After the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Cheng Liren, a prisoner of Guizhou Volunteers, went to Argentina and became the richest man in the country and the president's brother-in-law. After the reform and opening up, he loved his country and his hometown, and went back to Guizhou to visit relatives and friends many times. So, what is the legend behind this?

Early experience

Cheng Liren, formerly known as Cheng Guogang, 1926 was born in a well-off family in Xujiaba District, Sinan County, Guizhou Province. Because his family has money, he has been from primary school to college. 1945 to 1949 studied in the foreign language department of a university in Chengdu, Sichuan for four years. Although he is ugly, stupid and rough, and his face is pockmarked, he is diligent, has a high IQ and is familiar with English, French and Spanish.

1949 Graduated from university in July, and couldn't find a job. In order to make a living, he reluctantly joined the Kuomintang 95th Army, with Huang Yin as the commander and stationed in Chengdu. On February 9th of the same year, 65438 troops took part in the uprising and were reorganized into the 60th Army of China People's Liberation Army (commander Wei Jie). Cheng Liren also became a PLA soldier. Shortly after liberation, Cheng Liren joined the army in Xichang to fight bandits. The PLA troops are different from the predatory and lifeless atmosphere of the Kuomintang troops. They are full of fresh and energetic atmosphere. It seems that he has regained his spirits and decided to do well in the army and make some achievements.

195 1 In March, he became a soldier of the 60th Army of the Volunteers180th Division and entered Korea to participate in the war. According to his comrade-in-arms, Zhang Zeshi, in My Korean War, Cheng Liren was ugly, "silly and pockmarked". 195 1 in may, cheng liren's troops were ordered to retreat quickly and undertook the task of covering the whole line and retreating in big strides. His division is behind the whole army. But the next day, they were surrounded by United Nations troops. On May 27th, Cheng Liren was unfortunately captured (it is said that he surrendered voluntarily).

After being captured, he was detained in the 86th POW Camp (the 86th Wing) of Juche Island, which is known as the "Island of Death". Juji Island, also known as the "Island of Death", is surrounded by the sea and is short of fresh water. In the Koryo dynasty, this was a special place for prisoners. The endless sea completely dispelled all prisoners' hopes of escape. The U.S. military has built five docks on the island and a prison camp that can hold tens of thousands of prisoners of war. Cheng Liren was first escorted to Busan Prisoner of War Shelter for a period of time, and then sent to the 86th Prisoner of War Camp (the 86th Wing) in Jochey Island, where he served as the leader of the fourth group and later as a cultural teacher.

In the prison camp

Cheng Liren found that a "civil war" was being staged among the 20,000 volunteer prisoners of war in the Jujidao prison camp. "Pro * *" or "anti * * *", prisoners of war with different positions have strict barriers. Most of the "anti-* *" prisoners of war were officers and men of the former Kuomintang troops. They were incorporated into the War of Liberation, captured and asked to go to Taiwan Province Province. The vast majority of other prisoners insisted on returning to the mainland. The ideological conflict makes both sides regard each other as traitors, the prison camp becomes a battlefield, and large-scale fights occur from time to time.

In such a battle, no one can be spared. Cheng Liren used to be the captain of the Fourth Brigade of the 86th Wing of the POW Camp. More than a thousand people in the fourth brigade are mainly composed of captured soldiers of the 180 division, most of whom are Sichuan troops who defected from the 95th Kuomintang Army when Chengdu was liberated. Many of them are poor peasants, farm workers and urban poor. They were originally recruited into the 95th Army after being forced to work.

