After the political storm began in 1966, Han Xu became the first person in the protocol department to be attacked, because he stood up to stop those in the department who disrupted the normal work order, and he was the first to be criticized. Although Han Seo was more careful than ever, he made an "unforgivable mistake".
It is precisely because of this "unforgivable mistake" that Han Xu has become the person who sends and receives newspapers and cleans the yard. To people's surprise, Han Seok calmly accepted the arrangement, going to work on time every day, meticulously sweeping the floor and distributing newspapers.
Han Xu's actions quickly made those people lose their "interest", and they were able to give Han Xu a quiet period. He began to have time to sit and read quietly, and even after work, he quietly visited those who had also been affected and helped them do what he could.
Under the protection of ***, Han Xu wrote ten "confession" materials in 9 months, repeatedly checked them in the protocol department, and finally obtained "liberation" and came out again to preside over the overall work of the protocol department.
At that time, the Protocol Department had nine staff members, a fivefold reduction from the previous staff. However, compared to the deserted diplomatic operations at the time, the nine staff members were more than capable of supporting the work of the Protocol Service. Therefore, Han Xu's position is not the head of the protocol department, but the head of the "protocol work leading group".
In May 1969, when meeting with foreign envoys to China, he made a speech in which he said that China was interested in improving and developing relations with other countries in the world. This important information brought hope to the diplomatic business that had fallen into a low ebb, and the first door began to gradually repair bilateral relations with various countries.
In front of Han Xu is a situation in which everything is in ruins. As the only person in charge of the protocol department, Han Xu's daily workload is amazing, arranging to meet or accompany foreign guests during the day, reading and studying the documents sent every day and telegrams sent by various embassies after work, and then participating in the work meetings presided over by *** at night.
Usually, Han Xu's work can't end until two or three o'clock in the morning.
Although China's relations with other countries are not yet ready to return to the status quo ante, the return of a large number of experienced diplomats to work is a promising prospect for all sides. The increasing number of foreign guests and visitors has brought China's foreign relations out of the "freezing point" period very quickly.
As part of his efforts to repair diplomatic relations with neighboring countries, he also visited North Korea in April 1970. It was also his first foreign trip since the political storm erupted.
On the day of returning home from the end of the visit to the DPRK, the ROK and Syria arranged for the leaders of the DPRK and the responsible comrades of the relevant ministries and commissions to go to the airport to greet them. On the way, Ma Baofeng, who had just entered the protocol department for a short time, suddenly found that Liao Chengzhi was missing from the welcoming personnel, so he quickly reported it to Han Xu.
Han Xu did not reprimand Ma Baofeng, but just asked the driver to speed up. After arriving at the airport VIP lounge, Han Xu took Ma Baofeng to find ** together, and then taught Ma Baofeng how to talk to Liao Chengzhi sentence by sentence. After the ** fight, Ma Baofeng was already sweating profusely, and it was less than an hour before the *** arrived, and Han Xu also kept looking at his watch on the side:
"If Liao Gong can't make it, we're going to make a big mistake. ”
There are three generations of friendship with the Liao family. As early as the Great Revolution, 16-year-old Liao Chengzhi met *** Liao Chengzhi's sister and brother called *** "Brother", and Deng Yingchao was born on the same day, the same month, and the same year as Liao Chengzhi's sister, so he naturally called Liao Chengzhi's mother He Xiangning "mother".
In 1933, Liao Chengzhi came to work in the Red Fourth Front Army. Because of his opposition to Zhang Guotao's erroneous line, he was accused of being a "Kuomintang spy" by Zhang Guotao and walked the Long March in shackles. After arriving in northern Shaanxi, ** in front of Zhang Guotao, he seriously criticized Liao Chengzhi and ignored Liao Chengzhi.
**'s roundabout strategy gave Zhang Guotao enough face, so that Liao Chengzhi, who was about to be executed, saved his life, and soon returned to work.
After the outbreak of the 77 Incident, ** proposed that Liao Chengzhi go to Hong Kong to prepare for the establishment of the Eighth Route Army Office, which was agreed by **. Under Liao Chengzhi's activities, Hong Kong compatriots donated medicines and medical equipment worth more than 8,000 Hong Kong dollars to the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army.
