"The east is red, the sun is rising, and China has a ***
In the hearts of the Chinese people, ** is like the sun rising in the east, illuminating the land of China and warming thousands of people in China.
The *** that came out of Shaoshan is the "sun" that the people are looking forward to.
When the Chinese people were oppressed by Western capitalism and feudal forces, this "great savior" fell from the sky and led the people to seek happiness.
Under the influence of ***, many people with lofty ideals in the Mao family also started the revolution, and many people also paid the price of their lives.
Among all the Mao family, Mao Yuanyao is the only centenarian in the Mao family.
This old man has lived for a total of 101 years, and his appearance is also very similar to ***.
Mao Yuanyao, a descendant of the Mao family
Mao Yuanyao, whose name is Zhuofu, is the eldest son of ***'s cousin Mao Zhizhu, that is, ***'s cousin.
Among the next generation of relatives, many people have been influenced or guided to embark on the road of revolution, and Mao Yuanyao is also the earliest one among these people.
In February 1925, due to illness, he returned to his hometown in Shaoshan to recuperate, during which he did not forget to actively lead and carry out agricultural activities.
Mao Yuanyao, who was studying in primary school in his hometown at that time, was at the age of enthusiasm, and at the age of thirteen, he actively followed *** and threw himself into the revolutionary wave of the vast number of working people turning over and seeking liberation.
It was also during this year that Mao Yuanyao joined the ranks of the Communist Youth League under the introduction of Mao Fuxuan, a local Communist Party member.
For a long time, Mao Yuanyao admired his cousin very much, and asked his father three times and twice for this reason, wanting to go out with *** to gain knowledge, learn knowledge, and do a career for the motherland and the people together in the future.
Under Mao Yuanyao's repeated requests, Mao Zhizhu finally came forward and asked *** to take him out to find something to do.
**At that time, he told his cousin that Mao Yuanyao was still too young, and it was better to stay at home and study hard.
Although he did not immediately agree to Mao Zhizhu's request, he was deeply impressed by this young cousin of Zhigao.
After the defeat of the Great Revolution, Mao Yuanyao has been dropping out of school and staying at home.
At the beginning, Mao Yuanyao continued to read and write at home while farming, and soon after, he got a job as a teacher in the local primary school, which can be regarded as a settled family, but in fact, Mao Yuanyao's heart can't be settled, and he still yearns for the revolutionary road pioneered by ***.
In the autumn of 1929, Mao Zhizhu received a secret letter from Mao ** from Shanghai.
Mao ** said in the letter that he needed help for his work in Shanghai now, and also specified that Mao Yuanyao wanted to come to Shanghai, so he asked for Uncle Tang's consent.
Mao Yuanyao couldn't hold back his excitement after learning the news, even if he said that he wanted to go to Mao **, and Mao Zhizhu had already wanted to let his son go out to break through, so he said that there was no problem with Mao **'s request.
Only Mao Yuanyao's grandfather, Mao Fusheng, refused to agree because he was reluctant to let his grandson leave, but Mao Yuanyao's heart to go out did not hesitate.
Mao Yuanyao then explained everything to his father about the school and family, and then quietly came to Shanghai.
This year, Mao Yuanyao was only seventeen years old.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, under the arrangement of Mao **, Mao Yuanyao also took Mao Zequan, Mao Zeqing and several other relatives to arrive at the revolutionary base in Yan'an through the arrangements of the Eighth Route Army offices in Nanjing, Wuhan and other places.
This is also the first batch of relatives who came to Yan'an from Shaoshan to participate in the revolution in addition to the first family.
**I was overjoyed to suddenly see so many relatives in my hometown in Shaoshan.
Under the arrangement of ***, Mao Yuanyao began to study at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University.
Mao Yuanyao originally had a certain cultural foundation, and after graduating from the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, he has been working in the Secretariat of the Military Commission, mainly as an officer.
This is also Mao Yuanyao's wish for many years, in Mao Yuanyao's view, to be able to directly receive education and help, which is also a very fortunate thing in his life.
