Zhou Enlai made great contributions in his life. He is a model of the work and unity of the whole party. His life's work is how to concentrate the strength within the party. This can be seen from three important conversations in his life.
The first conversation
1934 At the beginning of the Long March, Mao Zedong wrote to the Central Committee, saying that he would not leave, and that he would lead the 20th Division of the First and Third Army Corps and the Hong Jiu Army Corps to stay, persist in the struggle in the Soviet area, and finally welcome the Central Committee back. This letter was handed over to Bo Gukai, the main person in charge of the Central Committee. Bo Gu was young and didn't know what to do, so he gave the letter to Zhou Enlai.
After reading the letter, Zhou Enlai, with three guards, rushed from Ruijin, the seat of the central government, to Mao Zedong's residence overnight and had a long talk with Mao Zedong all night. No one knows the content of the conversation between Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai that night, but Mao Zedong decided to go with the big troops after the conversation. This decision changed the fate of China. This is Zhou Enlai's great contribution to China.
The second dialogue
After Zunyi Conference, Bo Gu Kailai was no longer fit to be the main leader of the Party, and was replaced by Comrade Zhang Wentian. But Comrade Bo Gu is unwilling to hand over power. So, Zhou Enlai and Bo Gu talked all night. Zhou Enlai told Bo Gu Kailai that you and I have both been abroad, and those of us who have been abroad don't know much about China. Ever since the failure of the Nanchang Uprising led by me, I have known that the China Revolution is not something we can accomplish. We need to find someone else, someone who really knows China.
Mao Zedong is such a person. He knows China. Together, we helped Mao Zedong make the China Revolution a success. Hearing Zhou Enlai's remarks, the second day early in the morning, Bo Gu put all the power in the * * *. In the later struggle with Zhang and Wang Ming, Bo Gu also stood firmly on the side. Bo Gukai later said that Zhou Enlai's words had influenced his life, and the China Revolution really had to be carried out by people who knew China.
The leading group of China * * * production party is a combination of leaders such as Mao Zedong, Zhu De and Zhou Enlai, who complement and improve each other. They are all great men, but not perfect. There will also be differences and opinions between them. Unlike the leader TV series now, no one will come out until Mao Zedong comes out, and everyone will follow Mao Zedong as soon as he comes out. When Mao Zedong didn't talk, everyone didn't talk. When Mao Zedong spoke, everyone agreed, and they all scrambled to implement it.
Our party is full of vitality, and contradictions among leaders are inevitable. There are different opinions and different methods and viewpoints everywhere. The struggle between them and the contradiction between them make our party more energetic. China's * * * production party relied on such a whole full of vigor and vitality to defeat the Chiang Kai-shek clique, which was unprecedentedly powerful in China's modern history.
The third dialogue
1June, 935, the first and fourth armies joined forces. Zhang rode a white horse, surrounded by more than ten riding guards, and led all members of the Politburo out of the three-mile road, waiting in the drizzle. At that time, Chairman Mao gave Zhang great respect. Because, from the "First Congress" to the "Sixth Congress", Zhang has always been a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of China, and has always been in the central core of China. At that time, Zhang's qualification in the * * * Party was not covered by anyone but Chen Duxiu.
However, Mao Zedong remained outside the central core for a long time, until the meeting of 1927 on August 7, when he was added as an alternate member of the Politburo. So, in the * * * party qualification, compared with zhang. Zhang was very moved at that time, but Zhang later discovered that the Central Red Army was small in number, in rags, with guns of different lengths and no heavy weapons. After crossing Chishui, the last 50 mm mountain gun was thrown into Chishui River, and the Central Red Army lost a heavy gun. The heaviest firepower is 60 guns, which belongs to today's infantry light weapons.
So there was a problem after the first and fourth armies joined forces, with 80 thousand troops in the fourth army and 0/10 thousand troops in the Central Red Army. Zhang questioned the legitimacy of Zunyi Conference. In fact, the division of the first and fourth armies is not due to political reasons, but to the imbalance of power. Today, some descriptions about the division of labor between the first and fourth armies are easy to write: Zhang southward, heading for failure and darkness; Mao Zedong goes to the north, to victory and to light. In fact, when Mao Zedong called the division, the northward advance of the 14th Army was the darkest moment in his life, even darker than the failure of the 1927 Great Revolution.
It is difficult for Mao Zedong to judge how long these 7,000 people can last. He even prepared to break up the 7,000 Red Army and do underground work in the white area. Later, thanks to the discovery of the northern Shaanxi base area. When I went to northern Shaanxi, I saw that the Red Fifteen Army had completely controlled northern Shaanxi. The Red Fifteen Army is Zhang's original strength. In northern Shaanxi, revolutionaries are being eliminated and expanded, and Jeremy goldkorn, Liu Zhidan and xi Zhongxun of the Red Army have all been arrested. At that time, Xu Haidong, commander of the Red Fifteen Army, had obeyed the command of Zhang's pseudo-Central Committee, and the Central Committee was really hopeless.
Mao Zedong wrote to Xu Haidong to borrow 2000 yuan to tide over the difficulties. Because at this time, there were only more than 6,000 people left in the Central Red Army, and the finances were basically completely bankrupt. Of course, borrowing money is one thing, and so is testing Xu Haidong's attitude. Xu Haidong received a letter, called the supply minister in the army and asked: How much money do we have? The supply minister told him that we still have more than 6000 oceans. Xu Haidong ordered: We will keep 1000 yuan and give 5,000 yuan to the Central Red Army. Give, not borrow.
Also attached a letter, said the red fifteen army completely obey the command of the central red army, Mao Zedong this just a stone fell to the ground. He later mentioned many times that Xu Haidong was a man who made great contributions to the China revolution. If Xu Haidong obeyed Zhang's command at that critical moment, the future of the Central Red Army would be unimaginable. Comrade Xu Haidong was injured nine times in his life. He couldn't take part in the war of liberation because of his serious injury. 1955 when I was awarded the title, Comrade Xu Haidong said that I didn't need it because I didn't take part in the war of liberation. But Mao Zedong insisted on conferring Xu Haidong as a general, ranking second only to Su Yu.
After arriving in Yan 'an, the contradiction between Zhang and Zhang deepened day by day, and they had a long talk with Zhang Jin, but this conversation failed and finally failed to convince Zhang. 1938, Zhang defected and left, became the office director of Dai Li, and told Dai Li about many factional struggles within the CPC. 1949, * * * won the national victory, and Zhang He went to Hong Kong, and later went to Taiwan Province Province from Hong Kong. 1979, he died in a nursing home in Toronto.