In 1951, Zeng Zhi, then secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee, received a condolence group from the central government's old revolutionary areas.
In the exchange between the two sides, the topic was related to the place where Zeng Zhi fought in those years - Jinggangshan.
Zeng Zhi's eyes suddenly dimmed, she wanted to say many times and stopped, and finally gritted her teeth and made up her mind, and made a request with the comrades of the old district condolence group:
I hope they can help them find their own son Shi Laifa, who was left on Jinggang Mountain.
After hearing Zeng Zhi's request, the comrades of the condolence group agreed with their mouths full of words.
Soon the Central Condolence Group and his party left Guangzhou, and when Zeng Zhi sent them off, he looked at them with eager eyes and kept repeating in his heart:
"You must find my son, you must find my son." The reason why Zeng Zhi has such a performance is because she feels that she owes too much to her son.
Zeng Zhi (1911 - 1998) was an outstanding leader of the organizational front of the Communist Party of China, a former member of the Central Advisory Committee of the Communist Party of China, and a former vice minister of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
First, the son sees his mother for thousands of miles
To make this clear, we have to go back to 1928.
At the age of 17, Zeng Zhi threw herself into the vigorous Shonan Uprising, and because of her active work, she joined the team at a young age and was awarded the position of secretary of the Party Committee Office of the Seventh Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.
After the Shonan Uprising, due to the counterattack of the Kuomintang reactionaries, Zeng Zhi followed the Nanchang Uprising troops led by Zhu De, and the Shonan Workers' and Peasants' Army went to Jinggangshan.
After arriving at Jinggangshan, Zeng Zhi met Mao Zedong, Zhu De, and other later CCP leaders here.
Jude
Before that, in 1927, Zeng Zhi went to Chenzhou to join the revolution and happened to meet Xia Mingzhen, an early leader of the Communist Party of China who was the secretary of the county party committee in Chenxian County.
Later, Xia Mingzhen directly led the Shonan Uprising, and then single-handedly formed the Independent Seventh Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army and the Chenxian Soviet Government.
In the 28th year, Zeng Zhi, who had just opened his love, liked Xia Mingzhen even more after seeing him, and Xia Mingzhen also admired Zeng Zhi, and under the mutual pleasure of the two, the two soon became husband and wife and embarked on the revolutionary road together.
However, the good times were short-lived, and Xia Mingzhen was killed by counter-revolutionaries on March 22, 1928, at the age of 21.
Xia Mingzhen (1906-1928) was a famous martyr and the younger brother of Xia Minghan, a pioneer of the Chinese revolution
Xia Mingzhen died, but Zeng Zhi did not have time to grieve, because she was pregnant at this time.
After that, Zeng Zhi went up to Jinggang Mountain under the leadership of Zhu De. On Jinggang Mountain, Zeng Zhi met her second husband, Cai Xiemin.
At this time, Cai Xiemin was a member of the Military Commission of the Fourth Red Army, and he saw that Zeng Zhi had joined the revolution at such a young age, and he also had a big belly, and his heart was very admired and pity.
Therefore, he cared for Zeng Zhi, and Zeng Zhi was also touched by Cai Xiemin's care, and the two secretly had a love affair with each other.
At first, Zeng Zhi still had some concerns, after all, she was pregnant with Xia Mingzhen's child, and she asked Cai Xiemin very seriously on this issue: "The child in my belly is not yours, don't you really mind?" ”
Cai Xiemin heard this and replied, "I don't care, these are all revolutionary children, martyrs' orphans, not only do I not mind, but I cherish it even more." ”
In this regard, Zeng Zhi and Cai Xiemin re-established the family.
Cai Xiemin (1901-1934), a native of Huarong, Hunan
In the blink of an eye, Zeng Zhi, who was pregnant in October, was about to give birth. But after all, it was a mountain, the conditions were limited, and it was late autumn, the weather had been drizzling, and the air was humid and cold.
Therefore, in order to give birth to this child, Zeng Zhi suffered for three days and three nights before giving birth to him.
However, after being born, Zeng Zhi did not rest for long, because the situation was critical at that time, and soon Zeng Zhi threw himself into the construction of the red army rear hospital.
Jinggangshan has always been a thorn in the eye of the Kuomintang reactionaries, so there are frequent wars, materials cannot come, and the rear is tense, Zeng Zhi understands that he is unable to raise this newborn and must find a stable home for him.
