In the 1920s and 1930s, Bashu Sichuan, which was originally the country of tianfu, was long shrouded in the haze of warlords and warlords, and there were countless local gentry and bullies and evil parties bred by the chaos.
Among them, the most notorious person is undoubtedly a large landlord named Liu Wencai.
He held the position of his younger brother Liu Wenhui in the Sichuan army, took control of one side himself, fished and fleshed the people, did no evil, and repeatedly inflicted poison on the revolutionary workers of our party in Sichuan.
However, liu Wencai's "happy days" have not been many years old, and the victory horn of the people's revolutionary war has suddenly sounded.
In the change of the times, the last days of this local "earth emperor" could not talk about glory at all, he had always been superstitious, a few crows flew from the eaves, and when the people wanted to drive away, he waved his hands and said helplessly:
"That's it..."
Evil "Liu Tiger"
Liu Wencai was born in 1887 in Liu Jiadunzi, Dayi County, Sichuan Province, whose father, Liu Gongzan, was a wealthy local merchant who owned hundreds of acres of fertile land and ran a winery.
Born in such a wealthy family, although Liu Wencai is not called a brocade, he has been spoiled since childhood.
This also cultivated his arrogant nature from an early age.
When he was a little older, Liu Wencai, who did not learn any skills, began to take his family slaves to run rampant in the township, and for the sake of the evil side, the neighbors who had been bullied by him gave him a nickname, called "Liu Tiger".
If this continues, Liu Wencai is not a big person in the end.
But there is an old folk saying, "Kill people and set fire to gold belts, repair bridges and roads without corpses."
The turbulent situation in Sichuan, the Republic of China, gave him such an opportunity to develop, and the source of this opportunity was not the elder brother in his family, but his own brother Liu Wenhui.
Although he grew up under the love of the same rich family, Liu Wencai's younger brother Liu Wenhui was completely different from his brother who was not a tool.
Liu Wenhui was intelligent and studious from an early age, and his ambitions were ambitious, and at the age of thirteen, he was admitted to the army primary school in Chengdu and joined the army. Later, he also studied at the Baoding Army Officer School, a famous school in modern history.
After graduating from military school, Liu Wenhui threw himself into the sichuan army warlord Liu Xiang. A few years later, Liu Wenhui was promoted to brigade commander and stationed in the Yibin area.
In this way, the little asshole Liu Wencai also leaned back against his brother's big tree and began to soar.
Under the care of his younger brother Liu Wenhui, Liu Wencai was appointed as the director of the Yibin branch of the Sichuan Tobacco and Liquor Company, and later served as the director of the southern Sichuan Protection Business Department, the general office of the Southern Sichuan Taxation Bureau, and many other important positions.
When he became an official, he had financial and military power in his hands, and Liu Wencai, who was morally corrupt in nature, began to abuse his power and exploit the people.
In his jurisdiction, Liu Wencai levied taxes and collected taxes in various ways, and in the place of Syria alone, there were forty-four kinds of tax collection projects. What flower donations, toilet donations, hoe donations, are very outrageous, and the people are miserable.
However, "the wicked have their own wicked people to collect", and the arrogant Liu Wencai gradually aroused the dissatisfaction of the warlord Liu Xiang.
At first, it was only a small-scale friction, until Liu Wencai, who was from a mixed background, bribed assassins to assassinate Liu Xiang in Chongqing, and the contradiction began to completely intensify.
The warlord's guards could not be solved by a killer, and of course the assassination failed, but Liu Xiang, who learned of the original committee, was greatly angered, and the military boss did not care about those jianghu means at all, and directly sent a plane to bomb Yibin.
Liu Wencai fled in a hurry, and his eldest brother Liu Wenhui was also attacked by the angry Liu Xiang's troops, but after the battle, he was defeated by Liu Xiang and led his troops to retreat to the Xikang area.
Liu Wencai knew that Yibin could not stay, so he prepared to return to his hometown.
But before leaving, he issued another order to extort military expenses, and in just two days, he snatched more than 200,000 silver dollars from the people of Yibin City, along with the gold and silver treasures he had plundered before, and filled them with more than 4,500 large wooden boxes.
Back in his hometown in western Sichuan, Liu Wencai simply "occupied the mountains as kings," used the treasures in his hands to gather a group of "military police," and also gathered a group of local bandits and bullies, using the blank official deeds obtained from his brother to cover the defense of the Great Seal, and forcibly occupy the people's land and annex the land of local peasants in seven counties, including Huayang and Dayi.
