On October 5, 1925, after discussion at the Kuomintang executive meeting, a young communist party member was nominated as acting minister of the Kuomintang Central Propaganda Department. The difference is that the Communist Party member did not serve as a secretary in the Central Propaganda Department of the National Government, nor did he transition from a deputy minister, but was directly nominated as acting minister.
The newly appointed acting minister of the Central Propaganda Department was 31 years old, and he also served as an alternate member of the Kuomintang Central Committee. This position was approved by Mr. Sun Yat-sen in the KMT’s “First National Congress”. You must know that at this time it was already Whampoa Military Academy. President Jiang has not yet been an alternate member of the Central Committee, which shows that this young man is special-his name is Mao Runzhi, and he was still an ordinary Communist at this time.
Youth Chairman Mao
At this time, the chairman of the National Government is Wang Jingwei, he and Hu Hanmin, Liao Zhongkai, Zhang Jingjiang 4 people are veterans, plus the following executive committee members. There are 21 people and 17 alternate executive members, which means that the policy direction of the entire National Government is determined by these 38 people. Before Wang Jingwei was elected as the chairman of the National Government, he was also the head of the Central Propaganda Department.
Although Chairman Mao was still relatively young at this time, a few Kuomintang officials such as Liao Zhongkai and Wang Jingwei knew about Chairman Mao’s talents, but at this time, most people still didn’t know. In their eyes, such a young man would just Repeatedly jumped for many levels, passed many old qualifications in the propaganda department and became the top leader, and immediately became the target of many people's jealousy and even slander.
On October 7, when Chairman Mao arrived at the Propaganda Department as Minister of Propaganda, and held the first meeting, after preliminary understanding, Chairman Mao found that compared to the isolation among colleagues, the entire Propaganda Department was a huge pit. : It is called the Central Propaganda Department, and the orders issued can only cover most of Guangdong Province. The neighboring provinces outside of Guangdong Province turned a deaf ear to the instructions of the headquarters, pretending to be deaf and dumb.
In addition, colleagues are suspicious of infighting and are completely irresponsible for their work. The whole department is filled with an unorganized and undisciplined atmosphere. There are almost no publicity materials available, and there is no plan for future work. ,The poorly available publicity materials are mostly written mainly, completely ignoring the extremely high rate of illiteracy in the country at this time. Such publicity materials are extremely unfriendly to the majority of workers and peasants.
Dai Jitao
In fact, this is not difficult to understand. The first propaganda director of the KMT Central Propaganda Department is Dai Jitao, who has a close relationship with our party. There is no problem with his work ability, but there is a fatal one. His shortcoming was his narrow-mindedness. Soon after he arrived in office, he had a fight with a colleague who was hostile to our party. He also lost the fight. He was beaten and swollen under the eyes of the public. He cried on the spot. This was embarrassing. He was angry. Without saying goodbye, we left Guangzhou by boat overnight.
After Dai Jitao left, Wang Jingwei, who succeeded him, had no problem with his work ability, but as a professional politician, the position of Minister of Propaganda was a springboard for him. He put a lot of energy on both sides and political resources, as a propaganda. The minister almost never asked about the work of the Propaganda Department. Every time he had a meeting, he would sit there and watch the people talk. When the time was almost time, he would announce the end of the meeting, and no one should be guilty.
Everyone also knows that Wang Jingwei's ministerial seat will not be long, and he will "rise up" sooner or later. So all cadres in the propaganda department are staring at this seat. In short, except for not doing work, everything else is done. As long as the cadres with some power in their hands only work one day a month, that is the day when the salary is paid.
Kuomintang key members
After having a preliminary understanding of the department, Chairman Mao bluntly pointed out the three biggest failures of the Propaganda Department at the first meeting: the complete loss of management functions and the lack of work. The rules are loose, and the form of publicity is one-sided and formal. The loss of these basic functions caused Chairman Mao, who wanted to do a lot of work, to temporarily abandon his original plan. He decided to start with the basics, and then step by step after laying the foundations to revitalize the stagnant KMT Central Propaganda Department.
As the saying goes, "the new official has three fires when he is appointed." Since he wants to establish his prestige, he naturally has to take the largest stab, and he cannot fire a doorman to establish his prestige after becoming a minister. This is not only ineffective,Also makes people laugh. In order to clean up discipline, the first fire hit Dai Jitao, the former Minister of Propaganda.
In July of this year, Dai Jitao published a book entitled "The National Revolution and the Chinese Kuomintang". There are many distortions in the book KMT-CPC cooperation , full of personally fabricated "Left" threat theory. Since Dai Jitao was the Minister of the National Government's Propaganda Department, many people believe that the views in this book represent the official position to a certain extent, and have had a great and extremely bad influence on the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
Chairman Mao in his youth
On October 13, only one week after Chairman Mao took office in the KMT Central Propaganda Department, he severely criticized Dai Jitao at the KMT Central Executive Committee meeting. With the unanimous support of the committee members, the meeting issued an announcement stating that all the views in Dai Jitao’s published book represent his personal opinions and have not been authenticated by the central government. In the future, all opinions related to doctrine and policy will not go through the party committee. The consent cannot be published.
The two simple statements made the former minister disgraced, which not only restored the loss to the greatest extent, but also played a role in killing the chicken and the monkey. What they didn’t know was that a year ago, the Kuomintang veteran Xie Chi was unwilling to sign the party membership registration form, and he patted the table in front of Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin, so Chairman Mao sent someone to take the registration form to his home. , who was so annoyed and helpless, thanked , and finally signed it obediently.
