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Accompanied by his younger sister Nan Liwa, Nan Yangsheng visited the 75-year-old Pantou in a wheelchair. Lao Pantou was a former friend of Nanyang Sheng's grandfather He Jiafu. Under the influence of his son Pan Tianliang, old Pantou paid attention to Zhou Enlai's behavior and behavior in his spare time. Zhou Enlai’s reverse actions in history during his lifetime, from the Yan’an Rectification Movement to the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, allowed him to see a rare political phenomenon, that is, the switch of political roles between Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi.

Old Pantou said to Nanyangsheng and Nanliwa brothers and sisters: In fact, Zhou Enlai was caught in the internal struggle of the CCP all his life, which was the cruelest, bloodiest, craziest and most tragic power struggle in Chinese and foreign history. Intrigues and intrigues, swords and swords, blood and rain, from gangsters fighting each other to drawing swords in the court, fighting and self-protection, Zhou Enlai racked his brains and brains for this.

In the early days of the Communist Party of China, Zhou Enlai’s status was higher than that of Mao Zedong. Zhou Enlai held important positions in the central government, even the highest leadership positions. Lao Mao only held local positions. Is the supreme leader of the Chinese Communist Party.

Old Pantou said: As the saying goes, when you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins. In the power struggle between Lao Mao and Zhou Enlai, Zhou Enlai was not as brave as Lao Mao, let alone as ruthless as Lao Mao, so he was defeated. In the end, he was willing to be the "second child" and loyally assisted Mao . In the era of cruel internal strife, Zhou Enlai was almost the only "tumbler" of the top leaders of the CCP. The key point is that he was well versed in the "secondary philosophy": don't stand out, don't complain, follow suit, and endure humiliation.

After the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China entered Yan'an, the power struggle at the top level gradually changed. During the rectification movement in Yan'an, Zhou Enlai was one of the main targets of Mao Zedong's rectification. Liu Shaoqi, Mao's confidant at the time, was the vanguard of Zhou Enlai. Liu Shaoqi was Mao Zedong's new favorite during the rectification movement in Yan'an, and he attacked Wang Ming and Zhou Enlai. The decision to grant Mao "the right to make the final decision," proposed by Liu Shaoqi, pushed Mao into an unfettered position within the party. Mao Zedong gradually moved towards authoritarianism, which caused a series of evil consequences. Zhou Enlai was forced to review many times and admitted that he could only be the second in command. However, as a result of the Yan'an rectification movement, even Liu Shaoqi took away his second-in-command position.

The power struggle of the CCP reached its peak during the Cultural Revolution.

On the eve of the Cultural Revolution, Lao Mao's willful will led to a nationwide famine, causing many farmers to starve to death, which awakened Liu Shaoqi's humanity. Liu Shaoqi took risks and implemented an economic adjustment policy centered on "Three Self-One Guarantees". Through a period of economic reforms, China was temporarily reversed from the crisis of great collapse and famine. For this reason, Liu Shaoqi has established a huge reputation within the party, and in the party and government system, from the central to the local, including crucial news organizations, Liu Shaoqi's connections are important. Apparently, Liu Shaoqi offended Mao Zedong. At that time, when Mao Zedong hypocritically used the party constitution and constitution to ask Liu Shaoqi for the right to speak, Mao and Liu had completely split from the alliance.

The subtle thing is that Zhou Enlai intervened in the dispute as a peacemaker. He put aside the right and wrong of the political dispute between the two, and only persuaded Liu Shaoqi to conduct a review from the perspective of "respecting the chairman." In the early days of the Cultural Revolution, Zhou Enlai repeatedly conveyed his sincerity to Mao Zedong, saying that he would stand by Mao Zedong's side and apply to join the Proletarian Headquarters.

