Wake up（193）

 

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On the inland train to Shenzhen, Pan Guangfu and Chai Jianmin were sitting in a sleeper car, and there was also an old couple Zhou Jianguo and Shi Nianchang who were the same age as Pan Guangfu. As long as the train arrives in Shenzhen, it will arrive in Hong Kong after crossing the bridge.

Pan Guangfu and Chai Jianmin chatted with the old couple, both of whom were Xingang residents who immigrated to Hong Kong from Hefei, Anhui in their early years. This time I went to Hefei for a tour, mainly to visit my old classmates from the Cultural Revolution era.

Zhou Jianguo talked about the investigation of the "May 16 Counter-Revolutionary Group" movement during the Cultural Revolution.

     During the "Cultural Revolution", from the central government to various local government agencies, there was a large-scale top-down campaign to clean up the "May 16 Counter-Revolutionary Group". All of a sudden, party, government, military agencies, and schools all over the country mobilized teachers and mobilized people to devote themselves to the investigation campaign. Thousands of cadres and students were branded as "May 16 counter-revolutionaries", subjected to long-term segregation, censorship, criticism, labor supervision, deprivation of personal freedom, and some were even persecuted to death.

Zhou Jianguo said: The "May 16th" counter-revolutionary group was a small ultra-left organization called the "Capital 516th Red Guards Regiment" that once existed in Beijing. They took advantage of the opportunity of the "1967 May 16 Notice" to be publicly published in the press, under the guise of implementing this notice, to establish a secret organization and carry out secret activities. They distributed the title "Uncovering the General Backstage of the February Black Wind--Zhou Enlai" ", "The key point of Zhou Enlai and his like is to betray the May 16 Notice", "Zhou Enlai is a shameful traitor to Maoism" and other reactionary leaflets and slogans, and posted these leaflets and slogans in some prosperous urban areas of Beijing.

According to the memory of Nie Shuren, one of the leaders of the "local faction" in Beijing at that time: Zhang Jianqi of the Beijing Iron and Steel Institute was the vanguard of the bombardment of Zhou Enlai. Made a long speech on the Internet, attacking "Zhou Enlai is a fellow traveler of Chairman Mao", "is a member of the Third Command", "executed a right-leaning opportunist line", "played the role of the Central Cultural Revolution fire extinguisher during the Cultural Revolution, and gave "Central Cultural Revolution backtracking" and so on, were criticized by the mass organization of Steel Academy at that time, but he refused to admit his mistake, and even issued a public statement, insisting on the position of bombarding Zhou Enlai, still in 1967

At the end of May 2008, the "516 Corps of Beijing Iron and Steel Institute" was established.

On June 14, 1967, Liu Lingkai, head of the "6.16 Corps" of Beijing Foreign Studies University, and Zhang Jianqi planned and established the "Capital Red Guard 516 Corps" at Beijing Foreign Studies University. The Intelligence Group, the Political Department, the Operations Department, the Organization Department, the Information and Policy Research Department, and the eight front armies of the Agriculture and Forestry Port, the Finance and Trade Port, the Cultural and Education Port, the Industrial and Communication Port, the Military Port, the Foreign Affairs Port, the Middle School, and the National Communication and Liaison Station. The heads of various ministries have formulated operational plans for each stage. In mid-to-early July, the "516 Corps" started the so-called First and Second Battles centered on Caimaokou and Nonglinkou, and distributed a large number of leaflets attacking Zhou Enlai. On August 9, they launched the so-called "89 Campaign" ", in the zoo, Ganjiakou. The Xisi generation distributed a large number of leaflets, posted anti-Chou slogans, and mailed leaflets to other places.

From August 10th to 11th, the Central Cultural Revolution held a symposium for various mass organizations of the Red Representatives of colleges and universities and the Red Representatives of middle schools to make specific arrangements for counterattacking the "516 Corps". On August 14th, "Steel Institute Yan'an Commune", "Diyuan Dongfanghong Commune", "Nongda Dongfanghong Commune", "Beijing Normal University Jinggangshan Corps" and others established the "516th Corps Liaison Station", which consists of Nongkou, Gongjiaokou, Gaojiaokou, Middle Schoolkou and other sub-stations. On August 17, Li Fang, head of the organization of the "516 Corps", was captured by the "Yan'an Commune" of the Steel Institute. The Red Flag Brigade of Beijing Foreign Studies University raided the headquarters of the "616 Red Guards" of Beijing Foreign Studies University, and copied a large number of black materials. On August 20, Zhang Jianqi was arrested by the Yan'an Commune of the Iron and Steel Academy, and Chen Li, a backbone member of the "516th Corps", was arrested in Jinggangshan of the Normal University.

