Tan Zheng who is bent on "talking about politics"

Tan Zheng, formerly known as Tan Shiming, was born in Xiangxiang County, Hunan Province in June 1906. He studied in the famous Dongshan School. He worked as a primary school teacher in his early years. Later, under the influence of his wife and brother Chen Geng, he joined the army with a heart of innocence and embarked on the revolutionary road., Officially renamed Tan Zheng. Since then, this name has been recorded in the annals of the Chinese Revolutionary War, leaving a good story of "two general in one county.

Mao Zedong's first secretary

In 1927, Tan Zheng joined the National Revolutionary Army and served as secretary and secretary of the company, battalion, regiment, and division. Later, he participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising and went to Jinggangshan with the army. He joined the Communist Party of China in October and met him. An important leader-Mao Zedong.

In 1928, Mao Zedong was discerning and talented, and selected the 22-year-old Tan Zheng as the "front committee clerk" and his first secretary. At that time, Mao Zedong lived in the back room, while Tan Zheng and guard Yang Kai-fu lived outside. Mao Zedong is famous for staying up late. Tan Zheng learned to smoke in order to stay up late, and he smoked very hard. Mao Zedong jokingly said, "I am a big pipe, and I smoke two pipes. At that time, one of Tan Zheng's tasks was to transcribe and copy Mao Zedong. Many important manuscripts were copied and changed, changed and copied. In addition, Mao Zedong attached great importance to reporting the struggle and situation to the central government in the struggle to create the Jinggangshan revolutionary base area. As Jinggangshan is located on the border between the two provinces, two copies of a report must be copied and transferred to the central government by the Hunan and Jiangxi provincial committees respectively, thus increasing the workload of Tan Zheng.

As a secretary, the busiest and most tiring part of the work is to prepare and draft the report for the meeting. After the "defeat in August", some people in the party became negative and pessimistic in the face of setbacks and failures, and raised the question of "how long the red flag will last. In order to unify his thinking and clarify his understanding, Mao Zedong prepared to pass a resolution at the second party congress of the counties on the Hunan-Jiangxi border. The first part of the resolution is "Political Issues and the Tasks of the Border Party." Tan Zheng later recalled the process of drafting the document and said: "all the questions raised and answered are targeted. However, I do not know how many times it will take to implement the text and write the manuscript. He often listened to some opinions and destroyed the rewriting and copying..." In this way, under the tea oil lamp, Tan Zheng accompanied Mao Zedong to write this important historical document to guide the Chinese revolutionary struggle. Later, when it was included in the first volume of "Selected Works of Mao Zedong", it was renamed "Why can China's red regime exist?".

Although Tan Zheng worked with Mao Zedong as a secretary for only more than a year, he sincerely admired Mao Zedong's foresight. Later, Tan Zheng served as deputy director of the General Political Department of the Military Commission and Mao Zedong served as director. He still worked beside Mao Zedong. During this period, the electronic drafts of documents drafted by Tan Zheng were personally reviewed and revised by Mao Zedong in inappropriate places. Almost every manuscript written and published by Tan Zheng was sent to Mao Zedong for review. Mao Zedong carefully revised the title, grammar and punctuation of the manuscript. Among them, the "Summary of the Inspection Work of the Yan'an Military Department" revised by Mao Zedong himself has been treasured by Tan Zheng for 20 years.

Struggle for the political work of the people's army

In 1929, he organized and sent Tan Zheng to the 31st Regiment of the Fourth Red Army as the secretary of the party committee. When saying goodbye, Mao Zedong said that political work is our lifeline, and this one must not be forgotten at any time. Tan Zheng in mind. Later, leading the political work of the people's army really became the cause that Tan Zheng fought for all his life.

Tan Zheng is good at doing political work in the army. After the beginning of the Long March, the Red First Division, where Tan Zheng served as the director of the Political Department, served as the pioneer of the right column, responsible for breaking through the enemy's four blockades. He could not stop on the way to the Long March. Tan Zheng marched and mobilized his thoughts. No matter how hard he was, he was tired and tired. He also insisted on convening political cadres at all levels to deploy, do a good job in pre-war mobilization, and welcome the endless enemy attacks. The powerful power of work.

