In 1983, the Ministry of Civil Affairs uniformly issued a certificate of revolutionary martyrhood to the families of revolutionary martyrs, which contained the heroic sacrifices of revolutionary martyrs, the resumes of revolutionary martyrs, and the opinions of the filling out organs and pensions.
This time, the issuance of the martyr's certificate includes renewal and reissuance. The first is to replace the various martyr certificates that have been issued in the past into certificates of revolutionary martyrs; the second is to issue the martyrs' certificates to the lost martyrs' certificates and to the immediate family members of the revolutionary martyrs who have been approved by the government to enjoy the treatment of martyrs but have not yet been issued.
It is easier to change the hair, that is, the voucher is renewed, but the reissuance is more difficult, which includes looking for the immediate family of the revolutionary martyr, in the war years, various situations may occur, some martyrs are no longer there, some martyrs are missing, or directly changed their surnames, it is difficult to find.
This was the case when the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued a certificate of revolutionary martyrdom to Chairman Mao's younger brother Mao Zeqin, and they could not find the immediate family members of the martyr Mao Zeqin.
Mao Zeqin had two sons, but the eldest son, Mao Chuxiong, was secretly executed by the Kuomintang in 1946 and was a martyr in himself, as for Mao Zeqin's second son, many people know that there is such a child, but few people know the specific situation of this child.
When Mao Zeqin was sacrificed, he was less than three months old, and after so many years, who knows if he is still alive? What kind of posture do you live in? Are there any descendants? Wait a minute.
But as long as such a person has ever existed, as long as you investigate carefully, you can always find the imprint of his existence.
After reviewing the files and visiting and investigating, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee finally determined the existence of this person.
It turned out that he was working at the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense (now the Ministry of Aerospace Industry), and he was He Lucheng, a missile expert with certificate number 001.
Why was Mao Zeqin's son named He Lucheng? Where did he go after his parents died? Why did he hide his identity for so many years and never reveal the fact that he was Chairman Mao's nephew?
His story is long and tortuous, and we start with the Long March.
In October 1934, with the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the main central Red Army began a strategic shift, and the Long March began.
Of course, some people broke through and moved, and some people stayed behind to hold their positions.
As far as the Mao brothers were concerned, Mao Zedong, He Zizhen and his wife, Mao Zemin and Qian Xijun all participated in the breakout, while Mao Zeqin and He Yi were asked to stay in the Soviet zone to continue the fighting.
Whether transferring or staying behind, they are in a dangerous situation. Mao Zedong and He Zizhen also left their two-year-old son Mao Mao behind before leaving, asking him to follow Mao Zeqin and He Yi.
This was the best arrangement that could be made at that time, but no one thought that soon after, with Mao Zeqin's sacrifice, Mao Mao's whereabouts became a mystery and disappeared.
Soon after the Red Army began its Long March, the Soviet zone became a white zone, and where the remaining people should go and how to carry out their work became a very big problem. In December, Mao Zeqin and He Yi received organizational arrangements at the same time: Mao Zeqin led the Red Army guerrillas to the Fujian-Gansu border, and He Yi, who was about seven months pregnant, could not follow the troops to break through and move, so he was arranged to take his parents to Ganzhou to engage in underground work.
Because of the danger of the transfer, Mao Zeqin sent Mao Mao to a local hometown before leaving, and then Mao Zeqin escorted He Yi and his parents to the White Goose Chau pier in Huichang County with troops.
The two husband and wife went north and south one by one, and this time the difference between them and the previous differences did not seem to be any different, both because of the revolutionary cause, but they seemed to be very different, because this time the difference was a farewell.
Mao Zeqin led the guerrilla troops to evade the pursuit in the enemy's heavy blockade, looking for a place to break through between the high mountains and mountains.
He Yi and his parents hid in a lake in the west of Ganzhou, recruiting party members and persisting in the revolutionary struggle.
