Chapter 115 Letter to Shicheng Township Party Branch and Township Government

(April 29, 1954) Comrades from Shicheng Township Branch and Shicheng Township Government: Comrade Mao Yueqiu [1] came to Beijing and brought your report, thank you very much. My relative Tang Jiayu Wenjia, people have often visited me in Beijing in the past few years.After returning home, some people became proud and refused to submit to the government's management. This is wrong.Everyone in the Wen family must obey the leadership of the party and the government, work diligently and abide by the law, just like everyone in the village, and should not be special.Please don't think it's not easy to let go of Wen's family because they are my relatives.My attitude is: First, because they are working people and my relatives, I love them.Second, because I love them, I hope they will improve, work diligently and abide by the law, and participate in mutual aid and cooperative organizations, just like everyone else, without any specialness.If there are backward behaviors, they should be criticized, and they should not be criticized for their shortcomings and mistakes just because they are my relatives.

Here is a letter from Comrade Wen Bingzhang[2], and I leave it to you to read. I agree with Comrade Wen Bingzhang's opinion, please deal with it.And please show my letter and Wen Bingzhang's letter to the people in Tangjiayu to help them correct their shortcomings and mistakes.I believe that as long as you and I adopt the correct attitude, as long as they are not stubborn, their shortcomings and mistakes can be corrected and progress will be made. Sincerely, comrade's salute Mao Zedong April 29, 1954 Printed from manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------

note [1] Mao Yueqiu, served as Secretary of the Ciyue Branch of the Communist Party of China in Shaoshan during the Great Revolution.After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he worked as a receptionist in Mao Zedong's former residence in Shaoshan. [2] Wen Bingzhang, Mao Zedong's cousin.At that time, he worked in a certain unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.