A few days ago, I chatted with a netizen, and he came up with a sentence and said that he liked Li Dequan.
I'm stupid, how can today's young people like Li Dequan? Few people seem to know about this great woman!
After chatting for a while, I realized that he was talking about the Li Dequan in "Step by Step", who was loyal to Kangxi Grandpa, and was finally killed by the fourth master.
In fact, "Step by Step" this Li Dequan is a fictional character, not in history, is a fictional general manager when February River wrote "Kangxi Emperor", and later "Step by Step" also borrowed this character, and there is indeed a commendable place in the world.
Of course, what we want to talk about today is not this person, but another Li Dequan, one of the few female vice-state leaders in New China.
Mention the name "Li Dequan", many people may not have heard of it, but if you want to say Feng Yuxiang, you are certainly not unfamiliar, Li Dequan is Feng Yuxiang's wife.
Li Dequan was born in Beijing in 1896, is a Mongolian, look at her photos, indeed looks very Mongolian style, tall, strong, simple, there was a reporter who wrote a news article that year.
It was Women's Day in 1936, Li Dequan attended the event with the wives of many famous politicians, and a reporter from a newspaper was ordered to interview Li Dequan and asked the person next to him which was Li Dequan.
The reporter wrote in the report: "
As soon as I stood, sure enough, in the middle of a row of ladies who were either delicate or bloated, sat a woman with a majestic black round face, dressed in black, only above the knee, and a pair of large feet with a pair of wide and long black leather shoes. Maybe some people want to look down on this northern village woman, thinking that her old man is too untimely, right? But I think she's really stand out from the crowd and has an admirable style.
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Speaking of which, the combination of Li Dequan and Feng Yuxiang is also a very legendary experience.
At that time, Feng Yuxiang held a heavy army and a high position of power, and after the death of the original wife, many people wanted to marry their daughters to him, such as the famous Cao Kun, so they sent people to talk about the media and wanted to marry their daughters to him.
But Feng Yuxiang did not say yes, nor did he say no, but put forward three conditions, saying that as long as he could agree to these three conditions, he would marry through the door. Which three conditions?
First, you can't wear silk satin, you can only wear coarse cloth clothes, eat coarse tea and light rice; second, you have to spin flowers and weave cloth yourself; third, you have to raise a former house girl.
It is conceivable that Cao Kun's daughter could bear these sufferings and completely die of heart.
So, does Feng Yuxiang have a favorite person? Yes, it was Li Dequan, who was the student department officer of the Beijing YWCA at the time, who impressed Feng Yuxiang in a speech, thinking that this was the lifelong partner that was suitable for him, so he sent someone to inquire about her details.
It just so happened that Li Dequan's cousin was doing things under Feng Yuxiang's account and went to talk to her, and Li Dequan did not say a word and agreed on the spot.
Isn't that a bit sloppy? Of course not, Li De was born bold, and had long aspired to marry a great hero who really served the country and the people, and Feng Yuxiang was just the one who was most in line. Therefore, soon the two held a wedding, which was a sensation in Beijing.
At that time, Li Dequan was already 28 years old, and at that time, she was definitely an elderly young woman, and if she could wait until Feng Yuxiang, a big hero, was it a bit like the realistic version of the Purple Xia Fairy?
Later, Li Dequan once asked Feng Yuxiang why so many big beautiful women can't look at themselves, just look at themselves? Feng Yuxiang said, "I just like your naïveté and straightforwardness. ”
Feng Yuxiang also asked Li Dequan why he waited for 28 years and did not marry, so he had to marry his 42-year-old half-old man? Li Dequan said, "God is afraid that you will do bad things and sent me to supervise you." ”
Since then, Li Dequan has followed Feng Yuxiang to the north and south, founded schools, organized women's groups, publicized the War of Resistance, and became a highly influential progressive woman during the Republic of China.
In September 1948, Feng Yuxiang was killed on a ship, and Li Dequan was also present at the time, survived, and from then on, completely broke with Chiang Kai-shek.
After the founding of New China, Li Dequan was appointed as the first minister of health, and later served as the vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, becoming one of the few female vice-state-level cadres in New China.
Although Li Dequan has a high position of authority, he is very strict with his relatives and will never give them a back door. Shortly after she became minister of health, a relative from her hometown came to her and asked her to arrange a job. At that time, Li Dequan was too busy, this relative was received by the staff of the Ministry of Health, after understanding his situation, it just so happened that the Ministry of Health had a vacancy in the post, so he arranged for him without authorization.
After Li Dequan knew about it, he immediately criticized this staff member and dismissed the relative, completely disregarding his feelings.
Not only for relatives, but also for her own children, Li Dequan's second daughter Feng Yingda has been working as a temporary worker in a unit due to her frail health and has not been regularized. The person in charge of that unit wanted to regularize her several times, but Li Dequan stopped her, saying that Feng Yingda's health was not good, he couldn't do a lot of work, he couldn't meet the standards of regularization, and he must not give the green light because she was his own child.
In this way, until Li Dequan's death in 1972, Feng Yingda was a temporary worker, with a meager salary and only enough to make ends meet.
It is also worth mentioning that Li Dequan's eldest son was named Feng Hongda, a rear admiral and former deputy commander of the North Sea Fleet; his grandson was named Feng Danyu, who was also a rear admiral.