As the mayor of Shanghai, he has the unique advantage of climbing up the ladder, that is, several heavyweights in the Communist Party like to recuperate in Shanghai. Jiang Zemin wants to go to Beijing to meet these people, begging grandpa and grandmother can not easily meet a side, this good opportunity sent to the door Jiang and how willing to let go. The same as revenge on the university students, Jiang Zemin is also particularly attentive and dedicated to patronizing several heavy-weight senior citizens to serve the dazed.
The people who have no political achievements are stepping on others to go up, Jiang Zemin is more so.
The academic wave has fallen, Deng Xiaoping in December 30, 1986, published a speech “banner to oppose the bourgeoisie liberalization”, which said: “The masses in Shanghai said that the central government has a protective layer, on whether to adhere to the four basic principles, whether to oppose liberalization, there are also two views. ” Jiang Zemin read Deng Xiaoping’s speech the next day, he understood that Hu Yaobang’s reform ideas and the Party’s conservative forces are incompatible, Chen Yun, Li Xiannian and others have long wanted to remove Hu Yaobang and then fast, and the reason why Hu is on the stage is that Deng Xiaoping this big umbrella shade. Now Deng Xiaoping has publicly declared his dissatisfaction with Hu Yaobang’s “ineffective anti-liberalization”, and the smell of the central government’s downfall is getting stronger and stronger.
Jiang Zemin, who was very happy with Deng Xiaoping’s speech, thought it was very important for him to declare that he was in full agreement with the Central Committee at this juncture, but he did not have the opportunity to talk to Deng Xiaoping and the other senior Communist Party leaders.
It just so happened that in the winter of that year, President Li Xiannian came to Shanghai again and stayed in a hotel. One night Li summoned Jiang Zemin and had dinner together, during which he inadvertently mentioned that he had a birthday that day. Although Jiang Zemin was the mayor of Shanghai two years later, the Shanghai people had a “Food basket” crisis, but the central government of several old people’s birthday Jiang all remembered. Jiang Zemin while eating heart wondering, Li Xiannian’s birthday he memorized by heart, clearly “June 23, 1909”, how to spend his birthday in winter.
At that Time, there was no “second wife” in mainland China, but as documented in “Mao Zedong’s Personal Physician”, the Life style problems of senior cadres were very common. Some people say that Peng Dehuai was beaten down not because of the Great Leap Forward, but because of his opposition to the Zhongnanhai Cultural and Industrial Troupe. Peng Dehuai openly said, “I do not oppose Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou dancing, although I never dance myself. But dancing is dancing, why must we organize a Zhongnanhai Cultural and Industrial Troupe to accompany the head of the Central Committee to dance, and get some beautiful young girls to be locked up here all day long. The people will curse if they know!” The central level of senior cadres almost everyone so, Li Xiannian is naturally no exception. He had a young wife in Shanghai, a nurse, not only to Li considerate, but also for Li had a son.
Jiang Zemin understood, it was either Li Xiannian’s little wife’s birthday or his little son’s birthday. Jiang Zemin certainly knows that this gift must be sent, who knows that “pillow wind” the hardest, especially the “bias wind” more hard. Jiang Zemin was originally for Hu Yaobang that thing to come, did not expect to have such a thing. He suppressed his chagrin, while eating and carefully prying Li Xiannian’s views on Hu Yaobang, when he heard Li’s attitude, immediately sincere attitude, said Li Lao’s words to benefit their lives, they are determined to follow Li Lao’s instructions to do. Li Xiannian was very pleased. After the meal Jiang Zemin dare not stay long, because there is a “big thing” not done.
When the driver sent Jiang Home, asked him what else could be done, Jiang said no more, let him go home. Looking at the car fading away, Jiang expected that the driver would not see him again, and did not even enter the house, immediately sneaked out to buy a large cake. Although it was late, Jiang did not hesitate, did not bring anyone, himself in a cab again to the hotel. At this time, Li Xiannian is receiving other people, the guard saw Jiang came again, kindly told him to go in, Jiang shook his head, respectfully standing at the door. Unfortunately, the weather was cold and snowy that day, and Jiang Zemin traditionally pick up the car to send, the first time to go only wore a thin coat, and the second did not expect to stand outside for so long, so freezing shivering. The guards saw Jiang frozen into this way, many times called him in, Jiang just smiled and did not say a word. Jiang knew that this would be more pleasing to Li Xiannian and his concubine’s goodwill towards himself. Jiang stood with the cake in his hand for four hours, the person being received still did not leave, Jiang later in the guard’s repeated persuasion, had to leave the cake, disappointed to go back.
After Li Xiannian’s visitor left, the guard sent the cake inside and said Jiang stood outside respectfully for several hours. Li Xiannian was moved by the moment, said: “Jiang is good, now such people are rare!”
Kuhn wrote in his biography of Jiang Zemin: “Jiang took such exceptional care of Li that an unfounded rumor emerged – that Jiang Zemin was Li’s son-in-law.” Indeed, the rumor spread because the public did not understand at the time the pivotal position of the Communist Party elders and thus Jiang’s true intentions. In fact, such efforts eventually brought Jiang Zemin the greatest reward on the eve of June 4, when he replaced Zhao Ziyang as General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee.
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