Wake up（189）

 

Chapter 37 516

 

189

 

Chai Jianmin reluctantly bid farewell to his old comrade-in-arms He Jiafu and several old friends, and then boarded the train from the inland to Shenzhen accompanied by Pan Guangfu. Pan Guangfu has already completed the Hong Kong entry permit for Chai Jianmin. He only arrives in Shenzhen and then crosses the bridge to Hong Kong.

Pan Guangfu and Chai Jianmin were sitting in the sleeper car, and there was also an old couple of the same age as Pan Guangfu in the car.

Pan Guangfu chatted with the old couple. It turned out that the two were Xingang people who immigrated from Hefei, Anhui, to Hong Kong in the early years. This time I went to Hefei for a tour, mainly to visit my old classmates from the Cultural Revolution era.

The man's name is Zhou Jianguo, and the woman's name is Shi Nianchang. The old couple slept in bunk beds. Shi Nianchang slept on the upper bunk, and Zhou Jianguo slept on the lower bunk. Perhaps Zhou Jianguo's legs and feet were not good, and Shi Nianchang took care of him.

In order to take care of Chai Jianmin, Pan Guangfu let him sleep on the lower bunk and slept on the upper bunk himself.

Chai Jianmin, who was sleeping on the lower bunk, sat in front of the car window and looked at the slowly moving scenery outside the window. What he thought most about was that he would leave this land forever.

Zhou Jianguo, who was sleeping with him on the lower bunk, was lying on the bed and flipping through a magazine, and sometimes glanced sideways at Chai Jianmin, but there was no verbal communication between the two.

At some point, Zhou Jianguo closed his eyes, and the magazine he was holding slipped to the ground.

The magazine was under Chai Jianmin's bunk. Chai Jianmin picked it up, and suddenly he was attracted by the cover of the magazine. This is a magazine published in Hong Kong. The title on the cover of the magazine has a line of words: Crack down on the inside story of the "May 16 Counter-Revolutionary Group" movement.

Seeing that Zhou Jianguo was asleep, Chai Jianmin flipped through this article. The article comes from the Chinese Communist Party News Network, and the author is Xu Renjun. The introduction of the article said: During the "Cultural Revolution", from the central government to various local government agencies, there was a large-scale top-down campaign to clean up the "May 16 Counter-Revolutionary Group". All of a sudden, party, government, military agencies, and schools all over the country mobilized teachers and mobilized people to devote themselves to the investigation campaign. Thousands of cadres and students were branded as "May 16 counter-revolutionaries", subjected to long-term segregation, censorship, criticism, labor supervision, deprivation of personal freedom, and some were even persecuted to death. The "May 16th" counter-revolutionary conspiracy refers to an ultra-left organization called the Capital May 16th Red Guards that once existed in Beijing, China in 1967, and used the May 16th Notice to distribute leaflets against Zhou Enlai. The "May 16th" counter-revolutionary conspiracy movement was carried out within the country, referred to as the "May 16th" investigation, and millions of cadres and the masses were persecuted. Some scholars estimate that tens of millions of people were investigated, and 100,000 people were killed .

Chai Jianmin remembered the things about "May 16th" that his old friend Lin Huiting had talked to him not long ago. He began to read these inside stories seriously.

On July 1, 1967, the Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages established a Red Guard mass organization named "May 16th". At the inaugural meeting, the "Resolution of the First Congress of the Capital May 16th Red Guard Regiment" was passed. Zhou Enlai was called "China's biggest counter-revolutionary double-faced faction, one of China's biggest traitors, revisionists, and right opportunists", and called him "one of the general backers of a capitalist undercurrent that has emerged in our party." One", "China's second Khrushchev-style personal careerist".

On September 8, 1967, Mao Zedong added a paragraph to Yao Wenyuan's "Comment on Tao Zhu's Two Books" published in "People's Daily": "Now a small group of counter-revolutionaries have also adopted this method. ’ But the slogan of the extreme right actually blows up the evil wind of “doubting everything”, bombards the proletarian headquarters, sows dissension, fishes in troubled waters, and tries to shake and split the proletarian headquarters headed by Chairman Mao, achieving its ulterior crime The purpose, the organizer and manipulator of the so-called 'May 16th' is such a counter-revolutionary organization engaged in conspiracy. It should be thoroughly exposed." "The purpose of this counter-revolutionary organization is two, one is to destroy and split our The leadership of the Party Central Committee headed by the great leader Chairman Mao; one is to destroy and split the main pillar of the dictatorship of the proletariat - the great Chinese People's Liberation Army." For the first time, it was publicly proposed in the press that it would thoroughly expose the "May 16 Counter-Revolutionary Conspiracy throughout the country." group".

