[Borderland party flag Red] Under the boundary pillar, Yang Tiancai, an old party member, persisted for 35 years.
Yang Tiancai took a handful of soil in front of the boundary pillar and took it to Beijing for the reporter. (Photo by He Chuan)
Cctv news(Reporter He Chuan wanglili) In 1984, in Bozhujing Village, Nandamen, China and border county, Yunnan Province, the martyrs who died at the border were buried here soon after the smoke dispersed, and the grass had just grown on the graves.
Probably in May of this year, the villager Yang Tiancai met someone at his door — — Yang Wende, Director of Foreign Affairs Office of Hekou Yao Autonomous County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Yang Wende hopes that he will take up the responsibility of the foreign affairs clerk in Qiaotou Miao and Zhuang Township, because he is a "veteran" and a Chinese Communist party member who joined the Party with fire lines and was tempered by war.
Yang Tiancai, who just turned 30, stood at the door of his home, looked back at the direction of his comrades’ cemetery and agreed. From that day on, Yang Tiancai never left the village again and became a foreign affairs clerk without preparation and remuneration.
Silent watch, blink of an eye for 35 years. A promise is easy, but it is hard to stick to it in 30 years. He stayed with the boundary pillar for more than 12 thousand days and nights. Behind Yang Tiancai, who is old and strong, he left countless touching stories … …
The hat and kettle hanging on the wall are important tools for Yang Tiancai to patrol the border. (Photo by wanglili)
Ten years of stepping on a mine and falling off a cliff.
The responsibility of foreign affairs clerks is to explore and patrol the front line of the border, guard the boundary markers, and mediate and handle conflicts and disputes between the border people of both sides. During the ten years from 1984 to 1994, Yang Tiancai stepped on a mine and was seriously injured when he fell off a cliff. Every day when he went out to patrol was a test of life and death.
Yang Tiancai, 65, is still working as a foreign affairs clerk and insists on patrolling the border. (Photo by wanglili)
A hat, a kettle, a bamboo stick and a machete are almost all the equipment of Yang Tiancai. Every morning when inspecting the boundary pillar, Yang Tiancai bid farewell to his wife and children and set off alone. In fact, there was no road in those days, because he walked a lot, and there was a path between the boundary pillars.
"One day in 1986, I visited a place three or four kilometers away. I accidentally stepped into the grass on the side of the road, and my feet felt wrong. I knew I had stepped on a mine. My heart was pounding and I was sweating. Glancing at the terrain, there was a ridge more than two meters in front of me on the left. I closed my feet and swooped down under the ridge. Before people landed, the mine exploded and fell all over me. " Yang Tiancai said that fortunately, his comrades-in-arms taught him how to do it, otherwise one leg would definitely be abolished and his life might not be saved.
Not long after this adventure, Yang Tiancai fell from a cliff nearly four meters high near boundary pillar 137, and his calf was pierced by branches. There was no telephone at that time, so Yang Tiancai bandaged the wound himself and finally climbed home.
Yang Tiancai’s wife, He Xingzhen, took her daughter and held her son and asked him, "You are dying. What should I do with my two children?" At this time, Yang Tiancai’s daughter is 6 years old and her son is only 3 years old. Yang Tiancai was silent and then said, "I know my own business."
Later, Yang Tiancai told reporters why he was silent: "When I stepped on a mine, I thought of my brother in the army. The land they exchanged for their lives, I will keep it alive. "
In this way, Yang Tiancai, the militia and deputy instructor who won the third-class merit in the war years, worked as a foreign affairs clerk for ten years without any pay. During these ten years, Yang Tiancai’s brothers and sisters went out of the village and found their own world in the fields of township government, credit cooperatives and education, while Yang Tiancai chose his own mission: to stay in agriculture and watch the country.
In 1991, Yang Tiancai was awarded for the first time. (Photo by wanglili)
Twenty years of upholding justice and winning the trust of border people
In 1994, starting from the second decade, foreign affairs clerks received a monthly living allowance for 100 yuan.
"In the second decade, peace slowly returned to the border. If there is peace, there will be more exchanges between border people. At this time, my main task is to mediate disputes. " Yang Tiancai said that there are many problems such as grazing cattle, logging, and crossing the border. As long as it is not illegal, I said that people on both sides still have to listen.
