"Do you complain ***
This is a question that Tao Zhu's daughter Tao Siliang asked her mother, and her mother is Zeng Zhi.
Zeng Zhi, who was already in his twilight years, was stunned for a moment after hearing his daughter's sudden question, and then said to his daughter in front of him with a firm gaze:
"I have no regrets about my faith!”
So, why did Tao Siliang ask such a question to his mother?What is the relationship between Zeng Zhi and ***?
What are the stories that happened between them?
On September 9, 1976, the great leader of the Chinese people*** passed away in Beijing, and after his death, the CCP** held a solemn farewell ceremony for his body.
At the farewell ceremony, there was an old lady standing in the crowd, who was staring at *** lying in the flowers with a sad face and quietly making a final farewell to him, this old lady was Zeng Zhi, a revolutionary friend who had a deep friendship with ***.
Zeng Zhi is a good friend of ***, but even so, Zeng Zhi's relatives and herself failed to protect themselves in that ten-year catastrophe.
Zeng Zhi's husband Tao Zhu was killed in the ten years of turmoil, and Zeng Zhi himself was brutally beaten, but even so, Zeng Zhi did not confide in *** a word of complaint.
After the death of ***, Tao Siliang, the daughter of Zeng Zhi and Tao Zhu, once asked her mother:
"Dad was so miserable in a special period, and you have suffered so many crimes, do you complain about ***
Zeng Zhi only felt very superficial about the question raised by his daughter, and for her, the answer to this question was obvious, but in the face of his daughter's curiosity and questions, Zeng Zhi still answered very patiently.
She said to her daughter in a firm tone
"I have followed *** for more than half a century, not based on personal feelings or grievances, but out of belief in communism and revolutionary ideas, I have chosen my faith to the death, ** is my leader on the revolutionary road, I always have respect for him. ”
Tao Siliang was deeply touched by her mother's words, and it also made her admire her mother even more.
So, what kind of person is Zeng Zhi, a staunch revolutionary female fighter?How did she and *** meet?
** is a person who loves to make friends, and has had many close friends in his life.
These friends are men and women, or revolutionary comrades in the party, or democrats outside the party, and Zeng Zhi is not only a revolutionary comrade of ***, but also a female friend of ***.
Zeng Zhi is a heroine in the history of our party. She was born in Hunan in 1911, as an authentic Hunan woman, Zeng Zhi's temperament is bold and pungent.
While studying at the Hengyang Provincial No. 3 Girls' Normal School, she began to rebel against feudal etiquette and actively participated in the movement of equal rights between men and women, and the first revolutionary activity in Zeng Zhi's life was to rebel against the arranged marriage of the family.
In 1926, 15-year-old Zeng Zhi was determined to "fight for our women's ambition", and was finally admitted to the Hengyang Agricultural ** Training Institute with excellent results.
After that, Zeng Zhi successfully passed the entrance exam and became a female soldier, although she was a female soldier, Zeng Zhi was as good as those male soldiers, not inferior to them at all.
In October of this year, Zeng Zhi joined the Communist Party of China, and after joining the party, Zeng Zhi actively moved closer to the party organization, and in order to become a real revolutionary, Zeng Zhi resolutely dissolved the arranged marriage imposed on her by her parents, which was a very remarkable thing at that time.
In 1927, Zeng Zhi graduated from the Hengyang Agricultural Machinery Training Institute and became the only one among the more than 20 girls in the class to graduate successfully.
After coming out of school, Zeng Zhi quickly threw himself into the vigorous revolutionary movement, and it was in this year that Zeng Zhi married his first husband, Xia Mingzhen.
This Xia Mingzhen is the younger brother of the revolutionary martyr Xia Minghan.
On March 21, 1928, the day after Xia Minghan's death, Xia Mingzhen also died heroically in the Chenzhou Incident in Hunan. At this time, he and Zeng Zhicai were married for a year.
Zeng Zhiqiang, who had lost her husband, endured her grief and continued the revolutionary work, and soon after, she was transferred to the Seventh Division of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army as the secretary of the Party committee.
It was here that Zeng Zhi met her second husband Cai Xiemin, and the two who were in love soon got married and went to Jinggangshan together, and it was at this time that Zeng Zhi got acquainted with ***
Zeng Zhi later recalled the scene of the first meeting between her and ***, which was on the way to Jinggang Mountain, and the troops were taking a short rest. At that time, Zeng Zhi was already pregnant, and she was exhausted from the days of marching, and she was resting on her husband in a groggy state.
