1941, Chairman Mao and Kaifeng had a conversation. During the conversation with
, Kaifeng said that he had been on the wrong route and was very grateful to the organization for not giving up on himself at that time. Instead, he corrected himself in criticism and helped him to go to the right route as soon as possible.
combined with Kaifeng's work in the party, it is not difficult to find that since " Zunyi Conference ", he has always done his best and devoted himself to revolution, and often warned himself and warned others with his past mistakes.
After hearing Kaifeng's confession, Chairman Mao only expressed his affirmation and appreciation of Kaifeng's attitude at that time, he later wrote a letter to tell Kaifeng: "That was just a small thing that was not very pleasant, and it disappeared in a while, so you don't have to keep it in mind."
So, what is this small thing?
1. Kaifeng's early experience
Kaifeng, who was enlightened by the revolutionary forces early, joined the revolutionary team in 1926. In the revolutionary team, Kaifeng's learning and understanding of Marxism-Leninism gradually deepened.
Between home and school, Kaifeng has demonstrated his outstanding publicity skills. Therefore, during his time at school, he quickly joined the Communist Youth League and was promoted to the branch secretary, responsible for the publicity work within the school. Because of their outstanding work ability and performance, Kaifeng's work responsibilities are getting heavier and heavier.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12 Coup", and Communist Party members were cruelly tortured and killed countless times by a faction of the Kuomintang. Kaifeng received secret news and went from Shanghai to the Soviet Union to continue his studies. In the Soviet Union, Kaifeng learned a lot of advanced revolutionary theories of the Soviet Union and met Bogu and others.
In 1930, Kaifeng was ordered to return to China. In the same year, he was introduced to a Communist Party member.
Studying in the Soviet Union made him and Bo Gu closely related his relationship when he was in the Soviet Union. After returning to China, Bogu himself had the habit of paying attention to Communist Party members who had been in the Soviet Union, so the relationship between the two became even deeper. In 1933, Bo Gu was appointed as the head of the temporary central government. Afterwards, Kaifeng was transferred to the central base and served as the central secretary.
1933, the last "anti-encirclement and suppression" campaign, led by Bo Gu and Li De, ended in failure. In October of the following year, the Red Army started the road to the Long March, and Kaifeng also participated in the Long March. In 1935, at the enlarged meeting held in Zunyi, the "left-leaning" line was pointed out and corrected, and the temporary central leadership was headed by Mao Zedong. Although he couldn't bear to see Bogu being dismissed, seeing that Bogu was hopeless to be restored, Kaifeng then devoted himself to the revolutionary cause.
2. After the Kaifeng
after the War of Resistance Against Japan, after the Zunyi meeting, under the confirmation of the central line led by Chairman Mao and others, Kaifeng realized the mistakes of Bo Gu and others, and since then he firmly supported the central line.
In one thing that followed, it can be seen that Kaifeng is loyal to the party. At that time, Zhang Guotao, who had insufficient party spirit and low ideological position, saw that his Red Fourth Army camp was larger and publicly challenged the central government's decision-making. Zhang Guotao believed that the top priority should be to siege the city on whether to take the lead in opening up the rural situation. Zhang Guotao insisted on going south and had the intention of separatism. Kaifeng took the lead in writing to criticize Zhang Guotao's behavior and firmly expressed his position.
1937, the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University was successfully founded on the basis of the Red Army University. The task of writing school songs for the Anti-Japanese University that opened up a new situation was assigned to Kaifeng by Mao Zedong. Later, Kaifeng wrote the lyrics passionately based on the enrollment situation and learning atmosphere in the Anti-Japanese University. Mao Zedong praised it when reviewing it: "It's very good, very consistent with the facts of the Anti-Japanese University!"
During the Anti-Japanese War, Kaifeng, who was still responsible for the party's propaganda work, discussed the formulation of important documents during the period. After becoming the "Seventh National Congress" committee, Kaifeng successively served as member of the Central Party Newspaper and Minister of the Propaganda Department.
Because Kaifeng has been engaged in text-related work since joining the revolution, he served as editor at Xinhua News Agency. During this period, considering that the spread of Marxism-Leninist thought in China was hindered by language barriers, Kaifeng translated Marxism-Leninist thoughts and edited them into a book and published them. In addition, Kaifeng also published the "Tutorial on the Anti-Japanese National United Front".
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Kaifeng served as member of the Northeast Standing Committee, secretary of the Shenyang Municipal Party Committee, president of the Marxist-Leninist College, who is now renamed the Central Party School, and deputy director of the Central Propaganda Department.
In 1955, Kaifeng died of illness.
Kaifeng's conscientious work in the revolutionary cause in this life is more due to his love for the revolutionary cause, and another part of the reason is to "atone for the mistakes he once made.
3. Temporary fault
This fault is a trivial matter that Mao Zedong told Kaifeng not to remember.
This trivial matter can be traced back to the last failure of the Red Army to fight against "encirclement and suppression". The interim person in charge of the central government at that time was Bo Gu, and in order to support the Communist Party's revolutionary cause, the Soviet side sent a military adviser Li De to China's central base. Because he had studied in Su, Bo Gu was very close to Li De.
In the last anti-"encirclement and suppression" command, Li De did not consider the actual situation of the Red Army and asked the Red Army to take assault war against the large number of well-armed national troops. After the failure of the war, Li De shook the blame on himself and made his opinions for reference only. The final decision-making power was with Bo Gu, the person in charge. However, everyone knew it well at that time that Bo Gu had always obeyed Li De.
In order to strengthen the Party’s command line and promptly rectify the chaos in order to stop greater losses, the Zunyi Conference was held in 1935.
At the meeting, Mao Zedong took the lead in pointing out the reasons for the Red Army being forced to the Long March, and Bo Gu and Li De fought for their reasons. Although the facts are in front of us, the "left-leaning" faction with Mao Zedong and others who hold different views have started a fierce intra-party discussion.
When Bo Gu upholds party spirit and listens to opinions from all parties, Kaifeng suddenly pointed at Mao Zedong and said: "Bo Gu and Li De have a very profound learning of Marxism-Leninism and thoughts. I dare say they understand what Marxism-Leninism and communism are the best. How much do you know about Marxism-Leninism? It's just that I read some "Three Kingdoms" and " Sun Tzu's Art of War ". What's your command good about it? In my opinion, you won't fight at all!"
Everyone was shocked. After all, Mao Zedong asked Kaifeng: "Do you know what is written in "The Art of War"? Do you know that those who understand Marxism-Leninism will naturally fight? Have you ever heard of military talk on paper? Just blindly commanding operations without looking at the actual situation of our army. What's the use of learning so many theories?"
After many participants negated the routes of Bo and Li, Kaifeng still insisted on the idea that Bo and Li were the correct routes. However, in just two months after that, Kaifeng had already realized Bo, Li and his mistakes in the subsequent Red Army operations, and also realized them, and was impressed by Mao Zedong's military strategies.
In fact, it is not difficult to see from Kaifeng's later work experience that the Party Central Committee still valued party members who knew the lost path, corrected their mistakes, and had real talent and practical work. This is also the reason why Kaifeng could do something in the revolution later.
