Chapter 26 Chapter Twenty Six

After eating dumplings on New Year's Eve, Huai Bao was chatting with his mother, sister and wife about homework, when Liao Laoqi, who had been taciturn all night, suddenly coughed and said, "Bao'er, come out with me to do something small."What's the matter?Huaibao was a little surprised.But Lao Qi stopped talking, put down the earmuffs on the cotton cap, and went straight out.Huai Bao followed him into the courtyard in doubt, and asked again: "What's the matter with Daddy?"Liao Laoqi replied slowly: "Go and see someone."who?Huaibao asked again, but the old man had already left the yard.

Large snowflakes are still falling, and the traces that people stepped on the snow during the day are gradually being buried by the new snow; the street is empty and deserted, and there are occasional crackling firecrackers.Huaibao followed behind his father, walking without knowing why, he knew his temper, he didn't want to tell you that it would be useless to ask you a hundred times, Liao Laoqi was walking hard on the snow in front, and several times his feet slipped It was slippery and almost fell, but thanks to Huai Bao's quick hands, he hurried forward to hold him.When he reached the north entrance of the street, Liao Laoqi stood up and said: The person I brought you to meet is a rightist!

Rightist?Huaibao was startled, remembering that he was the county magistrate, why should I go meet a rightist? He is a man of great learning. He used to teach at Peking University, and he came back to this small place only after being beaten by the rightists.Liao Laoqi twirled his beard. A few days ago when he was chatting with me, he said something about the overall situation of the country, and he was so far away from his career.I think Zhu Xi's method of "investigating things to reason" is too fragmented, just, I want you to listen! Let me listen to a rightist talk about the overall situation?Huaibao was a little angry.

What's wrong?In the snowy light, Liao Laoqi's eyes could be seen staring. As a county magistrate, you understand everything at once?In history, some prime ministers also visited some capable people privately in micro-services, and listened to their discussions on state affairs.You are an official, don't even understand this? Okay, okay, go see him, what's his name?Huaibao didn't want to argue with his father again in the snow. Shen Jian.Over forty years old, you don't know.Liao Laoqi started to move again, and told him as he walked: This man has a strange temper, and the woman is divorced, when you meet him, you have to put down your airs and follow him!

Huaibao stopped talking, and followed his father unhappily to the two independent thatched cottages far away from the town street.After knocking on the door, what appeared in front of him was a thin face with torn clothes!A man in his fifties who is clean and sunny.Mr. Shen, this is my son Huaibao who came to ask you for advice.Liao Laoqi bowed his waist and said.The elegant temperament on Shen Jian's body and the pair of deep pupils behind the glasses made Huaibao uncontrollably put a lot of airs on the county magistrate.He nodded politely, and noticed that there was no one else in the hut, only pots and pans, a single wooden bed and other very simple supplies, and stacks of books and newspapers piled on top of cigarette boxes, and stacks of books and newspapers on the small wooden table beside the bed. The most important are two thick books in foreign languages.Don't dare to ask for advice.But I feel very honored that the county magistrate can come and sit in my thatched hut. Please sit down.That Shen Jian gave way neither humble nor overbearing.

Mr. Shen, I think what you said to me the day before yesterday is very reasonable, and I really want my son to listen to it, but I can't learn to say it, so I will trouble you to repeat it, okay?Liao Laoqi humbly asked. We were just chatting that day, so there was no reason to talk about it. Uncle Liao was serious.Shen Jian shook his head. Liao Laoqi winked at his son, and Huaibao said: I am here to ask for advice today, Mr. Shen, please don't be polite. Shen Jian glanced at Huai Bao, and Huai Bao immediately felt the sharpness and power of that gaze, as if the gaze had penetrated his body.I am a rightist. If you, a county magistrate, come to ask me for advice and let your superiors know, you are not afraid to take your black hat?

Huaibao twitched, and these words pressed his sore spot.But at this time, he already felt that the surname Shen was different from ordinary people. Maybe he could really say something very insightful, so it's good to listen to it.So he hurriedly concealed his uneasiness, and said with a smile: Tonight, we both put aside our identities for the time being. I am not the county magistrate, and you are not a rightist. We are just chatting as two street neighbors! Neighbors chatting, good, good!That being the case, let's talk nonsense.However, old man Liao, please come back.I don’t want my words to be heard by two people at the same time even though it’s a small talk. I’m not afraid of one person exposing me, but I’m afraid that two people will testify to my death. It will be troublesome for you father and son to prove that I speak nonsense in the future!Please don't be afraid.After saying that, Shen Jian laughed out loud.

