Wake up（192）

 

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On the train to Hong Kong, Pan Guangfu went to the toilet. Although he denied the authenticity of the CCP History Net article published in the Hong Kong magazine, Chai Jianmin still read the end of the article.

The memoir ends with:

After entering 1968, Lin Biao, Jiang Qing and others played political tricks again, colluded with each other in the military field, and began to direct a new struggle for power.

In March 1968, Lin Biao, Jiang Qing and others planned and created a "Yang, Yu, and Fu counter-revolutionary incident", slandering Yang Chengwu, Yu Lijin, and Fu Chongbi, who held important positions in the People's Liberation Army, for "conspiring to seize the power of the Air Force" and "armedly attacking the Central Cultural Revolution". Slandering them is the new counterattack of "February Countercurrent". On March 27, the Central Cultural Revolutionary Committee held the "Comprehensively Smash the New Counterattack Against the Countercurrent in February and Win the Pledge of the Overall Victory of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" in the Capital Gymnasium.

During this period, Jiang Qing and others formally established a leading group to investigate the "May 16" project in the name of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Chen Boda served as the group leader, and Xie Fuzhi and Wu Faxian were the members of the leading group. They violated Zhou Enlai's instructions on emphasizing ideological education, exaggerated the organizational and activity capabilities of the "May 16th Movement", and arbitrarily expanded the scope of the investigation.

After September 1969, cadres from the State Council’s Agricultural Office, Agricultural Administration, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry were sent to Hubei, Jiangxi, and Henan to run “May 7th” cadre schools to carry out struggle, criticism, and reform.

Soon, the "May 7th" cadre school, the central organ, quickly carried out a large-scale investigation of the "May 16th counter-revolutionary" movement in accordance with the unified deployment of Lin Biao, Jiang Qing and others. The representatives of the State Council's Agricultural Affairs Office and the Agricultural Administration announced that the central government had designated Qin Hualong as a "May 16 counter-revolutionary black backstage", and formally approved his arrest and imprisonment in Qincheng Prison. We, the cadres who protected Qin Hualong, were immediately classified as the backbone of the "May 16 Counter-revolutionary" elements, and we implemented dictatorship, isolated censorship, brutal struggle, and forced to confess the "May 16 Counter-revolutionary" crimes.

In order to create momentum, mobilize the masses, and set off a climax of investigating the "May 16 counter-revolutionaries", just after New Year's Day in 1970, representatives of the cadre school army held a special arrest meeting and announced: With the approval of the Central Committee, Wu Wenping (Shanghai) The former deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Garrison District) was formally arrested and imprisoned by the public security organs as the "May 16 counter-revolutionary backbone". At the meeting, Wang Zhenyang, Deputy Director of the Agriculture and Forestry Political Department, Huang Tianxiang, Director of Propaganda, Liu Zibing, Director of Education, and I served as the backstage and backbone of the "May 16" counter-revolutionary.

The author said in his memoirs: Afterwards, the "May 16" task force struck while the iron was hot and interrogated us in a surprise manner, engaging in forced confessions. They practiced the interrogation method in three shifts. Once, they brutally interrogated me for 72 hours for three consecutive days and nights. Fortunately, I was young, in good health, and strong-willed, and finally survived the ordeal.

Due to the expansion of the "May 16" investigation, some cadres from the State Council's Agricultural Office, Agricultural Administration, and the Ministry of Land Reclamation and the Ministry of Agriculture hanged themselves or committed suicide by jumping into a well. Some cadres were so frightened that they fled the cadre school. Similar situations are common across the country.

In March 1970, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Notice on Checking out the May 16 Counter-revolutionary Conspiracy Group", requiring corrections and expansion, and stopping forced confessions. However, the "Notice" also pointed out: "The struggle between class enemies at home and abroad is very complicated. , There is by no means only one 'May 16' counter-revolutionary secret organization." This actually encourages people to arrest more "counter-revolutionary secret organizations."

