Wake up（212）

 

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The dark fog shrouded the train windows, blocking reality. Chai Jianmin wanted to see the lush greenery through the window, but there was only gloomy darkness.

Zhou Jianguo continued to chat about Xu Shiyou during the Cultural Revolution. Pan Guangfu and Chai Jianmin did not interrupt either.

Zhou Jianguo said that if the Cultural Revolution was a catastrophe encountered by China, then the investigation of May 16th was the catastrophe among the catastrophes of Jiangsu Province. Xu Shiyou's various evil deeds not only harmed the people, but also rebelled against the party and the army. But sadly, until now, this villainous figure is still wantonly beautified. All kinds of evil deeds are interpreted as loyalty to Mao Zedong and his character of "sickness and hatred".

Although Xu Shiyou was attacked by the rebels in the early days of the Cultural Revolution and hid in the Dabie Mountains for a time, he was an active leader and participant of the Cultural Revolution and the perpetrator of many crimes.

After the investigation began in April 1970, the provincial "Second Office" once threatened that it would be unreasonable not to dig up hundreds of thousands of "May 16" in Jiangsu.

In digging deeper into the "May 16" movement, many task forces used binding, beating, pressing, kneeling on tiles, sitting on tiger stools, scalding their bodies with irons, feeding manure, pouring water on top, and wearing sheepskin coats on hot days Many victims were tortured to the point of being maimed and mentally disturbed. Most of them were tortured under forced confessions and confessed against their will that they were May 16. In Lishui County alone, 36 people died during the May 16 Movement. In Binhai County, 18 people died and more than 60 people were disabled.

Xu Shiyou wrote a report to Mao Zedong in 1971 and said: "During the 'One Attack, Three Antis' campaign, we found that there were many 'May 16' elements here, not only in the localities, but also in the army. According to incomplete statistics, I have confessed to participating in the 'Five There are more than 1,190 people in the counter-revolutionary cabal on 16th, and more than 2,000 suspects.” This is still in the early stages of the arrest of May 16th in Jiangsu.

Xu Shiyou was ruthless and did what he did. He personally interrogated the May 16 suspects and even beat the deputy director of the political department of the military region under investigation.

Nanjing University became a breakthrough in the investigation of "May 16"

Nantah University is considered to be the unit with the most serious enemy situation during the "May 16th". When the investigation began in April 1970, Nanjing University was first used as a breakthrough point. Wu Dasheng personally managed it directly, and sent Chi Mingtang, a member of the core group of the provincial party, to stay at the spot, demanding to create momentum, gain experience, and promote the province.

The task force has a slogan, which is also an experience. It is called "fighting in the middle of the night, victory at dawn." Extorting confessions, using more than a dozen types of corporal punishment, and interrogating members of the task force in turn, torture you until midnight every day. When your body and mind When the whole line collapses and feels that life is worse than death, it will be tortured, and this time mostly happens at dawn. Fighting continuously for several days and nights, up to 13 days and nights, captured the "stubborn fortress", mainly relying on these means to force out the "May 16th" and also forced out human lives. For example, although the vice principal Yang Shijie had nothing to do with the so-called "May 16th Movement", he was severely beaten during the "isolation review", and he committed suicide because he could not bear the humiliation. Qian Xinmin, a young teacher in the Department of Computer Mathematics, was denounced and beaten. He could not bear the persecution, so he fled to Tiaoyanziji in the suburbs of Nanjing and committed suicide. Zhu Yaoxin, a teacher of the Department of Astronomy, was "quarantined and inspected" and severely beaten while working on a farm in Liyang. He tried to escape, but fell into a pond and died.

A victim who suffered so much later talked about the situation at that time: "There are endless teams, endless crimes, endless confessions, and endless tears."

After more than four months of investigation and digging at Nantah University, as many as 1,560 people were labeled as "May 16" in the whole school, accounting for nearly one-third of the total number of teachers, students and staff at that time. Among them, 389 were imprisoned for protest, 16 were sentenced, and 21 were persecuted to death.

Other units in Jiangsu Province dig deep into the "May 16th" is no exception

Huadong Electron Tube Factory in Nanjing City had more than 3,800 employees at that time, as many as 2,700 people were suspected of being "May 16" elements during the investigation, and 1,226 people were officially designated as "May 16" elements, and they were destroyed 7 people were killed. Twenty-seven of the original 28 Party branch secretaries in the factory were labeled as "May 16" elements.

Jiangsu Provincial Agriculture Bureau had 64 people in total, and 39 people were labeled as "May 16" elements. Among them, 31 people who were retained by the former Department of Agriculture and Forestry and Fisheries Bureau, except for 2, were all labeled as "May 16" elements.

The Sixth Geophysical Exploration Brigade of the Petroleum Headquarters of Jiangsu Province, which has been engaged in field operations for a long time, has a total of 480 employees. 143 people were labeled as "May 16" elements, of which 4 were killed and many were injured.

