Chapter 34 3. The "Deng Xiaoping Task Force" has come to an end

In the autumn of 1969, the relations between China and the Soviet Union suddenly became tense due to frequent border armed conflicts.In mid-October, Lin Biao issued the "Order No. 1" on the entry of the entire army into a first-level combat readiness, and the country, including the capital Beijing, entered a state of preparation for battle.According to Mao Zedong's opinion, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made a unified "war preparation evacuation" arrangement for the party, government and military organs stationed in Beijing and veteran comrades in Beijing.Among them, it was decided to place Deng Xiaoping and his family, who still wore the title of "No. 2 Capitalist Roader in the Party," in Jiangxi, allowing Deng Xiaoping to work and rest within a limited area.

On October 18th and 19th, at the same time that Lin Biao's "Order No. 1" was issued, Zhou Enlai successively called the Jiangxi Provincial Revolutionary Committee from Beijing to give special instructions and explanations for the arrangements for Deng Xiaoping's family.He first rejected the opinion of the person in charge of the Jiangxi Provincial Revolutionary Committee that he planned to place Deng in Ganzhou, and pointed out: Ganzhou is far from Nanchang, the transportation is inconvenient, and it is a mountainous area with poor living conditions, so it is not appropriate to arrange the Deng family here. .Later, Zhou Enlai put forward specific suggestions: it is advisable to choose the suburbs of Nanchang, and the house should also be a two-story building. The upstairs is for the Deng and his wife, and the downstairs is for the staff. Go out for a walk and be safe.

According to Zhou Enlai's opinion, the Jiangxi Provincial Revolutionary Committee withdrew the original arrangement, and finally settled Deng Xiaoping's family in the residence of the principal (major general) of a certain infantry school in Wangchenggang, Xinjian County, on the outskirts of Nanchang City (commonly known as "General Building"). The conditions are basically in line with those proposed by Zhou Enlai.The Xinjian county tractor repair and repair factory where Deng Xiaoping "decentralized labor" is not far from his residence. It was not until the "revision plan" of the Jiangxi Provincial Revolutionary Committee was fully implemented that the stone in Zhou Enlai's heart in Beijing was finally settled.

On October 20, Deng Xiaoping and his wife left Beijing for Nanchang by plane.From then on, he began to live in exile, half working and half studying. Since then, Zhou Enlai, who has been entangled in domestic and foreign affairs, has been thinking about Deng Xiaoping's family who was sent thousands of miles away. One year later, in the autumn of 1970, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held the Second Plenary Session of the Ninth Central Committee in Lushan, Jiangxi.At this meeting, Lin Biao and his gang made a big fuss in Lushan to seize power.For this reason, Mao Zedong wrote "A Little Opinion", criticizing Chen Boda, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Ninth Central Committee who followed Lin Biao and the former head of the "Central Cultural Revolution Group", and then exposed the sectarian activities of Lin Biao's group.

During the Lushan Conference, Zhou Enlai, who actually played the role of "Secretary General", was extremely busy and nervous.After Chen Boda and others' incident happened, he worked continuously for more than 30 hours without closing his eyes; he finally had a heart attack due to excessive fatigue, and the medical staff on the scene immediately rescued him. ... In such a tense environment, Zhou Enlai thought of Deng Xiaoping, who lived not far from Lushan Mountain-this old comrade-in-arms who was decisive and light-hearted as the Secretary-General of the Central Committee at the age of 23.

One day, he said to Zhang Zuoliang, a health doctor beside him, "I have two acquaintances here (referring to Jiangxi)! One is your colleague, Zheng Shuyun (who used to be Zhou Enlai's health nurse, and was at the Ministry of Health in Jiangxi." 5. Seven "cadre school); the other is my colleague, named Deng Xiaoping, who lives near Nanchang now. One is 'Zheng', one is 'Deng', and two are 'ear swords'!" In the fall of 1970, when the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing cliques were still full-fledged and powerful, Zhou Enlai directly called Deng Xiaoping, who was still wearing the title of "the second capitalist roader in the party", "my colleague", which shows that Deng was in Zhou's mind at this time. occupied position.

More importantly, after the Lushan Conference, Zhou Enlai also took a decisive move to end the "Deng Xiaoping Task Force" that had been established for more than two years. On November 28, 1970, the "Deng Xiaoping Task Force", which had been ineffective since its establishment, wrote a report to Kang Sheng, Huang Yongsheng, Wu Faxian, and Ye Qun, requesting relevant departments to continue to investigate Deng's "three anti crimes" and " Surrender and accept rebellion" and other issues.At this time, Wu Faxian had just been criticized by Mao Zedong for the issue of the Lushan Conference, so he did not dare to act rashly, so he forwarded the report to Zhou Enlai and Wang Dongxing.A few days later, the "special case team" suddenly read a comment from Zhou Enlai on the approved report: "Comrade Dongxing, these are all public documents. Please consider whether you need to read them all. I remember when Deng Xiaoping and Tan Zhenlin were sent to the lower levels. , The two have been withdrawn from the task force."

These seemingly euphemistic but in fact sharp words criticized by Zhou Enlai disappointed and frustrated the members of the "Deng Task Force".It turned out that Deng Xiaoping had nothing to do with the "special task force" more than a year ago, but as a member of the "special task force", he didn't even know about it, and was still working hard to find various "problems" about Deng.What a ridiculous thing this is!Even so, the members of the "special task force" still did not give up, and they wrote a "request for advice" report to Huang Yongsheng, Wu Faxian, etc., in which they carefully and tentatively asked: "If it has been decided to withdraw the Deng Xiaoping task force, what should we do to Deng Xiaoping?" Will the review of Deng Xiaoping's three anti-crimes and the recruitment and rebellion be no longer submitted?" As a "response" to this report, on December 24 of the same year, Wu Faxian's secretary came to the "Project "Group" and announced to all the staff: "The report on the Deng Xiaoping issue you sent up and the Premier's approval for the previous report have been read by the chiefs. The chief asked you to tell you not to send any more reports, nor the Deng Xiaoping case. Do it again..."

As a result, the "Deng Xiaoping Task Force" disbanded without any notice.And that "discussion" report became the last document before the "special task force" was disbanded.