"One article can top two divisions." -- Chairman Mao's evaluation of Qiao Guanhua
For a country, the profession of diplomat plays a vital role, as Qiao Guanhua, who is very outstanding in the history of Chinese diplomacy, his life is full of drama and very colorful.
When people think of him, the first thing that comes to mind is the photo of him laughing at the 26th session of the United Nations General Assembly. It was as if his heartfelt excitement and joy could be heard across the screen, only this time, the General Assembly unanimously restored China's legitimate status in the United Nations.
This time the freeze of history has also become the freeze frame of the peak period of his life and career.
The glorious moments of New China also brought wonderful moments to his extravagant life. But in fact, he began to be different and outstanding from the age of 16. That year, he had already entered the university above the Tsinghua score line.
His favorite book when he was a student was philosophy, and he had read Hegel's complete works countless times, and as his alumnus, Mr. Ji Xianlin, recalled in his later years, he also said: "He was always different, and every day under his armpits were all kinds of thick and large philosophical books, and he hesitated." ”
After graduating from Tsinghua University, he went to Japan to study and continued to study his philosophy. During this period he began to fall in love with the languages of various countries, and read through the complete works of Hegel in English, Japanese, Russian, and German.
With excellent leadership skills, he secretly planned propaganda activities against Japan's invasion of China at the University of Tokyo, and also organized a large number of patriots to secretly publicize it.
At one point, he was targeted by local police, and he and his close friends were arrested and imprisoned. In prison, this student in his early 20s was upright and unyielding, and the police did not interrogate him for any fame, but they did not want to let him go easily, and they deported him in every way.
At the age of 24, he received a doctorate from the University of Tübingen, a prestigious University in Germany, where he studied philosophy. The following year, he was invited to serve as editor-in-chief of the Current Affairs Review, and he wrote the most sincere voice in Hong Kong at that time.
He has always been keen on the study of the situation at home and abroad, and this "pen holder" later went to Chongqing Daily to be responsible for the analysis and commentary of international current affairs. At the age of 33, he became the Hong Kong bureau chief of Xinhua News Agency.
Three years later, after the founding of New China, he began to be selected to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, successively engaged in assistant ministers, vice ministers, ministers and other work.
His pen is always full of passion and strength, because of the years of profound research and control of the international situation, he can always accurately predict the direction of current events, and the articles he writes are not only rational but also very prophetic.
Therefore, he has received the attention and reuse of the central government, especially at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and he can be seen in almost all major diplomatic negotiations and polemic venues. However, Chairman Mao will hand-pick him to come out of the army, as if only if he personally goes into battle can this negotiation end perfectly.
Every battle of words, every sharp article, every far-sightedness shows his innate and outstanding diplomatic talent, and can also make the other side satisfied.
He is a hot and simple person who loves and hates clearly, he will not hide his emotions and opinions, so his joys and sorrows in the negotiation field can affect the nerves of everyone present, and his anger can really shock those "foreigners" who are pregnant with ghosts.
Similarly, his talent and enthusiasm are not limited to his work, but also sincere and simple to colleagues, leaders, and family.
Take his relationship with his first wife, for example, the acquaintance and affinity at work allowed him to directly launch the pursuit of Gong Peng. Known for his sharpness at the time, he was appointed editor-in-chief of Chongqing Daily, where he was mainly responsible for the international commentary section.
For a time, pen names such as "Qiaomu", "Yu Huai" and "Yu Chao" appeared in major columns, and people were addicted to his articles after reading them! Of course, it has also gained a lot of fans and readers, including Gong Peng.
This beautiful female diplomat was on a business trip to Chongqing at this time, participating in the party's foreign affairs activities, they had the opportunity to meet often, and the woman's talent and temperament were above ordinary women, which made him have different feelings in his heart, and over time he had the impulse to fall in love.
Later, with the mediation of other party comrades, the two married. Premier Zhou made good friends with him on weekdays and arranged a residence for him in Hongyan Village in Zengjiayan, which, although the room was small, was the "new house" for the couple in distress.
Since then, both have stayed in Chongqing to work, and due to the similarity of industries, they are not only teammates in the trenches, but also competitors in their careers. In this way, they loved each other for 27 years and gave birth to a son and a daughter.
The beautiful marriage lasted until 1970, when the wife failed to rescue her due to the rupture of a blood vessel in the cerebral artery. This is a very big blow to Qiao Guanhua, who is both a career supporter and a virtuous helper in life, and he does not know where to go after losing his wife.
For more than a year, he could not come out of his sadness, and every day he took a magnifying glass to look at the photos of his wife before she was born. Soon, his health was not well, he fell ill with tuberculosis, and had to be hospitalized.
At this time, he met Zhang Hanzhi, the adopted daughter of the partisan revolutionary fighter Zhang Shizhao, a "talented woman" that even President Bush praised.
But by this time he was nearly sixty years old, and at that time, their union would surely be criticized and blinded by the world. As a well-known figure in the country, their image also represents the country, so no matter how he writes a confession, the woman rejects his sincerity.
Although love is precious, they can't face the pressure of public opinion, not to mention that Zhang Hanzhi is now caught in the whirlpool of divorce with her husband, originally divorced because her husband cheated, she did not want to bear a crime of "wanting to marry a rich and powerful celebrity and abandoning her ex-husband".
But Joe has not given up, and a series of sincere and simple letters have constantly touched the woman's heart. Finally, the woman was willing to break through the world's prejudices and be with him, and his children vigorously opposed it when talking about marriage.
They think that the bones of their biological mothers are not cold, how can the father marry someone else? It was disrespectful to the mother, and they went all out to stop it. He even threatened: "If you marry again, we will break off relations with you, and there will be no contact after that!" ”
He was determined, and he was angry, he simply chose to break off the relationship, and also drove his son back to his hometown to live, and changed the lock of the door of the Beijing family, and his daughter could not enter after returning from work, so he realized that his father really had a decision and there was no room for maneuver.
He married his 22-year-old wife, who was 22 years younger, but his children were both swept out of the house. Since then, the two have lived a leisurely and happy two-person world, never quarreling, as if people's criticism has been blocked by them, under his gentle and considerate care, Zhang firmly believes that he has made the right choice.
The couple's happy life lasted until Joe died of terminal cancer, and in the next 25 years, Zhang did not remarry and used this time to write four books, but there were his shadows everywhere in these books.