Chapter 50 Chapter 49: "The Great Historical Documents"

After fighting all night, the four "scholars" were driven out of the editorial.Chen Boda set the title of the editorial as "Great Historical Documents" and published it in the name of the editorial department of "Red Flag" magazine and "People's Daily".This time, the four "scholars" had grasped Mao Zedong's thoughts, so after sending the manuscript to Mao Zedong, he was praised by Mao Zedong. ※ ※ ※ On the evening of May 16, 1967, Chen Boda was pleasantly surprised to receive a call from Mao Zedong! Since Mao Zedong severely criticized Chen Boda on February 10, he has been quite indifferent to him.This time, he suddenly called Chen Boda on his own initiative, why wasn't Chen Boda jumping with joy?

Probably because he was too busy and confused, Chen Boda actually forgot what day it is.Mao Zedong told him on the phone, "Today is the first anniversary of the "May 16 Notice". Tomorrow, the full text of the "May 16 Notice" will be published and an editorial will be distributed. In addition, the "February Outline" will be used as a Attachments are published together." Now, Chen Boda was in a hurry: time is too tight! It is still unclear why Mao Zedong notified Chen Boda on the evening of May 16. Perhaps someone reminded Mao Zedong that night that today is the anniversary of the "May 16th Notice", which made Mao Zedong suddenly decide to publish the "May 16th Notice". 16th Notice".

"The editorial is too late, it can be published one day later." Even Mao Zedong was aware of this and told Chen Boda on the phone. The "Central Cultural Revolution" was mobilized to implement Mao Zedong's latest instructions. Chen Boda hurriedly found the "May 16th Notice", read it again, and made a suggestion: "Comrade Peng Zhen" in the original text of the "May 16th Notice", delete the word "comrade", and distribute the rest as it is. Mao Zedong agreed. When Kang Sheng heard that the "February Outline" was going to be published as an attachment, he was anxious.Because anyway, he was one of the members of the "group of five". If the publication of the "February Outline" is not done well, it will trigger a new campaign to bombard Kang Sheng.

Kang Sheng turned to the "First Lady" for help: "In my opinion, don't post the attachment, because there are too many people involved." Mao Zedong also agreed. In this way, that night, the "May 16 Notice" was sent to all parts of the country as a Xinhua news release.The next day, all newspapers across the country published the "May 16 Notice" in full. The four "talented talents" Chen Boda, Wang Li, Guan Feng, and Qi Benyu stayed up all night to implement Mao Zedong's instructions: distribute an editorial.Even though "it can be published one day later", it is enough to be nervous and has to be rushed out overnight.

Under the chairmanship of Chen Boda, these "scholars" of the "Central Cultural Revolution" discussed the theme of the editorial.They speculated on Mao Zedong's intentions, and according to Mao Zedong's "supreme instructions" on Wang Li's commentary and Qi Benyu's article not long ago, they determined that the theme of the editorial was to "thoroughly criticize China's Khrushchev" and to promote Mao Zedong's "Continuation under the dictatorship of the proletariat". revolution" theory. After fighting all night, the four "scholars" were driven out of the editorial.Chen Boda set the title of the editorial as "Great Historical Documents" and published it in the name of the editorial department of "Red Flag" magazine and "People's Daily".

The next paragraph is the "three stages" and "three milestones" proposed by Wang Li.This passage was later widely quoted as a "high evaluation" of Mao Zedong's ultra-left theory in his later years. This time, the four "scholars" had grasped Mao Zedong's thoughts, so after sending the manuscript to Mao Zedong, he was praised by Mao Zedong.Mao Zedong himself rewrote a large passage about Stalin. At the end of the editorial, the drafters recall, Mao Zedong added an important passage, which was published in bold typeface.Because it was written by Mao Zedong himself, he wrote it as "Comrade Mao Zedong often said in recent years"——if it is a "scholar"

If we write it, it must be written as "Chairman Mao taught us to say", the following is a passage added by Mao Zedong: The current Cultural Revolution is only the first time, and it will inevitably be repeated many times in the future.Comrade Mao Zedong has often said in recent years that it takes a long historical period to decide who wins and who loses in the revolution.If it is not done well, the restoration of capitalism will be possible at any time.All Party members and the people of the whole country should not think that once, once, twice, three or four times the Great Cultural Revolution, everything will be all right.Be careful, never lose your vigilance.

After Mao Zedong personally revised the article "The Great Historical Document" was published on May 18, 1967, Chen Boda finally breathed a sigh of relief. However, the "supreme instruction" that Mao Zedong added at the end of the article aroused a lot of suspicion in the whole country: "the first time" The Cultural Revolution is over, and now the "second" Cultural Revolution is about to begin! At this time, Chen Boda became active again and gave speeches everywhere——he had come out of a political storm.He and Mao Zedong resumed communication, but Mao Zedong no longer valued him as much as a year ago.

On June 1, 1967, Chen Boda sent Wang Li, Guan Feng, and Qi Benyu to the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee.Wang Li spoke on behalf of the "Central Cultural Revolution", announcing that "the Party Central Committee has decided that the Central Cultural Revolution Group will take over the Central Propaganda Department." A "group" took over a department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the "Central Cultural Revolution" was majestic and imposing, and it had reached its peak. The propaganda group, literature and art group, and education group under the jurisdiction of the "Central Cultural Revolution" are equivalent to the Central Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Culture, and the Ministry of Education.Except for some of the most important matters, which were discussed and decided by the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee chaired by Mao Zedong or Lin Biao, the power of daily work had fallen into the hands of the "Central Cultural Revolution Meeting".