preface
In 1985, seven ministries and commissions, including the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the General Staff Department and the General Political Department, jointly issued a document granting household registration “conversion from agriculture to non-agriculture” to the spouses and children under the age of 16 of special-class or first-class disabled servicemen who have been discharged from active service since the counter-offensive in 1979. My comrade-in-arms, Zhao Liucheng, as a beneficiary, could not be happier now.
On September 24, 2016, Zhao Liucheng, a disabled veteran who was discharged from the war of counterattack for self-defense against Vietnam, was running around the county town with an artificial leg. His wife and children had no land and no job after being “transferred” to non-agricultural land. Finally, they became land-lost farmers again.
Petitioning back and forth to beg for an answer, Mr. Zhao’s high-powered amputated left leg was often scratched and bleeding. “The wound hurts, the heart hurts even more!” He used to tell me that.
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I met Zhao Liucheng quite by chance. After the war in Southern Xinjiang, I retired and went back to my hometown in the south of The county to recuperate with two crutches. Zhao Liucheng lived in the north of the city. Although we had been fighting in division 161 before, we did not know each other.
In 1985, seven ministries and commissions, including the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the General Staff Headquarters, jointly issued a document granting agricultural transfer to disabled spouses and children under the age of 16 who have been discharged from active service since 1979 and will continue to do so. I saw Zhao’s name for the first time on the transfer documents issued by the county government.
In the same county, is a trench fighting together wounded comrades, we first meet that day, the two brothers limping together to help into a restaurant, a bottle of wine to drink, then become brothers.
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During the war in southern Xinjiang, Zhao Liucheng served as the leader of the jian Dao company of the Red Army in our division and led 3 soldiers to go in the forefront.
They will cross the hills and cross the enemy lines, and lang Son the retreat of the enemy, to make sure that their brother troops surround and wipe out the enemy. Due to the lack of logistic support, each combat squad was required to carry two tankels, two boxes of grenades, a box of bullets, plus guns, gas masks, picks and shovels, compressed dry food, etc., with an average load of 95 jin per person.
In the foreign mountains and forests where there was no guide, they could hardly find a path to take, and all the paths were cut by themselves in order to reach their appointed places on time.
Late at night, the four men felt into a deep gully. Although they were extremely tired, they could only climb to the hillside in the dark for fear of being attacked by the enemy. Without shelter on the bare escarpment, they began to dig holes with their picks and push their way up the cliff.
One morning, as soon as they had reached a mountain and were not fully established, a hail of bullets broke through the rubble from the opposite hilltop.
The company of sharp knives alternately covered and quickly withdrew from the battle. In the dilemma of water and food supply being cut off, the company fought and walked while cutting into 650 heights like a steel knife, completing the combat mission excellently.
“Brother troops are engaged in a skirmish on the outskirts of Lang Son with the enemy, killing dozens of people,” Zhao recalls. Our company is temporarily responsible for taking in the remains of martyrs. A class is divided into two, cut branches to make a stretcher, six people take turns to carry down the mountain, the mountain rain constantly, muddy, wearing anti – thorn shoes covered with mud outside, the inside is full of water, the bottom of the foot was swollen muddy water, take off a layer of skin, walking drill heart. Dark, slippery slope, two o ‘clock in the morning finally will be killed down the brothers, we were covered in blood, can not tell the martyrs of the blood, or their own broken skin flow.”
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On March 11, 1979, when our troops withdrew, the front team changed into the back team. Class 4 and the sharp knife group led by Zhao Liucheng failed to withdraw in time and were blocked by the Vietnamese artillery fire. The company commander organized the soldiers to rush to the top of the mountain in spite of the enemy’s heavy artillery fire, in an attempt to open a rescue passage, but ultimately failed.
As the enemy approached, the fire covered the hilltop and the trapped platoon leader became impatient. Knowing that the south slope of the mountain was a minefield laid by the enemy, he still rushed to Zhao Liucheng and shouted, “Let Lao Tzu pass!”
Then, Zhao Liucheng had to rush to the death zone together with the platoon leader, along with a series of explosions, the two of them to flesh and blood for comrades opened a “channel of life”. Zhao Liucheng’s legs were blown off on the spot, blood such as note; Platoon leader Liang was badly wounded in the head and passed out. Zhao Tried to get up to rescue the platoon leader, but a sharp pain made him dizzy.