As Chairman Mao was noticed by more people in the KMT, and more things he had done in the past year became known to the people, many people began to talk about it: The Communist Party is a small party with more than 10,000 people. There are such talents? Many people in the Propaganda Department who were jealous of the ministerial position and attempted to demolish the station also lost their courage and began to cooperate with Chairman Mao's work.
Chairman Mao
But this is only the beginning. As the Minister of the Propaganda Department, Chairman Mao has not forgotten his own job: to serve the revolution on the propaganda front.In late October, Chairman Mao proposed to collect all Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals at home and abroad, sort them out, collect and summarize them, and prepare for the next propaganda work. At the same time, with the strong support of Chairman Mao, libraries in different departments in the country, the province and various places have also begun to deploy to facilitate the distribution of propaganda publications by the Propaganda Department.
The related work was proceeding in an orderly manner. By November, the Central Committee approved Chairman Mao’s application and established the Transportation Bureau in Shanghai under the management of the Propaganda Department. Since then, the network of the Propaganda Department has been extended. After six months, Chairman Mao When he resigned and left the Propaganda Department, the instructions of the Propaganda Department had already affected 12 southern provinces.
On November 23, 9 Kuomintang executive members and 2 alternate executive members who were hostile to our party held the so-called " Fourth Plenary Session" in Beijing, and passed a series of unfavorable policies for our party. The main content of the document includes the removal of Li Dazhao, Chairman Mao and other members of our party in the National Government, and the cancellation of the Communist Party’s membership of the Kuomintang.
Lao Jiang during the Northern Expedition
This is a well-planned action to sabotage the revolution. The purpose of doing such a thing during the cooperation between the KMT and the Communist Party is self-evident. After Chairman Mao learned about it, the members of our party who served as the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang resolutely responded to this illegal action by the Kuomintang rightists, and passed a document drafted by Chairman Mao on November 27 to refute some of the Kuomintang rightists. The behavior of members in illegal meetings in Beijing.
It is particularly important to note that in this document, Chairman Mao not only declared that some right-leaning Kuomintang members had their resolutions invalid, but also urged them to go to Guangzhou to participate in the "Second Congress" of the Kuomintang as soon as possible. The eight characters of "Health disputes". Making it clear made these 11 people embarrassed: I went to Guangzhou, there was definitely no good fruit to eat. If I didn't go, I sat down and sat down for their blatant splitting behavior, and it was also difficult. The 11 people who originally thought they had the upper hand were made passive everywhere by Chairman Mao's manuscript, and they could no longer overcome the storm.
On December 5, the national government central publication " political weekly " was published,The editor-in-chief is naturally Chairman Mao. After the publication of "Political Weekly", more and more Kuomintang rightists realized that as long as Chairman Mao participated in the department, whether it was the Central Committee or propaganda work, the Kuomintang rightists had no chance at all. As long as they opened their mouths, they would be met by everyone. Oppose and suppress.
Chairman Mao and Lao Jiang
At the same time, the "Political Weekly" also created a propaganda myth of 40,000 circulation per week because of its advanced views, sharp wording and wonderful discourse. Almost all cadres of the Guangdong National Government have one share, and their influence is getting bigger and bigger. In order to train more propaganda cadres for the Great Revolution, Chairman Mao has served concurrently as the director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Party Department since December. The National Revolution trained a large number of political cadres and party representatives.
In January 1926, the Second National Congress of the Nationalist Government impeached Xie Chi and others who were meeting in Beijing privately and undermined the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and expelled them from the party. None of these old foxes who had been in politics for decades was Mao. The chairman's opponent. It has been only three months since Chairman Mao became the head of the Central Propaganda Department in October. His work ability has been affirmed by everyone. The "Second Congress" nominated Chairman Mao to continue to serve as the head of the Central Propaganda Department of the Kuomintang.
was also the "Second Congress" of the Kuomintang. Chiang was elected as the executive member of the Kuomintang Central Committee. One month later, Chiang launched the " Zhongshan Ship Incident " and began to vigorously suppress and exclude our party. On May 15th, Lao Jiang proposed a proposal at the Second Plenary Session of the 2nd National Party Central Committee not to allow our party members to hold positions above ministerial level within the Kuomintang. Chairman Mao, Li Dazhao and others also resigned from their positions in the Kuomintang Central Committee.
Chairman Mao
Although Chairman Mao has left, the Kuomintang Propaganda Department, which was originally a stagnant pool, was activated by Chairman Mao. It has been the most active and executive force of the National Government for a long time. Department. Many years later, Chairman Mao mentioned this incident with a smile and said: The National Government still owes me six months of salary.
During Chairman Mao's tenure as Minister of the Propaganda Department,The monthly salary is 120 oceans, and 6 months is 720 oceans. It is necessary to know that Mr. Lu Xun only spent 800 oceans when he bought a courtyard house in Xisan Tiao Hutong. This shows that 720 oceans are indeed not a small sum. But Chairman Mao didn't care about it. He once told Snow : I like to talk about big things with my friends, human nature, human society, the world, the universe, and I don't want to take trivial matters into my heart. This pattern is rare in ancient and modern times, and it is no wonder that no one in Chiang Kai-shek or even the entire Nationalist government can fight him.
This article commemorates the great Chairman Mao. His spirit and thought will always guide every Chinese.
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