1949, after the founding of New China, Chairman Mao's relatives came to Beijing from time to time to visit him because they had not seen Chairman Mao for a long time. Some of them wanted Chairman Mao to arrange their jobs, but they were rejected by Chairman Mao.
Especially when the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chairman Mao formulated a rule for the secretary: As long as you ask to come to Beijing to see me now, you are not allowed to agree to come to . Even if you come, don't say I'm here, just say I'm on a business trip.
If it is an introduction to the work, it cannot agree to , and the party organization does not allow to introduce to my relatives and recommend it.
Once, Chairman Mao’s cousin Li Zhuhua suggested to him that hopes Chairman Mao can arrange the work of his ninth brother.
Picture丨Chairman Mao
But Chairman Mao refused with guilt: "I am not the chairman of our family now, I am the chairman of the whole country.
Don't worry, my ninth brother lives a difficult life, I will give out my salary and royalties to help him , but our family includes I shouldn’t bother the country, the government.”
And in the following decades, Chairman Mao would fund the Ninth Brother economically. Just before Chairman Mao passed away, he wrote a letter to the government: “ I am old, please help me take care of my Ninth Brother. ”
So why did Chairman Mao ask the government to help take care of Ninth Brother among so many relatives?
Picture丨Chairman Mao (center) and Mao Zelian (right)
brothers respectively went away and made a new China
1927, Chairman Mao went to Changsha, Xiangtan and other places to inspect the local peasant movement. After completing the mobilization and investigation of the Shaoshan peasant movement, Chairman Mao was preparing to leave and rush to the next destination.
On the day when Chairman Mao was about to leave Shaoshan , his ninth brother Mao Zelian was very reluctant. While helping Chairman Mao carry his luggage, he asked him: " Brother, when will we meet next time? "
Faced with this problem, Chairman Mao, who has always been talkative, suddenly fell silent.
Even if it is him, can't tell you when and when will you see again. Besides, no one knows what happened along the way. A real man is home in the world, and he is buried wherever he goes, and the green mountains in the sky are the same.
But he still said to Mao Zelian: "Ninth brother, don't worry, as long as you defeat the three mountains that are pressing on the people, I will come back to see you as soon as possible. will not come back as long as the revolution fails for one day. "
pic丨Chairman Mao
Although Mao Zelian didn't understand the meaning of this sentence at this time, looking at the tone of the third brother, there was a farewell meaning. Mao Zelian held the third brother's hand hard and said in tears: ", third brother, you must come back, pay attention to safety. "
That's it, Chairman Mao left Shaoshan, and although Mao Zelian did not go with Chairman Mao, , he still insisted on implementing some of the matters that the third brother told him that year , and continue to do the revolution.
And in April of the same year, the right-wing Kuomintang headed by Chiang Kai-shek betrayed the revolution, and ordered the massacre of Communist Party members nationwide.
But Mao Zelian didn't know at this time that there was a drastic change outside , and he was still in the night school for training. It was not until the soldiers came in and pointed at them that everyone realized that Mao Zelian was arrested like this.
During the escort, Mao Zelian escaped successfully with the help of his fellow villagers. Because he ran too fast on the road, his left eye was scratched by a branch, but he did not care about this "small matter".
Picture丨Mao Zelian
After all, in that era, the medical level was backward. Anyone who had a headache or fever, did not go to the hospital for , and they all rely on their own resistance to carry . After a few days, Mao Zelian's wound in his left eye suddenly began to ulcerate.
But he had no money to see a doctor, so he could only endure the pain. In this way, after a while, Mao Zelian's left eye could no longer see anything at all , and his right eye was also affected. Although he could still see things at the right eye, it was very blurry and could not see clearly.
In order not to distract Chairman Mao, who was doing the revolution in front, Mao Zelian did not write to him to inform him of his injuries, he took the responsibility alone.
Even though his eyes left sequelae, Mao Zelian was still determined to do the revolution. However, when the organization saw that he was injured, he did not want him to fight for the revolution with his injuries. asked him to rest first, take good care of his body and keep his body in the new revolution.
However, the situation was tense at that time. In 1929, Mao Zelian's sister Mao Zejian was arrested and died bravely.
