In 1992, a full-dialect TV series "Silly Master" was suddenly broadcast on television, and I did not expect to set off a ratings frenzy across the country. The plot probably tells the story of a foolish rich man who was born into the army by mistake, obviously he would not know anything, but the fool had a stupid fortune and achieved the story of the division commander all the way. At that time, many viewers were attracted by the style of absurd comedy in the play, and He zeng thought that this actually had archetypal characters in history. Not only did he become an anti-Japanese hero, but he also became a deputy director after the founding of the People's Republic of China, which is the story of Fan Shaozeng, a general who can be called the god of war.
The TV series "Silly Master" has a line called "Brother Robes never pull thin ribbons". This sentence is used to describe the real Fan Shaozeng in history, which is most appropriate. He was born into a gentry family in Sichuan, and his family was quite wealthy. But Fan Shaozeng has no interest in going to school and reading since he was a child, and he has money in his family to cause trouble everywhere, but he is very simple and moralistic, so he is called "Hal" by the people around him, which is also the meaning of a fool in the Sichuan dialect.
Doing nothing at home, often making his parents half-dead, until a revolutionary uprising against Yuan Shikai broke out in his hometown, which allowed Fan Shaozeng to find something he really wanted to do. He had arrogance in his bones, and he ran to the army to become a soldier with people, because the family had money, so Fan Shaozeng directly started from the battalion commander, in a sense, it also satisfied the mind of his eldest husband. At that time, the warlords in various places were fighting each other, and the management was also very chaotic, Fan Shaozeng could not talk about establishing military merit, and could only say that he found the most suitable way of life for himself, and actually grabbed a lot of weapons in several uprisings, and began to gradually rise to fame in his hometown.
At first, the great warlords fan Shaozeng followed were thrown into the Kuomintang camp, so Fan Shaozeng was also appointed as the commander of the Kuomintang side. Perhaps it was not pleasing enough to be a person in peacetime, nor did he disdain to form gangs in the barracks, although Fan Shaozeng still had a talent for military combat command, in fact, he did not get any reuse in the Kuomintang, and even stole a lot of his original real power in the name of being promoted to deputy commander. Fan Shaozeng was very angry, did not care about his own treatment, still led the army to resist Japan, and won many victories.
However, when Fan Shaozeng discovered that the Kuomintang side had always paid little attention to the Sichuan army, and after killing and wounding the Sichuan army with inferior weapons and dividing infantry, the disheartened Fan Shaozeng chose not to obey the dispatch of the Kuomintang side, but returned to his hometown of Sichuan to contact the Communist Party and continue to engage in anti-Japanese activities.
In 1942, Fan Shaozeng led his troops to annihilate the commander of the Japanese division and the commander of the brigade of the major general, which was a huge victory that was unheard of at that time, and also confirmed Fan Shaozeng's ideological changes, and began to gradually bring the progressive thinking of the CPC closer.
Although the active resistance to Japan is not ambiguous, Fan Shaozeng's past jianghu habits have not changed, perhaps it is the old social warlord habits that were heard in the early years, Fan Shaozeng actually married 40 aunts and wives one after another, and also paid for a "Fan Zhuang" to live his own small life.
Interestingly, one of Fan Shaozeng's aunts and wives was The Daughter of Soong Mei Ling, so Fan Shaozeng was also the son-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek of the Kuomintang. However, Chiang Kai-shek never really reused this relative, and it is said that it was not until the situation in the War of Liberation was settled that Chiang Kai-shek once again approached Fan Shaozeng in the hope of "reviving the dead" with his troops. However, at this time, Fan Shaozeng had already defected, and he was tired of the Kuomintang seizing power for personal gain in the name of peace, and finally launched an uprising against Chiang Kai-shek as the deputy commander of the Communist forces, which played a key role in quelling the civil war.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Fan Shaozeng took the initiative to accept the reorganization of our party and handed over the military power. He also actively responded to the principle of monogamy in New China, dismissed his aunt and wife, worked in the Military and Political Committee for a period of time, and served as the deputy director of the Henan Provincial Sports Committee. In 1977, Fan Shaozeng ended his legendary life at the age of 83.
Compared with the anti-Japanese heroes who have appeared in modern history, Fan Shaozeng belongs to one of the outliers. He did not have much culture, and he made many military achievements during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and he also participated in the "suppression of the Communists" action, and when he had money and leisure, he only cared about his own pleasure... However, after accepting the influence of the Communist Party's new ideological and cultural influence, he never wavered in his revolutionary beliefs, and firmly believed that the Communist Party's management was "more able to lead the army than I am", emphasizing that he was not a warlord, but a real revolutionary cadre.
It is often said that heroes are born in chaos. Driven by a specific situation, the so-called legend of life came out in this way, "silly master" Fan Shaozeng enjoyed a good family than ordinary people, in that era when money is the grandfather, all the way to the top, enjoying the highlight moments of his life, but the key reason for deciding to be a hero or scum is still in himself.
From Fan Shaozeng's experience in the second half of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it is not difficult to see that he seemed to have discovered the true meaning of fighting a war, so he resolutely chose the Communist Party side that he believed was just and represented the truth, and could have such a clear and thorough understanding.