When the title was awarded in 1955, a total of ten founding generals were born. Among these ten founding generals, one was named Tan Zheng, who was from Hunan and was a family friend of the founding general Chen Geng and was also a marriage partner.

When he was awarded the title in 1955, a total of ten founding generals were born. Among these ten founding generals, one was named Tan Zheng. He was from Hunan and was a family friend of the founding general Chen Geng and was also a marriage in-laws. Tan Zheng began to participate in the revolution during the Great Revolution. After going through the Agrarian Revolution, the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, he witnessed the birth of New China under the leadership of our party. Today we will tell his story.

Tan Zheng and Chen Geng had a very good relationship. The two were a family of three generations. Chen Geng's sister married Tan Zheng. Unfortunately, Chen Geng's sister died of illness early, but this did not affect the relationship between Tan Zheng and Chen Geng. In early 1927, under the introduction of Chen Geng, Tan Zheng joined the National Revolutionary Army and devoted himself to the vigorous revolutionary movement.

However, it was also this year. With the rebellion of the revolution, Jiang Jieshi and Wang Jingwei successively, the Great Revolution ended in failure and the land revolution began. During the Agrarian Revolution, Tan Zheng participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising led by Chairman Mao, and after the Autumn Harvest Uprising suffered setbacks, he went to Jinggangshan and participated in the creation and consolidation activities of the Jinggangshan revolutionary base .

After that, Tan Zheng has been engaged in political work in the central base area for a long time. After the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" failed, he also followed the large army to participate in the Long March and successfully arrived in northern Shaanxi. During the subsequent period of the Anti-Japanese War and the Liberation War, Tan Zheng had been engaged in political work, especially during the Northeast. Tan Zheng served as the deputy political commissar and director of the political department of the Fourth Field Army. He was the actual leader of the political work of the Fourth Field Army. He made great contributions to the liberation of the Northeast. He also deserved the title of general at the 1955 rank award ceremony. Shortly after the award of

, Tan Zheng was appointed as the director of , the General Political Department of , responsible for leading the political work of the People's Liberation Army. However, since 1959, Tan Zheng has been persecuted by Lin Biao. In 1959, after the Lushan Conference, Peng Dehuai and others were wrongly criticized. At that time, Tan Zheng opposed criticizing Peng Dehuai and clashed with Lin Biao. Since then, Lin Biao criticized Tan Zheng many times on the grounds of "ineffective leadership in political work", which caused Tan Zheng to be greatly persecuted. In 1960, Tan Zheng was removed from the position of director of the General Political Department and demoted to deputy director of the General Political Department.

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1962, our party held the 10th Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee in Beijing. At this meeting, Tan Zheng was once again persecuted by Lin Biao, and he was also removed from his post and was idle at home. According to Qiu Huizuo, who served as the Minister of the General Logistics Department, after unemployed, Tan Zheng often went to the General Logistics Department because he was idle and sometimes played mahjong in the General Logistics Department for a day. Qiu Huizuo respected Tan Zheng very much. Even if Tan Zheng was in trouble, Qiu Huizuo still regarded him as an old leader.

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In 1965, Tan Zheng returned to work and was arranged to serve as vice governor in Fujian. However, in 1966, the special period of ten years began. Under Lin Biao's deliberate arrangement, Tan Zheng was also affected and was detained. He was detained for nine years and did not return until 1975.

It is worth mentioning that after Tan Zheng was impacted, his second wife Wang Changde was also labeled as a "rightist" and was even labeled as a "widow group" by Lin Biao and exiled to Fuzhou. Later, he was exiled to Ganzhou and Ji'an in Jiangxi for labor reform, and his body and mind were greatly persecuted.

Although it was suppressed, Wang Changde always held a belief that justice will eventually defeat evil. In 1971, the September 13th incident occurred. After learning about Lin Biao's results, Wang Changde, who was still renovating, laughed happily. Her years of grievances were also released at this moment. Unfortunately, a month later, Wang Changde died of a heart attack (there are also saying that Wang Changde died of a cerebral hemorrhage). When Wang Changde passed away, Tan Zheng was still in detention and he did not see his wife for the last time. In 1975, Tan Zheng returned, and since then he served as an advisor to the Central Military Commission. He died of illness in 1988 at the age of 82.