In 1925, ** fell ill due to overwork, and after learning of this, he ordered him to temporarily stop his work, go back to his hometown to rest for a while, and wait until his body recovered before returning to continue the revolution. ** also knew the truth of half the effort, so he followed ***'s order and left Guangzhou to return to Xiangtan for temporary residence.
After returning home, he was not idle, he often gave speeches in Shaoshan Chong, taught revolutionary principles to the villagers, and called on everyone to unite against the feudal warlord forces and feudal forces to safeguard their own interests. The villagers and elders of Shaoshan Chong were infected by the chairman's impassioned words, and immediately established a peasant association and began to make a revolution. Later, the Shaoshan Chong Peasant Association became more and more popular, and there was an endless stream of participants, including oppressed hired farmers and poor peasants, as well as enthusiastic young people, such as Mao Zequan.
Mao Zequan is ***'s little cousin, he was only 16 years old when he participated in the revolution, and he was still a yellow-haired boy. Despite his young age, he is very courageous, and often takes the initiative to carry out some extremely dangerous missions. After the outbreak of the agrarian revolution, Mao Zequan heard that the Soviet District had been established in Jiangxi, so he wanted to rush to defect, but his parents were worried about his personal safety and resolutely refused to let him go, so he missed the Red Army.
Until 1937, Mao Zequan had grown into a strong boy and had the ability to protect himself, at this time he once again asked his parents to participate in the revolution, and his parents did not refuse this time, but readily agreed. After getting the approval of his parents, Mao Zequan immediately rushed to Yan'an to defect to *** He welcomed this cousin very much, set up a banquet for him to pick up the wind and wash the dust, and personally arranged for him to study in a political school.
After completing his studies, Mao Zequan kept shouting that he wanted to go to the battlefield, but he thought that he lacked the necessary experience in struggle, and it was likely that he would die if he went to the front line rashly, so he was forcibly intercepted and arranged for him to work in the logistics department. When the comrades of the logistics department learned about his relatives, they took good care of him, and they followed him and let him do everything, which made him very uncomfortable. After a period of time, he couldn't stand everyone's special care, so he applied to work in another unit.
At that time, the New Fourth Army was being rebuilt, and there was an urgent shortage of administrative cadres, so he asked Mao Zequan to serve in the New Fourth Army. In order to avoid being "treated differently" again, Mao Zequan simply changed his name and surname, and used his false identity to live with the comrades of the New Fourth Army. From the second half of 1947, he organized all the manpower under his command to be invested in the large-scale production of materials, and continuously delivered military items such as clothing, shoes and hats to the front line, which effectively guaranteed all the use of the PLA on the front line. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was transferred to the head of the production department of the logistics department of the East China Military Region.
In 1950, Mao Zequan went to Beijing on an errand, and after finishing his official business, he went to Zhongnanhai to visit *** Since he went to serve in the New Fourth Army that year, he has not been in contact with *** again, and he changed his name again, ** did not get any news of him for a long time, and thought that he had died on the battlefield. That night, ** also invited Mao Zequan to a home-cooked meal in Fengze Garden, and also introduced his daughters Li Min and Li Ne to Mao Zequan.
The next day, Mao Zequan said goodbye and returned to Nanjing to continue working. It is worth mentioning that Mao Zequan's wife didn't know his true identity, thinking that he was just an ordinary cadre, and later his wife's first reaction when he heard that he saw *** was that he was a liar, ** is a great man of a country, how could he meet him with a little-known "little person" for no reason, and invited him to dinner. In order to corroborate what he said, Mao Zequan told his true identity to his wife, and his wife was very surprised when she heard the news, but she didn't expect her husband to have such a deep relationship with ***.
In 1952, Mao Zequan was transferred to work in the Beijing Military Region, and his contacts with *** became closer. In 1957, Mao Zequan was transferred to Inner Mongolia to work, because he was usually busy, he basically had no time to contact the chairman, and only during the Chinese New Year, he would write a letter to greet the chairman. In 1976, ** unfortunately passed away, Mao Zequan collapsed to the ground after learning the bad news, and couldn't help crying. Soon after, as a relative of the chairman, he attended the chairman's memorial service and personally guarded the chairman's spirit for three days.
In the 80s, Mao Zequan could no longer continue to perform his duties due to physical reasons, and then applied for retirement, in 1989, he died of illness, and then held a grand memorial service for him, many ** leaders came to mourn for the old revolutionary, and Li Min happened to be unwell at the time, unable to come to mourn in person, so he could only ask someone to send a wreath to express his sorrows.