There was such a founding general, who was very upright, who made great contributions to the establishment of a new China in the revolutionary years, and after liberation, the official held a high position, and his father-in-law was going to be shot. He was born in Yongxing County, Hunan Province, and participated in the Northern Expedition, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and was awarded the rank of General in 1955.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, General Huang Kecheng, who had outstanding military achievements and outstanding abilities, was awarded the rank of major general, and also served as vice minister of national defense, chief of the general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and secretary of the Secretariat of the Eighth CPC Central Committee. His wife, Tang Dihua, a native of Wuhan, Hubei Province, married in 1941 and had two sons and two daughters.
After the founding of New China, Huang Kecheng became deputy chief of general staff and general logistics minister, and Tang Dihua also returned to Beijing with her husband to work, became a company manager, and later served as the president of a design institute.
Huang Kecheng's father-in-law belonged to a relatively wealthy family at that time, because the family conditions were good, so Tang Dihua received a good education, but there was a problem with the source of this money. After liberation, after the public security department investigated, it turned out that Tang Dihua's father was a big opium dealer in Hankou at that time, and he had also been a traitor to the Japanese, and his behavior could be said to be very bad.
Either of these two articles can be put to death, considering that he is the father-in-law of the founding general, so the investigators have repeatedly approved the information and reported it to their superiors for approval. In 1952, after the decision of the Central and Southern Bureau to execute him, people were questioning at that time, huang Kecheng learned the news, would he come to intercede with his father-in-law?
As a result, Huang Kecheng really came, and also brought his wife Tang Dihua, Huang Kecheng asked gao Wenhua, the person in charge of the case, five words: Can you meet? Gao Wenhua said in a loud voice, of course, this is also the common sentiment of people. Instead of preventing her father-in-law from being shot, Huang kecheng asked his wife, Tang Dihua, to meet with her father for the last time, after all, this was her biological father.
In front of the law, General Huang Kecheng believed that everyone should be equal and there should be no private feelings, so he did not intercede for his father-in-law, but obeyed the court's judgment. Huang Kecheng demanded that every member of the family should be an ordinary person, and his four children, two of whom were admitted to Peking University, one to Tsinghua University, and one to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.