At the beginning of February 1952, ** ended his visit to the Soviet Union and returned to China. He first chose the Northeast as a foothold. Coincidentally, Ho Chi Minh was in Harbin at this time, so he proposed to meet this old friend in the Northeast, and at the same time take him to visit the scenery and culture of the Northeast.
When *** accompanied Ho Chi Minh during his inspection in the northeast, he seemed a little depressed and depressed, which made Ho Chi Minh feel very embarrassed. In the end, ** even left the Northeast with dissatisfaction.
So, what exactly is causing such a situation? Let's review the experience after arriving in the Northeast. After departing from the USSR, ** sent a telegram with the date of arrival and quickly arrived in Harbin, where he met Ho Chi Minh.
As a landowner, ** invited Ho Chi Minh to dine together. Because of the deep revolutionary friendship between them, before preparing lunch, ** specially instructed that the meal should be simple, they are all old comrades-in-arms, focusing on exchange and construction, it doesn't matter what they eat, and they don't need to talk about pomp, pay attention to what cuisine, and simple meals are fine.
In the blink of an eye, it was time for dinner. **Warmly invited Ho Chi Minh to dinner and came to the banquet hall together. Although New China has just been founded, and various undertakings are in the stage of recovery and development, as leaders of the two countries, the specifications of this banquet should not be underestimated.
However, Ho Chi Minh knew the situation in China very well and knew that China was going through difficult times at that time, so he thought that this dinner would be relatively simple. However, when the first hot dish was served in addition to the cold dishes on the table, **'s face turned white.
Staring at the dish fell silent, which made Ho Chi Minh feel a little embarrassed. In order to ease the atmosphere, Ho Chi Minh smiled and asked *** about what he saw and heard during his trip to the Soviet Union, and whether he had found the secret to building socialism.
However, despite the staff's reminders, ** did not respond to Ho Chi Minh's questioning. He just sat there and said to Ho Chi Minh, "Come, come, eat." ”
This left the staff a little overwhelmed. So, they wanted to remind the chairman of Ho Chi Minh's question again, but Ho Chi Minh knew what the chairman was thinking, and he shook his head lightly and motioned for the staff not to interrupt.
Then, one after another high-end dishes were served, and the chairman's face became more and more ugly. If it weren't for the staff who wittily went to the back kitchen and ordered a few home-cooked dishes, it is estimated that the chairman would have lost his temper.
The banquet had a dull atmosphere because of the dishes, and both ** and Ho Chi Minh only ate the small dishes in front of them, ignoring those high-end dishes. In order to break the deadlock, ** offered to take Ho Chi Minh to Harbin to have a look, but Ho Chi Minh returned to the hotel early on the grounds of exhaustion.
After returning to the banquet hall, ** called all the staff, and did not lose his temper, just stared at the dishes for a long time, and then let them eat them separately.
The next day, ** and Ho Chi Minh came to Shenyang, and he made it clear to the staff that the hospitality should not be extravagant and wasteful, and that it was necessary to maintain frugality and not lose etiquette, otherwise the country that had just been laid down would bleed hemorrhage.
However, the Shenyang side did not seem to understand the intention of ***, and the dinner was still big fish and meat, which made *** unbearable, and he was angry directly at the dinner table, and expressed the people's dissatisfaction with the wasteful behavior to the leaders of the hospitality.
Ho Chi Minh also agreed, stressing that everyone is for the people and should not engage in extravagance and waste.
The banquet ended in a hurry, the oppressive atmosphere still did not dissipate, and ** hurriedly returned to Beijing. On the way back, he has been thinking about how to maintain the spirit of hard work after laying the foundation for the country.
After returning to Beijing, he immediately organized a first-class work conference, the only topic of which was to reiterate the spirit of maintaining arduous struggle, and emphasized the importance of modesty, prudence, non-arrogance, non-rash style and style of hard struggle.
Soon after, New China investigated and dealt with the major cases of **shan and Zhang Zishan, and combined with this trip to the Northeast, ** guided the whole party to carry out anti-**, anti-waste, and anti-bureaucratic campaigns, and effectively prevented the deterioration of the party's work style.