In July 1925, the Hunan peasant movement led by Chairman Mao touched the interests of local local tycoons and gentry. The local tycoons and inferior gentry secretly reported to the reactionary authorities in Hunan and demanded the arrest of Chairman Mao. At this time, Chairman Mao's movements were leaked and he was in danger of being arrested. A small carpenter wisely saved Chairman Mao. 25 years later, Chairman Mao gave 3 gifts and a secret mission. How did the little carpenter save Chairman Mao? Which 3 gifts did Chairman Mao send? In this article, let's explore the story of the chairman and the little carpenter.
On March 12, 1925, the great democratic revolutionary Dr. Sun Yat-sen died in Beijing. After Sun Yat-sen's death, the anti-communist right wing of the Kuomintang became active again. The united front of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is facing arduous and complex challenges. A severe test is about to befall the Communists. In May 1925, Shanghai capitalists shot and killed workers and Communist Party members, and the blood stained the land of China red. In the leadership movement of the Communist Party, the slogan of "Down with imperialism" resounded through the streets of Shanghai.
Workers and students in Shanghai demonstrate on the streets of Shanghai on May 30. The British patrol shot and killed Chinese workers and students, triggering the May 30 Massacre. The May 30 massacre provoked the anger in the hearts of Chinese people. Not to erupt in silence, to die in silence. The Chinese workers rose up in resistance, expressing their anger at the cruelty of imperialism in the form of strikes. At the same time, Shanghai students went on strike and businessmen went on strike. Nearly 17 million people across the country participated in the movement, known in history as the May Thirtieth Movement.
These struggle movements are a true awakening of the revolutionary consciousness of the people in northern China. The soul and spirit of the Chinese people are completely stimulated in oppression. The revolt also struck a blow at Duan Qirui's reactionary government, which controlled Beijing. In 1926, the National Revolutionary Army swore an oath to the Northern Expedition. The Chinese Communists sacrificed their lives and forgot their deaths and actively cooperated with the National Revolutionary Army in the Northern Expedition. This was the most enthusiastic situation of cooperation in the history of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, which contributed to the great success of the Chinese Northern Expedition in a short period of time.
It can be seen that the role of Kuomintang-Communist cooperation in promoting the Chinese revolution is immeasurable. Together, the Kuomintang and the Communists can kill the enemy in one shot. Just imagine if the Kuomintang and the Communist Party could always live in harmony, china would not be able to end the War of Resistance Against Japan more quickly, and the War of Liberation would not happen again, so as to avoid an unprecedented catastrophe in China. However, history is realistic, and although the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party has yielded fruitful results, in the process, the right wing of the Kuomintang has secretly operated and waited for an opportunity to sabotage the situation of cooperation.
Under the strong leadership of the Communist Party, the torch of the Chinese workers' movement illuminated all corners of China, and everyone from workers to peasants began a lively resistance movement. In 1926, Chairman Mao served as the secretary of the Peasant Movement Committee in Hunan, leading the peasant masses in the Xiang'e-Gansu region in carrying out the peasant movement. In less than a year, 200 million people participated in the peasant movement. The peasant movement was in full swing, frightening the local local gentry and the Kuomintang rightists.
These reactionaries slandered the peasant movement as a "leper movement" and "very bad." In order to protect their fundamental interests, the local tycoons and inferior gentry secretly reported to the reactionary authorities in Hunan and demanded that the reactionary authorities immediately arrest Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao's situation became temporarily dangerous. However, no matter how dangerous and dangerous, Chairman Mao remained strong and continued the revolutionary movement. In July 1925, Chairman Mao's whereabouts were revealed. The reactionary authorities sent township soldiers to arrest them.
The reactionary authorities were very arrogant and threatened to seize Chairman Mao and then execute him on the spot. Chairman Mao immediately retreated when he received the news. However, the township soldiers were very cunning and pursued Chairman Mao relentlessly. In a critical moment, Chairman Mao ran to the home of a carpenter. The little carpenter was Chairman Mao's old friend, and as soon as he saw Chairman Mao hiding in, he understood what the situation was and immediately hid Chairman Mao in his carpenter's shed. After hiding the chairman, he walked to the door.
