For thousands of years, farmers have been at the bottom of society, facing the loess with their backs to the sky, and working the land for a lifetime. However, due to various harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes and exploitation by landlords, the peasants were exhausted and tired, and sometimes they could not eat a full meal. After the founding of New China, the peasants ushered in the great liberation, not only able to eat and wear warm, but also became the masters of the country, enjoying equal rights and being respected.
Some of these capable peasants have become national leaders, leading the people to a prosperous life, which is unprecedented in history. For example, Chen Yonggui, who went from an ordinary peasant to a vice premier of New China, rose to the rank of vice-chancellor, which is admirable. Today we will review the legendary life of farmer Chen Yonggui.
Chen Yonggui's early life was very bumpy, he was born in 1914 in a poor family in Xiyang, Shanxi, the family lived by cultivating a few acres of thin land, not to mention going to school and studying, and even food and clothing could not be solved. In the year of the catastrophe, Chen Yonggui's father sold his wife and daughter and fled to Dazhai Village with 5-year-old Chen Yonggui. Here, Chen Yonggui and his father depend on each other for their lives, but poverty and hunger still linger, and under shame and anger, Chen Yonggui's father chose to commit suicide.
After losing his father, Chen Yonggui, who was young, could only go to others to herd cattle and raise sheep, and exchange a bite of rice to eat. After growing up a little, Chen Yonggui found his sister and mother, but their lives were equally difficult, and in desperation, he ran back to Dazhai Village to continue working as a long-term worker. In this way, Chen Yonggui grew up slowly in a life without a meal, and at the same time exercised his excellent qualities of hard-working and hard-working. After the liberation of the whole country, the peasants had their own land, and Chen Yonggui was able to show his skills in Dazhai Village.
In 1952, Chen Yonggui was elected secretary of the party branch of Dazhai Village, and in order to change the poverty and backwardness of Dazhai Village, he set up the grand ambition of "Yugong moving mountains" and led the villagers to reclaim wasteland and build water channels. With the unremitting efforts of the villagers, Dazhai Village has a new look, and the villagers have lived a good life of prosperity. Later, Dazhai Village encountered a rare natural disaster, and Chen Yonggui led the villagers to face the difficulties and overcome the natural disasters, and finally achieved a bumper harvest of grain. In this year of catastrophe, Dazhai Village not only did not add trouble to the country, but handed over 240,000 commodity grains, creating a miracle.
The deeds of Dazhai Village soon became widely known, and a nationwide upsurge of "Industrial Science Daqing, Agricultural Science Dazhai" was set off. Chen Yonggui has thus become a hot star figure, and has been promoted to secretary of the county party committee and secretary of the provincial party committee. In 1975, the chairman personally instructed Chen Yonggui to come to Beijing as vice premier, in charge of the country's agriculture. Since then, farmer Chen Yonggui has become a deputy state-level cadre, so what happened to him later? Let's move on.
After Chen Yonggui became vice premier, he still cared about the peasants, maintained a hard and simple living habit, and never engaged in any special behavior. Some people wanted to move his hukou to Beijing, but Chen Yonggui flatly refused. In this post, Chen Yonggui has been working for five years, and his contribution is great. From 1980 onwards, he resigned as Deputy Prime Minister because he could not stay at home, and later worked as a consultant on a farm to continue his work with the land.
In the summer of 1985, Chen Yonggui was diagnosed with lung cancer, and even though doctors expressed hope for a cure, Chen Yonggui still insisted on giving up treatment because he did not want to waste the country's material and financial resources. Over time, Elder Chen's condition deteriorated, and he eventually died on March 26, 1986.
According to Elder Chen's last wishes, the memorial service was all from Jane, and only more than a hundred people came to send him on his last journey. Among them was Chairman Hua, Chen Lao's former friend, who held a wreath in his hand, bowed three times and walked around the body, and finally left in tears.