Chapter 26 Party building

In early February 1920, Chen Duxiu's speech in Wuhan aroused the anger of the Beijing government, and the police department was required to hand him over within a time limit. Chen was going to leave Beijing to avoid disaster.Because Li Dazhao was from Leting, Hebei, and spoke northern dialect, and looked like a businessman, Li voluntarily offered to escort Chen from the highway.The two hired a mule cart, and Chen Duxiu sat in the mule cart, wearing a felt hat and a vest from Wang Xinggong's chef. His clothes were stained with oil and shiny.Li Dazhao straddled the handlebars and carried a few account books, which were printed on the store's red paper.The two left Chaoyang Gate at night and headed straight for Tianjin.All the negotiations in the hotel along the way were handled by Li, and Chen kept silent so as not to reveal his southern accent.After arriving in Tianjin, Li sent Chen to the train before returning to Beijing.They stayed overnight in a mountain village on the way. Li Dazhao wrote to Jiang Menglin about the night, saying: "The night is silent and the people are quiet, and the green lights are like beans."

Chen Duxiu came to Shanghai and participated in the proofreading work of the "Communist Manifesto" translated by Chen Wangdao.Zhang Guotao recalled that at this time, when Chen Duxiu met with representatives of the Beijing Student Union, he had already begun to promote Marx in his speech, and said that China must follow the path of the Russian Revolution. Russell advocated that China does not need to promote socialism. Chen Duxiu thought that Russell was misleading the Chinese, so he wrote to Russell and said: "If someone else makes a mistake, you'd better make a statement, so as not to confuse the Chinese and prevent the progressive Chinese Disappointed on you."

In April 1920, Wei Jingski (Wu Tingkang), a representative of the Communist International, was introduced by Li Dazhao to visit Chen Duxiu in Shanghai, and the two hit it off.Under the suggestion of Weijingsi, Chen Duxiu began to prepare for the founding of the party. After Chen Duxiu was preparing to establish the Communist Party in Shanghai, Zhu Qianzhi, a Peking University student and anarchist, wrote to him, saying: "For the sake of the people's freedom, I swear against you." Wei Jingsky was very fond of Dai Jitao at first, and he hoped that Chen Duxiu, Dai Jitao, and Zhang Dongsun would be the first to initiate the organization of the Communist Party of China.When Sun Yat-sen learned about it, he cursed Dai.When drafting the party program, Dai saw that "Party members should not be bourgeois officials or join bourgeois political organizations", and said: "I have a very different relationship with Sun Wen, and I dare not accept this." So Dai Jitao Did not join, quit halfway.According to Zhang Guotao's recollection, Dai even cried on the spot, expressing that he actually believed in communism in his heart.

Soon, Lin Boqu visited Chen Duxiu with a letter of recommendation from Li Dazhao.Li Dazhao said in the letter that Zu Han was a member of the old alliance, and now he is a councilor in the residence of Generalissimo Sun Yat-sen, willing to join the CP (Communist Party), and hoped that Chen Duxiu and himself would serve as introducers for Lin to join the party.Chen Duxiu was very happy, but he learned from Dai Jitao's lesson and suggested that Lin join the Chinese Communist Party as a secret party member.Therefore, Lin Boqu secretly joined the Communist Party of China. In July 1921, the first congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Shanghai. Chen Duxiu, who was the minister of education in Guangzhou, did not attend because he was busy raising funds for the preparatory school of Guangdong University. The delegates finally elected Zhang Guotao to preside over the meeting.Chen Duxiu wrote to Zhang Guotao and put forward 4 comments on the meeting.The meeting lasted until the evening of July 30, when it was interrupted due to an unexpected incident of intrusion by Bao Inquiry, and the meeting was moved to Nanhu, Jiaxing, Zhejiang on the second day.

After the "One Great Congress" ended, Ma Lin, the representative of the Communist International, asked Bao Huiseng to return to Guangzhou and invite Chen Duxiu to Shanghai.He believes that since Chen Duxiu is the secretary of the Central Bureau, he must return to Shanghai to take responsibility, and "there is no country where the leader of the Communist Party is an official in a bourgeois government." On August 17, Chen Duxiu resigned to Chen Jiongming, who was commanding the Cantonese Army in Guilin to fight against Lu Rongting, on the grounds that he had a serious stomach problem and needed to go back to Shanghai to recuperate, but Chen Jiongming refused.Chen Duxiu cut first, then played, and left.