Chapter 35 Horse Scar (and 1948)

Guangfu worked as a physical education teacher in the county. He was one of the few intellectuals in Maqiao, and he was also the only one in Maqiao who had settled down in the city and was fed by the state. His father was the only important figure in the history of Maqiao.But for a long time, people in Maqiao were reluctant to bring up this big man, and hesitated to talk about his past.I only found out later that the big man was Ma Wenjie, who was screened and rehabilitated by the government in 1982, and the "big bandit" was removed. The hat of "reactionary bureaucrat" gained the status of hero of the uprising.Guangfu became a member of the Standing Committee of the County Political Consultative Conference, and later became the vice chairman of the Political Consultative Conference, which of course had something to do with his father's redress.It was also at this time that I visited Guangfu and learned more or less about the inside story of Ma Wenjie's appointment as KMT county magistrate in 1948.

As I have said, this was in 1982.It was a gloomy and rainy evening in a small tofu shop on River Street—Guangfu opened this small shop when he was not even able to secure a job as a physical education teacher.I recorded his words in a small notebook, and the garden was filled with the sour smell of bean dregs.I suddenly had a feeling: 1948 was not 1948 for me, for the Ma Wenjie I knew.It lags behind and even ferments into a sour taste.In other words, it was actually delayed until this rainy evening in 1982.Just like the bomb that killed the Maqiao Lion, the bomb of the Sino-Japanese War, quietly frozen time in the soil for more than 30 years, and postponed until a bright spring to let out an ancient cry on the child's chest. explode.

What we don't know, we can't say it exists, at least we don't have sufficient reasons to conclude that it exists.Therefore, before 1982, Ma Wenjie's 1948 was nothing to me. In the same way, Ma Wenjie's 1948 and Maqiao people's 1948 were not the 1948 in many history textbooks.The events that constituted this year, the many events and changes in the world that people felt, confirmed, and recalled this year, including the peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in Beiping, the Liaoshen Campaign and the Huaihai Campaign. Ma Wenjie and his staff knew nothing about Erzhi's suggestion, the fierce competition between the Chiang Kai-shek clique and Li Zongren's Gui clique in the Kuomintang, etc.Due to the heavy barriers of the Jiulian Mountains, wars, severe droughts, and other reasons, Maqiao Gong has less and less contact with the outside world.At that time, Maqiao people's understanding of the outside world was limited to the sporadic legends of returning veterans.

Most of these veterans used to follow the regiment commander Ma Wenjie to eat food in the 42nd Army, went to Shandong and Anhui, and later participated in the Battle of Binhu, taking over the defense of the 44th Army.They looked down on the Forty-Fourth Army, which was the Sichuan Army, with the worst discipline, and almost everyone smoked opium. The Japanese army disguised themselves as plainclothes and beat them in.Of course, Tuanzhang Ma also experienced hardships. Once in an ambush in Yuanjiang County, the more than 100 landmines planted were all useless.Those land mines brought over from Shaoyang were smelted into two scoops, and when they exploded loudly, they were undead. There were quite a few Japanese soldiers in the gunpowder smoke, and they continued to rush upwards, quickly killing the Forty-second Army. Divide into pieces.Seeing that the situation was not good, Ma had to order his men to throw all the mountain cannons into the river as soon as possible, and disperse the guerrillas.The Japanese came to transport food, and as long as they were dragged until winter, when the water in the Dongting Lake area dried up, the Japanese ships would not be able to get out, and their task of containment would be completed.

They recalled the situation when Ma Wenjie led them to capture prisoners.A reward of 10,000 yuan was awarded for catching a Japanese soldier.Each company has to capture four prisoners every month, and the company commander will be charged with a major demerit if he fails to complete the task, and the task for the next month will be doubled.If it can't be completed, the company commander will be dismissed, spanked, and engaged in military law.If you go down with three poles, your butt will definitely see blood.There was an unlucky company commander who always had a hole in his ass and hadn't been a good guy for a few days.

