Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen

In the long river of history, a person's life is like a meteor flashing by, too short, too short.We flipped through some precious photo albums and looked at those young and handsome guards who were next to Mao Zedong all the time, how chic, serious and happy they were back then.Then look up at them today - what are they like today?Some of them are still wearing majestic police uniforms, some are gentle and wear glasses, and some are elegant in suits and leather shoes. However, they are all old, and they no longer have that chic and handsome energy. The wrinkles on their foreheads seem to tell people that they are beside Mao Zedong. People who have worked may not always be smooth sailing.

The history of contemporary China is a history of ups and downs. Even Mao Zedong, a great man of his generation, did not escape. Naturally, these guardians are no exception. They also have books made of tears and bitterness. "Yes, that's right." Only when they spoke, they were as straightforward as they were when they were young, without any adulteration. "Mao Zedong was the most against telling lies," they said. Li Liancheng, Feng Yaosong, Tian Yunyu, Zhang Jingfang, Zhang Xianpeng, Li Jiaji, Chai Shouhe... In the photo album, there are still happy and proud youthful faces with happy smiles, and now they are covered with fish patterns and silver hair. Introduction, if they didn’t know each other, their faces are no different from those retired cadres and old people who are going through the formalities or have gone through the formalities on the street. People don’t know them at all, and they don’t even know that they have had happiness and glory that period of youth.Only when talking about the years in Zhongnanhai and Mao Zedong, their faces suddenly became different.It was a look of eternal happiness, eternal pride, and forever worth remembering...

"Chairman Mao, he...he has been away from us for more than 20 years, but in our hearts, he hasn't left for a day..." We found that when we interviewed any of them, these silver-haired Banban, the old guards full of children and grandchildren, all of them choked up and cried bitterly like children. "Xiaotian, are you twenty-six years old this year? Well, you're not too young, and you've got a family again. It's time for you to fly...fly." Zhongnanhai, an old man lying on the sofa at Juxiang Bookstore, With tears in his eyes, he gently patted the weeping guard lying on his knees, and said affectionately, like an old father seeing off his own son, "... you are gone, you have to come and see me often , huh? Come to see me often... I'm old, and I can't always let you spend your whole life with an old man."

The guard Tian Yunyu left Mao Zedong when he was so reluctant to part with Mao Zedong.Almost all of the bodyguards who had followed Mao Zedong for many years left Zhongnanhai and Mao Zedong, who was like a father, with a feeling of nostalgia like Xiaotian. It has been thirty years, but Tian Yunyu will always feel that this scene happened yesterday. He worked with Mao Zedong for nine full years.When he stepped into Zhongnanhai Fengze Garden, he was still a "baby" who would cry whenever he thought of his grandfather at home--so Mao Zedong affectionately called him.But when he walked out of Zhongnanhai, he was already a little husband with a hard stubble on his chin.

Mao Zedong gave him a strong body, cultural knowledge, revolutionary principles, needles and threads, and even a beloved wife named Hu Yunxiu.Now, he was about to leave his beloved post and Mao Zedong, who cared for him like a loving father, and he couldn't stop the tears welling from his eyes. Whenever this happened, Mao Zedong couldn't help crying along with the guards.Because of Mao Zedong's special job position and his strict education of his children throughout his life, he had a wife like Jiang Qing. Usually, these guards stayed with him year after year. Once, Mao Zedong publicly said to the guards: "If you want to ask me to kiss my children's parents or your guards, I will say I will kiss you, because I have spent the longest time with you..."

The guards firmly believed that this was what Mao Zedong said from his heart.The old man has been in politics all his life, and he has a lot of things to do every day. He has moments of excitement and moments of loneliness.Family members and children are not around, or Jiang Qing is not there even if he is around.Therefore, when Mao Zedong was excited, he would have fun with the guards, and when he was lonely and troubled, he would also talk to the guards, telling the things in his heart that were difficult to tell in front of others... After staying with Mao Zedong for a long time, the guards are generally reluctant to leave. When they get older, especially when they reach the age of starting a family and starting a business, it will be inconvenient to be a guard again.Moreover, Mao Zedong paid great attention to the staff around him not to delay their future because of taking care of him.However, Mao Zedong also had some unspoken wishes when dealing with guards. He liked to use acquaintances as his guards, doctors, including secretaries. He felt so comfortable, especially guards and doctors, because they mainly took care of his daily life and For things like checking his body, Mao Zedong was particularly reluctant to use strangers.And Mao Zedong also has a special reluctance to guards—he doesn’t want to use older adults. He likes to use teenage “kids” because he thinks they are still dolls, and they are easy to use.

When they were separated, Mao Zedong and the guards had such a complicated state of mind, how could they not be reluctant to part with each other? Going is realistic, not going is unrealistic. In the second half of 1961, a group of guards who had worked with Mao Zedong for many years in the 1950s left one by one. "You have done a good job here, I am very satisfied." Mao Zedong said affectionately to the guards who were about to leave, "But you know my temper, I never agree with the comrades who have worked beside me You are going to be officials, so I have wronged you. Not only that, I also ask you to be wronged after you go down, just to be a man with your tail between your legs, don’t think that you are someone who worked next to Mao Zedong, and play Mao Zedong’s brand if you come or not .You must become one with the masses. Rely on your own diligent study and hard work, and be a person who is truly welcomed by the people..."

We intentionally ranked the people who had served as guards beside Mao Zedong, and found that none of them had been "cared for" by Mao Zedong and given special work, and none of them had been arrogantly snatched any official position.When they go down, most of them still work in public security, as ordinary public security fighters, or as ordinary workers in factories.For decades, they have unswervingly followed Mao Zedong's words. First, they did not reach out to the organization for officials, and second, they did not engage in any specialization in their jobs. He was a guard by Mao Zedong's side!

