Chapter 13 Zhou Enlai in the "Zhou Mansion" in Shanghai on January and Tuesday

In 1946, during the negotiations between our party and the Kuomintang government, a bronze plaque was nailed to the gate of No. 107 Sinan Road (now No. 73 Sinan Road), Shanghai, with three large characters engraved on it: "Zhou Mansion".There is also a line of English words at the bottom of the bronze medal, which literally translates to "General Zhou Enlai's residence". This residence, which attracted the attention of the Chinese and foreign public opinion circles at that time, was the location of the Chinese Communist Party delegation's office in Shanghai. "Zhou Mansion" is a public name to adapt to the specific situation of Jiang's administrative area.From the beginning of May 1946 when the Kuomintang government "returned the capital" to Nanjing and moved eastward from Chongqing to the retreat to Yan'an on November 19 of the same year due to the final breakdown of negotiations, during the seven-plus months of vicissitudes, Comrade Zhou Enlai— —We called him "Vice Chairman" at that time, and foreigners called him "General Zhou"—often running back and forth between Nanjing-Shanghai-Nanjing, and conducted arduous negotiations with the Kuomintang.No. 107, Sinan Road, is the headquarters where he was entrusted by the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao to command the battle in Shanghai, which was entrenched by the Kuomintang.Looking back on those days and nights of fighting today, I still feel so dear!

"Zhou Mansion" is an independent garden house with one ground floor and three floors facing south.To the south, it faces Mei Lanfang Mansion across the garden.Since some of our advance personnel "topped" the house in March and April 1946, except for the side facing the Mei Mansion, the other three sides have been watched by Kuomintang agents.This used to be a very quiet high-end residential area in the French Concession. There were no shops, let alone peddlers.But as soon as we moved in, the front door suddenly became lively.Across the road was a shoe repair stand that never saw anyone.Some three-wheelers, pretending to be waiting for customers, always stop at the door.Cigarette peddlers, shaved men, hung about our door too, and were immediately recognizable as the worst actors.There are several houses around Zhou's mansion, which were forcibly "rented" by the secret service as surveillance points.They set up a secret surveillance base at the Shanghai Women and Children's Hospital at No. 98, Sinan Road, across the street. According to the secret order of Shanghai Police Chief Xuan Tiewu, the people sent by the Huangpu branch had to report in detail to the "Special Surveillance Report" that recorded the situation of the day.In a room directly opposite our gate, there is also a camera, which takes pictures of everyone who enters and exits the Zhou mansion.

Chen Jiakang and Xu Keli (the women's group of the Southern Bureau) lived on the north side of the Zhou mansion.Below their window was a secluded alley.There are also eyes watching this alley.When our people came back from the urban area, the first thing they saw was the windowsill of Ieyasu and Keli's room.For the sake of safety, we put a pot of chrysanthemums on the windowsill as a signal.Whenever enemy agents or their hired local hooligans come to make trouble, remove the flower pots.Before going home, you have to make a phone call to ask questions. When you get home, you have to look up at the window sill to see that the flowerpot is still there before ringing the bell to enter the door.

Vice Chairman Zhou and Mr. Dong attach great importance to security work.Whenever I interviewed some underground party members who went to Shanghai, in addition to talking about the situation and work, I always had to give them detailed and specific instructions on how to avoid the spies' stalking.Some comrades who knew the underground party at that time, when they talked with us about these situations in the future, they deeply lamented the concern and love of the leading comrades for the cadres in the enemy areas. The peace negotiations between the CCP delegation and the Kuomintang government were mainly carried out in Nanjing, but the vice chairman came to Shanghai four times in just six months and stayed in his "mansion".Sometimes come and go in a hurry.Sometimes they stay longer.

There are a lot of comments about old Shanghai, such as "Ten Mile Foreign Market", "Adventurer's Paradise", "Shanghai Beach", etc., all vividly express its conspiracy, dark and shameless side.It is the base camp of reactionary and dark forces, and it is here that Chiang Kai-shek started his career.But Shanghai is also the place where China's industry and the Chinese working class are most concentrated. It is also the base of revolution and progress, the birthplace of the Communist Party of China, and the most developed area of ​​Chinese culture, science and technology.It can be said that both progressive forces and reactionary forces are concentrated there.According to the materials seen at that time, 80% of the gold in the Kuomintang-ruled areas was stored in Shanghai at that time, and 80% of the Kuomintang government's fiscal revenue also came from Shanghai.Shanghai was actually the lifeblood of the Kuomintang at that time, and it was also an important base for our party to carry out foreign affairs work, united front work, social work, propaganda work, and cultural work in the Kuomintang-controlled areas.

