On May 1, 1959, the 10th "May Day" after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Party Central Committee decided to hold a grand fireworks viewing party in the Tiananmen Tower on this evening.
When the time came, all the guests entered, and Premier Zhou was busy sneaking around, and he also came to the scene to watch the fireworks with everyone. Just as Premier Zhou was seeing that he was on the rise, an 18-year-old girl approached Premier Zhou and "accused" General Chen Geng to his face.
Who is this girl? Why did she "accuse" Chen Geng?
Pictured | Premier Zhou
To talk about this girl, we have to mention his father. The girl's father, who is also a great leader of our country, his name is Song Renqian.
Song Renqiang was born in July 1909 and is a native of Liuyang, Hunan. He also has a original name, called Song Yunqin.
In 1930, Song Renqian, who had already joined the Communist Party of China, served as a clerk in the Seventh Company of the Third Battalion, and the commander of the third battalion, named Wu Zhonghao, was a graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy, who was good at fighting, liked to chant poetry and drink. That year's Spring Festival, Wu Zhonghao was happy, drank some wine with the generals, and took advantage of the wine to say to Song Renqian: "The name Song Yunqin is not very good, it is too similar to a woman's name, change it." ”
Seeing that Song Renqian did not seem to have any objections, he continued to chant: "Song Yunqin, Song Yunqin... Song Ren poor, with that, you might as well call Song Ren poor! As a result, the name Song Renqian spread in the army, and since then, he himself has begun to call himself Song Renqian.
During the revolutionary years, Song Renqian served as chairman of the Chonghe District Peasants' Association in Liuyang County, when warlords were in charge and hated the Communists, and under their oppression, the whole province of Hunan was shrouded in white terror.
Since the leaders of the district party committee have just been transferred, the rosters of party and league members in the whole region have been handed over to Song Renqian for safekeeping, and not only that, Song Renqian also controls more than a dozen civilian guns in his hands. Song Renqiang is well aware of the importance of these things to the organization and has always been very vigilant and careful.
Unfortunately, some reactionaries took advantage of the chaos to infiltrate the Self-Defense Forces, and under their manipulation, more than a dozen members of the team could not bear the temptation of interests and chose to betray the revolution, and Song Renqian was unfortunately arrested. They threatened Song Renqian to shoot him immediately.
Picture | Song Ren poor
Song Renqian was not afraid of death, but he was worried that the roster on his body and the gun in his custody would be found by them, so he has been circling with him. Later, for unknown reasons, the reactionaries told Song Renqian that they could not kill him, but Song Renqian must go and get some money for them to come back. For the sake of the roster and the guns behind him, Song Renqiang gritted his teeth and agreed to the matter.
It was not easy to raise money in that era, and the reactionaries escorted Song Renqiang to several shops before finally raising 50 yuan of ocean. After they got the money, they still did not let Song Renqian go, and continued to escort him across the Liuyang River to find a peasant family to live in.
That night, while the reactionaries were asleep, Song Renqian quietly wet the rosters on his body, crushed them, and discarded them all. Since then, the safety of the comrades who are members of the party and the league on the roster has finally been preserved, and Song Renqian has breathed a sigh of relief.
The next morning, the unaware reactionaries once again took Song Renqian on the road, and they decided to imprison Song Renqian in the octagonal pavilion.
What they didn't know was that Song Renqian had studied in this place for a period of time, and his eldest brother had even lived here, and Song Renqian knew the terrain here very well. The sun was high outside, and Song Renqian pretended to be uncomfortable and said to the people guarding him: "You can't always lock me in the house, I'm a person, let me go out and breathe!" ”
These lawbreakers had not yet reached the point of madness, and they felt that Song Renqian's words were reasonable, plus it was daytime, and they thought that Song Renqian could not run away, so they agreed to let him go out for activities.
