Chapter 7: New and Old Hate (Three)

Although Zhao Zhenzhong's advice was not very good, the Ministry of Security's interrogation of Zhou Kun was not very good. Zhou Kun only admitted that going to Wuhan was to rescue some people, which was his own private matter and had nothing to do with him. As for the People's Party's accusation statements or returning him to him, he was obedient. However, Zhou Kun was the chief of staff of the 115th Division, and although the People's Party was hostile due to Soviet reasons, he did not really tear his face apart. It was difficult for the people of the People's Army's Security Department to use excessive means of attack, and the matter was dead. In desperation, Zheng Jiantao could only report the situation to Zhao Zhenzhong again.

"I'm not afraid of boiling water." Zhao Zhenzhong smiled faintly and ordered, "Since that's the case, you can bring him here and I'll talk to him."

What Zhao Zhenzhong wanted to know was not completely clear about, which made Zheng Jiantao feel a challenge and said, "Sir, why don't we let go of our hands and feet? I don't believe that I can't pry his mouth open!"

"For the hostile elements who enter my controlled area and carry out sabotage operations, I don't object to it. The enemy! However, Zhou Kun only passed by the way and did not do anything that was unfavorable to my controlled area. So it's better to handle it relatively smoothly." Zhao Zhenzhong waved his hand and said, "And I believe there must be a reason for him passing by. Maybe bring him here and let's figure it out."

Zheng Jiantao also wanted to know how the chief of staff of the 115th Division disguised himself and went to Wuhan in a big circle. After nodding, he turned around to take Zhou Kun.

After a while, Zheng Jiantao brought a haggard man in his thirties to Zhao Zhenzhong and Zhou Mingyuan's small conference room.

"This is Chairman Zhao of our party and Chief of Staff of General Zhou of our army. Mr. Zhou would rather explain the matter clearly so as not to make mistakes!" After Zheng Jiantao finished speaking with a stern face, he sat down on one side and took out paper and pen to prepare the record.

"Mr. Zhao is famous and has long been admired! However, I have said everything I can say, and there is nothing else to talk about!" Zhou Kun was a little tired and a little decadent, but he had his persistence and refused to say more.

"Mr. Zhou is probably responsible for leaving the army without authorization. Or Mr. Zhou is no longer going back!" Zhao Zhenzhong smiled and stared at Zhou Kun and said, "I have never experienced the internal disputes between the Party and the army, but I have heard a lot of them. At present, the slogan of "everything through the united front" has caused and aggravated the turmoil within the Party. In addition, the majority of middle and lower-level officers and soldiers still have many questions about the country and the Communist Party's cooperation in the war of resistance. Mr. Zhou must have left the team. These two reasons must be indispensable. However, I want to know more about the direct reason why Mr. Zhou left the team. Who in Wuhan needs you to go around our military defense zone to rescue? Why can't it be handled through the Eighth Route Army Office in Wuhan?"

Zhou Kun was shocked. Unexpectedly, Zhao Zhenzhong rekindled the disputes within the party in just a few words, and questioned the country and the Communist Party's cooperation in the war of resistance. The two internal reasons why he left the team! Compared with these two reasons, it is not important for Zhou Kun to rescue people in Wuhan.

After Wang Ming returned to China, especially after Wuhan established the Yangtze River Bureau without authorization, a considerable number of people from the top leaders followed the Yangtze River Bureau. The central government composed of Zhang, Mao and others in northern Shaanxi was in a marginalized situation. Even Mao was so angry that he said, "Even ghosts don't come to the door." The open and secret struggles between northern Shaanxi and Wuhan were gradually becoming increasingly fierce. Zhou Kun, as an old subordinate who participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising and followed Mao to Jinggangshan, naturally knew that it was powerful.

There were more than 5,000 First Division of the First Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army established during the Autumn Harvest Uprising, but only a few dozen people remained after arriving in northern Shaanxi. After taking a photo with Zhou Kun, Lai Chuanzhu, Zhang Zongxun and others in 37, Mao once wrote inscriptions on the photo with a touching feeling: "The 1st Division of the First Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army of the 1927 Autumn Harvest riots was established, and there are about dozens of people who still exist, which is part of it."

