Chapter 37 Chapter Thirty-Six

"Traitor" was a popular "hat" during the "Cultural Revolution". If you want to knock someone down, you can put a person to death if you fiddle with some "investigation materials" and call him a "traitor". As the "No. 5 Person", how can Chen Boda defeat the "No. 4 Person" Tao Zhu who is ahead of him? ※ ※ ※ The "Cultural Revolution", in Mao Zedong's words, was to "peel off the bamboo shoots", peeling off those "dissidents" layer by layer. During the "Cultural Revolution", the party "stripped the bamboo shoots", the government "stripped the bamboo shoots", and the army "stripped the bamboo shoots".

Even the "Central Cultural Revolution Group" is "peeling bamboo shoots". Mu Xin was "peeled" off - because someone revealed that Mu Xin was mentally ill before the "Cultural Revolution" and listed it as a "vicious attack" crime.Jiang Qing casually labeled him a "traitor" and asked Wang Feng to send someone to investigate.Therefore, Mu Xin's name was removed from the list of "Central Cultural Revolution". Yin Da was also "stripped".This historian participated in the excavation of the Yin Ruins in Anyang, Henan Province as early as 1931. He joined the Communist Party of China in Yan'an in 1938. After liberation, he became a member of the Social Science Department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, deputy director of the Institute of Archeology, and first deputy director of the Institute of History. long.A hat of "reactionary academic authority" makes him step aside.Guo Yingqiu, Zheng Jiqiao, and Liu Wenzhen were impacted and no longer participated in the "Central Cultural Revolution" work.

At the end of 1966, two of the four deputy leaders of the "Central Cultural Revolution"—Wang Renzhong and Liu Zhijian—were "bombarded". Among the secretaries of the provincial party committee, apart from Tao Zhu, Wang Renzhong was the one who liked to exercise his pen.Under the leadership of Wang Renzhong, the writing group of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China published many essays before the "Cultural Revolution" under the pseudonym "Gong Tongwen", many of which were written by Wang Renzhong himself.It is precisely because Wang Renzhong has a "literary name" that Mao Zedong valued it very much.He became the deputy head of the "Central Cultural Revolution" because he was a "scholar" among the secretaries of the provincial party committee.However, the storm of the "Cultural Revolution" suddenly broke out, and the first secretaries of 29 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions across the country, except Liu Jianxun, the first secretary of the Henan Provincial Party Committee, who wrote a big-character poster in support of the rebels, were all bombarded.Although Wang Renzhong has the glorious protection of the deputy head of the "Central Cultural Revolution", the rebels also know that he is not Jiang Qing's "direct descendant".The rebels in Hubei had already aimed their guns at Wang Renzhong.However, general "bombardment" cannot defeat Wang Renzhong.

It was completely unexpected that a small poem became a heavy shell that knocked down Wang Renzhong.It was a rebel who accidentally saw a poem rewritten by Wang Renzhong from Wang Renzhong's son, in which he called Mao Zedong "comrade in arms" and "brother".This was originally a very common and normal thing, but in that "extraordinary era", the rebels felt like a treasure: "Hmph, you Wang Renzhong is so bold that you dare to call the great leader Chairman Mao a brother!" Immediately, Wuhan The rebels in the three towns made a fuss and questioned Wang Renzhongxing.Jiang Qing was overjoyed, she was eager to find an excuse to "strip" Wang Renzhong off.At this time, Tao Zhu came forward to protect Wang Renzhong and wrote a report to Mao Zedong, suggesting that Wang Renzhong resign from the position of deputy head of the "Central Cultural Revolution" and return to the Central South Bureau.Moreover, Wang Renzhong was suffering from liver disease at the time, and Tao Zhu suggested that he should be allowed to recuperate and receive treatment.Mao Zedong instructed in the report: "Comrade Wang Renzhong is the deputy head of the Cultural Revolution Group. If he wants to leave the Cultural Revolution Group, please ask the Politburo and the Cultural Revolution Group to hold a joint meeting to raise opinions on Ren Zhong."

Since October 1966, Wang Renzhong left Beijing to recuperate in Guangzhou. After Wang Renzhong, Liu Zhijian "stripped" his position as deputy head of the "Central Cultural Revolution".Liu Zhijian was ordered to go to Guangzhou in 1964 to participate in the investigation of "Great Contest to Impact Politics", and was once favored by Lin Biao.In this way, when Lin Biao entrusted Jiang Qing to hold the symposium on literature and art work in the army, he appointed Liu Zhijian as the convener of the symposium. When the "Central Cultural Revolution" was established, Liu Zhijian was selected in consideration of the need for representatives of the army.Liu Zhijian is the deputy director of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army and concurrently the leader of the Cultural Revolution Team of the PLA.

