On the afternoon of June 25, 1959, three cars drove from Changsha Road through Xiangtan towards Shaoshan and entered the Yintian Temple area. The cars started to slow down.
When the local people saw this rare scene, they talked about, which leader came? Could it be that his old man came back?
Yes, Mao Zedong is back!
At 6:45, Mao Zedong’s car drove into Shaoshan Chong .
"Really his old man is back!" The local people were ecstatic and rushed to tell.
Mao Zedong was in a small gray car. The driver's name is Zhao Yiyong. He drove the car to a certain apartment. An apartment in
is carefully prepared by local staff. Although it is not a luxurious villa, it is also a quiet house surrounded by lush greenery in the pine mountains. The staff of
all know Mao Zedong’s living habits. The place where his old man lives can’t be too luxurious or too luxurious. Ordinary, simple is best. The most important thing is to have books. A house without books, even if No matter how good the environment is, his elderly can't be used to living. The
motorcade stopped in the ping. The burly Mao Zedong walked out of the car.
Mao Zedong wanted to go back to his hometown-Shaoshan a long time ago. Related units and related staff have been making preparations for Mao Zedong to return to his hometown in Shaoshan.
As early as 1957, Mao Zedong wanted to go home. As the main person in charge of the security work, Luo Ruiqing went to Shaoshan for investigation in April of this year, making full preparations for Mao Zedong to return home.
At that time, Luo Ruiqing also found local staff, Mao Huasong, and ordered to find out all unstable and insecure factors, including the social relations of all local people who had a relationship with Mao Zedong and his grandmother’s family, including relatives, cousins, Teacher, also understand the situation of all the revolutionary elderly and martyrs in Shaoshan.
In April 1959, accompanied by local staff Li Qiang, Luo Ruiqing once again came to Shaoshan to find Mao Huasong and asked him to organize forces to be responsible for the safety and security of Mao Zedong's hometown, and requested confidentiality.
Mao Huasong said that he would do his best to ensure Mao Zedong's safety.
Luo Ruiqing inspected the route Mao Zedong had to travel back and the house where he would live in Shaoshan. The route goes up to Huangtianao in Xiangxiang and down to Majiaao in Qingxi. The roadblocks are cleared to ensure the smooth running of the convoy. They also went to Qingnian Reservoir and Shaoshan Reservoir to measure water temperature and test water quality.
On June 23, Mao Zedong arrived in Changsha from Beijing and made several requirements to Luo Ruiqing:
- 1. Do not send troops to Shaoshan. He is going back to his hometown, not to fight;
- 2. He must be given freedom of movement, that is his hometown. If the whole world is not even safe there, there is no safe place;
- 3. He wants to receive the masses widely, and the people there are his relatives.
After Mao Zedong walked into a certain apartment, he said wittyly to the accompanying staff: "Go and find the land of the mountain gods here." The so-called land of the mountain gods by refers to the main person in charge of Shaoshan. Z1z
, the local principals Mao Jisheng and Mao Huasong, etc. received the notice and set off in a hurry and arrived one after another.
Mao Zedong shook hands one by one and asked everyone's name and position.
"You are all free people, you are better than me, you are free and I am not free, I only have freedom when I return to my hometown." Mao Zedong said half-seriously and half-jokingly.
"Do you still recognize me?" Mao Jisheng held Mao Zedong's hand tightly and said, "I went to your old man's house in 1954 and lived for three days."
Mao Zedong smiled and said: "Ah, look, The mountain god is here! My eyes don’t even recognize my uncle!" Z23z
On the clan’s generation, Mao Jisheng was a generation older than Mao Zedong.
In 1954, when Mao Jisheng went to Beijing to attend a work conference, Mao Zedong happened to be in Beidaihe, so he picked him up and lived there for three days.My uncle talked about interesting things and changes in his hometown.
Mao Zedong then said to Mao Jisheng: "I have been away from Shaoshan for decades, and I want to invite you folks to have a meal."
Mao Zedong said while holding his fingers: "One is my relatives-Lao Biao, Cousins; the second are the martyrs of Shaoshanchong; the third are the revolutionary old people; the fourth is the local elders and villagers."
Mao Zedong first mentioned his cousin, childhood teacher Mao Yuju, the grandmother’s watch Brother Wen Nansong, Wen Dongxian, and cousin Wen Jiuming.
followed by Mao Fuxuan's wife, Mao Diqiu's mother, He Juying, and Mao Xinmei's wife, Shen Suhua.
was once again his cousins Mao Zelian, Mao Bizhu, Mao Shaochun, Tan Xichun, Guo Botian, etc...
Mao Jisheng listened carefully, remember, he counted, there are more than 40 people.
Mao Zedong finally commanded: "Tomorrow night, invite them to dinner."
This is the first time in Mao Zedong's 60 years of life that his fathers and villagers have such a reunion dinner.
held a symposium for the elderly after the meal, sincerely asked them for their opinions, and praised the old people who dare to tell the truth for being active. After the folks left, Mao Zedong was still full of energy, so he talked with the accompanying staff about reading, history and other topics.
It was late at night, Mao Zedong had mixed feelings, his heart was surging, and he couldn't sleep at night. He wrote the famous poem "Qilu to Shaoshan" :
"Don't dream vaguely curse the passing of Sichuan, the homeland 32 years ago. Red flags rolled up serfs The halberd, the black hand hung overlord's whip.
How ambitious is to sacrifice, dare to teach the sun and the moon to change into a new sky. I like to see the thousand waves of rice and the heroes everywhere.
