Chapter 17 3. Shocking anecdote: Without him, there would be no "Shajiabang" revolutionary legend

The old man told me a secret that surprised me: "During the Communist Party's resistance war in the south of the Yangtze River, if I hadn't been there, there might not have been the revolutionary model drama 'Shajiabang.'" "What's going on here?" I was really taken aback, because almost people over the age of 30 or 40 like me are too familiar with the play "Shajiabang".Even today, whenever someone asks where I am from, I will proudly and simply say that "Shajiabang" is my home.It's a line in a play, but it does tell my friends clearly and concisely which side I'm from. "Shajiabang" is almost a portrayal of the Communists' revolutionary anti-Japanese war in the south of the Yangtze River. As a true reproduction of history, it has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the Chinese people.However, how could an old landlord be associated with such a representative revolutionary historical drama?

Chen Yuepan smiled faintly, stroked the gray goatee, and said, "It all starts with my ancestors." Only from the mouth of the old man did I know the background of the landlord of the Chen family.As early as the Qianlong period, the first generation of the Chen family in the south of the Yangtze River became rich through hard work in the Dongxiang area of ​​Changshu and became a wealthy local family.By the second generation, they became small landlords.By the third and fourth generations, they were already quite wealthy landlords.The land of their Chen family alone accounts for about 80% of the total land in the area.Chen Yuepan's great-grandfather, Chen Ruoyu, was the fifth generation of the Chen family in Dongxiang, Changshu, Jiangnan.Chen Yuepan told me that many people in the early landlord class in China were very thrifty and industrious tenant farmers when they did not become the exploiting class, or even for a considerable period of time after becoming the exploiting class. They can't even eat, because they are not as diligent and thrifty as those exploiting classes.This phenomenon was not uncommon even before and after liberation.Chen Yuepan's "A Tai" great-grandfather was a powerful person in the local area at that time, but because several generations started by farming, his ancestors had no official positions, and Chen A Tai's generation was also a commoner.At that time, when rich people died, they had to build large tombs and set up stone monuments to pass away.In order to ascend to heaven and be blessed, Chen Yuepan's great-grandfather asked his friend, Yu Hanlin, the father of Shanghai Yu Pingbo, to buy an official from the court.Yu Hanlin had been Zeng Guofan's secretary, so it was easy to do this.Later, after Chen Ruoyu's death, she really went into a big tomb with a stone tablet.Of course, this form is more important to the Chen family because it symbolizes not only the family's ten thousand mu of fertile land, but also a red official hat.Chen Ruoyu had a daughter who married a famous doctor in neighboring Zhitang Township. The youngest son of this famous doctor was Mr. Wang Tuchang, an outstanding Chinese physicist who later became the main contributor to the development of China's atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb and neutron bomb.Chen Yuepan is one year older than Wang Ganchang, but his seniority is a generation younger, because Wang Ganchang's mother and Chen Yuepan's grandfather are brothers and sisters. When I met Wang Ganchang, the father of China's nuclear weapons, in Beijing in 1997, I talked about Chen Yuepan. This master of science still clearly remembered that there was a "Chen talented" relative in his grandmother's family who was about the same age as him.From the Chen family to Chen Yuepan's grandfather's generation began to go downhill.However, although Mr. Chen smoked heavy cigarettes, he liked to read progressive newspapers like Shanghai Shenbao.Due to the influence of his family, Chen Yuepan developed the habit of reading books when he was a child.Once he saw a book of poems written by Bai Juyi, the idyllic poetic mood in it fascinated the young Chen Yuepan.Chen Yuepan himself said that he never left the countryside all his life because he was influenced by the unforgettable artistic conception in Bai Juyi's poems.It can be said that one day into poetry, one will never change to be a poet for life.

Chen Yuepan's father was also a progressive landlord.He sent his son to school but did not let him read the Four Books and Five Classics, but chose a school where he studied Chinese.Chen Yuepan was admitted to Taicang Normal University after studying Chinese for seven years.When the mother heard that the annual tuition fee was 400 yuan, she disagreed with her son going to school.But the son has to go to school no matter what.Coincidentally, Chen Yuepan fell ill because of eating raw chestnuts within half a year of studying far away, and her mother took the opportunity to tell you not to go to school.My son won't listen to it!Later, he was admitted to the Jiangsu Provincial Normal School in Nanjing. This is a public school and there is no tuition fee, so his family no longer objected to him going to school.In five years of university career, Chen Yuepan has seen the big world.After graduation, he returned to his hometown, Heshi Township, Changshu, and became the acting principal of a rural primary school.But the Northern Expedition broke out in the second year. Influenced by the trendy thinking, Chen Yuepan began his vigorous revolutionary career for more than 20 years.Under the name of Xinhua University of Arts, he left his hometown, first went to Suzhou, and then to Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist Government at that time.His public identity in Nanjing is a teacher of Xinjiekou Primary School.For more than five years after this day, Chen Yuepan, as a revolutionary intellectual with a clear stand for struggle, used the pseudonym "Ajizi" to wage a ruthless struggle against the reactionary Kuomintang government, and was once a romantic.He publicly scolded Chiang Kai-shek as a national scum like "you chased away the wild cats, but you still eat me".The secret agents became wary of this "A Jizi" and tried to hunt him down everywhere.Helpless, Chen Yuepan fled back to his hometown in the countryside.At this time, the old father passed away, so he took on the burden of the Chen family and became a landlord and gentry...