Fellow villager Li Bingzhu took the lead and broke two soft branches on the spot. He simply tied up Zhao’s injured leg. The company officers and soldiers cut sticks and made stretchers out of raincoats, which reluctantly carried Zhao And the platoon leader down the mountain.
On the way to the field hospital, Zhao Heard his comrades say, “It’s friendship Pass.” “And then passed out.
For 4 days and 4 nights, unconscious Zhao Liucheng lingered between life and death. His left leg was amputated high, his right calf was amputated, and when it healed, his right foot was bent inwards. After a narrow escape from death, fragments of shrapnel can still be found between zhao’s ribs, his left hand and his right leg.
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Since then, Zhao was transferred to Hengyang 165 Hospital in Hunan province to receive rehabilitation treatment. He spent eight months in a field hospital with a prosthetic left leg.
The first time I got up from my wheelchair, I had a top-heavy fall.
Fragments of shrapnel could still be felt between the ribs, left hand and right thigh bones of Zhao
Fiancee lobular waited on him to army hospital alone half an year, after leaving hospital, Zhao Liucheng is assessed by the army for first class disable, retire from service returns country of origin, by local government dispersing offer. two people also returned to Zhao Liucheng old army, by the head of the Red Army and political commissar personally, for them to wear red flowers held a wedding.
Amid a surge of local support for the army, Lobular became an advanced example of the communist Youth League’s county party committee and women’s federation, and the local news media continued to report their love story.
After marriage, daughter and two sons were born, Zhao Liucheng a 5 mouth people, their legs inconvenience, farming with more than 5 acres of responsibility farmland mainly by his wife, life although tired, but heart is filled with hope, “the son from the dead pile up, in this life there are national grant of pension, than those who sacrifice comrades, has been satisfied.”
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Before long, the county government sent its own people to come to us. “The central government has issued a document to transfer the family members and children of those who have defended the country to a commercial grain hukou,” the official in charge of the resettlement told him.
Zhao remembers asking: “Do the families arrange the work?” He was still worried that his wife would suffer with him.
The staff replied: “The family members cannot arrange work for the time being, but the children will have employment opportunities when they reach the age of 18.”
Seeing That Zhao Was a little hesitant, the staff persuaded him, “Where can you find such a good thing? Now how many people spend money to do it, so don’t miss the opportunity.”
Zhao Liucheng thought carefully, also, since the government for his sake, it must be a good thing.
At that time, non-agricultural hukou was highly sought-after, and ordinary people who wanted to switch from farming to non-agricultural hukou had to pay 2,100 yuan per person to the local government as an “urban accommodation fee”. But Zhao managed to get an urban hukou for four people without spending a penny. Eight generations of zhao ancestors were farmers who pulled a hoe. This time, the whole family ate the “imperial grain”, which aroused many local people’s greedy eyes.
The women also said to the little leaf, “A good man deserves a good reward. If you jump at the gate with your husband, you have made a good head.”
The whole family was delighted.
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Although he was already a “city person”, the government could not arrange urban jobs for Xiaoye, so the family stayed in the countryside to work on the land.
A few years later, the county land adjustment, The household registration of Zhao Liucheng family has long been no longer in the countryside, naturally there is no responsibility for the land assigned to them. The whole family was dumbfounded.
The awkwardness is yet to come. In the north of zhao’s village, there is an old river course. Before, he had contracted for a 300-meter river embankment. The river course management office provided more than 1,000 poplar saplings, and he was responsible for planting and managing them, sharing the profits. When the trees were ready to grow, the villagers looked on with envy, so after cutting them down, the village decided to divide the river bank uniformly among all the villagers. His family “did not have a registered permanent residence”, or did not have his share.
Zhao thought that after his wife and children “agricultural transfer”, each adult can get 29 jin of flour ration every month, and the three children can enjoy half of the adult’s flour ration, at the supply price of 0.18 yuan per jin. At that time, the family’s land had not been reclaimed by the village, and every year there was surplus grain to eat. Zhao did not want to spend any more money to buy the cheap flour supplied by the grain store, so he saved it all.
