In 1999, the founding general Ye Fei passed away. After receiving the news from the Philippines , the speakers of the Senate and House of Representatives jointly offered condolences to his family.
The Parliament in Quezon Province, the Philippines also passed a resolution to build the "General Ye Fei Memorial Park" and "Ye Fei School" locally to commemorate the founding general of the Chinese who made local overseas Chinese proud.
So, as the founding general of China, why did the Philippines give him such courtesy? It turns out that General Ye Fei was the only "mixed-blood general" among the founding generals who were awarded the title in 1955, and the only founding general with dual nationality.
1. Mixed-Blood Founding General
1914, Ye Fei was born in Diali Town, Quezon Province, Philippines. 's father is Ye Sunwei, the Chinese "gold digger" , and the mother's name is Mercato, and she is an Filipino of Spanish descent.
Ye Sunwei is from Fujian and had a wife in China in his early years. Later, in order to gain a foothold in the Philippines, he married into the house of Melcato. At that time, the two sides agreed to send their first two children back to China to continue the incense.
So Ye Fei returned to China with his second brother Ye Qicun when he was five years old. Because he was influenced by his father since childhood, Ye Fei loved his Chinese identity and was very dissatisfied with the Kuomintang's chaos in the country.
1928, when Ye Fei was fourteen years old, he studied in Xiamen and came into contact with many progressive patriots, so he joined the Communist Youth League. Not long after, the Kuomintang launched the "April 12th Coup", and Ye Fei was arrested and imprisoned with some progressive patriotic students.
Ye Fei was fighting wits and courage with the enemy in prison. The other party could not find evidence that he was the Communist Party, so he was imprisoned for a year. After his parents, who were far away in the Philippines, had their financial and manpower, and finally convinced the authorities to "extradition" him to the Philippines.
However, when Ye Fei's parents were about to pick him up and released from prison, he wrote a letter to tell them that he had gone to Japan to study. But this time Ye Fei told a lie, and he actually went to the party organization.
From then on, Ye Fei never set foot on the Philippines' territory , and he had no chance to gather with his parents and enjoy family. It was not until 1989 that Ye Fei had the opportunity to be filial and sweep the graves and visit the graves for the two elders.
Ye Fei, who stayed on the Chinese battlefield, is a legendary "Immortal General" . He had been in danger many times in his life, but he could survive the disaster. The most amazing ones were "blood splashing the lion's head" and "Nanyang's 'Hongmen Banquet'".
2. Ye Fei's legendary life
1933, when Ye Fei was working in the Fujian-East Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, he participated in the creation of a revolutionary base area and the Red Army of Workers and Peasants. He once led the guerrillas to launch the "Huo Tong riot" and achieved major results, so he was on the enemy's assassination list.
One day, when Ye Fei was meeting with underground party members at the Lion Head Inn in Fu'an County, he was ambushed by a spy and shot in the head by the enemy. After being shot, Ye Fei did not lose consciousness, so he lay on the ground and pretended to be dead.
After a while, Ye Fei thought that the enemies had all gone away, so he looked up and was discovered by the last agent who left and immediately fired three shots at him.
The enemy thought that Ye Fei was "dead" this time, so he left with confidence. But how could this enemy know that Ye Fei's mind was still clear at this time.
This time, Ye Fei learned from the lesson from the previous time, until he could not hear the noisy voices in his ears. After a long time, he crawled out of the inn, fainted in a ditch, and was rescued by local guerrillas.
Later, the guerrillas found a doctor and saw it, it was amazing! Ye Fei's head, left arm and chest were shot, and his body was soaked in blood. hit the head shot, penetrated through his left ear, and turned a corner to the lower part of his right cheek.
Fortunately, this is the case, so he did not kill him. Afterwards, Ye Fei only had to take care of him for a month and his injuries were healed so he immediately got up and organized underground work.
Later, Ye Fei first reorganized the local "Big Sword Association" of Fu'an , and then took advantage of the opportunity of the Kuomintang's 19th Route Army to mutiny, and organized a major riot and successfully established a red revolutionary base in eastern Fujian with a population of one million.
Next, Ye Fei encountered another death threshold in his life. In 1935, Ye Fei joined forces with Su Yu and Liu Ying to establish a Fujian-Zhejiang Provisional Provincial Committee.
