In January 1980, Huang Kecheng, then executive secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, received a letter of whistle-blowing.
After getting the letter, Huang Kecheng fell into contemplation, the content of the letter is reported that the founding general Yang Yong invited people to dinner at public expense and spent public money to do things.
Yang Yong is Huang Kecheng's old subordinate, as early as the war years, the two formed a deep revolutionary friendship, and now in the era of peace, Yang Yong made mistakes, Huang Kecheng was a little difficult to deal with for a while, but after careful consideration, he still decided to "deal with it according to law"
Yang Yong spent the public money to invite people to dinner, why? How did Huang Kecheng deal with it in the end?
Hu Yaobangsan asked Huang Kecheng to come out of the mountain
In November 1977, Huang Kecheng, who had been idle for many years, made a comeback and was appointed as an adviser to the Central Military Commission, at this time, his physical condition was already very poor, and one of his eyes had been blind, and when he worked, he basically relied on his secretary to read newspapers for him and documents for him to deal with.
Just when Huang Kecheng thought that his old age was "Dading", Hu Yaobang, who was then the organization department of the CPC Central Committee, suddenly came to visit.
Hu Yaobang told Huang Kecheng that the problem of party style is now serious, and the central authorities have decided to transfer him to the Central Discipline Inspection Commission, taking into account his loyalty to the party and being upright and upright.
Huang Kecheng refused as soon as he heard it: "I am old, let the young comrades come." ”
After Hu Yaobang heard this, he did not immediately refute it, but said: "Don't rush to answer, first consider and then say, any request can be mentioned, and any concern can also be said." ”
A few days later, Hu Yaobang visited again and asked Huang Kecheng to answer work questions.
Huang Kecheng still believed that he could not serve as the secretary of the Standing Committee of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission, so he again politely refused, stressing that the reason for his refusal was because he was physically unable to do a better job for the party organization.
Perhaps Hu Yaobang had already prepared, he said: "You don't have to go to the office, don't sit at work, and then assign you one or two secretaries, if not, three, let him be responsible for assisting you in handling working documents." ”
Huang Kecheng listened and shook his head again.
Huang Kecheng asked Hu Yaobang: "Doesn't the executive secretary want to manage affairs frequently?" If I am in charge, how can I preside over the work if I don't go to the office? With so many secretaries, isn't it caused by inconvenient work? ”
As soon as Hu Yaobang heard it, he understood Huang Kecheng's meaning, and he returned again in vain.
However, a few days later, Hu Yaobang knocked on the Door of the Huang Family again.
This time, Huang Kecheng was very moved, at this time it was the busiest period of the Central Organization Department, Hu Yaobang came to the door three times, Huang Kecheng was very aware of the importance that the Party Central Committee attached to himself, but due to physical reasons, he still refused.
Despite this, Hu Yaobang still did not lose heart,
Because Hu Yaobang knew that the position of executive secretary of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission was the most suitable for Huang Kecheng.
In Huang Kecheng's revolutionary career, he made a name for himself in the whole party and the whole army for his iron-faced selflessness, honesty, honesty, and seeking truth from facts.
In 1933, Peng Dehuai was ordered to attack Ganzhou, and when a pre-war mobilization meeting was held, Huang Kecheng raised objections, and Huang Kecheng proceeded from reality, believing that although the strength of the Red Army had increased, it was still very weak overall, and the enemy in Ganzhou had more troops, and according to the geographical location of Ganzhou, it could be described as easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Huang Kecheng's opposition did not play any role, and in February 1933, under the leadership of Peng Dehuai, the Red Third Army marched to Ganzhou, and soon after, the Battle of Ganzhou broke out.
In fact, as Huang Kecheng expected, the Red Army suffered heavy casualties and achieved no results after fierce battles with the enemy, and after a few days of stalemate, in order to preserve its strength, Huang Kecheng decided to lead the troops to retreat.
Later facts proved that attacking Ganzhou was a completely wrong decision, Ganzhou not only was not defeated, but the Red Army suffered heavy casualties, Peng Dehuai also realized this situation later, he felt very guilty, and regretted not listening to Huang Kecheng's words.
At the post-war meeting, some people criticized Huang Kecheng, saying that the defeat in the Battle of Ganzhou stemmed from his unauthorized retreat.
Huang Kecheng argued on the basis of reason, and later, although Huang Kecheng was demoted, his spirit of seeking truth from facts left a deep impression on Peng Dehuai.
When Huang Kecheng insisted on the truth, he did not look at who the other party was, and for this reason, he also confronted Chen Yi.
The incident of confronting Chen Yi occurred in 1940.
At that time, Huang Kecheng served as the commander and political commissar of the Fifth Column of the Eighth Route Army, and in October 1940, Huang Kecheng led the south to join the New Fourth Army, and the Eighth Route Army's strength in northern Jiangsu increased, attracting the attention of Han Deqin, chairman of the Kuomintang Jiangsu Province.
