When reading books, the topics we often recite are our three major styles, namely: linking theory with practice, maintaining close ties with the masses, and criticizing and self-criticism. Among them, criticism and self-criticism can be described as the norms of life, a sharp weapon to strengthen the body and cure diseases and maintain the health of the body, and a good medicine, which is beneficial to people at any time.
Because a person cannot be without a little fault, there is no terrible mistake, and it is expensive to see the mistake and change it. For this reason, the revolutionaries of the older generation once particularly stressed that if we have shortcomings, we are not afraid of criticism and pointing them out by others. Whoever points it out to us can do it. As long as you're right, we'll correct it. The method you say is good for the people, and we will do as you please. Practice "knowing everything and saying everything", "those who speak are innocent, and those who hear are fully abstained", and "if there is something, they will change it, and if there is none, they will be encouraged".
The ancients said: The faults of a gentleman are also like the eclipse of the sun and the moon: the passing is also seen by everyone; moreover, everyone looks up to it. Indeed, to do this with a sincere attitude is to investigate, overhaul, and clean up the malpractice of one's own style and behavior, as the ancients said, "I am in three provinces and in three provinces." In the face of problems and mistakes, self-criticism and self-reflection can improve oneself; if one can really do this, he will certainly be able to achieve excellent results, otherwise, he may be troubled, and even go to the extreme of making future generations sigh.
Today, I would like to introduce you to Wang Jinxiu, deputy commander of the 21st Corps of the Four Fields and the first commander of the 52nd Army in the early days of liberation, who was very sad because of a criticism of something that led to a tragic life.
Wang Jinxiu, a native of Gaoqiao, Changsha, Hunan Province, graduated from the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy and the first phase of the General Officer Class of the Kuomintang Central Training Regiment, and successively served as a platoon commander, company commander, battalion instructor, political training director, and regiment commander of the Kuomintang army, participated in the Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition, and participated in the battle against the Red Army. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as the deputy commander of the 14th Army, the deputy commander of the 93rd Army, and the deputy commander of the 97th Army of the Nationalist Army, and participated in the Battle of Xinkou and the Battle of Changsha. During the Liberation War, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general by the Kuomintang.
However, Wang Jinxiu's timing of becoming a lieutenant general was not very good, and at this time, with the end of the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai, and Pingjin, the various camps of the Nationalist army fell apart, and Wang Jinxiu returned to his hometown of Changsha very depressed, and had to find a way out for himself.
Subsequently, Wang Jinxiu followed Cheng Qian and Chen Mingren to Announce the Uprising, and he played a great role, and Wang Jinxiu was appointed as a negotiator, which eventually contributed to the peaceful liberation of Hunan.
Wang Jinxiu, who made meritorious contributions to the peaceful uprising, fully affirmed him by his superiors, and also appointed him to an important post; after the uprising troops were reorganized, it was decided to change it into one corps and two corps, and the rebel troops officially adopted the new name, and the unit was reorganized into the 52nd Army of the 21st Corps in Siye, and Wang Jinxiu was appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief of the 21st Corps and concurrently served as the first commander of the 52nd Army, and Yang Shugen was appointed as the political commissar.
At this time, Wang Jinxiu felt that the future was splendid, and at the inaugural meeting of the 21st Corps, he summed up the great significance of this uprising: "It announces to the whole world and the people of the whole Chinese that all the comrades of the 21st Corps, under the leadership of Director Cheng and Commander Chen, are taking the right and glorious path. ”
At the beginning of 1950, Wang Jinxiu was ordered to lead the 52nd Army to move to Youxian county and Chaling, and the military headquarters was located in Chengguan, Youxian County. After the troops arrived at the designated position, they carried out production and political education. In the course of political education, Wang Jinxiu put forward suggestions and propositions such as "in the reorganization of troops, it is necessary to change the practice of three points of military and seven points of politics, and we must attach importance to studying "Sun Tzu's Art of War." Soon after, the troops were stationed in Guilin, Guangxi, where he was criticized at a retraining meeting, and unfortunately he committed suicide at the age of 50.
Five years later, in 1955, Wang Jinxiu's partner Yang Shugen, political commissar of the 52nd Army, awarded the founding major general Yang Shugen, born on March 5, 1915, a native of Naidouli Village, Qingjiang County, Jiangxi (now Zhangshu City), who came from a poor peasant family. When he was 9 years old, both of his parents died, and he worked as a long-term worker for the landlord from the age of 10. At the age of 15, he joined the Red Army, and during the agrarian revolutionary war, he successively served as a messenger, a trumpeter, a divisional youth officer, a regimental propaganda captain, a political instructor, a political commissar of the division teaching team, a regimental political commissar, and a secretary of the division's general branch, and participated in the first to fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" and the 25,000-mile Long March in the Central Soviet Region. After the Red Army's Long March arrived in northern Shaanxi, he participated in the battles of Zhiluo Town, the Eastern Expedition, the Western Expedition, and the Mountain Castle.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yang Shugen successively served as a cadre of the Military Department of the Shanxi Provincial CPC Committee, secretary of the Jinzhong Prefectural Committee of the CPC Central Committee, director of the Military Department of the Shanxi Provincial CPC Committee Office in Taiyue, political commissar of the advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army Division, political commissar of the regiment, and political commissar of the sub-district.
During the Liberation War, he successively served as brigade political commissar and division commander, and successively led his troops to participate in the battles of Hengshui, Jixian, Gaoyi, Yuanshi, Gaotang, Puyang, Dengxian, Xiangfan, and Huaihai, making important contributions to the liberation of all of China. After the founding of New China, he successively served as deputy political commissar and political commissar of the army, political commissar of the 24th Infantry School of the Central and Southern Military Region, principal and political commissar of the First Cultural Accelerated Middle School of the Central and Southern Military Region, deputy political commissar and acting political commissar of the artillery of the Central and Southern Military Region, political commissar of artillery of the Guangzhou Military Region, political commissar of the Logistics Department of the Guangzhou Military Region, deputy director of the Political Department of the Financial and Trade Front of the State Council, and deputy political commissar of the Guangzhou Military Region, and made contributions to building a revolutionary, modernized, and regularized people's army.
Unfortunately, Wang Jinxiu, as deputy commander-in-chief and military commander, went to extremes because of such a thing, until the early 1980s, when Wang Jinxiu's reputation as an uprising general was restored.