Chapter 10 Chapter 10: Zhou Enlai Conspired to Expedite the West, Mao Zemin was on Fear

The fall of Guangchang not only caused heavy losses to the Red Army, but also the base area was divided into several small pieces from the previous 20 or 30 counties.Only Ruijin, Yudu, Huichang and other counties are left in the Central Soviet Area, and the Central Soviet Area has reached its final juncture. The defeat in the Battle of Guangchang undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to Li De.When he withdrew from Guangchang to Ruijin, he fell ill. He lay down in the independent house on the outskirts of Ruijin and shut himself up.Everyone knows that his illness is a heart disease, and the only one who can cure him is himself.

At this time, the burden on Zhou Enlai was not light.Zhou Enlai, who had been silent before the Battle of Guangchang, finally called Bogu, Zhu De, and Li De on April 30, two days after the Red Army withdrew from Guangchang: My main force is quite tired after long-term fighting, and there are injuries, and there are many recruits. Cadres have a lot of shortcomings, especially after the Guangchang Battle, there is an urgent need to be sure of victory and great mobility.At the same time, he also pointed out in the 40th issue of the "Red Star" editorial that a serious situation is before us, and the time given to us by history is already very short. Implement all the calls of the party and the Soviet Central Government... When Zhou Enlai listed some of the most dangerous manifestations of Right opportunism in his article, he also listed "pure defensive fortressism" and "conservative division of troops" among them .

This editorial is clearly anti-"right", but the specific content implies anti-"left".Zhou Enlai knew that the Red Army had indeed reached the most dangerous moment, and it could no longer just sit and wait for death. The next step was for the Red Army to find its own way out. After the Battle of Guangchang, the Provincial Party Committee of Hubei, Henan and Anhui asked the central government to send military cadres to strengthen their strength. After research, it was decided to send Cheng Zihua, the commander of the 22nd Division. Before Cheng Zihua set off, they carefully studied the situation in the Hubei, Henan and Anhui regions as well as their successful experiences and failures.From Zhou Enlai's point of view, the strategic shift of the Fourth Red Army was a good way to break the enemy's "encirclement and suppression".That is to say, under the inspiration of the Red Fourth Front Army, Zhou Enlai germinated that the First Front Army would also carry out a major strategic shift when necessary.

When he proposed this idea to Bo Gu and Li De, Li De and Bo Gu also thought that this was a method when there was no other way. In May, Zhou Enlai attended a meeting of the Secretariat of the Central Committee in Ruijin to study the survival of the hinterland of the Central Soviet Area. The meeting found that it was very difficult to engage in internal operations, and decided to withdraw from the Soviet Area for greater strategic transfer, and reported this decision to the Communist International for approval. The answer of the Comintern was that although the current enemy is powerful, it should not panic. If it is really difficult to persist, it is not a bad idea to shift the strategy.It's very artistic.

Li De was like a trapped animal in the detached house, his imagination about victory and the future had vanished in his mind.He kept standing in front of the map of the Soviet area and thinking about it. He had to re-mark the situation between the Red Army and the enemy that he had marked before. This time, the Soviet area in front of him was getting smaller and smaller, and the enemy was getting thicker and thicker around him. , There was almost a overwhelming momentum, which made Li De's heart extremely depressed.He often wants to lose his temper. Xiao Yuehua carefully watched Li De aside, she didn't know what to do at this moment.Xiao Yuehua married Li De for the needs of the revolution.It can be said that before she married Li De, she didn't have the slightest feeling for Li De, and she still knows little about Li De until now.They don't understand the language, their living habits are different, and some of them just have a strange reverence for a foreign consultant.This poor mountain village girl married Li De with the spirit of revolutionary sacrifice.This is the task assigned to her by the organization, and she thinks she must complete this task well.She hardly made things difficult for the organization, and after the organization talked to her twice, she readily agreed.This made her companions very puzzled. In the past, the organization had done the work of those female companions, allowing herself to marry a thick and tall foreigner, and the female companions shook their heads in deterrence.At this time, Xiao Yuehua stepped forward.She thought that she and Li De would find "love", it didn't matter if they didn't understand the language, there was also the eternal love in the world, the moment they were physically satisfied with each other, Xiao Yuehua thought she had found this kind of love.Until they both arrived in Yan'an, and Li De fell in love with Li Lilian who came to Yan'an from Shanghai, Xiao Yuehua always cherished this love.

