After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance in 1937, people from all walks of life throughout the country threw themselves into the War of Resistance, and everyone gave the greatest support to the soldiers of the War of Resistance.
However, as the war progressed, the Kuomintang army gradually revealed its corrupt nature, and the common people also began to gradually alienate some of the Kuomintang troops, and General Feng Yuxiang once said bitterly: "During the Northern Expedition, the troops fought on the front line, and the common people actively delivered tea and food in the rear; now the troops are fighting on the front line, they can't eat for several days, and there is no common people to take care of it. ”
On the contrary, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army under the leadership of the Communist Party have always won the support of the common people, forming a very good situation of unity between the military and the people and resisting Japan, so that Chiang Kai-shek had to begin to reflect, learn from the Eighth Route Army, and learn from the experience.
In February 1938, Chiang Kai-shek reorganized the People's Organization and Training Department and the Political Training Department in the Military Commission into the Political Department, with Chen Cheng as minister and Zhou Gong as vice minister.
Therefore, after Returning to Yan'an, Zhou Gong suggested to the chairman that we sum up the political work experience of our party and our army as soon as possible and assemble it into a book, so that not only can our army be used, but it can also be popularized among the Kuomintang army and subtly transformed into a book.
After listening, the chairman also greatly agreed, and commented: "This proposal is very good, and I agree to find someone to start it immediately." ”
So who will write it? The chairman was the first to think of Luo Ruiqing.
Luo Ruiqing is a very good political work cadre of our army, successively serving as the political commissar of the Red 4 Army, the director of the Red 1 Army Security Bureau, the chief of education of the Red Army University, the vice president, etc. In 1938, he was serving as the vice president of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, and because the president Lin Zong fought on the front line, in fact, Luo Ruiqing was the specific person in charge of the Kang Da, so it was written by Luo Ruiqing, which was the most convincing.
However, Luo Ruiqing was very busy at that time, and he could not find time to write, and Luo Ruiqing was a low-key and modest person, and he felt that his knowledge was not enough to publish a book, so he repeatedly resigned.
When the chairman heard about it, he was a little angry and said, "No time? Then write next door to me, and I'll write with you. ”
Luo Ruiqing saw that the chairman had said this, and it would not be good to resign again, so he took on this glorious and arduous task.
During that time, Luo Ruiqing lived next door to the chairman and seriously summed up his work experience and lessons over the past ten years.
The chairman worked next door, and when he had time, he came to see Luo Ruiqing's writing, and the two discussed and complemented each other, and finally wrote an important work that was pivotal in the history of our army: "Political Work in the Anti-Japanese Army."
The Chairman was very satisfied with the reading and gladly inscribed the title of the book and published it for publication.
Soon, this work became the program of our army's political work and was widely circulated among the Kuomintang troops, and its influence was very great.
In order to help the Kuomintang troops transform, Zhou Gong also asked Yan'an to send cadres to help the Kuomintang troops form a political department, which greatly improved the style of the Kuomintang troops.
However, Chiang Kai-shek was not only not grateful, but was worried that the Kuomintang army would be "deviated" and it did not take long to abolish the Political Department.
Not only did Zhou Gong feel too sorry, but even Chen Cheng sighed and thought that he had missed a good opportunity to transform the Kuomintang army.
From this incident, it can also be seen how narrow Chiang Kai-shek is, and the Kuomintang army is doomed to win in his hands.