Zhou Enlai, one of the most important founders of the republic, the premier of the New China; Ren Bishi, secretary general of the secretariats of the five major congresses of the CPC Central Committee, a great Communist Party member who has made great contributions to the motherland and the people, and is even called "an undisputed person in the party."
These two great men were like-minded at a young age and have been closely united for more than 30 years, forging a revolutionary friendship deeper than the sea.
However, when Comrade Ren Bishi's life came to an end, he expressed his reluctance to see Zhou Enlai to his wife Chen Chunying, causing Zhou Enlai to regret it for the rest of his life. Is there a gap between the two of them that we don't know about?
Obviously, in order to uncover this old story, we have to focus on the life of Comrade Ren Bishi.
The author of this article will lead everyone to know our party again, the "camel" who can shoulder the most important responsibilities, and unveil the unknown past between him and Zhou Enlai by depicting ren Bishi's life of struggle.
In 1904, Ren Bishi was born in miluo, Hunan Province, to a family of ordinary teachers. In the year of birth, Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi were 6 years old, Mao Zedong was 11 years old, and Zhu De was 18 years old. Obviously, Ren Bishi was the youngest member of the five later secretaries.
Miluo is only more than 100 kilometers away from ShaoshanChong, the birthplace of Mao Zedong, and among the five secretaries, Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi and Ren Bishi were all from Hunan, which has always been a thing that people talk about.
It is rumored that Ren Bishi was smarter than the average child from an early age, and when most people were preparing for high school, Ren Bishi, who was only 16 years old, completed high school and was ready to go to college.
In high school, Ren Bi showed a patriotic heart of fist and fist, and was extremely clear about the mission and responsibility that the young people of the motherland should shoulder at that time, and his thoughts and consciousness were far higher than those of others.
When the May Fourth Movement broke out in 1919, Ren Bishi actively participated in it and organized and led the student demonstrations, which performed extremely well and attracted the attention of the Hunan Communist Youth League at that time.
In 1920, Ren Bishi graduated from high school, and under the influence of his father Ren Sidu, his first choice was originally to go to France to work and study, while looking for a way for the rise of the nation and self-help.
At that time, the work-study in France was created by Li Shizeng and Cai Yuanpei when they were in France, in order to help Chinese young people who were interested in studying for the rise of the nation to study in France through the organization.
However, at that time, Ren Bishi's father was seriously ill, and the Ren family's economy was stretched, and Ren Bishi could not even come up with basic travel expenses and living expenses, so he had to give up in tears when he went to Study in France.
After the road to France ended in failure, Ren Bishi did not give up his original intention of studying abroad, and his determination to study for the rise of the Chinese nation was extremely firm.
As we all know, Mao Zedong was particularly concerned about the development of aspiring young people in his hometown in Hunan, so ren Bishi's situation quickly attracted his attention and invited him to join the Russian Society.
Through a period of investigation by the association, Ren Bishi joined the Socialist Youth League with extremely high consciousness and outstanding performance, and in 1921 was recommended to study at the Eastern Workers' University in Moscow, Russia.
The Moscow Eastern Workers' University, a university specially set up by the Soviets for the training of outstanding Communists and revolutionary cadres all over the world, is essentially an "officer school" with greater influence than the Whampoa Military Academy.
At that time, Ren Bi was only 17 years old, and he was selected to enter this university, which shows the importance that our party attached to him at that time. At the same time, Liu Shaoqi also moved forward with him.
In 1922, Ren Bishi was trained by our Party to become a Member of the Communist Party at the Eastern Workers' University.
Ren Bishi's study abroad experience at the Eastern Workers' University was extremely important to his political career. Because he was not only one of the very few students who went to the Eastern Laborers' University to complete all his studies, but also a member of the communist cultivation and completed all the Marxist-Leninist theories. This is rare in our party, and it is extremely important.
In the autumn of 1924, when Ren Bishi returned from school at the age of 20, he was given a heavy responsibility by our party committee as the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League.
At that time, there was constant friction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the Kuomintang gradually showed their intention to exclude and brutally suppress our party. In view of the series of reactionary measures taken by the Kuomintang against me, whether our Party resisted or obeyed was a relatively big dispute at that time.
At the "Eighty-Seven Conference" in 1927, Mr. Chen Duxiu held that our party did not have a few guns, so they simply handed them over and blocked the mouths of the you-yo crowd.
