In late October 1949, in order to celebrate the establishment of the New China and to call on more people to participate in sports, the Beijing Municipal Government held the first new sports meeting in China - the first Beijing Sports Games at Xiannong Stadium. At that time, many central leaders watched the opening ceremony of the sports meeting. After the opening ceremony, Chairman Mao specially invited Fu Zuoyi to go to the Temple of Heaven with him to relax.
The two of them were walking and chatting at the Temple of Heaven. Suddenly, Chairman Mao changed his mind and asked Fu Zuoyi a very sharp question: "Do you, the minister, have no real power?"
It turned out that since Fu Zuoyi served as the Minister of Water Resources of New China, all the documents submitted by the Ministry of Water Resources were not found in Fu Zuoyi's signature. In this regard, Fu Zuoyi's explanation was: I am too busy with work, and the documents are the same if the deputy minister ordered.
Hearing this, Chairman Mao did not react very fiercely. Unexpectedly, Premier Zhou was furious when he learned about this and even held a meeting on it.
Why can Fu Zuoyi, who came from the army, be the "head of the Ministry of Water Resources of New China"? Why is he, the Minister of Water Resources, isolated?
1. The "common general" who can govern both the army and the water is good at controlling water
On January 22, 1949, Fu Zuoyi, then commander of the Kuomintang's North China "Suppression Chief", signed the agreement for the peaceful liberation of Beiping. His more than 200,000 Beiping under his command also withdrew from the city shortly after that, waiting for the inclusion of the People's Liberation Army. This move also declared that the peaceful liberation of Beiping City has become a reality. This historic ancient capital of Five Dynasties was finally spared from the destruction of war. It can be said that it is a great blessing for the people of Peking and a great blessing for Chinese civilization. The biggest contributor to this great fortune is undoubtedly Fu Zuoyi, who was called "common general".
A month later, Fu Zuoyi came to Xibaipo on a military plane. Here, he met Chairman Mao and Zhou Enlai. While talking to Chairman Mao, Fu Zuoyi expressed his willingness to take off his armor and return to the field. Chairman Mao felt that you, Fu Zuoyi, made great contributions to the peaceful liberation of Peking. Even if you reward you with a medal of the Temple of Heaven, it would not be an exaggeration. How could you let you go back to your country?
Hearing that the chairman valued himself so much as a surrender, Fu Zuoyi was a little flattered for a moment. He thought for a moment and asked the chairman: "It's better to let me go back to the Yellow River Hetao area to do some water conservancy construction."
Unexpectedly, Chairman Mao directly rejected his proposal after hearing this. The chairman said: "You go to the Yellow River Hetao to do water conservancy. The work surface is too small. You can be the Minister of Water Conservancy in the future. This will give you a better role."
As we all know, Fu Zuoyi is an excellent general with great military achievements. The battle of Zhuozhou he commanded is not only a famous battle in the urban offensive and defensive war in modern military history, but also completely made him among the famous generals. However, why did such a military general who was good at leading troops to fight leave the impression of being "good at water conservancy" in Chairman Mao's perception?
It turns out that Fu Zuoyi is not only a good player in leading troops to fight, but even managing rivers is at the level of expert level.
Fu Zuoyi's hometown is Anchang Village, Ronghe County, Shanxi Province. This small village is located next to Yellow River . It is often flooded due to the surge in the Yellow River. The powerful destructive power of the flood left a very deep impression on Fu Zuoyi. At the same time, the pain and despair of the victims were deeply imprinted in Fu Zuoyi's heart. From that moment on, Fu Zuoyi decided to contribute his strength to the control of the floods in his hometown when he grew up in the future.
1939, Fu Zuoyi and Yan Xishan completely broke up. In order to attract this powerful general, Chiang Kai-shek promoted him to the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth War Zone and commander-in-chief of the Northern Army of the Second War Zone. It was also in the Hetao area of the Eighth War Zone that Fu Zuoyi showed his ability to govern rivers for the first time.
At that time, the Hetao area had about 6,000 square kilometers, of which only more than 3 million mu of arable land could be used for agricultural production, and only more than 200,000 residents were.Originally, the Hetao area has always been a grain-producing area in Suiyuan Province. However, when Fu Zuoyi brought 100,000 Kuomintang soldiers to settle here, the "grain production" that Hetao area is best at has become Fu Zuoyi's most troublesome problem.
Regularly speaking, it is more than enough to feed more than 200,000 residents with the arable land area in the Hetao area, but the current situation has exceeded 100,000 more mouths out of thin air. At this time, the grain production in the area is far from enough for the life needs of the military and civilians. Therefore, Fu Zuoyi must first solve the problem of grain production in the Hetao area.