So after consultation, the couple finally gave the child to Shi Libao and his wife who came to visit them, and the child was immediately renamed Shi Laifa. The separation of mother and child is 23 years.
After the old district condolence group returned, it abolished the big Zhou Zhang, and finally found Shi Laifa. Shi Laifa knew that his biological mother was still alive and served as the secretary of the municipal party committee in Guangzhou, so he immediately set off for Guangzhou, thousands of miles away.
In October 1952, after Shi Lai arrived in Guangzhou, he waited for his mother in the reception room.
Zeng Zhi came out to take a look, completely disbelieving his eyes, because this child who had severed ties with himself for 23 years and was now only a 20-year-old child did not have the vitality that a young man in his 20s should have, and how to look at the child in front of him was like a middle-aged man in his thirties.
After careful questioning, Zeng Zhi learned that the child's adoptive parents had died in battle as early as the age of seven, and then Shi Laifa could only grow up on the pull of his elderly grandmother...
Zeng Zhi took a group photo with his son and grandson
In Shi Laifa's slightly bland description, Zeng Zhi became more and more guilty, so he wanted to make up for his spiritual guilt and debt.
Zeng Zhi told her son not to go back to Jinggangshan, she wanted to arrange for him to go to the factory as a student worker, and then arrange for him to participate in night school training and study at night.
But Shi Laifa was very calm, and he said to Zeng Zhi:
"I came here to see my biological mother, and to know that my mother is still alive, my heart will be bright." As for what work arrangement is not necessary, I have become a family in Jinggangshan, I have a wife and children, and my grandmother is not easy to grow up by begging, I am the only labor force in the family. If you don't go back, the family's land will be planted without anyone, and you won't be able to fulfill your responsibilities. ”
For the child's choice, Zeng Zhi listened silently, although guilty, but also chose to respect Shi Laifa's choice.
In this way, Shi Laifa came to Guangzhou thousands of miles away, just to look at his mother in a hurry, and then immediately returned to Jinggangshan, and then became a farmer for a lifetime.
After a hundred years of Zeng Zhi, he chose to bury his bones in Jinggangshan, and Shi Laifa would often go to his mother's grave to sit down and accompany his mother.
Shi Laifa was in front of the tomb of his mother Zeng Zhi
Second, she owes too much to her family
In fact, in addition to Zeng Zhi and Xia Mingzhen, he also had two marriages, one was Cai Xiemin and the other was Tao Zhu.
After Zeng Zhi and Cai Xiemin were together, Cai Xiemin had a very good relationship with Mao Zedong and He Zizhen, so the relationship between Zeng Zhi and Mao Zedong was also very good.
However, Zeng Zhi and Cai Xiemin's marriage did not last long, in 1934, Cai Xiemin planned to travel from Xiamen to the Central Soviet Region, because of the defection and betrayal of the traffic officers, just arrived in Zhangzhou, he was captured by the Kuomintang agents who had been ambushed for a long time.
A high-ranking CCP official like Cai Xiemin, the Kuomintang has been trying to torture him and force him to confess useful information.
However, Cai Xiemin preferred to die unyieldingly, and the Kuomintang saw that it really could not ask for any useful value, so it pulled Cai Xiemin, who had been tortured to an inhuman appearance, out and killed him.
In less than five years, Zeng Zhi suffered two bereavements, not only that, but she also "lost" three children during the period.
One was Shi Laifa, and the other was the boy he and Cai Xiemin, who died not long after birth due to the poor living conditions at that time due to the hygiene and poor living conditions.
The third child is named Cai Shihong, who was also born to Cai Xiemin.
The child was born in 1933, but also because the conditions are extremely difficult, after giving birth to the child, the child is no problem, but Zeng Zhi failed to deal with the infection after giving birth to the child, and gave birth to a very serious gynecological disease.
Later, there was really no way, the couple decided to give the child away, and in line with the principle of proximity, Zeng Zhi gave it to a farmer.
Cai Shihong's life experience can be called a tragedy written by Shakespeare.
At the age of four, he unfortunately contracted lymphatic tuberculosis, which severely persecuted his body because of the lack of effective treatment.
When Cai Shihong was fourteen years old, because the family was religious, she was able to undergo free surgery in the church hospital.
However, due to the underdevelopment of medical technology, after the operation, Cai Shihong was removed from a kidney along with two ribs, making his life more difficult.
Cai Shihong has not been to school since childhood, and has no culture, and later the means of making a living is to sell cigarettes, melon seeds, etc. on the street to maintain a basic life.
