Hu Qiaomu was the secretary of the chairman, and from 1941, when he was personally named to hold this position, to 1966, he worked by the chairman's side for 25 years.
During his illness, the President also sent a health doctor to visit and inquire about his condition, fully expressing the President's concern and concern for him. Even though Hu Qiaomu later quit his secretarial work, he and the chairman still had many letter-to-letter discussions on the issue of poetry revision.
The Chair not only revised his poem, but also pointed out its shortcomings.
In the working relationship and daily life, we have always maintained a harmonious and good relationship. However, in 1959, **'s angry denunciation of Hu Qiaomu revealed a problem.
* At the beginning of 1958, after returning to take charge of the economy, he found a serious problem. In order to catch up with the pace of countries such as Britain and the United States, the indicators in all aspects have been greatly improved, ignoring China's own production level.
Especially in steelmaking, annual production is rising, and it seems that the indicators are raised with each meeting. All this requires us to reflect and be vigilant.
In 1959, the draft resolution of the national economic plan was adopted at the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee, proposing a steel output target of 18 million tons, far exceeding the national steel output of 10 million tons at that time.
Accomplishing such a goal was a difficult task for China at that time. The person who drafted this draft was none other than Hu Qiaomu, the secretary of ***.
* He has been in charge of economic work since the revolutionary period and has accumulated a wealth of experience. He believes that the target of 18 million tons is too high to be achieved. If the focus is on industrial development, it may affect the lives of ordinary people at the expense of areas such as agriculture.
Therefore, after the meeting on December 10, he privately approached Hu Qiaomu and said that the targets in the draft were difficult to achieve, and suggested that these figures should not be included in the communiqué of the meeting.
Despite the sensitivity of his situation, he did not back down because of this. He hopes to convey his views to *** through Hu Qiaomu, which is not only out of his consideration of the actual situation, but also in line with his realistic character.
He always believed that the right decisions could only be made after sufficient investigation and research. As early as September 1933, when the Kuomintang reactionaries launched the fifth "encirclement and suppression" against the Soviet area, the Soviet area was already very nervous.
The first is responsible for managing the production of munitions, so he specially went to the Red Army Miscellaneous Equipment Factory in Xingguo County to conduct field research. His research method is not only to convene factory leaders to report, but also to go to the grassroots level, communicate with employees, and understand the actual situation.
On the evening of that day, ** had an in-depth conversation with dozens of workers. In conversation, he shows an approachable personality and almost never interrupts, only asking someone to repeat an issue when he is confused.
His affinity reassured the workers and made them willing to talk to him about the factory's problems. * I learned that the factory director worked simply and rudely, did not tell the truth, and even beat and scolded the workers at every turn, and attached great importance to this.
However, he did not just listen to the workers' feedback and deal with the factory director directly, but had in-depth exchanges with the workers and found the representatives of the trade union to understand the work style of the factory director.
After many confirmations, he found that the behavior of the factory director was contrary to the purpose of our party, so he seriously dealt with the matter, convened a meeting of the whole factory workers, announced the matter, and announced the removal of the factory director from his post and made him wait for investigation.
Subsequently, the leaders elected a suitable factory director. Through this incident, the workers of the arsenal praised him as a "true baogong", iron-faced and selfless, and pursued the truth.
After decades of persistence,** at the November 1956 meeting, it was emphasized that more than 90% of the work should be spent studying the actual situation, and the rest of the time should be spent on formulating policies.
He has always believed that all correct decisions are based on a scientific analysis of the actual situation. As a long-term economic director, he has an in-depth understanding of the actual situation in our country.
He has made great contributions to solving the problem of inflation left over from the Kuomintang and stabilizing prices. Therefore, his economic opinions are of great reference value.
At a meeting at the end of 1958, ** found out that Hu Qiaomu had drafted problems with the indicators for the second year, so he privately approached Hu Qiaomu, hoping that he could truthfully report to the chairman.
However, Hu Qiaomu's mishandling of the issue led to the chairman's rare angry rebuke of him as just a secretary. Although it is somewhat difficult to put forward the draft with a professional vision and a realistic attitude, and it is not recommended to write specific figures into the communiqué, Hu Qiaomu did not attach importance to this suggestion.
He believed that the draft had been formulated on the basis of the Chairman's suggestion, and that the meeting had been convened, the content had been decided, and the leaders had agreed, so there was no need for further debate.
