Minister Huang listened to my opinion and thought it made sense. Soon, he found Mr. Peng and stated our opinions. Afterwards, I listened to opinions from all aspects. Most comrades believe that finance is managed smoothly and convenient for work. Therefore, with the approval of Military Commission , the General Finance Department was abolished on May 15, 1957 and merged into the General Logistics Department.
Third, to formulate a standard system, we must adhere to the combination of unity and flexibility. Without unity, there is no standard system, let alone authority. However, unity is not mechanical and rigid. It must take care of the locality and individuality while adhering to commonality, and be combined with flexibility. For example, when formulating food standards and food quantitative standards, the food standards should be unified in the same region and the same category; from the perspective of nutritional , there should be a standard proportion. However, how many dishes, meat, soy sauce, vinegar, etc. can not be completely stipulated in proportion or standards to be too dead or too fine. The regulations are too dead and are not conducive to work. Some people have opinions and say that I am not jealous, so why can’t I buy soy sauce? I don’t eat meat, why can’t I buy it into eggs? Therefore, the formulation of standards and systems must adhere to the combination of unity and flexibility, listen to opinions from multiple parties, allow experiments, and promptly modify them. In this way, the formulated standard systems can be more reasonable, more mass-oriented, and easier to implement and implement.
As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. After the founding of New China, we have entered a period of peace from a long state of war, and the military logistics work must also achieve a historic turning point from dispersion to unity. In order to achieve this historic turning point, streamlining the logistics system, improving the organizational structure, and improving the standards and systems is a pioneering task in a certain sense, extremely complex and difficult. But this work went smoothly, one of the main reasons was that it was due to a large number of old comrades who had come from the war years. Everyone was very enthusiastic and motivated, so they completed this task better.
In March 1959, the upper reactionary group of Tibet launched a rebellion, and the People's Liberation Army quelled the rebellion and the troops were ordered to enter Tibet to quell the rebellion.
The Military Commission decided to send me to Tibet to learn about the situation of counter-insurgency and material supply in Tibet. Tibet belongs to a plateau area with a harsh climate and low in oxygen. The main reason for letting me go to Tibet is to consider that I am young, in good health, and able to withstand the test of difficult environments. In addition, Tibet is far away from the mainland, has long logistics transportation lines and poor roads, so it is a very difficult task to ensure the supply of troops.
I immediately made various preparations for entering Tibet, including conducting physical health checks. This is the first comprehensive physical examination in my life.
Beijing just started spring, I took a few people to Lanzhou by train, and then took a car to Golmud in Qinghai. At that time, Golmud was a large salt flat, without houses, and the conditions were very difficult. Finally, it was a good weather there, so I took a small plane into Tibet.
After I arrived in Lhasa in early May, I first visited the hospital to visit the wounded and sick, and then went to the Tibet Military Region and the troops entering Tibet to learn about the logistics supply situation. I went to Linzhi , Shannan , Yadong and Shigatse and other places. What the troops need, I organized the transportation from the mainland in a timely manner to ensure the necessity of suppressing the rebellion, and put forward some specific suggestions on the logistics work of the Tibet Military Region and the long-term supply of materials for the troops entering Tibet.
I went from entering to leaving, and it took more than a month. The rebellion was not completely over, so I took a car from Qinghai-Tibet Line to return to the mainland because the central government asked me to come back to attend the Lushan Conference.
I am an alternate member of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. I did not attend the Lushan Conference in July that year. On July 14, Peng Dehuai wrote a letter to Chairman Mao at the meeting, saying that the situation had changed and he wanted to publicly criticize Peng Dehuai. In this way, the Lushan Conference has entered the second phase and the central government notified me to attend.
As soon as I arrived in Lushan, I first let me listen to a recording of Chairman Mao’s speech, which was criticized by Peng Dehuai’s letter and criticized him for his right-leaning conservativeness. I also read General Peng’s letter. I always feel that General Peng has reflected some real situations. Dare to tell the truth and tell the truth is a manifestation of worrying about the country and the people.Some people say how thick the rice in Tianjin grows and can carry people; they also say that one acre of land can produce tens of thousands of kilograms of grain, how bold the people are, and how much the land is. I just felt that it was too exaggerated and unreliable. I did feel that President Peng’s letter reflected the real situation. Because I have witnessed some strange things in Guangdong, such as the crops in the field are ripe and no one has cut them, and people have gone to make steel. I once asked Tao Zhu to pump people to cut crops, otherwise the people would have no food to eat. In order to make a large-scale steelmaking, even some pine trees in the military camps were cut down, and I also have an opinion on this. But after reading Mr. Peng’s letter, I didn’t say anything. What did I say? Because telling the truth is not the time, I will never say anything against my will, and it is impossible to tell it casually without factual basis.
Some people criticized Mr. Peng for being very "active", saying that the Great Leap Forward is so good and how Peng Dehuai is so right-leaning. This is equivalent to adding fuel to the fire and making the debate more and more intense. Later, some people said that Peng Dehuai's visit to Eastern Europe was a foreign country. I can't figure this out. I said that Peng Dehuai's visit to Eastern Europe was approved by the central government and he did not speak foreign languages. He had translators next to the talks and accompanied staff. How could he be familiar with foreign countries? Later, some people said that Peng Dehuai, Zhang Wentian, Zhou Xiaozhou, Huang Kecheng and are anti-party groups. This time, the problem escalates, hold a conference, hold a small conference, criticize them, and make an infinite outlook.