However, many far-sighted party members in the party at that time opposed this view, such as Mao Zedong's full analysis of the revolutionary situation in china:
If we hand over the gun, we will become the fish on the chopping board of others and be slaughtered. Judging from the present revolutionary situation, power can only emerge from the barrel of a gun.
Mao Zedong's speech stirred up thousands of waves, supported by a large number of people, and also aroused the criticism and opposition of Chen Duxiu at that time.
At that time, Mao Zedong's prestige in the party was still relatively small, and to a certain extent, it can be said that people are light-hearted. However, at the crucial moment, Ren Bishi, then secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, stood up to support Mao Zedong's ideas and wrote a letter of criticism very sharply to express his determination to Chen Duxiu, which made Chen greatly angry and tore his opinion letter to pieces in person.
It can be seen from this that in his youth, the pure revolutionary friendship between Mao Zedong and Ren Bishi was probably established from this time. They feel sorry for each other, but they also complain to each other and support each other.
Later, the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party broke down, and the top level of the party became more aware of Ren Bishi's insights in supporting Mao Zedong's ideas, so he was elected as a member of the Politburo.
During the period of white terror brewed by Chiang Kai-shek, our Party could only dormantly carry out revolutionary work. The revolutionary leadership and organizational work during this period was the most dangerous and arduous.
From April 12 to 15, 1927, nearly 300 people were slaughtered, 500 arrested, and more than 5,000 local comrades were missing. During this period, Ren Bishi braved hardships and dangers, struggled in the front line, and organized and led our party's revolutionary work.
In March 1928, Yin Kuan, secretary of the Provisional Committee of anhui Province of the Communist Party of China, pursued the "Left" blind activism line, which brought devastating disasters to the organizations and comrades in Anhui.
In September, Ren Bishi was commissioned by the Central Committee to inspect the party building work in Anhui as a special commissioner. On the 15th, Ren Bishi and Xu Houchang were on their way to attend a meeting of the local delegation at the Xiangyou Temple northwest of Wuhu City, when they were arrested by the Kuomintang for denouncing traitors.
Fortunately, due to our Party's excellent secrecy work with high-level personnel at that time, most local Kuomintang only heard of Ren Bishi's name and did not know him. After the arrest of Comrade Ren Bishi, the Kuomintang were confused about his identity. This provided conditions for Ren Bishi to save himself.
The Kuomintang fiercely asked, "What are you doing?" What do you do at the Temple of Fragrant Oil? Recruit all the processes of your organization of reactionary work, otherwise you will be good-looking! ”
When Ren Bi listened, he immediately analyzed that these people did not know themselves, so he quickly disguised an identity in his mind and responded wittily: "I am a Hunan native, named Hu Shaofu, and I came to Wuhu to do paper business. I like to watch "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", especially for the big and small two Joes in it, I heard that Xiao Qiao's tomb was built in the Fragrant Oil Temple, so I thought about coming to find out. ”
After speaking, Ren Bishi pretended to be righteous and said loudly: "You say that I have violated what law and arrested me?" I still have to do business for the boss, what should the boss do if he can't find me?! ”
At this moment, the enemy was also a little confused. However, they had always believed in the set of beatings into a trick, so no matter what three seven twenty-one took the bar and whip to threaten Ren Bishi.
Faced with this situation, Ren Bishi was not afraid of danger and righteously said, "You bandits and hooligans, even if you trample me to death, I have nothing to do." ”
As a result, the enemy tortured Ren Bishi to extract a confession, but Ren Bishi always clenched his teeth and did not jump out a word. At the end of the fight, the enemy was also tired, thinking that Ren Bishi might really be just a young tourist. Otherwise, he was still so young, how could he have such a strong will?
The enemy was finally forced to prepare to take Ren Bishi to Anqing for interrogation.
If not to mention that there is no invincible road in the sky, when he was about to be escorted to anqing boat, Ren Bishi saw Peng Youting, a small trader in his hometown. Peng Youting greeted him from afar. Peng Youting is absolutely trustworthy, and the two have a lot of friendship.
