years of awarding titles, no official ranks, why *** specially approved him to enjoy marshal treatment?
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, those founding heroes who made outstanding contributions to the victory of the revolution were awarded marshals or generals at the award ceremony in 1955. However, the chairman rejected the rank of marshal and argued that those who were no longer in the army should not be awarded the title.
Military ranks are based on each person's qualifications, contributions, and position. In the evaluation process, the revolutionary hero Zheng Weisan put everyone in a predicament, and he didn't know what rank to give him.
In the end, the chairman personally decided to approve Zheng Weisan to enjoy the treatment of marshal. So, who is this Zheng Weisan who makes the chairman pay so much attention to it?
He was an excellent leader of the peasant movement.
Zheng Weisan, a native of Huang'an, Hubei, was born on October 21, 1902. Although the family background is no longer as prominent as that of the ancestors, compared with other poor peasants, the life is still relatively comfortable, and there is no need to worry about food and clothing.
He was brilliant since childhood, loved to read, and was admitted to the Hubei Provincial Class A Industrial School with excellent grades at the age of 16. At the time of the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement, he was influenced by the patriotic upsurge, and his patriotic enthusiasm was stimulated, and he actively participated in that vigorous patriotic movement.
In his dealings with revolutionary progressives, Zheng Weisan gradually identified with and deeply understood Marxist-Leninist thought. After graduating and returning to his hometown, he became a teacher and often actively spread patriotic ideas on campus.
In 1925, under the guidance of a communist, he joined the Communist Party of China and officially embarked on the road of revolution. After joining the party organization, he carried out secret revolutionary activities in his hometown of Huang'an together with other revolutionary comrades in accordance with the instructions of his superiors, actively propagated revolutionary ideas, founded a number of night schools, and mobilized the masses to study actively.
Slowly cultivating a revolutionary consciousness among the peasant masses, Zheng Weisan and others planned and established a secret peasant association, bravely fought and tried the local tyrants and shoddy gentry, and was deeply praised and encouraged by the local masses, greatly enhancing their revolutionary enthusiasm and enthusiasm, and greatly promoting the development of the peasant movement.
With the changes in the revolutionary situation, under the guidance of the party organization, Zheng Weisan formed a peasant revolutionary armed force, and the members of this force became the core force in the later Jute Uprising.
Zheng Weisan has become one of the main leaders of the revolutionary movement in Huang'an County, and he firmly adheres to his revolutionary beliefs.
In April 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup d'état, and the Kuomintang reactionaries carried out a frenzied sweep of the Huang'an area, and the Huang'an County Committee of the Communist Party of China suffered heavy losses, and Zheng Weisan also lost contact with the party organization.
However, in this difficult situation, he did not flinch, but remained faithful and continued to fight stubbornly against the enemy. Under the guidance of the party organization, he succeeded in restoring the normal operation of the Huang'an County Party Committee, and under the leadership of Zheng Weisan, the peasant masses in the Huang'an area regained their enthusiasm for struggle and continued to wage fierce battles against the enemy.
Huang An's revolutionary situation gradually showed a positive trend, and Zheng Weisan won high praise and praise from his superiors for his outstanding leadership skills. After the convening of the "87 Conference", the plan for the Autumn Harvest Uprising formulated by the Hubei Provincial Party Committee further promoted the development of the situation.
* Zheng Weisan was instructed to organize and lead the Autumn Harvest Rebellion in Huang An, which set the prelude to the unfolding of the Jute Uprising. In the early preparations for the Jute Uprising, Zheng Weisan made great efforts, but due to the long-term overload of work, he fell ill in bed and was unable to personally participate in the battle of the Jute Uprising.
In 1930, after the establishment of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet District was also established.
He has made outstanding contributions to the construction and development of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area, and is known as one of the main founders of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area. The revolutionary struggle in which he participated was extremely difficult, but he always adhered to his original intention and fought for the revolutionary cause all his life.
Driven by ambition, Chiang Kai-shek intended to completely eliminate the Communists, so the methods against the Communists became more and more cruel. In June 1932, he sent hundreds of thousands of heavy troops to carry out the fourth frenzied "encirclement and suppression" of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui revolutionary base areas.
Under such an emergency, Zheng Weisan was ordered to take up the post of secretary of the CPC Northeast Hubei Provincial Committee and commander-in-chief of the guerrillas, and led the military and people in northeastern Hubei to wage an arduous revolutionary struggle against the Kuomintang reactionaries.
However, in the face of the enemy's frenzied purge, many villagers were either innocently killed or forced to hide in the deep mountains and old forests and did not dare to come out, and this place has almost become an uninhabited village.
Zheng Weisan's relatives were pursued by the reactionaries and forced to flee into the mountains and forests. My father was sick and couldn't get ** in the mountains and passed away; Her mother died of hunger and ingestion of poisonous wild vegetables; His wife was hunted down by the Kuomintang reactionaries and unfortunately fell into a cave and died of starvation.
