In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to purify the revolutionary ranks and crack down on lawless capitalists, the CPC Central Committee launched a nationwide campaign of "three antis and five antis." As soon as this campaign began, someone within the Southwest Military Region exposed Chen Geng's suspicion of corruption, which caused a big storm at that time.
In December 1951, the Southwest Military Region held a meeting to convey the instructions of the Central Committee on launching the "three antis and five antis" campaign. Soon after the campaign began, the logistics system of the Southwest Military Region discovered shocking problems and attracted the attention of the higher-ups.
In order to rectify military discipline and solve problems, the party committee of the Southwest Military Region specially transferred Yu Qiuli, then president of the Second Senior Infantry School, to the logistics department as director and concurrently deputy director of the Supervision Commission, responsible for the specific work of the "three anti and five anti" campaign.
When Yu Qiuli took office, it was a period when the "three antis and five antis" movement was expanded. At the same time, some people with ulterior motives saw that there was an opportunity to frame and frame them on various charges, and for a time, the logistics department of the military region was paralyzed.
Yu Qiuli realized that the most urgent task at the moment was to restore the operation of the logistics department as soon as possible. Yu Qiuli selected a group of reliable comrades and arranged for them to participate in the daily work of the logistics department to ensure the normal operation of the logistics system.
In addition, Yu Qiuli also instructed the departments concerned to step up the examination, lift the examination as soon as possible and resume their work for those comrades who have no solid evidence, and conclude the examination of comrades with less serious problems as long as they can realize their mistakes and make a review. With Yu Qiuli's efforts, the work of the logistics department was quickly on the right track.
However, what Yu Qiuli didn't expect was that just as the work was being carried out in an orderly manner, something happened that everyone did not expect.
One day, the secretary came to report to Yu Qiuli in a panic, saying that he had received an anonymous report material. Yu Qiuli took the material, glanced at it, and immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.
It turned out that this material exposed Chen Geng, saying that Chen Geng embezzled a large amount of property, including a large amount of gold, together with Chief of Staff Zhou Xihan, during his tenure as the commander of the 386 Brigade during the Anti-Japanese War. According to the description of the materials, at that time, Chen Geng and Zhou Xihan found a mule to carry the embezzled gold, and later, the gold was privately divided by the two and finally squandered.
Yu Qiuli thought twice and decided to put this material at the meeting for discussion. Not long after, the Supervisory Committee of the Southwest Military Region held a meeting, and after the materials for reporting Chen Geng were circulated among the participants, they suddenly caused quite a stir like a bombshell.
Some people proposed that it be reported to the central government immediately and Chen Geng would be isolated for examination, while the rest of the people were discussing. Seeing that everyone was almost discussed, Yu Qiuli expressed his thoughts: "I think this is a complete false accusation, a brigade commander uses a mule to carry embezzled gold, is this possible? He usually has some expenses, such as smoking and drinking, this is possible, if he embezzles gold and still uses a mule to carry it, this is impossible, if there is really corruption, why no one else finds out? So, I think this is impossible!"
After Yu Qiuli finished speaking, he listened to the opinions of the participants, and when he saw that some comrades still had different opinions, he said patiently: "We must not wronged our good comrades, and we must not beat our good comrades like tigers." After the meeting, in order to quell the rumors, Yu Qiuli also instructed the relevant departments to thoroughly investigate the matter.
In order to find out the truth of the matter, the relevant departments found many cadres who had worked in the 386 Brigade Headquarters to understand the situation. The results of the investigation showed that the accusations against Chen Geng's Zhou Xihan were completely false. After the results were announced, many people were convinced, and the rumors were self-defeating.
In addition to correcting the general atmosphere and redressing unjust cases, Yu Qiuli also carried out a drastic rectification of the logistics system. In the course of rectification, Yu Qiuli discovered that one of his subordinate units had falsely reported its expenses and overstated more than 5 billion yuan in old currency when building new barracks.
Yu Qiuli immediately called the leaders of this unit and severely criticized them. The leader said aggrievedly that the reason for falsely reporting expenses was not because he wanted to keep them for himself, but because he wanted to use them for the future construction of the troops, so as to be in case of emergency.
Yu Qiuli believes that although there is no corruption in this unit, it is self-centeredness and is also wrong. Under Yu Qiuli's instructions, the unit handed over the overstated expenses. At the same time, Yu Qiuli also ordered a thorough investigation of the financial situation of other units and handed over all the excess funds to the national treasury.