Chapter 128 Chapter 18 Misfortune of the "Rightists"

Mao Zedong once said: "Now some rightists refuse to surrender, such as Luo Longji and Zhang Naiqi, who refuse to surrender."② Luo Longji and Zhang Naiqi are two "rightists" who "will not surrender". Although Luo Longji "will not surrender", after all he is a "big rightist" and a "top figure", so after he became a "rightist", although he was removed from the position of Minister of Forestry Industry, he still retained his position as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. title.He was not sent to the Great Northern Wilderness to be reformed through labor, but still lived in the spacious mansion in Naizfu, Beijing.It's just that his salary has dropped from level four to level nine.According to the ninth level, he has no car and no driver.

He cut off contact with Pu Xixiu.He has no wife, no children, and lives alone in an empty compound. Zhang Bojun was also removed from the post of minister of the Ministry of Communications and demoted from the third rank to the seventh rank.However, according to the seventh level, he still has a car.The courtyard house Zhang Bojun lived in was twice the size of Luo Longji's and had a small garden.He lives with his wife Li Jiansheng and their children, which is much better than Luo Longji, but he is also depressed all day long. The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference has a Liaison Committee with 25 members.They noticed the distress of Zhang Bojun and Luo Longji, and thought that a liaison committee should be sent to contact them.

Who should I send? No one dares to go!Because Chen Xingui was labeled as a "rightist", his "title" was "the liaison officer of the Zhangluo League". Only one person volunteered and was willing to contact Luo Longji.This person is Zhao Junmai, Luo Longji's old classmate who studied in the United States and member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. However, no one dared to contact Zhang Bojun. "Just assign Zhang Bojun to me, and let me contact Zhang and Luo." Zhao Junmai said to Gong Yinbing, deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee.

On November 25, 1986, I met the eighty-five-year-old Mr. Zhao Junmai in the Beijing Army General Hospital.He smiled and said to me: "I have really become the liaison officer of the 'Zhang Luo Alliance'!" Zhao Junmai was interviewed by me in hospital uniform and military overcoat.He is hard of hearing and talks to me through headphones.Shortly after this interview, he died. Zhao Junmai was born in 1901 in Hengshan, Hunan.He went to Japan to attend high school at his own expense.In 1922, he studied in the United States.Met Luo Longji in the United States.Zhao Junmai studied bridge engineering.

Zhao Junmai remembered that at that time Luo Longji organized the "Dajianghui", he was not interested in politics and did not participate.He is keen on sports.Therefore, he called Luo Longji a "stinky politician", while Luo Longji called him a "martial arts man"... At that time, as a liaison officer, Zhao Junmai often visited Luo Longji and Zhang Bojun, chatted with them, and relieved their boredom.Zhao Junmai talked to Luo Longji about everything.He told Luo Longji that "martial arts" is good after all, and "anti-rightists" cannot be opposed to "martial arts", but you, a "stinky politician", are out of luck.When Luo Longji heard this, he burst out laughing.This is a rare laughter that Luo Longji heard after he became a "rightist".

Zhao Junmai noticed that Luo Longji liked to wear suits in the past, but after being labeled as a "rightist", he often wore Chinese tunic suits. At the suggestion of Zhao Junmai, several old friends were invited to have dinner together in turn to connect with each other at the table.Zhang Lailuo also comes to every dinner, no matter at the Peace Hotel in Beijing or the Sichuan Restaurant.In this way, after being branded as the "Zhang Luo Alliance", Zhang and Luo often met and kept in touch-they had nothing to argue about and nothing to quarrel with. Luo Longji didn't have a car, usually Zhang Bojun would pick him up in a car and go to the hotel together.Sometimes, Luo Longji needed a car when he went out, so he called Zhang Bojun to borrow a car.

Former member of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League Liu Wang Liming, Kang Youwei's daughter Kang Tongbi and their daughters, as well as Huang Shaohong, also often participate in the dinner.Everyone talked about the weather, about growing flowers, and eating and chatting. The topics were endless, but they hardly wanted to involve politics.Although Luo Longji still had the same temper, his words were much more cautious than in the past. Neither Luo Longji nor Zhang Bojun smoked or drank alcohol, so they could not drink to soothe their sorrows. They just used dinner to get rid of the terrible loneliness.

Occasionally, they talked about Zhang Naiqi and Liang Shuming... They were full of nostalgia for their old friends.Zhang Bojun expressed his admiration for Zhang Naiqi and Liang Shuming's "hardness". In 1961, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference organized a delegation to Jiangxi and Hunan. Luo Longji went with Zhao Junmai, Huang Shaohong, Kang Tongbi and their daughter.They once went to Mount Lushan.But Zhang Bojun didn't go. When Luo Longji went to Jiangxi, he wanted to go back to his hometown, Anfu, but after thinking about it, he didn't go.

Luo Longji died on the eve of the "Cultural Revolution".The night before his death, he was still with the liaison officer Zhao Junmai.Zhao Junmai told the author that it was the evening of December 6, 1965, when Luo Longji hosted a banquet at home with several friends.In addition to Zhao Junmai, Liu Wang Liming and his daughter Liu Wei were also present. Luo Longji asked the chef to cook hot-boiled mutton to keep his friends away from the cold.He also took out a bottle of bright red Beijing wine and poured it into Jingdezhen porcelain cups in Jiangxi Province.Probably a little excited, he gave up drinking—it turned out that he had a heart attack and was "insulated" from alcohol.