The Nanjing Zijin Mountain Observatory, which observes the sky, had nearly 200 cadres and scientific and technological personnel at that time. Among them, as many as 180 people were labeled as "May 16" elements and treasonous group members, and 2 people were persecuted to death.

The Provincial Science and Technology Bureau is regarded as a black stronghold of "May 16", and the "Second Office" believes that scientific research units are the focus of "May 16". More than 1,000 people were directly affiliated to the scientific research unit, and more than 100 people were detained as "May 16", 5 people were killed, and more than 400 "May 16" suspects were put on the "big list". In some scientific research units, 100% of the cadres above the degree and 80% of the general staff are marked as "May 16".

The investigation of "May 16" has become a top priority in Nanjing.

Nanjing City has been identified as the "May 16th" base camp, and the investigation of the "May 16th" is the top priority, and it is combined with the "one attack and three antis" and goes all out. By the end of 1972, more than 26,100 people were labeled as "May 16th", and more than 300 people were forced to death. Only 33 people committed suicide in the city's commercial system (these figures do not include the number that is now under the jurisdiction of Nanjing. The five counties of Jiangning, Lishui, Gaochun, Jiangpu, and Liuhe). As for ordinary employees, there are even a lot of people who were mentally disturbed, disabled, separated from their wives and children, and their families were destroyed during the 'deep digging'.

The "May 16" investigations in other cities in Jiangsu are not far behind.

Take the Yancheng area as an example. There were 13 members of the Standing Committee of the original local committee, 6 people labeled as "May 16", and 4 people on the "big list"; 84 middle-level cadres, 43 people labeled as "May 16", accounting for 51%. Among the more than 500 police officers in the regional public security organs, 327 people were labeled as "May 16", accounting for 65%.

In Wuxi City (now the main urban area of Wuxi), there were more than 11,000 people who were targeted for the "May 16" incident. In one unit, 100% of the people were labeled as "May 16".

Of the 688 teaching staff at the Jiangsu Normal University in Suzhou, 396 were labeled as "May 16" members. In Xuzhou City, 6,242 people were labeled as "May 16th" counter-revolutionaries.

Provincial May 7th Cadre School Turned into a Camp for Centralized Review and Detention of "May 16th"

The May 7th Cadre School in Jiangsu Province, which Wu Dasheng personally presided over, actually included more than 2,300 cadres on the "May 16th" big list. There were 664 people in the school who were detained in isolation for inspection, and 7 people were persecuted to death in the school. It has become a camp where the "May 16th" were centrally censored and detained. Although the cadre school did not directly kill people, it exceeded the authority of the judiciary and handcuffed those who were severely dealt with to declare justice.

The second bad thing Xu Shiyou did during the Cultural Revolution was to send a large number of urban residents to the lower levels.

In 1970, the People's Daily published an editorial saying, "We also have two hands, so we don't want to be idle in the city," and called for learning from the experience of Huining, Gansu. At that time, many urban organizations sent cadres to the countryside, but most of them took the form of May 7th cadre schools. Only Jiangsu Province forced a large number of urban residents to be sent to the countryside.

At that time, the province involved nearly 30 million people. They have no roots in the countryside, are not used to rural life, and the countryside is not able to accommodate so many urban residents, so their life is very difficult or even miserable. After the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, a large number of deported residents returned to cities, mainly Nanjing, but they lived without a fixed place, set up shacks everywhere, and lived by begging. Until the 1980s, there were still many residents living in the holes dug on the city wall, which became a special scenery that distinguishes Nanjing from other big cities.

No matter how the Cultural Revolution is defined, Xu Shiyou is a villain who should always be cursed. But so far, there are still many people who are trying their best to beautify Xu Shiyou, paint him, and describe him as a hero of the anti-Cultural Revolution.

The Cultural Revolution has been completely negated, and the anti-Cultural Revolution has become something to show one's face. But when did Xu Shiyou oppose the Cultural Revolution? From the day when the Cultural Revolution began, he sent personnel from the military region to join the working group and stationed in Nanjing University. Does sending a working group to lead the Cultural Revolution support or oppose the Cultural Revolution? This question is not difficult to answer.

Afterwards, Xu Shiyou and the rebels secretly communicated and instigated Liang Duwu to defect, putting Jiangsu Provincial Committee in an embarrassing position, and then vigorously supported Jiangsu Province's 126 seizure of power. Which one is the Counter-Cultural Revolution?

More importantly, are the two major events that Xu Shiyou did: arresting May 16 and delegating residents, were they part of the Cultural Revolution? If so, he was an active leader and participant of the Cultural Revolution, and he was the perpetrator of many crimes, and he was definitely not against the Cultural Revolution.

The train goes all the way, looking back all the way. Zhou Jianguo talked about those things during the Cultural Revolution, and Pan Guangfu, who was a media person, also paid more attention to this. But Chai Jianmin didn't intervene, but another question was churning in his mind: Will the Cultural Revolution repeat itself?