Chapter 81 Don't issue any slogans outside the eight chapters of the agreement

(January 26, 1949) Lin Luotan[1] also told the Beiping Municipal Party Committee and the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee to transfer their affiliation, and also reported to the central bureaus, sub-bureaus, and former committees: The Xinhua News Agency's Northeast Front Branch forwarded the sixteen slogans drafted by the Political Department of Dongye [2] and received it.When our army entered Peiping, we only publicized the eight chapters of the treaty [3] and Chairman Mao's statement on January 14 [4], and no more slogans were issued.This should be the case regardless of the military, party or government.Some of the 16 slogans you drafted have been included in Chapter 8 of the Covenant, such as "Confiscation of bureaucratic capital", but many important contents in Chapter 8 of the Covenant are not mentioned in the 16 slogans, so they are very incomplete and make people doubtful. These important contents seem to be unimportant. There are many unsuitable places for the "implementation of land reform" to be implemented in the vegetable fields near big cities. The method of land reform in the countryside must not be implemented near big cities. The propaganda of "elimination of feudal forces" will surely alarm many old bureaucrats, old warlords, and a large number of local tyrants and evil gentry hiding in Beiping, thinking that they are about to be moved, and they will panic and bury their property. Difficulties will arise with the policy of absorbing their proper share of wealth into the public by taxation, or other appropriate means.In the present period, in the big cities, it is advantageous to preserve this kind of feudal wealth. The two slogans of "carry out the revolution to the end" and "fight to Nanking to wipe out the Kuomintang reactionaries" should only be used as practical education in the army, and should not be written as slogans in big cities like Peiping and Tianjin, nor should they be used as slogans. Simple slogans should be published in newspaper advertisements in big cities, and they should not be shouted out at citizen meetings in big cities like Ping An and Tianjin before our army has launched an attack on Nanjing.Writing, posting, and shouting these two slogans in this way is not very strategic, because our party is preparing to negotiate with the representatives of Nanjing according to Chairman Mao’s statement on January 14, so as to break the peaceful offensive of the US imperialists and the Kuomintang , and try to follow the example of the peaceful settlement of the Peking problem to peacefully solve the problems in Nanjing and other places (if it is possible).Several other slogans are either empty and meaningless (such as building a new Peking), or they have been included in our party's statement on January 14 (such as convening a new CPPCC).Therefore, it is enough for you to publicize the eight chapters of Lin, Luo Yuefa, and Chairman Mao's statement on January 14, and do not put forward another batch of slogans.In addition, it is also worth considering whether it is appropriate to write large-character slogans on the walls of such big cities as Ping and Tianjin.We feel that it is appropriate to post the printed materials of the statement on January 14 and the eight chapters of the Covenant.

In short, the style of work in the big cities must not be copied from the style of work in the countryside.In a large city, everything has to be carefully considered, and every action must be made in accordance with the conditions of the city.For any important new incidents, you must ask your superiors for instructions in advance, so as not to make mistakes, which will not be recovered, and the impact will be very bad.Please pay attention. central Ziyou Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note

[1] Lin Luotan refers to Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan, and Tan Zheng, who were respectively the commander, political commissar, and director of the Political Department of the Northeast Field Army at that time. [2] Dongye, that is, the Northeast Field Army. [3] Refers to the "Eight Chapters of the Agreement" announced by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in the names of Lin Biao and Luo Ronghuan on December 22, 1948, in the Announcement of the Chinese People's Liberation Army's Pingjin Front Command.The main points are: (1) protect the life and property of all the people in each city; (2) protect national industry and commerce; (3) confiscate bureaucratic capital; (4) protect schools, hospitals, cultural and educational institutions, sports venues and all other public buildings; (5) Except for the chief war criminals and counter-revolutionaries who have committed the most heinous crimes, all officials, police personnel, and district, town and township Baojia personnel belonging to the Kuomintang government agencies at the provincial, city, and county levels, who do not resist with guns and do not plot sabotage, The army will not take any prisoners or arrests, and the democratic government will allow those who have a skill but no reactionary behavior or serious misdeeds to be recruited separately; (6) All stragglers and stragglers should report to the local army, the garrison headquarters or the public security bureau; 7) To protect the safety of the life and property of foreign nationals; (8) All citizens and people from all walks of life in the city, whether before or after our army enters the city, must be jointly responsible for maintaining order in the city and avoiding damage.

[4] Refers to the "Statement on the Current Situation" issued by Chairman Mao Zedong of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on January 14, 1949 (Volume IV of Selected Works of Mao Zedong, People's Publishing House, 1991 edition, pp. 1386-1389).