Chapter 73 Chapter 8 The Eternal Drifting Father

Twenty days after we moved to Taichung, the outside world suddenly changed drastically: the Korean War broke out.President Truman of the United States announced that the Pacific Seventh Fleet will assist in defending Taiwan, deter any attack on Taiwan, and neutralize Taiwan.Then, U.S. naval, air, and ground forces joined the war (Seoul had fallen) to resist North Korea's crossing of the 38th parallel to South Korea.At the end of July, General MacArthur, who was authorized by the United Nations to command the Allied Forces in Asia, visited Taiwan and received a very grand welcome.When he was dismissed and returned to the United States a year later, seven million New Yorkers lined the streets to welcome the greatest American hero of World War II.President Chiang retreated to Taiwan, and after several years of hardship, he was promoted to the partner of the anti-communist allies. Not only did he have security guarantees, but he also began to really want to counterattack.At that time, the population of Taiwan was about 10 million (6.321 million in 1946 according to the statistics of the Civil Affairs Bureau), and the population of the mainland in 1954 was 656.63 million. How to counterattack ?

On August 4 of the same year, Chen Lifu, who had been in charge of the party affairs of the Kuomintang since Nanjing was established as its capital after the Northern Expedition, was ordered to attend the 1950 annual meeting of the World Moral Rehabilitation Society in Switzerland, and then went into self-exile after the meeting.Transferred to the United States to operate a farm in New Jersey to raise chickens (until 1970, he returned to Taiwan for retirement).On the second day after his departure, the Kuomintang Central Reform Committee convened, all the cadres of Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu were eliminated, and replaced by people from the Political Science Department or the Youth League Department. Chen Cheng was elected as the executive president, and Chiang Ching-kuo officially appeared.Responsible for discipline, cadre training and other loyalty and intelligence work.During the process of reviewing the defeat, it was believed that the main reason was the betrayal of the soldiers and the dissatisfaction of the people incited by the Communist Party. It was necessary to launch a dense anti-communist spy network to consolidate President Chiang's leadership.

When I first arrived in Taiwan, the largest organization of colleagues in the Legislative Yuan was the "Innovation Club", with about 170 people (there were more than 30 Northeastern legislators who came to Taiwan), consisting of Chen Lifu, Xiao Zheng, Zhang Daofan, Cheng Tianfang, Gu Zhengding, Shao Hua, Qi Shiying and others convened, advocating democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and freedom, and hoped that the Kuomintang would embark on the road of democratization.After Chen Lifu lived abroad, outsiders joined Chen Cheng's cabinet, members of the reform club who were full-time legislators, and sometimes criticized the administration of the martial law system.

At the end of 1954, Qi Shiying publicly spoke in the Legislative Yuan against the increase in electricity prices to increase military expenditures. President Chiang was furious and expelled him from the party.This incident was a big news at the time. Of course, Taiwan’s reports had some scruples. Hong Kong’s “News World” had a greater international influence. None of the committee members can tolerate it. It can be seen that he wants to become a dictator, and Mr. Jiang cannot tolerate it, not only because of his opposition in the Legislative Yuan, but also because his speeches in "Time and Tide" are rich in international outlook, instilling free thinking and the individualism of the people. Dignity, disrespect for the martial law that ensures Taiwan's security.

On New Year's Day, 1955, the power company complied with the resolution of the Legislative Yuan.Electricity prices increased by thirty-two percent.Of course the Legislative Yuan will pass the electricity price increase case, and the political life of Qi Shiying, who opposed the price increase, is the same as the head of an old revolutionary, beheaded and hung on the city gate! At home, my fifty-five-year-old father reads a book and receives visitors with aplomb, but there are fewer guests.Read more books.When I was in a meeting, I took the bus to work in high spirits in the morning.Laughing at myself, the smaller the house, the bigger the car.For more than ten years, the person monitoring him was "on duty" outside the door, and there were no thieves at home.He had never used his identity to do business, nor had he ever bought property. Fortunately, he still had a legislator's salary, so he was not worried about his family.My mother followed him all her life, living a simple life.

Leaving the Kuomintang in this way was a kind of relief for my father at that time.Since he was 28 years old, he has devoted himself to the party with his aspirations, and devoted himself to the golden years of his life. At that time, he expanded the concept of loving his hometown into a national concept, resisting Japan and saving the country. Who knew that the victory was only three years old, and he lost everything! Understand the unique pain in Northeast China! How can Qi Shiying's ideal in life be fame and fortune in this small Chang'an! However, a gentleman will never give in bad words.He respected Generalissimo Chiang, who led the Anti-Japanese War and persevered to the end, and called him Mr. Jiang throughout his life, and even discussed politics in "Time and Tide".He still cherishes the friendship, loyalty, and demeanor he has had in the political arena for many years.Many of his students from Shenyang Tongze Middle School, Huangpu Military Academy, Political Academy, Police Academy, and Northeast Zhongshan Middle School came to Taiwan, mostly working in education, party, government, and military.My father gathered with Lei Zhen, Xia Taosheng, Li Wanju, Wu Sanlian, Xu Shixian, Guo Yuxin, Gao Yushu and others to form a new party. After Lei Zhen was imprisoned in 1960 for the "Free China" case.Dozens of senior members of the Reform Club of the Legislative Yuan jointly stated publicly, "If Member Qi Shiying is implicated, I cannot remain silent. Please report to the authorities." Perhaps this has protected my father from the catastrophe of prison.Liang Surong, who was only 34 years old at the time, said in his article "Qi Shiying in the Legislative Yuan Period" (see "Mr. Qi Shiying's Interview Record") that this move "expressed the integrity of the comradely love of early political figures, which is unforgettable forever."

