Gold is the most versatile currency in the world, and no one doesn't dislike the brig. However, in the modern history of our country, there is really a figure who "regards gold as dung", and this person is the later founding general Chen Xilian.
Chen Xilian was a farmer, had no culture, and naturally had never seen gold, and when he was captured, he thought it was a copper block, so he took it to pad his bed and table, and the excess was thrown into the pit, but he really regarded "money as dung."
Founding Admiral
Comrade Chen Xilian was a famous general during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, one of the founding generals who later served as the chairman of the Central Military Commission.
Unlike Lin Biao and other generals from the class, Chen Xilian was born in a poor village in Huang'an, Hubei Province, and was a grassroots farmer through and through.
Chen Xilian joined the Communist Party during the agrarian revolution, and he first joined the guerrillas in his hometown, later joined the 11th Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and joined the Communist Party of China the following year.
Although Chen Xilian had little culture, fortunately he was brave in battle, and was promoted quickly in the army, and in just a few years, he served as an instructor in the Red Fourth Front, and personally participated in several anti-encirclement and suppression operations in the Eyu-Anhui region.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chen Xilian became a regimental commander of the Eighth Route Army, and in the first War of Resistance Against Japan in which he participated, he led his troops to blow up the Japanese airfield and hinder the pace of the Japanese invasion of China.
Subsequently, Chen Xilian participated in many important battles in succession, and his rank became higher and higher, and on the eve of the Hundred Regiments War, he had become a commander of the Taihang Military Region.
During the Hundred Regiments War, Chen Xilian led his troops to stubbornly block the advance of the Japanese army, creating quite powerful conditions for the tactics of the brother troops. After the war, he chose to go to the Yan'an Party School to study and expand his knowledge, but he was soon sent to the battlefield.
During the Liberation War, Chen Xilian made several great achievements, and during the Huaihai Campaign, he personally stepped onto the position, observed the enemy's marching formation, and came up with a strategy to defeat the enemy.
Not only that, Chen Xilian also adopted a roundabout strategy in the Battle of the River Crossing, directly capturing Chongqing, the "capital of the Kuomintang," and making great contributions to the victory of the War of Liberation.
After the founding of New China, Chen Xilian was made a general and served as the commander of the artillery of the People's Liberation Army. Under his planning and leadership, the missile industry of New China advanced by leaps and bounds and made countless contributions on the Korean battlefield.
In addition to the commander of the artillery, Chen Xilian also held many positions before and after, the highest level of standing committee member of the Central Military Commission and vice premier of the State Council, and finally died of illness in Beijing at the age of 85.
Chen Xilian is undoubtedly a hero of the country, and at the same time, he is also one of the more interesting founding generals, and in his early years, because he had no culture, he also did a lot of things that made people laugh.
Seizure of "copper blocks"
At that time, Chen Xilian was also a regimental commander of the Red Fourth Front, and was carrying out an anti-Six-Way siege operation under the command of commander Xu Xiangqian. The task of the 263rd Regiment under his leadership was to suppress Liu Cunhou, the commander of the anti-communist operation in Dazhou, Sichuan.
Liu Cunhou was originally a local rich man, often uniting with other local local tycoons to oppress the people and loot their money, and later joined the Kuomintang's suppression of the Communists and became a general of the Kuomintang.
After Liu Cunhou occupied Dazhou, his raiding operations intensified, accumulating a lot of money, and the local people were miserable.
Chen Xilian was born into poverty, naturally he would not spare such a local tycoon as Liu Cunhou, he launched a fierce attack on Dazhou, and within a day, Liu Cunhou abandoned the city and fled, and the Red Army soldiers entered Dazhou.
The Red Army soldiers who walked in the front entered Liu Cunhou's warehouse, preparing to capture the supplies, but when they opened the door, they saw a mountain of gold and silver.
Most of the soldiers of the Red Army came from poor backgrounds, where they had seen so much money, and they were stunned for a while, and they did not know how to be good. Chen Xilian arrived late, squeezed through the crowd, and also saw a mountain of treasures, and then saw the soldiers who stayed where they were, scolding them for not showing up, which was just some silver.
Chen Xilian asked the soldiers to remove all the silver and hand it over for confiscation, and then let people move the yellow "copper blocks" next to them to their homes, which could be used in peacetime.
It turned out that Chen Xilian's family was relatively poor, and the furniture at home often lacked arms and legs, which was very inconvenient to use, so he wanted to use these "copper blocks" to tiptoe the foot of the table and the foot of the bed.
After returning home, Chen Xilian first stabilized the furniture cushions such as tables and beds, and found that there were still a lot of "copper blocks" left, and he occupied the place and people, so he threw the excess "copper blocks" into the hut, and slept comfortably, without thinking about why the copper blocks could be put together with silver.
Treat money as dung
Due to the meritorious deeds of capturing a large amount of silver on the first day, the superiors highly praised Chen Xilian's combat achievements and appointed Zheng Yizhai, the financial chairman, to come to offer condolences and receive the captured silver at the same time.
Early the next morning, Chen Xilian was awakened by the noise outside the door and came outside to find Cheng Yizhai, the chairman of the finance, dancing around the seized silver.
When Zheng Yizhai saw Chen Xilian come out, he happily shook his hand, first thanking him for his meritorious efforts in breaking the enemy and winning victories, and then saying that the troops were now tight in grain, and the silver he paid could last for a while.
Seeing that Zheng Yizhai was so excited, Chen Xilian smiled helplessly, for himself, this money did not come to the benefit of the people, so he invited Zheng Yizhai to his room to rest.
As soon as Ne Zhi entered the door, Zheng Yizhai was impressed by the scene in front of him, he walked to the table, leaned over and drew out a gold bar, carefully examined the half-shaking, and said to Chen Xilian, "I didn't expect you to be a local tycoon." ”
Chen Xilian was stunned and asked Zheng Yizhai what he meant, "These are just copper blocks, where are the local tycoons?"
Zheng Yizhai was a little amused by this answer, and he told Chen Xilian, "This is a gold bar, more valuable than silver, but you don't recognize it."
Chen Xilian was shocked and explained to Zheng Yizhai incoherently, Zheng Yizhai also knew that he would not embezzle and hide gold bars, but he did not know the gold bars without culture, so he waved his hand without in-depth investigation, and let Chen Xilian take out all the gold bars.
He hurriedly found out all the gold bars in the house, and suddenly remembered that there were still some gold bars that he had thrown into the pit, and Zheng Yizhai, who learned of this, teased him: "You really regard money as dung." ”
Chen Xilian was ashamed and embarrassed, and he jumped into the pit and led the soldiers to look for gold bars, and it took an hour or two to find the gold bars.
After this incident, Chen Xilian felt the importance of culture, which led to the fact that after the End of the Hundred Regiments War, he entered the Party School to study.
No one is perfect, Chen Xilian is the founding general, but he is also an ordinary person, who will make a joke in plain sight, but it is precisely because of these things that people feel close to the people.