On February 1, 1935, a baby's cry was heard in the Gannan Mountains, a boy fell to the ground, He Yi gave birth to a little boy for Mao Zeqin, according to Mao Zeqin's meaning, the child named Mao Ancheng, which means that the revolutionary cause must succeed.
This is a child born during the war years, and he was born without seeing his father, which is the beginning of his bumpy fate.
When Mao An grew up to be three months old, his mother He Yi received news of the sacrifice of his father Mao Zeqin. At that time, it was still night, He Yi was summoning comrades to a meeting to prepare to deliver a batch of materials to the mountain, and two people broke into the middle of the meeting, one was He Yi's traffic officer, and the other was a correspondent sent by Chen Yi.
He had come to report to He Yi the bad news that Mao Zeqin had sacrificed to cover his teammates' breakthrough on April 25.
He Yi was not unprepared for the sacrifice of herself or her husband or her relatives around her, but when the real sacrifice was in front of her, she still did not control her emotions and immediately burst into tears.
It was a sad thing to have to give away another life just after the arrival of a new life, but she didn't even have time to immerse herself in her emotions, because she herself was in a dangerous situation, and she had to live in hiding in Tibet under the siege of the enemy.
She could no longer continue to take Mao Ancheng with her, and could only make up her mind to send him away.
At that time, many children of revolutionaries were sent to the homes of fellow villagers or relatives and friends in this way, and as for when they would be reunited, maybe in a few years, maybe in a dozen years, decades later, maybe they would never see each other again in a lifetime.
He Yi sent Mao Ancheng to the He Tiaoyuan family in Huating Village, Yongxin County, and the He Tiaoyuan family and he Huanwen (He Yi's father) were related to each other, and there were often contacts before, he Tiaoyuan's family was relatively wealthy, and economically he could let Mao An grow up without worry, and he could also have a certain guarantee for safety.
He Tiaoyuan was very happy to agree to He Yi, taking on this burden, he did not ask He Yi when to take Mao Ancheng away, he knew too well that this was a question without an answer, even He Yi himself could not guarantee anything.
What he can do is to protect Mao Ancheng and wait for the arrival of He Yi in the future, even if he can't come in the end, he will tell Mao An's identity after he grows up to a certain age, let him know who his biological parents are, what they do, why they are not around him, and so on.
For the safety of Mao Ancheng, He Yi changed his name to He Lucheng and became He Tiaoyuan's grandson.
When He Lucheng and He Yi were separated, they could not speak or have a memory, he did not have the pain of separation, and since he had a memory, he had grown up carefree in He Tiaoyuan's home.
There are grandfathers and grandmothers who love him, nannies who take good care of his life, and simple villagers, He Lucheng's childhood is happy to a certain extent.
Because of the good conditions in the family, He Tiaoyuan loved him and really treated him as a grandson, so in addition to providing him with material life, he also provided him with education.
He Lucheng read very hard, from primary school to junior high school, the results have been among the best, Jinggangshan gave this teenager a simple, hard-working and unyielding character, he wants to read more, in the future for the country and the people to do something.
Although he did not know his own origins, but as he grew older, he could still vaguely perceive something, especially Grandpa He Tiaoyuan would receive a letter after a period of time, the letter never let him see, but he could clearly feel that Grandpa always wanted to talk to him after every time he received the letter, as if he wanted to say something to him, but he always lost it.
He didn't know who had written those letters, but they vaguely had something to do with him, but Grandpa didn't say it, he didn't ask, he knew that Grandpa and Grandma were very good to him, even if they hid something, they would tell him one day.
He waited, waiting for Grandpa to let him see the letters, for Grandpa to tell him something he didn't know.
In 1949, one day in August, a jeep came from Huating Village and went straight to He Tiaoyuan's home, and a thirty-seven or eight-year-old middle-aged woman knocked on the door of He Tiaoyuan's house, He Lucheng was at home at the time, and he went to open the door.
