Chapter 41 2. Sentenced to life imprisonment for 18 years

Late at night on December 24, 1957, my child and I were already asleep, pop!Snapped!A knock on the door woke me up.I opened the door and saw a man in plain clothes and two men in police uniforms standing outside the door, some with pistols.I let them into the study.They asked for my name, then produced a "arrest warrant" and asked me to sign it.I asked: why arrest me?They said: "You are a counter-revolutionary." I said, "I have joined the revolutionary team since I was a student and have done a lot of work for the revolution." After signing the Arrest Warrant, they took out a pair of handcuffs and handcuffed them to my hands.So they started a search, checking all my suitcases, bookcases, drawers, chests of drawers, etc.When they found a photo of me wearing the Kuomintang military uniform and riding a Japanese war horse, they were like a treasure.One of them said: "Isn't this 'evidence' of the counter-revolution?" In fact, the Japanese war horse was a spoil I captured while fighting guerrillas, and the Kuomintang army uniform was the cover clothing I wore when I was doing underground work.Now these things have turned out to be "evidence" of the counter-revolution. How can there be such a reason in the world?After the inspection, they confiscated all the jewelry of the family members and the child's hundred-day lock and other belongings; also copied my Peking University graduation certificate, a diary I wrote when I was fighting guerrillas, two sets of Kuomintang military uniforms, two military uniform belts, and the A photo of me riding on a Japanese war horse.After the inspection was completed, it was already dawn.I was in handcuffs and carrying luggage, got into the jeep of the Public Security Bureau, and was escorted to prison.

The prison I entered is kept secret from the outside world.I don't know its name, but I only know that it is located in Caolanzi Hutong near Xi'an Gate in Beijing. Prisoners call it Caolanzi Detention Center.Later, I heard that this detention center has a long history. It was originally the "Peiping Soldiers' Introspection Institute" of the Kuomintang, and many Communist Party members were imprisoned.Liu Lantao, Liu Zijiu, Bo Yibo, Yang Xianzhen and other old comrades were all imprisoned here before liberation. When I entered this detention center, most of the detainees were counter-revolutionary prisoners.The task of this detention center is to pre-trial the prisoners, investigate the crime, and make a pre-trial conclusion (close the case).Then the whole case was handed over to the Procuratorate for prosecution.The court held a hearing based on the indictment.The accused (prisoner) debates with the public prosecutor (prosecutor).The court makes judgments based on facts and the law.Those who are found not guilty will be declared "acquitted and released" in court, and those sentenced to imprisonment will be transferred to a labor reform unit for execution.This is the process that ordinary prisoners must go through after entering the Caolanyu Detention Center.

Prisoners held in the Caolanzi Detention Center do not have production tasks.In addition to three meals a day, I just sat on the wooden bed in the prison cell, reflecting and checking my own problems, so that I could explain them during the interrogation (trial).Prisoners are not allowed to leave the prison cell every day, except for the toilet (going to the toilet) and the wind (running).Prisoners detained here are not allowed to meet their family members; family members can send necessities such as toilet paper, salt, and soap once a month.In the prison cell, toilet paper is more important than banknotes.

Now let’s talk about my situation after I went to the Caolanzi Detention Center.The jeep escorted by the Public Security Bureau drove directly to the gate of the Caolanzi Detention Center. The public security personnel handed me over to the administrator (guard) of the detention center.The administrator handcuffed me.He said: Knives, banknotes, etc. are not allowed to be brought in; if you have any, give them to me for safekeeping.I handed him the 3 yuan I had in my pocket.He asked: Do you buy toilet paper?I said: buy.He handed me a rough toilet paper and a deposit slip.They sent me to the cell and handed me over to the cell manager.I was put into prison.This is a hut about 10 square meters, with iron doors and windows.There is a small hole about 3 centimeters wide and 10 centimeters long on the door, from the outside you can see the inside; from the inside you cannot see the outside; this is specially used for monitoring prisoners, and it is called "peephole".There is a wooden bed next to the window, which can sleep 5 people.There was a big urine bucket in one corner of the prison cell for the prisoners to urinate, and it was brought out when they were released.When I entered the cell, there were already two people imprisoned there, and they were washing their faces.I just put away my luggage, and shouted outside: dinner.The administrator sent me a pair of bamboo chopsticks and two rough porcelain bowls.Those two students (in Beijing prisoners call each other classmates, later in Shanxi Prison, prisoners are not allowed to call each other classmates) received a meal, each with a steamed bun, a bowl of stick noodle porridge, and a piece of radish and pickles.After breakfast, the instructor talked to me and gave me some enlightenment.He said: "Don't worry too much, as long as you confess frankly, there is still a bright future."

