In the past few days, when I read the book "Into Zhou Enlai" written by Quan Yanchi, I was repeatedly moved to tears by Premier Zhou's dedication of "bowing down to exhaustion and dying".
The book talks about Premier Zhou's long-term overload of self-forgetful work, and normally only sleeps three or four hours a day. When there are major events that need to be dealt with, they often do not sleep for several days and nights in a row.
According to comrade He Shuying, a confidential secretary, he had seen the premier many times and had nosebleeds due to overwork. Once, during the most brutal stage of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, US planes bombed indiscriminately, causing great difficulties in logistics and transportation, coupled with the release of poison gas, the scattering of bacteria, and all kinds of despicable means. The prime minister worked continuously, did not close his eyes for three days and three nights, and had two consecutive nosebleeds that night. The second time he had a nosebleed, he leaned back on the couch, put on a cold towel, blocked the cotton ball, the blood still could not be stopped, and the cotton ball continued to flow down. Secretary He saw it painfully and urgently, and repeatedly persuaded him to rest, but he could not move. He insisted on waiting for a special emergency telegram from the front.
Secretary He really couldn't look at it, so he called a guard to force Premier Zhou into the room to rest. The prime minister was so angry at this that he scolded Secretary He fiercely: "Hu Haotai, why did you not think that you would be responsible for our volunteer soldiers?" ”
The tears of Secretary He, who was bitterly criticized, could not help but gush out, and there were grievances in these tears, and there was great reverence for the prime minister, and more importantly, the body of the prime minister was distressed.
The Prime Minister remained in his office until he received a call from the front, dictated the contents of the call, issued a reply, and then took the medicine to rest. From then on, the secretaries no longer dared to force Premier Zhou to rest.
Premier Zhou's life does not allow every minute and second to be wasted, and requires secretaries to dare and be good at "seeing the stitches and inserting needles" to report to him. According to Premier Zhou's office habits, the secretaries summarized his "five offices", namely toilets, restaurants, desks, bedsides, and the grass-roots land of the motherland. It can be said that you are working anytime, anywhere, regardless of the occasion. Even when inspecting work in various places, he asked the secretaries to report to him through the "reporting note", so that he could work anytime and anywhere.
Secretary He has followed the prime minister for decades, and the most heard mantra is: "Don't you be afraid of me being busy, I am not afraid of being busy, what are you afraid of?" I can get busy. ”
The guardian Chief Cheng Yuangong once calculated Premier Zhou's working hours, and he only rested for 13 hours a week. This is calculated by Cheng Yuangong every minute and second, from the time the prime minister goes to bed, to the time he gets up, whether he is asleep or not, he lies down and rests for 13 hours. The Prime Minister's life expectancy is 78 years, but if he is calculated by working hours, his life expectancy is definitely more than 120 years.
The prime minister may not be perfect, but he is infinitely close to perfection. The Prime Minister may not be a saint, but he is infinitely close to a saint. For the vast majority of people, it is easier to die heroically on the battlefield than to work like a super high workload for decades.
Premier Zhou's dedication is pure, thorough, unreserved, and without the slightest pursuit of return. His love for the motherland and the people lasted a lifetime, until death! It can really be said that "spring silkworms to the end of dead silk, wax torch into gray tears began to dry"!
His life code is written in the five words "serving the people"!
Of course, Premier Zhou's moral standards are too high for the general public to reach. His actions and thoughts were almost saintly and really not suitable for us mortals. For ordinary people, to maintain physical and mental health, to eat, to sleep, to play, to do their jobs, to earn money to support their families and to consume appropriately, to become a part of the economic cycle is to contribute to the motherland. Isn't this precisely the goal that Premier Zhou, the revolutionaries of the older generation, have been striving for all their lives?
A group photo of Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao in 1957. The two never gave up on each other all their lives and fought for the revolutionary cause all their lives, which can really be described as the gods and immortals of the revolution
Premier Zhou Enlai and Vice Premier He Long watched the friendly match between China and Sri Lanka at the scene.
Zhou Enlai read a newspaper in the office of Zengjiayan No. 50 in Chongqing
Premier Zhou Enlai is doing his own gymnastics
Premier Zhou Enlai and his secretary guarded a meal together
In 1966, Premier Zhou Enlai went to Xingtai to comfort the people in the earthquake-stricken areas