There is such a guard next to Chairman Mao. He has been with the Chairman for 29 years. Chairman Mao has stated in public more than once that he has long been accustomed to having him by his side, and this person is Wang Dongxing. For Wang Dongxing, the happiest and most proud thing in his life is to protect Chairman Mao’s safety.
In 1960, Wang Dongxing received an emergency notice from Chairman Mao, asking him to set off for Beijing immediately. At that time, Wang Dongxing was serving as vice governor in Jiangxi. So what was the case when the chairman recalled him back to Beijing?
1. The Chairman felt that there was a "rat" by his side
1960, the people all over the country were in a very difficult situation. One day, Chairman Mao, who was in Zhongnanhai, suddenly became furious and denounced the people around him to retreat easily in the face of difficulties and to act completely away from the people.
It turned out that in April of the same year, when Chairman Mao visited Tianjin, Shanghai and other places, he found that the staff around him had privately accepted some things from the place, which caused a very bad impact.
Therefore, Chairman Mao was determined to rectify this status quo, so who will take the lead in doing this needs to be determined immediately. After thinking about it, Chairman Mao thought of Wang Dongxing, who was in Jiangxi, so he asked him to leave in person to come to Beijing for discussion.
Wang Dongxing, who came to Beijing, went to meet Chairman Mao immediately. Chairman Mao told him straight to the point that there were "rats" around him. called you here just to let you catch "rats". "
In fact, Chairman Mao's implication is that many of the staff around him were already proud at that time, resulting in a huge deviation in work style and ideological awareness. Wang Dongxing needed to take the lead to a small political style campaign, and then kill such a bad atmosphere.
Although Chairman Mao got along very well with the staff around him and always regarded them as his family, even so, Chairman Mao would never allow the people around him to do some corruption. He also emphasized to the people around him that once he found that people around him had such behavior, don't blame him for turning against others.
2. Become Chairman Mao’s personal bodyguard
According to the situation at that time, Chairman Mao was able to let Wang Dongxing, who was working in Jiangxi, come back to preside over this matter, which shows that Chairman Mao has absolute trust in him.
1947 was a special year for Wang Dongxing. One day, Premier Zhou came to him and asked him if he was willing to be a guard by Chairman Mao. Wang Dongxing still didn’t believe it at the time.
In fact, the reason why Wang Dongxing It was selected not only because he was a highly trained revolutionary soldier, but also because he had very good skills and performed extraordinaryly in many battles. After he came to Chairman Mao, he began to assume the responsibility of being a guard. At that time, the War of Liberation had just begun, and our party was still at a disadvantage at first. Under the attack of the Kuomintang troops, many liberated areas were occupied. 1
In March 1947, the Kuomintang assembled 250,000 elite troops to advance to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. Their goal at that time was to capture the location of the Party Central Committee Yan'an . At that time, our party had only 20,000 troops in Yan'an, which was a difference from the Kuomintang.
The Party Central Committee made the decision to withdraw from Yan'an first when it was forced to do so. However, Chairman Mao's intention was to protect Yan'an, but It is impossible to be safe. In this context, a guard that restrained the enemy was established, and Wang Dongxing was one of them.
At that time, in order to ensure the large forces of the Party Central Committee were evacuated safely, Wang Dongxing brought a platoon soldier. With his previous combat experience, he not only repelled the enemy's attacks many times, but also received praise from Chairman Mao for this. After the founding of New China, Wang Dongxing continued to be responsible for Chairman Mao's guard work, and he was able to complete the task excellently every time.
3. The "Small Rectification Movement" movement ended successfully
Therefore, when Wang Dongxing learned that Chairman Mao hoped that he could take the lead in taking charge of the Rectification Movement, he also promised the Chairman to complete the task successfully as usual.
Since October 1960, Wang Dongxing began to rectify the people around Chairman Mao. In the next 50 days, he would spend half a day summoning the staff to criticize and self-criticize. Because of Chairman Mao’s patient teaching, many staff members realized their mistakes and corrected them.
For some things received by the staff at that time, Chairman Mao asked them to return them one by one, no matter what, no matter the high or low, or the quantity. Since the things delivered in the place at that time were all food or consumables, they had been eaten or used up long ago, Chairman Mao also emphasized that if things that cannot be returned, must be compensated for the place at a discount.
Because the salary of the staff around Chairman Mao was not high at that time, considering that they might not have much ability to repay, Chairman Mao deliberately took out his own salary to help the staff bear the refund. Finally, it was counted that the refund cost was as high as 30,000 yuan, and a large part of it was Chairman Mao’s royalties.
After the "Small Rectification" movement was completed, in order to prevent the people around you from leaving the people, Chairman Mao also asked them to go to the grassroots level to exercise in batches and participate in labor with the people.
Conclusion
The reason why Chairman Mao strictly demands the staff around him is because of his care for them. After Chairman Mao’s death, Wang Dongxing expressed his longing for Chairman Mao to the people around him more than once, which further proved the special friendship between him and Chairman Mao.
