Chapter 94 Rhetoric - Few Liars Rule Many Dumbers

During the period of the Republic of China, Wang Yanan said: "There are only two kinds of people in the autocratic system: one is dumb and the other is liars. I think that in today's China, a few liars rule the majority of dumb people." Zhou Enlai showed great talent in diplomacy.Once, an American reporter asked Zhou Enlai: "Why do you Chinese call the road people walk 'Malu'?" Zhou Enlai replied: "We are taking the road of Marxism, which is called 'Malu' for short." Question: "In the United States, people walk with their heads up, but why do you Chinese walk with your heads down?" Zhou Enlai replied: "Americans walk downhill, of course they have to walk with their heads up, but we Chinese walk downhill. Going uphill, of course you have to keep your head down."

In the early 1960s, when Zhang Yihe and his mother Li Jiansheng were eating western food in a Moscow restaurant, they met Nie Gannu. look at people.Nie got angry, and said to Zhang and Zhang: "What is pampering? Do you still need to look up the dictionary? Their faces are annotations. Anyone who is in charge of food is pampered." While waiting for the food to be served, Li Jiansheng asked Nie work situation.Nie said: "The current work unit is very good." Li asked: "What's the good thing?" Nie replied: "I have been with my lonely family (referring to Pu Yi), you said that this unit (referring to the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on Literature and History) ) not good?"

After the anti-rightist movement, Zhang Bojun chatted with Chu Anping, because "we are all isolated from society, and we have no basic conditions to study China's social and ideological phenomena in depth." He said to Chu: "Now I can only read Lao Du .I have collected more than forty versions of Du Fu's poems. It seems that it makes sense to read less about Li Bai and read more about Du Fu." Then he said: "I have collected many good versions of English poetry anthologies here, including Shakespeare, Bai The English version of Pushkin’s poems is also complete, four volumes, with illustrations. You can take some today, and you don’t have to return them. Poems can be read or translated.” Chu Anping shook his head , Said: "The nobleness and beauty of English poetry lies in the fact that it is often accompanied by a heavy sorrow and a profound intelligence. For example, no one has seen the death of Hamlet's father, but everyone believes in the sorrow of the Danish prince. I was influenced by it when I read it in the past, but now I read it, how can I feel so sad?"

Chen Yinke wrote to Lao Gan and Chen Chen during the War of Resistance: "There are books today, but they cannot be published. It can be said that the country will be destroyed for a period of time, but history will last forever." In the 1960s, senior CCP officials Hu Qiaomu and Tao Zhu visited Chen, Chen talked about the difficulty of publishing his manuscript, and complained: "There is a deadline for the coffin to be built, but there is no day for publication." Hu Qiaomu quickly comforted him: "There is a deadline for publication, but the coffin is still far away."

Lin Zhao was imprisoned, and his classmate Zhang Yuanxun pretended to be his fiancé to visit the prison. Lin Zhao also responded wittily to the prison, and it was done.During the meeting, Lin Zhao revealed: "We still call it 'government' here! When talking to them, you must first shout 'report to the government'; I studied modern Chinese with the linguist Mr. Zhu Dexi at Peking University, but I haven't heard Mr. Zhu say that people It has become a 'government'! Fallacy is a habit here!" Lin didn't care about the "government" present, she said loudly: "How can this group of things be the government? How can I believe that they are the Communist Party?"

Lin Biao hastily "defected", and his plane was spotted by Air Force radar. Air Force Commander Wu Faxian asked Zhou Enlai whether to intercept him, and Zhou asked Mao Zedong for instructions. Mao Zedong said: "It's going to rain, my mother is going to marry, let him go!" In the later period of the "Cultural Revolution", four professors Feng Youlan, Wei Jiangong, Lin Geng, and Zhou Yiliang joined the "Liang Xiao" writing team organized by Jiangqing. See Xigong attendant preaching. Mo Xin criticizes Confucianism and fights against swords, Qiqi Nanzi is a heart-to-heart biography. Second, the poet is blind and blind, and the white head is ashamed of Lu Xun's admonition. A volume of Li Sao enters the sky, and it is translated into a song of rain and bells. Three. , Insinuating and scolding Confucius, slandering books and guarding treacherous schemes, sir, he is familiar with the history of Sui and Tang Dynasties, how has Wu Zhou been recorded in this Ji? It's even more helpless to pull Shinhan in!"

In 1979, when Zhang Zhixin's name appeared in various media including "People's Daily", the whole society was shocked!Countless pairs of kind eyes shed tears facing Zhang Zhixin's beautiful pupils. For a time, the poems written by people with tears were spread across the land of China: "She put the bloody head on the balance of life, and made all the living lose weight." (Han Han: "Weight") "A gun of the dictatorship of the proletariat was aimed at the chest of a female Communist Party member! ... The Chinese conscience, how can it bear this kind of shame and humiliation, the clear rain, when it is not cleansed and clear - ambition replaces conscience, Animal nature has replaced human nature, power has killed the law, and tyranny has strangled freedom..." (Xiong Guangjiong: "Aim the Gun at China's Conscience")

"We have 800 million people, we have 30 million party members, and the seven-foot man is as tall as a pine forest. However, when the storm hits, it is she who rushes forward, straightening her tender shoulders, and shouldering the nation. The pillars of the building!" (Lei Shuyan: "The Grass Is Singing")... On July 24, 1982, Liao Chengzhi wrote a letter to Jiang Jingguo and sent it to the latter in the form of a telegram, in which he talked about Jiang's favorite remarks: "We must expand our filial piety into national feelings, respect and love the nation, and dedicate ourselves to the country. "Greatly praised and said: "The purpose is like this, why not practice the great cause of reunification! As far as the country and the nation are concerned, the two generations of the Jiang family have explained history; as far as my brother is concerned, it can be said that he has both loyalty and filial piety." The rise and fall of the Kuomintang will continue, I hope my brother will think again." "My brother's life is rough, and it is by no means arranged by fate. Everything is up to him, and the merits and crimes of the ages are tied to a single thought.... The years are not living, the days are short, the nights are long and dreams are many, Time is not with me, I hope my brother will make a good choice and plan ahead." Liao also said in the letter: "As I grow older, I feel more nostalgic, and it is convenient for me to be like my brother. I will pack up and go to Taipei to visit and listen to the elders' advice. .'Brothers who survived Jiebo are here, and when we met, we smiled and wiped away our grievances.'Looking at the southern sky, I can't help but yearn for it. The book is endless, and I cherish it dearly, waiting for the answer."

Tang Degang said: "China's modern history is like passing through the Three Gorges. If it takes two hundred years, it will not be in vain. Now it is almost out of the gorge. In about three to forty years, China's modernization development will be on a smooth road." This is his life. The conclusion of governing history: "Three Gorges Theory". Li Ao said: "There are three kinds of myths: first, Pangu opened the world; second, Taiwan's independence; third, Taiwan counterattacked the mainland."