Wake up（131）

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If there is no reward for good and evil, there must be selfishness in the universe. Good and evil will eventually be rewarded in the end. We only strive to come early and come late. Those who swim in sin will surely sink in sorrow. The tender grass is afraid of the frost and the sun, and the wicked will be grinded by the wicked.

During the Cultural Revolution, there were many examples of retribution in this world where those who plant the cause must reap the fruit.

When Wu Qiankun told Pan Guangfu, Chai Jianhua, and He Jiafu about the experience of Peking University rightists during the Cultural Revolution, Pan Guangfu interjected and talked about some special examples, that is, the story of anti-rightist leading cadres who were "struggled" to death during the Cultural Revolution.

Pan Guangfu said: There is an old saying in China, that is, tit for tat. The Qur'an says that whatever good you do for yourselves, you will find its reward in Allah. Therefore, it is believed that the misfortunes you will encounter one day are the retribution of your laziness for a certain period of time. Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and Gao Fei can't escape even if he goes far. Recalling the Anti-Rightist Movement and the Cultural Revolution, there is a striking phenomenon: During the Cultural Revolution, not only the "Rightists" were the first to be persecuted, but also the cadres who led the Anti-Rightist Movement at Peking University were also persecuted, and some were killed.

In 1957, it was Jiang Longji, first secretary of the CPC Peking University Party Committee and vice president, who led the anti-rightist campaign at Peking University. In 1959, he was transferred to Lanzhou University as the president and party secretary of the Communist Party of China, and became one of the earliest victims of the Cultural Revolution. After the CPC Central Committee issued the "Notice" on May 16, 1966, when the Cultural Revolution was launched, the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China made Jiang Longji the key target of the province. On June 17, he was "struggled" and knelt on a high table with an iron cage weighing more than ten kilograms on his head. On June 22, he was again "struggled" by kneeling, wearing a tall hat, being kicked and punched, and "paraded through the streets". On June 25, the Gansu Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting of ten thousand people, announcing the revocation of his "all positions inside and outside the party." Jiang Longji committed suicide that afternoon at the age of 61.

Jiang Longji joined the Communist Party in 1927 and has rich experience in "revolution" and "struggle". In 1956, he was designated as "Administrative Level One of the University", and he was one of the highest-ranking people in Chinese universities at that time. He is obviously not a "three-anti element" who "anti-Party, anti-socialism, and Mao Zedong Thought." But after he was "struggled", he committed suicide very quickly without complaining or waiting. Obviously, he understood the nature of revolution more thoroughly. He is one of the "downed" group, just like the landlords in the "land reform", there is no possibility of defending himself, if he does not want to continue to be beaten and insulted, he can only commit suicide. School leaders were one of the most persecuted groups during the Cultural Revolution, and they were "struggled" without exception. They were beaten and tortured by student Red Guards, and a group of principals were beaten to death.

Jiang Longji was considered to be ineffective in the anti-rightist movement at Peking University. In October 1957, the State Council sent Lu Ping to Peking University to replace Jiang Longji as the first secretary. On the basis of Jiang Longji's already designated 500 "rightists", Lu Ping carried out "anti-rightist make-up classes" and added 200 more. "Replenishing lessons" was originally a school term, but it was used in the anti-rightist persecution. In the history of human schools, where has there been such a large-scale persecution class? In this way, the number of "rightists" in Peking University increased from 5% of the total population of Peking University to 7%. From then until the Cultural Revolution, Lu Ping served as the president of Peking University and the first secretary of the Communist Party of China. Jiang Longji was only the vice principal. The tradition that university presidents were born from teachers was thus completely broken.

At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong personally ordered Peking University to broadcast a big-character poster titled "What did Song Shuo, Lu Ping, and Peng Peiyun do during the Cultural Revolution?" and called Peking University a "reactionary fortress." Lu Ping became a well-known "gangster" throughout the country and was subjected to long-term "struggle" and detention.

The retribution of good and evil follows like a shadow. Lu Ping was once hung up and tortured. Peking University students also used high-wattage electric lamps to illuminate his eyes to prevent him from falling asleep, saying that this would disturb his nerves and force him to "confess."

Don't do good because it is small, and don't do evil because it is small. Cui Xiongkun, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Peking University Party Committee and Dean of Academic Affairs, is also one of the leaders of the "Anti-Rightist". After the start of the Cultural Revolution, because he had opposed Lu Ping in 1964, he became a "leftist" and entered the core of the new Peking University power structure, instead of being accused of being a "gang member" like other Peking University leading cadres. But he did not escape being purged in the end. He was also purged after being the leader of the "Peking University Cultural Revolution Committee" and the "Party Core Group" for more than two years. As a result, in October 1968, he committed suicide by drowning himself in the Red Lake on campus.

