Chapter 65 He Long and Guo Moruo under the party banner

After the battle in Huichang, the rebel army returned to Ruijin to rest.Since the departure from Fuzhou, the rebel army has been troubled by the enemy's situation. In addition, under the scorching heat, they were traveling day and night. Many things were decided in a hurry, but they were not executed in a hurry. The marching route, the disposal of captured guns, the propaganda of the agrarian revolution, the resettlement of the wounded and the sick, and the admission of military leaders to the party all required the commanders to sit down and implement them one by one.Fortunately, the enemy has been driven hundreds of miles away, the dry heat in August has come to an end, and the cool breeze in September has already refreshed our hearts.Ruijin, a small city that was not well-known at first, wrote its revolutionary history from this.Not only Ruijin City itself, but also its surrounding Shazhouba, Yeping, Dabaidi, etc., are all famous for the word "revolution". Therefore, Ruijin can be said to be the "Land of Auspiciousness" of revolution.Although the revolutionary situation at that time was not optimistic.

Rui Jincheng still changed his appearance.The orally spread demands in the hearts of some masses were refined by the scholars in the uprising army and became eye-catching slogans, which were copied and posted in the streets and alleys, attracting the praise of passers-by.One of the couplets read: "Wan households owe me money, and thousands of households don't care about idleness. Hundreds of households follow me, 8 yuan a month. Those who wish to come will follow me, and those who don't come will farm at home." This is a call to overthrow the The local tyrants and evil gentry are vivid slogans for mobilizing young people to join the army. "Ten thousand households" refers to households with ten thousand yuan; the second sentence means that households with one thousand yuan can temporarily ignore him; money".

This is a revolution that originated in the city, but the leaders of the rebel army often talked about the land revolution along the way.Due to the hardships of the war and the journey, many of the provisions of the research could not be truly implemented. It was only during the rest period in Ruijin that I had the energy to sit down and discuss again. Many agenda items could not be implemented.And the rebel army's own money bags and food bags are almost empty.Lin Boqu, chairman of the Finance Committee, was even more worried.When the Revolutionary Committee was first born, it had discussed fiscal policy issues and decided that in principle, the old method of withdrawing, distributing and borrowing money from the old government or chambers of commerce should be changed fundamentally in principle, and the financial burden should be placed on the poor workers and peasants. , transferred to the wealthy class, and decided to abolish likin and other exorbitant taxes immediately.At that time, the Finance Committee confiscated the Jiangxi Central Bank's cash, together with other funds totaling nearly 30,000 yuan, but it could not manage for a few days to supply an army of nearly 30,000 people.

After arriving in Linchuan, difficulties occurred in military pay and supplies.Paper money cannot be circulated, and it is urgent to find ways to prepare silver dollars and other cash.Even so, the majority now advocates the complete abandonment of the old policy. Tan Pingshan objected: "Haven't everyone suffered enough along the way? The troops have traveled long distances, the military situation is urgent, and the local situation is unknown. The confiscation and requisition work has gained nothing. The new policy will not work." Lin Boqu knew the pain best, and despite the opposition of the majority, he still insisted: "Chairman Tan is right. I think that under such specific conditions, we might as well adopt the old method for the time being. The purpose is to ensure the march of the troops first."

At this moment, it seems that people pay more attention to "revolutionary", and the opinions of the two old men are regarded as conservative and rejected.But the new fiscal policy cannot be implemented.Because the peasant movement in eastern Jiangxi had not yet arisen, it was difficult to find out who the local tyrants and evil gentry were for a while, but the old method could raise some cash.Therefore, from Linchuan to Ruijin Road, the method of fundraising was extremely chaotic.Originally, I wanted to rely on hunting local tyrants and robbing rich households to supply funds, but I didn’t see a few wealthy households along the way. The rich people who had some money had already fled and hid, and valuable things were also fortified; It is getting more and more difficult.As a result, the "old method" that was denied by everyone has been revived in practice.

Although it didn't seem very "revolutionary", it worked. The rebels had silver dollars jingling in their pockets, and they were full of energy and went on their way.Especially in Tingzhou, Fujian, the Chamber of Commerce also admitted to raising funds, so it stopped punishing the "big money". The millionaires don't pay more than three to five hundred yuan.So the Revolutionary Committee decided to abandon the old method and organize a wartime economic committee to manage everything, but when they arrived in Chaoshan, Guangdong, they gave up this method again, and adopted the opinions of Lin Boqu, Tan Pingshan and others to follow the old method again.The War Economic Council also died.This is something.Under the name of the Revolutionary Committee, the Political Defense Department under the charge of Li Lisan became an organ dedicated to suppressing the reactionaries, and decided to adopt a policy of severe suppression of the local tyrants and evil gentry.

