Chapter 22 warriors are warriors

On August 13, 1974, Comrade Ma Mingfang passed away unfortunately. When the sad news came, I was deeply saddened.Comrade Ma Mingfang and I have been working together since 1928, and we have gone through more than 40 years together on the journey of revolution.His untimely death is a great loss to our party.Some people say that Comrade Ma Mingfang died of illness, but in fact he was killed by Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four". Lin Biao, the "Gang of Four" and their henchmen in Liaoning, in order to overthrow a large number of leading comrades from the central to local governments and achieve their goal of usurping the party and power, as early as 1967, they labeled Comrade Ma Mingfang as a "traitor" and "agent" , "Three Anti-Molecules".Published a long article "Down with Ma Mingfang" in the newspapers they controlled, doing their utmost to slander and frame them.Later, he was sent to Beijing to be imprisoned.One of Lin Biao's best friends personally served as the head of the task force.They held a private court, tortured him to extract a confession, and forced him to admit that he was a "traitor", which was sternly refuted by him.During his detention, he secretly wrote several letters of indictment to Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou with some torn papers he picked up, declaring the brutal persecution he had suffered.However, under the circumstances at the time, it was impossible for these letters to be delivered to Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou.Later I saw some fragments of manuscripts, which his eldest daughter took out from Comrade Mingfang behind the guards' backs at great risk.From these bloody and tear-stained manuscripts, we can see how cruelly persecuted he suffered and how tenaciously he fought!He said in the letter that in prison, Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four" first conducted a "wheel battle" against him for several days, interrogated three times a day, and was not allowed to rest, which tortured his already sick body until he became weak. Unbearable.Afterwards, the so-called "clear mind" was carried out for more than 20 days, and various criminal laws were used to coerce, confess, and believe him, which severely damaged him mentally and physically.In the face of this group of thugs, Comrade Ma Mingfang has always been steadfast and unyielding, refusing to admit that he is a "traitor".In front of this well-tested revolutionary veteran, the mob was furious and tortured him even more brutally.By the end, he was so tortured that he could barely move.But he always had great trust in the party and Chairman Mao, and firmly believed that Chairman Mao would save him. In 1973, due to his serious disability, he was sent to the hospital for "detention and treatment".At first, family members were not allowed to visit, and family members were not allowed to take care of her when she was seriously ill, and no emergency measures were taken when she was critically ill.When he was dying, his family members were allowed to visit him in the hospital.Comrade Mingfang repeatedly said to his lover and children: "I have no problem, I have not done anything harmful to the interests of the party. In case I die, you should try to tell Chairman Mao that I, Ma Mingfang, am a good person, am I not Traitor." Comrade Ma Mingfang, loyal and revolutionary all his life, was killed by Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four" in this way!It must be pointed out that the one who cruelly persecutes Comrade Ma Mingfang is also the "persecution expert" who claims to be invariably correct, but has actually done a lot of bad things and caused great public outrage.On June 1, 1968, this person listened to the report of Ma Mingfang's task force and said: "This case is a betrayal and surrender. "Ma Mingfang, Fang Zhichun, and Zhang Ziyi are the chief culprits", "Don't shake our views just because the enemy is fighting against us, we must be determined, patient, and confident."Under his direct command, Comrade Ma Mingfang was imprisoned and tortured for seven years.

Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four" persecuted Comrade Ma Mingfang, targeting Premier Zhou. When Chairman Mao went to Chongqing for negotiations in 1945, he proposed to the Kuomintang: release all our personnel in Xinjiang prisons.After many negotiations and struggles by Comrade Zhou Enlai, the Kuomintang was forced to release these comrades.During the period when Comrade Ma Mingfang was detained by Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four", Premier Zhou pointed out many times that the comrades released from prison in Xinjiang had no problems, and he handed over the materials that Ma Mingfang and other comrades stationed in Mingfang had no problems to the task force controlled by Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four". They ignored him and continued to persecute Comrade Ma Mingfang.After Lin Biao's self-explosion, Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou instructed: Quickly review and rehabilitate Comrade Ma Mingfang.However, the "Gang of Four" obstructed it, and it was not until May 1975 that the conclusion of redress was made.After being distributed by Chairman Mao to various places, the "Gang of Four" party members in Liaoning still withheld it from distribution, were not allowed to convey it, and were not allowed to be rehabilitated.However, history is merciless. The Party Central Committee smashed the evil "Gang of Four" in one fell swoop, and many unjust and false cases were vindicated.Comrade Mingfang, your unjust case must also be completely vindicated, and no one can stop it.

