severe tests. Later, after strong protests by the overseas Chinese community, he negotiated with our diplomatic embassy, and the colonial authorities ordered him to be deported.
In October of that year, when Xiang and Nian returned to their hometown where they had been separated for more than a year, the villagers thought he was not lucky in Nanyang and did not do a good job in business, so they expressed sympathy and understanding to him. The innocent Xiang Nan jumped and smiled, holding his father's hands and playing around in the village, and the home was filled with the warmth of reunion of flesh and blood.
At this time, the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party had completely broken down, Chiang Kai-shek betrayed his faith and massacred Communists, and the Communist Party organization was forced to move into underground activities. Xiang and Nian have been going through many twists and turns, and it has been difficult to get in touch with the party organization. Considering that he had rich experience in underground struggle, the party organization decided to let him work in Shanghai's Central Special Science and Technology Department.
The Central Special Section is a central intelligence and security agency proposed and personally led by Zhou Enlai. Its main task is to protect the safety of the Party Central Committee and underground workers; to invade the enemy's internal situation and collect intelligence; to punish traitors and spies, eliminate hidden dangers; to rescue arrested comrades and manage radio stations, etc.
After Xiang Yunian accepted the task, he immediately took his wife and son Xiang Nan to bid farewell to the villagers of Liancheng Mountain District, Fujian, and entered the prosperous Shanghai, and since then he has become one of the main forces of the red agents of the Central Special Branch.
Xiang Yunian settled his home in Baxian Bridge near the Great World in the center of Shanghai. His wife stayed at home all day and took care of housework in the house. His son Xiang Nan carried his schoolbag every day, walked through the busy streets, and hurried to a nearby primary school to study.
The actions of Xiang and Nian during this period are mysterious. They often wear a top hat, a robe, and carry a civilized bag in and out, dressed as a businessman. My family didn't know or asked him what he was doing, but only knew that he was doing business. The family life is difficult and difficult, Xiang Nan's mother takes care of the housework and makes silent contributions. Later, she secretly helped manage the radio station.
Xiang Yunian and his comrades from the Central Special Forces Red Team killed the traitor Bai Xin and three Kuomintang spies in the city, shocking Shanghai; he also cooperated with the Red Team to intercept the prison van in Fenglinqiao to rescue Peng Pai. Although the rescue failed, this was still one of his legendary experiences in his revolutionary career. At that time, Chen Yun, Pan Hannian, Li Kenong, Zeng Xisheng and others were all his comrades-in-arms.
invisible in the enemy headquarters and was awarded the "Iron Barrel Encirclement and Suppression Plan". Xiang Yu Nian disguised himself as a beggar and went to the Soviet area to send intelligence to ensure that the Red Army quickly transferred the Long March
In October 1933, Xiang Yu Nian was about to travel far away from home again, and this time he said that he was going to Jiujiang with his friends to do a business. His wife and son hurriedly helped him pack his luggage, and then watched him board the ship and set off on the Huangpu River, which was rustling in autumn. That was the second farewell between their father and son.
It turned out that before this, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Mo Xiong as the commander of Jiangxi Dean and Security to strengthen the "suppression of the Communist Party". Mo Xiong was a progressive person of the Kuomintang. He once asked to join the Communist Party and had secret contacts with Li Kenong, the leader of the Special Section of the CPC Central Committee. He has always secretly supported the Communist Party. After serving as the security commander, he asked the CCP to send people to his headquarters in De'an. The Central Special Branch quickly selected Xiang Yu Nian, Liu Yafo and others to carry out secret missions.
In order to cooperate with Mo Xiong's "suppression of the Communist Party" and confusing Chiang Kai-shek, the Red Army guerrillas and the Soviet government specially reduced guerrilla activities in the De'an area and pretended to retreat, creating a "record of suppressing the Communist Party" for Mo Xiong. The Chairman of the Kuomintang Jiangxi Province believed it and once praised De'an District for "effective suppression of the Communist Party and first in the province" and awarded De'an District as a "model zone". Chiang Kai-shek was also extremely happy, and sent a commendation order and instructed Mo Xiong to invite him to Lushan to attend the Guling High-level Military Conference.
