Chapter 5 Internal friction

On the night of November 5th, Shenyang City had its first snowfall since the beginning of winter, and the next morning, the weather was fine.The three-day lockdown and nighttime martial law is over.On this day, the front page of "Northeast Daily" published a news report from Xinhua News Agency, Shenyang, which described and warmly praised this brand-new city. Groups of young people sang and passed by on the street. The red and green slogans on the wall matched the white snow." People seem to have begun to step into their daily lives.They desperately need a city free from the shadow of war.People buying daily necessities gradually crowded the small market on Taiyuan Street.It is said that nearly a thousand citizens went to the Northeast Bookstore to buy books on November 6.

Lights and telephones throughout the city were repaired by the afternoon of November 3, and the problem with running water was also resolved a few days later.Posts and telecommunications opened in Northeast China on November 5, and trams once again ran in this city with the densest tram network in the country on November 6. "Shenyang has come back to life." A staff member of a foreign embassy said in amazement.To his surprise, this time is so short.Even the Communist Party’s own cadres couldn’t fully predict it, so that when the Military Control Commission was established, less than 10 of the 4,000 cadres were tax officials. Later, the takeover personnel realized that they had greatly underestimated the resilience and vitality of Shenyang’s business .Fearing that the temporary use of Kuomintang tax collectors would lead to corruption, Shenyang had to suspend tax collection for a long time at the beginning. "The loss is about 10 billion or more, and the minimum is 400 million to 500 million per day." Chen Yun later concluded, "This is a small loss."

There are also things that cannot be estimated in advance.There are already a lot of clues in the reception work, and various agencies have sent people to book houses to find office locations, which caused traffic congestion in front of the Military Control Commission.What's more troublesome is that because the Northeast Liberated Area follows the puppet Manchukuo method, all vehicles drive on the left, but Shenyang has been changed by the Kuomintang government to drive on the right, and the traffic on the streets of both sides is chaotic. This was not a big deal, but the disputing parties were stubborn and spoke fiercely.The crux of the matter is the mentality of the recruiting cadres. A few people think that they are from Harbin and the "Northern Manchuria" base areas, and they are old people in the liberated areas, so there is no reason to bow to other people's rules.And if the wishes of these cadres are respected, Shenyang's urban layout and traffic command system will undergo major surgery: the road system will need to be re-planned; According to the traffic on the right side to direct the traffic; the design of the car also needs to be changed.

Finally, Chen Yun made a decision.At the meeting of the Military Control Commission on November 10, Chen Yun briefly explained the reasons. From that day on, all vehicles in Shenyang will pass on the right side. This incident made Chen Yun realize that when necessary, he needs to come forward to smooth out the inevitable internal interest disputes.The new regime should not only transform the old world through the exercise of power, but also set a new moral model for the city and the atmosphere.He asked himself so.When Chen Yun's guard advised him to replace the old vintage car, he severely criticized the young man.The guard later wrote in his memoirs: "At that time, there were still many new cars in the Shenyang military supply warehouse, so I suggested to the chief to change to one. The chief said to me, 'Our current car is better than the one in Harbin. It’s much better. There are many other chiefs, Gao Gang, Li Fuchun, Zhang Wentian, Wang Jiaxiang, Lin Feng...I’m here, use the good ones first, will it affect you?’”

"When those bad thoughts show up in our receiving cadres," Chen Yun said, the best way is to find and eliminate them as soon as possible.This is especially important in the early stages of receiving a city.When Chen Yun noticed that the fuse of the "walking on the left and walking on the right" was the organization that sent people to the military control committee to find housing, he solemnly greeted the cadres around him: And the main column guarding Shenyang, before the start of the new battle, it is necessary to take a good rest in Shenyang. Therefore, before the field army leaves Shenyang, the "Northern Manchuria" agencies, all units and agencies should not move their minds, and must not send people to Hit the front station and look for a house.

In fact, at the very beginning of the establishment of the Shenyang Military Control Commission, there were concerns about the issue of "units must compete for housing after entering the city". Therefore, it was specially stipulated that the property allocation rights belonged to the Northeast Bureau, and no agency had the right to occupy the housing.But in the process of actually taking over the factory and house, small disputes continued.From Harbin and other liberated cities, several batches of staff from the propaganda and youth departments arrived in Shenyang. After entering the city, they were mostly busy with receiving houses and settling down. The military control committee had a lot of dealings with the later personnel in finding houses and vying for the recipients. The difficulty of this internal friction counteracts the strength.Li Rui said in his memory, "Comrade Chen Yun said hello again later, and he was really worried that if the house was divided, it would be chaotic, and he would be busy with internal strife and neglect to accept it from the outside."

Egalitarianism was still the main form of internal distribution of Communist Party cadres during the Shenyang takeover period.The Military Control Commission stipulated in 1949 that a supply system should be implemented for cadres who came to Shenyang from the rear. This is actually a continuation of the supply system in the old liberated areas.The supply system only addresses the cadres' own food, clothing, and use.Large organizations run their own cafeterias, where general cadres eat large stoves, section chiefs above the county regiment level eat medium stoves, and cadres above the bureau chief eat small stoves.Clothes were issued according to the number of years prescribed by cadres. In addition to toothpaste and soap, there were also yellow cigarettes for daily necessities. Later, it was changed to "bright" cigarettes for general cadres, and "big production" cigarettes for county and regiment levels. In 1950, when Shenyang was fully transferred to the restoration and construction period, the salary system replaced the supply system.