Chapter 57 Five or six, a Communist Party member who strictly abides by the discipline of secrecy

Time flies like an arrow and like flowing water. I often recall some scenes in the early days of our party. In China at that time, under the control of the imperialist powers, warlords of various factions separated feudal regimes, fought endlessly, dark forces were rampant, and the people suffered a lot. The advanced elements in China worked hard to find the truth of saving the country and the people, and the victory of the October Revolution greatly influenced and inspired them. Many people yearned for socialism, which set off an upsurge in learning and propagating Marxist theories. Our party was established on the initiative of some of these advanced elements.It firmly believes in Marxism, represents the interests of the people of all ethnic groups in China, and is the vanguard of the working class. It has strict organizational principles and strict disciplines, so it has strong vitality since its birth.

Although the imperialists and feudal warlords were torn apart and fought against each other, they all regarded the new force of the Communist Party as a great enemy, like a scourge, and wanted to kill it. In the face of a powerful enemy, our party relies on the truth, the masses, and a team of enlightened party members to continue to fight bravely.When our party members joined the party in the 1920s, although they did not hang bright party flags and hold solemn oath ceremonies like they do now, its seriousness and solemnity still make every comrade unforgettable.When the person in charge of the party organization (or introducer) announced that he accepted himself as a glorious Communist Party member, when he forcefully announced that Communist Party members should abide by the party's rules, he was very excited in his heart and made up his mind to swear to be a Communist Party member. Revolution sacrifices everything.

I can still clearly remember the content of the code: abide by the party program and the party constitution, join the party organization, obey the party's distribution, pay party fees regularly, abide by the party's discipline, keep the party's secrets, and fight to the end for the cause of communism.Because the party organization at that time was in a state of secrecy, special attention was paid to the education of party members to observe discipline and keep secrets, and they paid close attention to it. The impression is still very deep. Today I will talk about Comrade Zhou Enlai, a member of the Communist Party that I have seen with my own eyes in decades of political life in the party, who has always strictly abided by the party's secrecy discipline.

Comrade Enlai and I joined the party at different times and in different places, and we did not work together in the same place in the early days of the party, so none of us knew when and who joined the party.During our correspondence, we never mentioned things that are not allowed by the party's discipline.We just talk about our own and our friends’ ideology, or pour out our ideals, and tell our yearning for revolution.We didn't know each other that we were both party members until after he returned to China through the organization's communication. After we got married, Comrade Enlai and I had an agreement that we could work in one place or one institution, but not in a specific department.We have followed this agreement for decades.It now appears more appropriate that couples do not work in the same specific department.At the same time, we often remind each other that we must strictly abide by party discipline and keep party secrets under all circumstances.Because we believe that party discipline is no exception for every party member.The more responsible a party member is, the more he should lead by example, the more he should consciously observe discipline and strictly guard party secrets.

In the winter of 1926, Comrade Enlai was transferred from Guangdong to work in Shanghai. I still stayed in Guangzhou, and there was no communication with each other.The third armed uprising in Shanghai, I did not know that he participated in the leadership. On April 12, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup in Shanghai, massacring communists and revolutionary masses.Comrade Enlai persisted in the struggle under the severe white terror, and later he was transferred to Wuhan under the order of the party.My residence in Guangzhou was also searched by the Kuomintang. Three comrades living with me were arrested immediately, one was shot dead the next day, and the two finally died in prison.At that time, I was still in the hospital due to dystocia, and I was able to escape by relying on the timely notification from the party organization and the generous help of the masses.Soon, Wang Jingwei betrayed the revolution again, Ning Han merged, and our whole party went into a state of underground secrecy.

In the face of the crazy suppression of the Kuomintang reactionaries, our Party Central Committee studied the situation at that time and decided to hold an armed uprising in Nanchang to counterattack the Kuomintang reactionaries. It also decided to send Comrade Enlai as the secretary of the Party's Front Enemy Committee to Nanchang to lead the uprising. On July 19, when he was about to leave Wuhan, he told me around dinner that he was leaving for Jiujiang that night.What to do, how long, nothing to say.I have become accustomed to secrecy and asked nothing.At that time, the enemy was present, and everyone was full of hatred.We just shook hands tightly and said goodbye in silence.After this separation, when will we meet again?In the years of white terror, whether it is between gays or husbands and wives, every time life and separation really means goodbye!Later, I read the newspapers of the Kuomintang and found out that the Nanchang Uprising had taken place.

