There have been many outstanding brother combinations in Chinese history, and they are all among the people. But in terms of contributions to the Chinese nation, the strongest brothers in history are the three brothers Chairman Mao, Mao Zemin and Mao Zetan. The eldest brother Chairman Mao is calm and resolute, the second brother Mao Zemin is introverted, and the third brother Mao Zetan is brave and powerful.
Chairman Mao’s great achievements in founding the Party, founding the army and founding the country are well known to everyone in the world, and needless to say.
Mao Zemin was recognized as the first financial expert in our party in the early days. His name was printed twice in the history of Chinese finance: once he appeared on the stock of " Anyuan Road Mining Workers Consumption Cooperative " as the general manager, and the other time he appeared on the first set of currencies of the State Bank of the Soviet Republic as the president of National Bank.
Mao Zetan is an outstanding military general of our army. He has served as political commissar of the Red Army, member of the Central Soviet District Branch, commander of the Red Army Independent Division, and commander of the Fujian-Jiangxi Military Region, and has made great achievements.
Chairman Mao Zemin relies heavily on economics for his second brother Mao Zemin. Chairman Mao was also very proud of his younger brother Mao Zetan. He once said, "Our Mao family has also produced a general."
To have sacrifices, he dared to change the sun and the moon to a new sky. Mao Zemin and Mao Zetan were extremely loyal to the Party and the people, and both died before the founding of the country. They were both famous martyrs.
This article mainly talks about Chairman Mao’s third brother Mao Zetan.
Mao Zetan was born in 1905. He is a whole round smaller than his elder brother Chairman Mao. Both of them are born in the snake.
Influenced by the eldest brother Chairman Mao, Mao Zetan has loved studying since he was a child, has received a good education, and has both good character and academic performance. He joined the Communist Youth League very early. As early as July 1921, Mao Zetan joined the Socialist Youth League. In 1923, when he led the workers' movement at the Shuikoushan Lead and Zinc Mine in Changning, Hunan, Mao Zetan joined the Communist Party of China. At that time, there were less than a thousand Communists in the country, which shows how profound his revolutionary qualifications were.
1924, Mao Zetan served as secretary of the Socialist Youth League Chief Sha Prefectural Committee. The next year he went to Guangzhou. He worked in the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Guangdong Farmers Association, and the Provincial Port Strike Committee.
In other words, during this period, Mao Zetan worked in a variety of work in labor movement, agricultural movement, party affairs, and military education. He had rich experience and received great training.
In May 1927, Mao Zetan began his military career. He served as secretary in the Political Department of the 4th Army of the National Revolutionary Army in Wuhan. Later, he traveled to Jiangxi with the Ye Ting Independent Regiment, a revolutionary armed force controlled by the Communists, and participated in the Nanchang Uprising , which shocked China and the world, and served as the head of the Propaganda Section of the Political Department of the 25th Division of the 11th Army of the Rebel Army.
Mao Zetan is the first person to move towards armed struggle among the three brothers of the Mao family. His elder brother Chairman Mao went to the armed struggle when the Hunan-Jiangxi border Autumn Harvest Uprising was a little later than Mao Zeqian. After the Nanchang Uprising troops headed south, Mao Zetan followed Zhu De and Chen Yi to the border between Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangxi and Hunan. In late October 1927, when they arrived in Xinfeng, Jiangxi, they heard for the first time that Chairman Mao led the Autumn Harvest Uprising troops to establish a base in Jinggangshan . Jinggangshan is located on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi. The enemy's rule is weak, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend but difficult to attack. Chairman Mao mobilized the masses in Jinggangshan, and the land revolution was very exciting, which greatly encouraged Zhu De's troops, who were fighting alone.
Zhu De sent Mao Zetan to Jinggangshan to contact Chairman Mao.
After a difficult journey, Mao Zetan finally met his elder brother Chairman Mao in Maoping in mid-November, and made immortal contributions to the remnants of the Nanchang Uprising Army and the Qiuhu Uprising Army. Previously, Chairman Mao also sent He Changgong to find Zhu De's troops. In December, He Changgong also found Zhu De. Therefore, the reason why Jinggangshan meeting was successful was thanks to these two liaison officers: Mao Zetan and He Changgong.
After completing the contact task, Mao Zetan stayed in Jinggangshan.
