Why can a big landlord become an official? Archives revealed.
In a pre-liberation rural source material, I was astonishingly uncovered by a subversive archive. An underground party organization was set up in this village, and what was shocking was that three of the big landowners actually occupied key positions in the party branch, one of them served as the secretary of the party branch, one served as the head of the village office, and one served as a member of the party branch.
This can't help but make people sigh that it is really unheard of for the party and government organization and power of a village to be completely controlled by three big landlords!
In China in 1939, the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders were raging. During this period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, under the leadership of the underground party organizations, the rural areas were secretly carrying out rent and interest reductions and land renovation in order to resist the exploitation and oppression of the landlord class.
Although there were few party members in the countryside, they all carried out their activities in secret, and in order to fight against the invaders, they were not afraid of sacrifice and fought bravely. Village A, a large ancient village with a long history, is also secretly recruiting party members, developing 9 party members, of which 3 are landlord party members and 6 are middle peasant party members.
However, there was not a single party member among the poor peasants, because these big landlords' families were very powerful, and they repaired ancestral tombs, built ancestral halls, opened shops, built workshops, ran schools, and taught private schools.
When the party and government organization of this village was established, Commissioner Zhou let three landlords join the village party branch, one as the secretary of the party branch, one as the head of the village office, and one as a member of the branch.
After an in-depth investigation by the working group, it was found that the party and government organizations in Village A had become a regime serving the "trilaterals", and the interests of the poor peasants and tenant farmers had been seriously infringed upon. The county party committee took decisive measures to adjust the village party and government leadership group, the landlord branch committee was removed from his post on the spot and awaited processing, and the secretary of the landlord branch was demoted to a member of the branch and soon removed from all positions; The head of the village office was transferred to work in the county department, and was later controlled; At the same time, it recommended poor peasant party members to serve as branch secretaries, village chiefs of village offices, and captains of self-defense forces, and recruited 13 poor peasant party members to protect the interests of the vast number of villagers.
These measures have effectively changed the appearance of Village A and have won the support of the majority of villagers.
Today, we have declassified an important historical archive that reveals the instability of the rural regime from the 30s of the 20th century to the eve of the founding of the state, the complexity of class relations and the power of the landlord family.
However, the higher-level party organizations discovered the problems in a timely manner and took swift measures to ensure the purity and combat effectiveness of the rural grassroots party organizations. These historical lessons deserve our in-depth study and learning.
It is not easy to look up the information and restore the historical truth, but we need to pay attention to and praise such efforts.