Xiao Yuehua knew Li De's distress at the moment, and she didn't know how to comfort this foreign husband.She silently made a cup of coffee for Li De, Li De has always loved this kind of thing as black as mud.Xiao Yuehua has never understood why Li De likes such bitter things.Since Li De loves to drink, she took no time to make a cup for him, and held it in front of Li De with both hands.Li Dezheng was standing in front of the map in an agitated mood. He didn't want anyone to disturb him at this moment, so he didn't even look at it, so he waved over the cup of coffee that Xiao Yuehua gave him.Xiao Yuehua screamed, and the hot coffee splashed her hand.She didn't know what made Li De unhappy, she just felt aggrieved, with tears in her eyes, she lowered her head to clean up the glass that fell on the floor.When she left Li De, she couldn't control herself anymore, she plunged into the bedroom, fell on the bed and sobbed and cried.

Standing in front of the map, Li De looked at Xiao Yuehua's disappearing back, feeling that he had lost his composure, he spread his hands helplessly and shrugged his shoulders.He couldn't explain anything to Xiao Yuehua because they didn't understand the language. When Li De recovered his mood and looked at the map again, it suddenly became dull. He knew that even if he continued to think so hard, there would be no results.He knew that Xiao Yuehua was crying, and there had been similar "misunderstandings" between them before, and he always stretched out his hands to turn Xiao Yuehua's teary face away, and kissed Xiao Yuehua as if venting, until Xiao Yuehua was in front of him. Tears burst into laughter, and then they did things between husband and wife again.This time, he walked towards his bedroom involuntarily, and as expected, Xiao Yuehua was crying on the bed.His heart was filled with compassion immediately, he bent down, and held Xiao Yuehua's face full of grievances and tears with both hands, he really had that kind of desire.At this time, he remembered a sentence that someone had said: Depressed men need women as much as happy men.He thought, this sentence is too true.

After some cloud and rain, the uneasiness and irritability in Li De's heart were indeed relieved.He sat on the bed, looked at Xiao Yuehua's head resting on his lap, and lighted a cigarette while stroking Xiao Yuehua's face.For some reason, he thought of his mother—in the wooden house in the town of Ismaning outside Munich, his mother sat under the lamp and wrote letters to him at the front line. The dim light reflected his mother's weather-beaten face.He quietly stood behind his mother, who would never have dreamed that her son, whom she missed day and night, was standing behind her.Li De read the letter his mother wrote to him. His mother's love and longing made him shed tears. His tears fell on his mother's hair bit by bit, which made his mother turn around. Say: My God—and take him in your arms...

Thinking of this, Li De couldn't help but feel a little sad. He shook his head, trying to get rid of the illusion of his mother.He starts to dress.When he came to the door, he saw Zhou Enlai pacing on the field ridge.Zhou Enlai had been here for a while, and he didn't bother Li De. Are you well rested?Zhou Enlai asked with humor and concern. Li De didn't know how to answer Zhou Enlai's question, so he just spread his hands. Zhou Enlai said again: You look good, shall we go for a walk? Li De said: I also wanted to go for a walk, but I was suffocated to death these days. The two walked along the field ridge without haste, and what they saw was a ray of sunset.

