Foreword: In the spring of 1949, the three major battles were successfully concluded, the morale of the Communist Party was high, and the construction of socialist New China was ready to start. On the eve of the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, ** and ***, as representatives of the conference, left the Northwest Front.
Sitting in the car, he had a premonition that after this meeting, he would be stationed in Beiping, and the whole country would soon enter a period of peace for socialist construction, and his 20-year revolutionary career would soon come to an end.
* Thinking that the war is about to subside, the mission of the army will definitely change, but where do you go from here? After fifteen days of contemplation on the road, he looked back on all his experiences since joining the revolution, finally realized his strengths and made a decision.
After that, he wrote an application.
As soon as I arrived at Xibaipo, I went straight to my residence to ask for a meeting. After a brief greeting between the two, they began to talk about the topic of the world. Suddenly, **ask**: what do you think is the ultimate goal of the revolution? ”
* Answer without thinking: "Liberate all of China and establish a revolutionary regime!" * Holding the same view, he began to think about production and economic construction after the victory.
At this time, ** took out the application prepared in advance, expressing his willingness to go to the most difficult places, to the frontiers where they are needed, to liberate the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, and to contribute to the development, construction and development of the motherland's frontiers.
** took the application and said with a smile on his face: "Then you won't be able to go to big cities and rich places." * Answer: "I was born to endure hardship!" ”
After hearing this, pat him on the shoulder and say, "I expected you to ask for this, and this is in line with your character." Your ideas can be presented publicly in plenary. ”
In the small club of the venue at night, the Peking Opera "Red Lady" is being staged lively. However, ** did not go to see the show, but chatted with *** in the company of Ren Bishi.
Soon after, ** left alone, hiding in the corner and engrossed in preparing the speech materials for the meeting, so when he felt someone behind him, he didn't even notice that *** was already standing behind him.
Standing quietly behind him, he watched for a while, and suddenly asked, "Aren't you going to the play?" It's a lively scene. * was taken aback, but quickly recovered and replied, "I don't have any artistic cells." ”
After listening, sit down and look through the reference books, and say, "Today's "Matchmaker" is very exciting, you should go and see it." The matchmaker is a character who is wholeheartedly helping others, and she is very cute.
When you arrive in Xinjiang, you will be the protagonist, going to do good things for the people of Xinjiang. Hearing this, **'s heart was full of excitement, and he knew that his application to go to Xinjiang had been approved.
On March 5, the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee was held, and it was proposed: "We must go to the most difficult place, to Xinjiang!" Subsequently, Ren Bishi and others discussed the issue of liberating Xinjiang, and also told the history of Zuo Zongtang's recovery and construction of Xinjiang and Zhang Qian's Banchao's mission to the Western Regions.
After returning to the front line, ** conveyed the Xinjiang matter to the troops of the First Field Army, and some people questioned it, ** patiently persuaded: "Those remote and difficult places, if we don't go, then who will go?"
Foreigners want to occupy our territory and tell you to go to war, will you go? The party has entrusted us with the task of safeguarding the reunification of the motherland, will you go? In June, ** led his troops to advance westward, and after walking thousands of kilometers, he approached Xinjiang at the end of September.
On October 5, Kuomintang general Tao Zhiyue met with ***, and finally, the three Hunan villagers reached an agreement to peacefully liberate and build Xinjiang.
* In the process of starting a business in Xinjiang, I encountered a basic problem - the problem of eating and drinking. In fact, he had already taken countermeasures, because he had successfully cultivated Nanniwan, which turned Nanniwan from a barren land into a good Jiangnan in northern Shaanxi.
* As the commander of the 359 Brigade in the reclamation of Nanniwan, he has extensive experience. Under difficult conditions, he led the 359th Brigade through the enemy blockade back to Yan'an, and stationed in Jinpen Bay, Nanniwan and Linzhen.
Although it is overgrown with weeds, wild beasts roar at night, and there are no people for hundreds of miles, they still choose to start a new life here. **Encourage everyone to use their hands to create barracks, which solves the problem of housing.
Although there are many challenges ahead, ** and his team firmly believe that as long as they put in the effort, they will be able to create a better future.
1.Although the rows of simple shacks were quickly covered, the good times did not last long, and a heavy rain disrupted everyone's arrangements, and the backpacks and bedding were all soaked and cold.
I couldn't sleep, so I could only sit on the wet quilt with a rain cloth and take a nap. But this did not break the fighters, and the next morning they began to build the barracks again singing songs.
Although the troops were allocated some food, due to the blockade and difficult environment, the amount of food gradually decreased, and everyone had to dig wild vegetables, mix them with grain and cook them into porridge to eat.
