During the war, the Communist Party of China (CPC), which was not fighting against The Japanese but growing in strength, also did something that poisoned the Chinese people. The Communist Party had a song to promote Nanniwan, singing about the “good scenery” of the “good place”. Unfortunately, what was planted under the “good scenery” was not crops, but opium.
In other words, while the Kuomintang was at war with Japan, and while the Kuomintang was promoting the “New Life Movement” to improve the quality of the nation, the CCP was growing opium for its own selfish interests and selling it to the Japanese-occupied areas and the National Unification Area to poison the Chinese people.
The truth about Nanniwan
Where exactly is Nanniwan? According to information, it is a narrow valley 45 kilometers southeast of Yan’an City in Shaanxi Province, which was often infested with wild animals before it was reclaimed and was rarely inhabited. The Chinese Communist Party history records that because “in the spring of 1941 the Nationalist reactionaries imposed an economic blockade on the Shaanxi-Ganjiang-Ningxia border area and the anti-Japanese base areas, so the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party ordered the 8th Route Army 359 brigade to station in Nanniwan, the implementation of reclamation, production and self-help. …… In just three years, the 359th Brigade, led by Brigadier Wang Zhen, carried forward the revolutionary spirit of ‘self-reliance and hard work’ and turned Nanniwan, which was covered with thorns and thorns and deserted, into ‘crops everywhere, cattle and sheep everywhere. ‘ The good Jiangnan of northern Shaanxi.”
According to the Chinese Communist Party, it was to counter the economic blockade of the Kuomintang, so it carried out self-help production, so it planted a lot of crops and raised a lot of cattle and sheep. Some scholars disclosed after field investigation that Nanniwan, which was originally the only primitive forest in the Yan’an area, was cut down and burned by Wang Zhen’s Sanwujiu Brigade in an extremely barbaric and backward way, and then a large area of opium was planted; Zhang Sid, in “Serving the People,” was buried alive inside the kiln during the burning of the soot.
Behind the death of Zhang Sid
According to official records, Zhang Sid was born in 1915 in Hanjiawan, Yilong County, Sichuan Province, a tenant farmer. He joined the Red Army in 1933, then joined the Communist Youth League and participated in the “Long March” to the north. In 1942, he served as a guard of the Central Guard Corps, and in 1943, he served as Mao’s guard soldier; in 1944, he joined the Great Production Movement and burned charcoal in Ansai County.
After Zhang Sidde’s death, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China not only held a memorial service for him, but also Mao personally made a speech, saying that “his death was heavier than Tarzan”. A small security guard, did not do anything remarkable, but after or such a high standard of generous treatment, is very rare. And since then there is no such high specifications to commemorate a guard, although Mao said in a dignified manner that “in the future, no matter who died, whether it was a cook, a soldier, as long as he was doing some useful work, we have to give him a funeral, a memorial service”. What is the hidden message here?
The hidden message lies in the cause of Zhang Sid’s death. In fact, Zhang Sid did not die from burning charcoal, but died accidentally in the process of making opium. This is probably the reason why Mao and the Chinese Communist Party wanted to cover it up. The kiln where Zhang Sidde died is about 80 kilometers away from Nanniwan.
Some people refute this claim based on the photo of Zhang Sid carrying charcoal, because these people did not know that opium could be boiled. Opium is usually divided into raw opium and cooked opium. Cooked opium is raw opium that has been boiled and fermented into strips, slices, or chunks, usually packaged in thin cloth or plastic paper. When smoked by drug addicts, cooked opium can emit a strong sweet smell. Therefore, it is not unlikely that Zhang Sid boiled opium in the kiln.
Why was the guard regiment chosen?
The Chinese Communist Party naturally recognized that burning opium had a bad reputation, so the participants had to be trustworthy, i.e., they had to be able to keep it secret and ensure that those involved in the work would not enrich themselves. The “strong party spirit” and “strong discipline” of the Central Guard Corps soldiers were the first choice. It is said that, in addition to Zhang Sid, the Central Guard Corps many cadres, soldiers have taken turns to participate in the work of processing tobacco. It is said that in addition to Zhang Sid, many cadres and soldiers of the Central Guard Corps took turns to participate in the processing of tobacco clay.
Sadly, Zhang Sidey lost his young life for this criminal opium, and this “hero of burning tobacco” has kept the whole country in the dark for decades. The Chinese Communist Party has done a lot of harm to people!
Evidence that the Chinese Communist Party grew opium and sold it to the National Unification Area
There are detailed, verified accounts of the CCP growing opium in Yan’an and selling it for money in “Yan’an Diary” by TASS correspondent and Moscow correspondent in Yan’an, “Poppies under the Red Sun: The Opium Trade and the Yan’an Model” by Professor Chen Yongfa, and “The Long March: The Untold Story” by American scholar Harrison Salisbury.
For example, it was written in the Yan’an Diary that “illegal opium trading was going on everywhere. For example, in Chaling, the 120th Division headquarters, far behind the lines, set aside a house to process the raw materials from which opium was made and shipped to the market ……” and “The Politburo has appointed Ren Bishi as Commissioner for Opium… …”.