Unexpectedly, Liu Ying later had a disagreement with him because of his left-leaning and aggressiveness, so he arranged a "Hongmen Banquet" for him, and Ye Fei and his deputy were captured.
While escorting Ye Fei, he met the Kuomintang troops. When the two sides fought, the escort shot him in the leg. He ran away with his injured leg and was chased by Kuomintang soldiers again. Finally, he jumped off the cliff and escaped, hung on the branch and saved his life.
Later, the soldiers who escorted him ran back and said to Liu Ying, "Ye Fei has martial arts skills, he can fly. On a small hill in Nanyang, he flew without a trace in the blink of an eye." As a result, this incident became more and more amazing among the people, so he won the title of "Immortal Flying General".
In addition to these legendary anecdotes, General Ye Fei is also a brave general who can fight tough battles on the battlefield. He performed well in the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, among which the "Guocun Defense Battle" and " Huangqiao Decisive Battle " in 1940 were both very famous. After the liberation of
, Ye Fei was stationed on the southeast coast and served as the commander of Fujian Military Region and the first secretary of the provincial party committee. In 1958, when "bombardment of Kinmen", Chairman Mao appointed him to be responsible for the command of the work.
After 1978, Ye Fei served as Minister of Transportation and Commander of the Navy, and was also responsible for handling overseas Chinese affairs. There is an "October delta" in Shenzhen that was built at his suggestion. He has done a lot of practical things for overseas Chinese, so overseas Chinese at home and abroad are very grateful to him.
Ye Fei's wife Wang Yuchang was once a "talented woman" of the New Fourth Army. After marriage, they had six children, three of whom were at the deputy department level, and one son became a deputy ministerial-level cadre.
The eldest daughter Ye Xiaonan is a talented woman from the 1960s. She was the deputy director of the Taiwan Investment Zone Management Committee of Haicang, Xiamen, and at the deputy department level. The second daughter Ye Zhihua served as deputy director of the Xiamen Municipal Culture Bureau and was also at the deputy department level.
The third daughter Ye Weiwei was assigned to the remote Delingha after graduating from Peking University in 1970. Later, she became the deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the General Office of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress, and was at the deputy department level; her youngest son Ye Xiaoqi was the mayor of Xiamen City, and was at the deputy ministerial level.
Conclusion
There are many overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia who have returned to China to participate in the revolution, but a mixed-race general like Ye Fei is still the only one, and he has the dual nationality of of China and the Philippines.
Ye Fei had the opportunity to stay away from China in the war to go to the Philippines to reunite with his relatives, but in order to save the future of the country and nation, he resolutely chose to stay.
Ye Fei has always been honest and clean as an official. When his siblings in the Philippines came to visit their relatives in China, they found that although he was a high-ranking official, he had no money at all.
In 1989, when Ye Fei was invited to visit the Philippines on behalf of China, thought of the memory of his parents' tomb. Because the ceremony was needed, he also sent a report to the central government first and then carried out after approval.
Ye Fei not only has strict requirements on himself, but also on his children. He set a family rule early in the morning, never allowing his children to use their parents' relationship for personal gain, or to establish relationships with relatives and friends overseas, and even does not want them to study abroad.
The eldest son Ye Xiaoyu said in an interview that his father's requests were finally met with all his six children. They have always been studying and looking for jobs on their own.
For example, the third daughter of Ye Weiwei, when she was assigned to Delingha when she graduated, she once wrote a letter to her father in grievance. As a result, Ye Fei replied to her:
Although Qinghai is far away, it is not far away from Xinjiang; the terrain is high, and it is not as high as Tibet. Since there are people working and living in that place, then you can do it too.
After reading Ye Fei's reply, Ye Weiwei went to pack her luggage silently.Only when you endure hardships can you become the best. Many years later, Ye Weiwei became the deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau.
Ye Fei returned to China at the age of five, joined the Communist Youth League at the age of fourteen, and joined the party at the age of eighteen. When he participated in the revolution, he had no support. He only relied on his courage and wisdom. He fought for decades to build a country for the New China.
Tiger father has no dog son. Decades later, Ye Fei's children, like their father, rely entirely on their own efforts to break a new world in their respective fields.