Picture丨Mao Zejian
Then, in order to "cut the roots", the Kuomintang had to capture all relatives who had a relationship with Mao Zejian. Fortunately, with the help of the villagers, Mao Zelian's family fled overnight.
But they also temporarily lost their homes, and Mao Zelian could only stay outside, doing short-term work for the landlords and carrying big bags. soon came news that Mao Zetan also died, so the organization asked Mao Zelian to go and pick up Mao Zetan's children back to Shaoshan.
Mao Zelian Since then, has been responsible for raising Mao Zetan's child Mao Chuxiong , and Mao Zetan's wife continued to move to Yan'an, continue to be an underground party, and silently contribute to our party.
That's it, Mao Zelian worked while raising children, and also prevented the reactionaries from arresting , but he never complained and just persisted until the day of victory came.
Picture丨Mao Zetan
Brothers meet
Finally, in 1949, when the founding of New China, Mao Zelian finally got through, but at that time, Chairman Mao was unable to get away due to official duties, so he went back to his hometown to visit his fellow villagers. , and Mao Zelian had no chance to go to find Chairman Mao.
Fortunately, he participated in the 138th Division that liberated Hunan at that time. After the commander of this division learned about Mao Zelian and Chairman Mao's relationship, took Mao Zelian and Chairman Mao's cousin Li Zhuhua to see the chairman.
Both are Chairman Mao’s younger brothers. They brought many specialties from their hometown to see Chairman Mao. When Chairman Mao first saw Mao Zelian, he recognized him and said excitedly: "th brother, is it you? You are Runfa. "
After many years of seeing, the third brother could still recognize himself at first sight. Mao Zelian was so excited that he couldn’t speak. the three brothers held their hands tightly when they met.
Li Zhuhua and Mao Zelian couldn't help but say with tears in their eyes: "The villagers all miss the third brother very much. If the third brother is free, he must go back and take a look in the future. "
pic丨Chairman Mao
Chairman Mao agreed with a smile, But he suddenly saw Mao Zelian's eye injury , and he asked what was going on.
Mao Zelian didn't want to tell the story of what happened over the years, but Li Zhuhua spoke and told the story of what happened to Mao Zelian over the years.
, and Chairman Mao also frowned while listening. He did not expect that his ninth brother would pay such a great price for this revolution.
Chairman Mao said after hearing this: "Runfa, don't worry, you stay in Beijing for a few days, I will ask Anying to accompany you to the ophthalmology hospital for a good look. "
Mao Zelian was very happy and finally felt that he could see hope. In this way, he accompanied Mao Anying to Peking Union Medical College Hospital.
Picture丨Mao Anying
Along the way, he felt that time really made people grow old. Mao Anying, who was still sitting in a bamboo basket when he was a child, was already a young man at this time.
After arriving at the hospital, the treatment time was missed because the injury had been formed for too long, but Mao Zelian's right eye could still be treated. The doctor suggested that Mao Zelian replace a fake eyeball and then undergo a recovery surgery.
After hearing this, Mao Zelian said that he would not have to spend money to replace fake eyes, Just try his best to recover the vision of the right eye.
In this way, Mao Zelian underwent a vision recovery surgery in Beijing. During the month of recuperation after the surgery, Chairman Mao often asked Li Na and Li Min to take care of Mao Zelian. After
, Mao Zelian, accompanied by Chairman Mao's children, strolled around Beijing and then prepared to return to his hometown. Before returning to his hometown, Li Zhuhua hoped that Chairman Mao could arrange a job for Mao Zelian .
Picture丨Chairman Mao and his family
Mao Zelian's family is in a difficult situation . If he has a decent job, at least his life can be improved accordingly.
In fact, Chairman Mao is not sure about his ninth brother's difficulties, but he is also in a difficult situation. Isn't he leading everyone to make a revolution just to overthrow the nepotism of the Jiang family dynasty?
If he opens this hole, is afraid that the villagers in his hometown will come to him to go to the back door , and Chairman Mao does not have this privilege either.
After thinking about it, he still chose to tell the truth: "I am the president of the country. I know that Runfa's life is sad, but I can't set this precedent.
Runfa's family is in trouble. I will take a part of my royalties and salary to help Runfa. After you return to Shaoshan, write me any difficulties. Don't bother the local government."
