Preface
Chairman Mao
In 1972, Xie Fuzhi, who was also the Minister of Public Security, died of illness in Beijing.
On March 29, Xie Fuzhi's memorial service was held in Great Hall of the People . Li Xiannian presided over the memorial service and Zhou Enlai delivered a eulogy.
Comrade Xie Fuzhi left, and the position of the Minister of Public Security was vacant. Who should be replaced? Zhou Enlai thought of a candidate - Li Zhen, Executive Vice Minister of the Ministry of Public Security and Director of the Revolutionary Committee of the Ministry of Public Security.
So Zhou Enlai told Chairman Mao this idea. After hearing this, Chairman Mao did not directly reject Zhou Enlai's opinion, but said unexpectedly: "How is Zengshan?"
The reason why Zhou Enlai recommended Li Zhen was because considering that this position was extremely important, he adopted an attitude that one move was worse than one quiet. Li Zhen is familiar with the work of the Ministry of Public Security and will be able to do it easily.
Zeng Shan has never done the job of the Ministry of Public Security, why did Chairman Mao recommend him to take over as the position of Minister of Public Security? What is his extraordinary nature?
The whole family is loyal and wise
Zeng Shan was born in a revolutionary family with loyal and wise wise wise wise. His elder brother is a revolutionary martyr Zeng Yansheng , Zeng Yansheng is the main founder of the Ji'an Party and Youth League organization and a famous early revolutionary activist in Jiangxi.
1924, while studying in Shanghai, Zeng Yansheng was exposed to a large number of classic works of Marxism-Leninism and understood the truth of the revolution. Under the influence of Qu Qiubai, Yun Daiying and others, he quickly joined the Communist Party of China.
Martyrs Zeng Yansheng
times, Zeng Yansheng participated in leading the "February strike" of Shanghai Japanese-Shanghai Spinning Mill. During the struggle, he met the progressive female worker Jiang Jingying and introduced him to join the Communist Party of China.
Because of their common revolutionary ideals, the two became husband and wife. After the May 30th Massacre , Zeng Yansheng revealed the truth about imperialism massacre Chinese people in Shanghai to people from all walks of life in Nanchang , and called on everyone to take action to support the struggle of Shanghai workers.
After that, he mobilized students and workers in Jian. In just a few days, an anti-imperialist storm was set off in support of the May 30th Movement. He also organized the "Jiequn Society" and the peasant association in his hometown. has received active support from the peasant masses and has established a high prestige among the students and workers.
1926, in order to welcome the march of the Northern Expedition Army in Jiangxi, Zeng Yansheng organized party members and the masses to carry out secret activities, publicize the significance of the Northern Expedition, expose the evils of the warlords, and guide and support the Northern Expedition.
1927, he also organized tens of thousands of people to break through the armed alert and enter the concession. expelled British imperialists and took back the British concession that had been occupied for more than 60 years!
In addition, Zeng Yansheng also participated in Nanchang Uprising .
Under the influence and leadership of Zeng Yansheng, his father Zeng Caiqin and two brothers Zeng Shan and Zeng Bingsheng all embarked on the revolutionary path one after another.
Marty Zeng Caiqin
During the period, Zeng Caiqin used the teacher's profession as a cover to secretly carry out underground transportation liaison work.
Because of that secret transportation station, Zeng Caiqin only needs to do everything himself.
Just like that, Zeng Caiqin ran through the hot summer and then ran for the coldest days. As long as the organization needs it, he will complete the task seriously.
In addition to sending out intelligence and secretly welcoming comrades, Zeng Caiqin also covered guerrillas many times and beat the enemy, winning unanimous praise from superiors and the masses.
Later, KMT arrested him three times on the grounds that he was a family member of a "bandit". During the period of
, although Zeng Caiqin was tortured, she always strictly kept the secrets of the party.
The enemy has no choice but to let him go home. In order to retaliate, the Kuomintang also sent people to burn their houses.
1931, the enemy captured Zeng Caiqin again. This time, he failed to escape the bad luck. Because he revealed the secrets of the party in part, he vowed not to bow his head. Zeng Caiqin was eventually beaten to death by the enemy, and cruelly discarded his body in the pit...
