Chapter 33 (3) No matter how big or small

When Zhou Enlai returned to his residence, it was already late at night.The north wind is still howling outside the window, and the snowflakes are still flying.The troops were about to leave Zunyi, and Deng Yingchao also went back to the recuperation company.He went to inspect the troops outside the city and traveled all day. He felt very tired and was about to go to bed when the guard Xiao Wei came in to report. Li De's translator Xiao Wu asked to see him and had been waiting for several hours. Xiao Wu has always been very disgusted with Li De's style of work. If it weren't for the organization's decision, he would not be willing to be Li De's interpreter.Now that Li De's supreme military command has been cancelled, he doesn't think it's necessary to act as an interpreter for him anymore.

Zhou Enlai felt that what Xiao Wu said was also reasonable, but this matter needs to be handled with caution at this time.Li De's supreme military command is gone, but he is still a military adviser sent by the Communist International.Because he made a mistake, the central government criticized him and revoked his supreme military command, and disrespected him. Zhou Enlai patiently enlightened and said: "Comrade Xiao Wu, I know that Comrade Li De has a bad temper, and you have suffered a lot from following him. But you must understand the particularity and importance of your work. Comrade Li De is a member of the Communist International Sent, we respect him, not just respect him alone!"

Xiao Wu said with a sad face, "I've been following him for so long! There are so many comrades who understand Russian, it's time for other comrades. General Political Commissar, I want to go to the field troops!" Zhou Enlai thought for a while and said: "You can ask to go to the field army, which can be considered. However, you can't leave Comrade Li De until I find the comrade who will replace you." Xiao Wu turned his worries into joy, and gave Zhou Enlai a military salute, saying, "Thank you, General Political Commissar!" After sending Xiao Wu away, Zhou Enlai hung the lantern on the bedside and read documents while lying on the bed.After watching for a few minutes, I closed my eyes tiredly.At some point, Xiao Wei tiptoed to his bed and called him.He replied in a daze.Xiao Wei handed him a document and said something.He let out a "huh" and pushed the file away with one hand.Xiao Wei backed out.

next morning.Zhou Enlai walked into the war room and saw a document ready to be sent out that said the reorganization of the troops approved by him. Among them, Li De's name was included in the staffing of the reorganization work organization.He felt very puzzled, he seemed to have never seen this plan before, when was it approved by him and ready to be sent out?He asked Liu Bocheng: "What's going on?" "Hey, Xiao Wei took this to you last night, and you approved it!" Liu Bocheng was also very surprised. Zhou Enlai opened his eyes, called Xiao Wei who was standing outside the door, and asked, "When you brought this document to me last night, did you wake me up?"

Xiao Wei said, "You said yes, I thought you agreed." Zhou Enlai said sharply, "You didn't wake me up at all!" Xiao Wei lowered his head in fear and remained silent. "Comrade, this is going to delay a major event!" Zhou Enlai said sharply, "From now on, no matter who you are, you must wake me up if you have something to do." He picked up the document and read it again. Look, sighed, and hurried to find Li De.Xiao Wei trotted behind to keep up. There are two alleys between Li De's residence and the headquarters of the Red Army. It is a courtyard house of a rich man, so it is relatively quiet.The snow had stopped long ago, the wind was still blowing, and it was cold.When Zhou Enlai walked to the gate, he met Li De's wife Xiao Yuehua wiping her tears with her sleeve while running out of the house, almost colliding with Zhou Enlai.

"Xiao Xiao, are you arguing with Comrade Li De again?" Zhou Enlai said with concern. "General Political Commissar, he...he..." Xiao Yuehua looked at Zhou Enlai, sobbing, speechless. "Don't worry, what's the matter, just tell me slowly." Zhou Enlai said gently. "He... Chief Political Commissar, I... just can't take it anymore!..." Xiao Yuehua covered her face with her hands, turned her head and ran away sadly. Zhou Enlai was afraid that something might happen, so he told Xiao Wei to chase after Xiao Yuehua, and went into the house to find Li De.

Not long after Li Delai came to Ruijin, the red capital from Shanghai, in order to find him a revolutionary partner, the organization arranged to transfer Xiao Yuehua, who was working in the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, to Li De's side.In fact, she did not have a good impression of Li De, but under the earnest persuasion of the elder sisters in the army, she had no choice but to complete this matter as a political task assigned by the organization, and then agreed to marry Li De. Due to the lack of emotional foundation, coupled with Li De's violent temper, he frequently scolded and scolded others, and sometimes pushed his wife out of the house, and quarrels became commonplace between husband and wife.Recently, Li De was criticized at the Zunyi Conference and was removed from the highest military command. He vented all his grievances on his wife.

