King Zahi promised that King Zahi promised to join the army.

Edgar snow's wife, helen snow, has such an account in Yan 'an Notes:

"When we were in Yan 'an, we once met a tall and thin Red Army soldier, with curly hair and strange behavior, who didn't quite understand. Through translation, I know that he is a soldier in northwest Sichuan, and now he is studying and writing in a school in Yan 'an. He seems to get along well with most of these soldiers. "

The Red Army soldier mentioned by helen snow is Tashi Xuwang, an old Tibetan Red Army.

Tashi Wangxu1913 was born in a poor herdsman family in Xinlong County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province on June 25th, 2003. Since the age of seven, he has been herding sheep and doing long-term work for herders, suffering from class oppression and ethnic oppression. I lived a wretched life for 14 years. Later I left my hometown and went to Ganzi to make a living. Before the Red Army entered the Tibetan area, the Kuomintang reactionaries carried out reactionary propaganda, tried their best to vilify and slander the * * * production party and the Red Army of workers and peasants, and provoked the relationship between the Red Army and Tibetan compatriots. Influenced by this reactionary propaganda and the ethnic gap left over from history, the news that the Red Army was going to Tibetan areas caused a panic and turmoil. Tusi, chiefs, shepherds, big lamas, big butlers and rich people are all hiding in Tibet in fear. Poor herders fled to deep forests or remote areas to hide. Someone is hiding, too. Tashi Xuwang is one of them. He later told people, why didn't he run? At that time, he thought: no one hit the crow in the sky. Why? Because meat is inedible and hair is worthless. I am a poor man with nothing. Why did the Red Army kill me?

/kloc-at the beginning of 0/935, Xu and Chen Changhao led the Red Fourth Front Army into Ganzi. One day, King Chaxi Xu got the nerve to visit the county seat. At the gate of the old county, two Red Army soldiers stood guard and carefully inspected the Red Army entering and leaving. He thought to himself, they are all Han Chinese, and our own people don't know our own people yet? Check what?

When he was wandering near the city gate, the soldiers on guard came to talk to him. Tashi Xu Wang couldn't understand Chinese and shook his head. The soldier called in an interpreter and asked him what he wanted. Why did you answer quite simply: "Nothing, just want to see what the Red Army looks like? How is it different from the previous Han soldiers? "

Just then, an official-looking Red Army came out of it. He looked very kind and asked him which village he was from. What is the situation of the villagers? Has the man who ran deep into the forest come back? Are their cattle and sheep taken care of? Is life hard? Tashi Xuwang answered what he knew.

Seeing Tashi Xuwang's clothes in rags, the official gave him a shirt, a towel and a bar of soap. I also gave him a red cloth note to hang on his chest. At that time, Tashi didn't know that the red stripe was a kind of "representative card" with the words "national representative" written on it. Cha Xu later learned that under the leadership of the Red Fourth Army, Ganzi was holding a congress of monks and nuns from all walks of life to prepare for the establishment of the Soviet "Boba Government". No one in their village attended the meeting, so he came to him and asked him to be a representative.

The next day, he took two old people to the county seat. The Red Army soldiers saw him and saluted him. He felt very strange. In the past, Kuomintang troops discriminated against Tibetan compatriots. When they meet Tibetans, they often abuse and call them "Man Zi". But the Red Army is so kind to us Tibetans that it salutes me. The Red Army soldiers paid a military salute to Tashi, which left an unforgettable impression on Tashi. He believes that this is not a trivial matter, which shows that the Red Army has implemented the policy of national equality and national unity and respected Tibetan compatriots.

With that representative card, Tashi Xuwang and two old people walked into the Red Army headquarters. An official received them kindly and talked with them through an interpreter. Officials told them that the Red Army is the own army of the people of all ethnic groups under the leadership of the Productive Party, for the happiness of the people of all ethnic groups and for the poor. He also talked a lot about Nezha's reasons, which he couldn't remember or understand. But one thing has given Tashi Xuwang a deep education and feeling, that is, the Red Army is different from the Kuomintang, and it is good for us Tibetans and the poor!

