On May 25, 1949, Shanghai was declared liberated, and the next day Chen Yi, who was assigned to take over Shanghai, led the organs of the East China Bureau and the cadres who took over Shanghai into Shanghai, and Shanghai, which once became the center of white terror in the country, was also going to enter the jurisdiction of our party.
Taking over Shanghai is an important step for our party to enter a big economic and cultural city, and although our party has already had experience in taking over Beiping before this, the situation in Shanghai is different from that in Beiping, which spent a long period of military control before it was liberated by our party.
The situation in Shanghai is very different, shanghai for other historical reasons of loss, there is a definition of the scope of lending, and it is also one of the places that accepts the deepest and most direct impact of foreign economies and ideas, so it is of great significance to our party.
However, long before the liberation of Shanghai, the foreign media poured a lot of cold water, especially in the United States, which has always hoped that our party and the Kuomintang would rule by river, and through the media, they wantonly spread the remarks that the Communist Party of China would withdraw from Shanghai in at most one month.
For this reason, at the Xibaipo Conference, Chairman Mao personally named Chen Yilai as the mayor of Shanghai and was responsible for the relevant matters after Shanghai took over, and our party also took an important step in marching into the big cities.
After Chen Yi became the mayor of Shanghai, he did not live up to expectations and made great contributions to Shanghai's economic recovery and people's livelihood development, but during Chen Yi's tenure as mayor of Shanghai, there was an incident that made Chen Yi very angry.
When Chen Yi learned about the people's sentiments in Shanghai, he accidentally discovered the secret of a restaurant, which caused Chen Yi to be angry on the spot and reprimand the staff of this restaurant fiercely.
The investigation of public sentiment accidentally discovers the secret of the restaurant
As the order and economy of Shanghai gradually returned to normal, Chen Yi's work was much easier, but Chen Yi could not even look at things on the surface, and the Communist Party of China came from the masses and will certainly go to the masses again.
In particular, after the establishment of the Shanghai Military Control Commission, many employees of the old government were retained, and although our party continued to retain these staff members with the idea of treating others with leniency, some of the bad habits of the employees of the old government were difficult to change, and there were also cases of mistakes made by the old policemen after they remained in office.
Therefore, Chen Yi understood that in order to understand the real situation of the masses, it is necessary to go deep among the masses, which is also the policy and principle that our party has been implementing all along. Chen Yi explained to the entourage: "This time we are ordinary citizens of Shanghai and experience the real life of the citizens. ”
Only by going to the senses and experience in person can we truly understand the lives of the citizens and thus make certain adjustments, this time Chen Yi and his party did find a lot of problems along the way, and as the sun grew, it was time for lunch.
Originally, the staff was ready to go back to the restaurant of the municipal government to eat, but on the way Chen Yi saw a relatively busy restaurant, Chen Yi simply decided to eat in this restaurant, and also experienced what it was like for citizens to eat out.
In fact, at that time, the food in the municipal government restaurant was not as good as that in the outside restaurant, because the southern troops still needed to use grain at that time, so the meals in the canteen of the organ were also very frugal, basically cabbage and potatoes were exchanged back and forth, and it was almost once a month to eat meat.
Chen Yi's decision was naturally unanimously approved by the entourage, but due to organizational discipline, the meal money this time could not be reimbursed, but Chen Yi came to pay for the guests, and Chen Yi personally invited guests, which also made the accompanying staff very happy.
After entering the restaurant, Chen Yi and his party did not put up a shelf, but sat on the table next to them like other guests to read the menu, and after ordering, the waiter reported the names of the dishes ordered by Chen Yi and others, and then casually shouted "Ten." ”
This also attracted the attention of Chen Yi, if it is true that after each table of people order, the waiter will shout a sentence of "ten" or "eleven", Chen Yi is very curious about what this means, but after the dish is served, Chen Yi found that something was wrong.
The amount of dishes that the waiter shouts eleven is obviously different from the amount of dishes that shouts ten, the amount of dishes in ten is obviously more, and the attitude of the waiter is better, while the amount of dishes in eleven is less, and the attitude of the waiter is also relatively poor.
Chen Yi didn't understand what this meant, how could people who ate at a restaurant be treated differently? Chen Yi then called the waiter to inquire about the situation.
