Wake up（89）

 

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Memories are a pot of tea, a pot of melted tea cut with emotional boiling water: rolling ups and downs, then cooling down, like a life of ups and downs, joys and ecstasy, finally ends in "everything is open, and the arrow follows the fate". But "can't get" and "can't let go" are the demons of many people. Life is like a grand and gorgeous drama, different people have different masks, play different roles, interpret different experiences, but share the same sadness.

At the end of the meeting of 7,000 people, Mao Zedong suddenly proposed to hold a "venting meeting". The reason why Mao Zedong held a venting meeting was because the experimental campaign on the "three red flags" was implemented by the central ministries and commissions and the provincial and municipal committees. During the implementation process, the huge losses caused by "natural disasters" and "man-made disasters" The harm caused by the party members and cadres at the lower level is serious, and the rebellious psychology and emotional resentment caused are also strong. However, as a rule, they do not blame the initiators of the line policy, but the specific executors who forced them to implement it, their immediate superiors.

Letting out the anger in these people's hearts can be said to kill three birds with one stone: First, it can ease the tense atmosphere caused by the struggle within the party in the past few years. Avoid "making too many enemies"; second, it can get rid of the domineering, arrogance, and bureaucratic habits of high and middle-level cadres, and further strengthen the prestige of the central government and himself in the grassroots, middle, and high-level party organizations of the entire party; Know the true thoughts, emotional attitudes, and political stances of the entire party's grassroots and middle-level leading cadres about Mao Zedong's own thoughts, line, and prestige over the past few years, so as to respond.

However, although the ministries of the central government and the provincial party committees became the targets of the representatives attending the meeting, most of the delegates really believed that the mistakes mainly came from the specific implementation. The general direction of Mao Zedong and the central government was always correct, but the central ministries and After all, the provincial party committees have been taught by generations, and the boards that the representatives hit on their buttocks will eventually hit Mao Zedong's scar through the principle of "transmitting force through objects".

As a result, the censorships forced out by representatives of the central ministries and provincial committees were far more explicit, deeper, sharper, and more essentially pointed to the fundamental mistakes in his ideological line over the past few years than Liu Shaoqi's reports and speeches. What worried Mao even more was that most of the people who vented their anger were leading cadres such as the county party committee secretary and prefectural party secretary. The Supreme Being, but in fact most of them do not agree with his ideological line, and are dissatisfied and worried about his serious mistakes.

If people like Liu Shaoqi are allowed to sing the main theme of the party's work in the name of "economic adjustment" and "overcoming difficulties", and fight against him, these county party secretaries, prefectural party secretaries, including provincial party secretaries and central ministers, I'm afraid they will all leave Mao Zedong and go to Liu Shaoqi's side.

Mao Zedong was well versed in the explicit and unspoken rules of power struggle within the party. At a historical stage, if the supreme leader of a party wants to firmly control the supreme power in his hands and maintain his sacred and inviolable authority in the whole party, a minimum prerequisite is that he guides the main work of the party in this historical stage. The party's line, principles, policies, and ideological theories must be "correct", proven by practice and recognized by the entire party.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, during the period of armed seizure of power, the main work within the party was military struggle, and it was the strategy and tactics he adopted in the military struggle and the "correctness" of the line and policy he represented established him as the supreme leader of the party. And the supreme authority "recognized" by the whole party.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the consolidation of the political power and economic construction (including system reform) became the two main themes of the party's inner work, and their importance can be said to go hand in hand. It can be said that in the first five or six years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he adopted a set of lines, guidelines, policies and theoretical results on these two major themes, which were basically successful and "effective" in practice. His position as the leader of the entire party is crucial.

However, with the consolidation of the political power and the coming of the period of peaceful construction, the work of consolidating the political power has gradually withdrawn from the foreground, and it is inevitable that the work of economic construction will play the leading role. He adjusted swiftly. After the "victory" of the anti-rightist struggle in 1957, he focused his energy on economic construction, and realized a major turning point in the guiding line, that is, from the transformation of the economic system to the improvement of the economic growth rate. The "three red flags" are the general idea, practical approach and theoretical policy of the new historical period that he grandly launched to realize this major turning point.

However, after four years of hard work and fanaticism, the myth of Mao Zedong's "always correct" has been shattered. He left Maicheng on the main battlefield of the party's economic work and was defeated. Although they have struggled several times, except for causing greater disasters to the people of the whole country, it is almost in vain. What made him feel particularly painful and desperate was that the three red flags he carefully crafted were his overall design for economic construction in the transitional period. The core content of the ideological line. If the three red flags are negated by history, by facts, by the whole party, and by the people, then it means that he, as the supreme leader of the party, is fundamentally wrong in the guiding line and theoretical principles of the main work of the party.

This means: first, to vacate the position of commander, and let others take care of the economic construction work that occupies the dominant position in the party; second, the chain effect formed by the previous result is to vacate the position of the highest leader in the party. ; Three, the final result is that the power is left behind and obediently step down.

Of course, due to his historical feats and lofty prestige, the best ending is to be the "Supreme Emperor" again.

At the end of the meeting of 7,000 people, even if Mao Zedong had not clearly realized this point, he was aware of the coming crisis. The West Building Conference half a month later and the Central Work Conference in May of that year made this crisis clear and approachable.