In contrast, Mao Zedong seemed isolated. For this reason, Mao Zedong used extraordinary means to bring down Liu Shaoqi through the alliance of Zhou Enlai and Lin Biao. And Liu's men and horses were cleaned from top to bottom. In Zhou Lin's role of accomplice, relatively speaking, Lin Biao participated passively and belonged to a negative role. Zhou Enlai took the initiative to follow, which is an active role. In this way, Liu Shaoqi and Zhou Enlai switched roles. Liu Shaoqi became the target, and Zhou Enlai became a member of Mao Zedong's stick team.

How to deal with the downfall of Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai once gave instructions in the document, suggesting that he should be shot.

In the top ranks of the CCP, Liu Shaoqi, Lin Biao, etc. have all been the "second child", but they all died halfway because of showing their sharpness. Throughout the CCP, Liu, Lin, etc. can only be regarded as the "second child" in name; the real "second child" has always been Zhou Enlai.

Old Pantou said to Nan Yangsheng: Because Zhou Enlai is not as ruthless as Lao Mao, in the eyes of party insiders, compared with Mao and Zhou, Zhou Enlai still has a trace of humanity. He is like a life-saving straw when various factions are in trouble. Some people say that Zhou Enlai protected many old cadres or democrats during the Cultural Revolution. But in fact, it's not. Those whom Lao Mao was determined to defeat were by no means under Zhou Enlai's protection. And Lao Mao felt that Zhou Enlai would try his best to protect those who could be let go.

Zhou Enlai controlled 14 task forces during the Cultural Revolution, and the inside story is horrifying. At that time, it was Zhou Enlai himself who decided to set up a task force, who would be in charge, and select the staff of the task force at the Central Cultural Revolution Meeting. After everyone discussed and agreed, Zhou Enlai signed and reported to Mao Zedong and Lin Biao for approval. Among them, the Central Military Commission task force has three offices. Under the First Office were Liu Shaoqi, Wang Guangmei, "Bo Yibo and other sixty-one traitors", Tao Zhu, Lu Dingyi, Zhang Wentian, Peng Zhen, and others; under the Second Office were Peng Dehuai, He Long, and Luo Ruiqing. There are several task forces under the office of the third office for "May 16", arresting traitors, Ye Xiangzhen and others. Zhou Enlai, Jiang Qing, Chen Boda, and Kang Sheng actually mastered the work of the central task force, and they were also in charge of the Liu Shaoqi project.

The specific staff and persons in charge of the task force are a group of military and division-level cadres drawn from the army by the Military Commission's working group in accordance with the decision of the Central Cultural Revolution Meeting. Each task force ranges from a dozen to as many as dozens of people. After gathering in Beijing, Zhou Enlai led the members of the Central Cultural Revolution Meeting to call them for a meeting and arrange work. Zhou Enlai presided over a meeting of all staff of the task force with 400 to 500 people every half a month. Until Wu Faxian was arrested in September 1971, the entire task force had made little progress. At this time, the top came to suppress, criticizing the staff for "rightist deviation", demanding that they strictly review and draw conclusions quickly.

When talking about Liu Shaoqi’s verdict, Lao Pantou said to Nan Yangsheng: In October 1968, on the eve of the 12th Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Wang Dongxing suddenly took a document to the Central Cultural Revolution meeting, saying it was from the task force. The staff were recruited from a foreign consulate in Wuhan. Then based on this material, Liu Shaoqi was given a lot of labels such as "traitor, traitor, scab". Finally, a report was written by the staff of the task force, which was discussed and approved at the Central Cultural Revolution Meeting, signed by Zhou Enlai, and reported to Mao Zedong and Lin Biao for approval. Later, based on this "evidence", Liu Shaoqi was convicted at the Twelfth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee, and Liu Shaoqi was expelled from the party.

Old Pantou said again: The declassified archives show that during the "Cultural Revolution", Zhou Enlai kept betraying his "comrades" in order to protect himself. Liu Shaoqi, He Long, Peng Dehuai, and Tao Zhu were persecuted to death, and Zhou Enlai directly intervened in the unjust cases of Peng, Luo, Lu, and Yang. Zhou Enlai once deceived countless Chinese people with his hypocritical appearance. In recent years, his true face has been exposed continuously.

