Editor's note:On the road of revolution that has lasted for more than half a century, the two great names on the road of revolution in the great China, the two of them have worked together, shared weal and woe, and trusted and helped each other, and have played an irreplaceable, important and special role in the development of our party, the state, the people, and the people's army from victory to victory, to the creation and construction of New China, and to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. With this question, Yang Chen, editor-in-chief of the "Motherland" magazine, invited Zhou Binghe, the nephew of the premier, to write for the magazine to explore the historical footprints of these two great proletarian revolutionaries, politicians and military strategists when they first met in the early years, to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the birth of the great leader and chairman. At the same time, the author also hopes to use his article as a brick to attract researchers in the fields of party history and military history to pay attention to and discover the very important and profound historical fragment of "Mao Zhou's first acquaintance".
At the feet of the giants, we hear the rumbling thunder of history. ”
The relationship between the two great men is described in the book "** and ***" published by China History Publishing House: as an important landmark figure in China in the 20th century, ** rewrote the history of China and the world with a pen like a rafter. The "match made in heaven" between them not only produced great political shock, but also had a fascinating aesthetic realm.
According to the data of the Party History and Literature Research Institute of the Communist Party of China, ** and *** met in 1925. At this time, it was in the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and Mr. Sun Yat-sen, the forerunner of the Chinese revolution, proposed a very important historical stage of uniting with Russia and the Communist Party to help peasants and workers, and the Northern Expedition, which would change the historical destiny of modern China, was coming. In the Huangpu Military Academy and the Guangdong Agricultural Movement Training Institute, in Guangdong, the hot land of the Chinese revolution, the first and the best acquaintances knew each other, and since then the cooperation and friendship between the two great men spanning more than half a century were born.
In 1923, Comrade ** attended the Third National Congress of the Communist Party of China and was elected as an executive member of ** and participated in the leadership work. In 1924, after the cooperation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Kuomintang was the first.
1. At the Second National Congress, he was elected as an alternate executive member, served as the head of the Propaganda Department of the People's Republic of China in Guangzhou, edited the Political Weekly, and hosted the Sixth Agricultural Movement Workshop. In November 1926, he served as the secretary of the **Agricultural ** Committee of the Communist Party of China. In the autumn of 1924, he returned to China after his work-study career in France, and served as the director of the Political Department of the Guangdong Huangpu Military Academy, the director of the Political Department of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and the deputy party representative of the First Army during the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
As we all know, in the early revolutionary period, our party lacked cadres and the revolutionary work was very arduous, especially at that time, there were many high-ranking leading cadres of the party who held multiple positions, so it is very likely that the historical materials that followed would have omitted some of their duties, or they had been simplified according to objective needs, so that the public resumes we see now do not include all the positions they held at that time. However, through the process of collecting and collating more authoritative materials, we may be able to discover some new clues in the revolutionary tasks and responsibilities of the older generation of revolutionaries, and then through the one-to-one correspondence of these new clues, we may be able to find the necessary conditions for cooperation and exchange between revolutionaries in revolutionary work, and even the inevitable intersection.
** with *** in Yan'an.
According to "Half a Century of Revolutionary Friendship" (People's Daily Online, Jintai Information** "Century Style" authorized the Communist Party of China News Network to publish works): "On August 20, 1925, *** and Cai Chang, who had just returned from the Soviet Union, arrived in Guangzhou by steamer ......In the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China, I met Chen Yannian, who had worked with him during his work-study period in France. ** made them very happy. **Returned to China a year earlier, and after arriving in Guangzhou, he served as chairman of the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China and director of the Propaganda Department, and soon served as the director of the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy. That is to say, in the autumn of 1924, as soon as he returned to China, he "served as the chairman of the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China and the head of the Propaganda Department", and there was certainly the possibility of cooperation and exchange with the executive member who was elected as an executive member at the Third National Congress of the Communist Party of China and concurrently served as the minister of the Propaganda Department of the People's Republic of China. That is to say, in the revolutionary political circles of Guangzhou that were not large in scope at that time, how could Mao Zhou, who was also a senior cadre of our party and especially the "principal responsible person for propaganda work," not participate in some important party meetings and activities, both in terms of organization and businessHere, we believe that it is very likely that the first meeting between ** and *** was earlier than 1925, or in the autumn of 1924, when ** arrived in Guangzhou and immediately became the Minister of Propaganda, the two may have known each other. Since both of them concurrently served as propaganda ministers, were well aware of the great significance of propaganda and culture to revolutionary work, both of them had experience in running newspapers and periodicals before, and a considerable part of the work of the Military and Political Department should be related to propaganda, it cannot even be ruled out that the two had a relatively in-depth exchange in 1924, and there were sparks of exchange on revolution and propaganda and other topics of interest. Of course, this is only our analytical reasoning and conjecture, and there is no conclusive historical data. Here, we also hope that experts and scholars in the fields of party history, military history and other related fields and the majority of literature and history lovers will pay attention to the research of this topic, pay attention to the collection of relevant historical documents, materials and cultural relics, and jointly excavate the revolutionary practice of the two great men of the century in the early years, and more accurately witness the starting point of their great friendship, so as to better inherit the red gene and carry forward the red culture.