It was not until 1950, under the inquiry of many parties, that Zeng Zhi found this son, when Cai Shihong was 17 years old, but his body looked shorter and thinner than an eleven- or twelve-year-old child.
Perhaps the tragic life left a hatred in Cai Shihong's heart, Cai Shihong (later renamed Zeng Chunhua) had mixed feelings for Zeng Zhi, but he was also successfully admitted to a technical school, and finally chose to settle in Lechang County, Guangdong Province, and worked as an ordinary worker for a lifetime.
Although the family problems have always hit Zeng Zhi, they have not brought Zeng Zhi down, and she can always get back on her feet in one blow after another and devote herself to the revolutionary cause with greater enthusiasm.
In the same year that her husband, Cai Xiemin, died, Zeng Zhi was given a new task by the organization to go to Xiamen.
The purpose is to cooperate with Tao Zhu, who was engaged in underground work in Xiamen at that time, to form a fake couple, just like in "Latent", relying on identity to cover up, so that Tao Zhu can carry out underground work normally.
The two get along day and night, appreciate each other, and over time from "fake couple" to "real couple". However, fate is that he likes to joke with Zeng Zhi, and in a normal operation, Tao Zhu was actually recognized by the Kuomintang and immediately arrested and imprisoned.
As soon as Tao Zhu was arrested, it was a long detention for four years, including the organization, and everyone did not know where Tao Zhu was arrested and what the situation was, until four years later, after the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Tao Zhu was rescued from prison.
Tao Zhu, a staunch Marxist, an outstanding proletarian revolutionary, an outstanding political worker of the Party and the army, and an outstanding leader of the Party and the State
During this period, Zeng Zhi did not compromise with fate, instead of giving up on herself, she further stimulated her courage to fight, she obeyed the organization's arrangements and ran to the Mindong region to lead the guerrilla war
In guerrilla warfare, hatred is turned into bullets fired at the enemy, leading the guerrillas to victory after victory.
When Tao Zhu was rescued and released from prison, when the two met again, Zeng Zhi, who had persisted like steel for four years, could no longer hold back, and suddenly burst into tears like the water of the dam and began to surge down.
After too many tribulations, Zeng Zhi cherished his feelings with Tao Zhu, and in this way, the two were finally able to work together for the rest of their lives, and then they also had a daughter.
This is also the only moment in Zeng Zhi's life that he is worthy of himself, worthy of future generations, and worthy of his family.
Tao Zhu, Zeng Zhi, Tao Siliang
Third, there is no indebtedness to the revolution
Although Zeng Zhi owes too much to her family, she is fully qualified as a communist fighter. One of the most resolute revolutionary pioneers in the Communist Party.
In fact, Zeng Zhi's origin did not "support" her to carry out the revolution, because his family was a well-known landlord family in Yizhang County, Hunan Province.
The reason why her family is famous is because his father is a landlord, and he has also been an official and a businessman, so he gave Zeng Zhi a gentle name, called Zeng Zhaoxue.
However, whether the name is good or not is another matter, the key is that the family is well-off, and the good family will naturally get good learning opportunities, and when Zeng Zhinian was 13 years old, she went to Hengyang Provincial Third Girls' Normal School alone to study.
What her parents did not expect was that this move changed Zeng Zhi's life.
Here, she began to contact and learn from advanced theoretical ideas. By 1926, as the only girl admitted to the Hengyang Peasant Movement Study Institute, she was determined to join the Communist Party.
In the same year, Zeng Zhi joined the Communist Party of China and changed his name to Zeng Zhi, in her words: "To take a man's name is to let others know, and I want to fight for that ambition for our women."
In 1927, Zeng Zhixiu wrote to his family and demanded that the previous marriage contract be abolished. In the same year, Zeng Zhi, who was not yet eighteen years old, threw himself into the vigorous revolution.
Don't look at Zeng Zhi's young age, don't look at her unsatisfactory life, but she is unambiguous in the revolutionary cause, and it can be said that she is proficient in everything from literature to martial arts.
Zeng Zhi served as secretary of the party branch of the Rear General Hospital of the Red Fourth Army, an officer of the Organization Department of the Red Fourth Army, and other civilian duties, and also participated in armed struggles such as the Huangyang Boundary Defense War.