Soon, the Anti-Japanese War broke out.The land in the south of the Yangtze River has been reduced to the world of Little Japan.Full of patriotic enthusiasm, Chen Yuepan was unwilling to be a subjugated slave. He used his special status to actively organize the people to fight against Japan.Later, Comrade Ye Fei, a famous general of the New Fourth Army, led his troops to southern Jiangsu to carry out the anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare, and established the famous Jiangnan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Column.Chen Yuepan was a powerful local figure and a progressive patriot, so Ye Fei naturally found him first.

"Mr. Chen, we are a family, we should join hands and fight against the little devil!" When Ye Fei saw the gentle Chen Yuepan for the first time, he happily hugged Chen Yuepan, a Jiangnan talented scholar and rich man, looking extremely excited.Ye Fei was only 26 years old at that time, and he was not familiar with the local situation, so he regarded Chen Yuepan as a very reliable and close comrade-in-arms, and Chen Yuepan had to handle local and on-the-scene matters.The conditions of armed struggle at that time were very difficult, and there were many difficulties that the troops could not overcome.The funding of Jiang Kang's column is a big problem, and Ye Fei's troops have just arrived, and no one recognizes them.

"This is 500 yuan, you can use it first." One day, when Ye Fei was frowning, Chen Yuepan sent his family's inventory to the army. "Old Comrade Chen." Ye Fei was so excited that he didn't know what to say.And his "comrade" made Chen Yuepan, a revolutionary who was born as a landlord, hand over his fiery heart from then on. In the southern Jiangsu area under the white terror, the revolutionary armed struggle was very difficult, and my life was often in danger.Many timid people dare not join the revolution after a few downs.As a well-known local rich man, Chen Yuepan participated in Jiang Kang's revolutionary struggle as always.When the forces of the enemy and ourselves were evenly matched, the Jiang resistance troops led by Ye Fei were ordered to transfer to Jiangbei.Chen Yuepan was originally going to go north with the army, but at this moment, a group of wounded and sick from the New Fourth Army were secretly transferred from the front line to Yangcheng Lake in Changshu.

"Old Chen, you are the most suitable person to help the wounded and sick of the New Fourth Army. The revolution needs you to stay in Jiangnan." Ye Fei rubbed Chen Yuepan's hand affectionately, with infinite expectations. In this way, Chen Yuepan bid farewell to his dear comrades-in-arms and continued to stay in the Changshu area.So there was the later play "Shajiabang". So there are many incomplete parts of the famous play "Shajiabang" - all because Chen Yuepan is an "old landlord". Here it is necessary to explain some background of the play "Shajiabang" to young friends: this play is based on a true story of a group of wounded and sick members of the New Fourth Army who were recuperating locally in Changshu area at that time.

It is said that in May 1939, when the Anti-Japanese War entered a special year, our New Fourth Army, under the command of the Party Central Committee, marched eastward to the south of the Yangtze River and crossed the rippling Yangcheng Lake with a radius of thousands of miles. , with great momentum.The "Jiangnan Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army" led by Ye Fei pierced the heart of the Japanese invaders like a sharp dagger. "Go east! Go east!" The soldiers sang the battle song against the enemy, shaking the land south of the Yangtze River.In September of that year, Ye Fei's troops were ordered to scatter in the West, and left a rear hospital and more than 100 wounded and sick of the New Fourth Army in the villages around Hengjing (later changed to Shajiabang Township) in Yangcheng Lake in Changshu.Hu Zhaohan, the local bandit leader who is entrenched in Yangcheng Lake, is the "commander of straw bag" in the play "Shajiabang"; The army and the people united to fight against the enemy bravely, so there was the documentary literary work "Blood-stained Names-A Documentary of the Struggle of Thirty-six New Fourth Army Wounded and Sick" written by Cui Zuofu, and then there was the Shanghai People's Shanghai Opera Troupe in 1958. Cui Zuofu’s work was adapted into the Shanghai Opera "Ludang Tinder", so there was also the Peking opera "Revolutionary Banxi" "Shajiabang", which was captured by Jiang Qing himself and adapted by the famous old writer Wang Zengqi based on "Ludang Tinder". .

"If Shajiabang's opera could have listened to me tell the truth when it was rehearsed and written, it might be immortal." When Chen Yuepan talked about this well-known classic Beijing opera, it was really surprising that he said it bluntly. . "Shajiabang is a drama for ordinary audiences, but for those of us who directly participated in the struggle against the Japanese invaders and the Kuomintang reactionary army, it was an unforgettable experience and memory." Chen Yuepan shook every The white beard is like combing and pulling a ball of bloody old yarn buried deep in his heart... He elaborated on the real past that constituted the famous opera through the ages with the personal experience of the person involved:

Changshu has Yangcheng Lake, but Changshu did not have the place name "Shajiabang" in the past.Although Changshu did not have the place name "Shajiabang" in the past, there are many villages similar to "Shajiabang" beside Yangcheng Lake.Guo Jianguang is a character in Shajiabang, but there is a real "Guo Jianguang" in the ranks of the New Fourth Army. His real name is Xia Guang.Xia Guang in the New Fourth Army has a name and surname. He is a Hunan native. He was born in Wugang, Hunan in 1909.He participated in the revolution during the Northern Expedition, and entered the Wuchang Central Peasant Movement Institute hosted by Mao Zedong in 1927 to study, and joined the party in the same year.When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, Xia Guang joined the New Fourth Army. He was the first staff officer of the first detachment of the New Fourth Army led by Chen Yi, and the combat staff officer of the sixth regiment of the third detachment. In May 1939, he followed Ye Fei to the Suchang area in the south of the Yangtze River.In August of the same year, our New Fourth Army fought a fierce battle with the Kuomintang's Loyalty and National Salvation Army in Jiangyin. Xia Guangshi was the chief of staff of the Jiangkang Fifth Route Army.Due to continuous fighting and tense times, Xia Guang was exhausted and fell ill.When Jiang's anti-army troops were ordered to retreat westward, Ye Fei ordered him to stay behind the enemy lines for treatment.Xia Guang then handed over all the combat documents to the staff office, disguised himself in plain clothes, and with only one correspondent, passed through the area controlled by the bandit leader Commander Hu and went deep into the enemy's rear. After the rendezvous of the wounded and sick, the prototype life of performing the Shajiabang drama began. In 1940, after Ye Fei led his troops to withdraw westward, the Party Central Committee sent Comrade Tan Zhenlin to southern Jiangsu to carry out the struggle behind enemy lines. Chief of Staff of the Fourth Column of the Military Region.During the War of Liberation, Xia Guang served as the chief of staff of the Central China and East China Military Regions. He participated in important battles such as the Huaihai Campaign, the Battle of Crossing the River, and the liberation of Shanghai.After liberation, he served as the head of several naval academies.It is a pity that due to a wrong handling in 1955, he left the army and was not rehabilitated until after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party. Since then, he has been the head of the Party History Data Collection Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee.

