The great man Mao Zedong commented on the founding fathers with many golden sentences, and everyone knows it, and he evaluated Commander-in-Chief Zhu as "measuring as big as the sea and his will as strong as steel," peng Dehuai as "who dares to cross a knife and stand up to the sword, but I am General Peng Da," Lin Biao as "this doll is worthy of a great responsibility," Liu Bocheng as "a dragon under a mortal," Chen Yi as "a good comrade," Luo Ronghuan as "jun is unfortunate to pass away from the world, and the state has difficulties to ask who can be asked," Ye Jianying as "Lü Duan is not confused about major matters," and Deng Xiaoping as "gentle in the middle of the belt, and the needle is hidden in the mianli." The outside is a little more harmonious, and the inside is a steel company." There was a founding general who was appraised by Mao Zedong as pulling and not occupying the pit, militarily competent and politically qualified, and a good talent in the army. He is the founding general Zhu Liangcai.
Zhu Liangcai's reputation among the founding generals was not great, because he had been in the political field of the army and had not been a leader in the battle. If Luo Ronghuan is called a "political marshal," Zhu Liangcai can be called a "political general."
The reason why Zhu Liangcai has been engaged in political work in the army for a long time can also be regarded as making the best use of his talents. Unlike some illiterate generals, Zhu Liangcai was born into a rich peasant, attended a middle school, and worked as a primary school teacher in his village for two years, a cultured revolutionary who betrayed his class. In a person's growth, talent is very important, and opportunities are more important. Zhu Liangcai's participation in the revolution belongs to talent and opportunities. His first life encounter was that after participating in the victory of the Yizhang Rebellion, He Risheng, secretary of the Rucheng County Party Committee, sent him and his cousin Zhu Chi to contact Zhu De and Chen Yi to jointly discuss the organization of the Rucheng Uprising. He Risheng was Zhu Liangcai's introducer to the party, and the task assigned to him gave him the opportunity to meet zhu De, the future commander-in-chief of the Red Army, and obtained Zhu De's insight and wisdom, leaving him as a secretary. He was the first secretary of Commander-in-Chief Zhu, who was then the commander of the Red Fourth Army, and the secretary of mao Zedong, the former secretary of the party committee, was another founding general, Tan Zheng.
Although Zhu Liangcai was born into a rich peasant, he had high political consciousness and had been engaged in political and ideological work in the army. He successively served as the political commissar of the 9th Division of the Red 3rd Army, the political commissar of the Red 15th Army, the director of the Political Department and secretary of the Division's Party Committee of the 34th Division of the Red 5th Army, the political commissar and director of the Political Department of the General Health Department of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, the director of the Political Department of the Red 31st Army, the deputy director of the Political Department and the Director of the Organization Department of the Red 30th Army, the political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Third Sub-district of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, the director of the Political Department of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, the vice president and deputy political commissar of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military and Political Cadre School, the political commissar of the North China Military and Political University, the deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the North China Military Region, and the political commissar of the Beijing Military Region. Although Zhu Liangcai mostly held the post of political chief, our party's ranks were "the party commanding the gun," so Zhu Liangcai also belonged to a "high position of authority" in the army, and was awarded the rank of general when New China was founded.
Some people may not know about Zhu Liangcai, but mentioning the primary school text "Zhu De's Flat Burden" can be said to be unknown to everyone and everyone knows. The author of this primary school text that has been read more than a hundred times is General Zhu Liangcai. In fact, in addition to this article, Zhu Liangcai also excavated many heroic deeds and wrote many articles, such as "This Mountain, It Revolution", "Military Training and Cold", "A Wick" and so on. Typical examples such as "Five Heroes of Wolf-Tooth Mountain," "Militia Hero Li Yong," and "Rong Guanxiu, Mother of a Soldier of the Sons and Daughters" were also discovered and publicized when he was director of the Political Department of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region. Although Zhu Liangcai did not personally fight in the front line, he made great contributions to boosting the morale of the troops.
Although Zhu Liangcai has been doing political and ideological work in the army for a long time, it is not that he did not personally go to the front line to fight. On the contrary, Zhu Liangcai was often a pioneer and brave in battle, and even Chairman Mao said that he was "militarily competent." During his tenure as political commissar of the 9th Division of the Red 3rd Army, together with the division commander Xu Yangang, he led his troops to attack the headquarters of Zhang Huizhen, commander of the 18th Division of the Kuomintang Army, and together with the brother troops, completely annihilated two brigades of the division headquarters, and captured the division commander Zhang Huizhen.