** is also very concerned about the growth of this cousin, always takes Mao Yuanyao to participate in various situation reports and theoretical research meetings, and specially points out that Mao Yuanyao and the comrades of the secretariat go to the countryside in northern Shaanxi to carry out investigation work.
The investigation report made by Mao Yuanyao was also personally approved and revised by *** himself.
Mao Yuanyao also worked very hard, **every time he made a speech at the meeting, he carefully recorded it, ** participated in the anti-Japanese research meeting in Yan'an several times in a row, and also delivered a long speech at the meeting, Mao Yuanyao followed to participate every time, and also formed a transcript of the speech.
**In this way, Mao Yuanyao's transcript was constantly reviewed and revised, and finally the 50,000-word article "On Protracted War" was formed.
For Mao Yuanyao's secretarial work, ** is extremely satisfied.
In a letter to his hometown, ** mentioned Mao Yuanyao and said, "Yuanyao is very good here", which is a high evaluation of Mao Yuanyao's work.
Later, the General Political Department of the Eighth Route Army wanted to set up a printing office, considering that Mao Yuanyao had worked as a printer and had a solid cultural foundation, he thought that Mao Yuanyao was the most suitable person, so he transferred Mao Yuanyao to the General Political Department.
At that time, the General Political Department of the Eighth Route Army only had two old-style printing presses, which were not enough to meet the needs of organizing and carrying out political propaganda work.
Since both the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army enjoyed high prestige in the eyes of the masses of the people throughout the country, Mao Yuanyao was very smooth when he talked with the printing workers.
Under Mao Yuanyao's active mobilization, many workers were infected by each other's ambitions, and in just a few days, Mao Yuanyao invited more than a dozen workers to Yan'an to jointly carry out the revolution.
These workers later became the technical backbone of the Eighth Route Army Printing Office, and after the liberation of the country, many of them became leading cadres.
Mao Yuanyao has always followed the teachings of *** and devoted himself to his work, and the printing office of the General Political Department was soon established under the auspices of Mao Yuanyao, and Mao Yuanyao has also been serving as the director of the institute and the secretary of the branch.
After that, Mao Yuanyao also successively served as the chief of the Military Industry Section of the General Logistics Department of the Eighth Route Army, the director of the First Arsenal of the Military Industrial Bureau, and many other important positions.
He was ordered to take over Hengyang
What Mao Yuanyao learned by his side, in addition to the knowledge in books, there are also many principles for dealing with people and comrades.
**Regularly educate Mao Yuanyao to pay attention to strategy and properly handle the relationship between comrades, so as to better carry out work and improve work efficiency.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Hengyang area was also liberated.
This time, ** hopes that Mao Yuanyao can go to Hengyang to fill the local cadre vacancies and take over the relevant work in this liberated area.
At that time, Hengyang was seriously damaged everywhere after the baptism of war, and the economy was also very depressed.
In the face of such a heavy blow to the city, Mao Yuanyao did not hesitate to return to Hunan and assumed the position of leader of Hengyang City.
Mao Yuanyao also became the first secretary of the local party committee and the people's mayor of Hengyang.
In this way, Mao Yuanyao took a group of cadres from the provincial capital Changsha to the south and rushed to Hengyang.
The group first passed through the Laiyan Pagoda and Hejiangtao from Zhangmu Temple and then arrived at the steaming river, where the Qingcao Bridge used to cross the river had long been destroyed by the Kuomintang, and those pedestrians could only use a small raft to waddle across the river.
When Mao Yuanyao saw this situation, he was also embarrassed in his heart.
After entering the city, Mao Yuanyao could only temporarily live on the old site of Hengyang County**, where there was no furniture except for a few dilapidated desks and chairs, and Mao Yuanyao and other cadres could only sleep on the floor.
When Mao Yuanyao served as the mayor of Hengyang, he was also in the prime of life, and he began his important task of governing Hengyang for three years and eight months.
Mao Yuanyao took over Hengyang, and there was no so-called handover work in the real sense.
At that time, the Kuomintang ** personnel in Hengyang City had already fled in all directions, and even the previous mayor of the local area was coerced to Guilin by the Gui warlords.