When Vladimirov Yo asked Mao: “The peasants of the SAR are often punished for illegal trade in opium, and now even the Communist-led army and organs are openly producing opium – what is going on?” When Mao did not say anything, Deng Fa, who was standing by, replied on Mao’s behalf, “Once upon a time the SAR only shipped salt and alkali to the National Unification Area. We went out with a big trailer full of salt, and the money bag we brought back was deflated, and there was only one money bag. Now we send out a bag of opium and are able to bring back a wagon full of money. We will use this money to buy weapons from the Kuomintang, and then turn around and use these weapons to clean them up! …… The Politburo of the Communist Party even approved that the development of public opium production and trade should be intensified …… to provide at least one million two hundred thousand taels of opium in one year for the markets of the provinces under the central government (called foreign markets)… …the opium thing, meaning that most of the cultivation and processing of poppies would be done by the troops to manage. The location of He Long’s 120th Division is the most important area for supplying opium (this division has been in this business for a long time) …… Comrade Mao Zedong said that in the present situation opium is to play a pioneering, revolutionary role, and it would be wrong to ignore this, and the Politburo unanimously supported the view of the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.”
Vladimirovoye also recorded: “There was a strange phenomenon in the liberated areas, and the same strange phenomenon occurred with the troops of the Chinese Communist Party. They were all doing business with the Japanese in the fallen areas as much as possible …… In fact all the counties in northwest Jin were flooded with all kinds of Japanese goods. These Japanese goods were directly supplied by the Japanese warehouses in the fallen areas ……”.
In addition, some scholars have also found the document that allowed the legal operation of opium tobacco and the collection of opium tobacco tax in Huai Taixi County, which was under the jurisdiction of the Sixth Special Zone of the Ji Lu Yu Border District of the Communist Party of China in 1945: “Interim Measures for the Collection and Management of Tobacco Tax in Huai Taixi County”.
In December 1936, when Xi’an launched a military revolt, Deng Baoshan, director of the Shaanxi Appeasement Office in Gansu, who was on the side of the Chinese Communist Party, not only gave support to Zhang and Yang, but also took the opportunity to meet with Mao and Zhu in Yan’an several times after the Japanese invaded China in 1937 and was appointed by the Kuomintang government as the head of the 21st Army. There is information on the Internet that Deng not only smoked opium but also grew opium, opened the door for mutual convenience with Yan’an, and helped Yan’an sell the grown opium to the National Unification Area. This naturally made the Chinese Communist Party overjoyed, and Mao called it “a great virtue, more dare not forget”, while Chiang Kai-shek did not notice.
Ren Bishi as opium commissioner
According to “Yan’an Diary”, the CCP also appointed an opium commissioner, Ren Bishou. His other titles during the war were Representative of the CPC to the Communist International, Secretary General of the CPC Central Committee, and Secretary of the CPC Central Secretariat.
Regarding the opium commissioner’s views on opium cultivation, an “internal reference” for senior Communist Party officials from the late 1980s contains this news item: In Yan’an, one evening in the early autumn of the 1930s, Ren Bishou, the Red Army commissioner, and Snow, an American journalist, were walking together along the Yan River when they came to the foot of Baota Mountain. Ren touched his goatee, which he had deliberately kept to show his status in the Party, pointed to a large golden crop waiting to be harvested, and said to Snow gratefully, “It’s another good year!” The young Snow, with his boyishness, obviously had not yet caught up with Commissioner Ren’s thoughts. Commissioner Ren continued his conversation, “In previous years, the cotton and cloth produced in the Yan’an Soviet base were pulled out by the truckloads, but not in exchange for the much-needed supplies in the base; in recent years, we have switched to opium cultivation, and truckloads of opium are pulled out, and truckloads of guns and ammunition, salt and medicine and other urgently needed supplies return, and the Yan’an Soviet base is expanding day by day ……”
Perhaps because of doing such a harmful thing, Ren Bishi’s health was said to have been poor. Just after the CCP entered Beiping, a decision was made on April 18, 1949: Ren Bishi must rest. On the day of the decision, he was accompanied by a doctor and was admitted to the Yuquan Mountain Recreation Center, and in May, instead of improving, Ren’s condition tended to deteriorate, with unprecedented coma symptoms. He was sent to Moscow for treatment, and returned to China in May 1950. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at the end of October and died on October 27.
Conclusion
From the above accounts and information, it is not difficult to conclude that the purpose of the CCP’s opium cultivation was to obtain maximum economic benefits, to buy weapons, etc., in order to seize power in the future, and not due to any KMT blockade. Didn’t the CCP have very free access to the Nationalist and Japanese-unified areas to buy goods? Imagine, at that time, the Kuomintang was in the middle of the war, how could it have any energy to blockade? Besides, the Communist Party had already signed a united front of anti-Japanese civilian capital, and the Kuomintang was providing funds to the CCP, so why did they need to blockade it?
The Kuomintang under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek advocated and promoted the New Life Movement to improve the quality of national resistance, and the government of the Republic of China began a strict anti-smoking campaign, a move deeply resented by Japan. Compared with the Chinese Communist Party, which legalized opium production and trade and shipped opium to the National Unification Area and enemy-occupied areas to kill and maim compatriots, and later glorified opium production as a “mass production movement for the sake of anti-Japanese resistance,” the Chinese Communist Party’s shamelessness is evident.
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