Chapter 29 Title VIII Personnel and Institutional Adjustment

After the meeting on the 25th, the Party Central Committee, including the Central Political Bureau and the Central Committee's personnel issues were brought up, and speeches were made in the group meetings.This item was not included in the original agenda of the Central Work Conference. After the meeting, everyone realized that this item was very important and that it was a key issue that must be resolved. Twenty days after the meeting, the original topic has been broken through, the idea of ​​"two whatevers" has been further condemned, and the question of the standard of truth has been discussed at a deeper level. The ideological line and the political line have been resolved. , Future work requires a better central leadership team.This issue is being considered at the highest levels of the Central Committee, and it is also being considered by the meeting attendees.This kind of personnel arrangement is of course not the business of each group.But group discussions can play a role in building public opinion.

As a result, many people in each group discussed who should be added to the Central Committee, who should be added to the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and who should be included in the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. , that is, only mention who can enter the central government, and not mention who should be excluded from the central government. Opinion. The speeches in favor of Chen Yun's entry into the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and his appointment as vice-chairman of the Central Committee were the most common in various group meetings. They all said that Chen Yun was senior in the party, had high prestige, high level, and strong ability, and that he should serve as vice-chairman of the Party Central Committee. His position should be above Wang Dongxing.Regarding this personnel change, since everyone agreed with the policy of "only entering and leaving", everyone only mentioned Chen Yun's entry into the Standing Committee, and did not mention Wang Dongxing's exit from the Standing Committee.As a result, the number of Standing Committee members increased from five to six.The number of people is not important, but Wang remains on the Standing Committee. Everyone knows that this must be temporary, and everyone understands that it is better to adopt the policy of "only entering and not leaving" now.

Regarding the central personnel issue, I had quite a few good things to say for Hu Qiaomu at the meeting of the Northwest Group.Among the attendees of the Central Work Conference was Li Xin, who was originally Kang Sheng's secretary and had been working beside Kang Sheng during the "Cultural Revolution".He has always led a few younger people to do the editing and editing of Mao Zedong's works. Mao Zedong's manuscripts and speech records have always been kept in Li Xin's hands. When Deng Xiaoping presided over the daily work of the Central Committee in 1975, Deng Xiaoping asked Hu Qiaomu to preside over the compilation and editing of the fifth volume of "Selected Works of Mao Zedong".The working procedure at that time was that Wu Lengxi, Xiong Fu, and Li Xin prepared the manuscripts to be selected into the fifth volume of "Selected Works of Mao Zedong", and then under the chairmanship of Hu Qiaomu, Wu Lengxi, Hu Sheng, and Xiong Fu, Yu Guangyuan, and Li Xin revised and corrected paragraph by sentence. Hu Jiwei was "liberated" in the late period of the "Cultural Revolution". Hu Qiaomu also transferred Hu Jiwei to the Political Research Office of the State Council in the name of participating in the editing work of the fifth volume of "Selected Works of Mao Zedong", but after he went to the Political Research Office of the State Council, he did other things. Work.

Under the chairmanship of Hu Qiaomu, the articles selected into the fifth volume of "Selected Works of Mao Zedong" were revised one by one and sent to Deng Xiaoping for finalization.When some articles were finalized, Deng Xiaoping recruited us all, and some short articles were finalized by him and Hu Qiaomu.In this way, Li Xin was reduced from the de facto host to one of the several responsible persons in the work of editing and sorting out "Selected Works of Mao Zedong".He was dissatisfied with this, but at that time he had no choice but to temporarily accept the status quo.Soon, "criticize Deng and fight back against the rightist style of overturning verdicts" came. This was an opportunity for him to resume his power to preside over the compilation and editing of Mao Zedong's works.So he criticized Hu Qiaomu for tampering with Mao Zedong's works at the "Criticizing Deng" meeting of the Political Research Office of the State Council.At that time, I noticed that Li Xin had bad intentions. After "criticizing Deng" and smashing the "Gang of Four", Li Xin achieved his goal. He took Wu Lengxi, Hu Sheng, Xiong Fu and others to the office of the editorial committee of Chairman Mao Zedong's works, and took over the power of editing Mao Zedong's works.

