Chapter 36 Ge Peiqi made an "amazing" speech

Just when Lin Xiling, a "big rightist" appeared among the students of Renmin University of China, Ge Peiqi, a "big rightist" appeared among the teachers. Ge Peiqi was originally as unknown as Lin Xiling.He is just a lecturer in the Industrial Economics Department of Renmin University of China. Ge Peiqi became a "big rightist" because he made an impromptu speech on May 24, 1957 at a symposium for non-Party people in the "city" of Renmin University of China. The so-called "inside the city" is because the Renmin University of China was divided into two parts at that time, one part was located on Zhang Zizhong Road in Beijing, and the other part was located in the western suburbs of Beijing.

The so-called "amazing" is because his speech is far more powerful than Zhang Bojun's "Political Design Institute", Luo Longji's "Rehabilitation Committee", and Chu Anping's "Party World". In order to check Ge Peiqi's "amazing" speech, the author has interviewed Ge Peiqi many times since March 1985, and also went to Renmin University of China to check the original materials many times. Ge Peiqi's speech was first seen in Renmin University Weekly (No. 148), the school journal of Renmin University of China on May 27, 1957.

Ge Peiqi never even dreamed that four days later—on May 31, People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, published an excerpt of Ge Peiqi’s speech in the article “Renmin University of China Continuing to Hold Symposium Teachers Raise Questions from Different Perspectives” speak.This is Ge Peiqi's first time appearing on People's Daily. Ge Peiqi's speech immediately attracted the attention of the whole country.It can be said that Ge Peiqi's speech has reached the "highest peak"! I found the full text of Ge Peiqi's speech from the "Renmin University Weekly".

The first sentence of Ge Peiqi's speech made people feel strange: "I have been in the party for a period of time in the past, and I still know something about the affairs of the party." He participated in a "symposium for people outside the party", which shows that he is not a member of the Communist Party of China.However, how did he ever "spent a period of time in the party"?Why did he use the word "mixed"? This historical mystery, after listening to Ge Peiqi's long self-report, the author understood the bitterness in it.This is a later story.

After Ge Peiqi said that puzzling sentence, she said: "Because I usually don't get close to the leader, and I don't care about the matter. So it's hard to mention it properly today. After a few days of exercise, I have developed the idea of ​​being wise and protecting myself. Because when comrades talk together, they are called small broadcasting, What’s more, it’s liberalism. This kind of trend has made people not open-minded. I personally don’t care about schools; but others should also think about it: Why do people have to be like this!” It can be heard that Ge Peiqi said these words with a lot of grievances.

He began to comment on the leaders of Renmin University of China.He said: "The basic contradiction in the school is that the leaders are arrogant and complacent, but they have not completed the tasks assigned by the central government." "The leaders of our school are: powerful but incompetent. I have no experience in running a school, and I don't rely on Chinese experts." "The leadership method is not like a school leader, but like the county government's leadership to the countryside, and everything is an order." His opinions are pretty average.Then, his words slowly became sharper:

Compared with before liberation, the relationship between the party and the masses is far worse today.This is the case with schools, and so is the common people.The common people call the tofu made of bean cakes Japanese mixed noodles.The unification of purchases and sales has gone wrong, so the supply of supplies has been tight, the "anti-revolutionary" campaign has gone wrong, the party has made mistakes, and the leaders should ask for punishment.Pork is in short supply, and ordinary people cannot eat it. Some people say that this is the improvement of living standards.Who are those whose living standards have improved?Party members and cadres who used to wear broken shoes and now wear woolen uniforms in small sleeping cars.To be honest, this is a decline in living standards, and this is a mistake made by the party's policies.Where did the pork go?Eaten up by cadres.

When the Communist Party entered the city in 1949, the common people greeted them by "eating pots of milk" and "welcoming the king's teacher".The common people are always like this. There are many such examples in Chinese history. When the rulers did not gain a dominant position, the common people always welcomed them, but once they gained a dominant position, the people would oppose them.When Japan came, the common people still welcomed the Kuomintang. When the War of Resistance was won in 1945, the common people also welcomed the Kuomintang. Later, when the top officials of the Kuomintang organized "five sons into the imperial examinations", the people opposed them.The situation is different now, and the common people have many opinions on the Communist Party.If the Communist Party is not conscious, it is also very dangerous.

