Chapter 28 In the first quarter, Mei Yiqi broke through the cracks

On the night when Fu Sinian sent the telegram, Mei Yiqi arrived in Kunming, which surprised Fu, who was struggling to break through in the cracks, and let out a long sigh of relief. On December 2, Mei Yiqi, who was handling the demobilization of Tsinghua University in Beiping, received a telegram to urge her to return. Due to the entanglement of affairs, she was able to fly back to Chongqing until the 11th and stayed in the guest house of the Academia Sinica in Shangqing Temple.At that time, Li Ji, Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin and others all came to Chongqing from Lizhuang, Sichuan.Li Ji was handling official business, and Liang accompanied Lin to the Chongqing Central Hospital for medical treatment. In this eventful autumn, the meeting of several mentors and friends was quite emotional.Mei found that "Huiyin is very thin, but still full of energy". (Note to the South: At this time, it was also rumored that Lin died of lung disease and died in a small hotel in Chongqing. The writer Li Jianwu even wrote a special eulogy.) After settling down, Mei Yiqi rushed to the Ministry of Education to report to Zhu Jiahua on the affairs of Peiping and obeyed his orders. Zhu described the situation in Kunming and asked him to go to Kunming to deal with it as soon as possible.In the evening, Zhu Jiahua hosted a banquet to welcome Mei Yiqi, accompanied by colleagues from the Academia Sinica Sa Bendong, Li Ji, and Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin from the Construction Society. During the meeting, they talked about the Kunming student movement again. The idea of ​​disbanding the Southwest Associated University and the various schools of Yunnan University came up, so "it seemed very nervous."Seeing this situation, Mei Yiqi used Jiu Jin to promise Zhu in person that she would go to Kunming tomorrow and try to resume classes by the weekend. If "classes cannot be resumed safely this weekend, I would rather ask to suspend the school than to be dismissed by the government."The United Nations University was originally planning to disband and demobilize, but according to the original plan, it will be in the spring and summer of next year. Now that the government is forcibly disbanding to quell the student riots, it is simply proposed by the school. And made the wrong policy.

On the morning of the 12th, Mei met with Zhu Jiahua again and said goodbye. Since there was no passenger plane to Kunming that day, she had to take a cargo plane to arrive in Kunming at 8:00 p.m. that day.Mei got off the plane and didn't care to go home, so she hurriedly "take the company car to Caisheng Lane, meet with Meng Zhen, Jinfu, Meisun, and Lian Cheng, have a bowl of noodle soup for dinner, eat and talk, and know the details of the past half a month Returning to the apartment after twelve o'clock, the family members woke up and opened the door, briefly talked about the situation in Beiping, and fell asleep at half past one."Mei's few words in the diary vividly outline the tense and busy situation of the day.

On December 13, without knowing that Mei Yiqi had arrived at the school, Lu Han wrote to Fu Sinian and Yunnan University President Xiong Qinglai, stating in strong terms: "Please restrain the students of your school and stop all off-campus activities starting tomorrow. Otherwise, this responsibility should be borne by the school.” On the morning of the same day, Mei Yiqi successively met with Ye Qisun, Qian Duansheng, Feng Youlan, Fu Sinian, Zhu Jingnong and others for talks. After Zhu entered the door, he said that he had just returned from Lu Han's place. Chiang) is ready to act".After hearing this, May made no comment.After the talk, I went to Yunda Hospital to visit the injured students, and then visited Lu Han and Huo Kuizhang, the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the Kunming police, and other military and political officials to learn more about the situation.

Very different from Mei Yiqi's calmness and composure, after Fu Sinian received Lu Han's strongly worded letter and Zhu Jingnong's report, he became anxious again, and his temper appeared extremely irritable.From mourning the misfortune of the students, it turned into anger and indifference, and with anger and resentment for the "strike union", he wrote in a telegram to Zhu Jiahua: "They are just delaying the date with four coffins, and they seem to be waiting for something. The authorities of the two universities have made it clear that all classes must be held on the 17th. Yuehan came to the meeting and thought that we should actively exercise our powers in the future. If we can’t (still) do it in the near future, we (i.e.) request to disband.”

