Chapter 25 Chapter VII

When the body is free, the painful memory deep in the brain is still in prison. Ji Boshun always dreamed of the gloomy and dark corridors of the prison, the courtyard full of shadows of pillars, the lead gray walls smeared with mosquito blood and human blood and nose, the shackles that rattled all day, His humiliation, his anger, his disgusting cesspit... The night lost its balance.Every sleeper was imprisoned and ravaged, which made Ji Boshun feel unbearable.For a long time after he was released from prison, he was afraid to sleep.What is even more frightening is that the comrades who usually get along well have lost trust in him and no longer communicate with him.At this time, another serious split occurred within the Trotskyist Central Committee: a group of comrades wanted to hold the National Trotskyist Congress, and a group of comrades wanted to hold the Shanghai Trotskyist Congress.But no matter how noisy, the comrades on both sides turned a blind eye to Ji Boshun's existence.

Ji Boshun was desolate and lonely, so he had to hide in a pavilion in the public concession to read books, read newspapers, and translate Trotsky's articles frantically.During this period, Ji Boshun wrote pamphlets such as "Where is China Going", "The Lonely Believer", "The Theory of Permanent Revolution and the Chinese Revolution at the Present Stage" under a pseudonym.Among them, "The Lonely Believer" was once published by the "Horn Publishing House" influenced by the Trotskyist ideology. It sold 700 copies and was soon banned.This small book can be regarded as the original version of "A Man of Faith" which he wrote in his later years.Another pamphlet - "Where is China Going?" chapters of more than 10,000 characters were published in the "Da Wenhua Daily" from the end of 1936 to the beginning of 1937, signed "Yiding".In the published chapters, Ji Boshun said that most of his Trotskyist comrades in the past were empty talkers who were useless to the Chinese revolution. It is difficult to say that they really understood Comrade Trotsky's correct ideas and ideas.Therefore, Ji Boshun believed that instead of viewing them as believers in Trotskyism, it would be more appropriate to view them as booers on the Chinese political stage.

Ji Boshun also affirmed some real comrades that he thought should be affirmed, but when talking about these comrades, he also said: "...their personal ambitions, factional prejudices, due to historical and contemporary reasons, and revolutionary The sincerity of thought is intertwined, which often appears so grotesque that it is even inconceivable to outsiders. However, the noble motives of the revolution and the base purpose of the individual are expressed in the same form in the same background, which deforms the revolutionary movement itself. The original meaning and effect are lost, and the resulting split is inevitable..." Ji Boshun pointed out that this situation must be changed, and the Chinese Trotskyists and revolutionary Marxists should go to the lower levels, to the proletarians. Only by going to the factories where the class power is the most concentrated, and going to the places where they are most familiar with and have the most mass foundation, and arming the Chinese proletariat with revolutionary Marxism, will there be a future.

When talking about the anti-Japanese war before us, Ji Boshun and Pan Duan expressed Trotsky's views and propositions. They believed that: on the one hand, we should participate in the anti-Japanese war, because the war against Japanese imperialism is a war of national liberation and is a national liberation war. progressive war.On the other hand, which is also a more important aspect, is to take this opportunity to actively prepare forces to overthrow the Kuomintang and bring down Chiang Kai-shek.Ji Boshun said that at no time should we have any illusions about the Chiang Kai-shek reactionary clique. Chiang Kai-shek was, is, and will inevitably be the executioner who slaughtered the masses of Chinese workers and peasants.

Based on this idea, after the outbreak of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, Ji Boshun left Shanghai and first went to his hometown in western Henan. At the end of October, he went to Qingpu from western Henan, imagining that he would use the loose situation caused by the Anti-Japanese War and the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to develop the Trotskyite party organization in Qingpu, mobilize the masses of workers, and repeat a vigorous drama similar to that in 1925. The drama did not come. Qingpu in October 1937 was full of anti-Japanese and national salvation slogans and young and unfamiliar faces everywhere.The communists who had been imprisoned for many years were released from prison and once again joined hands with the executioners who imprisoned them and murdered their comrades.Qingpu City established a Workers' Anti-Japanese National Salvation Corps, and An Zhongliang, who had already become the chairman of the Qingpu City Trade Union, served as the head of the regiment.Gao Ming, who had just been released from Shanghai by the Kuomintang government, was taken by An Zhongliang to the most luxurious Dafa restaurant in the city to eat wine as soon as he came back. A few days later, he became the director of the Political Department and the deputy head of the Qingpu Workers' Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Corps. long.Major factories, such as Daxing Cotton Mill and Dongfang Machinery Factory, which Ji Boshun was familiar with, had set up branch groups.Smaller factories also joined forces to form sub-groups or sub-groups.Everything is surprisingly similar to twelve years ago, the only difference is that An Zhongliang and Gao Ming joined forces to deal with the reactionary warlords, but this time it was the Japanese.

