After the founding of the People's Republic of China, when I chatted with ***, I talked about Jiangsu, and I asked***It's been 54 years since I left my hometown, so why don't you go back and see it?
**Stunned for a moment, he said his answer with a wry smile, **After hearing it, he was full of emotion.
Since leaving his hometown in 1910, he has not returned. His secretary once recalled: **After leaving home, although he never went back, he often missed his hometown. himI remember that one year, when the premier was flying back to Beijing, he happened to pass by the sky over Huai'an, Jiangsu, and he deliberately walked to the cockpit and looked down at his hometown for a while.
It's not that I don't want to go back to my hometown, it's not that I don't miss my hometown, but my love is too deep. Every time I mention my hometown, the bitterness in my heart arises spontaneously, like a scar on my body, and it hurts every time I reveal it.
**Born in a big family in Huai'an, Jiangsu, but ***'s childhood was not very good. Because the little uncle is not in good health, he was passed on to his little uncle when he was young.
But his little uncle finally did not resist the torture of illness and left this world, so he grew up under the care of his biological mother and adoptive mother. But before he could grow up, his biological mother and adoptive mother also passed away one after another.
Because his father works outside the home all the year round, the young *** has no one to take care of him, and he is at risk of being dropped out of school. At this time, the uncle, who was far away in the northeast, knew about this and immediately extended a helping hand to him. So *** embarked on the "no return" to leave home.
In 1910, *** followed his uncle to the Northeast to study, where he saw the bitter life of poor families and understood the high and low created by the gap between the rich and the poor. So the determination to change China is deeply rooted in the heart of ***.
In 1911, in a class, the teacher suddenly said that he wanted to ask everyone what they were studying for. Some of them say that it is to inherit the family business in the future and help their parents keep accounts, and some people say that it is to give themselves a bright futureOnly *** resolutely said that he was studying for the rise of China!
In 1911, after the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, new ideas and new cultures continued to be transmitted into the country and to the world. ** Thinking that democratic ideas could change the old society, he threw himself into the democratic revolution.
However, China's national conditions at that time did not allow the development of democracy, and in the end Yuan Shikai usurped the revolutionary fruits of the Xinhai Revolution. But the youth of the country were exposed to new ideas, and they wanted to change the old China, so they began to look for a new way out to save the motherland.
Then he went to Japan to study after graduating from Nankai SchoolHe saw the reports about the October Revolution and learned about Marxism, which he believed was the medicine that everyone had been looking for.
After returning from school, ** entered Nankai University and became the leader of Tianjin students in the May Fourth Movement, during which he actively spread Marxist ideas, and later ** was imprisoned, and insisted on preaching Marxism in prison.
After being released from prison, he joined the Paris Communist Group of the Communist Party while studying in France, and established his belief in communismHe became one of the founders of the Communist Party of China.
After returning to China in 1924, he and his partners threw themselves into the revolutionary activities in the country, awakening batch after batch of sleeping youthand met his soul mate, Deng Yingchao, on the road of developing the revolution.
But at that time, he had been running around for his career and promoting Marxism to more people, whether it was the Nanchang Uprising, the Long March, the War of Resistance Against Japan, or the War of Liberation, he had been on the road and never stopped his steps.
Since Deng Yingchao married ***, he has also gathered less and left more, but Deng Yingchao has always supported ***'s work.
In 1949, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were two major floods in Huaihai, but the situation was particularly serious, the disaster report saidThe flood flooded thousands of acres of crops and affected about 20 million people.
**After hearing about it, he personally participated in the meeting held by the water conservancy department, in which someone proposed to dig a river to divert water, but it was opposed by two leaders, they said: ".Our country has just been founded, and everything is in ruins, where is the extra money to dig such a big river?
**After hearing this, he was very angry and said that if the masses in northern Jiangsu had not provided us with grain and grass, how could we have won the Huaihai Campaign. Now that the revolution has been victorious, and our lives are getting better and better, they are in trouble, should we stand idly by?
Xiaozhi persuaded those comrades who had opposing opinions to dig irrigation canals in northern Jiangsu.
In 1951, the eighth aunt of ** came to Beijing with her grandson Zhou Erhui to visit the prime minister because she remembered her nephew who had not seen her for many yearsHow's the situation going back home? Are you full now?
Aunt Eight smiled and said, "It's much better now than before, although I can't eat rice, but it's much better than during the war." "* After hearing it, he happily said that his hometown will soon dig a big river, from Hongze Lake to the sea, and when it is dug well, we Huai'an Beixiang people will be able to eat rice.
Soon after,He personally commanded the construction of the main irrigation canal in northern Jiangsu, and the project was announced to be completed in only 83 sunny days, creating a miracle in the world。**Why don't you go back and see if you care so much about your hometown?
Later, when people from their hometown visited, every time they saw them, they would ask about the problems of their hometown, confirm the details of the development of their hometown, and see if there were any problems that needed to be solved.
When we encounter problems that they can't explain clearly, we will also comfort them and say: The Communist Party of China comes from the masses, and it is our duty to pay attention to and solve the problems of the masses.
**I care so much about my hometown, why don't you go back to see it? Even *** is questioning, suggesting that *** can take the time to go back and see.
Unexpectedly, *** sighed and said: He knows that *** is caring about himselfBut his former family was a feudal family, and their attachment to "relationships" was difficult to change.
Not to mention that if he went backThe local cadres will definitely greet him with great fanfare, and they will also equip him with security personnel, which may affect others and may even cause riots.
**nodded in understanding, but still persuaded***: You haven't been home for more than 50 years, and the fallen leaves always have to return to the roots.
**After stopping, he smiled softly and said", ".I can see it on a business trip, I am familiar with that land, and if I look at it from afar, I can count myself as having been back
In 1959, when he returned to Beijing from Guangzhou on a special plane, he asked the captain if the plane's route would pass through the sky of his hometown. The captain replied: "Yes, if the weather is nice, you can see your hometown." ”
** smiled all the time, and when he approached Huai'an, in order to let *** take a good look at his hometown, the captain deliberately reduced the altitude speed of the plane. But beauty is always short-lived, and the plane will not stop in the sky of Huai'an forever. Seeing that the plane was about to leave Huai'an, the captain asked, "Do you want to go back and go around again?" ”
**After hearing this, he shook his head and refused: "Now the country is in ruins, fuel costs are very expensive, you can save a little is a little, let's go." ”
Not only do you not return to your hometown, but you also don't let the people around you know your hometown. **'s younger brother Zhou Enshou proposed to *** more than once that he wanted to return to his hometown, but he was rejected by ***. Therefore, Zhou Enshou once thought that his brother had no feelings for his hometown, so he didn't miss home at all.
On this day, ***'s younger brother proposed to go back to his hometown again, and after being rejected by ***, he said angrily: "You are the prime minister, you are afraid that people will be special." I'm a common man, why can't I go back? Is it because I'm your brother? ”
**It was not easy to see my brother like this, but he still refused to say: ".Don't bother everyone.
But every time I meet my fellow countrymen, I will have endless hometown words, and I will care about the development of my hometown, the problems of my hometown, and the changes in my hometown.
In 1972, ** was diagnosed with cancer and did not go to rest, but continued to work, in 1976 *** finally failed to resist the torture of illness and died in Beijing at the age of 78. Until his death, he never returned to his hometown once.
**This life has been dedicated to the country and the people, and his feelings have long spread throughout China, no matter where he goes, it is his home.
Although *** left us, he and his patriotic thoughts will always remain in our hearts!