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Li Tiandao told Chai Jianmin, He Jiafu and Pan Guangfu about the "Kangping Road Incident" during the Shanghai Cultural Revolution.

In various "Cultural Revolution" histories and various memoirs, it has been mentioned that an "urgent rumor refutation" leaflet appeared in the "Kangping Road Incident", but the statements are not consistent. At the end of 1966, the "Kangping Road Incident" that shocked the whole country occurred on Kangping Road in the West District of Shanghai. On December 28, the "Red Guard" of Shanghai workers, which claimed to have 800,000 people, sent about 20,000 to 30,000 people into the "Aitang" compound, the office compound of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee at the intersection of Kangping Road and Yuqing Road. Asked the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee Secretariat and Mayor Cao Diqiu to meet him, and asked the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee to recognize the "Red Guard" as a revolutionary mass organization.

Originally, the leaders of various rebel organizations such as the "General Department of Industry" and "Jilian Station" thought that the "Red Guards" entered the compound of the Municipal Party Committee on Kangping Road as "the 'Red Guards' wanted to settle accounts with old man Cao." The conflict with the "Red Guards", so with the mentality of watching the excitement, it was not considered a big deal.

However, on the night of the 28th, after Zhang Chunqiao's wife Li Wenjing had a phone call with Zhang Chunqiao in Beijing, Li Wenjing called Xu Jingxian on the morning of the 29th. Qiao said that now that the "Red Guards" had rebelled against Cao Diqiu, they put forward the slogan "Down with the Shanghai Municipal Committee", and told Xu Jingxian to tell the rebel organizations in Shanghai to pay attention, so that the "Red Guards" would not take away the fruits of victory.

After Zhang Chunqiao conveyed his instructions to Xu Jingxian through Li Wenjing, he was still worried and "dispatched troops" from Beijing. On the night of the 28th, Zhang Chunqiao asked his secretary to call Geng Jinzhang, the head of the largest "strength faction" in the "General Department of Industry", and said that Zhang Chunqiao wanted you to return to Shanghai immediately, and there was an emergency in Shanghai. Geng Jinzhang asked what is urgent? The secretary said: Don't ask, you will know when you return to Shanghai. Therefore, Geng Jinzhang hurried back by plane the next day, and as soon as he arrived in Shanghai, he acted as the vanguard of suppressing the "Red Guards".

In the middle of the night on the 28th, Zhang Chunqiao also called Wang Hongwen, ordering Wang Hongwen and others to immediately mobilize troops to carry out a "tit-for-tat struggle" with the "Red Guards", claiming that the municipal party committee had thrown out Cao Diqiu to protect both the municipal party committee and the "Red Guards", and ease the entire situation. In order to avoid the conspiracy of the situation, we must be alert to Chen Pixian and the "Red Guards" who take the opportunity to reap the fruits of victory obtained by the heroic struggle of the revolutionary rebels.

In the early morning of the 29th, more than 20 rebel organizations including the "General Department of Industry" and "Jilian Station" held a meeting at the Hengshan Hotel and established a "joint command" to deal with the "Red Guards". By the afternoon, more than a hundred thousand people had been mobilized. They installed tweeters around the "Aitang" compound, and they kept shouting, "The Red Guards are old guards, and the general direction is wrong", "The Red Guards will call you if they don't surrender." It perishes"... In order to instigate violence, they dispatched some publicity vehicles to continuously broadcast the lie that "the Red Guards copied the homes of Ke Qingshi and Zhang Chunqiao", creating a tense atmosphere. By 10:00 p.m., small-scale scuffles had occurred from time to time at the gates of the compound on Rongchang Road (now Dechang Road) and Kangping Road.

The "Red Guards" consisted of many old workers, many model workers, and many members of the party and league members. They were more disciplined and tended to protect the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee's workers' mass organization. Ke Qingshi had worked in Shanghai for a long time, and had just passed away the year before. He had always been hailed as a good student of Chairman Mao; "How could they copy their homes?

Ke Qingshi, Chen Pixian, Cao Diqiu, Wei Wenbo, Han Zheyi who once lived in the "Aitang" compound, including Zhang Chunqiao's children, were all classmates in elementary or middle school. These students were still discussing some things during the "Cultural Revolution" around the door of the apartment on the west side of the "Aitang" compound. Zhang Chunqiao's daughters Zhang Weiwei and Zhang Rongrong were present. Zhang Weiwei said that the "Red Guards" did not copy Mr. Ke and their home. The "Red Guards" did come to knock on the door. When they found out that it was the home of Ke Qingshi and Zhang Chunqiao, they withdrew...

Immediately, Zhang Weiwei's speech was written in the original words on the leaflet titled "Urgent Rumor Refutation" and distributed near the gate of the "Aitang" compound on Kangping Road.