"Be a man with your tail between your legs." After leaving Mao Zedong, these guards always kept Mao Zedong's teachings in mind, and in their own jobs, they behaved honestly and worked hard.Today, although some of them have become cadres at the level of bureau chiefs, and some have become big managers of enterprises, none of them "wears the name of Mao Zedong."They relied on Mao Zedong's utter loyalty to the revolution and the party, as well as their meticulous and conscientious work, which they carried forward for decades.There are many talented and capable people among them. In those social environments where there is no need to be taboo, they may jump a few steps to the official ranks as long as they show that they have been Mao Zedong's guards. However, among them None of them did that.

For decades, those guards back then not only firmly followed Mao Zedong's teachings to them, but more of the noble character and valuable selfless dedication they learned from Mao Zedong, checking and comparing themselves all the time every word and deed.They feel that they will be severely punished deep in their hearts if they extend their hand to the organization or slack off at work, and they shouldn't even think about such things. The second half of Mao Zedong's life was in our era, we understand.However, the fate of Mao Zedong's defenders in the next few decades is unknown to us.

we want to know.Li Yinqiao, the head of the guard, met our request. He starts with himself- As Mao Zedong's most trusted guard chief in his life, Li Yinqiao would never leave Mao Zedong.Mao Zedong once said: He is one of the few people who can be relied on. From that night of war in 1947, when Li Yinqiao and Mao Zedong signed an "agreement" to work together for half a year, perhaps because he and Comrade Mao Zedong both had feelings for their mother and came from the countryside, they The two had a harmonious relationship for fifteen years.Li Yinqiao's earnestness in handling affairs, his meticulous attention to work, his utter loyalty to Mao Zedong, and his superhuman guarding art when he was serving, made Mao Zedong always call "Yinqiao Yinqiao" several times a day, so that Li Yinqiao became a guard in Li Yinqiao. When he was promoted to head of the guard and was no longer on duty, Mao Zedong sincerely took his hand and said: "I am an official, and I will not be on duty anymore. But I will miss you if I don't see you for a few days. Let's make another agreement, You still work one or two shifts every week." "Yes, Chairman." Li Yinqiao told Mao Zedong: I think the same as him. However, one day in the early spring of 1962, Mao Zedong suddenly ordered a guard on duty to call Li Yinqiao, who had just returned to Beijing from Jiangxi labor, to come to his office. Li Yinqiao walked outside Mao Zedong's door, got used to arranging his clothes, and then entered the room. "Chairman, are you calling me?" Mao Zedong was sitting on the bed reading documents, and when he heard the voice, he raised his head to look at his head of guards, and said softly, "Come on, Yinqiao, come here." Li Yinqiao didn't know what happened to Mao Zedong today.He seemed to notice something in his eyes, but he couldn't guess it.Beginning in the first half of 1961, following Chairman Mao’s instructions, Li Yinqiao, together with Ye Zilong, Gao Zhi, Feng Yaosong and others, went to Henan and Jiangxi to conduct investigations and work in rural areas. He had not been in Zhongnanhai for several months, but he knew that Mao Zedong and his feelings have always been the same.Therefore, seeing Mao Zedong's unusual expression today, he couldn't help but become suspicious. After Li Yinqiao sat down by the bed, Mao Zedong put down the documents in his hands, took Li Yinqiao's hand with both hands, and asked, "Yinqiao, I heard that you want to transfer away to Shijiazhuang?" Mao Zedong asked very easy-going, but Li Yinqiao was stunned after hearing this. "Chairman, who told you?" "Wang Dongxing!" "Om—" Li Yinqiao felt his head split.What else does he have to say?Wang Dongxing is the director of the Central Security Bureau, and he knows the character of his immediate boss very well.For many years in Zhongnanhai, due to the work relationship between Mao Zedong's chief guard and Wang Dongxing, the leader of the Security Bureau, it is inevitable that there will be some twigs.But Li Yinqiao never imagined that the matter would have such an ending: others were behind his back to play tricks in front of Mao Zedong, and wanted to drive him away... Li Yinqiao wished to find Wang Dongxing immediately to confront him, but that would definitely bring embarrassment and trouble to Mao Zedong ——After working and living in Zhongnanhai for more than ten years, Li Yinqiao is very clear about some things at the top.For the sake of Mao Zedong, he suppressed the fire of injustice in his heart.Why, I just left Mao Zedong, who had been with