He also used such despicable means as eating "heartland" and buying "official fields" to skillfully seize more than 12,000 mu of local land property, and at the same time forcibly occupied a large number of local shops, banks, and mansion properties, and hid a large amount of gold and silver in his own home.
Since then, Liu Wencai has lived a life of a feudal landlord who exploited peasants to suck out the marrow.
As a tenant of his family, for every acre of land rented, the peasant must first hand over the Two Buckets of Yellow Valley as a "mortgage."
Sometimes, because the fiscal policy of the Republic of China changed overnight, the market inflation became inflated, and he claimed that the "mortgage" was devalued, and the tenant farmers were re-ordered to pay the deposit.
Unspeakable crimes
As early as when he was in politics yibin, Liu Wencai's tyranny of expropriation made the local people extremely dissatisfied.
Xu Jingbang, a communist party member in the southern Sichuan region, organized more than 6,000 members of the peasant association to launch an anti-tobacco donation campaign, which undoubtedly annoyed Liu Wencai, who was in a position of great power at that time, and after careful planning, Liu Wencai cruelly sent troops to hunt down and kill Xu Jingbang.
In March 1928, Liu Wencai sent military police and spies to kill Li Xiaowen, secretary of the Cpc Xuzhou District Committee, and Li Jiaxun, alternate secretary of the Cpc Xuzhou District Committee, suppressing the anti-donation campaign organized by the two of them, and massacring Communists and members of the Peasants' Association.
In the winter of 1929, Liu Wencai sent troops to suppress the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army in southern Sichuan, killing 50 or 60 members of the revolutionary army.
In March 1931, Liu Wencai created the "Five-Man Pile" incident that shocked the whole of Sichuan—Liang Ge, commissioner of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and five other leading party cadres were found by Liu Wencai's spy team during a meeting and shot dead.
Tired of evil deeds, hard to read.
"The Last Days"
After being driven back to his hometown by the warlord Liu Xiang, Liu Wencai knew that his road in the military and political circles had been completed, and since the "power" was gone, he would only want to have "money" in the future.
But first of all, Liu Wencai, who has been plundering and exploiting for many years and has accumulated a lot of wealth in his hands, is ready to build an amazing luxury manor.
In 1932, Liu Wencai gathered a large number of laborers in his hometown of Anyi County, half intimidating and half driven to build a mansion for him, until 1942, when the luxury manor with a building area of more than 20,000 square meters was completed.
Until now, Liu's Manor still maintains the "style" of that year.
People say that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, the feelings of villagers in the township are sometimes stronger than relatives, and the old society has noble people in the countryside, and often the land on one side can be followed.
But unfortunately, because of Liu Wencai's return, the villagers of Anyi County not only did not enjoy the slightest blessing, but instead lived a life of deep water.
Because the local area was located in the alpine and hilly areas of western Sichuan, the transportation was inconvenient at that time, the internal blockade was relatively closed, and it was difficult for external forces to intervene, which provided convenience for Liu Wencai to be a local power, and the local people had no way to sue at all.
In the next ten years, Liu Wencai's life was simply a "tu emperor".
Most of the shops in the town are in the hands of Liu Wencai, and as long as the local people go out, most of the money is spent in Liu Wencai's purse.
In addition, Liu Wencai also avoided the sphere of influence of his opponent Liu Xiang, opened banks and factories in many places in Sichuan, and could recover nearly six million catties of grain every year.
After earning wealth, Liu Wencai of course could not lose himself, in his luxurious manor, there were many wives and concubines, and whose girls were favored by him, they were all coerced and lured by any means to take it for themselves.
There were only about twenty people in the family, and only six people lived with him, but there were sixty or seventy nurses, servants, and hired workers who could wait around, and these people were not only used as coolies, but they would be beaten if they made the slightest mistake, and in serious cases, they would even die blindly.
In order to protect his personal and property safety, Liu Wencai also specially raised a group of armed thugs, all of whom were born as gangsters and fierce, and also played a role in eradicating dissidents.
Once, the wife of Liu Wencai's younger brother Liu Wenhui, a nephew of the family, Yang Bingyuan, because of drunken criticism of Liu Wencai, reached his ears, and he immediately sent a killer to shoot Yang Bingyuan in the street of Ya'an City, which caused panic for a while.
Later, in order to expand his power, Liu Wencai also established a so-called "Robe Brother Organization Public Welfare Association", which recruited a large number of bully bandits and robed brother triad elements, and attached themselves to them, and at the same time responded to each other and committed crimes.
Let's put it this way, in those decades or so, although Liu Wencai never had any more military power, he also controlled all kinds of power of the people in a substantive sense through various despicable and brutal means.
