On September 9, 1976, Chairman Mao, the great leader of China, passed away. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese gathered in Tiananmen Square to hold a solemn and solemn mourning ceremony for Chairman Mao, and the whole country fell into mourning. After Chairman Mao's death, the staff sorted out 6 relics of the Chairman, including some of the Chairman's legacies. The chairman's daughter, Li Min, said she took 8,000 of them.
The leader of a country has only left 8,000 pieces for his daughter, is this the case? What relics did Chairman Mao leave behind?
This year marks the 45th anniversary of Chairman Mao's death. The great leader Chairman Mao led the Chinese people to open up a new China. He made an incalculable contribution to the people of the Chinese. After Chairman Mao's death, the people used various ways to mourn and remember Chairman Chairman.
Among them, the issue of inheritance distribution has also become a matter of concern to everyone. When it comes to issues related to the President's legacy, we need to talk about one person. This person is the great steward of the chairman's life in Zhongnanhai, and he is Wu Liandeng.
Wu Liandeng was originally a waiter in the Great Hall of the People. Because of his conscientious and responsible work, the party organization sent him to Chairman Mao's side in Zhongnanhai to carry out work. Before that, Wu Liandeng did not dare to think that he could one day serve Chairman Mao.
In Wu Liandeng's impression, Chairman Mao has always been a hero of hundreds of millions of people in China and the greatest leader of China. But when he first met Chairman Mao, he truly felt that Chairman Mao was the most shelfless leader he had ever seen.
When Wu Liandeng saw Chairman Mao, the whole person was nervous and excited, and the hand holding the teacup could not help but shake. By the time the teacup was brought to the Chairman, the water in the teacup had already been half sprinkled.
This made Wu Liandeng's mood more nervous. Chairman Mao noticed his nervousness, took the initiative to ask Wu Liandeng's name, and cordially talked to him about his family. As soon as Chairman Mao heard that Wu Liandeng was from Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, he sighed: "Yancheng is a good place, and the reconstruction headquarters of the New Fourth Army is in Yancheng." ”
Such a conversation allowed Wu Liandeng to eliminate the tension in his heart and unconsciously close the distance between him and the chairman. However, the chairman's work is very busy, and Wu Liandeng has rarely had the opportunity to chat with the chairman since then.
Once, when Wu Liandeng was sorting out Chairman Mao's wardrobe, he found a small box on the bottom floor of the wardrobe. When he saw Chairman Mao again, Wu Liandeng asked Chairman Mao if the box needed to be opened and cleaned up.
Chairman Mao's expression froze almost instantaneously, and Wu Liandeng thought he had said something wrong. After a while, the chairman said in a low voice, "Inside the box are Kishi's previous clothes."
Mao Anying died gloriously in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Chairman Mao rarely mentioned Mao Anying's death, but in fact, in the chairman's heart, this is a wound that is difficult to heal. After the war, the chairman stored Mao Anying's clothes in this small box.
Usually, this small box will not be opened easily, and only when the chairman misses Mao Anying too much will he open the box to see. Inside the box were two shirts, a pair of pants, hats, and other items that Mao Anying had worn before he died.
When the weather is good, Chairman Mao will personally take out the clothes in the cupboard to dry. In the dead of night, the chairman was alone in thought with his clothes in his arms.
Until Chairman Mao's death, the box containing Mao Anying's clothes was well preserved, and the clothes inside were all clean and tidy. This is one of the 6 relics of the Chairman.
As Chairman Mao's life administrator, Wu Liandeng has many things that he manages, such as the chairman's salary income and expenditure, the chairman's food, clothing, housing, transportation, and travel. These Wu Liandeng are clearly recorded.
Although the chairman is the leader of the country, he needs to pay for food, clothing, shelter and transportation. The chairman stayed in Zhongnanhai, and the rent was about 84 yuan per month. As the country's development is getting better and better, the rent in Zhongnanhai has also risen to 125 yuan per month.
Rents rose, but the chairman's salary did not rise, but decreased. Chairman Mao refused several times that the central authorities gave him a salary increase, saying that he could subsidize his family with the fees for writing books.
In addition to the most basic rent, food, water and electricity bills, the chairman also has to take care of his extended family, and there is almost no surplus of monthly wages. In 1956, the state adjusted the salaries of party workers, and the salary of the chairman was reduced to 405 yuan.
The Chair was very supportive of giving himself a pay cut. When he heard that many front-line workers were paid meager salaries, the chairman expressed great dissatisfaction with this. After investigating the situation, he learned that the application for a salary increase submitted by the front-line workers was rejected by the leaders, and the workers' salary increases have not been implemented.
Chairman Mao immediately organized a meeting of personnel to discuss how to quickly raise the wages of the workers. Chairman Mao stressed at the meeting that the workers are a solid force for China's development and are partners of Communist Party members, and without the hard work of these front-line workers, how can we in China develop rapidly?
In less than a month, the issue of workers' wage increases was properly resolved. Front-line workers saw their salaries go up, worked more passionately, and their production enthusiasm quickly increased. During this year, the production of continental steel hit a record high.
Only by truly understanding the suffering of the people at the bottom can we promote the development of the country. Chairman Mao was such a wise leader. Chairman Mao raised the wages of the workers, but his own wages kept decreasing. Moreover, the Chairman maintains a fairly simple style of life.
Among the relics of the chairman, the chairman's clothes, socks, pajamas and other close-fitting clothes are very eye-catching. Because these clothes are covered with patches large and small. There was a pajama that the chairman had worn since the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China until 1971.
