At the end of 1949, He Zizhen's sister He Yi worked in the Organization Department of Ji'an, Jiangxi. In addition to her job, she inquired from many ways to find out whereabouts of the youngest son "Maomao", who was separated by Chairman Mao .
One day in November of that year, He Yi got some clues about "Maomao", so she took a jeep to Gannan generation to search.
When she entered Taihe County, Ji'an, it was getting late. The accompanying staff persuaded He Yi that it was not safe to drive at night, but she was eager to find "Maomao" and did not obey.
When passing a wooden bridge, an accident happened. The car overturned into the river. He Yi and a staff member unfortunately died on the spot.
Chairman Mao and He Zizhen were deeply saddened when they heard the news, but the clues of "Maomao" also appeared in front of everyone.
In the end, the party organization really found a child similar to it in Jiangxi, but the child died strangely in the end!
So, what is the real identity of Chairman Mao and He Zizhen, and why did He Yi die after searching for the youngest son of Chairman who ended up giving his life?
He Zizhen and He Yi sisters took a photo
Next, I will tell you this little-known story.
"Shanghong" born in the red ocean
In June 1932, Chairman Mao led the Red Army to conquer Longyan, Fujian. In October of that year, He Zizhen gave birth to a boy at Changting County Gospel Hospital.
The revolutionary situation was very good at that time, with Red Army, Red Flags, and Red Hat badges everywhere, so Chairman Mao named the child "Mao Anhong".
The conditions were difficult at that time, and He Zizhen was malnourished and had insufficient milk, so she found a Jiangxi nanny for her child.
Jiangxi people like to call baby boy "Maomao", and slowly others shouted like this, and "Maomao" became Mao Anyong's nickname.
This cute child brought a lot of happiness and spiritual comfort to Chairman Mao who was busy with work.
As "Maomao" grows up slowly, she begins to shout "Dad" in a hunch, which makes Chairman Mao happy every time.
He is still very well-behaved and will quietly wait for his father to come home for dinner. Chairman Mao touched his cute face and his tiredness at work was wiped out.
However, due to the wrong command of Wang Ming and others, the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" failed, and the situation became increasingly serious.
Chairman Mao and He Zizhen
One day, Chairman Mao was frowning after returning home. He was silent for a long time before telling He Zizhen that the central government decided to carry out a strategic transfer. This journey was very dangerous and no child could be brought with him.
Although he was mentally prepared, He Zizhen still burst into tears when she thought of separating from her son.
After discussion, they decided to hand over "Maomao" to Chairman Mao's third brother Mao Zetan and He Yi, who were left behind in the Soviet area to fight guerrillas.
Before leaving, He Zizhen took off her old military uniform, found some cotton, and sewed a small cotton jacket for Maomao stitched and threaded. She hoped that "Maomao" would feel more warmth without her mother.
After the Long March of the Central Red Army, the struggle situation in Soviet area became increasingly dangerous. Mao Zetan wanted to lead troops to fight. It was inconvenient and unsafe to carry "Maomao" around, so he asked the guards to hand over the child to the local fellow villagers in Ruijin .
For safety reasons, Mao Zetan strictly kept the whereabouts of "Maomao" strictly confidential, and no one except him and the guards knew the inside story.
Hong Kong Long March
1 In April 1935, when Mao Zetan was commanding his troops to break through, he unfortunately died due to being outnumbered. The guard was also killed. Since then, no one knows the whereabouts of "Maomao".
Search work after the victory of the revolution
1949 The Party Central Committee entered Beijing. One day in May, He Yi found Chairman Mao excitedly and said that there was news about Maomao and she wanted to go south to find him back.
Unexpectedly, Chairman Mao did not agree with her move, believing that he was unable to take care of her children before and gave him to the people for raising him. Under the white terror of the Kuomintang, adopting parents risked their lives to adopt the descendants of the Communists, and I don’t know how much hardship they suffered.
Now that I have entered the city, I want to get the child back when I have the conditions, I do not take into account the feelings of my adoptive parents.
Chairman Mao is worthy of being a great man and always keeps the people in his heart, but He Yi still insists on helping the Chairman and his sister He Zizhen get back their biological flesh and blood.
He Yi
In August of that year, she went south to Jiangxi to be responsible for the organization department of Jian . After recognizing her own son He Lucheng, she began to search for Maomao without stopping. Because she was too hasty, the unfortunate scene at the beginning of this article happened.
After He Yi was killed, her job of searching for Maomao was interrupted for several years.
Until 1953, He Zizhen, who was in Shanghai, couldn't bear the longing and wrote a letter to Jiangxi Governor Shaw Brothers Ping, asking for help finding his son Mao Anyong, who was wandering among the people.