Party organizations often teach us: don’t talk about things you shouldn’t say; don’t ask about things you shouldn’t ask; don’t read documents you shouldn’t read.This is the need of the party's interests.In the history of our party, there are many communists worthy of our memory. For the benefit of the party, they often strictly enforce the party's secrecy discipline at the critical moment of life and death, destroying the party's secrets vigilantly, and even destroying party secrets in emergencies. The confidential documents were chewed and swallowed forcefully.We have many martyrs and surviving old comrades. In order to protect the safety of the party organization and comrades, in the enemy's court, under torture, they would rather sacrifice their own lives than reveal the slightest secret of the party to the enemy. The severe test of the struggle against the enemy.I will never forget their heroic and unyielding fighting spirit, the noble character of unswerving loyalty to the party and infinite loyalty.

In the war years, the military struggle is directly related to the success or failure of the revolution.The military situation is changing rapidly, and the leak of a military operation may cause us to suffer major setbacks.Therefore, keeping secrets has become the conscious action of every comrade.Non-military matters requiring confidentiality must also be kept strictly confidential.On the Long March, during the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, our iron stream was able to be invincible and finally defeated a powerful enemy. Strict discipline, especially strict keeping of secrets, was a very important factor.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, our party occupies a leading position in the life of the entire country, and in a new historical period, the tasks it shoulders are even more important.Conserving the secrets of the party and the state is the sacred responsibility of every member of the Communist Party, especially the middle and senior cadres.Comrade Enlai knows many secrets of the party and the state.We still abide by discipline between us, if he doesn't talk, I don't ask; if I don't talk, he doesn't ask.There are many things that we keep secret from each other.For example, when the first atomic bomb exploded in our country, he also kept it a secret from me.At that time, he told the person in charge that for this test, all engineering and technical personnel must absolutely pay attention to keeping state secrets. All the information about the project and the test is only allowed to be known to the personnel who participated in the test, and they cannot tell other comrades, including their own family members. and relatives and friends.He said: Comrade Deng Yingchao is my lover and a member of the Party Central Committee. This matter has nothing to do with her work, and I don't need to tell her.The comrades in charge went to the test site to convey Comrade Enlai's speech and asked everyone to strictly abide by the discipline of confidentiality, so there was no disclosure in advance.I only found out about this when I read the interview materials of the Central Literature Research Office recently.

In order to keep the secrets of the party, his office and the storage of his documents are all set up with extremely strict systems.The secretary next to him, who divides the work to contact which aspect of work, will only look at the documents of that aspect, and is not allowed to casually look at irrelevant documents.As for matters within the scope of their division of labor, conditions are fully provided for them to be familiar with the business.Even if the matters within the scope of the secretary's division of labor are particularly confidential, the relevant personnel should not be informed until they have to be handled.The secretaries all said that he was not transparent.According to regulations, no one else can open any personal letter written to him.The secretary accidentally opened it while handling it, so he must seal it immediately and explain on the envelope that it was opened by mistake, so pay attention in the future.Comrade Enlai's office is where he works more than ten hours a day.Except for relevant personnel, no one else is allowed to enter, and relatives and friends are no exception unless they come to discuss work.The key to his office door and safe is always on him 24 hours a day, usually in his pocket, and pressed under his pillow when he sleeps.Only when he goes abroad, the two keys are handed over to me for safekeeping.I hid the key as if accepting a secret mission.Once he left in a hurry and didn't find the key still in his pocket until the airport, so he sealed it in an envelope and asked a comrade to bring it to me.When he came back, the first thing we did was to return the two keys to him.

During the ten years of turmoil, the party's discipline and secrecy system was seriously damaged, and it was trampled to the point where there was almost no secrecy.Comrade Enlai once went out to a meeting, because one after another, he didn't come back all day and night.I heard that the big-character posters on the street and gossip had revealed the content of the meeting. I was a little suspicious. When he came back, I asked him if there was such a thing?He immediately asked: How do you know?Who did you listen to?He also questioned me so seriously.I jokingly said: You participate in the meeting, you have your channel, I have mine, I contact the masses, and I also have my "voluntary intelligence agent".We both laughed about this matter.At that time, people said, what secrets are there now?But Comrade Enlai is still tight-lipped and tight-lipped. After Comrade Enlai got cancer, we talked together once, and he said to me: "I still have a lot of things in my stomach that I haven't said." I answered him: "I also have a lot of things in my stomach that I haven't said." Knowing that the final farewell will soon appear in front of us cruelly and mercilessly, but we finally buried the words we didn't say in our hearts, and buried them in our hearts forever. Now, we have embarked on the road of the new Long March, and this road is not smooth.All kinds of shells will also hit us. We still have to be vigilant!We need to restore and correct our party style, strengthen our party's discipline, and especially conscientiously and strictly implement the party and state's secrecy system.My brief introduction to Comrade Enlai in this regard may be beneficial to comrades.