After 1949, class struggle began in China. Landowners and capitalists were considered representatives of the exploiting class. Land owned by landlords was confiscated during land reform, and factories owned by capitalists were turned over during public-private partnership.
As representatives of class struggle criticism, landlords have been shaped into many "
famous
"The image of a bully. And among them"
steal the show
"One of them said he was a landlord but looked down upon him. He was a bully with multiple identities including a warlord and a businessman.
Such a big landowner persuades his neighbors to "do not engage in the Three People's Principles, it is better to learn three more trades to make a living." What kind of landowner is this that is highly praised? Who is he?
"Tiger Liu" who has done many evil things
There is such a person in Dayi County, Sichuan Province,
Known locally as "Liu Laohu", he was Liu Wencai, the brother of the warlord Liu Wenhui.
He used Liu Wenhui's identity as the Sichuan brigade commander to appoint the directors of many local business bureaus. He used his identity to extort excessive amounts of money and set up more than 40 tax projects with all kinds of weirdness.
They even forced local farmers to grow opium poppies and collected tobacco seedling taxes, tobacco soil taxes, brokerage taxes, red light donations, etc. Farmers who did not grow opium poppies were levied lazy taxes, which caused great harm to the people in southern Sichuan.
If we just criticize farmers harshly, it would be in line with his "
landowner
"His identity, what is hateful is that he harmed our party members. Perhaps it is for this reason that after he died of illness, his grave was dug up and his body was dumped in the wilderness.
From 1927 to 1929, in just two years, Liu Wencai used his status as a warlord to kill more than 100 members of our party, agricultural association and revolutionary fighters; in March 1931, he created the "
pile of five
'' incident, five leading party officials including Liang Ge, special commissioner of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Kong Fangxin, secretary of the Yibin Central County Party Committee, were brutally shot dead by him.
The local people were exploited by it, and the revolutionary activities of our party were suppressed by it. He was not satisfied with this. In 1931, Liu Wencai and his nephew Liu Xiang competed for hegemony in Sichuan. The conflict between the two intensified, causing the entire Yibin to suffer.
Liu Wencai failed to assassinate Liu Xiang, so Liu Xiang sent planes to bomb Yibin.
When Liu Wencai was defeated and fled, he looted 200,000 silver dollars in the name of collecting military expenses. It is said that together with the gold and silver treasures he had plundered in the past, he packed more than 4,500 large wooden boxes and transported them back to his home in Dayi on more than 20 ships.
Private criminal law, a luxurious life of bullying men and dominating women
During the Cultural Revolution, there was a famous figure named Leng Yueying who claimed to have worked in a water prison that could be called a hell on earth. The reason why she was imprisoned in the water prison was because she owed Liu Wencai 5 dou 2 liters of rent. As a representative of those who had been tortured by the landlords, Leng Yueying began his report on remembering the bitter and savoring the sweet. The report was given more than a thousand times, with an audience of more than one million people.
He took Wang Yuqing, who was 27 years younger than him, as his mistress. This ordinary woman was called "the last remaining fifth concubine in mainland China".
It is said that Liu Wencai lived a luxurious life. His little wife only ate duck webs, while he also drank human milk every day.
The Liu family mansion where he lived was used by the local government after his death and was established as the "Liu Family Landlord Manor Museum in Dayi", which serves as a living teaching material on class struggle and is open to the world for viewing.
Liu Wencai died of illness before the founding of New China, which also spared him the punishment of class struggle and did not directly face the punishment of his evil deeds. With the beginning of the class struggle in New China, the Liu family declined and their property was confiscated.
Element"
The problem is ostracized.
Destiny has its fair side. The previous enjoyment and evil deeds will eventually be punished, whether it is because of the crime of having a jade, or being punished on its behalf.
At that time, being able to have enough food was considered a "luxurious" life, not to mention the Liu family, which was arrogant and extravagant.
There are two sides to everything. Black and white evaluations are right or wrong.
If black and white and good and evil are put together, they will be clearly visible in comparison. If I feel that the description of the landlord villain is too simple,
Scholars with a dialectical spirit about history tried to conduct in-depth research on Liu Wencai, and this research seemed to "eliminate" his notorious behavior.
Liu's Mansion
"Water Torture Room"
It was just a cellar for storing opium. During the Republic of China, when opium was prevalent, it was understandable for a landlord to store opium. However, the legendary water torture chamber of purgatory on earth did not really exist.
The fifth concubine, who lives a luxurious life and only eats duck paws, is basically a frugal person who is afraid of wasting food, so she "
have to
"People who can live well by eating duck paws; Nanny Luo, who provides human milk to Liu Wencai every day, has never even set foot in Liu's mansion to talk about drinking human milk.
In Anren Town, they built roads and commercial streets at their own expense, and leased them to villagers with no income at a meager rent; they spent huge sums of money to build Wencai Middle School and built local high-standard schools, libraries, music rooms, laboratories, auditoriums and other high-standard facilities, which were extremely rare in China at that time.
In order to ensure the quality of construction, he personally supervises the construction every day, exempts and exempts tuition fees for poor students, hires high-quality teachers to teach and educate people in school.
The previous descriptions of Liu Wencai seemed to be a joke, and his behavior seemed to be deliberately discredited. Was this just the need for social propaganda at the time, and the real situation was not like this?
History is multi-faceted, and the evaluation of characters should not only look at one side.
It is hard to believe that this simple advice came from a big landowner who had done many evil things.
People's hearts are inherently complex, and it is even more difficult to retrospectively evaluate historical figures. After all, many years have passed, and there are only a few people who have personally witnessed the development of events, and those who
"party
"and"
bystander
"Whether it has come into contact with the true side of the matter is unknown.
You still need to be cautious when evaluating living people, and you should not jump to conclusions easily about historical figures who have passed away. The truth of history is not black and white. After all, most historical events are submerged in the long river of time. No matter how deep you study, you cannot restore the truth of the facts. The stories that are passed down are too often characterized by the characteristics of the times and political overtones, and personal emotions will bias the actual details.
Liu Wencai's life was filled with both evil deeds and good deeds.
We cannot cover up his crimes of bullying the weak, causing harm to the township, and killing revolutionary heroes, and we cannot lightly talk about his foolish actions of acting alone and causing the entire county to be bombed and looted for his own selfish desires.
However, the good deed of building roads and schools to promote trade does not quite fit with his persona of a bully, landlord, and warlord.
Therefore, history is multi-faceted, and the evaluation of people cannot be single-minded. After all, too many traces of history have been erased by time, and the human traces are too strong. There is no pure distinction between good and evil in the world.
, what I want to say is:
Respect history, follow your heart, and do not judge others absolutely by virtue of good or evil. Don't judge others based on your preferences.