There is another important reason for Vice Chairman Zhou to come to Shanghai, which is the need for negotiation struggles.Everyone knows that at that time the Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek had no sincerity in the peace talks, and it only used the peace talks as a smokescreen to deploy a full-scale civil war.To achieve real peace in China, it is necessary to thoroughly expose the conspiracy of the Kuomintang to the Chinese and foreign people and the broad masses of the people.Vice Chairman Zhou called this "a lesson to educate the people".He said: We know that Marshall and Chiang Kai-shek are deceiving, and we know that the negotiations will not yield any results, but we have to negotiate with them, because the people don't understand, and if we don't talk, we will be isolated.We must complete this "lesson of educating the people" through the facts and through our efforts.

On the one hand, with the full help of the United States, the Kuomintang used all means to expedite the transport of troops and ammunition by land, sea, and air. Chiang Kai-shek himself also flew to Guling, Mount Lushan to avoid the wind, and asked the generals below to fight freely, in an attempt to destroy us by force. On the other hand, it uses political deception to create an atmosphere for peace talks and spread the illusion of peace talks in an attempt to dilute the serious fact that it is aggressively attacking the Liberated Areas militarily, so as to induce public opinion to mistakenly think that it is still willing to negotiate. There is hope.

Whenever this happened, Comrade Enlai came to Shanghai from Nanjing.He said to us angrily: I can't stay in Nanjing any longer, and objectively help Chiang Kai-shek to create the illusion that the negotiations are still going on and there is still hope for the negotiations.Chiang Kai-shek and the United States were unreasonable in the negotiations and exerted pressure, thinking that we were afraid of them, and forced us to cede territory and seek peace and sign an alliance under the city.But we don't like that.So, I simply left Nanjing.I came to Shanghai to let the whole country and the whole world know that the peace talks have suffered setbacks and are at an impasse or a standstill.If I don't return to Nanjing for a day, it shows that the negotiations have not resumed.

When meeting foreign journalists, Comrade Enlai said that because the Kuomintang government refused to guarantee an armistice, he had temporarily withdrawn from the Nanjing negotiations and would no longer conduct meaningless consultations with the government and American representatives.He would not return to Nanking unless it was agreed to reopen the only military triumvirate with the authority to discuss the armistice.As for the five-member informal group chaired by Ambassador Stuart, the scope of discussion was limited to the reorganization of the National Council. At a time when the civil war was continuing, the achievements of the five-member group were of no practical significance.

At that time, when we were studying current affairs and policies, we debated a question: Will Chiang Kai-shek choose war in the end, or peace? Some comrades think: For Chiang Kai-shek, if there is no fight, it can be delayed for several years; if fight, it is obvious that it will quickly lead to complete destruction.Chiang Kai-shek is a smart man, so he must not be so stupid as to ask for his own death, right? After listening to Comrade Qiao Mu (Qiao Guanhua, the same below), the vice chairman smiled and said after hearing this statement, don’t imagine for Chiang Kai-shek whether he is smarter or not smarter.It is impossible for him to act according to the logic of our communists.Standing on an extremely reactionary standpoint, he can only try to destroy us and fight us.He may be smart about other things, but on the big question of such a historical choice, he can't be smart, he can only be stupid.