The sacrifices caused by these years of fighting are fine, but the purge that often arose within ** really disappointed Zhou Kun. From the Autumn Harvest Uprising to the Long March, Mao’s team has become less and less. Moreover, there was a debate on the right or wrong line in the Soviet area within the party, and there was a debate between Mao, Zhang Wentian and Zhang Guotao. Now Wang Ming and the Yangtze River Bureau are added. The attitudes of the senior leaders in the army are also ambiguous, and it seems that there will be a bloody storm afterwards.

The upcoming internal purge movement made Zhou Kun shudder, but his previous experiences when he went to Wuhan to attend the National Joint Chiefs of Staff made him have deep questions about the slogan of "everything goes through the united front" and the policy of the State and the Communist Party to jointly fight against Japan, and he has shaken his previous beliefs.

Chiang Ji, the dignitaries of the National Government, were drunk and dreaming, and their lives were corrupt, but there were also people in the delegation stationed in Wuhan, lingering in the place of lights and wine, and even called it "work needs"!

Thinking about the Eighth Route Army soldiers who were fighting hard on the front line of the Anti-Japanese War in Shanxi, and thinking about the persistence of the people in northern Shaanxi under difficult conditions, Zhou Kun was really angry: "Did we have been through life and death and unremitting persistence bring about the corruption and degeneration of a small number of people in the name of "work needs"?"

When Zhou Kun made a frank raising the problem at the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, he was severely criticized by two military bosses. However, Zhou Kun's thoughts had changed at this time. In his opinion, while ** declared to strive for the liberation of the Chinese nation and the liberation of the Chinese people, the lives of the Chinese people can be improved, while the instructions of the Communist International and the Soviet Union were regarded as imperial edicts. The top leaders of the party were also keen on the corrupt life of the Kuomintang. These two were incompatible and could not be achieved!

When Zhou Kunsi met the disabled old subordinate of the team, the orphans of the homeless martyrs whom he met in Wuhan, and the angry accusations of the old subordinates, he felt no longer at peace.

Zhou Kun met him when he was the commander of the Red Third Division in Wuhan. When talking about the cruel clearance of the Soviet area after the Long March of **, Chiang Kai-shek's plan to attack the Soviet area, he asked angrily and angrily: "Teacher Commander, you took us to beat the white dogs. So many people died. After you left, the white dogs were turned into white land! Those bastards didn't even let go of the ages of boys! But now you have arrived in northern Shaanxi and joined forces with those bastards! Now they are all damn officials Jiang! Is this worthy of our dead brothers?! Is it worthy of the people who were killed by the Kuomintang?!"

After the Long March of the **, Chiang Kai-shek made a ruthless move against the Soviet area where ** had been active. "The stones must be cut, and the thatch must be cut" is not an exaggeration, but a fact that it is bloody!

In 1933, the total population of Jiangxi was more than 19.3 million, but by 1936, it was only more than 13.7 million! In just a few years, the death toll caused by war and post-war clearance exceeded 5 million!

Among them, the population in Ji'an dropped from 3.8 million in 33 years to 1.9 million in 36 years; the population in Ganzhou decreased by more than 3 million, and 80% of the people in Ruijin and Xingguo counties were killed!

There is a place in Ji'an. After the Long March of 34 years, the Returning Group killed more than 1,000 people in eight villages in this area within half a month, and the local name was named Qianfengang. In a village near this area, there were more than 1,000 people in the early Republic of China, but by 1936, only eight households were killed! Even in the early 21st century, in the rural areas of the Ji'an base, the remnants of the gray and black foundations of the Kuomintang were still everywhere.

This organized massacre of five or six million people was compared with that of only the Nazis in World War II. The atrocities of the Japanese army in Nanjing were quite deficient compared to those of Lao Chiang’s ruthlessness towards the Chinese people.

Although Chiang Kai-shek's massacre in the Soviet area made the surviving people full of deep hatred for him, it also made the surviving people ward off the surviving people. When Chiang Kai-shek carried out a joint war of resistance and put forward the slogan "Everything goes through the united front", the original ward became hostile!

