Chapter 48 Oppose for the sake of opposing, knock down for the sake of knocking down (1)

In the past, I told everyone that ninety-six of the books I wrote were banned. I am the person who has written the most books that have been banned the most in the history of human beings. As far as the Kuomintang is written down, they have nothing to do with me. The person who banned my book back then, his name was James Soong, participated in the so-called presidential election of the Republic of China, and he was defeated as the "Vice President".He was the head of the Information Bureau when he banned my book.The unit that banned me is not only the Information Bureau, but many other units, but the Information Bureau is an important unit.He came to see me once, and I laughed at him, and I said: Brother Chu Yu, you can't beat us.Although you are the director of the Kuomintang's Wengonghui, and although you are the director of the Information Bureau, you can't beat us when it comes to propaganda.How can you not beat us?I said: I, Li Ao, can say that black is white, and others will believe it, but you, the Kuomintang, will not believe that white is white.That means, even if we turn black and white, we are better than you.Soong Chuyu kept nodding and laughing.

We really have this ability, that is, we are really people who can speak well, write with a pen, and do propaganda.It is actually very safe to engage in propaganda now. Do you know what happened in the past to engage in propaganda and express your freedom of speech?Let me show you a portrait of Hus, the religious leader from the 14th to the 15th century.What are you looking at?Here he is tied up, tied to a post.What are you doing?Burn him with fire.So this Hus was burned, at the age of forty-two.Why?Aren’t you fighting for freedom of speech? Aren’t you going to fight with the Pope? The Pope is the Pope of Rome, and he can deal with you in the end. Even though you are the president of a university, you can still be burned. Burn you to death. .It can be seen how much it cost to fight for freedom of speech at that time.

There was a period of time in Taiwan, and until now, boys who graduated from college were to be reserve officers, that is, you must serve in the army.But being an officer is a bit more difficult now, and there is an exam. Back then (at that time) we would definitely force you to become an officer.So, after I graduated from the history department of National Taiwan University, I became a reserve officer, the eighth batch of reserve officers. This is my officer photo.Everyone look at my uniform photo and be an officer.Please look at my discharge order. This is my discharge order. You can see that I joined the army for 48 years, which was September 9, 1959. My discharge was 50 years, which was February 5, 1961. I became a reserve officer, and I'm a second lieutenant.When I was a reserve officer, because it was a year and a half, the first half year (the first six months) was for enlistment training. After enlistment training, I was assigned to the army as a formal reserve officer second lieutenant platoon leader.

At the end of the half-year military training, the instructors of our school (Army Infantry School) asked everyone to join the Kuomintang.Many people are already (the Kuomintang), but there are a few people who are not yet.His reason was that if you don’t join the Kuomintang, we will distribute you to Quemoy and the front line when we distribute them, facing the mainland and the Communist Party. Why was Kinmen so scary at that time?Because in the first year, there was an artillery battle in Kinmen.During the artillery battle, 57,000 shells were dropped within two hours, and a total of 480,000 shells were fired within 44 days. In other words, these shells hit Taiwan hard to breathe.When the artillery came over for the first time, three deputy commanders of Taiwan were killed on the spot, and the "Minister of Defense" was injured on the spot. It was a very terrifying artillery battle.So the instructor said, if you don't join the Kuomintang, you will be sent to the front, to Kinmen.

All of a sudden everyone was terrified, afraid of going to Kinmen, everyone joined the party one after another, almost all joined the party.I don't want to.The instructor found me and said, "Aren't you afraid of death, Li Ao?" I said, "I'm afraid of death." He said, "Why don't you join the Kuomintang?" Don’t join the KMT.” He said, “You’re joking, do you want to join or not?” I said, “I won’t join, you can send me to the front and I’ll go.” As a result, I didn’t go to Kinmen for distribution on the last day. However, some people who temporarily joined the Kuomintang were sent to Kinmen instead.They are very strange, didn't they say that we will not go to the front after joining the Kuomintang, why are they asking me to go now?Someone was so angry that they tore off the party card—you are deceiving us.The instructor said this for a reason—where is the front line? We need very safe and loyal people on the front line. Li Ao is unreliable, we have concerns about his safety, and he has concerns about the loyalty of our country, so he is in the rear Safer for us.So he doesn't go to you, and it becomes such a joke.

I didn't do well in Taiwan either, so I participated in wave after wave of so-called forward training, which is to train recruits.During the training, I was still in Chiayi in the morning, and walked to Kaohsiung County in the evening. I walked eighty or ninety miles every day.However, I would rather maintain my personal characteristics than join the Kuomintang. This is what I often say, when the country is in chaos and politics is not on the right track, you can’t completely blame the environment and attribute it entirely to the environment, because sometimes you have the right to choose, (see) whether you are willing to choose.I, Li Ao, dare to choose. After I become a reserve officer, there is a 60% chance. For example, I want to sign up for assault training. The battalion commander says you are a reserve officer and you are not allowed to participate.If there is skydiving training, I will sign up for it, but the battalion commander says you are not allowed.What is the reason?He said: Our ordinary old officers will die if they fall down, but your reserve officers will fall to their deaths, we are responsible, so don't go.However, I have never avoided any opportunity to show my bravery. I have never avoided any chance, but I have been able to live well until now, because this is also my luck.I admit that luck is a reason. It can be said that I encountered good luck. However, I was also influenced by a person. Let me tell you that this person is the American writer Hemingway.He is a very brave man.During the Spanish Civil War, he went to participate. When a cannon shot down and the whole house exploded, everyone got under the table, and his brother was still sitting by the table, eating his chicken legs, covered in dirt, and he ate him chicken legs.He is such a brave man.I think he gave me a good inspiration, he made me a brave person.