Chapter 13 Section 3 The river flows eastward without a word

When Fu Sinian was persuading young people from the Institute of History and Philology to join the army, Lin Huiyin, who had not yet recovered from his health, was writing a song called "A Harsh Elegy" In the poem, she attacked those who were corroded by the hard and gloomy life in the rear of the war, so they were shaken and hesitated, and they were jealous when they saw others becoming high-ranking officials and making money in national disasters, and even gave up their academics. A young man who pursues a career, travels to a wealthy family, speculates, flatters, and dreams of being promoted and making a fortune.At the same time, through the damp lattice window, Lin Huiyin seemed to peep into the visible sky, and the dark clouds of civil war floated again.For this reason, she strongly criticized the national government for taking advantage of the patriotic enthusiasm of young intellectuals to trick them into joining the so-called "Youth Army". A dastardly trick of the Civil War to amass new forces. ——For this secret conspiracy of the national government, someone who has seen all directions with his eyes and listened to all directions, and is as clever as Fu Sinian, naturally knows the meaning of it.And the young scholars under him were naturally not confused, they just pretended to be confused and kept silent in the face of this conspiracy.The silent young scholars did not expect that the government's conspiracy of false public benefit was disclosed in the form of poems by Lin Huiyin, another talented woman living in seclusion in a remote town, leaving a magical impression of foresight on the world.According to Liang Congjie’s recollection in his later years: This is the only political poem written by Lin Huiyin in his life. sex".Most of the later facts proved that Lin Huiyin's sharp vision and political sensitivity were correct-of course, the real tragedy was not thought of by Lin Huiyin at the time, and some unexpected episodes were beyond her imagination, such as Wu Jinding's joining the army.Wu Jinding suddenly offered to join the army to fight against Japan a week after Fu Sinian held a call-up meeting.This move surprised colleagues and friends who were familiar with him, but Wu still decided to leave his wife Wang Jiechen in Lizhuang, and quietly went away with the "Youth Army" alone with a backpack-even though he was 43 years old at this time. No longer youth.

As a Ph.D. student studying abroad and an accomplished archaeologist, Wu Jinding became a monk halfway through, leaving a series of unsolved mysteries to future generations, especially historians who study the history of archaeology.Due to the scarcity of remaining materials, and the fact that Wu himself passed away five years after he left Lizhuang, the mood and reasons for his decision to join the army this time are even more confusing.However, since he lived among the intellectuals in Lizhuang, and he was a rather well-known large-scale "sea turtle", he would always leave some sparse traces in the passing years.

On December 23, 1942, Fu Sinian wrote to Ye Qisun, Director-General of the Chongqing Academia Sinica in Lizhuang, discussing the matter of hiring Xia Nai from the Central Museum to the Institute of History and Philology.At that time, Xia Nai was on vacation in his hometown of Wenzhou, and Fu Sinian asked Zeng Zhaoyu, the director-general of the Central Museum, to write to Xia, urging him to return early.In his letter to Ye Qisun, Fu said: 1. Xia Naizhi has a great academic future, and our institute has long intended to hire him.But the museum also attaches great importance to it (Ji Qianqian said, since I want to run a museum, I also want to keep a good one).Last year (thirty years) in January, the museum was in poverty, and my younger brother was in Lizhuang (before his illness), and Ji Zhiyun said, "One can be recruited, from Guo Ziheng to Wang Gujia, according to Ji's intention, you and I look at Xia Nai Best, but it's still up to brother to decide."Jizhi decided to pull Wu Jinding over.