So just as he was approaching Peng Youting, Ren Bi was in a hurry to signal him not to make a sound with a look in his eyes. Walking to the front, Peng Youting found that Ren Bishi was tied up. Ren Bi deliberately stumbled and went to a place close to Peng Youting where there were many people. After people reacted, more and more people watched the liveliness, and ren bishi was surrounded in a circle of pointing and pointing.
At this time, the enemy was anxious, and he was also worried about what accidents would occur, and he quickly waved his baton and shouted: "Go and go, red brain shell, what is there to see?!" ”
Ren Bi deliberately raised his voice and shouted, "The boss can't talk nonsense, I'm not surnamed Chi, my surname is Hu, my name is Hu Shaofu, I'm a guy from Chen Yueyun Paper Shop in Changsha..."
In a slightly nervous argument, Peng Youting in front of him not only heard the situation, but also heard the address of his wife Chen Chunying in Shanghai.
Peng Youting understood the spirit, and in the middle of the road, he unknowingly disembarked the ship, got on the train to Shanghai, found Chen Chunying according to the address, and the party organization came forward to carry out the rescue work for Ren Bishi.
In February 1929, under the active work of the party organization, the rescue of Ren Bishi was ready. Our party hired progressive lawyers to try to transfer Ren Bishi from the Anqing Police Headquarters to the Anhui Provincial High Court for filing a case. The Anhui Provincial High Court sent a special person to Changsha to check Ren Bishi's confession with the Changsha Office. Chen Chunying came forward as the owner of Chen Yueyun Paper Shop in Changsha to make a confession with him one by one.
Because Comrade Ren Bishi in prison did a very good job of secrecy and concealed his identity extremely successfully, our Party's cover for his identity also progressed smoothly. In the end, the court saw that the confession could not find a loophole, and could only declare Ren Bishi innocent and unconditionally released in March.
From his arrest to his release, Ren Suffered a whole year of imprisonment and inhuman treatment. But no matter how much the enemy tempted and beaten or forced a confession, he always held fast to his faith, gritted his teeth, and used the wisdom of a communist to resist it perfectly. His spirit and wisdom are by no means comparable to Gu Shunzhang's.
After Ren Bishi was acquitted, he was appointed secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and launched a new revolutionary work.
Shortly after working in Hubei, Ren Bishi was appointed by the Central Committee at the end of 1929 as the head of Jiangsu Propaganda.
When organizing the Second Congress of the Communist Party of China in Jiangsu Province in Shanghai, Ren Bishi was again arrested and imprisoned by the enemy because the enemy had searched for the address of the congress from among the traitors. Before he was about to be arrested, Ren Bishi had already escaped from the conference room, but there were still several documents in his hand that were particularly deadly, so he swallowed them all while the enemy was not paying attention.
This time the prison disaster was more cruel than the last time for Ren Bishi, and brought irreparable damage to his body.
This time, because he appeared near the congress, the enemy was very sure of Ren Bishi's communist status, so his torture and torture could be described as exhaustive. Ren Bishi gritted his teeth and mediated with him, and the enemy was even more annoyed and angry that he could not get useful information, so he found a electric chair and electrocuted Ren Bishi with a high-power electric current.
However, Ren Bi was a hard bone, and when he forced a confession to the end, his back was penetrated by an electric current through two fist-sized openings, and he still clenched his teeth and said that he was a businessman, and he was vaguely involved.
Just when Ren Bishi was tortured to death, Zhou Enlai organized Comrade Teko to skillfully cooperate with his confession and rescue him again through multi-pronged mediation.
Ren Bishi's two adventures tell us that "self-helpers help heavenly helpers" that as long as we make contributions to the revolution and the people and adhere to the doctrine and faith in our hearts, our party will never abandon or give up.
It was probably from this time that Zhou Enlai was greatly impressed by Ren Bishi and formed a revolutionary friendship with him.
In March 1931, forced by the needs of the revolutionary situation at that time, the Party Central Committee sent Ren Bishi to the central revolutionary base areas founded by Mao Zedong and Zhu De to serve as a member of the Central Bureau of the CPC Soviet Union and the head of the organization. Ren Bishi began to approach Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi and others, and played a huge role and energy in the decisive great turning point period that followed.
After the Zunyi Conference, our Party reflected on the erroneous line of the past, when the Comintern did not have a deep understanding of Mao Zedong's correct ideas and line, and was ready to conditionally restrain Mao's work.
