In June, Chairman Mao invited his classmate Zhou Shizhao to visit his teacher, Mr. Yang Shuda. Yang Shuda was a Chinese teacher when Chairman Mao was studying in Hunan. 19 15, Yuan Shikai tried to claim the title of emperor and accepted the "Twenty-one Articles" proposed by the Japanese, which was denounced by the people all over the country.
After hearing the news, Yang Shuda wrote an article exposing Japanese aggression against China with indignation. Chairman Mao was deeply inspired after reading it, so he often asked Yang Shuda for advice on Japan.
That summer vacation, Chairman Mao was busy criticizing Yuan Shikai's propaganda. Because of the hot weather, he suffered from heatstroke. Fortunately, Yang Shuda took care of him, gave him medicine in person, and rubbed his body with alcohol to reduce his fever, feeling like a family. After Chairman Mao was in better health, he immediately went into battle again.
From then on, Yang Shuda paid more attention to Mao Zedong, a student who was penniless and worried about his country and people. From him, Yang Shuda saw the hope of the country. I didn't expect this student to become the leader of the new China, and so he took out a huge sum of money.
How can Yang Can Shu Da, who has cared about Chairman Mao for many years, not be "chilling"? What's the difference between him and the corrupt Kuomintang?
Everyone present didn't expect that the old professor raised such harsh questions in front of Chairman Mao, and the happy atmosphere suddenly cooled down. Aside Zhou Shizhao know the teacher's temper, hurried out to explain:
Chairman Mao took Zhou Shizhao's words and respectfully reported to the teacher that all the money was written by himself. Today, the money for buying medicine was paid by these donations: "My husband taught me my speeches and articles, and my husband taught us to pay the labor. Distribution according to work should also be your income."
After listening to Zhou Shizhao and Chairman Mao's explanation, Yang Shuda gradually relaxed, especially when he heard "distribution according to work", Yang Shuda was even happier. He couldn't help laughing: "That's good, that's good, moist, it's a great fortune for the country that you can do this."
May be happy, talk too much, Yang Shuda suddenly cough up, we don't know what to do at the moment. Chairman Mao stepped forward quickly, gently hugged Yang Shuda, stroked the teacher's chest, helped the teacher catch his breath, then picked up the spittoon and bent down to suck the saliva and thick phlegm coughed up by the teacher.
Yang Shuda took Chairman Mao's hand and coughed, signaling Chairman Mao to put it down quickly, but Chairman Mao was still the same, holding a spittoon. The others were caught off guard by Chairman Mao's actions, so they stood up in order. Zhou Shizhao to take spittoon, the result was blocked by chairman MAO with his elbow:
After a violent cough, Yang Shuda finally spit out a few bloodshot sputum, saw Chairman Mao standing beside him with a spittoon, and begged Chairman Mao to put it down quickly. I didn't expect Chairman Mao to say that it is the duty of students to be a teacher for one day and a father for life, and to carry spittoons for teachers. Say that finish with spittoon goes to the door.
Obviously, Chairman Mao is going to clean the spittoon, and everyone is scrambling to reach out and pick it up. Chairman Mao refused to help again, and deliberately raised his voice, saying that he was not allowed to pour spittoons himself at ordinary times, saying that this was a matter of principle. Today he poured his own spittoon for the teacher. This is a matter of principle stipulated by his ancestors.
Then he posed as a winner, walked to the faucet, squatted down and washed the spittoon carefully. The staff behind him were moved to tears when they saw this scene. Yang Shuda lying on the sofa, pointing to Chairman Mao's back, proudly said:
After cleaning the spittoon, Chairman Mao chatted with the teacher for a while, and the staff reminded him that there was a meeting in the evening before he reluctantly got up and left. Before he left, Yang Shuda took Chairman Mao's hand and told him again that the country should put people first, put talents first, and those who win the hearts of the people will conquer the world, and those who win talents will prosper the world.
Chairman Mao was deeply moved by the teacher's care. He put the blanket on his chest, held the teacher's thin hand and said, "What Miss Wang taught me, the students will never forget it. Next time I come to Changsha, I will definitely visit him again and let him watch me swim. "
In September of the same year, Chairman Mao learned that Yang Shuda's physical condition had improved and invited him to attend an academic conference in Beijing. At that time, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival. Chairman Mao hosted a banquet in Fengze Garden to entertain his teacher and invited Xu Teli, Zhang and others to accompany him. After exchanging greetings, Chairman Mao talked about the dismissal of Zhang.
19 18 years, the Anhui warlord Zhang led an army to capture Hunan on a large scale, burning and looting in Hunan under the guise of "the viceroy", and the people complained bitterly, calling it "Zhangdu".
