Anchor Jun's words
May 14 this year marks the 57th anniversary of Comrade Jiao Yulu's departure from us. In the study and education of party history, which is being enthusiastically carried out in all walks of life throughout the country, the study and study of important figures and important events in party history is the proper meaning of the topic. Comrade Jiao Yulu, a good example of the secretary of the county party committee who worked selflessly for the cause of the party and the people, is a good cadre and a good predecessor who deserves our deep remembrance. We have specially invited his descendants who are now active in the frontline of the grassroots work of the Communist Youth League to write reminiscence articles for the benefit of readers.
Orchid blossoms
The author, Zhu Rui, is the secretary of the Bao'an District Committee of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, and the grandson of Jiao Yulu
In April this year, I returned to Lankao, just in time for the TongHua Festival, and saw the sight of the tung blossoms in the city for the first time.
I am ashamed to say that after my grandmother passed away in 2005, due to the reasons of working in the field, I returned to Lankao a handful of times, and it is natural that I did not catch up with the paulownia blossom. The impression of Lankao has always stayed on the dilapidated red brick house of my grandmother's house, the loess road in front of the door, the large wheat field and the two railway tracks at the head of the East Dam.
At the invitation of the Lankao County Committee of the Communist Youth League, I had the opportunity to go to Dongbatou Township again when I returned to Lankao. Cars drive on the smooth cement roads in the countryside, and the tung flowers on both sides are blooming, clustered and clustered, densely turned, and the lilac calyx emits a faint fragrance. The car drove all the way to the Yellow River, and surprisingly, the rails were still lying there quietly, surrounded by paulownia clusters around, and the sleepers were full of tung flowers, and groups of young people took pictures here.
Since I was a child, I heard my grandmother say that Zhangzhuang Village in Dongbatou was once the biggest outlet in Lankao County, and it was also the hardest bone for my grandfather to control the wind and sand. The comrades of the Youth League County Committee said to me proudly: "In the spring of 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping once came here, and now the changes are great. "Along the Happiness Road all the way inside, the red-walled Dewa and the quaintly decorated farmhouses are opening their doors to welcome guests, and the signs printed with peanut cakes and flower sauce shine in the sun; there are middle-aged women who talk and laugh in the cloth shoe workshop, holding a thousand layers of bottoms with a needle and a thread; the small ground sesame oil of the Spring Light Oil Mill floats out of the mellow fragrance and spreads the whole street; Yan Chunguang, the leader of the rich, takes the initiative to greet me... All this has changed too much, completely subverting my childhood impression of Zhang Zhuang's dusty and ruined walls.
Compared with the memories left by Lankao, the image of my grandfather is mostly slowly formed from book articles, film and television works. When my grandfather died, my mother was only 9 years old, and my parents almost never took the initiative to talk to me about my grandfather. The most memorable thing was a small episode about paulownia trees that my grandmother mentioned to me when I first joined the work force.
Grandmother is a reticent person, she is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, feelings are hidden in the bottom of her heart, and she rarely expresses them through words. That time, my grandmother launched a "complaint" with me because of the paulownia tree. She had heard that some people had suggested that the wind and sand in Lankao were not cured by Jiao Yulu, because until Jiao Yulu's death, Lankao was still full of wind and sand. Grandmother was very dismissive of this statement, she said: "At that time, planting trees, unlike now, many units planted trees, they directly bought large trees, and even went to buy centuries-old trees, your grandfather took everyone to plant small saplings, and small trees as thick as fingers naturally could not block the wind and sand." The first year you planted the tree, the next year your grandfather died, but the tree is still alive, still growing, and when it grows up, it can naturally block the wind and sand. The predecessors planted trees, the posterity cooled off, and the people should talk about conscience. ”
Yes, my grandmother talked about conscience for a lifetime, and Lankao people also talked about conscience for a lifetime, as evidenced by the stubble of Lantong and the efforts of generations. My grandfather led the people of Lankao to use paulownia to control sand to make fields, bowed down, fell under the tung tree with lilac flowers, integrated into the tung flowers, integrated into the earth, turned into a towering paulownia tree, standing in the hearts of the Lankao people.
The spirit is there, the strength is there, and the hope is there. To this day, Lankao on the bank of the Yellow River is thousands of acres of clear blue, poverty is far away, and it has long been changed.
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"A Good Example for the Secretary of the County Party Committee - Jiao Yulu"
Originally published in the "People's Daily" on February 7, 1966, the role model of the secretary of the county party committee - Jiao Yulu.
About the author: Mu Qing, born in 1921, Hui, a native of Qixian County, Henan, has been engaged in journalism for a long time, and has authored "Selected Essays of Mu Qing", "The World of Color", "Ten Communist Party Members", "News Essays" and "Mu Qing Photography Collection".
In the winter of 1962, Lankao County in eastern Henan suffered the worst of the three harms of waterlogging, wind and sand, and salinity. In this year, the spring wind and sand destroyed 200,000 mu of wheat, in the autumn flooded more than 300,000 mu of crops, 100,000 mu of grass seedlings died on the saline-alkali ground, and the county's grain production fell to the lowest level in the calendar year.
It was at such a juncture that the party Jiao Yulu came to Lankao.
What a scene of severe famine unfolding in front of Jiao Yulu's Lankao land! The two yellow river trails that run through the whole territory are yellow sand that cannot be seen at a glance; in the waterlogged nests, there is blue ice; and on the white saline and alkali land, the dry grass trembles in the cold wind.
Difficulties, heavy difficulties, like a heavy burden, pressed on the shoulders of the newly arrived county party secretary. However, Jiao Yulu came with the "Selected Works of Mao Zedong" and with a firm determination to change the face of the Lankao disaster area. In the eyes of this Communist Party member from a poor peasant background, there are 360,000 industrious people here, and there are more than 900,000 mu of land liberated by the blood of martyrs. As long as the party's leadership is strengthened, there will be great difficulties for a while, and we must also kill a way.
