Chapter 36 chapter Five

No one thought that Xiaotang would rebel.Xiaotang's elder brother was a classmate who stayed in the Soviet Union with Tian Changren, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, and unfortunately died of illness after returning to China.Xiao Tang was the only young party member that Tian Changren brought from Shanghai when he took office as secretary of the Provincial Party Committee.Tian Changren trusted Xiaotang very much, so Xiaotang's arrest did not arouse Tian Changren's due vigilance.On the day of the accident, instead of making preparations for the transfer, they secretly held a work meeting of the provincial party committee in the warehouse of Dasheng Grain Bank, which lasted until nightfall.

Gao Ming slipped through the net that day. Instead of having a meeting at the office, he was ordered to go to the Shizhong District Committee, and together with Liu Wanxing, who was in charge of the organization of the district committee, condolences to the families of the comrades arrested in the "flying rally" that day.There were quite a lot of people arrested, and the families of the arrested people lived in scattered places. He and Liu Wanxing only went to five or six homes from the afternoon to around nine o'clock in the evening.Those who haven't finished running, they plan to continue running the next day.That day, Gao Ming was planning to go back to the Provincial Party Committee Office of Dasheng Grain Bank, but when he walked to the gate of the Bank of Communications on Zhongshan Avenue, he somehow remembered Ling Feng who had just parted for a long time, and arrived at Ling Feng's house again by accident.The two talked about Qingpu, An Zhongliang, and the Soviet Union. They talked all over the place in the middle of the night, and it was too late. Gao Ming stayed at Ling Feng's house, and it was the first time he had that kind of relationship with Ling Feng.

When he woke up, the sky was already bright, Gao Ming kissed Ling Feng goodbye, went to Liu Wanxing's house to find Liu Wanxing, and wanted to finish what he didn't finish yesterday.Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered Liu Wanxing's door, Liu Wanxing's face changed color.Liu Wanxing told him that the provincial party committee no longer exists.Gao Ming was stunned, and judged without thinking: Xiaotang has become a traitor.It was clear that among those arrested, only Xiaotang worked in the provincial party committee and knew the location of the office. Lao Jin, the traffic secretary of the Shizhong District Committee, and other comrades did not know the location of the office.And once Xiaotang rebelled, he would be in danger—even if he was not arrested last night with his comrades from the provincial party committee, he would still be arrested if he was recognized by Xiaotang in the future.

Gao Ming and Liu Wanxing discussed nervously, and decided to separately notify the party members and cadres in contact with the provincial party committee to retreat immediately. At the same time, they also left the provincial capital as soon as possible to avoid causing greater losses. This happened after eight o'clock in the morning on May 2, 1931. At 9:10, Gao Ming rushed to the door of Wen Baojin, secretary of the municipal party committee he had contacted, and found a prison car parked in front of Wen Baojin's house. It was too late to call the police, so he had to quietly give up.At 9:40, when Gao Ming rushed to the tobacco and alcohol shop run by Zhang Zhongliang, the traffic secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, he found that the tobacco and alcohol shop had been destroyed, and Zhang Zhongliang and his wife had been arrested a few hours earlier.At ten o'clock, when he arrived at the Sifang Hotel, the reception station of the Provincial Party Committee, Gao Ming discovered that the small hotel had been closed by the military and police, and all the people in the hotel had been taken away... Only then did Gao Ming understand: It was too late, everything was over, in just one day and one night, the "revolutionary high tide" ceased to exist.The new provincial party committee, which was used to creating "revolutionary upsurges", died together with the "revolutionary upsurges" they created.

This is probably something Tian Changren, secretary of the provincial party committee, could not have dreamed of. In fact, Tian Changren should have thought of it.A month ago, when it was decided to hold the "May 1st Commemorative Meeting" that led to the destruction, some comrades from the provincial party committee pointed out that it is not appropriate for comrades from the provincial party committee to participate in or come forward to organize it, otherwise, once the comrades from the provincial party committee are arrested If the rebellion is arrested, the consequences will be disastrous.Tian Changren didn't pay attention to this opinion, and said impassionedly: "...the provincial party committee will take the lead in doing what the comrades below are asked to do! If you don’t even want to do it, there will be no hope for the climax of the revolution!” As a result, comrades from the provincial party committee came forward to organize it, which led to this catastrophe.

