As everyone knows, Chairman Mao was a native of Shaoshan Chong, Xiangtan County, Hunan Province.
As the saying goes, beauty is not beautiful, hometown water; kiss or not, hometown people.
Like everyone else, Chairman Mao had boundless love and attachment to his hometown.
Lao Qin previously mentioned in "Chairman Mao's Little Fellow, Who Lost an Arm in a Fierce Battle, And Once Rebuked Zhang Guotao for Being Nearly Killed, And Later a General" that the founding general Peng Shaohui was also a Chong man from Shaoshan, Xiangtan, Hunan, but his home was in Waziping, seven or eight kilometers from Chairman Mao's house.
The first time Peng Shaohui met Chairman Mao was when he joined the Peasants' Association in 1927, when he briefed Chairman Mao, who was inspecting the peasant movement.
Therefore, during the long revolutionary journey, Chairman Mao had an unusual sense of affection for Peng Shaohui, saying on many occasions: "You are my real fellow countryman." ”
Lao Qin also said in another article, "Chairman Mao wanted to go back to his grandmother's house after the founding of the People's Republic of China, but was vetoed by his cousin, asked why, and fell silent" that Chairman Mao's mother, Wen Qimei, had given birth to two boys before Chairman Mao was born, but both died prematurely. Then, on December 26, 1893, after Chairman Mao was born, Wen Qimei, in view of the fact that neither of her previous two children had been brought alive, took her son who had just reached the full moon to her mother's house to raise him according to a local custom.
In addition, Lao Qin also said in "Chairman Mao went back to his hometown to invite his father and elder, he was about to open the banquet, and suddenly said that he wanted to wait for Ganniang, and everyone looked at each other", Wen Qimei returned to his mother's house, and asked Chairman Mao to recognize a humanoid boulder as Ganniang, and gave Chairman Mao the nickname "Shi Sanlingzi".
That is, from the age of two to eight, Chairman Mao spent almost all of his childhood at his grandmother's house.
At the age of nine, that is, in 1902, Chairman Mao returned to his home in Shangwuchang and went to study at six private schools in Shaoshan; in the autumn of 1910, Chairman Mao was admitted to the Dongshan Higher Primary School in Xiangxiang County, Hunan Province; in the spring of 1913, he entered the preparatory department of the Hunan Provincial Fourth Normal School. After that, he initiated the establishment of the Xinmin Society, organized the Hunan Work-study Movement to France, went to Beijing as a librarian of Peking University, initiated the establishment of the Hunan Student Federation, led the campaign to expel the Hunan warlord Zhang Jingyao, organized the Changsha Communist Group, and so on.
After leading the Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927, Chairman Mao did not set foot in Shaoshan's homeland for 32 years.
Therefore, when Chairman Mao returned to Shaoshan in June 1959, he wrote in his poem "To Shaoshan" that "the old garden was thirty-two years ago."
When Lao Qin said this large pile, he actually wanted to emphasize one point: Although Chairman Mao was a Shaoshan Chong person, he did not spend a lot of time living in Shaoshan Chong, and during the time he lived in Shaoshan, he mainly studied. Therefore, although many people in ShaoshanChong knew Chairman Mao, especially after the founding of New China, they all knew Chairman Mao, but Chairman Mao could not know all the people of Shaoshanchong.
Yang Shunqin, a village doctor in Yangjiazhuang, Ruyi Township, Shaoshan County, was known to Chairman Mao.
In 1925, when Chairman Mao returned to Shaoshan to carry out the agricultural movement, he fell seriously ill and sought treatment from Yang Shunqin.
Although there have been many debates between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine in recent years, Yang Shunqin is a pure Chinese medicine doctor, and he has cured Chairman Mao's serious illness by prescribing a few pairs of herbs.
Chairman Mao was therefore very grateful to Yang Shunqin, firmly remembered Yang Shunqin's name, and regarded him as a close friend.
Yang Shunqin was influenced by Chairman Mao, and his two sons Yang Zijia and Yang Zishou both joined the Peasants' Association. Both of his sons later sacrificed their precious lives for the revolution, and he himself was arrested by the reactionary warlords and imprisoned for two years.
After the founding of New China, Chairman Mao did not forget those who had made contributions to the revolution, and he personally wrote to Yang Shunqin, inviting him to Beijing to reminisce about the past.
Yang Shunqin was older, still sick, and did not go.
Chairman Mao knew about Yang Shunqin's situation, so he often sent him some of his own manuscript fees to help him improve his life.
Yang Shunqin received funding from Chairman Mao, and while he was moved, he inevitably had to brag to his old brothers.
Among Yang Shunqin's old brothers, there was one named Xie Zifan.
Xie Zifan listened to Yang Shunqin's boasting, was silent for half a moment, and said quietly: "You just cured Chairman Mao of his illness, and you got such enthusiastic help from him." I saved his life, but I didn't get him anything in return. ”
"Huh? Did you save his life? Yang Shunqin's eyes widened and he asked in surprise, "Where did this come from?" Can you elaborate? ”
Xie Zifan smoked shisha and smoked it, and then slowly recalled the past.
