Chapter 35 Struggle (10)

One day, a person who claimed to be Mao's old classmate visited Mao. He was Xiao San, Mao's high school classmate in Dongshan.Xiao San was already connected with the Communists. (He was different from his picky elder brother Xiao Zisheng. Xiao Zisheng had joined the Kuomintang with the crowd, then withdrew, and then went to Europe to devote himself to the cultural cause.) That night, Mao invited Xiao San talked for a long time. They talked about how to teach the illiterate to read and write.This conversation seems to be an echo of Mao's life before he started his military life, but it also foreshadows his life after he took up a gun.The steady development of the base area made him think again about being a teacher. Educating others was his hobby, and he wanted to return to his old job.

The Jiangxi regime under the leadership of Mao created a period of freedom, where people could divorce at will in pursuit of freedom of affection, just like sending a letter.Marriage should be established on the basis of love, and having children cannot be used as a bond to maintain marriage. Mao's policy of freedom of marriage, like other policies he pursued, was revolutionary in spirit.In old China, it was not easy for people at the bottom to get married.Mao was shocked when he found that only 10% of homeless people and 1% of long-term laborers could find wives in Jiangxi.Moreover, in old China, divorce was almost impossible, and for women it was impossible at all.

After Mao's new law came into effect, there was a hectic scene of marriages and divorces.Girls used the local Soviet government as a marriage bureau, where they waited until impatient cadres found men for them. Some couples get together and leave immediately, facing Qin Muchu. In the name of "war on feudalism", some members of the youth league launched the so-called free marriage movement indiscriminately. In 1919, after the bride in Changsha committed suicide, Mao also wrote an article advocating "freedom of love."However, when old and new ideas battled, Mao chose a middle ground, which reveals the fundamental starting point of the Chinese revolution.He hopes that everyone can enjoy the happiness of married life, and opposes unrestrained indulgence, early marriage, celibacy and other abnormal behaviors.

Some of his policies have been tougher than many of his colleagues would have liked.He disagreed with lowering the age of marriage to below 20 for men and 18 for women.He insisted that the wives of Red Army soldiers could file for divorce only with the consent of their husbands or without hearing from them for two years. * ---------------------------------- * Common people's wives are not subject to this rule.This distinction also foreshadows Mao's restrictions on marriage, divorce, and sexual issues in Yan'an.In the late 1930s, the primary issue was resistance to Japan.Therefore, Mao adopted a tough policy in this regard.

His marriage policy allowed ordinary peasants to combine freely, but he also disapproved of the "glass of water" view of sex life proposed by some Bolshevik intellectuals in the 1920s.He believes that farmers should be given a place to maintain their traditional customs, and should not deal with men and women too lightly. This suited Mao's character, who believed in the rustic virtues of honesty.He is different from those intellectuals of the May Fourth Movement, who believe that bold social practice is exciting and has its own rationality.His marriage to Kaihui or Zizhen was stable under the circumstances at the time.It is true that Mao did not place much value on the ceremony of marriage, and he lived with them before the marriage was consummated—but once established, the relationship remained stable until external factors prompted a sudden change.

The "Marriage Law" enacted by Mao when he was in Jiangxi fully reflected his experience.Two people are considered "married" when they start cohabiting, regardless of whether they have received a certificate or not.This eliminates the concept of illegitimate children, which is a major change in China.At the same time, the purpose of Mao's law is to make stable family love the norm and power of all people. The final impact of Mao's revolution on society is ironic.After the Communist Party took power, it changed everything because it changed people's status in society.However, the norms of human behavior have not changed much.

Chiang Kai-shek was preparing to eradicate the Communist Party by force.In a way, it was tit for tat since Li Lisan launched several attacks on Chiang's cities. Instead, it was Zhu and Mao who confronted an irate Chiang.From December 1930 to July 1931, they repelled three "encirclement and suppression" campaigns by the Kuomintang army, leaving a glorious page in military history with the example of winning more battles with fewer. Mao adopted flexible tactics to lure the enemy deep (leading the Kuomintang troops into unfamiliar mountains) to replace space. In this way, Mao grasped the initiative of time. He watched the enemy gradually disperse their forces. When there is a weak link, all the troops will be concentrated to encircle and wipe it out. He called this tactic "ten to one".

Thanks to the flexible tactics, Mao's army was able to take advantage of the fish and water relationship with the local farmers and allowed his large army to operate in stripped down form.In the first "encirclement and suppression", Chiang Kai-shek sent 100,000 troops against Mao's 30,000; He flew to Wuhan, personally supervised the battle, and commanded 300,000 troops, while Mao's army was only a fraction of Jiang's army. The victory against "encirclement and suppression" was Mao's most glorious page in many years.Tens of thousands of Kuomintang soldiers eventually fell to the Communist Party's side, many Kuomintang officers were killed, and Mao lost only a few soldiers.Zhu Mao's army seized a large number of guns. They also found some strange machines among the trophies. They had never seen and did not know how to use these things. This is a radio transmitter.

In the summer of 1931, Mao wrote an extremely lyrical poem. Compared with its exciting content, the title "Countering the Second Great Encirclement and Suppression" seems a bit dull. The clouds on the top of Baiyun Mountain are about to stand, From the foot of Baiyun Mountain, there is an urgent cry, Dead trees and dead plants work together. gunshots, The parachutist enters the sky with his own weight. Seven hundred miles drive fifteen days, The waters of Gansu are vast and the mountains of Fujian are green, Sweeping thousands of troops is like rolling a mat. someone wept,

What a shame for the camp every step of the way!