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Chapter 15 Books with Ms. Lingxian and others (excerpt) (May 5, 1927)

It's no wonder that I have recently linked to Sizhong's letter, and my thoughts have become more intense day by day, and I seem to be infinitely excited about the victory of the party and army.In the past ten years or so in China, the current situation has been too dull, the warlords have been too sinful, everyone is in extreme pain, and they are extremely tired. Most very old people are like this, let alone young people.So I don't think it's strange for you to change this way, but I'm afraid this kind of hope will still come to nothing. It is easy for me to be misunderstood when I speak, because I have always had a history with the KMT.In fact, I am the least party-minded person. As long as someone can make China a good place, I will definitely express my deep sympathy with him. I never adopt the narrow and jealous attitude of "it's not good if I didn't do it myself".In all fairness, some of the party troops that came out this time are indeed good—but only a part of them. Unfortunately, a lot of good troops were damaged in Jiangxi, and now the good ones count only 20,000 to 30,000—but everything other than marching , are all controlled by extremely bad party members, so wherever the party troops go, the people are in dire straits.Mencius said in a few words: "...a pot of oatmeal is eaten to meet the king's teacher. There is no other way, and water and fire are also avoided. Like water, it gets deeper, like fire, it gets hot. It's just luck." These few words can really be written. It's all about the psychology of people in Lianghu, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.The root cause of the illness is that people from the lowest strata of society have passed through to hold the highest power.What I mean by upper and lower classes is not in terms of rich and poor, but in terms of human character.Poor and good people, of course we should welcome him very much.It's not the same today, those who hold power are always the most vicious, insidious and dirty elements. In other words, robbers, thieves, local sticks, hooligans and the like are all proud, and all kind people have become like meat.Such examples are too numerous to mention, and I don't have the time to enumerate them. These two sentences, "The party and the army are cute, but the party members can be killed" have long been popular adages in the southern poles, and they were even quoted in Wu Zhihui's recent impeachment report against the Communist Party.However, although the complaints of the party members who can be killed are increasing day by day, the lovely praises of the party and the army are decreasing day by day, because the quality of the army is far worse than before.All in all, the so-called trade unions, farmers' associations, etc., spend the whole day arbitrarily declaring the death penalty, and other confiscation of property is commonplace, and in this kind of association, it is completely used for personal gain, but what they beat is "downing the local tyrants and evil gentry." "The banner, in fact, the real local tyrants and evil gentry have long since turned into partisans, and the people who beat them are only innocent citizens.

The hosts are all the worst elements in the society. (The several women's nude parades mentioned in the newspaper are indeed true. There are countless such actions.) In the past six months in Lianghu, in the past two months in Jiangxi, (At the end of this year, all the people in the two lakes must starve to death. Because there is no one to plow all the fields, and the industry and commerce have been uprooted.) Those who keep their own law and order are simply not allowed to survive. (I met a Hunanese today and said that there are two very popular sayings in their hometown: "This year Hunan people have nothing to eat, and I'm afraid there will be no one in Hunan next year. This sentence is really true.) The degree of damage in other provinces, although It is shallow and deep, but this phenomenon is spreading day by day. Originally, in the military era, there was no construction, and we could have forgiven them quite a bit, but they did not follow the path they wanted at all, and they simply took evil as a matter of course. Therefore, although they have no embrace of the construction of the national economy and the people's livelihood, they have not thought about this road.