In early 1928, Chairman Mao led the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army to drop the nest of Xiao Jiabi, the armed leader of the landlord, and occupied the county town of Suichuan, Jiangxi. Mao Zetan also participated in this battle and fought very bravely.
Suichuan City has laid a foundation, but due to the lack of a mass base, many work is difficult to carry out for the time being.Chairman Mao, who is good at analyzing and solving problems, believes that to establish a consolidated revolutionary base in Jinggangshan area, it is necessary to strengthen the work of grassroots party building in rural areas.
So, Chairman Mao decided to develop grassroots organizations in Qiaolin Township, Ninggang County, Jiangxi Province, northwest of Jinggangshan, and sent his third brother Mao Zetan to undertake the work.
Who knew that at that time, Mao Zeqian was just trying to fight more and refused to go.
Chairman Mao said that this is the decision of the front committee and you must obey.
Chairman Mao was the secretary of the Front Committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army at that time.
Mao Zeqian said, no matter who decides, I won’t go.
Chairman Mao became popular and said: Don’t you even listen to the organization’s words?
Mao Zetan said back: You are the front committee, and the front committee is you.
Chairman Mao was furious and slapped Mao Zeqian in the face.
The guard platoon leader Han Wei (later the founding lieutenant general) present, criticized Chairman Mao and said: Member Mao, how did you hit someone?
Chairman Mao said angrily: He is my younger brother, I can’t beat others, can’t beat him?
Han Wei said: Everyone in the revolutionary team is equal, and it is wrong to hit people.
Chairman Mao had nothing to say, lit a cigarette and started smoking. After a while, he apologized to Mao Zetan and said: It’s wrong to hit you, I’ll apologize to you!
Mao Zeqian also realized that he was too willful in front of his elder brother, and immediately admitted his mistake to his elder brother. The next day, Mao Zetan brought two armed cadres to Qiaolin Township and went deep into the poor farmers. He conducted investigations and research, held seminars, gave party classes, and promoted revolutionary principles in one village. The work was carried out very solidly.
Talents are talents, and they will shine wherever they are gold. In just over a month, Mao Zetan established the first rural party branch in Ninggang County in Qiaolin Township and personally served as the party branch secretary. This party branch has strong combat effectiveness and has become a red flag in the Jinggangshan base area.
Since May 1928, Mao Zetan has served as the party representative of the 3rd Battalion of the 31st Regiment of the 4th Red Army and participated in previous struggles to defend the Jinggangshan base.
In January 1930, Mao Zetan was appointed as the director of the political department of the Red 6th Army (later renamed the Red 3rd Army). In June 1931, he was appointed as the secretary of the Special Committee of Yong (Feng) Ji (An) Tai (He) and the political commissar of the Independent 5th Division of the Red Army. In 1932, he served as the secretary-general of the Central Bureau of the Soviet Area.
Due to his outstanding military achievements, Mao Zetan won a second-level Red Star Medal. Red Star Medal is the highest honor of Red Army . It was only awarded twice in 1933 and 1934, with a total of less than 200 pieces. Later, due to the changes in the revolutionary situation of the Red Army Long March , the revolutionary situation did not continue to be awarded.
October 1934 After the Long March of the Central Red Army, Mao Zetan stayed to persist in Guerrilla War , and served as a member of the Soviet District Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, commander of the Independent Division of the Red Army, and commander of the Fujian-Jiangxi Military Region. He has a high status within the party and the army.
At that time, the Red Capital Ruijin and the entire Central Soviet Area fell into the opponent. The enemy encircled and blocked the Red Army and the guerrillas, and the guerrillas were forced to disperse their operations and were in an extremely difficult struggle environment.
On April 25, 1935, Mao Zetan led some soldiers to cross the mountains and ridges to Honglin Mountain District in Ruijin County, southern Ganzhou. The next day, a strong enemy attacked and surrounded their residence. Mao Zetan personally picked up his gun and fired violently at the rushing enemy. He was outnumbered and died heroically at the age of 30.
The enemy only found a photo of Chairman Mao and Zhu De from Mao Zeqian, and a Communist certificate soaked in blood.
The place where Mao Zetan died was later named "Zetan Township Zetan Village", and the name remains to this day.