On August 26, more than 20,000 people from more than 1,400 organizations in the capital and other places held the "Comprehensively Smash the 516 Corps Meeting of Reactionary Organizations" in the Beijing Steel Institute. Zhang Jianqi and other five 516 leaders were criticized at the meeting. By the end of August, all members of the 516th Corps had been arrested, and the organization was wiped out.

Zhou Jianguo said to Chai Jianmin: Why do I agree with Pan Guangfu's statement, because the direct leader who really promoted the suppression of the May 16 counter-revolutionary cabal was Mao Zedong.

On September 8, 1967, Mao Zedong added a paragraph to Yao Wenyuan's "Comment on Tao Zhu's Two Books" published in the "People's Daily": "Now a small group of counter-revolutionaries have also adopted this method. ’ But the slogan of the extreme right actually blows up the evil wind of “doubting everything”, bombards the proletarian headquarters, sows dissension, fishes in troubled waters, and tries to shake and split the proletarian headquarters headed by Chairman Mao, achieving its ulterior crime The purpose, the organizer and manipulator of the so-called 'May 16th' is such a counter-revolutionary organization engaged in conspiracy. It should be thoroughly exposed." "The purpose of this counter-revolutionary organization is two, one is to destroy and split our The leadership of the Party Central Committee headed by the great leader Chairman Mao; one is to destroy and split the main pillar of the dictatorship of the proletariat - the great Chinese People's Liberation Army. Most of their members and leaders are still not clear." The first public In the newspapers, it was proposed to thoroughly expose the "May 16 Counter-Revolutionary Conspiracy Group" throughout the country.

Lin Biao, Jiang Qing and his gang took up the slogan of "May 16th" investigation, exaggerated the strength and activities of this small reactionary organization, expanded the scope arbitrarily, and tried every means to confuse and divert the target of the investigation in order to achieve their ulterior motives. On the one hand, they wantonly advocate the investigation of organizations, chasing forms, and forcing "confessions" in order to create magnification; May 16" element. In his speeches on September 5, 1967 and March 25, 1968, Jiang Qing defined the so-called "three-pointers" as "five-one-six elements." , pointing to the "People's Liberation Army" and the "newborn Revolutionary Committee", which expanded the target of attack. In some places or units, the two factions took the opportunity to attack each other, referring to each other as "May 16th elements"; there were also leading cadres who resumed work or leftist members of the army, who regarded them as fanatics who attacked Zhou Enlai, opposed the Party Central Committee, and opposed the People's Liberation Army. The ultra-leftists should be attacked as "May 16 elements". Under the so-called "red terror", more than one-third of the people in some units were labeled as "May 16" elements, and even the special case personnel responsible for the investigation work were also bitten as "May 16 elements." A large number of cadres and the masses were severely tortured physically and mentally.

In 1968, the central government set up a leading group to investigate the "May 16" project, with Chen Boda (later listed as the manipulator of the "May 16" conspiracy group) as the team leader, and Li Zhen, the Minister of Public Security (later committed suicide because of the incident) as the director of the office. Xie Fuzhi and Wu Faxian are members of the leading group.

On January 31, 1970, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Instructions on Combating Counter-Revolutionary and Sabotage Activities", and launched a large-scale investigation of the "May 16" Movement across the country.

On March 27, 1970, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Notice on Cracking Down on the "May 16th" Counter-Revolutionary Conspiracy Group." The notice said: "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." The May 16 Counter-Revolutionary Cabal" movement.

In October 1970, Mao Zedong issued an instruction: "The 'May 16th' issue cannot be blown away by wind, and some units have already blown by wind, such as the (Beijing) Institute of Foreign Languages."

On February 8, 1971, with the approval of Mao Zedong, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Decision on the Establishment of the May 16 Special Joint Group". The project joint team is headed by Wu De, and Li Zhen is the deputy team leader, with 13 members. The "Decision" pointed out: "It is necessary to prevent expansion, and not to be blown by the wind" during the inventory process. Since then, the campaign to investigate the "May 16" elements has "deepened".

The later development was even more ironic. After the Second Plenary Session of the Ninth Central Committee, Chen Boda, who was the leader of the task force, was listed as the manipulator of the "May 16th" counter-revolutionary conspiracy. After the "9•13" incident, Lin Biao was listed as the number one manipulator. Li Zhen, Director of the Office of the Central "May 16" Task Force and Minister of Public Security, also committed suicide in the basement of the Ministry of Public Security. Such a chaotic "investigation" is naturally difficult to carry on, so we have to let it go. This kind of "class struggle" created at will caused millions of cadres and the masses to suffer an inexplicable pain and disaster.

This investigation campaign lasted until the 1974 campaign to criticize Lin Piao and Confucius, and then nothing happened.

After listening to Zhou Jianguo's narration, Chai Jianmin was speechless.