One day in December 1957, Zhang Yunyi, the founding general of the People's Republic of China, received a letter.
After reading the contents of the letter, General Zhang Yunyi, who has always been kind, was furious and slapped the table on the spot.
Until he returned home in the evening and finished eating, Zhang Yunyi was still uneasy. Seeing his restless appearance, Mrs. Han Bi couldn't help but ask: "Old man, you are restless today, what's wrong?"”
General Zhang Yunyi didn't hide anything in front of his wife: "You don't know." Today, the secretary got back a letter asking for help from the masses, which was written by a company commander surnamed Yu at the grassroots level, saying that a new round of land reform was being carried out in his hometown, and his father was wearing small shoes everywhere because he had offended the village cadres. ”
Han Bi: "So, this company commander's father is in a bad situation." ”
Zhang Yunyi nodded: "It's not a trivial matter for village cadres to retaliate against the families of soldiers. ”
Han Bi asked: "Old man, the contradictions between the army and the local government are handled by the department in charge, you are now old, you are sick, and you are still unofficial, you don't want to come out and fight for the company commander by yourself, right?"”
Zhang Yunyi: "The matter of the families of military personnel is not a trivial matter. If it is really the village cadres who take advantage of the opportunity of land reform to announce personal vendetta and retaliation, how can this company commander Yu serve in the army with peace of mind?I've taken care of this matter. ”
The company commander who wrote the letter was from Xiaotun Village, Wendeng County, Yantai City, Shandong Province.
The reason why General Zhang Yunyi never forgets such a "trivial matter" is that he has experienced countless ups and downs in the past 47 years in the army, and has grown from a student soldier to a founding general, and he knows best the ups and downs of grassroots cadres and soldiers.
As the oldest founding general, Zhang Yunyi's military career is legendary.
Zhang Yunyi, a native of Wenchang, Hainan (formerly part of Guangdong Province), participated in the New Army Uprising at the age of 18 and almost became the 73rd martyr of Huanghuagang at the age of 19. When he served as the chief of staff of the 25th Division of the 4th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, Zhang Yunyi recommended Lu Deming as the head of the guard regiment to cover the majority of the 25th Division led by Zhou Shidi to participate in the Nanchang Uprising.
After the Baise Uprising, Zhang Yunyi entered the Soviet District as Deputy Chief of General Staff and was the assistant of ***.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Yunyi was ordered by Zhou Gong to go to Macao to invite Ye Ting, who had left the party for 10 years, to serve as the commander of the New Fourth Army, and was the oldest senior general of the New Fourth Army. **After the re-establishment of the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army, he served as deputy commander and commander of the Shandong Military Region.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhang Yunyi was in charge of Guangxi. After 1952, he resigned from all positions due to health reasons. Despite this, in September 1955, when the first major award was made, Zhang Yunyi was still awarded the rank of general and enjoyed the treatment of marshal.
It is precisely because he has been in the army for decades that Zhang Yunyi knows best that "loving soldiers like sons" is combat effectiveness.
Although he did not hold a specific position, Zhang Yunyi was famous.
Perhaps the name of General Zhang Yunyi was often seen in some newspapers and radios, so when the company commander of the grassroots unit encountered something bad at home, he probably had nowhere to ask for help, so he actually wrote the letter directly to General Zhang Yunyi.
Because he happened to be on official business in Qingdao, Zhang Yunyi decided to personally inquire about the matter of the company commander.
When the matter in Qingdao was almost settled, General Zhang Yunyi told Qingdao Secretary Teng Jinglu about the matter of the company commander's hometown, and asked Secretary Teng to send him to Xiaotun Village in Wendeng County, where he wanted to meet the company commander's father.
Teng Jinglu is also a native of Jiaodong, and his hometown Rushan is not far from Wendeng.