After breakfast the next day, a female caretaker shouted at the door of the cell: "Ge Peiqi, come out!" When I got out of the cell, she waved her hand and asked me to follow her.She led me out the gate of the cell yard and handed me over to an armed soldier who took me to another yard.There is a row of north rooms in this courtyard, with five or six doors open, and a sign with the words "interrogation room" is hung next to each door.I entered the interrogation room and saw that sitting at the desk was the same man in plain clothes who had arrested me the night before.He asked me to sit down and said: You may not be used to it when you first entered the detention center, but it will be fine after a while.He asked me a brief history and family profile.Then he said: I brought you here to clarify your problem; the country's policy is "leniency for confession and strictness for resistance"; if you explain your problem well, you will have a future.In the end, he asked me if I had any requirements?I said, my wife has a heart attack and is recuperating in the western suburbs; my daughter is in a children's hospital with sequelae of scarlet fever; they don't know about my arrest, so I want to write a letter to my wife.He thought about it for a while, and said to me: Yes, you have written the letter and handed it to the administrator, asking him to forward it to me, and I will send it for you (according to regulations, people who have not closed the case are not allowed to write letters).

After the Spring Festival in 1958, a young interrogator began to interrogate me systematically.Ask about my historical experience first, and then ask about my "criminal situation".When I talked about the anti-Japanese guerrillas I organized in Shangqiu, Henan Province in 1938, the interrogator asked: "Why did you organize the guerrillas?" I said: "Anti-Japanese." He slapped the table and said, "The Kuomintang is actively anti-communist , are you anti-Japanese? Don’t talk nonsense.” When the interrogator asked me: “What did you do as a ‘KMT major general’ in the Northeast?” I said: “I am a member of the Communist Party, an underground party organization. I was sent to break into the headquarters of the KMT’s Northeast Security Chief, under the cover of a ‘KMT major general’, to do underground work; I collected a large amount of important KMT military intelligence and reported it to our party’s underground organization.” The interrogator complained and reprimanded, "You are a 'Major General of the Kuomintang'. How can you be a member of the Communist Party? You are blatantly slandering the Communist Party. This is an interrogation room. You must be careful. If you continue to talk nonsense like this, you will add to the crime." A fierce battle in my mind.I thought that if I continued to insist that I was a member of the Communist Party, I might be severely and dangerously punished.So "don't touch stone pillars with eggs", "a good man doesn't suffer from immediate losses", "keep the green hills alive, and don't be afraid of running out of firewood", these words played a role in my mind.From then on, when I was interrogated, I no longer said that I was a member of the Communist Party.In the "Outline for Writing a Personal Confession" given to me by the interrogator, there was no requirement to write about the party and underground work.This first systematic interrogation was conducted 36 times in total, sometimes continuously during the day and night, which was simply mental torture.

In the autumn of 1958, the young interrogator began his second systematic interrogation of me.The content of this system interrogation is basically the same as that of the first system interrogation.During this round of interrogation, the interrogator asked a new question: What interests did you betray the Communist Party to become a "Major General of the Kuomintang"?I said: Not only did I not betray the interests of the Communist Party, but I also did a lot of useful work for the Communist Party; It’s just that there are four people in our intelligence team; I am not the only one who uses the name of "Major General of the Kuomintang" as a cover.This second systematic interrogation took place a total of 30 times.

In the early winter of 1958, the interrogator handed me an "Outline for Writing a Personal Confession", which contained nothing about my joining the Communist Party and doing underground work.The interrogator asked me to write a "personal statement" according to the outline.I wrote it quickly and handed it in.Not long after, the interrogator told me that your case was "closed" and awaited the court hearing.For a prisoner who has been in prison for a long time, eating cornbread and drinking vegetable soup, it is also a happy event to get a "closed case".

