In the war-torn years, there have been too many admirable senior generals in our country, many of whom have done their best after the founding of the People's Republic of China, like two ** evergreens.
Ji Pengfei, the only minister among the "General Ambassadors" of New China.
Zhang Wannian, the first PLA general in New China who was officially called a "military strategist".
Speaking of these two people, there is no work intersection after the founding of the People's Republic of China, one is deeply involved in the diplomatic field, the other is deeply involved in the military field, but as everyone knows, there has also been a sad past incident between them, what is going on?
The whole thing is related to another former senior general of our army, who is the son of Ji Pengfei, the proper "second generation of red".
Speaking of Ji Pengfei, after becoming a military doctor at the age of 20, he grew all the way from a military doctor to the Minister of Health, and later became the director of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army Advance Column.
Along the way, he did not seek shortcuts or preferential treatment for his children, and every child in the family had to rely on their own efforts and struggles.
Even so, ** has been reused in the army by virtue of his own efforts, and was once promoted to major general of the General Staff.
To say that *** had more contact with Zhang Wannian than Ji Pengfei back then, both of them were senior leaders of the Military Commission, and they must have heard of Zhang Wannian's revolutionary creed.
From an apprentice carpenter to a senior general of our army, Zhang Wannian has always adhered to a creed, that is, "the party commanding the gun is the eternal soul of our army".
During his 10 years of work in the Central Military Commission, Zhang Wannian personally felt that the Western hostile forces were intensifying their attempts to "Westernize" and "divide" China, and the concepts they vigorously advocated such as "non-party and non-politicization of the armed forces" had an extremely negative impact on the ideological concepts of the officers and men of the PLA.
In such an unfavorable environment, Zhang Wannian has repeatedly demanded that leading cadres at all levels of the whole army must maintain a sober political mind, keep firmly in mind the "soul of the army," and always maintain political firmness and ideological and moral purity.
Unexpectedly, the first person who should have become a model in the military had a big problem in this regard, and he participated in the notorious Yuanhua extraordinarily large smuggling case that year, in addition, he received bribes of up to 10 million yuan, embezzled and embezzled military funds for a long time, and even secretly arranged for his wife to join foreign nationality, so as to form an improper relationship with foreign organizations.
In 1996, when the Taiwan Strait crisis broke out, China's important military mobilization secrets were leaked to the United States, and the adverse consequences can be imagined.
In March 1999, at a public meeting, ** was announced on suspicion of violating discipline and law and was arrested on the spot.
** He was not very surprised by his arrest, however, he was not prepared to confess his guilt unconditionally, but wanted to use the influence of his father Ji Pengfei to try to exonerate himself.
In the process of being interrogated, ** has been in a state of prevarication and evasion, in addition, he made a request, that is, to meet Zhang Wannian, who was the first vice chairman of the Military Commission at the time.
In fact, at that time, the accusations against *** were already conclusive, and Zhang Wannian, who had always acted impartially, naturally refused to see ***, in addition, even during the war years, Ji Pengfei and Zhang Wannian had been fighting on different battlefields, and their military careers did not intersect, so there was no personal relationship at all.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Wannian finally agreed to ***'s request to meet, and after that, because of one of his instructions, *** changed from evasion to willingness.
It turned out that after *** was arrested, Ji Pengfei's health became deteriorating, and it was conceivable that the child he was proud of had become a national sinner.
As a father, it is reasonable for him to want to exonerate his son, but the crimes committed by *** have long been unforgivable, which also makes the last situation of Ji Pengfei's life extremely bleak.
On February 10, 2000, the outstanding diplomat Ji Pengfei passed away, but the case has not yet been decided.
Under Zhang Wannian's instructions, the guilty *** participated in Ji Pengfei's memorial service, which was regarded as the last time he saw his father, because of this incident, he also felt deep repentance for the crimes he committed, and turned to seriously confess all his crimes, and his repentance was recognized by the Military Commission and ***.
In 2001, he was sentenced to a suspended death sentence for several crimes, which he gladly accepted.
Although Ji Pengfei and Zhang Wannian have such an intersection because of their crimes, it is sad, but Zhang Wannian's extrajudicial mercy is still touching.