During the "Cultural Revolution" when "Shajiabang" became popular, the prototype of the hero who sang "I want to learn from the green pine on the top of Mount Tai" in the play was locked in the cowshed by the rebels and listened to the play None of the qualifications. Speaking of another protagonist in "Shajiabang", "Sister-in-law Ah Qing", I saw a gleam of light in Chen Yuepan's chaotic eyes.His voice trembled a little, and he said, "Do you know what relationship I have with 'Sister-in-law Ah Qing'?" "What relationship?" I asked, with the curiosity that modern young people have about relationships between men and women. "Hehe, it's up to you as writers to imagine!" Chen Yuepan, who was in her 90s, still retained some romance. "That's really an unusual relationship—" He meaningfully left a dash for others to recall, but what he told me was the real "Sister Chen Qing" in life. "The real 'Sister-in-law Aqing' is called Chen Ermei. We used to call her Ermei. Chen Ermei's home is actually far away from Yangcheng Lake, but her family does open a teahouse, but it is not called 'Chunlai Teahouse', but 'Hanfen Pavilion'. In Changshu Dong Bang Town. The 'Han Fen Pavilion' teahouse opened by the second sister is indeed an underground transportation station. The man of the second sister's family is an underground party member, but the second sister has never known her husband's true identity. The front door of the teahouse of the second sister's house Next to the street, the back door leads to a river, and the river is full of reeds, so the New Fourth Army and General Tan Zhenlin, who succeeded Ye Fei to the south of Jiangsu to command the Anti-Japanese and National Salvation, often meet there. My second sister, my second sister, and her husband Chen Guanlin are all from the village An acquaintance of mine, once I went to "Han Fen Pavilion" to give Tan Zhenlin and the others a sum of money for guns and ammunition. When my second sister was doing business in a teahouse, I asked her when the New Fourth Army and Lin Jun (Tan Zhenlin's pseudonym) would come to her place. , the second sister was so frightened that her legs trembled and said, don’t talk nonsense, there is no such thing as the New Fourth Army and that Lin Jun here. The second sister only knows that I am a well-known enlightened landlord in the local area, but I don’t know that I have been working for the New Fourth Army Yes, that's why I made such a joke. Later, when she saw General Tan Zhenlin holding hands with me, she realized that I was one of my own. The second sister was indeed as clever and witty as the "Sister-in-law Ah Qing" in the play. The wounded and sick of the New Fourth Army held a meeting with the underground party and fought wittily with the enemy. One day in 1941, her man Chen Guanlin was suddenly captured by the Japanese army stationed there. He would rather die than surrender. But, the Japanese devils changed a trick, let him eat three big bowls of rice first, and then picked up a bucket of water for Chen Guanlin to drink. He was pressed to the ground and had people step on his stomach. Chen Guanlin would rather die than surrender. Later, the devils became enraged and took him and 62 wounded and sick of the New Fourth Army to Suzhou Huqiu Mountain, put them in sacks, and stabbed him alive with bayonets. The corpse was wiped out in the wilderness by water... The second sister was greatly stimulated by her husband's sacrifice. The Changshu Underground Party Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to send Chen Ermei to Jiangbei to avoid the enemy's pursuit. Three months later, the second sister was in the underground party again With help, I quietly returned to Changshu from Jiangbei. But the teahouse could no longer be opened. The party organization gave the second sister 200 yuan, hoping that she could start a small business to survive. Because the second sister had to take the two children with her, So the business failed, so she moved from the small town to the countryside, where she lived for decades until she died in 1997 at the age of 83." "After the play "Shajiabang" became famous, several "Sister-in-law Aqing" appeared in Changshu at once. During the "Cultural Revolution", many jokes were made: a local actress who played Mrs. Aqing even called herself She is the real descendant of Mrs. Ah Qing, who said that her mother opened a teahouse back then and also covered the wounded and sick of the New Fourth Army. No one could tell if it was true or not at the time, as long as whoever became famous on stage was the real Mrs. Ah Qing It turned out that the actress was really praised by the military control committee to the sky, but unfortunately she was not self-respecting, slept with several military control committee leaders, and was killed in the end. And Zhen Ahqing's sister-in-law Chen Ermei was labeled a "historical counter-revolutionary element" by the rebels The brand of "Cultural Revolution" is being criticized in the field. Alas, everything has been turned upside down." Chen Yuepan sighed to Tianchang. "Is Hu Chuankui really such an idiot in real life?" I paid special attention to the prototypes of several protagonists in the play. "That's not right!" Chen Yuepan's eyes widened immediately, and she shook her head repeatedly, saying, "That's a play. The bandit commander Hu Chuankui in the play has a fat head and big ears, and is a real idiot, but 'Shajiabang' The historical commander of the Kuomintang's "Loyalty and Nation Salvation Army" was even more cunning than Diao Deyi. Commander Hu's real name was Hu Zhaohan. Coincidentally, both he and Guo Jianguang's prototype, Xia Guang, were from Hunan. Hu Zhaohan was born as a soldier in 1926 After the Japanese occupied Shanghai, Hu Zhaohan's troops were defeated and scattered. Hu Zhaohan later led a group of defeated soldiers to flee to the Yangcheng Lake area for shelter. At that time, the Suchang area was in a political vacuum, and various The bandit forces surged, and Hu Zhaohan was taken in by the first security chief and hired as the captain of the local security. Over time, Hu Zhaohan, who was born as a soldier, won