In the Zhou mansion, the most exciting thing is the vice chairman's Chinese and foreign press conference. At the reception, the sonorous and powerful Mandarin of the vice chairman with a little Huaian accent still echoes in our ears, far away but clear. Pointing to the map, he revealed the details of Chiang Kai-shek's instigation of civil wars in various regions in front of more than a hundred Chinese and foreign journalists packed into the venue.He analyzed the situation and explained the basis for our victory.Sometimes when I became impassioned, I left the translator, Comrade Zhang Wenjin, and pointed to the battle situation map while speaking directly in English.The next morning, when I read the English newspapers, I often found that when reporting, foreign journalists often like to specify which passages were spoken by "General Zhou" in English.In this way, the vice chairman worked hard to clarify the truth and our party's position to the whole country and the world through the pen and mouth of Chinese and foreign journalists. The excitement of Vice Chairman Zhou holding Chinese and foreign press conferences is also because such occasions often involve face-to-face struggles with Kuomintang agents. The reception was held in the large living room on the first floor of Zhou Mansion.But because there were too many reporters present at the meeting, there was no room for them to sit in the living room, and many people had to sit in the dining hall on the first floor.Therefore, the vice-chairman always stands in the middle of the door of the corridor hall of the large living room, with half of his body in the living room and half of his body in the corridor.The doors were left open to allow as many journalists as possible to attend.In this way, half of Vice Chairman Zhou standing between the living room and the corridor can be seen from outside the gate.Once, the vice chairman was speaking to Chinese and foreign journalists. Comrade Guan Baowei quietly told him that there were several spies with guns standing at the gate, and asked the vice chairman to stand in the living room so that half of his body should not be exposed.The vice-chairman was furious when he heard that, he simply went to the platform directly leading to the gate, and loudly shouted at the man with the gun outside the gate: "Which one of you is a spy? Stand up and let everyone see! I was invited by your government to negotiate. How dare you use such despicable means against the negotiators!" The vice chairman's awe-inspiring uprightness and fearless spirit scared the spies away. What we later called democrats and patriots, at that time they called themselves "people from the third side", meaning the "third side" who was neither the Kuomintang side nor the Communist Party side.At the end of 1946, Mr. Ma Xulun wrote an article "Re-discussing the Third Aspect and the Democratic Front" in Shanghai's "Wen Wei Po" and pointed out: Since the Kuomintang authorities openly overturned the resolution of the Political Consultative Conference and held the non-French Congress organized by the Kuomintang party, China has only democracy and democracy. The anti-democratic two aspects do not allow a third aspect in addition to these two aspects, so the term "third aspect" should no longer appear in the period of striving for democracy.After Ma Xulao's declarative article was published, it was basically no longer seen that anyone claimed or was called "the third aspect." Vice Chairman Zhou is a model for united front work.He respects and understands his friends, and these friends also respect and trust him.He sometimes talks with friends, discusses, and sometimes explains patiently. Mrs. Soong Ching Ling, Mrs. Sun, whom we have always respected, has met with the Vice Chairman many times in Shanghai and had cordial talks.We have also seen Mr. Soong Ching Ling visit the Vice-Chairman Zhou Mansion in person.Mr. Guo was a frequent visitor at that time.He was not old at that time, and his skills were still very vigorous.Once, he jumped over a puddle of rainwater in the garden, and then blew to several old gentlemen who came with him: "Look! I came here in one stride!" Zhang Lan, Shen Junru, Ma Xulun, Ma Yinchu, Tan Pingshan, Liu Yazi, Huang Yanpei, Zhang Bojun, Luo Longji, Zhang Naiqi, Tao Xingzhi, Zhou Jianren, Liang Shuming, Xu Guangping, Sha Qianli, Shi Liang, Bao Dasan... These later participated in the CPPCC, Patriotic democrats working for the National People's Congress or the People's Government are often or sometimes seen in the Zhou mansion. The Shabaab people who "mixed in and out", when they were still in the "third side", sometimes appeared in our large living room.Later, Zhang Junmai, the leader of the Democratic Socialist Party who was ordered to "leave the alliance" by the Democratic League because of his participation in the pseudo-National Congress, was also a frequent guest before the "wavering" passed. On July 25, 1946, Mr. Tao Xingzhi, a democratic fighter and people's educator, suffered a sudden cerebral hemorrhage and died suddenly.How sad it is for Vice Chairman Zhou to hear the bad news!With tears in his eyes, he said: After Tao Fen passed away, our party lost another most intimate, reliable, and most valuable friend!A non-Party Bolshevik!This is really a great irreparable loss for