Ge Peiqi went on to say inexplicable words, indicating that he seems to have done "underground work" in the past: In the past, when doing underground work in schools, it was a set of methods such as contacting progress and striving for neutrality. Today, party members are used to lead, so the performance of party members depends on how many reports they report. If they report more, they are good party members.Party members played the role of plainclothes police overseeing the masses.Party members cannot be blamed for this matter, because the party organization calls them intelligence, so the responsibility lies with the party organization, because it is a task given by the organization.

After saying these words, Ge Peiqi became quite excited and finally reached the "highest peak": The Communist Party is half-hearted about me, and I am half-hearted about you.China is a China of 600 million people, including counter-revolutionaries, not a China of the Communist Party.It is good for party members to have the attitude of masters, but you think that "I am the country" is not allowed.You should not exclude others because you are the master. Only party members are reliable, while others are suspicious, especially for non-Party people who like to complain. .If you do it well, you can do it; if you don’t do it well, the masses can overthrow you and kill the Communists.To overthrow you is not patriotic, because the Communists do not serve the people.If the Communist Party is dead, China will not die.Because, without the leadership of the Communist Party, they will not betray the country.

These words of his are obviously out of line, and can be said to be anti-communist remarks.Because of this, "People's Daily" reproduced these words of his.Of course, the purpose of reprinting is to "discuss it all over the country." Then, on June 8, "People's Daily" published "Renmin University of China Teachers Wang Jinding and Others Speech to Clear Lines with Ge Peiqi", reporting on the symposium of non-Party teachers at Renmin University of China on June 5 and 7.At the meeting, Wang Jinding and others criticized Ge Peiqi, but Ge Peiqi "continued to make anti-communist remarks." "People's Daily" reported for the second time Ge Peiqi's "anti-communist remarks" at the symposium outside the party on June 5: Ge Peiqi said that the masses still have concerns about the release of the song, which specifically reflects that the masses do not dare to trust the words of the Communist Party, and the Communist Party should pay special attention to this point.Because, "the people cannot be established without trust." I will repeat it again. The masses want to overthrow the Communist Party and kill the Communists.This is also in line with the law of socialist development, and it is useless to just shout long live. He said, why don't the masses dare to trust the Communist Party?Because the masses have experienced the fickleness of the Communist Party in the past eight years. For example, last year the central government instructed to take care of intellectuals, and the school department sent civil servants to deliver food and water.When the party organization thinks it is useful, it treats those who have killed friends, comrades, and party members as treasures; when it is not in use, it shuts out those who have shed blood and sweat, as cold as ice.Some party members do not recognize their relatives, and even their sons are not close to their fathers. When a son joins the party, he writes to his mother as a comrade.These examples show that it is completely reasonable for the masses not to trust the Communist Party. He also said that in 1949 the masses would not have so many opinions on the Communist Party.If the three evils are not eradicated, the tide will fall, and the one who turns the tide may be the one who eliminates the three evils, and the other may be swept away by the tide and be buried in the belly of a fish. These words of Ge Peiqi are unprecedentedly intense and sharp.Through the "People's Daily" reprint, immediately spread throughout China.Even Taiwanese newspapers highlighted Ge Peiqi's remarks.This is how Ge Peiqi became "famous all over the country" from an unknown university lecturer. Ge Peiqi was rightly criticized nationwide. On July 3, 1957, Shanghai "Wen Wei Po" wrote about Ge Peiqi's attitude at the criticism meeting in a report on Renmin University of China's criticism of Ge Peiqi: "Ge Peiqi still insisted that he was sincerely speaking to the party out of good intentions, and emphasized that some of his speeches were misunderstood by others; some were overly described; some were blurted out emotionally." It should be said that these words of Ge Peiqi are seeking truth from facts.The author interviewed Ge Peiqi more than 20 years later, and he also said the same. Also in this report, according to the "convention" of "digging old roots", Ge