The next day, when everyone knew that Jiao Yulu was the new secretary of the county party committee, he had already gone to the countryside.
He went to the communes and brigades where the disaster was most severe. He went to the grass huts of the poor and lower-middle peasants, to the breeding sheds, to the fields, to understand the situation and observe the disaster. He went from this brigade to that brigade, all the way, all the way to talk to the cadres of his peers. Seeing the sand dunes, he said, "If you plant a tree, it will not become a good green forest!" Seeing the waterlogged nest, he said: "Here you can plant reeds, plant puddles, and raise fish." Seeing the alkali land, he said, "Cure it, turn a piece of white into a piece of blue!" Turning around and returning to the county party committee, he said to everyone: "Lankao is a place with great achievements, the problem is to do it, to revolutionize." Lankao is a disaster area, poor, and difficult, but the disaster area has an advantage, it can temper people's revolutionary will and cultivate people's revolutionary character. Revolutionaries must be heroes in the face of difficulties. ”
Jiao Yulu's words made everyone's hearts throbbing. Everyone talked about it, and the new secretary of the county party committee saw the problem as a high-ranking chess player, and he could see hope from difficulties and favorable factors from unfavorable conditions.
"The key lies in a change of mind"
In Lankao, which has been affected for many years, the work of the entire county has been almost overwhelmed by the distribution of grain, loans, relief cotton clothes and coal burning. Some say that the county party committee has effectively become a supply ministry. At that time, many people were waiting for relief, some cadres were overwhelmed by the disaster, lacked confidence in changing the appearance of Lankao, and a small number of people were even unwilling to stay in the disaster area to work. They are afraid of difficulties, and they are even more afraid of making mistakes...
Jiao Yulu thought: "The masses looked at the county party committee with two eyes in the midst of the disaster, and the county party committee could not stand up to the waist pole, and the masses could not fully mobilize themselves. If you want to change the face of Lankao, you must first change the mental state of the county party committee. ”
The night was already very deep, and Jiao Yulu was lying on the bed and turning over and over and couldn't sleep. He put on a cotton coat and talked to a deputy secretary of the county party committee.
At such a late hour, the deputy secretary heard a knock on the door and was taken aback. He greeted Jiao Yulu and asked in a loud voice, "Old Jiao, what happened?"
Jiao Yulu said, "I want to talk to you." You have been in Lankao for more than ten years, and the situation is more familiar than mine, you say, what is the main problem in changing the face of Lankao?"
The deputy secretary pondered for a moment and replied, "It lies in the change of man's mind." ”
"Yes." Jiao Yulu said, "However, two words should be added to the front of the thought: leadership." The key at hand lies in the change of thinking at the core of the leadership of the county party committee. Without disaster-fighting cadres, there will be no disaster-fighting masses. ”
The two men talked for a long time, very deeply, until the middle of the night. Their common conclusion is that in order to eliminate the "three harms," we must first get rid of ideological diseases; in particular, we must conduct ideological education on disaster resistance among cadres of county party committees. Without first arming people ideologically, it will be impossible to accomplish the struggle to eliminate the "three evils."
In the harsh winter, on a stormy and snowy night, Jiao Yulu called a meeting of the county party committee members at home, and when the people arrived, he did not announce the agenda. Only one sentence was said: "Go, go out with me." "Just lead everyone to the train station."
At that time, on the Lankao station, the north wind was angry, and heavy snow was flying. Under the eaves of the vehicle, there are long icicles with ruler handles. The special car transporting the victims of Lankao to the harvest area is speeding through here, and there are also some victims, wearing cotton clothes of the state relief, curled up on the van, crowded in the waiting room...
Jiao Yulu pointed at them and said heavily: "Comrades, you see, the vast majority of them are our class brothers. It was the famine that forced them to leave their homeland, and we cannot blame them, we have a responsibility. The Party has handed over to us the 360,000 masses in this county, and we should feel ashamed and sad that we cannot lead them to overcome the famine..."
He did not continue to speak, and all the county committee members bowed their heads in silence. At this time, some people understood why Jiao Yulu led everyone to see the station in the cold of the wind and snow in the middle of the night.
From the station back to the county committee, it was already midnight, and the meeting had officially begun at this time.
After listening to everyone's speeches, Jiao Yulu finally said: "We often say that we want to serve the people, and I hope that everyone can remember tonight's scene, so that we will lead the masses to change the face of Lankao with class feelings." Immediately afterward, Jiao Yulu organized everyone to study articles such as "Serving the People", "Commemorating Bethune", and "Foolish Gong Moving Mountains" to encourage everyone's revolutionary enthusiasm and encourage everyone to work like Zhang Side and Bethune.
Later, Jiao Yulu held a special standing committee to recall The history of Lankao's revolutionary struggle. In the years of brutal armed struggle, the cadres and people of Lankao County fought bravely against the enemy and followed in the footsteps of their predecessors. In one area, nine district chiefs had died for the revolution in one month. After the martyr Ma Fuzhong was dissected by the enemy, his intestines were pulled out and hung on a tree. ...... Jiao Yulu said: "Lankao is a place that comrades have bought with blood. The martyrs did not give it to the enemy because the Lankao people were so poor, can't we defeat the disaster here?"
A series of class education and ideological struggles enabled the core of the leadership of the county party committee to stand up in the face of serious natural disasters. They have smashed the cowardly mentality of being helpless and doing nothing in the face of natural disasters, and have firmly established the determination to eliminate the "three evils" by self-reliance from top to bottom. Soon, at the initiative and leadership of Jiao Yulu, a blueprint for transforming Lankao's nature was formulated. This blueprint stipulates that within three to five years, we must achieve basic victories in controlling sand, water and alkali, and change the face of Lankao. After this blueprint was discussed and adopted by the county party committee, it was reported to the Kaifeng Prefectural Committee of the CPC, and Jiao Yulu added a few more important sentences to the report:
"We have a deep affection for every plant and tree in Lankao. In the face of the current serious natural disasters, we have the courage of revolution, resolutely lead the people of the whole county, fight hard for three or five years, and change the face of Lankao. If we don't reach our goal, we won't be blinded. ”
These few words deeply reflected the determination of the county party committee at that time, and were also a solemn oath of the whole Lankao party in front of the higher-level party organizations. Until now, it is still deeply engraved in the hearts of all comrades in the county party committee and has become a force that spurs them forward.
