The Communist Party of China led the Chinese people in a 28-year revolutionary struggle and established the People's Republic of China. In the course of the revolutionary struggle, many heroic figures emerged. After the end of the war, there were some people who chose to cover up their exploits and were unwilling to tell others about the past, but continued to contribute to the construction of socialism in ordinary posts, and they were the real backbone of the Chinese nation.
In 2006, there was a retired veteran cadre named Wang Shengrong, who died of illness in Wuchang at the age of 99.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Shengrong chose to hide his exploits and contribute to the country and the people in an ordinary post. Since the 60s of the 20th century, China has entered a special period, and Wang Shengrong has been affected. **After learning about his situation, he asked Xu Haidong to give him a special message:It's better to die than to live.
Wang Shengrong was born in a poor family in Wuchang, Hubei Province, and his family has been fishing for generations, but the family is in a state of insufficient food all year round. To share the pressure on his family, when he was 13 years old, his father sent him to work as a child laborer in a cotton textile factory in Shanghai, leaving him to fend for himself.
One year after coming to Shanghai, the Communist Party of China was formally founded, and our party functionaries carried out propaganda work in Shanghai. Under the influence of revolutionary ideas, Wang Shengrong joined the workers' movement in Shanghai. He met Xiang Ying, a member of our party, by chance, and joined the Communist Youth League in 1926 under his introduction.
Because Wang Shengrong was active in his work and was at the forefront of the workers' movement, he joined the Communist Party of China after a year of strict review by the organization.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup d'état, wantonly ** Chinese Communists, under the arrangement of the party organization, Wang Shengrong was arranged to be an underground traffic officer.
In 1927, the Communist Party of China held the 87 Conference in Hankou, and Wang Shengrong was selected by the organization as one of the defenders of the conference, at which the party organization summed up the lessons of the failure of the Great Revolution. In the course of the meeting, Wang Shengrong listened to their summary and felt inspired and insightful.
In this meeting, Wang Shengrong met for the first time and had a long-term exchange between the two people, and the talkative person left a deep impression on Wang Shengrong, and his views and understanding of some issues deeply affected Wang Shengrong.
After the conference, in order to train revolutionary talents, Wang Shengrong, who was only 20 years old, went to the Soviet Union under the arrangement of the organization to study politics and military affairs. Wang Shengrong was accompanied by Zhang Wentian, Wang Jiaxiang and other senior party leaders in the later period.
** Continuing to lead the Chinese revolution after the 87th Conference, he launched the Autumn Harvest Uprising and led the Red Army to establish the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area.
In 1930, Wang Shengrong returned to China after completing his studies, and under the arrangement of the party organization, he came to Shanghai and served as an important person in charge of the western district of Shanghai, mainly responsible for the work of the Youth League Committee.
In 1931, the ** Soviet District began to call on the vast number of young people in the base areas to join the army to defend the Soviet District, and established the Young Pioneers Corps, and Wang Shengrong, who had strong work ability, was transferred to Jiangxi as the captain of the corps. While propagating the revolutionary situation, he was also responsible for the building of the Youth League Committee, aiming to appeal to more people with lofty ideals to participate in the revolution.
In 1931, the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Shanghai. After the meeting, Wang Ming gradually grasped the supreme leadership of our party, and under his erroneous command, great difficulties were caused to our party's work.
In 1932, under the exclusion of Wang Ming, ** was deprived of the leadership of the Red Army. At the end of the same year, the CCP decided to hold a meeting in Ruijin to organize and arrange for Wang Shengrong to lead a platoon of soldiers to the southern Gannan region to meet the north.
** The days of his stay in Gannan were relatively short, and as soon as he arrived in the place, he actively contacted the masses, carried out agricultural production campaigns with the masses, and at the same time listened to the ideas of the fighters and peasants, and put forward many reasonable suggestions.
In the course of his contacts with the masses, he attracted the attention of the local reactionary forces. In Chiang Kai-shek's eyes, ** but his henchmen were in great trouble, and he did not hesitate to offer a bounty to arrest *** and attack the Chinese Communists at the same time.
One afternoon, a member of the local militia came to report that there was a trace of *** found in a nearby village, and the head of the regiment was overjoyed when he heard it. He immediately selected dozens of regimental soldiers with good marksmanship, and equipped them with sufficient ammunition, ready to act at night to encircle and suppress the residence of ***.
In the evening, they launched a surprise attack on ***'s residence, and ** and the guards were unprepared, and the two sides exchanged fire in a panic.
** The guards are all veterans who have been killed on the battlefield, and the enemy has not taken advantage of them during the battle. But as time went by, the number of enemies became more and more, and the guards gradually couldn't support it, and the enemy took the opportunity to come forward and surround *** and others.
Just at the last moment, Wang Shengrong, who was responsible for guarding *** north, just arrived at ***. Wang Shengrong was the first to rush out from the back of the corps. He saw that the enemy was shooting in the direction of ***, and immediately shouted to attract the enemy's fire, and then the fighters eliminated the enemy in front of him with a shuttle bullet.
