1976, Chairman Mao was seriously ill in bed. He didn't care much about his illness, but in the last period of his life, one thing became one of his regrets, that is, the truth of his nephew's death has not been investigated clearly.

1946, followed Zhang to attend the negotiations with the Kuomintang. And then there was no news. General Wang Zhen personally investigated for a long time and found no body of Mao Chuxiong.

Chairman Mao regarded it as a lifelong regret, but unfortunately he died before the final result came out.

Eight years later, in order to fulfill Chairman Mao's last wish, the Central Committee set up a joint investigation team to restart the investigation, and Mao Chuxiong has been killed for nearly 40 years.

So can the investigation team find the truth of that year? How did Chairman Mao's nephew die?

Mao Zedong's family has two younger brothers, one is Mao Zemin and the other is Mao Zetan, but the road of revolutionary development is full of dangers. The two younger brothers died before they could see the founding of New China.

Mao Chuxiong, the only son of Mao Zetan and Zhou Wennan, is the nephew that Chairman Mao took care of all his life.

Mao Chuxiong was born in Changsha, 1927. At this time, China is at a critical juncture of the revolution. Born less than half a year ago, he was arrested in the Kuomintang prison with his mother Zhou Wennan.

Fortunately, the Kuomintang authorities have no substantial evidence, and the people are extremely dissatisfied with this and complain everywhere. My Kuomintang was forced to release their mother and son, and Mao Chuxiong, who was only half a year old, survived.

10 years old, Mao Zedong originally wanted to send this nephew to Yan 'an to study, but Mao Chuxiong's grandmother thought the child was too young to make it.

War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression ended the year, and Mao Chuxiong 18 years old. He said goodbye to his grandmother warmly. I embarked on the road of joining the army alone.

The first team he joined was the south detachment led by Wang Zhen. In the border area of Hubei, Henan and Anhui, Mao Chuxiong witnessed the brutality and arbitrariness of the Kuomintang, so he decided to do something for the party and the country.

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The two sides kept going back and forth until mid-July, when Mao Chuxiong arrived in Xichuan, Henan Province on orders from the organization, and Li Xiannian continued to wait for an opportunity to break through with the army.

In order to ensure the safety of Mao Chuxiong, Wang Zhen specially took Mao Chuxiong with him. Hot-blooded Mao Chuxiong proposed several times to go to the battlefield to fight, but Wang Zhen thought that he had no combat experience and did not agree.

At the beginning of August, Wang Zhen led his troops to conquer Zhen 'an County, which was only100km away from Hu Zongnan troops. The plan of the Kuomintang siege failed.

Seeing that the siege was hopeless, they had to write to Li Xiannian twice, asking for peace talks in Xi 'an.

Wang Zhen immediately reported the matter to the Central Committee, and with the permission of the Central Committee, personally appointed Wu Zuyi, a staff officer of Colonel Zhang and a cadre of the Political Department, as the representative of the Chinese Communist Party to attend the negotiations in Ann.

At this time, the fighting between the two sides became more and more frequent. Wang Zhen thought that he might fight guerrilla warfare in this place for a long time. Mao Chuxiong always follows his insecurity, and it is safer to go to Xi 'an than to be around him. So I ordered him to keep it and be safe with Zhang.

So, on the surface, they are two guards, but Zhang and Wu Zuyi have a more important task, that is, they are responsible for sending those who are only 19 years old to the Eighth Route Army Security Office and then to Yan 'an.

After packing, they set off at the scheduled time soon.

Dressed as farmers, the three men set off north along Xunhe River under the guidance of a farmer's guide.

But after starting from yangsi Temple in Zhen 'an County, there was no news from the three of them, and there was no news again.

General Wang Zhen hasn't heard from these three men for a long time. Worried that something would happen to them, he personally led the troops to journey to the south and explored along the route they had traveled. But they were never found.

He noticed the abnormality and immediately reported it to the Central Committee. Premier Zhou and Ye Jianying, as representatives of the Beiping peace talks, immediately protested strongly to the Kuomintang.

However, the Kuomintang made no mention of the disappearance of our peace negotiators. As a party, Hu Zongnan even denied meeting our representative.

Although Premier Zhou ordered that this matter must be thoroughly investigated, it has been an unsolved case for decades because of the obstruction of the Kuomintang authorities.

What happened to Chairman Mao's nephew, Mao Zetan's only son? Life and death, no one knows.

During the period of 1976, Chairman Mao was seriously ill and has been worried about this matter. Although Chairman Mao has always been very open-minded about life and death, the whereabouts of his brother's only son is unknown. Chairman Mao felt that it would be a lifelong regret if he didn't find out the truth.

Therefore, when he was still able to walk and speak clearly, Chairman Mao told people around him about it several times and mentioned his brother's name more than once.

However, due to the complicated situation at that time, the matter was finally shelved, and the chairman finally failed to know what happened that year, which would make his nephew disappear overnight without any news.

Until 1984, in order to fulfill Chairman Mao's last wish, and at the same time to give an account to these three martyrs who may have died for the country, the Central Committee set up a joint investigation team and restarted the investigation on this matter.

At this time, nearly 40 years have passed since they disappeared. Times have changed. It is a question whether they can still find the client of that year. Where do they start?

The staff of the investigation team only felt a heavy burden on their shoulders. At this time, Wang Zhen, who is 76 years old, said sadly to the staff of the investigation team: "I failed to find out the truth in those years, and I am ashamed of the chairman and three comrades. You must find out the truth and give the chairman an account. "

The staff of the investigation team first investigated the counter-revolutionary archives in Zhen 'an County, which clearly recorded the confessions provided by Yin Keming and Chen You.

At that time, he was ordered by Hu Zongnan to deal with the New Fourth Army, and at the same time he was responsible for searching for the breakout personnel of the New Fourth Army.

