General Wang Zhen was born in Liuyang, Hunan
Maguiqiao Village, North Shengcang Township
In 1922, the 14-year-old Wang Zhen left his hometown to join the Xiang Army in Changsha, and later became a railway worker, growing rapidly in the workers' movement, in 1927, during the White Terror after the defeat of the Great Revolution, he resolutely joined the Communist Party and went to Changsha, Wuhan and other places to engage in underground work, until 1929, he participated in the creation of the Xianggan base area and became a commander of the Red Army.
During the long-term revolutionary struggle, Wang Zhen, who was both wise and courageous, made great military achievements and became the founding general of the country.
Wang Zhen has a strong personality and a simple heart, all his life adhering to the belief of seeking the welfare of the country and the people, he is very true and frank, he can march and fight, and he is also good at the construction of reclamation, although he did not read much in his early years and did not have a high level of education, he liked to communicate with literati and scholars, Ding Ling, Li Siguang, Hua Luogeng and others were his friends, He Jing's lyrics, Marco composed a song "Nanniwan", so that Wang Zhen led the 359 Brigade in the Northern Gate of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Region Nanniwan Reclamation Stationed in the past spread throughout the north and south of the great river, and has been experienced so far.
After many years of expeditions abroad, Wang Zhen missed his hometown and relatives, and he was very concerned about Liuyang, the hometown where he was born and raised, and returned to his hometown many times to talk with the villagers, invite experts, build schools, cultivate good land, and support Liuyang, which had no silk weaving industry, to set up the first silk reeling factory, so that the villagers gradually became rich.
However, Wang Zhen was somewhat harsh on his brothers and sisters, and he returned to his hometown many times to rectify the family style, and never allowed his younger brothers, sisters, nephews, and nieces to enjoy any special treatment, showing his revolutionary original intention of ruling for the people and not admiring wealth and wealth, and the true colors of peasant children.
1. The third brother is not allowed to build the "Wang Family Compound", and wang Zhen wants to send the third brother to "transformation"
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Zhen served as the first secretary of the Xinjiang sub-bureau and the acting commander of the Xinjiang Military Region, and after the news returned to his hometown, wang Yumei, the third brother who had been working as a farmer at home, was deeply excited, believing that his brother had become a "feudal official" and that his brother, a high-ranking official, could also be stained.
At that time, Wang Zhen's mother followed Wang Yumei to live in her hometown, and Wang Zhen took a part of her salary every month as her mother's living expenses and regularly remitted them to her third brother. But Wang Zhen's monthly salary is only a few hundred yuan, and in the eyes of the third brother, the living expenses sent by the eldest brother on a monthly basis are obviously far from enough to let him live a beautiful life.
In order to replace Wang Zhen's "Guangzong Yaozu" in the township, who was already "developed," Wang Yumei asked someone to draw a plan for building a house, and wanted to tear down the original earthen house and change it into a tall mansion with a patio, corridor, and gate tower, but he did not have enough funds to build a house, so he wrote a letter to the eldest brother, asking Wang Zhen to send a sum of money back to his hometown to build the "Wang Family Compound."
Former residence of Wang Zhen
In his letter, he said with a straight face: "You are the boss, who do you not rely on?" Besides, we have been 'bandits' for decades for your big brother to carry out the revolution outside, and the family has suffered a lot! ...... According to common sense, it is necessary to send some money to repair the house, one is filial piety, and the other is to comfort relatives. ”
When Wang Zhen first made a revolution, many relatives and friends were implicated, his father and uncle were sacrificed, and in Wang Yumei's view, Wang Zhen is now in a high position of authority, sending some money back to his hometown, even if it is compensation for his relatives, it is also the common sentiment of people.
After receiving such a family letter in Xinjiang, Wang Zhen was greatly angered and told his wife Wang Jiqing that the third brother was planning to build a "Wang Family Compound" in his hometown and make a blessing in the township. ”
Wang Zhen, who was "desperate", wrote back to rebuke his brother, saying that if his mother went home to live, it was okay for him to build two houses, but he could only take it from his salary, and it was impossible to build a mansion. If Wang Yumei wanted Wang Zhen to take the money, he would write a letter to the peasant association and launch a struggle against Wang Yumei.
After replying to the letter, Wang Zhen was still angry, believing that it was dangerous for his brother to have such thoughts, and it was easy to go to corruption and degeneration, so he specially instructed his brother to attend the transformation study class of the local government.
