Chapter 9 A very historic meeting between Deng Bin and Wei Baqun

In mid-August 1929, colorful doors decorated with pine branches, green bamboos and flowers were set up on the streets of Nanning, and colorful flags were hung on both sides of the street.People from all walks of life took to the streets, beat gongs and drums, set off firecrackers, and celebrated the opening of the first peasant congress in Guangxi Province. A few days ago, Yu Zuobai, chairman of Guangxi Province, issued a circular: All mass organizations such as trade unions, peasant associations, student unions, and women's associations that support and support the government and are committed to the stability, prosperity, and progress of Guangxi will be recognized and protected.

This is indeed an enlightened move.At this time, why doesn't Yu Zuobai understand the truth of "the one who wins the hearts of the people wins the world"?However, relying on the tens of thousands of troops and the collection of some stragglers, militias, and bandits, it is impossible to maintain long-term peace and stability in Guangxi. ", all salivating with the idea of ​​"a real treat".what to do?The well-known "Yu Daudao" readily accepted the suggestion of the "little" CCP representative: In the open and progressive mass movement in Guangxi, mass organizations at all levels were established to form a defense system of alliances of industry, agriculture, commerce, learning, and soldiers to resist powerful enemies from entering Guangxi and to deal with the rebellion of the remnants of the old Guangxi clique.

To be the enlightened master of Guangxi and achieve great achievements, Yu Zuobai is more familiar with the words of old master Meng: "The vast land and the people, the gentleman wants it, and he will not be happy." Therefore, he very much agrees with the suggestion of the representative of the CCP and regards it as "Anbang's good strategy and clever strategy to appease the people" was greatly appreciated.So it was decided to convene the provincial peasant congress and establish the Guangxi Provincial Farmers Association. The venue of the congress is located in an old-fashioned Cantonese theater.The venue is carefully arranged.The original dark and dirty walls were painted with lime water, a new curtain was hung on the rostrum, a plowshare flag was hung in the center, flowers and green grass were placed around it, and guards with guns stood on both sides of the rostrum. , looking solemn and solemn.

Farmer representatives from the suburbs of Nanning and the left and right river areas have arrived before the meeting.The most notable ones were more than 300 representatives of the Donglan County Peasant Army and Peasant Association led by Wei Baqun.They all wore white coats and black trousers, belts around their waists, short knives on their backs, or spears on their shoulders. Amidst the welcome of the crowd, they walked into the venue majesticly and majestically. At this moment, Lei Jingtian, Wei Baqun, Chen Hongtao, Zhang Zhenqiu, Li Gan and other peasant leaders from all walks of life in Guangxi have already sat on the rostrum.When Lei Jingtian announced the opening of the conference, the venue was thunderous with cheers and drums roaring!

First of all, Yu Zuoyu, on behalf of Yu Zuobai, read the congratulatory message written by the provincial government to the conference. Then, Lei Jingtian asked Wei Baqun to speak. At the age of 35, Wei Baqun was dressed in a black peasant Tang suit, tall and tall, with a square face. He looked like a simple and strong Zhuang farmer, but his expression was full of shrewdness and wisdom.He stood up, looked around the venue, and greeted everyone with fists: "Dear folks, fellow farmers, today is our farmers' festival! This is the first time in the history of Guangxi that we can gather here to celebrate our own festival!" There was a round of applause from the audience.

"Back then, Hong Xiuquan rebelled in Jintian, Guiping, until he established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. What did he rely on? It relied on millions of peasant brothers! Today in Guangxi, and even in the whole of China, whoever wins the peasant brothers wins the world! " Enthusiastic applause. "As long as millions of peasant brothers stand up, we will be in trouble in Guangxi! We will be in trouble in China!" Long applause and cheers. The meeting unanimously passed the resolution to establish the Guangxi Farmers Association, electing Lei Jingtian as the chairman, Wei Baqun as the vice-chairman, and Chen Hongtao, Zhang Zhenqiu, and Li Gan as members.The conference also decided to publish the three-day magazine "Guangxi Peasants" - which is actually the official publication of the Guangxi Party Organization of the Communist Party of China and played a considerable role in guiding the Guangxi revolutionary movement.Citizens in Nanning said that once officials show mercy, the sky will turn blue, the ground will turn green, and the lives of ordinary people will be easier.