me day and night for fifteen years?Thinking of this, Li Yinqiao, who is already the father of two children, couldn't help but burst into tears, dripping all over his chest, and also dripping on the back of Mao Zedong's hand. "Alas!" Mao Zedong sighed softly, and began to express his thoughts in a low and slow voice: "You have been with me for so many years, and you have grown up. You have helped me by working beside me. You are a good comrade, you have been working hard for me, and you have made my work go smoothly and saved me a lot of worry. But... But what do you always do with me? What will you do if I die? " When Mao Zedong said this, Li Yinqiao couldn't restrain his feelings anymore, and cried "Woo", Mao Zedong is a person with a lot of emotions, and he is easy to be emotional.Seeing Li Yinqiao crying like this, his eyes turned red, and tears gushed out like a stream.He pulled Li Yinqiao into his arms, and those big hands kept patting his back, as if comforting, as if regretting. Li Yinqiao cried in his arms until his shoulders trembled.At this time, Mao Zedong couldn't help but cried out loudly, and said with a sob: "...I, I also can't bear to let you go, I can't bear to let you go! My relatives, my children, and I We don't see each other several times a year. You work by my side, we are together every day, we get along day and night, you are closer than my child..." Li Yinqiao couldn't say a word, but kept crying.From the first time in Yan'an to Mao Zedong's side, it took fifteen years.From an ignorant child, to being able to read and understand revolutionary principles, to falling in love, getting married, and having children, from an ordinary guard to the head of the guards, the deputy head of the guards, and the head of the guards, there is no matter that Mao Zedong personally cared about and cared about. result.At this moment, he has a thousand words, but he can't say a word. Mao Zedong was still consoling: "Yinqiao... I know your state of mind, I have to think about your future, and I can't delay your future. You have a high status with me, but the head of the guard is only a regiment. Cadre, the position is too low... After you leave, I don't want the head of the guard anymore, the position of the head of the guard is yours..." At this time, Li Yinqiao finally said a word: "I, I don't think I'm low, I don't want to leave you..." Mao Zedong, who didn't understand the truth, didn't understand the grievance in Li Yinqiao's words. He only thought of persuasion, the infinite caressing persuasion of an old man to a young man: "I can't delay you..." Mao Zedong said As he said that, he became even more sad than Li Yinqiao.From choking up sobbing to whimpering, and finally bursting into tears: "Yinqiao, after I die, you come to my grave every year... have a look, huh?..." His hands kept patting Li Yinqiao's back. Perhaps that scene happened only once in Mao Zedong's life, only this time. Seeing Mao Zedong's situation like this, Li Yinqiao quickly woke up from crying.He immediately thought that Mao Zedong's health should not be affected because of his own affairs, so he stopped crying and persuaded Mao Zedong instead.But before he could finish his sentence, he couldn't help crying... Just like that, the old and the young, one is the leader and the other is the guard, weeping and crying to each other...for a long, long time. In the end, it was Li Yinqiao who controlled his emotions first, wiped away his tears, and advised Mao Zedong not to cry anymore, as it would affect his body. "Chairman, I will definitely listen to your old man's words, go down and work hard, and live up to the chairman's expectations." Hearing this, Mao Zedong slowly stopped crying, wiped his tears with both hands, nodded and said: "Okay, okay. You have worked here for fifteen years, and your position is not high. You must pay attention to every move you make." Influence, don’t be divorced from the masses, do anything, if you don’t do it, you will do it, and you will get results if you do it; no matter how big or small, it must start well and end well, and everyone around me must have such a spirit. Do it to the end!" Li Yinqiao nodded vigorously, expressing that he must remember. "From now on, you will come to see me once a year. This is your home. I am alive and you come to see me. I am dead. You come to my grave to see me once a year. I am satisfied after just one look..." Mao Zedong Speaking of this, Li Yinqiao couldn't help crying again. Mao Zedong asked him: "Do you think of Shijiazhuang?" Li Yinqiao thought for a while and said: "Chairman, if I want to go down, I will go to Tianjin instead of Shijiazhuang." "Okay, Tianjin is closer than Shijiazhuang, you can visit me often." Mao Zedong said, wiping his tears, opened the drawer, pointed to a kraft paper bag and said: "You go to work, you need money to settle down, take some. Here It’s 800 yuan, to help you