What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
There are many masters in Hunan in modern history, and today I want to introduce an old gentleman, who is the twenty-seventh grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, named Zhu Jianfan. Zhu Jianfan was a remarkable figure. Later, Chairman Mao said to Zhu Jianfan's daughter, "Your father died too early, otherwise we could be our minister of education."
Why did the chairman have such a high opinion of Zhu Jianfan? Zhu Jianfan was first and foremost an outstanding educator who once went to Japan to study, and after returning to China, he donated his house, destroyed his family and established a girls' school. In such an old society, let women go to school to study, Zhu Jianfan can be said to be the first to open up the atmosphere.
Zhu Jianfan's Zhounan Girls' School has produced a large number of outstanding female disciples, such as the famous revolutionary martyr Xiang Jianyu, Cai Chang, who later became vice chairman of the National People's Congress to the rank of vice state, and Chairman Mao's wife Yang Kaihui. It can be said that Zhu Jianfan is full of peach and plum all over the world, and his disciples are all over Shenzhou.
(Zhu Jianfan)
Secondly, Zhu Jianfan was also an active revolutionary, who had known Huang Xing in his early years and followed Huang Xing to participate in revolutionary activities, when he believed in the Three People's Principles. Later, Zhu Jianfan came into contact with Marxism-Leninism, realized that only the Communist Party could save China, and resolutely demanded to join the party.
Zhu Jianfan not only participated in the revolution himself, but also took his children to the revolutionary road and his whole family worked for the party. He had eight children, six of whom were party members, and their families could be organized into a party group. In the white terror of Shanghai, the small hotel opposite Zhu Jianfan's apartment has actually become a secret activity point for the party.
The most enviable thing is that Zhu Jianfan has two proud sons-in-law, both of whom have become the founding fathers of New China. One is named Xiao Jinguang, one of the ten generals. After the defeat of the Great Revolution, Xiao Jinguang met Zhu Jianfan's daughter Zhu Zhongzhi at Li Fuchun's home, and through Cai Chang's matchmaking, they were happily married.
(Xiao Jinguang and Zhu Zhongzhi)
Dispatched by the party, Xiao Jinguang went to the Soviet Union again to study, and soon, Zhu Zhongzhi also went to the Soviet Union, and they had a daughter. Unfortunately, because he was too young to bring it back to China, he had to be fostered in a Moscow nursery. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xiao Jinguang went to look for this daughter, but did not find it.
Zhu Jianfan's wise eyes recognized the hero, but the revolutionary life did not see the day when the revolution succeeded, he was plagued by a long illness, and died of stomach cancer in 1932. Of course, this old gentleman would not have imagined that his son-in-law named Xiao Jinguang would become a grand admiral and naval commander of the Republic in the future.
Of course, Zhu Jianfan would not have thought that his other son-in-law was even more powerful, influencing the course of the Chinese revolution at a crucial moment. Zhu Jianfan's younger daughter is called Zhu Zhongli, and her husband is Wang Jiaxiang, who is also a high-achieving student who returned from studying in the Soviet Union.
(Wang Jiaxiang and Zhu Zhongli)
At the beginning of the Red Army's Long March, Wang Jiaxiang's role was very great. When the Zunyi meeting was being brewed, the chairman specifically asked Wang Jiaxiang for discussion and consultation. Why talk to Wang Jiaxiang? Because Wang Jiaxiang was the director of the General Political Department of the Red Army at that time, his status was very high.
At the great Zunyi conference, Wang Jiaxiang supported the chairman's correct proposition and cast a crucial vote at a crucial moment in history. After the Zunyi Conference, Wang Jiaxiang and the chairman formed a military three-man regiment and entered the leadership core of the Red Army.
Wang Jiaxiang also saved Xiao Jinguang's life. In the Central Soviet Region, Xiao Jinguang was attacked by Wang Ming's "left" line, expelled from the party, and shot. The chairman resolutely opposed it, and Wang Jiaxiang, who was the director of the General Political Department of the Red Army, resolutely refused to sign several times before he could save the general of the future republic.