Because he was a pioneer and often fought on the front line, Zhu Liangcai was wounded many times in the army operations. Especially in the encounter of the Western Route Army, the large troops were scattered by the enemy, almost the entire army was destroyed, as the deputy director of the Political Department of the Red 30 Army and the director of the Organization Department, Zhu Liangcai became the "Commander of the Light Pole", that is, in March 1937, Zhu Liangcai was alone, disguised, begging for 36 days along the way, only to find the Red Army to aid the Western Army in Zhenyuan, Gansu. After 36 days as a "called Hanako", I don't know how many times I have evaded the enemy's interrogation, which can be described as nine deaths. When his comrade-in-arms Chen Fangren stared at him with wide eyes to identify him, what he saw in front of him was a scruffy old man wearing a dirty and torn sheepskin jacket, holding a begging bowl in his hand, and with a big beard, and he did not believe that he was Zhu Liangcai, deputy director of the Political Department of the Red 30 Army. Due to repeated major disasters, Zhu Liangcai's right arm was left with a lifelong disability.
If the great difficulty does not die, there will be a blessing. The 21,800 men of the Western Route Army were almost completely annihilated, and less than 3,000 people were retained as revolutionary flames, and Zhu Liangcai was lucky enough to become a survivor. More fortunately, after Zhu Liangcai was rescued, he was appointed as the head of the organization department of the Political Department by the Western Aid Army, and received Li Kaifen, a female soldier who was also a member of the Western Route Army who fled back to Shaanxi, and the two experienced the bloody battle of the Western Route Army together. Speaking of this Li Kaifen, that is also a female middle school woman, she was born as a landlord, betrayed her own class to participate in the revolution, became the leader of the propaganda team of the Red Fourth Front, but because of her bad birth, she was almost shot by the Red Army as a spy who examined political issues. In order to prove the purity of the revolution, Li Kaifen always personally went into battle to kill the enemy, you know, when she joined the revolution, she was still a minor girl.
After the founding of New China, Zhu Liangcai was ranked as one of the founding generals and served as the first political commissar of the Beijing Military Region. However, because Zhu Liangcai was not a "famous general" active on the battlefield, he always modestly said that he was not qualified enough, and said to his wife Li Kaifen that "his ability is limited and he is not worthy of the rank of general." To this end, the organization issued daily necessities, Zhu Liangcai set up a "family rule" for the family, that is, always the last collar, and the cheapest collar. Because of this "family rule", Zhu Liangcai's secretary always queued up in the last one, because he was afraid of criticism, he did not dare to take good things when he saw them, and he was a founding general of the tangtang, and the sofas at home were all holes and refused to be replaced, and they had been used for a full forty years, only because they could not be used and thrown away. Is it because low wages can't afford new ones? Zhu Liangcai's answer was: A set of sofas is not valuable, but what is valuable is the arduous and simple style of revolutionary soldiers.
After only three years in his post as founding general and first political commissar of the Beijing Military Region, Zhu Liangcai offered his resignation to the organization on the grounds that he had been wounded three times during the army's combat, had a disability in his right arm, had frequent headaches, and wanted to make room for young people.
Chairman Mao gave a high appraisal of Zhu Liangcai's resignation, and he said humorously: Others occupy the pit and do not, you are the one who does not occupy the pit. When Zhu Liangcai said that he had resigned from all the treatment of a general, Chairman Mao personally made a decision: "Such a good comrade does not perform his duties in the army, and he is also a general of the people." The more the superior looked up to Zhu Liangcai, the more Zhu Liangcai remained humble, and Zhu Liangcai said: I am no longer doing it, why do I want so much treatment? Once, when the wall in his home fell, the military region wanted to raise the wall for him, but Zhu Liangcai refused. Because he believed that the heightening of the wall would affect the lighting of the neighbors; the military region said that it was for the safety of the leaders, Zhu Liangcai stared at me, I am serving the people, I have no shame, it is impossible for ordinary people to harm me. The ancients said that "his body is upright, and he does not act without orders", and the long-tested communist fighter Zhu Liangcai is high-spirited and bright, and even this.
As the first founding general to resign from his leadership position, the country did not forget him. In fact, Zhu Liangcai did not hold the post of political commissar of the Beijing Military Region, but he held the posts of member of the Supreme Court of the Central People's Government, member of the Central Supervision Commission of the CPC Central Committee, and member of the Standing Committee of the Second to Fifth National People's Congress. He did not rest, but continued to maintain the revolutionary style of guarding against arrogance and impetuosity, and maintained the true character of a communist who served the people. Influenced by Zhu Liangcai, his family also maintains the true color of high wind and bright festivals, and his wife Li Kaifen never takes a special car to work, either on foot, or crowded the bus, or riding a bicycle. In 1988, at the age of 88, Zhu Liangcai was awarded another "First Class Red Star Meritorious Service Medal", and Founding Marshal Nie Rongzhen commented on him: Zhu Liang is a good comrade-in-arms and a good helper. On February 22, 1989, Zhu Liangcai died of illness at home at the age of 89.