Chapter 32 Section 9

In February, Wu Gengmei, Yang Meizhen and others went north. On February 27, Chen Shutong, Ma Yinchu, Bao Da three father and daughter, Zhang Jiongboli's mute couple, Ye Shengtao couple, Zhang Zhirang, Shen Tilan, Wu Quanheng and their second son, Zheng Zhenduo father and daughter.Twenty-seven people including Song Yunbin, Fu Binran, Cao Yu, Deng Yuzhi, Wang Yunsheng, Xu Zhucheng, Zhao Chaogou and Liu Zunqi went north. In March, He Xiangning took her daughter Liao Mengxing and grandson Liao Hui, accompanied by Ye Wenjin, to the north on the Greek ship "Atlantic". On March 14, Huang Yanpei and his wife, Yao Weijun, Sheng Pihua, Sheng Kangnian, Yu Chenghuan, etc., accompanied by Liu Shu, secretly boarded a ship from Hong Kong, arrived in Tianjin on the 21st, and rushed to Peiping on the 25th. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China moved to Peiping.

Since then, the flow of people going north is still surging. On March 20, Li Da, Wang Yanan, Guo Dali, Zeng Zhaolun and his wife, Yan Jici, Huang Dingchen, Liu Wang Liming, Shi Dongshan, Bai Yang, Shu Xiuwen, Jiang Chunfang, Zhang Ruifang, Yu Liqun, Zang Kejia, Shen Qizhen, Zhu Zhixian, Zhang Wenyuan, Chen You Dong, Fu Tianchou, Lin Dunru, Xue Dichang, some teachers and students of Dade College and overseas Chinese, accompanied by Feng Naichao, Di Chaobai, Zhou Erfu, Yang Hansheng, Huang Yaomian, Hu Yisheng, etc., a total of more than 200 people go north. In March, Sa Kongle, Jin Zhonghua, Ouyang Yuqian, Ma Sicong and others went north.

On April 3, Master Juzan and Lu Jiyi went north. In May, Qian Changzhao, head of the Resources Committee of the Nationalist Government, returned to Hong Kong from the United Kingdom, preparing to transfer to Europe.Zhou Enlai arranged for Pan Hannian to invite Qian Changzhao to participate in the new CPPCC.Xia Yan and Qian Changzhao met in secret and talked frankly. Qian Changzhao was determined to go northward and went northward to Tianjin on the "Taigu" ship. In May, Tan Kah Kee, Zhuang Mingli and Zhang Shuming took the "Carthage" to Hong Kong from Singapore, then transferred to the "Zhensheng" ship to go north, and arrived in Tianjin on June 3.

In August, 83-year-old Situ Meitang, chairman of the American Zhigong Party, arrived in Hong Kong from the United States by plane.The Hong Kong Working Committee made careful arrangements and sent his relative Situ Binghe to escort the old man and Huang Qixiang's family to the north by boat and arrived in Tianjin on September 3.In the same month, Ye Duyi, Liu Simu, Hu Ziang, Zeng Zhaosen and others went north by boat. On July 23, 1949, Guo Moruo and more than 30 people, accompanied by Lian Lian and Hu Sheng, went northward.Generally referred to as the fourth batch. According to incomplete statistics, from August 1948 to September 1949, the Hong Kong Branch Bureau and the Hong Kong Working Committee organized more than 20 groups of more than 350 democrats to go northward, including more than 1,000 party cadres. , everyone arrived safely.

In mid-September, representatives of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from all over the country arrived in Beiping one after another, and celebrities in Beiping gathered for a while.Only Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Renfeng were left holding on to the assassination list bitterly, watching the "people" sigh.