As I have already described, Ren Bishi was one of the very few in our Party who not only completed his studies at the Moscow Eastern University but also systematically studied Marxist-Leninist theory, and thus won the deep trust and trust of the Communist International.
And Ren Bi's performance at a critical moment can also be called a force to turn the tide. When the Comintern was skeptical of Mao Zedong Thought, he stood up for mao zedong for the first time, argued for Mao Zedong's reasoning, and vigorously propagated his revolutionary ideas and ideas, which made the comintern not hinder the results of the subsequent Zunyi Conference.
In August 1934, Ren Bishi actively responded to Mao Zedong's Long March line and led the Red Sixth Army to start the Long March from the Xianggan Breakthrough.
Once, in order to avoid the enemy's encirclement and interception during the Long March, Ren Bishi's hind feet had just stepped over the barbed wire, and his front feet were pierced by bamboo sticks. It turned out to be a trap laid by the enemy long ago.
Ren Bishi was a person who was accustomed to seeing big scenes, and as soon as he pulled out the bamboo stick, he endured the pain of drilling and rushing to the road.
Due to the harsh conditions of the Long March, his feet were not properly treated for a long time, and he soon became infected with inflammation, swelling and pain and could not walk. Forced by medical conditions, the medical staff can only bleed for its treatment in the end, a large strand of pus blood gushed out, put in the final pus blood drained, but the bruises still did not squeeze out. In order to win time once and for all, Ren Bishi simply suggested that the medical staff use gauze to twist long strips directly through the foot wound and pull it back and forth.
Such a special treatment, thinking about it, hurts my heart, and the medical staff can only hold back tears and tightly bow their heads according to what Ren Bi said when he can't bear to look at him.
During a rescue crossing of the river, it was a cold winter moon, and Ren Bishi's back originally had the penetrating wound that had been broken by the current, coupled with the serious wound on the sole of his foot, and the cold cold air quickly poured into his body.
His body was too weak because of years of illness, and he fell ill soon after crossing the river.
At that time, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and others were very sad when they heard Ren Bishi's dying telegram, and just when everyone thought that his revolutionary journey had come to an end, a telegram came from the Red Sixth Army:
Comrade Ren Bishi is good...
Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and others danced when they heard the news.
This is the significance of comrade Ren Bishi, the great Communist Party member, to our Party, and this is the pure revolutionary feelings of the older generation of Communists. Although they often protect themselves, they are always concerned about each other's lives.
From June 1935 to July 1936, Zhang Guotao began to squeeze and suppress Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and others in his work. Due to the large number of people, our Party's revolutionary work fell into a precarious state for a while.
At that time, Mao Zedong proposed that in order to meet the needs of the long-term revolutionary situation, the Red Army should go north to create the Sichuan-Shaanxi-Gansu base area, but Zhang Guotao relied on himself as the leader of the Red Fourth Front army to support the army and respect himself, which opposed this and tried to lead the army south.
At that time, the two sides were in dispute, and the decisive role was still played by the Red Second Front led by Ren Bishi and He Long. After Ren Bishi learned about Zhang Guotao's wolf ambitions from Zhu De, he firmly jumped out and claimed: I don't agree with Zhang Guotao's set!
Once, when Zhang Guotao was preparing to publish an article inside the Red Army slandering Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhang Wentian, and others, Ren Bishi, then the head of propaganda, once again intercepted his documents and instructed the department: Propaganda against the central leaders is not allowed! The materials sent by Zhang Guotao are not allowed to be issued!
Thanks to Ren Bishi's reasoning and vigorous organization to support Mao Zedong's work, the Red Second Front was able to see through Zhang Guotao's conspiracy in a timely manner, and our Party was able to retain the overwhelming majority of revolutionary forces. It can be seen from this that Ren Bishi made great contributions to our party and to the people.
Later, because of Ren Bishi's outstanding performance in his work, he soon entered the first generation of the party's leadership collective, becoming the fifth secretary of the Central Committee after Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and Liu Shaoqi, and with the unanimous support of everyone, he served as the secretary general of the secretariat.
When he was in Yan'an, Mao Zedong repeatedly called Ren Bishi the Zhuge Liang of our party.
He was wise and industrious, from military layout to pots and pans.
