He resigned from his post in Beijing and came to Nanjing
General Xu Shiyou is fighting the last battle of his life, that is
Counterattack against Vietnam
After that, the state appointed him as a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission and came to Beijing to take up his post. At this time, Xu Shiyou was in Guangzhou and held the post of commander of the Guangzhou Military Region. Soon after, the Central Military Commission urged Xu Shiyou and asked him to report to Beijing quickly.
Although the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission is said to be a great official position, Beijing is still the capital of China, and both living conditions and medical facilities are much better than other places. After receiving the news, he did not get up for a long time. After much deliberation, Xu Shiyou decided to take a back seat and leave politics on the grounds of ill health. Where is Xu Shiyou's old age?
It is neither the imperial capital of Beijing nor Guangzhou. He believed that the climate in Guangzhou was humid and the climate in Beijing was dry, and he finally chose the ancient capital of Nanjing, and recuperated here. After thinking it through, Xu Shiyou wrote a request to the central authorities. Two reasons were explained in the instructions.
The first point is that the weather in Beijing is too dry and I am not adaptable. The second point is that I want to stay in Nanjing and write a memoir here.
After he asked for instructions and reported it to the Central Committee, he immediately got a response. After the approval of the central government, it was finally decided to move to Nanjing. In 1982, Xu Shiyou entered
The Central Advisory Board became the second deputy director.
Previously, Xu Shiyou served as the central political commissar for more than a decade. Everyone thinks that Xu Shiyou has a wealth of experience and can be qualified for this new position.
At the first meeting of the Central Advisory Committee, Xu Shiyou spoke: "Although I was elected as the second deputy director of the Central Advisory Committee, I don't care. Not in Beijing, but in Nanjing. I had reported to the organization and agreed, ready to go back and write my memoirs. ”
It turns out that Xu Shiyou's choice of this place in Nanjing was very prescient. There was no office in Nanjing, Xu Shiyou asked for leave to come to Nanjing, and the central authorities agreed again, for good reasons.
Moreover, Xu Shiyou has the experience of working in Nanjing, knows a lot about this place, and there are many comrades-in-arms who have known him for many years, and within the Nanjing Military Region, there are many people who are worried about Xu Shiyou, the "good commander.".
General Xu Shiyou and his wife at the Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing
Xu Shiyou's new home in Nanjing
Beijing not only has complex interpersonal relationships, but also holds many meetings. Later, it turned out that Xu Shiyou's choice was right. The living environment in Nanjing is also good, not only avoiding unnecessary socializing, but also having time to calm down and cultivate, examine your heart well, and remember your life well.
In addition, there is another important reason, coming to Nanjing to deal with their own affairs. According to the staff who have been with Xu Shiyou for many years, they recall. In 1981, Xu Shiyou asked his old secretary and two sons to come to Nanjing. Gave the eldest son Xu Guang 50 yuan, made a coffin for himself,
Don't cremation, bury in the earth.
Xu Shiyou's home in Nanjing is there
Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum No. 8
, this villa is very interesting, actually is
Sun Ke built it for his father when he was the chief executive of the Nanjing government
。 The bungalow has two floors and a tap on the roof, allowing you to release water in the summer heat to keep your home cool.
The first floor is mainly the living room, kitchen and study. The living room alone is very large, about 100 square meters, and the study is also very beautiful. There are four rooms on the second floor and a Western restaurant. In addition, there is a basement. There are also dozens of acres of space outside the villa.
After coming to his new home, Xu Shiyou made a transformation. First, a guard building was built in the northeast of the house, or the general himself designed it. Although it looks neither like a warehouse nor like a bunker. But on this guard building, it is also very practical to let the staff stand guard and observe in all directions.
The new home originally had a lot of beautiful decorations, and some wardrobes, Xu Shiyou did not want to. In the living room, several old sofas were replaced, and several photos with Ye Jianying, Luo Ruiqing and other state leaders were hung on the wall. There are also two world maps hanging on the walls.
There was a large lawn in the courtyard of the new home, but General Xu Shiyou also banned it. Xu Shiyou reclaimed these places into land and planted a lot of crops in the yard, wheat, corn, sweet potatoes. In addition to farming, pigs are also raised to feed fish, which is like a farmer's life. The bungalows, which were originally very foreign, were transformed by the general in this way, and there was a taste of a small farm yard.
At the time, some people jokingly called him "the captain of the No. 8 production team." ”
Xu Shiyou told his bystanders that he had been a rural person since he was a child, and farming was a tradition and had no culture. Since I did the revolution myself, I have simply understood a few words, and I have no culture. In his later years, he had no desire or desire. I just want to study at home.
Idyllic living
Xu Shiyou was very dedicated to his position as the captain of the production team, and he got up early and began to take care of his farm. Whether they are secretaries or guards, these people have their own jobs, mainly responsible for feeding pigs and raising fish. Xu Shiyou himself became a "rabbit commander" and personally raised more than a dozen rabbits. After every day, we must personally evaluate, and if we look good, we must praise it well; if we look bad, we must criticize it.
After some hard work, you can basically be self-sufficient and no longer have to go out to buy. In the autumn, several jars of pickles are pickled. For the diet, Xu Shiyou is not at all particular about it, and he eats whatever others do. Of course, the cooker Lao Wang also felt Xu Shiyou's taste very clearly.
General Xu Shiyou grew his own grain
According to the recollections of his later subordinates, when he came to Nanjing to visit Xu Shiyou, he felt that he had no nostalgia for his past achievements, as if he was retreating to the countryside and had no desire or desire.
Xu Shiyou is very unsophisticated in life, and he sits in a jeep all year round. After coming to Nanjing, the staff at that time considered that the jeep was inconvenient, not only was it not earthquakeproof, but it was very cold in the winter, so they proposed to change him to a small car. Xu Shiyou said very angrily after seeing the new car
"I'm not a senior person, I don't sit!"
”
In addition to farming, Xu Shiyou also likes to read. Later the secretary also recalled: since the great man said let him see
Dream of the Red Chamber
After that, the general really bought the dream of the Red Chamber to see. But by the time he was dying, the general hadn't finished reading it all. Although he didn't like "Dream of the Red Chamber", Xu Shiyou still liked the other three famous books.
There is also "Fengshen Yanyi"
。 Xu Shiyou's memory is very good, and many storylines can be remembered.
Xu Shiyou and his family
In addition, with the help of commander Nie Fengzhi, two sets of teams were set up for him to write memoirs. One is responsible for writing about Xu Shiyou's experiences between the period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the period before liberation, and the title of the book is set
"I have been in Shandong for sixteen years".
Another team was responsible for writing about Xu Shiyou's experience from 1927 to 1937, and the title of the book was set as
"My Ten Years in the Red Army"
These two books were later published one after another, and friends who were interested in General Xu Shiyou could find them to read.
author
Jinnian, a freelance writer and history enthusiast, devotes himself to the study of history. It is expected to use history to teach and learn from the precepts, to shape the collective memory, and to learn from the past.