My father's generation is my father's generation, I am me, and I do not take the glory of my father's generation. " This is what Academician He Lucheng said.
He Lucheng, a missile expert, participated in the development of my country's first missile. He and his colleagues overcame the missile control that even the Americans could not break through at the time. Difficulties, he also has another identity, that is, Chairman Mao's nephew and nephew. Chairman Mao's third brother Mao Zetan is his biological father.
My father Mao Zetan
In August 1934, under the arrangement of the organization, Mao Zetan led the Red Army guerrillas Team, went to the border of Fujian and Jiangxi to organize struggles, while He Yi took her parents to Ganzhou to serve as secretary of the Ganzhou County Party Committee and engage in underground party work. For the sake of the revolution, the young couple had to choose to separate.
Mao Zetan
This He Yi was pregnant at that time. On the day of departure, Mao Zetan took his wife and his father-in-law and mother-in-law to the dock. After settling in, Mao Zetan walked to his wife and saw that she was pregnant. He held her hand and wanted to say something. , but I don’t know where to start.
And his wife He Yi was already in tears. She knew that after this separation, she didn’t know when we would see each other again. She said reluctantly: "Ze Tan, I am alone outside. You have to be smart, my child and I are waiting for you! "
Mao Zetan nodded vigorously and held his wife gently in his arms. "I understand, I will definitely be careful. When you get to the white area , you must also be careful and take care of yourself. After the battle, I I must go and see you! "
No matter how much we are reluctant to leave, we have to separate at this time, and the ship slowly leaves the dock...
On February 1, 1935, He Yi gave birth to a boy in the mountainous area of Gannan, Jiangxi, and named him Mao Ancheng. He Yi took care of him while carrying him. Carrying young children while carrying out underground work.
At this time, Mao Zetan was leading the team to fight hard in Ruijin. On April 25, after several days of fighting, the soldiers had not had a full meal for several days. Mao Zetan looked at the exhausted soldiers and thought in his mind: "We must find a place to rest first. If we continue like this, if we are not wiped out by the enemy, everyone will starve to death." "
On this day, Mao Zetan led the soldiers to a small village. The village was in dilapidated condition and had obviously been raided by the Kuomintang. The people in the village had also fled for refuge. Mao Zetan led the soldiers into the village and searched to see if there was anything left. Is there anything to satisfy my hunger? There was only one family left in the village. When I saw the Red Army coming, although I had nothing to eat, I still entertained the soldiers enthusiastically.
After a simple meal to quench my hunger, it was already dark. Mao Zetan asked the soldiers to rest in the village tonight and make plans tomorrow.
That night, Mao Zetan stayed up all night, thinking about how to break through the enemy's siege. Late at night, he called a soldier and said: " You first go to the guerrillas, tell them our situation, and ask them to come here and attack the Kuomintang's Lizigang artillery tower together, and we will rush out from there. "After receiving the mission, the soldier set off under the cover of night.
After dawn, Mao Zetan, who was worried, called another soldier and said: "Go to the village below to see if there are any enemies. If you find out the situation, come back immediately. Report. But after the soldier left, he kept mumbling on the road: "Why did you let me go? There are enemies everywhere. Didn't you ask me to go out and die?" "
Being naturally timid, he did not follow Mao Zetan's orders to go in and out to spy on the enemy. He simply found a haystack, hid and went to sleep. He thought he would just go back and make up something to fool him. Who knows, just when he was lazy, the enemy happened to pass by and discovered him. He was afraid of death, so not only did he not fire and call the police, but he also told the enemy all the facts about the village.
The enemy learned After there were only a dozen people, a dozen guns, and a commander named Mao in the village, they immediately decided to attack in a sneak attack. Under the leadership of this traitor, the enemy entered the village. After entering the village, there was a fierce exchange of fire with our army.
Mao Zetan Looking at the menacing enemy, the soldiers who went out to look for the guerrillas have not returned yet.Mao Zetan immediately ordered the soldiers to break out separately, while he stayed to cover the soldiers' breakout. However, the enemy was numerous and their firepower was fierce. In order to protect the soldiers, Mao Zetan died heroically.
Due to inconvenient transportation, He Yi only learned of the sad news one month after Mao Zetan's death. At that time, He Yi was discussing with underground party members how to deliver medicines to the front line. Traffic officer Wang Xianxuan suddenly broke into the venue and found her.
Wang Xianxuan looked serious: "This is an important matter. You must calm down after hearing this." He Yi suddenly noticed that it might be related to Mao Zetan and asked softly: "Did something happen to Zetan?" Wang Xianxuan nodded. He Yi was extremely grieved until her husband died. What makes her even more sad is that her husband hasn't even had time to take a look at his son.