In late February 1959, the Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate sent me an indictment.The administrator asked me to take a good look and prepare for the court.The main content of the indictment is to slander my revolutionary history as a "historical counter-revolutionary"; use the false accusations against me in the newspapers in 1957 as the "basis", and slander me as "openly shouting to kill the Communists and overthrow the Communist Party." People's Power".It asked the court to "punish" me according to the law. Two days before the trial, a female administrator came to talk to me.She said, "Your case will be in court the day after tomorrow. Do you hire a lawyer to defend it?" I said, "I have made it clear that there is no need to hire a lawyer to defend it. Let the court see." The administrator said, "Please ask a lawyer to defend you." It costs money; pleading or not pleading is the same. The courts are based on the indictment."

After breakfast on March 4, 1959, the administrator opened the cell door and asked me to go to the court.I thought that the court would be held in the court, but it was not. The court was in the Caolanzi Detention Center.Not far from the gate of the prison yard, we arrived at another compound of the detention center.There are tile-roofed houses facing south in the courtyard, with the word "court" written on the door.The courtyard was filled with long wooden chairs, but no one was listening.At the east end of the court is a trial platform, on which judges, prosecutors, clerks, and jurors sit; in front of the trial platform, several bailiffs stand.After I entered the courtroom, I sat on a wooden chair.

At the beginning of the trial, the judge asked me my name, age, and work unit.The prosecutor then reads the indictment.After reading it, the judge asked me to present my opinion.I said: The "crimes" charged in the indictment can be summed up into two: the first accuses me of being a "historical counter-revolutionary"; the second accuses me of being a "current counter-revolutionary"; according to the facts, these two "crimes" "Neither can be established, and the reasons are stated as follows: The main content of the indictment accusing me of being a "historical counter-revolutionary" is that I "had been in important positions for the Chiang Bandit, actively served the enemy, and served as a spy for the Chiang Bandit for a long time."This is completely "converting black and white" and "confusing right and wrong".Yes, I have served as "Major General Special Commissioner of Tianshui Camp, Chairman of the Kuomintang Military Commission", "Major General Inspector of the Political Department of the Northeast Security Command of the Kuomintang", etc.; I was asked to do it.Under the cover of these names, I once instigated a large number of traitor troops to join the anti-Japanese army; I used to cover the establishment of an underground radio station in Shenyang and collected a large amount of important military intelligence of the Kuomintang and reported it to the Communist Party.These facts prove that I am not serving the enemy, but the Communist Party, the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation.The above facts also prove that I am not a "secret agent of Chiang Kai-shek", but an underground intelligence worker dispatched by the Communist Party to infiltrate the high-level military organs of the Kuomintang.The above facts prove: My history is revolutionary, not counter-revolutionary.Therefore, the indictment accuses me of being a "historical counter-revolutionary" and cannot be established. The main content of the indictment accusing me of being an "current counter-revolutionary" is that I "take advantage of the party's rectification movement to attack and slander the party's various policies and political movements, clamoring for the Communists and the overthrow of the people's regime." "evidence" are all false accusations against me copied from newspapers in 1957.For example, it is quoted in the indictment: "The counter-revolutionaries have messed up, the unified purchase and sales have messed up, and the common people call the tofu made of bean cakes Japanese mixed noodles. Party members and cadres". "Party members have played the role of plainclothes policemen supervising the masses, because the party organization wants them to provide intelligence." "Compared with the relationship between the party and the masses today, there is a difference of one hundred and eight thousand miles. When the Communist Party entered the city in 1949, the common people greeted the Communist Party with the phrase 'Eating pots of pulp to welcome the master'; far away". "The Communist Party can take a look, and don't distrust us intellectuals. If it's done well, it's okay; if it's not good, the masses can overthrow you and kill the Communists" and so on.The words quoted from the newspapers in the indictment are not my original words; when these words were published in the newspapers, without my consent and without my signature, they have no legal effect and cannot be used as "evidence" for conviction.This is the first point.The second