The Guling Conference was chaired by Chiang Kai-shek to study the combat plan of the Red Army in the Soviet Area of Jiangxi. Due to the high content, the attendees were only chairman of five provinces, including Jiangxi, Hunan, Shandong, Hubei and Henan Province. According to the suggestion of a German military adviser, Chiang Kai-shek decided to mobilize 1.5 million troops, and at the same time, a strict seal was implemented to the Central Soviet Area, and then advance step by step, gradually narrowing the encirclement, encircling and annihilation of the Red Army like an iron barrel, and destroying the Soviet area, hence the name "Iron Barrel Encirclement and Suppression Plan". The plan is very specific and strict. The deployment locations, weapon configurations, attack dates, offensive routes, contact signals and passwords of each unit are clearly specified. A large book is printed, and it is covered with the word "top secret" and is distributed to the participants with a serial number, and clearly declared that those who leak secrets will be killed.
The situation is extremely urgent, and the Central Soviet Area is in danger. Mo Xiong, who was in Guling, was anxious and worried about the security of the Red Army in the Soviet area. As soon as the meeting ended, Mo Xiong went down the mountain overnight and hurried back to De'an Headquarters to inform the situation to Xiang Yunian, Liu Yafo and other underground members of the Communist Party of China, and handed them over the top-secret combat plan for research.
Yong Yu Nian and others immediately took emergency action, activated secret radio stations overnight, and informed the Central Soviet Area of the key points of the "Iron Barrel Encirclement and Suppression Plan". Then, use special potions to write the main content of the top-secret document onto the four student dictionaries. Because Xiang and Nian were familiar with the local terrain, landform and transportation routes, he was sent to disguise himself as a teacher and rushed to the Central Soviet Area to deliver information.
This is another life and death journey of Xiang and Nian. At that time, there were clouds in Jiangxi, and there were heavy guard along the way, with barriers full of murderous intent everywhere. When he arrived in Nanchang from Jiujiang, the enemy stopped him and investigated him strictly.Fortunately, he was calm and calm, calm and took out the student dictionary from his cloth pocket on his shoulder, shook it to the sentry and said, "I only have a few student dictionaries, which I used for teaching." The sentry touched his pocket and flipped through the dictionary, and there was nothing else. In addition, seeing that he was gentle and kind on his face, he looked like a scholar, so he raised his hand and let it go.
However, the more we headed south, there were more and more enemy sentries, and the inspection became more and more stringent. Four dictionaries with secretly written intelligence information may be detained by the enemy at any time, so you must find other good solutions. Fortunately, he had established many secret contact points in Jiangxi. In the middle, he found some underground party members to assist, and used medicine overnight to transfer the military intelligence on the dictionary to tulle paper, then hid it in the cloth insole layer, and put it on his feet to continue moving forward. In order to reduce contact with enemy levels, you should try to avoid the main roads when you are familiar with the terrain of Jiangxi and try to avoid the main roads when you are familiar with the terrain of Jiangxi.
When Ruijin approached, Xiang Yu Nian quietly entered a secluded place in the forest, grinding his clothes on the trunks to pieces; then he made his hair messy; he also found a stone and knocked off his four front teeth. He endured the pain and walked towards the enemy's checkpoint madly with the appearance of a beggar with bloody face, unkempt face and dull eyes. When the Kuomintang officers and soldiers saw this crazy beggar with a dirty face and a bloody smell coming, they felt disgusted and annoying. They all held guns and shot him away quickly, and no one was too lazy to check him.
All the road was dusty and hungry all the way, Xiang and Nian finally arrived at the Central Soviet Area with difficulty. When he took out the top secret information from the insole and handed it to Zhou Enlai, one of the "Three-person Group" of the highest leader in the Central Soviet Area, everyone felt that what Xiang Yunian sent was not only the top secret information that concerns the life and death of the Red Army, but also a loyalty to the party. Many people couldn't help but shed tears.
