Chapter 70 Pay attention to attracting national capitalists and their representatives to participate in the construction of base areas

(October 14, 1940) Hu Fu, Chen Yi, and Ke Cheng [1] also told Ye Xiang and Xue Feng [2]: It is right for you to pay attention to recruiting Tao Xingzhi and other personnel from the Life Education Society to participate in the cultural and educational work in northern Jiangsu. This is the main aspect.But at the same time, it should also be noted that the vocational education societies led by Huang Yanpei, Jiang Wenyu, etc. have considerable influence among the intellectuals in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, because Huang, Jiang, etc. not only have status in the cultural and educational circles, but also are ethnic groups engaged in industry and commerce. Famous representatives of capitalists, therefore, you should also recruit members of vocational education associations and other related parties to participate in our cultural education and financial and economic undertakings.At the same time, you should go through Han Guojun, Li Mingyang, Li Changjiang[3] and local gentry and cultural circles, etc., to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang national capitalists and their representatives outside of northern Jiangsu, such as Zhang Yimo, Huang Yanpei, Jiang Wenyu, Chu Fucheng, Mu Ouchu, etc. Contact them, explain the truth about the northern Jiangsu incident[4] to them, and invite them to send or introduce people to participate in the work of local government in northern Jiangsu, the work of public opinion organs, and economic, cultural, and educational construction.We have telegraphed Zhou and Ye [5] to contact them. If they introduce people to northern Jiangsu in the future, they must accept them and cooperate with them in business. This is a concrete example of winning over the national bourgeoisie in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. development is helpful.

Mao Zedong fourteenth Printed from transcripts kept at the Central Archives. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Hu Fu, namely Liu Shaoqi.Chen Yi was the commander and political commissar of the North Jiangsu Command of the New Fourth Army at that time.Kecheng, namely Huang Kecheng, was the commander and political commissar of the Fifth Column of the Eighth Route Army at that time. [2] Ye Xiang refers to Ye Ting and Xiang Ying, who were the commander and deputy commander of the New Fourth Army respectively at that time.Xuefeng, also known as Peng Xuefeng, was the commander of the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army at the time.

[3] Han Guojun (1857-1942), a native of Hai'an Town, Tai County, Jiangsu Province (now part of Hai'an County), an enlightened gentleman, has participated in the mediation of conflicts between the recalcitrant Kuomintang army and the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu many times.Li Mingyang was then the commander-in-chief of the Guerrilla Army in the Sulu-Anhui Border Area of ​​the Lusu War Zone of the Kuomintang Army.Li Changjiang (1890-1956), a native of Nanjing, Jiangsu, was the deputy commander-in-chief of the Guerrilla Army in the Sulu-Anhui Border Area of ​​the Kuomintang Army's Lusu War Zone.

[4] At the beginning of October 1940, Han Deqin, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Lusu War Zone of the Kuomintang Army, mobilized heavy troops to launch an attack on the troops stationed in the Huangqiao area of ​​the New Fourth Army Headquarters in North Jiangsu. Fighting back in self-defense, annihilating more than 11,000 people from the Han tribe. This is the Battle of Huangqiao, also known as the Northern Jiangsu Incident. [5] Zhou refers to Zhou Enlai.Ye, referring to Ye Jianying, who was then a member of the Standing Committee of the Southern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.