During the "Cultural Revolution", Zhou Enlai once put "five hats" on Liu Shaoqi, the chairman of the Communist Party of China, and wrote "Liu Thief" in his own handwriting in the report. Zhou Enlai commented on Liu Shaoqi's "criminal evidence materials": "Liu thief is a great traitor, a great scab, a great traitor, a great spy, and a great traitor. He is really a counter-revolutionary with all five poisons and heinous crimes!" "This person should be killed!"

Zhou Enlai may have been an idealist when he was young, but when his ideals could not be realized, he turned into a realist. When he realized that he had to survive the tragic power struggle, he completely ignored his ideals.

Zhou Enlai's viciousness has its own records: In 1931, Gu Shunzhang, a senior leader of the CCP, was arrested and rebelled. Zhou Enlai, who was in charge of the CCP's special department, personally led the team and strangled Gu's wife and children to death with a rope. . Among those killed were Gu Shunzhang's 5-year-old son and Zhou's savior, Sili.

Prior to that, when Chiang Kai-shek was purging the party, Zhou Enlai was detained by the KMT commander Si Lie, and his younger brother Si Li, who was a student of Zhou Enlai at the Whampoa Military Academy, immediately rescued Zhou Enlai from his life. Four years later, when Zhou Enlai personally directed the killing of Gu's family, in order not to leave any traces and future troubles, he did not spare the guests who were in Gu's house, including Sili who was playing mahjong in Gu's house at that time.

During the investigation of the crimes committed by the "Gang of Four", it was found that almost all of the arrest warrants for the injustices persecuted during the Cultural Revolution were signed by Zhou Enlai.

When Zhou Enlai's adopted daughter, Sun Weishi, cried to Zhou about being raped by Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai asked Sun to keep quiet and take care of the overall situation. During the Cultural Revolution, Sun Weishi was imprisoned by Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing, and Zhou Enlai personally signed Sun Weishi's arrest certificate. The Communist Party advocates party spirit and not humanity, but Zhou Enlai denied it. In order to protect himself, Zhou Enlai even personally ordered the arrest of his own younger brother Zhou Tongyu, and even betrayed his bodyguards who had followed him for decades. His guard, Cheng Yuangong, was once thought by Jiang Qing to be in the way of her, preventing her from meeting Zhou Enlai. This was purely Jiang Qing's suspicion. However, Zhou Enlai did not make any excuses for his loyal guard chief. Cheng Yuangong was expelled from the Zhongnanhai Security Office and sent to labor reform for eight years. Rather than saying that Zhou Enlai succumbed to Jiang Qing's masculinity, it is better to say that he succumbed to the masculinity of Mao Zedong who endowed Jiang Qing with femininity.

Zhou Enlai served Mao Zedong tremblingly and carefully curry favor with Jiang Qing, to the point of despising himself. There is a saying in China: "Beating a dog depends on the face of the owner." Zhou Enlai took it a step further, "Respecting a dog depends on the face of the owner."

Zhou Enlai once taught Qiu Huizuo the classics of being an official. This is also the "black and thick learning" that Zhou Enlai has devoted himself to studying for many years. He said: "Central politics is to handle the relationship between Chairman, Vice Chairman Lin, and Jiang Qing." In order to cater to Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai Anyone can be sacrificed. Let innocent people suffer from innocent disasters.

Lao Pantou said to Nan Yangsheng and Nan Liwa brothers and sisters:

Zhou Enlai has a healthy appearance and is known for his gentle manners and personable demeanor. He was once one of the four most beautiful men in the Republic of China. Zhou Enlai is exquisite in all aspects and has the right and the best. No one can match him. He is popular in the party and favored in the enemy camp.