Comrade Ma Mingfang is one of the main leaders of the northern Shaanxi revolutionary base area, and a long-tested and strong proletarian revolutionist of our party, who has made great contributions to the liberation of the Chinese people.He was born as a poor peasant, went to school for several years, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1925.During the Great Revolution, he was appointed by the party to do military work in Xi'an. Returned to northern Shaanxi in the autumn of 1927, and successively served as Secretary of the CPC District Committee, Secretary of the County Committee, Acting Secretary of the Northern Shaanxi Special Committee, Chairman of the Soviet Government of Northern Shaanxi Province, Secretary of the Northern Shaanxi Provincial Committee; The third secretary, deputy director of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, director of the Central Finance and Trade Department, third secretary of the Northeast Bureau, etc.He was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee at the Party's Seventh National Congress, and was elected as a member of the Central Committee at the Party's Eighth National Congress.

The year that Comrade Ming Fang returned to northern Shaanxi, the Great Revolution had failed, white terror enveloped the urban and rural areas, and the party was in serious difficulty.In the difficult years, Comrade Mingfang's firm revolutionary will and revolutionary courage left a deep impression on me.At that time, I was Secretary of Tuan Suide County Committee, and Comrade Ming Fang was Secretary of the Party’s North District Committee.He often went deep into the countryside, secretly contacted comrades, and carried out mass work.With his efforts, after a period of time, the party organization was quickly restored and the party's work was carried out. In 1928 and 1929, there were successive years of severe drought in northern Shaanxi, and flocks of hungry people fled everywhere. The Suide County Party Committee once organized tens of thousands of farmers into the city to fight against the landlords and gentry.I was in charge of the command in the city, and Comrade Mingfang mobilized and organized farmers into the city in the countryside.The victory of this struggle dealt a heavy blow to the reactionary arrogance of the landlords and gentry, and further developed the peasant movement in northern Shaanxi.

In the winter of 1931, Comrade Ming Fang transferred the work of the Special Committee in Northern Shaanxi, and the focus of the Party's work shifted from the cities to the countryside. Mass organizations such as the League, Freemaids, and Women's Associations led the masses to fight against donations, taxes, debts, local tyrants, and land distribution. In July 1933, the Northern Shaanxi Special Committee held an enlarged meeting and decided to launch guerrilla warfare, establish rural base areas, and divide several guerrilla areas such as Anding, Yanchuan, Shenfu, Suiqing, and Jiawu.Comrade Ma Mingfang personally drafted the instructions for launching guerrilla warfare.This meeting was an important turning point for the party organizations in northern Shaanxi to shift from secret activities to public activities, and from ordinary struggles to armed struggles.After the meeting, special committee members were sent to various guerrilla areas to strengthen the leadership of the guerrillas. I was sent to Shenfu at that time, and Comrade Ming Fang went to the Anding area to rectify the first guerrilla detachment.With the support and cooperation of the 26th Army of the Red Army headed by Comrade Liu Zhidan, the guerrillas in northern Shaanxi expanded rapidly. In 1934, the guerrillas in northern Shaanxi were unified, with Comrade Xie Zichang as the commander-in-chief.Under the leadership of the Northern Shaanxi Special Committee, guerrilla warfare has developed rapidly.The base area in northern Shaanxi has also been further expanded. In 1935, the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Special Committee and the Northern Shaanxi Special Committee held a joint meeting in Anding, and established the Party's Northwest Work Committee and Northwest Revolutionary Military Committee with Liu Zhidan and Ma Mingfang as the core. Comrade Chairman of the Soviet Government of Northern Shaanxi Province. In May 1935, Chiang Kai-shek's second "encirclement and suppression" was smashed, and the base area expanded to more than 20 counties, and the Shaanxi-Gansu border and northern Shaanxi became one piece.This was a period of great development of the Red Army and the revolutionary base areas in northern Shaanxi.In October of the same year, Chairman Mao led the Central Red Army to northern Shaanxi. Since then, the revolutionary base in northern Shaanxi has become the foothold of the Red Army's Long March and the starting point of the Anti-Japanese War.Comrade Ma Mingfang's great contribution to the revolutionary cause should of course be recorded in our party's glorious history, and Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four" cannot be erased.

