Wake up（171）

 

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Pan Guangfu said to the three elderly people in front of him, Chai Jianmin, He Jiafu, and Li Tiandao: I have some media friends, and one of them was a Shanghai reporter who told me about the "Liberation Daily" incident that happened during the Shanghai Cultural Revolution.

In early January 1967, Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan went to Shanghai as "investigators of the Central Cultural Revolution Group" to plan to seize power. On January 4, they seized the rights to "Wen Wei Po", and on January 5, they seized the rights to "Liberation Daily". On the 6th, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and others held the "Down with the Municipal Party Committee Conference" in the name of various rebel organizations in the city, criticizing Chen Pixian, Cao Diqiu and other leaders of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. After the meeting, all institutions of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government were forced to stop working, and the power fell into the hands of Zhang, Yao and others.

After criticizing the "ghosts and snake gods", overthrowing the capitalist roaders, sweeping the "four olds", and the Red Guards, the young students mobilized. Peng Luo Luyang and the Beijing Municipal Party Committee were overthrown, and the next target was the leaders of other provinces and municipalities. Shanghai is the largest city and economic center, and it is also the birthplace of the "Gang of Four". Jiang Qing's up-and-coming "Literary Symposium Minutes" was released with the help of Ke Qingshi, Zhang Chunqiao, and Yao Wenyuan. Yao Wenyuan's "Comment on Hai Rui's Dismissal from Office" was published in Shanghai. It started with the rebellion of the Shanghai National Cotton No. 17 Factory. The situation in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution was changing, and the Cultural Revolution faction waited for the opportunity to start from Shanghai, determined to win.

In November, Nie Yuanzi, the author of "The First Big Character Poster in China", went to Shanghai to give a speech to college students, saying that she was instructed by Jiang Qing to set fire to Shanghai, and that the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee was a gangster, and Shanghai must be in chaos. However, the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee had no obvious grounds to grasp, so they started with the mouthpiece of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, the "Jiefang Daily".

At this time, the Red Guard rebel faction had reached the point where the Emperor Laozi was lawless and could do whatever he wanted. Instigated by Nie Yuanzi and Kuai Dafu, in November 1966, the Shanghai "Red Leather Society" published the article ""Liberation Daily" is a loyal tool of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China to promote the bourgeois reactionary line", forcing "Liberation Daily" to publish, " The Jiefang Daily refused to publish it, and the Shanghai "Red Leather Society" requested that this folder be published in the "Liberation Daily" at the same time, but the "Liberation Daily" of course refused. So on November 30, the team of the Shanghai "Red Leather Society" rushed into the "Liberation Daily", occupied the building of the newspaper, and ordered the "Liberation Daily" to stop publishing. society".

The suspension of "Jiefang Daily" shocked the whole of Shanghai. The "Shanghai workers' pickets" who opposed the overthrow of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee immediately surrounded the "Jiefang Daily". The "Liberation Daily Incident" that lasted nine days began.

Several middle school students also followed the Shanghai "Red Leather Society" into the "Liberation Daily", occupied an office, helped to print leaflets, distribute leaflets, and pass instructions. The leaders of the "Red Leather Society" acted quickly. In order to prevent the opposition from entering the "Liberation Daily" building, the pass was printed that night, and the white paper was mimeographed in red letters: "Pass City Red Leather Fire Line Command", arranged in a circle, Then cover it with a round cup, dip it in red ink and print a round stamp, which can be used as a round stamp, and a pass is made, which is issued to people of the "Red Leather Society" and the "Director of Industry".

As a large number of people poured into the newspaper building, which was besieged and difficult to get in and out of, the most prominent problem early the next morning was the lack of toilets. Some people defecate casually in the corner of the building; many people don’t know how to use the flush toilets in the building, do not flush after use, and litter the debris. After a few days, the toilets are overflowing with sewage, and the corridors are stinky. With so many people staying in the newspaper office all day long, eating has become a problem.

Afraid of problems, the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee asked the newspaper's logistics department to find a way to deliver bread to the rebels who occupied the newspaper. Now bread is a common object, not unusual, but at that time, bread was not a common food for the common people, it was considered a good thing. The rebels ate the bread and boiled water sent by the "capitalist roaders" and fought against the "capitalist roaders" in Shanghai.

The besieging masses outside the newspaper office clashed with the rebels inside the newspaper office every day. Those outside rushed in, and those inside beat them with bamboo poles, wooden sticks, and water pipes. Every day, people were injured.

In order to solve the problem as soon as possible, the leaders of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and the East China Bureau personally entered the newspaper building to negotiate with the "Red Leather Society" rebels. Negotiations are carried out day and night, bargaining, asking for instructions, and negotiating back and forth. If the negotiation fails, the meeting will be adjourned, and the negotiation will continue after the meeting. Han Zheyi, secretary of the East China Bureau, and Wang Yiping, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, did not dare to neglect or leave, and often fell asleep leaning against the wall. At the same time, the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee also had to ease the fighting between the two factions inside and outside the newspaper office, and organized people to deliver bread to the building every day and clean the toilets. What they are most worried about is the occurrence of incidents of mass fighting against the masses, and they are afraid that the situation will expand further.

The "Liberation Daily Incident" made the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee very embarrassed. If it agrees to the request of the "Red Leather Society", it is tantamount to admitting that the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee is pursuing a bourgeois reactionary line; The route still has to be knocked down. They were forced into the trap set by the Cultural Revolutionists, in a dilemma, and they were not human inside or outside.

He learned from his classmates in the "Three Divisions of the Red Army" that Tao Zhu of the Central Cultural Revolution did not agree with the "Red Leather Society" occupying the newspaper office, so he immediately told the news to Lao Yuanyi, the head of the "Red Leather Society". Lao Yuanyi is a student of Fudan University. He is tall and energetic. He is good at speeches and can speak Mandarin well. He was surprised and quickly called everywhere to check. Nie Yuanzi cheered them up and said: "Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao did not express their views, but they supported you"!

Later, the "Red Leather Society" proposed that if they refused to agree to their request, they would follow the example of the "General Department of Industry" in the "Anting Incident" and pull a team to stop the train and go to Beijing to file a complaint. The Shanghai Municipal Party Committee couldn't stand it anymore.

In the end, under the pressure of the Central Cultural Revolution presided over by Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao, and in order to prevent the situation from expanding, the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee had no choice but to agree to the request of the "Red Leather Society". "Jiefang Daily", the nine-day "Jiefang Daily Incident" ended.

Pan Guangfu sighed: Since then, the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee has been accused of "promoting the bourgeois reactionary line" and its prestige has been discredited. It was overthrown by the "January Storm" in less than a month. Zhang Chunqiao took the opportunity to seize the party and government power in Shanghai, and Shanghai became the base of the "Gang of Four". Shanghai was also the source of the catastrophe of the Cultural Revolution.