However, in eastern Jiangxi, because the peasants did not rise up, this policy was almost impossible to carry out. Only in Ruijin, Huichang, Guangchang, etc., more than 30 local tyrants and evil gentry and a few members of the AB regiment were killed.In Ruijin City, he killed the local tyrant Yang Jiayao.Zhu De led people to disperse Haoyang, and distributed the millet to the poor.The slogan "Fields to the tiller and houses to the dwellers" was also posted.A county government was also established in Ruijin. When they arrived in Ruijin, the rebel army had time to study the party membership of several important figures.Guo Moruo's political inclinations have been clearly written in the famous "Look at Today's Chiang Kai-shek".Chiang Kai-shek beat his chest and stamped his feet, vowing not to kill Guo Moruo was not enough to relieve his hatred; this essay against Chiang was written at Zhu De's residence, and the Communists also admired Guo Moruo's courage.At that time, the bravery of many intellectuals was not inferior to martial arts.Therefore, Guo Moruo's joining the party is a matter of course, it is only a matter of time.He Long is different.Some people in the party are worried that a high-ranking general with his experience and background will formally join the Communist Party.

Especially Zhang Guotao.Although he was often He Long's guest, and he was good at eating and talking, but when he returned to the "Party", he talked about He Long again.Of course, he was more interested in what He Long said in no uncertain terms, especially the various methods of pulling the pole, and he was even more interested than ordinary people, so he described it to others with embellishments when he had time. Regarding He Long's joining the party, Zhou Enlai had been thinking about it for a long time, and felt that it could not be delayed any longer, so he asked Zhang Guotao for his opinion.

Zhang Guotao first talked about his dissatisfaction with He Long from his life: "Judging from his living habits, he is not enough for a Communist Party. Look at his large military organization, with a sedan chair carried by 4 people and a cook following him. There is still a big banquet in the camp. Didn’t you hear the officers and soldiers of the 11th Army secretly scolding them for bandits?” Zhang Guotao didn’t say that he often went to get money, and started to say bad things as soon as he wiped his mouth. "It's okay to celebrate after winning the battle. His troops are not as disciplined as the Eleventh Army, but it's not good to scold them with old eyes. We should do more work." Zhou Enlai talked about his views. "Comrade He Long has had no quarrel with us since the Nanchang riots until now. He has talked to me many times about his admiration for the Communist Party."

"I don't deny this. It's just that he thinks that the CCP's approach is better than his previous style of being a bandit. He thinks that when he was a bandit, he only had some simple ideas of eradicating the rich and helping the poor, and fighting for the poor. The Communist Party of China , have a political platform, and organize the masses of workers and peasants. Obviously, there is a complete set of methods. This is just a philosophy of bandit warlords, and it is also the banditism that was quite popular in peasant uprisings in Chinese history." "Guo Tao, you can't have too high demands on a comrade who has just joined the revolutionary ranks."

"Yes, you can't ask too much of ordinary people, but he is a special person. I am worried that if the situation is not good, maybe he will drag his team to his original career, and another Cai Tingkai will appear." "You can't look at it this way. He is sincerely cooperating. Moreover, he himself has made such a request. If it is ignored, it may cause him uneasiness. I have consulted with other comrades, and they all agree with my proposal." "Since they have all agreed, I will not raise any objections. Anyway, he is a special party member. For military and political needs, it is true that he cannot be denied membership in the party." "Here you are the highest leader of the party, will you preside over the party joining ceremony?" "Fine." That night, in an elementary school by the Ruijin River, the classrooms were brightly illuminated by gas lamps.A party flag had already been hung on the wall, and the leaders of the former committee picked desks and chairs and sat down casually, chatting in low voices, waiting for Guo Moruo and He Long to come in. Guo Moruo was no stranger to everything in the classroom, and he greeted everyone he was familiar with with a calm demeanor. He Long is not.He has seen bigger formations than this one, most likely it was the joining ceremony in the temple of Xiangtang Temple.He once thought that joining a small gang has many rules and a strict atmosphere, and joining a large organization like the Communist Party would be even more solemn, so he was unavoidably nervous when he first entered. The host Zhang Guotao is indeed serious. According to the prior agreement, Guo Moruo had Zhou Enlai and Li Yimang, and He Long had Tan Pingshan and Zhou Yiqun as party introducers. Yun Daiying, Ye Ting, Li Lisan and others spoke successively, congratulating, encouraging, or wishing, and then asked Guo Moruo and He Long to raise their right fists and swear an oath to the party flag.Zhang Guotao took the lead, and the two of them followed, and the ceremony came to an end soon. When he walked out of the venue, He Long suddenly felt relaxed, took out a pipe from his pocket and lit it.He smiled lightly at Zhang Guotao who was walking beside him: "This procedure is not complicated, it's not as complicated as joining the Gelaohui." Zhang Guotao immediately said in a lesson-oriented tone: "The bandit and the elder brother's association are maintained solely by precepts. Don't look at the simple procedures for joining the CCP. It is based on faith and supplemented by discipline. Although discipline is not complicated, it must be followed. Strictly abide by it, and it cannot be regarded as a written statement." When Zhang Guotao taught He Long in this way, he probably never imagined how thoroughly Bolshevik He Long, a "new student" in the party, would be transformed from a famous "king of the mountain" to a A staunch member of the Communist Party; and himself, an old party member at the "mentor" level, completely abandoned his belief in communism and took refuge in Chiang Kai-shek's tent, which made his glorious history stained with filth.