"Eating other people's chewed buns has no taste"
Jiao Yulu deeply understands that ideals and planning are not equal to reality, and that the three harms of waterlogging, sand, and alkali have harmed the people of Lankao for many years since ancient times! Today, in order to subdue the "three evils" and drive them away from the Land of Lankao like a plague god, a lot of arduous and meticulous work must be carried out and a high price must be paid.
He thought that according to Chairman Mao's teachings, no matter what work we do, we must first understand the situation and conduct investigations and studies. "Without an investigation, there is no voice". If we want to overcome disasters, we cannot rely on momentary enthusiasm alone and subjective wishes alone. Even if you do it hard, you still have to make the mistake of "catching sparrows with closed eyes" and "blind people touching fish". In order to defeat disasters, it is necessary to grasp the details of disasters in detail, understand the history of disasters, and then make correct judgments and deployments.
He was determined to thoroughly understand the natural situation on the 1,800 square kilometers of land in Lankao County, and personally to find out how important Lankao's "three harms" really were.
Based on this idea, the county party committee successively dispatched one hundred and twenty cadres, old farmers and technicians to form a three-in-one "three harms" investigation team, and launched a large-scale investigation and research work of chasing floods, checking wind outlets, and exploring quicksand in the whole county. Jiao Yulu and other leading cadres of the county party committee all took part in the battle. At that time, Jiao Yulu was suffering from chronic liver disease, and many comrades were worried that he was running in the wind and rain, which would aggravate the development of the disease, and advised him not to participate, but he did not hesitate to refuse the advice of his comrades. He said: "Eating bread that others have chewed has no taste." Unwilling to sit in his office and rely on other people's reports to carry out his work, he carried dry food and umbrellas with everyone on his back.
Whenever the wind and sand are the strongest, that is, when he takes the lead to check the wind outlet, explore the quicksand, and when the rain is the greatest, that is, when he takes the lead to go down and wade in the rain and watch the flood flow and changes. He believes that this is the most favorable time to grasp the laws of wind and sand and water damage. In order to find out the ins and outs of a major wind outlet and a main river channel, he often followed the investigation team tirelessly, pursuing the direction of wind and sand and flooding, starting from the old road of the Yellow River, crossing the county and provincial boundaries, and chasing until the sand fell into the dust and the water entered the river, and he was willing to give up. In this arduous struggle, Jiao Yulu simply became a rural "stripper" covered in muddy water. He and the comrades of the investigation team often ate dry food in the waist-deep water, squatting in the muddy water to rest...
Once, on his way back to the county from Yang Commune in Qixian County, Jiao Yulu encountered a heavy rain on the white tent. It rained heavily for seven days and seven nights, and the whole county became a vast ocean. Jiao Yulu thought, "Well, flood, you can't wait for a mile, you sent it to the door yourself." After he returned to the county, he did not even stop, and he took the three comrades in the office to check the floodwaters. There is only water in front of you, where is the road? They leaned against a stick in each man's hand, probing and walking. At this time, Jiao Yulu suddenly felt a burst of liver pain, and from time to time bent down and pressed the liver with his left hand. The three young men pleaded, "Go back and rest." Leave the task to us and we promise to complete it as you ask. Jiao Yulu did not agree, and continued to walk all the way, working all the way.
He stood in the torrential current, the comrades opened an umbrella for him, and he drew one picture after another of the flow of water. When they arrived at the Jinying Brigade, Li Guangzhi, secretary of the branch, saw Jiao Yulu and asked in surprise, "A vast ocean of water, why did you come here?" Jiao Yulu grabbed the stick in his hand and said, "Just come by this boat." Li Guangzhi asked him to take a break, but he took out the map he had drawn, and while pointing, he told Li Guangzhi endlessly that according to the terrain and the flow of water here, he should open a river from where to where, and then dig a branch ditch from where to where... In this way, the accumulated water of these brigades can be drained out. Li Guangzhi was very touched to hear this; he did not expect comrade Jiao Yulu's leadership work to be so in-depth and meticulous; when it was time to eat, he wanted to send jiao Yulu rice, and Jiao Yulu said: "On rainy days, the masses lack of fever, so don't eat it!" With that, he walked again toward the wind and rain.
Sending away the spring when the wind and sand were rolling and the summer when the rain was concentrated, the investigation team spent month after month in the wind, rain, sand nest, and torrential current, and traveled more than 5,000 miles, and finally enabled the county party committee to catch the first-hand information of the "three harms" of Lankao. There are eighty-four large and small wind outlets in the county, which have been checked one by one by the investigation team, numbered, and drawn maps; there are 1,600 large and small sand dunes in the county, and one by one they have been measured, numbered, and drawn; thousands of rivers and thousands of streams in the county, silted river canals, roadbeds and culverts that block water... It was also clearly investigated and drew a detailed drainage map.
This kind of large-scale investigation and study has enabled the county party committee to basically grasp the law of the occurrence and development of water, sand, and alkali. After several months of hard work, we have exchanged a set of specific and detailed materials to put the combat deployment of the county's anti-disaster struggle on a more scientific and solid foundation. Everyone feels that the direction is clear and confident, which invisibly adds a lot of strength.
"The power of example is infinite"
The night was already very deep, and the liver pain and the heavy burden of the county party committee's work made Jiao Yulu unable to sleep for a long time. His mind was on the thirty-six thousand people and two thousand five hundred and seventy-four production teams in Lankao County. The development of the anti-disaster struggle is uneven, and the ideological consciousness of grass-roots cadres and the masses is also high and low, so how can we fully arouse the revolutionary enthusiasm of the masses? How can we launch a vigorous anti-disaster struggle throughout the county more quickly?......