All this made Zheng Wei's heart cut like a knife, but he forced himself to remain calm, endured the grief in his heart, and continued to lead the army and people in the Soviet area to carry out arduous guerrilla warfare in the deep mountains and old forests.
Zheng Weisan worked closely with the guerrillas in various localities and joined forces with the main forces of the Red Army to successfully carry out many powerful strikes against the enemy. In the struggle against the enemy, he constantly drew experience from actual combat, adjusted his combat strategy with the enemy, defeated the enemy again and again, and made outstanding contributions to the defense of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui revolutionary base areas.
The superior leaders highly praised Zheng Weisan's outstanding leadership skills.
After the failure of the Red Army's fifth anti-encirclement campaign, in order to continue the revolutionary cause, our army was forced to start the Long March. During this difficult journey, Zheng Weisan became a member of the Standing Committee of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, secretary general, and director of the Political Department of the Red 25th Army, and he followed the ranks of the Red Army.
Unlike others riding horses, he preferred to walk with the warriors, talking to them as he went, gaining insight into their lives. Because of his pro-people style, the warriors soon formed a deep friendship with him.
In the 25th Army, his prestige was very high, and although he was only in his thirties, everyone affectionately called him "Old Man".
Zheng Weisan, with his rich experience in guerrilla warfare and local work, took over as secretary of the Henan-Shaanxi Special Committee and the Hubei-Shaanxi Special Committee, and he decided to continue to lead guerrilla warfare in the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi base areas.
After the main force of the Red Army withdrew from southern Shaanxi, the enemy concentrated heavy forces to encircle and suppress the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi base areas in an attempt to destroy our party's armed forces there. At this critical moment, Zheng Weisan decisively merged the remaining Red Army and guerrilla units into the Red 74th Division, concentrated forces, unified leadership, flexibly used guerrilla tactics, and thwarted the enemy's attacks many times.
Under the leadership of Zheng Weisan, the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Special Committee and the Red 74th Division persisted in guerrilla warfare for nearly two years, and the Red 74th Division expanded from more than 600 to more than 2,000 at the beginning.
After the Xi'an Incident, the Red 74th Division was reorganized into a guard unit and shouldered the important task of protecting the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area and the security of the country. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Zheng Weisan returned to the Hubei-Henan-Anhui border area under the arrangement of the party organization, and commanded the army and the people to launch a heroic struggle against the Japanese invaders.
In accordance with the instructions of ***, Zheng Weisan successfully completed the reorganization of the Red 28th Army. While leading the guerrilla war, he also went deep among the masses, vigorously propagated patriotic ideas, aroused the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the masses, and quickly established two guerrilla brigades to strengthen the guerrilla armed forces.
Zheng Weisan was a hero of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation. In the War of Resistance Against Japan, he served as the political commissar of the New Fourth Army detachment and the political commissar of the division, and partnered with Zhang Yunyi, **, etc., and made significant contributions to the victory of the War of Resistance against Japan.
During the War of Liberation, he served as the secretary of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Bureau, the secretary of the Central Plains Bureau and the political commissar of the Central Plains Military Region.
Although he did not participate in the award, he enjoyed the treatment of a marshal and was highly appreciated by the leaders of *** and ***.
Zheng Weisan, who has struggled in a difficult environment for a long time, has left many scars on his body. However, the harsh conditions at that time made it impossible for his injuries to be treated in time, and he eventually fell ill.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zheng Weisan's physical condition deteriorated day by day, and he could no longer undertake specific tasks. As a result, he was forced to take early retirement for physical recuperation. During his recuperation, he paid close attention to the changes in the international and domestic situation and made many valuable suggestions for the construction and development of the country.
In the 1955 Grand Awards, his subordinates and comrades-in-arms who had fought together were either awarded marshals or generals. However, according to the selection criteria, comrades who did not serve in the army could not be awarded military ranks, so Zheng Weisan ultimately failed to obtain the rank.
Despite this, his contributions and influence remain widely recognized and respected.
Zheng Weisan made a notable contribution to the Chinese Revolution, and although he did not meet the criteria for the award, his merits deserve recognition. It was decided to grant him the administrative treatment, which allowed him to enjoy the treatment of a generalissimo even if he did not hold any position.
Zheng Weisan died of illness on July 27, 1975, at the age of 73.
Zheng Weisan devoted all his energy to the revolutionary cause in China, and during the war, he braved difficulties and led the people in the border areas to bravely resist the enemy. However, due to the long-term burden of revolutionary work and the pain of fighting, his physical condition was extremely bad.
Most of his comrades-in-arms who fought with him in the war were given important positions in the state, but Zheng Weisan was unable to continue working due to health problems and had to retire early.
Nevertheless, ** and the state remembered his exploits and specially approved him for the treatment of a founding marshal. Looking back on Zheng Weisan's revolutionary career, he fully deserves this honor.