I stayed in Sui County for two days and did three things: one was to conduct a social survey, and the other was to help the villagers harvest early rice. We are shocked by the data from the social survey, which fully reflects the cruelty of class oppression and the root causes of peasant poverty:

Land possession: landlords and rich peasants occupy 65-80% of the land and 95-100% of the mountains and forests

Population: Sui County has a population of less than 200,000, of which more than 70% are women, and most of them are widows. More than 90 percent of the people in the county are illiterate, and only 3 to 5 percent of the landlords and rich peasants

Income: The peasants do not have enough to eat every year, and there are many people begging for food. We went from village to village, visited the poor and asked about their suffering, and saw that the fields in the countryside were barren, the farmhouses were dilapidated, and the people were struggling to make a living. A woman feeds her shriveled ** child, because there is no milk, the child is so thin that she is just crying to eat, and we can't help but cry so sadly that we cry. The scene of the countryside withering and devastated has left a deep impression on us, and this is a living class education! The instructor listened to the report and lowered his head sadly. He raised his head sharply and said angrily, "Won't you completely defeat the Jiang dynasty?" Isn't it completely revolutionary? Don't you want to be completely liberated? He used three "thoroughly" and three rhetorical questions in a row, which shocked people's hearts and spleens, and urged those of us who came from the old society to wake up violently, and we must not have any illusions about the evil old society!

On September 4th, he lived in a small garden and arrived at Majiang on the 5th, all the way to the mountains and mountains, sparsely populated, and a desolate scene.

On September 6, 1949, the troops arrived in Ganzhou City, and our two squadrons lived in Gannan Middle School, which was in really good condition, with tables, wooden beds, and electric lights, which was regarded as a high-level enjoyment. The higher authorities arranged for everyone to summarize the ideological and work style situation from Tianyuan to Ganzhou, and asked them to make more self-criticism and not avoid problems. Personally, the purpose of group evaluation, affirmation of achievements, pointing out shortcomings, and not making conclusions in the organization is to encourage everyone to be positive, put down their burdens, and "fly over the mountains lightly".

Soon, our No. 7 Squadron moved to live with an industrial and commercial owner, and Gannan Middle School was left to live with a large group of newly recruited students in Ganzhou.

The owner of the business has a small three-story building and a large courtyard with a few tiled houses on the south side of the courtyard, and we live here. The team headquarters lives on the ground floor of the small building, and the master lives upstairs. The yard is quite large, and there are many fruit trees, and the golden fruits on the trees are very lovely.

There is an orange, which is a little larger than an orange, and it has an eye at the bottom, like a human navel, and the fruit is delicious and sweet. The host introduced: "This is called navel orange, which is a specialty of Ganzhou, and I heard that it is only available in Ganzhou in the country." Everyone was very curious and wanted to try it, but there was discipline, so they could only "look at the plum to quench their thirst".

One night, the whole squadron suddenly gathered in the courtyard, saying that someone had stolen two navel oranges, which were discovered by the master's child, and the instructor was very angry, and criticized the student by name, asking him to make a deep review, and immediately apologized to the master that night, and compensated according to the price. But the landlord, Mr. Yuan, refused to accept compensation for anything, and said again and again: "The army is fortunate, and the little navel orange is not worthy of such a solemn apology." ”

The instructor said: "Although the two citrus oranges are small, they are related to the image of the people's army, and this is by no means a trivial matter, and we must learn a lesson from it." ”

We saw a lot of garbage inside and outside the yard, especially behind the kitchen, where the garbage had piled up. With the consent of the owner, we spent our free time doing a lot of hygiene, digging two deep ditches under the fruit trees, filling all the garbage into them as fertilizer, and then covering the soil to level the ground, so that the whole yard was completely new, and there were many fewer mosquitoes and flies. Mr. Yuan's wife was full of gold teeth, smiled happily, and said thank you again and again. After a long time, the landlord Mr. Yuan often set up a dragon gate formation with the leaders of the team, and everyone was very harmonious, of course, it was indispensable to publicize the party's policies to Mr. Yuan and do some united front work.