Later, Tashi Wangxu learned that this cadre was Comrade Shao Shiping. After liberation, he served as secretary of Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and governor.

After learning about Tashi Wangxu's life experience, Shao Shiping seemed to see Tashi Wangxu's wish and asked him if he wanted to join the Red Army. Tashi readily replied: "Yes." Shao Shiping nodded with satisfaction. Shao Shiping said to Tashi Xuwang: After you go back, you should find the villagers who ran out and tell them that our Red Army is different from the Kuomintang army. We have strict discipline, we are not allowed to beat and scold the masses, we are not allowed to take advantage of the masses, we respect the customs and religious beliefs of Tibetan compatriots, and we protect the Lama Temple. As you can see with your own eyes, there are so many people in the Red Army that we would rather sleep on the grassland than enter a temple. Try to tell the villagers, don't be afraid, hurry home, take good care of their cattle and sheep, and live and work in peace. Tashi Xuwang went to various places to persuade people to go home according to the task assigned by Shao Shiping.

Geda is the living Buddha of Baili Temple in Ganzi County. His legal name is Ge Sang Tenzin Sabata Ye. 1902 was born in a poor peasant family in Xidi Village, Kanggong County. He is older than Tashiwang Xu 10 years old. Geda Living Buddha was identified as a reincarnation at the age of seven. He was invited to the temple and held a ceremony to sit on the bed, becoming the fifth Geda living Buddha.

Geda Living Buddha is a devout Buddhist with a sense of justice. Born in a poor peasant family, he has an instinctive sympathy for the broad masses of monks and laymen, but he doesn't believe the rumors spread by Kuomintang reactionaries. But I don't know much about the Red Army, so I quietly hid in the stockade just before the arrival of the Red Army. He didn't go far, he wanted to see the situation.

Tashi Xuwang soon found Geda Living Buddha and told him that the Red Army was the army of the working people, and it passed through Ganzi to resist Japan and Japanese invaders. The living Buddha also read the notices and related publicity materials of the Red Army, and at the same time learned something about the Red Army. Therefore, the living Buddha listened carefully to Tashi Xuwang's account and immediately led his entourage back to the temple. He was deeply moved to see that the Red Army would rather sleep on the grass than enter the temple, and the temple and Buddha statue were intact. After a period of observation and reflection, Geda Living Buddha later said to his entourage, "As a living Buddha, I went to three monasteries in Lhasa to study classics when I was 14 years old. The true meaning of Buddhism is to save suffering beings from suffering. The Red Army led by the Producer Party is different from the Kuomintang army. It strives for liberation for the working masses and enables both Han and Tibetan compatriots to live a good life. Although our beliefs are different, it is the same for the working people. "

Since then, Tashi Xuwang has been more active in helping the Red Army to carry out propaganda activities. Post notices, put up slogans, and send people to recall the villagers who fled to the deep mountains because of the reactionary propaganda of the Kuomintang, telling them to give birth with peace of mind, and not to believe in rumors and ask for trouble.

At that time, it was impossible to count the amount of food that Tibetan compatriots in Ganzi area helped the Red Army. In this process, Tashi Xuwang did a lot of work. According to the incomplete statistics of the housekeeper of Baili Temple, the "food for supporting the Red Army" donated by Baili Temple includes highland barley 134 stones, 22 stones of peas, 0/5 horses 19 yaks.

In order to thank the monks of Baili Temple for their support to the Red Army, on April 1936 and April 17, the Red Fourth Front Army issued a special notice for Baili Temple, clearly pointing out: "Chabaili Temple has made outstanding contributions to the revival of the Red Army and the hiding of Chiang Kai-shek. Our army gives protection, and no army can invade it. Offenders will be dealt with strictly, and this cloth will be cut! "

Tashi Xuwang publicized the masses everywhere and mobilized Tibetan compatriots to support the Red Army, which soon spread all over Ganzi area and was encouraged and praised by officers and men of the Red Army. Soon, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De arrived in Ganzi, personally visited Geda Living Buddha in the temple, and met with Tashi Xuwang and other Tibetan people.

