Chapter 14 Books for the Children (excerpt) (January 27, 1927)

What I have seen recently is a phenomenon that I can't bear to hear or see.The people in Henan and Shandong could hardly survive, and the people in Hunan and Jiangxi could hardly survive either, under the attack of two evil forces.The whole country has really become a living hell.Not only Tang Shengzhi had a headache, but even Chiang Kai-shek and his colleagues also had a headache.All in all, the Communist Party has been trained by the Third International, and its organizational power is too strong. Now it is really invincible.We often say: "They are organized, but we are not organized." Unexpectedly, Chen Mingshu's letter to his friend (I saw it with my own eyes) said exactly these two sentences.Now the voices of defeating Jiang Chen and Tang Dynasty are popular in Lianghu and Jiangxi. Li Jichen wanted to train some non-communist troops (fourth division) in Guangdong, but he was destroyed by them and the training was unsuccessful.Jiang and Tang comforted themselves and said, "Fortunately, the army is not in their hands." It is true that the southern soldiers are indeed not communists now, but they will undoubtedly fall into the hands of the communists in the future.Now the south is just the workers' world, and the word "intellectual class" has become synonymous with counter-revolution. (Public and private schools in Lianghu and Jiangxi are completely closed, in the name of reorganization, but there will never be a deadline for school opening.) And the so-called workers are all ruffians who don’t work.We will suffer many days in the future, so what is now?We only have to train our bodies and minds to prepare for resistance, and we can do something for the country in the future, teaching children to follow this path of suffering.

Zhongzhong's letter is very cute, and what he said is very insightful.If I ignore politics today, I am really sorry for the country and my own conscience.However, it is still early to come forward and raise the banner. Only by making careful preparations, even if I am in charge of these careers now, relying on him can support a few more talents. (Of course there are relatives and old friends among them, and they are reluctant to greet those who do not regard talents as the standard.) Recently, they have given speeches at school and received more students, the same is true—even though your mother is nagging me about my body every day, I still want to do this—— ——China's disease is too deep, and the symptoms change every day. Every time the disease changes, the disease is serious. Whether it can be saved by us in the future, I dare not say.But the life of a country and a nation are always permanent (longer than an individual), and we always do what is within our responsibilities. It doesn't matter what the results are or whether we can see them.