Chapter 50 Zhang Yang and "The Second Handshake"

The literary injustice case at that time was the handwritten novel "Return" ("The Second Handshake") that came out of Hunan. This book was one of the six manuscripts generally confiscated in Beijing at that time. On October 14, 1974, Yao Wenyuan ordered the encirclement and suppression of "The Second Handshake" and the arrest of the author.Because this book was widely circulated, Yao Wenyuan believed that it was "poisonous" throughout the country, causing "serious consequences" and should be severely punished.Novel author Zhang Yang was imprisoned, and interrogators announced that he was charged with "using novels to oppose the Party." The fundamental reason why the book "The Second Handshake" became an "anti-Party novel" is the praise of Zhou Enlai.Prior to this, "Honghu Red Guards" (opera) praising He Long, "Peng Dehuai (a novel)" praising Peng Dehuai, and the movie "Raging Tide" have all been thoroughly criticized.But if these works are not like "The Second Handshake", which is specific and subtle, and praises Zhou Enlai with admiration, and establishes a monument.Zhou Enlai was an insurmountable obstacle for the Jiang Qing clique to usurp the party and power and pursue the ultra-left line. "The Second Handshake" vividly embeds the image of Zhou Enlai, a great man, into the historical picture, reflecting the love and admiration of the majority of Chinese people for him, and arousing the emotional undercurrent of supporting Zhou Enlai.All this must have stung the Jiang Qing Group, causing it to feel unspeakable resentment.Therefore, they will never let the author of this book go.

Zhang Yang (1944.5.19-) was originally from Changge, Henan, and grew up in Hunan. In the early spring of 1963, I wrote "The Second Handshake", which was rewritten many times in the following ten years. In 1970, the manuscript was widely copied across the country and was encircled and suppressed by the "Gang of Four". It is a representative work of handwritten literature during the "Cultural Revolution". Zhang Yang was arrested and imprisoned in January 1975. He was rehabilitated and released from prison in January 1979 under the direct intervention of the Party Central Committee and Hu Yaobang.

The story of "The Second Handshake" tells: Su Guanlan and Ding Jieqiong, a young man and woman, met and fell in love during a storm rescue in the Gulf.Due to family opposition, social turmoil and provocations by villains, the two were forced to separate.More than 20 years later, as a famous nuclear physicist, Ding Jieqiong returned to the motherland to serve despite the obstruction of imperialism.But she found that chemist Su Guanlan had married her god-sister Ye Yuhan. When Ding Jieqiong was about to leave Beijing sadly, Premier Zhou rushed to the airport to do persuasion work, and Ding Jieqiong decided to stay and work with everyone.Five years later, China successfully detonated its first atomic bomb.

"The Second Handshake" takes the love story of Su Guanlan and Ding Jieqiong as the main line.With just two handshakes as the physical contact of the man and woman, the title of the book has already pointed out the characteristics of the times and all the moral connotations of this kind of love.Perhaps this is what made many readers shed tears and fascinated. Surrounding the two handshakes, the author also constructs Ye Yuhan, a typical virtuous and persistent Chinese woman, as well as Lu Ning, the party representative, Charles, the imperialist spy, and Ding Jieqiong's foreign suitors: Dr. Olmhus, Su Guanlan Stubborn father: Su Fenglin, etc.They are the supporting roles in this vigorous love.

The author tries to integrate Su and Ding's unforgettable love with their patriotism.At the end of the novel, the love for the motherland heals the inner wounds of Ding Jieqiong and Su Guanlan, and a broader spirit enables Su, Ding, and Ye to start a noble and wonderful new life together.At the end of the novel, the readers have also gone through a difficult emotional trek, and finally climbed to this lofty spiritual peak that is difficult for ordinary people to climb, and entered the spiritual realm of patriotism. The whole novel is imbued with a sense of suffering.In the book, Su Guanlan transcribes Lu You's poems about Shen Yuan: "The east wind is evil, the joy is weak, a cup of sadness, a few years away. Wrong, wrong, wrong!...Although the Shanmeng League exists, the brocade book is hard to trust. Mo, Mo, Mo !" Su Guanlan and Ding Jieqiong's "Phoenix Hairpin"-style old-fashioned tragedy contains realistic political factors.The heroes and heroines suffer personal emotional pain, burn themselves silently, endure suffering silently, melt many hardships and hardships in their hearts, and put the interests of the nation and the motherland above everything else.This inner experience concentratedly expressed the common emotional journey of a generation of Chinese intellectuals at that time and the actual content of the patriotic spirit at that time.The love tragedy of Su and Ding became a symbol of the tragic experience of a generation of intellectuals.

