From 1966 to 1976, during the 10-year special period, many cadres were subjected to the two counterrevolutionary groups, for example, in 1967, under the manipulation of Ye Qun, Wu Faxian, Qiu Huizuo and others, the Central Military Commission set up a "detention group", which was mainly responsible for the examination of military cadres.
The person we are going to talk about today is a member of the "Guarding Group," whose name is Zhang Xiuchuan, who once held the posts of director of the Navy's Political Department and deputy political commissar. After joining the Navy, Zhang Xiuchuan formed a faction with Li Zuopeng, the "Four King Kongs", who not only seized power from the Navy Command, but also many founding fathers. So, what is the story of Zhang Xiuchuan?
Zhang Xiuchuan joined the Eighth Route Army in October 1937, mainly fought in the Hebei, Shandong, and Henan regions during the Anti-Japanese War, and was ordered to go to the Northeast during the War of Liberation.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhang Xiuchuan served as deputy director of the Organization Department of the General Political Department, and was awarded the rank of major general in 1955. In 1962, under the arrangement of **, Zhang Xiuchuan and Li Zuopeng were sent to work in the navy, of which Zhang Xiuchuan served as the director of the political department of the navy. It is worth mentioning that Zhang Xiuchuan and Li Zuopeng are both ** people, and they naturally formed a faction after they arrived in the navy, and had conflicts with Xiao Jinguang, the commander who originally worked in the navy, and Su Zhenhua, the political commissar, and even openly seized power from Xiao Jinguang and Su Zhenhua.
For example, in 1965, Zhang Xiuchuan, Li Zuopeng and others concocted a "Three-Year Basic Summary" in the navy, in which Zhang Xiuchuan and Li Zuopeng slandered Xiao Jinguang, Su Zhenhua, Liu Daosheng and others for not leading the navy enough, resulting in the slow development of the navy. With this summary report, Zhang Xiuchuan openly asked Xiao Jinguang to reorganize the leadership of the navy, the purpose of which was to seize power from Xiao Jinguang and Su Zhenhua, so as to achieve the goal of controlling the navy.
In 1966, after the beginning of the ten-year special period, Zhang Xiuchuan and others accelerated their action to seize power in the navy, and from May of this year, they continued to hold and enlarged party committee meetings in the navy, criticized Xiao Jinguang and Su Zhenhua, and openly put forward a request to remove the leadership of the navy. The abnormal behavior of Zhang Xiuchuan and others attracted the attention of the Military Commission, however, under the protection of **, Zhang Xiuchuan not only was safe and sound, but also intensified and continued to be the founding father of the Navy.
During that period, Zhang Xiuchuan also concocted a list, according to the list of ** cadres, among the cadres above the division level of the navy, 47 people were "defeated" by him, including many founding fathers, such as Su Zhenhua, Liu Daosheng, Du Yide and others. In addition, Zhang Xiuchuan also participated in framing Ye Shuai and Mr. He, causing them to also be subjected to **.
In August 1967, under the planning of Ye Qun and Wu Faxian and others, the Military Commission set up a "caretaker group", in which Wu Faxian served as the team leader, Zhang Xiuchuan, Ye Qun and others were members, this group was mainly responsible for reviewing military cadres, with the help of the name of the "caretaker group", Zhang Xiuchuan continued to be the first cadre within the navy, because of the support of the first, he has been safe and sound, and he was promoted to deputy political commissar of the Navy in 1968.
In September 1971, there was a 913 incident that shocked China and the rest of the world, shortly after the 913 incident, Li Zuopeng, one of the "Four King Kongs", was censored, and Zhang Xiuchuan was also quarantined and censored as a member of their group, and was suspended from his post, after which Zhang Xiuchuan was not only expelled from the party, but also gradually faded out of people's field of vision, and died of illness in 2005 at the age of 86.