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In 1981, Li Min got three things, which the central government said were the legacy left to her by Chairman Mao.
Previously, many people were curious about how much legacy Chairman Mao left after his death and how the inheritance was distributed, after all, he had a unique identity and was different from ordinary families. But as his children, they must be the primary heirs of the inheritance.
However, the legacy that Li Min received from the central government greatly exceeded people's imagination.
So, what is the legacy that Chairman Mao left to his children, and how did Chairman Mao govern the family?
Although Chairman Mao is the leader of a country, he is also the head of the family, not only working for the people, but also supporting his family.
And the source of his family expenses is almost entirely dependent on his own salary.
In terms of wages, in order to implement the strategy of building the country through diligence and thrift, the central authorities have repeatedly reformed the salaries of state functionaries. In 1959, Chairman Mao took the lead in responding to the salary cut, with a monthly salary of 405 yuan.
The following year, he took another pay cut, with a monthly salary of 356 yuan. According to Li Lisan, who presided over the salary reduction work of the central government, Chairman Mao later proposed to reduce his salary to 300 yuan again, but in the end it was not realized.
Therefore, his salary before his death was not high, and this money not only had to bear the family's living expenses, but also had to pay for the travel expenses of relatives and friends in his hometown in Hunan.
When relatives and friends visit, sometimes they have to buy some souvenirs for them, and buy clothes for relatives who are having a hard time, and so on.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were 4 children who needed to be raised by Chairman Mao: Mao Anqing, who was sick, two daughters who were still studying, and nephew Mao Yuanxin.
In order to manage household expenses, his bodyguard, Li Yinqiao, specially formulated a management method, stipulating that 3 yuan a day should be used for family food.
But after Chairman Mao read it, he felt that 3 yuan was still too much, and it should be reduced again. Later, Li Yinqiao said that the 3 yuan also included the cost of entertaining guests, and Chairman Mao agreed after considering it.
In terms of life, Chairman Mao was very frugal, and some of the old daily necessities were reluctant to throw away, and there were many records of repairing daily necessities in his account book, but there were few bills for the purchase of new items.
According to Li Min's recollection, Mao's Chairman Mao had to check the family account books every month, and once he found that he was overspending, he had to ask the reason, and repeatedly told the management personnel not to overspend, and to buy as much as he needed for all daily necessities, and not to waste them.
In addition to his salary, his manuscript fee in the fifties was also a large income, and it is said that at the most it reached more than one million yuan.
However, Chairman Mao did not use this manuscript fee for family expenses, but handed it over to the Central Special Accounting Office, and all the expenditures were transparent.
Chairman Mao liked to read, and part of the manuscript fee was used to buy books. In his later years, when his eyesight was not good, the books he read had to be printed in large letters, which was also paid for from the manuscript fee.
Once, he also used his private manuscript money to print and distribute a batch of books to each Politburo member.
In addition, the expenses required by Chairman Mao when he went out to investigate and research, the New Year's gifts to those who helped him during the New Year's holidays, and his own food subsidies were also paid for by the manuscript fee.
The total of these manuscript fees used by himself is less than 10,000 yuan per year, but he heard that his ex-wife He Zizhen is often sick, so he sent someone to inquire about good medicine and spent a lot of manuscript fees to buy medicine for He Zizhen.
It can be seen that Chairman Mao lived a frugal life, knew how to be grateful, and valued love and righteousness. After his death, the issue of inheritance was not raised for a long time, and there were no clear figures on the unspent manuscript fees and remaining salaries.
It wasn't until 1981 that the central government found Li Min and handed her three inheritances left by Chairman Mao.
So what are these three legacies?
Chairman Mao's salary was not much before his death, and his life was very frugal, but before his death, he approved money for his children.
In 1981, the Central Committee found Li Min and handed her three things left by Chairman Mao. It was only then that Li Min knew that his father had approved money for his other siblings before his death.
Even her mother, He Zizhen, received funds from the central government. And she received this belated inheritance five years after her father's death.
So, why didn't Li Min receive the money in time? What three things did the central government give her?
After all, Li Min should be a child that Chairman Mao likes very much, from the time she was born until she lived in Zhongnanhai, Chairman Mao loved her very much.
However, in the early years, for the sake of the revolution, Chairman Mao fostered Li Min in his hometown in northern Shaanxi, and later when he grew up, he was found by the organization and sent to study.
In 1941, after hearing that He Zizhen lost his beloved son in the Soviet Union, Chairman Mao sent 4-year-old Li Min to her, hoping that the company of his daughter could reduce He Zizhen's pain of losing his son.
When she was in the Soviet Union, because of the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, Li Min and her mother had a very difficult life, but she still survived strongly, and after the two brothers were sent to the Soviet Union to study, she did her best to take care of them.
When she was 8 years old, Li Min, who was in elementary school, became seriously ill and was taken to the morgue of the International Children's Hospital. He Zizhen couldn't bear to lose her daughter's life, so she took her daughter, who had only one breath left, home and tried her best to take care of her.
But the doctor saw that she was behaving strangely, and did not understand why He Zizhen insisted on treating her daughter, and also sent her to an insane asylum as a mental patient.
After Li Min miraculously recovered from his illness, he lived alone as an orphan for several years, and did not see his mother until 1946.