The military intelligence sent by the ICN and the Year is detailed and timely, providing the most reliable basis for the central government to make quick and decisive decisions.
In early October 1934, the Kuomintang army advanced to the hinterland of the Central Revolutionary Base, and the main force of the Central Red Army implemented a major strategic shift. In mid-October, the central organs and the main forces of the Red Army broke through the west and began the world-famous Long March. Xiang and Nian also advanced with the troops. During the Long March, when Mao Zedong talked about the Red Army's major transfer, he said with emotion: "The comrades who engage in intelligence have made contributions!"
After the news of the main force of the Red Army in the Central Soviet Area breaking out and evacuated to Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek was furious and furious, and urgently mobilized troops to encircle and intercept them. In order to crush Chiang Kai-shek's plan, the Central Special Forces urgently transferred Xiang Yuen back to Shanghai from the Long March, and sent him to lead two blasting team members to the Nanxun Railway in Jiangxi to blow up the bridge, Nanchang Airport and oil depot, in order to destroy the enemy's logistics transportation lines and disrupt the enemy's "encirclement and suppression" combat deployment.
When Xiang Yunian rushed back to Shanghai to receive the order, he hurried home to visit his family who had been away for a long time. The next day, he boarded a ship with two friends to Nanjing.
However, this time the journey did not go smoothly. As soon as they arrived in Nanjing, they were arrested by the Kuomintang spies and taken to Nanchang, Jiangxi for secret interrogation through a steamer. Fortunately, Xiang Yunian carried various documents from the Kuomintang with him, and he was good at dealing with the enemy ingeniously, and finally fled the custody office when the enemy relaxed his vigilance. He disguised himself as a businessman and wandered around carefully in case he was arrested by a spy again.
After more than a month, Shanghai has entered the middle of winter. One night, Xiang Yuen, who had suffered hardships, quietly returned to his home in Shanghai in the hazy night. Although he escaped from the tiger's den, his identity has been exposed. The party organization instructed him to stay in seclusion at home and not to show up, and to cut off all contacts with all personnel for more than a month. That was the longest time Xiang Nan had to contact his father. He could see his father every day and listen to his father telling stories and jokes, and he couldn't tell how happy he was.
The Spring Festival in 1935 just passed, and the festive atmosphere has not yet disappeared. Xiang Yu Nian suddenly said goodbye to his family again and went out mysteriously. This is the third farewell between their father and son, and it is also the longest farewell.
The father and son of the Xiang family changed their names for the revolution, and they were separated by one side, and life and death were unknown.During the "rescue movement", Xiang Nan lost his freedom because his son couldn't explain it clearly, and suffered extremely painfully. After Xiang Yu bid farewell to his wife and children for the third time in 2018, he was assigned by the Central Special Section to Hong Kong to engage in anti-Japanese and anti-Chiang United Front work. Soon, the Shanghai underground party suffered damage, the Central Special Section was forced to abolish, and some comrades were transferred to Tianjin to form the intelligence department of the Northern Bureau. Xiang Yunian also reported from Hong Kong to Tianjin. Because his identity has been exposed, he changed his name to Liang Mingde and continued to engage in secret intelligence work.
At this time, his home in Shanghai had been seized by the reactionaries, and his wife and young daughter were imprisoned. Fortunately, his son Xiang Nan stayed in the school and escaped the enemy's search. From then on, Xiang Nan lost contact with his parents and wandered alone in Shanghai and Nanjing.
In 1936, 18-year-old Xiang Nan left Shanghai. According to the introduction of the villagers, he went to the Changle County Horticultural Farm in Fujian to work and find employment, and also began to join the anti-Japanese and national salvation movement. He is cheerful and enthusiastic, versatile, and has the ability to promote and organize, and is very popular with everyone. At this time and before, he had been using the name Xiang Chongde. Two years later, he changed his name to Xiang Nan, secretly joined the Communist Party of China, and served as the leader of the Anti-Enemy Theater Troupe in Shunchang County, Fujian. Later, he went to Minqing County to serve as the captain of the wartime civil education work team, leading everyone to cross mountains and rivers, hold lectures using rural night schools, or hold art performances on the streets, and carry out anti-Japanese and national salvation activities.
