In the last century, there were many outstanding people in various fields in China, making great contributions to the development of the motherland, and the famous geologist Mr. Li Siguang was one of them.
On April 29, 1971, Mr. Li Siguang died in Beijing at the age of 82 due to aneurysm rupture.
At his funeral, Premier Zhou personally went to the funeral, but he was furious at the scene and severely reprimanded some of the staff present.
And why did the mild-mannered Premier Zhou get angry at Mr. Li Siguang's funeral? The reason is still from the day of the funeral.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > some people refused to hold funerals Without a eulogy, the prime minister was angry</h1>
On May 3, 1971, the funeral of Mr. Li Siguang, a famous geologist in China, was held in the small auditorium of the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing.
Because they were informed in advance that the central leaders were coming to the farewell party, Mr. Li Siguang's wife, son-in-law, daughter, granddaughter and his secretary came to the Babaoshan family lounge early to wait.
Not long after, Comrade Liu Xiyou hurried to inform Premier Zhou that he was going to mourn.
After hearing this, Li Lin, the daughter of Mr. Li Siguang, was excited and hurriedly handed over the letter she had written to Premier Zhou after The death of Mr. Li Siguang to Liu Xiyou and entrusted him to forward it on his behalf.
Liu Xiyou took the letter and left in a hurry, and after a while the prime minister arrived.
However, Premier Zhou, who arrived at the small hall, was furious after seeing the details of the funeral, severely reprimanded the liaison officer sent by the Academy of Sciences at that time, and questioned why he did not report what happened at the funeral in time.
So, what happened at Mr. Li Siguang's funeral that made Premier Zhou so angry?
Originally, when Premier Zhou arrived, he found that the funeral was not held normally according to the normal procedures and specifications, but was held hastily in a small auditorium that could only accommodate 10 people, and those who came to mourn could only stand outside the auditorium, all drenched in rain.
The person in charge of the funeral also seemed to acquiesce to the behavior of those people and did not prepare a memorial service for Mr. Li Siguang.
After learning that there was no eulogy, the grief-stricken Premier Zhou was so angry that he asked in a trembling voice, "How can I do this?" How can a memorial service be held like this? ”
Premier Zhou's anger is not unfounded.
As a famous geologist in China, Mr. Li Siguang bowed down to the country and exhausted the last trace of vitality in his work.
He not only created geomechanics for the country, but also took off the hat of "oil-poor country" for the country, making great contributions to the development of China's petroleum industry.
How can such a geologist who is dedicated to the country and the people not get a decent funeral after his death, how can he not make the cold heart sad?
Ignoring the objections, Premier Zhou went directly to the loudspeaker and expressed his deep apologies to Mr. Li Siguang's family on behalf of the State Council.
After apologizing, he took out from his pocket a letter written to him by Li Siguang's daughter Li Lin, and after obtaining the consent of the rest of the party leaders, read the letter as a eulogy.
The premier read very slowly, choked up several times in the process, and in the letter, Li Lin described in detail the conversation that Mr. Li Siguang had with her the day before his death, which was infinite affection and concern for the motherland.
Mr. Li Siguang said: He has been relieved about the geological work, because it has been taken seriously by the state, but the earthquake forecast has worried him.
He didn't know if he still had time to go with his comrades to conquer the earthquake forecast, and he hoped that he could live for another half a year and follow the comrades to solve this problem for the motherland...
After the end, the premier folded the letter and put it back in his pocket, and together with the central leading comrades, he comforted the family of Mr. Li Siguang and made a final farewell to the body of Mr. Li Siguang.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, many aspirants in China chose to study abroad in order to broaden their horizons and learn new cultural knowledge, and Li Siguang was no exception.
In 1904, in the 30th year of the Guangxu Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, Li Siguang went to Japan to study at public expense. During his study abroad, he came into contact with the "democratic revolutionary thought" that was completely different from China's "feudal ideology and culture", and got to know many revolutionary volunteers.
Under their influence, Li Siguang's ideological cognition has undergone earth-shaking changes, and he has understood the harm and drawbacks of the ideology and system of China's feudal society.
He cut his braids and joined the revolutionary ranks, determined to change the status quo of the motherland.
Subsequently, he joined the Chinese League, founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and regarded the purpose of "expelling the Tartars, restoring China, establishing the Republic of China, and equalizing land rights" as his mission.
