In October 1976, Hua Guofeng and others attacked thunderously and smashed the "Gang of Four". After that, the central government continued to hold an anti-criticism campaign, calling on everyone to expose the wrong behavior of the "Gang of Four". Speaking of this, do you know who first exposed Wang Hongwen? This person is Mischi , and was once a staff member of the "Wang Office". So, what is the story about Mischi?
Mischi was born in 1940, from Xushui, Baoding, Hebei Province, and was born in an ordinary rural family. During his middle school years, Mischi mainly studied at Beijing No. 2 Middle School. His academic performance was very good. During his six years in middle school, he was elected as an outstanding member of the League in five years, and he was elected as an outstanding student in Beijing for two years. After graduating from high school, Mischi originally planned to apply for Peking University , but a recruitment from the General Office of the Central Committee changed Mischi's fate.
In the early 1960s, the head of the General Office of the Central Committee purchased a batch of recorders with the consent of Premier Zhou. The main function of these recorders is to preserve the speeches of the head and facilitate subsequent work. However, in actual work, Chairman Mao did not like to be recorded, so the work was suspended. In this context, shorthand work is particularly important. Although shorthand cannot record Chairman Mao’s voice like a recorder, it can record Chairman Mao’s speech to the greatest extent.
In order to facilitate the shorthand work, in 1961, the General Office of the Central Committee recruited 8 people from fresh graduates in Beijing, including Mischi. The first criterion for recruiting staff at that time was that they had strong political qualities. Mischi was a good and well-known. They came from an ordinary peasant family. The grandfather was a worker, the father was a middle peasant, and he was a student. The social relationship was simple, so Mischi was successfully selected.
After this, the General Office of the Central Committee eliminated 4 people from these 8 people, and Mischi still stayed. After that, he entered the shorthand school and received relevant training. After graduation, Mischi was transferred to work at the Secretariat of the General Office of the Central Committee, mainly engaged in meeting shorthand.
In 1974, Mischi was transferred to Wang Hongwen's office (referred to as "Wang Office") to temporarily assist "Wang Office" in carrying out his work. It should be noted that although Mischi works in the "Wang Office", he is just an ordinary staff member of the "Wang Office" and is not Wang Hongwen's secretary. It is wrong to say that Mischi is Wang Hongwen's secretary in many materials.
During the work of "Wang Office", Mischi took on an important task and witnessed the moment when Wang Hongwen seized power. It was September 10, 1976. During Chairman Mao's funeral, Wang Hongwen wanted to seize power. He asked his secretary Liao Zukang to take Mischi to the duty room of Ziguang Pavilion, and asked him to use the phone there to notify the heads of the party committees of 27 provinces, cities and autonomous regions (excluding Beijing and Shanghai) and let them report to Mischi first if they have any problems.
Zhang Pinghua, who was the secretary of at the time of , Hunan Provincial Party Committee, was very surprised when he received the call and told Hua Guofeng the news. After that, Hua Guofeng and others attacked thunder, smashing the "Gang of Four" and curbing the power seizure of Wang Hongwen and others. On the night of arresting Wang Hongwen, Wu Jicheng, deputy director of the Central Security Bureau of , went to the "Wang Office" and notified all staff of the "Wang Office" not to leave and wait for review.
The day after the arrest of Wang Hongwen, on October 7, 1976, Mischi was the first to stand up to expose Wang Hongwen, including Wang Hongwen instructing him to be on duty at Ziguang Pavilion, and the process of conspiracy to usurp power was reported to the organization without any word. After that, the expose materials provided by Mischi were printed on a document. It is worth mentioning that the organization called Mischi "Comrade Mischi" in this document, which shows that he had completely distinguished his relationship with Wang Hongwen. For this reason, Mischi did not undergo scrutiny in 1976. In 2010, Mischi died of illness at the age of 70.