When he opened the door, he saw that the middle-aged woman suddenly had tears in her eyes and shouted at him
"Lu Cheng, Lu Cheng." ”
He Lucheng didn't know the person in front of him, but he didn't know why, he just felt extra kind, as if the other party was a relative who was related to him by blood, so he had a momentary stunned.
It was at this time that He Tiaoyuan in the house heard the movement outside, went out to see He Yi, who had not been seen for more than ten years, and did not have time to greet He Yi, he said directly to He Lucheng
"Lu Cheng, this is your biological mother, your mother has come to pick you up." ”
Hearing his grandfather say this, He Lucheng was even more stunned, he did not expect in any way that the woman he had never seen before would be his own biological mother, and his grandfather's words and the unspeakable sense of intimacy were telling him that this was the truth.
Such a fact made it difficult for a fourteen-year-old child to sustain himself, and he cried and threw himself into He Yi's arms, leaving his mother's arms for 14 years, still so warm, as if he had never left.
But those 14 years of separation were real, and He Yi knew that he needed to give He Lucheng a good explanation. After bidding farewell to the He Family, He Yi took He Lucheng back to his residence and began to tell him about his father and mother.
Speaking of Mao Zeqin's sacrifice, He Yi and He Lucheng hugged and cried, and then said that He Yi sent He Lucheng to He Tiaoyuan's home for the sake of revolution, and then engaged in underground work in Nanchang, Ji'an, Guangzhou, Shaoguan and other places for a long time, until he was arrested in Shaoguan in the summer of 1940.
He Yi's special status made her suffer severe torture in prison, but she always refused to give in, in order to strictly guard the party's secrets, she once swallowed the golden ring to commit suicide, but this did not make her die, but made her body devastated and her stomach sag seriously.
Later, under the mediation of Zhou Enlai, our party exchanged Kuomintang prisoners of war for He Yi, and after his release from prison, He Yi went to Yan'an with a full body of pain to look for his sister He Zizhen.
But at that time, He Zizhen had already gone to the Soviet Union, and the injuries on He Yi's body continued to be treated, and soon the hospital arranged for her to undergo gastric resection, or Chairman Mao personally signed the operation sheet.
Chairman Mao has always been very concerned about He Yi's mother and son, first, He Yi was once Mao Zeqin's wife, and second, He Yi was also He Zizhen's sister. He Lucheng is both Chairman Mao's nephew and nephew, so he has expressed his concern for He Lucheng through He Yi many times, hoping that He Yi will take good care of He Lucheng.
It was just that the revolution had not yet succeeded at that time, and He Yi could not take He Lucheng with him.
After Recuperating from illness in Yan'an, He Yi rushed to Jiangsu to work in the New Fourth Army, and did not return to northern Shaanxi until after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, enter the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and then work in the central organs after graduation.
Later, He Zizhen took Li Min back from the Soviet Union, and He Yi personally went to the northeast to take Li Min to Beijing to reunite with Chairman Mao, and then went back to bring He Zizhen to Shanghai.
No sooner had He Zizhen been settled than He Yi received an order from the Organization Department of the Fourth Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army to transfer her to the Jiangxi Provincial CPC Committee.
The first thing he did when he returned to his hometown, He Yi went to find his son He Lucheng, who had been separated for many years.
Hearing her mother talk about these pasts, her tone was soft and her sentences were flat, and she was trying her best to downplay those pasts, but he clearly heard the thrill.
He never knew that his parents were such excellent people, his father was a martyr who sacrificed for the revolution, his mother was heroic and indomitable, and he was invincible for the revolution, and his uncle was Chairman Mao, a leader who brought new life to the country and the people.
Suddenly knowing that he has such an identity, his heart is excited, but after the excitement is deep thinking, he hopes that in the future, like his parents and uncle, he is a person who contributes to society.
The reunion with his mother gave He Lucheng the impetus to move forward, but the reunion did not last long.
