On January 29, 1955, Luo Ronghuan, director of the General Cadre Department, submitted to the Central Military Commission the "Request for Instructions on the Evaluation and Awarding of Ranks of Local Responsible Cadres."
He proposed that the rank of "representative figure with historical ties to the military and with a certain region" should be handled in three ways.
The first is :"ranks must be assessed and then awarded"; the second is "only ranks are assessed and not awarded"; the third is "only reserved ranks are awarded".
Here, there is also such a list, referring to representative figures who have historical ties with the army and have links with a certain region, including: Ulanfu, Zhao Erlu, Ye Fei, Xie Fuzhi, Wang Enmao, Wang Weizhou, Feng Baiju, Zhou Baozhong, Teng Daiyuan, Li Xiannian ...
Later, when the title was awarded, the first five people on this list all participated in the awarding of the title, and the rest of the people did not participate, but according to their contributions in history, their ranks were also evaluated, Teng Daiyuan, Li Xiannian and others were all generals, and they belonged to the "only assessment of military ranks and not awarded"
The person we want to talk about today is the famous general boss among the senior leaders of our army, and he is Teng Daiyuan.
Born in 1904 at the age of 24 in Mayang County, Hunan Province, Teng Daiyuan joined the Communist Party of China and participated in the student movement, after which he successively served as secretary of the Pingjiang County Party Committee of the Youth League and secretary of the Xiangdong Special Committee.
On July 22, 1928, Teng Daiyuan and Peng Dehuai and others led the Pingjiang Uprising, the troops were reorganized into the Fifth Red Army, Peng Dehuai served as the commander, Peng Dehuai served as the party representative, and a few decades later, Peng Dehuai recalled the Pingjiang Uprising and gave Teng Daiyuan a very high evaluation: "Comrade Daiyuan helped the Pingjiang Uprising a lot, and was one of the leaders of the Pingjiang Uprising, especially in the establishment of political work in the army, the establishment of the party, and the establishment of the Soviet power of workers, peasants, and soldiers. ”
At the end of the year, the Fifth Red Army came to Jinggangshan and was incorporated into the Red Fourth Army, with Zhu De as its commander, Peng Dehuai as its deputy commander, Chairman Mao as its party representative, and Teng Daiyuan as its deputy party deputy.
During the agrarian revolution, Teng Daiyuan successively served as political commissar of the Red Third Army and deputy general political commissar of the Red Army, and it was Chairman Mao who served as the general political commissar at that time.
The Red Third Army participated in the first to fifth anti-encirclement and suppression of the Central Soviet Region, and in the Red Army, the Red Third Army was the absolute main force, and Teng Daiyuan, as the political commissar of the Red Third Army, made great contributions to the revolution in it.
In The military career of Teng Daiyuan, it is somewhat regrettable that he did not participate in the Long March, in September 1934, Teng Daiyuan was far from the former Soviet Union, and when he returned, it was already 1937, when the all-out War of Resistance had broken out, teng Daiyuan was appointed chief of staff of the Central Military Commission.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Teng Daiyuan successively served as vice president of the Taihang Mountain Anti-Japanese University General School and deputy commander of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Military Region.
During the Liberation War, Teng Daiyuan successively served as deputy commander of the North China Military Region and member of the Standing Committee of the North China Bureau.
In November 1948, Zhou Enlai met with Teng Daiyuan and told him that the Central Military Commission had decided to establish the Ministry of Railways: "Railway work is very important, and the task of doing a good job in railway work to ensure the needs of military transportation in the current liberation war and the economic construction after the liberation of the whole country is very arduous." The central government has decided to put the railway in your charge.
After a pause, Zhou Enlai continued: "Before the establishment of the central government, you were the first comrade to switch from the army to economic work, and more comrades will turn to the economic front in the future." The transition from military work to economic work is a great change, but it is the need of the revolutionary cause and an important sign of the victorious development of the War of Liberation. ”
For the party Central Committee to have such trust and respect, Teng Daiyuan immediately said that he would not disappoint the Party Central Committee.
On January 28, 1949, the first meeting of the Ministry of Railways of the Central Military Commission was held in Shijiazhuang, and Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, accompanied by Teng Daiyuan, walked into the meeting hall, and Zhu De said: "The Central Committee has sent you a "general boss." In the past, he commanded thousands of troops and horses to defeat the Japanese invaders and the Kuomintang reactionaries, and from today onwards, he will be in charge of the railway, command a million railway troops, build mountains and roads, build bridges in the face of water, rush to repair and rush transportation, support the army to cross the river, and liberate all of China. ”
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Teng Daiyuan became the first minister of railways in New China.
When Teng Daiyuan was the minister of railways, the railway soldiers repaired a large number of railways and highways, as well as bridges, signal stations, etc., and made great contributions to the People's Liberation Army crossing the river south and liberating the great northwest and the great southwest.
In October 1950, the troops to resist US aggression and aid Korea entered the DPRK to fight, and the railway troops had already entered the DPRK at the beginning of the month, and during the entire period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the railway soldiers under Teng Daiyuan's command made outstanding contributions to logistical support work.
When the title was awarded in 1955, Teng Daiyuan was already working in the local area, so he did not participate in the awarding of the title, but no one denied that his qualifications and military achievements were enough to be rated as a general, so Chairman Mao, Zhu De, and others all called Teng Daiyuan "the general's big boss."
Although Teng Daiyuan has been in a high position for a long time, but he has never sought private interests for himself, in 1964, Teng Daiyuan's third son graduated from high school and was ready to take the college entrance examination, he wanted to go to the Harbin Military Engineering College, but he was afraid that he would not be able to pass the examination, so he asked his father to say hello to the old subordinates.
When Teng Daiyuan saw the letter, he categorically refused, and told him to take the exam himself and not to think about taking the relationship.
On November 30, 1974, Teng Daiyuan's life came to an end, and in his later years, when his wife Lin Yi came to visit him, his emotions were very excited, Lin Yi asked him to take a pen and paper, and Teng Daiyuan wrote on the paper trembling.
Teng Daiyuan was still very excited, Lin Yi comforted him to write slowly, his emotions calmed down, after writing, everyone saw that there were only 2 words on the paper: service.
This is Teng Daiyuan, a man who has devoted his life to the great cause of communism.