Liu Shaoqi's Honesty Anecdote

Being close to the people: caring for the masses and putting people's interests first.

In May, Liu Shaoqi conducted a rural survey in Ningxiang County, Hunan Province.

Visit the villagers from time to time.

Liu Shaoqi is always full of enthusiasm for the people. The first thing that comes to mind is convenience, and the interests of people's lives and property are the most important.

1942 In the spring and summer, Liu Shaoqi left Huaihai District and came to Shandong to guide his work. When Liu Shaoqi lived in Xiazhuang Village, Donghai County, the house was small and there were many troops, and all the people lived in houses. There is a toilet on the right side of the house and a stone mill by the window. The landlord often gets up in the middle of the night to push the mill, which makes Liu Shaoqi sleep badly. When the staff around him wanted to suggest that the landlord change the grinding time, Liu Shaoqi waved his hand and resolutely disagreed, and said humorously, "Are you okay not to let the people eat?" Liu Shaoqi always thinks of the convenience of the masses first, and shares joys and sorrows with the people.

After 1956, Liu Shaoqi went abroad for many times, and spent about one-third of his time in the grass-roots investigation and research. Every time he goes out, he always tells the staff around him before going out. In addition to telling them where he is going, the purpose and task of going, and who to look for after going out, he also told them not to ask for and accept other people's gifts outside, with special emphasis on not letting others pick him up. He said: "local comrades are very busy, don't let others pick them up at the station;" All the activities there are arranged by others. "

At that time, according to national regulations, Liu Shaoqi had to take a special train when going out. Wherever he goes, people always arrange for him to stay in a high-class hotel. In order to avoid causing trouble to the place, he sometimes eats and lives on the train. The invited chef cooked some simple meals himself and invited the staff to the office. 1959 went to Jinan for inspection. When Liu Shaoqi wanted to talk to some comrades, he said to the staff around him: "Please come to the car, I won't go down; After a while, people will have to entertain, find a house and arrange meals. It is too much trouble and a waste of money. " 196 1 year, he went to Daxinganling in the northeast to inspect the forest area, and also ate and lived on the train for more than a month.

There is a regulation in the railway department that when the special train passes, all passenger and freight vehicles along the way should give way to ensure the driving time and safety of the conductor. Liu Shaoqi paid special attention to this, and every time he told his entourage not to affect the normal operation of passenger vehicles, so as not to affect people's travel and delay others' work. When Liu Shaoqi's special train needs to stop somewhere, he always asks the accompanying staff to tell the railway department to stop at the unused fork. To this end, I also made a joke.

It's at Pukou station. When the train arrived at the station, Liu Shaoqi was already asleep. At dawn, a train passed by and the noise woke Liu Shaoqi. He suddenly sat up and said, "Oh, no! The car stopped at the station, which affected the traffic of others. " Liu Shaoqi hurriedly asked Wu Zhenying, the accompanying staff. Wu Zhenying told him: "Our car is parked on the fork near the station, which does not affect the passage of other cars." Hearing this, Liu Shaoqi was relieved.

Going out to inspect, not eating and living in the special train, Liu Shaoqi will definitely eat and live with the masses. The spring of 196 1 is a typical example when he returned to his hometown for investigation.

Originally, for the inspection of Liu Shaoqi's hometown, the Hunan Provincial Party Committee arranged strict security work and arranged a car to accompany him. However, Liu Shaoqi said seriously: "This time, we must adopt the method of guerrilla warfare in the past. Everything is very simple. As long as we have a jeep, we must appear as ordinary workers. "

Liu Shaoqi kept his word. On April 2nd, an ordinary jeep carried Liu Shaoqi from Yuan Jialing's Hunan Provincial Party School, and embarked on his journey to visit rural Hunan. The bumpy country road in my hometown is muddy, and the jeep is struggling in the rain. For 63-year-old Liu Shaoqi, this jeep has made great contributions. 44 days and nights, 33 days in the field, visited Ningxiang, Changsha, Xiangtan and other places 10 production brigade, with a total journey of more than 4,000 kilometers. He personally tasted the wild vegetables and chaff that farmers ate to satisfy their hunger, and personally felt the hardships and difficulties of farmers' lives. Because of this, he collected a lot of first-hand information.

On April 12, after finishing the investigation in Ningxiang County, Hunan Province, Liu Shaoqi went to Tianhua Brigade of Guangfu Commune in Changsha County for further investigation. There is still no mighty police car, long motorcade, and even the chief can't recognize anyone at a glance. So he and his wife Wang quietly came to our brigade. After getting off the bus, Mr. and Mrs. Liu Shaoqi directly lived in a shabby hut in Wangjiatang. The mud wall in the room has peeled off in chunks, and the room is very dark. If there is no glass window, block it with a coarse cloth; If there is no bed, use two long benches to build two door panels instead. Local cadres once suggested that Liu Shaoqi live in a better house, but Liu Shaoqi insisted on "eating and living with the masses" and did not specialize. The next day, Liu Shaoqi called a group of cadres to hold a forum. In order to really know the truth, avoid the cadres of the brigade and go deep into the masses, Jill invited seven ordinary farmers to have a direct discussion. During the 18-day rural investigation by Tianhua Brigade, Liu Shaoqi lived with farmers, went from village to village, listened to the sufferings of farmers' brothers, and got to know the real situation and problems. Here, he stopped "boasting" and "directing blindly" and decided to dissolve the canteen, thus restoring the normal order of people's production and life.