During the war years, Teng Jinglu had been working in Muping, Beihai, Yantai and other places, and was familiar with the situation in that area. But considering that it is the middle of winter, it is more than 400 miles from Qingdao to Wendeng, and it takes six or seven hours to drive. General Zhang Yunyi is 65 years old, not to mention the bumpy and tiring journey, seeing that the sky is gloomy, the heavy snow is coming, and the road from Qingdao to Wendeng is full of hills and low mountains
The 44-year-old Teng Jinglu is steady, and suggested that Zhang Yunyi's secretary do it for him.
The host was thoughtful and kind-hearted, and General Zhang Yunyi didn't say anything more, so he asked the secretary to take the address and drive to Xiaotun Village in Wendeng County. After the secretary left, General Zhang Yunyi's heart hung in the air.
After more than a dozen hours, the secretary finally returned.
General Zhang Yunyi hurriedly put down the matter at hand and carefully inquired about the secretary's trip to Xiaotun Village. However, when he heard that the secretary only arrived at the Wendeng County Government and did not rush to Xiaotun Village, his heart was not steady.
The secretary reported: "As soon as I told the county about the matter of Company Commander Yu's father, the comrades in the county took it seriously, and promised to send someone to deal with it fairly the next day, and then give us a satisfactory answer." ”
Senior General Zhang Yunyi asked, "Have you seen Yu Tonghai, the father of Company Commander Yu?"”
The secretary was stunned for a moment, and immediately replied: "That Xiaotun Village is still more than 50 miles away from Wendeng County, and the comrades in the county are afraid of the danger of the road in the dark, so they didn't take us there." However, the leaders of the county patted their chests and promised. ”
General Zhang Yunyi sighed: "There must be a beginning and an end to doing things, and it seems that I have to make a trip." ”
Seeing that there was goose feather snow in the sky, Qingdao Secretary Teng Jinglu repeatedly dissuaded him, but the old general had made up his mind and insisted on going. Secretary Teng had no choice but to send a few more cars to General Zhang Yunyi.
Waiting for a few cars to rush to Xiaotun Village in the wind and snow, they ran for almost a whole day. The remote Xiaotun village is quiet, and I have never seen such a pompous car team, let alone greeted a big official like Zhang Yunyi.
For a moment, this peaceful little mountain village immediately boiled like a pot of boiling water.
Rumors immediately spread in the small mountain village: the big officials from Beijing came to see Yu Tonghai.
When several cadres in the village saw this posture, they already understood seven or eight points: There must be someone in the village who went to Beijing to "sue the emperor", otherwise, how could such a big official come to the door of such an ordinary family as Yu Tonghai.
In addition to being shocked, the village cadres who had been entangled with Yu Tonghai were also afraid.
They are worried that in this way, even if the "backers" behind Yu Tonghai do not ask them, they will not be able to get off the stage. However, when the village cadre Yu Tonghai's family saw the "big official" from Beijing, he was a kind old man.
General Zhang Yunyi did not listen to the words of Tonghai and his son, but after entering the village, he asked different people about the cause and effect of the incident in detail, and after several cadres in the village arrived, he further verified the matter.
In the end, General Zhang Yunyi and several leaders from Wendeng County reached an agreement, although the impact of the Yu Tonghai incident was not good, but in the final analysis, it was still an internal contradiction, and the village cadres apologized to Yu Tonghai in person, and everyone reconciled.
When he heard that the person who came was the famous General Zhang Yunyi, because his son had a letter asking for help, he made a special trip to help resolve the dispute, Yu Tonghai was so moved that he couldn't speak, and he wanted to perform the old etiquette in rural Shandong, kneel on the ground and kowtow.
General Zhang Yunyi grabbed Yu Tonghai and told him that everyone should take care of their military families.
Soon, the news of General Zhang Yunyi's visit to Company Commander Yu's house spread locally, and the local government took this as a warning to improve its work style, and Company Commander Yu did not live up to General Zhang Yunyi's expectations and worked more actively.