At that time, the villagers used 20 oceans to buy back his life, and 40 years later, he has become the founding major general, and returned to his hometown to work as a farmer for the development of the villagers.
Today, Uncle Ding will tell you the story of the founding general Li Jianzhu.
General Li Jianzhu was born in a poor family in Taoshui Village, Chaling, Hunan, his father died at the age of 2, and his mother remarried, he could only rely on his uncle's ferry to support the boat to live, but when he was 12 years old, his uncle fell ill and sold the ferry to pay off his debts, and he could only help the local odd job when he lost his source of livelihood, and later found someone to support the boat to live.
In 1927, it was the year of the Great Revolution in which the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated failed. As soon as he returned to his hometown, he encountered the brother of a local communist named Tan Jiashu who had been caught by the reactionary landlords and planned to kill him. Seeing this, Li Jianzhu called a few shipwright brothers and rescued the Tan brothers from the landlord's cell on a dark and windy night.
The local reactionary landlords were so angry that they sent someone to "arrest and bring to justice" Li Jianzhu, who was resting on the boat, and wanted to execute him for the crime of being a "thug."
The Tan family is also a group of people who know about Entubao, and they summoned the villagers to make a powerful contribution with money, raised 20 yuan of the ocean and attached the guarantee signatures of the whole village, and bought Li Jianzhu's life from the reactionary places.
From this incident, Li Jianzhu realized the ugliness of this society and the hatred of the reactionaries, although he is powerless to change this society now, once he has the opportunity, he must break this old order and build a new society.
But now, we can only continue to support people.
In 1928, Li Jianzhu heard that Tan Jiawang had returned to the local area to engage in secret revolutionary activities, and was inquiring about his whereabouts. Tan Jiawang later found Li Jianzhu, gave him two pieces of ocean, and asked him to go to the village as a small trader to help him understand the information of the landlords and reactionaries of the crazy counteroffensive. It was also the first time he had done revolutionary work.
Since then, Li Jianzhu has successively served as a county traffic officer, chairman of the district soviet, a guerrilla leader, a special commissioner of the Hunan and Jiangxi Military Region General Station, a general commissioner of the Red Army School, and a special commissioner and political commissar of the 18th Regiment of the 6th Division of the 2nd Red Army Corps, and participated in the Long March.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Jianzhu has grown into a qualified revolutionary soldier. He successively served as deputy director and director of the Hoeing Department of the Political Department of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, director of the Jinsui Investigation Bureau, and attended the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
During the War of Liberation, Li Jianzhu successively served as deputy director of the Changchun City Public Security Bureau, director of the Political Department of the Jilin Military Region, deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Jibei Military Sub-district, deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the 3rd Independent Division of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, director of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the 12th Column and the 46th Army of the Northeast Field Army, and political commissar of the 5th Artillery Division of the Fourth Field Army.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Jianzhu was awarded the rank of major general, and successively served as director of the Political Department of the Logistics Department of the Central South Military Region, director of the Political Department of the Public Security Force of the Central South Military Region, and deputy political commissar of the Guangxi Military Region. In 1964, 58-year-old Li Jianzhu left his post to recuperate.
Under the arrangement of the organization, Li Jianzhu successively recuperated in Guilin and Changsha, and lived a comfortable life.
But when he heard the people in his hometown report the backward and poor situation of Taoshui, he couldn't sit still anymore, and it should be time to repay the villagers in his hometown 40 years ago for buying his life with 20 yuan of the ocean. Therefore, he politely declined the organization's concern, and resolutely returned to his hometown in Taoshui on October 4, 1970 to settle down and start a new fighting years.
After returning to his hometown, he first focused on water control, combined with land reclamation, soil renovation, and mountain development, carried out comprehensive water and soil management, and comprehensively carried out agricultural and rural capital construction; second, he set up pig farms, lime factories, bamboo and wood processing factories, oil mills, fruit orchards, and cassava processing factories in connection with land reclamation;
Li Jianzhu (middle)
There was no money, so he took out his own subsidies to buy materials; no one, he took himself to the labor site first, and worked with everyone; in this way, after more than eight years of hard work, he led the cadres and the masses to initially change the appearance of Taoshui. Compared with 1969, more than 640 mu of cultivated land and more than 8,500 mu of mountain forests have been added; grain output has increased by 1.8 times; members have changed from eating and selling grain to selling grain to the state; the level of grain consumption by members has increased from 300 jin per year to 650 jin in 1978; the per capita income of peasants has doubled, and the collective accumulated funds have reached 120,000 yuan.
What is the purpose of the revolution? Isn't it just to enable the masses of the people to live a good life? In addition to repaying his kindness, General Li Jianzhu also practiced the original aspiration of the communists with practical actions.
In 1979, the People's Daily also published two articles entitled "Wang Zhen's Letter to Li Jianzhu" and "Li Jianzhu's Memories of the Taoshui Office" to commend General Li for his contributions to the people of his hometown.
On February 14, 1997, General Li Jianzhu died of illness in Changsha at the age of 91.