As a farmer facing the loess soil and facing the sky, Chen Yonggui began to read at the age of 42, and he has been dealing with the land all his life, but he has gone all the way from an ordinary farmer to a vice premier of the State Council, and has never been questioned in the middle. When Chairman Mao first heard of his deeds, he spoke highly of him, and on his deathbed, he also said: "I have not betrayed Chairman Mao's trust," How did this ordinary peasant become vice premier of the State Council? Why did he take the initiative to resign in his later years? What kind of achievements have been made?
On February 14, 1915, a small boy was added to the family of a family living in Xiaonanshan, Xiyang County, Shanxi Province, which was a great joy in itself, but the boy's father's face was full of melancholy. In that war-torn era, the lives of ordinary people were very miserable, and sometimes they could not even eat themselves, and Tim Ting only made the burden on the family heavier.
Famine
Later, the little boy's father, Chen Zhiru, named him Chen Yonggui, including his ardent expectations for the child, hoping that the child would be safe and prosperous in the future. When Chen Yonggui was 5 years old, there was a famine in his hometown, which made the already poor family more difficult, and in desperation, Chen Zhiru had to choose to sell his wife and daughter and take Chen Yonggui to Dazhai Village to live.
Originally, Chen Zhiru thought that when he arrived in Dazhai Village, he could get better, but everything seemed to have not changed, he still often ate the last meal without eating, and the days were miserable, so in less than two years, Chen Zhiru completely left this world in despair, and from this moment on, Chen Yonggui became a real orphan. Without his father, Chen Yonggui was even more insecure, as if he had become a small adult overnight, and could only learn to rely on himself.
At only 7 years old, he could not do any heavy work at all, he could only work long work in the landlord's house, do some things that cattle herding and other small children can do, no salary is not important, anyway, as long as he can make a living, not hungry, this is Chen Yonggui's idea at that time. When he grew up, he had a little consciousness, and began to inquire about his mother's news many times, and after several turns, he finally found his mother.
However, because his mother had remarried at that time, had her own family, and lived a very poor life, chen Yonggui returned to Dazhai Village without waiting for her mother to say anything, and continued to work long-term work in the landlord's family to maintain her life. Later, an old man saw that Chen Yonggui was pitiful and kindly adopted him, and from this time on, the two of them lived a life of dependence on each other.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Little Japanese soon occupied dazhai Village, and at this time, Chen Yonggui was elected as the president of the Pseudo-Maintenance Association because of his more ability, and on the surface he needed to cooperate with the Japanese army, but in fact he was doing things for the Eighth Route Army. At first, there was no problem, Chen Yonggui often provided some useful information for the Eighth Route Army, but later, after a long time, his abnormal behavior was discovered by the Japanese, and he was subsequently detained and imprisoned, and later the whole village father and fellow villagers paid to protect him, which made Chen Yonggui released from prison.
Chen Yonggui
After the victory of the War of Resistance, the vigorous land reform came, and at this time the peasants turned themselves into masters and owned their own land. After careful observation, Jia Jin, the secretary of Dazhai Village, found that Chen Yonggui was a very self-motivated person, very intelligent, and practical and capable, so he was ready to train him as his successor.
In 1948, under the introduction of Jia Jin, Chen Yonggui joined the Communist Party of China and became a member of the Communist Party of China, and then after several years of training and development, he took over the post of secretary of the party branch of Dazhai Village, and began to lead the poor peasants to firmly take the communist road.
Four years later, in order to develop agriculture, the Party Central Committee called on the peasants to establish agricultural cooperatives, and Chen Yonggui was very attentive to this decision of the Cpc Central Committee, although he did not know how to organize this agricultural cooperative, he still firmly believed that the call of the Central Committee was bound to be useful and must be implemented.
Li Shunda
When participating in the North China Material Exchange Exhibition, Chen Yonggui had the honor of getting to know Li Shunda, who earlier organized a cooperative in his hometown, and it was relatively well run, and it also greatly increased the peasants' enthusiasm for production, so Chen Yonggui humbly asked him for advice.
After the exhibition, as soon as Chen Yonggui returned to Dazhai Village, he discussed with the cadres in the village about establishing an agricultural cooperative, and later made a special trip to the district and county, and after obtaining the consent of the superiors, he set up a primary agricultural cooperative in the village.
Once the cooperative was established, the enthusiasm of the villagers for production was greatly enhanced, and under the leadership of Chen Yonggui, all the members of the group focused on production. This year, Dazhai Village achieved a bumper harvest of grain in the agricultural community, with an average yield of 131 kilograms per mu, which was 13 kilograms higher than before, and Chen Yonggui was also recognized by the organization because of his outstanding contribution.
flood
In 1963, this was destined to be a year of many disasters, floods, hail, frost and other disasters have long put the people in the depths of the water, and that big flood has made countless people chill.
Earlier, after realizing that the reason why Dazhai Village is poor is because of natural conditions, Chen Yonggui has always wanted to change the status quo, the most in the loess high slope area is the loess, and the loess itself is hard and can not be smashed, based on such a premise, Chen Yonggui wants to take advantage of the terrain of the loess mound, open up the wasteland himself, and turn the hillside into terraces.
When he first came up with this idea, Chen Yonggui received collective opposition from the villagers, but he did not give up, but went door to door to persuade, constantly doing work, and came up with his own detailed plan, drawing blueprints, and finally everyone began to act with him.
Countless scorching suns, the villagers of Dazhai Village followed Secretary Chen Yonggui on the loess slope, so under the efforts of the whole village, a trench of more than 700 meters became a terrace.
