In his later years, Bo Yibo often said that he was very familiar with the old handsomes of the revolutionary period, such as Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, Liu Bocheng and others, even if that period of beacon fire had passed for a long time, Bo Yibo would often can't help but say these names, and he also admired the character of these old handsomes.
He has comments on Liu Shaoqi and Peng Dehuai, and the moment of his interaction with Chairman Mao has become the most memorable thing in his life.
Past memories with the Founding Fathers
In the practice of struggle, Bo Yibo gradually decided that only Marxism could save China, so he joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in 1925 and became a full party member that year.
After Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup, Zhang Zuolin killed a group of Communist Party members and revolutionary youths in Beijing, including Comrade Li Dazhao.
After Yan Xishan openly regarded the Red Army as an enemy, he immediately ordered the arrest of Bo Yibo and others, and the successive changes still did not change Bo Yibo's beliefs.
During the local War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Northern Bureau adopted a special policy during the special period to rescue Bo Yibo, Wang Ruofei and others from prison, and then sent them to various parts of North China to strengthen the leadership of the revolutionary base areas.
During that time, Bo Yibo had a deep impression of Liu Shaoqi and learned a lot from him.
In December 1936, Liu Shaoqi instructed Bo Yibo to start training 1,000 temporary village administrative assistants, and stipulated activities such as arousing the people's enthusiasm for resisting Japan, widely publicizing and agitating, and developing members of the Sacrifice League.
After the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident, Liu Shaoqi was appointed to become the secretary of the Northern Bureau, he moved the Northern Bureau to Taiyuan, Shanxi, and led the important task of the North China War of Resistance until he returned to Yan'an in 1938, and Chairman Mao still suggested that he continue to guide the work of the North China Party, and he continued to fight for the victory of the War of Resistance in Xintiandi.
Bo Yibo's ability was also gradually reflected, and Liu Shaoqi spoke highly of him.
In April 1948, the Party Central Committee decided to establish the North China Central Bureau, and Bo Yibo served as the second secretary.
Still during the anti-Japanese years, Peng Dehuai came to a village in Qin County, Shanxi Province with the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, which was also the first time Bo Yibo met Peng Dehuai.
He still remembers Peng Dehuai's answer was very kind: "There is nothing mysterious about military work, it is the same as other jobs, we all learn in practice, and no one is born to fight." ”
Although there were not many words, Peng Dehuai left a deep impression on Bo Yibo.
In the summer of 1959, Peng Dehuai went to Hunan to inspect, and happened to meet Bo Yibo who was also doing research in Hunan, and the two sides made an appointment to meet in an arsenal.
This time, it was Peng Dehuai who first raised the question: "What do you think of coming to Chairman Mao's hometown?"
Bo Yibo replied: "I had a discussion with the cadres, and I asked them how much their grain had increased, but I found that they did not tell the truth. ”
Speaking of this, Peng Dehuai immediately took over the conversation: "I haven't even had more than one percent, I have been to many places, and the situation I encountered is the same as what you said, I want to send a telegram to the central government." ”
That year also became a year when Bo Yibo felt very guilty, because soon after everyone went to Lushan.
As long as he mentioned that period of the past, Bo Yibo was always very sad, and he later said: "Under the situation at that time, some things were unavoidable, and Marshal Peng Dehuai's letter to Chairman Mao was by no means a whim, but after careful investigation and research, he spoke from the facts. ”
Time flies, many years later, in 1986, Bo Yibo, who was over 70 years old, came to the southern provinces for investigation and investigation with the entrustment of the central government.
When you go to Hunan, you must go to the former residences of Chairman Mao, Liu Shaoqi, and Peng Dehuai.
Peng Dehuai's former residence Peng's family is very shabby, but a generalissimo who commanded thousands of troops grew up here, standing in front of the courtyard, Bo Yibo was also excited, he recalled the past, and wrote down the comment that "the rich and noble cannot be lewd, the poor and the lowly cannot be moved, and the mighty cannot be bent".
