Chapter 37 Chapter Six

The years in Peiping were bleak and lonely. Without Lingfeng by my side, those years would have been even more miserable.After being personally on the scene, Gao Ming further understood Ling Feng, and truly realized Ling Feng's urgency and pain in seeking revolution after the failure of the Great Revolution. Later, when recalling the years in Peking, Gao Ming said with emotion: "...for me, it is unthinkable to leave the party. I feel that as a party member, I am a cog in the great machine of the Chinese Communist Party. Losing contact with the screw and the party is like a screw falling from a machine, and its own value is completely lost..."

As soon as Gao Ming and Ling Feng arrived in Beiping, they looked for the party everywhere.Unfortunately, until the end of 1934, he failed to get in touch with the party organization.Some of Gao Ming's progressive classmates and friends when he was studying in Beiping were depressed, some buried themselves in his study, and some fell into the arms of the Kuomintang and became senior officials of the Kuomintang.When he turned his gaze back to Qingpu and the provincial capital, Qingpu and the provincial capital were also covered in thick fog.The party disappeared completely in the thick fog, and the last party member he knew who was not arrested, Liu Wanxing, was also missing.

Under such circumstances, Gao Ming was introduced by Zhao Fuzhi, a former classmate, to become a Chinese teacher in a middle school in Beiping. Ling Feng also resumed his old job, picked up the pointer, and taught in elementary schools—however, during this period of time, Ling Feng Her teaching career was not long, about a year or so later, she gave birth to a child and became a housewife. As a housewife, Ling Feng still yearns for revolution. The mediocre life of being busy with making a living has not made her mediocre, but has made her more mature and determined.In addition to taking care of the children and arranging family life, Ling Feng also often goes to the bookstore to buy some progressive books and periodicals.Many of the books Gao Ming read at that time were recommended by her.

Ling Feng did not forget to look for the party. Although she was not a member of the Communist Party of China at that time, Ling Feng insisted that the party was not only his, but also hers. The party was their common hope in life.For this reason, Ling Feng kept in touch with the workers in Dazayuan from time to time, and often asked them about the situation of the factory intentionally or unconsciously.Every time I hear something like labor disputes, I will always be excited for several days. This blind and eager search almost led the couple astray—they failed to find a real party organization, but instead found a Trotskyist named Wang Mingquan and an underground Trotskyist organization in Peking.

Gao Ming knew something about the Trotskyite situation in the past.When I was working in the Organization Department of the provincial capital, I saw many notices about expulsion of Trotskyists from the party.Most of these announcements were published in the party's weekly "Red Flag".Tian Changren, secretary of the Provincial Party Committee at the time, told him personally that the Trotskyites were equivalent to counter-revolutionaries, and they were a hundred times more reactionary than open reactionaries!Trotsky's reactionaries had an international column dedicated to fighting Stalin's Third International.Domestically, the Trotskyists belonged to Chen Duxiu's Left Opposition Center.These reactionaries not only split the international communist movement and the Communist Party of China, but also canceled the revolution, so they are called the Tuochen liquidators.

Gao Ming did not expect that the reactionary Trotskyites, who canceled the revolution, would also have high revolutionary enthusiasm.He and Ling Feng found Wang Mingquan's Trotskyist underground organization by relying on the clues of a workers' strike led by them.Although the strike was unsuccessful, Wang Mingquan and the men and women around him who claimed to be communists left a deep impression on him and Ling Feng. Ling Feng was unaware of the struggle between the Trotskyists and the Communist Party, and Gao Ming was initially deceived by the eloquent and pragmatic Wang Mingquan.Ling Feng brought Wang Mingquan home through a worker friend, and Gao Ming was very excited.Wang Mingquan and Gao Ming talked about the theory of Marxism-Leninism and revolution, but Gao Ming did not find any big difference between the Marxism-Leninism of the Trotskyites and the Marxism-Leninism he knew, let alone that it was "a hundred times more reactionary".

He was too careless at first. Later, when Wang Mingquan analyzed the current domestic situation, he explicitly mentioned Trotsky and quoted a letter Trotsky wrote to Chinese comrades.This aroused Gao Ming's due vigilance.Only then did Gao Ming suddenly remember Tian Changren, the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee who had died, teaching that the Trotskyists were "a hundred times more reactionary" than the Kuomintang. , are you a Communist Party?" Wang Mingquan smiled, and asked meaningfully: "Old Gao, what do you think?" Gao Ming shook his head, with sarcasm on his face: "I don't think you are like the Communist Party."