Tan Zheng has a high degree of self-discipline. Even under extremely difficult conditions of marching and fighting, he still maintains the good habit of summarizing in time. Every battle, he summarizes the success or failure in time, and accumulates strength for the next battle. From the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign to the end of the Long March, the hundreds of thousands of words of combat reports and political work summary reports he wrote in an extremely tense combat environment have become a rare and precious asset in our military's political work.

Tan Zheng is also good at combining the party's line, principles and policies with the specific reality of the army, and through theoretical study and research, puts forward the views and methods of military political work. Two of his most famous work reports. One is a report on the issue of military political work made by Tan Zheng at the senior cadres meeting of the Northwest Bureau in 1944. This report has long been a guide for our army's political work, and people are used to calling it "Tan Zheng report." Ye Jianying said that this report is "another historical document of our army's political work after the resolution of the Gutian Conference". The other is a report entitled "some issues of political work in the New stage of Army Building" made by Tan Zheng when he attended the eighth CPC National Congress in 1956, which was issued by the Central military Commission as one of the documents on army building in the new period and became another important document for army building.

Be diligent in thinking and be good at proposing solutions to problems

Tan Zheng is usually quiet and bookish, but he can always find ways and put forward ideas in time when he encounters problems, which is due to his habit of thinking diligently.

In the Dabadi battle, the Red Army won a great victory, but Dabadi was originally a mountainous area. The common people did not know what the Red Army did and hid in the mountains. The soldiers had no food to eat. It was a violation of discipline to take money from the villagers. The troops could not survive without food. Tan Zheng creatively proposed the method of "receiving a receipt. The specific method is: the army uses the food of the masses, eats the food and vegetables of the masses, and has to give money. If the troops do not have cash, they will give the masses a "receipt" and write down clearly how much food they have eaten, which will be repaid after the victory of the revolution. The masses can also take receipts to the Soviet government to pay public grain. Later this approach was put into practice in the Red Army. Mao Zedong praised Tan Zheng for his good discipline and said, "I heard that you still have a creation. I want to make a receipt. OK... I hope you will make greater progress in the future.

As the saying goes, be prepared. In 1958, when Tan Zheng, the director of the General Political Department, was inspecting the work of the Northeast Army, he put forward the requirements of "one specialization, multiple capabilities" and "one soldier with multiple uses" for the troops that were carrying out military training, especially the technical arms, to ensure that once the war starts, When soldiers have casualties, artillery and tanks will still play a role. Later, it was soon promoted throughout the army and promoted troop training.

Everything should be based on reality, not one-sided slogans.

In order to draft the resolution of the Gutian Conference, Tan Zheng followed Mao Zedong to conduct investigations and studies, and further helped him develop a pragmatic work style, which was also implemented in all periods of his future work.

In 1954, Tan Zheng served as the first deputy director of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army, leading and guiding the political movement of the military system. In the "three evils" and "five evils" movement, he always mastered the principle of "being strict in criticizing mistakes and lenient in making decisions", and strictly mastered policies without major deviations. In the army's campaign to eliminate counter-revolutionaries, Tan Zheng always insisted on seeking truth from facts, analyzing specific issues, and adhering to principles. He handled many false and wrong cases, rehabilitated many major unjust cases, and protected and saved a large number of cadres.

After serving as the director of the General Political Department, Tan Zheng took a few months to inspect the troops every year and found that problems were solved on the spot. Once, he went deep into the national defense construction force to inspect the work and listened to the report. A division cadre said that the slogan they put forward in the army was: "serious illness, small illness, serious illness, and hard work without illness!" Hearing this, Tan Zheng shook his head and immediately criticized and said, "No, no! This slogan is too one-sided, it will dampen the enthusiasm of the masses, increase the number of sick troops, reduce the number of troops, and make it difficult to maintain the revolutionary enthusiasm and enthusiasm of officers and soldiers. He suggested: "Do you think you should change the slogan you put forward? Change it to this: 'Rest for minor illness, stay in hospital for serious illness, and do well if you are not sick! '" All the cadres on the scene laughed.