What is puzzling is that the "Notice" even listed Xiao Hua, Yang Chengwu, Yu Lijin, Fu Chongbi, etc. together with the "Wang, Guan, and Qi" who helped Lin Biao, Jiang Qing, etc. in the early days of the "Cultural Revolution" and others. He is the manipulator of the "May 16 Counter-Revolutionary Group".

After the "Notice" was issued, the inspection campaigns of the Agriculture and Forestry Office and the party, government and military agencies across the country not only did not shrink, but further "dig deep" and expanded.

At that time, the Nonglinkou Cadre School put up big slogans everywhere, "Resolutely dig out the 'May 16th' counter-revolutionaries". The surrounding farmers couldn't figure it out. They asked curiously, "Your cadre school only has more than 200 people, how could there be 516 counter-revolutionaries?!" "Understanding is ridiculous. However, the situation of the "Cultural Revolution" was changing rapidly and unpredictable.

In August 1970, at the Lushan Conference, Chen Boda secretly colluded with the Lin Biao Group and threw out the "genius theory". Unexpectedly, Mao Zedong angrily accused him of "taking sudden attacks and fanning the flames, lest the world will not be chaotic, and there is a tendency to blow up Mount Lushan and stop the rotation of the earth." From then on, Chen Boda suddenly fell from the peak of the political arena to the bottom. Chen Boda, the once famous leader of the national investigation "May 16" task force, was said to be the manipulator of the "May 16 counter-revolutionary group" overnight.

After the Lin Biao incident happened in September 1971, the special task force suddenly called us for a meeting and announced: "Lin Biao, the backer of your May 16 counter-revolutionary group, is completely finished!" "Counter-revolutionary clique"? Who is the "backstage of the May 16 counter-revolutionary clique"? Everyone can't understand whether to laugh or cry.

After smashing the "Gang of Four", the original director of the office of the "Central May 16 Task Force" committed suicide. The truth of the "May 16 Counter-Revolutionary" case is revealed, it is completely an unjust, false and wrong case fabricated by class struggle.

When the Lin Biao Group collapsed in 1971, the "May 16" task force of the Nonglinkou Cadre School turned into an anti-Lin Biao hero, and they continued to censor us. However, the method has changed. It is no longer a brutal struggle trial, but a Mao Zedong Thought study class. Every day they asked us to repeatedly read "Where is the Nanjing Government Going?" and "Urging Du Yuming and Others to Surrender", asking us to connect ideas, apply what we learned, and explain the activities and organizations of the "May 16 Counter-Revolution". Because we don't have a "May 16" organization at all, they retreated to point out the "maze": "Since there is no "May 16" organization, then explain the "May 16" thinking!"

In 1974, the Agricultural Office of the State Council and the "May 7th" Cadre School of Agricultural Administration located in the Shayang Labor Reform Farm in Hubei announced their abolition, and the "May 16th" task force was also disbanded. After more than five years of detention and censorship, we were finally free and allowed to return to Beijing to reunite with our families.

However, the "May 16th" issue did not announce the end of the review, and we were required to continue to wait at home in Beijing. Qin Hualong is still being held in Qincheng Prison, and Wu Wenping is still being held in Hubei Shayang Prison.

Later, the political situation began to change, and we were unwilling to be "May 16 counter-revolutionaries." I want to find out what "May 16" is in order to rescue Qin Hualong and Wu Wenping who are still in prison.

Once, I made an appointment with Liu Zibing, the former director of the Party Committee Office of the Shanghai Garrison District, and we went to meet with Liu Chuanxin, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Revolutionary Committee and director of the Public Security Bureau.

Liu Chuanxin used to be the deputy director of the Political Department of the Shanghai Garrison, Qin Hualong was his old leader, Wu Wenping, Liu Zibing and I were all his old subordinates. After we were transferred from the Shanghai Garrison, Liu Chuanxin was transferred to the Nanjing Military Region as a political commissar of a certain army. During the "Cultural Revolution", he went to Beijing with the army to perform military control tasks. We were very familiar with each other in the past, and he had contact with us after he came to Beijing. We haven't seen each other for many years, but Liu Chuanxin warmly received us in his office near Tiananmen Square. He had heard about the tragic experience of the old chief Qin Hualong and his old subordinate Wu Wenping, and expressed deep sympathy. At that time, Jiang Qing and others were still on the stage, and we hoped to get some information about "May 16" from him. Unexpectedly, he frowned, pointed to a large pile of files on his desk and said distressedly: "Look, I caught many 'May 16' in Beijing, locked them in prisons, and there are a lot of materials. I don't know how to deal with it!"

