Wake up（307）

 

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In January 1975, Zhou Enlai was hospitalized for advanced bladder cancer. In order to stabilize the domestic situation and balance the forces of the Cultural Revolution faction, Mao Zedong reappointed Deng Xiaoping.

In order to learn more about the changes in China's top management during this period from his young friends, Xiao Kongming and Li Si turned on his mobile phone and read a series of brief descriptions of major events:

On January 5, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the No. 1 document read by Lao Maoquan, appointing Deng Xiaoping as the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China and the chief of the general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and Zhang Chunqiao as the director of the General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army; on January 6, Zhou Enlai Under the auspices of the Communist Party of China, the Second Plenary Session of the Tenth Central Committee was held in Beijing. Appoint Deng Xiaoping as the first vice premier, preside over the work of the State Council, and carry out rectification.

From January 13th to January 17th, the first meeting of the Fourth National People’s Congress was grandly held in Beijing, and two important achievements were achieved: First, Mao Zedong entrusted Deng Xiaoping to preside over the drafting on behalf of Zhou Enlai, who was seriously ill, and finally reviewed by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai In the finalized "Government Work Report", it was reiterated that "within this century, the modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense and science and technology will be fully realized, and our national economy will be at the forefront of the world"; , the Standing Session of the National People's Congress with Soong Ching Ling as the vice chairman, and the State Council leadership team with Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping as the core.

On February 1, Deng Xiaoping began to preside over the work of the State Council on behalf of the seriously ill Zhou Enlai; Zhou Enlai conveyed Mao Zedong's evaluation of Deng Xiaoping's "strong political thinking" and "rare talents" at the executive meeting of the State Council and the meeting of the heads of various ministries and commissions of the State Council, and said: "In the future The work of the State Council is presided over by Comrade Deng Xiaoping."

Beginning in February, Deng Xiaoping began to rectify the economy, trying to reverse the sharp decline in China's industrial production.

On February 5, after Mao Zedong’s circle review and approval, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued a notice on the cancellation of the Central Military Commission’s office meeting and the establishment of the Central Military Commission’s Standing Committee. The members of the new Central Military Commission’s Standing Committee are: Ye Jianying, Wang Hongwen, Deng Xiaoping, Zhang Chunqiao, Liu Bocheng, Chen Xilian, Wang Dongxing, Su Zhenhua , Xu Xiangqian, Nie Rongzhen, Su Yu.

In the "No. 1 Document" of the central government in 1975, Deng Xiaoping was appointed as the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China and the chief of the general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Just one year later, there was another "No. 1 document", but it was a huge change. According to this "No. 1 Document", not only Deng Xiaoping no longer presided over the work of the Central Committee and the State Council, but Ye Jianying was also dubbed "ill" and no longer presided over the work of the Central Military Commission.

Little Kong Ming and Li Si turned off the phone and continued:

This personnel change is really not small. This personnel change involved not only Deng Xiaoping alone, but Ye Jianying, an important figure who might overturn the "Cultural Revolution" case, was removed and replaced together.

Obviously, this personnel change is a major move of Mao Zedong's determination to defend the achievements of the "Cultural Revolution". However, at this very moment, Mao Zedong still retained an extremely important sobriety. He did not hand over the power of the party, the government and the army to Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao and others.

Zhang Chunqiao was very dissatisfied with Mao Zedong's decision. Originally, Zhang Chunqiao had high expectations for this personnel change, but this "No. 1 document" made him too disappointed. He couldn't bear the anger in his heart, and couldn't help but wrote something to vent his dissatisfaction: "It's another No. 1 document. Last year, a No. 1 document was issued. It's really successful and even more rampant. Come quickly, come fiercely, and collapse quickly." .”

Zhang Chunqiao was saying that Deng Xiaoping "came quickly and collapsed quickly"; at the same time, he was also cursing Hua Guofeng and others "came quickly and collapsed quickly".

What Zhang Chunqiao and his group hate in their hearts is not only Deng Xiaoping, Ye Jianying and others, but from now on, Hua Guofeng is also included.

From January to February 1975, it was relatively calm. But from March 1975, the Cultural Revolution faction began to criticize "empiricism", alluding to Zhou Enlai and the old officials. From March to April after 1975, Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao stirred up a wave of criticism of "empiricism", saying that it was "the main danger at present", seemingly criticizing Zhou, but actually attacking Deng.

Little Kong Ming and Li Si turned on the phone again, and gave a brief summary of some major events at that time:

On March 1, Zhang Chunqiao, the newly appointed director of the General Political Department, spoke about "anti-empiricalism" at a symposium for the directors of the political departments of major units in the military.