Jiao Yulu was thinking bitterly.
He got up in his clothes and reopened the Selected Works of Mao Zedong. In his many years of work, Jiao Yulu has developed the habit of studying Chairman Mao's writings, and he has drawn infinite wisdom and strength from Chairman Mao's works. Whether he was in the office or working in the countryside, he always carried a cloth pocket and carried it with him the "Selected Works of Mao Zedong". He once introduced to the comrades of the county party committee his method of studying Chairman Mao's writings, called "going to the masses during the day to investigate and visit, coming back to read Chairman Mao's works, 'going through movies' at night, and taking notes in the morning." When he says "over the movie", he mainly means to think about problems in connection with reality. He said: "Whether you study or work, you can't 'go through the movie'. ”
Now, the scene of the county's struggle against disasters is like a scene of film activity in his mind, and he goes to read Chairman Mao's article "Some Questions on the Method of Leadership" with a series of questions.
"No matter what work we Communists carry out, there are two methods that must be adopted: one is to combine the general and the individual, and the other is to combine the leadership with the masses."
"Gathering from the masses and persisting among the masses in order to form correct leadership opinions is the basic method of leadership."
Chairman Mao's words gave him great strength, and his eyes suddenly lit up. He decided to mobilize the leading comrades of the county party committee to go back to the poor and lower-middle peasants. He himself often lived in the grass huts of the old poor peasants, squatting in the cowshed, eating with the masses, and working together. With high revolutionary passion and unlimited trust in the masses, he inquired, listened, and observed among the vast numbers of poor and lower-middle peasants. He heard the voices of many poor and lower-middle-class peasants calling for "turning over" and demanding revolution, and saw the revolutionary spirit of many teams to rely on themselves and work hard to strengthen the struggle against the "three evils." He learned a lot of methods for controlling sand, water, and alkali among the masses, and summed up many valuable experiences. The wisdom of the masses greatly encouraged him and strengthened his confidence in overcoming disasters.
Hancun is a production team with only twenty-seven households. In the autumn of 1962, it suffered a devastating flood, and each person was given only twelve red sorghum ears. In the face of such serious difficulties, the poor and lower-middle peasants of the production team proposed not to reach out to the state, not to provide relief grain and relief funds, and to cut their own grass and sell grass to support themselves. They say: Cash cows, everyone has, all on their own hands. If you can't support the country, your heart is uncomfortable enough, and you must not pull the country's hind legs anymore. In the winter of that year, they cut 270,000 catties of grass, fed all the members of the society, and fed eight cattle. Farm tools were also repaired and seven rack cars were bought.
The poor and lower-middle peasant members of the Qinzhai Brigade scraped off a layer of skin on the saline and alkali ground, turned out good soil from below, and covered it. The time when they were doing their best was the most difficult summer of 1963. They said, "You can't work for half a day, you can't turn over a half-hammer, you can't use the method of silkworms eating mulberry leaves, you can nibble on this alkaline land one by one." ”
After the harvest was basically extinguished in seven seasons, the poor and lower-middle peasants of Zhao Duolou braved the pouring rain, dug river canals, dug drainage ditches, and fought against waterlogging in heavy rains. In the autumn of 1963, after nine days of torrential rain here, they won a good harvest and sold more than 80,000 catties of grain.
The poor and lower-middle-class peasants of the double poplar tree could not disperse under the condition that the crops were basically out of harvest, and the members of the society sold pigs with eggs, bought livestock and seeds, and insisted on taking the road of collective economic self-reliance. ”
The revolutionary spirit of Hancun, Qinzhai, Zhao Duolou, Shuangyangshu, and the self-reliance of the vast number of poor and lower-middle-class peasants made Jiao Yulu very excited. He believes that this is a good example of the revolutionary spirit of the poor and lower-middle peasants under the nurturing of Mao Zedong Thought. At the county party committee meeting, he repeatedly talked about the great significance of these advanced models and personally summed up their experience. He said: "The power of example is infinite, and we should concentrate these valuable things among the masses, persist in them, and call on the whole county social team to learn from them." ”
In September 1963, the county party committee held a grand rally of the cadres of the county's brigade squad at the Lankao refrigeration plant, which was a meeting to reverse the situation in Lankao and an oath-taking meeting for the people of Lankao to rely on themselves and work hard. At the meeting, Jiao Yulu opened the way for the poor and lower-middle peasants of Hancun, Qinzhai, Zhao Duolou, and Shuangyangshu to open the way, invited them to the rostrum, pulled them before the tens of thousands, and praised their revolutionary spirit with great fanfare. He gathered these revolutionary things among the masses and summed them up in four sentences: "The spirit of Han Village, the determination of Qin Zhai, the vigor of Zhao Duolou, and the road of double poplar trees." He said: This is the new path of Lankao! It is the path guided by Mao Zedong Thought! He shouted loudly and called on the people of the whole county to learn from these four models, carry forward their revolutionary spirit, lock in the wind and sand throughout the county, subdue the flood, and wage a heroic struggle against the "three harms"!
This congress is a great turning point in the road of Lankao's struggle against disasters. It has stimulated the revolutionary pride of the masses, inspired the revolutionary fighting spirit of the masses, and effectively promoted the development of the county's struggle against disasters. It made the names of Han Cun and the other four role models spread throughout Lankao; it made the great red flag of Mao Zedong Thought rise high in the minds of The 360,000 people in Lankao!
Since then, there have been two more things in the lives of the Lankao people, that is, the "Commendation Order for Striving to Be Strong" and the "Revolutionary Hard Bones Team" issued by the county party committee and the county people's committee.
"When the masses are in the most difficult situation, Communists must appear before the masses"
Just when the people of Lankao were attacking the three evils of waterlogging, sand and alkali in an all-round way, a disaster more serious than in the past struck Lankao. In the autumn of 1963, it rained thirteen days in a row in Lankao County, with a rainfall of 250 mm. Large tracts of crops were in the nest and stained to death. 110,000 mu of autumn grain in the county were cut off, and 220,000 mu were affected.