In order to relax their vigilance, Song Renqian returned on time the first few times he went out, and gradually, the reactionaries no longer guarded him strictly. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Song Renqiang violently threw off the lawbreakers and ran down the mountain, taking advantage of the familiar terrain and quickly avoiding their pursuit.
After the end of this incident, Song Renqiang understood that his situation was no longer safe, quietly detoured more than ten miles to bid farewell to his parents, and embarked on the road away from home.
Shortly thereafter, Song Renqian participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising led by Chairman Mao, and after the reorganization of Sanwan, he followed Chairman Mao's footsteps to climb JinggangShan.
Picture | Chairman Mao led the Autumn Harvest Uprising
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Song Renqiang was appointed deputy director of the Political Training Office and deputy director of the Political Department of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and followed the troops to the front line to fight.
In March 1938, under the instructions of the party, Song Renqiang led a cavalry regiment and an independent detachment to the south of Hebei and established a plain anti-Japanese base area. After that, he led the team to conquer the north and conquer the north, attacked the enemy and puppet organizations, and expanded the armed strength of our army. Under his leadership, the army has recovered more than 10 counties including Pingxiang, Yongnian and Feixiang, allowing the invincible Japanese devils to taste defeat.
In June 1939, he took full responsibility to command the soldiers to participate in the Anti-Japanese War in southern Jinnan District, mobilized the revolutionary masses to establish an anti-Japanese democratic regime, and called on the soldiers and the people to carry out large-scale mass activities to dig ditches and transform the terrain of the plains.
In the "Battle of the Hundred Regiments" led by the central government, he led his subordinates to destroy the eastern section of the Dexi Railway and the road built in the Jinnan area that the enemy was building, and destroyed more than 1,500 Japanese puppet troops, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy.
In the years after the surrender of the Japanese army, as the main leader of the Jinnan region, he led the military and the people to escort the logistics problems of the frontline soldiers with excellent military command and superb leadership ability.
When the Battle of Huaihai was at its most intense, Song Renqian went to the front line to understand the battle situation, and Su Yu, who was leading the battle at the front, told him that the front-line troops lacked firewood and he, and it was necessary to solve this problem as soon as possible so that the soldiers could devote themselves to the battle. In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army, Song Renqian made a poisonous oath in his heart that if the required materials could not be assembled, even if the house was demolished, enough materials would be sent to meet the needs of the soldiers.
Pictured| Su Yu (second from left) and his warriors on the battlefield
Under his leadership, the people of Yuwan Su supported the front line during the Battle of Huaihai2. 100 million catties of grain, 5. 300 million catties of firewood, 12. 50,000 stretchers, in times of difficulty, men and women in the rear grind rice and grind noodles day and night, some give their only grain and seeds, some tear down houses as timber for the troops. It can be said that the reason why the front line was able to successfully defeat the enemy was that they played an indispensable contribution.
On April 23, 1949, Nanjing was liberated. On the 28th, the city began to implement military control. Under the trust of the organization, Song Renqiang was appointed deputy director of the Nanjing Military Control Commission and deputy secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Cpc Committee, and began to govern Nanjing.
In the early days of liberation, Nanjing was still in chaos, and Song Renqian found that there were many newspapers on the market here, and many of them were spreading articles that poisoned the people such as imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucratic capitalism. In order to curb this trend, the military control department issued a notice: the city's previous newspapers and news agencies have all been re-registered... Unregistered and approved newspapers are not recognized and exist.
As a result of this activity, the major newspapers in Nanjing were thoroughly investigated one by one, and a large number of reactionary newspapers were banned as a result.
On April 30, Nanjing published the Xinhua Daily, which was controlled by our Party, and in order to strengthen the Party's propaganda work and establish a correct public opinion tendency among the people, Liu Bocheng, then director of the Nanjing Military Control Commission and secretary of the Nanjing Municipal CPC Committee, specially sent Song Renqian to be responsible for the review of the Xinhua Daily.