In the article "On the Comprehensive Dictatorship over the Bourgeoisie" published by Zhang Chunqiao on April 1, it was pointed out that when people like Lin Biao came to power, the restoration of the bourgeoisie could still happen.

On April 4th and 5th, Jiang Qing said in two speeches: empiricism is the accomplice of revisionism and the current enemy; the biggest danger to the party now is not dogmatism but empiricism. In mid-April, Jiang Qing repeatedly proposed anti-empiricism at the Politburo meeting and asked the Politburo to discuss it.

In April 1975, Deng Xiaoping began to preside over the daily work of the central government, raised the banner of "three directives as the keynote", and launched a comprehensive rectification work. He changed from being passively attacked by Jiang Qing to actively fighting against Jiang Qing.

On the afternoon of April 18, 1975, after Deng Xiaoping accompanied Mao Zedong to meet with Kim Il Sung, he reported to Mao Zedong the problems of Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao and other anti-empiricism since the beginning of March.

On April 23, 1975, Mao Zedong commented on the Xinhua News Agency's "Report on the Study of the Theory of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat" sent by Yao Wenyuan: "The formulation seems to be against revisionism, including empiricism and dogmatism. Two They are all revisions of Marxism-Leninism, don’t just mention one and ignore the other.” “Not many people in our party really understand Marxism-Leninism. Some people think they understand it, but they don’t understand it. , This is also a manifestation of not understanding Marxism-Leninism."

Li Si said:

Mao Zedong's instructions obviously cannot be interpreted as criticizing Jiang Qing and his gang. It should be noted that Mao Zedong did not let go of "empiricism", saying that it was also "revisionism", and did not say that it was wrong to criticize empiricism. What is Lao Mao's mystery? Then we need to think independently.

I thought that the "criticism of empiricism" since March was obviously not the self-righteousness of Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao, but the deployment of Lao Mao, or at least they were moved by hearing Mao's wind.

In fact, Deng Xiaoping, who was good at hiding his secrets, was fooled.

In 1956, Deng Xiaoping was the commander-in-chief of Lao Mao's conspiracy to "lead the snake out of the hole".

On April 27, 1975, Deng Xiaoping attended the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to study and implement the spirit of Mao Zedong's instructions on April 23. At the meeting, Deng Xiaoping and Ye Jianying severely criticized the mistakes of Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao and others against empiricism in their speeches. , Raising sharp questions on issues such as sending materials in the name of individuals and conducting sectarian activities in the campaign to criticize Lin Piao and Confucius.

Who did Deng Xiaoping "question"? Jiang Qing or Lao Mao? I was really dizzy, misjudged the situation, and thought it was time to "Qing Jun's side".

After the meeting, Wang Hongwen wrote to Mao Zedong in the name of reporting the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, reporting that Zhou Enlai, Ye Jianying, and Deng Xiaoping always described the situation in darkness. He also said: This debate is actually what the President wants to say but is not easy to say, and Ye and Deng said it.

How can Wang Hongwen be so "bold", it can be seen that Lao Mao has arranged the shadow in advance.

On the afternoon of the 29th, Deng Xiaoping went to the 305 Hospital to report to Zhou Enlai on the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee on the 27th. Subsequently, Deng Xiaoping asked Mao Zedong for instructions in April. Mao Zedong came forward to stop it and criticized Jiang Qing, Wang Hongwen, Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan for engaging in the "Gang of Four".

Deng Xiaoping was proud of himself. In April and May, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China held several meetings to criticize Jiang Qing and others. Jiang Qing and Wang Hongwen were forced to conduct self-criticism.

Deng Xiaoping forgot his own strategy of keeping a low profile. Under the banner of Lao Mao, he publicly beat Jiang Qing with what Lao Mao said. But Jiang Qing criticized Lao Mao, it was just "Zhou Yu beat Huang Gai", a wishful play.

Li Si took a sip of wine, lit a cigarette, and the smoke lingered in front of his eyes. He looked into the smoke and said:

The conflict between Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Qing was inevitable. Conceptually they are completely different. Deng Xiaoping is the famous "cat theory", he has some pragmatism in it. But this thing, you think, "It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat", which is completely different from the special focus on ideology of the Cultural Revolutionists. This conflict is inevitable.

Deng Xiaoping used the strategy of "keeping a low profile and biding his time" to win the trust and reuse of Lao Mao. Perhaps he felt that victory was in sight, so he openly challenged Jiang Qing and others. But he was far inferior to Lao Mao in terms of strategy. Lao Mao still used the method of "leading the snake out of the hole" to test Deng Xiaoping's loyalty and his attitude towards the Cultural Revolution.

     Deng Xiaoping could only bow his head and obey orders in front of Lao Mao. Even if Lao Mao died, he would not dare to completely deny Lao Mao. Maybe it's his hit days. A spear can attack, a shield can only defend.