our party and our people!On the same day, he praised Mr. Tao as a non-Party Bolshevik who followed the party without reservation, and told comrades such as Pan Hannian and Wu Yunfu who were working in Shanghai to take good care of their progressive friends. Vice Chairman Zhou has always attached great importance to the work of the cultural sector.Many famous writers, artists and film and theater actors are often invited to discuss.Among them are Tian Han, Yang Hansheng, Hu Feng, Xia Yan, Yu Ling, Huang Zuolin, Liu Housheng, etc., as well as movie stars Bai Yang, Qin Yi, Zhang Ruifang, Danny, etc. One day, as we were going out, we saw a man in his forties who was wearing a yellow silk gown, a straw hat, and a walking stick under his arm. When he saw someone coming out, he quickly took it off. Straw hat, with an exaggerated Beijing accent, asked sternly: "Excuse me, is this the Zhou mansion?" Such a dress style, such a clear and resonant stage Beijing accent, the real party was amazed!We took a closer look, and it turned out to be Mr. Zhou Xinfang, the founder of Peking Opera "Qi Pai", who is Lin Tong!Later, I learned that he was invited by the vice chairman to come to the Zhou mansion to participate in a discussion with people from the literary and art circles. The morning after Vice Chairman Zhou's press conference for Chinese and foreign journalists is often our most nervous moment.At that time, Guo Moruo, Shen Junru, Ma Xulun, Huang Yanpei and other old friends often came early, and when they were almost there, the vice-chairman called Yu Chan (Yu Tu was named Yu Chan at the time) to report all the English newspapers that morning. The report on the Chinese and foreign press conference he held the day before, about the reaction and comments on our party, was translated on the spot for him and these guests to listen to.What newspaper, who is the reporter who wrote the news, what he said was reported and what was not reported, what was reported truthfully and what was distorted, you have to explain clearly one by one, otherwise he will ask.Sometimes, Vice-Chairman Zhou even needs to know if any influential foreign personages have been to Shanghai or Nanjing that day.These are all part of the tasks of our foreign affairs group's external liaison group.Vice Chairman Zhou and the guests were listening and talking, and the atmosphere was like a family. I remember that when Siping was fighting fiercely, a few democrats advised us to take the initiative to "give up" Siping.When we voluntarily gave up Zhangjiakou, a few democrats thought we couldn't stand it anymore.Others blame our land reform policy for "harming" the interests of the "mass".They even think that our party's strategic policy of annihilating the vital forces of the enemy army as its main goal, rather than gaining or losing in one city or one place, is just an excuse for "defeat", and so on.At that time, many of us young comrades were very angry about this.However, Vice-Chairman Zhou pointed out to these democrats on the one hand: At the negotiating table, Chiang Kai-shek has not yet dared to ask us to "give up" Siping Street. Convince them patiently.He also taught us young comrades who are restless, don't worry, they will correct their wrong ideas by themselves when we launch a major counter-offensive in the future. The development of the fact really is so. In November 1946, after the NLD solemnly announced its refusal to participate in the "National Congress" organized by the KMT, the vice-chairman once concluded that if the NLD does not participate, the "National Congress" will stink.This purpose was achieved.This is the result of the eight-year war of resistance and the negotiations in the past year. Most of the third party actually dared to oppose Chiang Kai-shek and followed our path. The situation is developing rapidly.Before leaving Shanghai, Vice Chairman Zhou wrote in a letter to Mr. Guo and Yu Liqun on the night of November 17, 1946: "From now on, we have to look at the front line. It can be as long as half a year, or as long as a year, and we will know." By the autumn and winter of 1948, it was already clear on the front lines.The mood of these old friends who took a boat from Hong Kong to the Northeast Liberated Area is completely different from that in Shanghai. Here, we feel it is necessary to mention a "foreign" guest—Mr. Wen Youzhang, a famous Canadian peacemaker. Mr. Wen Youzhang is an old friend of Zhou Mansion.He discussed the situation with Vice Chairman Zhou, discussed affairs with Ieyasu and others, and also helped our young comrades polish the English manuscript.In the Zhou mansion, he felt like he was at home. Ms. Anna Louise Strong, a famous female journalist and writer in the United States, before she went to Yan'an, the vice chairman met her in the Zhou mansion in Shanghai.It was late July 1946, and the leader told Yu Chan that Ms. Anna Louise Strong had come to Shanghai and lived in the Broadway Building (now called the Shanghai Building), so Yu Chan wanted to bring some food immediately to visit her first. , to extend a warm welcome to her.If she makes any requests, she will try her best to agree to them, because she has never made unreasonable requests. Yu Chan followed the instructions of the leader to visit her and expressed a warm welcome.The only request