Haunting the most is the border situation - General Li Xuanhua in the northwest (4)

Author Qu Quanzhen

General Li Xuanhua

Disgusted with fame and profit

On the wall of Li Xuanhua's study, there is a frame of calligraphy, on which four warnings are written: Don't be ashamed of yourself by chasing fame and fortune, you must distinguish between the false and the true and stop being angry. Break the stereotypes and be spotless, and stand high and clean with clean sleeves. Signed Zhang Aiping. Six-foot line of grass, magnificent, strong pen power, at a glance you know that it is the Confucian general Zhang Aiping's meticulous work. The four sentences not only contain the love for Li Xuanhua, but also contain the affirmation of Li Xuanhua. Because of the upright old general, he knows the personality and ethics of his old subordinate very well.

Li Xuanhua, whose ancestral home is Qi County, Henan, lost his father at the age of two, dropped out of school at an early age, and was orphaned and widowed. Although his father, who taught private school for most of his life, did not leave him with a worry-free family background, the family style of cultivation and reading inheritance made the ancient motto of "courtesy, righteousness, honesty and shame, the four dimensions of the country"; The admonition of "indifferent and ambitious, quiet and far-reaching" cultivated the refined temperament of the young Li Xuanhua. He speaks well and behaves decently, even if he is dressed in burlap, he can still be reminiscent of the old saying "there is poetry and books in the belly". After joining the New Fourth Army and the Communist Party in 1938, the Confucian personality of being knowledgeable and rational gradually sublimated into the character of a Communist. He is strict with self-discipline, open-minded, and dismissive of people and things that are difficult to eat.

From putting on a military uniform in 1938 to leaving his post in 1998 to recuperate, Li Xuanhua has experienced countless tests of fame, fortune and status in his 60-year military career; In the face of fame and fortune, he has also withstood the test countless times.

During the war years, he put the names of his wounded and wounded comrades-in-arms on the list of heroes. In the peaceful years of Yingge and Yan Dance, he hung his military merit medal on the chests of grassroots officers and soldiers. He admonished himself that winning the peace of the country and the nation was the highest reward for soldiers who walked out of the battlefield; Winning the prosperity and strength of the country and the nation is the highest reward for military personnel in peacetime. Such a concept of honor has made Li Xuanhua not shocked by honor and disgrace for decades, and he has been calm in advance and retreat.

When the "Cultural Revolution" was fought, the "three anti-elements" were hung with thick wooden wires, and their necks were strangled to ooze blood, and Li Xuanhua did not shout the slogan of "down" anyone. The cockade and collar badge that had been fixed the day before were torn off, and the sleeves of the clothes were torn, and his wife Shi Qiwei had to sew them up for him overnight. As long as he is not dragged to criticize the fight, Li Xuanhua will still be well-dressed the next day, go to work on time, and never leave a soulless image for the rebels.

During the 11 years of his work in the Political Department of the Beijing Military Region, Li Xuanhua was in charge of propaganda, culture, newspapers, and political work research, and also played the role of director of the "Sports Office." He accompanied five directors and presided over the work of the Political Department for two years when the director was vacant. If it weren't for the Central Military Commission's appointment this time, Li Xuanhua would probably have to sit down in the chair of the deputy director of the Political Department of the Beijing Military Region.

On January 25, 1974, after the mobilization meeting of the Capital Gymnasium to criticize Lin and Confucius, on April 7, it was revealed that Song Shuanglai, deputy political commissar of the 63rd Army, had obtained the transcript of Jiang Qing's "1.25" speech from Li Xuanhua and circulated it everywhere. On 7 April, under the pretext that Li Xuanhua had provided Song Shuanglai with the speeches of the central leading comrades, she wrote to Zhou Enlai, Wang Hongwen, Ye Jianying, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, Chen Xilian, Ji Dengkui, and others, saying: "I don't understand, why Li Xuanhua of the Beijing Military Region took the words out of context, changed his appearance, and carried out the instructions of the so-called central leading comrades. What is the purpose of distributing it everywhere? It is suggested that comrades Xilian and Dengkui should deal with it seriously and report it to the Central Committee. "

Jiang Qing suddenly became obscene, and there was a reason for it. It turned out that Mao Zedong had repeatedly criticized Jiang Qing for going behind the back of the Party Central Committee on January 26, February 15 and March 10, and held a meeting to criticize Lin and Confucius without authorization, and encouraged Yu Huiyong, Chen Yading and others to "set fire to the wasteland" in the army. Jiang Qing has a ghost in her heart, trying in vain to hide the truth, find excuses, and blame others.

Chen Xilian and Ji Dengkui were participants in Jiang Qing's two meetings, and they had read the draft of the communication beforehand, and the two of them had personally arranged for Li Xuanhua to convey it, so of course there was no reason to "deal with Li Xuanhua seriously." Although the matter was over, it made some old chiefs and old comrades-in-arms who cared about Li Xuanhua pinch a cold sweat for him.