After being captured, they instinctively embraced each other for survival and personal future in their sufferings. Their group is called "Brotherhood" and its leader is "Big Brother Dai Yushu". Dai Yushu, a native of Deyang, Sichuan, is a strong and generous person who has been trained in a difficult life and worships Guan Yunchang's loyalty. He is the son of a small businessman who made leather shoes in Chengdu in the old society. He lost his mother when he was a child. When he was a child, he often went to pick up briquettes and fish with his friends. Whenever he was bullied, he would rather break his head and fight for his friends, so he naturally became the leader of his friends. Before he became a strong man, he was a strong man of the Kuomintang, and later joined the China People's Liberation Army with the 95th Army Uprising. He looked down on those "paoge" who just wanted to eat more and take more, bullying the weak and fearing the hard. Because prisoners of war usually do the heavy work of lifting excrement and loading and unloading military materials, three meals a day, one rice ball for each meal, and prisoners of war who are still hungry have the phenomenon of fighting for rice balls. Sometimes, at the first world war, the United Nations soldiers guarding them often can't help laughing when they see it. Dai Yushu, who has strong self-esteem, sees it in her eyes and is angry in her heart. He often stops the competition between them. Dai Yushu is young and strong, with a little strength. Sometimes he will be too impatient to stop and will do it. In this way, not only did he establish his prestige among the prisoners of war, but even the soldiers of the United Nations Army began to look at him with new eyes. He told his brothers that we should live with backbone, real gold is not afraid of fire, and we should learn from Guan Gong's "We are in Cao Cao, and our hearts are in Han".

There is also a wise and brave "strategist" in the "Brothers Company", named Zhao (a pseudonym in the prison camp). Zhao was neither a Sichuanese nor a soldier of the 95th Army, but he won the trust of Dai Yushu and his brothers. He is from Lingshi County, Shanxi Province. /kloc-joined the second anti-Japanese longitudinal reconnaissance team at the age of 0/3. He was born in party member and is a political cadre. Zhao Ceng asked Dai Yushu, "Everyone is hungry. When others rob food, you not only don't rob it, but also stop others from robbing it. Aren't you hungry? " Dai Yushu said seriously: "Men are men. Since they are out fighting, they are not afraid of death. They are all compatriots, but they fight for a meal. Look at those Americans. They are laughing. Is it not shameful? " Zhao couldn't help being awed by Dai Yushu's words. He found that Dai Yushu's character was trustworthy and congenial, so he decided to help Dai Yushu build "brotherhood" into a commando team of "anti-betrayal struggle". Zhao put forward the slogan of "help each other in the same boat and never forget our ancestors". Zhao also introduced party member cadres such as Shi Zhankui, Geng Jizeng and Xu Gongdu to join the "Brotherhood", and the membership has grown to more than 200.

After the League grew, it first seized the power of Cheng Liren's captain, Dai Yushu and Zhao served as deputy captains, and set up its own "Prisoner of War Guard" composed of all members of the League. Chen Zhijun, a soldier from Chengdu, served as the captain of the guard. Cheng Liren was marginalized.

Later, American chaplain Wu Peili came to the 86th United. He appointed Cheng Liren as a cultural teacher, responsible for compiling teaching materials for prisoners of war to learn, and gathering audiences for Wu Peili to preach at school. From then on, he was nicknamed "the headmaster". However, his political attitude is too ambiguous, and it is difficult to gain the trust of both "pro-* * *" and "anti-* * *". Beating and humiliating made him live in the cracks.

The great jeweler and the president's brother-in-law

1954 65438+1On October 20th, the United States began to repatriate prisoners of war. Zhang Zeshi, Dai Yushu, Zhao and other determined prisoners of war returned to the north, and the stabbed prisoners of war with a "blue sky and white flag" on their chests boarded the bus to south Taiwan Province. Cheng Liren, who could not be trusted by both sides, chose to stay where he was and went to India with the remaining 1 1 people.

There is no way for Cheng Liren to leave a foreign country. At that time, there was a saying in the prison camp that he "surrendered voluntarily" and "he was a defector on the battlefield". People who remember him still say that. This became a figure that was rejected by any camp in the prison camp at that time. Finally, he was not allowed to return to the mainland and Taiwan Province Province, so he had to be arranged to be a "neutral country".

After a year of neglect in India, he went to Argentina in South America from 65438 to 0955. The area of Argentina is equivalent to 16 of the total area of Guizhou, but the total population is similar to that of Guizhou, with only about 30 million people. Agriculture and animal husbandry in this country is relatively developed, and the export volume of many products is the highest in the world, and the industry has a certain foundation. This is a beautiful and rich country.

During his stay in Argentina, because he knew several foreign languages and had a solid cultural foundation, he chose to engage in international trade, run jewelry business and traveled to dozens of countries, making rich profits and getting rich quickly.