In October 1935, on the seventh day after Central Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, Mao Zemin heard the news of Mao Zetan's death from an enemy radio captured by his subordinates. At this time, Mao Zetan had been 6 months old, and he hurried to his eldest brother Chairman Mao's house. Chairman Mao was silent for a long time after hearing about this incident and said nothing. After a while, Chairman Mao stood up and said, "When my mother was alive, she summoned me to the bedside and explained to me specifically that I must take good care of my brother. I blame me for not fulfilling my responsibilities!" The two brothers cried in tears and were deeply saddened.
Mao Zetan has had 3 marriages. His first wife was named Zhao Xiangui, and the two had no children.
Mao Zetan's second wife is Zhou Wennan. They have a son named Mao Chuxiong. Mao Chuxiong joined the army in September 1945 and joined the 359th Brigade led by Wang Zhen. Later, he served as a cadre of the Central Plains Military Region. In the autumn of 1947, Mao Chuxiong escorted Zhang Wenjin, Wu Zuyi and others to Xi'an to participate in peace negotiations, and was intercepted by the Kuomintang troops in Dongjiangkou Town, Ningshan County, Shaanxi Province. Chiang Kai-shek instructed him to "secret execution on the spot."
Mao Chuxiong and four others were buried alive. The Kuomintang’s crazy heartbrokenness is hard tolerate! Mao Chuxiong was only 19 years old when he died. Chairman Mao’s family sacrificed too much for the revolution.
Because of the war years, Mao Zetan's third wife was He Yi, and the two got married on July 20, 1931.
He Yi is He Zizhen's real sister. All Mao Zetan is Chairman Mao’s younger brother, and the two are brother-in-law. Chairman Mao’s two sons Mao Anying and Mao Anying, married Liu Siqi and Shao Hua, the sisters of his mother and compatriots. Chairman Mao’s family was both brothers and sisters, which was really “to be close together”.
Mao Zetan and He Yi also have a son named He Lucheng (with his mother's surname). When He Lu grew up, he was a famous missile expert and made important contributions to the successful flight test of China's first medium- and short-range missile designed and manufactured by itself in June 1964. His scientific and technological achievements and writings have won the National Science and Technology Conference Award and the First Prize in the Army Science and Technology.
What is little known is that He Lucheng is also the first person to be rated as a senior professional title in the People's Liberation Army of China, and his senior professional title certificate is "0001".
From June 25 to 27, 1959, Chairman Mao returned to his hometown Shaoshan , which had been away for 32 years, and wrote the eternal masterpiece "Seven-character ▪To Shaoshan":
Farewell to dreams and vaguely curse the passing of the river, the hometown thirty-two years ago.
The red flag rolled up the serf's halberd, and the black hand hung the overlord's whip high.
is to sacrifice and have great ambitions, and dare to change the sun and moon to a new sky.
I am happy to see the waves of rice and beans, and the heroes everywhere smoke in the evening.
The blood, dust, sand, mountains and rivers are old, and the world is new. From 1921 to 1949, for 28 years, countless revolutionary martyrs sacrificed their lives and sprinkled their blood to establish the New China. Chairman Mao’s family shines with loyalty and straits, and sacrifices six relatives for the revolution, including the eldest brother Mao Zemin, the younger brother Mao Zetan, the cousin Mao Zejian, the wife Yang Kaihui, the eldest son Mao Anying, and the nephew Mao Chuxiong.
During this time, Chairman Mao talked to the people around him about his third brother Mao Zetan many times, entrusting his lingering longing.
In October 1973, Deng Xiaoping visited Shaoshan and saw Mao Zetan's portrait, he couldn't help but say, "Mao Zetan is a good comrade", "He was a powerful general in the early days of our army."
1985, in Ruijin, Jiangxi, the place where Mao Zetan's sacrifice was erected, a bronze statue of the whole body of the martyr Mao Zetan was erected. The statue was 3 meters high and placed on the 2.4-meter-high marble stele. The front of the stele was inlaid with eight big words "Comrade Mao Zetan Monument" written by Deng Xiaoping, and the back was engraved with the inscription: "Comrade Mao Zetan is an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, an outstanding commander of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army , and a strong communist fighter."
. It is precisely because of the successive sacrifices of our predecessors that we have today's happy life. (Liu Jixing)