point is that Chairman Mao has said many times: "The issue of the rightists is a contradiction between ourselves, and we handle it as a contradiction among the people."Since the rightist issue is treated as a contradiction among the people, my speech at the rectification symposium cannot be used as "evidence" for conviction.Based on the above two reasons, the accusation of me as an "active counter-revolutionary" in the indictment cannot be established. To sum up, I am neither a historical counter-revolutionary nor a current counter-revolutionary, and I request the law to be acquitted and released.Prosecutors have expressed mixed opinions on my plea.The juror said: The court should make a fair judgment based on the procuratorate's complaint and the defendant's defense.The judge asked if I had any other comments?I said: no.The judge announced: the debate is over and the verdict is pending.out of court. In mid-April 1959, the government sent me from the Beijing Caolanzi Detention Center to the Beijing Detention Center.Most of the detainees here are sentenced people, including counter-revolutionaries and criminals.This is a reform-through-labor unit, and most of the detainees here have production tasks.I was assigned to do the folding subjob.That is to fold the printed large sheet into small sheets according to the page number, so as to be bound into a book.Here, steamed buns became a means to stimulate labor enthusiasm. Those with high output received 4 steamed buns per meal per person; those with low production volume received 3 steamed buns per meal per person; those who did not participate in labor received 2 steamed buns per meal per person.8 hours of labor during the day and two hours of study at night; the only requirement for study is to "admit guilt and obey the law".People who have been sentenced can visit their family members once a month. On June 29, 1959, the Beijing Intermediate People's Court made a judgment on my case. I received the verdict in early July.The main text of the Judgment is as follows, The accused, Ge Peiqi, had been serving important positions in the Chiang Bandit and actively serving the enemy.Served as a spy of Chiang Kai-shek for a long time, developed intelligence personnel, personally collected intelligence about our army, and reported it to the enemy's spy agencies.Participated in the suppression of student movements.He slandered our party many times and incited the reactionary arrogance of the Chiang Bandits to oppose the Communist Party and the people.After liberation, he concealed his major historical crimes for a long time and refused to confess to the government.The people's government didn't miss the old evil, and arranged for him to work, and held an important position as a lecturer at Renmin University.The defendant should have been grateful and regretful, made up his mind, completely reformed, re-behaved, and served the people well.But the defendant, on the contrary, regards the people's leniency as deceitful, clings to a reactionary stance, and is resolutely an enemy of the people.Taking advantage of the party's rectification trend, they distorted the facts, turned black and white, launched a comprehensive attack on the party and the government, and openly shouted to kill the communists and overthrow the people's government.The defendant's serious crimes aroused public outrage across the country.Therefore, in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Punishment of Counter-Revolutionaries, this Court made the following judgment: Defendant Ge Peiqi was sentenced to life imprisonment for counter-revolutionary crimes and deprived of political rights for life. Evidence: Bandit (referring to the Kuomintang) 8 military rank flowers, 1 cap badge, 3 badges, 2 sets of military uniforms, and 2 military uniform belts are all confiscated. After reading this verdict, I remembered the words of the female caretaker at the Caolanzi Detention Center, "Defending or not defending is the same; the court listens to the Party."This is really a rule of thumb. Regarding this judgment, I appealed to the Beijing Higher People's Court and the Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate many times, but all were rejected.It seems that this judgment is very "correct".Is this verdict correct?Still wrong?Please take a look at the retrial judgment made by the Beijing Higher People's Court in 1980, 21 years later! After receiving the verdict, my thoughts fluctuated violently.I thought: Since I participated in the revolution, I have sacrificed my life, entered the enemy camp, fought for the country and the revolution, risked hardships, fought hard, and remained strong and unyielding.Now that he has suffered such a strange injustice, where should he go on the road of life and death? !I thought again: My revolutionary history, step by step, is countless, and there are people to testify;If you keep the green hills, you are not afraid of running out of firewood.This is the spiritual pillar for me to fight unjustly and survive 18 years of unjust imprisonment. In late July 1959, my second elder brother Ge Panyu and fourth elder brother Ge Pangong