Chapter 72 Letter to Ye Jianying and Liu Ding[1]

(October 22, 1936) Brother Jian and Ding: The economy is very tight, and we must save and save on external expenses, and we must not overspend.Never lose our ground, never accept gifts from others.Only when it is absolutely necessary, it is allowed to borrow a little money from others and return it in full in the future.All expenses must be reimbursed.Due to several waste incidents happened one after another in recent days, I pointed this out to my second brother.And please alert Xuefeng[2], Lizhi[3] and other comrades who are doing united front work to be alert to this issue at any time.Those who have suffered for a long time will inevitably see the beauty and be unable to grasp it, so it should be treated as a problem, and the work of educating and warning comrades should be done.

If you want to buy a batch of popular social science, natural science and philosophy books, you should buy about ten to fifteen kinds in total, and you have to choose the ones that are really popular and valuable (for example, Ai Siqi's "Popular Philosophy" [4], "Street Speech" by Liu Shi[5], etc.), buy 50 copies of each type, and the total price is only 100 to 300 yuan. Please choose Brother Jian and Brother Ding to buy.At the beginning of November, select and buy several kinds and send them to the school and the army to improve the political and cultural level of cadres.People outside should encourage reading books and newspapers while working.

Most of the military books I bought are not suitable for use, and most of them are about tactics and technology. What we want is campaign command and strategy. Please choose how many according to this standard.Buy a copy of Sun Tzu's Art of War. Please write an analytical and comprehensive report. Runzhi October 22 According to the "Selected Letters of Mao Zedong" published by People's Publishing House in 1983. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Ye Jianying (1897-1986), a native of Meixian, Guangdong.At that time, he was appointed by the Communist Party of China to do united front work in Xi'an.Liu Ding (1903-1986), a native of Nanxi, Sichuan.At that time, he was appointed by the Communist Party of China to do liaison work between the Red Army and the Northeast Army.

[2] Xuefeng, namely Peng Xuefeng (1907-1944), was born in Zhenping, Henan.At that time, he was appointed by the Communist Party of China to do united front work in Shanxi, Suiyuan (now part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region). [3] Lizhi, that is, Zhu Lizhi (1907-1978), a native of Nantong, Jiangsu.At that time, he was the special commissioner of the Chinese Communist Party stationed in the Northeast Army. [4] Ai Siqi (1910-1966), a native of Tengchong, Yunnan.At that time, he was the editor of Shanghai "Reading Life" magazine.His "Popular Philosophy" is a popular work promoting Marxist philosophy.

[5] Liu Shi (1903-1968), born in Changsha, Hunan.In the 1930s, he was engaged in cultural work led by the Communist Party of China in Shanghai, Hankou, Chongqing and other places. He served as editorial board member and editor-in-chief of newspapers and periodicals such as "Reading Life", "Life Daily", and "National Anti-Japanese War". "Street Talk" is a popular book written by him to introduce social science knowledge.