In January 1949, with the liberation of Tianjin, only Beiping was left in North China, and the city had a pivotal position in history, not only the capital of many dynasties, but also a long history and culture, especially it was also the capital of the two feudal dynasties of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and there were too many cultural relics and monuments.
For this reason, our party has long arranged for Fu Zuoyi's daughter Fu Dongju to lurk by him, and this is the best time for Fu Dongju to persuade Fu Zuoyi. ”
Walk in both camps of father and daughter
Born in 1895, Fu Zuoyi was a native of Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, and had been influenced by revolutionary ideas since childhood, so in October 1910, at the age of 15, Fu Zuoyi joined the camp of the Xinhai Revolution without hesitation, responding to the uprising in Taiyuan, serving as a student platoon leader, and rushing to Niangziguan to resist the Qing army.
Relying on his excellent performance, Fu Zuoyi was later recommended by nobles and was sent to the Baoding Army School for further study, where he achieved excellent results and outstanding performance, and was even more courageous and courageous on the battlefield, which won the appreciation of Chiang Kai-shek, so after graduating from the Baoding Military Academy, Fu Zuoyi was arranged to serve as a second lieutenant trainee officer in the 1st Regiment of the 1st Mixed Brigade of the Shanxi Army.
In the army, Fu Zuoyi still performed well, was deeply appreciated and valued by his superiors, and was constantly promoted, but even if Fu Zuoyi rose steadily, he never forgot his original intention, that is, to fight for the country and the people to become better. After the September 18 Incident in 1931, Fu Zuoyi deeply felt the urgency of resisting Japan, so he sent a joint telegram with Song Zheyuan and more than 50 northern generals, calling on all parties in the country to unite and unite to resist Japan.
After the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated to unite against Japan in 1937, the connection between Fu Zuoyi and our party was very close, and at the same time he was also a hero in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
As the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression continued to deepen, our Party's development rate became faster and faster, and Chiang Kai-shek felt the pressure, so he began to secretly adopt some measures against our Party personnel, such as the Anhui Incident, which was one of them.
It can be said that during the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Fu Zuoyi and our party had already forged a deep friendship, but after all, Fu Zuoyi belonged to the camp of Chiang Kai-shek; after the victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek launched a civil war, and Fu Zuoyi could only obey Chiang Kai-shek's orders and served as the commander-in-chief of the "suppression of bandits" in North China, gathering 250,000 troops to wage a contest with our army on the battlefield of liberation.
Logically, as a senior general of the Nationalist army, Fu Zuoyi's children should also follow Fu Zuoyi to serve the Nationalist army, but in fact, this is not the case, And the route taken by Fu Zuoyi's eldest daughter Fu Dongju is completely different from Fu Zuoyi, which also shows from the side that in fact, Fu Zuoyi is an upright and qualified father.
Fu Dongju was born in 1924, from a young age to accept a lot of advanced revolutionary ideas, because the family conditions are very good, Fu Dongju has been able to continue to study and further study, all this has laid a solid foundation for Fu Dongju's growth, it is by relying on the advanced ideas learned in school, Fu Dongju will embark on a completely different path from his father.
In 1941, after the situation in the War of Resistance Against Japan became increasingly severe, Fu Zuoyi, in order to protect his family, let Fu Dongju follow his mother to the rear area of Chongqing, and arranged for Fu Dongju to enter Chongqing Nankai Middle School to study.
Fu Dongju also did not live up to her father's expectations, after graduating from Nankai Middle School, she was admitted to Kunming Southwest United University with excellent results, and it was during her high school and university studies that Fu Dongju xie came into contact with more and more communist ideas, she actively joined the student movement, and constantly exhorted her father Fu Zuoyi to change his thinking.
In the summer of 1946, after graduating from the Southwest United University, Fu Dongju went to Tianjin Ta Kung Pao Newspaper as a supplement editor. At that time, the Liberation War had entered a critical stage, and Fu Dongju's work had become more and more arduous.
The organization gave Fu Dongju a special task
The war of liberation continued to advance, our army quickly liberated most of the north Of China, only Tianjin and Beiping two cities with a long history, Mao Zedong hesitated, he was thinking about what kind of way to liberate these two cities, once the use of force, will inevitably cause immeasurable losses, for Mao Zedong, who is familiar with history, he does not want these two cities to suffer losses.
At that time, the prospects of the War of Liberation were already relatively clear, and although Chiang Kai-shek was still stubbornly resisting, many of his important generals began to plan for themselves, and even Fu Zuoyi deeply understood that Chiang Kai-shek's defeat was only a matter of time before, so he began to discuss with his old subordinates in private the question of where to go in the future.
Chiang Kai-shek knew that the general situation was gone, but he was still unwilling, so he held a supreme military conference in Nanjing in November 1948, at which the decision was made that Fu Zuoyi should be the chief executive of the southeast region, while at the same time adhering to the decision of the north China region. After Fu Zuoyi was ordered, he began to make a layout of his army, and his layout idea was very simple, that is, to attack and retreat, if the People's Liberation Army adopted the means of force, he should at least be able to defend, and if he really could not fight, he needed to ensure that he could retreat to negotiate with it.
Fu Zuoyi's layout was actually nothing wrong, but he underestimated the combat effectiveness of the People's Liberation Army, and as the North China Field Army surrounded Zhangjiakou and the Northeast Field Army entered the customs to participate in the siege of Fu Zuoyi, Fu Zuoyi's situation was already very dangerous, and what was even worse was that when he was planning to break through from Zhangjiakou to defend Beiping, he was attacked by the North China Field Army in the new security area, suffering heavy losses, and now Fu Zuoyi had almost no way to retreat.