I think we should make some preparations.Zhou Enlai said so. Li De nodded helplessly. The treasure that was buried two years ago should also be unsealed, maybe it will come in handy. Li De nodded again. After Guangchang's defeat, Li De seemed to be less self-willed. The two felt that there was a lot to say at this moment, but they didn't know where to start. They just walked along the ridge in silence, walking towards the sunset with the same mood. When Zhou Enlai found Mao Zemin, it was the night he broke up with Li De.Mao Zemin lived in a bungalow in the backyard of the central government agency. He was in charge of the property work of the central government agency and also served as the president of the Chinese Soviet Bank.Mao Zemin personally poured a cup of tea for Zhou Enlai. Zhou Enlai did not drink the tea, but looked at Mao Zemin with a heavy heart.Since the loss of Guangchang, almost everyone in the entire Central Soviet Area has had a hard time seeing a smile.Mao Zemin was no exception. He also looked at Zhou Enlai with a heavy heart. Zhou Enlai came to him at night, and he could guess that it must be related to property without asking him.

Zhou Enlai spoke first: the sealed gold and silver should be taken out. Is it all?Mao Zemin asked. Zhou Enlai nodded.He also said: After the gold and silver were taken out, they were all sent to the Mint, where they were processed into silver dollars, gold buckles, and cards. What did Mao Zemin realize? He knew that the Red Army would have to take major actions in the next step, otherwise the large amount of gold, silver and jewelry would not have been sealed.Before the Red Army confiscated a large number of gold ingots, silver ingots, jewelry and valuables from landlords, local tyrants and rich people, only a small part was sent to the mint in the Soviet area to be processed into gold buckles, hairpins and shoehorns. Hide, go outside the Soviet area to exchange for guns, ammunition and some daily necessities.However, this kind of large-scale casting of silver dollars and gold buckles has never happened.Mao Zemin's heart sank, but he still nodded quickly. Zhou Enlai didn't say anything, but shook Mao Zemin's hand. Mao Zemin felt the strength of Zhou Enlai's hand. Seeing off Zhou Enlai, Mao Zemin felt an inexplicable feeling in his heart. This batch of treasures was sealed up two years ago.It was Mao Zedong's idea to seal up these treasures.Mao Zedong also specially sent two guards, Xiao Wu and Xiao Zhang, to help Mao Zemin work.Mao Zemin clearly remembered that it took him, Xiao Wu, and Xiao Zhang several days to pack the gold ingots, silver ingots, and jewelry into boxes, and then put a seal on each box.These works are carried out in secret. After packing the gold, silver and treasures into boxes, Mao Zemin went to a nearby village and hired some migrant workers, led by the village chairman Bai Xing.Bai Xing is in his 40s, with a yellow face and a pair of small eyes that are always blinking, which makes people uncomfortable.Bai Xing used to be a bandit, but when the Red Army came, he became the chairman of the village Soviet. Before Bai Xing became a bandit, his wife died, leaving only a teenage child in the family.Bai Xing's reputation in this area is not good, not only because he was a bandit, but also when he was a bandit, he did a lot of things like bullying men and women.After the Red Army came, they organized the villagers to divide the land from local tyrants. Some farmers had concerns, but no one dared to take the lead. At that time, Bai Xing was very active. He was the first to jump out, rushed into the landlord’s house, took out the title deed, and opened the In the granary, he even slapped Landlord Bai in public.Bai Xing became the village chairman as a matter of course.He has always been very active in the affairs of the Red Army, blinking his small eyes, almost responding to every request.As soon as Mao Zemin found him, he quickly recruited dozens of migrant workers. The migrant workers transported these things to the mountains. Before that, Mao Zemin took Xiao Wu and Xiao Zhang to find a cave in the mountains. The cave was big enough to hold the treasures from the Soviet area. Bai Xing himself carried a box of Lai'e treasures himself. He had also robbed the landlord's treasures when he was a bandit before. He was no stranger to treasures. Gold ingots are silver ingots, so he thought about it along the way.In order to verify whether the contents of this box were treasures, he pretended to fall and let the box roll down the mountain from his shoulder.The box fell apart, and he saw the treasures inside.At that time, his