Jiao Yulu and the comrades of the county party committee threw themselves into production and disaster relief.
It was a winter dusk. The north wind blew tighter and tighter, and the snow fell heavier and heavier, and Jiao Yulu heard the sound of wind and snow, leaned by the door and looked at the wind and snow in a daze. After a while, he walked back again and said solemnly to the comrades in the office: "In this heavy wind and snow, how do the poor and lower-middle peasants live?" What about livestock?" He then asked the county party office to immediately notify the communes to do a few snowy days. He said, "I said, you remember." First, all rural cadres must go deep into households, visit the poor and the poor, resettle people who have no houses to live in, discover broken cooking households, and solve them immediately. Second, all comrades engaged in rural work must go deep into the cattle houses to inspect, take care of the old, weak, sick and sick animals, and ensure that not a single animal is frozen or damaged. Third, arrange indoor sideline production. Fourth, for the people and animals participating in the transportation, all those who are separated by wind and snow on the way, within the scope of which brigade, which brigade warmly welcomes, to ensure that they have enough to eat and live warmly. Fifth, educate the whole Party to go among the masses when the snow is closing its doors and share weal and woe with them. The last one is to quickly report the implementation of the inspection to the county party committee. The comrades in the office took note of his words and immediately sent a notice by telephone to the communes.
On this day, the snow and wind outside blew overnight. In Jiao Yulu's house, the electric lights were also turned on overnight. The next day, as soon as the window paper was clear, he called up the comrades of the whole hospital to a meeting. Jiao Yulu said: "Comrades, you see, this snow is getting heavier and heavier, which will bring a lot of difficulties to the masses, and when this snow is crowded, we are sitting in our offices and roasting fires, and we should go to the middle of the masses. Communists should show up to the masses in the most difficult times, in front of them, and when they need help the most, they should show concern for and help the masses. ”
A few short words are engraved on the heart of every comrade like a knife. Some people's eyes are wet, and some people can't say how much they want to say. Their hearts flew to the icy huts. Everyone immediately took the relief money and set off separately.
The wind and snow are blowing. The north wind whistled sharply, and the snow was half a foot thick. Jiao Yulu faced the heavy snow and wind, and there was nothing to wear, and the ear of the locomotive hat flashed in the wind and snow. At that time, his liver pain often occurred, sometimes so much that he pressed a pen against his liver. Now he didn't think of this at all, and with a few young men, stepping on the snow, he walked and sang "Nanniwan".
On this day, Jiao Yulu did not roast a fire for the masses, did not drink a mouthful of water from the masses, and in the wind and snow, he visited dozens of old poor peasants in nine villages who were living in difficulty. At LiangSunzhuang, he walked into a low firewood door. Here lives a pair of childless and childless old people. The old man was sick in bed, and the old lady was blind. As soon as Jiao Yulu entered the house, he sat at the head of the old man's bed and asked about hunger. The old man asked him who he was? He said, "I am your son." The old man asked him what he was doing on a snowy day. He said, "Chairman Mao asked me to come and visit your old man's house. The old lady was so moved that she didn't know what to say, and touched Jiao Yulu up and down with her trembling hands. With tears in his eyes, the old master said: "Before the liberation, the snow closed the door, and the landlord came to force the rent, and he made me string the eaves of other people's houses and live in people's cattle houses." Jiao Yulu comforted the old man and said, "Now that the seal is in our hands, the appearance of Lankao's disaster and poverty will definitely be able to change." ”
It was during this snowy day that Jiao Yulu also saw and heard many extremely touching stories of poor and lower-middle peasants. Who would have thought that in the face of the devastating flood, there would be some production teams that would return the relief grain and relief money sent to them by the state twice or three times. They said: Give the relief food and relief money to the brothers who are more difficult than us, and we can find a way to support ourselves!
How excited Jiao Yulu was in his heart! He saw that Mao Zedong Thought had nourished the hearts of the Lankao people like nectar, and that the spirit of self-reliance and striving to be stronger called for by the party, and the spirit of being a hero in the face of difficulties, had become the material force for tens of millions of people to dare to resist the same heaven and fight against disasters.
With this spirit, what great calamity cannot be overcome in front of the people of Lankao!
The secretary of the county party committee should be good at being a "squad leader"
Jiao Yulu often said that the secretary of the county party committee must be good at being a "squad leader," and to bring the "class" of the county party committee well, it is necessary to make this "group of people" think and act in unison. In order to unify thinking and action, we must rely on Mao Zedong Thought.
That's what he thinks and that's what he does.
The county people's committee had a leading cadre transferred from the harvest area and put forward a plan to decorate the offices of the leading cadres of the county party committee and the county people's committee. Even the table, chair, and tea set had to be replaced with a new set. In order to look good, a sewage pit in the city was also filled in, and a row of new houses was built on top. The majority of comrades in the county party committee fiercely opposed this plan. Others ask, "Where does the money come from?" Can you spend it?" This leading cadre, who is in charge of finances, said: "I am responsible for spending money." ”
However, Jiao Yulu asked a question:
"Can't you be revolutionary by sitting in a broken chair?" He went on to state his opinion:
"The appearance of the disaster-stricken areas has not changed, and they are still eating a large amount of grain sold by the state, and the people's lives are very difficult. Magnificent things, not only can not be done, but even thinking is very dangerous. ”
Later, Jiao Yulu talked to this leading cadre several times to help him understand his mistakes. Jiao Yulu told him: Lankao is a disaster area, and it is not as good as a harvest area. Even in the harvest area, the kind of plan you propose, should not be done. Jiao Yulu advised this leading cadre to go to the homes of the poor and lower-middle peasants to live in and to take a look among the poor and lower-middle peasants. Go and see what they think and do. As the squad leader of the county party committee, Jiao Yulu never imposed his own opinions on others. He is very strict with his comrades, but he demands to be reasonable, so that you can generate the power to correct your mistakes from within. Soon after, the leading cadre realized the mistake and retracted the "construction plan" himself.
