On July 20, 1962, the gongs and drums at Beijing Airport were noisy, and colored ribbons fluttered. Premier Zhou, Marshal Chen Yi, Marshal He Long, Marshal Ye Jianying and many other leaders of our party have been waiting here long ago. Suddenly, many people speculated: Who is who has such a big face and can let so many national leaders pick up the plane together?
At 10 o'clock in the morning, a plane landed slowly, and as the hatch opened, a gray-haired old man walked out tremblingly, and Premier Zhou immediately led everyone to walk forward. When the old man and Premier Zhou held hands together, he was already in tears. Premier Zhou excitedly said : "Mr. Li Zongren, welcome back to China!" Yes, this old man is a former Kuomintang veteran. Li Zongren, Acting President of the Republic of China .
Premier Zhou greeted Li Zongren at the airport
On July 27, Chairman Mao personally hosted a banquet for Li Zongren in Zhongnanhai. After the banquet, Chairman Mao asked Li Zongren with concern: "Mr. Li, I wonder if you return to the country." What are your plans? Are there any needs?"
Faced with Chairman Mao’s personal banquet, coupled with such concerned inquiries, Li Zongren said: "Chairman Mao, I must contribute to the reunification of the motherland in my lifetime." After saying this, Li Zongren stopped suddenly, but Chairman Mao clearly felt that he had not finished a word, and then he smiled and said: "Mr. Li, just say what you have! Don't have any worries!"
Chairman Mao meets Li Zongren and his wife
After listening to Chairman Mao’s remarks, Li Zongren immediately said : "Chairman Mao, I have a small request. I hope the central government can approve me to be the vice chairman of the National People's Congress!"
Actually, Li Zongren’s request is not excessive.Because before that, Zhang Zhizhong and Cheng Qian, who were born in the Kuomintang, had held this position, and these people had been Li Zongren’s subordinates, but his request was declined by Chairman Mao and learned that Chairman Mao’s three After the big reason, Li Zongren's admiration for Chairman Mao deepened a bit.
Chairman Mao and Li Zongren
Li Zongren's request to be the vice chairman of the National People's Congress was reasonable, but why was it rejected by Chairman Mao? What three reasons did Chairman Mao give? Today, the director will take everyone to learn about the wonderful dialogue between Li Zongren and the leaders of our party. Interested friends may wish to pay attention to the historical knowledge points, which is convenient for reviewing the highlights of the past and will not miss the latest content.
Concerned about the motherland, asking for directions
On the second day of Li Zongren's return to China, the People's Daily and many overseas newspapers published Li Zongren's speech at Beijing Airport, and also accompanied by a group photo of him with Premier Zhou and others. When the news reached Taiwan Province, Chiang Kai-shek was furious. You must know that he has tried hard to prevent Li Zongren from returning to China.
Although Li Zongren is the Kuomintang, he is extremely dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorship, and has even clashed face-to-face with Chiang Kai-shek many times. At the end of the war of liberation , Chiang Kai-shek's weak command led to the retreat of the Kuomintang troops. The dissatisfaction among the United States and the Kuomintang reached the extreme, and it was finally decided to let Li Zongren replace Chiang Kai-shek as the acting president of of the Republic of China.
Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren
Li Zongren, who is very clear about the battlefield situation, intends to negotiate a peace with our party after he took office as the acting president, but he has no real power but he has more than enough energy and insufficient energy. After Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan, Li Zongren went to the United States on the grounds of "recovering illness."After that, spent 16 years of 's escape career in the United States.
Although Li Zongren stayed away from politics when he was recuperating in the United States, his status and status were too special, coupled with the malicious instigation of Chiang Kai-shek, Li Zongren seemed to be living a leisurely life, but he was actually imprisoned.
Li Zongren
Although he is in the United States, Li Zongren always pays attention to the development of the motherland. In August 1955, during the period of tension between the two sides of the strait, Li Zongren publicly published in the United States. Specific recommendations" , he mentioned in the recommendations: "Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the scale of construction and the speed of achievement have been unprecedented, and the growing national strength has attracted the attention of the world. Taiwan has been China’s territory since ancient times. An indisputable fact."
With the change of age, Li Zongren's nostalgia for the motherland and homeland has become stronger and stronger. What really gave him the idea of returning to China was the promise made by Premier Zhou in 1956.
Li Zongren
In 1956, Premier Zhou made such a speech at the Political Consultative Conference : Anyone who is willing to go to the mainland province to meet relatives and friends can return to the mainland; anyone who is willing to return to the mainland to study and visit, Anyone can come to the mainland. Anyone who is willing to take the road of peaceful liberation of Taiwan, no matter who it is, can treat it with lenient mistakes in the past and let the past go.
