Chapter 20: The Righteous Killing of the Gentry
In the cold wind, the drill ground of the Army Military Academy in Baoding, Hebei Province was particularly empty and vast.
On the playground, a team of cadets is training. I saw that Lao Jiuyun Shangqi's eyes were like torches, his lips were tense, and he was holding a wooden gun. With a loud roar, he suddenly lunged forward, and a thrust of the spear head brush wrapped in sackcloth suddenly knocked the students in front of him to the ground, and a burst of applause broke out in the team watching behind him......
Lao Jiuyun Shangqi, the third son of Yun'an, ranks the ninth among the Shangzi brothers, and is the youngest of the nine brothers, nicknamed Jiu'er. Cold and summer, the reincarnation of years, and the blink of an eye, Lao Jiuyun Shangqi has grown into a sturdy young man, and his height has also inherited the tall genes of the Yun family's ancestors, and with a military uniform, he looks even more tall and heroic.
Yun Shangqi has a strong personality and is jealous and hateful. When he was young, he studied in the Yun family private school, and later when he was a little older, he came to the Gaojia cloth shop in the corner of the county town to learn to do business under the arrangement of his family. One day, I saw two or three little devils swaggering into the cloth shop, and looted the cloth shop in front of everyone's eyes, but the dozens of people who witnessed it around were panicked, and none of them dared to step forward to stop it, and the angry Yun Shangqi was about to rush up to theorize, but he was also held down by the shopkeeper, and let a few little devils giggle and leave.
Yun Shangqi, who witnessed this scene, was sad and indignant, and smashed the abacus in a fit of anger, and since then he has left his hometown and been admitted to the Baoding Military Academy.
During his time in the military academy, because he was tall, strong, quick-witted, and at the same time thoughtful and good at studying, Yun Shangqi was very good in military subjects and cultural subjects, and gradually won the favor of military academy instructors. At the same time, during this period, after the introduction of the party organization, Yun Shangqi had already secretly joined the Communist Party of China and became a member of the Communist Party.
After graduating from the military academy, Yun Shangqi was appointed by the party organization to become an adjutant under Li Xingcun, who was then the administrative inspector of the 10th district (Luoyang) of the Kuomintang HEN Province (Luoyang) and the commander of security. Because he is a native of Lijin, and thanks to the second brother Yun Shangxiao in Tianjin, Yun Shangqi gradually gained the trust and trust of Li Xingcun.
During his stay in Luoyang, security commander Li Xingcun, with the assistance of Yun Shangqi, successively replaced Liu Yuzhou, the magistrate of Song County, Hua Shaoxia, the magistrate of Yanshi County, and Yu Ankang, the magistrate of Yiyang County. shot Fang Xianqiao, chairman of the Luoyang Chamber of Commerce, who was corrupt and perverted the law, Wu Litang, a bully and gentleman in Yichuan County, and others; At the same time, those land tyrants and villains and fish and meat villagers were also severely punished and cracked down. Later, Yun Shangqi took advantage of his official duties to successively install a group of communists and progressive students, who were assigned to various important positions in order to rectify the malaise of Kuomintang officialdom.
These actions of Commander Li Xingcun won the support of the local masses, but they touched the interests of the local wealthy families, especially the official gentry Liu Maoen's family. Therefore, the local gentry headed by Liu Maoen, through collusion and secret discussion, jointly accused Li Xingcun of fornicating with the Communist Party, sabotaging military discipline, acting arbitrarily, cronyism, and other crimes, in an attempt to exclude Li Xingcun from Luoyang.
Liu Maoen was the commander of the 13th Army of the 31st Group Army of the Kuomintang at that time, and his family was the richest man in Luoyang, with tens of thousands of acres of fertile land and countless family properties.
After receiving the letter of accusation from Liu Maoen and others, the Central Committee of the Kuomintang appointed inspector Zhang Lisheng to make a special trip to Luoyang to investigate and deal with the matter.
"Smack! ——”
A crisp sound shocked everyone in the room, and people opened their mouths wide and stared blankly at what was happening in front of them......
In a medium-sized information hall of the Luoyang Administration, the audience was crowded with people who were observing. On the stage, in the face of Inspector Zhang Lisheng's questioning, Li Xingcun was stern, reasonable, and eloquent, and the facts listed were clear, the evidence was conclusive, and there was no doubt. Liu Maoen, who was on the side of the stage, wanted to interject several times, but Li Xingcun categorically stopped him, and the people who had been oppressed for a long time in the audience kept echoing and shouting...... The atmosphere was tense and intense, and the one-sided voices became more and more intense.
Where did Liu Maoen, who was used to flying and domineering, suffer from this kind of wretched gas, and his face was flushed and sweaty. As the hall news deepened more and more, some unknown cases of corruption and favoritism were clearly put on the table one by one, one by one, and Liu Maoen became even more irritable, restless, and couldn't help but open his eyes angrily, and his nose was whirring with rough air.
Suddenly, Liu Maoen on the stage jumped up suddenly, his fat body quickly crossed several people, rushed to Li Xingcun in a few steps, suddenly raised his hand, and slapped Li Xingcun fiercely...... The incident happened suddenly, and several actions occurred in an instant, which greatly surprised everyone at the scene, and they all froze there in a daze.
"-Smack!" , followed by another explosion.
Yun Shangqi, who was standing in the audience, was already angry when he heard the so-called accusations made up by Liu Maoen and his gang just now, and when he saw Inspector Zhang Lisheng beating and blatantly protecting him, he couldn't help but be angry and angry. Now he suddenly saw that the chief he respected was humiliated in public, and he couldn't help but be furious, turned around and pulled out a short gun, and knocked Liu Maoen to the ground with one shot.
The people who were still stunned just now suddenly heard a gunshot, Liu Maoen was shot dead on the spot, and the stage and the audience were suddenly in chaos, screaming and fleeing for their lives. Yun Shangqi in the crowd did not hesitate, and quickly took advantage of the chaos to escape quietly.
Liu Maoen was arrogant and lawless, and was killed on the spot in the interrogation hall, and public opinion was in an uproar for a while, becoming the number one news.