Mr. Shen was joking!Liao Laoqi also said with a smile, but he still opened the door and walked out. Huaibao, you are an official in the political world, how do you feel about the political climate recently?Shen Jian adjusted his glasses. Feel?Huaibao couldn't say it for a while, except for feeling "busy", he really didn't think of anything more. Do you have the feeling that something is going to happen?Shen Jian narrowed his eyes. Huai Bao shook his head, he didn't pretend, he really didn't feel this way. That's all, since that's the case, let's not start here, let's start with Mao Zedong, okay?After noticing the change in Huaibao's expression, Shen Jian smiled, it doesn't matter, no one will prove that we have talked about him!

Huaibao neither nodded nor opened his mouth, just put on a posture of listening. Although he labeled me a rightist, I still think he is an extraordinary person. He is familiar with Chinese history and culture, and deeply understands the internal structure and operating rules of this society; he has outstanding organizational skills and control skills, and is good at handling things. , mobilize the complex contradictions within the power system; he has an idealistic spirit that ordinary party doers do not possess. cultural tradition.The combination of his natural poetic temperament and acquired extensive knowledge formed his unique ideal full of personality.Modern China needs such a person!Shocking national humiliation, intensified social turmoil, profound crisis of national culture, and corruption of social morality... When Yuan Shikai, Zhang Xun and other authoritative figures proved unable to save all this, he naturally came up from the bottom of society up!

After he mastered this huge China, he put his social ideals into practice with full confidence.At the same time, like all the people who gained the power to rule the country in the history of China and foreign countries, he always had three kinds of worries: the first is that the old ruling forces he led to overthrow will wait for an opportunity to resist and destroy; the second is that the intellectuals He made irresponsible remarks on his social ideals and practices, and he knew that intellectuals always have some different political opinions, and they always have opinions on this and that. Their characteristics can be used when they seize power, and they can be used when they consolidate power. We must be alert to its distracting effect; the third is to worry about our comrades.Companions and subordinates who are dissatisfied, do not understand or even oppose their own governance, and even want to usurp power...

Huai Bao listened in a daze, he didn't know where Shen Jian's conversation would end up. In order to relieve the first kind of worry, he organized counter-revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries, which basically solved the problems in this area; The Society of Molecules kept silent; as for the third concern, no more concrete measures were taken for the time being, as there was no other basis other than the incidents of Gao Gang and Rao Lanshi.At the same time, his ideal of transforming society began to be put into practice. He mainly did two major things: one was the socialist transformation of the ownership of the means of production; the other was the implementation of the general line, the Great Leap Forward, and the people's communes.The latter was a total failure.You are a participant in these two things, and you know it without me telling you. Huaibao replied with a fleeting smile, neither nodding nor speaking. His weight in economic work began to decrease, and he retreated to the second line with deep unease, letting Liu Shaoqi take charge of the daily work of the country. At that time, the last two of the three worries he had when he took power began to become more serious. He was familiar with Chinese political theory and Chinese history, and he was particularly sensitive to the political threat of falling from power. He felt a sense of crisis.Khrushchev's denial of Stalin's reports and practices aggravated his sense of crisis! His heightened sense of crisis is manifested. I wonder if you have noticed. He has begun to take problems in the ideological field and intellectuals very seriously.In December 1963 and June 1964, he issued two instructions on literature and art, arguing that many departments in the literary and art world are still ruled by "dead men" and have fallen to the brink of revisionism... There are more and more speeches and documents on the subject. He estimated that revisionism had emerged in the Central Committee. In 1962, he talked about the issue of anti-revisionism within the party at the Tenth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee; He also said: Pass it on, pass it on to the county, what if Khrushchev gets out?What if China has a revisionist central government?I guess you already know this, but I still heard it from a letter from a friend of mine. His words will never be put there just to talk, no, he will definitely take action, I don’t know the style and scale of this action, and it’s hard to predict, but there is one thing I can tell you, that is This action will not be small!That's why I asked you just now if you have the feeling that something is going to happen. Huai Bao looked at the other party in shock, he was startled by the other party's prophecy. That's what I'd like to say to you tonight!But at the same time I'm telling you, I didn't say anything tonight, understand?Shen Jian looked at him slyly...