He said: It was 1925, Chairman Mao had returned to Shaoshan to carry out the agricultural movement, and Cheng Xusheng of the Xiangtan RegimentAl defense bureau sent a team of regimental dings to arrest and let me lead the way. On the way to Shaoshan Chongren, I met Chairman Mao, because none of the tuanding who went with me knew Chairman Mao, so I deliberately asked Chairman Mao for directions and said, "Do you know where Mao Runzhi's family lives?" The head of the regimental defense bureau wants to find him! When I said this, I also gave Chairman Mao a hard look and signaled him to flee. Chairman Mao should have understood his own meaning, pointed in a random direction, and hurried away.
Yang Shunqin listened to Xie Zifan's words and felt that Xie Zifan's warning and rescue of people was too commendable, so he wrote a letter to Chairman Mao, telling in detail about the process of Xie Zifan's rescue of people, and asking Chairman Mao to thank Him well.
However, after the letter was sent, Chairman Mao did not reply to it for a long time.
Yang Shunqin was anxious, and wrote a second letter, emphasizing that Xie Zifan was more than 60 years old, still seriously ill, and had a very difficult life at home.
This time, Chairman Mao replied, but Chairman Mao's answer made Yang Shunqin very dissatisfied.
Chairman Mao said in his letter that "there are probably some things to save lives," and asked Yang Shunqin to "express his gratitude" to Xie Zifan, and as for Xie Zifan's difficult problems, he said, "Please find the local government to solve them."
Yang Shunqin was indignant and complained: People really saved you, but you said that "there is probably some", and also played leather ball, saying that you would "find the local government to solve it".
Enraged, he wrote a third letter to Chairman Mao, accusing him of being "ungrateful."
At the end of the letter, he also improvised a poem, quoting the allusions of the Jin Wen Gong Gong To Jie Zi Tui and the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu to reward En Feng Yi, hoping that Chairman Mao would learn from the Jin Wen Gong and the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu and repay Xie Zifan well.
The letter was sent, but Chairman Mao did not reply to it.
Of course, afterwards, Yang Shunqin was also a little annoyed, thinking that he was not inferior, his words were too sharp, and some were excessive.
In fact, Yang Shunqin thought that Chairman Mao's remark that "there are probably some things to save his life" was a prevarication, but Chairman Mao replied to him realistically.
Because Chairman Mao did not know Xie Zifan.
That is, Xie Zifan warned to save people, Chairman Mao could not have had too many impressions -- Chairman Mao's life, I don't know how many times he encountered dangers, which time did Xie Zifan say?
Also, Xie Zifan said that it was a warning to save people, but at that time, Chairman Mao could also think that Tuan Ding was really asking himself for directions.
Moreover, Xie Zifan said that he had saved Chairman Mao, but that was only his one-sided statement, and there were no witnesses.
Chairman Mao also knew that he was able to defuse dangerous situations again and again, and in addition to the element of luck, it was more of a cover for the revolutionary masses. Therefore, he could not see the wind or rain and believe that Xie Zifan had really saved himself, nor could he categorically deny Xie Zifan's statement.
Otherwise, today Zhang San said that he saved your life, and tomorrow Li Si said that he saved your life, so wouldn't that promote this trend of making up fake stories? And if Xie Zifan's statement is true and he directly denies it, it will chill Xie Zifan's heart.
Therefore, he can only say "probably there is".
As for Chairman Mao's remark that "it is better to solve difficult problems with the local government," he did not play leather ball, but his principle of resolutely eliminating the use of privileges.
Yang Shunqin did not know that Chairman Mao's cousin Wen Yunchang and his brother-in-law Yang Kaizhi had proposed to Chairman Mao to solve the problem of work, but Chairman Mao had rejected them.
Chairman Mao did not reply to Yang Shunqin's third letter, but he asked the local government to verify Xie Zifan's experience in participating in the agricultural cooperatives, and once it was true, he was given the treatment of a "revolutionary old man" and sent him some living allowance every month.
Yang Shunqin, who was righteous in his head, failed to think from Chairman Mao's standpoint, and he identified it, and Chairman Mao did not reply to his third letter, which showed that he and Chairman Mao did not even have to be friends.
He never imagined that Chairman Mao would return to Shaoshan in June 1959 and specially send a car to his home to pick him up at Shaoshan Chong to meet him.
At lunch that day, Chairman Mao sat him in the chief position and specially gave him a piece of steamed fish.
Yang Shunqin thought back on his previous performance, felt ridiculous, and said with a strong voice: "I am really stupid." ”
After the meal, Chairman Mao took the initiative to invite Yang Shunqin to take photos to commemorate the occasion.
All of Yang Shunqin's dissatisfaction with Chairman Mao was swept away.
After returning home, he excitedly wrote a letter to his grandson Yang Houchun, talking about his meeting with Chairman Mao this time, saying that "inheriting Chairman Mao's love in this way will make me feel humiliated for the rest of my life."