, and Zeng Bingsheng, due to his outstanding ability, was on the "blacklist" of the Kuomintang right. Not long after, because of the traitor's rebellion, Zeng Bingsheng was arrested by the enemy and killed in the small schoolyard in Jiujiang city.
Zeng Shan's mother, sister-in-law and sister-in-law
The Kuomintang killed Zeng Bingsheng, and even shouted that they would eradicate the roots and set fire to the Zeng family's house. threatened to kill the Zeng family's male.
In order to save Zeng Bing's two children, his widow Liu Guixiang hid in Tibet with a pair of young sons.
Unfortunately, these two children were unable to save them in the end. They could not withstand the torture of displaced and died one after another.
In 1928, due to the destruction of the Gannan Special Committee, Zeng Yansheng and his wife were also arrested. Faced with the enemy's coercion and temptation, they unshakable and eventually sacrificed their lives...
Although the Zeng family sacrificed a father, two sons and one daughter-in-law. However, Zeng Shan, his mother, sister-in-law and sister-in-law, did not retreat at all and continued to carry out the revolutionary cause.
Zeng Shan's mother Ms. Kang Chunyu has always had a firm belief in the Chinese revolution. She said:
"The Communist Party is for the poor, not for itself, but for the revolution, and will follow Zhu Mao for the rest of her life!"
For her family, Zeng Shan once wrote a couplet summary:
family, 5 men and two women have their only sons, and the father died in three difficulties for the people! (The other two brothers suffered from measles and were blocked by evil gentry because their families participated in the revolution, and they died of death by bad gentry. The two younger sisters also died at a young age.)
Chairman Mao said: Comrade Zeng Shan made contributions in the struggle in the Jiangxi revolutionary base!
In 1927, Zeng Shan came to Guangzhou to join the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army led by Ye Jianying, and participated in the Guangzhou Uprising. After the failure of the uprising, Zeng Shan was ordered to return to the rural areas of Ji'an County to develop peasant armed forces
Ye Jianying and Zhou Enlai
In 1928, Zeng Shan, who served as secretary of the Communist Party of China's Ji'an Yongfu District Committee, led more than 700 farmers to hold the "49th" riot that shocked the western district of Ji'an.
th year, Zeng Shan was elected as chairman of the Jiangxi Soviet Government of the Communist Party of China. In order to win the uprising of the Jingwei Brigade Leader Luo Binghui of Ji'an County, Zeng Shan made a lot of efforts.
When the Party and Youth League organizations in western Ganxi were destroyed and more than 200 comrades died, the county magistrate of Ji'an County wanted to arrest Luo Binghui.
Zeng Shan decided to write a secret letter to Luo Binghui and asked Luo Binghui to lead his troops to revolt.
After receiving Zeng Shan’s letter, Luo Binghui made a quick decision and led nearly 200 people, carrying more than 100 guns, and revolted in Ji'an in the early morning.
This uprising is of great significance. Mrs. Snow later wrote in "Continuing the Westward Journey": Only Liu Zhidan from northern Shaanxi can compare with him for Luo Binghui's contribution this time...
In February 1930, Chairman Mao held a joint meeting of the Red Fourth Army Front Committee, the Red Fifth Army , the Red Sixth Military Commission and the Ganxi Special Committee in Pitou, Ji'an. At the meeting, Zeng Shan proposed the principle of allocating land by population in response to the claim of allocating land by labor, which was affirmed by Chairman Mao and was also written into the Southwest Jiangxi Soviet Land Law. This played a significant role in consolidating rural revolutionary base areas.
Chairman Mao
Subsequently, Zeng Shan issued a notice on the private ownership of Bohu land in the name of the Jiangxi Provincial Soviet Government, which greatly mobilized farmers' enthusiasm for production, participation in the Red Army, and support the frontline.
In this regard, Deng Zihui said: "Zengshan has made important contributions to the formation of Mao Zedong's revolutionary line!"
In the summer of this year, Zeng Shan firmly supported Chairman Mao's correct proposal to not attack Nanchang and seize Ji'an, and issued notices and emergency orders many times, requiring all preparations for cooperation with the Red Army's attack on Ji'an. After
, Zeng Shan, as the commander-in-chief of attacking Ji'an, led 100,000 workers and peasants' armed forces and cooperated with the Red Army to capture Ji'an City.
