Today we follow Zhang Peifang, the former officer of the Political Department of the Army and later the vice president of the Armed Police Force Academy, to get diamonds from gold to learn about the wonderful lives of the three talents of the Seventh Detachment.

The troops are the cradle of soldiers' growth and a university for cultivating talents. Today we follow Zhang Peifang, the former officer of the Political Department of the Army and later served as the vice president (major general) of the Armed Police Force Academy, to get diamonds from gold and learn about the wonderful lives of the three talents of the Seventh Detachment together.

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▲The author on the front row is the second left, Wang Xiaolian on the right, Xu Guotai on the right, and Li Xiaoyu on the right, and Li Xiaoyu on the back row is the tradition of attaching importance to cultivating literary and artistic talents. The main ways are: often hold literary and artistic creation classes, edit and publish poetry collections for the review of People's Literature Publishing House , participate in the editing and selection of Zhonghua Book Company " Chinese Loose-leaf Literature Selection ", etc. The 7th Detachment was formerly the 15th Railway Soldier Division. After being reorganized into an infrastructure engineering corps in early 1976, this tradition continues.

Since the early 1970s, these three comrades and I have participated in these activities many times. We were not in the same group at first, but during those years, we often learned to create or edit books together, sometimes half a month, sometimes one or two months, and at most half a year. They became more and more familiar with each other.

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Xu Guotai

Xu Guotai is known as the devil of Chinese thinking and the king of ideas. In the 1980s, Xu Guotai's coordinate method thinking, introduced with paper clips, was accused of widespread attention.

What’s more interesting is that he has had intersections with Comrade Hua Guofeng, the former top leader of the Party and the country, and with Huawei company boss Ren Zhengfei .

Xu Guotai and I first met in September 1972. We participated in the teacher publicity department and held a literary and artistic creation study class. Xu Guotai was a veteran who joined the army from Tianjin in 1965. He was the secretary of the Political Department of the 64th Regiment and later served as deputy instructor of the company.

▲Xu Guotai, the three right in the front row

That study class lasted for a total of half a month. In the following years, there have been more and more opportunities and time for us to study and work together.

+ years of dating, Xu Guotai left the deepest impression on me is: he is active in thinking, he is unwilling to follow the rules when encountering things, he likes to come up with new ideas, and often has strange ideas.

After smashing the Gang of Four, Xu Guotai and Wang Xiaolian collaborated to write a long lyric poem, "Chairman Hua, please accept the salute from the soldiers of the three armies." First published in People's Daily , with praises. In the celebration held by tens of thousands of people in Beijing Workers Stadium , this Book of Songs artist recitation was broadcast on TV and was popular all over the country. Xu Guotai and Wang Xiaolian became famous.

After many years, Comrade Hua Guofeng spent his days at home, and Xu Guotai and another comrade-in-arms went to visit him in Hua's hometown. Xu Guotai enlarged and copied the issue of the People's Daily that published the poem of the Three Armies to show it to Mr. Hua.

Hua Lao signed the copy, asked the secretary to give the seal, asked them to stamp it, and also gave Xu Guotai a souvenir.

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei was a hero of infrastructure engineering soldiers. In 1978, he was a representative of infrastructure engineering soldiers and attended the National Science Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Xu Guotai was already the editor of the Science and Technology Edition of the "Infrastructure Engineering Soldier" newspaper at that time. He interviewed Ren Zhengfei specifically and wrote a close-up article with the name of the character as the title, reporting on Ren Zhengfei's advanced deeds.

During the period when Ren Zhengfei attended the National Science Conference, a leader of the organization meeting learned that Ren Zhengfei was not a party member, so he called the main leader of the Infrastructure Engineering Soldier to ask about the reasons and express concern.

The leaders of the military inquired in person and demanded that Ren Zhengfei join the party be resolved. Xu Guotai was ordered to go to the army to investigate.

It turns out that the problem is not complicated, mainly because of his father's political background.

After re-investigation, the first-level organization of the detachment believes that it does not constitute a problem.

But at the grassroots level, there is still resistance, after all, it was that era.

Xu Guotai immediately stated that he was willing to be Ren Zhengfei's introduction to the party. The political commissar of the detachment immediately expressed the same attitude.

Xu Guotai and the political commissar of the detachment had such a clear attitude that Ren Zhengfei's resistance to joining the party was resolved in this way.