Pictured| Liu Bocheng
Newspapers always need to be published during the day, so every day at about 4 o'clock in the morning, Song Renqiang needs to start reviewing the manuscripts in Xinhua Daily. Among them, the news of Xinhua News Agency is simply browsed in the past, while the major news and articles written in Nanjing need to spend a long time carefully watching and making sure that there is no error before it can pass the review and give a copy.
It was also because of his control that Xinhua Daily soon gained a foothold in Nanjing, and continued to convey correct values to the public, playing an important role in building a new Nanjing.
After the founding of New China, almost all work had to start from scratch. Under the organization's arrangement, Song Renqian successively served as the first secretary of the Yunnan Provincial CPC Committee and the deputy political commissar of the Southwest Military Region. In accordance with the party's policy, Comrade Song Renqiang and the staff of the provincial party committee strictly implemented various important policies to eliminate bandits in Yunnan and maintain urban order.
With his own achievements, in 1955, Song Renqian was awarded the rank of general and was admired by the world.
Even with such achievements, it is still difficult for us to see a trace of "high-ranking official frame" from Song Renqian, who is still the "hot-blooded man" who obeys orders and has the courage to resist.
In 1956, after a vote by the central government, China decided to develop its own atomic bomb. Song Ren voluntarily proposed himself, gave up the high treatment of the army, and became the minister of the Third Ministry of Machinery Industry, focusing on the development of the atomic bomb.
The | atomic bomb explosion scene
Song Renqian had only Chinese before, and in order to understand the relevant knowledge, he could only take out the spirit of the Long March and learn from scratch. When he first arrived at his post, Song Renqiao understood that his knowledge reserves were insufficient, so he never spoke. Whenever the researchers held a talking meeting, he sat next to him with two interpreters and listened quietly, trying to remember the relevant information.
When he was more familiar, he began to ask shamelessly. As soon as he found the opportunity, he made friends with researchers, asked them questions, and must ask them an understanding.
One day, Song Renqian went to the research institute as usual, and in a research room, he met Peng Pan's son Peng Shilu. He first talked to him about the parents, and when Peng Shilu became interested in talking with him, he began to ask about the basic principles of nuclear reactors, nuclear reactor classification and other related knowledge, played the attitude of breaking the casserole to ask the end, and inquired layer by layer, until he fully understood it before quitting.
In order to remember the knowledge, Song Renqian's office has always hung a periodic table of elements, and whenever he has time to spare, he begins to recite it to the table. To make it easier to converse with Soviet experts, he also taught himself Russian. With such efforts, he was soon able to talk to researchers about related issues.
In the initial stage of construction, China's atomic bomb research cause can be said to be "poor and white", and all measures must be built by themselves.
After Song Renqian took office, the first thing he did was to build up the grass platform team from scratch and little by little. In order to achieve the task faster, Song Renqian could only go to the Chinese Academy of Sciences to "climb the relationship" and go to the Ministry of Geology, the Ministry of Construction and other state departments to ask for people. Understanding his difficulties, various departments always help each other, but such a big confidential project still makes Song Renqiang cry "poor" everywhere.
In the case of the second department of the preparatory staff, there are always people who have doubts about the new work, and in this case, some people brag about "we are the largest garden factory in Southeast Asia". When Song Renqian heard this, he frowned and warned the crowd: "We cannot take the instructions of the central authorities to scare people, and in the early stage of taking office, we must first explain all the difficulties to people and attract talents by virtue of our careers." When the cadres first came to take office, he would also seriously tell them: "My minister's name is Song Renqian, which is a 'poor' word, you see, our construction site is still a wilderness, and there are few people." Now that everyone is here, they have to work hard. ”
Figure | researchers use rudimentary equipment to overcome technical difficulties
Perhaps because of this request, the researchers present are deeply in love with this scientific research project, in order to ensure that the research is implemented as soon as possible, everyone is always working day and night.
After the preliminary preparations were completed, some work began to be carried out in an orderly manner, and just when everyone thought that the research would be completed as scheduled, the researchers encountered setbacks.