It was not until 1947 that the situation began to take a turn for the better.
At that time, the situation of the War of Liberation had undergone fundamental changes, and the People's Liberation Army, led by the Communist Party, gradually turned to a strategic counteroffensive.
The People's Liberation Army, which represents the strength of workers and peasants on the battlefield, will defeat and retreat from Chiang Kai-shek' army, which represents the landlords and capitalists.
For a time, the positions of countless people at home and abroad began to change, including Liu Wencai's former patron, his brother Liu Wenhui.
After many years of military career, Liu Wenhui has long been extremely dissatisfied with the current situation of the Chiang Kai-shek government's perverse and corrupt behavior, and secretly has the idea of "uniting with the Communist Party against Chiang Kai-shek."
At this time, the situation in the War of Liberation was becoming clearer, and Liu Wenhui made up his mind to stand with the Communist Party, which represented the interests of the broad masses of the people, to fight against Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary government, and informed his brother Liu Wencai of his decision.
It is a pity that Liu Wencai, a local tycoon and inferior gentleman with a blind eye, not only did not change evil and follow the good, but insisted on going all the way to black, and continued to do evil in Dayi County and other places, claiming the king hegemony.
Perhaps, in the depths of his heart, he also understood that he had brutally killed a large number of Communists and brutally exploited and suppressed the masses of the people, and such a criminal history could not be easily understood by the people.
In that year, the Cpc Chuankang Special Committee decided to form an armed contingent in the area of Dayi County to cooperate with the frontal combat operations on the liberation battlefield.
The organization sent Party member Xiao Rulin and several other comrades as responsible persons, established guerrilla strongholds, and organized armed task forces.
In order to buy weapons for the armed workers, Xiao Rulin became a seller of Nakata property, and at the same time took advantage of the contradiction between Liu Wencai and Chen Shaokui, another local bully, to induce Liu Wencai to provide a large number of guns and ammunition to the armed workers.
However, when Liu Wencai later learned that Xiao Rulin was a member of the Communist Party, he found that he could not control the "Dayi Youth Association" among the young population, and immediately became furious and sent his armed thugs to besiege the armed workers, and Xiao Rulin was unfortunately captured by him.
In the face of severe torture, Xiao Rulin maintained the true character of a communist, always raised an eyebrow at Liu Wencai, and did not disclose any organizational information.
Liu Wencai, who was angry and corrupt, repeatedly tortured Xiao Rulin, was scalyed and wounded, and was later brutally killed on the way to Chengdu by Liu Wencai to ask for merit.
The sacrifice of Xiao Rulin and other comrades not only did not hit the confidence of local party organization workers, but also stimulated the revolutionary enthusiasm of comrades, and in order to avenge the martyrs, the members of the Armed Forces Committee unswervingly launched a vigorous struggle against Liu Wencai.
In April 1949, the People's Liberation Army launched the Battle of the River Crossing, a million troops broke through the Kuomintang Yangtze River defense line like thunder, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government collapsed, and Liu Wencai, who was far away in Anyi County, finally began to feel that his good life might not be long.
The hundreds of bandits who had planned to fight to the death, but who had spent a lot of money and money, were directly intimidated by tens of thousands of angry peasants led by the comrades of the Armed Workers' Work Committee, and after exploiting the peasants' land rent, they could no longer collect it.
Liu Wencai was suddenly terrified and lay sick on the bed.
Originally, he should seek medical treatment as soon as he found that his physical condition was not right, but Liu Wencai was suspicious and suspicious, so that he avoided medical treatment and only took some herbs for perfunctory treatment, which also made his illness more serious.
In the last days of his life, a few crows flew from the eaves, which was a very taboo thing in that era of common superstition, but when people drove away, Liu Wencai waved his hand and said:
"That's it."
Perhaps, he also knew that he might be dying, and at the time of his death, Liu Wencai was eager to return to the town of Anren, where he was born, but the car had just reached the halfway point, and Liu Wencai lost his breath.
brief summary:
Liu Wencai, a former landowner, died of illness on the way back to his hometown, and his family later rushed to send him to Chengdu, and his last wish before his death was not fulfilled.
In this life, people pursue a higher social status and a richer life, but they are always despised by unscrupulous means and are not kind to the rich.
The special environment of the times has created a number of special figures, revolutionaries throw their heads and blood to seek the interests of the people, and the people will always miss them. The people of fish and flesh, the big landlords who do many evil deeds, and the bullies will eventually be nailed to the pillar of shame of history and will be scolded by future generations.