At that time, Mao Mao's disappearance made He Yi always grumpy, she knew that Mao Zeqin sent Mao Mao to his hometown, but she did not know which hometown he sent to, with Mao Zeqin's sacrifice, Mao Mao's whereabouts became a mystery.
Although she did not know it, she always felt that it was her responsibility to find Mao Mao, and as Li Min returned to Chairman Mao's side, He Zizhen was very lonely in Shanghai alone, and if she could find Mao Mao and let him return to He Zizhen's side, it would be a huge comfort.
Therefore, she never gave up looking for Mao Mao, especially when she returned to Jiangxi this time, she completed the search for Mao Mao as a task. In November, He Yi heard that Mao Mao might be in the Gannan area, so she took a leave of absence to go to Gannan to look for Mao Mao.
However, after searching for several days in Gannan, there was no trace of Mao Mao, and the Ji'an Prefectural Committee also informed He Yi to hurry back. Therefore, on November 21, He Yi decided to return to Ji'an.
There were five people on this trip, they returned in a medium-sized jeep, there were six people on the car plus the driver, at eight or nine o'clock in the evening, they arrived at the Taihe bus station, the original driver suggested resting for one night and then going, but He Yi was in a hurry to go back, so he let the driver catch the night road, and the jeep flipped into a puddle three or four meters deep.
After the car accident, the driver fled directly, and when people nearby came to the rescue, only three people were saved in time, namely He Yi's guard, He Yi's friend Zeng Biyi, and He Yi's son He Lucheng, while He Yi and Zeng Biyi's son Gu Yimin died directly in the car.
The two mothers and sons were happy together one moment, and the next moment they faced a life-and-death parting.
The 14-year-old He Lucheng did not expect that he had just been reunited with his mother for only three months, and he had completely lost his mother.
He lost his father in less than three months and his mother at the age of fourteen, and his relationship with his parents was so shallow that the whole time he lived together added up to less than a year.
Not getting it is a pain, getting and suddenly losing is even more a pain, a 14-year-old child is facing such pain, fortunately, He Yi is gone, he still has relatives, such as grandparents who have always loved him, as well as aunt He Zizhen and uncle He Minxue, who have never met.
After the car accident, He Lucheng was sent to a nearby hospital, the local medical conditions were limited, and did not detect any serious injuries, and soon he was taken home by his grandparents, and He Zizhen, who was far away in Shanghai, also knew about his sister He Yi and nephew He Lucheng, and took He Lucheng to Shanghai.
This was a turning point in He Lu's adult life.
After arriving in Shanghai, He Zizhen took him to the big hospital for a systematic examination, which detected a big problem, He Lucheng fractured his left leg in a car accident and was cut three times, but he could not see it on the surface. He was then hospitalized for surgery and bone grafting, and after being discharged from the hospital, he needed to exercise on crutches for a long time.
This difficulty did not make him flinch, perhaps because he had experienced too much, 15-year-old He Lu grew a lot bigger and stronger, and when he finally threw away his crutches, He Zizhen arranged for He Lucheng to go to Shanghai Middle School in the southwest suburbs of Shanghai.
Before going to study, He Zizhen made two stipulations for He Lu's establishment:
First, don't carry the brand of your father,But be like the children of ordinary people. In front of others, do not talk about whose children you are;
Second, we must strive to learn scientific knowledge and become people with real talents and practical learning.
This is not only He Zizhen's request to He Lucheng, but also Chairman Mao's request to his sons and nephews.
Don't engage in special, study hard, and be an ordinary person who is useful to society.
He Lucheng looked at his serious aunt, this was the first time since he came to Shanghai, his aunt had told him so seriously, he nodded, and took those words to heart, from then on, these two provisions became his life principles:
Forget that he is Chairman Mao's nephew, be an ordinary person, study seriously, and work diligently and earnestly in the future.
Therefore, although New China has been founded, there will be no security problems in changing his surname back to Mao, but he is not willing to let people know that he is Chairman Mao's nephew and is not willing to make a special, so he is still He Lucheng.