The water conservancy projects in the Hetao area were once very backward, which also led to the inability to increase the grain output here. After Fu Zuoyi arrived, the first solution that came to mind was to do a good job in water conservancy projects here. To this end, he specially invited the water conservancy expert at that time, Wang Wenjing, to Hetao to preside over the water conservancy work.
After Wang Wen took office, he immediately repaired and guided the canals that already existed in the area. In addition, in order to reduce floods, it is also recommended to train and strengthen the dangerous construction sites.
The reinforcement of the dam requires a lot of manpower, and the local residents have limited strength. What should I do?
Just as Wang Wenjing frowned for lack of manpower, Fu Zuoyi stood up: Are you short of manpower? I'll draw people for you from the army!
So, Fu Zuoyi issued an order to the entire army in the name of the deputy commander of the Eighth War Zone: order each unit to lead the team to take charge of the whole army in different parts and ensure that the task is completed on schedule.
At an implementation meeting for digging canals, Fu Zuoyi said to the soldiers who were drawn:
This time the digging of canals is of great responsibility, it is directly related to the military food and food of Suixi. Whether we can win this battle is closely related to the victory of our Anti-Japanese War . Therefore, we must treat this digging of canals as a combat task. If the task cannot be completed on time, it is equivalent to losing the position...
From then on, as long as there is flood in the Hetao area, as long as there is a call, Fu Zuoyi will immediately draw personnel from the army to "help". The most commendable thing is that these "help" soldiers do not need food subsidies or supply of side dishes. They take care of everything in life personally and will not bring any financial burden to the local government.
According to statistics, from taking office in 1939 to the spring of 1945, Fu Zuoyi led the local military and civilians to repair and repair more than 40 main canals, with a total length of more than 4,500 kilometers, greatly improving agricultural production in the Hetao area and improving the local economic landscape.
After solving the flood in the Hetao area, Fu Zuoyi turned his attention to the Yellow River. He wanted to build a series of water conservancy projects in the flooding Yellow River, so that the elders in his hometown can avoid the trouble of floods from now on. However, his idea was finally dead due to the sudden outbreak of the War of Liberation.
2. After the overwritten Minister of Water Resources
1949 Founding Ceremony , the Party Central Committee had carefully studied the appointment of generals such as Fu Zuoyi, Cheng Qian, and Zhang Zhizhong. Among them, one of the mainstream ideas was to classify these former senior Kuomintang generals into the National Defense Committee and serve as vice chairman. Chairman Mao had no objection to making such arrangements for the other people, but Chairman Mao expressed strong opposition to Fu Zuoyi's appointment. Chairman Mao immediately said: "For Fu Zuoyi, such an arrangement is not enough!"
Although Fu Zuoyi and Cheng Qian, Zhang Zhizhong and others were senior generals of the Kuomintang, Fu Zuoyi's contribution to the liberation cause was obviously greater than that of the other people. If Fu Zuoyi had defended Peiping to the death, the Beiping City would have been no longer the same scene as it is now. Therefore, Chairman Mao repeatedly emphasized: We must arrange a minister for him!
On October 19, 1949, the Central People's Government formally appointed Fu Zuoyi as Minister of Water Resources. In his tenure speech, the 54-year-old general said in tears:
In the old China ruled by the Kuomintang, I wanted to open up the relationship and buy a minister to be a minister, but I couldn't even be.But now, Chairman Mao of the Communist Party of China has let me, the general of the uprising, be the minister. This is Chairman Mao's wisdom... After becoming the Minister of Water Resources, Fu Zuoyi also brought some technical experts from the former National Government's Yellow River Governance Committee to the Ministry of Water Resources. The team was formed, and just as Fu Zuoyi was about to make great efforts in the water conservancy industry in New China, he suddenly discovered that the subordinates of the Ministry of Water Resources seemed to be deliberately belittled and underestimated himself!
On a day, Fu Zuoyi took a special car to the Ministry of Water Resources for a meeting. After the meeting ended, Fu Zuoyi could not find his car. Later, he took the secretary to inquire about it and found his own special car in an extremely remote place. Fu Zuoyi's secretary angrily asked the driver why he parked the car in such a remote and difficult-to-find place. The driver's answer was: He didn't know who drove the car here.
Although this incident later became a "headless case", Fu Zuoyi understood in his heart that someone was deliberately making things difficult for him. So, why did these people make things difficult for Fu Zuoyi so blatantly?