solve some problems.” To Mao Zedong's side, as long as there are any difficulties in the family, or to give birth to a child, Mao Zedong has given Li Yinqiao financial help many times.Mao Zedong did the same to other guards. He lived frugally, and when the guards encountered difficulties, he always gave generously.This time, Li Yinqiao made up his mind not to. "Chairman, I don't want it, I don't need money." "Take it," Mao Zedong said angrily, "You know, I don't touch money, take it quickly." When Li Yinqiao heard this, he immediately froze, "I hate money the most." Mao Zedong said this more than once.Li Yinqiao felt embarrassed.At this moment, he saw Mao Zedong reluctantly reaching out to grab the kraft paper bag... "Chairman, I want it." Li Yinqiao hurriedly took the kraft paper bag into his hand. Mao Zedong breathed a sigh of relief. "After you go down, you need to rely more on the workers, especially learn more from the old workers, and ask workers, peasants and soldiers about everything. Hey, when will Xiao Han and the children come back?" Mao Zedong asked Li Yinqiao's lover Comrade Han Guixin and his two children. "Saturday." Li Yinqiao replied. "Okay, then come and meet me on Saturday." Therefore, April 2, 1962 was an unforgettable day for Li Yinqiao's family.That afternoon, when her lover Han Guixin, who was in college, came home, she asked her husband to stop her, packed up her clothes, and took her son and daughter to see Mao Zedong.At this time, Li Yinqiao's family was both excited and heavy.Because they knew that this time it was their whole family who went to bid farewell to Mao Zedong.Mao Zedong was too familiar to Li Yinqiao's family.At that time, Comrade Han Guixin obeyed the arrangement of the organization and came to Mao Zedong's house as an aunt, and lived with Mao Zedong's family. The clothes worn by Mao Zedong's family and the patches they made could be easily found by Han Guixin's craftsmanship.Mao Zedong and Jiang Qingsheng's beloved daughter, Li Na, was actually brought up by Han Guixin. Han Guixin's affection for Mao Zedong and Mao Zedong's family is as deep as Li Yinqiao.The young couple knew best: without Mao Zedong, the small family in front of them might not exist.Their marriage was formed by Mao Zedong in Yan'an and Xibaipo.Later, they entered Zhongnanhai, and their small home was in the backyard of Mao Zedong's residence, just separated by a wall.His son, Zhuo Wei, played with Li Na and Mao Yuanxin since he was a child. Several times, Zhuo Wei and his sister sneaked into the Juxiang Bookstore and went to Mao Zedong's room.Mao Zedong was always very happy about the sudden arrival of the two "little guests", and couldn't help but put down what he was doing and started playing with them on the ground.And Mao Zedong often "drives" to Li Yinqiao's small home in his free time, smokes a cigarette, and tastes dishes with chili... They are indeed like a family, getting along day and night and getting close for more than ten years.But now, their small family is about to be separated from Mao Zedong, and the feelings of Li Yinqiao and Han Guixin are indescribable. Before eating, the guard Zhang Jingfang came to inform that Mao Zedong was waiting for Li Yinqiao's family at the swimming pool! Li Yinqiao's family had a quick meal and hurried to the swimming pool. "Zhuo Wei, Yuanyuan, you are waiting outside." Li Yinqiao whispered to the two children, and then entered the living room with his lover.Mao Zedong was waiting for them inside. When he saw Li Yinqiao and his wife, he stood up and shook hands with them. "Hey, where is the child? Why didn't the child come?" Just after saying a few words, Mao Zedong asked while searching. Li Yinqiao hurriedly replied: "The child is here, he is outside!" Mao Zedong looked out the door: "Come in, let the child in!" When everyone was looking out together, the flashlight of the photographer Lu Houmin clicked on. When the child came in, Mao Zedong applauded and shook hands with the two young guests.Li Yinqiao's son Li Zhuowei is already a high school student, he is not a little timid like his sister.He was very happy to see Mao Zedong, with a boyish mischievous look on his face.Mao Zedong shook hands with this "little man" wearing a red scarf very much. Mao Zedong held Xiao Zhuowei's hand while looking at it, like a grandfather seeing his own grandson for the first time, boasting happily: "This baby is beautiful! Yinqiao, Xiaohan, like you Whoa!" The photographer pressed the shutter again, leaving behind this intimate and unforgettable shot. "Shall we stand and take a photo together?" Mao Zedong said to Li Yinqiao and his wife. Li Yinqiao disagreed.He moved a chair, gently pressed Mao Zedong to sit on it and said, "Chairman, please sit down." "Don't sit down, don't sit down." Mao Zedong said repeatedly, and stood up. Li Yinqiao pressed Mao Zedong down again. "No, you'd better sit down." Just