In 1985, in order to solve the problem of the shortage of funds for the army, it was decided to allow the army to engage in business, which is commonly known as "the army doing business".
The founding general is Zhang Aiping, as we all know, General Zhang Aiping is upright, dare to put forward his own opinions, General Zhang Aiping's upright personality has been reflected as early as the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, in 1959, at the Lushan Conference Mr. Peng was wrongly criticized, and everyone avoided Mr. Peng.
When Mr. Peng went down to Lushan, he took a special plane at Jiujiang Airport, but no one dared to take the same plane with Mr. Peng, but General Zhang Aiping was not afraid of being implicated and dared to share the plane with Mr. Peng, which was a "feat" in the environment at that time, which shows General Zhang Aiping's upright personality and heroic spirit.
In 1985, due to the problem of military funding at that time, allowing the army to do business could alleviate this problem, so there were many people who supported the army to do business, but Zhang Aiping resolutely opposed the army's business and put forward opinions contrary to everyone else.
On the one hand, Zhang Aiping out of love for the army, in 1925, 15-year-old Zhang Aiping participated in the revolution, joined the party at the age of 18, was brave and good at fighting during the Red Army, is a member of the tiger general under the command of Mr. Peng, has a deep affection for the army, deep love, responsibility, he resolutely opposes the army business is to maintain this team.
On the other hand, General Zhang Aiping has a deep understanding of the disadvantages of the army's business, according to the general's recollection, General Zhang Aiping has repeatedly asked him to talk about the problem of the army's business, and listed many lessons in the army's business, especially the Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty, which is a typical example.
After the Eight Banners Army entered the customs, the generals did not do business properly to make money, greedy for pleasure, resulting in the army having no combat effectiveness, more closely, the same is true of the Kuomintang army, many Kuomintang generals are involved in business, even the famous Wang Yaowu is also in business, there is a biscuit factory.
In the Huaihai Campaign, Liu Zhi, who served as the commander of the Kuomintang Xuzhou "Suppression", also participated in business, when the Kuomintang army decided to abandon Haizhou and shrink the main force of the army to Xuzhou.
Once the army withdrew, the goods of the salt shop were lost, Liu Zhi was reluctant to lose money in his shop, and quietly called ** to Haizhou's own salt shop, and hurried up the big sale, and the 44th Army stationed in Haizhou was supposed to retreat in time, but was ordered by Liu Zhi to stay for one more day.
It was the time of this day, the East China Field Army marched more than 100 miles to catch up with the 44th Army, resulting in a chain reaction, Huang Baitao's Seventh Corps was waiting for the 44th Army, and was also delayed for a day, and finally more than 120,000 people of Huang Baitao's Corps did not have time to escape, and were besieged by the People's Liberation Army in Nianzhuang.
Although in 1985 there were restrictions on the army's business, some units of the army began to do business, which will inevitably affect the cohesion of the army.
General Zhang Aiping's opinion was finally taken seriously, from 1995, the army business was gradually canceled, in 1998, ** to take vigorous and resolute measures, completely ended the history of the army's business, General Zhang Aiping died of illness on July 5, 2003, at the age of 93.