There are 73 patches that can be counted on this pajamas, and it is almost impossible to see the original pajamas. Why doesn't the Chairman use his own salary to buy himself a new piece of clothing? When the chairman was alive, he said: "If you save one piece of clothing, the soldiers on the front line can fire one more bullet." ”
According to Wu Liandeng, one of the chairman's old towels has rotted to the point where 3 large holes have appeared, but the chairman still insists on not buying new towels, and finally puts a large patch on the towel and continues to use it.
The chairman had a pair of leather slippers, worn out so badly that even the shoemaker refused to repair them after seeing them, but the chairman still kept them. At the end of 1949, when Mao Anying held a wedding, Chairman Mao advocated that the wedding was simple and that there was no festive arrangement at the wedding scene.
Chairman Mao did not have a gift in his hand, but only gave Mao Anying an old nizi coat he had worn, saying that it was a new wedding gift for the couple, and Mao Anying wore it to work during the day and the two of them could cover it together at night.
The chairman was so frugal with himself and his family, but as soon as he heard that someone around him was in trouble, he immediately gave generously. As a result, the monthly salary of the Chairman is often insufficient.
Once, the chairman called Wu Liandeng to his side and asked him if he could help deal with the books in the bedroom. Wu Liandeng quickly nodded in agreement. The chairman's bedroom had a hardwood bed, and half the space of the plank bed was piled with books.
When the chairman is lying in bed and cannot sleep, he will sit up and read a book, and he will also make annotations on the book while reading. Wu Liandeng had a characteristic of sorting out Chairman Mao's study, that is, he could clean the room cleanly, but he would not move the position of the chairman's book casually.
This is so that the Chair can continue to read the book that has not been read. Wu Liandeng has been tidying up the chairman's room for a long time, and gradually developed a unique job, that is, the chairman praised lian lian after seeing the unique work.
Many times the chairman travels to various places on business trips, and when he leaves, he will take some books with him. Wu Liandeng would memorize the original position of these books, and when the chairman returned, he would rearrange the books in their original places without any mistakes, which made the chairman feel very surprised.
Wu Liandeng's carefulness won the praise of the chairman, which is why Wu Liandeng can always stay with the chairman to work. Among the chairman's relics, the wooden bed in the bedroom and the books remained.
These books can also be seen on the annotations written by the chairman when he once read them, with clear handwriting and pearls, recording Chairman Mao's understanding of the books and enlightening ideas, which is a precious wealth for future generations to study Chairman Mao's spirit.
Wu Liandeng, who worked as a life administrator at the chairman's side for more than a decade, also wrote down a thick stack of bills, which recorded all the expenses of Chairman Mao from the founding of the People's Republic of China to before his death. From these records, we can clearly feel chairman Mao's real life.
Chairman Mao's two greatest pleasures were cigarettes and tea. In the chairman's daily consumption, you can see that there are records of purchasing tea, matches, cigarettes, etc. When Chairman Mao inspected the outside world, he also demanded that the local government hand over food stamps, and even pay for drinking tea.
The chairman's ordinary life is also very colorful, there are many friends, international friends come to him, the chairman also needs to arrange a place to eat and stay, these expenses are deducted from his salary. This is an ideological requirement that the chairman has always conveyed: For the sake of official integrity, even if officials come to negotiate official affairs, they must be deducted from their own salaries when they invite guests to dinner, and public funds cannot be embezzled.
When the staff members around Chairman Mao encountered difficulties in their lives and their family relatives encountered difficulties, the chairman paid for their living expenses at his own expenses. Among the chairman's relics, two pairs of glasses with broken legs are particularly conspicuous.
One of the two pairs of glasses frames does not have a right spectacle leg, and the other does not have a left spectacle leg, what is going on? It turned out that the chairman had developed the habit of reading books by lying on his side and wearing glasses for many years, and often pressed the temples on one side to make deep marks, affecting reading.
The staff wanted to buy one-legged spectacle frames at the market, but they didn't sell them. So the staff found two pairs of spectacle frames, removed the left leg of one of the glasses, and removed the right leg of the other. When the Chairman is lying on his left side, he wears glasses frames without his left leg, and vice versa.
The two spectacle frames are now in safe custody as relics of the President. The glasses are used to assist the chairman in reading books, and there is an item that the assistant chairman needs to use when climbing the mountain, which is a crutch.
The chairman has many hobbies, reading, swimming, and climbing mountains. When Chairman Mao was tired of climbing the mountain, the staff would suggest that he continue to climb with a palanquin. Chairman Mao shook his head at this suggestion, and later, the chairman found a bamboo while climbing a mountain in Hangzhou.
Using this bamboo as a walking stick is very comfortable, the chairman said: "Walking on three legs is more stable than two legs." "Later, the crutch was preserved as a relic of the chairman.
In addition to these relics, when the chairman died, there was a large amount of money under his name, totaling about 1.24 million yuan. This fee was earned by the Chairman's own hard work in writing books during his lifetime. In 1972, the chairman's daughter Li Ne was living on a tight budget, and the chairman specially approved 8,000 yuan. The chairman treated his children equally, and also left Li Min with 8,000 yuan.
This batch of fees deducted the 8,000 yuan left for the children, and the rest was handed over to the state in accordance with the chairman's will. The chairman was diligent and frugal all his life, and did not want to leave much property to his descendants after his death.
He has always struggled for the masses of Chinese people, and the people are always in mind. It is a blessing for the people to have such a leader. Salute to the great Chairman Mao!