In October 1949, just after the founding of New China, ** received a letter, and after reading it, he did not dare to make his own decisions, so he immediately forwarded it
**After seeing the letter, I also fell into deep thought, and finally gave four words: "Welcome to the north." ”
This letter, which makes *** and *** pay so much attention, was written by a very controversial person in the history of our party, named Bao Huiseng.
Born in Huanggang, Hubei Province in 1894, Bao Huiseng was deeply influenced by the New Culture Movement in his youth and idolized Chen Duxiu, the pioneer of the New Culture Movement.
By chance, Bao Huiseng was fortunate to hear Chen Duxiu's speech, and when the speech was over, he went to meet Chen Duxiu and told him about his ambitions and aspirations.
Chen Duxiu also admired this aspiring young man very much, and the two became friends since then.
In 1920, Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao and others were preparing to establish the Communist Party of China, but they lacked manpower, so they invited Bao Huiseng to Wuhan to establish the Wuhan Communist Group.
Bao Huiseng did not disappoint Chen Duxiu, contributed funds and efforts, was busy, contacted and received people from all walks of life, and was even responsible for contacting people from the Comintern, and finally established a temporary branch of the Communist Party in Wuchang and served as the branch secretary.
On July 23, 1921, the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Shanghai, and Bao Huiseng attended it together with Dong Biwu, Zhang Guotao and others, becoming one of the 13 representatives of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
During the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Bao Huiseng was very active, served as the director of the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, the party representative of the 22nd Division of the National Revolutionary Army, participated in the Northern Expedition and the Eastern Expedition, and had a high status in both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
However, as Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12 counter-revolutionary coup" and waved a butcher's knife at the Communists, Bao Huiseng began to waver.
He was born in a small bourgeois family, he did not suffer much since he was a child, and his personality lacked tempering, so when faced with the test of life and death, Bao Huiseng's revolutionary will began to loosen.
In particular, the failure of the Nanchang Uprising became the last straw that crushed Bao Huiseng, and he was completely disappointed with the future of the revolution, so he chose to leave the party.
** He sent people to contact him and persuade him to continue the revolution, but Bao Huiseng was depressed and did not agree to return.
If this is the case, Bao Huiseng can only be regarded as "leaving the party", not "rebelling against the party". However, in 1930, Bao Huiseng actually defected to Chiang Kai-shek's command and was appointed as the "Senator of the Navy, Land and Air Command", openly defecting to the enemy!
However, the reason why Chiang Kai-shek accepted Bao Huiseng was only because of his former status, and he wanted to use him to recruit more Communists and break the morale of the Communist Party.
Later, Bao Huiseng only held some idle positions in the Kuomintang, and he was always depressed until 1949, when the general trend of the Kuomintang had gone, and Bao Huiseng knew that he would not tolerate Chiang Kai-shek, so he ran to Macao with his family.
On October 1, 1949, when Bao Huiseng heard the news of the founding of New China on the radio, he was full of emotion in his heart
After thinking about it again, Bao Huiseng wrote a letter to ***, euphemistically expressing his desire to go back, hoping that the CCP would accept him regardless of his past suspicions.
Because of Bao Huiseng's special status, ** did not dare to make decisions without authorization, so he forwarded the letter to *** please *** decide.
For such a repeated villain, he should be ignored, but *** still agreed to his application for the sake of the overall situation and welcomed him to the north.
**The reason why he was approved to come back is actually not difficult to understand, first of all, Bao Huiseng is one of the founders of our party after all, although he later chose to leave the party and betray the party, but in fact he did not do anything to harm the interests of our party, which is understandable.
Secondly, our party has always advocated leniency, even those war criminals who have committed numerous crimes, basically do not kill any of them, they are all sent to Gongdelin for reform, and their living conditions are even better than those of people outside, and Bao Huiseng is not a war criminal, so it is not a bad thing to let him come back.
Finally, this is also the best strategy pursued by our party for a long time, which is not to blame those who have made mistakes in the past, and to welcome them back, so as to win more people to return to the motherland, realize national reunification at an early date, and jointly build a new China.
In November 1949, Bao Huiseng returned to Beijing with his family and was received by Dong Biwu and others.
In the second year, Bao Huiseng entered the Political Research Institute of North China People's Revolutionary University to study, and later served as a counselor of the Ministry of the Interior and a counselor.
Later, under the pseudonym of "Old Man Qiwu", Bao Huiseng wrote many reminiscences, recorded his revolutionary career, and published a book "Memoirs of Bao Huiseng".
On July 2, 1979, Bao Huiseng died in Beijing at the age of 85.
(Reference: "Memoirs of Bao Huiseng", "Yanhuang Chunqiu", "Beijing News").