heart was beating wildly. Seeing so many treasures being carried into the mountain, his heart felt alive.From the very beginning, he didn't believe what the situation of the Red Army would be like. He thought that sooner or later the Red Army would be driven away by the Kuomintang army. The Red Army and the Kuomintang were fighting for power and profit. No matter who won the power, the common people had to live of.When he was a bandit back then, he was forced to do nothing.Thinking of these, he had his own idea. Mao Zemin directed the migrant workers to stop a few hundred meters away from the cave. He asked Xiao Wu and Xiao Zhang to give each of these migrant workers one silver dollar, and the migrant workers happily took the money and left.The last one was Bai Xing, who generously pushed away the money Xiao Wu handed him, and said to Mao Zemin: I don’t need money to help the Red Army, and I will just order anything in the future. Mao Zemin smiled at Bai Xing, took his hand and said a few words of thanks. Mao Zemin watched Bai Xing and others go far on the mountain road, and then he and Xiao Wu and Xiao Zhang transported the treasures into the cave. Bai Xing didn't really go far, he walked over a mountain ridge, found another road and turned back, he was very familiar with the mountain roads in this area, when he was a bandit, he moved in this area every day.He hid behind a tree and watched Mao Zemin and others transport the treasures into the cave box by box, and finally hid the cave with stones and branches.Then, he slipped home one step ahead of Mao Zemin. In those days, Tian Xing was restless all the time. He opened and closed his eyes, but boxes of treasures were always shaking in front of his eyes.He thought to himself, if he could have such a box of treasures in his life, he would not have to worry about eating and drinking. He sneaked into the mountains several times, and found that there was no Red Army guard there. He thought it was time to do it himself.He knew that he couldn't do it alone, he needed a helper.What he thought of was not others, but Wang Xiangui.Wang Xiangui was in his thirties. He used to be an old bachelor. After the Red Army came, he divided his fields and recently married a beautiful daughter-in-law from Qiancun. She was just 18 years old. A pair of nice dimples appeared. Since Wang Xiangui married such a young and beautiful daughter-in-law, Bai Xing began to make up his mind.He went to Wang Xiangui's house a few times, and apart from touching the face of his new daughter-in-law a few times and pinching her buttocks a few times, he didn't get any benefits.Later, Bai Xing came up with an idea. He arranged for Wang Xiangui to go to the district to deliver the letter. It would take a day to travel from the village to the district. In the evening, he came and called the new wife's door. The new wife opened the door thinking that Wang Xiangui had returned with a letter, without lighting the lamp.As soon as Bai Xing entered the door, he hugged his new daughter-in-law.The new daughter-in-law refused at first, but then Bai Xing slapped the new daughter-in-law and said: Do you want Wang Xiangui to live or die? The new daughter-in-law understood everything. Not long ago, Zhang Erbao from the east of the village died inexplicably.Zhang Erbao died on the way to the district to deliver the letter, saying that he was killed by gangsters.From then on, Tian Xing dared to go to sleep at Zhang Erbao's house in broad daylight, and Zhang Erbao's daughter-in-law was also very young. Hearing what Bai Xing said, the new daughter-in-law didn't dare to show it off, and went with what Bai Xing wanted.But during the day, Xingwan never expected that Wang Xiangui would rush back at this time.It turned out that Wang Xiangui met the correspondent in the district on the way. This correspondent had been to the village before. Wang Xiangui knew him, so he gave the letter written by Bai Xing to the district to the correspondent. That day, Wang Xiangui slapped Bai Xing several times, then grabbed him by the neck and went to the district to file a complaint.Bai Baixing knew that such a scandal should not become a big one. If he could not become the village chairman, if the matter of Zhang Erbao was found out, maybe the Red Army would shoot him.The hero didn't suffer from immediate losses, so he knelt down to Wang Xiangui, beat himself, called himself a jerk, and swore, "I won't dare to do it again next time." Although Wang Xiangui slapped Bai Xing when he was angry, he felt a little scared after he slapped him. He knew Bai Xing was a man, and besides, Bai was the village chairman.Seeing what