Wei Baqun arrived in Nanning the day before the opening of the Peasant Congress.When he received a personal letter written by the representative of the Central Committee, what kind of surging sea surged in his heart?Soon, he received an urgent notice from the Guangxi Special Committee about holding a farmers' congress, asking him to lead the representatives of the farmers' association in the Youjiang area and a capable peasant army team to Nanning. On the night of arriving in Nanning, Deng Bin and Wei Baqun met for the first time, and they talked cordially all night. Deng Bin called him "Brother Ba", which made Wei Baqun's eyes wet.Wei Baqun, who was born in a country gentry family, was influenced by the stories of the heroes of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom since he was a child, and he was enlightened and influenced by the ideas of democratic revolution.In order to seek the way to save the country and the people, after finishing his studies at the School of Law and Politics in Guilin, he went to Guangzhou, Shanghai and the Yangtze River Basin to travel and investigate, thus advocating Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles even more.He was so indignant when he heard the news that Yuan Shikai, the thief who had stolen the country, changed Yuan Shikai to proclaim himself emperor, he immediately went back to his hometown to sell his property, bought guns, recruited more than 100 bloody men, and went to Guizhou to participate in the war against Yuan.The crusade failed, and he was transferred to Zhang Yi's army in Sichuan as a staff officer. When the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal May 4th Movement broke out in 1919, he witnessed the brutal suppression of young students and demonstrators by the old warlords, so he used the pseudonym "Indignant", secretly colluded with other progressive military officers, and distributed "Advocating National Revolution" , "Resolutely reform the old military system" leaflets, to show the ambition of "eradicating injustice in the world".The Sichuan warlord ordered him to be arrested. He fled Sichuan angrily and went back to his hometown Donglan to engage in a peasant movement. Eat together with food, wear with you with clothes, share with you with money, everywhere is uneven, and no one is not full and warm” is the ideal of the kingdom of heaven.He tried his best to persuade the elders to be enlightened village owners, open warehouses to distribute grain, reduce rent and interest, and benefit the common people and benefit one side.He distributed his own good land to the poorest tenants to grow, and donated the surplus grain to those villagers who could not get rid of the pot. He was deeply supported by the poor people, and all the old and young called him "Brother Ba". In the summer of 1923, Wei Baqun organized the peasant self-defense army to attack Donglan County (before that, he had attacked the county twice, but failed due to the fact that the enemy was outnumbered). Next, they attacked and occupied the regimental defense corps defending the city.At dawn the next day, farmers from all over the towns flocked into the county town in great force. The county magistrate, Meng Yuanliang, panicked, fled the county government in haste under the escort of several county police bodyguards, and took refuge in Fengshan County.Donglan County was liberated for the first time, all the people imprisoned were released, and the local tyrants and evil gentry who had always oppressed the poor disappeared for a while.On that day, a grand mass rally was held to celebrate the victory. Wei Baqun publicly announced the cancellation of all kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, abolished all contracts, and advocated equality of all ethnic groups and equal rights for men and women.The Peasant Self-Defense Forces have strict discipline, the market is orderly, and the people are happy and happy.The provincial government under Huang Shaohong was forced to recognize the legal status of the Donglan peasant movement. At the beginning of 1925, with a strong desire to seek revolutionary truth, Wei Baqun entered the Guangzhou Peasant Movement Institute to study, and thus got acquainted with several young Communist Party members such as Peng Pai and Chen Yannian.After graduation, he returned to Guangxi and extensively organized peasant associations and peasant armed forces.Over the past few years, no matter how the Guangxi clique government changed, it could do nothing to arm the peasants of the Zhuang, Yao, Miao, and Han ethnic groups in the Youjiang area led by Wei Baqun.They called Wei Baqun the "uncrowned king" of Youjiang.

"Brother Ba, when you were carrying out the peasant movement in Donglan, a group of colleagues and I were working and studying in France." Deng Bin said earnestly, "Although you are in a foreign country, we have learned and paid attention to your name. It is already well known in the domestic information.” "Ashamed, ashamed," Wei Baqun said with a solemn expression and a deep voice, "I have been searching for a long time, and I don't know where the way out is. Every time I think of the humiliation history of being bullied, oppressed and plundered in China, I have a deep feeling. The pain! I just want to sprinkle my blood to wake up the people! If it weren’t for the remoteness of the place where I live, Brother Yu will go across the ocean with his colleagues to seek the true meaning of saving the country and the people.”

"On the same earth, there is also exploitation and oppression; there is also struggle and opposition. I lived on the land of France for three years, two months and nineteen days, and received an expulsion order from the French police (at that time the arrogant However, the ruthless French police authorities never imagined that the little man from the East they deported in the 1920s would visit France fifty years later as the country's deputy prime minister, and he was extremely received by the French government and the French people. Warm and solemn welcome and reception), I bid farewell to France with more than 20 deported alumni and went to the hometown of the October Revolution—the Soviet Union.”

"Well, I met Chen Yannian when I was at the Guangzhou Peasant Movement Institute, and I realized that he and his colleagues benefited a lot from their trip to Europe." "It was Chen Yannian who had just returned to China. He was indeed very capable. He was one of the leaders of the branch in Europe. He opposed the right opportunism of his father (Chen Duxiu), and his views were higher than others. His sacrifice is a pity." "I heard about the murder of the Chen brothers when Lei Jingtian came to Guangxi. It was after the 'April 12' incident that Chen Yannian was martyred in Shanghai Longhua, and a year later his younger brother Chen Qiaonian was also killed by the Kuomintang in Shanghai. Agent killed."