Chairman Mao was very happy. He said : "Occupy Ji'an has great political significance in detail! "
In late October, Zeng Shan firmly supported Chairman Mao's policy of "tempting the enemy into depth" at relevant meetings and deal with the counter-revolutionary "encirclement and suppression" of Chiang Kai-shek.
When the Red Army withdrew from Ji'an, Zeng Shan followed Chairman Mao to move. In the base area, he continued to promote the masses, organize the masses, and arm the masses, help the Red Army transport food, ammunition, wounded, etc., cooperate in combat, and make important contributions to the victory of the anti-"encirclement and suppression".
Zeng Shan and his wife
During the period when they presided over the work of the Soviet government of Jiangxi Province, Zeng Shan continuously transported local armed forces and young and middle-aged farmers in the Soviet area of Jiangxi Province to the main force of the Red Army, reaching 40 regiments of troops.
After the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" failed, the central government decided to withdraw from the Central Soviet Area and start the Long March . Zeng Shan was ordered to lead some of the Red Army to stay in Jiangxi and carry out guerrilla warfare . Under extremely difficult conditions, Zeng Shan led the Red Army guerrillas to fight hundreds of battles with enemies 30 times stronger than him, persisted for 9 months, preserved the spark of revolution, and strongly cooperated and supported the Red Army's Long March.
Chairman Mao praised: The contribution is no less than that of Huaihai Battle
Anti-Japanese War After the outbreak of , Zeng Shan became the deputy secretary of the Dong'an Branch of the CPC Central Committee, and was responsible for leading the work of the New Fourth Army and the war of resistance in the southeastern provinces. During the period of
, Zeng Shan served as the Organization Minister of the Southeast Bureau for a long time, and is mainly responsible for organization and financial work.
While implementing the Party’s economic policies and organizing the masses to develop production, he raises a large amount of funds and materials from all over the country through the underground party.
In order to unify the currency of the anti-Japanese base in Central China and protect the people from the impact of inflation in the enemy-occupied areas, Zeng Shan overcame many difficulties and successively created JAC Bank and Bank of China to ensure the needs of the New Fourth Army's operations and the operation of the base.
Zengshan
Because Zengshan knows people and makes good use of them, was known as a good "Bo Le" for the organizational work of the Central China Bureau. At that time, there were few financial and economic cadres, and Zengshan attached great importance to cultivating them and reserved talents for the party's cause to govern the country and ensure stability.
Later, those cadres played a significant role in Zengshan's unification of the Central and East China finances. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, they all became first-class economists and ministerial-level cadres on the financial front.
During the Liberation War, Zeng Shan was responsible for the supply of materials for East China Field Army . After arriving in Shandong, he tried his best to ensure the food and drink of hundreds of thousands of military and political personnel in East China.
Jinan Battle and Huaihai Battle, Zengshan's outstanding logistics organization work contributed to the victory of our army.
1949, in the early days of Shanghai's liberation, there was a shortage of supplies. Rice was only enough to eat in Shanghai for half a month, and coal was only enough to burn for 7 days.
The enemy took the opportunity to spread words that disturbed people's hearts and said that the Communist Party scored 100 points in the military and 0 points in the economy.
In order to stabilize Shanghai, Zengshan ran around and even went underground in the coal mine, trying every means to mobilize materials from all directions, successfully solving the two white and one black problems in short supply in Shanghai (grain, cotton, coal), quickly resumed production, and stabilized the lives of 5 million people.
Zeng Shan (one right) and Chen Yi (one left) and others took the opportunity to raise prices, causing Shanghai prices to rise three times a day, and a silver dollar actually rose to 1,800 yuan.
In order to solve this problem as soon as possible, Zeng Shan proposed to take political measures. After the approval of the Party Central Committee, Zeng Shan assisted Chen Yi, cracking down on speculative storms, sealing off relevant stock exchanges, arresting 200 evil elements, and more than 40,000 silver dollar dealers disappeared, and finance was stabilized.
In response to this, Chairman Mao highly praised Zeng Shan and his contributions were no less than the Huaihai Battle!
During this period, Zeng Shan was too busy with work and didn't have to take care of his family. His wife Deng Liujin had to work while doing housework and taking care of the children.