They looked for a place to maintain the association and asked for plain clothes and a good citizen certificate, and then made up and went to the enemy-occupied area to sneak attack.Those who are more courageous will bite the Japanese team and grab the "tail".There was a company that was all Miao people in western Hunan, who could melt water, was the bravest, and took the most prisoners, but unfortunately all the company died in an encounter in Huarong County.The few fellow villagers under Ma Tuanzhang seemed to be lucky, and their heads were kept, but every time they captured prisoners, they were either Mongolians or Koreans, not real Japanese products. Although they could barely make a job, there was no bounty.These Maqiao people were often resentful about it when they returned home.they said.Ma Bazi is unreasonable, the Mongolian plow is the biggest, and three or four people stuffed in the sack can't lift it even with the strength of breastfeeding.After suffering such a big loss, why should we drink cold water when they get the bounty?

Ma Scar is Ma Wenjie's nickname. Their audience expressed sympathy in addition to being shocked, yes, yes, Ma Scar is just a stingy man, and he has never seen a gold bracelet for his wife after becoming such a high-ranking official.Once when I went back to my hometown to invite the folks to have a meal, I only chopped five catties of meat in total, and the pot was full of radishes! Their 1948 was full of such topics.That is to say, the outside world in their minds at this time is only the Sichuan army smoking opium, the Shaoyang mines that blow up undead, and the Mongolian stalls in the Japanese army, etc. At best, they have vaguely heard of the third party. They didn't even know what "1948" was, and they never used AD to date the rumors of the Second Changsha Battle."1948" was an unfamiliar word until my association with them.They indicated that the users of that year had the following:

(1) The year of the Great Battle of Changsha. This is clearly a misnomer.Their Changsha battle was a piece of news that was nearly six years late, and they mistook it for 1948.If an outsider didn't know about the Third Changsha Battle and just relied on the words of Maqiao people to grasp the time, the order of history would definitely be disrupted. (2) The year Maogong was the maintenance chairman. This can be right or wrong.Mao Gong was from Maqiao Upper Village, and he did take over the job of someone from Zhangjiafang that year, and it was his turn to be the maintenance chairman, taking charge of eighteen bows from far and near.There is nothing wrong with using this incident to mark 1948.The problem is that people in Maqiao don't know that the Japanese have surrendered long ago, and the maintenance associations established by the Japanese no longer exist in most places, and the certificates of good citizens are no longer required.It’s just that their news is blocked, they still do things according to the old rules, and they still use the name of "maintenance meeting", which may make future generations still confused after hearing it

(3) The year Zhangjiafang bamboo bloomed. There is a piece of good bamboo in Zhangjiafang. In 1948, there was a severe drought and there was no harvest in the field. However, all the bamboos bloomed a kind of white flower and set seeds.People picked the seeds, pounded them to remove the seed shells, and found that the bamboo rice was thick and reddish. After cooking, it was fragrant and tangy, and the taste was similar to that of red japonica rice.After the bamboo blooms, it dies. The nearby people rely on this piece of bamboo to survive the famine. Thanks to their kindness, they call this piece of bamboo "Yizhu".This event left a deep impression on the people of Maqiao, and it was used to record the year.Generally speaking, this method is not wrong, but outsiders generally do not know this paragraph. When checking household registration, when conscription, when applying for school, people born in "the year when Zhangjiafang's bamboo bloomed" and their parents, It takes a lot of effort and gestures to tell outsiders the real age of the person involved.

( 4 ) The year when Guangfu became enlightened in Longjiatan. Enlightenment is the beginning of reading and literacy.Ma Wenjie's family's talent for recovery is not high, and he was fond of playing when he was a child. He studied in a junior elementary school for seven years, and repeated grades again and again, which made him very embarrassed. The time of Enlightenment was pushed back by three years and changed to 1951.If a person who doesn't know the details calculates the time based on Guangfu's resume or Guangfu's statement, the entire history of Maqiao will be shifted backward by three years.Therefore, this is also a very dangerous concept of time.