Mr. Liang Surong (1920-2004), at the age of 24, secretly joined the Kuomintang in Shenyang, and used the cover of a lawyer to carry out anti-Japanese underground work. He was hunted down by the Japanese and imprisoned. Fortunately, he was released from prison two and a half years later. He was elected as a member of the Legislative Council of Liaobei District.Soon after the fall of the Northeast, he brought his mother and young son to Taiwan with a family of seven. He had the closest relationship with my father and had the greatest political ties.However, he is a person with affection, righteousness and ideals. The most important thing in Chinese and foreign political circles is to serve as the defense lawyer of Lei Zhen's rebellion case; On the defense of freedom and human rights.Write a new page in Taiwan's legal history.Later, he generously served as the defense lawyer of Professor Peng Mingmin, a non-party senior, and assisted Peng to leave Taiwan for the United States.His courage and sentiment to stand up for the rule of law and human rights have demonstrated the strength of an intellectual.It is a pity that Peng Mingmin returned to Taiwan after the founding of the Democratic Progressive Party. Because Liang Surong insisted on the stance of internal political reform under the Kuomintang system, he denied that Liang had effectively assisted him... After the debate on reunification and independence, Liang even became their enemy.

He retired after the term of President of the Legislative Yuan expired.He was already seventy-five years old when he established the "Cross-Strait Peaceful Reunification Association" in his own name, and he had already disregarded personal gains and losses.He is loyal to the political beliefs and friends he has devoted his life to, and it is even more impossible to believe in the Communist Party. He is still running around calling for peace on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, hoping to help build a peaceful world of democracy, freedom, and universal human rights. love.Whether it's his burly body or his sonorous voice, before and after his death, it reminds me of the heroic man who gallops thousands of miles across the wilderness of his hometown, "the sky is blue, the fields are vast, and the wind blows the grass and the grass looks down on the cattle and sheep."

Freezing three feet does not happen in a day. My father's dissatisfaction with Jiang originated from the changes after the victory in the Northeast.The Northeast region is vast, and its history and ethnic background are inseparable from the rise and fall of China over the past two thousand years.Before and after the fall of the Qing Dynasty in the early twentieth century, Russia, which bordered thousands of miles, and Japan, its neighbor across the sea, invaded this land endlessly.Before Japan launched the September 18th Incident in 1931, they knew that Zhang Zuolin and his senior military generals had to be killed before they could invade Northeast China; because Zhang Zuolin established his power and maintained local stability with the "wisdom" that understood the local people's conditions best. For twenty years, he has gathered authority in one body. If he is not dead, the Japanese would not be able to occupy Shenyang, let alone the entire Northeast!

The victory of the Anti-Japanese War came too soon, Mr. Jiang may not have time to think about it, so he appointed Xiong Shihui as the director of Northeast Xingyuan to preside over the overall situation of Northeast reception.Xiong has no general experience and no political structure. Even in the army, he is not even a Confucian general. His highest qualifications are the chairman of Jiangxi Province. He once assisted Jiang Jingguo in suppressing bandits in southern Jiangxi, so he was trusted by the Jiang family.This large piece of territory in the Northeast.He has probably only seen it on the map, and has neither knowledge nor emotion. This hasty or selfish move sowed the seeds of tragedy.

