In 1988, the People's Liberation Army restored the rank system, and 17 people were awarded the rank of general. Since 1988, the rank of general is the highest military rank in the republic, and the contribution of those who can receive this honor to the People's Liberation Army is needless to mention, but one of the generals has caused a lot of controversy, he is General Zhao Nanqi.
There are two controversies, one is that he is a foreign general, or more precisely, an authentic "Korean". As we all know, in 1955 and 1988, the People's Liberation Army was not short of foreign generals. When he was awarded the rank in 1955, General Flood was awarded the rank of Major General, who was both the founding major general of our country and the founding major general of Vietnam. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with General Zhao Nanqi being awarded the title of general, and people are more concerned about the second thing that happened to him.
In 1987, a year before the award of the title, the Central Military Commission received an anonymous letter about Zhao Nanqi, and several retired veteran cadres jointly reported that Zhao Nanqi had close contacts with South Koreans, that he deliberately concealed the truth, was suspected of being "undercover", hoped that the central authorities would thoroughly investigate, and resolutely opposed the central authorities from letting such people assume important posts.
The Central Military Commission attached great importance to the anonymous letter, but the following year, Zhao Nanqi was still awarded the rank of general.
So, what is the content of the whistleblower letter? Is Zhao Nanqi undercover? Why did the Central Military Commission insist on awarding him the rank of general? Let's start with that whistleblower letter.
Zhao Nanqi
A joint whistleblower letter
This incident occurred during Zhao Nanqi's tenure as secretary of the Yanbian Prefecture Party Committee in Jilin Province.
In the winter of 1979, on a foggy morning, Zhao Nanqi came to the office as usual to work and found a letter on his desk. Zhao Nanqi picked it up and looked at it, it was an anonymous letter, sent from Hong Kong.
With great political sensitivity, he did not open the letter at the first time, but picked up the phone on his desk and called the director of the state public security bureau and the head of the security department to his office.
When everyone arrived, Zhao Nanqi opened the anonymous letter from Hong Kong in front of everyone. The letter was sent by a South Korean journalist in Hong Kong, who said that he had been working in the media for many years and had reported on Zhao Nanqi's relevant deeds.
There is an old man named Zhao Nanyuan in South Korea, who was very excited after seeing the relevant reports of Zhao Nanqi, contacted this reporter, claiming that he had an older brother, also named Zhao Nanqi, and the two brothers had been separated for many years, and there was no news of his brother.
He hoped to ask Zhao Nanqi through reporters whether the local leader who was far away in China was his brother. The South Korean reporter said at the end of the letter: If it is true, he will notify on behalf of the brothers and let the brothers recognize each other.
correspondence
Comrades from the Yanbian Public Security Bureau and the security department have worked around Zhao Nanqi for many years and have completely trusted Zhao Nanqi's loyalty to the party and responsibility to the people.
However, at this time, Zhao Nanqi had a lot of thoughts, he had participated in the work for many years, worked hard for the country and the people, neglected to take care of his family, and had no time to take care of his relatives in a foreign country.
The sudden appearance of his younger brother Zhao Nanyuan made him very happy, and he once again recalled the difficult years in the early years.
However, in his current capacity, he was absolutely unable to correspond with his brother privately, so he had to bury this thought in his heart and report the matter to the provincial leaders at the same time.
In the blink of an eye, many years have passed, and some retired veteran cadres have heard about this incident from other people, and in the spirit of being responsible to the party and the army, they have jointly written a letter to the Central Military Commission to request a thorough investigation of this matter, and Zhao Nanqi's life has been revealed.
The Japanese invaded Korea
Born on the Korean Peninsula, he threw himself into the Chinese Revolution
Zhao Nanqi was born in 1927 in Cheongwon-gun, North Chungcheong Province (now part of South Korea) on the Korean Peninsula.
