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*This article is excerpted from the first volume of "Wulian Literary and Historical Materials" (February 1986), written by Wang Xinli, and the original title is "The Road Traveled by Mo Zhengmin"
Mo Yu (January 21, 1913–April 8, 1983)
Mo Yusheng (January 21, 1913 - April 8, 1983), formerly known as Mo Zhengmin. On January 21, 1913, he was born in a poor peasant family in Mojiayatou Village, Wanghu Township, Juxian County, Shandong Province (now Wulian County). I went to a private school when I was young. In 1928, he entered the 52nd Army of the Beiyang Army as a sergeant quartermaster, and in 1930, he went to the Juxian Security Brigade in Shandong Province as a squad leader of the pistol team. After the outbreak of the "July 7" Anti-Japanese War in 1937, he served as the commander of the first detachment of the second guerrilla force of the Fifth War Zone, the head of the Juxian Self-Defense Regiment, and the commander of security. On November 14, 1944, under the powerful political offensive of the Eighth Route Army, he resolutely led his troops to revolt. According to the memoirs of Zhang Zizhen, former deputy director of the Liaison Department of the General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, "Remembering the Work of the 115th Division in Lunan," published in Spark Burning the Plains (No. 6, 1984): "Mo Zhengmin's troops were stationed on the Taiwei Highway east and south of Ju County. -- Due to the difficult situation of the puppet army in this unit, coupled with the crackdown on our anti-grain struggle for several consecutive years, as well as the extensive publicity of the anti-war policy, the captains below them were forced to contact us at first, and then from the bottom up to win over Mo Zhengmin himself to establish a relationship with us. "In November 1944, our Binhai District troops launched an attack on Juxian County, and we had to respond internally. He ceded the defensive ground to the Eighth Route Army, withdrew from the city with more than 3,000 puppet troops, and declared an uprising. ”
After the Mobu uprising, the Shandong Military Region explicitly awarded the ministry the title of "Second Independent Brigade of the Shandong Military Region", with Mo Zhengmin as the brigade commander and Gu Fengming as the director of the Political Department.
In May and June 1945, according to the instructions of Xiao Hua, director of the Political Department of the Shandong Military Region, Mo Zhengmin was introduced by Wang Dongnian, Ma Hua, and Gu Fengming. Mo Zhengmin has since changed his name to Mo Yusheng.
In February 1946, Mo Yusheng took the initiative to resign from the post of commander of the Second Independent Brigade, and the leaders of the Shandong Military Region agreed to his request and was reappointed as a senator of the Binhai Naval Region. In October 1946, he was transferred to the East China Senior Party School to study. In January 1947, due to work needs, Mo Yusheng graduated early and was a full member of the Communist Party of China when he left school.
In April 1947, Mo Yusheng was transferred to the Liberation Brigade of the Liaodong Military Region as the deputy captain. The brigade was later renamed the First Liberation Regiment of the Liaodong Military Region and the First Liberation Regiment of the Political Department of the Northeast Military Region, and he served as the deputy commander. In January 1950, the Liberation Regiment was ordered to join the state-owned farm. Mo Yusheng and the head of the regiment, Wang Shiying, and other 6 people, braved the severe cold, stepped on the ice and snow, and selected the site of Baoquanling Farm in the vast area from Hegang to Luobei. He also personally led some officers and soldiers of the Liberation Regiment into the wasteland as an advance team. He and his warriors drilled the first well and built the first hut. After the troops entered the point, he was responsible for directing the construction of the road from Hegang to Baoquanling. He went to labor with the masses of fighters. As one of the founders of Baoquanling Farm, he made great contributions.
In the spring of 1952, Mo Yusheng was transferred from Baoquanling Farm and successively served as the director of the Secretariat of the Northeast State Farm Administration, the vice president of the Agricultural Mechanization College of the Heilongjiang Provincial Agricultural Machinery Bureau, the director of the state-owned Saltu Livestock Farm, the director of the state-owned Red Grassland Ranch, and the director of the Red Grassland Agricultural Reclamation Bureau. After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1978, he was transferred to the deputy director of the Suihua State Farm Administration. Although he was over the age of six, he still spared no effort in his work, and personally wrote articles such as "A New Chapter of the Prairie" and "Thirty-one Years After the Uprising". He enthusiastically praised the great achievements of the construction of the Heilongjiang reclamation area, and was successively selected for Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" and other overseas newspapers and periodicals.
