Chapter 25 Unforgettable guards of the Supreme People's Court

The Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China is located in the north of the middle section of Dongjiaomin Lane (Fandi East Road before Nixon's visit to China), and its back wall is connected to the Ministry of Public Security.The main office building is a small Western-style building facing south, with a tall and lush Chinese pagoda tree planted in front of the building.The compound of the Supreme People's Court (hereinafter referred to as the Supreme Court) is not too big, but the lush vegetation and elegant environment make people feel very comfortable and leisurely. Before January 1975, the president of the Supreme Court was Yang Xiufeng, and then the president was Jiang Hua. In the 1970s, my company experienced two deans when I was guarding the High Law.

The person in charge of guarding the high law is a squad in a certain platoon of my company.The squad lives in a ridge-style bungalow that turns left as soon as you enter the gate of Gaofa. The green windows in the house are wide and bright, and the outside is full of eaves and pillars. The accommodation alone shows Gaofa's care for the guards and soldiers. Affection. There is only one gate post in Gaofa, which is usually a sentry and a squad sentry.The guard duty of the sentinel is to prevent irrelevant personnel from entering the High Court compound, to prevent petitioners from intercepting the vehicles the president takes when entering and exiting the gate, and to review the entry and exit documents of the internal staff of the High Court.In addition to supervising the performance of the sentry and assisting the sentry to deal with problems, the leading sentry also patrols the courtyard at night to ensure the safety of the High Court.Day after day, year after year, week after week, this squad has stood on the sentry post of the High Law for a whole age. Although the squad leader and soldiers have changed a few times, they have dutifully stood on the sentry post of the High Law. The fine tradition has never changed, and the friendly relationship with the comrades of the Supreme Law has not changed.This has become a model of security guards and harmonious guards.

There is also a special task of being a sentinel at the High Court, which is to guide petitioners from all over the country to petition locations.At that time, in order to facilitate petitioners from all over the country to petition, the Supreme People's Court set up a separate courtyard not far from the gate to the west, and there was a sign "Supreme People's Court Petition Reception Room" outside the gate.There are special reception staff to handle various petition cases across the country.However, when many people come to petition, they first go to the Supreme People's Court and ask to go to the Supreme Court to appeal, and many people also ask to see the president.Whenever this happens, the sentry will follow the request of the superior, on the one hand to prevent the petitioners from entering the high court, and on the other hand to point them to the petition reception room to petition.Most of the people went to the reception room after being guided, and a few people finally accepted the guidance of the sentinel after the sentinel painstakingly and tirelessly persuaded them.Over the years, there have been no vicious incidents of petitioners besieging and storming the gate of the Supreme Court.At that time, the Supreme People's Court was the main channel for petitions nationwide, so the Supreme People's Court attached great importance to the work of petitions, and most of them were dealt with in a timely manner in conjunction with localities.However, there are also some difficult and serious cases that cannot be settled in a short period of time. Therefore, these petitioners set up simple tents on a relatively hidden short street leading to the Museum of Chinese Revolutionary History in Dongjiaomin Lane, set up camp, and fought against the scorching heat and cold winter. protracted war.Although the number is small, it truly reflects the hardships of that small group.

In the 1970s, although the ultra-left period of smashing public security laws has passed for a few years, the ideas and practices of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the dictatorship of the masses are still prevailing.So the Supreme People's Court is still not restored to its due importance.At that time, there were less than 40 staff working in the Higher Law.The soldiers in the security class are very familiar with each other, and have forged a profound revolutionary friendship in the long-term common life.The soldiers of the security class not only live in Gaofa, but also eat in Gaofa.Each soldier is handed over to the high law canteen according to the army's food standard (0.55 yuan per day). There are two cooks in the canteen who are responsible for cooking for the high law staff and comrades in the security class.Every day at noon, most of the staff members of the High Court eat in the cafeteria, and in the morning and evening, only the comrades in the security class eat.Whenever I ate dumplings, the two chefs couldn't make them, so I asked the comrades in the security squad to help.Many new fighters have mastered the skill of making dumplings proficiently under the precept and example of the two master chefs.Making dumplings and eating dumplings has become a major platform for the security team and the high law staff to exchange ideas and feelings.Not only ordinary staff members of the High Law and the soldiers of the security squad get along well with each other, but even the leaders of the academy regard the soldiers of the security squad as their own family members.Once, a Henan soldier who enlisted in the army in 1971 had a sudden pain in his stomach. Just as several comrades helped him out of the dormitory and was about to send him to the hospital, the dean Yang Xiufeng happened to come to the gate in a Jim car for work. In this situation, Dean Yang hurriedly got out of the car and asked to take his car to the hospital.At that time, there was a regulation in the army that it was not allowed to ask for or borrow anything from the security organs.The comrades hurriedly said no.Dean Yang saw through everyone's thoughts and said with concern: "When is it? People are so sick, and they talk about this and that. Don't talk about it. It's important to save people. Take a car and go to the hospital."In this way, everyone took the comrade-in-arms to the hospital for treatment in time in Dean Yang's office car, which moved everyone very much.Whenever major festivals such as "May 1", "October" and Spring Festival, the deans of the High Court will go to the security squad to visit everyone and wish comrades a happy holiday.

On the east side of Tiananmen Square, the Supreme People's Court also has a courtyard archives building with a light yellow exterior wall facing east.This archive building is very close to our company headquarters.Whenever major festivals such as "International Labor Day" and "National Day" come, family members who come to the army to visit their relatives flock in crowds, which puts great pressure on the company to arrange the accommodation of family members.In desperation, the leader of the company came to the High Court for help. The leader of the High Court understood the difficulties of the troops and immediately decided to vacate some rooms in the archives building for the urgent use of the troops, which solved my company's urgent need to arrange housing for the family members. At the beginning of 1977, after the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall was built, the small red building where our company headquarters was located was demolished. With the full support of the leaders of the Supreme Court, our company headquarters moved to the archives building of the Supreme Court, which fully embodies the high law and security. The deep friendship of the troops.