Chapter 19 postscript

At the beginning of the year, I suddenly received a "letter from overseas".When I opened it to read, it was an unknown person who sent me a bunch of so-called "documentaries" attacking and slandering Mao Zedong and other leaders of the Communist Party of China.The language dialogues in the article, let alone the leaders of the Communist Party of China, even a middle-aged person like me living in the "mainland" would not be able to learn it after a year of study.That is a language habit that people in the lower society of Hong Kong and Taiwan may have, and it has not yet been accepted by mainlanders, let alone become a living language for mainlanders.I pity the author's lowest level of imagination that can make a tiger crow.

The hardest thing in the world is telling the truth. In 2010, I was a "Happy Sect" at Beijing Institute of Technology, and I went to the Summer Palace with my classmate Zhao Yanhan and other five people. I discussed that Lin Biao was "ambitious" and "a man with an iron fist" who "struggled under the banner of Chairman Mao to attack comrades around Chairman Mao." ", "There are many things to engage in personal grievances", "to clear the way to seize power" and so on.At that time, it was mainly Zhao Yanhan who spoke angrily and wrote it in his diary.During the fighting, this diary was obtained by a group of students and handed over to the military propaganda team.We were all censored for this. Zhao Yanhan’s father was persecuted to death, his mother was imprisoned, and his family was ruined. It is said that he was also sent to Huashan Farm for labor reform. Several years after Lin Biao fell to his death, he was still on the farm and could not be rehabilitated.

Telling the truth is not good, and it is too early to tell the truth. year.On the train from Yichang to Wuhan, I scolded Jiang Qing as "harming the country and the people" and "harming the nation". A man wearing sunglasses and wearing yellow army trousers reported me to the police and arrested me for interrogation.There was also a good army officer who rushed to put in a good word for me.I very much hope that the army officer who helped me will see this text and contact me. In fact, I just told the truth a little early. When I wrote "Mao Zedong Stepping Down from the Altar", some people of extraordinary status repeatedly accused me of "damaging Chairman Mao's glorious image", "beautifying Jiang Qing", and "speaking good things for Jiang Qing".

I told the truth a little earlier. I found a pattern.Those who "respect Deputy Commander Lin" are the most pious and "salute the standard bearer" are the most enthusiastic, and they are also the ones who later scolded "Lin Biaoyi" and "Jiang Qing was born" as "terribly bad".This kind of person is far from right, and he will teach me forever. Because I have never been "correct" once in my life, and I always tell the truth a few years earlier. When I am responsible for writing for history, for the nation, and for myself, there are always people who ask me to be responsible for politics, groups, and a few of them.As a result, every time a book is published, it always attracts a lot of excitement.Some people yell good, some people call me an asshole, some people want to kill me.

If you shout good, I am not responsible for you; if you call a bastard, I may not be a real bastard; you "wish to kill the dog", killing me will leave a name in history, and my book will sell better. What makes me really sad is that there is a group of people I respect, whose historical limitations and congenital deficiencies caused by the times so surprised and saddened me;These "lower fools" can go forward and succeed under the command of "sage wise", unwavering, not afraid of sacrifice, and achieve great things, but they have never really understood what they have done, their true role and value in history , and never figured out what kind of status and significance the "Shangzhi" they followed had in history.

I once wrote the story of Mao Zedong crying while watching "The Legend of the White Snake". Few of those involved could see the profound connotation, could not understand or realize it; Drop your pants!" For this reason, I was censored for 8 months, and my father was not allowed to leave Beijing to visit him if he was sick. He said that I "spread rumors for Chairman Mao" and that I "damaged Chairman Mao's great image". In fact, there were more than 100 people present for "Chairman Mao dropped his pants". I am crazy and dare to spread this rumor under the rule of the Communist Party?

Are they crazy, using the fact that more than 100 people were present to frame me and spread rumors? neither.There is only one root cause: "ignorance" and "confusion". The "comedy" performed because of "ignorance" eventually turned into tragedy because of "ignorance".They always interpret Mao Zedong's saying that "the humble are the wisest" as "the ignorant are the wisest", and they feel good about teaching others. I am "lower" than them, and I am a grassroots, so I am not stupid. Now, the part where Mao Zedong shed tears while watching "The Legend of the White Snake", together with the details of dropping his pants, has become a Chinese textbook for middle school students.But some parties still can't understand why?Because according to the national teaching syllabus, such content can only be understood by the middle school education level.

Many of my articles are included in the middle school Chinese textbooks and the "Celebrity Articles" of the Chinese Department of the university, but I have never heard of any of them included in the textbooks for elementary school students?Only those in the upper grades of elementary school can use it as a supplementary textbook to read.Because the students in the lower grades of elementary school will also be puzzled when they read my articles. They can't tell good from bad, can't hear good from bad, let alone understand what it means. After the publication of "Mao Zedong who stepped down from the altar", the "leftists" called me "damaging the great image of the chairman"; .What I can console myself is that I received more than 3,000 letters from readers in 3 months, all of whom said it was well written, and they all said that I shed tears.

The people who scolded me were happiest than "the legal dispute between Mao Zedong's chief guard and writer Quan Yanchi".This is also the thing that makes me feel so ridiculously ridiculous.Those who rush to write, those poor editors and newspapers who are startled, have not seen this lawsuit until now.I will finally prove that everything in the press is false. Now, when "Mao Zedong Stepping Down from the Altar" was once banned, and it has not been officially reprinted for three years, I am writing it again. Years ago, when I held Zhou Enlai's hand, answered his questions, and listened to his long speech, I did not expect to write this literary work of more than 300,000 words.At that time, I was a college student studying automatic control, and I was still a doll under 20 years old.