Mo Yusheng has worked hard for the cause of agricultural reclamation for more than 30 years, experienced hardships, and is deeply admired by the cadres and workers in the reclamation area. He died on April 8, 1983. He was 70 years old.
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When it comes to Mo Zhengmin, people in southeast Lu will naturally think of Jucheng during the Anti-Japanese War, as well as his bizarre experience of "three ups and three downs". In 1983, at the grand memorial service held by the Heilongjiang Provincial Bureau of Agricultural Reclamation, Mo Zhengmin mourned a hard-working entrepreneur with outstanding achievements on the agricultural reclamation front of the Great Northern Wilderness. Mo Zhengmin's life is tortuous and bumpy, complex and peculiar. He has been an old soldier, a grass king, held high the red flag of resistance against Japan, and also acted as an accomplice of the Japanese invaders; He was once a rebel of the country, a sinner of history, and later a patriotic hero and a devotee to the cause of socialist construction. In the meantime, he has pursuits and disillusionments; There are feelings and cheers, and there are confusion and hesitation; There is joy accompanied by blood and tears, and there is confession intertwined with love and hate; There is the pain of being reborn after going to the light, and there is also the satisfaction and pride of joining the revolution and making contributions to the cause. How should we evaluate such a complex character who spans two eras and combines merit and guilt? Obviously, we cannot simply use the concepts of "affirmation" or "negation", but can only look at him analytically and concretely, that is, in the method of historical materialism. So, let's follow the footprints left by Mo Zhengmin and take a look at the road he has walked.
A teenager who was full of ambition
Mo Zhengmin was born in 1913 in a peasant family in Mojiayatou, Wulian County, and began attending private school at the age of nine. When he was eleven years old, his father became the platoon commander of the Juxian County Garrison, and Mo Zhengmin followed his father to study in Tinggou, Jucheng and other places. The classmates are all the children of the rich and powerful, and Mo Zhengmin, who lives in poverty, is often despised and bullied by them.
He was indignant and determined to study hard, grow up and make a show, and fight for himself. Due to his father's profession, Mo Zhengmin was able to have frequent contact with some soldiers, which made him gradually have a good impression of this profession. In particular, he saw that no matter where those officers went, the landlords and gentlemen were very welcoming and very majestic, and Mo Zhengmin was very envious. In addition, he loved to listen to chivalrous and public stories since he was a child, and after he had the ability to read, he was most willing to read this kind of novels. All this prompted Mo Zhengmin to secretly breed in his young heart the idea of being a martial artist, a hero, and a prominent man in the world. At the age of sixteen (1928), he finally dropped out of school and joined the army despite the resistance of his family. Thereafter; He served in Zhang Zongchang, Han Fuyu and other departments. Because he was smart and capable, and a little educated, he quickly mixed into the position of captain and took a big step on the road of his struggle.
Pull the team to fight against the Japanese
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, at the moment of national crisis, Zhang Buyun's department, where Mo Zhengmin was located, surrendered to the Japanese in December 1937, which made Mo Zhengmin very disappointed, so he took a few people to leave the team and return to his hometown. Before leaving, he left a letter to Zhang Buyun, to the effect that I didn't want to be a traitor, and decided to go back to my hometown to join the team to fight against Japan. In the future, if you are useful to me, I will come back.
After Mo Zhengmin returned home, he immediately organized an anti-Japanese armed force of more than 30 people to garrison Dabeixing. At that time, Dabeixing had an underground party branch that had lost contact with the party, and its members included seven or eight Communist Party members such as Wang Naizheng and Wang Dongnian. In order to carry out anti-mouth work, they entered Mobu and organized anti-Japanese armed forces with Mo Zhengmin. At that time, all kinds of local armed forces in the name of resisting Japan rose one after another, and many Kuomintang troops fled without a fight in the face of the Japanese invaders, and the elk gathered in the Wulian Mountains for refuge, so that the Wulian Mountains were full of troops, and there were more "commanders" than Mao. They divide their dominance, fight with each other, and annex them. Because Mo Zhengmin had served as a captain in the regular army, his marksmanship was good, he had a high prestige, and he had the cooperation of the party organization, this team was able to develop rapidly in a situation where the "heroes" stood side by side, and soon reached the scale of more than 1,000 people, with Mo Zhengmin as the commander. Most of the party members in Mobu have entered the political department, and Wang Dongnian has served as deputy director of the political department. They assisted Mo Zhengmin in doing a good job of mass discipline and strictly forbade soldiers from harming the interests of the people, so that the troops adhered to the political orientation of resisting Japan and serving the people.
