Peng Dehuai is one of the top ten marshals of our army. After the founding of New China, he participated in Resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea and commanded Volunteer Army to win the victory of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, making great contributions to defending the country. In 1959, at the Lushan Conference, Peng Dehuai pointed out the mistakes of the "Great Leap Forward" movement with righteousness. He was criticized for this, and his position was removed from his post, and his residence was moved to Wujia Garden in the northwest suburbs of Beijing.
Many current information describes Peng Dehuai's life during that period, and calls Peng Dehuai a "square farming for six years and self-reliance." What is military farming? It generally refers to mobilizing soldiers to carry out large-scale grain production activities. When Peng Dehuai was in Wujia Garden, he had only three staff members around him. It is indeed a bit inappropriate to call him "Mengtian".
In the extracurricular reading materials that were matched with the People's Education Press in the past, there was an article introducing the story of Peng Dehuai's "mixing farming". The article describes that Mr. Peng has opened a test site in Wujia Garden, and he personally planted grains, and also managed them carefully, often digging silt from the pond to gain weight in the fields. The staff also persuaded Peng Dehuai to pay attention to his health many times, but Peng Dehuai insisted on managing the experimental field and calculating the grain output.
As we all know, the removal of General Peng's position was related to the Lushan Conference in 1959. This conference was originally to correct the mistake of the "Great Leap Forward". At that time, exaggeration was prevalent, and the yield per mu of 100,000 kilograms were everywhere, but this practice and publicity damaged the fragile economic structure. Then, three years of natural disasters began. In 1959, the main purpose of our party to hold the Lushan Conference was to correct the error of the "left" line of the "Great Leap Forward". However, after General Peng was criticized, the direction of the meeting changed, from correcting "left" to anti-right". In other words, the Lushan Conference not only did not solve the problem of the "Great Leap Forward", but instead made the "Great Leap Forward" movement intensified. After the Lushan meeting, Peng Dehuai was dismissed. He hated the "exaggeration" at that time and decided to set up a test field himself and take care of it personally, and calculate the grain output at that time. Later, only more than 90 kilograms of wheat were harvested in this experimental field, and this was still refined planting, so Peng Dehuai was well aware of the "exaggeration" at that time.
Time soon came to 1965. On September 23 of that year, Chairman Mao invited Peng Dehuai to Zhongnanhai for a talk. After that, Peng Dehuai made a comeback and was appointed as the third deputy director of the Third Line Construction Committee of the Southwest Bureau, in charge of power, coal, oil, gas and other aspects. However, shortly after taking up this position, Peng Dehuai was also affected.
In December 1966, under the instruction of Jiang Qing, the rebels of Beijing Institute of Geology Wang Dabin took people to Chengdu and forced Peng Dehuai back to Beijing for criticism. Since then, Peng Dehuai's physical and mental persecution was greatly persecuted. It is worth mentioning that after Peng Dehuai was taken back to Beijing, his home in Chengdu was also confiscated, and most of his things were taken away. At that time, Peng Dehuai had a safe at home. After opening it, he found that there was more than 10,000 yuan in the safe. All of this money was used to pay party dues, and it was also the savings that Peng Dehuai had saved over the years.
After returning to Beijing, Peng Dehuai was constantly criticized and only paid 23 yuan in living expenses a month, and his life was very difficult. In 1969, Peng Dehuai also wrote a letter to the Southwest Third Line Construction Committee, applying to his work unit for more living expenses. At that time, the Southwest Third Line Construction Committee was mainly divided into two rebels, namely the "Grand Joint Committee" and the " Workers' Propaganda Team ". The two factions did not achieve joint efforts. However, they reached an agreement on the issue of Peng Dehuai's application for an increase in living expenses, because they all knew that Peng Dehuai lived too simply. Since then, Peng Dehuai's living expenses were increased, with a subsidy of 100 yuan per quarter. Unfortunately, in 1974, Peng Dehuai died of illness at the age of 76.
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