Looking at the past and present, most of the people who can leave their names in history are very complicated and it is difficult to simply evaluate them with pure good or bad. For example, Huang Yongsheng, the founding general, made many contributions during the war and was a famous general in the entire army. During this period, he was an outstanding revolutionary.
However, after the national stability and personal power grew, Huang Yongsheng completely changed. He went further and further on a wrong path, and eventually he would not be imprisoned in the evening. This is really sad.
When he arrived in prison, Huang Yongsheng wrote a letter to Chairman Mao. After reading it, Chairman Mao thought for a while, and replied with nine words. What did Huang Yongsheng write to the Chairman for? What did the Chairman reply?
1. Both ability and personality are outstanding, and they have made great contributions in the first half of their life
Huang Yongsheng was born in in 1910 in Xianning, Hubei. The era when he grew up was when warlords fought. After he became a little sensible, he was unwilling to plant a field at home for the rest of his life, so he wanted to go out and try it out.
He first joined the militia , and later joined Luo Ronghuan in the southern Hubei riot. Their armed forces were soon incorporated into the Guard Regiment of the General Command of the Second Front Army of the National Revolutionary Army in Xiushui, Jiangxi, and then went to support the Hunan-Jiangxi border autumn harvest Uprising led by Chairman Mao.
When the famous Sanwan adapted , Huang Yongsheng served as the squad leader. As an "old Jinggang", Huang Yongsheng had a lot of early contact with Chairman Mao. His original name was Huang Xuqian, and the name "Yongsheng" was changed by Chairman Mao. It originated from a battle on Jinggangshan .
That time, an enemy took advantage of the night to touch the enemy command near the front of Jinggangshan. Huang Xuqian, who was the squad leader of the guard squad, had no time to ask his superiors for instructions, and immediately led the whole squad to launch a counterattack. After a fierce rush, they successfully repelled the enemy and protected the safety of the command.
After the battle, Chairman Mao praised the guard squad who made great contributions, and especially received Huang Xuqian and asked: Where are you from? What's its name? Huang Xuqian responded with a standard military salute: Report to the Commissioner Mao, I am from Xianning, Hubei, and my name is Huang Xuqian.
Chairman Mao asked again: Which word is the narrative? Huang Xuqian didn't read many books and hesitated and replied: Report to Committee Mao, it should be the narrative!
Chairman Mao pondered for a moment after hearing this, and then said: Saying money, saying money means talking about money. This is not good. You can’t just talk about money when doing a revolution, you must talk about spirit. Let's do this, I'll change your name to you, hoping that you can win forever on the revolutionary road. Just call it Huang Yongsheng, what do you think?
Huang Xuqian read several times, and felt that the name Huang Yongsheng was more meaningful, so he nodded quickly to agree, and soon Huang Yongsheng's name spread throughout Jinggangshan. After changing his name, Huang Yongsheng made many military achievements and was promoted very quickly. At the age of 22, he became the commander of the Red Army , and his qualifications were very old.
Objectively speaking, Huang Yongsheng has a strong ability, but he has a very strong temper and does not obey him. This can be seen from his series of performances at the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan. When the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, Huang Yongsheng was going to serve as the commander of the 685th Regiment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and Deng Hua was the deputy commander and director of the 6th Department of Political Training.
At that time, in order to reach an agreement with the Kuomintang, our army temporarily abolished the political commissar system, and the director of the Political Training Department exercised the powers of the political commissar. Huang Yongsheng and Deng Hua were old partners during the Red Army. However, Huang Yongsheng did not like Deng Hua very much and often complained to people around him: is followed by the political commissar, so what's the point of my command?
The principle of the People's Army is that the party commands the guns. Huang Yongsheng's words can be big or small. After it was passed to Nie Rongzhen, deputy commander of the 115 Division, his position was removed and he was changed to the deputy commander of the independent regiment.
Independent Regiments are mostly adapted from local armed forces, and their combat effectiveness is not as good as regular troops. Moreover, this belongs to our party’s independent armed forces. They cannot get military pay in Chiang Kai-shek . How to develop depends entirely on their own ability, and the food and drink cost needs to be solved by themselves.