"So, like what?" "It's like asking Chen to cancel the faction!" Wang Mingquan restrained his smile, and said seriously: "Yes, we are leftist oppositionists, but we are by no means liquidators! It is not us who canceled the revolution, but you, the so-called Communist Party!" Gao Ming thought it was funny, and asked, "Who are we, the so-called Communist Party?" Wang Mingquan waved his hand, and said decisively: "Who else can it be? It's Chen Shaoyu's group of gangsters and those peasant revolutionaries in the mountains of Jiangxi!"

Gao Ming was irritated all of a sudden, and without thinking about it, he said angrily: "Shut up, don't slander Comrade Wang Ming! Don't slander our party! The real thieves are you Trotskyites! You cancel the revolution to the outside world. , engaged in sectarian activities internally, and our party only dealt with you and expelled you!" Wang Mingquan did not show weakness, and immediately started an impassioned speech: "...The expulsion of us just proves your cowardice and shamelessness! You imitate Stalin's authoritarian style, do not allow different opinions within the party, suppress and cancel democracy within the party, fundamentally speaking is contrary to the principles of Leninism..."

Gao Ming listened silently and stopped answering.He didn't want to continue arguing with Wang Mingquan.This dispute is meaningless.Wang Mingquan is a Trotskyite, not a real communist, and not what he is looking for. Why should he talk about Marxism-Leninism with someone who is not a comrade at all!Isn't this a big joke? ! Wang Mingquan refused to let go, and continued to talk endlessly: "...you have labeled us abolishing the revolution, but are you in the revolution? You have abandoned the central city where the power of the proletariat is concentrated, and you have also abandoned the proletariat. Let me ask, if a proletarian party abandons the proletariat it relies on, can their revolution still be called a proletarian revolution? Let’s take it now, Lao Gao, you are looking for the party, but you can find Chen Shao Yu’s group of 100% Bolsheviks? They can’t be found! They all hid in the arms of the leaders of the peasant uprising! Here we are the only ones—comrades you call the Tochen liquidators who are leading the urban proletariat to persist We are fighting hard and heroically! If you really believe in Marxism-Leninism, you should put aside your past suspicions and join our struggle! Come on, Lao Gao, we warmly welcome you!"

After all, Wang Mingquan extended his hand to Gao Ming exaggeratedly. Gao Ming didn't shake it. Fortunately, I didn't hold it.If he shook Wang Mingquan's hand at that time, really believed Wang Mingquan's words, and participated in their so-called revolutionary activities, the history of his later life would have been rewritten.Like Ji Boshun, he might be tried harshly in the court of his comrades, and even be shot.Later, he knew the situation of Suto in the Soviet area: some passionate young people who defected to the Soviet area, because they believed in Trotsky or once believed in Trotsky, or even had only one or two contacts with Trotskyists, were killed by their comrades. The death penalty was imposed in the name of the revolution. However, when he came into contact with Wang Mingquan, Gao Ming didn't know the dire consequences, and he didn't really see the reactionary nature of Wang Mingquan.He didn't shake hands with Wang Mingquan, it was instinctively out of party considerations.Gao Ming stubbornly believes that: the party is infallible, and anyone who is expelled from the party must be a bad person; the party is a symbol of revolution, and revolution cannot exist without the leadership of the party. Unconditional loyalty to the party decisively saved Gao Ming at a critical moment in his life, and enabled Gao Ming to avoid a terrible belief trap. However, the final breakup with Wang Mingquan was amicable. Gao Ming remembered that he said to Wang Mingquan: "...forget about our meeting this time! Since the facts prove that we are not comrades, we should go our separate ways!" Wang Mingquan still had a glimmer of hope until he bid farewell to leave: "Old Gao, don't speak so harshly, maybe you will change your views on our opposition comrades, and maybe one day, we will return to the same side of communism." Under the banner, until that time, we are still comrades! We are comrades in arms!" After Wang Mingquan finished speaking, he left, like a passerby in a hurry. When passing by him, he exchanged a few words, and then disappeared forever in the vast crowd of the world.Looking at Wang Mingquan's back, loneliness hit his heart again, and Gao Ming couldn't help feeling a little melancholy. That night, Ling Feng asked him: "How did the talk go?" Gao Ming smiled wryly, and said lightly, "Misunderstanding, a misunderstanding." Ling Feng didn't understand what he meant, and asked persistently, Gao Ming told Ling Feng the difference between the Trotskyists and the Communist Party. Ling Feng fell silent.Later, Ling Feng followed Gao Ming's instructions and never had any contact with Wang Mingquan and others. It's been an unfortunate winter. This winter, their under-month-old daughter, Mao Mao, died of acute pneumonia, with her mother's nipple still in her mouth when she was dying...