In fact, it is not difficult to find that these three sentences have covered Mr. Peng's life.
During that time, he went to Liu Shaoqi's former residence again, and here, he thought of the time when he had just joined the revolution, so he wrote the words "Mighty and Forever" to praise Liu Shaoqi's immortal will.
And when he arrived at Chairman Mao's former residence, Bo Yibo was even more emotional.
When he was in prison, it was Chairman Mao's writings that gave him strong confidence in the future, and he had a deep affection for Chairman Mao.
The staff on the side did not interrupt his thoughts, allowing him to float in his own world.
The sound and smile are still in front of me
Bo Yibo first met Chairman Mao in 1943.
As soon as he came to Yan'an from the Taiyue base, he saw the revolutionary idol he had loved for a long time, and the hands of the two were firmly clasped together.
When talking about the past, Chairman Mao said: "In the past, I didn't know much about your work, you were in the white area, we were in the Soviet area, and the news was blocked by the Kuomintang, but Comrade Shaoqi and Comrade Peng Zhen still always mentioned your name. ”
So, Bo Yibo reported his experience in Caolanzi Prison in Beiping, and Chairman Mao also praised: "You have turned the prison into a school and armed your mind with the study of revolutionary theory, and this is a victory." ”
It is estimated that Bo Yibo didn't expect that their conversation lasted for 8 hours, and what Bo Yibo didn't expect was still to come.
At the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Bo Yibo was elected as a member of the Central Committee, and the actual situation at that time was: Bo Yibo was nominated as an alternate member of the Central Committee, and some people thought that Bo Yibo was rescued from prison, and it would be inappropriate to be an alternate member of the Central Committee.
And Chairman Mao's answer was simple and simple: "With Bo Yibo's qualifications, ability and performance, why can't he be a formal member of the Central Committee?"
In this way, delegations at all levels also conveyed Chairman Mao's opinions, which made the young Bo Yibo stand out and was elected a member of the Central Committee at the age of only 37.
In May 1948, Bo Yibo was again entrusted with the important task of working in the North China Bureau, and only six months later, the North China Bureau ushered in a new job: to take over Pingjin.
In fact, there are many ways to do seemingly simple tasks, and Chairman Mao also has many instructions for this: protect national industry and commerce, rely on the working class, maintain the united front, and senior cadres in the party must not toast, do not make birthdays, and do not use people's names as place names, etc.
On January 31, 1949, Beiping ushered in the historic moment of peaceful liberation, and three days later, Bo Yibo led the North China Bureau and the North China People's Government to work in Beiping.
After the meeting, Chairman Mao led the Party Central Committee and the People's Liberation Army Headquarters to leave Xibaipo and officially move to Beiping.
In the process, although it was suggested that a grand welcome ceremony should be organized to promote the influence of the Chinese revolution to the whole country and the world, Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee chose a more modest way of celebration, arguing that too many people should not be mobilized at this time, and that large-scale celebrations should be held after the complete victory of the whole country.
After arriving in Baoding, Chairman Mao still learned that a celebration meeting was planned in the local area, and he immediately stopped this plan.
Premier Zhou quickly sent a telegram to the North China Bureau: "The chairman thinks that it is not appropriate to hold a celebration meeting, not even in Beiping, and it is not appropriate to convene a celebration in the name of the relocation of the Party Central Committee, so please stop the celebrations in Beiping and other areas as soon as possible." ”
Bo Yibo was deeply moved by this and realized the extraordinary charm of the leader.
Even though there was no official celebration, the local people were still enthusiastic, and they shouted the slogan "Long live Chairman Mao", and the enthusiasm was indelible, even if they did their work.
Later, Bo Yibo also put his main energy on the Central Finance Commission, at that time, Chen Yun was the director, and Bo Yibo mainly did specific work.