Peiqi's "ugly history" was exposed: It turned out that Ge Peiqi had once served as a major general counselor in the first theater of the Kuomintang. After graduating from Peking University in 1937, he went into exile in Luoyang and joined the Communist Party.Because he knew the inside story of the Communist Party and actively opposed the Communist Party and the people, he was very popular with Hu Zongnan, and his career as an official went smoothly.After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as the director of the Northeast News and Communication Department of the Central Propaganda Department of the Kuomintang in the Northeast and the major general leader of the Northeast Security Chief Department and Political Department of the Kuomintang in the Northeast. When he was in Shenyang, he once organized the Shandong Association and served as the chairman himself.At this time, his reactionary words and deeds were more openly displayed.In the name of the Shandong Association, he sent a telegram to his master Chiang Kai-shek, requesting to crusade against the "communist bandits" in Luzhen and to stop the "communist bandits" from other areas from entering Shandong. Please "treacherous bandits" to bring peace to Sangzi.In addition, a telegram was sent to Chairman Mao, the content of which was "stop the redification of Shandong".From here reflects how clear his reactionary stance is.To this day, his class position has not changed. Oh, after reading the report on Ge Peiqi's "ugly history", people understand why Ge Peiqi said those words.This is an old Chinese saying: "A tree has roots, and water has its source." However, history has played a big joke.On January 26, 1993, the "People's Daily" published this report: "Ge Peiqi used to be one of the leaders of the Peking University Student Union during the 'December 9th' anti-Japanese national salvation student movement in 1935. He joined the CCP in 1938 and has long been engaged in the underground work of the CCP in the military and political organs of the Kuomintang. "On January 25, Deng Liqun, Zhu Muzhi, Lu Dong, Yuan Baohua, Han Tianshi, Liu Daosheng, Gu Dachun, Ren Jiyu and others who participated in the '12.9' Movement held a symposium in Beijing to deeply mourn their elders. comrade-in-arms, famous professor Ge Peiqi of Renmin University of China.” "People who participated in the symposium reviewed Ge Peiqi's legendary ups and downs in his life, and highly praised his lofty spirit of being open-minded, enduring humiliation, uprightness, firm belief in the Chinese Communist Party, and unwavering belief in revolution under extremely difficult circumstances." The People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, also reported on Ge Peiqi. The reports in 1957 and 1993 are simply worlds apart! Ge Peiqi told me the reason behind it: "My original name was Ge Panheng. I joined the Communist Party of China in Luoyang in July 1938. In February 1946, I was ordered to enter the Northeast Security Command as the "Major General Inspector" of the Kuomintang. The commander was Du Yuming. I There, I kept giving the top-secret information of the Kuomintang army to my one-line contact, Li Nian, an underground member of the Communist Party of China, and Li Nian sent it to the secret radio station of the Northeast of the Communist Party of China... "Unfortunately, in October 1947, the CCP's underground organization in Northeast China was severely damaged, and Li Nian was arrested. Since then, I have lost my organizational relationship. "After liberation, I reported to the Party committee of Renmin University of China many times that my party membership was never recognized. Because of this, I have great opinions on them. "In 1957, when there was a lot of talk, the party committee of Renmin University of China came to me and asked me to give opinions to the party committee at the "outside the party" teachers' symposium. As soon as I heard the word "outside the party", I became angry. I I thought, I was an old party member in 1938, why did I speak at a symposium "outside the party"? So, from the first sentence of my speech, it can be heard that I had a strong anger at that time Emotions. I said those words in such anger..." No wonder what Ge Peiqi said was so intense. What Ge Peiqi said about the party organization "locking out those who have sweated and blooded, as cold as ice", was talking about himself. It is also "trees have roots, water has sources".Since Ge Peiqi is an "old Bolshevik", how could it be possible to shout "Kill the Communists"? This account of history, after Ge Peiqi's historical problems are completely resolved, will be easily resolved. However, in 1957, after People's Daily reported Ge Peiqi's speech twice, Ge Peiqi's remarks were listed as "extreme rightist speeches" and "anti-communist speeches" as an attempt to launch an "anti-rightist movement" important basis.