Bai Xing said, Wang Xiangui stopped making trouble, he thought, even if he is dumb and eats yellow lotus, he will suffer in his heart, just be careful in the future. Bai Baixing wanted Wang Xiangui to be his helper, and he would get rid of this kind of helper whether or not he could succeed.He wants to get rid of Wang Xiangui and take his daughter-in-law as his own.Since he succeeded that time, he can't forget his new wife anymore, he wants to kill two birds with one stone. Bai Xing found Wang Xiangui.He called Wang Xiangui out in front of Wang Xiangui's house, and he didn't want Wang Xiangui's daughter-in-law to know about it.He took Wang Xiangui to a place where no one was there before saying: You and I are going to perform a mission.He looked around again, and then lowered his voice and said: Don't say anything, I found the place where Landlord Bai buried his floating wealth, just the two of us will go. Wang Xiangui was stunned for a while by Bai Xing's mysterious appearance, but he still believed it. He was a little glad that Bai Xing trusted him so much and let him and him go to carry out the task alone.He relaxed and said: When will you leave? Right now, the sooner the better, the white landlord will transfer the treasure later.While talking, Bai Xing dragged Wang Xiangui away. Wang Xiangui didn't have time to say hello to his wife, he just glanced hastily into his small courtyard, where his wife was cooking and the smoke was curling up from the roof. When Wang Xiangui followed Bai Xing to the entrance of the secret cave, it was already dark. Bai Bai Xing moved a few stones from the entrance of the cave, pointed to the inside and said, "The treasure is inside. Take out two boxes first and I will wait for you outside." Wang Xiangui glanced into the cave, and went in without thinking.Bai Baixing's heart almost jumped into his throat. He thought that after Wang Xiangui moved the treasure out, he would first move to a hidden place to hide the treasure, and then try to find a way to get rid of Wang Xiangui and let the Red Army come to a dead end. Maybe the Red Army will Suspected that the treasure was stolen by Wang Xiangui, by then... During the day Xing was thinking about this, he suddenly found Xiao Wu and Xiao Zhang walking on the mountain road.He never expected that Xiao Wu and Xiao Zhang would come here at this time. Since the Red Army sealed up the treasure secretly, Mao Zemin was not at ease. He often asked Xiao Wu and Xiao Zhang to go around the cave to prevent accidents.Today, Xiao Wu and Xiao Zhang came to inspect the place where the treasure was sealed under Mao Zemin's instructions. Bai Xing thought to himself, it seems that the treasure cannot be stolen.His first thought was to kill someone.At this time Wang Xiangui was coming out of the cave carrying a box of treasures. He saw Bai Xing and was about to speak when Bai Xing pointed behind Wang Xiangui with his hand. Wang Xiangui didn't know what happened behind him and turned his head away.Bai Baixing waved his hand and slammed a stone on Wang Xiangui's head... Bai Baixing then shouted: Come on, there are bad guys... When Xiao Wu and Xiao Zhang rushed to the entrance of the cave, Wang Xiangui had already collapsed in a pool of blood, with the treasure box that had just been carried on his body, Wang Xiangui didn't understand what happened until he died. During the day, Xing made up a set of lies, saying that he had discovered that Wang Xiangui had been acting suspiciously in the past two days. He often ran up the mountain, so he kept following Wang Xiangui, and later found out that Wang Xiangui was going to steal the equipment of the Red Army.He intentionally refers to treasure as equipment. When Xiao Wu and Xiao Zhang brought Bai Xing in front of Mao Zemin, Bai Xing repeated this set of lies again. It is difficult for people to find any flaws in his set of lies when there are no witnesses to expose them.Although Mao Zemin was dubious about Bai Xing's words, he couldn't see any flaws, so he sent Bai Xing away. Wang Xiangui's death was of course not publicized. Mao Zemin ordered Bai Xing to take two Red Guards to bury him hastily. From then on, Mao Zemin became wary of the sealed treasure. He sent some people to patrol in front of the secret cave. Sometimes, he also took Xiao Wu and Xiao Zhang there to have a look. After a false alarm, Bai Xing did not dare to act rashly again. Although his plan to steal the Red Army's treasure failed, he still got rid of Wang Xiangui, which was a gain for him. Wang Xiangui's fair-born daughter-in-law was stunned by the sudden change in front of her.When she understood it, she immediately