One of the creators of the history column (ingenuity, historical field, vitality) posted an article, in order to attract the attention of readers, creating sensational news, saying: "In 1959, Luo Ruiqing became the chief of the general staff, why did Deputy Chief Zhang Aiping immediately submit a resignation letter?" The article said: "Later retracted the resignation letter", and so on.
General Zhang Aiping did not leave a memoir during his lifetime, and there are two main books that introduce the experience of General Zhang Aiping, one is the book "From the War - A Dialogue Between Two Generations of Soldiers" by Zhang Aiping's son Zhang Sheng, and the other is "Zhang Aiping's Biography". If general Zhang Aiping had written a resignation letter proposing to resign from the post of deputy chief in 1959 after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhang Sheng's book and Zhang Aiping's biography would have been written. However, neither of the above two books mentions that General Zhang Aiping has written a resignation letter, so the so-called statement that General Zhang Aiping wrote a "resignation letter" is completely a lie made up by the creator.
The following is a look at General Zhang Aiping from several aspects, whether it is possible to write this so-called "resignation letter" under the circumstances of having just experienced the historical storms of Lushan Mountain.
I. The relationship between Zhang Aiping and General Luo Ruiqing during the war years
Zhang Aiping and Luo Ruiqing are both from Sichuan and are hometowns whose pronunciation is difficult to change. During the Red Army period, the two belonged to different units and systems, and there should be no intersection. After the end of the Long March, in The Red University and the Kang University, Luo was the vice principal of education, and Zhang was a student and then a teacher, and the intersection was also very limited. After being reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, Zhang left northern Shaanxi for Shanghai and later served as a staff officer in the military group of the Wuhan Eighth Route Army Office. Luo took a part of the General Colonel of the Kang Dynasty to the former general of the Eighth Route Army and served as the director of the Field Political Department of the Eighth Route Army. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the only contact between the two men was in Wuhan in the spring of 1938, when they attended a meeting of chiefs of staff and directors of political departments at and above the division level held by the Central Military Commission. Eight comrades from the Eighth Route Army were sent to the meeting; among them, Peng Xuefeng, Bian Zhangwu, Zhou Kun, and Zhang Jingwu attended the meeting of chiefs of staff; Luo Ruiqing attended the meeting of directors of the Political Department in the name of Colonel of the Organization Department of the General Political Department of the Eighth Route Army; and Zhang Aiping, Ouyang Yi, and Tan Zheng attended the meeting of directors of the Political Department in the name of colonels of the Political Department of the 115th Division, the 120th Division, and the 129th Division, respectively.
During the war years, the two had limited contact, and it was not necessary to say that the two had a "very good relationship".
Second, Zhang Aiping and Luo Ruiqing really had a lot of contact, or after Luo went to work in the Central Military Commission and the General Staff Department. After the Lushan meeting, he returned to Beijing to hold an enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission, and two groups discussed Peng in one group; one group discussed Huang, and Zhang was the leader of the discussion group. Who arranged it? It should have been Luo's arrangement, so it was already determined that Luo was appointed secretary general of the Central Military Commission and chief of the general staff, and was one of the leaders and specific organizers of the meeting. After the enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission, the Central Military Commission set up the Central Military Commission Working Conference, which is an office responsible for handling daily work, and its members include Luo Ruiqing (chief of the general staff), Tan Zheng (director of the General Political Department), Yang Chengwu (deputy chief of the general staff), Xiao Hua (deputy director of the General Political Department), Qiu Huizuo (director of the General Logistics Department), and Xiao Xiangrong (director of the General Office of the Central Military Commission). Zhang Aiping was added to the central military commission's working meeting in May 1960 after the peng-huang issue was handled, and none of the old deputy chiefs Zhang Zongxun, Li Kenong, and Chen Geng entered the central military commission's office meeting. In the mid-1960s, Zhang Aiping served as one of the deputy secretaries of the General Staff. The arrangements in the above aspects of work can show that Luo and Zhang still cooperated harmoniously during the work of the General Staff, and also showed that Luo still cared for his fellow villagers.
Luo and Zhang both experienced leg injuries during the past ten years, and Zhang once introduced Luo to a famous Fujian traditional Chinese medicine practitioner for treatment. After July 1977, Luo re-served as secretary general of the Central Military Commission.
After Luo Ruiqing became the chief of the general staff, was it possible for Zhang Aiping to write this "resignation letter"?
When Luo Ruiqing was appointed chief of the general staff, it was precisely when the initial establishment of the new Central Military Commission was completed, and a storm had not yet completely ended, and if Zhang Aiping wrote a resignation letter at this time and proposed to resign as deputy chief of the general staff, it was obviously an attitude of non-cooperation. After returning to Beijing, the Central Military Commission held an enlarged meeting and arranged for Zhang Aiping to be responsible for presiding over the group meeting, which is obviously an important use of work arrangements, not exclusion. Will Zhang not see this? At this time, zhang Aiping wrote a "resignation letter" to Luo, which is obviously a fabricated lie. Moreover, the people who fabricated the lie of the "resignation letter" did not have a little political common sense and political acumen. Others will not be elaborated, the reader himself to understand it!
In summary, the so-called "resignation letter" is just a fabricated lie. After General Zhang Aiping retired, he had a relatively comprehensive review and summary of his revolutionary experience, and basically introduced some major and influential historical events.
In 1953, Chairman Mao inspected East China, accompanied by comrades Cao Diqiu, Chen Pixian, Pan Hannian, Chen Yi, Chairman Mao, Zhang Aiping, Luo Ruiqing, Yang Shangkun, Song Shilun, Chen Bojun, and Zeng Shan.
On October 16, 1964, after the successful test of China's first atomic bomb explosion, Zhou Enlai, He Long, and Nie Rongzhen listened to Zhang Aiping, who had returned to Beijing to report to Zhou Enlai and the Central Special Committee, on the situation in Sui.
At the 1964 all-army contest at the scene of the inspection, General Luo Ruiqing, chief of the general staff, briefed Zhu De and Dong Biwu on the machine guns used by our army.
Comrade Deng Xiaoping and Comrade Zhang Aiping talked.
On June 4, 1980, Ye Jianying (second from right) and Zhang Aiping (first from right), Qian Xuesen (first from left) and Li Yaowen (second from left) took a group photo.
At the 1964 on-site meeting of the all-army contest, General Luo Ruiqing briefed Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping on the machine guns used by our army.
In the front row, second from left is Premier Zhou, and third from left in the front row is Chen Geng.
In November 1955, Admiral Zhang Aiping and Admiral Xiao Hua watched the anti-landing combat exercise of the Liaodong Peninsula Group Army.
In 1945, Li Xiannian, commander of the Central Plains Military Region, was with Major General Wang Zhen, the first deputy commander who participated in the military investigation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Huang Kecheng, commander of the Third Division of the New Fourth Army, took a group photo with Zhang Aiping, deputy division commander.
In May 1949, he gathered with old friends of the New Fourth Army at the Jinjiang Chuan Restaurant in Shanghai: the first left was Dong Zhujun, the founder of the Shanghai Jin Jiang Hotel, Cao Diqiu (first from the right), Zhang Yun (second from the right), Chen Tongsheng (fourth from the right), Zheng Shaomei (fifth from the right), and Zhang Aiping (sixth from the right).
In October 1962, General Zhang Aiping, General Li Da and Lieutenant General Wang Shangrong took a group photo.
Admiral Zhang Aiping