Combined with other circumstances, Hu Qiaomu did not give feedback to the chairman.
In 1959, the arrival of a bumper harvest year did not bring joy to the people, but a spring famine. Faced with this problem, the Chair quickly realized the mistake in February and decided to reflect and correct it.
Hu Qiaomu is considering whether to report his opinion to the chairman. In the end, he chose to report the whole situation to the chairman at the beginning of the Seventh Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
However, this move of his was severely criticized by the chairman. It turned out that the chairman was very angry when he learned that ** had pointed out the indicator problem earlier, but Hu Qiaomu had not reported it in time, and asked him why he did not communicate with him in time, as a secretary, he had no authority not to report the vice chairman's words.
As a secretary, he made decisions on behalf of the leader without authorization, although this was a mistake by Hu Qiaomu, but the chairman's anger was understandable. Over the years, we have resolutely opposed "bookism" and incorporated seeking truth from facts into our party's ideological line.
In 1938, he proposed that Communist Party members should be models of seeking truth from facts and having farsightedness. Because only by seeking truth from facts can the task be successfully completed. Only foresight can ensure the way forward.
** Not only emphasizes that party members should seek truth from facts, but also want to hear the truth and understand the real situation.
After 1962, Li Yinqiao, a security guard of the first class, was assigned to work in Tianjin for grassroots training. At the beginning of 1964, when Li Yinqiao and his wife visited the chairman in Beijing, they learned that their hometown had been flooded.
The President not only financed them to solve their livelihood problems, but also placed high hopes that when they returned to their hometowns every year, they would have an in-depth understanding of the local situation and report back to him.
Every year when he goes home, Li Yinqiao will write a detailed investigation report on what he has seen and heard in his hometown, and with **, and hand it over to *** through secret channels After all, the reports of local leaders may exaggerate or cover up the actual situation, and he can't directly understand the real situation, so he asked Li Yinqiao to write a report after returning to his hometown.
This shows that the chairman has always adhered to and practiced the spirit of seeking truth from facts, whether he personally visited the rural areas many times in the early days, or later in Beijing to learn about the living conditions of the rural areas and ordinary people through various channels.
Hu Qiaomu concealed and delayed reporting on important issues related to the economy and people's livelihood, which made *** not angry, how could he not be angry? Although in April 1959, ** angrily reprimanded Hu Qiaomu for not reporting **'s opinions in time, this did not affect the friendship between the two.
As early as the end of the 30s of the 20th century, Hu Qiaomu's article "Chinese Youth" attracted the attention of ***, which marked his beginning to enter the chairman's field of vision.
In 1941, there was a shortage of manpower around the chairman, so he was specially asked to be his secretary. Since then, Hu Qiaomu has been with the chairman and accompanied him through the difficult period of the Chongqing negotiations.
In these days of getting along day and night, the relationship between the two became deeper.
Hu Qiaomu's physical condition became worse and worse due to long hours of hard work and irregular life. He was once hospitalized with stomach bleeding and even had part of his stomach removed.
Even though he was busy with work, ** still found time to visit Hu Qiaomu and entrusted a health care practitioner to ask his attending doctor about his condition. After Hu Qiaomu was discharged from the hospital, ** also specially arranged for his family to temporarily live in the beautiful Harmony Garden, which was conducive to his physical cultivation.
This fully reflects the care and high hopes of Hu Qiaomu. However, when Hu Qiaomu made a mistake in 1959, he was disappointed and angry about it, which is also human nature.
Grandpa Mao is meticulous in his work, and there is no room for negligence in his eyes. Despite his close relationship with Uncle Hu and years of tacit cooperation, he will still unceremoniously point out flaws in Uncle Hu's work.
After the incident, Uncle Hu took the initiative to find **, explain the situation and apologize, and got **'s understanding. Although everyone no longer blamed, he carried a heavy ideological burden and became more and more incompetent in his work.
In 1961, Hu Qiaomu was unable to work normally due to neurasthenia, so he had to take the initiative to ask for leave and accept long-term recuperation. During the recuperation period, although he was still nominally the secretary of ***, he was actually no longer in charge of secretarial work.
However, the connection between him and *** was not broken, and they often exchanged letters and discussed the issue of poetry. The chairman also revised Hu Qiaomu's poems many times, and the two became "poetry friends" because of this.
In 1966, after Hu Qiaomu and *** met in Hangzhou, his 25-year career as the chairman's secretary officially came to an end.