Comrade Ye Jianying commented that he was the "camel" of our party who was the most capable of toiling and complaining, and dared to shoulder heavy responsibilities as well as heavy responsibilities.
At the same time, he was also a model of labor and morality unanimously recognized by the comrades in Yan'an at that time. He is a living banner of our party and our army in Yan'an.
However, at the same time, Comrade Ren Bishi's physical condition has not been optimistic. The brutal torture and torture of the enemy in two prisons, the repeated injuries, and the work of more than 15 hours a day have made the communist fighter in his 40s as haggard as he is in his 60s.
On October 1, 1949, the day of the founding of New China, Ren Bi was 45 years old. However, at that time, his health was extremely unoptimistic, so Mao Zedong personally ordered: "Comrade Bishi, for your sake of your body, the Central Committee ordered you to recuperate, and it is not recommended that you participate in the founding ceremony for the time being!" ”
At that time, Ren Bishi not only had a variety of new injuries and old injuries, but also a series of diseases such as arteriosclerosis and diabetes were derived because of long-term overload with disease work.
As early as the Yan'an period, Zhou Enlai, who lived with him, repeatedly advised him to pay attention to his body and rest, but Comrade Ren Bishi's heart seemed to have foreseen something early, and he had been racing with life for time, lest he not be able to work more.
In December 1949, at the suggestion of Mao Zedong, Ren Bishi left for the Soviet Union to recuperate, and before leaving, Zhou Enlai said bitterly to him: "You first raise your body, the body is the capital of the revolution!" ”
However, in May of the following year, Comrade Ren Bishi, who was recuperating in the Soviet Union, could not bear to report to Chairman Mao to the Central Committee and asked to return to China to participate in the work.
At his request, Mao Zedong had to promise and give instructions: Agree to Comrade Ren Bishi's trial work, no more than 4 hours a day!
But ren bishi, the "camel" of our party, how can he stop working for 4 hours?
After the founding of New China, everything was in ruins to be rebuilt, and as a leader, the work was almost inexhaustible. His family had advised him to pay attention to rest and pay attention to Chairman Mao's instructions, and he would always reprimand him angrily, and then say sadly: "I know that I will not live long, so I have to do more work for New China..."
The words made the family sad to hear them.
Not long after, Ren Bishi fell ill again, and then not long after, he got better again, and his condition recurred.
At that time, Ren Bishi's illness almost touched the sensitive nerves of all party and state leaders, and everyone was very concerned about him. Among them, only Zhou Enlai, who lived under the same roof as him, knew best, and where there was any illness, it was because he had to support his work.
In October 1950, before our volunteer army resisted us and aided Korea, Zhou Enlai, while preparing to leave for the Soviet Union to discuss and lay out the plan with the Soviet Union on the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, deliberately rushed to the 301 Hospital to see Ren Bishi.
Unfortunately, Ren Bishi had just been pushed into the operating room. Zhou Enlai took Ren Bishi's physical examination report and said to Chen Chunying: "Zhenying, you can rest assured, this time when I go to the Soviet Union, I will definitely bring back the best treatment plan and cure Bishi's disease." Don't worry too much, please Comrade Bishi must take good care of the party, the country, and Chairman Mao. ”
Chen Chunying replied with tears in his eyes, and then watched Zhou Enlai leave with a sad face.
After Ren Bishi came out, Chen Chunying said: "Enlai has come, he went to the Soviet Union with a report of your condition, and said that he will definitely cure your illness." He entrusted me to convey to you that you must take good care of your health for the party, the country, and Chairman Mao. ”
Ren Bi let out a long sigh after listening. The great leader of the Republic, who had never been discouraged, finally said in a very weak tone and demeanor: "My body, I know." I knew he was coming, and I didn't want him to see him as I was now, and I couldn't do anything about it. ”
On October 27, 1950, Comrade Ren Bishi completed his great and legendary life, at the age of 46.
At that time, Zhou Enlai, who was far away in the Soviet Union, received the bad news of comrade Ren Bishi's death, and he was sad and self-suppressing, and he cried loudly.
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"Spring silkworms to the end of the dead silk, the wax torch into gray tears began to dry."
This is the life that Comrade Ren Bishi bowed down to the party and the people, and died and then lived.
Throughout his life, Ren Bishi has almost no controversy, as Ye Jianying said, he is a "camel", a hard-working "camel".