1On May 5, 936, under the guidance of Zhu De, Liu Bocheng, Zhang, Chen Changhao, Xu and other Red Army generals, the "Ganzi Boba Government" was established in Ganzi. This was one of the first Soviet revolutionary regimes established by China in Tibetan areas during the Agrarian Revolutionary War, and it was also the most influential Soviet revolutionary regime. Shao Shiping is the chairman of Boba government, and Shaq Dowden, Geda Living Buddha and others are vice-chairmen. Tashi Xuwang was appointed as the cavalry company commander. His responsibility is to defend the newly born red regime in Tibet.

1May, 936, the Red Sixth Army Corps advanced to the rural towns, Daocheng and Batang counties in Kangnan area. Prior to this, Tashi Xuwang wrote to the temples, chieftains and chiefs in Xiangcheng, Daocheng and Batang through the Lama Temple in Zhanhua (now Xinlong County) to publicize the ethnic policy of the Red Army, indicating that the Red Army is a friend of people in Xizang, hoping not to listen to the rumors of the Kuomintang reactionaries and not to be enemies with the Red Army.

On May 14, the Red Sixth Army entered Xiangcheng and Daocheng, and was warmly welcomed by the representatives of the largest Sangpi Temple in Xiangcheng County, and donated a lot of food to comfort the Red Army.

The Red Army has strict discipline, respects the customs and religious beliefs of Tibetan compatriots, and protects the Lama Temple. Their sincere attitude, noble character and strict discipline deeply touched the Lama living Buddha. The living Buddha sent lamas to various places to inform people hiding in deep forests to go home and mobilize them to sell food and meat to the Red Army. The Red Army rested in villages and towns and Daocheng for seven days. During this period, people in Xizang supported the Red Army with a mountain of grain, which made sufficient material preparations for the Red Army to continue northward. On July 2, 1936, He Long and Guan Xiangying led the main force of the Red Fourth Army to Ganzi and joined forces with the Red Fourth Army. This is the famous "Ganzi stationed" in the history of our army.

Soon, the Red Fourth Army went north first, and Shao Shiping refused to let Tashi Xu Wang go with the army, and arranged a new task for him to prepare food and other materials for the Red Second Army to cross the Songpan grassland. Tashi Xuwang climbed mountains and went from village to village day and night, relying on the good influence left by the Red Army and his own efforts, in just over 40 days, he raised more than 46,000 kilograms of grain, in addition to some ghee and meat. He also mobilized a temple and gave 5000 Jin of highland barley at a time.

Under the conditions at that time, it was not easy to raise 40,000 Jin of grain. To put it simply, the Red Army is going to cross the grassland. At the most critical moment, a catty of highland barley can save the life of a Red Army soldier. The value and significance of these 40,000 to 50,000 Jin of grain are self-evident.

Hongsi, Honger and some teams arrived in Ganzi area successively. Never before in the history of Ganzi area have so many people gathered together. The so-called "raising food" mainly means borrowing food from monasteries, toasts and the masses, as well as silver dollars, gold bars and treasures from monasteries and toasts, and then buying food from ordinary people. The red army wrote an iou. The army leaders solemnly promised the Lama, the living Buddha, the chief and the masses that the revolution would surely win and the Red Army would definitely come back. When the Red Army comes back, it will definitely double the repayment, and it will never let the Tibetan compatriots suffer.

Soon after the Red Fourth Army left, the Red Second Army will also leave Ganzi. Go or stay, Shao Shiping asked Tashi Xu Wang for advice. Tashi thought, once the Red Army is gone, the leaders and chiefs in Tibetan areas are still in power, which is their world, and we poor people will continue to suffer. Once the Kuomintang troops come back, they will never let go of those who have helped the Red Army. After thinking about it, it is better to follow the Red Army in the revolution. He told Shao Shiping that he was willing to follow the Red Army. Shao Shiping was very happy and praised him for his high consciousness and courage. Just introduce him to He Long. There are many Tibetan soldiers in the First and Fourth Army, but not in the Second Army. In this way, Cha resolutely embarked on Xu's long March. He also became the only Tibetan soldier in the Red Second Army.