There was a commune secretary who made a mistake in his work. At that time, the county party committee held a meeting, and most of the members advocated punishing this comrade, but Jiao Yulu, after careful consideration, proposed not to punish him for the time being. Jiao Yulu said that this comrade is our class brother, he has made a mistake, and it is necessary to punish him; however, the punishment is to achieve the purpose of curing the disease. At present, changing the face of Lankao is an arduous struggle, and it is better to send him to the most arduous places, test him, temper him, give him the opportunity to correct his mistakes, and let him contribute to the cause of the party.
The county party committee agreed to Jiao Yulu's suggestion and decided to send this comrade to the Zhao Duo Building, where the disaster was serious, to stay. When this comrade was leaving, Jiao Yulu invited him to strictly criticize and cordially put forward hopes, and finally Jiao Yulu said: "If you think about it, how dangerous and shameful it is to be a soldier who is not strong and to be a Communist Party member who has forgotten the interests of the masses!" The martyrs could have paid their blood and lives for the liberation of Lankao; can't we build this place well? Can we be afraid of death in the face of natural disasters? Be a deserter?"
Jiao Yulu's words, word by word, and sentence by sentence, tightly clasped this comrade's heart. The weight of these words was heavier than that of a decision to punish the heaviest, but they also filled the comrade with the passion of fighting. The friendship of the class, the friendship of the revolution, the warmth of the party stirred in the heart of this comrade who made a mistake, and he was full of tears and said: "Comrade Jiao Yulu, you can rest assured..."
After arriving at Zhao Duolou, this comrade immediately joined the masses in the struggle to control sand and water. He found the masses in difficulty in life and proposed to sell his bicycles to help the masses, but the county party committee stopped him, and pointed out that the most urgent problem at present is to arm the masses of members of Zhao Duolou ideologically, lead them to rise up, and rely on themselves to carry out a tenacious struggle against disasters. Later, Jiao Yulu also went to Zhao Duolou. He cared for the two thousand or so members of zhaoduolou, and he also cared for this class brother who made mistakes.
In the winter of that year, the twenty-four sand dunes that Zhao Duolou had harmed farmland for many years were covered by the members of the society with yellow glue mud under the sand, and the members also dug a canal to cure the internal waterlogging. This brigade, which ate and sold grain for seven consecutive seasons, turned around and sold surplus grain in one season.
It was also in the winter of the year when the Zhao Duolou Brigade "turned over" that the comrade who made the mistake also turned over mentally. In the struggle against disasters, he took the lead and performed heroically. He did not live up to the expectations of the party and Jiao Yulu.
Jiao Yulu, born in a poor peasant family in Zibo, Shandong Province, was forced to hang himself by the Kuomintang reactionaries before liberation. He escaped the wilderness from childhood, herded cattle for landlords, carried them to work, and was caught by Japanese devils and dug coal in the northeast. He joined the revolutionary ranks with family and class hatred and did grassroots work in the army, in the countryside and in factories. From participating in the revolution until he became the secretary of the county party committee, he always maintained the true character of the working people. He often opened his arms, rolled up his trousers, and worked and labored among the masses in a simple and simple manner. How much mud there is on the poor peasant's body, how much mud there is on him. The socks he wore were patched up and mended, and his lover wanted to buy him a pair of new ones, and he said: "Compared with the poor and lower middle peasants, we are wearing them well." In the summer, he didn't even buy a mat, but only spent four cents on a mat shop.
Once, he found that the child was late to go home. When I asked, it turned out to be watching the drama. He asked the child, "Where did the ticket come from?" The child said, "My uncle asked me for a ticket, and I said no." My uncle asked me who I was? I said that Secretary Jiao was my father. My uncle called me in without collecting the ticket. Jiao Yulu was very angry when he heard this, and immediately called the family to "train" him, and ordered the child to immediately send the ticket money to the theater. Then, he suggested that the county party committee draft a circular prohibiting any cadres from being specialized, and not allowing any cadres and their children to "watch white dramas"...
"Jiao Yulu is a good squad leader and a good example for our county party committee."
"Working under the leadership of Jiao Yulu, the direction is clear, the confidence is great, the courage to make a big fuss, the mood is comfortable, even if it is tired, it is willing to die."
Jiao Yulu's comrades-in-arms said this, those who opposed him said so, and so did those who made mistakes. He has the people of the whole county in his heart, but he does not have himself. A deputy secretary of the county party committee suffered from a cold in the countryside, and Jiao Yulu called several times to ask him to come back to rest; a comrade in the organization department had a chronic disease, and Jiao Yulu did not assign him a job and asked him to recuperate with peace of mind; a comrade of the financial committee was ill, and Jiao Yulu repeatedly urged him to go to the hospital for examination... Jiao Yulu's heart contained all the party members and all the people, but there was no himself.
In the spring of 1964, just as the Party was leading the Lankao people to victoriously advance in the struggle against waterlogging, sand and alkali, Jiao Yulu's liver disease became more and more serious. Many people have found that whether in meetings or presentations, he often puts his right foot on the chair and presses his right knee against the liver. The second and third buttons on his cotton jacket were unbuttoned, and his left hand was often carried in his arms. People watched intently: it turned out that he was increasingly pressing his left hand on the pained liver, or using a hard object to push against the chair on the right. As the days passed, a large hole was erected on the right side of the rattan chair in his office. He never cared about his illness. When the comrades asked, he said that he had adopted an oppressive analgesic method for liver pain. The comrades of the county party committee advised him to recuperate, and he smiled and said: "Illness is a bullying thing that is afraid of hardness, and if you suppress it, it will not bully you." How much pain Jiao Yulu had secretly endured, even his relatives did not know. He really threw himself wholeheartedly into the struggle to change the face of Lankao.