realized that it was Bai Xing's conspiracy. She knew better than anyone else what it was all about, but she didn't dare to say it, and she couldn't tell. From then on, Bai Xing came to her room every night, and she never dared to refuse. She knew that Bai Xing could do what he said.Bai Xing took possession of her again and again, and she could only wash her face with tears.She can't think of a better way to take revenge on Bai Xing, she can only endure, she is a married woman, she has no right to go back to her natal family, and she still has to live under Bai Xing's subordinates, she looks forward to the end of the long night sooner. Ever since the property was sealed up in the mountains and the Wang Xiangui incident happened again, Mao Zemin has been worrying about that property.After Zhou Enlai came to him, he sighed secretly, he didn't have to worry about those belongings all day long.However, he immediately thought of the fate of the Red Army. Guangchang fell, and the territory of the Soviet area became smaller and smaller. What kind of big actions will the Red Army take?Then he thought of his brother Mao Zedong.While he was worried about the Red Army, he was also sweating for his brother.Ever since his elder brother was deprived of military power, he has been worried about his elder brother.In this political struggle, he couldn't tell who was right and who was wrong, but when he saw his brother's sad face, he felt uncomfortable. Mao Zedong has been investigating in the capital and rarely returns to Ruijin.Every time I go to Ruijin, I always have to sit with my brother.When Mao Zedong walked outside, he always greeted people warmly when he met them, and he was still so chatty and laughing.But whenever he walked into Mao Zemin's hut and sat face to face with his younger brother, he was the real Mao Zedong.He seldom speaks, just smoking one cigarette after another, gulping down the tea his brother poured for him, as if he came here just to drink tea.Mao Zemin didn't know what to say to his brother.The two brothers remained silent.After a long while, Mao Zemin finally said, "Your complexion is very bad. Are you in poor health?" Mao Zedong smiled wryly, then shook his head. Mao Zemin stopped talking and watched Mao Zedong smoking and drinking tea. Every time Mao Zedong came, he had to stay for a meal before leaving.Every time he ate, Mao Zemin always sent people to the street to buy some fresh chili peppers and made them for Mao Zedong himself.Mao Zemin also likes to eat chili, but in front of his brother, he is willing to bow down.Whenever the younger brother brings up a large plate of red and fresh peppers, the older brother smiles. Mao Zedong stepped on the ground with one foot and stepped on the chair with the other. Sometimes he even squatted on the chair, his face flushed and sweat dripping from eating.Mao Zedong sometimes unbuttoned his clothes, sometimes he simply took off his clothes, and ate up the plate of fresh peppers in one go with his bare arms. Mao Zedong finally let out a long breath as if he had completed his task: "It's so enjoyable." Mao Zemin said on the side: eat too much chili and get angry. Mao Zedong didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, he also said: If you are not afraid of getting angry, you are afraid of not getting angry. Every time Mao Zedong left Mao Zemin's residence, Mao Zemin never sent him off.Mao Zemin watched his brother's back disappear before closing the door.For some reason, whenever he faced his brother's thin and lonely back disappearing from his sight, there would always be a burst of sadness in his heart. He knew that his brother was suffering.The Red Army is about to take another major action this time, will it affect my brother's state of mind, does my brother know about this major action? On the second day after Zhou Enlai left, Mao Zemin hired some migrant workers again, and Xiao Wu and Xiao Zhang came to assist him in his work again. This time the transfer went very smoothly, and after going down the mountain, the treasures were directly transported to the Mint in the Soviet District.Since then, until the Long March of the Red Army, the small mint in the Soviet area has been busy processing gold and silver ingots into easy-to-carry gold buckles and silver dollars. Mao Zemin no longer worried about these treasures.The Mint in the Soviet Area is guarded by the Red Army day and night. Mao Zemin really wanted to see his brother again. He felt that he needed to ask his brother for advice on many things, including the affairs of Bai Xing and Wang Xiangui.After a long time, Mao Zemin was troubled by Wang Xiangui's death.