Having made up their minds, Fu and Mei joined forces to start a flanking operation against the teachers and students who advocated continuing the strike.Because of the secret message from Chongqing, the 15th was the deadline, so the two urgently convened the Standing Committee of the UN General Assembly on the 14th, and decided to postpone the deadline for class resumption to the 17th.This date was chosen because the 15th coincides with the weekend, and only on the 17th of Monday can we see whether classes will resume.This move did not conflict with Chiang Kai-shek's request, but also extended the time for the school to negotiate. At the same time, this time happened to be the day when Marshall, the special envoy of the US President, arrived in China.If the student movement ends here, it will be a gift that is not a gift to Special Envoy Matt, and it will also add luster to the image of the National Government.

With this plan in place, Fu Sinian mustered up his confidence again, and after repeated thinking, he and Mei conducted a sand table deduction and jointly formulated a set of offensive and defensive tactics.In the first step, the authorities of the United Nations University and Yunda University came forward to announce the deadline for the resumption of classes; the second step, if the students violated the order and did not comply, Fu and Mei would announce their resignations and force the professors to come to the fore; the third step , the professors will all come forward to do student work, if it fails, they will all resign to put pressure on the students; the fourth step, if the students do not listen, they can take the measure of "self-disbandment", come to a tree and the monkeys will disperse and go their separate ways Things, simply and neatly solve the problem completely.

Just when Fu, Mei and others were in a hurry to convene the Standing Committee, Lu Han and Huo Kuizhang jointly sent a confidential telegram to Chiang Kai-shek on the morning of the 14th, saying: "We have done our best to deal with the Kunming student movement at the same level as Deputy Chief Zhu and President Fu." , the period was closed early, and classes continued as usual. After the situation, the staff Han Yihaiyuan (December 13th) secretly reported the details. Yesterday, the Hanhan University and the United University were responsible for the students to stop all off-campus activities. activities, and limit the principal to resume classes on the 17th, if it is invalid, we will follow Jun’s instructions as the final disposition, and we are on standby immediately.”

At 5 p.m. on the 14th, Mei Yiqi invited Wen Yiduo to have a talk, hoping to find out from the side the reaction of the "Union Strike" and the CCP's underground organizations.After the conversation between the two, Mei was quite disappointed with Wen's words and deeds. She wrote in her diary that night: "One is more than one, but one is an ideal revolutionist. His views and remarks can be incited, but they may not be practical. It is inevitable that they will be used by conspirators." On the morning of the 15th, Tang Zong, an aide in Chiang Kai-shek's attendant office, was ordered to call Mei Yiqi in Kunming to inquire about the situation of the student unrest.After receiving the call, Mei did not dare to be negligent, and quickly called the student representatives of the Standing Committee to talk with the Tsinghua office. First, Mei explained the reason why the school stipulated that classes should be held on the 17th, and the serious consequences of not attending classes by then.After Fu Sinian, Feng Youlan, Pan Guangdan, Chen Xujing, Zhou Binglin and other well-known professors spoke, they emphasized that students should not only take into account the justice of the students who died, but also the reason for the future of the school.After the meeting, Zhu Jingnong, the Deputy Minister of Education who couldn't bear the pain of back and forth, left Kunming and returned to Chongqing to report.

Zhu Jiahua sent a telegram to Fu Sinian on the same day (15th) after listening to Zhu Jingnong's report, saying, "Li Shi according to my brother's opinion. , It has long been no problem, the chairman seems to be well aware of this incident, and also knows that he mishandled his words and deeds inappropriately, only because the truth could not be fully revealed at that time."But dealing with the matter of Li Zonghuang "it seems impossible to take any action before resuming classes."At the same time, he emphasized that this "is also a reason of reason", as long as "classes can be resumed on schedule, the problems will be resolved smoothly afterwards, because other important parties also hold the same view, and they all advocate that Li Ying must go in the future."Also, "This matter has been discussed with Brother Yuehan, and observation in the next day proves that there is no difficulty for Li to go a little slower. Brother can suggest this to the professor to relieve his anger."

However, Zhu Jiahua's opinion can only be his own judgment made by scratching his clothes and guessing like a blind man. There is still a shriveled but still fresh belly between Chiang Kai-shek's inner thoughts. The so-called human heart is separated by a belly. It is also.In the political struggle, after all, Jiang stood taller, saw farther, and had a broader vision than Zhu and Fu.He clearly and clearly realized that no matter now or in the future, whenever and wherever, the Communist Party is his real confidant.Back then, before the "September 18th" Shenyang Incident broke out, on August 22, 1931, Chiang Kai-shek delivered a speech in Nanchang, saying: "If China is destroyed by imperialism, we can still be slaves to the country and survive; The Communist Party, even if you are willing to be a slave, you can’t get it.” Chiang’s basic position in dealing with all domestic disputes has always been based on whether it hinders his ruling authority.When the Kunming student movement broke out, he concluded that it must have been caused by the conspiracy of the Communist Party. Therefore, in dealing with the Li Zonghuang issue, in addition to his personal friendship and original promises, he also had a secret complex that was inconvenient to show to outsiders, that is, the Communist Party must not be allowed to take advantage of it. .