Jiang Qing soon discovered that Liu Zhijian was "disobedient". In early 1967, Jiang Qing called Liu Zhijian a "double-faced man" and quickly knocked him down.Jiang Qing said to the rebels in the army: "People like Liu Zhijian, we help you expose. I am nominally the military's cultural adviser, but he never reports to me. Last year, a symposium was held (quote note: refers to Lin Biao Entrusted Jiang Qing to hold the "Army Art Work Symposium"), he has political capital. Because Xiao Hua is ill (quote note: Xiao Hua is the director of the General Political Department of the PLA), he has been ill for two years. His hands are very long , became the deputy head of the Central Cultural Revolution...he is a typical double-faced person."

Chen Boda echoed Jiang Qing, labeled Liu Zhijian a "traitor" and knocked him down. "Traitor" was a popular "hat" during the "Cultural Revolution". If you want to knock someone down, you can put a person to death if you fiddle with some "investigation materials" and call him a "traitor". Regarding Liu Zhijian's so-called "traitor", Xu Xiangqian explained the truth later: "Chen Boda said that Comrade Liu Zhijian was a traitor, but that was not the case at all. It was during a battle during the War of Resistance Against Japan that our troops were attacked by the enemy." , Comrade Liu Zhijian was captured. The headquarters of the Southern Hebei Army received information from the underground intelligence organization that the Japanese passed through a certain place at a certain time. Comrade Liu Zhijian was rescued, so there is no such thing as a mutiny."

However, at the beginning of 1967, Jiang Qing called Liu Zhijian a "double-faced faction" and Chen Boda said Liu Zhijian was a "traitor", plus the so-called Liu Zhijian "executing the bourgeois reactionary line", Liu Zhijian was overthrown. As a result, the only "leaders" of the "Central Cultural Revolution" left were team leader Chen Boda, first deputy team leader Jiang Qing, deputy team leader Zhang Chunqiao, and two advisors, namely Tao Zhu and Kang Sheng. Around Zhang Chunqiao and Wang Hongwen signed a five-point agreement on the Anting incident, there were fierce frictions and struggles between Tao Zhu, Jiang Qing, and Chen Boda.There have been many such tit-for-tat arguments between Tao Zhu, Jiang Qing, and Chen Boda.Jiang Qing and Chen Boda decided to "peel off" Tao Zhu.

However, relying on the power of the first deputy team leader and the team leader, it is not so easy to defeat Tao Zhu: after all, Tao Zhu is the "number four person", ranking ahead of Chen Boda. As the "No. 5 Person", how can Chen Boda defeat the "No. 4 Person" Tao Zhu who is ahead of him? Tao Zhu, a native of Qiyang, Hunan, is three years younger than Chen Boda. In 1926, Tao Zhu joined the Communist Party of China when he was studying at the Whampoa Military Academy. In 1927, he participated in the Nanchang Uprising and the Guangzhou Uprising. In 1929, he served as Secretary-General and Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.When he was working in southern Fujian, Chen Boda returned to Xiamen from the Soviet Union and worked together.

In May 1935, Tao Zhu was arrested in Shanghai for being betrayed by a traitor and was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Kuomintang. When the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated again in 1937, Zhou Enlai and Ye Jianying negotiated and rescued him from prison. In 1940, he served as Secretary-General of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China in Yan'an.Tao Zhu's position in the party was higher than that of Chen Boda. In 1945, at the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Chen Boda was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, while Tao Zhu was only a representative of the Seventh National Congress.From then on, Chen Boda's position was higher than Tao Zhu's.

After liberation, Tao Zhu served as the first secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the first secretary of the Central South Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.He likes to write, and has written prose collections "Ideal·Sentiment·Spiritual Life", "Thought·Emotion·Literary Talent" and so on.He also loves to write poetry. In the party, Tao Zhu respected Deng Xiaoping very much.Mrs. Tao Zhu Zeng Zhi wrote a passage of what Tao Zhu said in the article "The past is unforgettable like smoke" ("History is contemplating here", Huaxia Publishing House): In 1949, Erye marched to the southwest, and I met Deng Xiaoping for the first time when passing through Wuhan.After Deng Xiaoping was transferred to the central government, he only had business contacts, and the contacts were not deep. After the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1956, Deng Xiaoping served as the general secretary. After that, there were more contacts and closer relations.My impression of Deng Xiaoping is indeed good.At the party congress in 1955, he said something like this: If the party allows apprentices, I am not qualified to be the student of the chairman, but I would like to worship Deng Xiaoping as a teacher.