After a period of twists and turns, Ren Zhengfei finally joined the party. Xu Guotai wrote a message published on the most eye-catching newspaper location on the front page of the newspaper, which was already February 1979. More than 0 years later, Ren Zhengfei has become an entrepreneur with global attention and Huawei has become the pride of Chinese people. Xu Guotai was invited to visit the headquarters of Huawei in Shenzhen. Xu Guotai later told me: Mr. Ren gave him a few of the latest Huawei products as a commemoration.

Xu Cathay Dun is in friendship. In the early 1980s, I published 4 novels in " PLA Literature and Art ". As the editor of the Science and Technology Edition of the Infrastructure Engineering Soldiers, Xu Guotai specially selected one of the science fiction novels, which were serialized in installments on the page he was responsible for.

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Li Xiaoyu

Li Xiaoyu and I met Li Xiaoyu relatively early. From 1972 to 1973, we were both soldiers at that time and participated in several literary and artistic creation backbone meetings in the division propaganda department together. But the time is short and there is not much conversation. I really started to get familiar with it. It was the 1974 poetry revision class, and I spent about six or seven weeks together this time.

Li Xiaoyu was already well-known in the army at that time and published many fresh-style poems in newspapers and magazines.

Li Xiaoyu's family background. His father Li Ying is a nationally renowned poet. He was the president of PLA Literature and Art Publishing House , and later served as Minister of Culture of the General Political Department. She has a lot of books in her family and has had the superior conditions for studying since she was a child. In chatting in my spare time, Li Xiaoyu often chats with other intellectuals' comrades from families, such as " Anna Karenina ", "Red and Black", " John Christopher ", "War and Peace", etc. In that era, those who came to serve in the army from the countryside had no chance to come into contact with these classic works, so they could only listen and couldn't interfere.

In early winter of 1974, the Department of Teachers' Propaganda held a large-scale literary and artistic creation study class. The study class was divided into poetry group, novel group, art group, and a total of fifty or sixty literary backbones of each group, located at Beijing Forestry College. Li Xiaoyu, Xu Guotai and Wang Xiaolian all participated.

At that time, I was already a propaganda department officer and was ordered to lead the team to be responsible for the daily management of the study class.

That study class lasted for more than half a year, and Li Xiaoyu and I became more familiar with each other.

Li Xiaoyu is quiet and humble, always speaks softly and never argues with others. The family is well-off, but never show off. When everyone chats together, if she is not interested in the topics she talks about, she often feels confused and thinks. Someone discovered her habit and said: Li Xiaoyu is conceiving.

Because of studying and writing, Li Xiaoyu often stays up late and sometimes doesn’t eat breakfast. I know her habits, so I don't make any demands. One day, Li Xiaoyu didn't see her during breakfast and had lunch. The door of her dormitory was still closed tightly, and there was no movement inside. I was a little worried and knocked hard on the door. The door opened, and it turned out to be in the room. She said she had forgotten the time when she wrote something.

I looked at the manuscript paper she was spread on the table. She was copying a manuscript from her notebook. It is a poem titled "On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat".

Not long after, the People's Liberation Army Daily published this long political lyric poem on the fourth page. Only then did I realize that Li Xiaoyu could write another style of poetry.

▲Li Xiaoyu (first right) and his comrades-in-arms

After the half-year study class, Li Xiaoyu returned to the 64th Regiment Health Team, and we also occasionally have the opportunity to meet.Xu Tianxiang, a comrade-in-arms who participated in the study class of the 64th Regiment, and the children of cadres, often get movie tickets or artistic performance tickets, and make an appointment to go and watch them together. Most of them are in the Erqi Theater next to the 64th Regiment Headquarters, and sometimes in other places.

That time, it was already early summer of 1975. Xu Tianxiang got a few more performance tickets. It was the Henan Drama Troupe who came to Beijing to participate in the drama "Fighting Taihang" of the Ministry of Culture, which was at the Dongdan Theater. As a result, it happened that a few people had something to do, and only Li Xiaoyu and I went there.

After watching the performance, it was still early and the weather was good. Li Xiaoyu and I walked on Chang'an Street for a while and chatted. I asked her: What should I do about your affairs?

Li Xiaoyu looked dim and said lightly: I don’t know either.

