In 1959, Wang De, deputy chief of staff of the Nanjing Military Region, received an order to change jobs, and he decided to seize the opportunity to go home to visit relatives and go to Beijing to discuss the matter of changing jobs.
Although he has been in the army for more than 20 years and has a deep affection for the army, this time he made up his mind to leave.
Why was Wang De, who worked in the army, suddenly asked to change jobs? In 1958, when he was anti-dogmatic, he wrote sharp big-character posters to commanders and commissars in accordance with the spirit of the General Political Department, which was criticized and inspected by the military district.
Although the matter was temporarily shelved at the time, after the Lushan Conference in 1959, his problems were involved, resulting in him being asked to leave the military region and transfer to local work.
This news was unbearable for Wang De, and his heart was affected because of it. Therefore, after receiving the notice of job transfer, he applied to go home to visit his relatives, and met his old leaders Chen Lao, Zhang Aiping and Luo Shuai in Beijing.
As one of the top ten marshals, although Mr. Chen has moved from the military to the diplomatic front, he still attends important military meetings. Wang De, who was originally supposed to go to the Northeast Front, but due to the transfer of most of the personnel, in order not to affect the base area, he stayed and became a member of the Shandong Field Army Headquarters.
After that, the Shandong Field Army merged with the Central China Field Army, and Wang De still served in the headquarters, so Mr. Chen knew him very deeply.
Wang De encountered some difficulties in changing jobs, so he first went to Mr. Chen for help and got some criticism and education. Mr. Chen also expressed his thoughts to Luo Shuai, but Luo Shuai thought that Wang De's problem still needed to be moved.
Although Wang De's behavior was problematic, in the context of the time, it was inevitable that the problem would be biased. In the end, I learned from Zhang Aiping that Mr. Chen won the opportunity for Wang De not to change jobs at the meeting of the Military Commission, but ***, the secretary general and general of the Military Commission, thought that Wang De should still be moved.
Although *** has a greater voice in the Military Commission, the work of other veteran commanders cannot be ignored.
At the end of the 60s, several veteran commanders were appointed deputy chairmen of the Military Commission, and their positions were significantly promoted. At that time, the secretary general of the Central Military Commission or the head of the office group had great power and was the chief steward of the army, and only with their consent could many affairs be carried out smoothly.
However, by the beginning of the 90s, with the reform of the army, this post was abolished. That's an afterword. Although Mr. Chen was nominated as vice chairman of the Military Commission, he did not stay in office and worked in Shandong for more than two years, until 1962, when he wrote a letter of complaint and returned to the army.
From then on, he never left the army and was promoted to major general in 1964. Overall, his handling was relatively fair.