In the selection and construction of specific plots and scenes, the author adopts techniques similar to those commonly used in today's bestsellers.This is a way of emphasizing visual effects. Scene 1: Su Guanlan jumps into the Huangpu River to rescue a girl on the Huangpu River, which is thundering and lightning, and huge waves are churning. The second: the first atomic bomb test site in the semi-desert area of ​​New Mexico, USA.In the concrete underground building, Ding Jieqiong sat on the easy chair in front of the commander in the central control room. Eleven minutes before the atomic bomb detonated, Olmhos proposed to Ding Jieqiong in front of the fax machine and the fluorescent screen. The embarrassed Ding Jieqiong hurriedly shouted: " The green line is completed! Ready to test the explosion!"

The third: In the PG-501 research room, the black-faced man pointed a pocket pistol at Su Guanlan, and tried to buy Su Guanlan with a small pile of red and sapphires.Su Guanlan shouted: "Catch the spies—comrades!" Ye Yuhan threw a bottle of "Water Regia" at the black-masked man, and the spies shot at Su Guanlan. Ye Yuhan immediately stood in front of Su Guanlan and fell on him in the arms of... The above scenes are quite similar to today's European and American TV series, placing fictional characters in the center of the grand historical stage.This is a typical popular novel written using modern epic techniques.

In terms of language, "The Second Handshake" pays attention to the richness of words and pursues colorful effects: "Ding Jieqiong's marble-like white face is covered with dust, which may be traces brought from the golden Gobi Desert!" If you look at "The Second Handshake" from the perspective of a bestseller, then its great success is beyond doubt.When it was published in July 1979, it was printed three times within three months, and the third printing alone was 500,000 copies. It fully affirms intellectuals, praises Premier Zhou, and focuses on lingering love.The breakthrough of these three points was really commendable at the time.The author shows his full clarity and self-confidence when expressing all this.

"The Second Handshake" is indeed a wonderful book in the "Cultural Revolution".It is like a few drops of nectar on a cultural desert.Only people who have been in the historical environment of the "Cultural Revolution" can experience the preciousness of these few drops of nectar. In the memoirs written by Zhang Yang, he described in detail the process of writing "The Second Handshake" and his experience of being persecuted in this "literary prison". On the morning of January 7, 1975, in the cold and humid southern countryside, members of the commune, men, women and children were busy going to work.During the work break, the production team leader called me and said that the director of the commune asked me to discuss the ration issue.

I went to the countryside and settled down in the Shutang Production Team of Nanyue Brigade, Zhongyue People's Commune, Dawei Mountain, Liuyang County, Hunan Province.The commune office is located in our team, very close at hand. After a few tens of seconds, I stepped into the office of the commune director. At that time, the climax of the "Cultural Revolution" had passed, and in our educated youth household, the female educated youths went their own ways, some left, and some married; the male educated youths also disappeared, and I was left alone. When I walked into the office, I sat down and started talking.The director of the commune looked strange.He nodded frequently, as if listening, but absent-minded.