However, after the establishment of Yuan Shikai's Beiyang warlord government, its purpose was contrary to the ideas of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, which made Li Siguang intolerable.
Under the pressure of the situation, he resolutely decided to choose to use science and technology to save the country.
In 1913, Li Siguang went to England to study. After many exploration attempts, Li Siguang believes that although his motherland has a vast territory, it has always been blank in terms of geology.
He decided to study geology in the hope of making up for the gap in the field of geology in his homeland, and after 6 years, he finally succeeded in his studies and obtained a master's degree.
Li Siguang, who completed his studies, did not stay in the UK like other students, but gladly returned to China to teach after receiving an invitation from Cai Yuanpei, the president of Peking University.
Under the influence of Li Siguang, the Nationalist government began to attach importance to geology, and decided to establish the National Wuhan University in August 1928. Since then, the field of geology in China is no longer a blank space.
However, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Li Siguang was forced to terminate academic research.
It was also at that time that he met Premier Zhou, who was doing united front work in the Kuomintang area, and after a long talk, the two of them suddenly felt that they hated each other and became friends of Mo Rebellion.
Subsequently, as Chairman Mao led the Communist Party of China to stubbornly resist Japan, the balance of victory gradually tilted to the country, and Li Siguang went to Chongqing University to teach and opened the first oil field major at Chongqing University.
It was at this time that Premier Zhou secretly met with Li Siguang.
Premier Zhou attaches great importance to science and technology, and he also cherishes scientific talents.
In order to avoid Li Siguang being persecuted by Chiang Kai-shek, Premier Zhou asked him to temporarily go abroad to hide, which allowed Li Siguang to see the light in the darkness.
In Li Lin's memory, as long as Li Siguang talks about Premier Zhou, he will certainly sigh: "In Mr. Zhou Enlai's body, I felt an incomparably powerful force, and therefore deeply realized that only the Communist Party of China is the hope of the country." ”
And this has also become the main source of Li Siguang's firm desire to return to China no matter how many difficulties and obstacles he has experienced.
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In February 1948, Mr. Li Siguang was invited to London to attend the 18th International Geological Congress, and he felt that this was a good opportunity to go abroad to hide, so he gladly agreed to take his wife with him.
After arriving in the UK, Mr. Li Siguang wrote a scientific paper while attending the meeting and waited to return to China.
During this time, he paid close attention to domestic news all the time, read a large number of British newspapers every day, learned about the progress of the domestic liberation war, and remotely controlled and sabotaged the plot of the Nationalist government to move the Geological Research Institute from Nanjing to the south.
In September 1948, Li Siguang learned that the liberation war in China had won a great victory, and at the same time, he received a letter from Premier Zhou entrusting Mr. Guo Ruomo to bring him.
In the letter, the premier asked him to return to China at an early date to participate in the construction of the motherland, and Li Siguang, who had received instructions, could not hide his joy, and hastily booked ferry tickets and applied for visas, preparing to depart for China in September 1949.
However, his journey back to China was fraught with obstacles.
First of all, because of the impact of World War II, passenger ferry tickets to return home need to be booked one year in advance. Secondly, although Chiang Kai-shek was defeated, he still did not want him to return to China.
Just as he was anxiously waiting to leave, he received a call from his friend Chen Yuan from London.
On the phone, Chen Yuan informed Li Siguang that Zheng Tianxi, the Kuomintang ambassador to Britain, had received a secret order from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs asking him to publicly issue a statement refusing to accept the post of cppcc member of the Chinese Communist Party, or Zheng Tianxi would detain him and escort him to Taiwan through the British authorities.
Chen Yuan also said on the phone that he hoped That Li Siguang would now find a way to leave Britain. Because Zheng Tianxi is likely to have already led people on the way to arrest him, asking for a public statement may just be a blind spot to hold his feet, and it will be too late to run again.
Li Siguang, who hung up the phone, did not dare to delay, and immediately packed up his important manuscripts and documents.
After instructing his wife to stay with his daughter temporarily, in order not to attract attention, he arrived at Plymouth Harbor, prepared to cross the English Channel to France by cargo ship, and wrote a letter to Zheng Tianxi before leaving, angrily denouncing him for not following the Kuomintang to do bad things again, and he would never refuse to serve as a new CPPCC member.