Ji Boshun felt sad and also a little helpless. Just at this time, Sun Yue, who had attended the Chinese Communist Party’s Left Opposition Unification Conference in Shanghai in 1931, came to see him. As soon as he entered the door, he yelled: “Old Ji, it’s a good time for you to come! Our Qingpu The Trotskyist comrades are preparing to do a big job, and once you, the old comrade who stayed in Su, come, our strength will be even greater, and my old grandson will have more confidence!" Ji Boshun was surprised: "What are you going to do?" Sun Yue said excitedly: "To launch a general strike, start from the Daxing factory!"

Ji Boshun was very familiar with the Daxing factory. He knew it was a Nisshang yarn factory. He thought that what Sun Yue was going to launch was an anti-Japanese strike, so he asked, "Are you going to fight the Japanese?" Sun Yue waved his hand: "Where did the Japanese come from! The Daxing factory was taken over by the Tianjin Northern Bank Group after the 14th industrial movement. Now, these reactionary capitalists have cut the wages of the laborers by 20% under the pretext of the national crisis. %, caused great dissatisfaction among the workers in the factory, and gave us the opportunity to come to our door!"

Ji Boshun didn't know how to express his position for a while, he hesitated and said: "At...at such a time, the whole people are fighting against the Japanese. Is it appropriate for us to launch... a general strike against the national bourgeoisie in the country?" Sun Yue rolled his eyes: "Why is it inappropriate? It is natural and reasonable for the laboring proletariat to resist the exploitation and oppression of the bourgeoisie! It is reasonable at any time. Now that Gao Ming's opportunist Communist Party has surrendered to the Kuomintang, it is appropriate for us to lead the way!" "

"But...but now we need to fight against the whole people!" "Hey! What is the war of resistance? That's not our business!" After talking in detail, Ji Boshun realized that Sun Yue and Trotsky had different views on the issue of confrontation.This knowledgeable teacher believed that the war between Japanese imperialism and the reactionary Kuomintang government was a dog-eat-dog war, so he had to adopt a revolutionary defeatist stance.Just like Lenin's attitude towards the First World War back then: take advantage of the favorable opportunity created by the imperialist war, mobilize the masses, and turn this dog-eat-dog imperialist war into a domestic revolutionary war.

Ji Boshun disagreed, and brought up Trotsky's ideas, asking Sun Yue to abandon his wrong views, and work with him to truly follow Trotsky's correct ideas: passively support the War of Resistance militarily, and actively prepare to overthrow the Kuomintang politically . The two quarreled all night, but neither of them convinced the other. In the end, Sun Yue took a step back and said through Ji Boshun's words: "...Okay, okay! Even if Trotsky's views are correct, even if I accept your views, the Kuomintang must be overthrown politically, right? We A strike is not a military action, it is not a military sabotage of the War of Resistance, and the Japanese have not fought here, so why can’t we do it? Brother, think about it, the opportunists in Yan’an have abandoned the workers and become the Kuomintang The guests of the reactionary authorities, and we launch a strike at this time and share weal and woe with the workers, what a political impact it will create! What a political impact! Old Ji, think about it, think about it!"

