Chapter 42 "It's hard for me to go back to the battlefield" - Tao Zhu, a poet in captivity

Tao Zhu, Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier. During the "Cultural Revolution", he served as an advisor to the Central Cultural Revolution Group. During the "Cultural Revolution", because Jiang Qing pulled him to take the lead in attacking Comrade Deng Xiaoping at a central meeting and was rejected, and in order to protect some cadres, he fought fiercely with Jiang Qing and Chen Boda. Jiang Qing lost his temper with Tao Zhu several times. On January 4, 1967, when Jiang Qing, Kang Sheng, and Chen Boda met with the "Wuhan went to Guangzhou to arrest Wang Renzhong's revolutionary rebel group", they announced that Tao Zhu was a faithful executor of the "Liu-Deng line" and "China's largest royalist". ", to "mobilize the masses" and "catch him out".Immediately, slogans and flyers of "Down with Tao Zhu" spread all over the country.Tao Zhu soon lost his personal freedom and was imprisoned in solitary confinement in the swastika corridor residence in Beijing.During the more than two years of imprisonment from 1967 to 1969, Tao Zhu, as a poet, left precious poems in his ordeal.

During the two-year detention, Tao Zhu could not see anyone, and his diet was monitored by special personnel.Except for being taken out to read big-character posters, she was not allowed to leave the house at ordinary times, and she was only allowed to relax on the porch outside the house after dinner. Tao Zhu's daughter Tao Siliang recalled in "A Letter Finally Sent" that in August 1967, a group of burly men broke into the swastika hallway and pulled Tao Zhu to criticize. The atmosphere is created, the film is filmed, and it is prepared for national screening.Tao Zhu's anger was smoldering in his chest, and he wandered around the room after returning, like a ferocious beast in a cage.Tao Siliang said in her memoirs that she never liked to go to the zoo, "because whenever I see the children happily teasing the tiger in the cage, I immediately think of you (Tao Zhu) a kind of pain that touches the hidden wound, which often destroys me. Tears..." In confinement, Tao Zhu told his daughter Tao Siliang the stories of honest and loyal ministers in history, about the struggle between Fan Pang of the Han Dynasty and the eunuch eunuch who dominated the country and ruined the country.Tao Zhu said angrily: "It is because I don't know how to kowtow and kneel before them that I ended up like this today! From now on, I will live on with this bit of backbone!"

On September 8, 1967, Yao Wenyuan's "Comment on Tao Zhu's Two Books" was published in "People's Daily". Tao Zhu was in extreme pain and wrote in his notes: Suicide is a shameful thing. I don't want to clarify my own problems. .Of course, it is also possible that even if you went to see Marx, the problem is still unclear.That doesn't matter, facts are facts after all, and you can figure it out in the end. Please believe in four sentences: Even if the nature has been determined, it will still be heart and soul. Chang Hong's blood turns green, and grief can always disappear.

On September 10, 1967, two days after Yao Wenyuan's article was published, Tao Siliang was ordered to leave Beijing and go to Baichengzi in the northeast alone. In October 1969, Lin Biao issued the No. 1 order, and Tao Zhu was sent to Hefei, where he was forced to separate from Zeng Zhi. 43 days later, Tao Zhu died in Hefei.When Tao Zhu broke up with Zeng Zhi, he wrote a poem called Qilu. Seven Laws: To Zeng Zhi It is also difficult for me to go back to the battlefield, I feel that the king's love is overwhelming. The ruthless white hair urges the cold and heat, and the rest of the life suppresses the bitterness.

Sick horses also know how to neigh late, and withered sunflowers feel shy of frost and cold. Ruyan forgets all the past, and is selfless and forgiving from the bottom of her heart. In the swastika corridor, Tao Zhu also left a poem of Qilu: Seven Laws 1969 The flowers and trees in front of the swastika corridor are dense, and the wind sends fragrance into the dark. Sitting quietly, I enjoy the butterfly dance, and the night sleep is deep and bitter, and the long mosquitoes are singing. The prison of the Han family insulted Zhou Heyuan, and the court of the Song Dynasty punished Yue. The troubles and grievances in the world are inevitable, so I ask Renxi to use her as a name.

After a major operation in the spring of 1969, Tao Zhuli was weak and frail. He read and practiced calligraphy in his room every day. He wrote the poem Qilu on old newspapers with a brush. This poem was mixed among the poems of Chairman Mao and Lu Xun. , was preserved. "Zhou Heyuan" in the poem refers to the fact that the famous Han general Zhou Bo and his son Zhou Yafu were slandered and imprisoned, and Zhou Yafu died unjustly in prison. "Yue Chengcheng" refers to Yue Fei's unjust case. During Tao Zhu's confinement and detention for more than two years, the resentment and pain in his heart can be seen from the farewell poem to Zeng Zhi.Knowing that the "limit" of life is inevitable, there is a kind of desolation and sadness, and there is also a kind of relief and transcendence.If we talk about the September 1967 poem "Even if the nature has been determined, I will still dig out my heart and liver".Then, in the final stage of his life, Tao Zhu showed more composure and calmness.Today, this poem has become a precious record of Tao Zhu's last years of life.