In his later years, he often said, "* still know me." ”
At 7:30 a.m. on September 23, 1965, the secretary of ** called *** and told him that *** had asked him to talk an hour later. Considering that ***Xi is used to working at night and resting in the morning, ** originally planned to go in the evening, but the secretary insisted that he come in the morning.
So, ** arrived fifteen minutes early and found that *** was already waiting outside the door. The two entered the room together and had a five-hour private conversation. After *** finished speaking, ** nodded and said, "Maybe your point of view is correct."
Moved to Wujia Garden: Leaving the hustle and bustle of Zhongnanhai and moving to Wujia Garden. This garden, which was built in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, is composed of a main hall and a courtyard, and the scenery is beautiful, like an ancient and melodious ink painting.
However, when he first arrived here, he did not intend to enjoy the beautiful scenery, he cared about the people and always remembered the hard work of the working people.
Soon after, ** cultivated a vegetable plot in this old mansion and planted some seasonal vegetables himself, such as cucumbers with thorny top flowers, plump tomatoes and bunches of bell peppers.
The villagers living near the Wujia Garden often encounter this old man who is immersed in farming, he wears a straw hat, pulls up his trouser legs, and three or five friends, sometimes around the edge of the vegetable field, exchange planting experience, and sometimes give each other melons and fruits in the vegetable field.
However, at first, no one recognized this as General Peng, who was once "horizontal and immediate". With the passage of time, he was no longer satisfied with just planting melons and fruits, and he began to pay attention to the problem of food shortage since the founding of New China, hoping to contribute to solving this problem.
In order to calculate the yield per mu, he rolled up his trouser legs, dug pond silt with young people to make fertilizer, and specially planted a wheat test field in the field. Under his careful management, the crops in the experimental field grew luxuriantly and vigorously.
Although he has no relatives in his life, he loves the children near the Wu family garden very much. In the era of extreme food scarcity, on the eve of Children's Day in 1960, ** still did not forget the children's holiday.
He specially instructed the staff to invite the children from the neighborhood to his home, and distribute the school Xi supplies and candy prepared in advance to the children, so as to congratulate the children on the holiday.
Thank you Grandpa Peng. ”
Grandpa Peng, we promise you that in the future, we will live up to expectations and dedicate ourselves to the motherland. Listening to the children's immature and determined voices, even ***, who has experienced countless wars, can't help but be deeply moved.
Although he lived in the Wu Family Garden, Grandpa Peng was not isolated from the world, his niece Peng Gang would come back to visit him every weekend, and Peng Gang's arrival not only brought Grandpa Peng the warmth of family affection, but also provided him with a window to understand the development of all walks of life.
Grandpa Peng is always concerned about the future of the country and the fate of the people, how can he not care about current affairs and politics?Whenever Peng Gang returned to school in the evening, Grandpa Peng would personally send her to the bus station, and watched the car gradually drive out of sight, and Grandpa Peng slowly returned to Wu's garden.
In May 1964, the chairman of the first class thought deeply about the international situation, the country's economic conditions and natural geographical conditions, and put forward a new strategic plan, which divided the country into.
First, second, third lines.
** The Chairman attaches great importance to the construction of the defense industry in the third-tier areas and has decided to increase investment in this area. This decision triggered a new upsurge in the construction of the defense industry across the country, especially in the third-tier areas.
** The "three-line" strategy was proposed, that is, the establishment of a strategic rear in the southwest and northwest inland areas. In his opinion, the current factories are mainly concentrated in large cities and coastal areas, and if they are attacked by hostile forces, it will not be conducive to preparing for war.
Therefore, he instructed to disperse the factories to the deep and wide interior, and implement them in each province to ensure that each province has its own strategic rear.
Maybe the truth is on your side. "In 1964, China's first atomic bomb test was successful, and ** held "The People**" and shed tears of excitement.
On September 11, 1965, a group of people came to Wujia Garden to spread the word, please go to the Great Hall of the People, and the leaders were waiting for an in-depth conversation with him.
Peng Zhen received *** and told him that ** decided to send him to the third front as the deputy commander-in-chief. ** Surprised by this, but politely declined the offer, saying that he had no experience in industrial production and might as well go to the countryside to do research.
Although Peng Zhen insisted on persuasion, the two did not reach an agreement. **Expressed hope to see***, but Peng Zhen could only send him away. After returning to Wujia Garden, ** was in a low mood for several days.