Every morning, border people across a river flood into the estuary to work and go back at night. In the 1990s, Hekou was known as "Little Hong Kong" in Yunnan. (Photo by He Chuan)
Zhang Jianchun, the 45-year-old director of Baozhujing Village’s medical care, told the reporter a story of Yang Tiancai in those days: "Lao Yang was an old party member who dared to take responsibility and acted fairly. At that time, he had high prestige in the hearts of people on both sides of the border. A disappointing young man in our village stole a neighbor’s cow, and then stole it to the relatives of a neighboring country to hide. After finding out the truth, everyone was at a loss. Lao Yang found out where the young man was hiding and took two villagers as border residents. After they found the young man, they said that they really brought him back to China and handed him over to the judicial organs for handling according to law. Only he can do this. "
In recent years, Yang Tiancai has mediated and recorded more than 300 conflicts and disputes among border people, and more than 100 incidents of forest theft and poaching. Yang Tiancai quickly mediated minor contradictions and disputes in the village, and he couldn’t count the number of them himself.
"I am a foreign affairs clerk, that’s what I do. If I can’t mediate well, I will report to my superiors. " Yang Tiancai said: "Doing this is the need of the party, the country and the masses. Others are unfamiliar and I can only do it. "
Yang Tiancai’s promise is not only to watch this land, but also to protect the hard-won peace on this land.
Hekou county is separated from Vietnam’s old street by a river, and the border trade is prosperous. (Photo by He Chuan)
Refuse bribery and fight smuggling to show party spirit
Yang Tiancai’s second decade is a busy decade, busy but simple. With the continuous development of social economy and the growing prosperity of border trade, a new test is placed in front of Yang Tiancai.
After twenty years of patrolling the border and protecting the monument, Yang Tiancai knew every stone, tree and path of this border like the back of his hand. However, the most difficult thing to master is the human heart. In the third decade, the crimes of smuggling, drug trafficking and trafficking in women on the border have appeared frequently.
Yang Tiancai said: "When I inspect suspicious people crossing the border, what I can do is to report them to the relevant departments of our country as soon as possible. Especially those drug traffickers, I don’t fight them head-on, hide and observe, confirm and report. " According to the clues reported by Yang Tiancai, the local border police station successfully cracked 42 cases of drug trafficking, gold trafficking and trafficking in women.
Fighting criminals all day, isn’t he afraid and doesn’t want to think about the safety of his family?
Yang Tiancai said: "I also know that doing this job is annoying. I am also afraid of doing this, but I have to do it if I am afraid." An old friend in the village asked me to run a border trade, and I could earn more than a year’s income in one trip. I didn’t promise. A smuggler gave me more than 100,000 yuan and told me not to tell. I didn’t agree, because I am a Communist party member. "
On the day of the interview, the reporter saw that Yang Tiancai lived in an old house converted from a warehouse in the 1960 s for more than 30 years. After the rain, the ground was cold and wet. The big red slogan of the year was faintly visible on the wall, and the tables and stools in the house were broken.
We wonder, when he refused to accept bribes from criminals, did he struggle internally? Yang Tiancai said with a smile: "That little money is not a test. In these decades, things bigger than that have come, so don’t think so much about that."
Over the years, Yang Tiancai’s eldest daughter worked as an ordinary teacher in the county primary school, and her son helped others drive in the county, and they all got married. Yang Tiancai said: "In recent years, my son didn’t have a formal job. The family lived in public rental housing in the county, and life was a little bitter. My daughter has a job and bought her own house. It was better, but my son-in-law got sick and left a few years ago. The other day, my granddaughter was seriously ill, and the orphans and widows were also suffering. I went to the hospital for two months, and the child was saved … …” Speaking of which, Yang Tiancai’s tears fell down.
The cadres in Qiaotou Township said that it was the first time they saw Lao Yang crying. They had never heard Lao Yang talk about this before. He never mentioned the difficulties at home to the organization and never asked for anything.
In the third decade, honors such as "Top Ten National Models for Defending the Country and Defending the Border" and "National Excellent Communist party member" came one after another. In 2014, the photos of the Supreme Leader General Secretary when he met him are still hanging in the most conspicuous position in his home. When he came back from Beijing, Yang Tiancai put down his glory, and as he did 30 years ago, he continued to silently watch the south gate of China, and it was another five years.
Yang Tiancai told reporters, "Don’t look at my humble home, I am very satisfied. We are an old couple. We have lived in this mountain all our lives. I will work as a foreign affairs clerk until I can’t walk any further.