Chapter 10 Chen Duxiu is dreaming and waking up

After the victory of the Shanghai riots, Chen Duxiu was overjoyed and wrote a letter to Wu Zhihui and sent it to Luo Yinong. Chen Duxiu said in the letter that I guarantee with my personality that the Communist Party will not establish a workers' dictatorship government in Shanghai. I hope that Wu Zhihui will not Moved by rightist rumors. Luo Yinong asked: "You want to stabilize Wu and deal with Chiang Kai-shek?" Chen Duxiu was very confident: "Stable Wu means to stabilize the leftist forces of the KMT in Shanghai." How did he know that Wu Zhihui had already worn a pair of pants with Chiang Kai-shek, and he was right at home in his bones.Just as Bai Chongxi got the information, the Communist Party was full of illusions about the Northern Expeditionary Army stationed in Shanghai, especially seeing that Xue Yue, the commander of the First Division, was more left-leaning. Chen Duxiu proposed three measures to deal with Xue Yue at the special committee: keep Xue Yue's army in Shanghai.When Xue Yue recruited troops, workers, members of the Communist Youth League, and Communist Party members could go to participate, and some of the ammunition seized could be sent to Xue Yue.

Chen Duxiu hoped that during Chiang Kai-shek's counter-revolutionary coup, Xue Yue could turn his guns and deal with the rightist army.According to this idea, the Shanghai District Committee organized all walks of life to offer condolences to the army, a party for engineers and soldiers, recruiting soldiers, etc. to do Xue Yue's work.But Chiang Kai-shek is by no means idle, nor is he at the mercy of others.After hearing Bai Chongxi's report, he quickly transferred Xue Yue's troops from the first division to Longhua, and transferred Liu Zhi's troops from the second division to Zhabei to take over.Although the party organization called on the industry and commerce to stand up to express "Liu Xue", and the party heads of the districts convened party members' meetings to support Liu Xue, it was of no avail.After Liu Zhi's troops took over the defense, the party still organized workers to have a military-civilian party with Liu Zhi's troops. Therefore, the suspicious Chiang Kai-shek was not at ease with the first and second divisions. On April 7, he transferred them to the Shanghai-Nanjing line , transferred Zhou Fengqi's troops of the 26th Army of the former Sun Chuanfang's troops to Shanghai.Chiang Kai-shek intensified his conspiracy.

In fact, as soon as Bai Chongxi entered Shanghai, there were public opinions in the society: "The city government is controlled by the CP"; "Chiang Kai-shek opposes the civil government";After the Federation of Trade Unions issued the order to resume work, some factory capitalists did not allow workers to return to work. The intention was obvious.Therefore, Bai Chongxi publicly announced to Japanese reporters on March 25: If workers disturb the situation, all countries can disarm the rental industry. The situation in Shanghai has brought the revolution and the counter-revolution into close combat, and they are on the verge of breaking out.

Chen Duxiu became distressed and hesitated again.He often weighs the pros and cons in his heart, sometimes sober, sometimes confused. At 8:00 p.m. on March 25, the Special Committee held a meeting, and the room was full of smoke, like a fire. Chen Duxiu, after listening to the reports from various parties, once said a very sober sentence: "If the Chinese revolution does not overthrow the armed forces representing the bourgeoisie, China will not want a revolution. Power. In Shanghai, the bourgeoisie is now in collusion with the right, and the party and army are also very right. If we are willing to abandon Shanghai, it will be easy. If we fight, we must act immediately. The future disputes, I think, will be the disarmament of the pickets. If Let the right troops disarm, and we will fight them!"