According to Wu Huaying and Zheng Quanhuan's Zheng Chuan, 1968, an Argentine jeweler Cheng Liren ran a Huadu restaurant. They learned that Zheng, an overseas Chinese in Shitan Township, Tangjun Town, Enping County, Guangdong Province, was good at catering, and they personally found Zheng and planned to hire him as a chef in Huadu. Cheng Liren is an expert in jewelry and doesn't know much about the catering industry, so all business is subject to Zheng. Zheng dui said, "today's society is progressing rapidly, and the old service system has not adapted to the needs of society;" Secondly, we should make full use of all advanced media and publicize intuitively to ensure better results ... ""Your proposal is practical and really an experience. You frankly and selflessly introduced these valuable experiences to me, which shows that you are not interested in interests and treat me as a brother. Very good! This will be done according to your opinion, and I will entrust everything to you ... "Cheng Liren was full of passion and couldn't help but say to Zheng. Zheng thought, Cheng Liren deserves to be an expert in jewelers. He has vision and courage. This is his experience of becoming rich.

From 65438 to 0987, Cheng Liren was one of the most successful businessmen in Argentina and the largest jeweler in Argentina. He owned 600,000 mu of land, two listed companies and was the brother-in-law of then Argentine President Raul Alfonsin.

Miss one's homeland

It is human nature to love our motherland and miss our homeland. Cheng Liren, who lives overseas, has a more prominent feeling. However, in the past, under the influence of "Left" thoughts, because of his special experience, he could not serve the country and was homesick, so he had to pin his mind on Taiwan Province Province. When I arrived in Taiwan Province Province, seeing my black hair and eyes, I felt very kind in the language of * * *, so I returned to my own country, which gave me some comfort.

Well-informed areas have analyzed the advantages of this country and connected with overseas Chinese such as Cheng Liren through various relationships. Shanghai has taken the first step. Together with Cheng Liren, they founded the Azhong Trust and Investment Company, where more than 700 people settled and engaged in various occupations. Fujian has also explored new ways to export and trade labor services in the Argentine capital through various channels; More than 3000 people from Taiwan Province Province have settled there.

1March, 986, Cheng Liren returned to China to visit relatives for the first time. He donated a sum of US dollars to Xujiaba, Sinan County, Guizhou Province, to set up public welfare undertakings such as highways. Cheng Liren deeply realized from his own experience that the prosperity of the country and the rejuvenation of the nation depend on the development of education. Although he is engaged in business and busy all over the world, he still insists on his own ideas and attaches great importance to the development of education. I hope that the schools founded in my hometown will continue to cultivate social pillars from generation to generation.

Through the impressions of visiting relatives in China twice in recent years, Cheng Liren deeply realized the hardships of the people in his hometown. Later, he took the initiative to donate tens of thousands of yuan to Sinan county government to build a teaching building and library for Xujiaba Middle School. When this building is completed, it will be integrated with the original main building, adding new glory to Xujiaba Town. Cheng Liren also wrote an inscription for the teaching building of Xujiaba Middle School: "Education is the foundation of the country", from which we can see that his calligraphy has a certain foundation.

Cheng Liren also actively supported the Guizhou provincial government to build an overseas Chinese village in Guiyang, which provided good conditions and environment for returned overseas Chinese to understand and build Guizhou.

Dedicate Guizhou to get rich

By 1988, Cheng Liren, who was nearly sixty years old, had never forgotten his hometown. He repeatedly said, "If you don't do something good for Guizhou, you will be ashamed to see the folks."

After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, he constantly learned about his relatives in his hometown from letters, and his patriotic homesickness became more intense. 1in the autumn of 987, when he returned to Guizhou for the second time, he learned that Wang Siming was the head of the United Front Work Department of Guizhou Provincial Committee, and he specially invited him to visit Afghanistan. Wang Siming accepted this personal invitation with pleasure.

Wang Siming and his party arrived at Buenos Aires Airport at 1 p.m. on April 9th (local time at 1 p.m. on April 8th). Cheng Liren and his company manager Mr. Liu met them at the airport.