"Just now I saw that after you explained the name of the dish to the back kitchen, you also said something eleven or ten, what does this mean?" Chen Yi did not reveal his identity, but his temperament could not be hidden.
The waiter replied as if asking for credit: "You don't know, this is the code number stipulated by me and the kitchen, ten is the simplified dry word, representing the meaning of the cadre, the amount of dishes should be a little more, eleven is the simplified soil character, representing the amount of soil old hat dishes in the countryside can be a little less, sometimes do not shout is the ordinary citizens in accordance with the normal amount of dishes on the line." ”
At this time, Chen Yi's face was already a little blue, but the waiter still looked at Chen Yi with a flattering look, as if he had done something remarkable, and was waiting for the praise of the shirt.
However, this waiter was not waiting for Chen Yi's praise, but Chen Yi's anger, in Chen Yi's eyes, whether it was cadres and staff or citizens and peasants, it was the same, this waiter's approach was really too much, and he did not pay attention to the broad masses of the people at all.
After Revealing his identity, Chen Yi reprimanded the waiter and the owner of the restaurant fiercely, and many citizens present also clapped their hands and applauded, after all, many people from other places to Shanghai had been treated differently by the waiters when they ate in this restaurant.
Many people may think that Chen Yi is making a big fuss, but this is indeed a very serious problem, and it is precisely because of this that Chen Yi will be angry in public.
The reason why Chen Yi was angry
If the waiter is just to please some cadres, this is understandable, but the cost of pleasing cadres is put on the ordinary peasants by the waiters and cooks, which is bound to make some cadres with weak self-control have a sense of superiority.
In this way, the people's public servants and those who serve the people have become managers who are above the people, and there will also be very serious corruption problems, just like Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan, the criminals in the first major corruption case after the founding of New China.
It is because these two people have developed a sense of superiority over ordinary people under the corruption of capital, and have derived the idea that I have been revolutionizing for so long and cannot enjoy it, and finally the problem of corruption has arisen.
Liu Qingshan was also a "red devil" with a strong revolutionary will, but he would also be corrupted by capital to produce corruption problems, which also shows that sometimes soft knives are more terrible than real guns and bullets on the battlefield.
The emergence of such a phenomenon also shows that some masses in Shanghai still have some ideas of currying favor with the Kuomintang bureaucracy, believing that they can do better in their business in this way.
This is understandable, but the impact of doing so is very bad, and when government employees who serve the people become accustomed to being in power, they will inevitably have a certain sense of superiority because of power.
This is also the reason why Chen Yi is so angry, but Chen Yi also found the problem in this matter, and after that, he also specially reported his summary of this matter to the Central Committee, so that our party has more experience in taking over the big cities in the future.
When we think of Chen Yi, we always think of his spirit on the battlefield, or his personable demeanor in diplomatic occasions when he was the minister of foreign affairs of New China, or the image of a poet who improvised his poems after every big war or feeling.
But few people will mention what he did when he was mayor of Shanghai, and as a veteran Member of the Chinese Communist Party who has been revolutionary for decades, Chen Yi still stepped forward to sum up the rich experience of our party's subsequent takeover of big cities when our party took an important step in taking over big cities.
This incident was just a trivial matter that Chen Yi said when he was mayor of Shanghai, but he could still see such a profound truth and sum up the experience of our party taking over the big city.
In addition, during his tenure as mayor of Shanghai, what Chen Yi did was not as simple as leading troops to fight, and after Chiang Kai-shek liberated Shanghai, he left a large number of spies, and the sabotage activities engaged in by these spies should not be as simple as just undermining public order.
The destruction of the economy is also an extremely important one, and these agents, some speculators in Shanghai in Shandong Province, maliciously raise the prices of some necessities of life in an attempt to completely sabotage Shanghai's economy.
To this end, Chen Yi organized the Shanghai industry and commerce to carry out an economic war, which made Shanghai's economy tend to be stable, but this also led to Chiang Kai-shek's assassination activities, and in order to ensure that the assassination was foolproof, Chiang Kai-shek even sent traitors from our Party who had worked under Chen Yi.
Fortunately, this news was captured in time by the underground workers of our party, and the traitor was successfully captured in Shanghai before he started to move, and then under the management of Chen Yi, The economy and people's livelihood of Shanghai were restored and developed.