Luo Yinong is also awake.The next morning, Luo Yinong said at the meeting of the Shanghai District Committee of the Communist Party of China: "Shanghai has a very serious problem now. The counter-revolutionary forces have concentrated in Shanghai. The central problem is the issue of the armed pickets of the Supreme Headquarters. The Supreme Headquarters must have Pickets have a say. So there is a battle with military power." Chen Duxiu, in distress, finally stopped smoking, his eyes were choked to tears.A dynamic map of counter-revolutionaries across the country appeared in front of him, and he muttered: "First, Jiang killed the chairman of the trade union in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, attacked the city party headquarters, and attacked the Political Department of the Sixth Army. The victims were all CPs; The British and Americans killed one or two thousand people in China at Xiaguan in Nanjing. So now that the imperialists and the new warlords have attacked, we look at these two issues together, so the central and district committees have decided to prepare for a defensive war.”

From Chen Duxiu's speech, Luo Yinong sensed that his thinking had changed, from "duel" to "defense" overnight, and immediately said insinuatingly: "Our responsibility now is to save this national crisis. The meaning of this riot is greater. Fortunately, victory is enough, unfortunately, it can also affect the whole country and cut off Jiang's political life." Chen Duxiu's rekindled cigarette butt gave birth to many hallucinations in front of him: "Let's avoid conflicts as much as possible. Even if the time is delayed a little, it can prepare us for the final conflict. I am announcing that the anti-British movement will expand, but To force Chiang to reduce his attacks on the people. To make Jiang anti-British.” He specifically arranged three tasks for the anti-British campaign, first, mass propaganda, second, British factory strikes, third, platooning of British goods, and the proposal to take back the concession slogan.

In order to pursue the realization of his fantasy, he began to make principled concessions.He wrote to the presidium of the Shanghai District Committee: At present, on the surface, we want to moderate the anti-Chiang and anti-Chang, but actually prepare armed organizations. Apart from striving to maintain the picket team, the Supreme Headquarters should talk less about politics.We can agree to almost all the questions that Chiang asks us, but he is required to actively oppose the British. In order to ease the hostility with Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Jingjiang, the Special Committee and the Shanghai District Committee also decided to comfort Chiang Kai-shek.At the same time, Peng Shuzhi was sent to Wuhan to discuss with international representatives and most members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China the policy toward Chiang.The Communist International called to instruct, do not rush into the concession by force, and pay attention to the conflict between the left and the right.

Chen Duxiu speculated that the International still wanted to keep the United Front. Chiang Kai-shek was also trying to figure out the bottom line of the Communist Party. He sent Hu Gongmian to meet Chen Duxiu, saying: Jiang really wanted to see Zhongfu (Chen Duxiu's word). Chen Duxiu told Zhou En that you should go see Chiang Kai-shek. But Chiang Kai-shek hid again. The next day, Zhou Enlai pondered at the special committee: If he doesn't show up, he probably has preparations for us. He saw that Chen Duxiu didn't respond to this, and said: "I speculate that Lao Jiang is doing it under the pretext of disturbing public security and so on, which is to sow discord for the party headquarters in the future. They can only deal with Wuhan and solve Shanghai by force. To deal with the people, they can only deal with them like Jiangxi also employs gangsters. My opinion should be moderate on the surface, so I can prepare myself. I can use the Whampoa classmate party to welcome President Jiang, who unanimously supports the revolution. It's good to have an impact. Will Lao Jiang still go to see him?"

Chen Duxiu pondered for a moment, and agreed: "We want to seize the city government. But we don't know what Jiang's plans are. You should find a way to meet him. Explain five points to him: 1. The news from Nippon Dentsu No excuses; 2. Openly saying that the CP oppressed the Kuomintang; 3. The attitude towards the workers and peasants movement was different; 4. The rightist military officers used too much; We are dissatisfied, but it does not mean to knock him down." Through Song Ziwen, Zhou Enlai finally found Chiang Kai-shek's residence. Chiang Kai-shek got up to greet him, but he didn't talk much after sitting down.He listened to Zhou En, and when he mentioned the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, his face showed displeasure: "Some people say that I no longer trust the Communist Party, and even want to ban members of the Communist Party from being included in the Kuomintang. In fact, I did not support you at all. Last year I said at the Whampoa Military Academy that I had only invited other smaller revolutionary organizations to join hands with us, on the condition that I retain the power to ban any group that goes beyond the limits and intends to endanger the great cause of the national revolution. Shanghai Workers Pickets are also banned.”