However, at this moment when the villagers of Dazhai Village were very happy, a major flood broke everything, and from August 2 of this year, the flood of 7 days and 7 nights destroyed the land, houses and terraces of the villagers in Dazhai Village, directly forcing them to destroy so many years of efforts.
And just when the villagers were crying and beating their chests, Chen Yonggui stood firm again, he maintained an absolutely optimistic attitude, helped everyone to rebuild confidence, and carried a hoe to fight with the villagers.
Without adding any trouble to the country, after several months of solid efforts, we overcame the floods, won a bumper grain harvest, and handed over more than 200,000 commercial grains to the state, making Dazhai Village a village known to the people of the whole country.
After the news of Chen Yonggui leading Dazhai Village to overcome natural disasters was reported, the People's Daily also published a special article to promote Chen Yonggui in the form of a special topic, and later he also received an invitation from the BEIJING Municipal Party Committee of the CPC Central Committee and stood in the Great Hall of the People.
Although it is said that there were many party and government cadres in the capital sitting under the stage, Chen Yonggui did not have the slightest timidity after coming to power, and on the stage he seriously talked about the struggle deeds of the villagers in Dazhai Village and a process of construction and development of Dazhai Village. The next day, people's daily also made a front-page headline praising Chen Yonggui's exemplary role and his advanced personal deeds in leading the villagers of Dazhai village to fight the disaster.
In March 1964, Chairman Mao went south to inspect the work, mainly to check the people's disaster situation and the current living conditions, after arriving in Handan, Tao Ludi, secretary of the Shanxi Provincial CPC Committee, came to report on the work and solemnly told chen Yonggui's deeds, which aroused Chairman Mao's great attention.
The voice of the people grew louder, and Chen Yonggui began to be gradually promoted, eventually becoming the deputy secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee, and in January 1975, when he came to Beijing to attend the first session of the Fourth National People's Congress, fate gave him another opportunity.
Zhou Enlai Chen Yonggui shook hands
After the meeting, Chen Yonggui was invited to come and meet with Premier Zhou, and after the meeting, Premier Zhou Enlai smiled and told him: "The main thing about the people's congress this time is that it has been decided that you will be made vice premier of the State Council, and I hope that you will promote this spirit of Dazhai to the whole country." Hearing the premier's words, Chen Yonggui was a little anxious, and he hurriedly said: "Premier, I can't do it, I don't have a high level of education, and I can't be the vice premier of the State Council." ”
Hearing this, Premier Zhou's expression immediately became serious: "Yonggui, you are a party member, and party members must accept the party's arrangement." In this way, Chen Yonggui eventually came to Beijing and served as vice premier of the State Council, specifically responsible for agricultural work.
When Chen Yonggui learned that he had been promoted to vice premier of the State Council, he was actually very uneasy in his heart, because he didn't know a big word, how could he be worthy of a big responsibility? If it were not for the relief of Premier Zhou later, Chen Yonggui would not have accepted the post of vice premier.
What is less well known is that before taking office, Chen Yonggui also made his request to the Party Central Committee, expressing the hope that his work could be divided into three points, that is, one time was divided in Beijing, one time was used for inspections in various places, and the last one was reserved for Dazhai Village. In addition, he repeatedly stressed that he did not want a salary, and after the chairman agreed to this request, Chen Yonggui began to take office.
Even after taking office, Chen Yonggui is still very simple, he knows that as a people's cadre, his life cannot be specialized, so he is very strict with himself, and when the central government allocates guards for him, he insists on disagreeing, but later Xiao Liu still came. In daily life, Chen Yonggui always said to Xiao Liu: "Xiao Liu, I am just a farmer, what kind of person do you think of me?" I don't need a guard, so go back!" What about so many peasants in the country, one with one guard, can that work? ”
Chen Yonggui is even more meticulous in his work, running between Beijing and Dazhai Village countless times to help the people solve difficult problems in agriculture. Even though he had become a state-level cadre, he still had nothing to do but work in the fields, and sometimes when he returned from a meeting from outside, he worked with the villagers of Dazhai Village, often ate and ate together, and sat together to study the works of Chairman Mao.
It is reasonable to say that Chen Yonggui can now move his hukou to Beijing and live a more relaxed life, but he has never thought of it this way, and even when the leader of Shanxi Province talked about living in Dazhai Village, he also said that this is nothing at all, serving the people, how can he return it?
On September 10, 1980, the 65-year-old Chen Yonggui voluntarily resigned as vice premier of the State Council and returned to his simple peasant life, planting some flowers and grasses at home and even planting some crops.
Later, because his life was too idle, he worked as a consultant on a farm in the eastern suburbs of Beijing, and Chen Yonggui, who had been dealing with land all his life, continued his original life here. When working on the farm, he was still as conscientious as ever, going to the field to carefully observe the growth of crops without a problem, and also specially grasped the problems of diseases and pests, and took preventive measures in advance.
Although the state equipped him with a house after retirement, he always felt that it was too big and wasteful, and even when he went out later, he insisted on taking the bus or walking, and never used a private car. Throughout his life, he has been honest and honest, and this is Chen Yonggui, a really good cadre of the people.
Although Chen Yonggui was born into a poor peasant, through step-by-step efforts, he still completed his legendary life, down-to-earth and kind, industrious and simple, and single-mindedly for the people, which is a good cadre of the party and the state. Today's China can develop so strong step by step, it is indispensable to these cadres who are bent on the country and the people, if it were not for them, let alone our current happy life!