The people's thoughts are simple and they cannot understand. The ** who originally called on them to contribute everything to defeat Jiang Jiang, but now they are fighting each other with him! The original wonderful propaganda has become a deception in the eyes of the surviving people in the Soviet area!

Faced with the culprit of his old subordinates, Zhou Kun had to say: "We are uniting the Kuomintang now to fight against Japan. We have achieved national security and the goal of national liberation has not changed!"

"The People's Party, if the People's Army does not unite with the Kuomintang, it will still attack Japan!" The old subordinate said disdainfully, "Look at the three towns in Wuhan, and make those dignitaries messy! If the anti-Japanese war is just to make the Kuomintang harm the people, then it's better not to resist!"

Afterwards, although the two parted before they were not happy, the joy of reunion after a long separation disappeared. After seeing several other surviving Red Guards and more than 20 orphans, Zhou Kun felt even more sour and was confused about his previous actions and future prospects. With this combination of these reasons, Zhou Kun finally left the team with the money, hoping to send the men and orphans to the northwest, so as to avoid the possible purge within the party in the future. However, Zhou Kun did not expect that the investigation in the northwest was so strict. He had just left Dingbian County and captured it for the People's Army in Xiaoguan.

"What I want to go to Wuhan to rescue are some old acquaintances and a group of homeless children. For some reasons, they have deep prejudice against our military office in Wuhan and refuse to accept their help." Zhou Kun sighed with a lonely expression and continued, "As for my transition to your party's defense zone, I want to avoid some trouble, and the other is to understand the living conditions of the people in the area controlled by your party to see if I can take them here to settle down."

After a pause, Zhou Kun looked up at Zhao Zhenzhong and said with hope: "It is said that 'there is a way to survive when we reach the northwest.' I wonder if Mr. Zhao can give a few disabled people and a group of orphans a way to live, so that they can have a meal?"

"As long as you are a domestic citizen, and you do not intend to make trouble in the northwest and be able to comply with our laws and regulations, we can accept it in the northwest. However, can Mr. Zhou tell me who they are? It is worth leaving the team without authorization and going around in such a big circle to rescue?" Zhao Zhenzhong continued to ask.

"One of those disabled people was my old subordinate when I was in the Central Soviet Area, and the other few were originally members of the Red Guards, all locals in the Soviet Area. There were about twenty children, all of them were orphans of martyrs." Zhou Kun said sadly, "Before the Long March, my old subordinate was recuperating at the home of a fellow villager due to injuries, so he stayed in the local area. But after our army evacuated, the Jiang bandit army made a big revenge in the Soviet Area, carrying out a massacre of "stones need to be cut, and thatch need to be fired", which almost turned the local area into a no-man's land! My old subordinate and several Red Guards escaped with a group of children based on familiar geographical conditions. Later, they went to Wuhan to survive, but they could only struggle on the verge of survival..."

"It's okay to accept this, I can agree." Zhao Zhenzhong nodded and said, "However, I also have something here that I want to ask Mr. Zhou for help. I want to ask Mr. Zhou to send a letter to Mr. Mao from your party. I wonder if Mr. Zhou is willing?"

"This... I left the team without authorization. If I go back, I'm afraid that the letter has not been handed over to ** and I will be reviewed by Gerry. That will delay Mr. Zhao's affairs." Zhou Kun was a little embarrassed.

"I think Mr. Zhou has not left the team for a long time, and your party is not clear about the reason for leaving the team. As long as you say you are lost in the mountains and injured by stray bullets, you should be able to deal with it. Then find an opportunity to send the letter to Mr. Mao." Zhao Zhenzhong said calmly, "This letter does not have much obstacle to our northwest, but it has a lot to do with your party's future development and can also help Mr. Mao change the situation of your party's "international faction". Of course, sending this letter will also be beneficial to Mr. Zhou's future development within your party."

"There is no need to think about development..." Zhou Kun sighed and asked again, "Mr. Zhao, since this letter is so important, can't your party send people directly to send it? Besides, this letter is really of no benefit to your party?"

"This letter cannot be sent publicly in the name of our party, otherwise it will cause new trouble!" Zhao Zhenzhong shook his head and continued, "If we talk about the benefits to our party, we should eliminate the 'international factions' that hold the Soviet Union's thighs tightly and let less lead the way in the country, this is the benefit!"