Li Zhuhua heard this and wrote me to at any time. I suddenly realized and nodded embarrassedly: "Her 3, Third Brother, don't worry, we will also take the lead when we go back. You will also take care of your health. You must come back when you have time. Everyone misses you very much."
pic丨Chairman Mao and his family
1959, Chairman Mao returned to his hometown Shaoshan . The local people and Mao Zelian all went to visit him. Chairman Mao welcomed everyone to have a meal.
html has not seen each other for more than 0 years, but Chairman Mao still has no airs and asks everyone about his well-being. In this way, after living in Shaoshan for a few days, Chairman Mao returned to Beijing because there are still many things in Beijing that need to be handled by the Chairman.And for many years since then, Chairman Mao has always taken good care of Mao Zelian, including later Mao Zelian's mother passed away, Mao Zelian had no money to be buried, and Chairman Mao sent his salary to Mao Zelian to bury Mao Zelian's mother.
However, as Chairman Mao got older and his health was worse than before. Later, after entering the hospital many times, Chairman Mao felt that his life might have come to an end.
But as long as the chairman thinks of his ninth brother Runfa, he can't help but feel uncomfortable . It's still related to that revolutionary period.
Picture丨Chairman Mao’s brotherhood in Shaoshan
revolutionary years
Mao Zelian is Chairman Mao’s cousin, and in the entire family of Chairman Mao, the Mao family can be said to have a lot of people , and there are nearly a dozen cousins alone.
Chairman Mao ranked third in the family, and after both brothers died that year, Chairman Mao was the largest of all his children.
The chairman happens to be among his brothers and sisters of his generation, and he is very prestigious. Everyone likes to listen to him and likes to ask him about anything he encounters.
This also led to the subsequent, after Chairman Mao’s revolution, the brothers and sisters of the Mao family were willing to follow him and , and everyone trusted him very much.
Of course, does not play house, but requires the price of bleeding . There is sacrifice when there is bleeding. This is naturally without exception for the Mao brothers and sisters.
pic丨Chairman Mao and his family
Mao Zehua, Mao Zelian, Mao Zetan and other brothers did not seek enjoyment in the rear, but they all directly participated in the front line of the revolution and fought the most arduous struggle with the reactionaries.
In the years of struggle, many of Chairman Mao's cousins died heroically, and Mao even survived for a lifetime of death. However, almost all his relatives were no longer alive, and even his sister Mao Zejian was killed heroically.
When I was very young, Chairman Mao, the third brother, was very popular with Mao Zelian and always followed him around.
Because Mao Zelian's father passed away due to illness very early, only his mother and his sister Mao Ze 4 Jian were left. The three of them depended on each other.
A mother was really unable to take care of two children, so gave Mao Zejian to Chairman Mao's parents for helping raise him.
And whenever Mao Zelian has time, he often comes to Chairman Mao’s house to see his sister. It was at that time that Chairman Mao, Mao Zejian, Mao Zelian and the others established a deep relationship.
Picture丨Young Chairman Mao
Chairman Mao also liked this cousin at that time. He was lively and active and brave. At the same time, he also listened to Chairman Mao's third brother.
In 1925, Chairman Mao returned to his hometown Shaoshan and prepared to launch a peasant movement. Mao Zelian, who was 13 years old at that time, heard that his third brother had returned, and immediately came to his third brother's house to talk to him.
Chairman Mao organized a peasant movement in his hometown and opened a night school for everyone to learn cultural knowledge. Mao Zelian's face was full of admiration. Especially when he learned that Chairman Mao brought back this time, his sister-in-law Yang Kaihui, also participated in the revolutionary movement.
He could no longer contain his excitement and immediately said to Chairman Mao: " Third Brother, you let me be a correspondent, and I will do a big career with you, ."
At first, Chairman Mao was worried that he was too young, and doing revolution was a very tiring and dangerous thing.
Picture丨Young Chairman Mao
But Mao Zelian said, "Third Brother, the revolution is not about age. You asked me to join a children's group, and I grew up slowly. " Chairman Mao saw his ninth brother, and he had such a heart at such a young age, so he agreed to his application.
On the other hand, there is a big warlord in locally, Zhao Hengti, , who is the governor of , of Hunan, who commands , Hunan Army , and is also a very famous warlord leader at that time.
