Chapter 16 Chapter Fourteen

Ordinarily, Zheng Shaobai should be exposed.An Zhongliang, who was directly related to his rebellious revolution, a witness, and the main messenger of the rebellion, has been arrested, and was detained on death row in Qingpu Prison at that time.An Zhongliang may confess him to the interrogators at any time.But the strange thing is that An Zhongliang didn't confess. Thinking about it afterwards, Zheng Shaobai still felt terribly afraid. If An Zhongliang confessed to him in 1950, then he would not only be expelled from the party, revoked all his positions inside and outside the party, and return to the factory as a worker. A suppressive bullet.Liu Chengzhu, a traitor who joined the Communist Party back then, was suppressed.An old party member surnamed Hao in the Yongkang factory was also suppressed—someone exposed him as a traitor, which led to the arrest and sacrifice of a party member. of the General Assembly.

Mr. An Zhongliang did not confess him.This old Kuomintang member who firmly believed in the Three People's Principles in 1922 was full of hatred for communism and communists from beginning to end. After being arrested, he refused to cooperate with the interrogators.As a result, it goes without saying that the resistance did not bring any benefits to Mr. An, but hastened the physical demise of this Kuomintang member.During the first large-scale suppression of counter-revolutionaries, Mr. An was kidnapped by Wuhuada and taken to Huaying Mountain to be executed.The one who got the benefit was Zheng Shaobai.The truth of his treachery was delayed for five years before being revealed to the world.Five years later, the nationwide large-scale suppression of counter-revolutionary activities had ended, and Zheng Shaobai miraculously escaped substantial punishment.

When An Zhongliang was arrested, he had already joined the "Anti-Aggression Alliance" and served as the director of the Qingpu Anti-Communist National Salvation Committee and the deputy commander of the Anti-Communist National Salvation Guerrilla. armed struggle".An Zhongliang's arrest was accidental. It was caused by a core member of the National Salvation Committee who surrendered himself to the Military Control Commission.At that time, no one thought that An Zhongliang was still lurking in Qingpu, not even Gao Ming.According to Gao Ming's conjecture, An Zhongliang had sufficient reasons and sufficient time to flee to Hong Kong or Taiwan, and staying in Qingpu was unthinkable.

An incredible thing happened. The committee member who surrendered explained all the secret strongholds where An Zhongliang lived in seclusion.The military control committee ordered an overnight operation, and that night An Zhongliang was caught in the warehouse of a grocery store in the eastern district of the city.During the arrest, there was a gun battle. An Zhongliang and five members of the anti-communist guerrilla who were also living in the warehouse of the grocery store opened fire to resist arrest. As a result, three of his members were killed and two were injured, and An Zhongliang was also injured.Three soldiers of the People's Liberation Army who were ordered to arrest An Zhongliang died.

The interrogation of An Zhongliang began the next day.The place of interrogation was first in the ward of Guangren Hospital, and later moved to Qingpu Detention Center and Qingpu Prison.It is said that An Zhongliang did not say a single word during the entire interrogation process, and the interrogation record has always been blank.Gao Ming, who presided over the interrogation, told Zheng Shaobai afterwards: This kind of die-hard counter-revolutionary is very rare, and he is the only one among the hundreds of counter-revolutionaries arrested at the same time.At that time, Zheng Shaobai, who was in a free world, did not know the details of this interrogation, and his heart was terrified to the extreme, and he often had nightmares at night.The most familiar scene in the dream is: Wang Yong and Wang Ling, who he raised alone, under the guidance of An Zhongliang, broke into the house to arrest him.In the dream, Wang Yong and Wang Ling were wearing military uniforms, holding long guns with bayonets in their hands.

At that time, Wang Yong and Wang Ling no longer lived at home.Wang Yong became a family, married a party member female worker of Dongfang Factory, and lived in the dormitory of the factory workers.Wang Ling also fell in love, and lived in the newly built dormitory for single female workers in Daxing Spinning Mill on the pretext of being far away.The brothers and sisters only went home in pairs to have a meal on Saturday or Sunday.Whenever the two brothers and sisters go home, Zheng Shaobai will do his best to entertain them warmly. At the same time, he will also secretly watch their faces, trying to see signs of disaster from their faces.Sometimes, Zheng Shaobai would deliberately express his deep emotion, and take the initiative to talk about their father, Wang Shousong, to test their brothers and sisters' reactions.The result was gratifying, the brother and sister were only grateful to him, never showing the slightest suspicion or mistrust.

