In 1960, the second year of China's three years of economic hardship, a large area of people fled their homes, and the Already unscrambled Xinyang Railway Station was crowded with fleeing people. In the crowd were two men in their mid-fifties, skinny and thin, staggering around the crowd, looking suspicious.
The police patrolling the train station quickly brought the two men into the police station for questioning, not because they were sneaky, but because they had twenty boxes of high-end imported cigarettes in their arms and were preparing to sell them to pedestrians entering and leaving the station. Who knew that this question did not matter, but the police comrades who interrogated them were frightened, and these two people turned out to be the brothers of xu Guangda, the founding general of the People's Republic of China.
In order to escape the famine, the two brothers went to Beijing to find relatives
In 1960, due to a nationwide drought, a serious shortage of grain production, and more and more countries handed over, the remaining grain was long gone, especially in central China. In order to be able to fill their stomachs, the victims ate everything they could eat, even the bark and grass roots were dug up and eaten, but there were still people who starve to death.
As a result, many people began to leave their homes to flee the wilderness. Of course, the brothers Xu Defu and Xu Deqiang from Hunan also joined the team of fleeing the wilderness, but they did not flee aimlessly, but went to their brother General Xu Guangda, hoping that he could help to relieve it.
In his hometown in Hunan, General Xu Guangda ranked fifth, Xu Defu and Xu Deqiang were his fourth brothers and the other was his sixth brother. In that era of extreme food shortage, if there was a brother who was a high official in Beijing, who wouldn't want to go to him for relief? It was with this idea that the two brothers crossed the mountains and mountains to Beijing, and finally found Xu Guangda's home after several tosses.
The military order was like a mountain, and Xu Guangda drove away his brothers
Since the beginning of the famine, more and more family members of soldiers have come to the army to eat and drink, which has put a lot of pressure on the troops: first, the food supply is insufficient, and the other is difficult to manage. After an emergency meeting, Xu Guangda, as commander-in-chief of the armored forces, issued the following military order: Relatives of soldiers who have not come to the army can no longer enter the army, and those who have already entered should leave as soon as possible.
Arriving at Xu Guangda's family home, the Xu Defu brothers thought that there would definitely be good wine and good meat to entertain, it happened that Xu Guangda was not at home, Xu Guangda's wife Zou Jinghua saw the two brothers enter the door and rushed forward to greet them, and asked the cook to quickly serve the food.
After a while, the cooker only served a plate of salted soybeans and a plate of boiled cabbage to entertain the two. Although he didn't say anything, the Xu Defu brothers began to feel sullen in their hearts. In the evening, before it was dark, Xu Guangda hurried home to see his two brothers, because they had not seen each other for many years, and the brothers had a deep affection, and tears could not help but fall between the conversations.
Later, Xu Defu and the two of them expressed their intentions, and Xu Guangda suddenly fell silent for a moment after listening to it, and then said: "Fourth brother, sixth brother, I know that it is not easy for you to come, but now the army has regulations, and no family members are allowed to live in the army, so you should go back early!" The Xu Defu brothers couldn't believe what they heard, could it be that their own brothers had become high-ranking officials in Beijing and looked down on themselves? But this is not like Xu Guangda's personality, and the more Xu Defu thinks about it, the more wrong he is.
At night, they secretly ran to the kitchen to see what was going on, but they didn't find a piece of meat in the kitchen for a while, and only then did they understand the reason, and the misunderstanding was eliminated by a few points.
At dinner the next morning, I learned from the cook's mouth that the soybeans I ate yesterday were the general's special nutrition products, and the number was limited, and yesterday's meal had already made them all eat, and General Xu had no need to eat them later. Only then did Xu Defu understand that the fifth brother had a hard time letting himself go. The two of them did not want to add more trouble, and chose to leave on the same day.
Xu Guangda very much wanted to stay with them for a few more days, but the troops had regulations that as commanders, they must lead by example and could not engage in favoritism and fraud. In order to express his apologies, when General Xu Guangda sent the two brothers off, he bought them two train tickets, and also gave them a bottle of wine, dozens of pounds of meal tickets, and twenty boxes of imported cigarettes.
There was no food in the house, and the Chen Defu brothers sold cigarettes
After getting on the train, the two brothers began to discuss, the hometown famine, back is also hungry, it is better to sell some cigarettes in their hands, maybe in exchange for some food.
After they came to the Xinyang Railway Station, they began to sell cigarettes in the bag, but what they didn't know was that these cigarettes were not ordinary cigarettes, they were given to him as gifts by foreign leaders when Xu Guangda visited abroad, and he did not want to smoke them after he brought them back to China, and they were left to the two brothers who came to Beijing.
The Xu Defu brothers told the police the ins and outs of the matter, and the police called the armor department for the sake of safety, and sure enough, they were all true. The police hurriedly put the brothers on the train.
epilogue
On the way home, Xu Deqiang suffered from long-term starvation, caused his stomach to shrink, fainted in the car, and later died. Xu Guangda then learned that his brother's death was sadly unable to eat for several days. Every New Year's Festival, he pays tribute to his brother.
As for Xu Guangda's expulsion of the two brothers, it seems to lack humanity, but in fact it is a manifestation of strict discipline in the troops. As a commander, he should lead by example. Although his brother's death was very regrettable, it was Xu Guangda's prohibition that made him a famous founding general of New China.