Anecdotes of Liu Shaoqi's Integrity

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

In May p>1961, Liu Shaoqi visited the villagers during a rural survey in Ningxiang County, Hunan Province

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

In the spring and summer of p>1942, Liu Shaoqi left Huaihai District and came to Shandong to guide his work. Once when living in Xiazhuang Village, Donghai County, Liu Shaoqi lived in a room of ordinary people because of the small house and many troops. 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 the joys and sorrows with the people.

After p>1956, Liu Shaoqi went out to inspect many times, and spent about one-third of the year going to the grass-roots level to investigate and study. Every time he goes out, he always talks to the staff around him before he goes out. Apart from telling them where he is going, the purpose and task of going, and who to look for after going out, he tells them not to ask for and accept gifts from others outside, and especially emphasizes not to let others pick him up. He said: "local comrades are very busy, don't let others pick them up at the station;" Everything in the activities there is arranged by others. "

At that time, according to national regulations, Liu Shaoqi had to take a special train when going out. Everywhere 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 chef brought in cooks some simple meals by himself, and asks the staff to join in the office. When he visited Jinan in 1959, Liu Shaoqi wanted to talk to some comrades and said to the staff around him: "Please come to the car, I won't go on; After a while, people have to entertain, find a house and arrange meals, which is too troublesome and a waste of money. " In 1961, he went to the Daxinganling Mountains in the northeast to inspect the forest area, and for more than a month, he also lived and ate on the train.

there is a regulation in the railway department that when a special train passes, all passenger and freight vehicles along the way should give way to ensure the driving time and safety of the chief. Liu Shaoqi paid special attention to this, and every time he told the accompanying staff to tell the relevant personnel not to affect the normal operation of passenger vehicles, so as not to affect the travel of the masses and delay other people's affairs. When Liu Shaoqi's special train needs to stop somewhere, he always asks the accompanying staff to tell the railway department to park at the unused fork. To this end, there was also a joke.

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

When going out for inspection and staying in the special train, Liu Shaoqi will definitely eat and live with the masses. In the spring of 1961, when he returned to his hometown for investigation, it was a typical example.

Originally, the Hunan Provincial Party Committee arranged the security work closely and arranged a car to accompany Liu Shaoqi in this investigation. However, Liu Shaoqi said seriously after knowing it: "This time, we must adopt the method of guerrilla warfare in the past. Everything is simple, as long as we have a jeep, we must appear as ordinary workers."

Liu Shaoqi means what he says and does what he does. On April 2nd, an ordinary jeep set off from Yuan Jialing's Hunan Provincial Party School, carrying Liu Shaoqi 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 Liu Shaoqi, who is 63 years old, this jeep has made great contributions. For 44 days and nights, he spent 33 days in the fields and visited more than 1 production brigades in Ningxiang, Changsha and Xiangtan, with a total journey of more than 4, kilometers. He personally tasted the wild vegetables and chaff that farmers ate to satisfy their hunger, and personally felt the hardships and hardships of farmers' lives. Because of this, he collected a lot of first-hand materials.

On April 12th, 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 who is the head can't be recognized at a glance. So Liu Shaoqi and his wife Wang Guangmei quietly came to our brigade. After getting off the bus, Mr. and Mrs. Liu Shaoqi went straight to live in a shabby hut in Wangjiatang. The mud wall in the room has peeled off in chunks, and the room is very dark. There is no glass window, just block it with a coarse cloth; There is no bed, so two long benches are used to set up 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 truly understand the truth, avoid the cadres of the brigade and go deep into the masses, Jier invited seven ordinary farmers to have a direct discussion. During the 18-day rural investigation of Tianhua Brigade, Liu Shaoqi lived with farmers, went from village to village, listened to the sufferings of farmers' brothers, understood the real situation and problems, stopped "boasting" and "directing blindly" here, and decided to dissolve the canteen, which restored the normal order of people's production and life.