In 1941, Comrade Ma Mingfang returned from studying in the Soviet Union and was put under house arrest by the reactionary warlord Sheng Shicai while passing through Xinjiang. He was arrested and imprisoned on April 2, 1943.Comrade Ma Mingfang was unyielding and righteous in the enemy's prison, showing the lofty integrity of a Communist Party member.According to the comrades who were arrested at the same time, when Comrade Mingfang was arrested, he asked angrily: "The Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army have made great achievements in the war of resistance. What is the crime?"After being imprisoned, he actively got in touch with his comrades in prison to form a fighting unit.At that time, the main leaders in the prison were Zhang Ziyi, Fang Zhichun and other comrades, and Comrade Mingfang got in touch with them all.After he received the newspaper that was sent secretly, he wrote a note in time and spread it: "This is spiritual food, we must cherish the newspaper and persevere." He received "The Prisoner's Song" written by Comrade Lin Jilu and composed by Comrade Chen Guyin Afterwards, a note saying "The song was received, inspiring, and widely sung" was sent out.When he found out that some people had rebelled, he spread the word "There are stinky fish, pay attention", and organized everyone to fight against the "stinky fish" and squeeze the "stinky fish" away.When the enemy once asked the comrades in prison to fill out the form of "voluntarily go home and not go with the Communist Party" as a condition for release, Comrade Mingfang wrote in front of the enemy: "Believe in communism and volunteer to return to Yan'an." When the enemy interrogated him , slandering the Eighth Route Army for "sabotaging the war of resistance and provoking civil war."He scolded the enemy: "The Eighth Route Army persisted in the war of resistance at the front, but you are killing the Eighth Route Army here. Who is sabotaging the war of resistance? Who is the bandit?" He was immediately beaten by the enemy, but he never stopped denouncing and exposing the enemy. In 1944 and 1945, all the comrades in prison went on hunger strikes twice, each time for seven days and seven nights.The enemy forcibly force-fed him. He gritted his teeth and knocked out his job. The enemy asked, "Do you want to eat?" Chili water, he rolled over so that the enemy couldn't pour it in.Everyone united and finally forced the enemy to agree to most of their conditions.

After the announcement of the "Double Ten Agreement" in 1945, after many negotiations and struggles by Comrade Zhou Enlai, in June 1946, the enemy was forced to release all comrades in Xinjiang Prison back to Yan'an.At that time, Commander-in-Chief Zhu, Lin Boqu and other comrades went to Qilipu to greet them in person, and Chairman Mao hosted a banquet to toast the comrades who had been released from prison for their triumphant return. "Liberation Daily" published an article welcoming their triumphant return, which included the comment that "those who are alive are steadfast and unyielding, and those who are dead regard death as home".This is completely in line with historical facts.Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four" insisted on labeling Ma Mingfang and other comrades as "traitors", which further exposed their ugly face of attacking and framing veteran revolutionary cadres.

Comrade Ma Mingfang has always been loyal to the party and the people in the long-term revolutionary struggle, and faithfully implemented Chairman Mao's revolutionary line.During the period of the Agrarian Revolution in northern Shaanxi, although there was no direct connection between northern Shaanxi and the central government at that time, the guerrilla warfare in the south had a great impact on northern Shaanxi.We all knew at that time that Mao Zedong, Zhu De, He Long, Peng Dehuai and other comrades were the main leaders of guerrilla warfare in the south, and we had also read some pamphlets on guerrilla warfare and documents of the Second National Congress of Soviets.The victory of the revolution in northern Shaanxi was mainly the result of marching in the direction guided by Chairman Mao.When the Wang-Ming line spread to northern Shaanxi, Comrade Ming Fang resolutely resisted and fought.He opposed encroaching on the interests of the middle peasants, opposed "Left" policies such as creating antagonism between red and white areas; he opposed criticizing the so-called "rich peasant line" and "Shaolinism", opposed the expansion of the eradication of counter-revolutionaries, and opposed the arrest of Liu Zhidan and other comrades.At the critical moment when Wang Ming's line endangered the revolution, Chairman Mao came to northern Shaanxi and saved the party and the revolution in northern Shaanxi.Therefore, he has a particularly deep affection for Chairman Mao.

After liberation, during his tenure as the secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and the third secretary of the Northwest Bureau, he correctly implemented the line, principles and policies of the Party Central Committee in all political movements from land reform to the three major transformations. In 1950, after investigation and research, he personally wrote the article "Two Positions, Two Methods, Two Results", criticizing the erroneous tendency of not mobilizing the masses deeply in the land reform. The healthy development of the reform movement played an extremely important guiding role.During his work in the Central Ministry of Finance and Trade and the Northeast Bureau, he also correctly implemented Chairman Mao's revolutionary line.He often repeatedly emphasized that financial and trade work must start from the development of production, support production, promote production, and serve industrial and agricultural production and people's lives; he strongly advocated strengthening economic accounting and carrying forward the spirit of "one cent money"; Political work should be done in conjunction with economic work, and political work should be done on the counter.Oppose the opposition and separation of political work and economic work.These correct guiding ideologies have a profound influence on the financial and trade team.During the "Four Clean-ups" movement, he insisted on Chairman Mao's basic estimate that "the vast majority of cadres are good and relatively good", and he opposed making the rural cadres dark.In a letter to Comrade Song Renqiong in Guantun Commune, Yingkou County, he wrote: "Good and relatively good cadres account for the vast majority of cadres." They "did many good things for the masses and were respected and loved by the masses."And put forward opinions on the correct treatment and handling of cadres.Comrade Song Renqiong immediately forwarded it to various places for implementation.Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four" attacked and slandered Comrade Ma Mingfang for pursuing the revisionist line.