brought my five children to visit me in the Beijing Detention Center.This is the first time I have seen my family members 20 months after my arrest.I am very happy, but there is infinite sadness in the joy!My second brother farmed in his hometown and helped me to study in Beijing. Every time I come to Beijing, he always uses our family donkey to carry my luggage and take me to Lancun Station, which is 60 miles away from my village. go on the train.His current life is very difficult. Not only can I not help him, but I have added burden to him.From his conversation, it can be heard that my arrest has added a lot of sorrow to him!He advised me again and again to rehabilitate me, strive to return home as soon as possible, and raise my children.I learned from my 14-year-old eldest daughter: Because of my arrest, her mother's heart disease worsened and she couldn't get out of bed.After graduating from the No. 2 Primary School Attached to Beijing Normal University (now Beijing Experimental Primary School), she was recommended to the Girls' High School Attached to Beijing Normal University (now Beijing Experimental Middle School) with excellent results.In order to help her sick mother take care of her younger siblings, she attended school for a year before dropping out.Looking at the little girl waiting to be fed, my heart feels like a knife!I took risks for the revolution, risked my life, forgot to die, was loyal and steadfast; today I am trapped in Tuguo, affecting my elder brother and my children.Who actually did it?What caused it?Is the Communist Party ruthless?no.It was caused by a very small number of bad people within the Communist Party for their own interests. I was imprisoned in the Beijing Detention Center for five years, and my physical condition was greatly weakened. The hemoglobin was as low as 3.5 grams. I suffered from stool bleeding and rib tuberculosis. In the autumn of 1962, I developed a malignant sore on my right thumb. Due to improper treatment, my calf was almost amputated; to this day, I still have sequelae of numbness in my legs and feet. In the spring of 1964, I was transferred from the Beijing Detention Center to the Beijing No. 1 Prison.This is an old prison, which is now a labor reform unit for one person.There are sock knitting factories, plastic factories, fishing rod workshops and so on.Because of my illness, I did not participate in labor and stayed in the ward of the prison hospital for a long time.Most of the detainees in this prison are people who have been sentenced to long sentences.I use the time in the ward to write the appeal.At that time, during the winter training period for the prisoners in the prison, the warden talked to me three times, implying that as long as I stopped writing complaints, I would plead guilty and obey the law, and I could consider commuting my sentence.Director Liu of the hospital also talked to me.He said to me: The complaint you wrote is "worthless" (meaning that writing a complaint will not reduce your sentence).He also told me that there is a way out for you to study hard during the winter training period, plead guilty and obey the law (implying that the sentence may be commuted).In reform-through-labor units, it is rare for leading cadres to make such hints to the reformed.But I just can't take it.When writing a complaint, I can only write tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of words; when writing a "report on pleading guilty and obeying the law", I can only ramble and write a few hundred words.Because of my innocence, I also don't want to deceive the government.Others used the winter training period to write a report on pleading guilty and obeying the law; I wrote a letter of appeal.For this appeal, I actually wrote 240 pages, about 120,000 words, and a Captain Wang bound it into a volume for me with a copper nail more than an inch long; he also said that he was responsible for forwarding it to me.After my complaint was forwarded, it also fell into the sea, and there was no reply. When the "Cultural Revolution" began in 1966, the Beijing authorities planned to evacuate all the "land, rich, anti, bad, and rightists" living in Beijing to other places in order to clean up the political environment. On the evening of August 6, more than 500 "counter-revolutionaries" who had been sent to the Beijing No. 1 Prison from various reform-through-labour units were put on the iron train and sent to the north of Datong City, Shanxi Province. Daqingyao Coal Mine, I am one of them.Daqing Kiln is a reform-through-labor unit under the jurisdiction of the Fourth Detachment of the Shanxi Province Reform-through-Labor Brigade.The only labor task of the reformed people who come here is to go to the coal kiln to dig coal.Because my legs and feet were numb due to the aftereffects of the sores on my feet in the Beijing Detention Center, I had to walk with crutches, so I didn't go to the coal mine.Daqing Kiln is located in Saibei, north of Yanmen Pass, and the climate is cold, which is not good for my numbness of legs and feet.In order to take care of my illness, Commissar Jia of the labor reform team sent officials to