In September 1955, the award ceremony of the whole army was held, and among the ten meritorious founding generals"God of War"Su Yu leads. In addition to the ten people who were elected, five cadres, including Teng Daiyuan, Zhang Dingcheng, and **, were also recognized as having the qualifications of generals, but because they did not hold substantive positions in the army after the founding of the People's Republic of China, they were not awarded titles for the time being.
It is worth mentioning that Comrade **'s military resume is also very prominent, and if he was rated as a general in 1955, there is no dispute.
** He was successful in the fields of political theory and finance, but in his early years he was engaged in military movement. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he became one of the members of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and many later generals were only among the alternate members at that time.
During this time, ** also cooperated with the "fourth general" Chen Geng and served as the political commissar of the Taiyue Column. In 1945, ** served as the deputy political commissar of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, and his superiors included Liu Shuai and Deng Gong, both of whom were outstanding figures at the level of marshals.
In the later stage of the Liberation War, he became the political commissar of the North China Military Region, and he was partnered with the commander of the same level, and Nie Shuai was one of the top ten founding marshals later.
Therefore, from the point of view of military qualifications, as long as he participates in the awarding of titles, the evaluation of the general fully meets the standards, and it can be said that he has sufficient qualifications.
Changing the soup without changing the medicine, ** is indeed extraordinary, and he is an all-round talent. He possessed extraordinary coordination skills, and during his time in Shanxi, he skillfully used his fellow villagers with the local leader Yan Xishan to successfully integrate the anti-Japanese forces in Shanxi.
In 105 counties in Shanxi, he established the foundations of more than 70 political regimes and people's armies. His measures were very flexible and effective, and he made great achievements in supporting the war of resistance and strengthening the ranks.
He played an important role in the establishment of the "Youth Anti-Enemy Death Squad" and innovatively introduced the "political commissar system", which made it have more than 50 regiments and more than 80,000 people, of which 33 regiments joined the Eighth Route Army.
In the Battle of the Hundred Regiments commanded by ***, there were 22 regiments closely related to the contribution of ***. In the War of Liberation, he participated in the instigation of the Gao Shuxun uprising, which shook the camp of the Kuomintang army and raised the morale of our party and army.
Although he is not a military commander in the traditional sense, a pure political cadre like Tan Zheng was rated as a general in 55 years, and this kind of all-round talent is naturally possible.
** Not "less involved in the affairs of the army", his contribution in the field of economic construction is no less great. His experience has changed people's impression of him, but it is not flawed.
He spent some important events in the Kuomintang prison due to traitor betrayal, failed to participate in the Long March and some agrarian revolutionary wars, but this did not affect his contribution as a member of the Red Army.
This is not a decisive factor, for example, the "second general" Xu Haidong was absent from the second half of the Anti-Japanese War and the entire Liberation War due to injury, but this did not affect his final evaluation results.
Prior to the awarding of military ranks in 1955, the work of grading cadres was promoted as the basis for the evaluation of ranks. **, like many marshals, the rank is higher than most of the founding generals, and only Zhang Yunyi can match him.
** After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he held important positions such as Minister of Finance, Director of the State Construction Commission, etc., but was not awarded due to the nature of his work that did not lend military ranks.
In 1956, he was appointed vice premier, and his position was promoted much faster than most of the founding generals.