2. In order to plan for the future talent of the archaeological team, we should invite him at present. 3. The funds of the firm are overused.My younger brother has been ill for a long time, so at this time I dare not invite someone with a high salary (if I want to be an associate researcher, the salary should be more than 300), and the travel expenses are huge, which is also a problem. In this case, Brother Qi directly negotiated with Jizhi, I am very grateful! This letter not only showed that both Li Ji and Fu Sinian valued Xia Nai's talent and ability to deal with people, but also revealed that Wu Jinding's transfer from the Central Museum to the Institute of History and Philology was Li Ji's arrangement, not Fu Sinian's original intention.Although both Wu and Fu are from Shandong, and the Wu family has made great contributions to the discovery and excavation of Chengziya, in Fu's mind, Wu's knowledge and handling ability are still not comparable to Xia Nai, a talented scholar from the south of the Yangtze River. mean.Li Ji's mind was different from Fu Sinian's, although Li later said to people more than once: "I think there are two most proud students in archaeology in my life, one is Xia Nai and the other is Zhang Guangzhi (South Press: Zhang Nai) After Li Ji went to Taiwan, he was a student of National Taiwan University).” But at this time, Li Ji still regarded and cultivated the Wu family as his academic successor. The two large-scale field archaeological excavations in the Yongling Mausoleum of Qintai in Chengdu can prove that they were all presided over by Wu Jinding.So, what is Wu's explanation for leaving the Preparatory Office of the Central Museum?It is said that the reason why Li Ji recommended Wu Jinding as the head of the Institute of History and Philology was not because he underestimated Wu, but because he had hoped for it.Since Li Ji served as the director of the Preparatory Office of the Central Museum and the director of the archaeological group of the Institute of History and Philology, he was exhausted physically and mentally, and his research work was greatly affected.Since the time of Kunming, Yunnan, Li has focused his energy on the study of pottery sherds unearthed from the Yin Ruins, and has conducted many experiments with little success.And Wu Jinding is an expert in the study of pottery sherds, and he is very familiar with the unearthed objects in Chengziya and Yin Ruins. He went to the archaeological team of the Institute of History and Philology, just to take over the one that Li Ji couldn't take care of, and continue the research work.As for the artifacts unearthed in Pengshan, young talents such as Zeng Zhaoyi and Zhao Qingfang of the Central Museum have sorted them out.Most of the utensils from the Qintai Yongling Mausoleum in Chengdu, China’s first imperial tomb excavated after the Pengshan Han Tomb, were left in the Sichuan Provincial Museum, and only a small part was transported to Lizhuang [South Press: Spring 1943, Wu Jinding and Wang Wenlin from the Institute of History and Linguistics of the Academia Sinica, together with Wang Tianmu (Zhenduo) from the Preparatory Office of the Central Museum, Mo Zongjiang and Lu Sheng from the China Academy of Construction, and Feng Hanji from the Sichuan Museum, etc. The second phase of archaeological excavation of the legendary "Fuqin Terrace" was completed in September.The unearthed stone statues of Wang Jian, posthumous treasures, jade belts, jade books and other rare cultural relics prove that the "Fuqin Terrace" is the Yongling Mausoleum built by the five generations of former Shu emperor Wang, which has been hard to find for ancient antiquities and archaeologists] .With such an arrangement, although Wu Jinding works in the name of a member of the Institute of History and Philology, he can take both sides into account and work together as a research topic.It's a pity that things are not as simple as Li Ji thought.

Xia Nai accepted the call, hurriedly ended his vacation life, returned to Lizhuang from his hometown in Wenzhou, and assisted Li Ji in further processing and polishing the first draft of "A Brief Introduction to Ancient Stone Tools" written by the Preparatory Office of the Central Museum for the first time in Chongqing for the upcoming public exhibition.During this period, Xia Nai "unceremoniously put forward nearly forty major and minor revisions to the manuscript. Before the manuscript was printed, Li Ji referred to Xia's opinions and accepted many of them to make revisions to the manuscript. It can be seen that the academic friendship between their teachers and students is extraordinary."From this account of Li Ji’s son Li Guangmo, we can see that in addition to the unusual teacher-student friendship between Xia and Li, Xia’s experienced, mature, vigorous and resolute work style and superb ability to handle affairs can also be seen.It is this kind of characteristic that is difficult for others to achieve, which is appreciated by Li Ji and Fu Sinian.And Xia Nai himself was also in the precarious age of 1948. When Fu Sinian went to the United States for medical treatment, he took on the burden of acting as the director of the Institute of History and Language with his young body.