After the fall of Hong Kong, Liao Chengzhi followed the instructions of ** to evacuate the progressives and democrats stranded in Hong Kong to the rear of the mainland.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liao Chengzhi held a number of positions in foreign affairs, and there were more opportunities for contact with the People's Republic of China, and the relationship was closer. After the political storm began, Liao Chengzhi naturally couldn't escape the impact, ** After learning of the situation, he sent someone to rescue Liao Chengzhi from the siege on the grounds of important foreign affairs activities, and personally came forward to temporarily calm the turmoil.
According to the instructions of ***, although the staff of the Foreign Affairs Office tried their best to protect Liao Chengzhi, their advantages still could not resist the impact of the outside. At the critical moment, the 8341 unit was sent to stand by in the Foreign Affairs Office, and instructed not to attack the Foreign Affairs Office.
In order to avoid the impact on Liao Chengzhi, ** arranged for Liao Chengzhi to move several times and insisted that he stay in Beijing. After arranging Liao Chengzhi's residence, ** also instructed the establishment of a "task force" for Liao Chengzhi, which was called to manage Liao Chengzhi, but in fact, to take care of Liao Chengzhi's life and deal with the people who attacked Liao Chengzhi.
Before visiting North Korea, ** considering that Liao Chengzhi's situation was a little loose, he specially told Han Xu to let Liao Chengzhi participate in the welcome ceremony and make a small appearance, so that everyone would know that Liao Chengzhi had started to work normally again.
Unexpectedly, Ma Baofeng's negligence actually made Liao Chengzhi, the most important person, not appear at the airport.
Seeing the special plane slowly landing, the comrades of various ministries and commissions were already waiting in line on the tarmac, and at this time, Liao Chengzhi had not yet arrived, and Han Xu's heart had already risen to his throat. When the plane came to a standstill, the cabin door opened, and ** was about to step off the plane, Liao Chengzhi's car arrived.
Ma Baofeng, who was waiting outside the airport, immediately gestured to Han Xu on the tarmac, signaled that Liao Chengzhi had arrived, and then walked to the car, opened the door for Liao Chengzhi with his own hands, and accompanied him to the welcome queue. Liao Chengzhi had just stood for less than five minutes, and ** walked in front of him, and the hands of the two were tightly clasped together.
Ma Baofeng and Han Xu in the distance looked at each other, although the stone in his heart fell to the ground, the nervous expression on Han Xu's face had not subsided. Afterwards, Han Xu severely criticized Ma Baofeng, and his negligence in his work almost delayed the overall plan of "liberating" Liao Chengzhi.
In 1971, after He Xiangning was hospitalized due to illness, Liao Chengzhi secretly went home under the arrangement of ***, and informed him that he did not have to go back to the station of "isolation review", and when to go back and wait for the notice. Soon, Japanese politician Kenzo Matsumura died of illness, and "People's **" published Liao Chengzhi's condolence message.
This is the first step in the implementation of Liao Chengzhi's comeback.
In October of the same year, the Japanese Ballet was invited to visit China, and ** specially sent someone to send tickets to Liao Chengzhi to make a public appearance. During the subsequent visit of the Japanese delegation to China, ** arranged for them to visit Liao Chengzhi.
On the day of the memorial service in 1972, ** temporarily decided to attend, which brought about a great change in the political wind, and ** urgently notified the members of the Politburo and various democratic parties in Beijing that anyone who was willing to participate could participate, including Liao Chengzhi.
At the end of the press release the next day, there was an inconspicuous "idle pen" that mentioned Liao Chengzhi's attendance at the ** memorial service. Although it was only a few words, it had a greater impact than the last time a message of condolence was published.
It is not so much Liao Chengzhi's attendance at the loss event as a standard appearance of Liao Chengzhi.
Three months later, Liao Chengzhi officially "stood up" to work and threw himself into the tense battle for the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan. Under the personal "director" of ***, the scene of Liao Chengzhi's "liberation" officially came to an end.