In 1959, the Soviet Union found an excuse to cut off its support for China's atomic bomb cause and no longer provide our country with atomic bomb samples and materials related to the manufacture of atomic bombs. After receiving the news, Song Renqian quickly deployed countermeasures, formulated an eight-year plan for the manufacture of atomic bombs, put forward the principle of "three years of breakthrough, five years of mastery, and eight years of appropriate reserves", and transferred all construction work to a completely autonomous track.
At the same time, taking advantage of the time difference between the Soviet Union's instructions and the full issuance, we preemptively built the main process plant of the enrichment plant, determined the installation conditions for the equipment, and urged the Soviet side to perform the previous contract and deliver the original equipment to our side. At the same time, researchers were urgently dispatched to study with Soviet experts, and every effort was made to obtain relevant knowledge and materials. Song Renqiang encouraged the crowd: "Even without them, we can continue to study and do better!" ”
The research on the atomic bomb was inevitably supported by uranium mines, which experts needed for experiments, and the Soviet Union asked us to provide uranium mines. Fortunately, Song Renqiang had already made preparations, and for several years, he had been running all over the mining site, and in order to solve this matter, he ate and lived with cadres and workers in winter and summer, and worked hard to explore together. The efforts of the people were not in vain, and after some time, they succeeded in finding the uranium mine.
Figure | workers in the mines
Of course, the discovery of uranium does not mean that the matter has been satisfactorily resolved, China's initial manufacturing industry is too backward, and the uranium refining plant has not yet been built. How do you do that?
When everyone was anxious, Song Renqian chose a solution according to the characteristics: the soil method of practicing uranium. They simply set up a bamboo hut and then gathered a group of farmers. Under the direction of the researchers, farmers crushed the ore in a bamboo shed, like grinding tofu, and then sifted them through a bamboo sieve and put them into a vat for fermentation. After making sure that the fermentation was complete, everything was taken out, and the semi-finished products were filtered layer by layer with a fine cloth wrapped in tofu, and when all the steps were completed, they were dried, so that the crowd got some powdered coarse uranium. With the stunned expressions of soviet experts, the crude uranium passed the test criteria.
In more than three years, more than 20 provinces in the country have been involved in the processing of uranium ore, in this case, China has obtained 163 tons of crude uranium refined by soil method, providing raw materials for the country's research on the atomic bomb cause, and then winning valuable time for the explosion of China's first atomic bomb.
In October 1964, when China's first atomic bomb was successfully exploded, Song Renqian cried and called Chairman Mao to tell him: Success! China's atomic bomb successfully exploded!
The | scene when our first atomic bomb exploded
It is precisely because of the successful explosion of this atomic bomb that China's scientific research undertakings have begun to be impressed by other countries. In this regard, American scholars Lewis and Xue Litai once said: China's first atomic bomb is also a people's bomb.
For national construction, Song Renqian can be said to be dedicated and unashamed, but in terms of caring for his children, he inevitably has some negligence.
Song Qin, the daughter of Song Renqiang, was born in the anti-Japanese years, when the situation was urgent, and just a month after her birth, she had to move with the troops to the designated position.
Babies don't understand things, and in the midst of bumps, she often cries. Fortunately, everyone was lucky enough to find a path that was hidden enough not to be exposed. As time passed, the Communist Party's situation became more dangerous, and just in case, Song Renqiang could only bear to send his daughter to his hometown for foster care. This foster care was 4 years, until Song Qin could remember before he was sent to the nursery to raise.
Inheriting his father's ingenuity and the spirit of hard work, Song Qin always achieved excellent results in school. In 1959, Song Qin was about to graduate from high school, and at this time, she made an agreement with her friends: to go to the Soviet Union for further study.
Picture | Song Qin and his father Song Renqian take a group photo
It was not uncommon for outstanding students to go to the Soviet Union for further study, so Song Qin always thought that her father would not stop her decision. This time, however, she miscalculated.
