After the founding of the People's Republic of China, some of the founding generals were punished for various reasons and left their previous jobs. But they are all heroes of the revolution, and they still have to be arranged to work, and what industries will they usually be assigned to? The results were surprisingly consistent.
After the Lushan Conference, several generals were unlucky with Mr. Peng and left the army. For example, General Huang Kecheng, who was previously the secretary general of the Military Commission and the chief of the General Staff, held a relatively prominent position. After the Lushan meeting, Huang Kecheng was idle for six years and had no job.
Until 1965, Huang Kecheng took the initiative to write a letter to Chairman Mao, asking for assignment of work. Chairman Mao personally nodded and appointed Huang Kecheng as vice governor of Shanxi Province. At that time, there were many vice governors of Shanxi Province, and Huang Kecheng was the ninth among them, in charge of agriculture.
Huang Kecheng was born as a farmer, and at the beginning of his tenure, he went down to the countryside to conduct research, talk with farmer friends, and check the growth of crops. is old, but he is in full swing when he starts his work, and he is worthy of being a general of the republic.
For example, Deng Hua. Deng Hua was the commander of the Shenyang Military Region before, and after the Lushan Conference, he was also implicated by Mr. Peng and left the army. Soon, the central government asked Deng Hua to go to Sichuan to serve as vice governor, and coincidentally, they were all vice governors and were in charge of agricultural work.
Deng Hua is also a farmer's child, Sichuan is a large agricultural province, after Deng Hua took office, withstood the pressure, not afraid of people's words, to research in various places, the development of agricultural machinery, he almost became an agricultural expert.
There is also Hong Xuezhi, during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Hong Xuezhi was the logistics manager of the Volunteer Army, and had a very good relationship with Mr. Peng, and was also implicated by Mr. Peng.
Compared with Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi's life is even more difficult. The winter in the Northeast was very cold, especially later, Hong Xuezhi couldn't even be the director of the Agricultural Machinery Department, and was sent to work on the farm. In winter, the farm is a snowy and icy place, extremely cold, and inaccessible.
Hong Xuezhi is almost isolated from the world. In such a difficult and difficult situation, Hong Xuezhi still did not change his faith, insisted on working, and had no complaints, which made the people around him very moved. When the organization came up to investigate, no one said anything bad about Hong Xuezhi.
Let's talk about Zhong Wei. In the Northeast Battlefield, there is a tiger head division commander who is very capable of fighting, who likes to disobey the orders of his superiors, but he can always win and create miracles on the battlefield. Everyone said that he had a special gift for war and was General Patton of China.
But Zhong Wei is also an upright general, when the old chiefs Peng and Huang Kecheng were wrongly criticized, he bravely stood up and complained for the old chief, but he was also implicated, and the chief of staff of the Beijing Military Region could not be done.
Zhong Wei left the army and was sent to Anhui Province as deputy director of the Department of Agriculture. Also implicated is Lieutenant General Wan Yi, who is not Mr. Peng's old subordinate, but he also spoke up for Mr. Peng, and was also implicated.
Wan Yi was also a military cadre before transferring to Shaanxi Province to serve as the deputy director of the Forestry Department. There is also the famous Lieutenant General Wang Jinshan. He was in a different situation from Huang Kecheng, Deng Hua and others, he was punished because of his personal life style.
Wang Jinshan was expelled from the party, and the deputy commander of the Beijing Military Region could not be the commander, so he was sent to a farm in Zhoukou, Henan Province, as the deputy director. A mad general who has fought for half his life came to a remote village, like an old peasant in the countryside.
After several founding generals were punished, they were invariably assigned to work in agriculture and forestry. Why? On the one hand, they are all farmers, and they have the most contact with farmers and agriculture, so it is easier for them to get started when they go to be in charge of agricultural work.
On the other hand, at that time, the status of agriculture in the national economic system was relatively not so high, and agriculture was not a powerful sector, not a vital sector. Letting them do agricultural work is a slight punishment.