The founding general Xu Shiyou experienced a total of two marriages, and the two wives gave birth to three sons and four daughters for him, and Xu Guang was the only one born to Xu Shiyou's original match, and was also his eldest son. As early as a very young age, Xu Guang's mother chose to divorce her father because she could not stand the harassment of the Kuomintang, and xu Guang had to rely on her grandmother for her life and never left. It was not until after the founding of New China that Xu Shiyou successively took all the children to his side, and Xu Guang also got the opportunity to enter the military academy at this time.
Under the influence of Xu Shiyou, Xu Guang studied very hard, and he soon gained something, and the results of the military school have always been among the best. Later, Xu Guang entered the navy, and with his own efforts and ingenuity, he also achieved the position of captain, which can be described as a promising future. However, at this time, the news of his grandmother's illness came, and at the suggestion of Xu Shiyou, Xu Guang also decided to give up his future and return to his hometown to perform filial piety instead of his father. After that, the eldest son of the founding general stayed in the countryside and served all his life, but what he did was quite great.
During the period of filial piety in his hometown, Xu Guang served his grandmother while helping his hometown to develop. And using the knowledge learned from the military school, coupled with the combination of practice, Xu Guang soon helped his hometown find a way to develop. In the vigorous development path since then, Xu Guang has helped his hometown solve many problems and made many contributions. During this period, he never made any private requests to his father, and anything he found his father to entrust was for the development of his hometown.
After the death of his grandmother, Xu Guang did not intend to continue to return to the army, on the one hand, he wholeheartedly helped his hometown to seek development, and on the other hand, he began to attach importance to the poverty alleviation work in his hometown. Under Xu Guang's understanding, there was an old Red Army soldier in the village who attracted his attention, and after learning about the plight of the old Red Army family, he also began to fund it from his own pocket. In the years of funding the old Red Army, Xu Guang donated a total of up to 100,000 yuan to him, all of which came from his own savings. And before Xu Guang's death, he also donated all of his savings of 200,000 yuan to support the development of the country.
I have to say that although Xu Guang chose a relatively flat path, this still can't stop him from becoming a great person. We can say that he is the son of General Xu Shiyou, the father of the tiger and the son of the dog, but we can also say that he is Xu Guang, a great ordinary man!