In October 1942, Xia Nai was hired by Fu Sinian and transferred from the Central Museum to the Archaeological Group of the Institute of History and Philology, with the title of associate researcher. In February 1944, Xia Nai, on behalf of the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica, participated in the Northwest Scientific Expedition Group formed with the Preparatory Office of the Central Museum and the Institute of Liberal Arts of Peking University. scientific investigation.Wu Jinding, on behalf of the Preparatory Office of the Central Museum, presided over the excavation of the tomb of King Jian of Yongling, Qintai, Chengdu. It was not until the beginning of 1944 that he was officially transferred from the Preparatory Office of the Central Museum to the archaeological group of the Institute of History and Philology.Unfortunately, due to Fu Sinian's contempt for him, coupled with complex interpersonal relationships in various aspects, Wu was not able to be crowned as an associate researcher like his junior Xia Nai, and only got a "technical" hat to wear on On top of that, in scientific research institutions, researchers belong to the genuine brand, while "technical professionals" are the same as technicians and managers, almost the lowest-level office workers. On October 21, 1942, Fu Sinian clearly stated in the "Work Report" submitted to the Academia Sinica that "the Institute has one director, several researchers and several associate researchers, and the researchers and associate researchers are divided into full-time and part-time. There are several communication researchers... In addition, there are several assistant researchers and assistants, and those who are not researchers include technicians, technicians, technical assistants, administrators, clerks, and secretaries."

At that time, there were 30 official researchers who belonged to the whole historical language. Except for Chen Yinke, who was part-time, the other 29 were all full-time.However, Wu Jinding, a dignified doctor who studied in the UK, is not included in this list. He can only mix with the ranks of second- and third-rate office workers wearing a white leather cap called "Technology" owned by non-researchers.From the perspective of traditional Chinese intellectuals who have always attached importance to the Confucian so-called "those who work hard will rule others, and those who work hard will rule others", no matter how the title of "technical integrity" is concealed and dressed up, the inner gold content and external brilliance cannot be compared. The researcher's "top wear" is on par.

In fact, in terms of salary at that time, the monthly salary of researchers at the Institute of History and Philology was 500 yuan.And "Jizheng" is the highest title among technicians, and the monthly salary is only 400 yuan. This means that Wu Jinding's promotion path has been blocked, and it is impossible to get the same salary as a researcher in his life.Therefore, Wu naturally regarded this treatment as Fu Sinian's deliberate humiliation and contempt for him, which made him dissatisfied with Fu Da and breed resentment.The inherent stubbornness, paranoid character and depression in Shandong people made Wu Jinding gradually have the idea of ​​abandoning his research career, leaving this unpleasant place of right and wrong, and simply walked away.At that time, Wu Jinding was compiling the report on the excavation of the Yongling Mausoleum in Qintai, Chengdu. After much deliberation, he took advantage of the government's decision to enlist educated young people to fight against Japan, and finally made a decision that Fu Sinian, Li Ji and all acquaintances could not have expected. The people repeatedly persuaded them to stay, and with the grief and indignation of "I don't want to keep my master here, I have a place to keep my master", at the end of this year, I carried half of the draft report on the excavation of King Yongling's tomb in Qintai, Chengdu, which I was writing, in the vastness of dawn. In the night, under the wind and snow all over the sky, he embarked on a journey with an uncertain future alone and desolately.

At the beginning of 1945, in accordance with Chiang Kai-shek's order, the youth army, which claimed to be composed of 100,000 intellectuals, was organized into nine divisions after a brief concentration. Executive practical leadership responsibilities.The establishment of the Youth Army opened a wide channel for Jiang Jingguo to step into the high-level military system and take military power. According to the order issued by the National Defense Commission, the divisions and regiments of the recruited youth army were trained in six different regions including Sichuan, Shaanxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Jiangxi, and Fujian.Since January 1, 1945, the educated young people who joined the army in Sichuan Province have been concentrated one after another, and they have taken special vehicles to go to the Lu County Army Camp for reorganization in batches.It was not until the beginning of August that more than 300 soldiers from Tongji University went to the 203rd Division of Lu County for training.At this time, the personality education and military system education of the Chinese army still followed the old routine of the new army in the late Qing Dynasty, that is, Zeng Guofan, who started his career with the help of Xiangyong, plus the "ancestor of the warlord kingdom" and the Japanese mountain prefecture friend's training model.At this time, Chinese literati education, especially higher education, has undergone tremendous changes after the May 4th Movement. Ideas such as democracy and freedom have been integrated into the blood of young students, and have become the ideals and life actions that students pursue. The goal.The two completely different ideology, culture and education methods produced a fierce collision and confrontation between the old-fashioned soldiers and the new generation of student soldiers. This separation and confrontation inevitably laid the groundwork for the personal tragedy of the military students.