However, when Deng Yingchao agreed to write a book about Zhou Enlai's demeanor before his death, I planned to write more than the 300,000 words. In "Mao Zedong who stepped down from the altar", I used the real name of one of Mao Zedong's chief guards.Although I have obtained my consent before using it, and even though I made it clear in the preface of the book that the chief of the guard is in quotation marks and is not the real person in life, in fact the society still stubbornly believes that the "chief of the guard" "It's that person.Caused a lot of trouble for him and myself.For example, those involved all said that the person "greed for heaven's work and stole it for himself", "it was not something he did, he couldn't have known it at all, and it was said that he was there..." But what about his relatives?It's ridiculous to think I'm "stealing"

I got other people's "thought materials", and mistakenly thought that the precious materials I got from all over the world after working hard to interview were all owned by their relatives who had language barriers due to illness. What I wanted was just a "copyright lawsuit" . I am not afraid of "lawsuits", but I am very annoyed by "entanglement".In order to avoid similar troubles from happening again, although this book is still written in the first-person self-reporting style, the "He Shuying", who has successively served as a guard, adjutant, confidential secretary and head of the guard, is no longer a person in any life. a specific person.He is the person created by the author.The author wanted to write about Zhou Enlai, and what he posted was the author's own opinion, and had nothing to do with the thoughts, opinions, or understandings of any other staff around the premier. During the interview, I hit a lot of walls.One of the important reasons is that many of my views cannot be accepted by the interviewees.What I've written about leaders, they hold a different view.They think there is a "distance" from "truth"; or they think it "damages the image of a great leader"; they only agree to do documentation, and they don't agree with my documentary literature. I never force myself to interview these people, because I don't even admit their truth.They are the "truth" that is concealed, the "truth" that is unconsciously limited by emotion and inherent thinking level. Many people have also accepted my interview.for example: He Qian, the little red ghost who walked across the grass, came to the Prime Minister's side in 1940, followed him from Yan'an to Chongqing, and then to Beijing.Participated in or had contact with almost all major activities that the Prime Minister experienced during this period. Zhang Shuying, who followed the prime minister for decades, served as the prime minister's guard and deputy head of the guard. After Cheng Yuangong was transferred, he served as the head of the guard until the death of the prime minister. During the "Cultural Revolution", he was the general leader who escorted the Prime Minister to Changsha to report to Mao Zedong; he accompanied the Prime Minister day and night after he was bedridden; he held the Prime Minister's hand before and after the Prime Minister's heart stopped;He provided the most detailed and specific first-hand materials on the Prime Minister’s basic necessities of life, work, and self-support during the “Cultural Revolution” and the discovery of cancer until his death. mention him. "You write about the Prime Minister, not about us. You must be clear about this."This is the premise of writing that he pointed out for me. Both Lei Yingfu and Guo Yinghui were the military secretaries of the Prime Minister; with the unique sensitivity of soldiers, they used a large number of facts to outline Zhou Enlai's image characteristics, spiritual outlook; I also interviewed many comrades who could observe and narrate Zhou Enlai from different sides, including Chen Hao, the foreign affairs secretary, Zheng Shuyun, the medical staff, and Li Weixin, the service staff. For the comprehensiveness, accuracy and completeness of the facts, I also refer to "Zhou Silai's Style Dictionary", "Zhou Enlai's Biography", "Zhou Enlai's Brief Biography", "Remembering Zhou Enlai", "Zhou Enlai and His Secretaries" and "Woodpecker", "Yanhuang Chunqiu" ", "Children of China" and other publications, make comparative judgments from them, and try to be as close to the truth as possible, but I will never be completely true, accurate and complete.I can only say that I have this wish, and I have worked hard. For any event, 1,000 people will have 1,000 opinions after experiencing it.On the premise of not violating the basic facts, in terms of characters, places, time, dialogues, etc., I try to respect the statements of existing articles.But most of the meanings reflected in each incident have different thinking and opinions from those of my predecessors.Please forgive me for my differing views from yours. The author solemnly declares again: This article is about Zhou Enlai, not about any other staff member.I am only responsible to Zhou Enlai, and strive to be as close to reality as possible; while "He Shuying" is purely a fictional character created by the author.He is a character created by gathering the images and experiences of dozens of staff around Zhou Enlai represented by He Qian, Zhang Shuying, Lei Yingfu, Guo Yinghui, etc. It all comes from me, Quan Yanchi, from my personal witness and understanding of the Prime Minister. I originally wrote "Mao Zedong who stepped down from the altar" in the same way, but unfortunately I chose the wrong "Chief of the Guard" and used a real name, which caused a lot of excitement.Writers dare not join in the fun. If there is too much excitement, they will not be able to write more articles.I still have a little memory. Generally speaking, the same "mistake" will not be made a second time. I would like to express my gratitude to all those involved who contributed to the writing of this book.I would like to express my gratitude to all the experts, professors, and leaders who have reviewed this book and given me affirmation and encouragement.I would like to express my gratitude to the comrades and persons in charge of the CPC Central Party School Publishing House who edited this book. Please believe that I respect and love Zhou Enlai from the bottom of my heart. Kwon Yeon-chi Belongs to Readers November 12, 1992 end of text