During the Anti-Japanese War, the founding general Huang Yongsheng opened a restaurant. Why did Chen Geng never pay for his meals?

Hubei Province, my country’s well-known General Province, has Hong’an, known as the First General County. There are currently 14 founding generals from Hubei, and there are six from Hong'an. Xianning, across from Wuhan from Hong'an, also lost one of its founding generals, Huang Yongsheng. The founding general Huang Yongsheng

The founding general Huang Yongsheng was a very capable person. He joined the army when he was 17 years old. Ye Zaikai, who was the former general of the People's Liberation Army, was an underground party member. Just one month after Huang Yongsheng joined, Ye Zaikai and Luo Shuai led the Tongchong peasant uprising. Following Marshal Luo, he fought everywhere. He participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising and followed the army to Jinggangshan, Jiangxi.

More than ten days later, Huang Yongsheng followed the peasant uprising team to the border of Jiangxi and Hunan, and participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising led by the current chairman, starting a lifelong revolutionary career.

Although the Autumn Harvest Uprising was of great significance, the situation faced at that time was very unfavorable. The three teams that set foot in Changsha were defeated one after another, which seriously affected the fighting spirit of the army. Later, after three bays were reorganized, This team of only a few hundred people has the cohesion of the team. At that time, there was a requirement. If you were unwilling to follow the group, you could leave and go home, and you would be paid the fare.

Facing the pursuit of his opponents, Huang Yongsheng has never been afraid. He has been actively following everyone to fight everywhere and achieved a brilliant victory. When he was only 22 years old, he was The superior department made an exception and was promoted to division commander.

In 1935, Huang Yongsheng was assigned to serve as deputy division commander under Lin Biao. He led the troops to achieve a great victory in Luozhen, laying a good foundation for the comprehensive war of resistance. During the Anti-Japanese War, Huang Yongsheng became the deputy commander of the military region. They actively trained soldiers, strengthened local armed forces, and cooperated with Marshal Nie's actions in another place. Pig-raising champion Huang Yongsheng

During the entire battle, Huang Yongsheng, in addition to leading troops to fight, also loved to carry out production work. He proactively led everyone to carry out production work and contributed to the Allied forces. The warrior profession provided a lot of help. At that time, our supply of supplies was constantly blocked by the enemy, and many Allied soldiers were even starved of food. The manufacturing activities carried out by General Huang Yongsheng provided a lot of help to the Allied soldiers.

At that time, Huang Yongsheng actively responded to the breeding, spent a lot of energy, and achieved very good results. They were just two ordinary piglets, but they quickly became outstanding under Huang Yongsheng's care. Looks strong and strong. He also got the title of "Pig Raising Number One".

Afterwards, the upsurge of large-scale production movement gradually moved from agriculture, animal husbandry and breeding to industrial industry. Therefore, Huang Yongsheng also seized this craze and prepared to open a hotel. Huang Yongsheng opens hotel

Xianning City, the hometown of Huang Yongsheng's family, is known as the "Hometown of Hot Spring in my country". It has beautiful scenery and many special delicacies, such as fried fish, fried sweet potato noodles, loach stewed with tofu, etc. , Huang Yongsheng likes to eat eels and loach very much, and his cooking skills are very good.

This is why Huang Yongsheng wants to open a hotel. After a period of planning, the restaurant called "Xinhua Hotel" was officially opened. As soon as the restaurant opened, some of Huang Yongsheng's old comrades came here because of its delicious dishes, affordable prices and high cost performance, and it quickly became popular.

One day, Chen Geng also came back to congratulate him and ordered many special dishes. After tasting them, Chen Geng was full of praise. After a full meal and a drink, his suffocated stomach was relieved. General Chen Geng stood up and was preparing the mechanical watch error. The waiter came back and asked Chen Geng to settle the bill.

When Chen Geng heard that the bill was about to be paid, he smiled and said: "Little comrade, please tell Boss Huang that I am happy to treat me to dinner, but I don't have money, but my life."

The waiter didn't know Chen Geng, so he hurried to find Huang Yongsheng. When Huang Yongsheng heard that someone was eating without paying, he came out angrily, but when he saw that it was Chen Geng, the flames disappeared.

These are old comrades who are here to support us. They are all old revolutionaries. How much money do we need! He repeatedly said to Chen Geng: "They are all old revolutionaries and they should be free."

Soon, the news about Chen Geng not paying for meals spread, and many people who were familiar with Huang Yongsheng came to join in the fun. After dinner, they joked: "We are all old comrades, Chen Geng doesn't pay for meals." Paying for it, I should be free.

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Every time they came to the restaurant, Huang Yongsheng would smile and waive the bill without charging money once. For Huang Yongsheng, opening a restaurant itself is an amateur activity. He does not really do it to make money. When he was working in the restaurant, he poured a lot of money into it. Later, due to the emergency of the war, he closed the restaurant.

As a general leading thousands of troops, General Huang Yongsheng was besieged in the northern Shaanxi base area. Under the premise that the Party Central Committee put forward the call for production self-rescue, he took the initiative to study pig breeding knowledge, took the lead in production, and achieved material self-sufficiency. He also tried to open a restaurant to promote local economic activities. His comrade Chen Geng said that he came to him Eating "overlord meals" in restaurants actually promotes revolutionary optimism and encourages soldiers to face difficulties and persist in self-rescue.