Han Deqin then mobilized 100,000 troops in an attempt to wipe out the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu in one fell swoop.
To this end, Chen Yi and Su Yu commanded the Battle of Huangqiao and won a great victory.
After the Battle of Huangqiao, the remaining men of Han Deloitte's army ran to Caodian, and Chen Yi, fearing that the night would be long and dreamy, decided to send troops to pursue and completely destroy the enemy in Caodian.
Just as Chen Yi put the plan to the meeting, Huang Kecheng raised objections.
Huang Kecheng believes that Caodian will have to fight sooner or later, but according to the situation at that time, it is not good, because at this time it is still in the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and secondly, Caodian is the "old nest" of Han Deloitte's department, and after Han Deloitte's long-term painstaking management, Caodian has built a strict defense system, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
After Chen Yi listened to Huang Kecheng's words, he criticized him for making mistakes.
Huang Kecheng was not convinced, but as a soldier, he still had to listen to the leader Chen Yi, and before the battle of Caodian began, he actively did pre-war mobilization work.
Soon, the Battle of Caodian officially began, the battle began, our army was frantically counterattacked by the enemy, after a few days of fierce fighting, the two sides entered a stalemate stage, the situation was not as Chen Yi expected before the war, Huang Kecheng thought about it, in order to reduce losses, proposed to the Central China Bureau to adopt the method of "protracted war".
Chen Yi was furious as soon as he saw the contents of the telegram, and he refuted Huang Kecheng's opinion and ordered the troops to continue the strong attack.
Huang Kecheng had no choice but to continue to carry out the operation, and after 18 days, because our army suffered heavy casualties and did not achieve any results, he took the initiative to withdraw from the battle, and this battle finally ended in the defeat of our army.
After the war, Chen Yi did not think about his mistakes, but believed that the defeat of this battle was due to the ineffective attack led by Huang Kecheng, and then Chen Yi dismissed Huang Kecheng as the commander and political commissar of the Fifth Column.
Huang Kecheng was not convinced, and at the meeting of the Central China Bureau, Huang Kecheng and Chen Yi had a fierce dispute.
Huang Kecheng said: "I don't need to review, before the battle, I still think that the advice I made is correct... It was a superior command error. ”
Later, in order to take into account the overall situation, Huang Kecheng also made a review, but it was not long before history gave Huang Kecheng a fair judgment.
In 1942, Chen Yi admitted to the command mistake he made during the Battle of Caodian, thus confirming Huang Kecheng's correctness.
Huang Kecheng insisted on the truth and not only dared to sing "anti-tune" with Peng Dehuai and Chen Yi, but also dared to sing "anti-tune" with Chairman Mao.
In April 1946, the Kuomintang troops attacked Siping, and out of political necessity, Chairman Mao felt it necessary to fight a defensive war in Siping and win military assistance from the Soviet Union.
As a result, Chairman Mao ordered Lin Biao to lead his troops to hold Siping.
At the beginning of the Siping Defense War, Huang Kecheng did not participate, and later he was surprised to learn that this defense war should not be fought, and later the situation on the battlefield was not good for our army, so Huang Kecheng wrote to Lin Biao many times in a row, asking Lin Biao to withdraw siping.
Lin Biao neither opposed nor approved, but did not reply to the letter.
After a month of stalemate, our army finally took the initiative to withdraw from Siping, and after calculation in this battle, our army suffered more than 8,000 casualties and the enemy suffered more than 10,000 casualties.
In 1959, when Chairman Mao invited Huang Kecheng to dinner in Lushan, he asked: "Was it wrong to fight the Siping Defense War that year?" ”
Huang Kecheng: "At the beginning, when the enemy advanced toward Siping, we were not wrong to fight it, but later when the enemy gathered heavy troops to find the main force of our army for a decisive battle, we should not hold on. ”
Chairman Mao: "At that time, I decided to stick to Siping. ”
Huang Kecheng: "You decided, and it was also wrong." ”
When he heard Huang Kecheng bumping into himself, Chairman Mao was a little stunned for a moment, and then he said: "Then let future generations comment." ”
Speaking of which, at the Lushan Conference, Huang Kecheng was wrongly criticized for supporting Peng Dehuai, and for the next 20 years, he was hardly used.
Nevertheless, Huang Kecheng's adherence to the truth, fair and honest character has also been remembered by the whole party and the whole army.
After the end of the special period in 1977, Hu Yaobangsan asked Huang Kecheng to serve as the executive secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, which is precisely the reason why Huang Kecheng was loyal to the party, selfless in iron, and was the best candidate.
Huang Kecheng also knew that the Party Central Committee trusted and valued him, but due to physical reasons, he really did not want to delay the Party's revolutionary work, so he rejected Hu Yaobang three times.