Cho Nam-chi's grandfather, Cho Dong-sik, was a revolutionary martyr in Korea who led the "March 1 Movement" against Japanese aggression and was imprisoned by the Japanese for a long time. His father, Zhao Longjiu, was an ordinary farmer who lived in poverty and hardship.
Zhao Grew up in a family atmosphere that hated the Japanese invaders, and from a very young age, he dared to resist the tyranny of the Japanese.
When Cho Nam was in elementary school, Japanese-controlled schools required instruction in Japanese, and those who dared to speak Korean were fined or imprisoned. But Zhao Nanqi is fearless by nature, he always speaks only Korean, no matter how much fine he pays, which makes his father Zhao Longjiu very headache.
However, the Korean Peninsula was sparsely populated, and it had been suppressed by the Japanese invaders for decades, and it was impossible to organize an effective counterattack.
In 1939, during that cold winter, the released Zhao Dongwei decided to move his family to China, and the 12-year-old Zhao Nanqi also embarked on a wandering journey. In the spring of the following year, the family came to Jilin Yongji Fork Road Hefotang Village and settled down.
The people of the old society who fled the wilderness
Fotang Village is a village inhabited by Korean ethnic groups, which has flourished in this land in the northeast for hundreds of years, and the folk customs are simple. Zhao Nanqi's family quickly mingled with the locals, and he himself mastered Chinese and was able to communicate with Han Chinese proficiently.
However, in less than half a year, his grandfather Zhao Dongzhi was over seventy years old and often remembered his hometown in the distance, so his father Zhao Longjiu asked Zhao Nanqi and his younger brother Zhao Nanyuan to escort his grandfather back. But Zhao Nanqi refused his father's request, saying:
This land has raised me, and I want to stay and contribute, and let my brother send grandpa back
。 ”
Therefore, the younger brother Zhao Nanyuan escorted his grandfather back to Korea, and he never saw his brother Zhao Nanqi again.
In 1945, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the restoration of the Korean Peninsula, many Koreans in exile in the northeast set out to return home, and Zhao Nanqi refused to return to Korea for the second time, hoping to stay in this black land and make a difference.
Korean people
Soon, Zhao Nanqi waited for his own opportunity. In November 1945, the Northeast People's Autonomous Army was attacked by the Kuomintang troops, and the troops had to withdraw to the vast countryside. At this time, the land reform in the northeast had not yet been carried out, and the common people did not trust the troops led by the Communist Party of China, which led to huge problems in the supply of the Northeast People's Autonomous Army, and it was impossible to eat a full meal.
If the troops want to fight, food is the key, but Gao Gao, the governor of the fork road river district, wants to break his head and can't think of a way to solve the problem of grain.
At this time, Zhao Nanqi took the initiative to come to the door and said that he could raise grain.
Takayama looked at the 18-year-old boy in front of him, did not believe what he said, and asked: "You said that you can raise grain, and a pound of grain is also grain, which is not enough for one person to eat a grain of rice." ”
Zhao Nanqi was stimulated not lightly, he held out two fingers, and said excitedly: "I can raise this number!" ”
"How much?" Two hundred pounds? ”
"200,000 pounds!" Zhao Nanqi spat out his tongue.
Gao Shan was frightened: "Even if you let the troops raise money, you can only raise a few thousand catties, where do you have such a big skill, and get 200,000 catties of rice at once?" ”
Zhao Nan said confidently:
This year's grain harvest, fork road river a total of more than two hundred households, each family out of a thousand catties, this is not 200,000 catties!
”
Gao Gao nodded, but also warned Zhao Nanqi: "We are the ranks of the common people, we can't do things that persecute the people, the people are willing to take grain, of course, it's very good, but we can't force it like the Kuomintang." ”
Zhao Nan patted his chest: "Wrap it around me!" ”
In those few days, Zhao Nanqi and the soldiers in charge of preparing grain were busy, and they went door to door to make propaganda to let the people know that this was a team that fought for the poor in the world, and they were willing to donate grain to the Northeast People's Autonomous Army, and donated 250,000 catties at once, 50,000 catties more than originally planned!