Since Premier Zhou made this series of promises, overseas people have been returning to the embrace of the motherland. But Li Zongren knew that his identity was special, so he still had some worries in his heart at this time.
In 1958, Li Zongren first got in touch with his former secretary Cheng Siyuan ,Then he expressed his willingness to donate the 12 boxes of antique calligraphy and painting he collected in the United States to the motherland. After receiving this news, Premier Zhou attached great importance to it. After these cultural relics were transferred to Hong Kong several times, Premier Zhou personally sent a special person to take charge of the transportation.
Li Zongren
When the cultural relics were shipped to Beijing, Premier Zhou immediately sought out relevant experts to appraise them, but after repeated appraisals, they found that most of the cultural relics sent back by Li Zongren were fakes, worth only $3,000 at most. This is far from the value of 110 thousand dollars mentioned by Li Zongren.
The results of the appraisal made Premier Zhou both unexpected and embarrassed. Although Li Zongren made it clear that these cultural relics were donated to the motherland, Premier Zhou decided to pay Li Zongren the same price at the beginning, but in this situation, Premier Zhou does not know how to pay. How much is appropriate for Li Zongren. After careful consideration, Premier Zhou decided to pay 30,000 US dollars, which not only expressed the sincerity of our party, but also lived up to Li Zongren's patriotism.
Premier Zhou welcomes Li Zongren to return home
When Premier Zhou reported the final decision to Chairman Mao, Chairman Mao joked: "Well, you are so stingy!" Then he continued : "Send Li Zongren The cultural relics are actually "casting stones for directions". He wants to see our attitude. Since he said these things are worth 110,000 U.S. dollars, then we will give him 120,000 U.S. dollars, be generous, and let him see the sincerity of our Communist Party!"
According to Chairman Mao’s instructions, Premier Zhou asked Li Xiannian, the then Minister of Finance, to spend US$120,000 from the treasury. In order to prevent Li Zongren's intention to return to China from being detected by the United States or the Kuomintang, Premier Zhou also specifically instructed: The money must not be passed through the bank or through the hands of outsiders. Special personnel must be sent to Li Zongren.
Li Zongren
In the US dollars paid to Li Zongren, Premier Zhou also put a note on it that read : "Calligraphy and painting donated by Mr. Li,There are true and false, but Mr. Li’s patriotic enthusiasm is worthy of respect. The Chinese government has decided to send you a sum of travel expenses to make a good trip. "
After receiving the money, Li Zongren was very excited and said : "The Communist Party is really not simple, it knows the goods!" " had to admire Chairman Mao’s foresight and Premier Zhou’s linguistic wisdom, and it was the sincerity of these two leaders that made Li Zongren thoroughly determined to return to China. However, his return to China was not smooth, or even nearly impossible. His life was lost and his journey home.
The journey back home is dangerous
Because Li Zongren’s identity is too special, all his actions have been closely monitored by the U.S. Intelligence Agency and Kuomintang agents. In order to allow Li Zongren to return to China smoothly, since 1959 At the beginning of the year, Premier Zhou proposed that Li Zongren travel to Europe on a regular basis, and then return to the United States on time. This continued for several years, and the United States and the Kuomintang gradually relaxed their guard against Li Zongren’s move to Europe.
Li Zongren
In 1963, Premier Zhou conveyed to Li Zongren the "four possible" on behalf of the motherland:
First, Li Zongren can return to settle down;
Second, Li Zongren can come back or go to the United States again;
third , Li Zongren can live in Europe for a while, and wait until then to decide whether he wants to return to his motherland;
Fourth, Li Zongren can go out again when he returns to China, and he can come back again after he goes out, without any restrictions.
When Li Zongren gets After knowing it, he expressed very excitedly: "It doesn't need so much, I just need to be'first available' is enough. ” The most pressing time for Li Zongren’s return to the country was when my country’s first atomic bomb exploded successfully in 1964.When Li Zongren learned of the news, he excitedly called every relative and friend to announce the good news. In an interview, he was even more excited to express : "I am happy for my failure at the beginning. We have never had such a strong one. China’s motherland!”
my country’s first atomic bomb successfully exploded
On July 12, 1965, Li Zongren officially began his long journey back home. According to the plan, Li Zongren first went to Switzerland under the pretext of traveling. Then fly from Switzerland to Pakistan, and then fly to the country after connecting in Pakistan. However, during Li Zongren's transition in Pakistan, a thrilling scene of happened.