When Li Tiandao talked about the "Kangping Road Incident", he said: After Zhang Weiwei's rumor spread, Wang Hongwen and his gang panicked. Division" and other organizations issued the "Joint Statement" on January 3, 1967. The statement said, "Zhang Weiwei and her father, Comrade Zhang Chunqiao, are not of the same way." "Comrade Zhang Chunqiao is a staunch leftist, while Zhang Weiwei is a die-hard royalist." The Workers’ Red Guards broke in, and the Workers’ Red Guards once staged a sit-in at Zhang Chunqiao’s house. The general direction of the Workers’ Red Guards must have been wrong, and they were wrong to the end.”

In this "Joint Statement", they dare not mention that the "Red Guards" ransacked Zhang Chunqiao's home any more. On December 29, Lao Yuanyi, a member of the Standing Committee of the "Red Leather Society" who had participated in the "Kangping Road Incident", and others went to Zhang Chunqiao's home and asked Zhang's wife, Li Wenjing, "Did the Red Guards raid your home?" She answered herself: " They wanted to find Chen Pixian, so they knocked on my door, and I told them, this is Comrade Zhang Chunqiao’s home, and they left.” On the same day, Zhang Chunqiao’s secretary, He Xiuwen, visited Li Wenjing at Zhang Chunqiao’s home, and Li Wenjing also said to him personally: "In the beginning, a few members of the Red Guard entered the house, looking for a place to sit, but they saw that it was a house, and there were old and young in the house, so they withdrew soon. Yu Wenlan (Ke Qingshi's wife) They called me and said that someone knocked on the door and entered the house first, but when they saw Ke Lao’s portrait, they immediately backed out and never went in again.”

Both Zhang Chunqiao's wife and daughter denied the lie of "spying the house". As the content of the "urgent rumor refutation" leaflet spread, people talked a lot. After Zhang Chunqiao heard about what happened in Shanghai, he immediately called Li Wenjing and said, "The ransacking of the house is not isolated. This is a political struggle and the need of the situation. There is no such thing as ransacking the house. It is not good for the rebels. It is rightist."

On the second day after the "rumor refuting leaflet" appeared, a big-character poster written with a brush and only half the size of a white newspaper was pasted on the east side of the gate of Kangping Road at the entrance of the "Aitang" compound. The content on the big-character poster is: "Statement: In recent days, many revolutionary masses have visited my home and are very concerned about us. We express our gratitude. In the past few days, we have met with many masses, but there are also some who do not wear armbands The red guards have been entangled in front of our house for a long time, seriously affecting our work and life, we must raise our revolutionary vigilance a thousand times." The signature is Li Wenjing. Under Zhang Chunqiao's instigation, Li Wenjing's big-character poster did not use the word "copy house", but its sinister intentions can be understood at a glance.

The "Kangping Road Incident" ended with Zhang Chunqiao and others using the rumor of "ransacking their homes" to direct the "General Department of Industry" and other organizations to defeat the "Red Guards".

Around 2:00 a.m. on the 30th, groups of rebels armed with sticks, belts and other weapons rushed into the compound of "Aitang". All together, the legs of the tables and chairs were also used as murder weapons. Until 6 o'clock in the morning, under the behind-the-scenes planning and command of Zhang Chunqiao and Wang Hongwen, more than 300 "Red Guards" were arrested, 91 were seriously injured and sent to the hospital on the spot, and more than 20,000 people lined up in a single file, divided into six to four roads In the first episode, there were six piles of armbands handed over.

This was the first large-scale fighting in Shanghai and the whole country since the "Cultural Revolution". Only one week after the fighting, on January 6, 1967, rebel organizations such as the "General Division of Industry" and "Jilianzhan" were in People's Square held a meeting to "hold high the great red banner of Mao Zedong Thought and completely overthrow the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee headed by Chen Pixian and Cao Diqiu".

On January 16, Chairman Mao approved the seizure of power in Shanghai. At the same time, the "Red Flag" magazine published a commentator article "Proletarian Revolutionaries Unite". The article highly praised Shanghai's seizure of power, and called for "resolutely seizing power from a handful of people in power in the party who are taking the capitalist road."

On February 5th, the "Shanghai People's Commune" was established, and this was also the beginning of a comprehensive seizure of power across the country.

A month later, Zhang Chunqiao became the director of the Shanghai People's Commune, and he has been on the rise ever since. However, the struggle between the masses of the people and the "Gang of Four" has never stopped.

When Li Tiandao told Chai Jianmin, He Jiafu and Pan Guangfu about the "Kangping Road Incident", he said: Some of my Shanghai friends joined the Red Guards. Some of them were also imprisoned. After crushing the "Gang of Four", in December 1978 the Shanghai Higher People's Court reviewed the case of the "Red Guards" and decided to revoke the former city's public security, law enforcement and military control committee controlled by the "Gang of Four" former leaders of the "Red Guards" Wang Yuxi, Pan Yuefa, Jin Ruizhang, Li Shiyin's verdict was completely rehabilitated. The Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China announced the overthrow of all false accusations imposed on the "Red Guards", and history finally returned to its original appearance. My friend from Shanghai was also released from detention, but he lost everything, and now he doesn't know how to live.