Chapter 28 Unify all possible and necessary unified powers across the country in the central government

(April 10, 1948) East China Bureau, transfer to Xu Tanxie [1], and report to all Central Bureaus, sub-bureaus, and front committees: Xu Tan and Xie Maodong [2] telegraphed it.You are basically correct in announcing a policy of leniency towards the enemies in the Changwei area, but one thing is incorrect, that is, the big counter-revolutionaries and big bully elements who have committed the most heinous crimes and hate the masses of the people are also different from other enemy personnel. Declare no blame for the past without any distinction.Your announcement like this will actually be a kind of deception to the enemy, because in fact, after these heinous elements are arrested, the local people will have a good reason to ask our army and the democratic government to punish them, and our army and the democratic government must accept that the masses requirements, otherwise a mistake will be made.Such an announcement by you will place you in a politically weak and passive position, because when these heinous extreme elements are arrested and the people demand punishment, if you want to maintain your credibility with the enemy and insist on the policy of letting the past go, you will It will violate the just demands and will of the masses.Before announcing such a principled policy, you should ask the East China Bureau and the Central Committee for instructions, because it is a direct violation of our party's policy and the People's Liberation Army's declaration that the chief culprit must do so. A regulation, and you have made this incorrect statement to the enemy without prior consultation.If your statement has not been made public, it must be amended immediately; if it has been made public, you have made yourself a mistake.Of course, do not immediately announce the cancellation of this statement, but one day you will announce the implementation of the correct regulations for punishing the chief criminals.

The central government has pointed out more than once to the leading comrades of the various armies in various places that all policies of the central government must be implemented without reservation, and any lower-level organs cannot be allowed to freely modify them without the consent of the central government.However, in the two years or so after Japan's surrender, in many places, the policy on land reform, on industry, commerce and the labor movement, on beating people and killing people, on the united front policy, In terms of publicity and education policies, as well as in certain other aspects, the leading organs of the local party and the army must not be approved by the central government, or even be authorized by the central government freely, impatiently, rashly, and riskily formulating and implementing certain policies that are clearly contrary to the line and policies of the Central Committee.The bad style of localism and empiricism, the bad style of not asking for instructions beforehand and not reporting afterwards, the bad style of reporting more achievements and underreporting (or even not reporting) mistakes and shortcomings, and the bad style of careless and careless handling of principled issues without repeated consideration and prudence The bad style of reluctance to carefully study central documents, often directly violating some of the provisions contained in these documents, still exists.For all these undesirable phenomena, the Central Committee requires all the responsible comrades of the leading organs entrusted by the Central Committee to seriously pay attention to changing them, and instructs the responsible comrades of the middle-level and lower-level leading organs to pay equal attention to changing them. Point it out unequivocally and correct it.We do this in full compliance with the requirements of the Chinese revolutionary situation.With the arrival of a new revolutionary upsurge in China, our party is already on the direct road to seizing power in the country. This situation requires our entire party and army to first implement all political policies and strategies, and military strategies and major campaigns. Complete unification in all aspects, unification of the economy and government administration in several large areas, and then, according to the development of the revolutionary situation, further consideration should be given to the formation and supply of the army, the coordination of campaign operations, and the economic In government administration (the central government must be established at that time) to achieve greater unity.

In short, the revolutionary situation requires our party to reduce (not abolish) the autonomy of the local corps, to unify all possible and necessary unified powers in the country at the center, and to unify all regions and departments with the leading organs entrusted by the central government ( As far as we know, there is a great, very abnormal and very harmful disunity within the regions and departments with respect to the organs entrusted to the center).Leading comrades in all localities must promptly complete all necessary spiritual and organizational preparations in this regard. central

Ash Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Xu Tan, referring to Xu Shiyou and Tan Zhenlin, were respectively the commander and political commissar of the Shandong Corps of the East China Field Army at that time.Xie, refers to Xie Youfa (1917-1995), a native of Xingguo, Jiangxi, who was then the director of the Political Department of the Shandong Corps of the East China Field Army. [2] Maodong, that is, April 1st.