Jiao Yulu went to the prefectural party committee for a meeting, and the responsible comrade of the prefectural party committee advised him to be hospitalized, saying: "In the spring, we must arrange a year's work, and we cannot do without it!" Didn't stay. The prefectural committee invited him to a famous Chinese medicine doctor to diagnose and prescribe medicine, because the medicine was very expensive, and he refused to buy it. He said: "The life of the people in the disaster area is very difficult, and I can afford to spend so much money to buy medicine?" The comrades of the county party committee went behind his back to buy three doses and forced him to take them, but he insisted on not taking the fourth dose.
On that day, Zhang Siyi, a cadre in the county party committee office, rode a bicycle with him to The Sanyizhai Commune. Halfway to the road, Jiao Yulu's liver pain attacked, and he couldn't ride in pain, so the two people had to push the bicycle slowly. When he first arrived at the commune, everyone saw that he did not look good, and guessed that he was sick again. The comrades of the commune said, "Take a break." He said, "Talk about your situation, I'm not here to rest." ”
While reporting on the situation, the comrades of the commune watched Jiao Yuluqiang take notes on his stomach. Apparently, it was the liver pain that made the fingers tremble, and the pen fell from between the fingers several times. When the reporting comrade saw this situation, he held back his tears and could not even speak, but he deliberately made a look of self-satisfaction and said:
"Say, go ahead."
In March 1964, the Lankao people's struggle to eliminate the "three harms" reached a climax, and Jiao Yulu's liver disease also reached a serious juncture. Lying on his hospital bed, his heart was pounding and he rushed to the earth that was being transformed. He sat down at the table with great enthusiasm and wanted to write an article entitled: "The People of Lankao Are Strange, Dare to Teach the Sun and The Moon for a New Heaven." He spread out the manuscript paper and drew up four sub-topics: First, imagination does not equal reality. Second, the change in a backward area is, first of all, a change in the thinking of leadership. The thinking of leadership will not change, the experience of other places will not be learned, and the local experience will not be summed up. Third, the power of example is infinite. Fourth, the spiritual atomic bomb -- material becomes spiritual, spirit becomes material.
Jiao Yulu, who is full of revolutionary optimism, has foreseen a beautiful future for Lankao from the heroic spirit displayed by the Lankao people in the struggle against disasters and from the spirit of hard work of the Lankao people step by step. However, the article only began, and the disease forced him to put down the pen in his hand, and the county party committee decided to send him to the hospital for treatment.
On the day of his departure, because of the severe pain in his liver, he bent down and walked toward the station. How reluctant he was to leave Lankao! For more than a year, the county's one hundred and forty-nine brigades, he has run all over the hundred and twenty. He gave his whole body and mind to the masses of Lankao, the struggle of Lankao. Just as a commander leaves the forward position of artillery fire at the height of the battle, he feels pain, guilt and uneasiness from the bottom of his heart. From time to time, he fondly recalled everything in Lankao City, how he hoped to cure liver disease quickly, and come back with exuberant energy to fight with the masses! He told the comrades who had sent them off several times that he would be back soon. A few minutes before the train started, he also solemnly arranged the last task, asking the comrades of the county party committee to prepare materials well, and when he returned, he would report to him in detail on the results of the anti-disaster struggle.
"I didn't cure the dunes when I was alive, and when I died, I wanted to watch you cure the dunes!"
Kaifeng Hospital transferred Jiao Yulu to Zhengzhou Hospital, which in turn transferred him to a hospital in Beijing. In the presence of this steely proletarian fighter, the doctors marveled at his tenacious character in the struggle against liver pain. They stood at the bedside with reverence, and finally many left with tears in their eyes.
What a sad day it was! The doctors issued a final diagnosis, which read: "In the late stage of liver cancer, it spreads subcutaneously." "It's an incurable disease. Comrade Zhao Wenxuan, who sent him to be treated, absolutely did not believe this diagnosis, and like a fool, he asked in a loud voice: "What, what?" The doctor said: "Comrade Jiao Yulu still has twenty days at most. ”
Zhao Wenxuan froze for a moment and suddenly cried bitterly. He pleaded and said, "Doctor, I beg you, I beg you, please cure him, Lankao is a disaster area, the people of the whole county can't do without him, can't do without him!"
The people present were in tears, and the doctor said:
"Comrade Jiao Yulu's work, when he entered the hospital, the party organization had already told us. Cancer is still a difficult problem, but please tell the masses of Lankao County that we medical workers must use comrade Jiao Yulu's revolutionary spirit of fighting against difficulties and disasters to seize this high ground as soon as possible. ”
In this way, Jiao Yulu was transferred to the Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou Henan Medical College.
After the news of Jiao Yulu's critical illness reached Lankao, many comrades in the county went to Zhengzhou to visit him. Someone in the county came to see him, he always did not talk about his illness, first asked about the work situation in the county, he asked Zhangzhuang whether the sand dunes were sealed? Q. Is the crops of Zhao Duolou flooded? Q. How does the wheat on the salt and alkali ground in Qinzhai look like? Ask how many paulownia trees have been planted in the old Han Mausoleum?......
Once, he specifically instructed a cadre in the office of a county party committee to say:
"You go back and tell the comrades of the county party committee to finish the article i didn't write; and also, take a handful of the ears of wheat on the salt and alkali ground of Qinzhai and let me see it!"
In early May, Jiao Yulu's condition deteriorated further. Under these circumstances, a deputy secretary of the county party committee rushed to Zhengzhou to visit him. When Jiao Yulu held his hand with his thin hand, and his two distracted eyes looked at him with deep affection, the deputy secretary's tears could not help but roll down one by one.
Jiao Yulu asked, "I heard that it rained heavily in eastern Henan, how much rain did it rain?" Drowned?"
"Nothing."
"Such a heavy rain, why will it not flood?" You don't want to tell me. ”
"There is no drowning! The drainage works. While answering, the deputy secretary forcibly endured his grief and told him some of the victories of the Lankao people's struggle against disasters, comforted him with peace of mind, and said that the change in Lankao's appearance might be faster than the original estimate.