In the spring of 1938, the troops defeated the landlords' armed forces in Yangjia Xiazhuang and opened a warehouse to help the people. Poor peasants within a few dozen miles went to receive grain with joy. The donkeys on the road are picked, bustling, and lively. Then the masses sang this ballad:
"If you want to be a man, follow Mo Zhengmin." As a result, Mobu became famous, and many local armed forces went to take refuge one after another, and in addition, Mobu successively incorporated a number of local armed forces (mainly landlord armed forces), so that the army grew to more than 5,000 people in just two months, and became prominent among the "heroes" of the group.
Due to the influence of the Communist Party of China, at this time, Mo Zhengmin's thinking was quite progressive. He embraced and supported the various propositions put forward by the Communist Party and asked to join the Communist Party of China. The party organization in Mobu considered that he was born in the old military and needed to be tested by a long period of understanding, so they first developed him as a member of the "people first".
Take refuge in Gao Shuxun
Since Mo Zhengmin pulled the team, although he has successively attached himself to the Kuomintang Wang Dao, Liu Zhendong and other departments, he has not been controlled by them, but has maintained full independence. Because "dependence" is just a strategy for Mo Zhengmin to survive and develop by "backing the mountain". At that time, it was obvious that what he really wanted to take refuge in was the Eighth Route Army. But when he and the party organization sent people to Yishui to contact the Eighth Route Army, they were rejected by a captain on the grounds that the composition of the Mobu was complicated. This could not but give Mo Zhengmin a blow to his thinking. In June 1938, the new Sixth Division of the Kuomintang, the Gao Shuxun Division, marched into Ju County. Mo Zhengmin felt that Gao Bu was a regular army and could resist Japan, and he had Gao Shuxun's support in a dispute with Xu Shusheng, the magistrate of Juxian County of the Kuomintang, over financial issues, so he negotiated with the party organization to join Gao Ministry. Several party members felt that the senior department had our party organization and agreed with Mo Zhengmin's opinion. And Gao Shuxun also wants to expand his power. As a result, Mo was organized into the Second Independent Brigade of the New Sixth Division, with Mo as the brigade commander and Wang Dongnian as the director of the Political Department. At the end of the year, Mo Zhengmin led his troops to the Jilu border area to resist the Japanese, and fought with the Japanese army many times. In the winter of 1939, when the Kuomintang set off its first anti-communist upsurge, Gao Shuxun vigorously investigated and arrested Communist Party members in the ministry, and Mo Zhengmin tried every means to bail him out. Since then, the cadres above the Mo Ministry have been replaced by Gao Shuxun's people, and all the party members have been forced to evacuate.
Yangsan surrendered to the enemy
Because Mo Bu was firmly controlled by Gao Shuxun, this made Mo Zhengmin like a beast trapped, and he felt frustrated. Then, Mobu was transferred to Nangong County to reinforce the Shiyou Third Division, which was fighting against the Eighth Route Army, and was surrounded by the Eighth Route Army after leaving. In the course of years of exploration and development, Mo Zhengmin developed the idea that "those who know the times are handsome" and "if you want to survive, you must adapt to the environment" (Mo Zhengmin's 1952 "Autobiography of Cadres"), coupled with his original ideological foundation of leaning towards the Communist Party, so he sent people to contact the surrender of the Eighth Route Army. However, he was annoyed by the conditions of the Eighth Route Army to disarm him, so he decided that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party would not comply, and led his troops back to Lunan again. He used the method of seizing the gun to coerce the cadres above the company level to obey his will. When breaking through, Mobu was chased by the Eighth Route Army for three days and nights, and when he was forced to the vicinity of Liangshan, he was in a dilemma: the east was Shuibo, the south was the devil, and the Eighth Route Army copied it from the west and north. Mo Zhengmin decided to make a fake surrender to the Japanese invaders, get rid of the urgent need, and then make other plans. He was restrained during negotiations with the Japanese and was forced to agree to the disarming of the troops; The Japanese also agreed to his request to disarm and return to Lunan. However, after disarming, the Japanese invaders turned their faces and sent Mo Zhengmin, Wang Shaoshi, Ding Zhi'an (a Communist Party member) and other major leaders to Yanzhou under house arrest, and sent all the soldiers away as laborers. Mo Zhengmin deeply regretted that he did not surrender to the Eighth Route Army at the beginning, resulting in falling into this step.