As early as 1940, some young students who devoted themselves to the army with patriotic enthusiasm joined the wartime cadre training group organized by the Kuomintang in Qijiang, Chongqing.During this period, some student soldiers began to openly circulate alternative books with communist tendencies, advocating joint resistance against Japan, and clashed with some old-style military officers in terms of thinking and behavior.Faced with this situation, Gui Yongqing, a first-year student in Whampoa and then the head of education of the War Cadres, was furious and forcibly ordered the arrest of hundreds of student soldiers who "rebelled" and "caused troubles". Several so-called leaders who took the lead in causing trouble dug pits and buried them alive. This brutal killing led to the "Qijiang Tragedy" that shocked the whole country.Although Gui Yongqing was dismissed amidst the angry condemnation of the people across the country, he was soon transferred to Germany as a military attache.After that, he successively obtained high positions such as commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang navy, chief of staff of the army, navy and air force, and first-level general.

The so-called 100,000 youth army recruited in the summer and autumn of 1944 also inevitably suffered from this tragic fate.There was a student soldier from Tongji named Huang Kelu. During the training in Luzhou, he witnessed the corruption of the communications battalion commander. , and Mr. Fan Zhongyan, a scholar-bureaucrat who "worry about the world before the world", came forward to stop him, but he was slapped twice on the spot by the other party, and then ordered to knock him down with his fists and feet, and dragged him into a dark room for confinement.Another student from Tongji, named Lan Wenzheng, disobeyed the command of the commander during the training camp, and contradicted it with bold words such as "I am humble and dare not forget to worry about the country".The officer was furious and ordered him to be pulled out of the training ground on the spot and shot on the spot.Xu Yaozu, a student soldier from Tongji Medical College, failed to escape several times because he could not stand the fascist-style military dictatorship and spy rule. Amid repeated loud slaps and wailing from gun butts, he eventually became insane and shouted all day long. .One day, Xu Zuyao's brain suddenly woke up. Recalling the past made him feel painful, so he quietly came to the training ground, picked up a rifle, put the barrel in his mouth, pulled the trigger with his hand, and killed himself.As for the famous "Sea Turtle" Yang Baolin in the recruitment campaign, because of her double-reed heavyweight title of doctor of Western medicine and professor of a famous school, she was appointed as the major instructor of the 203rd Engineering Company of the Youth Army by the chief.Although Yang Zai felt very uncomfortable in the army and was tortured physically and mentally, he finally survived. He neither suffered the bad luck of being dragged out of the playground to perform Fa-rectification on the spot, nor did he suffer from mental disorders.Later, Yang Baolin crossed the sea with the army and went to Taiwan to work in an armored combat vehicle factory under the command of General Jiang Weiguo, a senior who also stayed in Germany.Not long after, Yang suddenly announced that he had disregarded the world of mortals, had forgotten both life and death, and had escaped to a Buddhist monastery. He proclaimed himself the title of "Shi Zidu", and explained Buddhism and Dharma with his professional strength-the principles of engineering mechanics. In the 1980s, the famous Master Shi Zidu passed away in Brazil amidst the Sanskrit chants of "Amitabha" with unfulfilled ideals and the old dream of resisting Japan and rejuvenating the country.It is said that when the former Professor Yang Baolin, Master Shi Zidu passed away, he did not leave behind the title of the poem "Growing old without accomplishing anything" or "A Mix of Sorrows and Joys" like his predecessor Hongyi Master Li Shutong. Instead, he expresses a piece of Buddhist philosophy that he has pondered over his own life experience for many years: "There is no hindrance in the heart. There is no hindrance, so there is no terror. Stay away from reversed dreams, and finally Nirvana." Compared with students and professors of Tongji University such as Lan Wenzheng, Xu Yaozu and Yang Baolin, Wu