Ji Boshun thought for three days, and finally agreed with Sun Yue's analysis.So he took the initiative to find Sun Yue's home in Dafeidao, and had a sincere talk with Sun Yue through wine, admitting that he had pessimistic feelings, and that he hadn't fundamentally grasped the implementation of Trotsky's thoughts at the current stage, almost Committed the error of dogmatism.Therefore, Ji Boshun not only agreed to support the general strike, but also decided to lead the general strike with Sun Yue. Daxing Spinning Mill is Ji Boshun's old base, and many old people from that time are still there, but most of them have blurred their political faces.Liu Chengzhu, who pestered him on that morning of retreat, became a traitor to the Communist Party and became the leader of the yellow trade union of the Kuomintang.But Zhao Heizi, another coworker who stalked him, was very depressed, thinking that he had seen through this bastard world, saying that he, like Liu Chengzhu, An Zhongliang, and Gao Ming, was not a good guy, and he used their workers as weapons. , They are all lip-splitting and deceiving guys. Zhao Heizi did not mention the scene at the Mary Road Restaurant on the morning of October 17, 1925, but Ji Boshun felt it vaguely.Ji Boshun confessed his true feelings to Zhao Heizi and apologized again.Zhao Heizi just ignored him, and only cared about drinking from the bottle. However, during the twelve long years, a new generation of proletariat has grown up in Qingpu—and of course including Daxing Cotton Mill.The thoughts that their father and brother had once had became their thoughts in a reasonable way.Zhao Heizi was depressed, but his 23-year-old son Zhao Qingsheng stood up again despite his father's firm opposition after he had tasted the experience of exploitation and oppression.Zhao Qingsheng not only joined the Trotskyist party organization in Qingpu under Sun Yue's introduction, but also became Ji Boshun's inseparable bodyguard during the strike. Ji Boshun also really needs bodyguards.It was clear that he was in danger of being arrested and sacrificed at any time in Qingpu.The ally of the past and the enemy of today, An Zhong, has a ruthless conscience and blood of the Communists on his hands. Although he is now cooperating with the Communist Party like Gao Ming, he is not cooperating with the Communist Party of the leftist opposition like him.If he wants to cause a labor movement in this place under An Zhongliang's rule, An Zhongliang will definitely release the vicious dogs he raised, and he will also raise the bloody butcher's knife.Not to mention Gao Ming, there were not only religious conflicts between them, but also personal grievances. Gao Ming did not execute him in the cesspit of the prison in 1936, and his regret probably has been preserved to this day.Today's Qingpu is dominated by Gao Ming. Gao Ming's legal Communist Party can not only assassinate him, but also kidnap him. Despite this, Ji Boshun walked on William Street a few times frankly, not to pretend to be a hero, but just to retrieve the precious memories that belonged to history. William Street has barely changed in twelve years.The cathedral at No. 12 is still standing there majestically, as if it could stand for another hundred or thousand years.The loud bells that rang throughout the city were still trembling in the damp air, as if yesterday.The red, green and green lights on the front of the Huafu company building are still so brilliant and eye-catching.The only change is that An Zhongliang's small foreign building at No. 125 now has a big signboard of the Qingpu City Federation of Trade Unions. With deep nostalgia, Ji Boshun walked from the gate of No. 125 William Street to the three-way intersection below on a quiet night, and poured out a sigh from the depths of his chest to the French Germans on both sides of the street. At the foot of the wall of the building.Zhao Qingsheng followed him every step of the way, just like Zheng Shaobai who was beside him back then. When he reached the garden in the middle of the street at the three-way intersection, Ji Boshun involuntarily turned a corner and stepped on the road of Mary Road.After walking a long way on Mary's Road, he realized that he was walking in the direction of Miss Qian Er's house.Ji Boshun shook his head with a wry smile, then turned around and looked back. Zhao Qingsheng said in surprise, "Mr. Ji, are you familiar with our road in Qingpu?" Ji Boshun nodded: "Yes, very familiar! Very familiar! Your father knows that when I was ordered to retreat, I ran into him on this road. I wanted to see a woman before leaving." "Is it your wife?" Just as Ji Boshun nodded, he shook his head again: "No, it's not!" "She still lives in Mary Road?" Ji Boshun smiled awkwardly: "Dead! Long... long ago!" Zhao Qingsheng asked again: "Mr. Ji, this time there is a strike, you won't withdraw like this again?!" Ji Boshun was moved, he touched Zhao Qingsheng's shoulder affectionately and said, "No more, never again, we won't make the same mistake again and again! Little brother, I guarantee with my personality..." A month later, a general strike broke out in the Daxing Spinning Mill. More than half of the factory's nearly 3,000 people participated in the general strike, opposing the management's use of the national disaster as an excuse to reduce workers' wages.An Zhongliang was shocked when he heard the news, accusing Gao Ming of violating the Kuomintang-Communist cooperation agreement and instigating labor unrest during the national crisis, which is an act of a traitor.Gao Ming and the Qingpu Communist Party did not recognize Ji Boshun and Sun Yue as communists.Needless to say, the ending was a mass arrest, a mass arrest jointly planned by the KMT and the Communist Party.Ji Boshun and Sun Yue, the two "first offenders", were captured by the authorities in the material warehouse of Daxing Cotton Mill, and taken to Qingpu Police Station overnight.Three months later, they were sentenced to 12 and 15 years in prison for the crime of traitor. This is already June 1938. In October of that year, the Japanese army marched northward and Qingpu fell.The Kuomintang Special Law Enforcement Office released all the criminals and light state offenders in the prison on the night of emergency retreat.Faced with the traitors who could not be transferred and were sentenced to more than ten years in prison for serious crimes, mass executions were carried out in the cells on the spot.Eighteen criminals in Ji Boshun's room, including Sun Yue, were all killed by bullets, but Ji Boshun miraculously escaped the catastrophe and survived. In that crazy massacre, Ji Boshun was hit by two bullets.One hit on the right arm and one on the right thigh, neither fatal nor bone damage. It was luck.