Gao Hua’s account of the September 13 Incident and the Mao-Lin controversy is interesting and informative.
During the Cultural Revolution, Lin Biao defected and died in a plane crash in Outer Mongolia, which dealt a fatal blow to Mao Zedong, who said of the September 13 incident: “It will rain on the sky, and my mother will get married, which means that what should happen will happen. He had a knack for finding brilliant explanations for the mistakes he made.
The Great Famine, for example, was described to him as “nine fingers of achievement and one finger of error.
Mao is the best at imperialism, and is good at playing balance among senior cadres. The leftists borrowed to fight the rightists, the rightists borrowed to fight the leftists, and finally the leftists and rightists had to please him and listen to the teachings and obedience.
Mao used Lin Biao to protect him, and with his personal cult of commanding millions of people, he could do as he pleased.
Lin Biao was used by Mao, who thought that Mao had really made him his prince, but who knew that Mao never played his cards according to the rules of the game, and that he could touch you and you could not touch him. Liu Shaoqi can be defeated, why not Lin Biao? After the fall of Lin Biao, Mao created Wang Hongwen, who was not up to the task, and replaced him with Hua Guofeng. The second half of Mao’s life was spent looking for a secure person to take over, who didn’t necessarily have to be capable, but most importantly, reliable, not daring to whip the corpse behind Mao’s back.
Lin Biao had personal ambition and a rebellious bone, which is why he ultimately failed to please Mao. But at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, the two men needed each other and used each other, and when Liu Deng fell and the main contradiction disappeared, the contradiction between the two men was exposed. Lin Biao did not understand what Mao was trying to do with the Cultural Revolution, and thought that Mao only wanted to clear the ruler’s side. He didn’t know that Mao’s intention was not to secure his job, but to secure his own historical position.
Lin Biao had offended too many people for Mao’s Cultural Revolution, and owed a lot of blood debt, and had to make himself a second-generation emperor for security reasons.
After Lin Biao’s accident, Zhou Enlai cried a lot, and Gao Hua thought Zhou was worried about his own situation, which I have some reservations about. After the fall of Lin Biao, the Gang of Four directed their struggle at Zhou, who by then was already suffering from a serious illness and was dying, crying bitterly not for himself but for the CCP.
The Cultural Revolution had failed, the political situation was bizarre, the economy collapsed, and the Chinese Communist Party was in jeopardy, which was the root cause of Zhou’s grief.
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