send me to Taiyuan No. 1 Prison.Therefore, during the "Cultural Revolution", Political Commissar Jia was criticized and transferred from his original unit. On the train from Daqingyao to Taiyuan, I saw more than 20 middle-aged women, their hair was cut into seven lengths and eight short, their faces were smeared with ash, and a 20cm wide and 30cm long piece was hung on their chest. Some of the wooden signs read "Rightists" and some said "Bad Elements".It is said that they are Catholic missionaries and nuns who were evacuated from Beijing after being criticized.So I thought of a letter I wrote to my second brother Ge Panyu in Beijing when I first arrived at Daqingyao, but it was returned.The reason for the return was approved on the letter: "The recipient's new address is unknown."At that time, I knew very well that my second brother had no conditions to "relocate to a new address". Why did the post office return the letter?Very puzzled.Seeing those women who were evacuated from Beijing, I thought that my second brother might also be "evacuated" from Beijing because of his love for me.Later I learned: After I was escorted to Daqingyao, my second brother's home was ransacked by "Red Guards", my second sister-in-law was beaten to death, and my second brother was sent back to the Shandong countryside.Due to difficult life, no medical condition, died of illness! In late August 1966, I went to the No. 1 Prison in Shanxi Province, which was located in Taiyuan and was called the Taiyuan Lianbao Factory.There are workshops for plastics, aluminum, printing, and shoemaking. I was assigned to work in the shoemaking workshop.This prison has many inmates evacuated from Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Shanghai and other coastal provinces, so the management is very strict.During the "Cultural Revolution", prisons were under "military control" and Red Guards could not enter.Therefore, apart from studying "Selected Works of Mao Zedong", "Quotations from Chairman Mao", and "Supreme Instructions", the prisoners in the prison have not been impacted by the outside world, and no "fights" have occurred.This is really "misfortune and blessing depend on"! In the autumn of 1968, my right eye suffered from glaucoma, the intraocular pressure increased, and the pain was unbearable.An acupuncture doctor misdiagnosed it as migraine and treated me with acupuncture, which delayed the correct diagnosis and treatment time.A doctor was diagnosed with glaucoma and refused to send me to a hospital with an ophthalmology department outside for treatment under the pretext of the "Cultural Revolution" and the chaos outside.There was no ophthalmologist in the prison clinic, so he asked a surgeon to perform eye surgery on me.Glaucoma improved somewhat, but sequelae cataract appeared. In the spring of 1969, the First Prison of Shanxi Province was moved from Taiyuan to Qi County.A reform-through-labour prison has been newly built here, with a large area. It is outside Qixian City, surrounded by high walls, which is convenient for guarding and it is difficult for prisoners to escape from the prison.The factory area is separated from the prisoner's living area. There are more than 20 rows of cave-style prison cells, and each row can accommodate more than 100 people.Around the prison, there is a power grid, which is heavily guarded.It is difficult for the reformed people detained here to leave the gate once in a few years.There was a prisoner in the printing workshop who lined up the "great red flag of Mao Zedong Thought" as the "great 'black' flag of Mao Zedong Thought". During the "Cultural Revolution", he was shot. In the spring of 1971, the cataract in my right eye developed to the point that I could not see clearly, and I also thought about glaucoma in my left eye.The surgeon at the prison clinic also used acupuncture to treat my cataracts in my eyes. The effect was not good, but I could see through the light. In the autumn of 1973, the glaucoma in my left eye developed to a severe degree, and the intraocular pressure was as high as 70mmHg.I wrote to Director Zhang of the clinic, requesting to send me to Taiyuan for treatment, which was approved. When I arrived in Taiyuan, I lived in the Public Security Hospital (reform-through-labor hospital).The hospital does not have an ophthalmology department, so I was transferred to the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shanxi Medical College for treatment.Dr. Wan, the Chief Physician of the Ophthalmology Department of the hospital, personally examined me.He said: An operation should be performed immediately; otherwise, there is a risk of blindness.At that time, the hospital bed was very tight. Dr. Shen discussed with Dr. Xia and managed to arrange a bed for me and asked me to be hospitalized.But the cadres of the labor reform hospital did not agree to keep me in the hospital on the pretext of safety concerns (for fear that I would run away from the affiliated hospital).They asked Dr. Shen to perform an operation on me in the outpatient clinic, and after the operation, I was taken back to the labor reform hospital in an ambulance.Dr. Shen