Back home
Under house arrest, Mo Zhengmin repeatedly proposed to the Japanese invaders to return to his hometown to visit relatives. Two months later (April 194O), the Japanese asked him to return to his hometown to organize an "anti-communist work group" and left the rest as hostages. In order to make a comeback, and in order to rescue a few henchmen who were still detained in the hands of the Japanese invaders, Mo Zhengmin returned to his hometown under the banner of the Japanese army and quickly organized an "anti-communist work group" of more than 1,000 people, stationed in Guan Shuai, under the leadership of the Japanese invaders in Jucheng. In June, he asked the traitor Yu Jingwu to come back from Yanzhou through the Juxian Rikou Xinmin Association, Wang Shaoshi and others. In March 1941, he led his troops to join the 51st Army of the Kuomintang and served as the commander of the 33rd Independent Detachment of the Sulu Theater.
Re-throw Day
When Mo Zhengmin organized the "anti-communist work group," he once pulled over a battalion of Kuomintang security brigade commander Xu Shusheng (the battalion commander was Mo's old subordinate). The new hatred and the old hatred caused the two sides to fight, and as a result, Xu Shusheng's troops were defeated. The contradictions between the two sides have reached a fever pitch.
In 1942, the Kuomintang's slogan of "saving the country by curves" was very loud. Under this slogan, many Kuomintang troops lost their national dignity and threw themselves into the arms of the Japanese invaders. In this context, Xu Shusheng also sent people to negotiate with the Japanese army in Tinggou, preparing to surrender to the enemy, trying to eliminate Mo Zhengmin with the help of the Japanese army. After Mo Zhengmin heard about it, in order to save himself, he conquered Xu Shusheng, that is, he preemptively surrendered to Japan, and was appointed by the Japanese as the head of the Lunan Communist Army. Then, he successively incorporated a number of puppet armies in Ju County, relying on the strength of the people, and drove Xu Shusheng out of Ju in one fell swoop. He also managed to become the deputy captain of the Juxian puppet county brigade, and captured seven squadrons and ten self-defense regiments of the county brigade. Since then, Mo Zhengmin has held military power in Ju County, with a total of 35 squadrons and more than 3,500 people.
Deal with three sides
In the summer of 1942, when Mobu was ordered to "encroach" on the Junan Liberated Area, he was attacked by the Eighth Route Army. When Mo Zhengmin heard that Wang Dongnian was appointed as the magistrate of Ju County, in order to avoid harm and alleviate his worries, he sent people to establish contact with Wang Dongnian and then with the leaders of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, and accepted the Communist Party's three demands on him: send the information of the Japanese army's "sweep" to the Communist Party in advance; It is not allowed to disturb the base area and cover the anti-Japanese staff; Wait for the opportunity to revolt and surrender. After that, the Binhai Naval Region of the Eighth Route Army sent Gu Fengming and others to Mobu to carry out work and strive for Mo Zhengmin to be correct. The Kuomintang also actively wooed Mo Zhengmin. But Mo Zhengmin is Mo Zhengmin after all. Since he could not make a definite prediction of the future of the Japanese invaders, the Kuomintang, and the Communist Party, he dealt with the situation on three sides and watched the wind and steer the rudder. Once, he talked to Gu Fengming in the bedroom:
"You Communists don't come to eat, drink, and have fun, and you are born and die all day long, for what?"
"Eat and drink freely now, but I am afraid that it will be stinking for 10,000 years in the future."
"What has been stinking for 10,000 years, my surname Mo won't do it. You really think of me as a traitor. ”
"And what are you?"
"I am in Cao Ying, and my heart is in Han."
"Everyone should be Guan Yunchang, who will beat Cao Cao?"
"You can't say that. Where there is life, there is hope. Save some strength now, and you can fight devils in the future. I think 'curves to save the country' is also a solution. ”
"Why don't the common people call you 'curve team', but the traitor team?"
"The big husband can bend and stretch. I can't get the devil now, so I have to let people say a few ugly words. ”
This state of mind made him a puppet soldier, but he was always wary of the Japanese invaders; Although they have established relations with the Communist Party, they have not been able to meet each other in good faith for a long time. As for the Kuomintang, he still maintains a certain relationship with it, and is in a state of breaking the thread and leaving the party.