It turns out that in addition to Fu Zuoyi and the several powerful helpers he brought, most of them were old revolutionaries with a strong and honest attitude. In the eyes of these people, Fu Zuoyi was a person who worked for the Kuomintang after all, and an "outsider". These people were unwilling to listen to his mercy from the bottom of their hearts. On the contrary, after Li Dazhao, Li Baohua, then deputy minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, was deeply loved by these people. They took the initiative to report many work affairs to Li Baohua, the deputy minister, so that the documents were always only signed by Li Baohua.
Over time, Fu Zuoyi gradually realized the isolation of his subordinates towards him, and he inevitably felt a little dissatisfied and wronged. However, considering that he did not cause trouble to the organization, Fu Zuoyi never mentioned this to the central leaders from beginning to end.
Although Fu Zuoyi did not mention it, over time, there will always be people with ulterior motives to notice this abnormal phenomenon. As the "top leader" of the Ministry of Water Resources, it is definitely an abnormal phenomenon that any documents of the Ministry of Water Resources do not have Fu Zuoyi's signature. So, taking advantage of the opportunity of the first Beijing Games, Chairman Mao specially found Fu Zuoyi and asked him indirectly about this question.
Although Fu Zuoyi denied Chairman Mao’s suspicion, how could the meticulous Chairman not see the strangeness in it? Afterwards, Chairman Mao told Premier Zhou about this matter. Premier Zhou was furious and immediately called all the officials of the Ministry of Water Resources to the State Council for a meeting!
At the meeting, Premier Zhou Enlai made a work instructions like an order: "In the future, all matters of the Ministry of Water Resources will be considered invalid without Minister Fu's instructions! Minister Fu will also be allowed to attend the Party Group meeting and express his opinions in the future."
After that, no one from the Ministry of Water Resources dared to bypass Fu Zuoyi, and Fu Zuoyi finally took over the power of the Ministry of Water Resources in his own hands.
3. Twenty-three years, I devote myself to it all
I remember Chairman Mao once said this: Live until old, learn until old, and transform until old. Ordinary people regard this sentence as a classic quote from a great man, while Fu Zuoyi regards this sentence as his motto. After becoming the Minister of Water Resources, Fu Zuoyi once said to his subordinates: I am a layman in water conservancy. If I live up to the trust of the Chairman and the Party, it is impossible to just sit in the office. I have to go down to understand the situation, learn from the masses, and work hard to do my job.
With the determination to "do water conservancy work well" and the perseverance of "living until old age, learning until old age, and transforming until old age", Fu Zuoyi came to Yangtze River , went to the Yellow River, stepped on the ship on Heilongjiang, and walked on the embankment of Zhujiang ...
From taking office in 1949 to resigning due to illness in 1972, Fu Zuoyi spent a quarter of his time inspecting and conducting research in various regions.His footprints are spread all over the motherland's rivers, lakes and seas. When there is flooding, Fu Zuoyi is always the first ministerial-level cadre to arrive at the front line of the disaster area!
Fu Zuoyi's personal actions also made the Communist Party members who looked at him wearing tinted glasses change their views on him. In his subsequent work, Fu Zuoyi, as the "top leader" of the Ministry of Water Resources, never put on any official airs and respected every staff equally. When discussing the work plan, everyone expressed their opinions and was loyal to each other. The barriers that had once arisen due to different "party" disappeared.
html's more than 0 years of going deep into the front line has given Fu Zuoyi a deep understanding of the country's hydrological environment. In July 1953 and August 1954, Fu Zuoyi published two articles on water conservancy construction in "People's China". Because "People's China" is published in three languages: British, Japanese and Russian, the article has received widespread attention from its water conservancy colleagues in many countries around the world after its publication, and has had a huge impact. At a meeting, after listening to Fu Zuoyi's speech, Mao Zedong praised Fu Zuoyi many times: "He got into the water conservancy industry."In October 1972, Fu Zuoyi, who had worked as Minister of Water Conservancy for a full 23 years, finally couldn't do it. This year, as his physical condition deteriorated, Fu Zuoyi himself felt that letting him, a "sick person" who continued to stay in the position of Minister of Water Resources, was irresponsible for his work. So, he chose to resign at this moment and chose to put an end to his water conservancy career in this way.
Two months after Fu Zuoyi's death, Hong Kong's " Ta Kung Fu " published an article, fully affirming General Fu Zuoyi's great achievements in the construction of the motherland's water conservancy. Since then, this article has caused a great response overseas.
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