said: After undergoing anti-glaucoma surgery, I immediately took an ambulance and went through a series of bumps, but the effect was not good.Dr. Shen did not agree to operate on me in the outpatient clinic.The cadres of the labor camp hospital took me back in an ambulance. My left eye glaucoma was developing, and I was very anxious.I once again asked the leadership of the Public Security Hospital to send me to a hospital with an ophthalmology department for surgery. In the winter of 1973, the labor reform hospital sent me to the First Affiliated Hospital of Shanxi Medical College for treatment.A young doctor accepted the request of the cadres of the labor camp and performed glaucoma surgery on my left eye in the outpatient clinic.Immediately after the operation, I was taken back to the labor reform hospital in an ambulance, which affected the effect of the operation.Not only was the glaucoma not cured, but the intraocular pressure was still above 50mmHg; it also caused the sequelae of cataract.Against my will, in the fall of 1974, I was sent to the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shanxi Medical College for treatment.The cadres of the labor reform hospital still asked Dr. Shen to perform glaucoma surgery on me in the outpatient clinic.Dr. Shen said: "Since you insist on not agreeing to keep Ge Peiqi in our hospital for surgery, in order to save Ge Peiqi's eyesight, I will go to your labor reform hospital to perform surgery on him."Go back and discuss with the leaders of your hospital, determine a time for surgery, and let me know, and I will definitely go there on time.About 3 weeks later, Dr. Shen came to the operating room of the labor reform hospital and performed the glaucoma surgery on my left eye.The intraocular pressure of my left eye dropped from 5OmmHg to 2OmmHg very quickly.The glaucoma in my left eye is better, but the cataract is still developing. Glaucoma is an eye disease that severely damages the optic nerve.Because of the cadres of the Taiyuan Labor Reform Hospital, I was not allowed to have an operation in the ophthalmology ward of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shanxi Provincial Medical College in the autumn of 1973. It was delayed until the autumn of 1974, when Dr. Shen took the initiative to go to the labor reform hospital to perform the operation on me.After more than a year of procrastination, I suffered major damage to the optic nerve in my left eye.Therefore, after Dr. Shen's operation, although the intraocular pressure dropped and the pain was gone, the eyesight decreased a lot. In December 1975, I was released with clemency in Taiyuan. Before returning to Beijing, I made a special trip to the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shanxi Medical College to thank Dr. Shen.Unfortunately, he is away on a business trip, I am so sorry! In 1986, Dr. Shen wrote a letter to my family (because he didn’t know My Correspondence Office).It talked about the situation when he went to the Taiyuan Labor Reform Hospital to perform surgery on me.Here are two excerpts as follows. Readers are invited to see how difficult it was for a doctor with noble medical ethics to insist on medical principles and operate on a "reform-through-labor prisoner" during the "Cultural Revolution" period! Dr. Shen's name is Shen Shuyue.He was originally a graduate of Qingdao Medical College. In 1958, he was transferred to the Ophthalmology Department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shanxi Medical College. In 1979, he was transferred back to the Department of Ophthalmology, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao Medical College.The following is what Dr. Shen wrote in his letter when he went to Taiyuan Labor Reform Hospital for my operation: "The situation is as follows: I used to work in the Ophthalmology Department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shanxi Medical College. In the autumn of 1973, I received a notice from the labor reform hospital asking me to perform anti-glaucoma surgery on the 'prisoner' Ge Peiqi in the outpatient clinic of the Second Hospital. I disagree. I said, After anti-glaucoma surgery was performed in the outpatient clinic, taking it back with an ambulance may affect the effect of the operation. If you want to do it, you have to stay in the ophthalmology ward of the Second Hospital. The cadres of the labor reform hospital disagree. I was informed to perform anti-glaucoma surgery on Ge Peiqi in the outpatient department of the Second Hospital. I still did not agree. I told the cadres of the labor reform hospital: Since you do not agree to let Ge Peiqi live in the eye ward of the Second Hospital for surgery, I will go to your labor reform hospital to operate on him. ;You go back and make an appointment, inform me, and I will definitely go. After a while, they informed me to go to the labor reform hospital. At that time, they could not do a detailed examination of the patient, nor could they perform the necessary treatment before surgery, that is, surgery. This approach was unprecedented for an ophthalmologist who has been working for many years. But the situation