she made was to meet General Zhou Enlai! Yu Chan replied immediately: I will report to the general immediately.I think the general will be very happy to see you.The specific time and place will be decided by the general and you, okay?Strong was very reasonable: "It's at the convenience of General Zhou!" On the second or third day, Yu Chan went to the Broadway Building again to pick her up at the Zhou mansion to meet with Vice Chairman Zhou.Later, I heard from Comrades Qiao Mu and Wen Jin that the vice chairman introduced to her in detail the situation of the Kuomintang army attacking our liberated areas and the basis for our victory and Jiang's defeat based on a newly drawn map of the battlefield situation. After meeting with General Zhou Enlai in Shanghai, Ms. Strong flew to Yan'an via Beiping to interview Chairman Mao Zedong. Sister Deng said in July 1946 when answering questions from reporters in Shanghai: Zhou Enlai was very busy for the real peace of China.It is impossible to take a nap in the afternoon, and I sleep very little at night, and I can't sleep well.Zhou Enlai lost weight and was not as strong as before.At this time, we also found that our vice-chairman lost weight. How could he not be thin? Strong is certainly strong, but people are not robots after all.In those days and nights when he was in the "assault" state, he was never seen taking a nap at noon. At night, according to the general situation, he always had to work until around 4:00 the next morning before he could rest, and when he got up around 7:30 in the morning, he immediately started another day's work. Work hard.This kind of life almost ran through his whole life.One night, when it was one o'clock, Ieyasu told Yu Chan that the vice chairman wanted Yu Chan to sort out an urgent material for him immediately.After Yu Chan finished his work, it was almost four o'clock in the morning, so he tiptoed down from the second floor where he was to the office and bedroom of Vice Chairman Zhou on the first floor.At first glance, Vice Chairman Zhou, who has worked hard all day, is still sitting at the table, wearing glasses, and is concentrating on reading materials covered in extremely small and extremely small fonts! Of course we are also busy at work, but we all have a clear division of labor: those who are in charge of internal work are only concerned with internal work, and those who are in charge of external affairs are only concerned with foreign affairs.Except for sometimes necessary cooperation, they generally do not get involved in other people's work scope.But the Vice-Chairman is a completely different story.He has to take care of everything.As secretary of the Nanjing Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he is also responsible for guiding the work of the underground party in the Kuomintang-controlled areas in southern my country.In practice, he strictly separates legal and illegal, open and secret, upper and lower levels, inside and outside the party, and cooperates closely, working in an orderly manner.He is familiar with many party members and many situations.He often meets comrades from the underground party. He is so busy, and he always cares about the safety of every comrade. The comrades in the Zhou Mansion don't go out to the streets casually not for work.One day, Comrade Guan Zhenqun, a young cadre from Guangdong who went out to work alone (everyone called him "Molotov" because of his resemblance) had not returned until 10 pm, long after the scheduled time.The vice chairman was very anxious when he found out, and personally gathered everyone together in the hallway used as the dining room on the first floor. Face-to-face criticism of the responsible comrades should not allow a young comrade who has just arrived in Shanghai to go out to work alone at night. If necessary, he must be accompanied by someone. Just as the vice chairman was talking, that little Guangdong came back by himself.It turned out that on the way back, he found someone following him, and it took him a lot of effort to get off the "tip" and get home.As soon as he entered the door, he saw that Vice Chairman Zhou was so anxious about his safety. He was so moved that he burst into tears! Comrade Liu Guang, the leader of the youth group of the Shanghai Working Committee, changed his name due to illness, filled in the address of a friend's house, and was admitted to Shanghai Fourth Hospital.The vice chairman was so busy that he visited the hospital in person three times. On the morning of July 16, Comrade Liu Guang finally stopped breathing forever.The vice chairman and Sister Deng rushed to the hospital after hearing the news. He was too sad to speak, and Sister Deng cried loudly while holding the corpse.How every comrade, even the young comrades, affects the heart of the vice chairman! Vice Chairman Zhou is busy with work, so eating is very simple.At home, he always insists on eating the same meals at the same table as everyone else.At that time, Sister Chen, who was in charge of the cooking, always felt that the food was too monotonous for the vice chairman who was busy with daily affairs, so she sometimes secretly scrambled eggs and served it.The careful vice chairman saw that there was nothing on the other table, so he told the comrade in charge of administration that he was not