like that, Mao Zedong sat in the middle, Li Yinqiao and his wife stood behind him, Xiao Zhuowei and Xiao Yuanyuan stood next to Mao Zedong on either side of him, and the whole family and Mao Zedong stayed behind. A group photo that will never be forgotten—— After leaving Zhongnanhai, Li Yinqiao's family left Beijing for Tianjin.The dignified head of the guard of Mao Zedong served as the deputy director of the fifth department under the Municipal Public Security Bureau.From then on, Li Yinqiao, who lived with Mao Zedong day and night for fifteen years, began the difficult second half of his life. In 1963, Mao Zedong went to Tianjin to inspect flood relief and asked to meet his chief guard.When the secretary of the provincial party committee told Li Yinqiao the news, did Li Yinqiao feel strange?Why didn't he know in advance that Mao Zedong was coming to Tianjin?According to common sense, he was Mao Zedong's chief guard in the past, and now he is the deputy director of the Fifth Division of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, who is in charge of important security tasks. He should know that important central leaders are coming to Tianjin.That night, Li Yinqiao did not fall asleep, and his heart was covered with a cloud. This is exactly the fact. After he left Zhongnanhai, the head of the Central Security Bureau, who was rejected by the head of the guard for trying to play some tricks in front of Mao Zedong, relied on his power and not only used despicable means to transfer him from Juxiang Bookstore. Mao Zedong's most trusted guard chief was gone, and after Li Yinqiao left Zhongnanhai, he colluded with Jiang Qing, who had quarreled with Li Yinqiao several times and held a grudge, and spread something at the Security Bureau meeting that "Li Yinqiao has no feelings for Chairman Mao", "he They were driven away by Chairman Mao."These words later reached the leaders of the Tianjin Public Security Bureau.That's okay, who dared not have feelings for Mao Zedong at that time?Are there any good people who were kicked out by Mao Zedong?In the blink of an eye, when a comrade who was loyal to Mao Zedong was kept in the dark, a thick cloud had already shrouded his political destiny. Later, Li Yinqiao rushed to see Mao Zedong, but Mao Zedong had already returned to Beijing. At this time, Lin Tie, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, wanted Mao Zedong to inscribe a few words, so he asked Li Yinqiao to go to Beijing to find Mao Zedong with a letter and some flood control materials.A year ago, Li Yinqiao was completely different when he went in and out of Mao Zedong's Fengze Garden and his bedroom, let alone the gate of Zhongnanhai. The arrangement of the head of the security bureau who kicked him away from Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong saw it, but Li Yinqiao didn't say a few words to his old man. After the matter was over, he returned to Tianjin. Because Li Yinqiao remembered what Mao Zedong said when he left Zhongnanhai, asking him to visit his old man in Beijing once a year.So, at the beginning of 1964, Li Yinqiao and his wife came to Beijing together.This time, Mao Zedong met again in the living room by the swimming pool, and they talked for a while.When Mao Zedong learned that Li Yinqiao's hometown was flooded, he asked his secretary to bring another 1,000 yuan and wrapped it into two bags with paper. Mao Zedong gave it to Li Yinqiao himself, and said: "This is my manuscript fee. Flooded and suffered a lot of losses, the money will help you solve some difficulties. From now on, you will return to your hometown once a year to learn about the situation below and write report materials to me.” According to Mao Zedong's instructions, Li Yinqiao returned to Anping, Hebei Province in 1964 and 1965. He wrote down what he saw and heard as investigation materials, and took many photos of the scene, and sent them to the then office of the CPC Central Committee through the Confidential Bureau. Comrade Yang Shangkun, director of the office, please pass it on to Mao Zedong. In November 1965, during the first stage of the "Cultural Revolution", Comrade Yang Shangkun was overthrown by the "Bug Incident" fabricated by Jiang Qing and Kang Sheng with ulterior motives.Li Yinqiao has since lost contact with Mao Zedong. What's the matter?Director Yang is loyal to Mao Zedong!Why did it become a "counter-revolutionary"?What kind of "bug" is that?Obviously it's a tape recorder!Because he has worked beside Mao Zedong for a long time, he knows and is familiar with this older generation of revolutionaries and the "inner head" of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.Let's just talk about the "bug", the truth is not the case at all.Because the central government did not have any conditions before and after liberation, the leaders' speeches and reports were all manually recorded by the secretary or a few