On October 1, 1949, our beloved *** announced to the world the establishment of a great country, whether it was on the scene or through various communication channels to hear the news, as a Chinese, the excitement in my heart is beyond words, and only those who have really experienced it can understand this feeling.
It is not easy to recall the revolutionary history of the past few decades, whether it is the high-ranking generals who commanded thousands of troops and horses to fight, or the grassroots officers and soldiers who fought bloody battles, they have all made great contributions. Although the revolution was victorious, how to create a beautiful and happy environment for life and development is still a big problem, so the war is over, but the burden on the shoulders of the leaders is still not light.
Today's protagonist is one of them, he has experienced many life and death tests in the revolutionary years, and has served as a political commissar for the two founding marshals, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he has been in the post of vice premier for 21 years, which can be described as a hard work, and contributed his life to the cause of national liberation and the development of the new era
If we want to talk about his seniority in the party, it can be said that he has grown up with the development of the party. In the vigorous May Fourth Movement, it had a great impact on many patriotic young people, and for the great cause of national rejuvenation, they decided to go abroad to find a development path suitable for China, so they launched a work-study movement in France, and *** was one of the participants.
In October 1919, ** boarded a ship in Shanghai and left the motherland, after more than a month of sea turbulence, finally arrived in Marseille, France, in this foreign country, he met a lot of outstanding young people from China, through a lot of practical work and theoretical research, a deep understanding of the essence of the capitalist system, but also participated in the establishment of the Chinese Youth Communist Party in Europe (changed to the European branch of the Communist Party of China in August 1922), it can be said that his experience has made a lot of contributions to the establishment and early development of our party.
In addition to the great achievements in the revolutionary cause, he also found the beloved wife who accompanied him all his life. After coming to Mendani that year, he often visited Cai's house and discussed issues about the Chinese revolution with Cai Hesen, thus getting acquainted with Cai Chang. This pair of outstanding young people quickly went from acquaintance, acquaintance to love. In fact, the brothers and sisters Cai Hesen and Cai Chang came to France, as well as their mother Ge Jianhao.
This is a positive, cheerful old man, through contact she also feels that *** is a person worthy of her daughter's life, but also appreciates the free love between the two, and finally under the auspices of the old man Ge Jianhao, the two became partners in this city thousands of miles away from the mainland in early 1923.
Later, accompanied by his beloved wife, ** came to the Soviet Union and entered the Chinese Xi class of the Eastern University in Moscow for nearly a year. Although he lived in a comfortable state, could concentrate on theoretical research, and was accompanied by his beloved wife, he never forgot his original intention, and eagerly hoped to receive a notice to arrange for him to return to China as soon as possible to devote himself to revolutionary work.
It was not until the summer of 1925 that the couple finally returned to their motherland, and in the following years, ** served as the director of the Political Department of the Third Army in Guangdong, and also participated in the Northern Expedition. After the defeat of the Revolution, he remained in Shanghai and continued to work underground until 1929, when he was sent to Hong Kong to become a worker for the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee.
At that time, the revolutionary situation in the White Zone was not optimistic, and there were often people who lost faith and defected to the enemy, and the damage to the party organization by these people was fatal. At the beginning of 1931, due to the defection of Mo Shubao, a traffic officer, more than ten organs of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee were destroyed one after another, with a total of more than 50 comrades**. After the incident, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee was paralyzed by all the main leaders except for the main leaders.
At that time, there were two ways in front of ***, to get out of danger as soon as possible? Or stay and salvage the situation and get out of the crisis? Faced with great difficulties and pressures, he finally chose the latter.
After he reported the situation to **, he reorganized the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee with Yang Jiefang and Yuan Ceyi, summarized the mistakes in the work, and at the same time took a series of measures to rush to various places to guide the work, and re-establish contact with Qiongya, Dongjiang and other base areas.
From one battlefield, he rushed to another, he followed the ** Red Army for many years, led the Jiangxi Military Region with **, and later became a partner with Mr. Peng and served as the political commissar of the Red Third Army. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he stayed in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region, responsible for the organization and financial work, and successively served as deputy director of the Organization Department and deputy minister of the Ministry of Finance and Economy.
If a political party and an army want to develop and grow, it is not only necessary to have faith and persistence, but also to have abundant financial support, and our party has done a good job in this regard.
In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, under the brutal attack of the Japanese invaders and the economic blockade of the forces, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area and the anti-Japanese base areas encountered difficulties, and this burden fell on the body.
As soon as the campaign was launched, each department had its own tasks, and the organization department led by ** and *** was responsible for collecting fertilizer. Most of the members of the organization department are young intellectuals from all over the country, who have done these dirty jobs. **And *** took the lead in picking up dung, and as soon as the leader took the lead, everyone put down the shelf and started to do it in full swing.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was transferred back to Beijing from Northeast China to be responsible for the country's financial and economic work and the development of heavy industry, and served as vice premier from 1954, in addition to concurrently serving as director of the Planning Commission. He and the first pair of old partners came together again, jointly formulated and implemented our country's first five-year plan, during which he went to various places during the day to investigate, and held meetings at night to study, I don't know how much energy and sweat he paid.
And in 66, he was also elected as a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and became a leader of the country. It is worth mentioning that his wife Cai Chang's position is not low, and later she also became a deputy national leader. But this special family has always maintained a hard and simple attitude towards life and work.
Originally, according to the regulations, at the level of the husband and wife, they could each be equipped with a special car to facilitate work. But considering that there was a shortage of gasoline at that time, the husband and wife shared a car. There are no special requirements for food and clothing, for example, the clothes that Li Lao wears on weekdays are all patched, and he has been wearing them for more than ten years, and later because he wants to go abroad, he made two sets of new clothes.
It's easier to eat, the simpler the meal, the better, it seems that the two leaders are very good at serving, but it makes it difficult for the chef, the cooking skills that have been practiced for many years are now useless, and I am afraid that it will become unfamiliar after a long time.
The husband and wife have a high level, the salary is not low, and they have a lot of savings in their hands after a long time, but they don't want to leave the money to their daughter, in January 1975, Li Lao gave an explanation to his wife before his death, and after he died of illness, he donated the money as party dues. After the funeral of Mr. Li was over, Cai Chang followed her husband's last wish and handed over her 100,000 yuan savings to the party organization as a special party fee in the name of the husband and wife.