In 1968, the central government established a leading group to investigate the "May 16" project, with Chen Boda (later listed as the manipulator of the "May 16" conspiracy group) as the leader, Li Zhen, the vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security, as the director of the office, Xie Fuzhi, Wu Faxian is a member of the leading group.

On January 31, 1970, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Instructions on Combating Counter-revolutionary and Sabotage Activities" to further carry out a large-scale investigation of the "May 16" Movement across the country. On March 27, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Notice of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Cracking Down on the "May 16th" Counter-Revolutionary Conspiracy Group." The notice stated: "The struggle between class enemies at home and abroad is very complicated. There is by no means only one 'May 16th' counter-revolutionary secret organization." In October, Mao Zedong issued an instruction: "The issue of 'May 16th' cannot be blown by wind. Some units have already blown by wind, such as the Institute of Foreign Languages."

On February 8, 1971, with the approval of Mao Zedong, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Decision on the Establishment of the 'May 16' Project Joint Team". The project joint team is headed by Wu De, and Li Zhen is the deputy team leader, with 13 members. The "Decision" pointed out: "It is necessary to prevent expansion, and not to be blown by the wind" during the inventory process. Since then, the campaign to investigate the "May 16th" elements has "deepened".

This investigation campaign lasted until the 1974 campaign to criticize Lin Piao and Confucius, and then nothing happened. The investigation campaign not only seriously expanded, but also evolved into a nationwide melee between the two factions of mass organizations.

Chai Jianmin continued reading. It turns out that the author, Xu Renjun, was working in the State Council Agriculture and Forestry Office and the Agriculture and Forestry Political Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

The Agricultural Affairs Office of the State Council and the Agricultural Administration are the highest leading organs of the central agriculture and forestry port. It is in charge of the administrative business and political work of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Land Reclamation, the Ministry of Fisheries, the Ministry of Agricultural Machinery, the Ministry of Forestry, the Central Meteorological Bureau and its affiliated colleges and universities.

  After the "Cultural Revolution" began, according to the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Agricultural Affairs Office of the State Council and the agricultural administrative department immediately established the Nonglinkou Cultural Revolution Group. Qin Hualong was appointed as the head of the Central Nonglinkou Cultural Revolution Group, and was responsible for leading the "Cultural Revolution" movement in Nonglinkou.

In September 1967, at the meeting of the Red Guards, Kang Sheng, Jiang Qing, and Xie Fuzhi suddenly announced on trumped-up charges that Qin Hualong was the "backstage of the May 16 counter-revolutionary group." As a result, the State Council's Agriculture Office and agricultural administration agencies have since become the "base camp" of the "May 16 Counter-Revolutionary Group", and then various ministries of Agriculture, Forestry, and Kowloon began to investigate the "May 16 Counter-Revolutionary Group". During the long investigation process, not only Qin Hualong, director of the Central Agriculture and Forestry Political Department, was imprisoned in Qincheng Prison for a long time as a "May 16 black backstage", Liang Buting and Yang Yu, deputy directors of the State Council's Agricultural Affairs Office, Wang Zhenyang, deputy director of agricultural affairs, and Wang Zhenyang, deputy director of the Ministry of Forestry. Lu Qing, director of the Political Department, and Wu Zhen, vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, and a large number of senior cadres were all classified as "May 16 counter-revolutionary black backstage". Minister of Land Reclamation Wang Zhen was also included in the blacklist of the "May 16 Black Backstage".

Xu Renjun was Qin Hualong's secretary, and was transferred to Beijing from the Shanghai Garrison with him. Therefore, he was classified as Qin Hualong's "confidant" and "May 16 important backbone", and was detained for a long time and subjected to special cases. review.

The train has been speeding up, and the scenery outside the window flashed by quickly, but the vicissitudes of the Cultural Revolution era still linger in front of Chai Jianmin's eyes. He seems to be back in that era.