At the beginning of Mao Yuanyao's tenure, Hengyang had just experienced a 48-day battle to defend Hengyang, and the local area was almost in ruins, and the people were miserable.
In addition, there are no bridges in the Xiangjiang River and Steaming Water in Hengyang City, and there are not even small boats used to cross the river, and the only few main roads in the county are also bumpy, and the city is a commercial depression and a desolate scene.
Working on such a basis, Mao Yuanyao could only rely on the spirit of "starting from scratch" of the Communist Party to restore the prosperity of Hengyang City in the past.
During his tenure in Hengyang, Mao Yuanyao always kept in mind the teachings of the people, closely relied on the local cadres and the people, and devoted himself to the development and construction of Hengyang.
In the early days of liberation, there were also many unstable factors hidden in Hengyang City.
First, there are still many spies lurking in the local area, and second, there are not a few stragglers of the Kuomintang.
Mao Yuanyao first mobilized the Hengyang Garrison Headquarters and the Public Security Bureau to deal with the remnants of the Kuomintang.
For this reason, Mao Yuanyao also specially set up a containment group to recruit those stragglers of the Kuomintang who were willing to serve as soldiers and replenish them to the army as a source of soldiers.
For those old and weak people, Mao Yuanyao first mobilized these people to return to their hometowns, but they were really homeless, so Mao Yuanyao arranged employment for these people.
I have to say that under the careful guidance of ***, Mao Yuanyao has also done a very good job in handling government affairs.
Mao Yuanyao did everything himself, and at the same time, he also attached great importance to the main front of literary education.
Before the liberation, there were 23 middle schools in Hengyang, but only three were public schools, and the rest were private.
After Mao Yuanyao took over the city, he merged the local middle schools into municipal middle schools, and also equipped cadres and political teachers to actively carry out various educational work.
In March 1950, in the second year of his tenure in Hengyang City, Mao Yuanyao also held the position of chief of the city's ** Labor Section.
At that time, it was the time to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and ** was also mobilizing all parts of the country to grasp production and ensure supply to support the Chinese People's Volunteers in the war.
However, the industrial and commercial conditions in Hengyang City are very depressed, the unemployed group is huge, and there is no way to talk about professional equipment, technology, and capital.
Even in the face of such a predicament, Mao Yuanyao insisted on facing difficulties.
He first urged power plants, highways, airports, and other public units in various localities to resume production in the shortest possible time, and at the same time to ensure that the living conditions of workers and their families were guaranteed, and then adopted the method of public-private joint ventures to unite some individual factories in various localities into a larger factory, which cleared channels for the development and prosperity of the local economy and effectively overcame a major difficulty in Hengyang City's economic development.
In September 1957, Mao Yuanyao was transferred to the first secretary of the Party Committee of Wuhan Institute of Surveying and Mapping (vice minister level).
In September of the following year, ** inspected the work in Anhui, Hubei and other provinces.
On the evening of September 12, ** met with some teachers and students from nearby universities in the sports field of Wuhan University.
**Wearing a white shirt and gray trousers that day, in the loud "Dongfang Hong" music, ** and Mao Yuanyao shook hands cordially on the rostrum, and the two also took a group photo.
Mao Yuanyao and *** are relatives, comrades-in-arms, and work partners who have been together for many years, but this is the only group photo between Mao Yuanyao and ***.
For Mao Yuanyao, this group photo is also particularly precious.
It is not difficult to see from the photo of the two that Mao Yuanyao's demeanor between his eyebrows and eyes is very similar to ***.
When the local people met ***, the cheers of "* long live" resounded in the sky, and ** also kept waving to the people.
After that, Mao Yuanyao also worked at the Wuhan Institute of Surveying and Mapping until the end of 1988.
In his later years, Mao Yuanyao returned to his hometown in Shaoshan many times.
In 2006, 95-year-old Mao Yuanyao still returned to his hometown with great interest to visit many places such as the former residence and memorial hall of ***.
On June 20, 2013, Mao Yuanyao died in Wuhan at the age of 101 due to ineffective medical treatment, which is also the only centenarian in the Mao family.