The "five horses entering Beijing" was a grand event that occurred at the turn of the winter and spring of 1952 to 1953, that is, the heads of the five major administrative regions were transferred to the central government. Because these five people were called "Thousand Mile Foals" by Dong Biwu, they entered Beijing to serve and were called "five horses entering Beijing".
Deng Zihui, one of the "Five Horses Entering Beijing", entered Beijing and served as minister of rural work and later vice premier of the State Council.
Deng Huaisheng, the son of Deng Zihui, recalled that after his father entered Beijing, he once climbed the Tiananmen Tower to participate in a large-scale event, and during the rest of the activity, several old marshals invited Chairman Mao to take pictures. However, Chairman Mao's eyes were sharp, and when he saw his father, he shouted, "Zi Hui, you should also come here." So my father had a photo with Chairman Mao and several old marshals.
Deng Huaisheng said that this group photo has become the most precious heirloom in the family.
From Deng Huaisheng's account, it is not difficult for us to know that Chairman Mao and Deng Zihui had a very deep revolutionary friendship.
Deng Zihui was born in a poor peasant family, he is a native of Dongxiao Dengcuo Village, Longyan County, Fujian Province, there are 8 brothers and sisters in the family, and he himself ranks second.
One can imagine how difficult the life of the poor peasants in the old society was.
However, Deng Zihui's parents would rather starve, but also tighten the waistband of their pants to send Deng Zihui, who is studious and loves to read, to school.
Also because the family was too difficult, Deng Zihui's mother fell ill when he was 13 years old and died because he had no money for treatment.
Deng Zihui was very competitive, excellent in his studies, and in 1917, he was admitted to the qualification of staying in Japan at public expense, traveled east to Japan, and studied in Tokyo, Japan.
However, even if he studied at public expense, Deng Zihui's family was too poor to continue to support him to continue studying in Japan, but also urgently needed him to come back to help support his family.
In this way, Deng Zihui studied in Tokyo for just over a year before dropping out of school and returning to China.
In the process of studying, Deng Zihui came into contact with progressive books and periodicals, had revolutionary ideas, and had the desire to save the people from water and fire.
In May 1918, Deng Zihui returned to Longyan, Fujian Province, to teach at Tonggang Elementary School.
From 1919 to 1927, Deng Zihui engaged in clandestine revolutionary activities, and in the winter of 1927 served as the propaganda director of the Longyan County Committee of the Communist Party of China.
In August and September 1927, the "Nanchang Uprising" and the "Autumn Harvest Uprising" that will be recorded in history broke out respectively.
In accordance with the spirit of the 87th Party Congress, deng Zihui participated in leading the Longyan Houtian Rebellion on March 4, 1928, established the first peasant guerrilla group in western Fujian, and began the struggle to create the Western Fujian Soviet District.
Now, in the history of our party, Deng Zihui is praised as "an expert in agricultural and rural work within the party."
Indeed, he was one of the earliest leaders of our Party in carrying out the agrarian revolution in the countryside.
As early as June 1928, Deng Zihui went to the countryside with Zhang Dingcheng to work together, leading the struggle for the division of land and creating the experience of dividing the fields in southern Mo.
Deng Zihui's fellowship with Chairman Mao dates back to March 1929.
At that time, Deng Zihui was serving as the secretary of the CPC Fujian Special Committee, and when he heard that the Red Fourth Army led by Chairman Mao and Zhu De was about to enter Fujian to fight, he was extremely pleased and did a lot of preliminary work to cooperate with the Red Fourth Army's entry into Fujian.
He himself impatiently rushed to Changting to meet Chairman Mao.
However, due to changes in military conditions, the Red Fourth Army eventually withdrew from Changting and marched towards Ruijin.
He believed that the revolutionary situation in western Fujian was very good, and if the Red Fourth Army could come, it would be able to create a new world and a new atmosphere.
He wrote a written report on the situation in western Fujian and sent people to report to Chairman Mao of the former committee of the Red Fourth Army, strongly demanding that the Red Fourth Army enter Fujian.
Chairman Mao was impressed by Deng Zihui's sincerity and decided to march into Fujian to open up the Soviet zone.
Chairman Mao wrote back to Deng Zihui and met in Jiaoyang on May 22.
In May of that year, Deng Zihui organized a revolt of workers and peasants, annihilated more than 2,000 people from Chen Guohui's first mixed brigade of the Fujian Provincial Defense Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and came to Jiaoyang as promised.
However, the Red Fourth Army had already advanced to Longyan due to the needs of the battle.
Deng Zihui returned to Longyan and finally met Chairman Mao on May 23.
Deng Huaisheng said: Officers and men of the Red Army are equal, and it is impossible to distinguish between ordinary soldiers and commanders. After catching up with the Red Fourth Army at the Dragon Gate, after many inquiries, my father met Chairman Mao, who was famous but simply dressed.
On June 22, 1929, the Red Fourth Army held the "Seventh Congress of the Fourth Army of the Red Army" in Longyan County, Fujian Province, after which Chairman Mao resigned from the post of former party secretary and recuperated in Sujiapo in western Fujian.
During that time, Chairman Mao not only was in a bad situation, but also suffered from falciparum malaria, became thin and skinny, and was very weak, staying in Sujiapo for more than five months.
Deng Zihui, who was the secretary of the Minxi Special Committee, cared deeply for Chairman Mao, who was sick and sleepy, and tried every means to get milk and sugar, and also gave everything he had to go to Chairman Mao's beef stew soup and stewed old hens to supplement nutrition.
The excellent TV series "Red Cradle", starring Wang Xia and others, has spent a considerable amount of space to express this paragraph.
In the play, when Chairman Mao's condition was critical, Deng Zi was so anxious that he carried a pistol and his eyes were red with blood, and went to the town to "tie up" a famous doctor to see Chairman Mao. This is a true portrayal of this period of history.
However, Lao Qin also spit on some small flaws in this drama here - there is a character called "Crash Boy" in the play, who is Deng Zihui's personal guard. This character is shaped into a chivalrous guest who can walk on the wall and can kill countless enemies with just one slingshot, which is a bit of a "divine drama".
Then again, the intersection of afflictions is true.
Chairman Mao and Deng Zihui in distress formed the most sincere and at the same time the deepest revolutionary friendship.