When the war reached such a level, Fu Zuoyi already knew very well that he could not defeat the People's Liberation Army, but he was a member of Chiang Kai-shek's camp, and once he failed, what would happen to him, Fu Zuoyi had no bottom in his heart, plus many people outside were calling for the peaceful liberation of Peiping, which made Fu Zuoyi fall into contemplation and hesitation.
At this critical moment, Fu Zuoyi's daughter Fu Dongju played an important role, and Mao Zedong and others saw Fu Zuoyi's hesitation, so they assigned Fu Dongju a difficult and special task, that is, to persuade Fu Zuoyi to conduct peace negotiations with the People's Liberation Army and strive for the peaceful liberation of Peiping.
After receiving the task, Fu Dongju and her boyfriend Zhou Yizhi were transferred to Beiping together to work at the Beiping reporter station of the Ta Kung Pao, so that Fu Dongju had more time to go home and persuade his father Fu Zuoyi to accept peace negotiations in order to achieve the goal of peacefully liberating Peiping.
Fu Dongju was very clever, and when she went home to visit her father, she had a long conversation with Fu Zuoyi, and as she spoke, Fu Dongju began to ask her father about the outcome of this war and the outcome of the millions of people in Beiping and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers under Fu Zuoyi.
Fu Dongju saw Fu Zuoyi's psychological changes and emotional fluctuations, so that he could report these details to the organization, so that the organization could adjust the battle plan against Beiping in time, so as to achieve more victories on the battlefield, and once Fu Zuoyi suffered more setbacks on the battlefield, his psychological defense line would be easier to destroy.
In fact, Fu Zuoyi had long been keenly aware of the difference between his daughter, who had been talking to him about the current situation and the peaceful liberation of Peiping when she returned this time, and even put forward the statement that "if the father needs it, he can help contact the CCP side." In the face of these differences, Fu Zuoyi had already guessed that his daughter might have joined the Communist Party.
Therefore, when Fu Zuoyi received a telegram of defeat and Fu Dongju advised Fu Zuoyi to negotiate peace with the Communist Party, Fu Zuoyi suddenly asked Fu Dongju: "Dongju, are you a communist?" At that time, Fu Dongju was still a little confused, after all, his identity was special and could not be exposed casually, so Fu Dongju hesitated for a moment and then told his father that he was not qualified to become a Communist Party member for the time being.
Father saw Fu Dongju's hesitation and was even more convinced that Fu Dongju had become a communist, but now he was worried about other things, Chiang Kai-shek had always arranged for many people from the military command to monitor him, if the so-called communists that Fu Dongju knew were secret agents of the military command, then the conversation between himself and his daughter would be too dangerous, and once he agreed to peaceful negotiations, it would push everyone into the fire pit.
Fu Zuoyi expressed his concerns and asked Fu Dongju how to distinguish whether the people he was in contact with were real communists or fake communists. Fu Dongju told his father that he had been cooperating with them for many years, and fu Zuoyi's hanging heart finally let go, he not only understood that Fu Dongju was a Communist Party, but also understood that she had been a member of the Communist Party for many years, and this time when she came back to advise herself, it should be to organize and arrange her tasks.
He understood everything, but he was still a little cautious, so he finally asked Fu Dongju a question: "Were you sent by Mao Zedong or by Nie Rongzhen?" Fu Dongju did not understand who had sent him at that time, so he sought advice from the organization, and the organization replied that it was sent by Mao Zedong, Fu Dongju answered truthfully, and Fu Zuoyi finally let go of all his defenses and agreed to negotiate peace with the Communist Party.
Mao Zedong's protection of Fu Zuoyi
Just when Fu Zuoyi agreed to accept peace talks and privately sent people to negotiate, our party suddenly published a list of war criminals on December 25, 1948, in which the names of Fu Zuoyi and Wei Lihuang were very conspicuous.
After analyzing this, everyone agreed that this should be Mao Zedong's deliberate act of confusing Chiang Kai-shek in order to protect Fu Zuoyi, who at that time had a lot of spies arranged by Chiang Kai-shek around him, and if he did not do so, the matter of negotiation might soon be exposed, and Fu Zuoyi's life might be in danger at that time.
Fu Zuoyi suddenly realized, continued to fully cooperate with the negotiations, and took the first step toward the peaceful liberation of Peiping, but at this moment, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly ordered Fu Zuoyi to lead the troops to retreat, Fu Zuoyi had already made up his mind, so he refused Chiang Kai-shek on the grounds that the situation did not allow it, and then Chiang Kai-shek continued to send Zheng Jiemin and Chiang Weiguo to persuade Fu Zuoyi, and also took with him a sensational letter written by Chiang Kai-shek himself.
Before the formal negotiations, Mao Zedong specially received Fu Zuoyi at Xibaipo, and as soon as he saw Mao Zedong, he immediately said, "I am guilty." Mao Zedong tightly held Fu Zuoyi's hand and comforted him: "No, you have made meritorious deeds, you have done a great thing, and the motherland and the people will not forget you."
With Mao Zedong's words, Fu Zuoyi was completely at ease, and after some negotiations, Peiping was finally peacefully liberated, and the pace of liberation took another step, which was an important historical moment, and when people learned about it, they were all excited.
epilogue
On October 1, 1949, the founding of New China was founded, when Fu Zuoyi personally witnessed this great historical moment as a leader, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Fu Zuoyi served as the first minister of water resources of New China, and in his later years, he served as the vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, with the rank of vice minister. The liberation of Peiping is inseparable from Fu Dongju and Fu Zuoyi, and their contributions to history are worth remembering forever!
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