Chairman Mao had three nephews in his life, namely Mao Chuxiong, Mao Anyeng and Mao Yuanxin. Among them, Mao Chuxiong and Mao Anycheng were both sons of Mao Zetan, and Mao Yuanxin was sons of Mao Zemin. Mao Chuxiong was killed by Hu Zongnan in August 1946. He was only 19 years old. Mao Anying and Mao Yuanxin survived that difficult period. After the founding of New China, Mao Yuanxin served as the political commissar of the Shenyang Military Region. During the Cultural Revolution, he served as Chairman Mao’s "liaison officer" and became a sensational figure.
Compared with Mao Yuanxin, Mao Anying was much less famous at that time, but he made great contributions. He was an expert on missile No. 001 in my country. Today we will tell his story. After the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" of the Central Red Army, the main force left the Soviet area and started the Long March. Mao Zetan and his wife He Yi were both left to fight guerrillas. In December 1934, Mao Zetan, who had already served as the commander of the Independent Division of the Red Army, received an order from his superiors to lead his troops to move to the Fujian-Jiangxi border. At that time, He Yi had been pregnant for several months, and it was inconvenient to follow the troops to march in the mountainous areas. In the end, the superiors decided to let her go to Ganzhou to engage in underground work.
Shortly after He Yi arrived in Ganzhou, she gave birth to a boy named Mao Anying. After parting with his wife, Mao Zetan led his troops to the border of Fujian and Jiangxi to fight against the enemy. Because the conditions were particularly difficult at that time and the enemy had an absolute advantage in military strength, some people with unstable will became traitors one after another. In order to seek credit and reward, some of them leaked intelligence, some of them served as guides for the enemy, and created great difficulties for the Red Army left behind in the Soviet area. On April 26, 1935, Mao Zetan led his troops to be surrounded by enemies in the Honglin Mountain District, Ruijin. In order to cover his comrades to break through, he stayed to cut off the rear and died heroically at the age of 30.
When Mao Zeqian died, his son Mao Anyeng was three months old. When the bad news came, He Yi was extremely sad. Soon after, the enemy launched another search on her, and He Yi had to take her child to transfer again and again. In order to prevent accidents, He Yi sent Mao Anying to He Diaoyuan's house in Huating Village, Yongxin County for foster care. Afterwards, He Yi worked underground in Nanchang , Ji'an , Guangzhou and Shaoguan . In June 1940, she was arrested by the Kuomintang spies. In order to strictly observe the party's secrets, she swallowed a gold ring when the enemy was not paying attention and prepared to commit suicide.
The angry enemy used various tortures on He Yi, but she never revealed any secrets. Later, Premier Zhou negotiated with Gu Zhu and many times, and He Yi was released from prison. After arriving in Yan'an, the doctor removed two-thirds of her stomach in order to remove the golden ring that made He Yi suffer. Mao Ancheng, who was far away in Yongxin Mountain Village, knew nothing about the sufferings his mother suffered. At that time, for safety reasons, He Diaoyuan changed Mao Anying's name and called him He Lucheng.
After going to elementary school, He Lucheng's grades have been very good and he skipped the grade. In August 1949, He Yi came to He Diaoyuan's home in Huating Village. Only then did He Lucheng realize that she was her mother. He Lucheng was already in the third year of junior high school. After expressing his great gratitude to He Tiaoyuan's family, He Yi brought her son to live with her. After more than ten years of separation, the mother and son were finally reunited. Unexpectedly, just over three months later, He Lucheng lost his mother.
On the eve of the Long March, Chairman Mao and He Zizhen entrusted his two-year-old son Mao Anyhong to Mao Zetan and He Yi for care. Later, because the bad situation was too dangerous, Mao Zetan had no choice but to foster Mao Anyong at the home of a fellow villager. After Mao Zetan's death, Mao Anyhong's whereabouts remain unknown, which became a heart disease for He Yi. After reunited with his son He Lu, He Yi decided to look for Mao Anhong in front of the district. In November 1941, He Yi unfortunately had a car accident on her way back to Ji'an from southern Gan. Out of a mother's instinct, she immediately protected her son He Lucheng under her body and died of serious injuries.
After He Yi's death, He Zizhen took He Lucheng to live by her side and regarded it as her own. Although he loved He Lucheng very much, He Zizhen also had strict requirements on him and repeatedly reminded him not to mention his parents' identity to others, to study hard, and to become a person with real talent and knowledge in the future.He Lucheng remembered his aunt's words firmly. During his studies in Shanghai, every time he filled out the student registration form, he only wrote "death" in the parent column. Therefore, no one knew that he was the son of Mao Zetan and He Yi, and he didn't know that he was Chairman Mao's nephew.
Relying on his own efforts, He Lucheng was admitted to Shanghai Jiaotong University after graduating from high school and entered the Department of Electric Power. After graduating from university, he passed the most difficult postgraduate student in the Soviet Union at that time, and then entered the Preparatory Department of the Beijing Russian Academy of Sciences to study Russian. A year later, due to the deterioration of Sino-Soviet relations, He Lucheng was unable to go abroad and was soon assigned to the Fifth Institute to study "surface-to-surface missiles". With diligence and hard work, He Lucheng became the first batch of missile engineers in New China.
In those days, He Lucheng suffered hardships that ordinary people could not imagine. He translated nearly one million words of missile technical information and dozens of drawing materials were drawn up. What's even more rare is that after repeated research, he and another engineer, Wang Taichu, proposed the missile control plan he created himself, and overcome the missile control difficulties that Americans could not break through at that time, making important contributions to the development of my country's missile industry. At the end of June 1964, China's first medium- and short-range missile designed and manufactured by itself was successful, and He Lucheng also established his authoritative position in missile development.
He Lu worked in Beijing for a long time, but he never proposed to meet his uncle Chairman Mao, nor did he write a letter to Chairman Mao. He knew that Chairman Mao was very busy, so he was unwilling to disturb him, nor did he want to live with the halo of his uncle and his parents. He always kept in mind his aunt He Zizhen's advice: always keep a low profile and be a useful person to the country. In September 1976, Chairman Mao passed away. When formulating a list of relatives' wakes, Li Min mentioned He Lucheng, and he was able to wake Chairman Mao.
1980, the Fifth Academy of the Ministry of National Defense began to evaluate senior professional titles. With his outstanding contributions in the field of missiles, He Lucheng became the first person in the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army to be awarded a senior professional title, with the certificate number "No. 001". In 1983, the Ministry of Civil Affairs wanted to issue a martyr's certificate to Mao Zetan. The relevant departments notified him to collect it through He Lucheng's unit. Only then did everyone know that he was Chairman Mao's nephew. Afterwards, someone asked him why he had not revealed his identity for so many years. He Lucheng replied: "My father is my father, I am me, and I am not worthy of my father." This sentence is worth learning from many people now.