Chen Yuan expected well, the day after Li Siguang smuggled away, the embassy really came to him, and soft and hard, until he was finally convinced that he himself was really no longer in Britain, and stopped harassing his wife and daughter.
However, Li Siguang, who took a cargo ship from Plymouth Harbor, disappeared from everyone since he left Born Meditation, and no one knew where he was or what he was going through.
Some people in China speculated whether Li Siguang had secretly gone to Taiwan and advised Premier Zhou not to look forward to Li Siguang's return to China.
Premier Zhou ignored the persuasion of those around him, believing that Li Siguang would definitely return to China and insisted on waiting for Li Siguang to return to China before holding the first geological conference.
In addition, Premier Zhou also used his various connections to find ways to protect Li Siguang's personal safety when entering other countries.
Persistence and waiting have finally come to fruition. Five months later, Li Siguang returned to China smoothly and returned to Beijing on May 6, 1950, to reunite with his wife.
After arriving in Beijing, Premier Zhou went to comfort Li Siguang for the first time.
Li Siguang was very excited, the two talked for a long time for 3 hours, the premier was concerned about Li Siguang's physical condition, and Li Siguang was eager to put into work as soon as possible.
With the consent of the prime minister, Li Siguang devoted himself to geological work, and in the next two decades, he founded geomechanics.
Because of his support and influence, many geological schools have risen from all over the motherland, and China, which is rich in land and knowledge, finally has its own geological system and talent training institutions.
Not only that, he also established the Institute of Geomechanics with the support of Premier Zhou, which laid a solid foundation for his successful finding of oil in the northeast.
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The international community has always considered China to be an "oil-poor country", and not only that, but even the Chinese people themselves have recognized this hat.
But Li Siguang did not believe in evil, and his professional knowledge told him that how could Such a vast china have no oil fields?
Therefore, in order to solve the domestic oil problem, in order to get rid of the hat of "oil-poor country", in order to get rid of China's dependence on other countries in terms of petroleum raw materials. Li Siguang bravely broke the conventional thinking of the Chinese people who have always only looked for oil in the northwest region, and found oil nationwide.
From time to time, some people ridiculed him: The Japanese have been looking for three years in the northeast and have not found it, can you find it?
He didn't refute it, he didn't care, he just concentrated on doing what he had to do.
In early 1954, with the support of the Party Central Committee, Li Siguang embarked on a journey to find oil for the motherland.
In his work, he often read all kinds of geological data day and night, so that the data, survey data, survey data, and data became the whole of his life.
The intense work exhausted his body, and his kidney condition was getting worse and worse, but in order to seize the time, he was reluctant to seek medical treatment.
In this way, in the study of racing against the clock, he targeted the three eastern provinces.
In 1957, Li Siguang led the national geological and petroleum exploration team to the three eastern provinces, braving the wind and sand during the day to measure the land, and at night enduring the cold to sort out the data.
In 1959, Li Siguang's exploration team finally surveyed the land in the northeast to detect oil sands that showed the reservoir.
At that moment, everyone boiled over, and the efforts were not in vain, and Chinese finally had their own oil field.
Later, more oil fields were discovered, and China finally succeeded in taking off the hat of "oil-poor country", and all these achievements were inseparable from Li Siguang's leadership and persistence.
Not only that, he also paid great attention to the earthquake prediction work, because the earthquake poses a serious threat to people's lives and property, the Party Central Committee hopes that China's scientific and technological talents can find accurate prediction methods.
Li Siguang also attached great importance to this and actively responded to the party's call to study the method of predicting earthquakes day and night.
But years of intense work gave his health a red light, and he couldn't hold on any longer and fell to work.
Even so, he still cared about his work and the motherland, and when his life was in danger, he never talked about his children's family affairs, and in Li Lin's letter, he only talked about the country and only worried about the unfinished earthquake prediction work.
This is Mr. Li Siguang, such a hero who is dedicated to the party and the country, but after his death, he did not even have a memorial service, no wonder Premier Zhou was furious at the funeral.
Only by remembering the glorious deeds of Mr. Li Siguang and building the motherland even better can we be worthy of the efforts and trust of Mr. Li Siguang and his predecessors.
Young China, Chinese teenagers, my generation should be self-reliant, the motherland will become more and more prosperous and strong.