Jin Chongji: How I Joined the Underground Party (5)

"Twice joined the Communist Party of China"

I joined the Chinese Communist Party twice, but not because I left the party or rejoined after losing my relationship, but because two different systems of the party's organizations developed me almost simultaneously. Both were at the turn of the spring and summer of 1948, about a month apart.

The first time I came to develop me was Zhuo Jiawei, a first-year classmate of the Department of History and Geography of Fudan University, who belonged to the Shanghai Liaison Station System of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee; the second time I came to develop me was Qiu Shenchu, a first-year student in the Department of Civil Engineering of Fudan University, who belonged to the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee system.

I knew Qiu Shenchu too well and trusted each other completely, so I told him that I had joined the party. He was taken aback and asked who introduced it, and I said it was Zhuo Jiawei.

Every few days, Qiu Shenchu nervously told me: Organizationally, there is no such person in the party. I panicked and hurriedly asked him: What then? He said it doesn't matter, you write me another autobiography.

On June 5, Qiu Shenchu told me: The organization has approved you to join the party, and someone will come to contact you, and the secret code is to give you a book. Turning it open, the first page of the book was stamped with Qiu Shenchu's stamp.

On the day qiu Shenchu spoke, sure enough, someone came to the dormitory to find me according to the code. The person I know who came this time is Jiang Nong, a second-year classmate of the Department of Journalism.

Then again, why did the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee set up such a liaison station in Shanghai?

Comrade Chen Xiuliang, secretary of the Nanjing Municipal CPC Committee of the underground party, later explained that many party members in Nanjing had to retreat to Shanghai due to various connections, some for political refuge, some for university or employment, and so on. Because the political environment is very dangerous, and because some of the party members transferred from Nanjing have been exposed, it is fearful that the Shanghai party organization will be implicated, so the Shanghai branch of the CPC Central Committee has decided not to transfer the organizational relations of these Nanjing party members to Shanghai for the time being, and still be led by the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee.

The task of this liaison station is to preserve its strength, and the relevant party members "can only appear as an active member to participate in some mass activities, and must not reveal their identity."

Why such a special and complex approach? Because the secret service organs of the Kuomintang authorities are both fierce and cunning, there have been too many bloody lessons in the past: a party organization is destroyed, often implicated, and how many excellent comrades are sacrificed.

"Joining the "Anti-American Pro-Japan" Movement"

Let's talk about the "anti-US pro-Japanese" movement shortly after joining the party.

"Anti-AMERICAN pro-Japan" is a short term, which is more completely opposed to the revival of the United States' support for Japanese militarist forces. At that time, just over 2 years after the victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan, the wounds and pains still existed, and as soon as this issue was raised, people's old hatred and new hatred surged into their hearts, and there was a broad mass base.

At that time, there were also some rumors that you are students, you should first study well, and don't engage in so many activities. Zhou Gucheng said a sentence that I still remember. He said, "Your first is the Chinese, and the second is the student." ”

From May 30, Fudan's anti-US pro-Japanese movement reached a climax. More than 400 Fudan students formed more than 30 squads and went to Nanshi and Shanghai Meizhan and Lixin Accounting School to carry out publicity and performances, and received good results.

In the evening, a May 30 party was held on campus. Originally, it was arranged to open in the 101 large classroom of ZibinYuan. There were too many people to sit down, so they temporarily changed to Denghui Hall. There were many professors attending the meeting this time, including Zhang Zhirang, Chen Wangdao, Zhou Gucheng, Pan Zhenya, Zhang Jinyi, Fang Lingru, Zhang Mengwen, and so on. Zhang Zhirang was the first to speak, and several other professors spoke. This has never been done before.

On June 5, students from all over the city prepared to hold a massive demonstration on the Bund. Fudan gathered more than 1,800 people, first marching around the large lawn in the school, singing songs and shouting slogans.

The Kuomintang authorities worked hard to obstruct this activity. The party was about to leave when the school gate was closed and locked. The students turned to the side door of the basketball court on the east side of the school gate and went out, and the military police gathered outside the door had set up submachine guns, and armored vehicles blocked the road. The party had to turn around and exit through the back door on the north side of the campus and take a detour through the field path.

When they were about to arrive at the Great Eighth Temple, the kuomintang military and police horse teams had arrived first, blocking the way forward. The negotiations were also inconclusive, and the two sides held each other for a long time.

The presidium of the parade was relatively calm, knowing that rushing over would cause bloodshed, and received news that the team of Jiaotong University, surrounded by more than 1,000 armed military and police, had been converted into demonstrations on campus. Most of the school's teams did not reach the Bund to assemble, so they decided to take the teams back to the school.

"Wanted by Special Criminal Court"

The Kuomintang authorities were naturally unwilling to see the vigorous momentum of the student movement. In August, special criminal courts were set up to prepare for the mass persecution of progressive students.

On August 27, the Special Criminal Court carried out a raid on 28 colleges and middle schools in Shanghai with a list provided by the secret agents. The list of people who went to Fudan to search for more than 30 people included Yang Benju (Yuan Mu), Tao Chengxian, Situ Han, and me.

At this time, the Shanghai Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee made an important decision to transfer a large number of party members and activists who had been exposed earlier to the Liberated Areas, and 2,000 people were planned to be evacuated.

One day, Jiang Nong asked me to come out of the shelter and told me: The number of people who need to retreat now is very large, you are native of Shanghai, but there are many hidden social relations, you have to be late, arrange to go behind. Wait until November of this year.

In the past few months, I have been in an anxious state waiting for the organization to notify me at any time, I can't just walk out, I can't meet people casually, and all I can do is read.

The deepest impression was the repeated reading of the "Rectification Literature", which was the old version. It can be said that the harvest is extremely great, and there is a relatively systematic basic understanding of how to be a Communist Party member and the principles of life within the Party.

In addition, I read some theoretical books and literary works. In the past, I didn't read much modern novels, but at this time I carefully read "How Steel is Made", "The Young Guards", Mao Dun's "Midnight", Ba Jin's "Home" and so on.

In early November, the Battle of Huaihai began, and the situation in East China changed fundamentally. Soon, Jiang Nong asked me to go outside to talk once, telling me that I was not going to retreat to the Liberated Areas for two reasons:

First, after the outbreak of the Huaihai Campaign, secret communication across the Yangtze River was no longer so convenient; second, after all Shanghai cadres went to the Liberated Areas, they would still have to return to Shanghai with the army in the future.

(The author Jin Chonghe is the former executive deputy director of the Literature Research Office of the CPC Central Committee)

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