I recently saw a material Mao Zedong and Snow had this conversation.
Snow: When did you decide to bring down Liu Shaoqi? President: In 1958, when he was the president of the country, he decided to get rid of him. Snow: Didn’t you recommend him to be the president? President: Yes, but because one mountain cannot hide two tigers. Snow: Did he know that you wanted to get rid of him? President: He is a very honest man, he doesn’t know anything. Snow: When did he know? President: After the 11th Plenary Session of the 8th Central Committee, he went from the second to the seventh place in the ranking before he knew, but by this time he could do nothing about it, because all the people around him had been screwed by me.
This is obviously Mao for his own handwriting chirp, and completely in line with reality. In my opinion, it is inaccurate to say that Liu Shaoqi did not know at all that he was going to get rid of him. It should be said that before the 11th Plenary Session of the 8th Central Committee, at least when the May 16 Notice was issued, he already knew that the situation was not good. The people are also guessing who the “sleeping Khrushchev” refers to, and there are still a few points in the whirlpool. But I always thought, after all, there are organizational principles in place, it will not be able to do anything to him. Until you take out the “Constitution” to defend yourself, you still have this belief in mind. It is really unbelievable that a man who was at the top of the hierarchy was finally killed just because of a disagreement. In the last stage of his life, he should have thought a lot, and I wonder if he thought of Wang Shimi. Now his encounter with Wang Shimi is very similar. Wang Shimi is Liu Shaoqi’s preview, Liu Shaoqi is Wang Shimi’s reenactment. This is for Wang and Liu, both are unexpected.
In March 1942, Wang Shimi’s Central Academy of Sciences held a mobilization meeting on the leadership of the rectification of the “rectification and inspection of the composition of the working committee”, the temporary president of the Vice Minister of the Central Propaganda Department Li Weihan instructions, “the leaders of the Institute and the heads of research laboratories as ex-officio members “, Wang Shiwei proposed that all the inspection committee are elected by the people, the final vote, in favor of all elected by three-fourths won. The result was all elected by the masses produced 21 prosecutors. The action of the Central Research Institute sensationalized Yan’an and had a huge impact. The masses thought that democracy had won. Wang Shimi was emboldened by the belief that democracy was justified and took advantage of the victory to attack, with a monthly allowance of four and a half pieces of French currency (five for Mao Zedong and four for Lin Boqu), a small stove with no shortage of meat in the bowl, and a superior position wearing a uniform of four pockets of fine cloth in the green National Unification Area, he opposed the hierarchy in a high profile and took a hard position, with no fear of speaking out against the superiors, with the momentum of giving orders. The “Wild Lilies” was sent to the “Liberation Daily”, and the “Yah & T” wall paper, which was an advocate of his own, was hung on a red cloth in the downtown area and viewed by an endless stream of people.
Within a few days, Wang Zhen read the wall paper and judged it to be “scolding the Party on a full stomach”. Mao Zedong learned that one night, accompanied by a guard, carrying a horse lamp and torch to read the wall newspaper, and found that “the ideological struggle has a goal”. Mao read “Wild Lilies” and said, “This is Wang Shimi hanging on to the marshal, not Marxism hanging on to the marshal. Thereafter, the Social Department of the Central Committee, chaired by Kang Sheng, intervened, from Trotskyist ideology to Trotskyist activities to Trotskyist organizations, and finally to confirm the Trotskyists. The basis for this was simply that he had been asked by two classmates to translate two chapters of Trotsky’s biography and Lenin’s Will without their knowledge, and that he had stopped seeing them after a brief encounter with his wife Liu Ying, who was vigilant and had her own suspicions.
In fact, there is no conclusive evidence is not important, as long as a little shadow, as a garnish is enough. It is the further development of the movement needs such a trophy Wang Shiyi only. There was no such thing, but one had to be created. In the early days there were arguments about positions and motives, after that, it was one-sided, a tent wind, Wang became the target, no one could help him.
Wen Jize, who was temporarily transferred to the CTRC as a propaganda officer of the Party Committee during the rectification period, ran to Wang Shimi’s kiln to talk: “You have come a long way to Yan’an, certainly not for yourself, but in the future, words and actions should pay attention to the position and methods. Think about it, where can be so equal today?” Wang Shimi was moved and took Wen Jize’s hand and cried bitterly, “I was wrong, but, indeed, out of love for the Party’s good intentions!” The kind and enthusiastic Wen Jize immediately went to the party secretary Li Yan: “I think Wang Shimi is a one-sided person with wrong views. Now that he has admitted his mistake, should we not raise it to a political issue?”
Li Yan listened, after a while, slowly said, “You tell him to be more serious. You are representing the party committee, don’t make him feel anything.” Wen Jize hastily parted, “I don’t represent the party committee, I represent myself.” The next day, Li Yan called Wen Jize to the side, quite heavy between the tone, said quietly: “Yesterday’s incident reported to Comrade Kang Sheng, he said you have warmongering. There is another situation that cannot be told to others: Wang Shimi is a Trotskyist, has organizational activities, and is also an agent of the Blue Coat Society. He is different from others, not an ideological problem. You work in the Party Committee, and you have to pay attention to your actions.”
