Chapter 16 The implementation of land laws in old and semi-old areas should be different

(February 6, 1948) Jingquan and Zhongxun[1] also reported to Shaoqi, Yibo[2]: The old liberated areas before Japan's surrender, the semi-old liberated areas occupied within two years after Japan's surrender and the national counter-offensive (September of last year), and the new liberated areas occupied after the major counter-offensive. The content and procedures of the land law should also be different, and the organizational form of the poor peasant league and the peasant association should also be different. Please send us your opinions on this difference. In the semi-old liberated areas, the land law should be fully implemented, the land should be divided equally, and the poor peasant leagues and peasant associations should be organized. With the poor peasant leagues as the leading backbone, poor peasant activists should account for two-thirds of the peasant associations, and middle peasants should only account for one-third. , these are no problem.But in the old liberated areas, for example, the old areas with a population of 900,000 or 450,000 in Shanxi-Sui, and the old areas with a population of about 1 million to 1.2 million in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, the land has been roughly divided evenly, that is, roughly The land law has already been implemented in the world. Here it is not another equal division, but to adjust the land and fill it up. The middle peasants account for the majority of the rural population. It is the same as in the old areas, organizing the same poor peasant leagues and peasant associations, artificially forcing the poor peasant leagues to play the same leading role in the countryside, and asking poor peasant activists to account for a two-thirds majority in the peasant association committees. Is it feasible? Will there be a danger of breaking away from the middle peasants? If not, what should be the form of organization? Is it possible to organize poor peasant groups only under the peasant associations instead of organizing poor peasant groups or still organize poor peasant groups (if there is more than one poor peasant group), but Only make this kind of poor peasant group play the role of protecting a small number of poor peasants in the countryside, and not let it play the role of leading everything like the semi-old areas? In the peasant association and the rural government, if the poor peasant activists obtain the consent of the middle peasants Conditions), you can be the chairman of the peasant association, the village head of the government, or the chairman, but it is not necessary to do so. The main thing is to have active members of the middle peasants who have correct ideas and handle affairs fairly. Poor peasant activists must have their place, but they should be in the minority, for example one-third, and middle peasant activists should be in the majority, for example two-thirds, and in the semi-old areas the reverse is true, with poor peasants accounting for two-thirds and middle peasants accounted for one third.

How should the above points be considered appropriate? Jingquan and Zhongxun should send a telegram within a few days, and at the same time please send a telegram to report your own opinions. Mao Zedong's Ugly Fish Printed from manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Jingquan, that is, Li Jingquan (1909-1989), was born in Linchuan, Jiangxi Province.Zhongxun, that is, Xi Zhongxun, was born in 1913 in Fuping, Shaanxi. At that time, he was Secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Deputy Political Commissar of the Northwest Field Army, and Political Commissar of the Joint Defense Army of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Jinsui and Sui.

[2] Yibo, that is, Bo Yibo, was the deputy secretary of the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China and the first deputy political commissar of the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region.