Of course, nine times out of ten this kind of crime is initiated by the Communist Party, but the Communist Party has long since become the Kuomintang's flesh and blood—or it can be said to be the soul of the Kuomintang—so the Kuomintang has to follow in the sea of ​​evil.It turned out that the only purpose of the Communist Party under the command of the Third International was to sacrifice China to take the first step in the world revolution. Of course, the people in the hungry country took this as a strategy, otherwise they would not be able to survive themselves. China is too tricky.Recently, both the North and the South simultaneously cracked down on the Communist Party’s institutions—that is, the embassies and consulates found those documents (less than one-tenth or two of them have been published), which is truly terrifying and truly hateful.All kinds of horrible situations in the country are completely planned by the Third International, and the Chinese are simply their machines.Just like the Nanjing incident this time, Si Yong wrote a letter hating the rumors spread by American newspapers.No borrowing, Europeans and Americans will inevitably exaggerate ((Exaggerate the matter more.) However, no one can deny the robbery of the consulate, etc., similar to the Boxer Rebellion. (It is said that there are at least two foreign women who were raped, and some men were sodomized, It is really a disgrace to the Chinese people to say it.) This kind of thing is indeed a predetermined plan, and it is done by the official army. Why is it so? It is because the Communist Party and Chiang Kai-shek are in trouble, and they want to make fun of him and destroy his credibility. The Communist Party Central Committee The meeting’s resolution calls for an extreme xenophobic movement within the sphere of influence of the opposition, murder, arson, rape, and looting. Everything can be applied. This motion was recently discovered in the embassy, ​​and the full text has been photocopied. (Russian conspiracy was originally guessed by everyone This time, the viciousness of the document cracked this time is unexpected. Everyone guessed that it was less than two-tenths or three-tenths.) They originally wanted to make such a fuss in the north, but they couldn't do it for a while. Of course, Chiang Kai-shek was also theirs. The "opposition", so try it in Nanjing first. They most hope that the imperialists will suppress China, and the more they suppress, the smoother their movement will be. Since the May 30th massacre, Britain has been completely fooled by them, and it is almost doing work for them , Their strategy is really thorough and ingenious, but when their plan is fully realized, all the land in China will be turned into desert, and all the people will be starved to death.

The Communist Party is like this, so what about the Kuomintang?In recent years, the Kuomintang was originally the Communist Party who ran in to resurrect the corpse.In the 12th and 13th years of the Republic of China, the Kuomintang had already reached the end of the sunset. Sun Wendong colluded with this warlord, and Xi colluded with that warlord—such as Duan Qirui, Zhang Zuolin, etc.—still unable to develop.Just when the Russians failed repeatedly in Poland and Turkey, they decided to "defend from the west and advance to the east" and devote all their efforts to China. Seeing that the dying Kuomintang could be exploited, they took 800,000 yuan and a large amount of ammunition as bait , that unscrupulous Sun Wen, with a long way to go [poor] at the end of the day, perverted, he was willing to lure wolves into the house.In his later years, Sun Wen had become a puppet of Soviet Russia without any freedom. (When Sun Wen fell ill in Beijing, all actions were under the supervision of Bao Luoting and Wang Jingwei. Anyone who saw a visitor had to ask Bao Luoting's permission first. Every morning half a day, Bao or Bao's wife would always go to the hospital before the sick bed. For two or three o'clock, after Bao came out, Sun took a long breath, like this every day. This is what the Kuomintang people said recently, and it is absolutely true.) Since the establishment of the Whampoa Military Officer [School], only the activities of the Communist Party have been carried out there. activities of the Democratic Party.That is to say, in terms of this Northern Expedition, starting from Guangdong and occupying Shanghai, that battle was not won by the command of the Soviets! (It’s shameful to say that the Russians came to revolutionize us.) The slogans of the party are all designated by the Third International, such as “Down with imperialism”, “Down with the capitalist class”, etc., those words were not blown by Moscow’s loudspeaker come out.Besides these, what goals does the Kuomintang have to guide the people?Therefore, the Communist Party was removed from the Kuomintang. (In the past few days, May 1st, May 4th, etc., not only Beijing has disappeared, but the place where the party and army are located is also dying. You can get a glimpse of this news.) The Kuomintang is simply a soulless The body is gone.Recently, the Chiang Kai-sheks, unbearable to be oppressed by the Communist Party, have turned their backs and declared to "seek redness", and the degree of massacre is many times more harmful than that of the North.At the same time, rightists are being slaughtered every day within the Communist Party's sphere of influence. (The previous few papers were written one after another ten days ago. Now the situation has changed drastically every day, and it has become a bit of nonsense.) According to reports from various sources, in the past three weeks, partisans on both sides have killed partisans-overtly and assassinated In total—almost 10,000 people were sent away, and most of them were innocent young people.It's poor that these people are so stupid that they can't even report to themselves, let alone ordinary good people who have entered the city of death in vain.What's more frightening is that since the left and right sent fire to fight, they each split up to collude with the northern warlords. Chiang Kai-shek hooked up with Sun Chuanfang, Tang Shengzhi hooked up with Wu Peifu (both are true facts), and both sides also hooked up with Zhang Zuolin.Of course the northern warlords don't have waists [faces], but do the southern warlords still look like human beings?Now that there is today, why bother? It can be seen that the so-called fighting for doctrine is a lie.The current military situation seems to be quite favorable for the Chiang faction. In fact, the Communist Party has long been the master of their party.The Communist Party never dared to abandon the cloak of the "National Party", and the final victory may still be the Communist Party.The Communist Party can’t win a real victory either—it’s not exactly like Russia, but this poisonous germ has penetrated into society and turned the country into a mess. More than half of the people died, and the land turned into a desert, and it was over.Now most people in the south expect foreigners to clean up every day. It goes without saying that this despicable mentality is shameful and painful.In fact, how can foreigners clean up, they can only increase the elements of disturbance, and add more pain to the dying country and people.

