On September 9, 1988, twelve years after Chairman Mao's death, General Wang Zhen was still excited when he thought of many things in the past. That afternoon, his spirit was very good, and he chatted with the staff around him for a long time, chatting and chatting, and he involuntarily talked about Chairman Mao and put forward his own views on some current problems.
A few years later, Wang Zhen also talked with a number of cadres, especially at the end of 1992, he talked with Comrade Deng Liqun for a long time, and then in the following year or so, he talked with Comrade Wei Jianlin of the Central Policy Research Office several times.
In the 1990s, the center of General Wang Zhen's secret talks was on firmly defending Chairman Mao.
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Founding General Wang Zhen was born in An ordinary peasant family in Hunan, has been living at the bottom, because the pressure of life is too great, so that he can not breathe, later, by chance, he participated in the Beijing-Hankou Railway strike, because of his outstanding performance was quickly appreciated, became a squad leader of the railway workers picket.
One day in August 1925 became the deepest memory in Wang Zhen's life.
At that time, the squad leader took three able team members on an escort mission, and the object of their escort was a gentleman named Mao Runzhi.
Wang Zhen had not read a few days, and when he first saw this amiable gentleman, he had a different sense of admiration. In the car, Mr. Runzhi also asked them why they joined the revolution at a young age, and Wang Zhen and others all made a 1510 answer.
In 1927, Wang Zhen joined the Socialist Youth League, and in May of the same year, he became a member of the Communist Party and devoted himself to the revolutionary cause. And the kind student also became a well-known leader later.
In his later years, Wang Zhen also recalled that the happiest moment in his life was when he first met Chairman Mao.
The friendship between the two was also concluded, and Wang Zhen followed Chairman Mao all his life, as long as it was an order issued by Chairman Mao, even after countless hardships, he must resolutely complete it, and after the founding of the Country, he resolutely went to the border areas and made important contributions to maintaining the stability of the motherland.
At that time, Chairman Mao's security work was a major issue to be considered by the entire Central Committee, and it was also the core focus of the security work of the Security Bureau, and the Central Committee had also made a clear stipulation that if they wanted to go to see Chairman Mao, they should resolutely not bring weapons, and the generals needed to hand over the guns to the guards, and when the meeting was over, they would bring the guns back at the door.
And there was a small episode in this.
When Wang Zhen went to talk to Chairman Mao about things, he just walked to the door, he was stopped by the guards outside, asking Wang Zhen to hand over the gun, just when Wang Zhen reached out and touched the gun to hand it in, Chairman Mao's voice came from inside: "Is Wang Zhen coming?" Don't take it, let him in, he won't harm me, he doesn't have to stop anything except the atomic bomb. ”
In this regard, Wang Zhen became the only exception.
Wang Zhen followed Chairman Mao through the most difficult years, and when the country stabilized, he became the minister of agricultural reclamation, imitating the experience of "self-sufficiency" in Nanniwan in those years, making the vast wasteland a big granary.
It is precisely because this person can write and fight, and later under the cultivation of Chairman Mao, he also learned to be a political commissar to do political work, and was praised by everyone as an "all-rounder." He was also responsible for building the railway. It is full of ability in both wartime and peacetime.
Later, after Chairman Mao's death, Wang Zhen was deeply saddened, thinking back to the bits and pieces of the past, and thoughts poured into his heart again. In his later years, he talked about Chairman Mao many times, and each time he overflowed with expressed respect. He also offered his own views on many different remarks at that time.
Many people feel that China's road to opening up began around the 1980s. From the ideological point of view, from the beginning of Chairman Mao, there has been. General Wang Zhen said in his later years:
"Chairman Mao was absolutely not conservative, nor did he have any intention of closing himself off to the outside world; he decided to engage in table tennis diplomacy, and many other countries established diplomatic relations with us one after another, allowing us to return to the United Nations."
Before his death, Wang Zhen left three sentences that were also related to Chairman Mao, and one of the most likely to make people think was "Chairman Mao looked at it 50 years earlier than us."
General Wang Zhen's wife has always followed her husband to maintain the same faith, and the old two are in the same boat, and their thinking has never changed.