At this time, four men in navy blue police uniforms walked in outside the door, and sat down in front of me and beside me in a semicircle.I glanced at it, didn't care, and continued to speak earnestly. The director was even more absent-minded.While continuing to nod frequently, he raised his head and said to a middle-aged police officer opposite, "How is it? Tell me." What?What did they say?I froze for a moment. "What's your name?" The middle-aged police officer stared at me and asked.I answered, but at a loss. "Where are you from?" "how old?" "current address?" I answered them all, and felt baffled at the same time. "You are detained." He said the last sentence smoothly, and at the same time showed a piece of paper. It was the first time in my life that I saw a detention warrant. I took the paper and looked at it. It was issued by the Public Security Bureau of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee.The executor, surnamed Li, was tall and tall with a stern expression. With a "click", I was handcuffed. The director of the commune avoided my sight, as if he had done something wrong.We walked out of his room, and then searched my dilapidated, low, dark adobe house. I watched them coldly "digging deeply" inside and outside the house, and suddenly remembered September 1964, the day I went to the mountains and went to the countryside.I carried a total of 14 yuan from relatives and friends on my body.That is almost the highest amount of privately owned coins in the history of my 21 years of life!Today, after eight or nine years of trekking hard on the "road of revolution", I don't even have 14 yuan on me, and I am in rags and skinny. Only an unfinished draft of the novella "Song of Handan" was found from my residence. This is an autobiographical novel.It records my personal love tragedy in the early days of the "Cultural Revolution".This is almost my only property! Two Beijing jeeps came three hundred miles from Changsha.Many people have surrounded the commune inside and outside, and everyone watched me with indescribable expressions.Handcuffed, I smiled and nodded at them, looked around, and got into a small jeep. After the Liuyang County Public Security Bureau stopped to refuel and hand over the files, the car continued on its way.At dusk, I arrived at the detention center of the Provincial Public Security Bureau in the northeast corner of Changsha City.In the old days, there was a place name with a fairy flavor-Ludongli.The reactionary warlord He Jian built a "model prison" of the Kuomintang here, which was specially used to mutilate the people and massacre the Communists.Ludongli has become synonymous with this prison, and it is well-known far and wide.New China took over the building and it is still used as a detention center. Since the "Cultural Revolution", many senior cadres such as provincial Party committee secretaries have been imprisoned. I was handcuffed and put in a cell. During the first interrogation, I was asked "Do you have any previous convictions?" I replied: "Yes!" It was the beginning of 1970, during the vigorous "one attack, three anti" campaign, I became the target of "hunting", and was finally arrested.The reason is: there was a middle school student in Liuyang, the leader of the Red Guards, a sensitive and extreme "little general". In his letter to me in 1968, he slammed "non-theological Bibles", "full of idols" and "Monte Cardinal in the Neary style".I wrote him several letters expressing my agreement with him. The words in these "black letters" do not need to be explained. People also know that "Lin Li's idol" refers to the frenzy of personality worship during the "Cultural Revolution", and the so-called "Lin Li's" can also be regarded as "made by Lin Biao"; The Bible of theology clearly refers to the vicious expansion of dogmatism and formalism such as "three loyalty", "four infinity", "early request for instructions", "late report", and reciting "old three chapters"; The cardinal" refers to Lin Biao. That's how I understand it. I was a few years older than that "junior general", and I was a little more cunning, reminding him not to keep the letters in the correspondence.But he didn't listen, and actually kept more than a thousand letters.He has long been a closely watched figure in the county. His home was ransacked and bundles of "black letters" were found during the "One Attack, Three Anti" campaign, including my few. He and his fellow Red Guards became a "counter-revolutionary group" and were all arrested.Of course I was doomed. But I tried to escape.Some buddies in Changsha covered me, in factories, hotels, villages... I hid in Tibet, two days here, three days there, exhausted. Life on the run was boring to the point of dread.So, I wrote "Return" again.This work has become my favorite lover. I was very poor then.One of my brother's classmates gave me a black plastic leather notebook.He knows I love to write.I used that notebook to write the fourth draft of "Return".Write under street lamps, write under the dim butter lamps of hotels in small rural towns, write in the waiting room of a station, write in a factory dormitory... each time there are as many as one or two thousand words, and as few as ten or twenty words. I spent December 1969 and early January 1970 at a friend's house in the countryside of Miluo County.Zhifeng Commune in this county is located in the Dawei mountain area, with a lot of snow.My friend's house was so poor that he didn't even have a bench, and the room was dark and small, with no windows and no oil.So, during the day, I opened the door and wrote with the light of the snow outside the house. My feet were numb from the cold, and my