Mr. Yuan's eldest grandson likes to come to play among us, ask this and that, very envious of the army, we teach him to sing, literacy, he is quite serious, he said that when he grows up, he will be an army. When the grandmother saw her grandson having fun with us, she always had a smile on her face, and everyone was as affectionate as a family.

When the troops left, the landlord gave the squadron a big red flag with the words: "The division of benevolence and righteousness, the army and the people." This red flag was very eye-catching on the march, and it was carried by the combat hero Xing Youxue all the way to Nanzhao Province, and others were not qualified.

"Took an extra orange, apologized three times, and reviewed for three days" This is another "small thing" that happened in Ganzhou, but it is another big thing.

One day, Deputy Captain Wang took a student to the street to buy vegetables, and the deputy captain bought a few catties of navel oranges, and paid in person. However, at a military-civilian forum, the small stall owner raised the matter in person, which made the leaders of the troops attending the meeting very embarrassed. After the meeting, the instructor immediately investigated, and the results were true. The instructor was furious and criticized loudly at the squadron meeting:

"This kind of behavior that violates military discipline, undermines military-civilian relations, and seriously affects the reputation of the army is absolutely not allowed in the people's army! Do you know the serious consequences of it? We sing "Three Disciplines and Eight Attentions" every day, shouldn't we put it into action? Don't you know what it means to 'not take a stitch from the masses'? Okay, if you take more now, be greedy, damage the interests of the masses, and pay it back later, what is the smell of the people's soldiers? ”

The whole squadron listened seriously to the instructor's criticism, and no one dared to say a word. The matter was reported to the brigade headquarters and asked for the punishment of "confinement for three days", and later the higher authorities instructed: "The comrade apologized to the owner and the surrounding masses three times, reviewed it in the squadron for three days, and immediately executed it." ”

This incident has dealt a heavy blow to the selfish thinking hidden in the depths of the soul, and has also made everyone realize that our words and deeds represent the image of the people's army, and the image of a soldier is as important as the life of the army, and it needs to be cared for by everyone.

One day in mid-September, just after dawn, I suddenly heard the humming of airplanes.

"Not good, the enemy aircraft are coming, immediately hide!"

"Enemy planes are coming! Enemy planes are coming! There was a shout.

The homeowner's family was terrified and hid downstairs. The enemy planes circled around Ganzhou City a few times, threw a few ** indiscriminately and flew away, fortunately only some civilian houses were damaged, there were no casualties, the troops immediately organized rescue, and the local ** provided materials, and the damaged houses were repaired in a few days. Later, all brigades set up additional air defense surveillance posts in order to give early warning.

In Ganzhou, the famous "Yu Gutai" and "Bajingtai" in Ganzhou, in order to feel the feelings of Xin abandoning the disease and worrying about the country and the people, several of our classmates took leave and decided to visit the "Yugutai" and "Bajingtai". Wake up early in the morning and head straight to your destination.

"Yu Gu Tai" and "Eight Mirror Platforms" are located on the Yu Gu Tai on the top of Helan Mountain in the city, the building has been repeatedly abandoned, several destroyed and several built, continuing for thousands of years, depressed and lonely, only because of the Xin Qi Disease (the word Jiaxuan) of a "Bodhisattva Man, Yu Gu Tai" and became famous.

This place is the confluence of Gongshui and Zhangshui, where the water turns around and the waves are agitated. Hang a couplet in front of the building, "Wrap up the ancient and modern things, hang the heart of heaven and earth". What kind of state is it that everything throughout the ages is condensed in one mind, bearing it alone, and no one is sharing it? Before the couplet, I couldn't help but think of two lines of poetry in Chen Ziang's "Song of Dengyouzhou": "Thinking of the seclusion of heaven and earth, I am alone and crying." A thousand years ago, when Xin Qiji ascended to the Yu Gu platform, did he also think of these two poems?