After eating and drinking, he went to Dong Si not far away - Liu Wang Liming's house to chat, and didn't go home until eleven o'clock at night.He was fine then. At eight o'clock the next day, an old nurse in her fifties came to work at Luo Longji's home.Although Luo Longji was a "rightist" at that time, there were still nurses to take care of his health.The nurse comes to work during the day and returns home at night.Luo Longji suffers from diabetes and needs insulin injections two to three times a day. The nurse entered the room and knocked on the door of Luo Longji's bedroom, but there was no movement.In the past, Luo Longji always said, "Please come in!"

The nurse knocked on the bedroom door again, but there was still no movement.After waiting for a while, she had to gently push the door open. The nurse looked into the room and let out an exclamation of "Ah", the quilt fell to the ground, and he was lying on the bed sideways, face down, with his right arm stretched out to the floor. The nurse ran in, turned on the light, and noticed a few nitroglycerin tablets scattered on the floor.It is a first-aid medicine for treating angina pectoris. When one is taken under the tongue, it can dilate coronary blood vessels and be rescued within a minute or two.He suffers from this disease and always carries the life-saving medicine nitroglycerin tablets with him.This time, it probably happened at night. When he took out the nitroglycerin tablet, he missed it and dropped it on the ground. He reached out to take it, but he couldn't complete this "easy work" because of exhaustion, and finally dropped his arm... The nurse touched his forehead and found that it was still warm, and immediately called Beijing Hospital. The ambulance took him to Beijing Hospital for emergency treatment.After a cardiac injection, he remained unresponsive. Just like that, he passed away alone.He has no wife, no children, his relatives are his elderly mother and his half-brother who hastily rushed over from Zhengzhou, and his brother who is sixteen years younger than him... After Luo Longji's death, his younger brother Luo Zhaolin asked to remove Luo Longji's "rightist" hat, hoping not to bring his hat into the coffin.Luo Zhaolin's request was rejected because "the organization explained that Luo Longji has never repented of his mistakes, and he cannot take off his rightist hat."For this reason, Luo Zhaolin was criticized, "I admit that my level of understanding is low, and I have not drawn a clear line between the enemy and the rightists." For this reason, the Central Office of the China Democratic League sent an official document to Luo Zhaolin's work unit on February 3, 1966, titled "Some Situations about Comrade Luo Zhaolin's Coming to Beijing to Handle the Funeral Affairs of His Fourth Brother Rightist Luo Longji" .The official document states: Because Luo Longji was a rightist, it was difficult to find a suitable storage place for his ashes. Therefore, they were temporarily stored in a temporary storage place in the crematorium, and then processed after organizational consideration and decision.Luo Zhaolin and his son expressed their dissatisfaction with this matter.After returning from the storage place, he repeatedly sighed and said: "It's miserable! It's miserable!" He repeatedly asked the Democratic League organization to properly place his brother's ashes before he left Beijing.A recent letter raised the issue of placing his brother's ashes as soon as possible. ① In 1980, although Luo Longji was still listed as one of the five uncorrected "rightists" at the national central level, his political reputation was restored in a certain way later. That was on October 14, 1986, when the Central Committee of the China Democratic League held a "symposium to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the birth of Luo Longji, the founder of the China Democratic League, a famous patriotic fighter and political activist."Yan Mingfu, head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, attended the meeting. Yan Mingfu said: Today, the Central Committee of the China Democratic League held a symposium here to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the birth of Mr. Luo Longji, one of the founders and leaders of the China Democratic League, a famous patriotic democracy fighter and political activist, and commemorate his contribution to my country's democratic revolution and society. contribution to the cause of communism.On behalf of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, I would like to extend my greetings to the organizer of today's symposium, the Central Committee of the China Democratic League, and extend my cordial greetings to Mr. Luo Longji's relatives. Yan Ming recounted the achievements of Luo Longji's life: Founded and edited the "New Moon" magazine in his youth, and was arrested for speaking against the one-party dictatorship of the Kuomintang; After 1932, served as the editor-in-chief of Tianjin Yishibao and published a large number of anti-Japanese articles; After the Southern Anhui Incident, he participated in the establishment of the China Democratic Political Group Alliance (later reorganized into the China Democratic League), "fighting heroically against the Kuomintang reactionaries"; As for Luo Longji fighting side by side with the CCP after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Yan Mingfu cited a large number of facts, saying that Luo Longji "contributed to the establishment of New China"; Since then, Luo Longji has "done a lot of useful work for the cause of socialist construction and the cause of the Chinese people's defense of peace." After enumerating Luo Longji's many contributions, Yan Mingfu mentioned 1957 in a very cautious and reserved tone: "Mr. Luo Longji had twists and turns in his life's struggle, and he made serious mistakes in the late 1950s. However, he was able to accept the truth and strive to sum up his own experience and lessons. Throughout the entire history and work of Mr. Luo Longji Generally speaking, he is patriotic, progressive, and has done good deeds for our nation and country, which is worthy of our commemoration.”① Yan Mingfu delivered a speech in his capacity as head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee.Therefore, his speech expressed the CCP's evaluation of Luo Longji's life.