Huang Yongsheng was a good leader of a regular regiment and became the deputy leader of the independent regiment. He felt very uncomfortable. He was unwilling to listen to the command of the independent regiment leader Yang Chengwu, so he pulled two companies of 300 people from Yang Chengwu, and then went to , Southeast Jin, to fight guerrillas alone.
Later, Nie Rongzhen was criticized again after he found out about this matter. Nie Rongzhen scolded Huang Yongsheng for being "unorganized, undisciplined, and good at making decisions", but in this short period of time, Huang Yongsheng had more than 600 people under his command, which doubled rapidly. When Nie Rongzhen asked, he learned that this was the result of Huang Yongsheng's "single work", he was embarrassed to criticize him.
Afterwards, Nie Rongzhen summarized at the meeting: Huang Yongsheng is a little proud, but in this difficult period, he is indeed a good comrade who can win battles! Although has outstanding abilities, Huang Yongsheng's character of rejecting comrades and being too proud has also laid the groundwork for his future.
2. Ambition and delusion gradually grew. After being imprisoned, I wrote a letter to ask
Huang Yongsheng's development cannot be separated from one person - General Lin. He served under General Lin for a long time during the Red Army. After the outbreak of the War of Liberation, he followed General Lin in the Northeast to fight. The two had a deep relationship. General Lin also especially liked Huang Yongsheng, who could fight tough battles.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Huang Yongsheng relied closely on General Lin and served as the Chief of Staff of the People's Liberation Army and a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. However, his position did not make his thinking more progressive, but instead he became more and more biased, and many of his former comrades were suppressed by him. The experiences of Luo Ruiqing, Deng Hua, Wang Ping and others have a deep relationship with him.
It was only later that Mr. Lin's plane crashed, and Huang Yongsheng's life changed completely. He was quickly quarantined and investigated, and was soon arrested and imprisoned. This huge gap made him feel very depressed.
When he was in power earlier, his lifestyle was not very good, and his diet was relatively extravagant, and he could not have anything else in prison. Therefore, Huang Yongsheng only hoped to improve his diet, so he could at least have psychological comfort. Therefore, he wrote to the chairman, in addition to reflecting on his mistakes, he also mentioned that he could not eat well and sleep well.
Chairman considers that Huang Yongsheng had made great contributions to the revolution during the war, whether merit is merit or demerit, and the requirements for food and accommodation should still be met. So the Chairman ordered nine words "I am qualified to eat well, and I should eat well" . After
, Huang Yongsheng basically had meat every meal, and occasionally milk would supplement nutrition. It was not easy to get such treatment in that era. Not long after, Huang Yongsheng was transferred to Qincheng Prison and his living standards improved again. In Qincheng Prison, he had a very sad conversation with his son.
One time my son went to visit him and asked him who his best superior was. Huang Yongsheng replied: In addition to Chairman Mao, there is Luo Shuai, and another one is Tao Zhu. In Guangdong, I cooperated with him very well and I respect him very much.
My son is a little strange, and I asked why there is no Mr. Lin? Huang Yongsheng was silent for a long time before answering: Of course, Mr. Lin is also my good superior, but... Huang Yongsheng seemed to be touched, but he didn't say anything, and finally he just said something, "Why did he run away?"
1981, Huang Yongsheng, who had been detained for ten years, was sentenced to 18 years in prison. At this time, he was already in his seventies and was in poor health. After being diagnosed with cancer, he applied for medical parole for and was placed in Qingdao for his old age.
The local government treats him well. He will give him a subsidy of 100 yuan a month and arranges a doctor to give him a physical examination regularly. After knowing that Huang Yongsheng has the preference of listening to Huangmei Opera , he also equipped him with a record machine, so that he can relieve boredom on weekdays.
In 1983, Huang Yongsheng died of illness, ending his life of ups and downs. If you only look at the first half, he is a general with outstanding military achievements and strong abilities, but unfortunately he took the wrong path.
