Now when the founding general Tao Zhiyue is mentioned, people's first impression is that Tao Zhiyue was an uprising general and contributed a lot to the peaceful liberation of Xinjiang, but what is less known is that Tao Zhiyue also made great contributions to the construction of Xinjiang. As early as 1950, he set out for northern Xinjiang with 100,000 troops, and his main task was to reclaim wasteland.
Don't look at Tao Zhiyue as a professional soldier, but he is also very good at agriculture. At that time, the machine farming team imported 6 tractors from the Soviet Union, but the instructions were in Russian, everyone could not understand, and at that time it was a farming period of racing against the clock, and the captain Yuan Zuobin first sprinkled corn seeds into the ground according to the soil method, and then used the tractor disc rake to bury the seeds.
This scene was seen by Tao Zhiyue, who immediately came to stop Yuan Zuobin, saying that this would damage the seed. But Yuan Zuobin was not convinced, saying that the fellow villagers were all like this, and the two quarreled endlessly. Later, Tao Zhiyue couldn't bear it, so he dragged Yuan Zuobin to the production department to find a technician who graduated from Northwest Agricultural University to comment on whether it was right or wrong, and the final result was that Tao Zhiyue was right.
But Tao Zhiyue did not taunt Yuan Zuobin, saying that even if he fought with Yuan Zuobin, he also encouraged everyone to study more and make good use of modern machines.
In August of the same year, Tao Zhiyue found that the machine cultivator team had come up with a bad idea. The members of the machine farming team turned all the weeds into the ground, thinking that this would make fertilizer for the seeds and save the hard work of weeding. But Tao Zhiyue severely criticized the machine cultivator team, asking everyone if they could grab the weeds by grabbing seeds and nutrients, and everyone was dumbfounded.
It is reasonable to say that Tao Zhiyue, as the commander of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, can manage the general direction. However, Tao Zhiyue knew that the of a thousand miles was destroyed by the ant nest, so everything had to be asked about in detail, and it was precisely this rigorous attitude that made the construction work in Xinjiang orderly.
However, although Tao Zhiyue is strict, he is not right about things, on the contrary, in life, Tao Zhiyue is very concerned about his subordinates. Once the machine farming farm set up a tractor driver training class, the result of the masses of strong response, all at once signed up for 240 people, more people came to live without land, can only make up in the local nest, Tao Zhiyue will find local leaders to solve the problem.
But the leader felt that the trainees did not live long, so they did not take this matter to heart. As a result, Tao Zhiyue was furious when he found out. The leader was afraid of punishment and immediately repaired the students' quarters.
Tao Zhiyue is kind to outsiders, but he is very strict with his family. He had a grandson named Tao Xiqin, who was assigned to a farm with very difficult living conditions, and the people who traveled with him all managed to transfer away, only Tao Xiqin worked hard and complained, and worked for 6 years. The leader of the farm knew that his grandfather was Tao Zhiyue, so he asked his grandfather if he had forgotten him, but Tao Xiqin understood his grandfather's good intentions, no one wanted to come here, and if he was Tao Zhiyue's grandson, no one would come.