After Zhou Baozhong, deputy commander of the Northeast People's Autonomous Army, learned of this incident, he expected that Zhao Nanqi was a material that could be built, and he must meet this doll who had just turned 18. Later, under the introduction of Zhou Baozhong, Zhao Nanqi entered the Northeast Military and Political University to study, and gloriously joined the Communist Party of China.
In 1947, Zhao Nanqi graduated from the Military and Political University and came to work next to Kong Yuan, the secretary of the Yanbian Prefectural Party Committee, and has since formed an indissoluble relationship with Yanbian.
Zhao Nanqi (third from left) waits in front of the martyr's tomb
He participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and returned to his hometown
In 1950, the Korean War broke out. On the evening of October 10, Zhao Nanqi, who was asleep, was awakened by a telephone call from a military staff officer, informing him to rush to Shenyang Station immediately. After arriving in Shenyang, Zhao Nanqi did not make a short stop, and took a train to Andong (present-day Dandong) in the dark of night.
In Andong, he was appointed as a staff officer in the Operations Department of the Volunteer Army and followed Peng Dehuai to the Korean front.
This is Zhao Nanqi's return to his hometown after 11 years, and the reason why the Volunteer Army Command let him go to the front line is that he can speak Korean, which is convenient for the Korean People's Army to contact and translate the other side's language. Once, Cho Nam-ki was in charge of the translation of the talks between Peng Dehuai and North Korean Deputy Prime Minister Park Hyun-yong, and Park Hyun-yong was very surprised to see that Cho Nam-ki was very fluent in Korean and asked him: "Are you a North Korean?" ”
Zhao Nanqi replied:
No, I'm a Korean in China
。 Park Hyun-yong liked the young man in front of him very much, so he invited him to stay in the People's Army, hoping that Peng would always agree to this reluctant invitation. Mr. Peng did not obstruct, but said that first, he looked at the needs of the work, and second, he looked at his own wishes. As a result, Cho rejected the deputy prime minister, the third time he has refused to stay in North Korea.
Volunteer artillery
In the spring of 1951, Zhao Nanqi took a jeep to the 9th Corps of the Song Dynasty wheel to solve the problem of food supply for the corps. On the way back, the jeep collided with a truck, and Zhao Nanqi was injured. After being sent to the field hospital, a female nurse in North Korea had a crush on him, hoping to marry him and stay in North Korea together, but Was politely refused by Cho Nam-ki.
During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Zhao Nanqi invented a kind called "
Top cattle across the river
The tactic is to drive the train backwards, and when it reaches the location, the rear of the car changes the front of the train and replaces it with another locomotive to continue transportation, which greatly improves the efficiency of material transportation and solves a major problem of the volunteer army.
In the Battle of Jincheng in July 1953, in half an hour, more than a thousand artillery pieces of the Volunteer Army fired 1,900 tons of bombs, leveling the positions held by the Rok army, and Cho Nam, who was in charge of logistics and transportation, made his first contribution.
After the signing of the armistice agreement at Panmunjom, Zhao returned to China and successively served as the secretary of the Yanbian Prefecture Party Committee. He is the director of the General Logistics Department and the president of the PLA Academy of Military Sciences.
In 1988, Zhao Nanqi was awarded the rank of general, one of the 17 generals, and after that, he served as vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, with the rank of vice minister.
The "anonymous letter storm" of 1987 was only a small episode in the brilliant revolutionary career of General Zhao Nanqi, and it turned out that this was just a misunderstanding.
Although he was born in Korea, he made great contributions to China's revolutionary cause and socialist construction, was a servant of the people, and was also a well-deserved proletarian revolutionary.
On June 17, 2018, General Zhao Nanqi passed away in Beijing, and a general star fell.