Wake up（206）

 

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When Zhou Jianguo and Pan Guangfu continued chatting about what happened in Anqing during the Cultural Revolution, Chai Jianmin read "Memories of Stopping Fighting in Anhui" written by Liu Jiaju, and joined the chat between Zhou Jianguo and Pan Guangfu. What happened during the Cultural Revolution.

Zhou Jianguo said:

With Li Desheng's effect of capturing the king in solving the Anqing issue, Song Peizhang struck while the iron was hot and proposed to hold a mass meeting of 100,000 people immediately to create public opinion for the collection of the weapons of the two factions. In order to fully take into account the serious confrontation between the two factions, a single spark may reignite the flames of war, the organization of the conference must be meticulous. Song Peizhang proposed that a small preparatory team should be formed, led by the Political Commissar of the 103rd Regiment, with the participation of Liu Jiaju, Assistant Li, and Staff Officer Yu. At that time the study decided:

1. The entire 103rd Regiment was dispatched to guard and maintain order;

2. Make some disciplinary regulations on the masses of the two factions attending the meeting. Those who violate the rules shall bear the main responsibility and effectively manage the mass organizations they belong to;

3. All those who enter the arena are led by the left cadres.

4. Deputy Army Commander Li delivered a speech at the meeting.

Deputy Army Commander Li was killed from the Dabie Mountains during the war, and he was also a national fighting hero. Historically, Anqing belonged to the Hubei, Henan, Anhui and Soviet Areas. Li's history will make the local people feel cordial.

At that time, the leaders of the two factions were called to announce this decision, emphasizing that the meeting should be held as a united meeting and a victorious meeting. It was stipulated that both parties should not enter the venue with weapons, insult or shout slogans to attack each other, and not distribute leaflets to provoke factions... and also asked The leaders of the two factions came to the stage to express their views, and the content of their speeches will be printed and distributed throughout the province and reported to the central government. The leaders were in awe of the Central Cultural Revolution, and they all said they would resolutely implement all regulations.

Assistant Li surveyed the venue and carefully deployed a battalion to maintain order outside the venue, a battalion to guard around the venue, and a battalion to form a T-shaped human wall to separate the positions of the two groups of people participating in the meeting.

Assistant Li said to Liu Jiaju, "I hope there will be no gunshots in Anqing from now on."

Assistant Li was born in a Christian family, and the last thing he wanted was to see bloodshed between the two factions. One year he went home to visit relatives, and accompanied his mother to a church to worship. After returning, he was warned and punished by the organization. Party members were not allowed to worship Jesus. This time, he came to Anqing in the spirit of fraternity.

Only two days, arrangements are ready.

The time for the meeting was in the morning, when the music of "Dongfanghong" was broadcast on the tweeter, at 9:00, the mass organizations of the G and P factions entered the arena from the east and west entrances to the designated positions. Assistant Li made a special effort to direct the people sent by G into order. The P faction, which likes to make troubles, also obeyed the orders of the military representatives honestly, and there was no riot. Both factions were showing their political enthusiasm and their own strength, and 100,000 people packed the huge square to the full.

The meeting started at 9:00 and was presided over by the political commissar of the 103rd regiment. He spent five minutes talking about the purpose and procedure of the meeting. Then the leaders of the two factions came to the stage to speak. They all read from the script, carefully chose their words and sentences, and talked about unity in a high-profile manner. Each faction also recommended a revolutionary cadre to give a speech on stage, and he also followed the scriptures, and the words were taken from ready-made newspapers.

It was Deputy Commander Li's turn to take the stage, and the two factions applauded desperately, as if they were competing for their support for the army. Drummed for three full minutes. Deputy Commander Li, who spoke Sichuan dialect, opened his heart as soon as he stepped onto the stage, without the politeness of ordinary people. He said: "I'm here today to tell you rebels, stop beating, what's there to beat?"

When Liu Jiaju heard this, his heart tightened, and there was a buzzing sound in the arena.

  "Why don't you save the bullets to hit Chiang Kai-shek? You have been fighting to the death for half a year. Today you kill me a bunch, and tomorrow I kill a bunch of you. You are all dead. Who will you rely on to support you... "

Assistant Li was afraid that the meeting would be ruined, so he ran over to Liu Jiaju and asked, "Why don't you prepare a speech for Deputy Commander Li?" Staff Officer Yu also came over and said, "I forgot." He turned to the political commissar who presided over the meeting and said, "Your idea first. Let the deputy commander's speech stop, and we will find a solution immediately."

In fact, Lau Ka Kui has not forgotten, his attention is on the audience, as long as 100,000 people live together peacefully for two to three hours, it will be victory. The statements on the stage are all formalities.

The political commissar stood next to Deputy Commander Li and interjected to the public: "Our Deputy Commander Li is an old Red Army man. He fought in the Hubei, Henan, Anhui and Soviet areas. He was a famous fighting hero throughout the country. Chairman Mao met him and said he was great...he is from Sichuan. , I can't understand the words..."

While the political commissar was smoothing things over, Staff Officer Liu quickly took out a stack of blank papers from his purse, and began to draft Deputy Commander Li's speech. He quickly wrote two pages of opening remarks, and Liu Jiaju quickly sent them to Deputy Commander Li. While still speaking to the masses, he told the deputy army commander: "We are drafting a speech for you, so you can read it slowly."

Liu Jiaju recalled: In normal times, Lieutenant Commander Li would have made a big fuss regardless of the grand occasion, but this time he had realized that what he said was inappropriate, and he had to read it according to the script we crammed into.

Liu Jiaju and Staff Officer Yu made up sentences with each other, and wrote a page in a few words, and Liu Jiaju kept sending them to Deputy Commander Li. He has a loud voice, and he reads every word in a word, very imposing.

Liu Jiaju said: We have an outline in mind. Let him first talk about the spirit of the Central Committee and emphasize Chairman Mao’s concern for the Anhui issue. The second meaning is that our 6408 troops guarantee to implement Chairman Mao’s great strategic deployment and deal with everything with a bowl of water. The question is to ask the two factions in Anqing to lay down their arms and promote the establishment of a new political power through negotiations...

Although Deputy Army Commander Li's manuscript was not in order, and the masses knew that the Deputy Army Commander was an old Red Army cadre of workers and peasants with poor education, they could all listen quietly. He read the more than fifty pages of the impromptu speech in one go, and won warm applause from the audience after reading it.

The meeting ended with the music of "Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman". From then on, Liu Jiaju admired Staff Officer Yu's wisdom very much, and renamed him Yu Gaocan.

The envious masses of the two factions were gathered together for two hours in peace and harmony, and the results quickly appeared. The masses strengthened their trust in the army, and their desire to persist in fighting was suppressed by public opinion. A lesson learned: To gain the initiative, one must learn to control and mobilize the masses.

After the meeting, the violence cooled down, but there was no calm. The two factions were still confronting each other, and there were gunshots every day.