When Li Zongren got off the plane in Pakistan, Ding Guoyu, our ambassador to Pakistan, had been waiting here for a long time, and an ambulance was sent. It turned out that after Li Zongren left Switzerland, the United States and the Kuomintang realized his intention to return to China, and then Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Kuomintang agents to act against Li Zongren at the airport building in Pakistan. But Chiang Kai-shek still lost, lost to bad luck, and even more to the great wisdom of Premier Zhou.
Premier Zhou
After learning that Chiang Kai-shek sent a special agent to assassinate Li Zongren, he immediately instructed Ding Guoyu not to use the embassy vehicle to greet Li Zongren. After some thinking, Ding Guoyu borrowed a ambulance from Pakistan, which made Li Zongren escape.
Want to be the vice chairman of the National People's Congress, Chairman Mao declined for three reasons
When Li Zongren's plane landed in Beijing, he was immediately convinced by the flourishing scenery in front of him. For a time, emotions of excitement, pride and joy came together, and then I looked at the Premier Zhou, Chen Yi, He Long and others. These people were once their opponents on the battlefield, but now they welcome themselves so sincerely. Although Li Zongren was excited, he secretly made up his mind: he must make a contribution to the development of the motherland.
Li Zongren
Soon after returning to China, Li Zongren received a notice from Chairman Mao to entertain him. At the banquet, Chairman Mao and Li Zongren talked a lot, until after the banquet, the two were still a little bit bored, and then they sat in Chairman Mao’s office and chatted again.
During the chat, Chairman Mao naturally asked if Li Zongren had any needs. Li Zongren was very careful to express that he wanted to be the vice chairman of the National People's Congress.
Li Zongren
In fact, Li Zongren also carried out a very comprehensive consideration before proposing this position. He knows that his identity is extremely special. Although he has returned to China now, he is still the Kuomintang and he is also old. His former subordinates also served as vice chairman of the National People's Congress, so Li Zongren made this request to Chairman Mao.
But when he heard Li Zongren’s request to be the vice chairman of the National People’s Congress, Chairman Mao did not agree to it. This made Li Zongren both lost and confused. But soon after, Premier Zhou’s words let Li Zongren completely unravel. Knot.
Chairman Mao and Li Zongren
After Li Zongren went back, Chairman Mao felt that he should tell Li Zongren his true thoughts, otherwise it would easily lead him to think wildly. Then Chairman Mao expressed to Premier Zhou that he rejected Li Zongren’s three reasons , and asked Premier Zhou to convey it to Li Zongren.
First, Chairman Mao believes that although Li Zongren does not have the post of acting president now, he was once the highest leader of the Kuomintang after all. If he was only given the post of vice chairman of the National People’s Congress, wouldn’t it be too wrong for him to be ? NS.
Second, Chairman Mao believes that Li Zongren does not hold a position in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, but it is more conducive for him to use his status as a Kuomintang veteran to do ideological work with his former subordinates or old comrades-in-arms, , .If he were indeed allowed to assume the post of vice chairman of the National People's Congress, it would be easy for his old subordinates to be wary of him, which would not be beneficial to the Kuomintang patriots who would later win over Taiwan and overseas.
Premier Zhou led the crowd to welcome Li Zongren
Third, Chairman Mao believed that the opportunity of Li Zongren’s return to China could be used to convey to the Kuomintang officials in Taiwan Province the sincerity of the Communist Party and let them know more clearly Now, the conditions in all aspects of the mainland are very good. If they want to come back, they can freely choose whether to continue to be an official. As long as they are willing to come back, the door of the motherland will always be open to them.
After learning about Chairman Mao’s three considerations, not only did Li Zongren’s confusion in his heart be solved instantly, but his admiration for Chairman Mao became stronger.
Since then, Li Zongren has never requested any position from Chairman Mao, but even if he does not have any position, he still does his best to contribute to the development of the motherland, and Chairman Mao still often mentions this "old friend". Later, a reporter asked Li Zongren: "Mr. Li, you are obviously not a Marxist-Leninist, why did you choose to return to China?" Li Zongren replied without hesitation: "Because I am a patriot."
Chairman Mao and Li Zongren
Time flies, now Chairman Mao and General Li Zongren have left us for many years, but General Li Zongren’s contribution to defending his homeland and the country is still vivid at the moment of national crisis; Chairman Mao’s great wisdom and dedication to serving the people will be remembered forever by all Chinese people. Our country has always been protected by these bravest people. It is because of their existence that our country can stand high in the east of the world.
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