Chapter 47 Grasp the future (9)

Zhu's motives at the time were complex, as evidenced by his refusal to speak about the matter in later years.One of the reasons may be that he thinks he is from Sichuan and wants to stay in his own world.Alternatively, it may have been a form of revenge against Mao's domineering working methods. But what Zhu really cares about, perhaps, is the split itself.He may be the maker of the compromise policy of dividing troops to the north.The reason why he decided to go west with Zhang Guotao was as a strategy to prevent the merger of the first and fourth front armies. In short, a year later, Zhu De and Zhang Guotao went to Yan'an where Mao was, and he rarely commented on Zhang since then.

Unless this play is deliberately arranged by Mao, but it doesn't look like it.Mao must have suffered physically and mentally during the difficult trek from Maoergai to the north. Crossing the grasslands in Gansu was the scariest day of the Long March.The quagmire, hunger, the hostility and arrogance of the local residents (Hui) and the ignorance of a series of policies towards Mao caused Mao to lose thousands of soldiers.The Hui woman leader, deeply hostile to the Han, threatened that anyone who offered help to the Red Army would be scalded to death with boiling water. * The Red Army had to kill for the first time in order to get food (otherwise, they would only eat pine cones, mushrooms and grass).Mao later said: "This is our only foreign debt. One day we must repay the supplies that we had to take from the Tibetans." ◎ There is no evidence that they did so.

Mao's strange remarks may be a sharp irony. In the 1950s, some of the measures taken by the government of the People's Republic of China to Tibet may have something to do with what the Tibetans did to Mao in 1935. The Long March is coming to an end.Mao's troops arrived in Shaanxi after crossing the Liupan Mountains, where a small army under the leadership of the Communist Party was already there, and Xu Haidong welcomed the survivors in rags. ** walked forward and asked calmly: "Are you Comrade Haidong?" Sure enough, he was.The horror and heroism of the Long March came to an end.

-------------------------------- *This paragraph is inaccurate. ——Correction Note ** This team arrived in Shaanxi from the Jiangxi Soviet Area created in the early 1930s, and merged with the revolutionary forces in Shaanxi.The Shaanxi Revolutionary Force was developed from the peasant movement in the 1920s under the leadership of sixteen Shaanxi youths. In 1926, at the Guangzhou Peasant Movement Workshop, Mao had taught these sixteen young people. Under the harsh weather conditions that were sometimes hot and sometimes cold, Mao crossed 24 rivers and climbed 18 mountains.By the time he reached the Northwest Loess Plateau, only 10% of his soldiers who had left Jiangxi a year earlier were left.

At that exciting moment, Mao just said: "Thank you for your tireless work to pick us up." That night, for the first time in his life, he slept in a loess cave dwelling. The Long March "made" Mao into a man of thought and action, relegating him to the fringes of China's most promising political leader.And provided him with a team of steel, they stood with him until the "Cultural Revolution" in the 1960s. Indeed, the Long March had been a great retreat,5 and until the end of 1935 the fate of the Communist Party remained in doubt.However, the Long March had far-reaching consequences, with the Red Army covering twice the east-west span of the United States.Mao is to China what Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt.Forge a diverse group into a powerful movement that believes in its own cause.

The Long March also has the merits of propaganda.A year passed through a residential area of ​​200 million people, and the fighters kept promoting their cause.Mao insisted that it was impossible to do anything else with a night's rest, but at least he had time to teach the peasants to write six words: "Beat the local tyrants and divide the fields." The Long Marchers were like prophets, and every heroic act of innovation seemed to prove the arrival of tomorrow's socialist China. All brand-new social systems originate from ideals—the initial stage of capitalism is no exception—Communist China was born out of the sweat, blood, and snow of the Long March. Develop their sense of mission.Mao Zedong was the Moses of his day.

Without the bravery and tenacity of the young soldiers, the Long March could not have been successful, and there was only one way for these idealists to go.Luck is also a factor. If the warlords in Guizhou and Yunnan came to the real thing, they would crush the Red Army in one fell swoop.The third indispensable condition is Mao's courage and skill. *The Loess Plateau is the barren yellow land formed by water and soil erosion for several centuries in China, and some places have now formed the Gobi Desert. ——Correction Note Mao fully demonstrated his political genius in leading the Long March.In his view, the primary task of the Communist Party is to lead the Chinese people to resist Japanese aggression.This enterprise combined all the elements of "Maoism" into an interrelated whole, and it was because of this unity that the northwest was proposed as the destination, and the reason for the continued existence of the Communist Party after the defeat in Jiangxi was presented.It liberated the Communist Party from the prison of sectarianism.In the eyes of millions of Chinese people who do not yet know what Marxism is, they have become patriots.

Mao did not occupy the top job in the Chinese Communist Party simply because of his organizational skills, a gift from Moscow, or a creative application of Marxism.He rose to prominence because of his relentless purpose and tenacity, as he put some simple psychological and social truths into action. The stylization of the concept of thought is a matter for the future, and it is the result of Mao having time to think deeply about it. Now that Mao has rooted the Chinese Communist Party in his own country, he knows China better than anything else, enabling him to do what 28 Bolsheviks could not: make the Chinese Revolution truly Chinese revolution.

On Liupan Mountain, which is still a few days away from Shaanxi, Mao wrote a poem looking forward to the future: The sky is high and the clouds are clear, Looking down at the geese flying south. If you don't reach the Great Wall, you are not a hero. Twenty thousand trips. The peak of Liupan Mountain, The red flag blows in the westerly wind. Today with long tassels in hand, When to Bind the Canglong? "Canglong" is the name of the east constellation after Qihexing, and refers to Japan in Mao's words. * Resisting Japanese aggression is indeed the overriding task of the next ten years, and the end of the Long March is only the beginning of this task.