The Lushan Conference's criticism of Peng Dehuai gradually escalated, saying that Mr. Peng was not an ordinary problem of understanding or a general mistake, but was elevated to a height of anti-party and anti-socialism, and the nature changed suddenly. After the Lushan Conference, an enlarged meeting of the Military Commission was held, mainly to expose the so-called "anti-party crimes" and the " bourgeois military line". At this meeting, some people also pulled me into it and asked me to expose General Peng’s problem, saying that General Peng is Peng Dehuai’s “black nest”. Peng Dehuai and Hong Xuezhi are not ordinary relationships, so I criticized me.
I was so amused and couldn't tell when I heard such a blame. To be honest, I don’t know much about General Peng’s history. During the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, we were together in the working relationship and comradeship. He led me, and I cooperated with him, cooperated well, and forged a revolutionary friendship on the battlefield of blood and fire. This is a very normal relationship, what can I reveal! At this meeting, my so-called exposing and criticizing me mainly revolved around the following three things:
1 It is said that my being the Minister of the General Logistics Department is related to Peng Dehuai, which is his wish. This matter has a background. As mentioned earlier, when the Volunteer Army established the logistics headquarters, the Party Committee discussed and decided to let me serve as the commander. I said at the time that I obeyed the decision, but put forward a condition that I would no longer do logistics work after returning to China. At that time, General Peng agreed. Just before General Peng returned to China, a meeting of the Volunteer Army Party Committee was held. I told General Peng that you had agreed to my logistics work in the Volunteer Army. After returning to China with a successful war, I would no longer do logistics. After I said this, President Peng criticized me and said, "Communist members are still qualified to do work, but they are still picky and picky? If I am allowed to be the chief of staff after I return to China, you still have to do logistics if you can't escape."
Just one thing has turned out to be one of my crimes. At that time, I was really dissatisfied. My role as the Minister of the General Logistics Department was discussed collectively by the Military Commission and appointed by Chairman Mao. The Military Commission could not be approved, but Chairman Mao disagreed. Can I be the Minister of the General Logistics Department? How can it be said that it was Peng Dehuai’s wish? But in the context of the time, no one listened to my statement, and the statement was useless. Instead, it said that you had a bad attitude or didn't know your own problems.
The second thing is that before North Korea fought its fifth battle, one day, Mr. Peng asked us to make suggestions on how to fight this battle. I suggest putting the enemy in, luring the enemy into depth, waiting for work, and choosing a good fighter to annihilate the enemy. Deng HuaThe reconciliation side also agreed to put the enemy in and fight.
Peng has his own ideas and does not agree with our suggestions. Seeing that Mr. Peng was a little unhappy, we immediately stood up and said: The battle still needs to be fought. How to fight is decided by the boss in the end. The opinions we put forward are for the boss' reference only. While having lunch, I thought about it and thought I should put the enemy in and fight it. At this time, Deng Hua and Jie Fang both left.I came to Mr. Peng and said to him very seriously: "The staff officer has the right to make suggestions three times. I think it is better to use the method of luring the enemy into depth." Then I stated my thoughts again. After I finished speaking, Mr. Peng said that my opinion also made sense, and he seemed to stick to his own opinion.
Finally, it was the fifth battle based on General Peng's opinion. After the Korean War ended, he reported the combat situation to the Military Commission, and several old coaches participated. The combat situation was reported by Deng Hua, and I talked about the logistics supply support. Finally, General Peng made a summary speech. He said: "Look today, when fighting five battles, Hong Xuezhi's opinion on putting the enemy in and fighting was correct. But I didn't adopt it at that time."
Someone made an article about this matter, saying that Peng Dehuai valued you, Hong Xuezhi, and praised you for being right. He made mistakes.
The third thing is that after North Korea awarded the medal to General Peng, once at the Volunteer Army Party Committee meeting, General Peng said this sentence, and he said: "If you want to reward merits, this medal should be given to Gao Gang from the rear, and Hong Xuezhi from the front, and I just accept this medal as a representative."
I think that General Peng said this, which means that logistics supply guarantee is extremely important to front-line combat. Because we are far away from our motherland, the front line is very long, and the transportation in the rear is bombarded by the enemy, and it is very difficult to replenish combat materials. In every battle and every battle, we must not take into account the supply and support of combat materials and must not be subject to logistics constraints. Therefore, the battle was won, and General Peng attaches great importance to logistics support and supply. His words were a great reward to all logistics personnel and also showed General Peng's greatness and modesty.
This matter has become a "handle" for others to criticize me, saying, "How much Peng Dehuai values you, Hong Xuezhi, and even wants to give you the medals awarded by North Korea.
In addition, there is another crime, that is, Huang Kecheng and I have been together for a long time. When he was in the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army, he was together for a long time in the General Secretary. Isn’t this a sin a little more than a last resort!
After the enlarged meeting of the Military Commission, the General Secretary held another week's meeting and asked me to explain the problem and clear my influence. No problems were revealed at the meeting. What's the problem? I know very well. After
, Peng Dehuai was removed from his post as Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Defense , and Huang Kecheng was also removed from his post as Chief of General Staff. In October 1959, I was removed from the position of Minister of the General Logistics Department and was transferred to Northeast Jilin Province as Director. Deng Hua was also transferred to Sichuan as the vice governor. Wan Yi, Zhong Wei and others were also implicated.
After the end of the "Cultural Revolution", Comrade Hu Yaobang was appointed as the director of the 4th Department of the Central Organization Department of . He said that the Lushan Conference was too unfair to a large number of old comrades such as Peng Dehuai, and told Comrade Deng Xiaoping that it would be cleaned up, corrected and rehabilitated. But it was not easy to rehabilitate comrades such as Peng Dehuai at that time, because the "two whatevers" were still in effect.
However, history has long made fair judgments on some major events such as the Lushan Conference and the "Cultural Revolution" and important figures such as Liu Shaoqi and Peng Dehuai.
Lessons must not be forgotten! The people will not forget those who sacrifice themselves for justice and truth.