If there is a clean and honest government, there will be the abuse of power for personal gain. In 1982, the General Political Department allocated 400 cadres to be trained and promoted by the Urumqi Military Region, and stipulated the conditions for admission by examination. However, 15 division-level units violated the regulations by reporting unqualified candidates as reserve cadres, and the cadre departments felt great pressure.

Li Xuanhua carefully looked through the list of reserve cadres submitted by various units, and found that behind the candidates who did not meet the regulations, there was a network of relationships that were intertwined with warp and weft, from the leaders of the military region, the headquarters organs, to the organs of the military region. After careful consideration, Li Xuanhua organized a joint review leading group to review the admission objects one by one, and finally canceled 109 unqualified candidates. This public case has alienated some leading comrades from Li Xuanhua, but it has made the party's image less dusty.

In the early 80s, original imported color TVs were very popular, and you couldn't get a good color TV with good quality and low price without a way. So Li Xuanhua was tested by the TV again. In 1983, the General Political Department of the People's Republic of China specially approved 63 original imported color televisions at prices lower than the market price for grassroots units. After Li Xuanhua reported the situation to Commander Xiao Quanfu and Political Commissar Tan Shanhe, in the name of the Military Region's Discipline Inspection Commission and the Political Department, he jointly circulated a notice of criticism and demanded that the person who took the television set make up the amount within a time limit. In less than a week, except for the two cadres who were left to make up the difference, the remaining 61 people all paid the difference at market prices.

History is a mirror, some people look at it from the front, some people look at it from the negative, and their views are different, and their conclusions are naturally different. After Li Xuanhua took office as political commissar of the Lanzhou Military Region, he and Commander Zhao Xianshun respectively visited the party committees and governments of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningbo, Qingdao, and Xin provinces (autonomous regions) to listen to the opinions and suggestions of local leading comrades on the work of the military region. The principal leading comrades of several provinces (autonomous regions) proposed that the military region could take advantage of the opportunity of the New Year's Day and Spring Festival to launch the "double support" activities to invite the leading comrades of the five northwestern provinces (autonomous regions) to Lanzhou to meet and meet with them, and at the same time coordinate the work of handing over the people's armed forces, supporting the army and supporting the front, and building the army and the people together. After consultation with the leading comrades of the five provinces (autonomous regions), on 7 January 1986, the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Lanzhou Military Region sent a telegram to the General Political Department and the Central Military Commission on the relevant contents of the forum convened by the leading comrades of the party, government, and military in the five northwestern provinces (autonomous regions), and requested the General Political Department to transmit the report to the Central Committee Office and the State Council. On 13 January, the General Political Office officially replied: "The report of the Central Committee, the State Council, the Central Military Commission, and the leaders of the General Political Department of the Military Region have all read it. With regard to the issue of inviting the leaders of the Central Military Commission and the General Political Department to attend the meeting, in view of the busy year-end work, the leaders will not attend your meeting, and I ask you to convene the meeting according to your plan. "

From 20 to 22 January 1986, the Military Region held a forum in Lanzhou for leading comrades of the five northwestern provinces (regions). Comrade Cui Honglin, appointed by the General Political Department to attend the meeting, made a special trip to attend the meeting and delivered a speech, saying: "The leaders of the General Political Department are very happy to see the report of the Lanzhou Military Region Party Committee on convening this meeting, attach great importance to this forum, and specially send me to Lanzhou to extend warm congratulations to the meeting. "

The secretaries, provincial governors, and chairmen present at the meeting gave many valuable opinions and suggestions on such issues as further strengthening military-government and military-civilian relations and strengthening army building, thus achieving the goal of deepening understanding, coordinating work, and maintaining close affection. Later, things changed, and someone called a "small report" to his superiors, saying that Li Xuanhua wanted to be the "king of the northwest" and held this forum without authorization. Although Li Xuanhua was insulted, he did not give a single explanation to the higher-level leaders, knowing that the higher-level leaders had been misled by the "small report."

In August 1988, our army conferred the title for the second time, and the spirit of all officers and men was invigorated. In late July, Li Xuanhua was inspecting his work in the Yushu Military Sub-district when he suddenly received a telephone call from a leading comrade of the Central Military Commission, saying that his military rank might have changed, and that he was hoped that he would go to Beidaihe, and that the leading comrades of the Central Military Commission wanted to talk to him face-to-face. Li Xuanhua said on the phone: "Thank you for the leadership of the Military Commission! What title to confer on me is a matter determined by the Military Commission, and if it is just this matter, I will not go. With the consent of the leaders of the Central Military Commission, Li Xuanhua went to the Guoluo Military Sub-district to inspect the work. Later, because his military age did not meet the prescribed number of years, several senior leaders of large military regions were awarded the rank of lieutenant general together with him. Talking about the awarding of titles, Li Xuanhua told me with deep respect that a large number of veteran cadres from the Red Army period were colonels or colonels when they were awarded the titles in 1955; When the title was conferred in 1988, many of these comrades were already the main leaders of the large military region, but they were too old again, and they did not catch up with the generals who wore the rank of generals twice, and became generals without generals in the history of our army! Who can say that they are not real generals?