In the autumn of 1939, Xiang Nan went from Fujian to Guangxi. Later, he went north through Hong Kong and arrived in Yancheng, northern Jiangsu to join the New Fourth Army. During the war of war, Xiang Nan often missed his parents and younger sister, asking about their news everywhere. He didn't know where his father was, nor did he know that his mother had been wandering in a foreign land after being arrested and released from prison, nor did he know that his younger sister had already caught illness and died young.
After Xiang Yuen changed his name to Liang Mingde, he has been in the Tianjin Northern Bureau and the Eighth Route Army Office in Xi'an, together with Wang Shiying, Wang Feng, Nan Hanchen, Xi Zhongxun, Li Kenong and others, traveling between the top leaders of the Northwest Army and the Northeast Army, engaged in intelligence and united front work. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Liang Mingde followed the troops of the 359th Brigade to march into the Northeast.
In 1943, the anti-Japanese base in northern Jiangsu launched a cadre rectification campaign. Each cadre must explain in detail his family background, social relations, parents and his own history, family economic sources, etc. The comrades easily passed the review, but Xiang Nan was often vague about his parents' history and career. He could only say that his father was in business and often went to the docks, but did not open a store. He couldn't explain clearly what business he was doing. He also said that when he was a child, he saw that the adults who came and went to and from home were businessmen wearing top hats and lab coats. Ask “Is it a capitalist?” Answer "No". Ask again, "Are you a clerk?" The answer is still "no".
Faced with everyone's severe scrutiny, Xiang Nan felt in pain and could only answer "maybe", "probably", and "maybe", with an ambiguous language. In addition, he changed his name to join the party, which aroused even more suspicion.
Soon, Kang Sheng's experience of the "rescue movement" was also moved from Yan'an to the anti-Japanese base in northern Jiangsu. Xiang Nan naturally became the key review target. He lost his freedom, his thoughts were burdened, and he fell into confusion for a moment.
The kind-hearted cadre reviewer once asked tentatively according to the mysterious signs of his father: "Is your father an underground party?" He was unsure of his mind, so he said "maybe" helplessly, and passed the test temporarily. But Xiang Nan, who was loyal and honest, later repented because he rashly said that his father was an underground party and was obviously not loyal to the organization. He immediately asked the review staff to correct the matter, which made the review team extremely angry.
Fortunately, there was a leader who was open-minded at that time and was not influenced by Kang Sheng's "left-leaning" guiding ideology. He said: "In our era of chaos and chaos, my son can't explain me clearly. There are too many cases of my son. After so long, Xiang Nan can't explain clearly. Then forget it, let's test it in the practice of struggle!" The protracted political review came to a temporary end, and Xiang Nan finally got rid of the predicament and regained his freedom.
At this moment, Xiang Nan's father Liang Mingde also participated in the rectification movement at the Yan'an Central Party School.Although he had changed his name and had no clarity on his wife and children, he had been engaged in intelligence work for a long time and risked his life and death to convey intelligence to the Central Soviet Area, making great contributions to the timely transfer of the Red Army. In addition, his comrades Wang Shiying, Wang Feng, Li Kenong, Xi Zhongxun and others all worked in the northwest, so they did not encounter any trouble during the rectification and cadre review movement.
After the national liberation, Liang Mingde served as a high commissioner in the Supervision Committee of the Northeast People's Government. Life gradually stabilized, and his longing for his relatives became increasingly deep, and he began to pay attention to find out whereabouts of his relatives.
Zeng Xisheng was entrusted to find a friend and search for him, and performed a comedy of "Xiang Nan looking for Xiang Nan". The father and son reunite as they wish, becoming a well-written talk on earth
In early 1949, the People's Liberation Army swept across the country and was unstoppable. Good news in the East China battlefield was frequent, and the Kuomintang troops were defeated. Xiang Nan, who was the political commissar of the Southeast County Detachment of the 11th Division of Northern Jiangsu, was leading his troops into Bengbu, an important town in northern Anhui. At that time, the central government instructed to convene a National Youth Congress in Peking and decided to establish the China New Democratic Youth League. Tan Zhenlin, deputy political commissar of the East China Field Army, sent Xiang Nan, 30, to lead the East China Youth Delegation to attend.
