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Xiao Kongming, Li Si, Sanpang, and Ma Suya came to the "Juyi Hall" of the small hotel, and Wang Wu and Hua Runmei were the hosts. The young people gathered together, such as Nan Liwa, Nan Yangsheng, Wanru, Cheng Yenan and Sun Aijun Ladies and gentlemen, added a lot of joy and laughter.

Kong Ming Li Si, who is knowledgeable and eloquent, suddenly became the protagonist of this youth group's speech.

Little Kong Ming and Li Si talked about the current world situation, and of course they also talked about China's diplomatic anecdotes and the affair scandal of the foreign minister. As a result, his topics focused on the early events of the Deng Xiaoping era.

Li Si opened up the chatterbox: People always joked about Deng Xiaoping's "cat theory" when they talked about him. In fact, people ignored his most classic philosophy of life, which was "the theory of keeping a low profile". The idiom "hide your strengths and bide your time" means to hide your talents and not expose them. The structure of the idiom is the main predicate; it is generally used as a predicate in a sentence. But the source of the idiom comes from "Old Tang Book·Xuanzong Ji" by Jin·Liu Yan: "In the Taihe Huichang Dynasty, things became more and more hidden, and people lived and traveled in groups, so there is nothing to say." The idiom "Hide your strength and bide your time" comes out. Deng Xiaoping defined "hide your strength and bide your time" as China's foreign policy, which shows that his research on "hide your strength and bide your time" is extremely in-depth, and it is not just a casual talk on the spur of the moment.

Li Si said:

Criticizing Deng and countering the Rightist overthrow was the last large-scale political movement initiated by Mao Zedong at the end of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

In the late 20th century, Deng Xiaoping, who decided the fate of China, experienced "three ups and downs" in his political career of more than 70 years, all of which were related to Mao Zedong, including Mao Zedong personally knocking him down twice during the Cultural Revolution. One of the most dramatic political figures. Deng Xiaoping's comeback was purely due to Lao Mao's will. In the CCP sectarian system, Deng Xiaoping was originally a key figure in the Maoist faction. He was not only the "Maoist leader" when the Soviet area was purged, but also has been the most important and effective executor of Mao's dictatorship since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In fact, as early as 1933, Deng Xiaoping, who was the Propaganda Minister of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, was excluded because he actively promoted Mao Zedong's policies. This was the "first fall" of his "three ups and three downs". As a result, he formed a "friend in need" with Mao Zedong. Since then, Deng Xiaoping has been Mao Zedong's most important person.

In the 1950s, it was Mao Zedong who brought Deng Xiaoping from Sichuan to Beijing as the general secretary. Therefore, Deng Xiaoping got up so quickly at that time because Mao Zedong valued him very much. Deng Xiaoping had a close relationship with Mao Zedong in his early years.

In 1952, Deng Xiaoping, who was the first secretary of the Southwest Bureau of the Communist Party of China in Chengdu, was transferred to Beijing to serve as the vice premier. Deng Xiaoping was the first local prince to be transferred to the central government, and served as the vice premier in charge of the executive work of the Government Administration Council.

At the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1956, Mao Zedong personally nominated Deng Xiaoping as the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, ranking sixth among the leaders of the party. Lao Mao used him to restrain Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi. On the issue of fundamental interests, Deng Xiaoping never offended Lao Mao.

In 1957, when Mao Zedong talked with Khrushchev, the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he once said that his successors "the first is Liu Shaoqi, and the second is Deng Xiaoping."

Deng Xiaoping, who became one of the top leaders of the CCP, also lived up to Mao Zedong's trust. In 1957, Mao Zedong launched the Anti-Rightist Movement, and Deng Xiaoping personally presided over the implementation, labeling nearly 5 million people as "rightists" and "rightists". Deng Xiaoping did not completely deny the CCP's "anti-rightist" movement until his death.

From the end of the 1950s to the beginning of the 1960s, the relationship between China and the Soviet Union, which was originally a brotherly relationship, deteriorated. Deng Xiaoping confronted the Soviet Union and resolutely maintained Mao Zedong's prestige and image, which greatly satisfied Mao Zedong, and he mentioned it many times later.

In 1958, Mao Zedong launched the "Great Leap Forward", and Deng Xiaoping firmly supported it. But in 1960, Deng Xiaoping changed his views on the "Great Leap Forward" and tried to correct the mistakes of the "Great Leap Forward" together with Liu Shaoqi, so he also offended Mao Zedong.

In March 1961, Deng Xiaoping did not arrange a meeting according to Mao Zedong's intention. Mao Zedong obviously thought that Deng did not respect him, and said angrily: "Which emperor decided this?"

In 1962, Deng Xiaoping brought up the mistakes of the People’s Commune at a meeting. Mao Zedong angrily interrupted Deng’s words, saying, “In the past few years, there have only been a few mistakes.

In January 1965, Mao Zedong criticized the Central Secretariat headed by Deng Xiaoping for building an "independent kingdom" at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China.

In 1966, the Cultural Revolution began. On August 25, Mao Zedong criticized that Deng Xiaoping did not report to him for six years after 1959. Sitting far away from him in a meeting.

Still, Mao may have wanted to keep Deng Xiaoping. In October 1966, Mao Zedong encouraged Deng Xiaoping to "stand up" again when he gave instructions on Deng Xiaoping's review. Lao Mao said, "I have worked in the revolution for half my life, and if I stumble, will I not recover from it?"

