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Chapter 31 The flower rush in front of the monument

In mid-October 1973, the capital Beijing, which had just celebrated the National Day, still had a strong festive atmosphere.Tiananmen Square is even more colorful and fragrant.Although the temperature in Beijing is getting lower every day during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and some flowers that are not resistant to cold have begun to wither, thousands of pots of autumn chrysanthemums in different shapes are still not afraid of the frost and cold, competing for splendor. The festive scenes in every corner are decorated with a lingering aftertaste, and the joy is hard to dissipate.On the south side of the solemn and solemn monument, a spacious small square cement road stretches to Zhengyangmen.Various flowers are planted on both sides of the road. At that time, this was the only flower garden in Tiananmen Square. It was about 200 meters long and 5 meters wide.Every spring, various flowers and plants are planted until late autumn, and the plants are cleaned one by one according to the cold resistance and withering degree of different varieties of flowers.Behind these flowers and plants stands tall green pines.From a distance, it seems that the two flower belts and pine belts against each other set off the Monument to the People's Heroes towering into the clouds.Whenever people walk slowly towards the monument from south to north on this road full of flowers and pine trees, a feeling of admiration for the martyrs arises spontaneously.

But on this peaceful heroic road, an ominous flower grabbing incident happened.One afternoon, as in previous years, the flower garden managers began to clean up the non-cold-resistant flowers and plants in the flower gardens on both sides of the road, such as bunch reds, cannas, cockscombs, poinsettia... Most of these flowers need to be scraped off by the roots, and then the flower gardens are leveled. plant.At this time, some people saw that although these flowers had been destroyed by the cold, some of them still had ornamental value if they were placed indoors, so they discussed with the shaving master to take them home and plant them.The garden managers felt that the flowers were useless, so they acquiesced.At this time, it was the rush hour of get off work, and some passing people flocked here when they heard that there were unwanted flowers and grasses. With the sudden increase of the flow of people, the flowers that started with the consent of the management staff turned into disorderly grabbing flowers. .As a result, inside and outside the flower garden, there was a lot of turmoil and chaos. Useless flowers were taken away, and some still useful flowers were also taken away.At that time, Comrade Guan Hua did not strictly stop it. The sentries on duty on the monument and the police officers on duty nearby thought this was a normal phenomenon. They neither stepped forward to stop it nor reported it in time. A flower grabbing incident that seems normal is actually abnormal.Subsequently, the incident was reported to Wu Zhong, the commander of the Beijing Garrison, step by step according to the normal police situation.At that time, Wu Zhong had to briefly report the security work to Premier Zhou every day.When the chief of the garrison heard about the flower snatching incident in front of the monument, he realized that such an abnormal situation in this sensitive area was not trivial, so he immediately informed Premier Zhou by phone.After listening to Wu Zhong's report, Premier Zhou immediately instructed that the disorderly grabbing of flowers happened in front of the monument and was left unattended, which was a major mistake in the security work.This is not a question of how many flowers the masses take, but a new trend and reflection of unrest in Tiananmen Square.The next day, Premier Zhou called the Ministry of Public Security, the Beijing Garrison, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, and an army to hold an emergency meeting in the Great Hall of the People.At the meeting, Premier Zhou said to everyone with great earnestness and earnestness about the matter of grabbing flowers in front of the monument: the moon halo makes the wind, and the sun halo makes it rain.Then he said: At present our country is very stable, what depends on it is Chairman Mao's prestige in the hearts of the people.If we turn a blind eye to such unrest in front of Tiananmen Square, how can the country last long?All the security officials present here were very moved and felt guilty when they saw that Premier Zhou cared so much about the safety of the Tiananmen area.Cooperate closely and do a good job in safety and security work.Immediately after the meeting, the Beijing Garrison District held an on-site meeting in front of the monument. The leaders of the Beijing Garrison District, officers at all levels of a certain security division, and representatives of security soldiers stationed in Tiananmen Square participated in the on-site meeting.After conveying the important instructions of the Prime Minister and the main spirit of the meeting in the Great Hall, the leaders of the garrison, the division and the regiment respectively talked about their opinions on implementing the instructions of the Prime Minister and strengthening the security work, and called on all departments to learn from the flower grabbing incident and find out the security work. problems in .And announced on the spot the decision to punish a sentry who was on duty in front of the monument but failed to report in time.After the on-site meeting, the troops affiliated to the garrison generally quickly communicated and implemented the Prime Minister's instructions and the spirit of the meeting.This aroused the shock and repercussions of all security officers and soldiers, and everyone generally found loopholes in security work based on the actual situation of the sentry post.In response to the lack of communication equipment around the Monument to the People's Heroes, which made it difficult for sentries to report back to the police in a timely manner, the leaders of the army installed a telephone on the west side of the monument to eliminate various hidden dangers.

Looking back today, although the flower-robbing incident had no political background and did not pose a major hidden danger, it happened in Tiananmen Square in the era when class struggle was the key link, which must have aroused Premier Zhou's concern.The tone of the handling of this matter is not to pursue the flower snatchers, but to focus on strengthening the responsibility education for all security workers, so as to ensure the safety of the Tiananmen area and the entire Beijing city.From this incident, I personally felt that Premier Zhou was very principled and strategic in dealing with problems.

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