Although General Wang Zhen's status is quite high, according to common sense, he does not have the right to interfere in local affairs, so why did General Wang Zhen make such a request?
The admiral was repeatedly teased, and the county magistrate threatened people
"Hello, is your county magistrate here?"
On this day, an "old farmer" who was covered in tattered clothes and even occupied muddy in many places came to the side of the county government near the construction of the railway, and his voice was serious and a little tired, and he asked the people standing under the county government building.
"No, no, no."
The man standing outside the door of the county government office building first glanced at the "old farmer", saw that his clothes were worn, and replied impatiently.
Immediately after that, as if he didn't want to be questioned anymore, he saw him walk straight outside and quickly left in a car.
The "old farmer" frowned slightly, but did not think about anything, but instead found another person standing not far away again, and repeated his question.
"County magistrate? The person who just stood next to you is. ”
The government clerk seemed not to expect him to ask this question, so that he looked a little surprised, and the "old farmer" could not understand that he was being teased at this moment, and for a moment he looked ashamed.
Yes, this person who looks like an "old farmer" is General Wang Zhen.
From February 1954, the battle-hardened General Wang Zhen began to serve as the commander and political commissar of the Ministry of Railways, mainly responsible for the construction of China's railways.
Due to the relatively severe situation in the country, General Wang Zhen raced against every second and successively took over the construction of the Lizhan Railway and the Yingxia Railway, and the cumulative length of these two railways alone exceeded 1,000 kilometers.
The original three-year construction period of the latter was completed ahead of schedule by General Wang Zhen in 26 months, which can be described as extremely efficient.
However, the completion of the task in advance does not mean that there are no difficulties, for example, when General Wang Zhen built the "Eagle Summer Railway", he was deeply distressed by the soldiers' dissatisfaction with the water and soil and the harsh living environment.
Therefore, General Wang Zhen came to the county government and prepared to discuss with the county magistrate how to better solve the housing problem of the soldiers.
Due to the haste to come up from the construction site, General Wang Zhen did not have time to change his clothes, which was misunderstood.
However, General Wang Zhen did not care about these problems, he just wanted to find a suitable room for those soldiers who were unsatisfactory and suffering from malaria as soon as possible, so as to facilitate the treatment of malaria.
Therefore, this time he personally came to the door, just to understand the specific situation, but he did not expect to be teased.
"How did the little county magistrate put up such a big shelf?"
Anger accumulated in his heart, but General Wang Zhen's face was silent, and surprisingly, the county magistrate who had left quickly turned back, as if he wanted to take something.
General Wang Zhen, who was anxious to solve the problem, did not immediately get angry, but instead stepped forward and grabbed the wrist of the county magistrate, and talked with him in detail about borrowing land to build a house, but the county magistrate tried to break free several times and failed, but he took the lead in getting angry.
"What's going on with you old man?" Borrowing land? Why did you borrow land? If you need to go to the relevant departments, come to me to do something! ”
After saying that, the county magistrate seemed to feel that he was still angry, and said quite wildly,
"What do you think this place is?" You are stopping me here again, hindering my business, believe it or not, I will have someone arrest you right away? ”
Seeing that this county magistrate who had teased him before took the lead in getting angry, General Wang Zhen only felt quite ridiculous, and after hearing his wild words, General Wang Zhen could not understand even more, he was just a reasonable and legitimate person who came to do things, how could he be arrested? How can this good local official of New China talk and do things full of bureaucratic style of the old era?
At this time, General Wang Zhen was not angry, because those officials who did not do practical things certainly made people angry, but those officials who formed parties for personal gain and used public power for personal gain were even more hateful, and he wanted to see what the county magistrate was capable of.
The county magistrate seemed to feel that his majesty had been provoked, and turned around and said something to the staff next to him, and soon after, the county public security department actually sent someone to find the door to arrest General Wang Zhen!
General Wang Zhen's guards did not know, and when they saw that the general was attacked, they directly wanted to go forward to intercept it, but they did not wear military uniforms, nor could they use firearms, and they could not rescue General Wang Zhen for a while, so that the two sides eventually fell into a stalemate of fighting.
At this time, a commissioner who came to work in the local area recognized the identity of General Wang Zhen, and only then did he come forward to stop both sides.