The letter Zhao Zhenzhong wants to send is related to the secret between ** and the Communist International. If it is sent publicly in the name of the People's Party, then ** will first be concerned about the source of the news received by the People's Party, and will be highly vigilant of the People's Party. Even if it is beneficial, it will become unfavorable. Zhou Kun was one of the few people who survived with Mao. He would send this letter and only Mao knew the truth. That would be much safer.

In original history, in order to change the dilemma of the central government of northern Shaanxi, Mao sent Ren Bishi to lead a team to the Soviet Union in March 1938 to seek support from the Communist International. Therefore, if Zhao Zhenzhong wanted to send this letter, he had to do it early so that Mao could make arrangements before the delegation set off.

"I can go and send this letter." Zhou Kun was silent for a while, and then said, "However, Mr. Zhao will send someone to Wuhan to bring the people I want to rescue to the northwest. If I go to the northwest in the future, I will ask Mr. Zhao to give me some convenience."

"This is OK. As long as Mr. Zhou leaves the address of those people in Wuhan, I can ask someone to escort them to the northwest through Sichuan." Zhao Zhenzhong replied, "Mr. Zhou can also bring the guns and cash that he carries with him back to northern Shaanxi. If Mr. Zhou is willing to settle in the northwest in the future, we also welcome him."

"Mr. Zhao thought very thoughtfully, I accept it." Zhou Kun nodded, then smiled bitterly, "I just left for about ten days, but now I have to go back. I hope there is no problem in the middle."

After a negotiation, Zhou Kun took his original items and a letter from Zhao Zhenzhong, and escorted by the People's Army's Security Department, he passed through western Shanxi and crossed the Yellow River to enter the northern Shaanxi area.

"Old Zhao, is it useful for you to do this?" After sending Zhou Kun away, Zhou Mingyuan asked, "Why should we get involved in the affairs of their party?"

"It should be useful." Zhao Zhenzhong smiled and said, "The affairs within the party are indeed not related to us now, but we are likely to have to confront the Soviet Union during the War of Resistance Against Japan. I sent this letter in the hope that ** can clean up the "international factions" in advance, and at least when we fight with the Soviet Union, they can make less chaos. Our force is enough to eliminate them, but the underground organizations of ** are not easy to clear. Besides, domestic problems are not omnipotent."

"What did you write in your letter? Will Mao write it?" Zhou Mingyuan said strangely.

"Mao will definitely let the ** delegation go to Moscow to verify." Zhao Zhenzhong said leisurely, "As for the content, it is related to someone within the *** 'user'."

"Ususpended the Party?" Zhou Mingyuan was startled and then realized, "You have dug out the old accounts in history for them?"

Zhao Zhenzhong nodded and smiled: "Some things should be taken to help them get the sunshine and put them on..."

The issue of someone who "ushome party" within Zhao and Zhou refers to the matter of Xia Wang Ming and Zhou in 1931 when they decided to decide the personnel of the temporary Politburo. Wang and Zhou decided to choose the candidates for the temporary Politburo without meeting and discussion with other Politburo personnel. Then, the list was announced on the grounds of approval by the Communist International.

But in fact, the Political Secretariat of the Communist International had questions about the candidates for the ** Provisional Politburo. On October 3, 2011, the list drawn up by Wang and Zhou was recorded in the No. 185 record of the Political Commission meeting of the Political Secretariat signed by Piatnitsky, secretary of the Secretariat of the Communist International Executive Committee, described the list of Wang and Zhou as follows: "Ask the Central Committee of the Communist International, which agency was elected by this provisional Politburo? Why did Comrade Worovsky (i.e. Huang Ping, who was arrested and rebelled in the summer of 1932) not elected? Was the Politburo unanimously elected? If so, then we have no objection to its members."

In history, Mao raised the issue of Wang Ming and Bo Gu "ushome of the Party" during the Yan'an Rectification Movement. After some twists and turns, he regarded the issue of Wang and Bo as "intra-party issues". At that time, Mao was not sure that there would be record No. 185 in the archives of the Communist International, otherwise Wang and Zhou would never be let go of the old account of "using the Party"!

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