On September 21, he wrote to *** asking for permission to return to the countryside. The letter was delivered to ***'s desk on the same day. At 7:30 the next morning, the secretary of ** called *** and asked him to meet *** by 8:30
A flash of surprise flashed in my heart, followed by a hint of joy. He pondered for a moment and said to the ** end: "The chairman is Xi to work at night and will rest in the morning, so I will visit in the evening."
The two of them are comrades-in-arms and teachers and students for many years, and they know the life Xi of *** very well. However, the secretary still insisted that he come in the morning. As soon as he hung up, he hurriedly asked Zhao Fengchi to start the car, and at 8:15, he arrived at Zhongnanhai Yi Nian Hall.
At this time, ** was already waiting for him at the door. Walk up to him, hold your hand tightly, and greet him.
**Looking at ***'s white hair and thin face, he sighed: "I haven't seen you for a few years, you are really getting old." * Answer: "I have come here to tell you something important."
Say, "I've been waiting for you and didn't fall asleep until tonight." When I received your letter yesterday afternoon, I was so happy that I couldn't sleep. Today, ** went to greet Sihanouk, as well as Comrades Shaoqi, Xiaoping, and Peng Zhen, who will come to participate in a while.
Let's talk about it first. The two walked side by side, ** said as they walked: "Now we need to build a strategic rear and prepare for war, the southwest region has the most investment, the strategic rear is very important, and it is most suitable for you to go to the southwest region."
** Still insisting: "I don't know anything about industry, and politics is not my forte." The two walked into the conference room, paused for a moment, and then said, "No matter what the circumstances, I have to work and produce and support myself."
Nodding: "I remember what you said, and now it seems that maybe you were right." ”
At lunchtime, ** and Peng Zhen were seated one after another. ** Start the discussion to get to the point: "At present, the most important area in the strategic rear is the southwest region, which has abundant resources, a superior geographical location, and a lot to do.
** Comrade go there, it is possible to achieve some results. Although *** insisted on his point of view, and even said that time was pressing, he preferred to go to the frontier to engage in agriculture.
**took a deep puff of cigarette and did not answer, while the other three persuaded *** together *** Finally, ** spit out a large cloud of smoke and said: "Comrade * goes to the southwest, this is the party's policy, and I sincerely support him to go there."
If someone disagrees, he can talk to me. ”
**To *** and ***, expressed the hope that they can organize a meeting to solve the problems in the southwest. After the meeting, **invited *** to dinner, and the three of them talked together, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.
Say to the comrades around you, **I have understood his point of view. They discussed history, emphasizing the importance of building a nation and thinking about future generations. Seeming a little drunk, he held back tears and said, "Now it seems that the truth may be on your side .......""At a meeting in the first half of the year, I listened to the speeches of comrades in the southwest region, and they welcomed them to work.
In his later years, he often said, "* still knows me." * Immersed in the joy of being able to serve the people, there was only one thing that worried him before leaving.
Peng Gang is the orphan of a martyr, he has lived with him since he was a child, and now he is leaving the Wu family garden, all the houses must be handed over to the government, and his niece already has a job, so she can't move with him, and needs to find a place for her to live.
The day of departure was getting closer and closer, and one day, ** said to the comrades who came to visit him: "This niece of mine has been living with me, and as soon as I leave, she has nowhere to go."
I pondered over and over again, if I could leave a room for her”
Hearing that *** opened his mouth just to solve his personal problems, the comrade couldn't help laughing: "It's not difficult, just find her a new place to live." The problem of the house was successfully solved, but *** was still a little uneasy: "This is the first time I have asked the organization for personal needs, and I feel a little uncomfortable.
Before he left, he gathered the staff around him for a symposium and personally picked the apples grown in the garden, which was the last time he worked as a farmer in Wu's garden.
On November 28, 1965, the 33rd train with a long roar left Beijing Railway Station, ** wearing a black military coat, his days in Wujia Garden had passed, and his heart returned to a new battle.
**Coming to the Southwest: Shouldering the heavy responsibility of promoting the construction of the third lineOn November 30, **arrived at his residence at No. 7 Yongxing Lane, Chengdu. During this trip, he will serve as the deputy commander-in-chief of the construction of the third line in the southwest.