At that time, Chairman Mao took the lead in launching the "Zhang Drive Movement", sent people to Shanghai to contact forces outside the province for joint action, and organized more than 2,000 faculty and students in Changsha to strike. Then, Chairman Mao organized representatives from all walks of life to go to Beijing to sue Zhang.
19 19 12, a delegation of "Theory of Three Represents" theory from all walks of life in Hunan organized by Chairman Mao went to Beijing, including a delegation of Hunan citizens headed by Chairman Mao, a delegation of Hunan faculty headed by Luo Jueduo and Yang Shuda, and a delegation of Hunan Federation of Students headed by Liu Min and Li Sian.
Because Luo Jueduo and Yang Shuda are Chairman Mao's teachers, and Liu Min and Li Sian are members of Xinmin Society, Chairman Mao naturally became the general liaison of the "Theory of Three Represents" theoretical delegation.
At that time, Yang Shuda was discouraged from going to Beijing, but Yang Shuda firmly said, "It is imperative to turn around, and I will make up my mind!" At this time, he will stand with his favorite students and fight side by side.
As soon as the "Zhang Zhang" delegation from Hunan Province arrived in Beijing, it began to contact just people from all walks of life and even internal government officials, forming a huge momentum. On February 28th, 65438, Chairman Mao and others held a meeting of Beijing citizens in front of Hunan Hall. More than a thousand people attended the meeting and asked the members present to ensure that they would "drive Zhang" Members have to say:
The following year1October 28th, June 28th, 65438, representative Zhang and some Beijing students flocked to xinhua gate, the seat of the State Council, the then warlord government. Six representatives, including Chairman Mao, Luo Jueduo and others, took the lead and rushed into the gate, shouting slogans and demanding to meet Premier Jin. As a result, they confronted the guards with bayonets for more than three hours.
Speaking of this past, Chairman Mao said that he was worried about the poor health of Yang Shuda. Yang Shuda said that he didn't feel cold at all, nor did his feet feel numb, but his anger grew stronger and stronger.
Seeing that the petition team didn't want to leave, a man who claimed to be the secretary of the Prime Minister came out and took away six representatives, including Chairman Mao, Yang Shuda and Luo Jueduo. Yang Shuda first struck the table, struck the chair, and reprimanded the Secretary-General with an expression. Why didn't Hunan students meet so many people? Hunan is so noisy, why not solve it?
Other representatives also listed Zhang's sins in Hunan, claiming that they must meet him. The secretary-general was scolded speechless by everyone, so he had to ask his secretary to call Kim, but he didn't look for him.
Chairman Mao, Yang Shuda and other six people had to leave first, and informed the petitioners of the situation. As a result, the crowd was furious and immediately held a parade until Kim's private house. Kim was worried that his home had been smashed, so he hurriedly asked the adjutant to go out to meet him.
In front of Kim, six representatives submitted the book, and Kim promised to reply to this request within one week. This kind of commitment is naturally a delaying tactic for Kim. A week later, the delegates not only didn't see Kim, but also his private house was full of military and police, and the people were not allowed to pass.
Chairman Mao and the delegation naturally anticipated this situation. In order to expand his influence, win public opinion and social sympathy, and put pressure on the warlord government, Chairman Mao organized a non-governmental communication organization and personally served as its chairman. At that time, the communication bureau was located in Fu You Temple in North Strip, and Chairman Mao set his office in the main hall, using the incense table dedicated to the gods as a desk.
On one occasion, I heard that Zhang gathered some reactionary bureaucrats and gentlemen to form a pro-Zhang group against Zhang's delegation in order to cover up his crimes. He looked for Chairman Mao's briefing, and found that Chairman Mao was sitting on the table sweetmeats in the hall, absorbed in writing "Flood Control Newsletter", and couldn't help laughing.
"Sir, how can I find this place?" Chairman Mao was startled by this sudden laughter and looked up. It turned out to be his teacher. Yang Shuda said humorously that this is the place where Bodhisattva Fu You appeared. How could he not find it?
Since then, Yang Shuda often went to Fu You Temple to exchange information with the delegates. With the joint efforts of the delegates, folk news agencies can send out more than 150 news items every day and send them to all parts of the country. Zhang became a "rat crossing the street, everyone shouted."
Within a few months, he was expelled from Hunan under the threat of Xiang army.
After this displacement movement, Chairman Mao saw "hating evil like hatred, never turning back", and Chairman Mao's "pointing out the mountains and being a scholar's spirit" also left a deep impression. In this way, the teacher-student relationship between the two men not only deepened, but also gained a friendship of comrades-in-arms.
