Parental love: Why did Meng Tianzhu become a general at a young age?

It was Jiang Defu’s eightieth birthday, and the whole family was here. Jiang Yafei made a joke and revealed that Meng Tianzhu had become a general.

Meng Tianzhu is a representative of the Sixth National People's Congress. He once held a special report meeting in the garrison area to promote the spirit of the meeting. The Sixth National People's Congress was held in 1983. At that time, Meng Tianzhu was about 30 years old, and he was the youngest deputy to the National People's Congress. Jiang Defu retired not long after. Men usually retire at the age of sixty, which means Jiang Defu's eightieth birthday and Meng Tianzhu's fifty. Some people struggle all their lives but never become a general, but he has realized other people's dreams at a young age. How could Meng Tianzhu be promoted so quickly?

When Meng Tianzhu and Jiang Yafei first met, his thick dialect made him laugh. When they met again, she still used it to joke. The accent proves that Meng Tianzhu comes from a low background. His native family may be from the countryside. He has not changed his accent for many years. It is not that he is unwilling, but that it is indeed difficult to change. If he belongs to an urban or cadre family, he may speak Mandarin well. Jiang Weimin once went to the mountains and countryside. Because he spoke Mandarin well, he served as the announcer. Why Jiang Weimin can speak Mandarin well has something to do with his family background. In addition, when he first arrived at Jiang Yafei's house, he was submissive and seemed to have never seen the world at all, which also reflected his poor background. Meng Tianzhu's starting point is not high, but his ability is outstanding, otherwise he would not have become the director of the Political Department of the Youth League at a young age, and he is also the youngest deputy to the National People's Congress. How can he do this without two brushes? While he was chatting on the phone with Jiang Yafei, two pennants were hung on the wall behind the camera. This shows that his work ability is very strong and his department is often praised by his superiors.

The era that Meng Tianzhu lived in happened to be the transition period between the old and the new. The army had just emerged from the special era, and there were aging problems in weapons, equipment, and personnel. Therefore, the slogan of modernization was put forward at that time. Both personnel and weapons needed to be modernized. to meet the needs of modern warfare. The modernization of personnel first requires rejuvenation. Meng Tianzhu's age coincides with that era. He is very young and capable. In addition, he may have received a certain degree of education and has a relatively high cultural level. Without a certain culture, it will be difficult for him to do a good job in ideological and political work. Being young and promising was exactly what that era needed, so he was promoted. Meng Tianzhu did political work in the army, from the director of the political department of the regiment headquarters to the political commissar of the regiment, then to the garrison area, and finally served as the deputy political commissar of the military headquarters. Political work is very important in the military, and political cadres are more prominent in peacetime. Therefore, political cadres like Meng Tianzhu are relatively easier to be promoted.

Meng Tianzhu is young and promising, but he also needs to appreciate his talent. As the saying goes: There are Bole in the world, and then there are thousand-mile horses; thousand-mile horses always exist, but Bole does not always exist. Without Bole, Meng Tianzhu might not have been able to rise so fast or so high. His decision-making power in the regiment headquarters is not in the garrison area, which means that Jiang Defu cannot decide regiment-level cadres. Despite this, the opinions of higher authorities are still very important. Although they cannot decide the candidates, they can provide opinions. If you have no opinion on the candidate, the probability of passing is very high; if you have any opinion on the candidate, the probability of passing may be reduced. Relatively speaking, Jiang Defu's opinions are not as important as the political commissar of the garrison area. Because Meng Tianzhu is the political commissar of the regiment and a political cadre. Jiang Defu is the commander of the garrison area and a military cadre. There is little overlap between the two at work, so it is difficult to express opinions. Meng Tianzhu's work will intersect with Wang Zhenbiao. Wang Zhenbiao was initially the director of the political department of the garrison area, and later he was promoted to the deputy political commissar of the military department, just like Meng Tianzhu did when he congratulated Jiang Defu on his birthday.

Wang Zhenbiao had been transferred out of the garrison area in the mid-1970s, and whether Meng Tianzhu was in the army in the garrison area was not explained in the play. At that time, he might have been a soldier in the army below, or in another army. If he were in the army below, then Wang Zhenbiao's work might intersect with his. If not, then the two might not know each other. Nonetheless, the two men's later work did overlap. When Wang Zhenbiao served as deputy political commissar of the military department, Meng Tianzhu was the regiment political commissar. He and Wang Zhenbiao were separated from each other by a garrison area, but they were both responsible for military political work. The two may have had a meeting together. Meng Tianzhu came from the garrison area where he once worked, was equivalent to an old subordinate, and was also a deputy to the National People's Congress. These factors may have caused Wang Zhenbiao to treat him differently and pay special attention to Meng Tianzhu. It is not ruled out that he would try his best to recommend him. .