On the CCP’s side, it was rumored that the Gang of Four was hostile to Zhou Enlai in the later period. In fact, it was not the case. Even the Gang of Four respected Zhou Enlai very much. Because of Mao Zedong’s jealousy and instigation, the Gang of Four sometimes had no choice but to play the vanguard of criticizing Zhou. Deng Xiaoping also played this role. Deng Xiaoping's reappearance in the late period of the Cultural Revolution was initiated by Lao Mao and used Deng to rule the Zhou Dynasty.

Almost since the founding of the CCP, Zhou Enlai has been in the top ranks of the CCP, and he has survived all his life. He is in the cruelest meat grinder in the world, and he is accompanied by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, who are often furious and violent. Survive for a long time with ever-changing, stay high and never fall. Because Zhou Enlai would always act according to Lao Mao's wink, and would never act recklessly.

Mao Zedong personally appointed Lin Biao as his successor. Zhou Enlai immediately expressed his approval and gave his full support. Now that Lin Biao had risen to the No. Regardless of the teacher-student relationship, Zhou Enlai has been Lin Biao's immediate boss for a long time. When Zhou Enlai met Lin Biao, he was always respectful and respectful.

After Lin Biao's death, Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing sent people to ransack the house and found more than 200 correspondence between Zhou Enlai and Lin Biao, among which Zhou expressed his loyalty to Lin Biao to the point of disgusting. Jiang Qing deliberately informed Zhou Enlai and asked how to deal with it? Zhou Enlai is sophisticated after all. Said calmly, you can figure it out! In order to show goodwill to Zhou Enlai and consolidate the alliance between Jiang and Zhou, Jiang Qing ordered that all those letters be burned. Zhou Enlai was grateful to Jiang, reciprocated, and even supported Jiang Qing a lot.

During the tense period between Mao and Lin, Zhou Enlai also tried to mediate and make up for it. But seeing that Mao and Lin faced each other irretrievably, Zhou Enlai immediately chose sides and stood firmly on Mao's side. Lin Biao’s departure and death were the result of the joint efforts of Mao and Zhou. In September 1971, after the relationship between Mao and Lin broke down, Lao Mao made an excuse to tour the south, cursing all the way, and creating public opinion against Lin along the way. Zhou Enlai was in Beijing and kept close Monitor Lin Biao's movements. After Lin Biao's family took the trident to the sky, Zhou Enlai immediately ordered the closure of airports across the country. Lin Biao had nowhere to stay, so he had to fly north, and finally fell into the Mongolian grassland, where the plane crashed and everyone died.

Upon hearing the news of Lin Biao's death, Zhou Enlai wept uncommonly. Ji Dengkui was amazed and puzzled, but Zhou Enlai kept saying, "You don't understand, you don't understand!" It turned out that the rabbit died and the fox was sad. Zhou Enlai knew that Lin Biao was dead. From then on, Mao Zedong, who was full of fighting spirit, would point the finger at him sooner or later. Zhou Enlai will be Mao's last target in his later years.

Sure enough, after the downfall of Lin Biao, Mao Zedong seemed to have no rivals in the party. However, Zhou Enlai's prestige was at its peak, which made Lao Mao restless. Zhou Enlai stood by Lao Mao without hesitation.

At that time, Lao Mao's health was deteriorating, and Zhou Enlai was in charge of major affairs of the party and the country. Zhou Enlai gathered great popularity inside and outside the party, and his prestige was high.

Mao Zedong suddenly used Deng Xiaoping, who had already been defeated, as a pawn against Zhou Enlai. Deng Xiaoping used to be Mao's confidant. Deng Xiaoping was recruited by accident, and he was reused. He was grateful to Lao Mao. He quickly put on a posture of wanting to replace Zhou.

Deng Xiaoping fought hard against Zhou and worked hard on Zhou Enlai many times in meetings criticizing Zhou Enlai. In addition to political means, Lao Mao also began to calculate Zhou Enlai's health and made a fuss about Zhou Enlai's illness.