After the meeting, Xiang Nan returned to Bengbu to find the Southeast Detachment and prepared to lead his troops to continue the war. Unexpectedly, the Southeast Detachment had already flew over the natural danger of the Yangtze River with the large force and marched into Jiangsu, Shanghai and Zhejiang to fight. Bengbu only had one left-behind location in the rear of the East China Field Army. At that time, the battles were frequent and the troops were progressing rapidly. One county was liberated a day, and the remaining office could not understand where the Southeast Detachment was now.
Xiang Nan was worried and depressed in the left-behind place in the rear because he could not find the troops. Unexpectedly, he met Zeng Xisheng, secretary of the Party Committee of North Anhui District.
Zeng Xisheng asked Xiang Nan curiously: "Why are you stranded in Bengbu alone?" Xiang Nan reported that it was Tan Zhenlin who sent him to Peking for a meeting. Zeng Xisheng asked: "What meeting will be held in Peiping?" Xiang Nan replied: "Hold the National Youth Congress."
Zeng Xisheng immediately asked the central government what new spirit it had. Xiang Nan said that the central government decided to establish the China New Democratic Youth League as an assistant to the party, and that all regions will soon establish youth leagues.
Zeng Xisheng was overjoyed when he heard the news. He had an idea and patted Xiang Nan's shoulder and said kindly: "Since that's the case, you don't have to go to the army! You are young and the leader of the East China Youth Delegation. If you understand the spirit of the central government, you might as well stay with us and help us build a youth group!"
In this way, Xiang Nan accidentally took off his military uniform and moved to work locally. He initially served as secretary of the Youth Committee of the Northern Anhui District, and later as secretary of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Youth League.
It was during this period that Liang Mingde, who worked far away in the Northeast People's Government, learned through some channels that his son was working in the Anhui Youth League, so he sent a telegram to his old comrade Zeng Xisheng and asked him to help find his son who had been separated for more than 10 years. Of course, he didn't know that his son Xiang Chongde had long changed his name to Xiang Nan.
Zeng and Liang were old comrades-in-arms in the Central Special Branch in the past and had a friendship between life and death. Zeng Xisheng was of course very dedicated to his old comrade-in-arms' instructions. In addition to instructing his wife who worked in confidential departments to help search, he also arranged for the Youth League to help search.
After a meeting, Zeng Xisheng took Xiang Nan, secretary of the Provincial Youth League Committee, and solemnly assigned tasks: "My comrade Liang Mingde lost a son more than 10 years ago. I heard that his son is working in our Anhui League. You are the secretary of the Youth League Committee. Please help me find the Youth League cadres surnamed Liang. The faster the better." He also asked Xiang Nan to go to the confidential room of the Party Committee to read the telegram sent from Liaoning. After reading the telegram from Liang Mingde of Liaoning, Xiang Nan started to search carefully when he returned to the Youth League Committee.
Soon, Zeng Xisheng urged Xiang Nan at a cadre meeting held by the Anhui Provincial Party Committee: "I asked you to find the cadre surnamed Liang, have you found it?" Xiang Nanmeng was in a difficult mood and frowned and reported: "After you explained, I have been searching. I asked many people and carefully looked at the list of youth league cadres in the province from beginning to end. I found that there were more than 10 youth league cadres surnamed Liang. Which cadre surnamed Liang is what you are looking for, and I can't make any sense.It is too general to just talk about cadres named Liang. Can you provide some relevant specific situations? "
Zeng Xisheng felt that Xiang Nan's words were reasonable. The original arrangement of Xiang Nan to find cadres surnamed Liang was indeed too simple and general, which made him embarrassed. After the meeting, he left Xiang Nan for a separate interview.
He told Xiang Nan: His old comrade Liang Mingde was from Fujian. He went to Shanghai in the 1930s and lived in the area of the Eight Immortal Bridge in the Great World. He had a likable son at home.
