Chapter 94 "War correspondent" Lu Yi was shot by "anti-rightist" gunfire

Mao Zedong also named Lu Yi at the Shanghai cadre meeting. Lu Yi is a senior journalist.As early as 1930, Lu Yi, who was working as a primary school teacher in Shanghai, used his evening time to go to the Shanghai Minzhi Journalism Institute hosted by Gu Zhizhong for advanced studies.From then on, he determined to dedicate himself to journalism. After the "September 18th" Incident in 1931, he joined the Shanghai News Agency as a reporter.At this time, when the anti-Japanese war was burning in China, Lu Yi ran amidst the hail of bullets, writing one after another war newsletter, and became a famous "war reporter" all over the country:

From the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War to the Battle of Bailing Temple; From the "July 7th" Incident to the "August 13th" War of Resistance; From the Battle of Niangziguan to the Battle of Taierzhuang; From the battle of defending the Great Wuhan to the battle of Yunnan and Burma... Xia Yan once said: "During the Anti-Japanese War, there were three outstanding journalists, namely Fan Changjiang, Meng Qiujiang and Lu Yi..." After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Lu Yi was busy covering the negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the democratic movement, and wrote all the way to the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China.

Since then, he has used his pen to continuously report various news after liberation.He served as deputy editor-in-chief of Shanghai News Daily. Lu Yi once said: "The most important thing for journalists is to be aggressive, but also to work steadily, to write for the truth, and to be fearless." It was precisely with "fearless" "aggressiveness" that Lu Yi devoted himself to making a big splash, and fell into the "Yin conspiracy". At the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Work Conference, Lu Yi made such a "sound release": Many people criticized the newspaper article.There is a lot of dogmatism, which is really like chanting mantras, and there is no way to solve ideological problems.You put on a straight face and "train people" all day long, and the writers and readers are not in an "equal and friendly" position. Who would want to read your newspaper and be trained every day?On the other hand, as a result of long-term training, readers have to wait for the instructions, experience summaries, conclusions, etc. in the newspaper, and think independently again and again.

For example, "Liberation Daily" published an article by Fan Ruijuan, which talked about her husband and her new marriage.However, letters from readers flooded in, discussions were held at meetings, and joint protests were held, as if the world was in chaos.For readers, this is also a kind of independent thinking, and it also shows the result of the long-term promotion of dogmatism by newspapers. When it comes to sectarianism, we must first admit truthfully that there has been a long-term historical relationship between the party and some progressive journalists.Today we are liberated, no matter how many shortcomings and mistakes we old intellectuals still have, and we need to continue to reform, the party should never treat us as "people outside the wall".Unfortunately, in the past few years, there have been walls, ditches, and boards between Party and non-Party journalists.

First of all, we must blame ourselves for not taking the initiative and not actively moving closer to the party.Second, the ideological tradition of sectarianism within the party must also be held accountable.If there is such a kind of ideological guidance, there must be a group of so-called "activists" who build walls, dig ditches, and make planks. They only rely on small reports and grasp ideas to draw close.So there is a wall, a ditch, and a layer of planks between the party and the masses.There must be a standard for the party to rely on activists.The first thing to look at is whether he really has close contact with the masses and whether he correctly reflects the opinions of the masses.The second thing is to see if he is really working there and studying honestly. You can't just listen to him praise you, that is, call him an activist.

In the past few years since liberation, our press has not cultivated many talents, but there are quite a few talents who have been squeezed out by sectarians and those who build walls, dig trenches, and make planks.It hurts so much. During Lu Yi's speech, Ke Qingshi, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, interjected and asked, "Isn't your "News Daily" promoting democracy?" Lu Yi didn't seem to understand what Ke Qingshi meant, and replied: "Old Ke, our "News Daily" is published as usual." The name "Old Ke" is very common in Shanghai, and even Mao Zedong followed everyone in calling Ke Qingshi "Old Ke".In fact, Ke Qingshi was born in 1902 and was only fifty-five years old at the time.He is called "Ke Lao", mainly because of his seniority: Ke Qingshi joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League in 1920, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1922. He met Lenin...