many victories in the fights with the local wild bandits, so his reputation rose and he became one of the dozens of local police officers. In addition, Hu Zhaohan was violent by nature and colluded with the Kuomintang, and later served as the commander of the Beijing-Shanghai Action Corps of the Three Youth League. In the spring of 1939, the New Fourth Army marched eastward to the south of the Yangtze River, attacked Hongqiao Airport, and destroyed dozens of enemy planes. Megatron. The scheming Hu Zhaohan saw that the situation had changed, so he stepped on two boats, hurriedly formed an alliance with the New Fourth Army, and accepted the incorporation of the Jiangnan Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army. But Hu also had unexpected things. In 1939, Ye Fei’s troops He was ordered to withdraw to the west, but Hu Zhaohan's team was dragged away. Hu was so angry that he scolded the New Fourth Army every day for making him a big fool, and shied away from staying in the south of the Yangtze River due to his illness. After Ye Fei led the troops away, Hu Zhaohan couldn't sit still. They settled down, and began to recruit some local remnants, and reorganized a small team of forty or fifty people, who served as their own commander, and mainly fled around Yangcheng Lake. Soon, the New Fourth Army team led by Xia Guang as the commander of the "Jiang Kang" East Road Troop came to Changshu Later, in order to implement the party’s united front policy and actively strive for Hu Zhaohan’s continued resistance against Japan, he decided to appoint Hu Zhaohan as the deputy commander of the East Route Army of the New Fourth Army. But this time Hu Zhaohan became more cunning. He thought that the Communist Party of the New Fourth Army wanted my team Well, well, I will not let you be included, and I don’t want any deputy commander. In this way, Xia Guang wrote to him many times, but Hu just ignored him. When Xia Guang and the others were in trouble, one day I knew After finding out the whereabouts of Hu Zhaohan, I reported to Xia Guang. I learned from a friend that Hu Zhaohan married a concubine in Chedu on the north bank of Yangcheng Lake, so he often went there. The Communist Party urgently needs to work together to build a united front against Japan and save the country. Hu Zhaohan was doing work face to face, so he attached great importance to the information I provided. Comrade Xia Guang immediately led his troops to Chedu. As soon as the troops arrived at Chedu, Xia Guang and his deputy commander Yang Haolu went to look around the lake and saw a very beautiful The canopy boat was sailing towards the shore. The villagers in the village said that this was Hu Zhaohan’s boat. Xia Guang was very happy when he heard it, and it could be said that it was Hu Zhaohan on board. First he called out the 'Deputy Commander', and before Hu Zhaohan didn't know what was going on, he became the 'Deputy Commander' of the 'Jiang Kang' East Road Force. there are countlessI was reluctant, but at that time, resistance to Japan was a national event. Who would dare to publicly say that I did not want to resist Japan?Due to this reason, Hu Zhaohan had no choice but to pretend to be dumbfounded, and accepted the New Fourth Army's Jiangkang Command's order to unite the troops to fight against Japan.Out of consideration for the United Front and the Anti-Japanese War, Xia Guang proposed that the New Fourth Army led by him and Hu Zhaohan's troops hold a party the next day.The next day, the banks of Yangcheng Lake were full of joy and laughter.The New Fourth Army specially sent two pigs and other comfort items to Hu Zhaohan's team.When Hu Zhaohan saw Xia Guang and the others exalting him so much, he felt complacent, and assumed the posture of a deputy commander, as if he was on an equal footing with the Communist Party of the New Fourth Army.But what is different from the idiot commander in the play is that this "Loyalty and National Salvation Army" Commander Hu is very cunning. After 1940, when the anti-Japanese situation was extremely unfavorable to the Chinese Communists, he began to defect to the Kuomintang and continued to attack the rear of the New Fourth Army. The wounded and sick in the hospital, in the summer of the same year, Hu Zhaohan colluded with the Japanese devils and launched a surprise attack on our New Fourth Army in Luxiang Village, Wu County, causing more than 110 New Fourth Army soldiers casualties in Xia Guang's army, and buried more than ten wounded New Fourth Army soldiers alive. They burned, killed and looted for several days, and shot and killed 36 progressive anti-Japanese youths and fishermen, committing a bloody crime.Since then, Hu Zhaohan has been known as the "killer devil" in the Yangcheng Lake area. In April 1949, when the People's Liberation Army marched south across the river, Hu Zhaohan fled everywhere like a stray dog, and finally hid in the reed marshes thousands of miles away in Yangcheng Lake.Relying on his superiority in the water, he managed to escape the pursuit of the People's Liberation Army on the water several times.Jiangnan was liberated, but the great bandit Hu Zhaohan never fell into the hands of the people, and continued to cause harm to the people and the new regime.Just after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the police officers of the Xiangcheng Public Security Bureau in Wu County accepted the special task of hunting down Hu Zhaohan's remnants. Bao Zhenjia, the director of the bureau, personally led seven capable comrades from the bureau to disguise themselves as fishermen, and started hunting Hu Zhaohan thousands of miles away.At that time, Hu Zhaohan had just been liberated, and Hu Zhaohan's influence was not small. He had several bandit brigades under him, and his whereabouts were secretive.Later, Director Bao and the others learned from a bandit leader who had been the captain of a large brigade under Hu Zhaohan that Hu Zhaohan had a concubine who was still in contact with Hu, so they quickly took measures to find the woman. , Said that Hu had a cloth shop in Pudong, Shanghai as his secret transportation