Mother and son meet again
At that time, He Yi's situation was also very dangerous. The Kuomintang was frantically hunting down and massacring our party's underground organizations behind enemy lines. He Yi had to move her son, who was only three months old, from time to time. In desperation, He Yi first fostered Mao Ancheng in the home of his relative He Tiaoyuan in his hometown. He Tiaoyuan lived in a remote village, and his family was relatively well-off, so Mao Ancheng could also live a stable life. In order to hide Mao Ancheng's identity, he gave him a new name, He Lucheng.
He Lucheng has been living with Grandpa He since he could remember. In his memory, he has never seen his father and mother. He had asked Grandpa He many times about his parents, but Grandpa He did not tell him his true identity.
He Yi
More than ten years later, the country was liberated, and He Yi received an order from the organization to work in Jiangxi. Returned to my hometown after a long absence. Standing on the soil of her hometown, He Yi often thought of the days when she fought side by side with her husband Mao Zetan, and their son who had been separated for more than ten years.
When he came back this time, He Yi couldn't wait to see her son. When He Lucheng saw He Yi, he no longer remembered his mother. Just stood there blankly. Don't know what to do. When He Tiaoyuan came to He Lucheng, he eagerly told him: "My child, this is the biological mother you think about day and night!"
He Lucheng looked at the woman in front of him, and then at the grandfather beside him. , after so many years, the mother in my dream actually appeared in front of me today. Tears were like a flood that broke a bank. He could no longer control it at this moment. He Lucheng ran towards He Yi, shouting loudly "Mom! Mom! " The affection between mother and child that had been missed for more than ten years finally returned. He Yi and He Lucheng hugged each other tightly and cried.
The yin and yang of their mother are separated by
. The mother and son never imagined that God did not give the mother and son much tender time after a long separation.
After the reunion of mother and son, He Yi still had one thing in mind. Before her sister He Zizhen followed Mao Zedong on the Long March, she entrusted their son Maomao to her husband Mao Zetan. However, after Mao Zetan died, Maomao's whereabouts were unknown. She has always felt guilty for losing her sister He Zizhen's child, and this feeling became even more obvious as a mother after she found her own child.
He Yi and He Zizhen
In order to help her sister find her child, He Yi went around to inquire about Maomao's whereabouts. One day, news suddenly came that Maomao was found in a farmhouse. He Yi was so happy when she heard the news. If she really found the child, she would explain everything to her sister, and it would also be a consolation for her sacrificed husband.
After receiving the news, He Yi rushed to the fellow villager's house non-stop. When she arrived, she discovered that the child she found was not Maomao. He Yi and his party returned disappointed. On the way back, the car He Yi was sitting in had a car accident. He Yi died of injuries in the car accident, and He Lucheng's leg was also seriously injured. Looking at his mother lying in a pool of blood in front of him, He Lucheng cried heartbreakingly. Having just experienced the joy of reunion between mother and son, but now mother and son are separated in the world, He Lucheng's heart can no longer bear such a blow.
He Lucheng, who was a teenager at the time, endured the pain in his legs and shouted in front of He Yi's bed: "Mom! Mom! Wake up! I am Lucheng! Open your eyes Look at me!" He Lucheng hoped that his crying would call his mother back to him, but in the end He Lucheng still did not wake up his mother who had just reunited.
Studying in Shanghai
After He Yi's death, He Lucheng went to Shanghai alone, where he reunited with his aunt He Zizhen and uncle He Minxue. He Lucheng, who came to Shanghai, was arranged by his aunt He Zizhen to go to Shanghai Middle School in the southwest suburbs of Shanghai. After school started, He Lucheng often felt that he could not keep up with the school's teaching progress. At that time, Shanghai Middle School in the southwest suburbs of Shanghai was the best school in Shanghai. Many cadres and martyred women came to study here, but most of them gave up because they could not keep up. Nine out of ten people left Shanghai Middle School, some went to join the army, and some went to become cadres.
When uncle He Minxue learned about this situation, he said to He Lucheng: "You'd better study hard, don't go to 'join the army', and don't go to 'join the cadres'. Our He family is all revolutionary soldiers and revolutionary cadres, what we lack are professors . Now that the country needs construction and intellectuals, we should concentrate on learning." His uncle's words played a great role in establishing He Lucheng's lifelong ambition.
A few months later, not only did his math score get full marks, but his other scores were also good, and he quickly jumped into the top three in the class. Three years of high school life soon passed. In 1952, He Lucheng was admitted to Shanghai Jiaotong University, a prestigious university in Shanghai, with excellent results, and entered the Department of Electric Power. In the student registration form for the new semester, he only wrote that his parents "have long since died." In school, he studied completely as an ordinary student, and no one knew his true life experience.