allowed to be "special" to him in the future, and pushed the scrambled eggs to the center of the table, asking everyone to eat together. By the way, the vice chairman has lost weight, and most of us have not gained weight either.Just imagine, the vice chairman is so busy, doing so many things every day, his secretaries, and almost all the staff, who can not dance to this fast beat! What a toilful day and night!However, how much we long to live this kind of hard work, but there is no wrangling, no unhealthy tendencies, and the days and nights when we really devote ourselves to work wholeheartedly! At one time, the leader reported that: According to reliable information from the underground party, the Kuomintang CC sent a secret service agency, planning to send a large number of spies, and hired a group of hooligans and thugs to attack the "Northern Subei refugees" (Northern Subei return home groups, fugitive landlords, etc.) The KMT is called "refugees") came to our Zhou mansion to "petition" and "protest" against our land reform policy, and took the opportunity to smash the Zhou mansion in the chaos and killed our staff.The communication also stated that the KMT secret agents have newly formulated a series of assassination methods, including: pretending to be in a normal car accident, waiting for an opportunity to drive our personnel to death on the street; The false appearance of some of our personnel were shot and killed, and so on.Although we are all members of the Communist Party of China who have been officially registered and have registered residence, Yuli cannot harm us, but the Kuomintang has always been anti-communist and unscrupulous, and it does not care about it! For this reason, the vice chairman pointed out angrily at the Chinese and foreign press conference: From throwing stones in the Cangbaidang, injuring people at the entrance of the school yard, to destroying the "Xinhua Daily", and carrying out assassinations everywhere, now it has developed to the assassination of Li Gongpu, Wen Yiduo and two gentlemen!This series of events was planned and was no less serious than a civil war, because it was an attack on the unarmed democrats, industrialists, journalists and writers in the rear, which is really shameless!There are many democrats on the blacklist of Kuomintang agents, who are ready to arrest, beat, kidnap and assassinate them.The names of democrats are all in the hands of Chen Lifu, let alone us Communists!The vice chairman shouted loudly: Now is not the time before the war of resistance, we want to stretch the snow!We want to sue!I hope that the gentlemen of the reporters will use their pens and mouths to accuse, so as to stop this despicable and shameless atrocities! Once, the vice chairman went out by car and found that there was a Zhongtong spy car closely following him.When the vice chairman's car stops, it stops, and when the car drives, it also drives.Vice-Chairman Zhou asked the driver to stop, got down and walked to the spy car, and yelled: "I, Zhou Enlai, was invited by your Generalissimo Jiang and American Marshall to negotiate, do you know that?"What are you guys doing here?Get away from me!The spies had no choice but to turn around and run away in despair.Afterwards, the vice chairman even protested to Wu Guozhen, the mayor of KMT Shanghai, asking him to guarantee that similar incidents would not happen again in the future.Wu Guozhen had no choice but to make a guarantee. Since the Kuomintang tore up the resolution of the CPPCC meeting, brazenly unilaterally held the illegal "National Assembly" on November 15, 1946, and finally closed the door to peace talks, and completed the lesson of educating the people.After Vice Chairman Zhou flew back to Yan'an on November 19th of this year, the Zhou mansion was renamed the "Shanghai Liaison Office of the Chinese Communist Party Delegation" and Mr. Dong was in charge. On the morning of October 4, 1946, the memorial meeting for Mr. Li Gongpu and Wen Yiduo, who were shot dead by Kuomintang agents successively, was held at the Tianshou Stage (now known as the Labor Theater) on Sima Road, Shanghai.The leader sent the two of us to attend the meeting and observe the situation. Near the venue, a large poster of "Democracy can't die!" stood out in front of our eyes, and it captured everyone's hearts at once!At the gate of the venue, there were two rows of American-made machine guns, from the gate to the inner door downstairs.The military and police officers around the venue, step by step, loaded their guns with live ammunition, as if they were facing an enemy.They guarded the door and watched everyone entering the venue, checking the admission badge one by one. Even journalists were not allowed to freely enter the venue for interviews. The venue was full of spies and "short-clothed men" (thugs), all of whom were wrapped in black gauze around their arms (it is a great irony for the murderer to wear mourning for the martyrs!), and there were also many hired hooligans, Scoundrels and some children who look like elementary school students who are not yet sensible.These people took all the seats around the venue and in the back row.According to the attendees sitting next to the meeting, this group of people rushed to occupy seats at six o'clock in the morning. It was agreed that the secret