Jinding is extremely lucky.After he joined the army, he was quickly assigned to the Second Guest House established by the Allied Army in Xinjin, Sichuan, as the director of hospitality, with his proficient English and the title of "Technology" that outsiders could hardly understand. Specially responsible for providing translation, entertainment, tour guide, exchange of foreign currency, etc. for the U.S. Air Force in China. Sometimes they can accompany American soldiers to eat for free. The rare barbecue meat with spicy taste, drinking a few cups of high-quality beer with foam splashing and flowing water, life looks quite chic and comfortable.It's just that Wu Jinding always felt uneasy, and felt "in a hurry, and his physical strength was declining". Whenever he was drunk with the American soldiers, he would return to the dormitory alone with a five-short figure, and took out the half from under the pillow. The "Report on the Excavation of the Tomb of the Former King of Shu in Chengdu", which had not had time to accompany it, was hugged in my arms, weeping bitterly and mourning endlessly. The pace of the war is still moving forward, but the Japanese feel more and more difficult, and the horizon of the Chinese nation once again shines the dawn of hope.Just as Fu Sinian had predicted, the Japanese army suffered huge losses during the six months of continuous combat in order to complete the "Operation Plan No. 1". The situation on the international battlefield changed rapidly.Guarding the outer island chain bases of the Japanese mainland, the aircraft carrier known as the "floating land" by the United States is "divided into pieces" by land, sea and air forces. The crisis of the four islands in Japan has become prominent, and the strategy has to be adjusted hastily, and the main energy is devoted to the more urgent situation in the Pacific battlefield. In order to deal with the fatal blow of the US military to the vital points of the mainland.The Japanese army occupying Dushan in southwestern China became a lone army wandering in foreign lands. They had to abandon Dushan and withdraw from southeast Guizhou.Just as the Japanese military history sighed in summarizing the ultimate failure of "Operation Plan No. 1": "With determination, even though it is difficult to move mountains and fill seas, there will be a day of success. Unfortunately, our army has become the end of its strength and will eventually fail." The news of the victory of China's Anti-Japanese War came one after another. Amidst the chaos and screams, the youth army announced its disbandment in an anti-Japanese manner, leaving no record worth mentioning in the history of the Anti-Japanese War.However, Jiang Jingguo took this opportunity to jump into the senior leadership of the Kuomintang army, laying a solid foundation for his future "big position".With the disintegration of the Youth Army, a large number of aspiring patriotic young people avoided the bad luck of serving as cannon fodder on the battlefield to suppress the Communist Party, and fortunately escaped a catastrophe.There is a saying that secrets can be predicted, but fate cannot be predicted. Now that the era of turmoil and earth-shattering in the vast history has come, and civil war is inevitable, there will always be people who will pay for it, either with blood or life.Just as Lu Xun said of the great era, "the so-called great does not necessarily mean that one can live from it, but also one can die from it... either death or life, this is the great era."When the 100,000 youth army dispersed in 1946, the national government started to recruit the second youth army based on the original military framework, reducing the original 9 divisions to 7 regular divisions.These newly recruited student soldiers have undergone short-term training. As the dark clouds churning in the sky finally intertwined into overwhelming civil war storms, the youth army affiliated to the Nationalist Government was immediately thrown into the battlefield of landslides, tsunamis, and human heads. In the wilderness and wilderness, battles of blood and fire have been fought one after another. ——The final result is: 6 reorganized divisions of the Youth Army were annihilated by the Communist army one after another, thousands of people were killed and tens of thousands were captured.Back then, Lin Huiyin's "Sharp Elegy" unfortunately became an elegy for the lonely souls and grieving ghosts of the youth army.