Liu Wencai was even more demanding about the quality of the school’s construction. He invested more than 350 million French francs (more than 2 million US dollars at that time), but the money was still very tight. Even so, Liu Wencai insisted on not reducing one brick and one tile, and he set high standards and strict requirements, preferring to lose his own family rather than the school.
Liu Wencai funded the construction of “Wencai Middle School”, which is the predecessor of Anren Middle School now. (Network picture)
In 1941, in order to build a public school, Wencai Middle School, Liu Wencai chose a piece of rice field near the southern street of Anren Township, Dayi County, Sichuan Province, and the house and graveyard of the Luo, Li and Yang families. Liu Wencai mobilized farmers to relocate by exchanging two mu of their land for one mu of land in the planning area and two rooms for one room in the planning area. There are additional benefits for individual demolition households. The small farmer Chen Qixian had only ten mu of land, according to the agreement should be given twenty mu, but at this time, because the land deed in the hands of Liu Wencai is at least forty mu, Liu Wencai suspected the trouble to go to the county government, so simply gave him forty mu of land.
Chen Qixian’s son, Chen Zechang, was six years old when he had a verbal dispute with a teenager, who cursed “landlord son of a bitch” and raised a stretcher to cut him down. Chen Zezhang was unable to dodge and was disabled for life. Chen Qixian was imprisoned because he was a landlord who “attacked the three red flags” and “attacked the Great Leap Forward”, and his wife was afraid of being implicated and remarried to another country.
This is the case of Liu Wencai, a big bully landlord, who was “expropriating land for the public good”, from the book “The Truth about Liu Wencai”.
“The Story of Wencai Middle School
The famous Anren Middle School (Wencai Middle School)
Liu Wencai was very demanding about the quality of the school construction. He invested more than 350 million French francs (more than 2 million US dollars at that time), but the money was still very tight. Even so, Liu Wencai insisted on not reducing a single brick and tile, and was strict in his standards, preferring to lose his own family rather than the school.
Take the school’s auditorium as an example. When building this auditorium, Liu Wencai asked to be as big as possible, but to what extent? 28 meters long, 23 meters wide, an area of about 644 square meters, the roof of the auditorium without a beam, all steel welding. Liu Wencai invited the best welders from Chengdu, to buy the best quality steel. Today. This auditorium is still standing in the school in an extraordinary manner.
Wencai Middle School was completed. A county-level middle school, its scale is amazing, not to mention the township, even the big city is not seen.
At the opening ceremony, Liu Wencai announced in public: “The day the school was established, the Liu family no longer has ownership and use rights to it. Liu Wencai did not see the school as his own private property, gave up the school property, but also stipulated that his children can not occupy, not to mention the inheritance. The only power the Liu family retains is the right to supervise the school and to clean up the school’s finances once a year, and that’s it.
After the verbal announcement, Liu Wencai was still not sure, so he hired someone to carve his instructions on a stone tablet and put it in the Wencai Middle School campus so that the world would know about it, to prevent descendants from hiding and tampering.
Peng Xuexin, a senior male student of Wencai Middle School, dropped out of school because of his family’s financial difficulties, but after he was admitted to Wencai Middle School, his tuition and oil fees were all waived, and he paid very little for food.
Peng Xuexin once recalled his alma mater: “Wencai High School has cultivated many talents for the west Sichuan plain and Chengdu city, especially many poor children, which is really something extraordinary.”
Not only did Liu Wencai take good care of the poor students, but he also took good care of the foreign students. Soon after the victory of the war, the 24th Army was given eight trucks (the 24th Army was the unit of Liu Wencai’s sixth brother, Liu Wenhui), and Liu Wencai immediately picked one and used it as the school bus of Wencai Middle School, which was specially used for students from the field to go to school and return home, avoiding the hard work of students who had to travel long distances.
In the teaching equipment also spent a lot of money, Wencai high school try to increase the library collection and other cultural and medical facilities, but also purchased a large number of physical and chemical laboratory equipment, so that students can carry out group experiments. Liu Wencai also hired someone to build a power plant in Anren to improve the lighting conditions for the morning and evening study sessions.
Three years after the school was built, Anren was flooded and the whole town was inundated. The water gushed into Wencai Middle School from Renhe Street, which is a high ground, and the water was more than one foot deep. After the water receded, Liu Wencai led people to dig the Renhe Street under half a foot to three feet, this time, the original high level of Renhe Street from now on than the Wencai Middle School short half cut. After the flood, Wencai Middle School can be preserved, but Renhe Street is often affected by disasters, the street merchants serious losses.
Don’t think that Liu Wencai don’t care about other people’s lives, the flooded Renhe Street is his sole capital construction, most of the stores on the street is Liu Wencai’s own, so the biggest loss is his own, but for the sake of the middle school, Liu Wencai can’t care about this much.
Such a good man was framed as a big bully, unbelievable!
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