agents would take the lead in applauding, and they would follow suit. .The reward is that in addition to having a breakfast, each person is also given "five dimes" (fifty cents).When we entered the venue, this group of people was making up for breakfast - munching on buns and bread.A female worker who was coaxed to come here said to others: "Ask me to come, saying that there is a good show to watch. Why haven't the gongs started yet!" Eating melon seeds, laughing and playing, acting like no one else is around. KMT Shanghai Mayor Wu Guoxu first delivered a speech, followed by Shanghai City Council Speaker Pan Gongzhan. They said that Shanghai is "a model of democracy and freedom in the country" and that "the people are allowed to speak and criticize", but "there must be a sense of proportion" and "responsibility" ", "We must take into account the impact on the country, nation, society, and the world", and so on.The spy took the lead, and the group applauded sparsely.What's interesting is that some of them may think that they are praising a singer, but they shouted "An Kaoer!" Shouting like a famous actor in a play: "Yo, yo, good!" "Yo, yo, good!" It's really dumbfounding! As soon as the representatives of the democratic parties and democrats without party affiliation took the stage to speak, the spies took the lead in clamoring: "The tail of the Communist Party!" "The tail of the Communist Party!"However, the speeches of Mr. Guo Moruo, Shi Liang, Luo Longji and Chu Tunan still won warm applause from the masses. Just before the applause of Mrs. Guo's speech fell, she suddenly saw Ms. Deng Yingchao appearing on the podium!With a serious and solemn demeanor, she announced loudly: I would like to read out the eulogy written by Zhou Enlai, head of the CCP delegation: Sister Deng's solemn voice of justice shook the audience.Every time she read a sentence, the audience applauded enthusiastically.After only a few minutes of reading, it ended abruptly, and she calmly walked off the podium.At this time, thunderous applause erupted in the audience again, which could not stop for a long time. Seeing this scene, we were so excited that tears filled our eyes. Under the circumstances, those hired by the secret agents also applauded desperately.After a while, a few spies understood and hurriedly gesticulated and shouted: "Wrong! Wrong! Don't clap your hands! Don't clap your hands!" However, a group of spies could not turn the situation around, and the masses applauded thunderously. , has been sending Sister Deng to the car.We have won this important round of struggle between democracy and dictatorship! Two days later, on October 6, Vice Chairman Zhou personally attended the public memorial ceremony for Li and Wen martyrs held in Jing'an Temple.People look at the portraits of the two martyrs Li and Wen, and there is always that huge poster in front of them: "Democracy will not die!" Yes, the scene of the memorial meeting proved it, and the historical development in the future proved that democracy cannot die. ! The two of us were the youngest of the cadres working beside Vice Chairman Zhou at that time. We were both members of the foreign affairs group (foreign affairs committee) and the foreign liaison group of the delegation. When Chiang Kai-shek finally closed the door to peace talks and our delegation was forced to make an emergency retreat, which comrades returned to the Liberated Areas, which comrades went to work in Hong Kong, and which comrades stayed in Shanghai and went underground, Vice Chairman Zhou made decisions based on the specific circumstances of each comrade. The situation, together with the comrades in charge, conduct research and make a decision individually. On the night of October 14, 1946, Comrade Chen Jiakang, the leader of our outreach team, told the two of us not to sleep at night, to wait for orders and to be ready to leave at any time.In the middle of the night, he came to inform us that we were going to Hong Kong.We immediately picked out all the "earth" things in the box, leaving only some "foreign" things.Every one or two hours, we were notified that there was a change and we had to go back to the liberated area.So we poured out all the "foreign" ones, and filled the box with some "earth" ones.After another hour or two, they informed us that we were still going to Hong Kong, and they turned the suitcases upside down again.When it was already dawn, we were finally notified: immediately board the boat and set off back to the liberated area.At this time, Comrade Ieyasu solemnly told us that this was the decision made by the vice chairman himself.According to our majors, we should go to work in Hong Kong, but the vice chairman finally made up his mind to arrange us to go back to the liberated areas because we were afraid that we would have a baby soon, and we were afraid that it would be difficult to handle in case of danger in Hong Kong.When we learned that our beloved vice-chairman had spent the whole night thinking twice about a little life in the future at such a critical moment, how could we not be moved, how could we not feel empowered? The next day, in the early morning of October 15th, we boarded the landing craft bound for our liberated area from Shanghai, and successfully returned to Yantai in the liberated area of ​​Shandong.