Although the conflict between the two sides was stopped by the commissioner in time, the action in front of the county government quickly attracted the attention of the surrounding people, and the news that "the county governor arrested the founding general" also went away, causing countless people to come to watch.
The people were indignant, and the county magistrate finally fell
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't know your identity, so I did something stupid, and I'll do it immediately."
After learning of Wang Zhen's identity, the county magistrate who was bullying soft and afraid of hardness was frightened and his legs trembled; when he realized that the situation was making a big fuss, he even cringed in his heart and directly admitted his mistake.
Seeing that he, as a county magistrate, was so deceitful and afraid of hard behavior, General Wang Zhen couldn't help but laugh with anger, and what happened next made his heart burn with anger.
It turned out that the people gathered around them, after seeing the ugly state of the county chief, bravely stood up and began to expose the crimes of the county chief.
"Chief, you have to make the decision for us, he colludes with other officials on weekdays, does not do serious things, and embezzles and accepts bribes all day long!"
"Not only that, sir, he also pulled away all their building materials, and didn't give a penny!"
On the surface, he did not say much and left the county government directly with the guards, but in fact he had already made up his mind that he must strictly investigate and severely punish the county magistrate's problem.
General Ye Fei, who had a special respect for General Wang Zhen, immediately raised his attention after learning of the situation, specially dispatched personnel into the county where General Wang Zhen was located to conduct an investigation, and finally confirmed that the information disclosed by the people was true, punished the county chief according to law, and completely removed the network behind the county chief.
At a later high-level meeting held by our party, General Wang Zhen also specially took this matter out and made it a typical example, expressing his stern attitude on this issue and making it clear that such officials must not be tolerated or shielded within the organization, and that once such a situation is discovered, it should be dealt with severely and strictly.
"If you don't agree with the governor", from here we can see that General Wang Zhen's personality is actually quite straight and fiery, and it is such a straight-forward general, whose merits and abilities are recognized by everyone as comparable to "generals".
The admiral has a fiery personality and has the posture of a general
In April 1908, General Wang Zhen was born in Liuyang County, Hunan Province, to a tenant family, and since he officially joined our Party in 1927, General Wang Zhen has made great contributions to our Party in different historical periods.
During the war, he not only held important positions in the Red Sixth Army, the Red Second Front, the 386th Brigade, and the First Field Army, but even led his subordinates to defend Yan'an and defeat Hu Zongnan's clique.
After liberation, he tirelessly led his troops into the Xinjiang region for reclamation, making outstanding contributions to the cause of stability in China's great northwest.
At the same time, General Wang Zhen also single-handedly led our army to achieve "a miracle in the history of Chinese and foreign railways."
In the case of backward technology and equipment, he led the railway troops to fully carry forward the fine tradition of arduous struggle of our army, and completed many railway projects day and night, the most typical of which is the Lizhan Railway and the Yingxia Railway that we mentioned earlier.
The construction of these two railways has not only helped China open up the south China sea passage, but also helped China to better carry out the strategic deployment of southeast coastal defense, which is of great significance to China.
After completing the construction of the railway, General Wang Zhen began to develop agriculture without stopping.
In the course of serving as China's minister of agricultural reclamation for a long time, General Wang Zhen sent a large number of demobilized officers and men, engineering and technical personnel, and young people from the border areas to Guangdong, Yunnan, Xinjiang, and other regions, creating a large number of local state-run farms and military reclamation farms for our country, not only producing a large amount of grain for our country, but also helping our country to better build and defend the frontier.
In 1955, when China was awarded the grand medal, General Xu Guangda, who was named one of the "Ten Founding Generals", once advocated demotion and wanted to give up his rank to General Wang Zhen, which shows the ability and prestige of General Wang Zhen.
Of course, General Xu Guangda himself was also a man of outstanding achievements, so in the end, after repeated deliberations, the Party Central Committee still maintained the original plan for awarding medals.
In general, General Wang Zhen has made great contributions to our country in military, infrastructure and agriculture, and his name will be remembered by history and the people of china.
As for the county magistrate who "stumbled" in the construction of the railway by General Wang Zhen, he is only a microcosm of the backward feudal bureaucracy, and with the gradual development of China's official system, the old bureaucratic style will eventually be eliminated from the torrent of history.