He followed Chiang Kai-shek with all his heart and was very disgusted with the Workers' and Peasants' Movement . As long as it is a peasant movement carried out in Hunan, he will always send heavy troops to brutally suppress it.
When he learned that Mao Zedong was actually carrying out a large-scale campaign in his jurisdiction, he immediately ordered his younger brother Zhao Hengzhe, who was the village head in Shaoshan, to lead troops to arrest Mao Zedong immediately.
At that time, Chairman Mao was not aware of it. He was teaching students at night school that night. Mao Zelian, who was watching from , suddenly saw a large number of soldiers from afar. Although he didn't know what they were doing, it was obviously from live ammunition, so there was obviously no good thing.
Picture丨Chairman Mao
He immediately shook the light in his hand towards the classroom, and this was the code that the two brothers agreed to: If danger comes, use the light to shake it as a signal.
In this way, Chairman Mao immediately ran into the woods, and when he arrived in the woods, it was "the sky was high and the birds flew". The soldiers could only smash a bunch of things viciously and left in disappointment.
Many times since then, Zhao Hengzhe always came to search Chairman Mao often, but Chairman Mao successfully avoided him without any danger.
At the same time, Mao Zelian also saw clearly the dangers on the revolutionary road, but he did not retreat because of the danger. Chairman Mao also looked at this ninth brother with admiration and admired him very much.
Later, once Chairman Mao asked Mao Zelian to cover Yang Kaihui and his two sons away from Shaoshan. Mao Zelian and Yang Kaihui pretended to be husband and wife. Mao Zelian picked a bamboo basket with Mao Anying and Mao Anying in it.
Picture丨Mao Anying and Mao Anqing
In this way, Mao Zelian successfully covered the mother and son, and escaped from the dangerous area.
, and Chairman Mao continued to stay in Shaoshan for a year. During this year, he mainly wrote documents and manuscripts, and also served as the acting minister of the Kuomintang Propaganda Department, often compiling some central publications of the Kuomintang.
It is during this year that as time intensifies, the brotherhood between "Ninth Brother" and "Three Brothers" in has become deeper and deeper. The two people encourage each other on the road of revolution.
is precisely because of this reason, so Chairman Mao recalled that the few brothers who had done the revolution together now have the ninth brother left in , but he has never taken good care of this brother.
Chairman is worried that If he really dies, no one will take care of his younger brother.
Picture丨Chairman Mao
Finally, Chairman Mao made an exception and wrote a letter to the local government of Hunan Province: " Please ask local comrades to help me take care of my ninth brother Mao Zelian. I am really old. "
There are only a few dozen words, full of endless bitterness , which also makes the staff cry. The local staff immediately replied, saying that they would take good care of Mao Zelian and would give Mao Zelian a subsidy of 20 yuan every month.
After Mao Zelian got the money, he couldn't help crying: " I'm still troubled my third brother, I can't take good care of myself. "
Later, Chairman Mao knew in his heart that he would soon die. He often told Li Na and Li Min to take good care of Mao Zelian and his family.
Both daughters also agreed to Chairman Mao. Since then, they often returned to Shaoshan to visit Mao Zelian and local villagers. often took their own salary to subsidize Mao Zelian's family income.
pic丨Reporter interviewed Mao Zelian
1995, Mao Zelian died of illness , and the villagers held a memorial service for him.
Back then, Chairman Mao felt very sorry for this ninth brother. Perhaps it was because of the guilt that everyone had suffered too much. Not only them, but in that era, the people also lived very hard.
And Mao Zelian also knew the difficulties of the third brother. he really tried his best not to bother the third brother and the government. Chairman Mao dedicated all his passion to the country.
Chairman Mao's family all followed the Chairman's footsteps and walked forward without hesitation. They liberated the whole of China with the heroic People's Liberation Army, but they were strict with themselves and never made special contributions.
Until today, Chairman Mao’s descendants still insist on Chairman Mao’s will: “ do things in a low-key manner and don’t show up in public. ”
Picture丨Mao Zelian (right)
Chairman has public and private, and has a clear distinction between the top and bottom. Although Chairman Mao never makes special in principle, he would rather give his own salary than trouble the public for his brothers and fellow villagers. The valuable quality of is really worth remembering forever.