Xiang Nan heard that the Liang family was from Fujian and lived in the area of the Eight Immortal Bridge in Shanghai, and he couldn't help but blurted out and said, "Ah! It’s a coincidence that I am also from Fujian and have lived in the Eight Immortal Bridge in Shanghai. I am familiar with the situation there and left at the age of 16. ”
Zeng Xisheng asked Xiang Nan with interest: “Where is your home in Eight Immortal Bridge? What job does your father do? "Xiang answer: "My father is doing business in Shanghai and lives at No. 24, Vilmond Luther Runli, French Concession. "
When mentioning No. 24, Velmon Ludrunli, French Concession, Zeng Xishen was surprised because it was a contact point for the Central Special Corps back then! Why did the Xiang Nan family live there? What is their relationship with each other? So Zeng Xisheng stared at Xiang Nan and had further in-depth conversation and inquired: "I have stayed there too. It is the home of a big boss Weng Xuchu. How could you live there? ”
Xiang Nan said: “I don’t know why we live in Weng’s house. I was still young at that time, and my father arranged for me to study in Nanjing. I returned to Shanghai for a short time to live with my parents during school holidays. "
As the conversation became deeper and deeper, Zeng Xisheng seemed to vaguely feel that the young man in front of him might have some relationship with his comrade-in-arms Lao Liang. He then asked again: "Your father has many friends, right? Who do you often interact with? "Xiang answered: "There are many people coming and going in the family, and my father is good at making friends. "Is there anyone among his friends who have a big beard? "
This question brought Xiang Nan's memory to his childhood. He immediately replied without thinking: "Yes, yes, there is a big bearded uncle living in my house. During school holidays, he often took me to Nanjing Road to play, and also took me to the world and look at the mirror! "
At this point, Zeng Xisheng couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. I remember that he did live in Lao Liang's house, and took his son to Nanjing Road, and took a look at the mirror in the world.
This is really the world's greatest, and there are all kinds of wonders! Is this a coincidence?
Zeng Xisheng looked at the secretary of the Provincial Youth League Committee in front of him. His appearance and expression were very similar to that of his old comrades. Is the son he was entrusted by his comrades to find nearby? To be cautious, he pointed at his nose and asked Xiang Nan tentatively: "Look, who do I look like? "
Xiang Nan looked closely and couldn't help but shout, "Uncle Bearded! "
" Zeng Xisheng was also excited. He raised his wide palm high, suddenly slapped Xiang Nan's shoulder heavily, and laughed loudly, "I found it! Found it! You are Lao Liang’s son! "
A moment made Xiang Nan stunned. He was inexplicably confused and a little confused.
So, Zeng Xisheng began to tell Xiang Nan in detail the true identity, experience and the reason for changing his name and surname, and said: "Your father is now a leading cadre of the Supervision Committee of the Northeast People's Government. He has been asking you for trouble! Today, my mission has finally been completed. You father and son, communicate quickly! "
Xiang Nan was so happy that his years of dream of finding his father finally came true.
that night he wrote a long letter to his father who was far away in Shenyang, pouring out his father and son's separation for more than 10 years, and reporting on his tortuous experience of joining the revolution. From then on, the moving story of Zeng Xisheng's arrangement of "Xiang Nan Finding Xiang Nan" spread wildly, spreading farther and farther, and gradually became a widely circulated interesting story in the world.
Although the Xiang father and son built a bridge for letter exchanges, they had no time to meet because of the busy work of both sides at that time. It was not until 1953 that Xiang Nan, as secretary of the East China Youth League Committee, went to Beijing to attend the Second Congress of the National Youth League, that they made an appointment to meet in the Summer Palace.
It was an unforgettable meeting.Time passes to make people grow old. Nearly 20 spring and autumn have passed, and the appearance of father and son has changed drastically, and they hardly dare not recognize each other. It was Xiang Nan who called "Dad" first to break the brief silence between father and son. They hugged tightly, and their joy and sad feelings were intertwined, and they burst into tears.
