Chapter 53 "Rightists" call Lu Yuwen a "clown" and "villain"

"Falling flowers and flowing water spring will go." In the spring of 1957, people in China talked about the weather.Fei Xiaotong's article "Early Spring Climate of Intellectuals" is the most appropriate description of the political situation in China in the spring of 1957. Since June 8th, "People's Daily" issued a sharp question "Why is this?" ", and from then on the "rightists" fell into disrepair. "Rightists" are very concerned about "Why Is This?" "The initial and strongest reaction was about Lu Yuwen's "anonymous letter incident".

On June 14th, "People's Daily" published the speech of Shi Liang Shixing, vice chairman of the China Democratic League, at the meeting of the Central Committee of the Democratic League on the evening of the same day, exposing Zhang Bojun's talk on the "People's Daily" editorial on June 8th: I remember that last Saturday night (June 8th), Bo Jun came to talk to me, and I asked Bo Jun about it.I asked him about Chu Anping's speech, did he discuss it with you beforehand?He said, "No, Luo Longji has read it." Bo Jun said again: "Someone told me that Chu Anping's words hit the nail on the head. But I don't think there is any need to write an editorial. And Lu Yuwen has been brought out repeatedly, People like Lu Yuwen are just clowns. In my opinion, Hu Feng and Chu Anping will become historical figures, and the so-called historical figures will have their own judgment hundreds of years later."

This passage by Zhang Bojun clearly reflects his attitude towards the June 8 editorial in the People's Daily. On the afternoon of the June 8 editorial published by People's Daily, Chu Anping submitted his resignation as editor-in-chief to Guangming Daily, ending his short 70-day post as editor-in-chief of Guangming Daily. Fei Xiaotong said that "People's Daily" published an editorial on June 8, "It was the CCP who lost the game, and the trump card was played too early."① Ge Peiqi sent a correction letter to People's Daily on June 9th.He said: "Your newspaper published my speech on June 8. There are some places that are different from the original intention. Please correct me. 'I want to repeat it... It is useless to just shout long live." The full text is 'I want to repeat it again, the masses want to overthrow the Communist Party and kill the Communists. If you don't change it, don't hold your breath, and keep corrupting, then you will take this path. One day. This is also in line with the law of socialist development. It is useless to just shout long live.') It should be changed to: 'During this rectification movement, if the comrades in the party do not actively correct their shortcomings and continue to win the trust of the masses, they will not only perish themselves, but if they continue to develop, they will endanger the party. Survive.'"

"People's Daily" ignored him and did not publish his correction.After nearly 30 years, when Ge Peiqi was rehabilitated, this correction letter was found in the archives of the "People's Daily". However, it is obvious that this correction letter was written by Ge Peiqi after reading the June 8 editorial in the People's Daily.Because "People's Daily" had already published his similar remarks on May 31, he did not ask for correction at that time. The one who reflected most strongly was naturally none other than Tan Tiwu.When she announced that she had received the anonymous letter, she discussed it with Lu Yuwen on the spot.She read the "People's Daily" editorial on June 8, and of course she was very disgusted.

According to Liu Zezhi, a young man who claimed to have been "deeply poisoned by Tan Tiwu", a student at the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China, in his speech titled "Exposing Rightist Tan Tiwu's Crimes of Poisoning Youth" revealed: When "People's Daily" published "Why Is This?" on June 8 ” editorial, the next day was Sunday, I went to Tan’s house, and as soon as I entered the door, I saw Tan Tiwu’s face was full of anger, holding the “People’s Daily” in his hand and cursing, “What is the People’s Daily? News, the party newspaper really doesn’t have such reason.” During lunch, she suddenly threw down her job bowl and scolded: “Lu Yuwen’s bastard is on my head.” Then said: “What anonymous letter, it must be written by Lu Yuwen himself. After the meal, she called Huang Shaohong and also scolded Lu Yuwen. She said on the phone: "I 100% guarantee that the anonymous letter was written by Lu Yuwen himself."①

According to Li Yifei and Cheng Xiaoxia, law students of Renmin University of China, in their speech titled "Exposing and Criticizing the Relationship Between Tan Tiwu and Lin Xiling": According to Zhao Yi and Li Qingshi's account, Tan Tiwu had instructions to them. They reported to Tan Tiwu that there was a deviation in the school's rectification style, and that there was pressure to broadcast. They should not criticize Lin Xiling. The chairman knows that there are problems in the implementation below", and in front of Wu Shurong, Wei Shizhao, Li Qingshi, Zhao Yi, etc. scolded the People's Daily and Xinhua News Agency for distorting her speech, telling them how bad Lu Yuwen was, saying "Lu Yuwen is a clown , is shameless,” said, “The Communist Party does not distinguish between loyalty and traitors, and treats her as a bad person, and treats Xiao Wu like Lu Yuwen as a good person,” said, “This kind of indiscrimination between loyalty and traitors is a common phenomenon,” and told them: not only to say , and it must be written to find a way to send it directly to Chairman Mao and encourage them to protest to Chairman Mao's Party Central Committee.He also talked to Zhao Li and others about the rise and fall of dynasties in the past, saying that "good dynasties are close to gentlemen and far away from villains", "the loyal ones will not betray them, and the traitors will not betray them", in order to instigate their dissatisfaction with the party. ①

After being criticized repeatedly, Tan Tiwu was forced to conduct an inspection.In "My Inspection and Confession", Tan Tiwu wrote about Lu Yuwen's situation when she visited Liu Fei.During the peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Lu Yuwen was the secretary-general of the delegation of the Nanjing government, while Liu Fei was the representative of the delegation, and they were old friends.Therefore, it was natural for Tan Tiwu to talk about Lu Yuwen with Liu Fei. Tan Tiwu "confessed" in this way: On June 14th, I went to Liu Fei's home and said to Liu Fei: "Why did the party put my name and Lu Yuwen's name side by side? It shows that Lu Yuwen is correct and I am not." I criticized Lu Yuwen is wrong, I said: "Why does the party believe in Lu Yuwen and not me?" I also said: "In Chinese history, only when dynasties were in decline did they believe in villains. Now the party has only been in power for eight years, and it is in its prosperity At that time, why did you believe in villains? The workers in the factory expressed their support for Lu Yuwen, what impact did this have on the hearts of the people in Henan? Who is not good at making a flag, why use Lu Yuwen as a flag?" ①

Regarding the anonymous letter that Lu Yuwen received, is there anything real about it?The author once sent a letter to inquire about Mr. Lu Cunxue, the son of Lu Yuwen, and he replied on March 5, 1996: Regarding the authenticity of anonymous letters: In the summer of 1957, worrying about my father's safety, I went back to Beijing from Guilin to visit relatives. I asked about the anonymous letter. My father said that the letter was sent from somewhere in Hebei Province outside Beijing (I don't remember Baoding or Shijiazhuang).I also read a batch of letters my father didn't have time to submit, most of which expressed sympathy and comfort, and some had different opinions.In any case, it is not like Tan Tiwu and Zhang Bojun said that they wrote it themselves.Moreover, my father said that after the anonymous letter was handed in, relevant authorities have taken protective measures near my house (Xidan Handkerchief Hutong).

From the reply letter of Mr. Lu Cunxue, Lu Yuwen's son, it can be seen that Lu Yuwen did receive an anonymous letter at that time, and this anonymous letter was not "written by himself". According to cloud, later the public security department found out that the anonymous letter was written by Yang Binggong, a history student at Peking University.Yang was arrested and sentenced for counter-revolutionary crimes.