Huang Tingxiang (1901-1933)

Huang Tingxiang, formerly known as Yang Moulang, is a native of Haiqiao Township. At the age of 22, I went to Xin 'an Town Teahouse to help. Yang Neng is eloquent, 1926, 10 In June, Lu Tieqiang, the Commissioner of the * * * Production Party engaged in the agricultural movement in Xisha, mobilized him to take part in propaganda work. Almost every day, Yang gives a speech in various towns in Xisha. He used popular language to publicize the revolutionary truth of overthrowing imperialism, warlords, local tyrants and evil gentry, overthrowing grain-poor farmers, reducing rents and interest rates, and establishing farmers' associations, which was well received by the masses. People call him "the lark on the stage". That year, the famine was severe, the farmers refused to reduce the rent, the tenants could not pay, and the contradiction became increasingly acute. 1 1 In June, Dong County held a conference rent in Fengyang Town in an attempt to force the tenant farmers to pay the rent according to the original rent. Lu Tieqiang and others decided to mobilize tenant farmers to attend the meeting and elected Yang as the representative. Yang used Huang Tingxiang's pseudonym to prevent the county government from tracing him.

On the day of the rent negotiation meeting, Fengyang Town was crowded with people. Governor Dong stood on the rostrum, with Dutch soldiers on both sides and Huang Tingxiang standing opposite. Huang Xian was invited to speak, and Huang made a generous statement, pointing out that Xisha was a disaster, and the tenant farmers were extremely embarrassed and had to reduce their rents. He proposed to reduce the rent per thousand steps from 480 kg to 240 kg, and cancel the old rent, small rent and heavy-scale rent collection. Xi said: "The disasters in different polder fields are different. The disasters in Gaotian and lowlands are different, and the rent reduction cannot be the same." Huang immediately retorted: "There are dark clouds all over the sky, where doesn't it rain? The cotton in Gaotian is rotten, and the rice in lowland is flooded. Where is it not affected, how is it different from rent reduction? " Xi was speechless, so he offered to pay 300 Jin rent per thousand steps. Huang immediately asked the tenant farmers under the stage: "The county governor said to pay 300 kilograms of rice rent every thousand steps, and those who agreed raised their hands." The audience was silent, and no one raised their hands. Huang said to him, "Look, people don't agree!" Then, he said to everyone: "Pay 240 kilograms of rice every thousand steps, ancestors, raise your hand if you agree!" " At that, everyone raised their hands. Huang said to him, "What do you think?" ? Everyone will only pay 240 Jin! When Dong saw this, he faltered and said, "I'm a county magistrate, so I can't make decisions. I have to discuss with the farmers about rent reduction, or they will blackmail me into not paying money or paying food. " Huang said, "Don't be afraid of them. As long as you promise to reduce the rent, if the old crow (a contemptuous name for the landlord) really threatens you, thousands of tenants will go to the city and pluck the hair of the old crow with white neck and black claws! " He turned around and asked everyone loudly, "Will everyone go to the city to pluck the hair of the old crow?" The audience "go! Go! " The shouts were thunderous and prolonged. Dong was shocked and had to accept all the rent reduction conditions proposed by Huang Tingxiang. The rent negotiation meeting turned into a rent reduction meeting. From then on, Huang Tingxiang became famous.

1926 65438+At the beginning of February, the first county peasant association in this county was established in Laohaiqiao Town, and Huang Tingxiang was elected as the president. 1August, 927, Huang joined the China * * * production party. 165438+ 10, the armed forces department planned by the county party Committee failed to realize due to leaks. Huang Tingxiang, an orderly of the Allied General Command, moved to his cousin's house in Dongjiu Township, Marco Town, Xiasha to continue the agricultural movement. Unfortunately, he was arrested on March 5, 1928. Immediately, he was transferred to the Jiangsu Provincial High Court, sentenced to six years' imprisonment and detained in the Third Prison of Jiangsu Province. 1933 Huang died of torture in prison. At the age of 32.