At this moment, Zeng Zhi suddenly heard a loud voice shouting outside the door: "Lao Cai, is Lao Cai inside?"”
Before Cai Xiemin got up to open the door, the person who shouted had already pushed the door in, and Zeng Zhi saw this person's appearance, tall figure, thin cheeks, long black hair parted in the middle, and his eyes flashed with wisdom, and he looked extraordinary. This person is exactly ***
As soon as I entered the room, I saw Cai Xiemin sitting on the edge of the bed and Zeng Zhi resting on him, and when I saw the two of them, I couldn't help but joke:
Yo ho, the golden house is Jiaojiao, Lao Cai is so blessed. ”
After speaking, he naturally took a stool and sat opposite the two, looking at the two with a smile on his face, Cai Xiemin saw this, and hurriedly pulled up Zeng Zhi and introduced to her: "This is the Mao Runzhi I often talk to you about." ”
Hearing that it was Mao Runzhi, a great revolutionary he had admired for a long time, Zeng Zhi suddenly fell asleep, and sat attentively listening to the conversation between the two.
In the process of talking, the humorous words and chic and confident demeanor all gave people a kind feeling like a spring breeze, which made Zeng Zhi feel better about ***, and the two met from then on.
In the years that followed, Zeng Zhi and *** became more and more familiar, and gradually became close friends, her bold and pungent side was also revealed in front of ***, Zeng Zhi was not only unrestrained in front of ***, but even dared to directly confront him.
Once, **'s wife He Zizhen was pregnant, and *** happened to take the team to Jiangxi at that time, and he couldn't take his wife with him, so he found Zeng Zhi before leaving, and asked Zeng Zhi to take good care of He Zizhen.
Who knows, Zeng Zhi became angry when he heard it, and immediately asked loudly:
"I have so many jobs to do, how can I have time to take care of her and give birth?”
**Seeing Zeng Zhi angry for no reason, he was also very angry, and immediately said loudly:
"I want you to take care of it!”
Zeng Zhi saw that *** had such a tough attitude, and he was even more angry, and he directly stood up to ***:
"I am a party cadre, and I have a lot of work to do every day, how can I put down the party's work and not do it, and revolve around a pregnant woman all day long. ”
As soon as he heard this, he knew that Zeng Zhi had misunderstood what he meant, and he explained to Zeng Zhi in a gentle tone:
"It's not that you don't work and revolve around her all day long, but just that you can take care of her in your spare time after work. ”
When Zeng Zhi heard *** say this, she also knew that she would be wrong, and she thought that *** was asking her to quit her job and take care of He Zizhen.
Zeng Zhi is a person who is extremely concerned about revolutionary work, as soon as she heard that *** asked her to take care of He Zizhen, she thought that this was not to let her do revolutionary work, and Zeng Zhi, who was anxious and angry, sent ** without understanding the situation.
After figuring out what happened, Zeng Zhi sincerely admitted his mistake to ***, and said that he would definitely take good care of He Zizhen.
Because she and He Zizhen are extremely good friends, the two are like sisters, even if they don't say it, she will take care of He Zizhen.
This was the case during the Jinggangshan period, and in the Yan'an period, Zeng Zhi still maintained this straightforward character.
In the autumn of 1939, Zeng Zhi was escorted by the organization to study in Yan'an, and since he was transferred to Fujian to work in 1929, Zeng Zhi and *** have not seen each other for almost 10 years.
After overcoming many difficulties and coming to Yan'an, the first thing Zeng Zhi did was to visit her old friend
That day, when Zeng Zhi came to ***'s residence, he found that *** was bending over to boil water, and he didn't notice her arrival at all.
So, she quietly walked behind ***.
*。Zeng Zhi slapped *** and shouted loudly.
** Startled, when he turned around, he couldn't help but be surprised and happy when he saw that it was Zeng Zhi, and he didn't care about Zeng Zhi scaring him just now.
It can be seen that Zeng Zhi and *** do have a good relationship and have a deep revolutionary friendship.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zeng Zhi also often had dealings with ***, among the many female comrades of the Communist Party of China, Zeng Zhi was the one with the best relationship with ***, which was not only reflected in her daring to face ***", but also reflected in the fact that she could directly participate in ***'s family affairs.