Choose carefully
In the spring of 1944, the Eighth Route Army liberated the Xiazhuang area in the southern part of Juxian County in order to connect the three base areas of central Luzhong, southern Lunan and Binhai. Mo Zhengmin had promised in advance that as soon as the battle began, the second brigade in Xiazhuang and Zhaojialing strongholds would be withdrawn. But later, he broke his promise and held on to his troops, and was completely annihilated by the Eighth Route Army. After the incident, Mo Zhengmin was greatly dissatisfied and claimed that he wanted the Eighth Route Army to withdraw from Mobu, otherwise their safety could not be guaranteed. The leader of the Binhai Naval District of the Eighth Route Army sent him a letter, reprimanding him for helping the invaders, endangering the anti-Japanese resistance, and being untrustworthy; He was advised to recognize the situation and quickly pull back from the precipice. Mo Zhengmin ignored it, but instead mobilized the troops in anger to "fight to the end with one person and one gun". Soon after, the Eighth Route Army captured the stronghold of Heqiu and severely punished the 3rd Brigade of Mobu, which endangered the people and attacked the anti-Japanese forces. Mo Zhengmin gradually realized that the Eighth Route Army did not fight him in the past, not because of lack of strength, but because of sincerity to fight for him. Therefore, he changed his attitude, consciously contacted Gu Fengming, and agreed that the Eighth Route Army would set up a semi-public contact point in its stronghold and send more liaison personnel.
In September 1944, the Japanese Kusanoqing Brigade went to Luzhong to "sweep" and was completely annihilated by the Eighth Route Army. This enabled Mo Zhengmin to further see the powerful strength of the Communist Party and the people's army, and to see the trend of the inevitable defeat of the Japanese army. However, he hovered between the Communist Party and the Kuomintang again, because of the strong concept of "orthodoxy," he still had illusions about the Kuomintang.
On one trip to Qingdao, he invited some Kuomintang people as guests to find out their attitudes, but found that these people were not enthusiastic about him. This prompted him to think that he was not a member of the Kuomintang, that he had no forces to rely on in the Kuomintang, and that he had killed important figures in the Kuomintang and that he felt that it would never be beneficial to defect to the Kuomintang, so he dispelled his illusions about the Kuomintang. But he was worried about the situation after taking refuge in the Eighth Route Army, because he heard that in July, the Shouguang puppet army Wang Dao was disbanded and Wang Dao was killed. The head of the Binhai Military Region invited his adjutant Wang Shaoshi to visit the base area, and saw that Wang Dao had been appointed commander of the First Independent Brigade of the Shandong Military Region, and that the troops had not been disbanded, so Mo Zhengmin was relieved. Subsequently, the head of the Shandong Military Region said that Mo Zhengmin would appoint him as the commander of the Second Independent Brigade anyway. This made Mo Zhengmin finally make a decision anyway. He said to Gu Fengming: "Although my surname Mo is behind the royal road of anti-Japanese resistance, I must be more beautiful than him." ”
莒城反正走向光明
After careful planning, on November 14, 1944, Mo Zhengmin led his troops to the right place. He skillfully organized all the puppet army and puppet organ personnel in Juxian County under the banner of Anyway, and joined forces with the Eighth Route Army to seize Jucheng and 16 outlying strongholds overnight, liberating more than 700 villages and more than 300,000 people. As a result, the two anti-Japanese base areas of Luzhong and Binhai were united, further isolating the Japanese puppet army in Rizhao County, and creating more favorable conditions for the Eighth Route Army to oppose "encroachment" and "sweeping".
After Mo Zhengmin was anyway, the Binhai Naval Region held a grand welcome party. The Warrior Repertory Troupe staged literary and artistic programs such as "Jucheng Uprising" and "Fog" for them. Luo Ronghuan, Li Yu, and Xiao Hua, heads of the Shandong Military Region, sent a telegram to Mo Zhengmin and his subordinate officers and men to express warm congratulations and condolences, praised their glory as "a great contribution" to the motherland and the people, and encouraged them to "make more meritorious contributions on the battlefield of resistance against Japan" in the future. The rebel troops were organized into the Second Independent Brigade of the Shandong Military Region, with Mo Zhengmin as the brigade commander. With excitement, he led more than 3,500 officers and men to the base area, and along the way the masses beat gongs and drums, sang and danced, and warmly welcomed them.