Because the Cultural Revolution pointed the entire education system as the "counter-revolutionary revisionist line," as a result, those cadres who led the "anti-rightist struggle" in 1957 and then took charge of Peking University, except for a very few people, were "downed". They were also persecuted to death. Their experience was similar to that of the "rightists" who were "planned" by them nine years ago.

Of course they were not retaliated by the "rightists", because the "rightists" were in a worse situation than they were during the Cultural Revolution. It cannot be said that they have received the "retribution" of "every evil will be rewarded with evil", because there are still a large number of people who are leading the anti-rightist movement like them and have not suffered the slightest damage. They were persecuted because Mao Zedong launched and planned the Cultural Revolution, and listed them as the target of the Cultural Revolution.

However, these people's experience of raising first and then lowering even formed a dramatic effect with a strong sense of irony, but it did not appear on the stage. Sadly, few of them, even the most educated and well-written among them, have analyzed their encounters and come up with convincing explanations.

Jian Bozan is one of such people. He joined the Communist Party in 1937 and was a professor of history. Since 1952, he has been the dean of the History Department of Peking University. In 1957, he was very active in the anti-rightist movement. A search of "People's Daily" shows that during the anti-rightist upsurge, from June 15 to October 19, 1957, the newspaper had nine reports in the four months, describing Jian Bozan's achievements in history and social science. In a series of anti-rightist meetings in the cultural relics and cultural relics circles, "expose" and "criticize" "rightists" in a harsh tone. There were also two anti-rightist articles written by him in the newspaper, one entitled "Marxists Study History for the Revolution" and the other "Rightists' Anti-Socialist Activities in History". Two articles attacked Lei Haizong and Xiang Da, two important professors in the field of history. Both were later classified as "rightists". Lei Haizong died in 1962 at the age of 55. Xiang Da was persecuted to death during the Cultural Revolution.

In 1965 and 1966, Mao Zedong mentioned Jian Bozan's name many times at high-level meetings, making him the key target of the Cultural Revolution in academic circles. The title of the first article accusing Jian Bozan of "opposing Marxism" was "Researching History for the Revolution", which was actually the same as the title of his article accusing the rightists in 1957. The charges were quickly upgraded. On December 15, 1966, "People's Daily" published a long article entitled "The True Face of Anti-Communist Intellectual Jian Bozan". Beginning in June 1966, he was "struggled" at "struggle meetings" of various sizes, up to six times a day. The body is forced to bend over with both arms raised. He was "paraded through the streets", his home was ransacked, and he was evicted from his original residence. The small black room allocated to him and his wife was added at the joint between the two rows of houses. It was originally used for stacking coal, etc. It is very small and leaks everywhere. They put a coal stove at the door for cooking and boiling medicine, and children from nearby often spit and throw dirty things into their pot.

In November 1968, at the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, where Liu Shaoqi was officially charged and expelled from the party, Mao Zedong said that Jian Bozan and others should be "raised" as "negative teachers". He was released from the "cowshed" and assigned to better housing. A month later, Jian Bozan and his wife Dai Shuwan committed suicide by taking sleeping pills together. Jian Bozan and his wife died at the height of the "Cleaning up Class Rank Movement". The death toll caused by this "clearing class team" across the country is calculated to be more than the 550,000 "rightists" officially announced by the anti-rightist movement.

It should be said that Jian Bozan's death actually contained a sense of protest. But in his brief suicide note, he did not protest the persecution he had suffered. Instead, he wrote "long live long live Chairman Mao". For the persecution he suffered during the Cultural Revolution, for the death of Xiang Da who he accused of being a "rightist" in 1957, for the Anti-Rightist movement he was an activist for and the Cultural Revolution when he was targeted, for what happened around him persecution and death, he, as a professor of history, did not write a single word. Is he afraid to write, or he has never thought about it? Or, was it too difficult for him to articulate?

When Pan Guangfu told Wu Qiankun, Chai Jianhua, and He Jiafu the stories of these anti-rightist leading cadres who were "struggled" to death during the Cultural Revolution, he felt infinitely emotional: It is incomprehensible that He Jian Bozan, who survived the Cultural Revolution, People with similar status and status have not been able to provide their inner experiences and make necessary explanations for this period of history.

Good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be rewarded with evil. Such people's lack of records, explanations, and judgments on history can only make their descendants realize the powerful effects of the Anti-Rightist Movement and the Cultural Revolution: not only destroyed the lives of a group of people, but also destroyed the ideas they should have produced. The very fact that they wrote nothing is shocking and sad.

People who are evil are not afraid of the sky, and people who are good are not bullied by the sky. Good people will live forever, and evil people will only be infamous for thousands of years.

If you do many unrighteous actions, you will die yourself. This is the way of heaven.