When he first entered Shanghai Middle School, He Lucheng was facing a big problem, he had been living and studying in the mountains like Jinggangshan in the past, and had never come to a big city, and in a big city like Shanghai, it was inevitable that he would be disgusted by his classmates.
In the face of such a situation, he neither showed his identity nor learned to live like a city person, the only thing he relied on was to study hard, make himself top-notch, and use facts to make his classmates accept him.
In 1952, when He Lucheng was facing high school graduation, He Zizhen asked He Lucheng whether he planned to work directly or continue to apply for college.
He Lucheng had an idea early on, he wanted to continue to study and learn more things to serve the motherland, and soon after, he was admitted to Shanghai Jiao Tong University and chose to major in electrification.
Jiaotong University is relatively close to the home of his uncle He Minxue, so He Lucheng began to live in He Minxue after college, but when he went to school, he still lived in the school dormitory, eating and living like his classmates, and even more frugal than most of his classmates.
He does not pay attention to food and clothing, can eat enough to wear warm, but also basically do not ask his relatives for money to spend, all his living expenses in school is the 22 yuan of state aid that the school gives him every month, and he also has to take out five yuan per month to send to He Tiaoyuan in Huating Village.
He has always been a grateful person, he is grateful to his grandparents for raising him for so many years, this nurturing grace he will return himself, and will not fake others.
After he Zizhen and He Minxue knew about this matter, they were also very happy, and they both wanted this child to thrive. He Minxue also told him many times
"Forget about those sports, read your book well, and hope that you will make a difference in your major in the future." ”
Whether it was his grandparents or later aunts and uncles, the requirements for him were always to study well and make a difference in the future, which affected his life, and in the years that followed, he was always doing one thing
: Be a professional.
Therefore, in the university, he has always been serious about reading, no matter what sports outside, is hard reading, after the lights went out at night, he also ran to the outside street lamp to continue his studies, and later with excellent results was admitted to the Soviet Union graduate school.
In the autumn of 1956, he went to Beijing to study Russian at the Preparatory Department for studying Russian at the Russian Language Institute, in preparation for his subsequent postgraduate studies in the Soviet Union, but for some reasons, his trip to the Soviet Union did not come to fruition.
Although He Lucheng did not become a Soviet Union, he received a paper transfer order shortly after and was assigned to the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense to study "surface-to-surface missiles."
The Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense was established in 1956, the year He Lucheng graduated from university. That year, at a meeting of the Central Military Commission presided over by Zhou Enlai, Qian Xuesen put forward ideas and plans for China's development of missile technology, and Chairman Mao approved this plan, and then the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense was born.
With the research institute, there must be people, and it is a politically reliable and technically top-notch technical talent, there are not many such talents, and He Lucheng obviously meets this standard very well.
In the spring of 1958, He Lucheng put on a military uniform and entered the research institute and began to contribute to China's missile cause.
In order to develop a missile of our own design, He Lucheng and his colleagues slept and forgot to eat, working day and night, and he translated nearly a million words of materials and dozens of drawings and materials.
Three years later, he became one of China's first missile engineers. However, the development of Missiles designed by Our Country is so difficult that in the era when neither technology nor production technology can keep up, experts can only repeatedly study, discover one problem after another, put forward one program after another, and solve one problem after another.
Face the difficulties and solve the problems.
But in the process, they still encountered a big problem that was difficult to solve, that is, the control of missiles. In the conditions of the time, the components produced to control the missiles were large and unwieldy, in accordance with conventional methods.
Later, He Lucheng and Wang Taichu repeatedly explored and tested this issue together, and finally put forward a self-created control plan, which perfectly solved the problem of missile control at that time, not only missiles, but also China's first missile nuclear weapons and artificial earth satellites, which adopted this plan, and all achieved the expected effect of successful launch.
With the successful flight test of China's first self-designed and built short- and medium-range missile in 1964, He Lucheng's authoritative position in missile development was established, and he became an excellent missile expert cultivated by China itself.