hands were trembling. I couldn’t control it, but I still wrote, wrote... Returning to Changsha from Miluo, hiding in a friend’s work unit, I finished the fourth draft of “Return”, which happened to be the last page of the black plastic leather notebook.This manuscript is about 60,000 to 70,000 words. One day in late February 1970, I was going to visit a friend somewhere. I had a premonition that something would happen, so I left my satchel at the home of an educated youth friend named Chen and went alone. Sure enough, the police from Liuyang blocked that friend, and I was arrested. "Where are your daily necessities?" "I don't have any groceries." "Toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, towels, change of laundry pants..." "I don't have any." In fact, all these things were stuffed in the satchel together with "Return". "So, where did you spend the night?" "The waiting room of the train station." "We're going to investigate!" They wanted to escort me back to Liuyang, but I had no daily necessities, so they had to escort me home first to get some things. Both parents accept the "dictatorship of the masses" in their respective units. There is also a grandmother in her 80s, a younger sister who is underage, and a younger brother who has also gone to the countryside to become an educated youth but has "backtracked" to the city. The family is miserable and desolate, because it has been copied many times. I did something while the two policemen were not paying attention. I whispered to my younger brother who was still huddled under the quilt: "Go to Chen XX's house quickly, and the things inside—" I made a gesture: "Crack! Crack!" Then, I left and went back to Liuyang to be imprisoned. I have been squatting for nearly three years, and it is a real "state-run prison" - the county police station's detention center, but I haven't filled out a detention certificate or arrest warrant. Of course, the charges were "counter-revolutionary", "vicious attack on the Cultural Revolution", "vicious attack on Deputy Commander Lin"... After Lin Biao blew himself up on September 13, 1971, my case was still delayed for more than a year.I was not released until December 29, 1972, and returned to the Dawei Mountains. When the educated youths saw that I was skinny, they stole the chicken, cut up the meat, made wine, chopped firewood with the same stolen pit wood, set up a fire in the mud-brick house, set up a cauldron, and entertained and entertained me. Give me condolences and help me recover.The scene and atmosphere are a bit like the legendary green forest hero.My companions told me stories, some of which were dull and vulgar, others of which were gentle and attractive.These stories are all actual events that happened in the society during the three years I was in prison, or they are from "manuscripts".And I, who have been isolated from the world for three years, feel fresh and interesting no matter what I listen to. "In the late autumn of 1959, in the depths of an alley next to Qianmenwai Street in Beijing... a car stopped abruptly, and a professor came down. His name was Su Guanlan..." An educated youth who was famous for fighting Whispered softly, it tells a story that happened in the senior intellectual class. "What did you say?" I was taken aback. Isn't this the beginning of "Return" I wrote? "What 'what'?" He glanced at me, unhappy that I interrupted him. "What's the name of the professor you just mentioned?" "Su Guanlan." "Okay, you go on, I'll listen." Surprised, I sank again. He went on and on, and on and on, until late at night, until the end.Some people who have not heard the story are fascinated.There are also some educated youths who have heard this story or read this manuscript, and they chirp: "Oh, this book is called "Return"!" "No, the one I read is called "Return to the Country"!" "I saw it in Jiangxi. It can be called "Mother of the Hydrogen Bomb"!" "The one I watched was called "A Generation of Prodigy"..." "I heard that the writing is true..." "It was written by an American..." "No, it was written by a son of a high-ranking cadre, he understands the situation..." There are all kinds of tongues. I kept my mouth shut, but I listened with my ears open, lest I miss a little bit.Because, I understand that this is related to my destiny. A few days later, I learned that everyone in my family was still alive, so I returned to Changsha. I quietly asked my brother: "When I was arrested three years ago, I asked you to go to Chen XX's house...how is the manuscript of "Returning"?" "Ah, I didn't destroy..." "Sure enough!" I thought. "I saw it, it's nothing! I lent it to ×××, and he lent it to someone else. Later, I couldn't take it back. I heard that it was in Yuanjiang, and it was circulated among the educated youth there... What's the matter?" I glanced at my brother. , "Hmph, I'm afraid it has spread from Yuanjiang to farther places! Let's wait and see." The process of copying and encircling the book "Return" was recorded in the files of the Beijing Public Security Bureau. Zhang Yang was allowed to consult these files for writing a memoir afterwards. As mentioned earlier, before I was arrested in February 1970, I deposited the manuscript of "Return" at the home of my friend Chen XX, and asked my younger brother to retrieve it and destroy it.However, "his younger brother lent it to Ma Yanxiang, who in turn lent it to Zheng Wenyuan and Li Shan, and Li Shan lent it to Zhou Liya, a student from No. ×× and Wu ×× (press: both are pre-examiners) went to Beijing Iron and Steel Institute (He Zhiqiang was transferred from the 14th middle school to teach in Beijing Iron and Steel Institute) to find Mr. He