2.They ditched luxury and threw themselves into construction, and simple shacks soon rose from the ground, but life took its twists and turns. A heavy rain disrupted the plan, and the backpack and bedding were soaking wet and freezing to the bone.
I could only sit on the wet quilt with a rain cloth, and I couldn't sleep in the cold night. However, early the next morning, they began to build the barracks again singing songs. Although the troops were already receiving little food, food became increasingly scarce with the enemy blockade and the difficult environment.
In desperation, they can only dig wild vegetables, mix grain and cook porridge, and live like a year.
In the spring of 1940, the brigade party committee made an important decision: we should open up wasteland for production in Nanniwan and be self-reliant. ** personally made a mobilization report, he said: "Each of us needs to eat, in the face of difficulties, we have only two choices: one is to roll up and go home, no longer revolutionary, and the other is to respond to the call of *** and be self-reliant."
Obviously, our choice is the latter. Most of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were born as laborers, whether they were farmers, workers or carpenters, we could do anything in the seventy-two lines. Together with the people in the border areas, we must do a great job to turn Nanniwan into Jiangnan in northern Shaanxi, and completely smash the conspiracy of the Kuomintang reactionaries to starve, freeze to death, and trap us to death! ”
So, every day at dawn, the valley would be filled with the song of labor. Although many of the fighters were peasants, they had not held a hoe for many years, and at the beginning, their hands were full of blood blisters, and their backs ached, and after more than ten days, they had a thick hard callus on their hands and a much stronger body.
Everyone has come out of the initial discomfort. The land that has been barren for a long time has also been planted with rice, sorghum, potatoes, millet and other grains. **I also planted 4 acres of rice experimental fields, hoping to research new varieties.
On rainy days or nights, when farming is not possible, people gather together to spin wool, knit sweaters, and collect shoe soles. The hard work of all the officers and men of the 359th Brigade paid off, and in the autumn, golden crops covered the fields, and the sorghum of a man tall was bent over by the heavy ears of rice.
Seeing such victorious results, the soldiers were so excited that they were speechless, and even the common people in the border areas praised them, "The Eighth Route Army under the leadership of the Communist Party can not only destroy the enemy, but also change the world and turn the poor mountain ravine into Jiangnan in northern Shaanxi." ”
It is precisely because of this historical background that when I came to Xinjiang, I still had the same plan - self-sufficiency. Xinjiang's natural environment is very harsh, with only endless deserts and large temperature differences.
In those days, it was only by relying on the willpower of all officers and men that the land could be reclaimed with the most basic means of production. In the beginning, the Xinjiang Corps did not even have the most basic survival materials, so everyone had to live in tents, sleep on Datong bunks, go to the Tianshan Mountains to find drinking water, and boil wheat in salt water to survive.
In 1951, the Xinjiang Army completed large-scale wasteland development, and the reclaimed millions of acres of land not only achieved self-sufficiency, but also provided abundant food resources for the country.
In February 1952, the chairman paid great attention to the development of grain storage in Xinjiang, and he called on everyone to put down the grain and take up the production and construction of the country, and contribute to the construction and development of the country.
As a result, production and construction have become the focus of Xinjiang's work. After the military tun system matured, in October 1954, the Production and Construction Corps of the Xinjiang Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was formally established.
Although they no longer wear military uniforms, they are disciplined in the same way as soldiers. By 1966, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps had more than 1.5 million people, and its scale was getting bigger and bigger, and its production structure was becoming more and more abundant, including agriculture, industry, and other fields.
In 1965, the model of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps was highly recognized and promoted to the border areas of Northeast China and Inner Mongolia.
In 1975, before the reform and opening up, all corps, including the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, were forced to abolish in order to meet the needs of development. However, as the vice premier, he has not forgotten the development problems of Xinjiang.
At the age of 73, he traveled to Xinjiang four times over the next few years to fight for the region's future. In June, he wrote a letter to the then chairman of the Military Commission, emphasizing that Xinjiang's special environment and sparse population made it difficult for it to develop, and therefore suggested that the XPCC system be restored as soon as possible.
**Agreed-upon this, and requested ** to organize the leaders of relevant departments to jointly carry out a unified report on the restoration of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. On August 13, **accompanied *** to Xinjiang for an in-depth field investigation.
Two months later, the Military Commission made a decision to restore the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, making it the only production and construction corps in the country.
On March 12, 1993, ** died in Guangzhou, in accordance with his last wish of "scattering his ashes on the Tianshan Mountain, always standing guard for the Chinese nation, and always yearning for the magnificent communism", **'s ashes were scattered on the Tianshan Mountain.......