Wang Zhen with his mother
At this time, Wang Yumei did not understand why the eldest brother was so desperate, but also to launch a peasant association to fight him, after receiving the letter, Wang Yumei was sullen, so he secretly built a few new houses with civil structures from Wang Zhen, which were also very conspicuous in the local area. "Don't let the third brother get any more money."
Wang Yumei felt very aggrieved and felt that the eldest brother was too harsh on him.
During the autumn harvest, Wang Zhen specially returned to his hometown to visit his relatives, and as soon as he arrived at his hometown, he went to the field and waved his sickle, while skillfully cutting rice, while using his hometown dialect and neighbors to pull homely routines, inquiring about the living conditions of the third brother, a neighbor casually said: "Mr. Mei is living a good life, and there are still more than a dozen ducks at home." ”
Hearing the three words "Mr. Mei", Wang Zhen felt very wrong, he understood the local customs, in the old society, there were only two kinds of people in the local area who would be respected by the common people as "Mr." One was the teacher who taught in the school, and the other was the local tycoon and the inferior gentry in the township.
After harvesting the crops, Wang Zhen did not enter the house, but went to the compound of the Beisheng District CPC Committee, asked Zhou Mingsheng, secretary of the district party committee, to convene a meeting of the cadres and representatives of the members of the society, and said bluntly: "Your ideological education work for the masses is not in place, I heard that you still have a person named 'Mr. Mei' here, and I see that he has not been educated." He punched the table hard and shouted, "Down with Mr. Beauty!" And made a stipulation on the spot: "In the future, whoever shouts Mr. Mei will be punished by Gu Yidou, and Wang Yumei will pay!" ”
Wang Zhen was also very wary of Wang Yumei's batch of ducks, and after hearing that Wang Yumei's ducks often stole rice from the team, he expressed his intention at the meeting to ask his brother to compensate, saying: "According to the 'three major disciplines and eight points of attention' formulated by Mao Zedong, compensation should be made for damage to the interests of the masses. ”
Someone said in a round field: "Yu Mei is not the People's Liberation Army, or don't lose money, pay attention to it in the future." ”
However, Wang Zhen resolutely disagreed, and in the end, the secretary of the Beisheng District Party Committee proposed a plan to collect all of Wang Yumei's ducks and collect them for collective stocking by the Ma Zhan Brigade, discount them to Wang Yumei, and then deduct part of the money as compensation.
After seeing the eldest brother return to his hometown, he was actually treated like this, not only did not get the light, but also was particularly harshly demanded, Wang Yumei could not figure out how to, and held his stomach.
That night, Wang Zhen found his brother at the hearth to talk, he talked about his original intention of making a revolution, pulled his brother to recall the past hard life at home, he told his brother that he had sacrificed his life and forgotten to fight for many years, he wanted to seek the welfare of the people and the masses, to overthrow the local tycoons and inferior gentry, and to build a new world where everyone was equal, if Wang Yumei planned to fight in the township to specialize, it would go against his original intention of struggle, and his father and fourth uncle would be sacrificed in vain.
Wang Yumei burst into tears as he spoke, and he finally understood the eldest brother's pure feelings and good intentions, and he never made any special requests since then.
2. Encourage the second brother and the second sister to enter Xinjiang and take root in the Gobi for more than ten years
Wang Zhen has been the minister of agricultural reclamation for many years, has a lot of experience in agricultural production, and often communicates with his brothers to understand the farming situation in his hometown.
On October 28, 1967, having just recovered from being caught in a fight, he wrote a lot of suggestions to his hometown for spring ploughing in the coming year, and specially guided the composting matter: "I propose that you dig a man's deep fertilizer in the field, and fill it with cow dung and tidal sand mud in winter. Spring ploughing unearths miscellaneous fertilizer. The grass and tide mud are then stirred up to make late grass fertilizer. In this way, the soil can be thickened year by year to increase fertility. "Try to make suggestions for the construction of your hometown."
Wang Zhen's family letter
Wang Zhen was very helpful in the construction of his hometown, but he was very strict with his relatives in his own family, because he believed that his power came from the people and should be returned to the people, rather than using public power for private interests.
When he was a commander in Xinjiang Construction, he encouraged his second brother Wang Yumin to come to Xinjiang to work, and Wang Yumin immediately took his family of five people to take a train into Xinjiang, along the way, Wang Yumin's 9-year-old son Wang Jing was full of the poetry of "Tianshan snowflakes, Turpan grapes, and the Silk Road".