For the traumatic Northeast, at this critical moment, Mr. Jiang's attitude of such a layout made the knowledgeable know that the catastrophe of the Northeast is coming. At the beginning of Xiong Shihui's tenure, he kept alienation from the underground Northeast people who were originally under the command of the Northeast Association of the Central Party Headquarters. The reason was that he did not want to cause misunderstandings by the Russians who took over.In the spring of 1946, Jiang Jingguo sent a private call from Changchun to Mr. Jiang as a special commissioner for Northeast diplomacy, saying that the Northeast party headquarters was unrestrained and that there were anti-communist activities that affected Sino-Russian diplomacy (signed "Er Jing Guokow").Mr. Jiang ordered to the Organization Department that he would be escorted to Laiyu (Chongqing) without restraint, and a telegram was attached.The Organization Department handed it over to my father to "restrain". The underground workers who had followed the Three People's Principles for the past twenty years and resisted Japan in order to restore the country received orders in various distant revolutionary strongholds, completely puzzled; I understand why I was looking forward to the victory, but I watched the old Maozi (Russian) come to his hometown to plunder, even rape, kill and plunder.The old man is gone, but the army sent by the central government has no sympathy for the suffering of the Northeast for many years. "Mr. Qi Shiying's Interview Record" talked about the beginning of the collapse of the Northeast's reception: I think Xiong Shihui is a petty bureaucrat rather than a politician. He is smart, good at playing tricks, and has no understanding of Northeast China.At that time, the troops transferred by the Central Committee to the Northeast were all arrogant soldiers except Sun Liren. Xiong had nothing to do, and Xiong could not cooperate with Du Jinming and Sun Liren.The civil and military officials sent by the central government to the Northeast are extravagant and dissipated. Seeing that the Northeast is too fat, they are corrupt and pervert the law. The army forced them to go their separate ways, and the CCP became big because of this.Lin Biao used the material and civilian power of the Northeast, coupled with the weapons of the Japanese and puppet soldiers captured by the Soviet Army, to form the Fourth Field Army, which fought from the Northeast to Guangzhou and Hainan Island.It is said that until now (1968), Huguang.Many local officials in the area are from the Northeast, and they are all from the Fourth Field Army.It is really sad to say that our people are not used by others.At that time, our party affairs in the Northeast (mainly with underground anti-Japanese work as the core) were doing very well. If these people could be used as a rallying point in the local area, I think the Communist Party would not be able to rise in the Northeast.In the past, the CCP’s organizational strength in Northeast China was negligible. As early as the days of Zhang’s father and son, they were never tolerant of the CCP. Zhang Zuolin once copied the Russian embassy in Beiping and killed Li Dazhao.Even Japan’s occupation of China was anti-communist, and the puppet Manchukuo carried out Japan’s orders... Until we regained the Northeast, the CCP had no power in the Northeast, and then relied on Russia’s support to grow.Of course, Russia's support for the CCP was the main reason for the fall of the Northeast, but the government's improper employment and methods must also be admitted.Especially after victory.People in Northeast China, regardless of gender, age or age, lean toward the central government. As long as the central government gives them some warmth or uses their words, they will be willing to serve the country. " "Warmth" is an important factor in the hearts of Northeast people. It is a place where the weather is cold and people are hot, and it is also a place where loyalty is willing to shed blood.Since Zhang Xueliang's "Xi'an Incident" in 1936, Mr. Jiang did not trust the Northeast people, and appointed Xiong Shihui from Jiangxi to take over the Northeast.The government lacked foresight in managing the Northeast. As a result, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the CCP’s military strength in the Northeast was far superior to that of the national army. From September to November of 1948, in fifty-two days, the Northeast Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army wiped out and reorganized more than 470,000 national troops at a cost of less than 70,000 casualties, and occupied the Northeast.During the battle, the Northeast has entered winter, and the sky is freezing. Wouldn't it confuse the troops from Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan and other places?Victory, the remaining life, shouldn't it be time to return home?They were stationed in the vast and sparsely populated Northeast, and the cold was getting colder every day, the freezing cold to the bone marrow. How often did the fallen soldiers dream of such a day?On the black soil and white snow without roots, there is no tombstone of these soldiers, because they are the "enemy army" of those who seized power. In November 1948, the Northeast was completely occupied. My father called the underground anti-Japanese comrades and asked them to try to get out. They would not be able to survive if they stayed under the CCP’s rule. As a result, most of the comrades still couldn’t get out.The reason is, where will one go after one comes out?how to liveSecond, after the September 18th Incident, everyone fled abroad for 14 years and suffered from homelessness. They finally went home and did not want to wander again. In the past, people in the Northeast felt that they were too far away from home when they crossed the Yellow River. It seems that I will never come back in my life.Three, there is no means of transportation to fly south in remote areas, so even if they are willing, it is difficult to fly.What happened to these people who stayed in their hometown? Before the information was completely cut off, someone wrote a letter saying: "We were born half our lives and died to restore our country. You encouraged us back then. If there is China, there is us. Now you have abandoned us. You Are you at ease?" My father first went to Guangzhou with the Central Committee, and then returned to Chongqing to attend the Legislative Yuan meeting.On November 28, 1949, a meeting of the Central Standing Committee of the Kuomintang was held in Chongqing. Two tables of meals were prepared for the meeting. During the meal, everyone felt very heavy and felt like they were breaking up. They boarded the last plane the next day and flew to Taiwan.When he first came to Taiwan, he was hospitalized with a lung tumor. After the operation, he woke up from a nightmare. In his dream, he saw a blood-dripping head hanging on the city wall and asked him, "Who will take care of my wife and children?" Twenty years of struggle pushed my father from thirty years old to fifty years old. The disillusionment of ideals turned into a full bank of tears, but he insisted that men do not shed tears lightly.After the age of 50, I settled down in Taiwan, and I can finally have a father for sure, and I can reunite with my parents regardless of the weather.Two years before his death, I was hospitalized due to a car accident. When he saw me like a wounded soldier, he couldn't stop crying.Since then, his tear pool has collapsed, and I have understood the weight of each tear in my life.There was great regret and deep pain in the man's tears.