After the enemy in front of him was eliminated, Wang Shengrong walked up to ***, took ***'s hand and said: "* I'm late, and now the situation is critical, let's leave quickly." ”
**Kindly said:"Xiao Wang, if you don't come today, I'll explain here. ”
Subsequently, Wang Shengrong began to cover the retreat of ***, in order to ensure the safety of ***, he has been in front of ***, risking his life to protect *** and finally evacuated to a safe place with ***.
It can be said that if Wang Shengrong comes a little later, not only will the life of *** not be guaranteed, but even China's history will be rewritten. For ***, Wang Shengrong is his savior.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Shengrong often fought on the front line, which dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army. During the War of Liberation, the party organization arranged for Wang Shengrong to work in Northeast China, and he made contributions to the liberation and development of Northeast China.
In June 1949, the main force of Siye went south, and Wang Shengrong arrived in Wuhan with the men and horses of the Ministry of Military Industry and automobiles with the main force of Siye. Siye and the commander of the Central and Southern Military Region gave him a task: to continue to focus on the production of military merits in Wuhan and ensure the **ammunition** of 1 million troops.
At that time, Wang Shengrong's old comrade-in-arms who was in charge of Hubei was worried about the supply of the army, and when he learned that Wang Shengrong had brought a large number of military supplies, he immediately asked Wang Shengrong for help.
At this time, ** led the PLA troops all the way to Hengyang, Hunan. Wang Shengrong took the initiative without asking for instructions and gave *** a medical clinic, a few cars and a few tons of gasoline.
* After learning of this, he was very annoyed, he severely criticized Wang Shengrong and ordered him to write a review. ** Worried that this kind of thing would happen again, he ordered him to take off his military uniform and come to the Ministry of Industry of the Central South Military and Political Commission, where he served as the first vice minister and director of the Central South Nonferrous Metals Industry Administration.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, under the arrangement of the People's Republic of China, Wang Shengrong began to organize the production of tungsten sand, and then exported it to the Soviet Union in exchange for machinery and equipment and other materials needed for the development of New China.
He went to the mines that produce tungsten sand to inspect and found that there was a serious shortage of machinery and transport vehicles in these mines, which was seriously hindering the development of production.
He reported the situation to *** and made suggestions to solve the problem. He proposed to sell the 1,000 tons of tungsten sand that Chiang Kai-shek had frozen in Hong Kong to solve the current problem.
After deliberation, ** agreed with his idea, and Wang Shengrong began to act. He used the money from the sale of tungsten sand to buy more than 100 large trucks and more than 100 tons of gasoline.
With these equipment, China's tungsten sand industry has developed rapidly under the leadership of Wang Shengrong, but he did not expect that this matter would be made a big fuss by others.
Wang Shengrong was reported by others, saying that he was taking advantage of his position to dump his own resources, and **set up this matter as a typical report**.
On March 7, 1952, the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection issued a notice: Wang Shengrong, deputy director of the Industrial Department of the Central South Military and Political Commission, was seriously derelict in his duties, took advantage of his position to dump his resources, and was removed from his post and arrested in accordance with the law.
Wang Shengrong spent two years and five months in prison, but he always adhered to his beliefs and did not write a single word for examination. He was expelled from the party and demoted directly from the deputy ministerial level to the deputy director level, and his superiors arranged for him to serve as the deputy director of the engineering department of the Central South Construction Engineering Administration.
For Wang Shengrong, a veteran party member who has accompanied the party through the entire revolutionary years, this is a very heavy blow to him. He has suffered unjustly wronged, but he has always believed in the party organization, and he believes that time will prove all this.
Wang Shengrong served as a small division chief, but he did not have any dissatisfaction, and after he took office, he always set strict demands on himself according to the standards of Communist Party members, and carried out all the tasks assigned to him by the organization with a more enthusiastic attitude. For the sake of everyone, he took the initiative to hide from his superiors and colleagues his exploits during the revolutionary period and the positions he had held.
In September 1957, ** came to Hubei to inspect, and when the person in charge of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee reported his work, he thought of Wang Shengrong.
After the report, he asked Wang Renzhong, secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, who accompanied him to inspect the inspection: "How is Comrade Wang Shengrong's situation now, and is his health okay recently?" ”
Not long after Wang Renzhong came to Hubei to take charge, he knew the general situation of all the provincial and ministerial-level cadres in Hubei, but none of these cadres was named Wang Shengrong. He asked with a blank face: "Chairman, what are you talking about Wang Shengrong?" ”
** Puzzled in his heart, he only remembered that when New China was first founded, he served as a deputy ministerial-level cadre in Hubei, according to common sense, it is impossible for the secretary of the provincial party committee not to have even heard of it. He also asked several other principal leaders of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee who had inspected the work with him, but none of them knew Wang Shengrong.