As soon as he moved in, ** said to Yang Pei, deputy secretary general of the third-line construction committee who received him: "I will start working tomorrow." Yang Pei advised him to rest for a few days first, but said, "I have been resting for a long time."
The next day, he first listened to a report by the comrades of the Southwest Bureau on the construction of the third line and began his work on the third line.
On December 12, ** left Chengdu to begin his first field trip. After attending the political work conference of the Chongqing Third Line Construction Committee, he went to Neijiang, Weiyuan and Zigong to learn about the production of natural gas and carbon black.
In February 1966, when he visited the Panzhihua Iron Mine Project and the Baoding Coal Mine in Dukou City, he could not hide his excitement. He had suffered from digging coal as a teenager, so he was very familiar with these "Ugin".
He repeatedly instructed the leaders of Dukou City who accompanied the visit: "The roadway support must be serious and ensure the production safety of the workers." * It was also noted that the Dukou Iron and Steel Base has been more than 30 miles from the confluence of the Yalong River and the Jinsha River to the current cement factory and Baoding Coal Mine, and the lights are bright at night, which looks very spectacular, but it is easy to be photographed by high-altitude reconnaissance planes.
He immediately proposed to set up a high-altitude reconnaissance station at the ferry port and establish air defense communications links with Chongqing, Kunming, and Guiyang, so that once enemy planes were discovered, they would control the lights at an appropriate time.
In March, ** came to the Anshunchang ferry in Shimian County again, and in the face of the turbulent Dadu River, he couldn't help but think of the boatmen who ferried for the Red Army. Suddenly, it occurred to him that the Red Army had successfully moved north, so what about the boatmen who helped the Red Army ferry back then?
Upon questioning, he was pleasantly surprised to learn that there was still a boatman named Shuai Shigao who was still alive, so he turned around to visit him after completing his inspection. I was very relieved to see the old boatman with a strong body, but when I asked him about his life after liberation, I was silent for a while and sighed deeply when I heard about the difficulties in the old man's life.
At parting, he gave the old boatman ten yuan. When *** traveled all the way to the Luoji Mountain Livestock Farm in Xichang, he and his nine entourages had a meal in the local area, and then left after paying two yuan.
**After learning about the payment situation, he said with a serious face: "It is not appropriate to pay such a small amount of money for those grains produced with blood and sweat." So, he immediately paid eight yuan and wrote a letter to Comrade Tian Xingcheng, the secretary of the party committee at that time, emphasizing that any enterprise must strictly abide by the accounting system.
Even during the inspection, ** will calculate every account clearly and will not take any advantage. Therefore, he was very dissatisfied with the construction of a high-end reception house that cost 150 yuan per square meter at that time, and the fact that each guest occupied more than 60 square meters.
** Concerned about the phenomenon of competing to build high-end reception centers in various places, he decided to use the money from Xichang Construction to build the magnificent Jin Jiang Hotel. During his trip to southern Sichuan, he inspected the coal mine and made a decision about it.
During the Long March, the Military Commission ordered three or four hundred people to be sent to Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou to open up new base areas, but since then, this team has lost contact with the Red Army.
Decades later, ** is still concerned about this group of heroic commanders and fighters. During his visit to the county, he spared no effort to find their whereabouts. After many inquiries, he finally learned that they had been fighting for several months in 1935, and in the end only a few dozen men remained, surrounded by the enemy, and all of them died heroically.
The news left *** devastated and unable to recover from the shock for a long time. The staff on the side called out to him softly, but he didn't seem to hear it, immersed in deep grief.
** Life is simple, even in the 60s, he still wears old cotton clothes worn during the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, and he usually doesn't drink alcohol.
**'s salary, except for supporting his nephews, nieces and some martyrs' children, was all saved by him. His monthly salary is 410 yuan, and since he has no biological children, he usually gives limited support to his nephews and nieces in order to cultivate their frugal Xi.
So, how is the salary of ** finally handled?In 1966, when the organization cleaned his safe, it found a cigarette case and some renminbi bundled together, totaling more than 10,000 yuan.
And on the brown paper packaging of the money, three big characters are clearly written: "Pay party dues." ”
Wei Gang's "** and Ma Yongqi, editor-in-chief, and the editorial board of the book series compiled "Towering Monument Remembering the Marshal Wentu Collection 2nd Edition" are all about Marshal ***'s works.