(5) The year Ma Wenjie recruited. Ma Wenjie's recruiting was a well-known event, well-known and witnessed by all. It is of course very convenient for Maqiao people to use this event to determine the time, and it is the easiest for outsiders to understand. Of course, when it comes to Zhaoan, I can say a few more words here. It was a very tense year.In the twelfth lunar month, many country people are weaving straw mats to send to the county town, preparing to wrap dead bodies.It is said that the poles from Pingjiang surrendered to the provincial army. They took "Peng Mingdonkey" as their commander-in-chief. They claimed to have 10,000 people, and they had three cannons to fight Ma Wenjie and all the poles on both sides of the Luojiang River.Ma Wenjie didn't intend to live anymore, so he distributed his property to everyone and prepared his own coffin.He only made one request to Peng Mingdonkey: Don't fight in the city, lest the common people suffer. It is best to go to the Bainitang downstream of the Luoshui River.Peng called the donkey and didn't listen at all. He cut off the head of the messenger sent by Ma Wenjie and hung it on the bridge outside the east gate of Baisha Town.The country people there dare not cross the bridge on the street, so they have to walk under the bridge. When the news came, all the people in the county ran away with a whoosh.After a while, neither cannons were heard nor Peng called the donkey to suppress the provincial army, but Ma Wenjie issued a notice saying that there would be no more fights.And he also has a new title: county magistrate and temporary commander of the 14th division.When he led people to eat dog meat on Changle Street, people saw that his subordinates were all wearing Chinese military uniforms, and there were a few shiny foreign-style lianzhu guns. In the eyes of later generations, it was a very stupid thing for Ma Wenjie to rely on the Kuomintang in the year when the Kuomintang failed.In this regard, Guangfu repeatedly explained to me that he originally wanted to join the Communist Party, but by mistake, he joined the wrong door.His father spent several years in the army as a soldier, and knew a little bit about the Communist Party. He heard that the Communist Party killed the rich and helped the poor, and was good at fighting, so he didn't feel bad.When he was cornered by the provincial army, he sent his sworn brother Wang Laoyao to find the Communist Party.Wang has a brother-in-law who works as a carpenter in Liuyang and is very close to the Communist Party.Unfortunately, Wang Laoyao ran into a ghost just as he was on the road, and he had a big boil on his back. Herbal medicine was pasted on it, and he slept in the inn for two more days due to the pain.When he arrived in Liuyang, his brother-in-law had just left for Jiangxi. "Two days, that's two days! If Wang Laoyao didn't have a boil at that time, he would have gone as soon as the arrow passed, wouldn't my father have become a Communist Party?" Guangfu took a sip of his wine and said this to me with his eyes wide open. Of course Guangfu has reason to deplore.It was those two short days that changed the fate of Ma Wenjie and more than a hundred people under him, as well as the fate of his recovery.Wang Laoyao failed to find the Communist Party, and was introduced by the owner of a theater troupe in Yueyang to meet an adjutant of the KMT's B-line warlord. The B-line warlord recruited Ma Wenjie, and all the arrangements started from that meeting. It was the end of 1948, when the Kuomintang regime began to collapse on the mainland—it was just that the country people didn't know this in the cold winter.I guess, maybe the B-line warlords knew that the situation was over at that time, and they recruited security everywhere and fired guns everywhere, just wanting to add a little harassment and destruction to the communist army that was about to go south.Or, as disclosed in some historical materials later, the Hunan provincial government at that time belonged to the H-family of the Kuomintang, and there was a gap with the B-group, and the two sides fought constantly. The B department attempts to recruit bandits online on the H department's site, expand its own power, and contain the H department.No matter what, the recruitment and generous support from Department B made Ma Scarzi, a countryman, overjoyed, and gladly accepted the letter of commission, eighty guns, and the momentary peace on both sides of the Luoshui River.He was completely ignorant of the factional disputes within the Kuomintang, and he didn't know the true intentions of the chiefs of the B department (we don't necessarily know all of them now). He begged for peace. When he was drinking and celebrating with his subordinates, he didn't know that this step he took was leading him to hell. 1948 passed away on the dry and exposed sandbar of the Luo River, quietly pushing a huge historical change to the south.But for Ma Scarzi and his subordinates, the year 1948 in their mountain den was not the same as the year 1948 in the briefcases of the B- or H-line warlords of the Kuomintang.This is just like a few years later, when the red county armed brigade used machine guns to launch a surprise attack on dozens of "attempted rioters" under Ma Scarzi. The year 1948 in Shanwozi was also different. This is a misconnection of time.