In 1929, Zeng Zhi accepted the organizational arrangement and went to the arduous and dangerous Fujian to carry out organizational work, and when she arrived at the local area, she was the director of the organization department of the Fujian Committee and the secretary of the Fuxia County Party Committee.
She worked until 1935, when she had to go to Guangzhou under a pseudonym for treatment because of an illness.
After two years of treatment, the disease has not yet been cured, the Kuomintang began to cooperate for the second time, the CCP's workload began to increase, the need for manpower, so Zeng Zhi dragged the sick body, began to accept organizational arrangements, was urgently transferred to Hubei to work.
During her work in Hubei, she served as the county party secretary of Jingmen, Dangyang, Yuan'an Center and other counties. In 1939, the organization felt the need to arrange for Zeng Zhi to return to Yan'an for further study, so it transferred her back.
Zeng Zhi
After Zeng Zhi returned to Yan'an, there was an interesting episode.
When she was settled, she immediately ran to find a man whose cave was easy to find, and she walked around in all directions and saw the man in the distance, who was adding firewood to the stove at the mouth of the cave and concentrating on boiling water.
After approaching, Zeng Zhi began to slow down, quietly came to the tall man's back, reached out and slapped the man's shoulder, and at the same time shouted: "Comrade Old Mao! ”
It turned out that this was Mao Zedong, and as soon as Mao Zedong looked back and saw that it was Zeng Zhi, he was immediately surprised, immediately gave up the stool, and then pulled another stool to sit down, and began to pull Zeng Zhi to ask long and short questions.
The reason why Mao Zedong and Zeng Zhi can talk like this is that both of them have a firm revolutionary friendship, and second, for the two of them, there seems to be an endless "topic".
Comrade Mao Zedong's revolution became full of loyal martyrs, and Zeng Zhi's revolution also lost his husband and children. For them, this is the most sad resonance in their hearts.
Mao Zedong and Tao Zhu Zengzhi took a group photo
After more than a year of training, Zeng Zhi began to devote himself to the revolution again, serving as a member of the Shenyang Municipal Party Committee, a member of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee, and a director of the Shenyang Municipal Staff and Workers Department, and did not rest until the victory of the revolution.
Even when he arrived in Guangzhou as the secretary of the municipal party committee, his son, who had been worried about him, did not have time to look for it, and from here we can see how busy Zeng Zhi really was for the revolutionary cause.
After the victory of the revolution, in the special period, she and her husband were also seriously affected, although Mao Zedong tried to protect, but under that atmosphere, she was unable to send her husband on the last journey to see the last side.
I have to say that this is a serious injustice of fate to her. However, as long as there is faith in the heart, it will eventually see the sun.
After 1977, Zeng Zhi was able to serve as the deputy director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, specializing in the rehabilitation of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, and after doing this, she began to investigate for the motherland, selecting outstanding middle-aged and young cadres, and did not start to rest until she retired in 1983.
But a few days after resting, Zeng Zhi began to run for the poor eastern Fujian region with his body in his seventies, paying for the people and exerting the last residual heat of a party member.
Fourth, she never complained about injustice
At 21:39 on June 21, 1998, Zeng Zhi died of illness in Beijing at the age of 88.
Looking at Zeng Zhi's life, we can say that most of the time, she is suffering hardships, but no matter what kind of difficulties she faces, Zeng Zhi perseveres, turns grief into strength, and then uses this power to do things for the people.
After Zeng Zhi's death, her youngest daughter Tao Siliang was responsible for sorting out her mother's relics, and among the few relics that could not be less, Zeng Zhi had a box, and in the depths of the box, there were more than eighty envelopes that zeng Zhi had neatly stacked.
After taking the envelopes out, I found that the envelopes were full of money, and the dates and amounts were written on these envelopes.
It turned out that these were all the wages that Zeng Zhi had saved and used for many years, and the total amount added up to more than 60,000 yuan.
Comrade Zeng Zhi's will
When Zeng Zhi was dying, he instructed his daughter, who was with him, to tell her that the money could not be moved, and that they should be donated to poor areas that needed money, and that special funds should be used to build more primary schools.
Zeng Zhi made a last wish with the comrades of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee long ago not to make his funeral extravagant, to keep everything simple, and not to engage in any farewell activities.
If the organs are useful, take them, do research, donate them to others, and if they are useless, send the cremated ashes back to Jinggangshan.
He didn't pick any place, but buried it directly next to the old site of the former Fourth Army Hospital of the Chinese Red Army, under the old tree that Zeng Zhi had already chosen.