Be sincere and reform the insurrectionary troops. We strictly follow the instructions of the central government, fully respect Lu Han, consult with him on everything, treat him with courtesy, and treat each other with sincerity. Lu Han sent a message to his wife in Hong Kong in e

Treat him with sincerity and transform the uprising troops

We strictly follow the instructions of the Central Committee, fully respect Lu Han, negotiate everything, treat him with courtesy, and treat each other with sincerity. Therefore, the mood of Lu Han and his subordinates is relatively stable. Lu Han sent a message to his wife in Hong Kong in early March saying that everything was fine with him in Kunming and he decided to stay in Kunming temporarily. After consultation with Lu Han himself and approval from the central government, Lu Han served as chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Military and Political Commission, Zhou Baozhong and I served as vice chairman, and some of Lu's military and political dignitaries were arranged to serve as committee members, meeting twice a week to discuss Yunnan's Military and political events. Lu Han and his subordinates were relatively satisfied. There are a number of leading figures in Yunnan, including Li Genyuan, who served as Prime Minister during the Beiyang Warlord period, and others like Li Hongxiang, Yang Ximin, Yang Shisheng, Jin Jidian, Bai Xiaosong, Ma Bo'an, Yang Kecheng, An En Pu, Zhang Tianfang, Wang Shaoyan and other well-known political figures. We pay attention to the work of unity and struggle for them, and some will invite them to the scene. We visit Li Genyuan and others to promote the policies of the People's Government to them, hoping that they will cooperate. The Central Committee sent Comrade Zhang Chong and Comrade Pan Shuoduan to work with us in Yunnan.

Zhang Chong is from the Yi ethnic group in Yunnan and has been to Yan'an . Pan Shuoduan is from Yunnan and led his troops in the Haicheng uprising in 1946. Zhang Chong is appointed as Vice Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial People's Government, and Pan Shuoduan is appointed as the Mayor of Kunming. Both of them are members of the Communist Party and have done a lot of useful work in Yunnan, especially in strengthening national unity and fighting for and uniting old military and political personnel.

took over the work in Kunming. Because we had experience in taking over cities such as Nanjing, it went relatively smoothly.

The takeover work began on March 4. The Military Control Commission consists of 7 takeover departments including military, government affairs, finance, industry, transportation, culture and education, and health. Each takeover department is equipped with military representatives and some staff, and each takeover unit A team has been set up to assist in the takeover, usually composed of Communist Party members and mass representatives. We have always adhered to the instructions of the Central Committee, with special emphasis on relying on the masses, unity and cooperation, and working together as one mind, so that the takeover work has been carried out in a relatively harmonious atmosphere of mutual assistance and mutual understanding, and it was basically completed after more than 50 days. While taking over Kunming, the takeover work in each zone was carried out simultaneously and was basically completed in April. In order to facilitate work in border areas, we have established two working committees: , western Yunnan, , and southern Yunnan. The Western Yunnan Working Committee has jurisdiction over 43 prefectural committees in Dali, Lijiang and Baoshan, headed by Li Chengfang, commander of the 14th Army, as secretary; the Southern Yunnan Working Committee has jurisdiction over 3 prefectural committees in Wenshan, Mengzi and Simao, headed by the 13th Army Political commissar Liu Youguang serves as secretary. Military division and regiment cadres concurrently hold local and county party and government positions respectively. For those retained by the old government agencies, except for those who voluntarily go home and provide sufficient travel expenses, we adopt the policy of "covering them all and arranging work appropriately." Due to financial constraints, the central government called for "three people to eat for two people." At the same time, they were sent to the training class of the Yunnan Branch of Southwest People's Revolutionary University in a planned manner for rotational training. In the first phase, 3,848 people were trained, and in the second phase, 2,150 people were trained. Training classes are also set up in each zone to train old personnel.

Regarding the issue of transforming the uprising troops, we have decided to postpone it for a while. After entering Kunming, when Comrade Chen Geng and I went to visit Lu Han, he pointed out that his army could not survive without reform and asked us to send political cadres as soon as possible.

We replied: Don't worry, we will talk about it later. We still need to transfer cadres and train cadres. Let's take a long-term view. After necessary preparations, we sent a group of political cadres in, and Lu Han adopted a cooperative attitude. After patient and meticulous ideological and political work, Lu Han's troops made significant progress. After some time, after consultation and with Lu Han's consent, Long Zehui's army of the Lu Han Department was co-organized with the 13th Army, and Long was appointed deputy commander; Yu Jianxun's army of the Lu Han Department was co-organized with the 14th Army, and Yu was appointed deputy commander.

After we entered Kunming, Mr. Lu Han was generally cooperative with our work, but it was not without some struggle. A gentleman in charge of provincial finance at that time was a subordinate of General Lu Han.With Lu Han's acquiescence, he took advantage of our economic difficulties to temporarily issue a kind of banknotes in the local area. Nominally, it was to exchange for gold yuan coupons. In fact, he took the opportunity to exchange the banknotes to exchange for silver dollars. Card us. We quickly realized that this was an attempt to start an economic fight against us, something we had experienced before when taking over other cities. I told General Lu Han about this matter and said, "I don't know if I have reported this matter to Chairman Lu. This is not a good thing. Please say hello to Chairman Lu and stop doing this." Lu Han pretended not to know and said, "Ah, there is such a thing, that's okay!" As a result, the matter was stopped shortly after it came out.