At that time, the question of her promotion was unresolved. Comrade Li Ying once expressed to our Propaganda Section Chief Tan Guoxing, hoping that Xiaoyu will continue to stay in the army. Comrades in the publicity department, especially Chief Tan, did a lot of work and made great efforts.

I later found out where Li Xiaoyu’s problem was stuck. She is from health team , but she has been drifting outside for a lot of time, so she can’t count on her work, so she is not active in her affairs. Section Chief Tan had considered directly promoting her as a propaganda officer. The main leader of the Political Department also believed that the poet was useless in the actual work of the agency and did not agree with anything he said.

Later, after a long time of delay, Li Xiaoyu exceeded the age of training and had to be discharged from the army.

She went to the Poetry Magazine and displayed her talents in a new world, and finally became a national famous poet. She has published many collections of poems and has won the National Outstanding New Poetry Collection Award. Her works have been translated into English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean and other languages.

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Wang Xiaolian

Wang Xiaolian is a soldier of the third company of the repair camp directly under the Logistics Department. He joined the army in 1972 and is from Jixi City, Heilongjiang.

Wang Xiaolian was talented. In April 1974, we participated in a poetry study and manuscript revision class together. Before the study class was over, his few short poems were published in "People's Liberation Army Literature".

In October of that year, after I went to the Propaganda Department as a staff member, the Poetry Group of the People's Literature Publishing House negotiated and cooperated with us. The Propaganda Department selected the backbone of poetry creation to review the manuscripts for them and edited and published the poetry collection. Wang Xiaolian, Xu Guotai, Li Xiaoyu and I are all among them. For more than half a year, we worked together to screen out submissions from all over the country. Finally, the People's Literature Publishing House published the National Selection of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers' Poems "Torrent Collection".

In 1976, the People's Literature Publishing House proposed to the Propaganda Section of the Seventh Detachment to second the editor of Wang Xiaolian and Xu Guotai to the Poetry and Prose Group. The Publicity Department provided full support and coordinated with their units, the Logistics Department and the 64th Regiment to facilitate this matter. The relevant leaders of People's Literature Publishing House have expressed satisfaction with their work many times later. After Wang Xiaolian and Xu Guotai smashed the "Gang of Four" in Shaoshan

▲The passionate long poem "Chairman Hua, please accept the salute of the soldiers of the three armies" by Wang Xiaolian and Xu Guotai after they smashed the "Gang of Four" in Shaoshan

, Hunan, was created during their work in the People's Literature Publishing House.

Wang Xiaolian's literary creation results are remarkable. He has published literary works since 1974. In addition to poems and essays published in more than 150 newspapers, he also has 13 works including "Water and Sky High". There are also five works including "Beautiful Xingkai Lake" that have been selected into Chinese textbooks in middle schools in Beijing, Hubei, Hunan and other provinces and cities.

Wang Xiaolian is deeply in love with his hometown. A large number of his works are about Heilongjiang, Ussuri River and Xingkai Lake . Among them, there are three monographs about Xingkai Lake.

A few years ago, he completed another major project - a trip lasting two months, traveling more than 8,000 miles, and took several young photographers to drive from the source of Heilongjiang to the estuary of the sea, across China and Russia, to conduct inspection and field trips. In the lower reaches of Heilongjiang, there are more than 1,900 miles in Russia. The region is unfamiliar, and the tourist route has not been opened, the speech is not clear, the mountains are high, the road is far away, and the journey is dangerous. Subsequently, the collection of essays "Running from the Source to the Sea - Travel Notes of Heilongjiang" was published.His hometown, , Jixi City, , held a seminar specifically for this book.

Li Xiaoyu died of illness in 2015. I saw Li Ying’s long poem about missing her daughter on Guangming Daily . I was touched by the poems of the old poet, so I called Wang Xiaolian, both remembrance and emotion. Wang Xiaolian suggested that old comrades gather together to talk about the past. Wang Xiaolian notified Xu Guotai. I notified another comrade in the Propaganda Department.

It happened that day. Xu Guotai received an invitation from a company in Hainan Province to help with planning and come up with ideas.

Before boarding, Xu Guotai called me to express his apology, but to be honest, he couldn't push it away.

We all understand. I am almost seventy years old and I still have no time to have a leisure time. Who will let you know the king of ideas?