On the eve of the liberation of the whole country, Huang Kecheng was appointed secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, commander and political commissar of the Hunan Military Region. At this time, Huang Kecheng has been away from his hometown for more than 20 years, and he misses his family very much, but because he is too busy at work to return to his hometown to visit his relatives, he has to write a letter to his family to explain his recent situation and let them not worry about it. Huang Kecheng was born in a poor family in Xiaqing Village, Yau Ma Market, Yongxing County, Hunan Province, with four children in the Huang family, Huang Kecheng is the third oldest, with an older sister and an older brother above and a younger brother below.
The whole family of six, only a few acres of thin land, a year of hard work, can only barely make ends meet. Huang Kecheng later recalled: "From childhood to the age of 19, I don't know what it was like to wear cotton clothes for winter. ", you can see how difficult the days were at that time. Due to his family's poverty, Huang Kecheng was able to study under the financial support of his relatives, and in 1922, Huang Kecheng was admitted to the Hunan Provincial Third Normal School. On the day of registration, the villagers sent clothes, gifts, money, and rice, which were carried by his brother Huang Shijie with an old wooden box and sent him to Hengyang to study.
During his studies at the Normal School, Huang Kecheng began to accept progressive ideas and thus embarked on the revolutionary road. During the Red Army period, Huang Kecheng participated in various anti-encirclement and suppression operations in the Central Soviet Region and made many military achievements. However, due to his upright nature and insistence on his own opinions, he was dismissed and demoted many times, first from division political commissar to regimental political commissar, then to reconnaissance section chief, and finally became an ordinary soldier, and was only reactivated after the Long March arrived in northern Shaanxi, serving as the political commissar of the 4th Division of the Red 1 Army and the director of the Organization Department of the General Political Department of the Red Army.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Huang Kecheng first served in the Eighth Route Army, serving as the political commissar of the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division, and together with the brigade commander Xu Haidong, led his troops to fight against the Japanese puppet army in the southeastern Jin Dynasty, making important contributions to the creation of the Jinji-Hebei Yu Anti-Japanese Base Area. In 1941, Huang Kecheng entered the New Fourth Army as the commander and political commissar of the Third Division, under his leadership, the Third Division became the absolute main force of the New Fourth Army, with a total strength of more than 30,000 troops, and its strength was stronger than the general army.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Huang Kecheng was keenly aware of the important strategic position of the northeast, and he sent a telegram to the central authorities in his personal name, suggesting that troops should be immediately sent to the northeast and that as many troops should be sent as much as possible, "at least 50,000 people should be sent, and 100,000 people should be the best" to create a large strategic base area. This proposal proved to be extremely strategic. Soon after, Huang Kecheng personally led the Third Division to the northeast, and successively served as commander of the Western Manchuria Military Region, deputy commander of the Northeast Democratic United Army, and political commissar of the 2nd Corps of the Northeast Field Army, making important contributions to the liberation of the northeast.
In January 1949, Huang Kecheng was appointed secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee. On the eve of the liberation of the whole country, he was transferred to the secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee. At this time, Huang Kecheng has been away from home for many years, he misses his family very much, but the work is too busy to find time to visit his relatives, so he has to write a letter to the family, telling them about their recent situation and asking the family not to worry about it. Huang Kecheng's eldest brother was very happy to learn that his brother had become the secretary of the provincial party committee, when his son Huang Kaiheng was 20 years old, but he did not have a job and was still farming at home.
In order to let his son have a good way out, he said to Huang Kaiheng: "You go to find the second uncle." He became a high official in Changsha. Maybe he can help you find a good job and find a way out. In this way, Huang Kaiheng carried the bags prepared for him by his parents and came to Changsha with Huang Kecheng's letter. Huang Kaiheng grew up so big or the first time to come to Changsha, to see everything fresh. After inquiring from passers-by, he finally came to the door of the provincial party committee compound and walked inside with his bags.
At this time, the guard post on duty at the door stopped Huang Kaiheng and asked him who he was and what was going on here. Huang Kaiheng said that he was looking for his uncle Huang Kecheng, and took out the letter, so that the two uncles and nephews could meet. Huang Kecheng was very happy to see his nephew, asked about the situation at home, and then asked Huang Kaiheng what he wanted to do when he came to find himself this time. Huang Kaiheng said he wanted to ask his second uncle to help him find a job in Changsha. Huang Kecheng asked: "What is your education level?" ”
After learning that his nephew had only read for one year, Huang Kecheng said to Huang Kaiheng in a serious tone: "The eldest brother and sister-in-law have been kind to me, and I really miss them." However, you have such a low culture, what is the right job? In my opinion, you should still go to the coal mine to dig coal. What do you think? After the Shonan Rebellion in 1928, Huang Kecheng was wanted by the enemy for a reward, and in order to avoid the enemy's pursuit, he and two comrades-in-arms came to fight a guerrilla war on the Taiping Mountain near their hometown. During this period, his eldest brother Huang Shijie and sister-in-law Liu Deji risked their lives to send them food and intelligence, and repeatedly covered huang Kecheng's escape. Therefore, Huang Kecheng said that the eldest brother and sister-in-law were kind to themselves.
With Huang Kecheng's position at that time, it was possible to arrange a relaxed and decent job for his nephew Huang Kaiheng, but he did not do so, but suggested that his nephew go to the coal mine to dig coal. Huang Kaiheng shook his head repeatedly after listening: "I don't go digging coal." I'm going to read. Huang Kecheng said: "Reading? Good! Let's go to Hunan Revolutionary University. The next day, Huang Kaiheng went to take the exam, but because he had only read for one year, he did not take the exam. Huang Kecheng was also the president of Hunan Revolutionary University at the time, but he did not give his nephew the green light.
After failing the exam, Huang Kecheng said to his nephew, "I see, you go to the Hengyang Railway to become a worker, to become a signal worker." What do you think? But Huang Kaiheng still insisted on going to study. Seeing that his nephew was so determined, Huang Kecheng sent him to Chang county Middle School, and before leaving, he said to his nephew: "I can only show you a clear path, as for how to go, it is up to you." "Due to the poor foundation, huang Kaiheng studied very hard at the beginning, and the results were not good, but he worked very hard, did not understand the question, the results slowly caught up, not only successfully completed the junior high school and high school, but also admitted to the South Central School of Political Science and Law, after graduation to find a good job.
Not only for his nephews, but also for his children, Huang Kecheng's requirements are equally strict, he has made many family rules for his children, and repeatedly advised: "You must rely on your own efforts to become talented, do not rely on my 'relationship' and 'back door', I Huang Kecheng has no back door to go." Huang Kecheng's youngest daughter Huang Mei recalled: "When our brothers and sisters were young, most of the clothes they wore were sewn by their grandmothers, and the cars equipped by the public for their fathers were rarely able to sit. When I was young, I was sick and used to call a tricycle to see a doctor. I still remember getting a fever on a rainy day, sitting in a tricycle with an oil curtain and rushing to the hospital. ”
Under the strict requirements of Huang Kecheng, his four children are very successful, the eldest daughter Huang Nanbei graduated from Peking University, worked as a researcher at the Institute of High Energy Physics; the eldest son, Huang Xi, worked as an engineer after graduating from Tsinghua University; the younger son, Huang Qing, worked in the People's Daily after graduating from the Department of Journalism at Peking University; and the younger daughter Huang Mei was a foreign language researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1986, General Huang Kecheng died of illness at the age of 84.