As the saying goes, "a penny is difficult to defeat a hero", and people in life inevitably have a tight time. Looking at the "emaciated" wallet, borrowing money from friends has become one of the ways to get by.
Today, when the ideological concepts are greatly open, people talk about borrowing money and avoiding three points, as if it is an embarrassing thing, and in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China more than seventy years ago, there was such a "bold" old man in Hubei who not only borrowed twenty yuan of "huge money" when he opened his mouth, but also borrowed money to the president of the country.
Visit Beijing
In the early spring and February of 1959, the cold spring was still sweeping across the early morning city of Beijing, only to see two men in the morning mist, one tall and one short. One of them was Dan Zhaoqing, deputy secretary of the party committee of Fengqiao Commune in Chebu District, Puxi County, Hubei Province, and the other was ordinary people, 61-year-old Hubei old Han Wang Tianxiang.
At this time, under the arrangement of the organization, the two were visiting and playing in Beijing. The two of them thought to themselves that Tiananmen Square, which was proclaimed the founding of New China, must go, and the Great Hall of the People must also go, and Chairman Mao also said that "it is not a good man to go to the Great Wall."
After a few days of playing in the capital, the two bought a lot of Beijing specialties, and just when they were full of red light and ready to "return with a full load" of good memories, an embarrassing thing happened, and deputy secretary Dan Zhaoqing touched his pocket and found that the budget had been "squandered" under the arrogance of the two people.
The deputy secretary helplessly turned to the eldest brother Wang beside him and said that this time he would come to the capital to visit and learn to do things by himself, and the eldest brother should not have surplus money. But from Beijing to Hubei, thousands of miles away, the two people can't just walk back like this. In that era when five cents could buy a pot of tomatoes, two train tickets of more than twenty yuan were obviously unaffordable.
Perhaps seeing that the deputy secretary had something unspeakable, Wang Tianxiang asked what was going on. But Zhaoqing explained the reason in a broken way, and unexpectedly, the eldest brother laughed and said, "The money is spent?" It's okay, let's borrow something from my big brother Mao! ”
Big Brother Mao? But the secretary thought to himself that this old king did not go out of the village on weekdays, where did he know the people in Beijing? Seeing that the secretary still had concerns, Wang Laohan said with a proud face: "My eldest brother Mao is Chairman Mao!" ”
It turned out that this eldest brother of Wang Tianxiang was an ordinary peasant on the surface, but in fact he did not show his face in real life, and he had a great history.
Abandoned farmers to join the army
Everything must start with the Long March of the Red Army. In 1932, due to Zhang Guotao's erroneous leadership, the Red Fourth Front was caught in a dilemma. At this time, the local bandits, the landlords' armed forces, and the Kuomintang reactionaries colluded with each other to spread rumors and slander the Red Army, and for a time the mass base of the revolutionary base areas was shaken.
Fortunately, any rumor will be self-defeating in the face of facts. After stabilizing the local masses, the Red Army actively promoted revolutionary ideas and policies. A series of measures by the Red Army were generally biased towards the majority of the people at the bottom, thus gaining a large number of local people's hearts.
At this time, Wang Tianxiang, also known as Wang Tianxiang, ranked fifth in the family, was an honest Bazhong peasant, who had not been out of the village for thirty years since his birth, and rested at sunrise and sunset, and had not even seen the army. When I heard that the Red Army had come to my hometown, my heart was also tight.
The turning point of the matter occurred at Wang Tianxiang's third brother, Wang Tiande. Wang Sange was originally a village doctor and had his own clinic. The first time I saw a Red Army soldier wearing a red five-pointed star hat, my heart was of course very nervous.
But when the soldier politely said that he had come to buy some medicines, Third Brother Wang was relieved, but at the same time he was full of doubts, the army had a gun in his hand, and if he didn't rob something, he would have to use money to buy it? After getting used to the banditry habits of the local warlords of the Kuomintang, the third brother encountered reasonable fighters and was not comfortable.
After this contact, Wang Tiande took his younger brother Wang Tianxiang to attend the propaganda meeting of the Red Army cadres, knowing that this was a different army, they specialized in fighting local tycoons and inferior gentry, leading the people at the bottom to turn themselves into masters, and their fighters never bullied the common people like the local bandits and warlords, but gathered under the red flag to save the country and save the people.
Wang Tiande, who was a low-level people, was naturally very excited when he found out, and secretly joined the underground party, while his younger brother Wang Tianxiang was thus taken to the road of revolution by the third brother.
On the first day of entering the revolutionary ranks, the registered soldiers asked For Wang Tianxiang's name, and the Bazhong man said in a thick Sichuan accent: "Wang Tianxiang." The registered warrior wrote down Wang Tianxiang and showed it to him, but he did not expect that the illiterate Fifth Brother Wang did not look at it and was sure, and Wang Tianxiang became Wang Tianxiang.
After becoming a Red Army, Wang Tianxiang was agile and mentally agile. Although he had little culture, he had courage and strategy, and once secretly saved several Red Army fighters captured by the enemy army, so he attracted the attention of the underground party. Soon, Wang Tianxiang, who had just entered the ranks of the Red Army, was promoted out of the ordinary and became a member of the Central Guard Corps, responsible for the security work of Chairman Mao and other central leaders.
Unlike other guards, Wang Tianxiang never called Chairman Mao a "Maoist commissar," but affectionately called a member who was older than himself "Big Brother Mao," which made Chairman Mao very moved.
At that time, the Kuomintang reactionaries were constantly "encircling and suppressing" the base areas, the work within the party was taken away from the direction by Li Ming and others, and the clouds of the Japanese and the Kosovars shrouded the land of Shenzhou, and there was always a signal of all-out war. Wang Tianxiang mouthed a "big brother Mao", which made him feel very kind, and also gave the guard a loud nickname - pangolin.
Benevolent
After the founding of New China, Wang Tianxiang obeyed the organizational arrangements, retired from the army, and went to Hubei to become the president of the supply and marketing cooperative. Perhaps Wang Tianxiang has been accustomed to living a hard life since he was a child, and now he is communist, so he often helps the poor.
In this way, ten passes on, ten passes on a hundred, and the villagers in the township will find him to solve any material difficulties, and he never refuses. Over the years, the supply and marketing cooperatives could not make ends meet, and finally they could only close their doors.
The organization asked him to understand the situation, but he said that he was not corrupt, and he was not harmful, frank and frank, and had no selfish intentions, but he was still suitable for farming. In this way, the frank president Wang Tianxiang once again became a farmer.
Goodbye Chairman
When Chairman Mao went to inspect in 1956, he also made a special trip to see this old friend of the year, and when he saw that Wang Tianxiang was brand new from head to toe, the chairman smiled and said: "White shirt, leather sandals, pangolins, you are very different from that year!" ”
Three years later, when Wang Tianxiang, who was already old in 1959, visited Beijing with the local secretary, he ostensibly asked Chairman Mao to solve economic problems, but in fact hoped to see the chairman again.
Unfortunately, at this time, Chairman Mao was holding a central meeting in Shanghai, and although the two successfully returned to Hubei by train with the help of the organization, Wang Tianxiang was never able to see the "Big Brother Mao" side again.
In 1979, Wang Tianxiang died of a serious illness and was buried in the local martyrs' cemetery, praised and remembered by posterity, as an ordinary peasant, but his life was not ordinary, and he dedicated his value to the motherland to the greatest extent.