Soon a group of village soldiers rushed to the scene, and they asked the little carpenter if he had seen a young man in a blue cloth robe who looked like a teacher passing by. The little carpenter replied wittily, "See, run to Xiangxiang." The soldier said angrily, "Why don't you catch him?" The little carpenter replied, pretending not to know anything, "A gentleman who teaches, what did I arrest him for?" The townsman said that he was a communist bandit, and the little carpenter casually said that he did not know what a communist bandit did not have. The townspeople could only leave in a huff.
The crisis was temporarily lifted, and Chairman Mao came out of the carpenter's shed. The chairman thanked the little carpenter very much, and thinking that he was going to go to Yangjiazhuang in Ruyi Township for a meeting, he asked the little carpenter to help him get out of here. The little carpenter agreed to Chairman Mao's request. He thought for a moment, first changed Chairman Mao's outfit, and then found a palanquin and asked Chairman Mao to play Langzhong in the palanquin. Several people carried Chairman Mao to the meeting place.
Unfortunately, when passing through the Guangong Bridge, they bumped into a group of reactionary regimental members, who held guns to intercept the way of the little carpenter and others, and questioned the little carpenter: Did you see Mao Zedong? As he spoke, he glanced at the palanquin and asked who was in it. The little carpenter said that mr. Langzhong, who had been invited by himself, was in the palanquin. The group shouted to open the palanquin to see. As soon as the palanquin was lifted, Chairman Mao's identity was revealed.
The little carpenter and the others squeezed a handful of sweat in their hearts, summoned up the courage and said: "My family is suffering from an urgent illness, we must quickly rescue it, delay the time, who will treat my family?" A flurry of words came from the car: I am a local Langzhong, and there is nothing unseemly, they just want to see it. Several people who carried the car also helped and said: What is good to see in Langzhong, it is important to save people! When the group saw the situation, they were also a little impatient, and with a "fast roll" curse, they let the little carpenter and the others leave.
Finally, Chairman Mao survived the crisis safely. After leaving the country, Chairman Mao continued to give speeches and lectures in various places, preaching the peasant movement, and making the revolution more intense. After Chairman Mao and the little carpenter separated, they did not see each other for decades. After the founding of New China, many of Chairman Mao's relatives in Hunan sent letters to Beijing, and among these thick letters, there was a letter, which was written by a small carpenter.
Chairman Mao was very excited when he received the letter, and the past came to mind, and Chairman Mao decided to take the little carpenter and others to Beijing for a period of time, and wrote in his reply that he intended to invite the little carpenter and his brother to come to Beijing with him for a month or two. When the little carpenter received the reply, he was very excited, he did not think that the chairman still remembered them, and specially invited them to go to Beijing to play. This little carpenter is named Zhang Youcheng.
Chairman Mao also called Zhang Youcheng "a brother in law" in his letter, so politely, what is the relationship between Chairman Mao and Zhang Youcheng? Chairman Mao was born in The Rushing House in Shaoshan Village, Shaoshan Township, Shaoshan Township, Hunan Province, but the Chairman spent most of his time at his grandmother's house. Grandma's home is located in Tangjiatuo, Xiangxiang County. Here, as a child, Chairman Mao became acquainted with the Zhang Youcheng brothers. Zhang Youcheng and Zhang Siwei were born into poverty and had poor family conditions.
Chairman Mao was careful and kind and willing to help the poor masses. Zhang Youcheng and Zhang Siwei were very good at carpentry, and Chairman Mao invited them to his home to do odd jobs, coming and going, and the friendship between the three became stronger. Chairman Mao did not pretend to be an employer, and he treated the two brothers very kindly, and the friendship between the three was sincere, which can be described as having the feelings of brothers. In 1910, Chairman Mao went out to study and became two brothers.
During his studies, Chairman Mao occasionally wrote letters to the Zhang Youcheng brothers. After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, Chairman Mao wrote a letter inviting Zhang Youcheng to join the revolution. However, the brothers wrote back and refused Chairman Mao's invitation and chose to continue farming at home. In 1914, Chairman Mao was admitted to the Hunan First Normal School, systematically accepted Marxist ideas, and organized the revolutionary group Xinmin Society with students, and began to vigorously carry out the Chinese revolution.
