Chapter 7 Guidelines to be Adhered to in the Reorganization of Negotiations in the Southern Guerrilla Areas

(September 14, 1937) Bo, Ye, and Zhou [1] also told Lin, Dong, Zhu, Peng, and Ren [2]: On the question of the united front in the border areas: A. The negotiators sent to Wuhan by Fu Qiutao[3] from the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Border Region admitted that the Wuhan camp sent many people such as military directors and adjutant directors to the army and many other unfavorable conditions. This is completely wrong.Boqu and Biwu have been called to inform the negotiators to stop the negotiations and go back immediately. Fu Qiutao will send another representative to deny the original conditions and redefine the method, insisting on the following points:

(1) The Kuomintang shall not insert a single person; (2) Certain military pay; (3) The garrison relies on dangerous and defensible mountainous areas to strictly guard against surprise attacks and sabotage, and it is not required to be stationed in large places. B. Has Zheng Weisan[4] met Bo and Ye in Nanjing? Please refer to Bo Yan and ask Zheng Weisan to carry out the negotiations between Hubei, Henan and Anhui according to the above three points. C. Ask Nanjing to order Yu Hanmou [5] to return the guns of He Ming's [6] men, and there must be no shortage of guns for each man. How is the negotiation between Bo and Ye?

D. In the united front, local parties tend to fall into right opportunism. This has become the main danger of the party. Please pay close attention to it. Luo Fu[7], Zedong September 14 Printed from transcripts kept at the Central Archives. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Bo, Ye, and Zhou refer to Bo Gu (Qin Bangxian), Ye Jianying, and Zhou Enlai. They were all members of the Yangtze River Coastal Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time, and Zhou Enlai was the secretary.The committee is in charge of negotiating and negotiating matters with the Kuomintang's Wuhan camp.

[2] Lin, referring to Lin Boqu, who was then chairman of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government and a member of the Yangtze River Coastal Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He was specifically responsible for the united front and external liaison work in Xi'an.Dong, refers to Dong Biwu (1886-1975), Hubei Huang An (now Hong'an Cong, who was a member of the Yangtze River Coast Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time, and was specifically responsible for the united front and external liaison work in Wuhan. Zhu, refers to Zhu De. Peng refers to Peng Dehuai, who was then the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army. Ren refers to Ren Bishi, who was then the director of the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army.

[3] Fu Qiutao (1907-1981), born in Pingjiang, Hunan.At that time, he was the Secretary of the Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi Special Committee of the Communist Party of China. [4] Zheng Weisan (1902-1975), born in Huang'an (now Hong'an), Hubei.At that time, he was Secretary of the Northeast Hubei Special Committee of the Communist Party of China. [5] Yu Hanmou (1897-1981), a high-ranking person in Guangdong.At that time, he was the deputy commander-in-chief of the Fourth Theater of the Kuomintang Army and the commander-in-chief of the Twelfth Army. [6] He Ming (1910-11939), a native of Wanning, Guangdong (now part of Hainan Province).At that time, he served as the acting secretary of the Fujian-Guangdong Border Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the head and political commissar of the Third Fujian Independent Regiment of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.In July 1937, because he was unaware of the Kuomintang's plot to eliminate the Red Army in the Fujian-Guangdong border area through negotiations, nearly a thousand people from the Third Independent Regiment led by him were surrounded and disarmed.

[7] Luo Fu, that is, Zhang Wentian, was a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time, and took overall responsibility in the Central Committee.