The fame and fortune of sons and daughters are often the threshold that some leading cadres cannot cross. Li Xuanhua did not stumble over this threshold, he loved his children, but he did not help the seedlings grow. Daughter Li Zhongli returned from studying in United States and took the initiative to retire from a senior title before the age of 55. When the eldest son, Li Zhongzheng, attended the military congress, a comrade-in-arms from the same unit saw that his and Li Xuanhua's names were very close to each other on the roster, and they were both from Qixian County, Henan, and encouraged Li Zhongzheng and Li Xuanhua to climb their hometowns. The youngest son, Li Zhongwei, told me: "My father is our spiritual pillar, not a crutch that we rely on, and only those who can come out of the halo of our father's generation are people with sound minds." Even Li Xinru, the granddaughter who entered the Forbes China 100 Celebrities list in 2009, still remembers what her grandfather said: "At the difficult juncture, grit your teeth and get through!" "

Of course, honor can test the content of the party spirit of the communists, and money can even distinguish the true and false party spirit of the communists. In Li Xuanhua's view, honesty and honesty should be the political background of communists, not a mask to cover up the abuse of power for personal gain. Li Xuanhua didn't expect that after he had been retired for many years, someone would come to the door with a box of great unity and ask him to help promote his position.

Li Xuanhua asked the visitor to sit down and asked, "Do you know what the Kuomintang relied on to get promoted?" "The person who came refused to answer." By money! Li Xuanhua asked himself: "If the Communist Party also relies on money to get promoted, is there any difference between it and the Kuomintang?" After Li Xuanhua criticized, he said patiently: "Be loyal to the party and work hard is the only right way for you to progress!" "

Li Xuanhua is a well-read and perceptive person. The formulation of Deng Xiaoping Theory was formally determined by the 15 th CPC National Congress, but before that, the formulation was not uniform. In August 1988, when the Lanzhou Military Region held a study class for leading cadres at and above the division level, Li Xuanhua made it clear in his speech at the opening ceremony that he wanted to study Deng Xiaoping Theory and frankly said that "Deng Xiaoping was a great theoretician of Marxism." The main points of this speech were published by the Xinhua News Agency and the internal publications of the General Political Department. In view of the fact that Li Xuanhua had proposed studying Deng Xiaoping Theory as early as 1988, a comrade suggested that he write an article on the background of this proposal two years ago, but Li Xuanhua did not agree. He believes that it does not matter who mentions Deng Xiaoping Theory first and who mentions it later, but what matters is to study and practice Deng Xiaoping Theory well.

On the occasion of Li Xuanhua's 90th birthday, he refused to be interviewed by many media and refused to be passed on by many publishing houses, and it was not until the Central Military Commission included him in the object of his biography that he provided some materials.

A love of reading is one of Li Xuanhua's great hobbies. In his view, books are not only the ladder of human progress, but also the indispensable nourishment of human beings. Reading nourishes life, reading prolongs life, and reading can make the passing years burn with new passion! For more than 70 years, Li Xuanhua has not only read a large number of books, but also has excerpts from important books and important activities or events. According to preliminary understanding, his more than 70 books and excerpts of more than 1 million words contain many valuable materials about the history of the party and the military. Li Xuanhua said that because the excerpts involve views on people and things, these materials can only be left for future generations to refer to when studying history.

The collection of Li Xuanhua's essays in front of me was published under the repeated persuasion of veteran comrades and staff members, and the manuscripts included in the collection were selected from articles published in newspapers and periodicals. Even so, Li Xuanhua was not allowed to print more, and only printed a few hundred copies for relatives and friends as souvenirs. There are no photographs, no inscriptions, no prefaces, and no introductions about Li Xuanhua himself. But the orange-red cover is reminiscent of the splendor of the sunset, the blood of the martyrs, and the glory of history.

Man cannot bring power to the grave, power can send man to the grave; People can't bring money to the grave, but money can send people to the grave; People, you can't bring beauty to the grave, beauty can send people to the grave! Comparing Li Xuanhua's concept of fame and fortune, looking at the ups and downs in the political arena over the years, people can't help but ask, how can the unrighteous party style be the right people's style! How can you win the hearts of the people if you are not honest as an official!

(To be continued)