According to the People's Daily Reading Channel, "** and *** shook hands with the camera lens for the last time to say goodbye [3]": Before and after the Second National Congress of the Kuomintang held in Guangzhou in January 1926, they found that the ideological understanding of the two was surprisingly consistent.
Before this meeting, they all suggested to Chen Duxiu that they should openly put forward the policy of 'cracking down on the rightists, isolating the centrists, and expanding the leftists' at the congress, but the CCP did not adopt their suggestion at that time, resulting in Chiang Kai-shek and other rightists being elected as members of the executive committee.
Because the two have a high degree of agreement on the current situation, they feel tacit and speculative when they talk to each other. During this period, ** and *** were very close. In addition to presiding over the work of the Propaganda Department of the National, he also serves as the editor-in-chief of the Political Weekly. In the third issue of the "Political Weekly" edited by him, the "Chronicle of the Eastern Crusade" was published, which recorded the speech made by the National Revolutionary Army as the director of the General Political Department of the Eastern Expeditionary Army during the Second Eastern Crusade and at the meeting to commemorate the sacrifices of the soldiers who conquered Huizhou. At that time, Shantou's "Ping Pao", which had been taken over, was renamed "Lingdong", and wrote a masthead for the newspaper's supplement "Revolution", and published an article written by *** in this supplement, "The Reasons for the Separation of the Right Wing of the Kuomintang and Its Impact on the Future of the Revolution".
** with ***
In March 1926, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "Zhongshan Ship Incident". At that time, Chiang Kai-shek put forward two conditions: first, the Communists withdrew from the First Army;Second, the list of exits to be submitted. He came to the home of the deputy party representative of the Second Army of the National Revolutionary Army to discuss countermeasures with everyone.
** The analysis says: As far as one place in Guangzhou is concerned, the strength of the reactionaries is great, but as far as the overall situation of Guangdong and Guizhou is concerned, the strength of the reactionaries is small, and as long as our party adheres to its principles and resolutely counterattacks, it will certainly be able to unite those wavering intermediate forces and smash Chiang Kai-shek's counterrevolutionary conspiracy. Later, at the party's "87" meeting, he put forward a sobering saying: "You must know that political power is obtained from the barrel of a gun." "*Strongly agree with ***'s analysis and claims!
We know that after returning from studying abroad, he was in charge of the relevant military work of our party and the military and political work of the Whampoa Military Academy, and he has always been keen on rural work, and is good at uniting, leading, and educating the vast number of peasants. It is indeed commendable that these two great men, who have walked together on the road of revolution all their lives, were good at discovering each other's strong points after they first met in their early years, and that they unreservedly and actively attracted each other to strengthen their respective areas of responsibility and jointly promote the improvement of the level of revolutionary work. According to Jin Chonghe, a well-known expert in party history research, the former executive deputy director of the ** Literature Research Office, and a well-known expert in ** research, he once wrote: "In early 1925, during the first period of cooperation between the KMT and the Communist Party, he served as the director of the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, the director of the Propaganda Department of the National Army, and was responsible for the work of the Agricultural Movement Training Institute. **Please *** went to the peasant lecture center to talk about military issues, **please *** went to the Whampoa Military Academy to talk about peasant issues, so we were often together at that time. It can be seen that although Mao and Zhou have known each other for a short time at that time, they are already a proper comrade and friend. The reason for this is most closely related to the empathy, resonance, and resonance of the two great men who established the original intention of serving the country and the people when they were young, established Marxist-Leninist ideals and beliefs and devoted themselves to the revolutionary cause in their youth, and the great feelings and general pattern of common ownership.
**Last handshake with ***.
There are many differences in origin, experience, personality, temperament, way of thinking, knowledge structure, hobbies and specialties. However, these differences, in terms of their dominant aspect, do not become obstacles to cooperation and communication between them, but rather attract differences, producing a huge complementary effect. The ancient Chinese thinker Lao Tzu once said: "There is no mutual birth, difficulty and ease are mutually beneficial, long and short are dwarfed, high and low are inclined to each other, sound and sound are harmonious, and the front and back follow each other." Another philosopher, Yan Ying, said, "If water is used for water, who can eat it?"If Qin Se is single-minded, who can listen to it?The same cannot be true. "The political cooperation between Mao and Zhou is a kind of harmony based on differences, that is, harmony without difference. **Passionate, weightlifting, with the momentum of rivers and seas, swallowing mountains and rivers;** is full of reason, light as heavy, has the longitude and latitude, each with its own talent. Of course, this is only relatively. Pragmatism and reason, passion and romance are also fully reflected in many fields and aspects.
Due to the lack of detailed materials from the period of *** and *** first acquaintance, I hope that friends who have more information about this history can participate in our joint research and exploration, which is the purpose of this article.
The author of this article, Zhou Binghe, chairman of the China Educated Youth Network and nephew of the Prime Minister.