Wake up（136）

 

136

 

Nan Shanyun invited his friend Li Si to meet. It is not easy to have a confidant in life. A scholar dies for a confidant, and a woman looks for a pleasing one. Qianjin is easy to know and hard to find. From ancient times to the present, it seems that everyone is looking for a bosom friend in the world of mortals. Who can really find a bosom friend? Who can really resonate with themselves? In everyone's life, it is impossible to be consistent in words and deeds. Even we ourselves cannot fully understand our own psychology, so how dare we expect others to understand us.

But Li Si is indeed Nanshan Yun's confidant. They were born in the same year, the same month, the same day, have the same interests, the same hobbies, and the same ambitions. Life is like a speeding train. Opportunity and fate will make many strangers meet and get acquainted with each other during the journey, and at the platforms along the way, they have to get off one after another to go to their destinations, so there is I have experienced the luck of "one knowledge in life is enough" and the regret of "everything in the world has a feast". But Li Si and Nanshan Yun stay together all the time and have a deep friendship.

Nan Shanyun said to his friend Li Si: "I recently accompanied my grandfather He Jiafu to meet Chai Jianhua, an old Chinese doctor, and unexpectedly met two old people, Wu Qiankun and Pan Guangfu. It is difficult for me to understand the heavy blow to these old people during that time. The old people scolded the rectification movement, but now the official media is calling for the rectification movement again. I don’t know what the rectification movement is all about? I want to hear your opinions.”

Li Si is called Xiao Kongming among young people of the same age, because he is well versed in the present and the past, and has the ability to think independently. Friends often chat with him when they have puzzled things.

Li Si said to Nan Shanyun: "The various rectification movements in history are actually aimed at beating dissidents."

Li Si said: It can be said that it is the consensus of the central leaders to use rectification to prevent corruption. However, it cannot be ruled out that Mao Zedong had other purposes for the rectification movement. He has a special liking for the rectification movement, and has always regarded the rectification movement as an effective means to unify the thoughts of the whole party, eliminate dissidents, and establish a single respect. The Yan'an Rectification Movement liquidated Wang Ming's line and its challenge to Mao Zedong's authority. According to the memories of some veteran cadres and the research of historians, Zhou Enlai was focused on forcing Zhou Enlai to review and surrender, and finally established the absolute authority of Mao Zedong Thought in the party.

Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, in order to rush to realize his agricultural socialist ideology and the utopian ideal of “Great Harmony” that Confucius and Kang Youwei longed for in his youth, Lao Mao has accelerated the implementation of socialist transformation in advance and criticized Liu Shaoqi’s proposal of “consolidating the new democratic order.” "; Criticizing the anti-adventurous editorial of the "People's Daily" on January 20, 1956, which was drafted according to Zhou Enlai's intention, Lao Mao believed that it was against him.

Wu Lengxi wrote in the article "Recalling Chairman Mao": When Chairman Mao sent him for review at the end of the editorial, he just circled his name and wrote the words "I don't want to read it". In January 1958, he said at the Nanning Conference specially held for this purpose: "Why should I read things that scold me." He endured this matter for a whole year and a half. Only then did I find the opportunity to vent my breath. Lao Mao criticized Bo Yibo's "right deviation". In addition, senior cadres such as Xue Xun, deputy secretary of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and vice governor, and Meng Yongqian, deputy director of the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, were criticized for opposing the implementation of the unified purchase and marketing policy, saying that they "cannot pass the test of socialism."

Li Si said: What's more, the Eighth National Congress of the Party was influenced by the Soviet Communist Party's anti-Stalinist superstition, and Mao Zedong's thought was canceled in the party constitution, which made Lao Mao even more dissatisfied. Challenge his supremacy. He has been highly alert to potential anti-self tendencies in the party. In October 1980, when four thousand senior cadres discussed the "Decisions on Several Major Historical Issues Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China (Draft)", Xia Yan said that when the Anti-Rightist Movement was launched in 1957, some people said that Chairman Mao was not afraid of the Zhangluo Alliance, but the It is Khrushchev who came out of the party.

In his speech at the Second Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Lao Mao emphasized the incident of raising posts, saying that he said at that time: "There are two headquarters in Beijing: one headquarters belongs to us, and this headquarters is sunny and burned. Yang fire; the second headquarters, called the Underground Command, also blows a kind of wind and burns a kind of fire, called blowing the yin wind and burning the yin fire....The purpose is to blow down the yang wind and extinguish the yang fire , Down a large number of people." And now "among our senior and middle-level cadres, there are still a few (not many) who have contacts with foreign countries" and privately send information to the Soviet Communist Party. Lao Mao strictly ordered these people to "explain this issue clearly to everyone", "If you don't tell it, you will investigate it, and if you find it, you will be punished appropriately."

At the Nanning Conference in January 1958, taking advantage of the anti-rightist victory and the power in his hands, Lao Mao recalculated the old scores and severely criticized Zhou Enlai and others for their "anti-rash advancement", and even forced Zhou Enlai to resign. Chen Yun actually stood aside. Pointing to Bo Yibo's nose, he said, "If you're not right-leaning, at least you're center-right!"