and got this book. According to Huang ××, after Mr. He transferred to Beijing , He heard that "Return" was a reactionary novel, and it was being confiscated. He immediately asked for it from his brother and hid it under the suitcase. Volume 16) It is conceivable that "Return" spread into manuscripts during the above-mentioned transmission process. "The Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau told the Hunan Provincial Public Security Bureau on May 26, 1975: The bad book "Return" written by Zhang Yang was brought to Beijing in the spring of 1972 by Xu Ruan (source?), a worker from the Hunan Hengyang Chemical Factory, and passed through Beijing Standard Components. The biography of Liu Zhanxin, a worker in the machine repair factory, was renamed "The Second Handshake" and circulated in Beijing." The above materials show that "Return" had another title "Return to the Country" when it was circulated; the reason why it was renamed "Second Handshake" by the worker in Beijing was because the title of the manuscript he saw was missing. And North China, Northeast, and Northwest regions were later copied under the title of "The Second Handshake". In October 1974, a newspaper in the capital reflected the widespread circulation of the manuscript "Second Handshake" in the 960th issue of "Internal Reference".After seeing this "internal reference", Yao Wenyuan called the newspaper office on October 12 and said, "Please find me a copy and find out where the author is." At 4 pm on October 14, he called the newspaper office again, "Your "Internal Reference" reflects a bad book "The Second Handshake". I sent the book today. I looked through it. It is a very bad book. It is actually a revisionist book against Chairman Mao. Revolutionary line. It writes about a group of scientists... If you are not familiar with the situation, it is impossible to write it, and it also writes about relations with foreign countries... It is not an ordinary bad book, and it is definitely not something that workers can make. Check the author is Who? How did it happen? If necessary, please ask the public security department to help investigate." The newspaper office verbally conveyed the above "instructions" to the 14th Division of the Beijing Public Security Bureau.A task force on the Second Handshake was set up in the department. (The above are all based on the Review Process) Next, Xinhua News Agency's "Internal Reference" published a detailed account of the circulation under the title "Many Units in Beijing Found Secretly Circulating Manuscripted Reactionary Novel "The Second Handshake"", explaining that "the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, according to Comrade Yao Wenyuan's instructions, will punish the bad book " The author of "The Second Handshake" has been investigated. After more than a month of investigation, it has now been preliminarily identified that the author is Zhang Yang, an educated youth who jumped into the team from Zhongyue Commune in Daweishan District, Liuyang County, Hunan Province." The "Internal Reference" determined that the novel "content is extremely reactionary... ..." Therefore, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau notified the Hunan Provincial Public Security Bureau: "...according to the instructions of Comrade Yao Wenyuan, we searched for the author of the revolutionary novel "The Second Handshake". It has been found out that this revolutionary novel is from Liuyang County, your province. Written by Zhang Yang, an educated young man who jumped in line, I will now report the situation to your bureau, please consider handling it.” After that, I was detained in Hunan. From the end of 1969 to the beginning of 1970, I wrote the fourth draft (in fact, it may be the eighth and ninth drafts) while I was in flight. The structure and plot of this draft have not changed. The only change is that the title of the book has been changed to "Return". .Using "Return" as a metaphor, Professor Ding Jieqiong, one of the heroines in the book, not only returned to the motherland, but finally even "returned" her heart. From my release on December 29, 1972 to my re-arrest on January 7, 1975, I was free for two years and nine days.The so-called "freedom" means working in the countryside.Despite my poverty, I still love "The Return" from the bottom of my heart, and I am determined to rewrite "The Return". There was still no money, and my younger brother’s classmate bought two black plastic leather notebooks for me. As I have always said, this is the fifth draft. Different from the previous drafts, this time I wrote very rigorously, earnestly, and meticulously.I have studied painting and can write artistic calligraphy. This manuscript is written in neat square artistic calligraphy from the beginning to the end.In addition, it has a total of 205,000 words after the draft, which is the longest among several drafts.The "Second Handshake", which was officially published later, was based on this draft. This draft "Return" has greatly strengthened the portrayal of Premier Zhou's friendly and touching image, and added the portrayal of American progressive scientist Olmhorse.Ding Jieqiong's life and career history in the United States for decades is only described in a few short paragraphs in the calendar, but in the fifth draft, a lot of space is used to describe it positively.These changes have undoubtedly improved the overall level of the work. But the minions of the "Gang of Four" scolded me in the interrogation room, saying that this draft showed that I "become more bizarre and reactionary as I write more"! In any case, "Return" is a literary work after all, not a reactionary