at that time was unavoidable.” "When I was informed that I was going to the labor camp hospital for surgery on Mr. Ge, my neighbor at the time was Dr. Jiang Weixiang, director of the Radiology Department of the Shanxi Provincial Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. I told him that I was going to the labor camp hospital for surgery on Mr. Ge. He also I repeatedly urged that the operation must be done well. I said: I must strive to do a good job in the operation. After the anti-glaucoma surgery was performed on Mr. Ge, he got off the operating table (under normal circumstances, he should be sent back to the ward by a trolley. Mr. Wen walked back to the ward), bowed to me, and said: "Thank you Chairman Mao!" We couldn't even shake hands, and there were police officers standing next to me. I don't know how to treat after the operation. How to observe the condition and whether the medication is appropriate? I don’t know. At the beginning of 1976, I went to Datong to have a physical examination for the Air Force, and learned that Mr. Ge returned to Beijing from Taiyuan, and he went to the Second Hospital to say goodbye to me before going home. This is My colleague told me that because I was away, is this the case? I can’t say for sure. After that, I was worried about his eye disease. Because glaucoma is one of the most common causes of blindness, surgery is not possible under normal circumstances. Said it was a success; not to mention that the affairs were so bad at that time. There was no inspection before the operation, that is, the operation." Now let me talk about the treatment after the operation mentioned by Dr. Shen in the letter: the operation was completed around 10 am, I walked back to the ward, lay on the bed, and did not eat at noon.In the afternoon, a surgeon came to see it; he asked me: Does it hurt?I said: It doesn't hurt too much now.He gave me a few painkillers and said: Take it when it hurts.Based on my past experience after glaucoma surgery, I asked the doctor: After glaucoma surgery, don’t you need anti-inflammatory drugs and drugs to lower intraocular pressure?Don't you still need anti-inflammatory injections?The doctor said: The Public Security Hospital has no ophthalmology department, and there is no medicine for eye drops; I will ask the nurse to give you penicillin injections to reduce inflammation.After a while, the nurse came to give me penicillin and a tetracycline ointment for skin diseases.He said: The doctor wants you to apply this ointment to your eyes every 4 hours.I ate a bun for dinner.At night, the surgical incision was in severe pain, and I asked for painkilling injections.The nurse on duty said: The doctor on duty is asleep, you can take painkillers first, and we can talk about it at dawn!There are about 20 patients living in this ward, suffering from different diseases.When the doctor came to check the ward every day, he also asked me if the incision hurt?There is no doctor in charge of me.Because the reform-through-labour hospital does not have equipment such as tonometers, slit lamps, and darkrooms, it cannot measure intraocular pressure, nor can it check the changes in the condition after glaucoma surgery. According to the Party’s policy of “practicing revolutionary humanitarianism in rescuing the dying and healing the wounded,” “reform-through-labour prisoners” can live in social hospitals for surgery if they are sick; question.For example, when I suffered from tuberculosis of the ribs in the Beijing Detention Center, I was accompanied by a manager and had the surgery performed in a hospital in the society.I don’t know which Party policy the Shanxi Labor Reform Hospital forbids me to live in the ophthalmology ward of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shanxi Medical College for glaucoma surgery?Since the doctors at the reform-through-labour hospital knew that there were no medicines for eye drops, why didn’t they ask Dr. Shen to write a prescription after the operation, and send someone to the hospital where Dr. Su eye drops, pilocarpine eye drops, etc.) and tetracycline ointment for skin diseases should be used as a substitute?Is this the attitude of a responsible doctor who saves lives and heals the wounded?Dr. Shen said in the letter, "There is no inspection before the operation, it is the operation."Why didn't you check it before the operation?Because the reform-through-labour hospital does not have equipment such as tonometers, slit lamps, and darkrooms, it does not have the conditions to perform glaucoma surgery, and cannot perform pre-operative examinations.At that time, the leaders of the Taiyuan Public Security Hospital (reform-through-labor hospital) knew that the hospital did not have the conditions for eye surgery, so they informed Dr. Shen to come and perform glaucoma surgery on me.Is this a serious implementation of the party's medical policy on "reform-through-labor prisoners"?Or perfunctory, to deal with errands?I managed the work of the hospital leader, but I was almost blind (only 0.1 vision). 时隔10多年，我之所以不厌其烦地叙述1973年秋至1975年春，我在太原劳改医院治疗青光眼的经过，是希望从中吸取教训，不再使今天的劳改犯人蒙受像我当年蒙受的这种不应有的视力损伤！