After crushing the "Gang of Four", a letter written by Hu Qiaomu to Jiang Qing after Mao Zedong's death and requesting to attend Mao Zedong's memorial service was found in Jiang Qing's place.At that time, Hua Guofeng was in charge of the work of the Central Committee, and he was in charge of the Party Central Committee and the State Council. According to the organizational system, Hu Qiaomu's letter requesting to attend the memorial service should not be written to Jiang Qing.But Jiang Qing is Mao Zedong's widow, so Hu Qiaomu also had his reasons for writing to Jiang Qing.But Li Xin insisted on this point, and used this incident to insist that Hu Qiaomu wrote a "letter of allegiance."

When the Central Work Conference was held in March 1977, Li Xin was Wang Dongxing's most capable assistant at that time, and he was the main figure in the small team that Wang Dongxing relied on.Whether Wu Lengxi, Hu Sheng, and Xiong Fu participated in the Central Working Conference, I don't know, Hu Qiaomu and I were not notified to attend.Li Xin made a speech at this meeting, attacking Hu Qiaomu.However, when the Central Work Conference was held in 1978, Li Xin's slander against Hu Qiaomu had already been clarified, and he believed that things should not be viewed that way.I didn't talk about this matter at the meeting, lest people who didn't know about it know about it, so the good things I said for Hu Qiaomu focused on the editing work of "Selected Works of Mao Zedong".At this time, Li Xin was still Wang Dongxing's most capable assistant, and he was still the main figure in Wang Dongxing's small team.He is also the deputy director of the General Office of the Central Committee and the deputy director of the Office of the Editorial Committee of Chairman Mao's works.His role cannot be ignored.

The Central Work Conference was held until late November, when various groups were discussing personnel issues in the Central Committee, and some groups had already nominated Hu Qiaomu as a member of the Central Committee.But several acquaintances in each group asked me if there was any problem with Hu Qiaomu before and after "criticizing Deng".Some people in the Northwest Group expressed doubts about Hu Qiaomu's inclusion in the Central Committee, and even expressed opposition in the conversation with me.Therefore, I think it is necessary to expose Li Xin on the one hand, and to speak more justice to Hu Qiaomu on the one hand, and to create public opinion for him to enter the Central Committee.So on the second day of the meeting on the 25th, I exposed that Li Xin used Deng Xiaoping's reuse of Hu Qiaomu as one of the contents of the "Criticize Deng" in 1976, and pointed out Li Xin's very bad behavior.

When Li Xin "criticized Deng", he tried his best to belittle Hu Qiaomu, saying, "I don't think he has any Marxist thought", and also charged Hu Qiaomu with "tampering" with Chairman Mao's works. I think that in 1976, when Mao Zedong’s speeches and speech drafts were compiled under the auspices of Hu Qiaomu, there may have been a little more processing (I am also responsible for this. I also participated in the reading and revision of the manuscripts at that time, and did not raise this opinion).But at that time, Hu Qiaomu sorted out Mao's manuscripts when Mao Zedong was still alive, and after sorting out, he had to go through Mao's final approval, so there was no tampering.I also cited an incident when sorting out "On Ten Relationships" as evidence.Originally sorted out by Li Xin and others, there is a sentence in this manuscript that "everything in the world has its occurrence, development and death".I told Hu Qiaomu: "This is only true for finite things, but it is wrong for infinite things." Hu Qiaomu accepted my opinion and made amendments. After sending it to Deng Xiaoping for approval, Deng also agreed, and Mao Zedong also agreed. Agree. When "criticizing Deng", Li Xin also described this as Hu Qiaomu's tampering.Finally, in the fifth volume of "Selected Works of Mao Zedong" published under the auspices of Li Xin, there was an article that still retained the wrong sentence.In the speech of the Northwest Group of the Central Work Conference, I said, "I don't know who doesn't have Marxism."

When I "criticized Deng", I realized that Li Xin was not upright.After smashing the "Gang of Four", Li Xin continued to accuse Hu Qiaomu of various crimes and seized Hu Qiaomu's power.Later he reported to his superiors to remove Hu Qiaomu from his position.I said at the meeting, "Hu Qiaomu should be officially vindicated, and if there are any documents, they should be declared invalid." On December 2, my speech again criticized Li Xin for doing so. Fang Yi, who was in the same group, followed my words and said that Li Xin's treatment of Hu Qiaomu was not only undecent, but also a conspiracy.