"Shanghai workers' picket team is not an army, but a mass organization of workers. Its purpose is self-defense, and its actions should not be interfered with." Zhou Enlai especially emphasized this point. Chiang Kai-shek put it another way: "It's okay not to ban it, but it must be placed under my command." Zhou Enlai did not agree, but said: "The National Revolution has come to this point, thanks to the efforts of the Communist Party and the help of Soviet advisers, especially people like Borodin." It’s okay not to mention Borodin, but when Borodin was mentioned, Chiang Kai-shek slapped the table as if in pain from a flame blanket, and cursed: “Hankou is entirely caused by Lao Bao. If Lao Bao doesn’t leave, everything will be lost There is no way, Borodin should go home!"

"You can't say that. There are many foreign forces around us, which one is willing to lend a hand to help us!" "Hmph, it doesn't matter if you don't help, his old Bobby oppresses me more than Britain and Japan!" "I hope you can still publicly express your goodwill to our party, or to the Wuhan government." "I can't express it. If you stop attacking me, we can still discuss it. I am not satisfied with your current approach. You are completely subjective. In fact, the objective situation is not always the case. But I can still see your Mr. Zhongfu." Chiang Kai-shek stopped talking. Zhou Enlai also lost the topic.He remembered that when he was at the Whampoa Military Academy, Chiang Kai-shek was very aggressive, so he said from another angle: "I think this paragraph of yours seems to be more negative..." Chiang Kai-shek sighed: "I used to feel tired, and I wanted to rest in the field. But now so many people are united against me, I will never step down! I must do it to the end! Of course, I am not meddling in party affairs or political affairs. I can ignore these things, but I must take care of the military!" The conversation was fruitless. When the special committee held a meeting the next day, Zhou Enlai described the conversation with Jiang, and all the attendees fell silent. Chiang Kai-shek's various illogical views aroused chills in the hearts of the Communists... Chen Duxiu tried to straighten his waist.Chiang Kai-shek's thin arms seemed to squeeze towards him from the mystery, the shadow, and the emptiness. "Today, Enlai can go. And go to see Song Ziwen. We can talk to him more, and the conflict can be eased." .Now everyone in Shanghai knows that Chiang Kai-shek is having a hot fight with his sister Song Meiling, so Chiang Kai-shek can’t be too unsympathetic. With time, we can prepare ourselves.” The reason why Chen Duxiu is not worried that Chiang Kai-shek will die overnight He was the one who believed: "Zi Lin Xi Bao said that Jiang had only 3,000 troops, which is not enough to force the workers to surrender." Zhou Enlai's eyes were dark.He hasn't had a full night's sleep since the workers' uprising, and he's been running non-stop for the past few days, and he's exhausted.It was rare for him to forget. At this time, he remembered what Chiang Kai-shek said: "Chiang also said that if the Soviet Union did not reply to his protest, he would issue a separate declaration, announcing all the shady scenes of Lao Bao's sabotage of the national revolution." "This is blackmail!" Zhao Shiyan was furious. "I think Lao Jiang's work needs to continue, and the maintenance of the city government is imminent." Chen Duxiu is at a loss: "The city government has to hold a financial meeting, find Song Ziwen, and have a traffic meeting to restore traffic. There is also the issue of the Public Security Bureau. At present, we have to discuss with Jiang. There are also diplomatic aspects..." Everyone who listened was annoyed.It's just not well expressed.At this moment, someone brought up another topic: "I heard that Wang Jingwei will be in Shanghai in the next two days." Chen Duxiu raised his head: "Are you sure?" He comforted himself: Maybe we still have a way...