**There was a bad premonition in his heart, and he immediately gave instructions:"Wang Shengrong once saved my life during the revolution, you must find him. ”
After Wang Renzhong heard this, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately asked his secretary Wang Liang to arrange personnel to search for Wang Shengrong's whereabouts in the province. In the end, after many searches, Wang Liang found Wang Shengrong who was working in a rolling mill.
Wang Shengrong has been working diligently since his demotion, but he found that the small parts used in construction projects, such as nails and wire, are imported, and Wang Shengrong feels that the Chinese are now fully capable of producing these things.
The idea of building a rolling mill for the production of nails and wires was born in his mind, and as a revolutionary of the older generation, who was very efficient, he immediately wrote to his superiors for help in terms of equipment and technology. When Wang Liang met Wang Shengrong, he was in charge of preparing for the construction of a steel rolling mill.
Wang Liang told Wang Renzhong the news of finding Wang Shengrong, Wang Renzhong was ecstatic, he completed the task assigned to him by ***, and hurriedly ran to ***'s residence to report the matter.
**After learning about Wang Shengrong's experience over the years, he was silent for a long time, and finally said to the leaders of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee"Arrange Comrade Wang Shengrong to be the director of the Provincial Metallurgical Department, enjoy the treatment of the deputy provincial level, and restore his party membership at the same time. ”
In this way, Wang Shengrong went to the Provincial Metallurgical Department to take office, just before he took office, he had been thinking about the preparation for the construction of the rolling mill, and he kept telling his workers:"No matter what difficulties we encounter, we must build a good steel rolling product, and we must make iron nails and wires produced by our country. ”
Wang Shengrong came to work in the Provincial Metallurgical Department, he didn't know that this was the result of the *** arrangement, until he learned about it by chance, and tears of excitement flowed in his eyes. He knows that for so many years, the party organization has not forgotten him, let alone forgotten him, and he is even more grateful when he thinks of this.
Beginning in 1958, China made mistakes in the process of building socialism. Wang Shengrong went to Yichang and other places to inspect the "Great Iron and Steel Movement", he saw that many forests had been destroyed, and the iron tools had been smelted for a long time and had become a pile of iron slag that had no use.
The Provincial Metallurgical Department has criticized Wang Shengrong many times, and he has always adhered to his own views and refused to review, which has been criticized by many people.
In November 1958, the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Wuchang, and Wang Shengrong found the general secretary of the Communist Party of China on crutches Under the attention of ***, the Provincial Metallurgical Department canceled the criticism of Wang Shengrong, but no longer arranged work for him.
Since the 60s of the 20th century, there has been a special period on the land of China, although he is only a "small person", but he has also been affected and swept into the whirlpool.
Wang Shengrong was not at fault, but he was very dissatisfied with him. During the period of turmoil, he suffered severe physical and mental damage. Many people thought he wouldn't live long, but he persevered.
In 1967, Xu Haidong came to Hubei, and he communicated with the provincial leaders and put forward a request to meet Wang Shengrong. The provincial leaders were reluctant at first, but Xu Haidong said that he wanted to go to Wang Shengrong to obtain some investigation materials, and they agreed.
After Xu Haidong saw Wang Shengrong, he found a reason to break the person next to him, he leaned next to Wang Shengrong's ear and said:
"Sheng Rong, you already know your current situation. **Let me give you a message, the chairman said, it is better to die than to live, and to live again, there is no problem that cannot be solved. ”
Hearing this, Wang Shengrong left tears, and he said excitedly"Thank you, I won't fall easily, please rest assured, I will be strong to live. ”
Under the encouragement of ***, Wang Shengrong has been strong in the struggle against fate, and he has survived those difficult years.
In 1978, China's internal environment had stabilized, and Wang Shengrong, who had been imprisoned for more than a decade, was released from prison. After the baptism of the years, Wang Shengrong has become a slow old man with injuries and illnesses.
After gaining freedom, ** asked him: "Sheng Rong, you have been treated unfairly and have been imprisoned for 13 years, how did you survive these years?" ”
Wang Shengrong replied with a smile"Back then, *** once asked someone to tell me a sentence - it is better to die than to live, this sentence is the spiritual pillar that supported my survival. ”
In October 1979, the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China and the Provincial Organization Department issued a new document, announcing the revocation of the decision to punish Wang Shengrong that year, and at the same time restoring the original rank and treatment.
In 2006, this old man who had experienced vicissitudes of life walked the last journey of his life, just after his death, Yu Zhengsheng, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China and secretary of the provincial party committee, personally came to his home to mourn and comfort his family.
Wang Shengrong's life is a legendary life, he has experienced too many ups and downs, but he has always maintained a positive and optimistic attitude, insisted on the truth all his life, and dedicated his life to the motherland and the people. The country has not forgotten this pioneer who contributed to the revolutionary cause, and although his name is not among the pioneers of the Republic, his contribution is comparable to theirs.