Among the famous generals of the national army, there is a person known for his "stupidity", very inflexible, nerdy full of temperament, as long as he looks for things, the nine cows can not be pulled back, by his colleagues jokingly called "nerdy general".
However, it was this general, known for his "stupidity", who in his later years aspired to become the greatest scientist in modern times. What's going on?
Let's start with the nerdy general.
The general's name was Huang Wei, a native of Guixi, Jiangxi, who had been a bit rude since childhood, and after graduation, he worked as a primary school teacher in his hometown, but he offended the squire and ran out. Later, under the arrangement of Fang Zhimin, he was admitted to the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, from a primary school teacher to a famous general.
Perhaps the people who really want to do things like luzhi people, so Huang Wei was appreciated by Chen Cheng, and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was appointed as the commander of the 67th Division of the 18th Army and led the army to participate in the Songhu War of Resistance. In this war, Huang Wei's "stupidity" was vividly reflected - since the commander gave the order, then we must resolutely carry it out, even if we beat the last person, we must not back down!
Therefore, after the battle, Huang Wei's 67th Division suffered casualties, and the remaining people could not even get a regiment together. It is precisely because of this battle that Huang Wei's "stupidity" is famous all over the world.
Once, Du Yuming's troops returned from Burma, and it was Huang Wei who was in charge of inspecting the troops. Du Yuming and Huang Wei are classmates of Huangpu Phase I, knowing that this classmate is a nerd and does not know how to be flexible, he invites Huang Wei to dinner, hoping that he can be enlightened. During the banquet, Du Yuming saw Huang Wei's calm face, and his heart was a little bottomless, so he said with a haha, the weather in China is really good, the wind and rain are smooth. As a result, Huang Wei glanced at him and said, "My hometown of Jiangxi is experiencing flooding, where is the wind and rain coming from?" ”
Huang Wei's "stupidity" has made him famous, but it has also made him suffer a lot. In the Battle of Huaihai, Huang Wei led the 12th Corps to participate in the battle, against Chen Geng, a classmate of the Huangpu Phase I. Chen Geng knew his personality, so he made a plan to lure Huang Wei to the encirclement circle and annihilate him.
Later, Huang Wei learned that the opponent was Chen Geng, not only did not regret it, but said with relief: "Defeat at the hands of Chen Geng is not a wrong, Chen Geng is my classmate, in school I can't compare with him." ”
In the war criminals guard camp, when Du Yuming, Wang Yaowu and others were studying the chairman's works and actively reforming, Huang Wei asked the guards for a lot of books on science and technology.
It turned out that Huang Wei had heard people say as early as the Whampoa Military Academy that some people in the Western scientific community were studying "perpetual motion machines" and could work forever without any energy, but unfortunately no one had successfully developed them. In this way, others will listen to it, but Huang Wei has remembered it in his heart. In the war years there was no time to study, now that there is no war, why not start studying "perpetual motion machines"?
Huang Wei said that he would do it, and in addition to labor and meetings every day, the rest of the time was spent reading books. Originally, when the first amnesty was granted in 1959, if Huang Wei behaved well, he could be pardoned and leave prison. But Huang Wei was preoccupied with the study of "perpetual motion machines" and did not care at all about the amnesty.
In 1967, Huang Wei was transferred to the Fushun War Criminals Management Center, and jin Yuan, the deputy director of the management center, was also very interested after hearing about him, so he sent 4 technicians to form a scientific research team with him to develop a "perpetual motion machine".
Not to mention, after a period of hard work, the first "perpetual motion machine" finally came out. On that day, all the people of the management office, including managers and war criminals, came to witness this great moment that changed the world.
Unfortunately, the "perpetual motion machine" turned around a few times and did not move, allowing Huang Wei to operate, that is, there was no "perpetual motion", and Huang Wei's face was red.
Jin Yuan comforted him: "Failure is the mother of success. Pesticide 606 was successful after 606 trials. It is impossible to succeed with a single experiment, and those who laugh at failure are ignorant people. ”
In December 1975, Huang Wei was granted an amnesty, and in his spare time, he still did not forget to study the "perpetual motion machine", and at a meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, he also made a long academic report.
Until his death in 1989, Huang Wei still had a long mind about the "perpetual motion machine" and told his son to continue to study.