Yan Changgui, who has been Jiang Qing's confidential secretary since January 1967, is also her first full-time secretary. However, in the past year, in January 1968, Yan Changgui was imprisoned by Jiang on the grounds of "sitting as an agent".
Born in 1937, Yan Changgui is from Liaocheng City, Shandong Province.
In 1961, at the age of 24, Yan Changgui graduated from the philosophy department of Chinese University, and fate favored him, and as soon as he graduated, he was assigned to work for Red Flag magazine.
Founded on June 1, 1958, this magazine is the "dragon gate" that many pen holders have in mind.
After Yan Changgui entered the Magazine of Red Flag, he took him to the relevant hand in hand, and Guan Feng was in the magazine at that time, serving as an editorial board member, mainly responsible for the history of Chinese philosophy.
Guan Feng is 18 years older than Yan Changgui, and in the face of this 24-year-old boy, Guan Feng is quite caring. Therefore, for the rest of his life, Yan Changgui also regarded Guan Feng as a "mentor" and respected him.
After working in the magazine for almost five years, in early June 1966, Qi Benyu took a fancy to Yan Changgui and transferred him to the Letters and Petitions Office of the Secretariat Bureau.
A month later, Qi Benyu transferred him to the briefing team. In the briefing group, Yan Changgui was mainly responsible for helping Jiang Qing deal with letters from all over the country.
Since there were at least a few hundred letters from all over the country every day, and sometimes as many as a thousand, in addition to Yan Changgui, there were three or four other people who followed to deal with the letters.
With the increasing number of letters, a new department" was established, and when it was established, some people were transferred, Yan Changgui was in charge of eight people, and his direct leader was Qi Benyu.
This job is indeed a chore, dealing with hundreds of letters from all over the country every day, overtime is the norm, it is more than twelve o'clock in the evening, and this "letter group" is still brightly lit.
As a direct subordinate leader, Qi Benyu only grasped the general direction, and he told Yan Changgui that to deal with these letters from the masses, they must follow three main points:
1, some letters from relatives, friends, or reflecting major problems, be sure to do a key summary, and send the original letter to it (this kind of letter, there will not be too much every day, that is, about two to three);
2. The problems expressed in some letters need to be transferred to the relevant corresponding departments for processing (such letters are often the largest number);
3. All letters attacking Jiang Qing shall be transferred to the Ministry of Public Security for handling.
Yan Changgui's qualifications were very shallow, and logically speaking, this confidential secretary could not take his turn. He was able to become Shangjiang's first confidential secretary, and there were two people who contributed to it, one was Qi Benyu and the other was Li Ne.
Originally, Jiang's first choice was Qi Benyu, but Qi Benyu refused, saying that he was a thick line; when he refused, he pushed Yan Changgui out.
In the winter of 1966, when the snowy yard was covered with snow piles, Qi Benyu invited Yan Changgui to go for a walk in the courtyard.
The two men chatted while walking, and Qi Benyu took the opportunity to inform Yan Changgui that he had recommended him to serve as a secretary.
This worried Yan Changgui, who had no experience as a secretary and would seem a little confused for a moment and a half; Qi Benyu told him that there was no experience to learn, and no one had the experience of being a secretary at the first time.
"It is the method of documents, the selection of documents, I do things with thick lines, not appropriate, you are more careful," Qi Benyu said with relief.
On the other hand, Yan Changgui's friendship with Li Ne is also very familiar, the two are similar in age (Yan Changgui is three years older), and both are scholars of literature, so there are many common topics.
Therefore, Li Ne also said to his mother that he felt that Yan Changgui was quite suitable as a secretary.
However, Guan Feng, who is also a teacher and friend, poured a basin of cold water on Yan Changgui, he knew the nature of his "student" and directly told him that "you are not suitable to be her secretary, you are politically weak and not sensitive."
Unexpectedly, Guan Feng's words were also in one sentence, telling yan Changgui's future life turn.
On January 9, 1967, Yan Changgui was working in his office, when suddenly, Qi Benyu rushed in, his face full of happiness. He told Yan Changgui that your formal appointment had come down and you had been made a secretary.
"Go now and move to the eleventh floor where she lives," Qi Benyu urged.
At urging, Yan Changgui suspended his work, returned to his residence, took some clothes and toiletries at random, and moved to the eleventh floor.
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Jiang lived alone in a building, the building number is eleven, this building has a total of dozens of large and small rooms.
In order to facilitate her daily life, electric bells are installed in every major room such as office and bedroom.
And the ringing of this electric bell is famous, one is calling the secretary, two are calling medical staff or waiters, and three are guard personnel.
As the first secretary, Yan Changgui's daily work was more complicated, mainly responsible for sending and receiving documents and answering phone calls. Although it is not necessary to spend time and effort drafting the speech manuscript, it must be on standby 24 hours a day. As for rest days or whatever, you don't have to think about it.
If the leader's electric bell rang and Yan Changgui did not arrive in time, he would be reprimanded. Therefore, Yan Changgui was afraid to hear the sound of the electric bell.
Of course, when the leader took a lunch break and went to bed at night, Yan Changgui at this time would have a short rest; however, he did not dare to slacken off, nor did he dare to sleep too hard, in case he did not hear the electric bell, it would inevitably be another reprimand.
Although his daily work is more complicated, the main job is to manage documents.
Every day, many documents are sent to Building Eleven, ranging from a few dozen to a hundred; the number of words in these documents is more than 100,000 words per day.
As a secretary, Yan Changgui had to review them one by one, so that he had a good idea, and he had to submit them to the leaders according to the importance of the documents.
Therefore, how these documents are classified is a top priority.
Yan Changgui sent the documents sent to Building 11 every day and made three categories:
1. Important documents that must be reviewed immediately;
2. Secondary documents can be reviewed every other day or every other day;
3. General documents.
For important documents, Yan Changgui will pin a small note with a paper clip on each file, and the date and summary will be marked on the note, so as to facilitate the review of the leader.
Every morning, after the leader got up, Yan Changgui would send these three types of documents to the office, and if the leader was not there, he would put the documents on the coffee table.
Yan Changgui would go to the leader's office twice a day to get documents, once in the morning and once in the afternoon; of course, sometimes he would hear the electric bell ringing in the middle of the way, which meant that the leader had a document to send out immediately.
In his later years, when Yan Lao was interviewed by the media, he told about his work status when he was a secretary, and when he saw the work status he told, he suddenly did not envy those who were the secretaries of the team leaders.