At this time, the deputy secretary saw Jiao Yulu restraining his severe liver pain with all his might, and beads of cold sweat the size of soybeans were constantly leaching from his forehead. He barely wiped his sweat, half-dazed, and asked:
"What's wrong with me?" Why wouldn't the doctor tell me?"
The deputy secretary was hesitant to answer.
Jiao Yulu pressed several times in a row, and the deputy secretary finally had to tell him: "This is an organizational decision." ”
Hearing this, Jiao Yulu nodded and said calmly, "Ah, I understand..."
After a while, Jiao Yulu took out a picture of himself from his arms, handed it to the deputy secretary with trembling, and then said: "Now I can't help but say to you." Go back and say to the comrades, I am no longer able to do it, and you must lead the people of Lankao in a resolute struggle. The party believes in us and sends us to lead, and we have confidence. We are the disaster zone, I am dead, don't spend more money. After I die, there is only one request, asking the organization to transport me back to Lankao and bury me in the sand pile, I have not cured the dunes when I am alive, and when I die, I will watch you cure the dunes!"
The deputy secretary could no longer hold back his grief, he looked at Jiao Yulu, his nose was sour, and he almost cried. He bid farewell to his closest class comrades with tears.
No one expected that this would be the final difference between Jiao Yulu and the people of Lankao County and the party organization of Lankao County.
On May 14, 1964, Comrade Jiao Yulu unfortunately passed away. He was only forty-two years old.
At the last moment of his life, two responsible comrades of the Henan Provincial Cpc Committee and the Kaifeng Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China stood by his bed. He uttered his last words intermittently to the two representatives of the higher-level party organizations: "I... No...... finish...... The party handed it over to me... task. ”
After his death, under the pillow of his sick bed, two books were found: one was "Selected Works of Mao Zedong" and the other was "On the Cultivation of Communist Party Members."
He's not dead, he's still alive
A year later, in the spring of 1965, dozens of poor peasant deputies and cadres from Lankao County made a special trip to Jiao Yulu's grave. As soon as the poor peasants saw Jiao Yulu's grave, it was as if they had seen their county party secretary and the man they would never forget.
A year ago, he was still in Lankao, working day and night with the poor and lower-middle peasants on the front line of the anti-disaster struggle. How can people forget that on the day when the snow closed the door, he walked into the wood gate of the poor peasants with the warmth of the party; on the day of the flood, he carried his stick and sickness to the villages to check the water conditions. It was he who held high the red light of Mao Zedong Thought and illuminated the road of self-reliance of the Lankao people; it was he who led the Lankao people to reverse the situation in Lankao and aroused the people's revolutionary spirit; it was he who shouted out the call to "lock in the wind and sand and subdue the flood"; it was he who discovered the "hard bones" spirit of the poor and lower-middle peasant revolution and carried it forward and flourished throughout the county... How familiar and kind all this is! Who would have thought that a man like him, full of revolutionary vitality, would leave the land of Lankao when the people of Lankao needed him most.
One by one, people stood in front of his grave with tears in their eyes, and an old poor peasant wept silently and uttered the voices of 360,000 Lankao people:
"Our good secretary, you are alive for the people of Lankao, and you are exhausted to death." When it was difficult, you worried about the poor peasants and suffered with them, and now, they are better off, and the whole Lankao has turned over, but you are here alone..."
This is the mourning of the Lankao people for their relatives, their class comrades-in-arms, and it is also the highest commendation of the Lankao people for a Communist Party member who gave his life for their interests.
In the year after Jiao Yulu's death, all the party members and all the people of Lankao County irrigated the land of Lankao with tears and sweat. The blueprint for transforming Lankao's nature, which Jiao Yulu advocated three years ago, has become a reality after three years of hard work. Lankao, the historical grain shortage county in eastern Henan, had initially self-sufficient grain in 1965. Of the county's 2,574 production teams, except for about 300 teams, which are cotton and oil producing areas, the rest are self-sufficient, and many teams have their own reserve grain reserves. In 1965, Lankao County was in drought for sixty-eight consecutive days, and from the winter of 1964 to the spring of 1965, there were seventy-two strong winds, but there was no disaster of wind and sand killing crops, and thousands of forest belts in the 190,000 mu of sand area began to lock the wind and sand. In the autumn of that year, it rained three hundred and eighty-four millimeters in a row, and no brigade in the county was affected.
The article that Jiao Yulu did not finish before his death was collectively completed by 360,000 Lankao people on the land of Lankao. In this article, the people of Lankao laugh at the undulating sand dunes that have "been plastered and needled", at the gushing flood that obediently returned to the river, at the fact that the old alkali nests of the older generations did not even grow thatch began to appear turquoise crops, and at the tyrants of nature who have been pressing on people's heads for centuries, and that in the great Mao Zedong era, they could no longer arbitrarily manipulate people's fate.
Although Jiao Yulu has passed away, the revolutionary seeds of self-reliance he sowed on the land of Lankao are sprouting and growing, and his noble character of devoting himself to the revolution and the masses has become an example for cadres and the masses of the whole county to learn from. All this precious spiritual wealth has been transformed into a powerful material force today, pushing the people of Lankao to continue to forge ahead on the road of self-reliance and striving for strength. In this great struggle to march toward nature, they not only want to completely take off the hat of the disaster area, but also resolve to make a permanent revolution, gradually transform most of the farmland into stable and high-yield fields that guarantee drought and flood harvest, and build a socialist new Lankao.
Comrade Jiao Yulu, you have not failed to live up to the party's hopes, you have fulfilled the tasks entrusted to you by the party, and the people of Lankao will never forget you. You are worthy of being a good party member who has been nurtured and raised by Mao Zedong Thought, a good cadre of the party, and a good son of the people! You are the representative of the heroic image of thousands of Communist Party members who stand tall in the face of serious natural disasters. You are not dead, you will live forever in the hearts of millions of people!
Source: Komsomol News Network