sketchers.Later, Comrade Yang Shangkun, the director of the General Office of the Central Committee, got a tape recorder from nowhere.This "foreign gadget" is much more convenient than manual recording. Therefore, every time Mao Zedong spoke at some meeting or made a report, Yang Shangkun instructed the relevant personnel and Li Yinqiao and others to move the tape recorder and record Mao Zedong's speech content for later use. It’s a very normal and good thing to sort out the manuscript, but I didn’t think about it, but people insisted that the tape recorder was a “wiretapping device” to plant Yang Shangkun’s “independent kingdom” and “wiretapping Mao Zedong”. The key positions in the central government were cut first. Li Yinqiao hadn’t figured out how Yang Shangkun was overthrown. Later, Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, and Peng Zhen, who he knew and respected, were also overthrown, and they were all “time bombs sleeping next to Chairman Mao.” China's Khrushchev".Li Yinqiao, who used to be the head of the guard, would never agree to anyone who opposed Mao Zedong. He was even willing to use his life to protect Mao Zedong when necessary.During the fifteen years he followed Mao Zedong, he thought and acted like this every moment. Although he has left Zhongnanhai now, his heart is always concerned about Mao Zedong.However, based on his experience with the heads of the Central Committee for more than ten years, when he said that Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, Peng Zhen and a large number of old revolutionaries were "China's Khrushchev" and "time bombs sleeping next to Mao Zedong", Li Yinqiao didn't care. How do not believe this is true. "Chairman, you know these people better than I do. I want to hear what you have to say, ah, tell me!" Li Yinqiao cried out many times in his dreams.If he was working with Mao Zedong, Li Yinqiao could go into Mao Zedong's room to ask questions about these issues that he could not understand and understand without hesitation, but now, everything is impossible. "No, the chairman can't make mistakes, it must be done by bad people!" Li Yinqiao firmly believed in his own judgment, and he waited silently, waiting for the day when Mao Zedong would speak up and tell him and the people of the whole country: Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, Peng Zhen, Yang Shangkun The director, Boss He, Chen Yi... are all good comrades, but bad people did bad things.But one month, two months passed, and Li Yinqiao never waited until Mao Zedong came out to say such words, but waited for a nightmare that was not a dream—— On April 20, 1967, Li Yinqiao, who had been transferred from the Municipal Public Security Bureau to Tianjin National Cotton No. 2 Factory as the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, was suddenly arrested by a group of rebels.Later, another gang of thugs stormed into his home and took away everything they thought should be taken.This kind of atrocity was carried out six times in succession. Many precious manuscripts, letters and real objects of Mao Zedong, as well as inscriptions and gifts from other leaders that had been kept by Li Yinqiao and his wife for many years, were all copied. "What do you want to do? You have no right to take these things away. Chairman Mao gave them to me..." Before Li Yinqiao could finish speaking, a thug came over and "sealed" his mouth with his fist. "Chairman Mao gave it to you? Huh, go away! Honestly and frankly explain your crimes against Chairman Mao!" A certain rebel faction in Tianjin gathered several important officials and arranged them in a dark and damp "interrogation room" They have taken an unprecedented posture, because they have reported their "great and brilliant" "achievements" to the "bosses": they have dug out a "big villain who has been hiding beside Chairman Mao for a long time". "Say! Say it!" The thugs couldn't wait. Li Yinqiao didn't know what happened to the sudden thunderstorm.How could this "Cultural Revolution" not let go of a "March 8th" cadre who followed Mao Zedong for fifteen years and was meticulous in the revolutionary struggle?Let me confess my crimes against the Chairman?Just a joke, I have always been Chairman Mao's bodyguard, the head of the bodyguard, how could it be possible to oppose his old man?Although Li Yinqiao was extremely indignant at the brutal behavior of the rebels, he still suppressed the anger in his heart and asked calmly.They must be mistaken, he thought. "Fuck you, we'll make a mistake, look at this—" the rebels waved something in front of Li Yinqiao. This was something Li Yinqiao was familiar with. "It's mine. It's an inspection written by me! What's the point?" Li Yinqiao replied calmly.Because what the rebels took was the copy of the "inspection letter" that Mao Zedong taught him to write when he quarreled with Jiang Qing and copied from his home.This "inspection