Among the 175 founding lieutenant generals of New China, the only person who has held the post of vice premier, do you know who it is?
He is the "one-armed general" Yu Qiuli!
The contribution of this man in both wartime and peacetime is immeasurable. Chairman Mao affirmed his ability, praised him very much, and was deeply valued.
During the agrarian revolution, Yu Qiuli served as Ren Bishi's secretary and learned a lot of things around the chief. In 1935, after the Red Second and Sixth Armies joined the division, due to the lack of political cadres in the Red Second Army, he was sent to serve as the regimental political commissar and began to work under The Commandery of He Lao.
During the brutal battle, he was shot in the arm and became a one-armed general due to lack of medical conditions.
What really left an impression on Chairman Mao was that in the winter of 1947, after the Northwest Field Army's World War II Yulin, Mr. Peng ordered the start of winter training. Because there are too many liberated fighters in the troops, many problems have been exposed in the course of operations, such as the phenomenon of slipping heads in wars, greed for life and fear of death, which directly affect the morale of the troops in combat.
Yu Qiuli, who was the political commissar of the 358th Brigade, found the crux of the army and believed that there were too many liberation fighters and that it was necessary to enhance the ideological consciousness and class consciousness of the soldiers. To this end, a regiment was taken as a pilot to carry out a grievance education campaign, and many liberation fighters were born in hardship and could not figure out ideologically why the landlords were idle and rich, and the peasants were still very poor.
After complaining about hardships, finding the source of suffering, etc., the improvement of the ideological consciousness of the soldiers and others is very obvious, and in combination with the complaints, three investigations are carried out: checking the class, checking the work, and checking the fighting spirit, so that the ideology can be transformed into combat effectiveness. The 358th Brigade, which Mr. Peng saw, performed outstandingly in the rectification and training, and inspected the troops and believed that a new method for enhancing combat effectiveness should be found and comprehensively promoted to the Northwest Field Army.
At this time, after being informed by Chairman Mao, Yu Qiuli was received for 2 consecutive nights to talk about the three investigation movements. After listening to the report, Chairman Mao repeatedly said: Very good! Very good! From the Soviet zone, we wanted to find a good situation of educating the captives, and this time we complained about the three investigations to solve this problem.
Under Chairman Mao's arrangement, Yu Qiuli spoke at the meeting and talked about the results of the three investigations campaign. Chairman Mao changed this movement into a new-style army reorganization movement and popularized it in all major strategic regions of the army, and all the Northeast Field Army, the East China Field Army, and the Central Plains Field Army launched a new-style army reorganization movement and achieved good results.
In 1958, three years after the establishment of the Ministry of Petroleum, Yu Qiuli, political commissar of the General Logistics Department of the Central Committee, succeeded Li Jukui as the second minister of petroleum.
Li Jukui's contribution as oil minister was not small, and because of the influence of the Great Leap Forward, he still adhered to the method of seeking truth from facts and making steady progress. Despite the exploration of the Karamay oil field, it was far from allowing new China to take the hat of oil poverty, and the supply was insufficient.
To this end, Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou selected Yu Qiuli to take up the post, and under the leadership of Yu Qiuli, they grasped the work from within the ranks, set an example, and launched a vigorous oil conference battle.
Not long after, the Daqing oil field was explored and the situation of relying on "foreign oil" was changed. In 1963, domestic crude oil production increased to 6.48 million tons, of which 4.7 million tons from Daqing Oilfield came from Daqing Oilfield.
Yu Qiuli did not disappoint Chairman Mao, and after 7 years as minister of petroleum, he was transferred to the director of the Revolutionary Committee of the State Planning Commission. In 1975, he was promoted to vice premier and assisted Premier Zhou and Deng Xiaoping in leading the work for 7 years. By 1982, he returned to the army as director of the General Political Department, and in 1987 he retired to the second line.