Hu Yaobang had no choice but to ask Chen Yun to persuade him.
Chen Yun's seniority in our Party is quite old; as early as the period of the agrarian revolution, he was one of the principal leaders of the Cpc Central Committee, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was one of the "Five Secretaries of the Cpc Central Committee," held important posts many times, and was an important figure in the first generation of leaders of the CPC Central Committee headed by Chairman Mao.
Chen Yun served as the secretary of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission after the end of the special period, and originally the party Central Committee appointed Huang Kecheng as executive secretary, but in fact huang Kecheng was asked to assist Chen Yun in his work.
Hu Yaobang asked Chen Yun to persuade Huang Kecheng, and Chen Yun agreed on the spot, because he also knew that Huang Kecheng was the best candidate for the executive secretary.
Chen Yun said, "Comrade Kecheng, I do not agree with your resignation. ”
Huang Kecheng laughed at himself: "Now I can't see the sky up, I can't see the ground down, and I can't see people in the middle." How does a blind man work? ”
Chen Yun pulled Huang Kecheng to sit down: "The party style has a bearing on the life and death of our party, and at such an important historical turning point for the party and the country, we old comrades have the responsibility to come out and shoulder heavy burdens."
Huang Kecheng: "So what is our work mainly for?" ”
Chen Yun: "Grasping the party style, now that the party style is like this, can we stay at home and spend more than a year in peace?" ”
Huang Kecheng was moved, because he was a tried and tested loyal communist fighter, and when he joined the Chinese Communist Party, he was determined to dedicate his life to the magnificent revolutionary cause.
Under the persuasion of Chen Yun, Huang Kecheng accepted the position of executive secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, in which huang Kecheng exerted his residual heat, was selfless in iron, and was not afraid of "tearing his face" with his old comrades-in-arms and old subordinates.
Yang Yong
In January 1980, Huang Kecheng received a letter of report that Someone had reported that Yang Yong, the founding general of the country, who presided over the work of the General Staff, had invited guests to dinner.
The reason is that Yang Yong welcomed Zhang Zhen, who was transferred from the General Staff, to welcome Zhang Zhen, who was transferred to the General Staff, and invited them to dinner at the Jingxi Hotel, spending 400 yuan.
Huang Kecheng got the report letter and fell into contemplation, in the war years, Yang Yong was his old subordinate, Yang Yong was brave and strategic, and was a rare general, at this time in the era of peace, Yang Yong made a mistake, how should this be handled?
Huang Kecheng hesitated, only a little time, and then he told himself that he must not fail to live up to the heavy responsibilities entrusted to him by the party organization and the people.
Zhang Zhen
Huang Kecheng immediately sent someone to check on this matter, and after Yang Yong heard about it, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, thinking that the old leader Huang Kecheng was making some fuss, and Yang Yong's psychological activities were quickly reported to Huang Kecheng's ears.
Huang Kecheng personally called Yang Yong for this reason: "You are a big official, and the tiger's ass can't be touched..."
When Yang Yong heard that the old leader was really angry, he immediately realized his mistake, ran to Huang Kecheng to admit his mistake, and then he took money from his salary to pay for the meal, in addition, he also publicly reviewed it.
After Zhang Zhenzhong learned of Huang Kecheng's handling results, he was a little overwhelmed in his heart, because yang Yong was the one who welcomed him.
Zhang Zhen said that he was willing to take responsibility with Yang Yong.
Huang Kecheng waved his hand: "Whoever is the initiator will pay the money, and no one can replace it." ”
Huang Kecheng is also Zhang Zhen's old leader, and when Zhang Zhen saw that the old leader had said this, he could only give up.
Later, once, The Minister of Commerce Wang Lei invited guests to pay and pay a part less, and after Huang Kecheng learned about it, he asked Wang Lei to make up the money for the meal and make a profound review.
At the behest of Huang Kecheng, the People's Daily reported on the matter, and the tone was very harsh, causing some sensations.
For this matter, an old leader could not bear to look at it, thinking that Huang Kecheng was making a big fuss.
Huang Kecheng remembered it in his heart.
After the meeting, Huang Kecheng nodded: "Is XXX coming?" ”
The man stood up: "Elder Huang, I am." ”
Huang Kecheng: "I heard that your handling of this matter is grumpy, did it hit him and hurt in your heart?" ....... Isn't it because the common people are now dissatisfied with the special nature of leading cadres because the leading cadres are unconscious and engaged in specialization? ”
The leader explained that he did not have an opinion on the results of Huang Kecheng's handling, but believed that he should not criticize by name in the People's Daily.
Huang Kecheng: "What's so inappropriate about this, if our leading cadres can't even stand this criticism, what kind of Communist Party member are they?" ”
In 1985, due to health reasons, Huang Kecheng resigned from the leadership position, and a year later, he died.