Just as she was ready for everything and about to leave, Song Renqian, who had received the news, did not hesitate to refuse her request to go to the Soviet Union. Of course, to this day, it is easy to see that a large part of the reason why Song Renqian did this was because the relationship between China and the Soviet Union was not stable at that time.
Although Song Qin did not know what had happened at that time, out of respect, he obediently listened to his father's words. Therefore, which university she will go to and what major she will study after that has become a big question. Of course, these questions did not bother Song Qin for long, and after some time, she got answers with the help of Premier Zhou.
On May 1, 1959, the central government held the "May Day International Labor Day" fireworks party in the Tiananmen Gate Tower, and as a core cadre of the country, Song Renqiang naturally received an invitation.
That night, Song Renqian took Song Qin up to the Tiananmen Tower, and it wasn't long before the two met Premier Zhou, who also came to participate in the event.
Song Qin admired Premier Zhou and was willing to listen to his advice, so he ran to Premier Zhou and asked, "I graduated this summer, I don't know which university to go to, can you recommend it to me?" ”
According to Song Renqian's relationship, Premier Zhou also met with Song Qin several times, and every time they met, Song Qin would always obediently call him Uncle Zhou, and premier Zhou was very impressed with this smart child. Therefore, after Song Qin asked this question, Premier Zhou kindly replied to her: "Then what kind of university do you want to go to?" ”
Picture | Song Qin
At this time, Song Qin suddenly remembered a conversation with her father Song Renqian, when Song Renqian told her that cutting-edge science and technology were initially mostly used in military aspects. So she replied without hesitation: "I want to go to a military university, learn the most advanced science and technology, and then serve the country." ”
Premier Zhou was very satisfied that the younger generation could have such lofty ambitions: "Then you can read Uncle Chen Geng's Kazakh Military Industry (Chinese the Military Engineering College of the People's Liberation Army). ”
Hearing this, Song Qin quickly raised his face and complained: "Kazakh military industry does not recruit women!" ”
Premier Zhou couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Be well, you dare to sue Uncle Chen Geng about the situation, there is a chance!" ”
During the years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Song Renqiang and Chen Geng had been partners, and the two led the troops together to cover the evacuation of the cadres of the Central Military Commission, and had a lifelong friendship.
Song Ren was honest and steady, and never easily talked to female comrades, and there were many male comrades in the army, so he never found a daughter-in-law. In order to solve the lifelong affairs of his friend, Chen Geng took the initiative to transform into the identity of the old man of the moon to match Song Renqian with female comrades, and Song Renqian's wife Zhong Yuelin, that is, Song Qin's mother, was a female comrade who Chen Geng crossed the bridge. After the two were married, Chen Geng had asked for credit in front of Song Renqian more than once, saying that if it were not for him, Song Renqian might have always been just a bare stick.
Pictured| Chen Geng
Song Qin studied at the Beijing Normal University Women's High School, and before Song Renqian was transferred to Beijing, she and her sister lived in school and lived a collective life. There is a friendship with Song Renqian, and Chen Geng also has a little love for the two sisters of Song Qin. Caring for the situation of these two girls, on the occasion of the holidays, Chen Geng also invited the two to stay at home temporarily.
Over the years, Chen Gengda will try to make the school bigger and stronger little by little from scratch, and it is precisely because he understands that he has such lofty ambitions that Premier Zhou will not hesitate to tell him Song Qin's speech. After Chen Geng listened, he pondered for a moment and felt that he could indeed start from this aspect and build the school more perfectly.
August 1 is China's Founding Day, the day when the central government held a garden party at the Working People's Cultural Palace, where Song Qin accidentally bumped into Chen Geng.
Chen Geng smiled and said to her: "You stinky little devil, you actually went to the prime minister to sue me for blackness, I told you, now the Kazakh military industry has begun to recruit girls." ”
In this way, Song Qin changed into a military uniform and became the first batch of female college students recruited by the Kazakh military industry.