Mao Zedong also hoped that Deng Xiaoping could work with the Cultural Revolution faction. Deng Xiaoping later recalled, "When the 'Cultural Revolution' started, the Chairman asked me to have a good relationship with Lin Biao. I agreed. But after talking with Lin Biao once, the talk fell through."

Even though Deng Xiaoping was overthrown, Mao Zedong still kept emphasizing that he should be treated differently from Liu Shaoqi. In May 1967, Mao Zedong asked Wang Dongxing to tell Deng that Liu and Deng could be dealt with separately. Write to him if you need anything. Lao Mao also received Deng Xiaoping a few days later. Lao Mao softened his criticism of Deng Xiaoping.

Li Si continued:

From July to August 1967, Deng Xiaoping was ransacked and denounced. During this period, on July 16, Mao Zedong also said to Wang Li, a member of the Central Cultural Revolution Group at the time, "Down with one year, at most two years." "Xiaoping, Wen can be compared with Shaoqi and Enlai, and Wu can be compared with Lin Biao and Peng Dehuai." "If Lin Biao's health fails, I still want Deng Xiaoping to come out. Deng Xiaoping is at least a member of the Standing Committee."

Yang Chengwu, acting chief of general staff of the Chinese army at the time, recalled that in September 1967, Mao Zedong talked about making Deng Xiaoping a member of the Central Committee at the Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In the early 1980s, Deng Xiaoping also said that at the Ninth National Congress, Mao Zedong proposed that Deng be a member of the Central Committee and the Politburo, but Lin Biao and others disagreed.

Have you ever remembered that the July 20 Incident, which happened in Wuhan in 1967—what foreigners call "military remonstrance"? Although it was suppressed, Lao Mao still made a compromise with the military and sent the three generals of the Cultural Revolution: Wang Li , Guan Feng, and Qi Benyu died on the charge of "destroying my Great Wall". After the Lin Biao incident, Lao Mao naturally had to make compromise adjustments in order to win people's hearts and quell people's grievances. The appointment of Deng Xiaoping was his proud move. However, it was difficult for Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao and others to understand Mao's state of mind and thoughts. They are also immersed in the hardships and joys of charging forward and making outstanding achievements. After the Lin Biao incident, although their power has greatly expanded, they suffer from low positions due to their weight. They couldn't understand, let alone accept that Mao Zedong used Deng Xiaoping so much.

On November 5, 1967, Lao Mao instructed the Central Cultural Revolutionary Committee to treat Deng Xiaoping differently from Liu Shaoqi.

In 1968, at the Twelfth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in which Liu Shaoqi was expelled from the Party, Mao Zedong spoke kindly to Deng Xiaoping twice, saying, "Don't expel him from the Party, it's better to be able to do some work." The re-appointment of Deng Xiaoping laid the groundwork.

Mao Zedong also instructed Wang Dongxing to directly manage Deng Xiaoping's affairs and protect his personal safety. Deng Xiaoping’s daughter, Deng Rong, said in her book recalling Deng Xiaoping that when Deng Xiaoping was sent to Jiangxi for house arrest, the director of the Jiangxi provincial government’s office personally picked him up and called Deng Xiaoping a comrade, saying, “Chairman Mao asked you to come to Jiangxi. welcome". Deng Xiaoping lived here in the small building of the former major general principal of the Nanchang Army Infantry School of the Fuzhou Military Region, known as the "General's Building", and "supervised labor" in a county tractor repair factory one kilometer away. This has something to do with Liu Shaoqi's fate at that time. worlds apart.

In March 1969, Mao Zedong instructed not to write "Liu and Deng's bourgeois revisionist line", but only Liu Shaoqi. Lao Mao said, "Comrade Deng Xiaoping has fought wars, and he is different from Liu Shaoqi."

Li Si said again:

During the Cultural Revolution, Lao Mao had to tie Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi together, because he was actually the number two figure in the "front line". But Lao Mao has always claimed that he is "different" from Liu Shaoqi, and he has always directly controlled Deng Xiaoping through Wang Dongxing. It was only a matter of time for Lao Mao to re-appoint Deng Xiaoping. After the Lin Biao incident, Lao Mao even regarded Deng Xiaoping as a trump card in his hand, although it was a card with extremely high risks. Lao Mao re-appointed Deng Xiaoping not only because he valued him, not only to fill the vacancy left by Lin Biao, but more importantly, to restrain and replace Zhou Enlai.

Among the high-ranking figures in the CCP, only Liu Shaoqi, Gao Gang, Lin Biao, and Deng Xiaoping were once valued by Mao Zedong. People say that Mao Zedong is an unprecedented king. He is valued by him as his companion. Companion to a king is like companion to a tiger, love leads to life, hate to death. Liu Shaoqi, Gao Gang, Lin Biao, and Deng Xiaoping, the Four King Kongs, were all favored by Lao Mao, and later hated by Mao one after another. Gao Gang, Liu Shaoqi, and Lin Biao died successively because of Mao's evil. Deng Xiaoping's unique experience was that he was loved by Lao Mao twice, and hated by Lao Mao twice.

Li Si sighed:

The means Deng Xiaoping adopted in times of adversity were to hide his strength and bide his time, observe calmly, hold his ground, deal with it calmly, and be good at defending himself. It was Gou Quan who lived in troubled times and survived a catastrophe. However, Deng Xiaoping did not think of good because of being evil twice. After Lao Mao, he degenerated into another generation of autocrats in China, that is, the self-proclaimed "second generation core".