In May 1972, the doctor found an abnormality during Zhou Enlai’s routine urination examination. After consultation with experts, he was diagnosed with bladder cancer. Since the treatment period of the disease is very important, early detection and early treatment have a high success rate, and the medical team immediately moved up. Report and recommend immediate surgery. Things were not that simple. After the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong had all the power, and leaders above the Politburo had to get the approval of Lao Mao to perform surgery. In other words, Lao Mao has the power of life and death, including the members of the Politburo.

Wang Dongxing conveyed Mao's four instructions to the medical team, don't tell the Premier and Sister Deng, don't check up, don't have surgery, pay attention to strengthen nutrition and care. The medical team was amazed by this strange instruction. Wang Dongxing asked them to stabilize, and said that this matter should be listened to by the chairman, and the chairman's thinking should be followed. The chairman is considering the overall issue.

And Lao Mao's so-called overall problem is nothing more than letting Zhou Enlai and Zhu De, two super veterans, die in front of him, paving the way for Jiang Qing and Mao Yuanxin to succeed him.

So Zhou Enlai's condition was artificially delayed. On a certain day in February 1973, Zhou Enlai suddenly discharged a large amount of bloody urine when he went to the toilet, which stained the whole toilet red. The reprimand, seventy and eighty, what to check! Don't panic, insist on listening to the chairman.

In the end, Ye Jianying took the opportunity of meeting foreign guests with Lao Mao and asked Lao Mao with Zhou Enlai's hematuria bottle. Lao Mao reluctantly agreed to do an examination for Zhou Enlai, but Lao Mao still emphasized that only the examination was not allowed to perform surgery.

In March of the same year, Zhou Enlai was admitted to the hospital for the first time for examination. The medical team secretly defied Mao Zedong’s order and quietly burned off the cancerous part during the cystoscopy examination for Zhou Enlai. Even so, the most favorable opportunity for treatment was missed. For many days, the cancer recurred, and Zhou Enlai suffered a lot and suffered a lot.

Also in 1973, Lao Mao hinted that his confidant Wang Hairong criticized Lin and Confucius, and also Zhou Gong. In November of this year, Lao Mao instructed Deng Xiaoping, Ji Dengkui, Jiang Qing, and Li Xiannian to form the so-called "Central Committee to Help the Prime Minister Understand Mistakes" to criticize Zhou Enlai internally. . Zhou Enlai couldn't bear to toss again and again, and finally collapsed without support.

At this time, Lao Mao knew that Zhou Enlai was powerless, so he allowed Zhou Enlai to perform the operation. What is surprising is that the operation lasted 13 times without moving. Thin, only 61 catties at the lightest time, with a skeleton left.

Zhou Enlai was well aware of Lao Mao's intentions, so when he entered the operating room for the last time, he suddenly lost his composure and said loudly to the medical staff, you must remember that I am not a traitor or a counter-revolutionary, I am loyal to the cause of the proletariat, and I am loyal to the people , none of you can try to defeat me. Zhou Enlai's tone was agitated, trembling all over, and he asked the medical staff to bring paper and pens, but Zhou was unable to write and just signed his own words. Due to violent tremors and unsteady grasp of the pen, the three characters "Zhou Enlai" signed were crooked and almost shapeless.

Zhou Enlai's remarks were aimed at Lao Mao and his cronies to once again hype up the "Wu Hao Incident". It was also in these last remarks that Zhou Enlai did not mention "loyalty to Chairman Mao" for the first time. On the morning of January 8, 1976, Zhou Enlai passed away after a complicated and heavy life.

After Mao Zedong heard the news, he didn't say a word. When asked by all parties, how to handle Zhou Enlai's funeral, Lao Mao didn't answer.

In the afternoon, by the swimming pool where Lao Mao lived, suddenly there was the sound of crackling firecrackers, and the guards were outraged. The prime minister had just passed away, so who was setting off the firecrackers? The person who set off the firecrackers was Mao Zedong's personal secretary and "favorite concubine" Zhang Yufeng.

Facing the questioning, Zhang Yufeng replied confidently: Chairman Mao ordered the release!