Nanshan Yun asked Li Si: Do you mean that following this trajectory, it cannot be ruled out that Mao Zedong wanted to use the rectification movement to rectify high-level party figures who deviated from his "Left" line and challenged his absolute authority?

Li Si said affirmatively: He mobilized the masses to speak out and "help the party to rectify the style of work", which actually included trying to use the mass movement to "eliminate the three evils", that is, to eliminate bureaucracy, sectarianism, and subjectivism. Lead to high-level figures within the party. But this plan, due to the unexpected large-scale "offensive" of the "right", especially the "right" democrats in the democratic parties, turned the finger on him and challenged him and the leadership of the Communist Party. tolerated. What's more, many middle and high-level cadres in the party are also opposed to speaking up and letting go. Afraid of losing the support of the cadres, he hurriedly made a 180-degree turn, changing "letting go" into "receiving", and vigorously anti-rightist. The original plan to use the party rectification movement to rectify dissident forces at the top of the party was postponed. However, there are many middle-level and grass-roots cadres in the party who use the rectification style to eliminate dissidents and avenge their personal enemies.

What happens when a person loses his dignity? Li Si said to Nan Shanyun: Recently, I read the diary of the writer Fang Fang, and she answered this question in the diary.

The writer Fang Fang told one thing:

In the middle and late period of the Cultural Revolution, a bungalow was built under the wall next to our house. The house was very small and simple, extremely cold in winter and extremely hot in summer, so Uncle Xu and Aunt Xu moved in there. They have no children and the house is barely livable. Every morning, Uncle Xu dragged a garbage truck, rang a copper bell, and began to sweep the floor and collect garbage in the dormitory. He and Aunt Xu are responsible for the cleanliness of our entire dormitory.

However, I know that Uncle Xu, who was once very heroic, free-spirited and enthusiastic, is an engineer in my father's unit. He was much younger than people like my father. Precisely because he is young, full of youth, and placed in a place where there are a lot of old-fashioned intellectuals, he can easily become a radical in a fiery movement. I vaguely heard that Uncle Xu seemed to have been a small leader of a mass organization, but people said that he was on the wrong team. He was kicked out of his comfortable office and became a silent cleaner who drooped his brows and bowed his head every day in the dormitory compound. For Uncle Xu, it was an extremely embarrassing scene, a moment when he had no self-esteem at all. What kind of strong will is needed for a person to live like this to survive? Living in humiliation is not easy.

Uncle Xu is weaker or more self-respecting than Uncle Xu is his own brother, Uncle Xu. Uncle Xu is also an engineer, so his qualifications are naturally older than Uncle Xu's, and his status is also much higher than Uncle Xu's. Uncle Xu's family is very respected in our dormitory because Mama Xu is a very kind teacher and because all the children in their family are college students. Such families were rare at the time. Uncle Xu and Uncle Xu lived in the same dormitory area. When Uncle Xu dragged a garbage truck and walked past Uncle Xu's house every day, what kind of feelings would Uncle Xu have in his heart? Is it pain, or helplessness? Only Uncle Xu knew this.

Naturally, the Cultural Revolution would not let people like Uncle Xu go easily. One day, Uncle Xu was also locked up. I remember that many people were locked in the basement of the office building at that time. The place was dark and damp, and the sun was not visible. In it, people are no different from prisoners, and their freedom and dignity are deprived together. Uncle Xu was naturally among them. Unlike others, Uncle Xu resisted at the cost of his own life. For a while, the news spread in the dormitory that Uncle Xu committed suicide in fear of crime. It is said that before Uncle Xu was locked up, he put the blade in the hat, took it in, and then cut his own pulse to commit suicide. I was so scared that I didn't even dare to ask which part Uncle Xu cut. Fortunately, Uncle Xu did not die because of this. He was discovered in time and sent to the government hospital. After rescue, he came back to life. For Mother Xu and her children, this is a great blessing, but what about Uncle Xu himself who is determined to die? It's hard to say if it's a good thing or not. One day, when I was passing by the hospital gate, I happened to see a thank-you letter written by Mother Xu and her children, thanking the Party for thanking the leaders and thanking the hospital for saving Uncle Xu. The red paper thank you letter posted on the wall will remain in my memory for a long time. Many years later, when I passed by the hospital again, the thank you letter still appeared in my mind. Suddenly, I wondered if Uncle Xu at that time also had such gratitude, and I wondered what kind of pain and sorrow Mama Xu felt in her heart when she wrote this thank you letter.

My father said that what a person is most afraid of being deprived is not wealth, status, status, or even family, but his dignity. If he loses this, what is the meaning of his life? I don't think my father's words are so right, but I remember it, and I also remember Uncle Xu's expressionless face and the big red thank you letter pasted on the hospital door.

After telling the story in Fang Fang's diary, Li Si sighed to Nanshan Yun: You and I are both confidants, and we watch the ups and downs of the wind and clouds, the ebb and flow of the tide, and the vicissitudes of the world together. But there is no need to worry about the country and the people. In the bloody political farce, we can only be a cold-blooded audience. If you want to stand up and fight, the brainwashed hundreds of millions of ignorant and foolish people will immediately become your enemy. I advise you not to pay attention to those things, history will repeat itself, at least I have smelled blood.

Nan Shanyun was speechless.