slogan.Of course, from the point of view of the "Gang of Four" and its minions, the two are the same thing and there is no essential difference.Or according to their more thorough claims, the former is more "insidious", more "deceptive" and "poisonous" than the latter. But what we are facing now is not purely ideological, but a legal issue. What needs to be solved is what constitutes a crime, and what needs to be dealt with is a "criminal offender" or a "counter-revolutionary offender." They weaved a lot of criminal offenses for me, but they couldn't stand up to scrutiny after all, and even the investigators themselves didn't believe it.The 'convicts' of the past few years, although they can still squeeze out some oil and water now, they still feel that they lack confidence.So I went around, and in the end I still looked for "crimes" in "Return" itself, so that I could be punished "according to the law". At that time, there were many manuscripts circulating, among which was a yellow book "The Heart of a Maiden". They announced to me: ""Girl Heart" is arsenic, "Return" is opium!" This "opium" has four major toxins. The first is "anti-Party"; the second is touting the "stinky old nine"; the third is advocating "science to save the country"; the fourth is "You know you are not allowed to write about love, why do you insist?" Regarding the fourth charge, I asked: "When? Which law, policy, or regulation, including all the documents issued by the Party Central Committee, the State Council, and the Central Military Commission during the 'Cultural Revolution', stipulated that writing about love is not allowed? Which one? Which sentence of the clause makes this provision?" They don't answer.Because there is no answer. But this does not prevent them from still listing this article as the basis for my conviction. I also bitterly refuted the other "crimes" one by one. In order to gain a foothold in the "law", they first characterized and finalized the characters in the book.Please see: The heroine Professor Ding Jieqiong is a traitor; The hero, Professor Su Guanlan, is a secret agent; Lu Ning, an old underground party member in the book and Secretary of the Party Committee of the Academy of Health Sciences, is a capitalist roader (later upgraded to an unrepentant capitalist roader in the "Indictment"). Facilitated the marriage of Su Guanlan and Ye Yuhan; The old astronomer Su Fengqi in the book is a reactionary academic authority and foreign slave comprador; In the book, the American priest Charles is an imperialist; Another heroine in the book, Ye Yuhan, is a young master and lady of the landlord class... Not only that, but they also charged me with "opposing the Cultural Revolution" and "attempting counter-revolutionary restoration".It was indeed written in the "Indictment" later. The "indictment" against Zhang Yang was filed in the name of the Changsha Public Security Bureau.The relevant content of this "indictment" is excerpted below: "...Especially in 1973, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution had won a great victory. The two bourgeois headquarters of Liu Shaoqi and Lin Biao had been completely destroyed, and their reactionary fallacies such as 'traitor philosophy' and 'genius theory' had been criticized. The criticism was stink, Zhang Yang hid in a dark corner out of his reactionary class instinct, and wrote the sixth draft of the reactionary novel "Return", intensifying and very blatantly advocating the "philosophy of traitors" and "theory of genius". The longer the writing, the more reactionary the content. The key point of this reactionary novel is to "return" bourgeoisism and create public opinion for the counter-revolutionary restoration. This black book runs through landlords, bourgeois theory of human nature, and class opposition to Marxism. The theory of struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat opposes the party's basic line; vigorously advocates "traitor philosophy" and "genius theory", reverses the verdicts of Liu Shaoqi and Lin Biao, and opposes the Cultural Revolution; Engaging in peaceful evolution in the field, evoking the souls of Liu Shaoqi and Zhou Yang's black line of literature and art; beautifying the capitalist system; attacking the socialist system of the dictatorship of the proletariat; propagating bourgeois ideology, poisoning young people, and competing with the proletariat for successors. The defendant Zhang Yang said triumphantly: "I changed the title of the book to "Return", which is both relevant and implicit. Not only the person has returned, but also the heart has returned." From the description of the protagonist and the main The characters can be seen clearly: those who 'returned' are all traitors, spies, reactionary school bosses, foreign slave compradors, unrepentant capitalist roaders, and young masters and ladies of the landlord and bourgeoisie. The counter-revolutionary motivation for Zhang Yang to write the reactionary novel "Return" , Isn’t the purpose obvious?” The indictment also goes the other way, slandering "Return" for highlighting and praising Premier Zhou's glorious image as "waving the red flag against the red flag." The indictment also accuses Zhang Yang of "attacking Comrade Zhang Chunqiao, head of the Central Committee" and "pointing directly at the Proletarian Command"... In addition to the above-mentioned "principal crimes", there are many "crimes", which can be called "incorrigible counter-revolutionary diehards." Therefore, the indictment calls for "severe punishment." In October 1976, the Party Central Committee smashed the "Gang of Four" in one fell swoop, and Zhang Yang's fate could be fundamentally changed.