In the summer of 1959, ** held a meeting in Lushan, at that time, Zeng Zhi also came to Lushan for a meeting, and in the middle of the meeting, Zeng Zhi went down the mountain for some personal matters and went to Nanchang.
Here, Zeng Zhi reunited with his old comrade-in-arms He Zizhen in the Jinggangshan period, and when old friends meet, they naturally have endless words, not to mention that He Zizhen and Zeng Zhi are still close friends like sisters.
After some talking, Zeng Zhi went back to Lushan, and as soon as he went back, Zeng Zhi found *** and told him about He Zizhen's recent situation, ** After hearing it, he was also emotional, and directly said to Zeng Zhi that he "wanted to see her".
Under Zeng Zhi's matchmaking, ** met with He Zizhen, and Zeng Zhi himself took a great risk.
If it weren't for the very close relationship with *** and He Zizhen, then no one would dare to risk offending *** to participate in ***'s family affairs.
** The relationship with Zeng Zhi was very close before 1966, and it was smooth sailing, although the two also quarreled from time to time, but neither of them took it as a thing, and it was not until the beginning of the ten-year catastrophe that things changed.
Zeng Zhi was wrongly criticized many times in her life, six times during the revolutionary war, but for Zeng Zhi, the one that hurt her the most was undoubtedly in those ten years.
The main reason Zeng Zhi was criticized during the ten years of turmoil was her third husband, Tao Zhu. Zeng Zhi's second husband, Cai Xiemin, died heroically after 1934.
Both husbands sacrificed for the revolution one after another, which was a great blow to Zeng Zhi, but in that era, for the Communists, the revolution was the most important, even if Zeng Zhi was sad, but the revolutionary work still had to be carried on.
Zeng Zhi and Tao Zhu were ordered by the organization to pretend to be husband and wife to carry out revolutionary work in 1933, and a few years after Cai Xiemin's death, Zeng Zhi and Tao Zhu met again in Yan'an.
The two who also suffered from the same catastrophe had more affection for each other after the reunion, and finally with the approval of ***, the two became husband and wife.
Like many people of that era, Tao Zhu was also criticized during the ten years of turmoil, and Tao Zhu was already the fourth leading figure in the party after *** and *** before he was criticized.
But because he was unwilling to accept the pull of **, he stood on the same line with **, so he was criticized and knocked down with ***.
Tao Zhu changed from "Four of Hearts" to "Three of Spades" overnight, and Zeng Zhi, who was his wife, naturally could not escape his bad luck, when Tao Zhu was beaten, she was also dragged to be criticized with Tao Zhu, and was soon tortured to only weigh more than sixty pounds.
In October 1969, Tao Zhu, who was already seriously ill, was evacuated to Hefei, Anhui Province.
Before leaving, Zeng Zhi stewed a bowl of chicken soup and baked a slice of bread for him, but at this time, Tao Zhu was already suffering from cancer and was terminally ill, and it was difficult to even eat, and it took an hour to eat a piece of bread.
After eating, Zeng Zhi wanted to send her husband to the airport, but she didn't get permission, so she had to shake hands with her husband at the gate and separate, and then watched him leave on crutches, which was the last meeting between Zeng Zhi and Tao Zhu.
More than a month later, Tao Zhu died of illness in a hospital in Hefei, and his body was hastily cremated under the name "Wang He".
After her husband left, Zeng Zhi was also sent to the local area, and it was not until 1973 that he returned to Beijing under the care of ***.
In 1976, after the death of **, Zeng Zhi participated in the farewell ceremony of *** with grief, for this close friend who is also a brother and sister, Zeng Zhi has no resentment, only infinite nostalgia and grief.
In her later years, Zeng Zhi's daughter Tao Siliang once asked her if she would resent all the unfair treatment she had encountered in the past
Zeng Zhi only felt very superficial about the question raised by her daughter, and she said to her daughter:
"I am not just a woman, I am also a fighter, for the needs and interests of the party, I can give up everything, including my life, I believe in myself to the death, I have no regrets about the road I have walked, and I always have respect for my leader on the road of revolution!”
Zeng Zhi is a legendary woman in the history of our party, and she is also a heroine.
From her, we can see the revolutionaries of that era who believed in communism and were infinitely loyal and firm to the revolutionary cause, and this unswerving revolutionary quality is worthy of all of us to remember and admire!