Chapter 49 The Case of the "Counter-Revolutionary Bloc of the Fourth International"

The circle with Zhao Yifan as the core gradually expanded in 1973, and many literary youths and young people concerned about politics kept coming and going in Zhao Yifan's salon.Many young people met, talked with and established correspondence with Zhao Yifan through the introduction of others.Young people gathered in the salon not only to talk about novels, poems, and model plays, but also about the "criticizing Lin Piao Confucius" movement.By the end of 1973, this circle had virtually become a radiation network communicating with many youth circles, radiating from Beijing to all parts of the country.

At midnight on January 28, 1974, the then Minister of Public Security signed an arrest warrant, and Zhao Yifan was arrested by the Public Security Bureau. At the same time, Xu Xiao was also arrested and imprisoned at the same time.Because the two were in the same city and relatively close to each other, they were afraid of colluding with each other, so the Public Security Bureau took a unified action and arrested them at the same time. On January 26, Xu Xiao had already heard the wind.Someone told her, "Be careful, you've already been noticed!" Xu Xiao was 20 years old at the time, and her thoughts were relatively simple. She never thought that she would be arrested. Her "study class", can't think of anything else.After being imprisoned, after several interrogations, Xu Xiaocai was shocked to learn that "the case is complicated" and dozens of people were involved.

The case still needs to be told from the beginning: in 1973, Xu Xiao met some friends who came to Beijing from other places.At that time, if you knew an educated youth and gained trust, you would make a bunch of friends through this person.On the contrary, Xu Xiao also introduced a group of his friends to this person.This is a "snowball" approach.In this way, Xu Xiao made friends with some soldiers of the East China Sea Fleet.At that time, everyone was not very old, and the letter not only talked about literature, but also involved gossip "criticizing Lin and Confucius".These correspondences were later subject to postal inspection.Open one person's letter, and then open another person's letter according to its content, continuously expand the scope of investigation, and finally expand to the whole country: Beijing, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei and other places.Finally, an organizational name was given to this connection, the "Fourth International Counter-Revolutionary Group".Zhao Yifan was the first offender, and Xu Xiao was the liaison officer.

Therefore, many people were imprisoned in this case. Not counting other implicated persons, there were about 10 people who were directly related to Xu Xiao.Shanxi also found other so-called problems because of this case. Two of them were sentenced to death, and they were released two years after the "Gang of Four" was overthrown.It is also a good fortune-telling, because the execution of these two people will be executed in half a year. Zheng Hongdan was also imprisoned for the "Fourth International" case.Her older sister, Zheng Xiaodan, participated in Yu Luoke's "birth theory" and was killed. "Ten Years History of the Cultural Revolution" contains: Zheng Xiaodan was a student of the High School Attached to the College of Geology. He once publicized "Theory of Birth" and publicly raised 18 questions to the Central Cultural Revolution, challenging Kang Sheng, Jiang Qing and Lin Biao. He died tragically in prison on June 6, 1968. middle.The Zheng family is an army cadre. His father was labeled as a rightist in 1957 and sent to Xingtai.Zheng Xiaodan had a deep relationship with Zhao Yifan during his lifetime. After Zheng Xiaodan died, his sister Zheng Hongdan also went to Zhao Yifan's place.Zheng Hongdan is a person who hates everything and sees through everything in the "Cultural Revolution" and hates it to death.Her boyfriend Wang XX was also arrested and imprisoned.Most of these people were acquainted with Zhao Yifan, and everyone was caught in a pot.

The content of the so-called communication problem is cautious enough from now on, but judging from the accusations made at the time, it can be said that there is a problem.Because the investigators first have a conclusion in mind, to "set up" your situation, how to "set up" is a problem.Based on these complaints in the letter, Zhao Yifan, Xu Xiao and others were labeled as "active counter-revolutionaries." Xu Xiao was studying at Beijing Normal University when he was arrested. He was a student of workers, peasants and soldiers.Later, she gradually adapted in prison and became calm as usual.When she was in prison, she thought all day long how many years she would be sentenced to, 5 years or 10 years, and how not to implicate her family; then she thought, how to try not to ask money from her parents at home, reduce the burden on the family, and how to save consumption: one year A bar of soap, a roll of toilet paper for two months...

Xu Xiao recalled life in prison and said: "With conscience, there is nothing particularly bad." In prison, the captains of the women's prison at that time were more polite to political prisoners, and their food was better than that of educated youths who jumped in line.Prison food is "imperial food", 13.50 yuan per month. Wowotou is decent stick noodles without sweet potato noodles, golden yellow, and Beijing spicy dishes in the morning.Because the sentence has not yet been sentenced, 2-3 people live in a cell.At the beginning of the regular interrogation, the interrogators "set" your words back and forth, which makes people feel nervous and restless.Later, there was no interrogation, and I was kept in prison all day. At this time, I was always looking forward to the interrogation, because "arrogation" shows that the "case" has progressed.I thought to myself: Even if I was sentenced, it would be better than being imprisoned for such a long period of time, and I would still be able to meet with my family once a month.

At that time, Xu Xiaoguan was in the "Wang Ba Building" of Banbuqiao Prison (the cell has a center and is radiating on all sides, resembling a bastard).Zhao Yifan was imprisoned in the "K-shaped building" (K-shaped building. K is an international symbol for prisons, and planes cannot bomb prisons during wars), and many political prisoners were also detained there.Xu Xiao knew that Zhao Yifan was in the "K Building", but the two could not meet each other. The "crimes" committed against them: engaging in literary salons, creating, collecting, and disseminating reactionary novels and poems; Subverting the dictatorship of the proletariat through foreign countries... Just one of them can sentence them to death, or they can be sentenced to decades in prison.

1974 was the year when the Jiang Qing Group carried out an organized and premeditated encirclement and suppression of literature and art, and a large-scale anti-"rightist" year.They are bound to use this case as a breakthrough to wipe out hidden hostile forces.A harsh fate will befall Zhao Yifan, Xu Xiao, Zheng Hongdan and others.