Although Zeng Shan was responsible for economic work and the amount of money he had handled was huge, he was always honest and dedicated to the public.
Deng Liujin later recalled that Zeng Shan's cotton jacket was worn out in an old way. Deng Liujin couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to change it for him, but Zeng Shan disagreed.
He took off his torn cotton jacket and asked his wife to repair it. He continued to wear it for a while.
Zeng Shan and his wife
Later, the torn cotton jacket was so torn to wear, so Zeng Shan agreed to ask Deng Liujin to make a shirt for him and put it outside the torn cotton jacket.
possible, At that time, many Shanghai people would not have thought that the old man wearing a torn cotton jacket was the deputy mayor of Shanghai.
For many years, Zeng Shan never thought of using his position to seek convenience for himself.
According to the level of Zengshan and the family population, the organization arranged a villa for Zengshan. But Zeng Shan insisted on living in a small house.
Later, the family was arranged to live in a two-story small building. The couple took their children and nanny to live in the room on the second floor, and the first floor was left for another comrade to live.
In addition, Zeng Shan also formulated the principles of hard and simple life for the children. requires all the original sofas, carpets, precious furniture and other items in the room to be locked and not allowed to be used by the family.
For the principle of saving, he did not allow his family to use tap water and asked everyone to fetch water in the well in the yard. Even if there is a small matter like fruit at home, he has to ask clearly the origin.
Due to busy work and Zeng Shan is very responsible, he is often so busy that he can't eat.
After a long time, Zeng Shan's health was seriously overdrawn. Once, Deng Liujin suddenly received a call from Zengshan's unit, and the comrade on the other side said anxiously:
"Vice Mayor Zeng fainted! He fell down the stairs!"
Zhou Enlai
Deng Liujin was so scared that he rushed to the hospital. After examination, the doctor was very surprised because Zeng Shan fainted was excessive fatigue and malnutrition.
Zeng Shan saved the life of his family due to his simple style for many years.
It turned out that an administrator from Zeng Shan was confused by the female spy with her color. The female spy gave the administrator a lot of money and asked the administrator to poison Zengshan's family.
However, the administrator felt that he had been by Zengshan for so long that he saw no "official master" in the old society at all.
Therefore, the administrator can never do it. In the end, the administrator committed suicide by taking poison himself.
After the founding of New China, Zeng Shan was appointed as the director of the Huai River Control Working Committee by Chairman Mao, and he achieved initial victory in leading the governance of Huai River.
In the 1960s, Zeng Shan served as Minister of the Interior of the State Council and was also known as Chairman Mao’s "Disaster Relief Minister".
In 1969, at the personal suggestion of Chairman Mao, Zeng Shan was elected as a member of the Central Committee.
Therefore, after the position of the Minister of Public Security was vacant in 1972, Chairman Mao thought of the diligent Zeng Shan.
At this time, Chen Zhengren, the former Minister of the Eighth Ministry of Machinery Industry, passed away. Zhou Enlai appointed Zeng Shan to send an eulogy to Chen Zhengren.
Chen Zhengren
However, Zeng Shan was not the right candidate to send a eulogy at that time. Therefore, he was very puzzled by Premier Zhou Enlai's "abnormal" arrangement of .
So, Zeng Shan asked Premier Zhou Enlai why, and Zhou Enlai directly told Zeng Shan about Chairman Mao’s proposal.
Zeng Shan was very excited about this. Zhou Enlai specifically reminded Zeng Shan to be ready to work at any time and that there must be no health problems.
Zeng Shan happily patted his chest and assured Zhou Enlai that his health was absolutely fine.
However, no one expected that just the next day, Zeng Shan suddenly suffered from heart disease and passed away regretfully...
learned of this news, Zhou Enlai was shocked. If it weren't for this accident, Zeng Shan would probably have been appointed as the Minister of Public Security. What a fortune is so good...
On April 20, 1972, Zeng Shan’s memorial service was held at Babaoshan . Chairman Mao gave Zeng Shan a wreath, and Zhou Enlai made a special trip back to Beijing from other places to attend the memorial service.
Ye Jianying delivered a speech saying:
Zeng Shan is loyal to the Party and the people, works hard and simple, contacts the masses, works hard, and serves the people diligently, and contributes his life to the cause of liberation and communism of the Chinese people!