When he was in school, He Lucheng never paid attention to food and clothing. He only ate simple meals at school and washed his clothes again and again. In his heart, hardship and simplicity is what everyone should do, and this is what he did with his mother. I often talked to him during that time. Even with the 22 yuan monthly stipend given to him by the state, he would save 5 yuan every month and send it to his grandfather in his hometown in Jiangxi who had been kind to him in raising him.
From soldier to missile expert
He Lucheng, who graduated from university in 1956, got an opportunity to study in the Soviet Union. But in the end, due to the bad relations between China and the Soviet Union, studying in the Soviet Union was not possible. He Lucheng was assigned to the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense to study "surface-to-surface missiles." In this way, He Lucheng put on the military uniform and became a soldier.
In the spring of 1956, at the Central Military Commission meeting chaired by Zhou Enlai, Qian Xuesen proposed in detail the planning and assumptions for China's development of missile technology. Mao Zedong approved this planning idea.
In early 1958, He Lucheng, who was only 23 years old, was spotted by Qian Xuesen and successfully joined Qian Xuesen's staff to conduct secret research on "surface-to-surface missiles". In 1961, He Lucheng became the first batch of missile engineers in New China.
The Soviet Union not only evacuated experts and scholars, but also took away all relevant materials. Without experience or information, we can only cross the river by feeling the stones and start all over again step by step. Without information, we can only translate it bit by bit from the beginning, and then everyone will study it together.
During those days, He Lucheng translated hundreds of missile technical materials, nearly a million words, and prepared dozens of drawings and materials. If there are gaps in knowledge, we can make up for it through hard work. But physical hunger is a bigger challenge for every scientist.
After three years of natural disasters, everyone is faced with the problem of having enough to eat. He Lucheng and other scientists working in national scientific research institutes also face the same problem. Not only do they have to face a high workload every day, but they all want to work 24 hours a day and rely on soy sauce and rice to satisfy their hunger every day, and sometimes they even can't even eat these.
He Lucheng and his colleagues were malnourished due to hunger. Sometimes everyone's legs were swollen. Even so, no one put down their work and did not reduce their workload for an hour.Everyone immersed themselves in research work, and after countless days and nights of hard work, the control plan for the homemade missile proposed by He Lucheng and another engineer was finally passed.
On June 9, 1964, the flight test of China's first self-developed medium and short-range missile, Dongfeng-2, was a great success. In this battle, the plan proposed by He Lucheng was indispensable. When the news of the great success of the Dongfeng-2 flight test reached Chairman Mao, Chairman Mao was extremely happy. But he never thought that the main contributor to this success was actually his own nephew.
After this battle, He Lucheng, a young man who had never studied abroad or drank a drop of foreign ink, became the best missile expert in New China. This year, he was only 29 years old.
At this time, He Lucheng did not stop his research. Even during the turmoil that followed, He Lucheng still concentrated on his scientific research without any pause. His research results made great contributions to the subsequent development of my country's artificial earth satellite and intercontinental missiles. At this time, he still did not mention his life experience or his relationship with Chairman Mao to anyone.
Colleagues finally knew their identities
In 1980, our country finally ushered in new vitality, and the Fifth Academy of the Ministry of National Defense began to evaluate senior professional titles. He Lucheng became the first person in the General Staff System of the Chinese People's Liberation Army to be awarded a senior professional title, so his professional title certificate was printed with "No. 001". And this honor was obtained by He Lucheng based on his own hard work and knowledge. He did not take any credit from his ancestors, nor did he take any credit from his uncle Mao Zedong.
In 1983, the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued a martyr certificate to Mao Zetan. As Mao Zetan's son, He Lucheng should receive this certificate. Due to the special nature of the work, the Ministry of Civil Affairs was unable to contact He Lucheng at all. Finally, through internal investigation, it was discovered that He Lucheng worked in the Fifth Academy. When the work unit notified He Lucheng to collect the martyr certificate of his father Mao Zetan, his colleagues learned that this low-key missile expert was actually Mao Zetan's son and Chairman Mao's nephew.
Later, He Lucheng's colleagues joked with him: "Lao He, you don't even know how to enjoy yourself when you have such a big backer. You are just like us ordinary people."
Lucheng told them: "I can rely on myself It is enough to gain achievements through hard work."
He Lucheng is not only highly accomplished in scientific research, but also a very good entrepreneur in business. In 1994, after retirement, He Lucheng successively served as the chairman and general manager of several technology companies, starting this period of his journey.
He Lucheng, who has a successful career, has never forgotten the folks who raised him. He not only funded the establishment of scholarships in schools to help students in need. It also helps fellow villagers introduce wealth-making projects to get them out of poverty.
And his wish is to be an ordinary person. One sentence he often talks about is: " My father's generation is my father's generation, I am me, and I will not take the glory of my father's generation."
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