Chapter 65 Qiu Cong and Wei Lihuang's Yan'an Complex

The extraordinary performance of Yan'an also attracted many people from the Kuomintang to visit.During the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang personnel who visited Yan'an included: Wei Lihuang, the deputy commander of the Kuomintang Second War Zone, Liang Shuming, a member of the National Political Council, Liu Zhongrong, the representative of Li and Bai in Guangxi, He Jifeng, the teacher of the Kuomintang, Qiu Cong, an intellectual, and the Kuomintang administrative work inspection team, etc. . For these Kuomintang people who came to Yan'an, no matter what their purpose or intention was, the Yan'an side gave them a warm reception and listened carefully to their opinions.After personally experiencing Yan'an, they either changed their views on the Communist Party, or formed a deep relationship with Yan'an.

Qiu Cong, the son of Qiu Fengjia, a famous anti-Japanese hero in Taiwan, is an honest and upright intellectual. Although he can't see clearly the essence of Chiang Kai-shek, he is dissatisfied with his traitorous policy of "to fight against the outside world first, to secure the inside" and has a strong patriotic enthusiasm. . In 1938, he visited Yan'an as a professor of the Department of Geology, School of Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou.During the more than two months of living in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, he conducted serious investigations from the aspects of politics, economy, army building, culture and education, production planning, and administrative leadership. He felt that Yan'an and the Kuomintang-controlled area had two different atmospheres. .

In the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, what you see are slogans and posters that despise the Japanese devils, and what you hear are exciting anti-Japanese songs, which make you feel confident and powerful; Sad and depressing books and periodicals, hearing fearful discussions about how powerful the Japanese invaders are, makes people feel discouraged. In Yan'an, from top to bottom, all agencies and departments are extremely efficient. The superiors have no bureaucratic airs, and they never shirk each other's official duties, which is completely different from the decadent yamen style of the Kuomintang.

The leaders of Yan'an are easy-going, clean, simple, and democratic. The masses love them and like to be close to them, while the leaders of Chongqing give people the feeling of being respectful and far away. After returning, he wrote a long letter to Mao Zedong, in which he sincerely proposed nine aspects: fundamental strategy, united front, education, culture, military affairs, political work against the enemy, inspection travel, hospitality for foreigners, and production and construction. Criticism and suggestions.Mao Zedong read the letter very carefully, and made a lot of circles and sketches on the side, and even corrected typos one by one.

In just two months, Yan'an left a good impression on him, and he developed deep feelings for Yan'an. He once wrote a poem expressing his endless longing for Yan'an. Farewell!Yan'an! Yan'an!Yan'an! How many thousand years are your years? Yan'an water flows in front of the pagoda! The millet cave is still there. But the spirit has changed now, he is purely innocent, loyal and courageous young man. I have been with you for two months, know your devotion to save the world, know your firm heart to resist Japan, and turned my fatigue of more than ten years into smoke.

There are water plants in the desert, and bright lights in the dark room. what!Yan'an!I want to say goodbye to you today, how can I not make me look back three times at one step, and linger three times at one glance! It's just that the planes and cannons of the devils have bombarded all four sides of the country, and the raping, looting and burning of the devils have deprived the nation of its authority. If you don't go south to take up heavy responsibilities, how can you count as exhausting your instincts in life? How can you be worthy of my good friend? Farewell!Yan'an!

After sweeping away the fishy smell, the territory was restored. Then we went to Huangling, we shook hands and talked lingeringly. Before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Wei Lihuang was a famous anti-communist general of the Kuomintang.After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Second Theater and the commander-in-chief of the former enemy in the World War II zone, he had a lot of contact with the Communist Party.Objectively speaking, he is quite active in dealing with the resistance against Japan.The Communist Party won a series of victories in the Pingxingguan Great Victory, which made him re-understand the Communist Party, and he had the idea of ​​visiting Yan'an.

On April 17, 1938, General Wei and his entourage arrived in Yan'an, and were grandly welcomed by troops, government agencies, schools and people from all walks of life.Various cheers came from the crowd from time to time: "Welcome, Deputy Commander-in-Chief!" "The KMT and the Communist Party are more closely united!" "The deputy commander of the guards has made great achievements in the front line of resistance!" "Down with Japanese imperialism!" "Long live the victory of the Anti-Japanese National United Front!" Although General Wei is a high-ranking official of the Kuomintang, he has seen many big scenes and various welcome ceremonies, but this kind of sincere, warm and grand scene still deeply moved him and his entourage.

After General Wei arrived in Yan'an, Yan'an arranged the best accommodation for him and prepared the most sumptuous meals in Yan'an.Mao Zedong, the leader of the Communist Party of China, had a long talk with him and was very enamored.He very sincerely praised the people's organizations in the border areas as models for the whole country, and good examples in the border areas should be carried forward. Due to the sincere welcome of our party, General Wei planned to stay one more day to visit the Anti-Japanese University and other places.When General Wei saw that the students of the Anti-Japanese University, whether they were intellectuals, workers and peasants, or "young masters" and "misses" who came from landlords and bourgeois families, were all sharing weal and woe, struggling and sacrificing; When the officers and soldiers are united, the army and the people are united, and the comrade-like relationship of equality, mutual assistance, and unity... General Wei feels fresh and admired.

Infected by this atmosphere, General Wei gave an impromptu speech at the Anti-Japanese University.With simple and sincere language, and his personal combat experience in Shanxi, he explained that only by working closely with the Eighth Route Army can the Japanese invaders be defeated.Finally he said: "In the future, I will continue to cooperate closely with the Eighth Route Army, learn from the Eighth Route Army, and work with the Eighth Route Army to persevere in the War of Resistance in North China, and never retreat across the Yellow River. I oppose compromise and surrender, oppose panic, retreat and escape, and regain all lost ground!"

As the saying goes: "Seeing is better than hearing a hundred times." General Wei arrived in Yan'an, talked with Mao Zedong and other CCP leaders, and after seeing the actual situation in Yan'an, a major change occurred in his thinking and he began to approach the Communist Party. After the trip to Yan'an, General Wei had many unusual performances. In Xi'an, in the name of the deputy commander-in-chief of the Second Theater, he wholesaled military supplies such as millions of rounds of bullets and grenades to the 18th Army, giving our party and our army strong support. The Kuomintang launched three anti-communist upsurges, and General Wei responded passively and refused.For example, when Chiang Kai-shek launched the first anti-communist upsurge, he ordered Wei Lihuang to attack the Taihang Mountain anti-Japanese base area. He bluffed and pretended to attack, but actually did not hurt a single soldier of the Eighth Route Army. After Chiang Kai-shek launched a full-scale civil war, Wei Lihuang traveled abroad to Europe and America in 1946. In 1947, Chiang Kai-shek ordered him to return to China to serve as the commander-in-chief of the "General Suppression" in Northeast China.He didn't know what to do, so he discussed with the Central Committee of our party through the Soviet embassy in France. After the founding of New China in 1949, Wei Lihuang sent a warm congratulatory message from Hong Kong to Beijing despite the surveillance of the KMT secret agents: Chairman Mao in Beijing: Under the wise leadership of Mr. Li, the people's revolution won a brilliant victory; since then, the whole Chinese people have gained a great leader, and the new China is expected to be prosperous and strong. The whole world is cheered and encouraged, and wholeheartedly supports.Huang's yearning is heartfelt and he is overjoyed.Congratulations.Vice Chairman Zhu and Premier Zhou please apply for congratulations on your behalf. In March 1955, under the careful arrangement of our party, he returned to the motherland.