Then, Liu Chuanxin told us sadly: "I arrested 'May 16' here, but my wife was arrested as 'May 16' in Jiangsu, and she is still detained for review! What is 'May 16'?" , I can't tell!"

Liu Chuanxin was a military political commissar who was ordered to go to Beijing to implement the mission of the dictatorship of the proletariat. He was also the deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Revolutionary Committee and the director of the Public Security Bureau.

Not long after, the "Gang of Four" was smashed. Because Liu Chuanxin had done a lot of things for the "Gang of Four" in Beijing, the masses were angry and strongly demanded that he be tried. Liu Chuanxin committed suicide.

Similarly, the director of the office of the central "May 16" task force also chose the road of suicide.

So far, the once vigorous investigation of the "May 16" Movement has become a sad and absurd scene in the history of the "Cultural Revolution".

Later, Wu Wenping, who was arrested as a "May 16 counter-revolutionary element" in our unit, was also released from prison and rehabilitated, his party membership and reputation were restored, and he was assigned a job.

Prior to this, Hu Yaobang presided over a meeting of the Central Secretariat to discuss the issue of Qin Hualong, and concluded that "it is wrong to detain Comrade Qin Hualong as a traitor and a 'May 16' counter-revolutionary for a long time, and he should be rehabilitated and his reputation restored." Because Qin Hualong was persecuted and disabled in prison, and has lost the ability to work, the central government specially appointed him as a consultant.

Liang Buting, Lu Qing, Wang Zhenyang, Wu Zhen and others who were falsely accused of being "May 16 backstage" in Nonglinkou also had their reputations restored and were assigned jobs one after another. As for the cadres below the Bureau of Agriculture, Forestry, and Departments, more people were labeled as "May 16 counter-revolutionaries", and they were all assigned jobs.

Hu Yaobang was deeply touched by the "May 16" issue. During the "Cultural Revolution", he witnessed so many familiar good comrades in the "May 7th" cadre school of the League Central Committee, who were labeled as "May 16th" for no reason; after crushing the "Gang of Four", he was appointed as the head of the Central Organization Department Many outstanding cadres I am familiar with are also constantly suing for being labeled as "May 16". The number of them is quite astonishing. He reviewed many historical materials and found that the fictitious "May 16 Counter-Revolutionary Group" did not exist at all. He said very angrily: "May 16" is just a few numbers! Therefore, Hu Yaobang made up his mind to completely rehabilitate and restore the reputation of many victims of the "May 16 Unjust Case".

History has proved that the sensational "May 16 Counter-Revolutionary Conspiracy" was purely an unjust, false and wrongly decided case man-made from top to bottom. The lessons are profound and will never be forgotten.

At this time, Pan Guangfu came back after using the toilet. Pan Guangfu said to Chai Jianmin: I have read this article. The author wrote about his experience in the "May 16" incident. Some details should be true, but he pushed the responsibility for the "May 16" incident to Jiang Biao and Lin Biao. In fact, the author did not dare to pursue responsibility For Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, these two talents were the real initiators of the "May 16" incident.

Pan Guangfu's voice to Chai Jianmin may have been a little louder, which woke up Zhou Jianguo who was asleep. Zhou Jianguo looked at Pan Guangfu in surprise.

Pan Guangfu said apologetically to Zhou Jianguo: You fell asleep just now, and your magazine slipped to the floor. We flipped through it casually, so we talked about the "May 16" incident mentioned in the magazine.

Zhou Jianguo smiled and said: You are right, the instigators of the "May 16th" incident were Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. I met my confidant on this train.