Although my father was thin, he was energetic and refreshed. Xiang Nan, who loves photography, immediately took the camera and pointed it at his father and pressed the shutter, and kept the serious and firm appearance in the camera lens forever. Decades later, whenever Xiang Nan takes this photo for his friends to appreciate, he is always full of pride and excitement, jokingly calling "this is my work."
The father and son of the Xiang family have excellent work and are loyal to the party. Both were hit hard during the Cultural Revolution, and were rehabilitated after crushing the "Gang of Four". Xiang Yunian died of illness suddenly. Xiang Nan went abroad on duty, but the father and son failed to meet for the last time
Xiang Yunian has been engaged in leadership work in Northeast China for a long time and has served as deputy directors of the Department of Construction and Supervision of Songjiang Province and Liaoning Province.
In 1954, the Central Committee planned to hold a commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the National Day. Xiang Yunian was commissioned by Li Kenong, former former comrade-in-arms of the Central Special Section and deputy chief of the General Staff of the General Staff of the Military Commission, and made a special trip to Guangdong to invite the Kuomintang's progressive general and former Jiangxi Dean Security Commander Mo Xiong to Beijing to participate in the celebration. He accompanied Li Kenong and Ye Jianying to entertain the old man Mo Xiong, and raised his glass toast and thanked him for risking his life and death that year, the "Iron Barrel Encirclement and Suppression Plan", which enabled the Red Army to quickly turn danger into safety and embark on the Long March to fight against Japan.
Son Xiang Nan is also the pride of Fujian mountain villages. He was talented and had excellent work. Before the Cultural Revolution, he was elected as a representative of the First National People's Congress and a representative of the Eighth National Congress of the Party. He served as secretary of the East China Youth League Working Committee, director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Youth League, and secretary of the Secretariat.
After the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution", both the Xiang father and son were in trouble. Xiang Yunian has been arrested many times because he has been engaged in red agent work for a long time. When Jiang Qing married Mao Zedong in Yan'an, he and some comrades from the former Shanghai Central Special Branch had jointly expressed their opposition, so he was labeled as a "traitor and spy." The Red Guards forced him to wear the leather jacket he did when he worked in the white area, and used it as a symbol of spies and traitors and took him to travel everywhere. He was so angry that he trembled all over, and he fainted on the ground, causing stroke and aphasia to lead to disability. His son Xiang Nan was in trouble with the "May 7th" cadre school of the Ministry of Agricultural Machinery of Xinyang, Henan Province, and was criticized and investigated by the black generals of Hu Yaobang's counter-revolutionary group in the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League.
One day, the representative of the cadre army suddenly talked to Xiang Nan and handed him the official letter sent from Liaoning to him. It read: "Xiang Nan's father is a traitor and is under review. Because he is old and sick, he has completely lost his ability to work and cannot take care of himself. I hope Xiang Nan will be mobilized to support him."
Xiang Nan looked at the official letter, his hands trembled, his heart was as if he could put his wings into his flight to Liaoning to serve his father. But he himself was being detained in a cowshed and under investigation; his wife worked in another cadre school near the desert in the northwest; his children went to the countryside, and they were re-educated. When the military representative asked Xiang Nan how to treat the elderly, he had to endure his grief and tell the truth: "I am unable to protect myself now and have no home anymore. I believe in and rely on the organization."
Soon, Liaoning Province decided to send Xiang Nan's father to Pengkou, his hometown in rural Liancheng, Fujian. Fortunately, Xiang Yunian received care from local leaders and the masses. One night, Xu Ya, deputy director of the Fujian Provincial Revolutionary Committee, went to Liancheng to inspect the work. The night was dark and dark in the countryside. Only when passing by Pengkou Town, I found the lights flashing in front of me. He asked in surprise: "How come there are electric lights here?" The local cadre introduced that this was the selfless dedication of an old revolutionary cadre. Xu Ya was extremely moved and went to the village to visit the revolutionary elderly. During the conversation, he was surprised to learn that the old man’s son was Xiang Nan, and he was extremely surprised. Because he and Xiang Nan were comrades-in-arms during the New Fourth Army period. He was immediately very happy and held the old man's hand tightly for a long time. He found that the old man was too weak and suffered from various diseases, so he instructed his entourage to send the old man to a sanatorium in the provincial capital for examination and treatment.
