The founding generals all have the virtues of thrift and thrift, such as the founding major general Zhan Danan, who has donated money all year round, worn a pair of leather shoes for more than 20 years, and the founding lieutenant general Wang Bicheng, a blanket used for more than 40 years, like this general is not a minority, but the exception introduced by the author today is not a minority.
This founding general was called Zhang Dazhi, he was called "General Buyi", in our army, Zhang Dazhi's clean and honest celebrities are well known, he is a native of Jia County, Shaanxi, one of the founders of the base area in northern Shaanxi, comparable to Liu Zhidan, Xie Zichang and others.
In 1927, when the white terror was all over the place and the revolutionary situation was grim, the party organization in northern Shaanxi decided to shift the focus to the countryside, and Zhang Dazhi was sent to the countryside to carry out work, after which he not only did the revolution himself, but also brought his family with him, and he hid confidential documents and funds in his home.
These were all handed over to his father Zhang Wenhua for safekeeping, during which there was no mistake, but over time it was inevitable to leak the news, the enemy searched his home many times, and even arrested his father and beat him, almost beaten to death, and escaped from the enemy's clutches after organizing rescue.
Later, he thought of a way to organize a fake funeral for his father, deceive the enemy that his father was dead, and sure enough, the enemy no longer looked for his father, and later he followed Liu Zhidan and others back to northern Shaanxi and participated in the formation of the 27th Army of the Red Army.
During the agrarian revolution, Zhang Dazhi successively served as the political commissar of the Red 81st Division and the political commissar of the 78th Division, and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Dazhi served as the political commissar of the 6th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army's Garrison Regiment.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Dazhi made many meritorious contributions and also served as deputy commander of the Suimeng Military Region, and in the Liberation War he made even more military achievements, the most typical of which was the liberation of Lanzhou, which made the first contribution to the liberation of Lanzhou.
After that, he worked in Lanzhou for 15 years, during which he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, soldiers and fellow villagers preferred to call him "General of cloth", Zhang Dazhi was low-key, never engaged in special, eating as long as millet potatoes were ok, wearing clothes is also patched.
He often went to the countryside to inspect the work, down to the grass-roots level he never took advantage, once he went to the military region for a meeting, during the meal someone proposed to add a point of dog meat to each table, Zhang Dazhi was very angry after learning about it, felt that it cost more public money, he asked, who let the dog meat on the top of the money to pay back.
Later, the person who proposed adding dog meat made up 170 yuan, and under Zhang Dazhi's diligence and thriftiness and persistence in hard work, the Lanzhou Military Region was well built, and agriculture and infrastructure construction were greatly improved.