In the past, China was constantly in war, but in the chaos, there were also heroes. Real gold can withstand the test of fire, and the hero Haojie is also not afraid of the baptism of war. In order to win the war, countless heroes and martyrs rushed to the battlefield and defended the dignity of the motherland with blood, in order to commend their contributions, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, China held a large-scale award ceremony, and selected ten marshals and ten generals, in addition to more than 1500 generals above the general level. Just by looking at this number at that time, we can see how much of a group of heroes our country is.
However, at that time, there was a lot of controversy in the award ceremony, some generals felt that their ranks were too high and wanted to give themselves more credit; some people obviously made greater contributions, but the rank was not as everyone expected, so many people were unfair to him. General He Jinnian, who is going to talk about today, was two of his partners when he was a military commander, one became a general and the other became a lieutenant general, but he was only rated as a colonel. Later, the chairman personally changed his rank to major general.
To explain this storm, we have to mention the origin of General He Jinnian, who was born in Anding County, Shaanxi, and later this county was renamed Zichang County. The reason why the name was changed was because here was a revolutionary hero Xie Zichang, who, as a revolutionary pioneer in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region, established a revolutionary armed force in Ningxia. At that time, in order to enrich the army, Xie Zichang entrusted a group of students from various schools, and He Jinnian joined Xie Zichang's revolutionary armed forces at this time.
As an old revolutionary area, Shaanxi has produced many outstanding generals and revolutionary martyrs, but there are also some black sheep. The reason why He Jinnian failed to be rated with the rank of general was that he was implicated by his hometown. At that time, He Jinnian met Gao Gang, who was also born in northern Shaanxi, in the army, and the meeting between the two people was extremely lively, and they were also very close. At that time, Gao Gang already had an official and a half-position on his body, and he was very optimistic about He Jinnian, and He Jinnian had great respect for him.
Later, the two separated in 1950 because of the reorganization of the troops, and gao gang told him that he could go to the northeast to develop. Later, He Jinnian did go to the northeast and found his own opportunity there, becoming the chief of staff of a unit in the northeast, so He Jinnian has always been grateful to Gao Gang for his promotion and care.
However, Gao Gang later developed a different heart and tried to split internally, and he colluded with Rao Shushi to carry out secret separatist activities, which caused great harm to the stability of our party. Soon after their ambitions were exposed, they received harsh condemnation and condemnation from everyone, and were exposed at the meeting of the Central Committee members in February 1954.
Gao Gang was overwhelmed and chose to commit suicide in August of the same year, but the organization of this act of fearful suicide would not be revealed, and at the Party Congress held in March 1955, everyone jointly decided to expel Gao Gang from the party, revoke all his positions, and erase his honor and party age. At that time, gaogang's affairs were very noisy, and He Jinnian, who had always been associated with him, was naturally affected, and later in 1955, when the title was awarded, the political commissar Wang Ping, who was partnered with him, was awarded the title of general, and as a deputy corps commander, he finally only received the rank of colonel.
He Jinnian also knew that this was the consequence of his careless dating, so he himself had no opinion. However, after other generals knew about it, they all had some grievances for him, and it should be known that He Jinnian had already held positions within our party's army as early as when the Red Army revolution in northern Shaanxi was not established, and later he even followed the army to conquer the four wildernesses, and made a lot of merits. For such a good general to only award the rank of colonel, I am afraid it is a bit unreasonable.
At that time, even Mr. He and Mr. Peng were somewhat dissatisfied with this matter, and the two marshals found Mr. Zhu together and reflected the matter to the chairman. After learning of this, the chairman personally inquired about He Jinnian's past, and then said that this rank was indeed a little too low, and then at his behest, He Jinnian was eventually named a major general.
However, for He Jinnian, the level of his position and the size of the military rank do not matter, anyway, he has contributed his own strength to the motherland, which is enough for others, after the award of the title, he threw himself into the military construction of new China and exerted his residual heat. General He Lao did not idle until his old age, and he found a new hobby of his own, that is, painting.
In this regard, He Jinnian showed quite a surprising talent, and after practicing calligraphy for many years, he also quickly got started to paint Chinese paintings, and his masterpieces continued. In particular, the bamboo he painted was lifelike, very charming and charming, so he was called "The General of Painting Bamboo" by many people, and even later opened his own solo exhibition in Hong Kong. I have to say that the old general has experienced so much and has such a life atmosphere, and such a spoiled attitude is really worth learning.
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