book" Li Yinqiao has always kept by his side, and there is a touching story about Mao Zedong and his elders caring and loving him.At that time, Mao Zedong asked Li Yinqiao to write an inspection, with the words "Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing" on the headlines. After the matter was over, Mao Zedong casually asked Li Yinqiao to take back his "inspection."Because Li Yinqiao felt that this "inspection book" contained an extraordinary story about Mao Zedong's love and concern for him, so he kept it with him all the time.How did he know that this "inspection" became his ironclad evidence of "opposing Chairman Mao" and "opposing Jiang Qing" and he was brutally persecuted. "You know it yourself, if you don't oppose the great leader Chairman Mao, our red flag bearer Comrade Jiang Qing, how could there be this inspection?! Tell me honestly, what bad things have you done while hiding beside Chairman Mao and Comrade Jiang Qing for more than ten years , explain everything!" "I am Chairman Mao's head of guards, and I have never opposed him! That inspection is..." Li Yinqiao wanted to argue, but the rebels didn't listen to him at all. "Stop rambling, and confess your crime!" "Who instructed you? Who is behind the scenes?" When Li Yinqiao heard this, he knew that things were not that simple.About the "inspection document", only he, Mao Zedong, and Jiang Qing knew about it, and it happened between the three of them. If it was like in Zhongnanhai, he could invite Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing to testify, but now he has a hard time debate. "Hmph, can't you tell? Then tell the truth!" A man who seemed to have a lot of background said to Li Yinqiao eccentrically, "Your affairs are not as innocent as you say. Let me ask you, Yang Shangkun gave Mao The chairman engaged in bugging, aren't you also on the scene? Ah, I just want to remind you that if you confess well, you will be rewarded for a counterattack. If you don't confess honestly, our standard bearer will not let you go first! Do you understand? , What is your relationship with Peng Zhen? You have a lot of questions! Explain it carefully!" Jiang Qing!It turned out that Jiang Qing, who had quarreled with me three times and had a grudge against me, was asking me about my affairs!Li Yinqiao suddenly understood his situation.This woman whom Mao Zedong scolded her for "doing nothing good" a long time ago turned out to be the one who still hates me!Li Yinqiao's spiritual pillar seemed to be broken all of a sudden, she is now the "standard bearer"!Not to mention me, the little head of the guard, even the heads of the central government like Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, and Yang Shangkun have been punished for them?Me, I absolutely can't say anything. Some things in the central government are complicated, and they can't be explained clearly at once.If I say it, it will implicate the heads of the central government.Don't the rebels want to confirm the "crimes" of Yang Shangkun and other leaders from my mouth?I can't say, can't say anything.When Li Yinqiao realized it, he never told the investigators from various sources what he knew in Zhongnanhai. "Pretend to be dumb? Well, let's see how long you can keep your mouth shut!" The angry rebels locked Li Yinqiao into a small dark room.From then on, the head of the guard, who was loyal to Mao Zedong, lost his personal freedom under the charge of "having no affection for Chairman Mao and opposing Comrade Jiang Qing". His home has been ransacked time and time again, his lover Han Guixin has also become an "important person" under supervision, and his son and daughter have also become "children of gangsters" who are discriminated against... "Chairman Mao, where is your old man? You know me, Li Yinqiao! You come out and speak up—!" Li Yinqiao, who has become a "prisoner", squatted on the wet concrete floor, repeatedly in the dark He shouted Mao Zedong's name eagerly, and he wanted Mao Zedong, who was waving to meet the Red Guards on the Tiananmen Gate tower, to hear the grievances of his most trusted guard chief.He shouted during the day and at night, but the old man no longer walked towards him affectionately calling "Yinqiao, Yinqiao" every day as in the past... Li Yinqiao's voice gradually became a hoarse voice of despair. "No, Chairman Mao will think of me! He will think of me!" After coming out of the eight-month prison-like life, Li Yinqiao stood by the Haihe River with infinite affection, looking towards Zhongnanhai for a long time. He firmly believed that , Mao Zedong will think of himself.He knew Mao Zedong. Time passed year by year.李银桥暂时不当“囚徒”，他被下放到国棉四厂看管起来，失去自由的日子又一天一天地过去。 突然，在1970年底的一天，东方的太阳终于出来了。 get up in the morning.已经习惯每天向监管人员“汇报”的李银桥，整整衣冠正准备又一次“汇报思想”时，一个监管人员一改昔日的那副铁板面孔，笑嘻嘻地朝李银桥说：“老李，以后你不用再来找我们了，快到厂部办公室报到吧，你的办公室已经给安排好了，以后我们得听你领导了！” 李银桥愣了，他不相信对方的话，以为他们又在搞什么鬼呢！然而，当他被领到厂部办公室的军管会负责人面前时，他才终于真正相信了：这是事实。