station.And this Pudong secret traffic station was arranged for Hu Zhaohan by Wang Qun, the prototype of Diao Deyi in the play "Shajiabang".At that time, Shanghai Pudong was like a wild beach that no one would pay attention to. It happened to be used by Hu Zhaohan and his gang of Kuomintang remnants.But what Hu Zhaohan didn't expect was that the Communist Party's public security officers would chase him so quickly to Pudong, which he thought was 'absolutely safe'.It is said that the scene of chasing Hu Zhaohan was particularly thrilling, and the public security department organized two echelons to attack.As a result, Hu Zhaohan and his remnants were caught off guard. On November 28, 1950, the Suzhou Administrative District People's Court sentenced Hu Zhaohan and his chief of staff Zhengqun to death, and they were taken to the execution ground for execution by shooting. " "It seems that Commander Hu in history has more dramatic effect than Commander Hu in the play!" I couldn't help sighing. "Wild gulls suddenly cry in the spring mist and green, and the clear waves reflect the reflection of the distant boat. I only love water villages in my life, and the wind and moon are everywhere in Luwan." I don't want the old man to sing a poem alone in 9 years. When I asked who wrote this poem, Chen Yuepan stroked his goatee and laughed: "Old man." He said that he made it for a fisherman brother named Hong Sheng in the production team more than 30 years ago, but it is a pity that "brother Hong Sheng" who is more than 20 years younger than him "He passed away the year before last.Life is like a play, and sometimes more dramatic than a play.Chen Yuepan has been like this all his life. After the New Fourth Army entered the area of ​​Changshu and Yangcheng Lake, the Japanese devils and the KMT capitulators brutally suppressed the local people, especially the bloody suppression of the New Fourth Army and other anti-Japanese progressive forces.The "Jiang Kang" troops led by Xia Guang were not allowed to operate openly, so they had to hide in Tibet all day long and carry out limited resistance struggles.Due to the enemy's blockade, ammunition and medicine for the New Fourth Army and the wounded and sick were also difficult to obtain.Tan Zhenlin and Xia Guang approached Chen Yuepan many times and asked him to come forward to help solve the above problems.So Chen Yuepan had to show his face in the enemy's rear all day long, and almost in a few days he would go to the teahouse of "Sister Ah Qing" to meet with the Communists at the underground transportation station and deliver the purchased ammunition and medical supplies.What's interesting is that many comrades in the Communist Party thought that Chen Yuepan, a big landlord, was also an important leader of the party.But when I inquired carefully that Chen Lian was not a party member, I found it very strange.For this reason, Chen Yuepan approached Ye Fei and Tan Zhenlin successively to discuss the matter, hoping that he could join the Chinese Communist Party.But both Ye Fei and Tan Zhenlin wanted him to stay outside the party, saying that it would be easier to work for the revolution that way. "Our party organization is very clear about your situation. You are our own comrades. It doesn't matter whether you join the party or not. But the current revolutionary situation is very complicated. If you don't join the organization, you can do things for the revolution, so don't worry about it." Tan Zhenlin said more clearly.What else is there to say, Chen Yuepan has always demanded himself according to the comrade standards in the party, so in the cruel struggle against the enemy, he never thought that he was not a member of the revolutionary team. Working selflessly at the forefront of the harsh struggle. However, it was his selfless devotion that the enemy quickly noticed him.After a period of secret tracking, the Japanese devils and puppet soldiers mistakenly believed that Chen Yuepan was the leader of the Jiangnan Communist Party they had dreamed of capturing.Helpless, Chen Yuepan had to flee to Shanghai temporarily.In the ten-mile foreign market, Chen Yuepan has many literary friends from the past, as well as classmates who have held a lot of power and are doing nothing under the Japanese rule.But Chen Yuepan was different from those who were literary friends or classmates. He always pretended in his heart to those comrades of the New Fourth Army and the wounded and sick in the reed marsh.So after staying in Shanghai for less than half a year, he urgently requested to return to his hometown in Changshu.This time he brought back a classmate, Xiong Jiandong, who later became a powerful figure of the Kuomintang in Shanghai.This person was born in the army and has a violent nature.After the Japanese occupied Shanghai, Xiong Jiandong couldn't stay in Shanghai anymore, so he followed Chen Yue to the countryside.But when he saw the Japanese, he became bloody. He dragged the Japanese businessmen who were doing business in Changshu into the wild several times and killed them. "You hate the Japanese, I am the same as you, but we can't take such a method, it's too cruel!" Chen Yuepan said. Xiong Jiandong burst out laughing, "Yuepan, yuepan, by nature is literary and literary, so I can only be a moonpan enslaved for the rest of my life." "Fifty or sixty years ago, I didn't pay attention to the words of my classmates and schoolmates. I didn't want to be hit by his words later. Alas, man, it turned out that it was just a momentary idea or inspiration that your parents gave you a name, but Many people are really destined for life because of a name. I am. One word a month, one disk, fate seems to be destined to be in the hands of others forever..." Chen Yuepan couldn't help feeling a lot of emotion when talking about the past.Xiong Jiandong was so murderous that he couldn't stay in the country for a long time. Chen Yuepan had to send him back to Shanghai and persuade him to find another way out. Later, he helped Xiong get in touch with the Kuomintang, so that this "wild horse" had a better life. home.After a period of tug-of-war between the enemy