Therefore, on the afternoon of December 15, Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to Zhu Jiahua, claiming that "the situation of this Kunming student movement is complicated" and ordered Southwest Associated University and Yunnan University to "seek to find out and report the mastermind and leading elements as soon as possible."Zhu Jiahua, who has been in the KMT center for many years, naturally understood the weight of this telegram, so he immediately forwarded the telegram to Southwest Associated University and Yunnan University. Molecules, I heard that among the professors of various schools, those with fierce attitudes are professors Wen Yiduo, Pan Guangdan, and Wu Han of the United University, and professors of Yunda University Pan Dakui, Shang Jianan, and Chu Tunan. In addition to submitting the report as soon as it is found out, I would like to report by telegram first." During the frequent transmission of secret telegrams between Chongqing and Kunming, Mao Zedong, who was far away in the cave dwellings in Yan’an, drafted an inner-party instruction for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on December 15. On the one hand, we adhere to the stand of self-defense in the liberated areas, resolutely oppose the Kuomintang’s attack, and consolidate the fruits already gained by the people in the liberated areas; The vast number of allies, expand the national democratic united front under the influence of our party." Since then, the Southern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has strengthened contact and guidance with the underground organizers and leaders of the Kunming Student Movement. On the same day that Mao Zedong’s article was published, U.S. President Truman issued a statement on China policy, expressing his support for “convening a national meeting of representatives of the major political parties in the country to seek an early resolution of the current civil dispute—to promote the unification of China.”But the statement said: "The existence of an autonomous army, such as the Communist army, is inconsistent with China's political unity, and in fact prevents political unity from being realized." This shows that the purpose of the US policy toward China is to help the Chiang Kai-shek Kuomintang CCP's armed forces. On December 16, Marshall, the special envoy of the US President, arrived in China to "mediate" the civil war.On the same day, Zhou Enlai led the CCP delegation Wu Yuzhang, Ye Jianying and others to Chongqing to attend the upcoming National Political Consultative Conference.Still on this day, after the Southwest United Student Self-Government Association held a congress to discuss, it rejected the request to resume classes, and sent Mei Yiqi a written reply: "According to the resolution of the congress, classes cannot be resumed until the conditions are satisfactorily resolved."—— After making a big circle, things still fell to the original starting point. Seeing this situation, Mei, Fu and others decided to implement countermeasures, and ordered people to post a notice at Southwest Associated University, expressing in a strong manner that all teachers and students will resume classes on the 17th.80 professors from Yunnan University jointly issued a "Message to All Students" to advise students to resume classes.Wen Yiduo and other alternative professors felt that the indefinite strike might force Chiang Kai-shek to take "final measures." The professors were also worried about the dissolution of the UNGA by the authorities, and they were quite distressed, so they had the idea of ​​making concessions.At this time, the Yunnan Provincial Underground Working Committee of the Communist Party of China, after deliberation and research, believed that "strikes must be stopped in moderation. The conditions for class resumption should be revised. Except for the punishment of murderers, the professors of the United University will file a public prosecution. If other conditions are resolved, the method of suspending students and resuming classes can be adopted. in order to consolidate victory, accumulate strength, and strive for complete victory." According to Yuan Yongxi, Secretary of the Underground General Branch of the Communist Party of China: "I saw Mr. Wen after the meeting, and he asked: 'What are you going to do next?' He also said: 'Don't delay the strike for too long. When I spoke at the meeting, most people supported it, but now we have become a minority at the meeting.” He also said: “Professors want to resume classes earlier in consideration of the interests of the school.” I saw this attitude of Mr. He. Mr. Wen was very happy to hear that, and said: 'That's good, that's good! I'll go tell Mr. Mei right away, he is my teacher.'” That night, Wen Yiduo had a meeting with Mei Yiqi, and Mei recorded in his diary that day: "At nine o'clock after dinner, Guang Dan came with Yiduo, and Yiduo told the students that there might be a turning point. Meng Zhen."