As he walked all the way back, Gao Ming was depressed and panicked, and he was deeply guilty of the orgasm he had just participated in.He believed Tian Changren's words too much, and was afraid of making rightist mistakes again, so he blindly followed them and failed to effectively resist the wrong decisions of Tian Changren and the provincial party committee. Therefore, he was also indirectly responsible for the destruction of the provincial party committee. Later, Gao Ming learned that all this was the result of Wang Ming's "Left" adventurism.The disaster at that time was not local, but global.By January 1933, the work of the Communist Party in the Kuomintang-ruled areas had been completely lost, and even the central government had to withdraw from the White Areas and transfer to the central base areas.Liu Shaoqi said at the Eighth Party Congress that at that time the party organizations in the Kuomintang-controlled areas and the revolutionary organizations under the leadership of the party lost almost 100%.Since it was 100%, he and the provincial party committee at that time were naturally doomed, and it would be unfair to push all the responsibility for the destruction on Tian Changren and the provincial party committee.What's more, Tian Changren died heroically after being arrested.

However, on the morning of May 2, 1931, Gao Ming was still unable to see the big picture, and did not yet know the whole truth of the disaster that had happened, was happening, and was about to happen, as he ran around dejectedly and restlessly.Gao Ming only saw Tian Changren, a provincial party committee that he had worked for for many years. All his dissatisfaction was directed at Tian Changren and other leading comrades of the provincial party committee.The image of Tian Changren's superior and teacher completely collapsed in that short morning like a snow mountain avalanche, so that the ground under his feet became unstable and unreliable.

Strangely, at that extremely heavy moment, Gao Ming intuitively believed in his girlfriend Ling Feng who had joined the Kuomintang.After the morning's running around proved to be futile, Gao Ming rushed to Ling Feng's residence without hesitation, and wanted to ask Ling Feng for some money to escape.As he moved step by step into the alley behind the Bank of Communications, Gao Ming never thought that Ling Feng would take the risk to walk with him, and just became his wife. At one o'clock that afternoon, he rushed to Lingfeng's aunt's house, met Lingfeng, and explained his intention to leave.Ling Feng didn't have any mental preparations, and looked very surprised: "Leave as soon as you say, what happened?"

Gao Ming knew that the secret of the destruction of the provincial party committee could not be kept, and the newspapers of the reactionary Kuomintang authorities would publicize it. Instead of letting Ling Feng read the news from the newspapers, it would be better to tell her, which would appear frank .So, he tried his best to calmly say: "There are traitors, many comrades have been arrested, and our provincial party committee has also been destroyed. It can be said that the entire army has been wiped out!" Ling Feng didn't believe it, and opened his eyes wide and said: "This...it's not...impossible, isn't it? Didn't you still hold a commemorative meeting on May 1st yesterday? How could it be... just overnight? ?”

Gao Ming sighed: "The incident happened at the commemorative rally! A guy who held the commemorative rally with me rebelled immediately after being arrested, and he works in the provincial party committee..." Tears welled up in Ling Feng's eyes: "How could it be like this? How could it be like this?" Gao Ming shook his head: "Yeah, I don't know how it happened! If I hadn't been with you last night, I'm afraid I would have been arrested and imprisoned today." Ling Feng wiped away the tears on his face, and said in pain: "I never thought my life would be so bad! Two years ago, after I left Qingpu, I searched for you everywhere, looking for you Communist Party, and finally found it today, but you... You are leaving again!"

Gao Ming impulsively held Ling Feng in his arms, gently grabbed Ling Feng's hand, and stroked: "I...we will come back! We will...we will come back! The Communists can't catch and kill them all. of!" Ling Feng buried her head in his arms, and said softly, almost in a whisper: "Gao Ming, then...then you take me away too! I...let's go together! Don't...don't make me wait like this any longer ..." Gao Ming was stunned: "Come with me at a time like this? You... aren't you afraid of being arrested and going to jail?" Ling Feng smiled: "Not afraid! Just... as long as I can be with you..." Gao Ming was really moved and hugged Ling Feng tightly, tears fell on Ling Feng's neck. On that day, the two didn't care about making out, they immediately packed up their luggage and utensils, pretended to be a newly married couple, quickly left the dangerous provincial capital, took the express train to Tianjin, and then went to Peiping.