It was not until 1925, when Chairman Mao was ordered by the party organization to carry out a peasant movement throughout Hunan, that the chairman met the Zhang Youcheng brothers again. After more than a decade apart, Chairman Mao has become a young man with revolutionary aspirations, and the three of them still maintain a sincere friendship. Chairman Mao established the first party branch in Shaoshan to fight local tycoons and fight inferior gentry. The brothers Zhang Youcheng and Zhang Siwei also joined the local peasant association under the inspiration of Chairman Mao and carried out the peasant movement with Chairman Mao.
On That day in July 1925, Chairman Mao was rounded up by reactionaries and hid in the home of zhang Youcheng, a small carpenter. Zhang Youcheng cleverly responded to the township soldiers who came to pursue him, freed Chairman Mao from danger, and assisted Chairman Mao in going to Yangjiazhuang for a meeting. This time apart, we have not seen each other for decades. China has also undergone earth-shaking changes. Chairman Mao led the Chinese army to fight bravely, while the Zhang brothers continued to farm in a corner of the countryside.
In 1951, Chairman Mao's grandmother Wen's family visited the chairman in Beijing, and at the same time brought a letter from Zhang Youcheng, the content of which was very brief, and the beginning was direct: Third Brother Mao, do you remember Brother Zhang Yi and Brother Zhang Si who played together when they were teenagers? Brother Zhang Yi and Brother Zhang Si are Zhang Youcheng and Zhang Siwei. Chairman Mao was a great man who could fight a good war, and he was also a great man with flesh and blood, and when he saw this letter, the chairman had a thousand thoughts, and the scene of his childhood came to his mind. Childhood, Xiangxiang, carpentry... Memories flew away, and those beautiful years were opened again.
Chairman Mao was very excited, and wrote back to invite the two and the chairman's cousin Wen Meiqing to come to Beijing and stay for a while. After Receiving the letter, Zhang Youcheng left for Beijing with Wen Meiqing and Mao Yuju. It is worth mentioning that Mao Yuju, one of the three, is not only Chairman Mao's own cousin, but also Chairman Mao's private school teacher when he was young.
In 1906, Chairman Mao went to study under Mao Yuju. Chairman Mao was intelligent and studious when he was young, but he was also a student who gave Mao Yuju a lot of headaches. Once, when Chairman Mao Yuju was out, he ran to the back mountain to pick chestnuts and picked a bunch of chestnuts to share with his classmates. After Mao Yuju returned, he asked Chairman Mao why he was running around? Chairman Mao returned: The house was stuffy and panicked, and the rote memorization was empty. Mao Yuju was very angry, pointed to the patio, and asked Chairman Mao to write a poem of praise on the spot.
Chairman Mao circled the well twice, shook his head and chanted: "The patio is square, surrounded by high walls, clear pebbles, small fish in the center, only drink the water in the well, never grow long." Mao Yuju was overjoyed after hearing this, he did not expect Chairman Mao to have such a high level of understanding. This simple little poem, with clear words and puns, although it is said to be a fish in a well, it is actually about Chairman Mao's own feelings. Mao Yuju will never forget this poem.
After Chairman Mao left his hometown, Mao Yuju continued to teach, then abandoned literature and engaged in business, and finally gave up business and returned to his hometown to teach again. In the 15th year of the Republic of China, Mao Yuju joined the Communist Party of China. In September 1951, Mao Yuju went to Beijing with Zhang Youcheng and Wen Meiqing. Chairman Mao also specially arranged for Mao Yuju to attend the National Day ceremony and banquet. Several people toured the places of interest in Beijing. When the three of them were leaving, Chairman Mao gave Zhang Youcheng three gifts: a tweed coat, a pair of leather shoes, and a suitcase, which was also used as a gift for Zhang Youcheng to save his life that day.
Moreover, Chairman Mao also specially instructed Zhang Youcheng to have a secret task, that is, to ask Zhang Youcheng to write him several letters every year to talk about what happened at home. In this way, Chairman Mao can know the many situations that have occurred in his hometown and facilitate his understanding of the people's feelings and public opinions. After Zhang Youcheng returned home, he also wrote letters every year according to the instructions of the chairman, until his death in the winter of 1952. Since then, Chairman Mao has also helped the Zhang family many times. The Chairman's zhi en tu bao is admirable and worth learning.