But he is not satisfied with this, has been in the field of science and technology continuous exploration, constantly from the theory, design ideas and the use of advanced technology for in-depth exploration, and later he also participated in the research of intercontinental missiles, artificial satellites, and made significant contributions.
In 1978, He Lucheng and Wang Taichu won the National Science and Technology Conference Award for the proposal proposed, and later He Lucheng won the first prize for scientific and technological progress in the whole army.
In 1981, the General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army approved the award of the title of senior engineer to He Lucheng, who was the first person to receive the title, so the number 001, which is an affirmation of his contribution to missile research, and he solved many difficulties for the accuracy appraisal of China's intercontinental missiles.
He really dedicated his life to the missile cause of our country, as he himself said
"As a scientific and technological worker, you should devote all your body and mind to scientific research." ”
Two ears do not hear things outside the window, single-mindedly engaged in scientific research, such perseverance, such calmness, is not ordinary people can do.
To know that he was Chairman Mao's nephew, such an identity was enough to make him infinitely beautiful at that time, but the fact is that no one knows his true identity, no one knows that he is Chairman Mao's nephew.
The world knows that Chairman Mao's nephew seems to be only Mao Yuanxin, and He Lucheng, who never thought of being "obscure", is also his choice and He Zizhen's expectation of him, he himself said
"My ambition is to rely on my own efforts to do learning and engage in technology, and I have never thought of living on the honor of my father's generation." ”
In addition to scientific research, his life is extremely simple and ordinary, he has just worked for a few years and was assigned a house of about 20 square meters, and the family has lived in that house for more than 20 years, often because they can't get gas and are distressed.
Later, although he changed houses, it was still a house in an old mixed building, still very small, but he did not care, and even when he went to work, he waited in line for the bus like most people.
He was a man who had basically no requirements for material life, and all his concentration was focused on scientific research, let alone thinking of relying on his father and Chairman Mao.
In fact, he and Chairman Mao have not met once, although he has been in Beijing for many years, but his work needs to be kept secret and he is also very busy, coupled with his low profile and unwillingness to rely on Chairman Mao, so he has never taken the initiative to contact Chairman Mao.
Although Chairman Mao was aware of the existence of this nephew, he was not very clear about what work he was doing, but in order to let him live an ordinary life, he did not take the initiative to see this nephew.
Only once, when Li Min was married, Chairman Mao told Li Min that she had an older brother in Beijing and could invite him to the wedding, but Li Min did not contact He Lucheng when he called, and the meeting was not over.
Later, after Chairman Mao's death, when the funeral committee drew up a list of Chairman Mao's relatives to guard the spirits, it did not know he Lucheng's identity, nor did it know that Mao Zeqin's son was still alive, so he was not added, but After Li Min read it, he specially added his name.
This was the first time He Lucheng had met his uncle, but in such a way. Although the appearance of He Lucheng surprised many people, everyone did not know that he was Chairman Mao's nephew, which means that his identity was still not made public.
Until 1983, when the certificate of revolutionary martyrdom was issued, the Organization Department found He Lucheng and directly went to the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense, this time, colleagues in the hospital knew that he was Chairman Mao's nephew, and his true identity was also exposed.
At that time, a colleague joked about him
"He Lu chengzhen nest bag, you have such a big signboard, why don't you go to the light and make yourself like us ordinary people?" ”
Yes, when He Lucheng filled out the form in the unit, the parents column always filled in the "death", the rest never wrote much, let alone take the initiative to mention, in his view, exposing the relationship will make him detached from the masses, but also difficult to organize, and he only wants to rely on himself.
For the jokes of his colleagues, He Lucheng did not laugh, he said seriously:
"This is not a nest, it is my ideal, my father is my father, I am me, I should not touch this light." 」
Yes, he found his way on his own, became a rare senior technical expert in the family, and even after retiring, he has been doing public welfare work.