After crushing the "Gang of Four", Xiang Nan was rehabilitated and left Henan and returned to the Agricultural Machinery Bureau to serve as a leadership position. His wife and children also returned to Beijing one after another. At this moment, he missed his father far away from his hometown and wanted to take the old man to Beijing for support. However, my father’s household registration is in Liancheng, Fujian, and transferring household registration to Beijing requires approval from the Central Organization Department. So he wrote an application report to Guo Yufeng, then the Minister of Organization. However, the minister soon said to him seriously: "Your father is an old revolutionary, and you are also an old cadre. You should strictly demand yourself and not cause trouble for the organization. If everyone asks to go to Beijing to solve the household registration problem, wouldn't it make the organization difficult?" This high-sounding principle made Xiang Nan laugh and cry, so he had to stop mentioning this matter from now on.
Soon, the Central Committee decided to adjust the leadership team of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, and Hu Yaobang became the minister. At a meeting, Hu Yaobang met Xiang Nan and asked his father about his recent situation with concern, and asked why he didn't bring the elderly to Beijing to reunite. Xiang Nan couldn't speak, so he had to tell Guo Yufeng's conversation to the truth.
After hearing this, Hu Yaobang felt incomprehensible. He immediately ordered Xiang Nan's father to settle in Beijing.
After receiving the instructions from Hu Yaobang, the Longyan Prefectural Committee of Fujian Province conducted a comprehensive physical examination for Xiang and Nian. If you don’t check it, you will not know it. Once you check, you will find that the elderly suffer from severe pneumonia and should not travel far away. He had to arrange for further treatment in the hospital, and wrote a letter to tell Xiang Nan: "As soon as the elderly's condition improves, he will send someone to escort to Beijing."
At this time, Xiang Nan was ordered to prepare to lead the Chinese agricultural machinery delegation to Italy for inspection.
Just when Xiang Nan led a delegation to board the plane abroad, the post office sent an urgent telegram: "The elderly man died of illness due to ineffective treatment, and he died of illness in Longyan at the age of 82."
Xiang Nan flew to Europe with deep sorrow and tears in his tears to perform official duties, entrusting his wife Wang Zhixin to his hometown in Fujian to handle the funeral.
After the bad news of the death of the revolutionary elderly man reached Liaoning, the Liaoning Provincial Revolutionary Committee and the Provincial Party Committee felt deeply unfortunate. On November 7, 1978, the Liaoning Provincial Revolutionary Committee held a grand memorial service in Shenyang. After hearing the news, Xiang Nan, who was then the deputy minister of the First Ministry of Machinery Industry, went to mourn his father with his wife. After the couple arrived in Shenyang, they did not disturb the provincial party committee, but quietly found a hotel to stay in.
The memorial service was held very grandly, and the banner on the venue solemnly read "Comrade Liang Mingde's Memorial Service". Provincial leaders Ren Zhongyi, Huang Oudong and Xiang Yunian's old comrades Huang Huoqing, Luo Qingchang, Zhou Zijian and others all attended the meeting one after another.
That day, Xiang Nan and his wife were still unwilling to cause trouble to the organization and did not notify the provincial party committee. With a sad mood, they quietly entered the memorial service scene with heavy steps, and lined up quietly to move forward with the mourning crowd. Xiang Nan and his wife worked in central government agencies for a long time and are well-known people. Some people were surprised and surprised to find that they suddenly appeared at the memorial service. Many people did not know that Liang Mingde and him were father-son relationships, and they discussed curiously. Even Ren Zhongyi, the first secretary of the provincial party committee, was puzzled and quietly pulled him aside and asked, "How did you know Mr. Liang?" When Xiang Nan revealed the truth, people suddenly realized. Everyone was amazed at the strange experiences of the Xiang father and son and their low-key noble style.