When the topic came to this "sad point", both of them looked gloomy and said nothing for a long time, as if mourning the birth of the Communist Party of China in troubled times for the victims with an indescribable silence.As soon as she was born, a group of brilliant talents gathered around her. They were all the most enthusiastic, pure, brave, sincere and excellent children of passion.At this time, China is in the dark night, the storm is like a rock, and 400 million people are suffering in dire straits. One way to create the environment (Mao Zedong’s letter to Jing Yu).” Some of them, seeking a way out to save the country and the people, proposed that to transform China, one must first understand the world. ——In faraway Europe, the lingering specter of communism has a huge attraction for China, presenting an incomparably brilliant light to Chinese youths who are pursuing ideals and a way out, and they go across the ocean. Ordinarily, they could have continued their studies in the West, or went to work, or went into business, or got married and started a business and lived their lives in peace.But they came back resolutely, back to their poor, backward and devastated motherland, back to the blood-stained land that gave birth to them, back to their brothers and sisters and their suffering people. Over the Spring and Autumn Period, how many of them are still alive?Many people with lofty ideals and benevolent people drink their hatred in Jiuquan and become one with the rivers and mountains. Yes, looking back over half a century of bloody, turbulent, ups and downs, great sympathy and grandeur in modern Chinese history, facing the heroic spirits of the martyrs and the great achievements they made, often makes latecomers feel a sense of urgency from the bottom of their hearts. High respect, accompanied by a sense of self-ashamedness and a little bit of worry: Compared with their generation, some young people today seem to lack something. It seems that their enthusiasm is not so thick and strong, and their beliefs are not so strong. Clear and firm, morality is not so noble and pure, even the blood rushing in the veins seems not so bright red and fiery At this moment, the lights in the central representative room bathe the faces of two close friends who hit it off. What they talked about was so devoted, so profound, and so sincere.Although it was a sleepless night, they were not tired at all. It is gratifying that the revolutionary situation in the whole country is at a low ebb, and amidst the white terror of the reactionaries, only Guangxi has such a new revolutionary situation that has risen.The most rare thing is such a brand new world that Wei Baqun has painstakingly managed for several years. Perhaps, some people don't know the brand-new world created by Wei Baqun, and how this peasant leader rescued thousands of people who cried out in pain on the vast land with his high head and traditional loyalty. The persistent pursuit is actually a very ancient dream, and human beings have been doing it for thousands of years. On July 6, 1535 AD, the former British Under-Chancellor of the Exchequer, Speaker of the House of Commons, and Justice Thomas More was pushed to the guillotine by the executioner in the Tower of London.The moment he calmly covered his eyes with a turban, it wasn't the Grim Reaper who appeared, but the crescent-shaped island country he had dreamed of twenty years ago emerged.There is no oppression, no fighting, no private property, and people live happily and happily like a big family.He called the island country "Utopia" - a beautiful paradise for human beings. More's beheaded head hung on London Bridge, like a severed dream. In the four hundred years after Smiling More, how many sages and wise men in Europe have continuously conceived a more perfect blueprint for the realization of this dream, designed A more realistic way, try a more specific model Another Englishman, Robert Owen, a wealthy Manchester factory owner, bought 30,000 acres of land in Indiana, USA for nearly 300 years after Moore’s death. , Established the first "communist" immigration experimental area in human history - the New Harmony Commune.But all his experiments and plans soon came to naught, and he changed from a millionaire to a homeless homeless man.Only when a German Jew sat in the British Museum and dissected capitalism on the table like a corpse, did More's ideal and human dream gradually become clear.The way to realize this dream has thus been scientifically clarified. Thus, the first proletarian regime in human history - the Paris Commune was born.Although it only existed for 72 days, as a glorious pioneer of the new society, it finally made people see the brilliant dawn of revolution that human beings can be liberated from class society.Marx and Engels highly praised the heroic feat of the Paris Commune, pointing out: the principles of the Commune are eternal. However, Karl Marx's doctrine is always misinterpreted by people who are enthusiastic about this "ism" and "belief" in the future, and often fall into the misunderstanding of cloud and mist. Orientals often cannot tell the difference between More and Marx. The Chinese also have their own origins of ancient oriental civilization: from Confucius, Mo Di to Chen Sheng, Zhang Lu, Tao Yuanming, Li Zicheng, Hong Xiuquan, Kang Youwei, and especially Tao Yuanming 1,500 years ago. The fields in Xiechuan and Yujing on the side are cultivated. Although there are occasional romantic poetic sentiments of "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, and seeing Nanshan leisurely", but after all, they are simple tea and light food, and the shabby houses of the chaimen, so that they fall into the situation of begging in their later years.Perhaps because of the poverty and hardships of this life, he wrote an article about a "spring silkworm harvesting