After the death of General Wang Zhen, some people were willing to pay for a film reflecting the struggle of the old general, but these were vetoed by General Wang Zhen's wife, for which she said: "It costs at least hundreds of thousands of yuan to make a movie, and now the masses have not completely lifted themselves out of poverty, it is better to take this money out to help children in need, which is also the best comfort for Wang Zhen." ”
In recent years, General Wang Zhen's conversations with comrades have been relatively broad, and the core content is: Resolutely support Chairman Mao.
No matter what occasion to commemorate Chairman Mao, General Wang Zhen will personally attend the scene, and if the distance cannot be far away, he will also express his meaning. Moreover, during a meeting with other military leaders, Wang Zhen also loudly said to everyone: "Without Chairman Mao, there would be no new China, and there would be no generals like you, and there would be no general like me." ”
This deafening voice came from the depths of General Wang Zhen's heart.
Wei Jianlin summarized the main content of Wang Zhen's conversation at that time, mainly these points.
First of all, he mentioned that if the Chinese nation wants to prosper, it depends on the efforts of generations, and the most important thing is to have a clear direction; in the past, from Dr. Sun Yat-sen to Chairman Mao, they also fulfilled the previous requirements, and then they need to make continuous efforts.
At that time, when reform and opening up were in full swing, Wang Zhen also said that it was right to let some people get rich, but we could not engage in polarization, and if we did, then the nature of the system would change, but we also resolutely could not engage in egalitarianism and needed to adhere to distribution according to work.
So many times of army reform in the past were carried out at the initiative of Chairman Mao, and there will be one in the future, which needs to be combined with the actual situation at present.
In addition, the salaries of cadres can not be too high, it is necessary to let the vast number of cadres closely contact the masses of the people, as early as 1955, the first award of titles was proposed in the way of high wages, when Wang Zhen happened to be the leader of the military salary reform group, under his ideas, the wage difference should not be too large, which was also highly approved by Peng Dehuai and others.
Regarding Chairman Mao, in addition to those experience stories, Wang Zhen also talked a lot.
At the beginning of liberation, because the United States launched an all-round blockade of New China and did not allow us to open up, under such extreme circumstances, we had no choice but to turn to the Soviet Union and adopt a "one-sided" strategy. Later, when Khrushchev came to power, he changed his face, and China entered the most difficult period, and we were still able to rely on ourselves and kill a bloody road from the heavy siege.
This is also enough to prove chairman Mao's far-sightedness, and later successfully promoted ping-pong diplomacy, turning a big ball with a small ball, Sino-US relations were good, and many countries also established diplomatic relations with us.
Moreover, Wang Zhen also mentioned that in the course of the past ten years, we have indeed made many mistakes, but it is undeniable that we have made tremendous achievements at the same time, and most of our development methods have been explored by ourselves, and when problems arise, they are corrected, and it is impossible to completely negate these things.
Chairman Mao's thinking has always been able to see far-sightedly, fifty years before most people.
Take the relaxation of Sino-US relations, at that time, no one knew how China and the United States should deal with each other, in the past the two sides have always been hostile relations, how big a problem this step will be, no one said well.
But Chairman Mao was already aware of the trend of globalization at that time, and he also knew that in the future, he must open the door to the country and engage in the economy, and in his old age, he was still plagued by diseases.
With regard to the vast number of cadres, Wang Zhen said: We must bear in mind Chairman Mao's teachings, maintain close ties with the masses, accept the supervision of the masses, and prevent bureaucracy.
In safeguarding Chairman Mao's ideological status, Wang Zhen and other older revolutionaries played the role of mainstay, and behind this was not only Chairman Mao himself, but a spiritual belief.
Wang Zhen said at that time: "I am a rough person, and I have never finished any business." ”
However, judging from General Wang's actual situation, he has integrated Marxism into his bones, all his ideas have been formed in long-term practice, he has never engaged in dogmatism, he has always thought from the major theories and realities at home and abroad, he has been selfless and fearless all his life, and has unlimited loyalty to the party and the people.
The fact that the old man who was wounded seven times during the war years is still insisting on his own opinions is also extremely moving. For General Wang Zhen, "resolutely defending Chairman Mao" is not just a slogan, he has done so all his life.