Li Yu recalled Rao Shushi: Shortly after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a young cadre took it upon himself to post a banner publicizing my personal mistake when arranging the venue, but because it was discovered early, it was torn up before the meeting, and it did not cause adverse effects. I didn't know about it at the time. However, when Rao Shushi heard about it, he made a big fuss about it. When talking with the responsible persons of the major military regions in Shandong, he borrowed the topic and said: "People hang up the portrait of Chairman Li everywhere and shout long live Chairman Li." "The provincial capital has Li Yupaili." Provoke relations between me and the broad masses of cadres and the masses. I was very angry when I heard about it, and I told him on the spot at the meeting, where and when there was such a thing, let's go and see it together! He was so stunned that he couldn't say a word.
[Rose] Rao Shushi's personal attack on me is still small, and it is even more inappropriate to provoke the relationship between the New Fourth Army and the Shandong Eighth Route Army. At the cadre meeting, he openly said that "Shandong's logistics and equipment are good for Shandong and bad for Central China." "Shandong will not give the New Fourth Army fine grain." In fact, from the winter of 1945, as soon as the New Fourth Army arrived in Shandong, I told Comrade Tan Zhenlin that I would fully support the new Fourth Army's military supplies. In fact, we do the same.
At that time, the staple food of the Shandong base area was cornmeal, with only a few white noodles and millet, and no rice (at that time, the Shandong base area did not produce rice). Considering that there are many comrades in the south of the New Fourth Army and are not accustomed to eating cornmeal, we will mobilize everyone to eat only coarse grains (corn flour) and save fine grains (millet and white noodles) for the comrades of the New Fourth Army. Of course, in the war environment, the combat mobility of the troops is changeable, and there is always a situation where the food supply is not available for a while, but this is by no means "Shandong does not give the New Fourth Army fine grain." As for the replenishment of soldiers, almost all of them came from Shandong; To say that the equipment is good or bad is even more out of nothing. Comrade Chen Yi said it well: "Before I entered the coffin, I could not forget my father and elder in Shandong. Some people say that the Shandong Party is not good, but I don't think so. The Battle of Huaihai was fought, and it was also pushed out by the fathers and elders of Shandong with a cart and picked out with a burden. Without the Shandong Party, would the common people have been born with this consciousness?" I think this is true and fair.
Memoirs of Xu Xiangqian