Of course, the biggest heart trouble is still Mr. An Zhongliang'an.On the third day after An Zhongliang was arrested, Zheng Shaobai learned the news from the newspaper and was very concerned about the trial of the National Salvation Committee case.He wanted to go to Gao Ming several times, trying to persuade An Zhongliang to confess his guilt through Gao Ming's relationship, and met An Zhongliang in prison.He even thought about what he was going to say to An Zhongliang by heart.He intends to tell An Zhongliang: as long as he shows friendship and loyalty and does not confess him, he promises that he will secretly help and take care of his family members just like how he raised the orphan of Wang Shousong's third brother back then.

Unexpectedly, before Zheng Shaobai went to look for Gao Ming, Gao Ming took the initiative to look for him.The city was preparing to establish a trade union. Gao Ming, who had just taken off his military uniform and became secretary of the Qingpu Municipal Party Committee, presided over the first meeting of the preparatory committee of the Municipal Federation of Trade Unions. Gao Ming asked Zheng Shaobai to be the representative of Dongfang Factory and other members of the preparatory committee. Let's go to a meeting together. Knowing that this was a rare opportunity, Zheng Shaobai went there early in the morning and met Gao Ming as he wished.Gao Ming told him about An Zhongliang's situation without letting him ask first.Gao Ming said that our old friend An Zhongliang was so stubborn and reactionary that he was handcuffed behind the back for three months, with both hands cuffed to pieces, and he refused to speak up or plead guilty.

Gao Ming was very emotional: "Shaobai, in 1925 when the Kuomintang and the Communist Party held a general strike at his home at 125 William Street, I never expected that I would sign and sentence him to death today!" Zheng Shaobai was secretly delighted, but he said: "Yes, Mr. Gao! But... But he deserved it, I think he should have been killed long ago! After the failure of the Great Revolution, how many Communists did he kill?" Later—that is, one month before the announcement of the execution of the first batch of 138 counter-revolutionaries including An Zhongliang, the Qingpu City Federation of Trade Unions was established, and Zheng Shaobai became the vice chairman of the City Federation of Trade Unions as an old worker and party member.

The shooting was carried out at the foot of Huaying Mountain.A public trial meeting of 100,000 people was held in the city.The rostrum of the conference is located at the foot of the mountain not far from the Zhonglie Mausoleum where He Gongcheng is buried.Sitting on the rostrum, you can clearly see the white top of Zhonglie Mausoleum and the stone tablet in front of the tomb. Zheng Shaobai was sitting on the rostrum - not because he wanted to sit on the rostrum, but because the city assigned him to sit there.He is the vice-chairman of the Municipal Federation of Trade Unions, representing the working class on the trial bench, so he can't sit there.Zheng Shaobai went up to sit tremblingly, then hid modestly and sat in an inconspicuous position in the middle of the back row.When An Zhongliang was escorted to the front of the stage by armed men, he "unfortunately" knocked the foreign porcelain teacup lid to the ground, and was bending over to pick up the teacup lid, so he didn't see An Zhongliang's face.Naturally, An Zhongliang would not see him either.He picked up the lid of the teacup, and when he drank tea with the lid of the teacup to filter the tea leaves floating on the water, he saw An Zhongliang's hunched back, the rope and the death sign on his back.All the counter-revolutionaries around An Zhongliang knelt down. Only An Zhongliang did not kneel. The detainees kicked him in the crook of the leg and knocked him down.

This old KMT is really tough. The people who participated in the meeting were very angry. People sitting in the front row stood up and rushed to the rostrum, saying they wanted to kill An Zhongliang.The order of the venue was chaotic for a while, and the armed personnel took a lot of effort to maintain the order somehow.Next, the meeting officially started, and Gao Ming, who presided over the meeting, gave an authoritative speech. Gao Ming waved his hands and said: "...Can we not kill die-hard counter-revolutionaries like An Zhongliang? If we don't kill them, it is a crime against the people! Their hands are stained with the blood of the Communists. Today, we must kill them Repay with blood! For reactionaries like them, revolution does not mean the slightest bit of kindness, kindness is given to the people, not to them, and the best gift that the revolution can give them is merciless suppression!" The suppression began as soon as the conference was over. A burst of "cracking, crackling" gunshots sent 138 lives belonging to the old era to their graves. Yinhong's blood brought an end to Qingpu's turbulent history. Among the 138 people, there is another person Zheng Shaobai is familiar with. He is Liu Chengzhu, the chairman of the Yellow Trade Union of Daxing Spinning Mill.This kid is not as hard-hearted as An Zhongliang, he sucked his pants before being escorted to the execution ground.It is said that he also wrote a lot of reporting materials during his detention.The execution of Lao Hao from the Yongkang Factory as a traitor has something to do with Liu Chengzhu's accusation.Zheng Shaobai felt lucky when he thought about it: Fortunately, the party he joined was the Communist Party, not the Kuomintang; and fortunately, he knew that it was An Zhongliang who rebelled, not Liu Chengzhu, this is really fucking fate!