long gowns, autumn ripening and royal taxation", "yellow hair hanging down, and contentedly" without oppression, without exploitation, men farming and women weaving. "Xanadu" is entrusted to all generations.Although Tao Fangweng, who has always had the ambition to help the common people, has no way to realize his "Peach Blossom Spring", but it is enough to make Saint-Simon, Owen, and Fourier a thousand years later hide their faces and feel ashamed. At the beginning of this century, a slender son of a farmer in Xiangtan, Hunan, and several of his classmates traveled all over the villages of Yuelu Mountain in Changsha, looking for a piece of Owen-style "New Harmony" to build a "new village".He designed a wonderful blueprint for this new village: there are public nursery homes, public nursing homes, public consumer associations, public schools, public farms, etc., etc., which are comprehensive enough to make the town of More on London Bridge four hundred years ago. The bloody head rested in peace.However, he returned disappointed. This slender son of a farmer in Xiangtan, Hunan, was named Mao Zedong. He was also planning to go to France for a work-study program, but he didn't go.Soon, he attended the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China as a representative of Hunan, and then he returned to Hunan.From the decisive role of the activities of the working people in social development and according to the theory provided by Marx, he uncovered many "mysteries" of the Chinese revolution-the view of slave history, class struggle, armed seizure of power, and encirclement of cities by rural areas. The survey of the peasant movement has described his prophecy with confidence: within a short period of time, tens of millions of peasants will rise from the central, southern and northern provinces of China, and the force will be like a storm, with extraordinary speed, and no matter what the force is, will not be suppressed.They will break through all the snares that bind them, and run quickly on the road to liberation. Although the vigorous revolution failed due to Chiang Kai-shek's betrayal, and thousands of communists and revolutionary masses fell in a pool of blood, in Mao Zedong's view, there was no reason to retreat and no reason not to advance. The will of "God" made him always stand at the top of the tide, holding the flag and shouting, always so confident, persistent and passionate.Although he led the team to Jinggangshan to become the "Red Mountain King", which was a revolutionary strategy of last resort, but he found the correct path of the new Chinese revolution - igniting the spark of "armed separatism of workers and peasants", Created a revolutionary road of "encircling the city from the countryside and finally seizing the national power".And in Jinggang Mountains, the "Land Law" of Xingguo was formulated: all landlords' land was confiscated and distributed to farmers with no or little land.So he firmly believed that the climax of the revolution would reappear again, and described its alluring scene in a poetic style: it is a ship standing on the coast and looking at the sea from a distance, and the tip of the mast can already be seen; it is standing on a high mountain. Looking at the east from the top, there is already a round of radiant sun that is about to burst out. It is a baby that is restless in the mother's womb and is about to mature. The course of the Chinese revolution is long, tortuous and difficult, but Mao Zedong possessed a strong spirit of idealism that ordinary party doers do not have. The combination of his natural poetic temperament and acquired extensive knowledge formed his unique strategic vision and formed His glamorous pursuit of ideals formed his majestic will and belief; the magnificence and magnificence of his future goals made every person who is interested in revolution and saving the country unable to fail to be infected by him, and consciously and willingly gathered under his banner .Because of his extraordinary practical ability and creative wisdom, he flexibly combined exotic Marxism with traditional Chinese culture and the actual needs of the Chinese revolution, and even transformed the idea of ​​"God" into a nationalized version that even the villagers loved. He designed a road of national liberation for the oldest and largest country in the world with his unique thinking method and language form, and he focused on history and the future with the enthusiasm of a romantic and detached poet. Deng Bin introduced to Wei Baqun the national revolutionary situation and the policy and strategy of organizing the workers and peasants to carry out armed separatism and establish the Soviet regime.In particular, it tells about the development of the "Zhu Mao" Red Army and the feat of establishing the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base, as well as the development trends of the Red Army in Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi, Hunan and Hubei, and the Soviet areas. Wei Baqun listened attentively and was inspired. Until the twilight sunlight shone into the window in the early morning, the oil lamps in the room gradually dimmed.But the bright tail of the wick burning is still so crystal clear and warm.At this time, a horn from a distant military camp broke through the air, "Tap-tap-tick-tick-tick-tick-" The melodious and deep horn sounded the morning sky one after another. . Deng Bin said: "The central government sent me here, one is to do united front work with Yu and Li, and the other is to assist Ba Ge in establishing the Zuojiang Revolutionary Base." Wei Baqun said: "Baqun will follow the party's revolution to the end, and he will die without hesitation. Deng Bin said: "When the time is right, we will go to Youjiang." Wei Baqun said, "That is our homeland." The two hands clasped tightly.This is a very historic meeting.