Comrade Ma Mingfang is a loyal, honest, aboveboard, and decent person.He speaks the truth, does honest things, and is an honest person.He always treats comrades with sincerity and confides in them; he always speaks well to comrades who make mistakes, patiently helps them, and never discriminates against those who engage in conspiracies and tricks.His advantages are well known to all comrades who have worked with him.People still remember the big political liar Li Wanming in "Looking West at Chang'an" written by Lao She. In March 1956, the "People's Daily" published an article "The Ins and Outs of a Big Scam", which mentioned Li Wanming's forged documents. Shaanxi Provincial Party Secretary Wang Li should have seen it, but he didn't and dealt with it without authorization.After reading this article, Comrade Mingfang wrote an explanation to the Organization Department of the Central Committee and forwarded it to the Organization Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee: "Comrade Wang Li asked me for instructions on this matter. The fault is mine, and Comrade Wang Li should not be responsible." Comrades who knew about this situation at the time deeply admired him for his excellent qualities of daring to admit mistakes and taking responsibility on his own initiative.

Comrade Ma Mingfang's work style has a notable feature, that is, hands-on, serious and responsible, and strict requirements.He usually doesn't speak much, and he is not very fluent in speaking and giving reports at meetings, and sometimes he stutters, but he is a practical person who is willing to use his brain and study hard.Many of his important reports and articles were made by him in advance to find cadres and the masses for investigation and research, form his ideas and opinions, and then draft them himself;He respects other people's opinions very much in his work, never boasting and self-righteous.His excellent style of work left a deep impression on the comrades. Of course, Comrade Ma Mingfang also has his own shortcomings, but he never covers up his mistakes and avoids medical treatment.Lu Xun said that a fighter with flaws is a fighter after all, and a perfect fly is just a fly after all.Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four" and a group of flies buzzed around him for a long time, which did not damage his glorious life in the slightest. People can't help but ask: Why is an outstanding old party member like Ma Mingfang not protected because of the brutal persecution by Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four"?An extremely important reason is that socialist democracy and the legal system have been severely damaged.The democratic centralism that Comrade Mao Zedong has always advocated is the fundamental organizational principle of our party and country, and also the criterion of political life within the party and among the people.However, in order to achieve their goal of usurping the Party and power, Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four" used their stolen power to frantically destroy socialist democracy and the legal system, and murdered revolutionary cadres and the people.They fanned the flames everywhere, trying to overthrow a large number of veteran revolutionary cadres from the central and local levels, and casually labeled these cadres as "traitors", "secret agents", and "unrepentant capitalist-roaders". No excuses and explanations are allowed, let alone any doubts about their despicable behavior.If there is a statement, if there is resistance, say that you are against Chairman Mao, the Cultural Revolution, the masses, and the proletarian headquarters. This is to reverse the verdict, and more brutal persecution will follow.They ignore party discipline and state laws, call names at will, arrest people at will, set up private courts, torture to extract confessions, have so many cruel criminal laws, and implicate a large number of people, which is not only unprecedented in the history of our party, but also rare in the history of our country.They distorted and falsified some of the words of the revolutionary teacher as laws, and took their own words as decrees, and compelled them to obey every sentence.Under the banner of the dictatorship of the proletariat, they are waging a fascist dictatorship.Wearing a revolutionary cloak, they call themselves "leftists" and wantonly sell counter-revolutionary revisionist goods, deceiving and harming many people.All these criminal activities of theirs have brought unprecedented catastrophe to our party and country!The reason why Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four" were able to penetrate into the core of our party and state's top leadership organs, and why their criminal activities have not been stopped and punished by law for a long time, is mainly due to the fact that during a period of time, Democratic centralism has not been truly practiced, and there is less democracy.In addition, our legal system is not perfect, the laws are incomplete, and the people's democratic rights and personal safety are not protected. This gave Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four" who usurped the party and disrupted the country an opportunity.This historical lesson paid at the price of blood must be firmly remembered. The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party decided that starting from this year, the focus of the work of the whole Party will be shifted to socialist modernization.This is a major strategic decision that conforms to the requirements of historical development, meets the urgent wishes of the people, and embodies the fundamental interests of the people of the whole country.Comrade Ma Mingfang always advocated accelerating my country's socialist construction and building my country into a modern socialist power as soon as possible during his lifetime, and he has worked hard for this all his life.Now this great transition period has come, and the whole country is uniting and working hard to realize the four modernizations wholeheartedly.Comrade Mingfang, rest in peace, your last wish must be fulfilled, your last wish will definitely be fulfilled.