Many friends learned a text "Gan Zuchang, an old soldier of the Red Army" when they were in school. Gan Zuchang in the text was a founding major general. Because he was injured many times in the war, he left severe sequelae of concussion. He often fainted and could not work for a long time. So in 1957, he took the initiative to give up his identity as a general and took his family back to his hometown in Lianhua County, Jiangxi Province to work as a farmer, leaving behind many touching stories.
text "Gan Zuchang, an old soldier in the Red Army"
Gan Zuchang not only cares about fame and fortune, but also has very strict requirements for several children. Today, Brother Di will tell you the story of Gan Zuchang and several children.
905, Gan Zuchang was born in a poor peasant family in Lianhua County, Jiangxi Province. He joined the peasant association in 1926. In this year, his wife Chen Maogu gave birth to a boy for Gan Zuchang, named "Gan Jinrong". After the child was born, Gan Zuchang was still busy with revolutionary work, and the family was separated from each other.
1934, Gan Zuchang followed the main force of the Red Army , the Long March. Soon after, the Lotus Su Area fell and the enemy could not find Gan Zuchang's whereabouts, so they arrested Chen Maogu and tortured her, forcing her to tell her whereabouts of her husband. Under the pressure of the enemy, Chen Maogu was forced to remarry, and the 8-year-old Gan Jinrong had to rely on each other with his grandmother Chen Ruiying and his uncles.
Gan Zuchang followed the Red Army to Yan'an and realized that his family had encountered such a major change. He felt very sad and guilty, feeling that he had brought misfortune to his family. When it was late at night, he often looked at the direction of his hometown alone and cried secretly.
After the founding of New China, Gan Zuchang, then the logistics minister of Xinjiang Military Region, took time to go home to visit his relatives in 1950 and finally met his son Gan Jinrong again. Gan Jinrong was already married at this time, but he had no impression of his father. He looked at the burly strange soldier in front of him with some confusion.
gan Zuchang
The grandmother next to Gan Jinrong said to Gan Jinrong: "This is your father!"
Gan Jinrong is very thin and forms a sharp contrast with Gan Zuchang's tall figure. Gan Zuchang felt very ashamed. He has never fulfilled his father's responsibilities for so many years. I am so sorry for his son!
But surprisingly, when Gan Zuchang returned to Xinjiang, he did not take Gan Jinrong away, but instead took Gan Binglang, the child of his cousin Gan Guiyun, to Xinjiang to study.
At that time, Gan Jinrong was working in his hometown. Because he was weak, it was too difficult to cut bamboo on the mountain. At Chen Ruiying's repeated requests, Gan Zuchang finally agreed to his son and daughter-in-law come to Xinjiang in 1951. Gan Jinrong originally wanted to study, but Gan Zuchang said, "You are in your 20s and are married, so you should find something to do!"
Gan Jinrong thought that jobs are OK, but he hoped to find a job with more money and less trouble, because the Military Region Logistics Department opened a lot of workshops, factories and shops. As long as the father, who is the logistics minister, spoke, he could be arranged. But when Gan Zuchang learned that his son would make a blacksmith, he arranged for him to go to the factory to make a blacksmith.
Gan Jinrong had been working in the factory for half a year and found that this was more tiring than doing bamboo work at home. His body couldn't bear it, so he secretly wrote a letter to tell his grandma. Not long after, Gan Zuchang received a letter from his mother, and he replied: "It's just now that the factory has been liberated, and there are few machines. Our children of cadres should take the lead in doing tough work. When the conditions are better in the future, the problem will be solved."
So Gan Jinrong took iron for another half a year and finally fell ill. After the doctor checked, he thought that his physique should not be suitable for iron. Gan Zuchang had to arrange his son to the Sixth Division of Agricultural Construction to learn to drive a tractor, but this was also a chore, no easier than making a blacksmith.
1953, Gan Zuchang married Gong Quanzhen, who was a teacher at the school in the 1st Children's School of Xinjiang Military Region, through introduction. On the day of the wedding, the school teacher gave Gong Quanzhen a beautiful bouquet of paper flowers. Gan Zuchang held two tables of lunch banquets in the canteen of the logistics department to entertain leaders and colleagues, even if the wedding was held.
