During the Long March of the Red Army, Wang Ping, political commissar of the 11th Regiment of the Red 4th Division, saved a person who was seriously ill and could not walk, and what was even more rare was that this person originally had a horse, but gave it to people who needed it more. So Wang Ping unloaded all the supplies on the horseback of the machine gun and took this person with him, this person's name was Tang Liang, the founding general of the country in 1955.
Among the founding generals, Tang Liang's reputation is not obvious, mainly because Tang Liang's main job is not to lead soldiers to fight, he is a political work general, so he is not famous. However, Tang Liang's status was very high, and he had served as the director of the Political Department of the Third Field Army, second only to Chen Yi and Su Yu.
Tang Liang has a nickname called "Honest Man", because he is an extremely principled person and has never taken advantage of the public. For example, once when he wrote a letter to his hometown, he used public letter paper, and that night he was writing to check and review his use of public things.
Tang Liang was strict with himself and equally strict with his family. Her daughter has always worn coarse cloth clothes, so she was ridiculed by her classmates as a countryman, and her daughter was very aggrieved and complained to her father. Tang Liang comforted his daughter that there was no countryman, everyone had no food to eat, and if anyone dared to laugh at them, he would say that Tang Liang was also a countryman.
Tang Liang's third daughter, named Tang Junkai, was transferred to Nanjing when arranging work, and coincidentally, just at that time, Tang Liang was transferred out of Nanjing, and the house was also taken back, so Tang Junkai had no home to return. As soon as the Nanjing Military Region heard about this, it immediately gave Tang Junkai a two-bedroom house. However, after Tang Liang learned about it, he was unwilling and asked Tang Junkai to immediately return the house, otherwise he would break off the father-daughter relationship.
Tang Liang is in a high position of authority, and the greatest wealth left to his children is not money status, but four requirements, which are called "four self-selves": one is to be politically conscious, the second is to be economically self-reliant, the third is to be self-reliant in work, and the fourth is to take care of oneself in life. These four demands made Tang Liang's children endure for a lifetime.
The only time Tang Liang gave a gift to his daughter was on August 1, 1965, when Tang Liang gave a notebook to his eldest daughter, Tang Dongyuan, who was studying at a military academy. This notebook was used by Tang Dongyuan for bookkeeping, in order to cultivate her character of thrift and thrift.
Later, Tang Liang was older and was hospitalized when he was not in good health. His leaders came to visit him and asked him if there were any difficulties in his family, and the organization could help him solve them. But Tang Liang said that he had food to eat, clothes to wear, and was already satisfied with being hospitalized when he was sick. After the leader walked out of the ward, he was very emotional, saying that honest people are honest people, which is really rare and precious.