On the third day of Wang Siming's arrival in Afghanistan, Cheng Liren arranged for them to visit his farm. He has three farms, two of which are close to the capital 100 km, with a land area of more than 2,000 mu, one of which has been rented out to others for farming, and the other is more than 400 km away from the capital, which can be reached by car for only 5 hours, with a large land area of more than 600,000 mu. These two farms are uncultivated and overgrown with weeds.

What are the two deserted farms worth visiting? It is impossible for such a farm to be idle in China. But Cheng Liren didn't have this idea, because he managed jewelry and international trade, and the economic benefits he got were faster and many times more than those obtained by the farm. However, these farms are his real estate protected by law in this country and the material basis for his international trade negotiations. Although he gave up farming, he would not give up the property right of the farm easily.

Cheng Liren introduced to Wang Siming that his farm can grow jojoba. If this cash crop is planted, the economic benefits will be considerable. Jojoba, mainly used for oil extraction. This oil can replace whale oil to make high-grade lubricating oil, which is indispensable for aerospace industry, high-grade cosmetics and pharmaceutical raw materials, and can also be used for food preservation. With the development of modernization to a higher level, some countries such as the United States regard this cash crop as a new generation of "cash cow". Jojoba is wild in Mexico and cultivated artificially in the United States. After successful introduction, Israel, India, Thailand, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Haiti, South Africa, Argentina and other countries, among which Israel is the most successful. Take the economic benefit of planting Jojoba in Argentina as an example, the investment will have benefits in three years, and then it will double year by year. At 1988, the best price per kilogram in the United States can reach $50.

Wang Siming thought, can we organize our own forces to go on an expedition to Afghanistan? This is also what Cheng Liren hopes. On the basis of organizational strength, after training, know certain skills, and then expedition to Afghanistan. In this way, we can not only plant cash crops such as jojoba, but also process its raw materials into various products and enter the international market.

On the day before leaving Argentina, namely 1988, 15 April, Cheng Liren and Wang Siming initialled the agreement and formulated the articles of association.

The three documents formed are the result of mutual respect and trust based on the principle of mutual benefit. The main contents of these documents include: the establishment of "Agui Trust and Investment Group Company" in Buenos Aires, Albania. The guiding ideology of this company is that, under the premise of legal operation, whatever is quick, profitable and beneficial to the company's development will be operated, and funds will be accumulated through expanding trade, and development projects will be gradually operated, such as setting up a textile factory in Afghanistan. Cheng Liren immediately said that he would donate his 1.5 million mu of farm land to the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Guizhou Province for free, and use these vast land to grow cash crops such as jojoba, grapes and cotton. In short, it is mainly to carry out comprehensive trade and run other businesses. Implement the general manager management system under the leadership of the board of directors,

Party A is the chairman and Party Gui is the vice chairman and general manager. The profit is divided into 46%, with Party A accounting for 40% and Guizhou accounting for 60%. The company is headquartered in the capital of Albania. When conditions are ripe, branches or offices will be set up in other countries and regions. Based on the advantages of resources and products of China and Argentina, we should face the world, carry out all-round economic and trade activities and strive to create more foreign exchange for the two countries.

With the support of relevant departments of Guizhou government, 1988 organized dozens of scientific and technological personnel to carry out the experiment of planting Jojoba in Luodian County, Qiannan Prefecture, and achieved gratifying results, which promoted further cooperation between the two sides.

During 1994, Cheng Liren went back to Guizhou to visit relatives again. Liu, secretary of Guizhou Provincial Party Committee, Chen, governor, Yuan, Yao Jiyuan, vice governors met with him respectively and extended a warm welcome to his visit. He also introduced Guizhou's provincial conditions, achievements in economic construction, investment environment and preferential policies for foreign investment, and answered his questions.

Since then, Cheng Liren has become a legendary and mysterious figure. Later, during 20 12, 1 1, when Tang Shili, a hometown official and deputy director of Guizhou Provincial People's Congress, visited Argentina, he went to great lengths to meet Cheng Liren, then the chairman of Argentina Liren Co., Ltd., and only said that he would consider inviting him back. As for whether he went back to his hometown later, there was no news.

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