The room was dimly lit, and Li De was pacing up and down alone, smoking a cigar.Seeing Zhou Enlai enter the room, he just nodded indifferently as a greeting.In his mind, Zhou Enlai "turned his back and split from the three-member regiment" at the Zunyi Conference and openly sided with Mao Zedong, Luo Fu, and Wang Jiaxiang, which eventually caused him and Bogu to lose the highest military command.Every time he thinks of this verse, his heart is filled with indignation. Seeing Li De's expression was wrong, Zhou Enlai greeted him in English, and then cut to the chase.He said in a sincere tone: "Comrade Li De, I came to see you today mainly because I want to ask for your opinion on two things."

Li De looked at Zhou Enlai suspiciously, as if he had misheard the other party's words.I have just been kicked out of power, and I am being neglected in every possible way, but how could the proud Zhou Enlai come to "ask for advice" from himself?He felt incredible. Zhou Enlai said: "Comrade Li De, the army will be reorganized soon. This work is very important. There are not many comrades in the Military Commission who are qualified for this work. Therefore, we plan to ask you to take charge. What's your opinion?" Li De shook his head and said, "You just criticized me, saying that I made such and other mistakes, why did you ask me to take charge of this important work?"

Zhou Enlai said: "Comrades are criticizing your mistakes in military command, and they are not completely negating all your work!" Li De smiled bitterly and said, "I have lost your trust, and I am not suitable for such a big job in the central leadership." Zhou Enlai breathed a sigh of relief, pondered for a moment, and said in a gentle tone: "Comrade Li De, what requirements do you have for future work?" Li Delian took a few puffs of cigarettes and said, "I want to go to the field army." Zhou Enlai opened his eyes and said, "Comrade Li De, you are a military advisor sent by the Communist International!..."

"What kind of consultant am I now?" Li De looked at Zhou Enlai coldly, "You are saying that what I say is useless, and you worship Mao Zedong's guerrillaism as a god! I want to see with my own eyes, Mao Zedong's guerrilla tactics Is it really that amazing? Comrade Zhou Enlai, don’t talk about it, please allow me to go to Lin Biao’s First Army.” Zhou Enlai looked distressed and said: "You want to go to the field army. This is not something I can decide alone. This matter has to be decided by the secretariat meeting." "I don't care who you decide, anyway, I want to go to the field army." Li De said in an irrefutable tone, "Lin Biao is Mao Zedong's favorite disciple, and I want to go to the First Army to experience Mao Zedong's guerrilla tactics. What a god!" "We will reply to you soon." Zhou Enlai said, and heaved a sigh of relief. "Comrade Li De, the second thing I want to discuss with you today is Xiao Wu's job change. He has not been with you for a short time, and he may have learned some of your temper. Go. I don't know if you agree or not?" Li De obviously didn't take it seriously, puffed out a puff of smoke, and said, "I'm notorious now, what honor does he have for following me? If he wants to leave, he can leave!" Zhou Enlai shook his head and said, "Comrade Li De, don't think that way. Xiao Wu proposed to go to the field army at this time, not because you were criticized by comrades. He always wanted to go to the field army. I have mentioned it to me many times, but I have not approved it. He was already the political commissar of the division before he interpreted for you!" Li De smiled coldly. Zhou Enlai: "Xiao Wu is gone, we still need to re-equip you with an interpreter." Li De sighed and said, "It doesn't matter if you have it or not." Zhou Enlai said sincerely: "You are still our consultant!" Li De smiled coldly again, and remained silent. At this time, Xiao Wei came into the house from the outside and reported to Zhou Enlai that Xiao Yuehua had gone to the recuperation company.Li De couldn't understand what Xiao Wei was talking to Zhou En, and looked at them both in a daze.After Zhou Enlai heard Xiao Wei's report, he asked Xiao Wei to withdraw. "What happened?" Li De seemed to see something from the expressions of Zhou Enlai and Xiao Wei. Zhou Enlai made up his mind and tried to put things as tactfully as possible.He said: "Comrade Li De, Comrade Xiao Yuehua shouldered the great trust of the organization and came to you mainly to take care of your life. She did not do a good job and caused you a lot of trouble. We are very disturbed." A dark cloud suddenly appeared on Li De's face, and he said, "This woman!...Oh, don't mention her!" "You two are husband and wife after all!" Zhou Enlai said patiently, "There is a saying in China that a husband and wife will be kinder for a hundred days. Everyone will have such and such shortcomings, as long as we can understand each other, tolerate more and complain less. , and live in harmony.” Li Dechang sighed, and said: "I can't communicate with this woman! She has always treated me as a servant serving the master, how can she understand my work, my emotions? ... ..." Zhou Enlai said: "What Comrade Xiao Yuehua did wrong, I am responsible for criticizing and educating her, and persuading her to correct it. Comrade Li De, from now on, you should treat Comrade Xiao Yuehua better. The love of husband and wife is the only way to do a good job in revolutionary work!" Li De nodded, his face full of gratitude.Zhou Enlai was sincere and cared for him so much at this time.So, he personally sent Zhou Enlai out of the gate.That look was completely different from when Zhou Enlai stepped into the door just now.