Chapter 42 Chapter Eleven

In fact, yesterday is unforgettable.The gunshots at the foot of Huaying Mountain did not finally erase Gao Ming's memory of yesterday—it's not that he didn't want to erase it, but it couldn't be erased.An Zhongliang is dead, but his wife Tang Juan is still alive.Once he accidentally found her name on the list of detained counter-revolutionaries, and immediately asked someone to check the report, and later made comments on the report materials.It's been many years, and now I can't remember exactly what he approved. He has made too many criticisms in the later years, and it's hard for him to remember them even if he has the best brain.Fortunately, I still roughly remember the content. It probably means that although Tang Juan is the wife of An Zhongliang, she has the crime of refusing to report her knowledge and harboring counter-revolutionaries, but she once protected our party comrades and did good things in history. She should be released. Something like that.

After the instruction was made, Tang Juan seemed to let her go, at least later, as if her family had moved away from Qingpu and returned to her hometown in rural Anhui.If Tang Juan survived the subsequent political campaigns and the famine that began in 1959, after the reform and opening up, she would at least have a good old age without worrying about food and clothing?But it is not certain, not to mention political campaigns, three years of "natural disasters" are enough for her, Anhui is the hardest hit area! The memory of yesterday did not stay on Tang Juan alone.For the next few years, Gao Ming stayed in Qingpu, meeting the old scenes every day. William Street is still there, No. 125 is still there, the cathedral is still there, and the traces of yesterday always touch his unforgettable memory. .What's more, apart from Tang Juan, Ji Boshun and Zheng Shaobai who experienced that morning in 1925 are still alive, how could he really forget it?

Gao Ming went to see Ji Boshun in prison, and spent several years with Zheng Shaobai while being deceived.These two people, like An Zhongliang, both fell after leaving that morning.Facing the great victory of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people, Ji Boshun, a political lunatic, still clings to Trotsky's ultra-revolutionary theoretical dogma.Zheng Shaobai betrayed his comrades as early as the 1930s and became a shameless traitor.The morning they had shared was actually lost at the beginning, and the memory of yesterday was full of sadness.This sad feeling is undoubtedly harmful and dangerous. Chairman Mao has long said: "Revolution is a riot, a violent action in which a class overthrows a class." This kind of petty bourgeois tenderness is gone.The past has passed, and a new era has begun. As a veteran communist, he has no reason to indulge in those lost times. to the cause of socialist revolution and socialist construction.

At that time, Gao Ming's old partner Lu Wenxuan had already become the commander of the army, and the military headquarters was stationed in Qingpu City for a while.Lu Wenxuan often brought a few pig's trotters and a pack of pig's ears to drink with Gao Ming, and often said to him proudly: "Old Gao, let go of your old man and do it. I, Lao Lu, will be yours." Bodyguard, I will be your backing again, whoever dares to make trouble for your brother and our people's government, I, Lao Lu, will deal with him with a gun..." Whenever he heard Lu Wenxuan say something like this, Gao Ming always reminded him at the right time: "Old Lu, I am afraid that things will not be so simple! We conquer the world with the barrel of a gun, but we cannot rule the world with the barrel of a gun! Besides, Now that we are in power, counter-revolutionaries who are open to fighting dare not easily jump out to kill and set fire. The open and violent class struggle has been transformed into a secret and complicated ideological line struggle. If you don’t understand this fundamental trend clearly, I’m afraid you It’s not good to be a backup!”

Lu Wenxuan didn't take it seriously, thinking that Gao Ming was worrying too much.This old comrade-in-arms did not expect that in 1957, the rightists would take advantage of the opportunity to speak out and attack the party, let alone the anti-rightist struggle.As a result, not only did Lu Wenxuan fail to be his backer and bodyguard, but he himself got caught in the anti-right movement. Not only was he punished, but he was also demoted a few levels.When he fell into the right-leaning mud pit, Lu Wenxuan had already left the army and became the secretary of the provincial party committee in charge of agriculture.This is all for later.

During the Anti-Rightist movement, Lu Wenxuan performed very well. At that time, he had just changed his job and was not familiar with local work. He often ran around for weeks or months.Once in the Forestry College, I ran into a few rightist students who uttered nonsense at the Mingfang Conference, saying that the Communist Party does not advocate democracy and is too authoritarian.Lu Wenxuan pushed them back on the spot, angrily trying to arrest them.The rightist students rioted because of this, and the pleadings were handed over to the provincial party committee and then to Beijing, telling Lu Wenxuan to suppress Mingfang with the style of a warlord.It goes without saying that Lu Wenxuan was not accused, but those students themselves fell. When the "working class" spoke, these people all put on the label of rightists.