Governor Shao attached great importance to it and instructed the Provincial Department of Civil Affairs to arrange capable candidates to handle the matter. Finally, this task was handed over to the cadres of the preferential and relief department Wang Jiazhen .
Chairman Mao’s family made great sacrifices for the revolutionary cause. The two younger brothers did not see the victory of the revolution. The eldest son Mao Anying died on the battlefield of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea two years ago. His children born in several war eras may have died or their whereabouts are unknown. Wang Jiazhen feels that he must complete the task.
He asked some old Red Army soldiers, but Mao Zetan, who knew the inside story, had already died and there was no useful clue from other people.
Mao Zeqian
Then he searched for information on party history and even read the "Ruijin County Chronicles". In fact, if you think about it, you can know that How could the county chronicles of the Republic of China record a descendant of an ordinary citizen adopting the Red Army? In the end, Wang Jiazhen got nothing.
At this time, I could only go deep into the local area to visit on the spot. Whenever Wang Jiazhen went to a place, he would talk to the cadres and the masses to find out whether there were local people adopting descendants of the Red Army.
Hard work pays off. One day in Yeping Township, Ruijin, he asked two farmers in the fields and got an inspiring news: a local farmer named Zhu Shengtai was entrusted to adopt a boy in the 1930s. The child was sent by several Red Army soldiers at that time.
Ruijin is an old revolutionary base. During the Agrarian Revolution, the situation of locals adopting descendants of the Red Army from time to time. I don’t know if Zhu Shengtai’s adopted son was Mao Anyong, but even if it is not, it is also a descendant of the revolutionaries, and it is very meaningful to find it back.
Wang Jiazhen didn't care about rest and rushed to Zhu Shengtai's house in Zhufang Village.
Zhu Shengtai’s family
He explained his purpose. Zhu Shengtai and his wife Huang Yueying said that they did adopt a child of a Red Army cadre. It was about October 1934. Because the child was "half-way", he named Zhu Daolai, who is 22 years old this year.
Time and age are very consistent, Wang Jiazhen suppressed her excitement and continued to ask about the details.
Zhu Shengtai said that they were having dinner that day, and two Red Army soldiers suddenly came. The leading cadres said that the main force of the Red Army was temporarily transferred.
And they also have to fight guerrilla with the Kuomintang army. It is dangerous to take young children with them, so they ask him to help raise the child for a while.
Zhu Shengtai and his wife are kind and simple farmers, and Lao Zhu is a member of the party's peripheral organization. The Red Army thinks they are very reliable as adoptive parents.
The couple looked at the child, with thick eyebrows and big eyes and very cute. They both liked the child and agreed.
Wang Jiazhen asked again, did the Red Army soldiers leave anything behind at that time?
Zhu Shengtai thought about it and replied, "There is nothing, the child is wearing a small cotton jacket, and the Red Army also stuffed me a few silver dollars ."
Red Army soldiers
Little cotton jacket. Wang Jiazhen almost jumped up happily when she heard this. He Zizhen's letter specifically mentioned that she had sewed a small cotton jacket for the child at that time. It seemed that Mao Anhong had really been found.
He immediately proposed to see "Zhu Daolai" with his own eyes. Unexpectedly, Zhu Shengtai and his wife said that the child's mother had taken him away.
Two mothers "robbed" their son
Wang Jiazhen was shocked when she heard the news. Zhu Shengtai explained that a few months ago, a woman named Zhu Yueqian came to his house and presented a letter of introduction from the Nanjing Air Force Command, saying that the child he adopted was the child of her and the martyr Huo Buqing and asked to take the child back.
The old Zhu and his wife saw that she was holding the official letter of introduction, and Zhu Daolai was indeed the child of the Red Army. Seeing that the woman was kind-hearted and could treat the child well, she reluctantly let the child who had been raising him for 20 years follow her.
I couldn't see the real person, Wang Jiazhen asked Lao Zhu if there were any photos of Zhu Daolai. Fortunately, Zhu Daolai sent a photo back from Nanjing.
Chairman Mao
The young man in the photo has a full heaven, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a confident smile on his face, which is somewhat similar to Chairman Mao when he was young.
Whether Zhu Dao came to be Mao Anyhong or Zhu Yueqian's child still needs to communicate with Nanjing, which is beyond Wang Jiazhen's authority, so he can only report the existing investigation results to Governor Shaw Brothers.
Governor Shao sent the information to relevant central departments, and Central Organization Department transferred the information to He Zizhen after receiving the message.
He Zizhen felt very friendly when she saw the photo. Combined with Zhu Daolai's age and adoption time, and that "token" - the little cotton jacket, she felt that this was her son "Maomao".
So she reported to the Central Organization Department that Zhu Daolai looked very much like her son Mao Anyhong, and asked to take Zhu Daolai to Shanghai to identify herself.