Gan Zuchang, Gong Quanzhen and his child
957, when Gan Zuchang decided to resign and return to his hometown to be a farmer, Gong Quanzhen firmly supported her husband's decision. She asked her husband: "Does the school in your hometown lack teachers?"
Gan Zuchang said: "There must be a lack of teachers in the mountains and rural areas. There are few public teachers there, so he recruited some educated farmers to serve as barefoot teachers."
Gong Quanzhen smiled and said, "Okay, go back to be a barefoot farmer, I will be a barefoot teacher!"
1957, Gan Zuchang and his wife took their family to their hometown in Lianhua County, Jiangxi Province. Gan Zuchang went home to become a farmer, while Gong Quanzhen came to Nanpi Primary School in the village to serve as the principal.
Gan Zuchang and Gong Quanzhen gave birth to a total of 4 daughters. Gan Zuchang had very strict requirements on them. The children had to pick up manure, mow grass, herd cattle and feed pigs from childhood. Gan Zuchang also stipulates the daily workload of each person based on the age of the children. Check it once a week. The praises are completed, and those who have completed the poor will be criticized.
Gan Zuchang
In life, Gan Zuchang has always asked the children to maintain a hard and simple style. He stipulated that children wear a piece of clothing for three years and a pair of socks for a year. The smaller ones are passed down, and the broken ones are not allowed to be thrown away.
Once, the third daughter Gan Gongrong wore a pair of broken-hole shoes to go to school. A classmate laughed at her and said, "Oh, people say that your father is a high-ranking official, a minister and a general. Why do you wear so shabby?"
Gan Gongrong was very angry after hearing this. When he got home, he took off his shoes and threw them outside the door. Then he complained to Gan Zuchang: "My classmate said that they don't wear broken-hole shoes, and they don't wear them. I still wear them. It's so embarrassing!"
Gan Zuchang quickly put the shoes on. The son picked it back, and he found needles and threads, while filling the holes, and educating his daughter, "Child, your classmate is wrong. It is not embarrassing to wear broken shoes, and it is not good to be greedy for enjoyment. Now the revolution has been victorious, but the task has not been completed yet. We still need to build socialism. You are the Young Pioneer and the successor of the revolution. You should develop the good habit of hard work since childhood. You cannot throw away the torn clothes and torn shoes, and you can still wear them after you make up."
Gan Zuchang taught his daughter to sew clothes
After listening to his father's persuasion, Gan Gongrong burst into tears and laughed.
In the winter of 1972, Gan Zuchang's eldest daughter Gan Pingrong studied at Ji'an Medical School. She heard that the army was coming to recruit female soldiers, and she just met the conditions, so she wrote a letter home and asked her father to say hello to her and take care of her joining the army. Unexpectedly, Gan Zuchang wrote back and criticized his daughter directly.
Later, Gan Pingrong successfully joined the army through his own efforts and through the school's organization recommendation. After Gan Pingrong arrived in the army, he studied hard and practiced very well and was selected to participate in the shooting performance of the whole army. Only then did Gan Zuchang feel relieved.
980, Gan Pingrong got married. Gong Quanzhen said to Gan Zuchang: "The child is married, and the salary of his daughter and son-in-law is very low. Now it is difficult to buy some furniture and daily necessities. The children's lifelong affairs are just like this in their lifetime. We parents should help a little financially."
Gan Zuchang said: "They have worked for several years, and we have not asked for their money. These things should be handled by themselves. We After raising them, they fulfilled their obligations. How could they still care about so many things? "
Gong Quanzhen still insisted: "You are easy to do, but it's hard to be a mother! I can't make people laugh, I must help them a little."
Gan Zuchang and Gong Quanzhen
Neither of the couple was willing to give in. In the end, Gong Quanzhen insisted on withdrawing 700 yuan from the bank and giving it to his daughter. After Gan Zuchang learned about it, he said to his wife angrily: "You are too accommodating to the children! My money is given by the state, and it is appropriate to use it for the revolutionary needs. It is not appropriate to leave it to the children and let them enjoy the success.To change this traditional concept of creating a comfortable nest for children, it is also a way to change customs and customs! ”
Gong Quanzhen later recalled: “This is the only time we have had an unpleasant financial situation in the decades of marriage. "Gong Quanzhen knew that her husband was rich, but after he returned to his hometown, he had been saving money and saved all his money to support the construction of his hometown. His savings in poverty alleviation and support for production and construction were as high as 85,780 yuan, which exceeded 70% of his total salary.