When she was 12 years old, she wrote a letter to her father for the first time, and Chairman Mao was very happy, not only replying to her, but also welcoming her to visit him in Xiangshan.
Therefore, in May 1949, the father and daughter finally reunited after many years of separation, Chairman Mao couldn't put down this lovely daughter, not only cared about her life in the Soviet Union, but also patiently taught her to recite ancient poems.
In September of the same year, Li Min moved into Zhongnanhai with her stepmother and older siblings, and since then, she has spent her youth here and started a family under the witness of her father.
At her wedding, Chairman Mao deliberately took out 400 yuan and set up 3 tables of banquets in the Yi Nian Hall, inviting relatives and friends attending the wedding to dinner.
Because she and her husband are still in college and have no salary income, after they got married, they still live in Zhongnanhai, and after they join the work and get paid, Chairman Mao will no longer subsidize their family.
In 1964, Li Min moved out of Zhongnanhai with her family, and until Chairman Mao died, the number of times she met her father could be counted on one hand.
The last time we met, my father was already sick in bed. At that time, Chairman Mao held his daughter's hand, and both of them had tears in their eyes.
When her father died, for various reasons, Li Min and her husband only kept their father's spirit once. Later, even if he wanted to mourn his father, he could only line up with the crowd and say goodbye to his mourning hall.
Therefore, when Chairman Mao gave Li Ne and Mao Anqing 8,000 yuan respectively in 1975, Li Min did not get it for various reasons. And her mother, He Zizhen, also received 20,000 yuan in the same year.
In 1981, the central government approached Li Min to understand her living needs, and when asked what she wanted, Li Min said no. Later, the central government sent her 8,000 yuan in cash, a 20-inch color TV, and a refrigerator.
The person who sent it said that it was the legacy left to her by Chairman Mao. A few years later, He Zizhen died, and Li Min inherited an inheritance of 3,000 yuan from his mother.
Since then, she has never received any inheritance from her parents. But what Chairman Mao taught her was more valuable than possessions.
So, how did Chairman Mao educate his children, and what was the leader's family style?
In 1981, Li Min received the inheritance left to her by Chairman Mao, but her life was still very poor.
After moving out of Zhongnanhai, Li Min's life was actually not good, but she did not extend her hand to Chairman Mao, nor did she ask the central government for help. Even in interviews, she repeatedly stressed that she would not go to claim her father's inheritance.
It can be seen that she has the spirit inherited by Chairman Mao, and Chairman Mao is very successful in educating his children.
So, what is Chairman Mao's family style?
Chairman Mao, like many revolutionary ancestors, not only was strict with himself, but also taught his children to be modest and prudent, especially not to engage in specialization.
In 1946, his eldest son, Mao Anying, returned to Yan'an from the Soviet Union. After catching up on the old days, Mao Anying put on the old clothes worn by her father and moved to live in the central agency.
Mao Anying, who had a bad stomach, ate the middle stove in the organ, and Chairman Mao was not very happy when he learned about it, and warned him not to be special, and he should eat the big stove with the soldiers.
Later, he also asked Mao Anying to go deep into the masses, learn to farm with model workers, and live with the working people in Nanniwan.
During that time, Mao Anying kept in mind the teachings, and got up early and worked with the villagers every day, plowing the fields and picking up dung. When he returned from the mountain, he would bring back a bundle of firewood to the families of the martyrs.
Chairman Mao saw that his face was tanned because of farm work, and there were thick calluses on his hands, and he happily praised him for "good grades in Labor University".
After the liberation of Beiping, Mao Anying followed the first batch of teams into the city and led the sappers to clear mines together with two demining experts. This is a very dangerous job, but Chairman Mao did not stop him when he found out.
This is also what Chairman Mao valued in educating his children, that is, the spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice for the revolution. Mao Anying finally carried out this spirit to the end, and died on the Korean battlefield on November 25, 1951.
As a father, of course, Chairman Mao also hopes that his children will become talents, and in terms of educating his children, he requires children to learn to endure hardships, and only those who can endure hardships can be successful.
Although Li Min suffered a lot with his mother when he was in the Soviet Union, Chairman Mao still believed that compared with the revolutionary ancestors, the daughters did not suffer enough. It is precisely because they are their own children that Chairman Mao has stricter requirements for his daughters.
After the two daughters were admitted to college, they lived in the school like all children from ordinary families, and had to squeeze the bus when they came home on weekends. Once, Chairman Mao's guards were worried that it was too dark and it would be unsafe for the girls to walk at night, so they sent a car to pick them up.
Chairman Mao was very angry when he learned about it, and asked sharply: "Other people's children can go home by themselves, why can't my children?"
It can be seen that Chairman Mao has stricter standards for educating children than ordinary families.
In addition, diligence and thrift are also the most important things for Chairman Mao when he was in charge, and he set an example for his children.
When the People's Republic of China was founded, he made a pajamas, which were repeatedly sewn and repaired for more than 20 years, leaving 73 patches, but Chairman Mao was never willing to change them into new ones.
In Li Min's memory, his father once said to them: "Be a man with your tail between your legs." And many years after his old man's death, Li Min has always kept this teaching in mind and rarely appears in the public eye.
Now, Li Min is also a white-haired old man, although he rarely reveals the recent situation, the people still hope that Chairman Mao's descendants can enjoy their old age in peace.
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