[The Chinese Communist Party’s "One Hundred Thousand Whys"] Why could this revolutionary martyr "exchange" two copper coins for an 80-jin bronze statue?

　　Chinanews.com, Beijing, May 9th (Reporter Wang Kai) What is the value of the two coins?

What can be exchanged for?

One biscuits or two steamed buns?

And more than 80 years ago, on the land of Lanling County, Shandong Province, a Communist Party member's two copper coins were "exchanged" for a bronze statue weighing 80 kilograms. What is going on?

　　The incident dates back to the early summer of 1940, when Zhao Piao, the secretary of the Lunan District Committee of the Communist Party of China, led a team to inspect the work.

Zhao Biao blamed himself for this, and quickly took out two coins from the horse coat and put them on the watermelon as compensation.

Later, he specifically found the owner of the melon field to apologize.

　　It may seem like a trivial matter, but for Communist Party members like Zhao Piao, it has almost become "instinct" to put the interests of the masses first at all times.

In the Shandong Yimeng base area, party members, cadres, and army officers and soldiers not only strictly enforce the "three major disciplines and eight points of attention", but also actively help local people carry water, chop wood, sweep yards, pick up dung, and pull plows, and do various farming tasks.

　　The details can fully reflect the importance of the Communists to the interests of the masses: when the horse is tied, the horse's mouth should be covered, for fear that the horse should eat the crops of the common people; when digging wild vegetables, you should stay away from the village, and rather run more by yourself. , And leave the nearby wild vegetables to the common people.

　　The emotions of the people are the most simple, pure and fierce.

You are good to the people, and the people pay you back.

Therefore, when Zhao Piao fell into the enemy’s hands in the "Silver Factory Massacre" made by the Kuomintang diehards and was brutally killed by the reactionaries, the local people voluntarily raised 80 jin of copper coins, which were melted and cast into a bronze statue of Zhao Piao and stood in front of his tomb. .

　　On one side is a mere two coins, and on the other is a heavy 80-jin bronze statue. The two numbers seem to be completely unequal. Why can they constitute such a special "equation"?

This is because neither the communists’ affection for the masses nor the people’s loyalty to the Communist Party can be measured by simple “quantity” and “weight”.

　　When the people see that countless Communists like Zhao Piao always take the protection of the interests of the people as their own duty, and do not hesitate to fight and sacrifice for the people to live a good life, they will naturally support and support the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Army under its leadership. .

　　The heart of the party changes the heart of the people, and the loess becomes gold.

Therefore, whenever we look back at those hard and passionate years, we are always moved by the selflessness of the villagers in "the last bowl of rice, used to make military rations"; and the masses are moved by the "last foot of cloth, used to make military uniforms". Dedication; lamented the dedication of the common people "the last son, send him to the battlefield".

　　Both history and reality have proven time and time again that the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party lies in the people, the blood lies in the people, the strength lies in the people, and the success or failure lies in the people.

Believing in the masses, relying on the masses, serving the masses, and always maintaining flesh-and-blood ties with the masses of the people is not only the distinguishing mark of the CCP from other political parties, but also the rate of jumping out of the historical cycle and gaining the broadest mass foundation and deepest source of strength in long-term governance. root cause.

　　As General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, the country is the people, and the people are the country, and the people's support is related to the life and death of the party.

By winning the people's trust and the people's support, the party can overcome any difficulties and be invincible.

　　In the new journey, every Communist should keep this in mind, go deep among the masses, and closely integrate with the masses of the people. The Chinese Communist Party will be like a seed rooted in the fertile soil, gaining a steady stream of strength, and leading the people from one another. Victory leads to another victory.

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