When Mo Zhengmin walked to a gate with a plaque that read "Glorious Righteousness", four "literacy classes" came out of the crowd to welcome him. Reporters were busy taking pictures of him. Mo Zhengmin's blood was boiling and excited. He felt as if he had broken out of the gloom and into the sun, and the heavens and the earth were bright.
Be a new person
Mo Zhengmin's anyway this time is different from the usual tossing and turning as an expedient measure to save himself and climb up, but the final choice made on a certain ideological basis and full ideological preparation. That is to say, he has a certain sense of patriotism and justice, and when he is a puppet army, he is not desperate to serve the Japanese invaders, but because of the long-term influence of the Communist Party, he has a certain understanding of the Communist Party's propositions and behaviors for the people; After a long period of observation, he felt that neither the Japanese nor the Kuomintang could be relied upon, so he decided that the Communist Party was the most promising and the future of China; He also had a certain degree of ideological preparation for going through hardships after working with the Communist Party. In any case, the warm welcome and favor he received after that strengthened his confidence in the Communist Party. Therefore, he regretted the history of being a puppet army in the past, and said that "we must study hard, change our face, catch up, and be a new person" (edited by the Political Department of the Binhai Naval District of the Shandong People's Liberation Army in July 1946, "Eight Years of Binhai Jucheng Uprising"). He handed over all his already small property to the party. He eagerly studied the works of Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi and other party leaders.
He enthusiastically accepted the party's education and assistance to him, actively participated in the class education, the grievance appeal movement, and the rectification training organized by the higher authorities, and worked hard to transform his thinking so that he could adapt himself to the new environment as soon as possible. At the same time, he actively asked to join the Communist Party of China. He did not allow his subordinates to speak ill of the Communist Party, and once discovered, he angrily dismissed and expelled him.
In May 1945, the Party Committee of the Binhai Naval Region of the Communist Party of China approved him as a special party member, but his request to formally join the party was not approved for a long time. This made him very worried that the Communist Party would not want him, so he was depressed and uneasy, and he was burdened with heavy ideological baggage. On August 5, 1946, the CPC Shandong Military Region Party Committee approved him as an alternate party member. This enabled him to dispel his worries, lift his spirits, and strengthen his determination to follow the Communist Party for a lifetime of revolution. After a period of time, he found that his thinking was still far behind the environment, so he repeatedly asked to study at the Party School of the East China Bureau and the East China Military and Political University for a period of time, and his thinking made great progress. Because of the party's rescue of him, he changed his name to Mo Yusheng (for the convenience of the narrative, the title will still be "Mo Zhengmin").
Entrepreneur of the Great Northern Wilderness
After Mo Zhengmin embarked on the revolutionary road, he successively served as brigade commander, senator of the Shandong Military Region, and deputy commander of the First Liberation Regiment of the Liaoning Military Region. In 1952, he transferred to work with the Liberation Corps. Since then, he has been working in the Northeast.
Mo Zhengmin is Mo Zhengmin in the end. He has been ambitious since he was a child, but in the early stage, due to social and historical reasons, and due to the lack of guidance of correct thinking and line, he embarked on an evil road. After the party led him to the right path, he still did not want to be a mediocre person. In July 1953, he was unwilling to do the comfortable job of the secretariat of the Northeast Farm Administration, but insisted on going to a difficult place to do a career, so he served as the director of the Saltu Ranch in the Great Northern Wilderness. In 60, he was transferred to the vice president of Heilongjiang Provincial Agricultural Mechanization College. In 62, he asked to work in the Great Northern Wilderness. Considering that it was too difficult there, that he had many children, and that his health was not good, the provincial leaders repeatedly retained him and asked him to be the deputy director of the Provincial Department of Agricultural Reclamation, but he resolutely refused, and the comrades' persuasion was ineffective. He finally went to the Great Northern Wilderness with his family and served as the director of the Red Grassland Agricultural Reclamation Bureau.
The Great Northern Wilderness is boundless, sparsely populated, and the climate is harsh.