In this state, there was a huge problem with my personal whereabouts.For nearly a month, I was surrounded by people every day, which made me very embarrassed.To put it simply, many people (not including the warlords) hate the Communist Party too much, and are desperate for the Nationalist Party. They feel that other groups must come out to deal with it. Think of me.Among them, the most violent groups are, of course, the many groups of so-called "nationalists", followed by a part of the right wing of the Nationalist Party, and those in the so-called "industrial circles". (Secondly, there are countless second- and third-class warlords in the south who are sitting on the wall or have already surrendered to the party army.) These people want to form a kind of big alliance under my leadership.Because they couldn't unite, they thought I would stand up, so they united, so they used all their strength to campaign against me.In addition to looking for me directly, I spare no effort to my friends and students. (Graduate students are also included in their movement, because most of the Nationalist Youth League are students.) My friends and disciples are also divided into two factions on this issue. Zhang Junmai, Chen Bosheng, Hu Shiqing, etc. are extremely in favor of it, while Ding Zaijun and Lin Zaiping are extremely opposed to it. Yes, I don't need to enumerate the reasons of both of them in detail.In short, the pros think that this matter is ten thousand times more important than Hong Xian, and they absolutely cannot stand by; The second is that the character is not suitable for political party activities.For the past month, I have been fighting and suffering in my heart every day. I really hate the life of the political party, and I get a headache when I mention it.Because as a political party, there are many people who don't want to meet, and things that don't want to be done. I really can't live through this kind of life.If I just watched from the sidelines and shy away from difficulties, I really felt bad for my country, so I couldn’t sleep because of this incident for a month. I've made up my mind.

Over the past month, I have sorted out my fragmented thoughts about the economic system for many years every day, and I have a firm opinion. (I have given lectures on my ideas at the Talent Reserve Hall and Tsinghua University for two or three weeks.) At the same time, although I have not been very satisfied with the specific political methods, I am convinced that representative system and party politics are absolutely inapplicable , must be broken.So I plan to publish one or two books with all my ideas in the near future, but I will never join a group organization, because I don't believe that kind of thing can save China at all.In the last few days, Ji Shang came back from the south, and he very much agrees with my attitude. (Ding Zaijun advocates that I should not talk about politics at all, and only focus on the work I have done in the past few years. I am really sorry for my conscience.) I will wait two weeks , the homework for this school year is over, so I left Tsinghua University to complete my new job in two months. (Yusheng was very happy to hear that. I am posting his letter today. I hope you all feel the same way.) Siyong wrote a letter saying that he expressed sympathy for communism. In fact, seeing a pure and white youth like our Siyong, will also be drugged by this kind of drug, that is, there is no limit to the youth of the whole country!I really have to worry about the future of China, so I feel more and more necessary to make a fuss.Don't think that if I oppose communism, I am in favor of capitalism.I oppose capitalism even more [severely] than the Communist Party.I judge the modern economic sickness and the "pulse theory" of communism, but I am convinced that this disease cannot be cured by the medicine of "communism".I have a prescription, this prescription may be taken by China first, and the disease will be cured. In the future, the whole world will learn from us. My prescription will be available to you in about three months.Siyong is not an expert in economics, so of course he would mistake poison for a cure, but young people in China like Siyong rank in the 99th percentile, so it is scary.After my prescription comes out, let's see how much I can recover.

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