After that, Wen Jize no longer dared to visit Wang Shimi privately. At this time, Wang Shimi, has admitted his mistakes can not. Not allowed to admit mistakes, more painful than not allowed to revolution. A criticism of the Wang Conference adjourned when Wang Shimi and Wen Jize walked together, said softly: “My mistakes, only I can liquidate, other people, no matter how good the philosophy, will not figure out.” Wen Jize sneered.
Xiao Jun had asked Mao Zedong about Wang Shimi, Mao said, this has nothing to do with you, you should not ask. Xiao Jun then stopped asking questions about the matter. Later, Xiao Jun personally experienced the criticism meeting, he sat at the back of the meeting, can not hear what the people in front of what to say, only know Wang Shimi every sentence, immediately attracted a roar and rebuke. Xiao Jun could not help but stand up and shout: “Hey,…… let him say well, why not tell him to speak!” People’s eyes shot at Xiao Jun in unison. On the way to adjourn the meeting Xiao Jun whined that, like a dog fight, buckle urine pots, was reported upward, the Central Research Institute a group of people to him to raise the blame, he angrily submitted a memorandum to Mao Zedong. But Xiao Jun’s chivalry could not change Wang Shimi’s fate.
Wang Shimi offered to resign from the Party, saying that his “personal contradiction with the Party’s utilitarianism could hardly be resolved” and that he wanted to go “the way he wanted to go”. But “Lao Jiu could not leave”, the party needed him to continue to play a role in the position of villain. At this point, Wang Shimi was completely isolated and became untouchable. He found Xiao Jun’s kiln and asked Xiao to deliver letters from Hu Qiaomu and Mao Zedong for him. Although Xiao Jun dared to affirm in private that Wang Shimi was by no means a toady, Xiao also blew Wang away this time in order to reduce unnecessary trouble.
Afterwards, Xiao still forwarded the letter Wang had entrusted to him, but unfortunately there was no reply. The letter was incoherent, headed “Great Qiao, forwarded to the great Chairman Mao, to the Party Central Committee” and addressed to “Counter-revolutionary Wang Shimi, who has made a hundred and a thousand obeisances,” apparently, Wang Shimi had lost his mind. Among the sober places are: “Save me, send me to a quiet place to yell, I want to be quiet ah! Not necessarily to the Summer Palace, Beidaihe or Moganshan, see if Wu Mangyou has a seat at home? I must leave the Central Research Institute, I must!”
On the night of April 1, 1943, Wang Shimi was arrested by order of Kang Sheng, and in May and June 1944, when a group of Chinese and foreign journalists visited Yan’an, Wang Shimi was arranged to appear to prove that he was alive and well, but Zhao Chaoguang wrote down in his “January in Yan’an” what he felt was abnormal. In March 1947, when the central government evacuated Yan’an, the Central Social Department was ordered to escort Wang Shimi to the Jinsui base area, east of the Yellow River. On the way, Wang Shimi became a burden because of his “unhealthy nerves and poor health“.
On July 1, Jinsui public security cadres took Wang Shimi to a remote mountain corner on the bank of the Yellow River, chopped him to death with a machete and put him in a dry well. When Mao Zedong found out about this six months later, he was furious and asked someone to pay him a Wang Shimi. In 1945, at the Seventh Congress, Mao Zedong revealed the reason, “The party must unify its thinking in order to move forward, otherwise there will be differences of opinion. Wang Shimi called the king and hegemony, you can not move forward. 42 years, Wang Shimi in Yan’an hanging, he put out a wall newspaper, attracting people from all over the South Gate to see, he is the ‘commander-in-chief’, we lost the war ……”
I think, if Liu Shaoqi in Kaifeng consciousness is still clear, can not not think about Wang Shimi, can not help but the more you think about the more similar. The same is gradually escalated bit by bit, step by step, completely isolated, and ultimately no one can save. Application to go to Yan’an to plant land and not available. If I had asked to take out shit with Shi Chuanxiang, I wouldn’t have been able to get it either, and Shi Chuanxiang was also knocked down.
If you think about it from the side of Mao Zedong, said Wang Shiyi hang commander-in-chief, when the commander-in-chief, or he sealed the big say, shall be with a quotation mark, but Liu Shaoqi is the real gun real board “command into a double”, a mountain can not be two tigers, is a few thousand years of common sense ruling techniques. Liu’s success, is Mao’s defeat. How can we admit this defeat! Cannon hit the command, it is imperative. Even if we go back to Jinggang Mountain, even if we are a hundred years behind. At any cost, where will care about the injustice or injustice of your human life. Compared with the great cause, a human life, such as ants, such as light dust, what is enough! From Wang Shiyi to Liu Shaoqi, all the unjust cases of the movement can be viewed in this way.
History is amazingly similar. Not to mention the history of the same handwriting. Even if it is not the same handwriting, as long as it is not the rule of law or the rule of man, history will repeat itself in a strikingly similar way.
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