The superior quickly agreed, so Wang Jiazhen took Zhu Daolai and his wife from Jiangxi, then went to Nanjing to pick up Zhu Daolai, and rushed to Shanghai to meet He Zizhen.
He Zizhen
One day in June 1953, He Zizhen finally saw the "Maomao" he was thinking about. When she saw Zhu Daolai, she was sure that this was "Maomao". She burst into tears and hugged him in her arms.
Then Huang Yueying took out a cotton jacket that Zhu Daolai wore when she was a child. He Zizhen touched it with her hands and then. After twenty years, her thoughts returned to the scene of sewing the small cotton jacket one by one stitch and thread that night.
He Zizhen's brother He Minxue was the commander of the Shanghai Air Defense Force at the time. He received the news and rushed over with his wife Li Liying.
They looked at Zhu Daolai carefully and felt that this young man looked too similar to the chairman when he was young.
The cautious He Minxue also took Zhu Dao to the hospital for examination. The results showed that Zhu Daolai's blood type was the same as He Zizhen. Although modern people knew that this actually couldn't explain anything, it was comparable to the paternity test method of "DNA testing" at that time.
"Recognizing relatives" result soon reached the central government. The Central Organization Department asked Wang Jiazhen to take Zhu Shengtai and his wife and Zhu Dao to Beijing. The son who had just recognized each other was about to part with him again. He Zizhen was very reluctant, but she understood that her son could develop better in Beijing.
Chairman Mao
After coming to Beijing, central leaders Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Deng Yingchao and others came to visit. Everyone thought that Zhu Daolai was similar to Chairman Mao when he was young. It seems that Zhu Daolai was Mao Anyong.
Unexpectedly, things went wrong again. Zhu Daolai's other "mother" Zhu Yueqian rushed to Beijing after hearing the news and made a solemn statement: Zhu Daolai is her and Huo Buqing's son, and asked the organization to return his son to him. The development of the matter made the Central Organization Department feel very difficult. They held several consecutive meetings to ask witnesses to explain the situation, but neither party came up with decisive evidence.
In today's advanced technology, a simple DNA paternity test can solve the problem, which is indeed helpless in the 1950s when medicine is lagging behind.
Whether Zhu Daolai is Chairman Mao’s son or Zhu Yueqian and Huo Buqing’s son, the relevant departments cannot find out. In the end, Chairman Mao can only give a handling opinion.
Chairman Mao
"Leave him to the people"
Chairman Mao has actually been paying attention to the development of things. After seeing the photos of Zhu Daolai, he did not say whether he looked like "Maomao", but just said: "This child looks very much like the young Mao Zetan."
Later, Zhu Yueqian went to Beijing to ask for a child. The Central Organization Department held several meetings and discussed the matter but no conclusion was reached. Premier Zhou reported the matter to the Chairman for consultation.
Chairman Mao thought for a long time and finally said that no matter whose child he was, he was the descendant of the revolutionaries. Please give him to the people.
The storm of the dispute came to an end. It was not certain who his child was. The Central Organization Department handed him over to Shuai Mengqi, deputy director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, to raise and take care of him.
Zhu Dao He didn't figure out his life experience, but he kept in touch with Huang Yueying, He Zizhen and Zhu Yueqian and regarded them as his mothers. After
, Zhu Dao came to study in a middle school in Beijing. He studied hard and worked hard. After he was admitted to Tsinghua University with his own efforts, he was assigned to work in the scientific research department after graduation.
Chairman Mao
Wang Jiazhen found Huang Yueying in 1974 to ask about Zhu Daolai's situation. Huang Yueying said heartbrokenly: "The child died in the 1960s due to an accident. "
But according to Zhu Yueqian, Zhu Daolai died of cancer in 1971.
The two statements are far apart, and it is impossible to verify the truth.
Is Zhu Daolai the son of Chairman Mao and He Zizhen?
Just by his age and adoption time, it is not common for adoption of the descendants of the Red Army in the former Central Soviet Area at that time, which is not a strong evidence.
As for the small cotton jacket, in that era of material scarcity, the cotton jackets were almost the same, and it is not worth making up.
Zhu Daolai's blood type is consistent with He Zizhen. According to medical knowledge, the blood type of a child is determined by both parents, and the blood type that is consistent with the mother cannot explain anything.
Here we have to sigh at Chairman Mao’s great selflessness and profound insight.
Zhu Daolai’s son is the descendant of the revolutionary. He later received a good education and took the position of building the motherland.
Chairman Mao and his generation sacrificed their lives for the revolution, just for the descendants of the Chinese people to live a good life?
Here, I pay tribute to the revolutionary martyrs, because of them, we can have a better life today.