This work is also difficult to do, because the financial situation of the whole country during the war was complex and severe, and the people were watching the ability of the Communist Party to govern the world.
And Chen Yun and Bo Yibo worked this invisible battlefield, and suppressed inflation in less than a year, Chairman Mao was very happy: "The victory of this struggle is no less significant than the Huaihai Campaign, and Chen Yun and Bo Yibo have extremely strong financial management ability." ”
However, there are always cases of mistakes in the work.
In 1952, a new tax system was promulgated under the auspices of the Central Finance Commission, but there were immediate fluctuations in society.
In the spring of the following year, Xiang Ming, the second secretary of the Shandong Branch, wrote a joint letter to the central government, reflecting the negative situation of price fluctuations and private businessmen waiting and seeing caused by the implementation of the new tax system.
Bo Yibo was in a very heavy mood after seeing this, and he immediately sent several working groups to various cities to understand the situation and rectify it, and the problem was quickly resolved.
Chairman Mao did not criticize Bo Yibo too much, and during the conversation, he also said: "You have to read a few books, read some philosophy, learn some dialectics, materialism, and also learn some logic." ”
Bo Yibo replied: "I am busy with work, and there are too many transactional things, so I don't have much time to read." ”
This time, Chairman Mao's attitude was more severe: "You often say that you are busy with work, this is not right, Lenin was still relatively busy during the October Revolution in Russia, he still sorted out the intricacies of Russia, you make mistakes, it is the lack of a thing that runs through everything, our party has made a vigorous cause, but also because of lack of experience and made a lot of mistakes, more than 20 years, only to find a subjective and objective consistent road to the victory of the Chinese revolution." ”
That year, Chen Yun recuperated due to illness, and Bo Yibo served as acting director.
Obviously, the work will be very busy, but Chairman Mao still said: "You should go and take a walk, change the air, and see the bright future." ”
Therefore, Bo Yibo went to Hebei, Shanxi, and other places, with a total journey of more than 40 days, and he also wrote a special report on the rural economy and peasants' livelihood after liberation.
Chairman Mao, on the other hand, carefully examined the report, crossed out each line, and printed and distributed it to the central comrades and the party groups of the relevant financial and economic departments for reading.
After coming back, Chairman Mao still felt that he had not moved far enough, and said: "I asked you to go to various parts of the motherland to see, but you only remember one North China." ”
These things left a deep impression on Bo Yibo, he said: "Chairman Mao's care and encouragement to me will never be forgotten for the rest of my life." ”
It can be said that in Bo Yibo's heart, most of the achievements he has made have been achieved under the teaching of Chairman Mao, and he has also seen that in the long course of China's revolution and national construction, Chairman Mao has always been a tireless explorer, especially at the beginning of the founding of New China, he began to think about how to find a path of socialist construction suitable for China's national conditions.
Many years later, standing in front of Chairman Mao's former residence, history resurfaced in front of him.
He once commented: "I think it is already great for a person to be able to do a great thing for the people in his life, but Chairman Mao has at least done a great thing that is enough to affect the course of Chinese and even world history, and he is a great proletarian revolutionary after all." ”
In 1982, Bo Yibo was elected executive deputy director of the Central Advisory Committee at the first plenary session of the Central Advisory Committee, and in those 10 years, he did a lot of work to abolish the lifelong system of leading cadres and establish a retirement system for leading cadres.
In addition, against the backdrop of reform and opening up, he visited Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou, Xiamen, and other special economic zones on many occasions, and devoted a great deal of effort to exploring a new socialist economic system on the mainland and promoting reform, opening up, and modernization.
After the Fourth Plenary Session of the 13th CPC Central Committee, even though he was old, he still paid attention to the major decisions of the CPC Central Committee.
On the fifth day of the first lunar month in 2006, Bo Yibo spent the last birthday of his life, and everyone sang "On the Taihang Mountain" together. ”
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