and ourselves, our "Jiang Kang" team has passed the most difficult period.The New Fourth Army's struggle behind enemy lines was in a stalemate.At this time, according to the instructions of the Jiangnan Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Changshu area was preparing to establish its own government organization.When the Jiangnan Special Committee was researching the candidates for Changshu county magistrate, it first thought of Chen Yuepan. "Old Chen has the public identity of an enlightened landlord, has a high level of education, and is an influential figure in the local area. He is none other than him." The comrade in charge of the Jiangnan Special Committee commented. "Under the current very complicated conditions of the struggle between the enemy and ourselves, it is appropriate for someone like Chen Yuepan to come forward as the head of our own government." Comrades from the special committee agreed. But what the Jiangnan Special Committee did not expect was that this decision would spread to the underground party organization in Changshu. When the organization asked Chen Yuepan himself for advice, he himself first denied it: "No, no, no, I am not even a member of the Communist Party. How can I be a member of the Communist Party?" What about the county magistrate? No, you must find a strong leader of 'Jiang Kang' to take up this post." Due to Chen Yuepan's repeated refusals, the Jiangnan Special Committee of the Communist Party of China finally had to choose another commander of the "People's Anti-Japanese War".Speaking of Ren Tianshi, Chen Yuepan couldn't help crying, which I didn't expect. "It's been more than 50 years, but it seems like yesterday." Chen Yuepan wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with trembling hands, and said, "Ren Tianshi is the most remarkable hero in our modern revolutionary history in Changshu. He is "Chen Tianmin", the secretary of the county party committee in the "Shajiabang" play who sent information to the "Chunlai Teahouse" as a Chinese medicine doctor. I dictated that the author of "Shajiabang" said that "Chen Tianmin" in the play is the photo. Ren Tianshi’s name was moved over. Chen and Ren’s pronunciation are similar, and the word Tian in the middle has not been changed. Chen Tianmin’s “Min” implies the word “Min” of Ren Tianshi’s “Min Kang” Commander. Ren Tianshi is a native of Meilitangqiao, Changshu. .Born in a family of traditional Chinese medicine in 1913. After graduating from junior high school, Ren Tianshi went home to study medicine. After September 18, he was progressive in thinking and actively participated in the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement. Since then, we radicals have often been together Meet. In 1932, Ren Tianshi was admitted to the China College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Shanghai. Three years later, after completing his studies, he returned to his hometown and opened a clinic in Changshu. At this time, he met Li Jianmo, the leader of the underground party in Changshu. After reading many progressive books on Marxism-Leninism, Ren Tianshi embarked on the road of revolution. At the beginning of 1937, Ren Tianshi joined the Changshu People’s Anti-Japanese National Salvation Armed Self-Defense Association organized by the underground party of the Communist Party of China. After the fall of Changshu in 1937, Ren Tianshi began his professional revolutionary career. The enemy launched an underground armed struggle. In the following year, Zhao Bohua, the former head of the Red Army, returned to Changshu. Ren Tianshi and Zhao held a training class for revolutionary armed military backbones. Soon, the first armed force controlled by the Communists in Changshu was established, referred to as '' Ren Tianshi served as the person in charge. After the New Fourth Army "Jiang Kang" led by Ye Fei came to southern Jiangsu in 1939, Ren Tianshi's "Min Kang" and "Jiang Kang" joined forces, and the two revolutionary armed forces dealt a heavy blow to the enemy. Arrogant. Ren Tianshi's reputation also spread locally and became a well-known hero. In 1940, Ren Tianshi was already the secretary of the Changshu County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China. The post of county magistrate. Under his leadership, the people of Changshu fought arduously against the enemy in the Yangcheng Lake area, especially Xia Guang and his team of wounded and sick from the New Fourth Army. Ren Tianshi cooperated firmly with us, and the team of the wounded and sick of the New Fourth Army could not last until the moment of victory of the revolution.” This memory of the "Old Landlord" gave me a lot of associations with the play "Shajiabang": "Chen-Tian-Min, the image of the underground leader of our party can be Ren Tianshi's, but I don't think so. There is another association, did the author also consider your role in the Changshu Anti-Japanese War, so he used your Chen surname in front of the name of the leader of the underground work?" Chen Yuepan was shocked when she heard that, and waved her hands again and again and said: "No, no, no. From the time I wrote "Ludang Tinder" to the later Peking Opera "Shajiabang", I have been a hated landlord and director for ten or twenty years. How could anyone dare to risk the disgrace of the world and set up a monument for a landlord and bully?" After listening to the old man's explanation, I had no choice but to laugh at myself, thinking that this was for sure.But I still hope that some of my guesses may be right, because I understand the unique writing psychology of some Chinese literati.When Wang Zengqi was alive, I asked him how the names of the characters in "Shajiabang" came out. He said that most of them were composed according to the national heroes during the War of Resistance in Changshu. Li Si's name, in short, don't look at Mrs. Aqing, Guo Jianguang, etc. Anyone who knows the inside story will know who it is about. According to my interviews later when I went back to my hometown, I learned that during the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chen Yuepan’s influence in Changshu