On January 21, 1949, Fu Zuoyi announced that the defenders of Peiping City would accept a peaceful reorganization. 10 days later, the People's Liberation Army entered the city to take over the defense, and at this point, Peiping was peacefully liberated. The peaceful liberation of Peiping is a great historical event that has shaken China and foreign countries. It enabled the world-famous cultural capital of Beiping to be completely preserved from war and laid the foundation for the capital of new China.
General Fu Zuoyi was the main contributor to peaceful liberation, which is known to everyone, but the role played by Fu Zuoyi's daughter Fu Dongju is not well understood. Fu Dongju was only 25 years old at the time, and she was known as the goddess of peace by the people of Beijing. She made such a great contribution to the peaceful liberation of Peiping, so did she become a great official after the founding of the Country? Today I will solve this mystery for you.
Fu Dongju was born in Taiyuan in 1924, the first child of Fu Zuoyi, and the name was given to him. Fu Dongju in childhood actually had a lot of opinions about Fu Zuoyi, mainly because of his mother. Her mother Zhang Jinqiang was Fu Zuoyi's original match, it was an old-fashioned marriage, the order of her parents, she followed Fu Zuoyi to Taiyuan and gave birth to Fu Dongju.
Fu Zuoyi was a famous general of a very old generation who participated in the Xinhai Revolution, the Northern Expedition War, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and so on. In the 1920s, when Fu Zuoyi was promoted to commander of the Tianjin Garrison, he met the young Liu Yunsheng there and lived with her for a long time. Zhang Jinqiang was very dissatisfied with this, and although Fu Zuoyi kept Zhang Jinqiang's wife's name unchanged, she had to assume the obligation of raising her children independently.
In Fu Zuoyi's view, Fu Dongju is one of the children who has thoughts and insights, and attaches great importance to her. In 1942, Fu Dongju was admitted to The Southwest United University of Kunming to study English. Fu Zuoyi was happy for his daughter's growth, and he hoped that she would go to the United States for further study after graduation. Fu Dongju was reluctant and said that she would stay at home and personally participate in the magnificent revolutionary struggle. Fu Dongju has a cheerful personality and dares to argue with her father. In 1946, the civil war broke out in full swing. Fu Dongju, who was about to graduate, wrote to his father, hoping that he would not fight a civil war. She also ran to Zhangjiakou to find her father and persuaded him not to participate in the civil war.
Fu Zuoyi was a general with a simple life. His father was a backwaterer in the Yellow River. It is from this shore to the other side of the shore to earn two copper coins at a time. During his early years of study, Fu Zuoyi spent a lot of money, and when the money was spent, he borrowed 20 taels of silver from people. When he returned home during the winter vacation, his father did not rebuke him after he knew it, but only took him to the Yellow River, let him take off his military clothes, shoes and socks, and jumped into the water together.
At this time, he heard his father say, The tuition and living expenses I gave you are accumulated little by little. Fu Zuoyi felt deeply guilty, and since then he has advocated simplicity all his life, and is known as the "General of Cloth". Therefore, he was very sympathetic to the suffering of the people. Deep down, he didn't want to fight a civil war anymore, but as a soldier, he had to obey orders, so his heart was very painful and contradictory.
During these difficult days, Fu Dongju always accompanied Fu Zuoyi and did his ideological work, prompting him to make an early determination to make an armistice and peace talks. In her later years, Fu Dongju said that she had come to Fu Zuoyi's side to do work voluntarily, and she wanted to persuade him not to fight a civil war and to learn more about the party's ideas.
In addition, she did not collect so-called military intelligence. The first Fu Dongju himself did not understand military affairs, and the second Fu Zuoyi deliberately avoided his daughter from being exposed to military secrets. On November 7, 1948, Fu Zuoyi asked Fu Dongju to send the first secret telegram of peace talks, and after three rounds of peace talks, on January 21, 1949, he signed the "Agreement on the Peaceful Settlement of The Settlement of The Problem in Peiping".
As a famous general of a generation, Fu Zuoyi held more than 200,000 troops, especially Fu Zuoyi was good at defending the city, he once said to Fu Dongju, I am not going to fight, if I want to fight, it is a bloody war. But what will be the result of playing down? That's what I've thought about over and over again. From this point of view, it can also be said how important Fu Dongju's persuasion played.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Fu Zuoyi was the minister of water resources for 22 years. Because Fu Zuoyi was born on the shore of the Yellow River, he felt the same feeling about the Huang Pan disaster, and after becoming the minister of water resources, he saw this as a perfect opportunity to realize his long-cherished wish of "benefiting the people" that he had pursued for many years.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Fu Dongju did not have much of an official imagined, she has not been involved in politics, and she still looks at everything with a normal heart. She also did not show her face and has been doing behind-the-scenes work. She went to Tianjin to serve as a supplement editor of Progress Daily. In March 1951, he was transferred to the People's Daily and worked in the Press Department and the Literature and Art Department. In 1982, he was seconded to the Hong Kong branch of Xinhua News Agency as deputy director of the editorial department. In 1995, Fu Dongju retired from his post at the People's Daily and belonged to the bureau-level retired cadres. In July 2007, Fu Dongju died of illness at the age of 83. Having made such a great contribution to the peaceful liberation of Peiping, Fu Dongju has gone through his life in a bland manner, which is indeed admirable.