The third daughter Gan Gongrong is Gan Zuchang's favorite child. She graduated from junior high school in 1974, and there were also a grandson and a nephew of Gan Zuchang. At that time, only one-third of junior high school graduates could be recommended to go to high school. They all faced the problem of continuing to go to school or returning to the countryside to work.
Gan Gongrong's grades are very good and meet the conditions for high school. The head teacher also intends to take care of the Gan family, but if all three children of the Gan family are in high school, the other poor and lower-middle peasants' children will have fewer opportunities to go to school. So the head teacher came to Gan Zuchang's home, hoping that he could call the county cultural and educational bureau and help the school ask for more indicators for further education.
But after Gan Zuchang understood the situation, he flatly refused and said, "I won't call the phone. Since the quota for further education is limited, and there are many children of poor and lower-middle peasants who want to recommend the higher education, then let us go and let them all come back to participate in the labor. "
Gan Zuchang
The teacher was very moved after hearing this. He said to Gan Zuchang: "It is not good to not recommend any of your family, at least one of them will be recommended! Gan Gongrong has good grades in school, and there is no problem with going to school. Should I recommend her? ”
Gan Zuchang said firmly: “No, don’t recommend it! ”
Gan Gongrong did not understand his father’s approach at first, so Gan Zuchang patiently explained to her: “I started working at the age of 8. You are already 15 years old, not young anymore. The countryside is a vast world. Don’t underestimate farming. You are very knowledgeable. You can continue to study at home and conduct agricultural science experiments, which will come from learning! "
Gan Gongrong listened to his father's words and began to become a farmer seriously. Because she was willing to study and endure hardship, she quickly became a good player in growing crops. Due to her outstanding work performance, she was successively elected as the women's captain and deputy secretary of the commune Youth League Committee.
Gan Zuchang did not take special care of her other two daughters. Gan Zuchang was the women's director in the production team. Because of her active labor and willingness to endure hardship, she was recommended to go to college by the brigade at first. But when Gan Zuchang heard that there was a veteran who had a family in difficulty, she also wanted to go to college, so she immediately called the county and replaced the name of the second daughter with the name of the veteran.
976, Gan Zuchang's wife Gong Quanzhen retired from her education job, and according to the regulations, one child could replace her. The younger daughter Gan Jirong originally wanted to replace her mother, but Gan Zuchang believed that children should seek their own way out when they grew up, rather than lying on their parents' credit book to make money, which eventually prevented her youngest daughter from going to school to "supervise" her.
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1. One day, Gan Zuchang called the whole family to the bedside, took out a treasured iron box, and said to the children: "I did not leave you any gold, silver and treasures, but the few things contained in this iron box are my most precious. Now I open it for you to show it, leave it for you as a souvenir, and it also entrusts my hope for you. You must cherish my honor, not cause any trouble to the organization, and not do anything that is sorry to the Party and the people. If so, I can really die! ”
The iron box contains three medals awarded by Gan Zuchang when he was awarded the title in 1955, and several banknotes issued by him in the Soviet area that he purchased and used in the arsenal during the revolutionary struggle in Jinggangshan. This is the legacy he left for his children!
After Gan Zuchang's death, several children inherited his will and they all achieved extraordinary achievements in ordinary positions. Especially his third daughter Gan Gongrong, due to her outstanding work, has won the title of National, Provincial and Municipal Model Worker many times.After Gan Gongrong retired, he actively assisted his mother Gong Quanzhen in carrying out charity and charity activities. In December 2016, the family she lived with her mother Gong Quanzhen was rated as the first " National Civilized Family ". On March 7 this year, the Propaganda Department of and the All-China Women's Federation selected 10 "Most Beautiful Women's Strugglers", and Gan Gongrong was also among them.
Gan Gongrong won the "Most Beautiful Women's Struggler"
At the end of the article, let us pay tribute to General Gan Zuchang's family twice!
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