When Mo Zhengmin first arrived at the Saltu ranch, the farm was very small, with only a few hundred people and hundreds of hectares of land. Not only the environmental conditions are harsh, but also the funds are tight, and the cadres and technical strength are insufficient; In terms of life, they eat sorghum rice and "big stubble" (cornmeal nest head), and the supply of non-staple food is very small. But what Mo Zhengmin wants is such conditions. He wants to wash away the sins of the past here, use the rest of his life to walk out of a new line of footprints, and be a person who has made a difference to the party's cause here. He led all the workers to the blue sky on their heads, on the wasteland, against the wind and snow, eating and sleeping in the dew, facing countless difficulties, speeding up the development of escape, so that the farm developed into one of the four major animal husbandry bases in the country - and an important national breeding base, established the Red Grassland Agricultural Reclamation Bureau, with more than 10,000 workers in ten farms and pastures, developed and utilized 200,000 hectares of land, including 30,000 hectares of cultivated land, with more than 8,000 cows, more than 7,000 horses, more than 50,000 sheep, and more than 100,000 pigs. New breeds of breeding stock such as "Northeast Fine Wool Sheep", "Heilongjiang Bangma" and "Heilongjiang Dairy Cow" have been cultivated. Dairy products and breeding stock are exported to countries such as East Germany, Vietnam and North Korea.
Rustic style and valuable morality
In the long-term leadership of the development and construction of the Great Northern Wilderness, Mo Zhengmin not only "made many creative achievements for the development of state-owned farms" (the eulogy delivered by the leader of the Heilongjiang Agricultural Reclamation Bureau at Mo Zhengmin's memorial service), but also his simple style and valuable character also left a deep impression on the people of the Great Northern Wilderness.
Mo Zhengmin is strict with himself and his style is extremely simple. In the Great Northern Wilderness, as a twelfth-level senior cadre, he lived in an office rebuilt from a cowshed for a long time, often fetching water and sweeping the floor by himself, and did not want others to take care of him; "Squatting" at the grassroots level, he worked in the field like the masses, lined up to eat, and never engaged in special activities. He is approachable, kind, and has no "official arrogance" at all. It is rare for people to see him reprimanding anyone in a "official" manner. He often talks with the staff, plays chess. The employees never felt restrained in front of him. He has a warm heart and cares about people. If the staff around him worked the night shift, he would get up in the middle of the night to visit them and tell them to rest early.
His simplicity and simplicity were unanimously loved by the masses, and people affectionately called him "Old Motou", but rarely called him "Chief Mochang" and "Director Mo". During the "Cultural Revolution", Lao Motou was beaten and imprisoned, and the masses did everything possible to protect him. The old worker was afraid that he would pull his hair when he fought him, so he shaved his head. He loves spicy food, and the cook secretly gave him some onions and garlic while he was eating. In the hot summer, he was roamed around, and some family members asked their children to bring him water to drink. Once you went to Zhuangzhi Farm, in order to let Lao Motou have a good meal, he changed his lunch from the original plan to eat coarse grains and vegetarian dishes, to eat rice and red stewed meat, and the whole staff enjoyed a good meal with Lao Motou, because they didn't dare to make food for him alone.
The cadres and the masses loved and protected him, and this made his heart more closely attached to the cadres and the masses. During the "Cultural Revolution", although he was in a difficult situation, he still tried his best to protect the cadres and the masses. He has repeatedly taken many responsibilities on himself, thus saving many cadres and masses from persecution and showing valuable moral character.
Mo Zhengmin did something wrong, had the courage to admit his mistakes, corrected them in time, and was never afraid of losing face. One year on Chinese New Year's Eve, a new film came to the venue. Prepare for the screening on the first night of the new year. The comrades of the organs urgently asked to watch this film on Chinese New Year's Eve. But when Mo Zhengmin went to the director of the club to discuss the matter, the director disagreed, so he respected the director's opinion. Later, the secretary of the party committee and the director of the office persuaded the director of the club to agree to the screening. When Mo Zhengmin heard about this, he couldn't help but get angry and inappropriately criticized the secretary of the party committee and the director of the office of the organ. The secretary refuted reasonably, and the director thought that after a year of hard work, he was criticized by the leaders on Chinese New Year's Eve, and went home and cried. After dinner, the secretary went to comfort him and pulled him to watch a movie to have a good time. At this time, it was very late, and on the way there, they muttered that Director Mo was angry, and it was likely that he would not go to the movies, and that would make them very uncomfortable. However, as soon as the two entered the door of the screening room, they saw that the movie had not yet been played, and at a glance they saw Director Mo sitting there, and when they saw the two of them coming, they said to the projectionist: "Let's start playing." As soon as the lights were turned off, he quietly left.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, Mo Zhengmin realized that it was wrong to inappropriately criticize his subordinates, so he was very uneasy and could not sleep for a long time. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, he profoundly examined his mistakes at the Standing Committee of the Bureau Awareness Committee. After breakfast, he went one by one to make a review to the secretary of the party committee and the director of the office of the organ. Later, he apologized twice to the director of the office, so much so that the director felt embarrassed.