他又获得了自由，并被任命为厂革委会副主任、党委副书记。 他想笑，却笑不出来，倒是两行泪水“哗哗”地涌出眼眶。回到家，他赶忙把这个从天而降的消息告诉了爱人韩桂馨。 “一定是毛主席来天津了！肯定是他过问了你的事！”爱人也是一位在毛泽东身边工作过多年的老革命同志了，她惊喜地猜测着。 “我也是这么想的。”李银桥深情地点点头。 事实真是这样。没几天，李银桥见到了当时任天津市委负责人的刘政同志。刘政告诉他，毛泽东主席前几天到天津视察时，问解学恭和刘政他们：“李银桥现在干什么？”当时有人说李银桥还在监管之中。毛泽东听后觉得奇怪：“他有什么问题？”有人便把李银桥的情况作了简单汇报，毛泽东一听便说：“瞎搞，跟他有什么关系？我了解李银桥，解放他，给他个工作做！” 有毛泽东这个话，谁还敢再监管李银桥？于是，蒙受了几年不白之冤的卫士长李银桥和他一家人终于恢复了自由和工作。 然而，“李银桥是反江青的”——这片阴云直到“四人帮”揪出之前，李银桥实际上并没有真正在政治上得到彻底的解放。但毕竟有毛泽东的话在，还是没有人敢拿他怎么样。 李银桥和他的一家人由衷地感激毛泽东。 在毛泽东的卫士中，李银桥是最受毛泽东信任和重用的一个，然而他也是在“文化大革命”中最受迫害的一个，原因有两个：一是他失去了与毛泽东的联系，自从杨尚昆被打倒后，即便李银桥再给毛泽东写信，也只会落到江青和那个后来取代杨尚昆当了很长时间办公厅主任的人手里。二是他是反江青的，江青是“文化大革命”的“旗手”，只要她在，李银桥自然得不到好果子吃。有时候毛泽东说的话，被江青一搅和便万事皆空。李银桥在“文化大革命”中的政治遭遇便是如此。 与李银桥先后离开中南海的其他卫士，相比之下由于位置不同，他们走上社会后，受到的政治迫害也不同。但由于这些人都是在毛泽东身边成长起来的，他们身上都有那些正直、无私和坚持原则的精神，结果，他们到社会上后，并不“吃香”，有的还屡遭挫折。 像卫士田云玉离开毛泽东后，便到了北京市公安局的一个劳改工厂工作，因为他和一起从中南海调出的妻子胡秀云，看不惯一些劳改干部不讲政策和腐化的工作作风，向上提了意见，结果待不下去了，不得不调动工作。后来他们找到了毛泽东。毛泽东听完他们的汇报，脸色严峻，没有表一句态，只是意味深长地对田云玉夫妇说：“社会的复杂性你们过去没有经验，以后会见得多的。看你们还能不能坚持信仰，坚持革命性，这是考验，是另一种比在我这里当卫士更复杂的考验！” 是的，社会是复杂的。毛泽东的卫士同样难以避免这样复杂而给自己的一生带来的曲曲折折，但无论什么时候，他们心目中都有一种崇高而又神圣的信仰：他们相信毛泽东，只要毛泽东在，中国就有希望，人民就有希望，他们自己也有希望。 可是，这种朴素信仰，随着一个又一个“批判”热潮，昔日的卫士们渐渐开始困惑了，首先是他们给毛泽东写的信寄不到了，毛泽东的那幽默、朴实的话也听不到了，换之的是越来越不可接近的一个“圣人”。 他们在困惑中期待，在期待中困惑。那个他们熟悉的“毛泽东”到哪儿去了？“我们卫士想念您啊！” wait.wait.突然有一天，他们等到的是一声晴天霹雳——1976年9月9日，中国人民的伟大领袖，卫士们时刻想念的毛泽东主席与世长辞了。 “不，毛主席是不会死的！” “他老人家身体一直是好好的啊！我们临走时，他还约我们去长江游泳呢！” “他不会死的！他不会死的呀！” 大地哀恸，苍天悲泣。 人世间的哭泣，莫过于成年男子的哭泣。 当听到毛泽东逝世的消息那一瞬，这些老卫士中十有八九都哭得死去活来。他们不相信这是事实。在他们心目中，毛泽东一直健康无比，他六十多岁游长江时，当时这些小伙子们都比不上。所以，他们不相信这严酷的事实，毛泽东在他们心目中永远是不落的太阳。 9月9日这一天，卫士李银桥正在厂里，当他接到通知说下午有“重要广播”时，并没有放在心上，因为当时的“重要广播”常常有，不知从哪儿传出来的“最高指示”一下来就是半夜也得起床去欢呼一番。见惯了，也就不放在心上。可这一次他一听就“嗡”地整个头脑像被什么东西重击了一下，便不省人事了…… 这一宿，他和爱人韩桂馨整整哭了一夜。 “不行，我得到北京去！我要见老人家一面。”这位老卫士长似乎突然感到是自己失了职，似乎毛泽东的突然不在人世是与他没有尽到卫士长职责一般有关。第二天一清早就收拾了一下东西要上北京去。 “他们能让你见主席吗？”爱人担忧地问。因为她了解江青，也多少了解那个背后搞鬼把李银桥从毛泽东身边撵走的人。 “我不管他们。主席生前对我有过吩咐，让我在他死了后每年到他坟头去看看他。现在他老人家不在了，我能不去吗？我不去就对不住他老人家。”李银桥固执起来了。此时此刻，谁也挡不住这位老卫士长的心。 他来到北京。可要进中南海和见毛泽东遗容是不那么容易的。按正常渠道，必须通过中央办公厅。李银桥硬着头皮给中办打电话。此时那位当年给李银桥“小鞋”穿的人，如今已是在中央能左右的“大人物”了。“他来干什么？不安排！”有人给李银桥传来了这位“大人物”的话。 “让我走？我不走！不见一见主席我就是死在北京也不走！”李银桥不顾一切了。最后，还是在老战友、好朋友、国务院事务管理局的高局长和中办秘书局赖局长的帮忙下，他才算在民族饭店安顿下来。 “老韩，我已经住下了，你快带媛媛和毛毛来。我这就给东北的卓韦打电话，让他请假也来北京一趟！”刚安顿好，李银桥便给在天津的爱人韩桂馨打了电话。此时，他的那个被毛泽东夸耀“长得漂亮”的儿子卓韦已是东北某部的一名解放军干部了，并且已经有了女朋友“毛毛”（本书合作者朱梅同志）。 没有毛泽东，便没有李银桥的这一家。当全家人几经周折，走进人民大会堂，走近他们熟悉的毛泽东遗体前，李银桥夫妇和儿女们哭成一片，怎么也移不动双脚…… “主席，主席——我来晚了！我没有保护好您！我没有伺候好您啊——”卫士长的声声悲恸的哭嚎，撕裂着所有瞻仰毛泽东遗容的千千万万群众的心，那哭嚎汇入了神州大地痛悼毛泽东主席的悲哀无比的大潮…… 历史终于回到了真正的人民可以站出来说话的年代。 1976年10月，江青为首的“四人帮”下台了。 1977年、1978年，党中央拨乱反正，颠倒的历史重新反正过来。 1979年，党的十一届三中全会召开，中国共产党又开始了新的光辉旅程。邓小平、杨尚昆等一批忠诚的无产阶级革命家又回到了自己的工作岗位。他们在着手制定和设计新时期的现代化宏伟蓝图时，没有忘记为曾经为共和国添砖加瓦的在“文化大革命”中遭受迫害的一大批老同志平反伸冤。 1979年9月21日，在杨尚昆同志的直接关心下，离别中南海十七年的李银桥又回来了，被安排在中央办公厅人民大会堂管理局任副局长。 “杨主任，我，我们都是忠于毛主席的呀！”当李银桥重新见到自己的老首长杨尚昆时，忍不住伏在这位老革命家的怀里，痛哭起来。 重新获得政治新生的老卫士长李银桥，他在上任新岗位前的第一件事就是到刚刚新建好的毛主席纪念堂，去瞻仰他一生崇敬和怀念的毛泽东。在毛泽东的水晶棺前，李银桥一边流泪，一边鞠躬，连时间也忘了，直到工作人员挽着他走才离开。 第二件事，李银桥想的是他的那些过去一起共同工作了多年的卫士们。因为他走后，毛泽东信守诺言，再也不曾设过卫士长。李银桥觉得自己有责任和义务像昨天一样，关心和照顾好他的那些卫士。于是，他在工作的同时，四处奔波，一个一个地为当年多多少少受到不白之冤和不公正待遇的老卫士们，恢复工作的恢复工作，调回北京的调回北京。 第三件事，是和他爱人韩桂馨一起想到的。毛泽东去世了，江青也成了政治要犯被关进了大牢，毛泽东的家人怎么样了？这是他们最担忧和关心的。他们首先来到了毛岸青家。毛泽东的这位有病的儿子，尚好。他有一个幸福的家，妻子邵华对丈夫很照顾。李银桥夫妇更高兴的是他们看到了毛泽东惟一的孙子毛新宇，小毛新宇长得还真像毛泽东哩！毛泽东的大女儿李敏也过得不错，从她那儿也知道了贺子珍的一些事。李银桥夫妇最牵挂的是李讷。李讷是江青所生，从小跟着毛泽东过着动荡的战争生活，解放后也一直吃大食堂。李讷深得毛泽东喜爱，但她身体一直不太好。江青入狱后，无疑对她打击是大的。父亲没了，母亲又成了反革命分子，李讷此时也已离婚，独自带了个儿子，生活过得艰难。李银桥夫妇来到了李讷家，看到这位当年蹦蹦跳跳，学着父亲的腔调唱“空城计”的毛泽东的女儿，如今变得如此孤苦伶仃的样儿，李银桥夫妇掉下了泪。“李讷，日子还长呢，再成个家吧。”老韩关切地问。李讷感激地握着这位好阿姨的手，可她叹气道：“我妈妈是反革命，谁肯找我啊？”一旁的李银桥忙劝道：“你爸爸还是人民领袖呢！你是毛泽东的女儿！”见李讷有些意思，李银桥夫妇便开始到处物色。偏巧，有一天他的家来了一位老战友，叫王景清。老王当年是刘少奇的警卫员，后来到昆明军分区当参谋长。王景清因妻子病逝了，此时正是独身。李银桥夫妇觉得王景清与李讷很匹配，便做起了红娘。经过一段时间彼此了解，李讷和王景清终于结成良缘。他们结婚时，杨尚昆同志还特意送来一个大被套，一包巧克力糖，并附上贺词，把自己和全家人的名字签上了。王光美同志知道此事后，表扬李银桥夫妇办了一件好事。当李讷把自己这段婚事告诉狱中的江青时，江青问：“是谁介绍的啊？”李讷说：“是李银桥叔叔。”不知江青是自谴自己做丧良心的事做得太多了，还是说了一回公道话，竟长叹一声道：“李银桥是个好人啊！” 1984年1月，李银桥调到公安部任老干部局副局长。因长期革命斗争和工作的艰辛，加之“文化大革命”的残酷迫害，他身患多种疾病。为了不辜负毛泽东要求他的“永远做一个正直无私的人”，他毅然谢绝了几个重要职务的聘任，于1988年1月从岗位上正式离休。 李银桥从岗位上退下来后，除了考虑给更年轻、身体好的同志腾出位子外，他还有一个重要的使命在时刻激励他在有生之年要把它完成好。 ——这就是让全党、全国人民，特别是年轻的一代，真正了解毛泽东，了解战争年代中、工作中和生活中那个真实的毛泽东，而不是那个被人捧为神的圣坛上的毛泽东，也不是那个被人贬低了的毛泽东。 “银桥，我活着的时候你不要写，我死了以后可以写，如实地写……”毛泽东在世时，就对李银桥这样说过。 没有比这个更重要、更紧迫的事需要去做了。特别是看到国内一阵又一阵的资产阶级自由化浪潮和国际反动腐朽的资产阶级思想不断侵袭人民共和国肌体，腐蚀和拉拢我们的党员、我们的人民、我们的下一代时，李银桥再也坐不住了。他不顾自己有病的躯体，在小桌子上，在病榻头，开始了他神圣的使命……终于，正当一部分群众和青年学生的思想处于严重混乱的状态，许多怀疑中国该不该走社会主义道路，怀疑该不该把毛泽东从天安门广场的纪念堂请出，怀疑靠毛泽东思想武装起来的中国共产党该不该继续执政时，他的系列作品《走上神坛的毛泽东》、《走下神坛的毛泽东》和《在毛泽东身边工作十五年》等一部部真实记录毛泽东形象，准确宣传毛泽东的作品出版了，并且赢得了广泛的读者。从繁华的首都王府井，到偏远的云南傣族村寨，还有漠河边上的军营哨所，干部们、学生们、士兵们手捧署有“李银桥”大名的那几本介绍毛泽东的书，专注地看着，品味着，议论着…… “毛泽东真是位了不起的人物！”“要是我们的领导干部都像毛泽东那样艰苦奋斗，大公无私，勤政廉政，中国绝不会没有希望！”“看来，中国现代化建设还要靠毛泽东思想指导……”人民从李银桥的书中校正对毛泽东、对毛泽东思想的诸多看法，人民感谢李银桥，因为他做了一件不可低估的具有现实意义和长远历史意义的事。 又一个9月9日。李银桥、孙勇、李连成、田云玉、封耀松……还有他们这些老卫士们的家属、子女来到“毛主席纪念堂”拜谒他们敬爱的毛泽东遗体。又一个12月26日毛泽东的诞辰日，在李银桥夫妇的组织下，这群老卫士，还有毛泽东的家人毛岸青、邵华、李敏、孔令华、李讷、王景清以及在毛泽东身边工作过的革命老人朱仲丽——聚集在一起，缅怀毛泽东。 “我们这些人，生为毛泽东的卫士，死为毛泽东的鬼魂。我们将和他老人家永生永世相伴相随……”卫士们庄严地对我们说。