was comparable to that of Ren Tianshi. Chen was a well-known figure to the public, and Ren was a hero in the hearts of the people. contribute.The problem is that due to the qualitative changes in the later society, the two characters were completely separated locally.Ren Tianshi was later re-elected as secretary of the Jinghu Road Central County Party Committee after the end of the Anti-Japanese War. In September 1946, he was also a member of the Standing Committee of the Ten Prefectural Committees in East China and Minister of Social Affairs. In 1947, the Ten Prefectural Committee organs were moved to Shanghai.As soon as Ren Tianshi arrived in downtown Shanghai, he was informed and arrested by the Kuomintang.Ren Tianshi in prison would rather die than surrender, and launched a resolute struggle with the Kuomintang.In 1948, before the dawn of New China, Ren Tianshi died bravely in Yuhuatai, Nanjing. But the situation of the living Chen Yuepan was quite different. During the most intense years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chen Yuepan, with his own unique identity, fought an equally important struggle with Ren Tianshi and the others.He used his public identity many times to rescue dozens of wounded and sick of the New Fourth Army and underground workers of the party.What Chen Yuepan is most proud of is that he sent guns and bought medicines for the 36 wounded and sick in "Shajiabang" and the New Fourth Army in the rear hospital that later became a drama.Chen Yuepan said that when "Guo Jianguang" (Xia Guang) approached him for the first time, he asked "Do you have a gun?"He then told "Guo Jianguang", "You should ask, 'Does Changshu have guns'? Because Changshu has guns to mobilize the people to fight against the Japanese and defend their country."Chen said that after that meeting, "Guo Jianguang" (Xia Guang) often came to him, and whenever the wounded and sick had any difficulties, they would come to Chen Yuepan for help.For this reason, Chen Yuepan said that of the more than 1,000 acres of farmland left to him by his ancestors, only 300 acres were left by the time of liberation. Sold. The wounded and sick of the New Fourth Army in the play "Shajiabang" experienced a harsh struggle against the Japanese devils and the "Loyalty and National Salvation Army" of the Kuomintang.In history, the wounded and sick team of the New Fourth Army in the Yangcheng Lake area did have a more brutal and arduous struggle than in the play, especially when the team first came to "Shajiabang", they were unfamiliar with the place, and most of the wounded and sick were from southern Fujian. Several of them were Red Army soldiers.After the "Jiang Kang" regular troops led by Ye Fei and Tan Zhenlin were deployed in the West, Xia Guang's team of more than 100 people, including medical staff, lacked the necessary weapons and equipment and was extremely unfamiliar with the local conditions. He was repeatedly attacked by the enemy, and dozens of comrades died heroically. "We must build our own armed forces!" Comrade Xia Guang, who has experienced many battles, knows this very well, so under his auspices, a special agent company was quickly organized in the rear hospital recuperating.On the one hand, he is responsible for protecting the seriously ill patients in the rear hospital, and on the other hand, he uses his rich combat experience to start a tit-for-tat armed struggle with the enemy.He fought many battles with the Japanese devils and Hu Zhaohan's "Loyalty and National Salvation Army", and won victories in battles such as "Shajiabang Victory", "Yanggou Bridge Battle" and "Baziqiao Encirclement and Annihilation", which made the New Fourth Army shocking all directions.In particular, the New Fourth Army team cooperated closely with the local people, took advantage of the natural advantages of the water surface around Yangcheng Lake, severely attacked the enemy, and wrote a series of touching hymns, leaving a moving prototype of historical life for the production of the "Shajiabang" drama in the future. . During the 8-year Anti-Japanese War, the New Fourth Army created a glorious song in the history of our army’s Anti-Japanese War in the rear hospital around Yangcheng Lake.For a patriotic revolutionary, Chen Yuepan always thought that this was the proudest period of his life.During those eight years, Chen Yuepan changed from a radical literati holding a pen to a "semi-professional revolutionary" and became a famous local figure.He betrayed his family for this, and won the trust of the party and the support of the people.However, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Yuepanwan did not expect that his fate would change dramatically. In the days when the Japanese raised their hands and surrendered, the Jiangnan Special Committee of the Communist Party of China and the New Fourth Army retreated to the liberated areas north of the Yangtze River in order to follow the instructions of the Party Central Committee to prevent civil war, and southern Jiangsu became the Kuomintang's world again.Originally, Chen Yuepan was planning to withdraw northward with the army, but at that time a leader of the underground party surnamed Zhong found Chen Yuepan.The leader of the underground party surnamed Zhong was once a student of Chen Yuepan. His earnest request made Chen Yuepan give up his wish to go north with the Communist Party.History is so ruthless, Chen Yuepan's going and staying made his fate in this life have two completely different writing styles. "Today, the Jiang family dynasty is dying, but the Kuomintang reactionaries are trying to take advantage of the dangers of the Yangtze River to delay our great goal of liberating the whole of China. Therefore, the party instructed us to do a good job in the revolutionary work behind enemy lines and prepare to welcome the People's Liberation Army to cross the river. The Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao He pointed out that the most important task of our work in the enemy's rear area is to win the enemy's internal countermeasures. Mr. Chen, you are a person of status. Many of your former classmates and