Mo Zhengmin did not protect his face, and as a result, his prestige among the cadres was even higher.
In the years when the "leftist" line was prevalent, Mo Zhengmin resisted interference many times and insisted on proceeding from reality. In five or seven years, they "beat the rightists" and demanded that they be beaten proportionately. However, the red grassland pasture of more than 10,000 people under the leadership of Mo Zhengmin has only one rightist. In the 58th year, the "five winds" prevailed, and he did not engage in exaggeration and deception, and insisted on reporting output to his superiors in a realistic manner, so he was criticized when he attended the meeting of the secretary of the prefectural party committee held in the province. But he doesn't compromise. After the meeting, he led the participants to check the land conditions of the pasture, thus confirming that the yield he reported was true.
Pure Heart
After Mo Zhengmin became a true communist, his belief in the party never wavered, and he showed a touching and innocent heart.
During the "Cultural Revolution", he was falsely accused of being a "fake party member" and branded as a "capitalist roader", "counterrevolutionary revisionist" and "three-anti element", and was imprisoned and reformed through labor for many years. Although he was persecuted, he never admitted that he was a fake party member and always maintained a firm belief in the party. Although he was idle at home, he still cared about the party's cause. Once, when he heard at home that several sheep in the pasture had been eaten by wolves, he was very disturbed, and when he slept, he said in his sleep: "Why are you so careless in herding sheep!" After the Cultural Revolution, he was very bitter to see that many cadres who had been defeated had been reinstated, but he was still put on hold and could not contribute to the party. He asked the organization to work, "Let me be the secretary general, and I can manage my life." Otherwise, I am eating the party's food and not doing work for the party, how uncomfortable I feel in my heart! ”
He only thinks about dedicating himself to the party, and throws aside his life, family, fame, fortune and status. In August '77, he was transferred to the Suihua Farm Management Bureau as an advisor. At this time, Mo Zhengmin, who was seventy years old, suffered from cerebral thrombosis and other diseases, and urgently needed to be taken care of. But he never asked the organization to move his family from the Great Northern Wilderness. It was not until 80 that he moved his family to Suihua under the mobilization of the organization. After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Red Grassland Ranch (formerly the Agricultural Reclamation Bureau) completely rehabilitated Mo Zhengmin, and he was appointed deputy director of the Suihua Farm Management Bureau of Heilongjiang Province, and was administratively promoted to the 11th grade. His position was lower than it was more than a decade ago, but he didn't care at all and never complained. When some people talked to him about this, he always said: "Revolutionary work, whatever position you have, you just have to work." He did his best to contribute his spare heat to the cause of the party. When he was retiring, the Suihua Prefectural Committee planned to report him to be a member of the Heilongjiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a member of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress.
Although Mo Zhengmin is a high-ranking cadre, he has been financially constrained due to his large population. His family life was astonishingly frugal. Eight years ago, the main furniture of his house was only two broken wooden boxes for packing matches, two old tables, and a few chairs and stools. He wears clothes made of the most ordinary fabrics, often patched. But he never asked the Order to take care of him. After Mo Zhengmin arrived in the Northeast, he never returned home. In his later years, he often thought that he would go back to his hometown with his family to visit his parents, relatives and friends, but he was unable to achieve it due to financial inadequacy. When he finally made the decision to visit his home, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 6, 1983.
With a pure heart, Mo Zhengmin dedicated the second half of his life to the cause of the party, and he asked for nothing and went silently. However, his achievements and qualities have long remained in the hearts of the Northeast Agricultural Reclamation Fighters. The party and the people will not forget him.
The above is a general description of the journey that Mo Zhengmin has traveled in his life. Through his life, one can probably conclude that on the scales of history, one side of his merits is much lower than the side of his faults.
"Literacy class", dialect, young women.
Sources:
Five Lotus Literary and Historical Materials, Volume 1 (February 1986)