After recalling what happened to Zhang in those days, Chairman Mao said emotionally that there might be Zhao and Wang in the * *, and then he would ask Mr. Wang to go to xinhua gate to overthrow these various Zhang. Yang Shuda excitedly responded:
This wonderful dialogue between teachers and students made everyone laugh. As we all know, with Mr. Yang Shuda's personality, as long as Chairman Mao speaks, he must be duty-bound.
1935, Yang Shuda heard that the Red Army led by Chairman Mao broke through the encirclement and suppression of hundreds of thousands of Chiang Kai-shek troops and crossed the snowy mountains and grasslands in order to resist Japan in the north. That day he happily wrote a poem in his diary, determined to fight against Japanese imperialism with Chairman Mao.
After the July 7th Incident, Yang Shuda, who didn't want to drag out an ignoble existence under the control of the Japanese aggressors, resolutely resigned as a professor in Tsinghua University and returned to Hunan with his family as a professor and dean of the Law School of Hunan University. After the Xi Incident, Xu Teli came to Changsha to publicize the Anti-Japanese War, and specially met with Yang Shuda to convey Chairman Mao's greetings and respect.
1945 After the Japanese army announced its unconditional surrender, the whole country was jubilant, and Yang Shuda, like the people of the whole country, stayed up all night happily. As a historian, Yang Shuda was very happy, but at the same time he felt a little uneasy.
Over the years, he has witnessed Chiang Kai-shek's character. Now that the Anti-Japanese War has been won, will Chiang Kai-shek slaughter the people and revolutionary masses who fought side by side as before? When he heard that Chairman Mao was going to Chongqing to negotiate in person, he couldn't help worrying about his students for fear that Chairman Mao would be killed by Chiang Kai-shek.
He even admired the student's great talent when he read "Spring and Snow in Qinyuan" written by Chairman Mao in the newspaper.
As Yang Shuda expected, Chiang Kai-shek started a civil war with the support of Americans shortly after signing the peace agreement. When Yang Shuda returned to Changsha after leaving for eight years, he met all the people who suffered from the civil war. So, like expelling Zhang He, he devoted himself to the anti-Chiang movement.
During the period of 1949, seeing that the general trend of the Kuomintang in mainland China had gone, the voice of mass movements led by * * * became louder and louder. Yang Shuda was elected as one of the delegates and met with Chen Mingren, commander of the Kuomintang in Changsha. He was reasonable and moved by emotion, which inspired Chen Mingren's patriotism and love for the people, prompted Chen Mingren and Cheng Qian to revolt and peacefully liberate Hunan.
As soon as New China was established, Yang Shuda responded to Chairman Mao's call and personally sent his son to join the army. He published a monograph 18 regardless of his old age and infirmity, and was elected as the director of Hunan Museum of Literature and History, a member of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of China Academy of Sciences, and a representative of the first Hunan Provincial People's Congress.
After liberation, Yang Shuda wrote to Chairman Mao for many times, and Chairman Mao personally replied three times and made an appointment with him twice in Changsha.
Once, I read an academic article written by Yang, Dean of College of Literature, Hunan University, and found many mistakes. Hunan University, which has always been strict with itself, asked Yang to be removed from the post of dean.
Since Hunan University did not adopt Yang Shuda's suggestion, Yang Shuda wrote to Chairman Mao. Later, a professor criticized that Yang's education should be given priority. Besides, Yang has realized his mistake and asked to be removed from his post.
Yang Shuda was reminded that his suggestion was too extreme, so he wrote to Chairman Mao to admit his mistake. Chairman Mao affirmed his courage to admit his mistake in his reply.
1954165438+10, Chairman Mao and other countries visited Changsha and sent people to meet Yang Shuda. It has been 34 years since they broke up. At the sight of Yang Shuda, Chairman Mao held his hand and said:
Yang Shuda replied excitedly that the letter had been received. They talked for a long time and had dinner together. Later, Yang Shuda wrote to Chairman Mao and sent several books he had published. Chairman Mao was very happy and thanked the teacher by writing back in person.
/kloc-The Mid-Autumn Festival in 0/955 was the happiest Mid-Autumn Festival in Yang Shuda's life, and it was also the last time he and Chairman Mao met. In February of the following year, Yang Shuda died in Changsha. After the bad news reached Beijing, Chairman Mao was very sad and personally called to express his condolences:
Under the care of Chairman Mao, all walks of life in Hunan held a grand memorial service for Mr. Yang Shuda, and buried him at the foot of Yuelu Mountain, so that Mr.'s lofty spirit would stay in the majestic Lushan Mountain forever.