However, after the loss of farmland, a new policy was introduced at the beginning of 1993, “To cancel the non-agricultural population’s affordable food supply, and to freeze and confiscate all the flour previously held by citizens”.
There were more than 2,000 kilograms of flour in the balance of zhao’s family’s grain book, and even a few jin of grain coupons could not be taken out.
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Zhao Liucheng had two brothers in his family, but his elder brother died young. So the burden of bringing up two nephews to his mother for the aged fell on his shoulders.
In order to support the family, his wife xiaoye in the village at the roadside opened a snack shop, sold vegetables, Zhao Liuseng also ran a three-wheeled passenger business.
In 2005, the state promulgated the new Regulations on pensions and Preferential treatment for Servicemen, which abolished the first-class and first-class disability, and the former first-class disability of Zhao Liucheng was adjusted to the third class.
In 2007, two sons were married, daughter-in-law belongs to rural hukou into into the village, gave birth to their grandchildren and agricultural registered permanent residence, while his wife and two sons as non-agricultural household register, nominally, neither fixed work, and no town health, even can’t enjoy a new type of rural cooperative medical care, even a doctor is a problem of his wife and children.
Zhao Liucheng is impatient, write an application to find county leader instruction, the city registered permanent residence of the whole family turns rural registered permanent residence again. “As farmers again, wives and children can have a foothold in the village.”
But life as if to Zhao Liusheng opened a big joke.
The whole family lived in the old house in the village for decades, but they never moved their nest. When the government department found the home, they transferred the household registration of the whole family to another farm with a piece of paper. After 22 years, another paper, and then the household registration into non – farming.
Thinking about the new land, is also a foundation of life, but did not expect, this time he was wrong again.
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The government did not give Zhao any land to keep as his family.
At that time, the village’s land value soared as the county was gradually incorporated into the economic development zone due to its proximity to the west side of kaifeng Xuchang Highway. The government began requisitioning the village’s land from house to house, offering a fee for the sale of the land. Developers also paid for renting the villagers’ land. But these were distributed according to the population of each household and the number of acres lost.
Zhao Liucheng family has long lost the farmland, naturally can not get a penny.
Disabled veteran: My wife and children are better than unregistered farmers
In 2016, the village collective owned wasteland, ditches, as well as roads and other land requisition, village per person subsidies 980 yuan, even in recent years in violation of the family planning policy to have more than one child “black black households” have a share, only his family does not. Zhao Liucheng feels this matter is unreasonable, go looking for village cadre: “the an lives in the village all the time have never moved the nest, registered permanent residence as early as 9 years ago turned into agriculture, why connect the black black household that give birth to is inferior to?”
The village officials said to him, “This matter is not in our hands. It is all the local policies formulated by each group.”
The group leader of the villagers said more simply: “It’s not that I don’t give you, it’s the opinion of the masses. As long as you take out the documents and regulations, I will give you money, so that I can have an explanation to the masses.”
Zhao Liucheng asked the township government to report the situation, the township said that this was the villagers’ group’s land policy, which needed to be coordinated. Can coordinate to coordinate to coordinate, also have no below.
Zhao Liucheng went to his family to declare non-agricultural household registration department, the staff will transfer the original file materials, copy after giving him, and write a letter of proof, but the villagers still insisted not to give Zhao Liucheng family this money.
Zhao Liusheng wrote written materials, according to the procedures to the bureau of letters and Visits petition, the results of the petition case was approved to the township government processing, and then pressure to the village. He was like a ball, kicked around and back again.
“It is better to be in charge now than to be in charge now”, the leader of the villagers asked Zhao Liusheng to issue a document from the government department to show him: “Let the county and township give the group a paper stamped with the official seal of the certification letter, I can explain to the villagers. Township officials insisted: “The government only gives direct leadership to the administrative village, and does not issue any certificates to the villagers’ groups.”
The two sides deadlocked, one-legged Zhao Liucheng in the county, township, village back and forth.
“At that time, I lived a quiet life in the countryside and did not ask for anything. It was they who found me at home and wanted to give us a commodity grain hukou. They never thought it would cause so much trouble, which completely changed our family’s fate.” Zhao Liucheng feels this life owes his wife lobular, she follows him bear hardships and suffer, in the end also became landless farmer.
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