Later, Lu Yi realized that when Ke Qingshi said that "News Daily" was "engaging in great democracy", he meant that Lu Yi held a "singing conference" in the newspaper office.Ke Qingshi is so well informed! "Old Ke" asked Lu Yi to talk. Lu Yi said to Ke Qingshi: "Mr. Ke, who gave you a small report saying that our "News" is engaging in 'big democracy'? Mr. Ke, you can't just listen to one side of the story!" Although Lu Yi gave an explanation, Ke Qingshi still advised him not to hold a "singing conference". Afterwards, on June 17, 1957, "Wen Wei Po" published the report "News Daily Editorial Department Gathered Yesterday to Expose Lu Yi's Anti-Party Words and Actions", with the subheading "Divergent minds, wavering confrontation", The so-called "reveal" of this matter was made:

Zou Zhaoqi also exposed Lu Yi's arrogance against the party at the propaganda meeting of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China.When Lu Yi was speaking at the publicity meeting, Comrade Ke Qingshi interjected and asked: Is the News Daily engaging in great democracy?Afterwards, Lu Yi wrote a letter asking Mr. Ke what is big democracy and what is small democracy?Later, when Mr. Ke talked to him, Lu Yi asked again: Did you listen to the "small report"?They want to interfere with the party's leading organs and understand the situation at the grassroots level.After pointing out Lu Yi’s series of anti-Party and anti-socialist behaviors, Zou Zhaoqi said: “We can say this: the Party has cared for and saved Lu Yi for twenty years; Even twenty years have been the same as one day to shake up the confrontation; isn't that very clear?"

Lu Yi, an old reporter who has experienced a lot of bullets and bullets, was shot in the artillery fire of the "anti-rightists"! On July 3, 1957, "People's Daily" published another report entitled: "Breaking the important stronghold of the Zhangluo Alliance Shanghai Rightist Group Conspiracy Exposes Lu Yi Admits: This group is led by the Zhangluo Alliance, with a program, organization and division of labor" The report said: (This spring) as soon as Lu Yi arrived in Beijing, he visited Gu Zhizhong.Gu Zhizhong is Lu Yi's teacher... Lu Yi reported the situation in Shanghai to Gu Zhizhong, and also talked about Sun Dayu. Gu Zeng instructed Sun Dayu to talk about strategy.Gu Zhizhong, Lu Yi, Wang Zaoshi and others also wanted to use the name of restoring the National Salvation Party to organize a reactionary political party, and they discussed this in the "Quanjude" restaurant.They tried in vain to attract young people, students and overseas Chinese to join the organization as their reactionary capital.Luo Longji also told Wang Zaoshi face-to-face that organization is a secondary issue, and the Communist Party doesn't like us to organize. The key is to try to win over the masses.Luo repeatedly instructed them to be careful, and Zhang Naiqi also expressed his intention to take up positions in this future reactionary organization.

In fact, it was Zhou Enlai who proposed to Wang Zaoshi to restore the "Salvation of the National Assembly".This is clearly stated in the "Explaining" written by Wang Zaoshi.It's just that Wang Zaoshi was already discouraged by this kind of organization, and thought that the "Salvation of the National Congress" was an organization during the Anti-Japanese War, and it seemed unnecessary to restore it now, so he didn't follow Zhou Enlai's wishes.However, in the "Anti-Rightist Movement", it was described as "organizing a reactionary political party in the name of restoring the national salvation"!

Although Lu Yi was labeled as a "rightist", fortunately he is an open-minded person, and he is still writing to this day.He is in his eighties, and he doesn't need glasses to read newspapers.He published the book "Footprints in the Battlefield", which records the historical footprint of his "war correspondent"...