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Chai Jianmin is about to go to Hong Kong. Before leaving, his friends He Jiafu, Li Tiandao, Lin Huiting and other old people specially came to see him off. During the chat, they unknowingly talked about those things that were controlled by the military during the Cultural Revolution. Three armies and two armies".

Lin Huiting has a student surnamed Chen who served as the "Military Propaganda Captain" during the "Cultural Revolution". This Captain Chen once wrote some memoirs, recording the experience at that time.

The army was the only organization that was not disrupted during the "Cultural Revolution". Due to its strict discipline, strict organization and superior status, Mao Zedong relied on the army to basically control the situation that was almost out of control in the early days of the "Cultural Revolution". During the "Cultural Revolution", the military intervened and controlled the activities of various local units, mainly through the so-called "three branches and two armies" (that is, support for the revolutionary left, industry, agriculture, military training for schools, and military management for various units). The army's "three branches and two armies" ran through the first seven years of the "Cultural Revolution" (1966 to 1972). Since 1968, military personnel have often performed the tasks of "military training and military management" in the capacity of the "Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Team of the People's Liberation Army" (hereinafter referred to as the "Military Propaganda Team").

In many literatures recalling and researching the "Cultural Revolution", there are few introductions about the "Military Propaganda Team", an important role in the "Cultural Revolution", and the introduction of the "Three Branches and Two Armies" in official documents is also vague. In a few years, perhaps not many people will be able to explain the origin and true function of the "three branches and two armies".

In fact, without understanding the role of the "Military Propaganda Team" in the "Cultural Revolution", it will be difficult to understand the evolution process of "from chaos to governance" in the "Cultural Revolution"; ", so it is impossible to evaluate the historical status of the "Cultural Revolution".

Lin Huiting once asked his students: Mao Zedong asked the army to "support the revolutionary left" to seize power. Who is the "revolutionary left"?

Captain Chen told Lin Huiting:

At the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution" in 1966, according to his own vision, Mao Zedong thought that Liu Shaoqi's "headquarters" could be destroyed in a short period of time, and then rely on the "rebels" to control the situation. On December 26, 1966, Mao Zedong held a birthday banquet specially for the generals of the "Central Cultural Revolution Group". Correctly summarizes his thoughts on the current situation and the way forward."

At that time, Mao Zedong planned to use "power seizure" as the final stage of the four stages of the "Cultural Revolution". According to his "strategic deployment", in January 1967, a "power seizure storm" blew up across the country. At the climax of the "power seizure storm", Mao Zedong said: "The issue of power seizure...is the key stage of the decisive battle, it is the theme, and it is the topic." But the evolution of reality completely surpassed Lao Mao's wishful thinking. The power-seizure storm” has evolved into endless “fighting” and “smashing, smashing and looting” among “rebel” organizations in various places. The struggle is still in the ascendant, and each other is in a state of life and death, and it is impossible to "unite" to share power. At this time, even Mao Zedong himself could not control the situation. At that time, Lao Mao also admitted: "After the January storm, the central government was thinking about the issue of major alliances, but it didn't work."

It was in this passive situation that Mao Zedong had to use the army, the last "trump card", to control the situation as soon as possible in the name of supporting the "revolutionary left".

In January 1967, Mao Zedong instructed the army: "The local Cultural Revolution is raging, and the struggle to seize power is still going on fiercely. Our army must support the local revolutionary leftists in their struggle to seize power." The revolutionaries demand military support and assistance, and they should do so. The so-called non-intervention is false, and they have already intervened." This is Mao Zedong's earliest expression of "supporting the leftists" and supporting the "true revolutionaries", that is, the "Cultural Revolution" The origin of the term "Zhizuo" in the Chinese army.

However, among the numerous "rebel" organizations across the country, who are the "revolutionary leftists" and which mass organizations are not "revolutionary leftists"? Lao Mao and the "Central Cultural Revolution Group" could not come up with a list, but "play riddles" on the military personnel who participated in the "left support".

Under such circumstances, the armies in various places faced with several factions of mass organizations that were seriously opposed, and could not figure out who the "revolutionary leftist" was, so they could only "support the leftist" according to their own judgment. The result was the same as that of Mao Zedong and the "Central Cultural Revolution". The requirements are very different, even completely opposite. Therefore, Mao believed that the army was "right-leaning." In a letter to Jiang Qing on August 4, 1967, he said: "At present, 75% of the cadres above the military division (that is, division level) support the right." In fact, in many provinces and cities, the result of the army's "supporting the left" has intensified the "fighting" between the "rebel" organizations, and the situation has become more chaotic, which is actually contrary to Lao Mao's original intention.

Captain Chen said to Lin Huiting: In fact, after the "Central Cultural Revolution" forcibly intervened, it was not until 1968 that the situation in most provinces and cities initially stabilized.

Captain Chen added: Because a large number of workers and peasants participated in the "rebel" organization during the "Cultural Revolution", which shook industrial and agricultural production, Mao Zedong issued another instruction: "The army must not only cooperate with the local government to manage agriculture, but also manage industry. ... The army cannot Sit back and ignore the decline in industrial production." As a model, Mao Zedong sent cadres and soldiers of the 8341 Unit of the Central Guard Corps to six factories in Beijing (Beijing Xinhua Printing Factory, Beijing Knitting General Factory, Beijing Erqi Locomotive and Rolling Stock Factory, etc.) to intervene in " During the "Cultural Revolution" period, the leadership and management of the factory, and later the 8341 troops were sent to Peking University and Tsinghua University. This is the origin of the famous "Six Factories and Two Schools" during the "Cultural Revolution" period.

Captain Chen told Lin Huiting that the army has been involved in "supporting the left" in various places, and later added "supporting labor" and "supporting agriculture", thus creating the so-called important task of the PLA during the "Cultural Revolution" period-"Three Branches" ".

What Lin Huiting said made Chai Jianmin, He Jiafu, Li Tiandao and several other elderly people think about it. They all experienced the Cultural Revolution, but they all knew nothing about the origin of the "Three Branches", let alone today's young people . In fact, the Cultural Revolution has gradually become indifferent in the public mind.