On the evening of August 9th, 1946, Yin Keming, Zhan and others conducted a surprise inspection and found five strangers with southern accents in the homes of villagers Zhang Jigui and Du.

A couple calling themselves husband and wife came from afar to find their son. As for the other three men, they didn't know each other. They just met by chance on the road and left together.

However, Yin Keming was suspicious and suspected that they were the New Fourth Army. Holding the psychology of "I would rather kill one hundred by mistake than let one go", Yin Keming immediately ordered someone to pull it out to solve it.

But at that time, Yin Keming did not identify these people, so the staff of the investigation team could not determine whether these people were Mao Chuxiong and others.

The investigation team simply took the yangsi Temple area as the center, and launched a carpet search in one or two hundred miles of Fiona Fang.

Sure enough, the investigation team got an amazing news in Zhujiagou, Wen Jia Town, Zhen 'an County.

Three male remains were once found in a lime kiln, but no one knows who these three remains are and why they were buried here.

However, the staff of the investigation team believe that this is probably the remains of three martyrs, namely Zhang and Wu Zuyi. But at that time, Zhang Chengtai and others secretly went to Xi 'an, and the investigation team could not determine who these bones belonged to, so they launched a more rigorous investigation around the events of that year.

After many troubles, they finally found the person who killed the scattered breakout personnel of the Central Plains Army-Chen Yongshou.

Chen Yongshou was originally the battalion commander of the 45th Regiment of the Central Plains Military Region 15 Brigade. During 1946, when he moved to Muwangping, Zhen 'an County, he met a local farmer.

The old farmer is an old acquaintance of Sun Guang, deputy commander of the military zones. As soon as he saw Sun Guang, he said excitedly, "Chief, when I passed the Xiaogoukou of Zhujiagou the other day, I saw several people wearing Kuomintang clothes stop four men and 1 woman and rob them."

"Did you see them clearly?"

The fellow villager shook his head: "I didn't see it clearly, but I saw two people who had been resisting and were killed by them." Three others were pushed into the lime kiln and buried alive. The means are really cruel. I heard them shouting' Long live * * *' before they were buried, thinking it was your people, and I found you. "

In the evening, Chen Yongshou braved a huge snowstorm with a large number of people and brought this group of people to justice.

According to Chen Yongshou, they seized a lot of property from prisoners at that time, probably from several martyrs, but they didn't know the true identity of these martyrs.

This made the investigation team's investigation deadlocked.

Because Mao Chuxiong and others went to Xi 'an to participate in the negotiations on behalf of the party organization, it is reasonable to say that they would not carry such a huge amount of property, so they concluded that this almost skeleton should belong to martyrs such as Zhang Chengtai.

Judging from the large number of gold bars and silver dollars left over at that time, it is more in line with the identity of Wu's supply minister.

In order to find out whether this is Mao Chuxiong's body, the staff of the investigation team had to visit General Wang Zhen again.

This visit also gave the investigation team new ideas.

This investigation team focused on all the checkpoints and towns of the Kuomintang in Zhen 'an, Zhashui and Ningshan counties of Shaanxi during the period of 1946.

They made a detailed investigation in three counties and cities through visits and other forms, when a pile of mysterious human bones in Dongjiangkou Town, ningshan county caught their attention.

This pile of human bones was also found in 1976, which was discovered by Jiangkou Handling Company when digging the foundation by the Xunhe River.

At that time, the person in charge of infrastructure construction thought that it was only the remains of villagers killed in the war years, so they were buried in other places and later moved to the hillside under the walnut tree of Dr. Bai Jiazui Hu.

In order to find out the situation of this pile of bones, they found Deng, the former deputy head of the Kuomintang, and Shi Youcheng, a member of the militia, to understand the situation of that year.

From Shi Youcheng's mouth, people finally learned the truth that had been buried for many years.

1946 In early August, three people who claimed to be * * * came to Dongjiangkou Town. Although Shi Youcheng has never seen these people, I heard that these people are representatives of * * *, and there is a man in plain clothes to lead the way.

At that time, it was the head of Cen who personally took people to meet him. Shi Youcheng also felt that the war was coming to an end and China was about to restore peace.

As a result, Jiang Jiesan, the head of Jiangkou District, suddenly became angry: "Peace talks are a fart!" Then I made a downward split with my hand.

Shi Youcheng realized that these people might have run out of luck.

August 1946, 10, the situation on the battlefield is still anxious. Zhang and others, as representatives of peace talks, are planning peace talks with the Kuomintang with great expectation. Little imagine, Hu Zongnan has instructed CenYun to solve it on the spot.

Soon, Li Qingrun, the company commander in charge of this matter, ordered people to dig several pits under the Town God Temple in Dongjiangkou Town, ningshan county, and then took a few people with tough measures and buried them alive directly.

Later, Shiyou Chengcai knew who accidentally buried it in Shabatan.

After the founding of New China, Shi Youcheng worried that he would be sentenced, so he had to treat it as a secret.

The investigation team immediately asked Shi Youcheng to lead the way to see the place where the body was buried, which was exactly the same as the place where the house was built later.

In order to make a final decision on this matter, the investigation team rushed to Sichuan again, investigated all the files of public security departments at all levels in Sichuan Province, party history and military history departments, archives departments and military courts in Chengdu Military Region, and finally found some clues from this voluminous file.

Li Qingrun and Shi Xingyi, the township head, buried them with extremely cruel means.

Most importantly, this confession confessed the identity of the leader, which was General Zhang.

After nearly 40 years, the unsolved case that Chairman Mao thought for a long time finally came to an end and all the murderers were brought to justice.

After the matter was investigated clearly, the relevant departments made proper arrangements for his body to commemorate these unyielding revolutionary martyrs.