alumni are high-ranking officials in the Kuomintang army. I heard that the strength of the Kuomintang army in Shanghai The faction Xiong Jiandong is your classmate, isn't it?" The head of the underground party surnamed Zhong found Chen Yuepan again. "Yes, Xiong Jiandong and I are not only classmates, but I also saved his life under the hands of the Japanese." Chen Yuepan said. "Great. This will make it easier for you to go to the Bear Department to instigate rebellion for our party. How about it, is there any difficulty?" "No. As long as it is beneficial to the revolutionary cause, I will try my best to complete it." In this way, after entering the Great Liberation War, Chen Yuepan enthusiastically devoted himself to the work of instigating rebellion against the Kuomintang army for our party and our army. Chen Yuepan came to Shanghai again. "Okay Brother Yuepan, it's just right for you to come. Grandma doesn't know what to do with her life. It's great that you can help me out. Grandma Ri's Kuomintang government is getting worse and worse. In the future, we will I don't know how to play these people's rear. Sigh!" Xiong Jiandong was really overjoyed to see his old friend vote for him.After thinking for a while, he called the adjutant to make a record: "From now on, this Mr. Chen is my private secretary. He can participate in some important meetings and decisions of our department. To make Mr. Chen, no, it should be Mr. Chen now." The life and work of the secretary are well arranged, and there is no room for neglect." "Yes." The adjutant said respectfully. Needless to say, with Xiong Jiandong's influence in Shanghai and his life-and-death acquaintance in the past, Chen Yuepan's work in the Xiong Department went very smoothly.In addition, due to our army's frequent victories in various battlefields, Xiong Jiandong was full of contradictions and anxiety, and he talked heart-to-heart with Chen Yuepan from time to time.Chen Yuepan took the opportunity to instill in Xiong the policies of the Communist Party and the future of China.However, while Chen Yuepan continued to do work to Xiong as his friend, Chiang Kai-shek, who was in Nanjing, never let go of his efforts to win over Xiong Jiandong.Once when Xiong came back from Nanjing, Chen Yuepan found that he was uncharacteristically silent and didn't talk to anyone. What worried Chen Yuepan was that in the past, Xiong would take the initiative to confide to Chen Yuepan about everything, but this time he didn't reveal anything.Chen Yuepan thought that the situation might have changed.Sure enough, it didn't take long for him to know the inside story. It turned out that in order to win over Xiong Jiandong, Chiang Kai-shek promised to make Xiong the governor of Zhejiang Province, and secretly gave Xiong a lot of money.From then on, it was very difficult for Xiong Jiandong, who was obsessed with ghosts, to listen to Chen Yuepan's words.One day, as soon as Chen Yuepan lay down, an officer who successfully instigated Chen Yuepan's rebellion came to report to him, saying that Xiong Jiandong would lead his troops to the riverside in the middle of the night to face the People's Liberation Army.After hearing this, Chen Yuepan's heart was on fire, and he immediately went to knock on Xiong Jiandong's door.Xiong Jiandong just didn't open the door, and ordered the guards to take Chen Yuepan away.Xiong Jiandong refused to listen to the advice of his classmates and friends, and as a result he was defeated. Xiong Jiandong, who has always been victorious, knew that he had no face to confess to his master Chiang Kai-shek, so he shot himself. When the news came, Chen Yuepan blamed himself for not fulfilling the tasks entrusted by the Communist Party, nor persuading his classmates well, so that they ended up as dead bodies. He was extremely depressed, and in a fit of anger, he returned to his hometown. Show your face. "I know I don't have much talent, but I have a lot of self-esteem. I hope to have a satisfactory result in everything I do, but God will not help me. After I failed to instigate Xiong Jiandong, I always felt that I was sorry for the Communist Party and the revolutionary cause, so In a fit of anger, I didn’t want to make trouble anymore. I ended my revolutionary career for ten or twenty years, because the failure of my work to instigate Xiong Jiandong’s work really stimulated me too much. I thought I was completely sure, but on the other hand, I also had a plan. Once the instigation succeeds, I plan to formally join the Communist Party, and I have already discussed with my schoolmates who are leaders of a certain level in the revolutionary ranks. I plan to go to Beijing to meet Comrade Zhou Enlai, whom I have always admired. But the incident with Xiong Jiandong severely damaged my self-esteem. It was a big blow, and I felt that I would never face the Communist Party again. So I made up my mind and went home to farm and become a farmer." Chen Yuepan, who was nearly a hundred years old at the time, recalled the "one breath" that completely changed his life for the rest of his life. So much emotion.He said: "Man, sometimes I am smart for a lifetime, and I am confused for a while. If I could think about it at that time, I would continue to participate in revolutionary work, or make it clear to the East China underground party organization of the Communist Party of China. Maybe I can do something for the subsequent revolutionary struggle as usual. It is a good thing. But I did not do that, and the result of my anger was that I was separated from the revolutionary cause forever. But what I did not expect was that after the victory of the revolutionary cause, which I had worked hard for, it turned out to be A selfless revolutionary like me became an enemy of the revolution after liberation, and was suppressed by the iron fist of the dictatorship of the proletariat for decades..." When Chen Yuepan spoke up to this point, tears glistened in those eyes that had long since lost their luster. For a long time, I didn't ask him a question, because when we sat face to face, I could feel the pain in the inner world of this dying old man.