Gao Ming thinks this is not bad.Until the last moment of his life, he insisted that anti-rightism is absolutely necessary, that the rightists do exist, and that the mistakes he made together with the party were only magnified, and only magnified. If it is said that Lu Wenxuan became an anti-Rightist hero inadvertently with simple class feelings at an accidental time and occasion, then Gao Ming came to know the true face of the Rightists in the process of dealing with them every day. Consciously kept consistent with the party.At that time, Gao Ming had already been transferred from Qingpu, and went to the Provincial Party Committee Secretariat to be the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee in charge of propaganda, culture and education.

During the release period, several universities in the provincial capital made a lot of noise, and slogans of democracy and freedom were flying all over the sky, as if China had become the second Hungary.A rightist female student named Zhang Feifei wrote an article entitled "My Political Opinion Paper", distributed it around the campus, and sent a copy to Gao Ming and the leader of the Provincial Party Committee Secretariat.The opinion piece is full of words.From today's perspective, the problem is not so serious. Many viewpoints have merit, but none of them could hold water at the time.He became angry when he saw it, and immediately criticized on the opinion paper: "...These remarks can be said to be programmatic documents of some counter-revolutionaries. Please take a good look at the propaganda department and other relevant red talents. Fight back. In addition, we must find out who this Zhang Feifei is!"

Within three days, Zhang Feifei's background was found out, and the comrades in charge brought Zhang Feifei's files.Gao Ming was shocked when he read the files, and only then did he know that Zhang Feifei is Zhang Xiaohan's daughter.Zhang Feifei himself did not mince words on his resume, and clearly wrote: "...his father Zhang Xiaohan joined the Communist Party of China in his early years, participated in leading the 1925 Qingpu General Alliance strike, and became a traitor during the Anti-Japanese War. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of traitor and died of illness in prison in 1949."

The world is so small, Gao Ming never expected that after many years, he would fight against the daughter of such an old acquaintance in such a harsh political struggle.Gao Ming felt that it was necessary for him to talk to the daughter of this old acquaintance, not to reminisce, but to tell her as a ruler: Fighting the Communist Party will not end well! Zhang Feifei came at the appointment, and greeted him shyly, but he ignored him, gestured for her to sit down, and then said very bluntly: "I have read your political opinion, and to tell you frankly, I The secretary of the provincial party committee of the Communist Party disagrees! You are still children, what politics do you know? What kind of opinions do you talk about? Zhang Feifei, if you admit that this is nonsense, I and our party can forgive you. If you do not admit it, stick to the viewpoint of the submission, I can only think that you are under the influence of Naifu, and you are challenging the Chinese Communist Party and our people!"

Zhang Feifei showed no fear: "Secretary Gao, you are wrong! I have a traitor father, but he is also the daughter of the party! When I was twelve years old, I was on guard for the underground party meeting, and I participated in it under the leadership of my mother, uncle and aunt. The anti-Chiang parade. I was influenced by my mother and those communist uncles and aunts. Today, when I write this opinion, I also think of them. However, even so, I still think that whether it is Neither the Chinese Communist Party nor any other political party can put the interests of one party above the interests of the whole nation!" Zhang Feifei was obviously not fooling around out of ignorance. Her thinking can be said to be systematic. Gao Ming failed to convince her that day, and the subsequent criticism meetings failed to convince her. In the end, she was classified as an extreme rightist and accepted Reeducation through labor.Her mother, the deputy editor of a municipal newspaper, was also labeled a rightist in 1958.According to reports from comrades in the newspaper, this mother complained for her rightist daughter, and privately discussed with her friends: The Communist Party, which controls the state machine, cannot use a large-scale anti-rightist campaign to suppress different voices. Gao Ming publicly stated at the 100,000-person meeting: "...Wrong, anti-rightists are very necessary! The bourgeois rightists take advantage of the opportunity to attack the party, and those who hear it must fight back. Rightists want to resolutely suppress! Things are very clear, if we do not fight back or suppress, it is a crime against the people..." After the party rehabilitated most of the rightists in the country, looking back at the anti-rightist struggle, Gao Ming felt that he had imagined the problem too seriously and said a lot too much.There are rightists, but there are not that many, and they have not formed a force capable of destroying the party and the country. It is completely unreasonable for some people to be classified as rightists.Later, only a few of the hundreds of thousands of rightists remained uncorrected, but the party's documents did not completely negate the anti-rightist struggle, so Gao Ming could not completely negate it.Consistent with the party is his lifelong political principle.