Wang Yumin was arranged to work as an ordinary garden worker in the military reclamation farm, and when he first arrived, his family was surrounded by disciples, and the family's life was not as good as that of his hometown in Hunan, and Wang Zhen did not appear for a long time, which made Wang Jing resentful, believing that uncle Dabo had mobilized their entire family to come to Xinjiang and was completely fooling them.
Finally, one day, Wang Zhen came to visit them on the farm, but he did not have the slightest intention of taking care of them, but encouraged them to continue to work the frontier to carry out construction, and wrote a family letter full of encouragement.
Nine years later, Wang Jing, who turned 18 years old, signed up to join the army with the encouragement of Wang Zhen, but because Wang Zhen was removed from his post and fought in the early days of the Cultural Revolution, Wang Jing also suffered many blows, at this time, Wang Zhen's mother and Wang Jing's grandmother were seriously ill, and Wang Jing had to be demobilized early. After demobilization, he wrote a letter asking Wang Zhen to help him arrange a post, but Wang Zhen asked him to "go back to his hometown and honestly become a farmer", and the 24-year-old Wang Jing returned to his hometown in Liuyang and became a farmer for a lifetime.
Wang Zhen's second sister, who has a son and two daughters, also made a special trip to Beijing to find his uncle to help arrange work, and Wang Zhen also sent them to Xinjiang, and told them: "You can work, but get Xinjiang." I believe that you can contribute to the development and construction of Xinjiang. Zuo Zongtang once wrote a poem "Hu Xiang disciples are full of heavenly mountains", you go, in the ranks of building and defending Xinjiang, there will be a few more Hunan people. ”
The three brothers and sisters listened to their uncle's words and went to live at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and at that time, Xinjiang, whether it was the natural environment or living conditions, made them feel very uncomfortable, a few years later, they put forward a request to their uncle to transfer their jobs, Wang Zhen resolutely opposed, saying: "Far from home? That's because you don't consider Xinjiang your home at all! Xinjiang is very good, not as appalling as you say, I am a Xinjiang pass, I don't know yet? In the future, I will also ask to scatter my ashes on the Heavenly Mountain. Besides, when you entered Xinjiang, you had already made it clear that you would not repent in the future. ”
In this way, Wang Zhen sent his second brother's family and sister's children to Xinjiang to take root and build.
3. His niece curved into Beijing, and he was angry and asked people to "send" her back to her hometown
Seeing the suffering of these cousins and cousins, Wang Hui, the daughter of Wang Zhen's third brother Wang Yumei, learned from her uncle's tough style, and she did not dare to ask her uncle for help, lest she also be sent to the Gobi Desert in Xinjiang.
Wang Hui sought help from Wang Zhen's subordinates and moved her hukou to Beijing, thinking that raw rice had been cooked into cooked rice, and then told his uncle, but as soon as Wang Zhen heard about this, he was furious and asked someone to move her niece's hukou back and "deport her hometown", and asked her to return to Liuyang's hometown village to build her hometown.
Before leaving, Wang Zhen still said to Wang Hui with a strained face: "I am old and have a bad memory. Only the peers are recognized, not the next generation. "Completely cut off Wang Hui's plan to ask Uncle Da's help."
Wang Zhen in his later years
As long as he does not rely on his power to specialize and use his personal strength to improve the environment for his relatives and friends, he is all doing his best, no matter how busy his official duties are, no matter how difficult the situation is, Wang Zhen often takes time to write family letters to his brothers and nephews, and has accumulated hundreds of letters and hundreds of thousands of words.
In 1989, Wang Jing's two daughters were admitted to university and secondary school at the same time, to provide for two children to study at the same time, so that he felt great economic pressure, Wang Zhen heard about it, immediately remitted 1,000 yuan to his nephew, said in the letter, the 1,000 yuan is to fund the two nieces and nephews to study, and apologetically said that because of his savings are not much, he can only fund 1,000 yuan at present, please forgive Wang Jing.
Under Wang Zhen's strict family style management, relatives in his hometown have embarked on the road of self-improvement and self-reliance.
In his later years, Wang Zhen was seriously ill and hospitalized in Guangzhou, he thought that he was old, his body could not recover, how could not agree to the operation, so as not to waste medical resources, until the people around him turned to Deng Xiaoping for help, Deng Xiaoping wrote a letter to persuade him, Wang Zhen only tearfully saluted on the hospital bed, said in a weak voice: "Obey Chairman Deng's orders." ”
In 1993, wang Zhen died of illness at the age of 85, and according to his last wishes, he donated his cornea and scattered his ashes in the foothills of the Tianshan Mountains. This pure son from Liuyang, a loyal soul, rests forever on the land he has firmly guarded and built.