This brings today's topic. Near the military hospital in 1958, people often saw an old man picking up feces on the roadside. He was wearing the hospital uniform and was carefully patrolling where there were scattered livestock feces. He looked very persistent and professional.

For young people today, picking up manure is very difficult to understand , because this action can only happen in rural areas in the 1950s and 1960s. Because domestic animals are free-range, pig manure, cow manure, sheep manure, and people are everywhere, so people come out to pick up manure in baskets.

This brings today's topic. In 1958, , near military hospital , people often see an old man picking up feces on the side of the road. He was wearing the hospital uniform and was carefully patrolling where there were scattered livestock feces. He looked very persistent and professional.

So who is this old man who picked up the feces? Why does the local production team send a letter of thanks to the hospital? Today we will talk about the story of the founding lieutenant general He Dequan.

Revolutionary Soldier, Son of the Farmer,

11 One day in early winter in , the People's Liberation Army Hospital 163, located in the suburbs, received a letter of thanks from the nearby production team, in which the letter was dedicated to the staff of the People's Liberation Army Hospital to help the production team pick up manure. The hospital leaders felt very strange because they did not have the handyman mentioned in the letter.

Later, after detailed investigation, people discovered that the so-called handyman was the founding lieutenant general He Dequan who came to the hospital for recuperation. When the hospital leader came to visit Mr. He, the old general smiled faintly. I just took advantage of the walk and helped pick up feces. Another thing is that this is my habit.

Actually, Mr. He said this well. He is the son of a farmer . His family has been poor since childhood. He went out to work as a wealthy person as a teenager in order to support himself and help his family.

Later, He Dequan found out that there were recruited troops to join the army nearby. He thought that at least one could eat enough to be a soldier, so he came to Hunan Army to become a soldier.

It is here that He Dequan met the new recruit General Peng at the time and stood up to fight for General Peng. A year later, the two of them were admitted to the Hunan Martial Arts Hall at that time and became alumni. Later, because he was dissatisfied with the bad habit of bullying new recruits by the old warlords, General Peng left the Hunan Army and chose to join the Red Army , and He Dequan was still stumbled in the Hunan Army.

Although He Dequan had already mixed up with the regiment commander in the old warlords, he felt that he had no future here again, so he found General Peng and asked to join the revolutionary team.

President Peng was very happy with the arrival of his old friend He Dequan, but he was worried about what position He Dequan held. Logically speaking, Lao He is already a regiment-level colonel, so it is also worth giving him a considerable position. However, He Dequan thought he was a recruit in the revolutionary ranks, so he insisted on restarting and starting.

That's it. In the years of war, He Dequan relied on his extraordinary courage and fearless spirit of , from the squad leader to the platoon leader to the regiment chief of staff, and did his job well step by step.

After the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression, He Dequan resolutely implemented the superior's orders in the Gaohunao battle, held his position and blocked the enemy's attack, and bought valuable time for the main force of the Red Army to retreat safely. Later, because He Dequan was in good command in Gaohunao , he was able to advance and retreat freely, so won the second prize of the Red Star award from the Central Military Commission .

Later, He Dequan followed the large army to fight across the country and made many military achievements. He once served as the commander of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army Road Protection Army. In the 1950s, he was appointed as the commander of the Hunan Military Region and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

thrifty and thrifty and thrifty and thrifty and thrifty and thrifty and thrifty and simplicity in the long-term revolutionary struggle. During the Yan'an period in the 1940s, the Red Army had a story about Minister He buying cloth shoes .

He Dequan and his wife were not only able to grow grain and vegetables by themselves, but also used the evening time to make shoes, and took the extra shoes to the market to sell them back to the supplies that were urgently needed in Liberated Area .

As the son of a farmer, He De is a good student in crops. The fields he is responsible for not only the highest grain yield, but the pumpkins he planted can weigh forty or fifty kilograms. This matter has attracted Chairman Mao to visit. Chairman Mao was very happy when he saw this pumpkin and praised He Dequan as a model of production expert labor.

In Yan'an at that time, life in Yan'an was very hard because of the economic blockade of the Kuomintang reactionaries. The soldiers responded to Chairman Mao’s call and did their own things to make them more fed and well.

As the head of the military station at that time, He Dequan led the entire military station to a total of more than 100 cadres. He used the corners left by the war to create dozens of various agricultural tools. He Dequan's own mattress weighed more than ten pounds.

He Dequan's 16th soldier stood in Qilipu, Wayaobao, and reclaimed hundreds of acres of wasteland. After everyone's hard work, they harvested 70 stones of millet and more than 30 stones of grain that year, and thousands of kilograms of potatoes, which can be said to have fruitful results.

After the founding of New China , He Dequan was already the principal of Changsha Military Academy . However, when his son asked his father to arrange a job, He refused flatly because in his opinion, being a farmer is not embarrassing. Later, under the guidance of his father, Mr. He's son kept working in his hometown because he felt at ease only in this way.

In fact, He Dequan's peasant nature has not only not faded , but has become more tempered and reborn because of the test of war. In 1958, He Dequan, who had been through the battlefield for a long time, felt unwell, so he went to the People's Liberation Army Hospital 163 for rehabilitation and recuperation after the organization's arrangement.

It was during this period that He Dequan, who had never been idle, used the time he went out for a walk in the morning and night to borrow a set of housework for picking up manure by the local farmers, and started picking up manure on the road near the hospital. When he picked up too much, he gave the manure to the production team to fertilize the crops, because He Dequan knew since he was a child that the feces of livestock were the best fertilizer.

The local production team saw that the elderly man in the hospital picked up manure every day to fertilize the crops , so they sent a thank-you letter to the PLA hospital to express their gratitude to the PLA. This is the picture mentioned at the beginning.

But this also involves He Dequan's identity . Originally, the doctors and nurses in this hospital did not know Mr. He's true identity. It was because of this thank you letter that people then knew that the old man who has been unknown to pick up manure in turned out to be a famous general in the People's Liberation Army.

Conclusion

Today we review the story of the founding general He Dequan voluntarily picking up dung, and once again felt the noble sentiment of the old revolution . In fact, as long as we do not forget our original aspirations, just like the veteran General He Dequan, stick to the bottom line and persevere, we will definitely be able to achieve China's second take-off.