introduction
As a pen holder, Qi Benyu also started with the pen in his hand, and after Tian Jiaying's death, he took his place and became a hot figure.
Two articles rise
Qi Benyu, born in 1931 in Weihai, Shandong, has relatively shallow qualifications compared to most of his colleagues.
Although in the "Xiucai" circle, Qi Benyu's talent is also recognized by everyone, but everyone's impression of him is only limited to "this person is a little talented".
Qi Benyu, who is already over thirty years old, is not willing to bury himself in this way, and when he was 32 years old, he wrote an article "Commenting on Li Xiucheng's Self-Statement".
As we all know, Li Xiucheng is a "heroic figure" in people's impressions, and his title of "King Zhong" can represent his life. After being captured, Li Xiucheng wrote a 10,000-word self-statement in prison.
Qi Benyu's article is aimed at Li Xiucheng's "self-description book", which is intended to criticize Li Xiucheng's apostasy.
Here, in passing, I would like to briefly talk about this topic.
Regarding some matters concerning Li Xiucheng's captivity, there is still controversy in the historical circles, some saying that he has betrayed his ways and is unjust; some saying that he is imitating Jiang Wei of the ancients and trying to persuade Zeng Guofan to oppose the Qing Dynasty by deception.
As for the 10,000-word self-statement he wrote, some of it was torn up and destroyed, and as to why he was hastily killed by Zeng's family, it was because Zeng Guohua was killed in the war with Li Xiucheng.
This Zeng Guohua is a great comeback, he is Zeng Guoquan's brother, but also Zeng Guofan's brother.
The hatred between the Zeng family and Li Xiucheng has long been concluded, as for Li Xiucheng's controversy, what is the real reason? Only those who have already made the ancients know.
In any case, Qi Benyu sword took the side, and once this article was published, it immediately attracted a lot of controversy, and there was naturally traffic when there was controversy.
The 32-year-old Qi Benyu began to make a name for himself, and then he wrote an article "How to Deal with Li Xiucheng's Apostasy", which once again made himself famous, and the stage that belonged to him Qi Benyu slowly opened the curtain.
According to the point of time, 1963 was an important turning point in Qi Benyu's life, and in this year, he began to step onto the stage of his life.
Let the leader also be afraid of three points (one)
At the peak of his life, Qi Benyu, together with Wang Li and Guan Feng, was called "Three Xiucai".
Of the three, Qi Benyu was the youngest, Wang Li, born in 1922, was ten years older than him, and Guan Feng, born in 1919, was a full 13 years older than him.
Although Qi Benyu was young and was called "Young General", the energy in his body was not small.
Above these three people, it was Chen Boda, the person known as the "old master", whose rank and position were higher than these "three talents".
Logically, Chen Boda, who has a higher rank, should have the right to say when working with these three talents, but in fact, this is not the case.
Lin Shuai's secretary Zhang Yunsheng wrote a book called "Maojiawan Documentary", in which there is a paragraph that is quite interesting.
Zhang Yunsheng took a letter to Qi Benyu, meaning that he wanted to help polish it on his behalf, it was a hot three-volt day, and it was afternoon.
Qi Benyu, who had just taken a nap, wearing a vest and large pants, welcomed Zhang Yunshan into the door.
Facing the electric fan, he began to carefully ponder the letter.
As a literati, Qi Benyu also has a common trait of most literati, that is, he does not trim the edges much in his daily life.
When Ye Yonglie interviewed Qi Benyu in 1988, it was also in the afternoon of a big summer, and he was also wearing a large vest, a big grin, and an untrimmed appearance.
After roughly reading the letter sent by Zhang Yunsheng, Qi Benyu asked for others to look at it together, so the two went to a small conference room on the 16th floor.
Qi Benyu asked Zhang Yunsheng to wait in the conference room, and he went out to find someone else.
After a while, there was a burst of footsteps outside the door of the conference room, and Qi Benyu was followed by three pen holders: Chen Boda, Yao Wenyuan and Guan Feng.
After the four pen poles sat down, they began to polish the letter, which lin Shuai wrote to the great man, so every sentence in it had to be deliberated by these pen holders.
Unlike the fiery scene of these four people, Zhang Yunsheng is like a forgotten person, sitting quietly watching the scene in front of him.
This was the first time Zhang Yunsheng had seen the scene of the pen poles working, and in his previous understanding, Chen Boda should be a leader who said one thing and the same.
But the current scene is a bit interesting, although in the end chen Boda still has to write, but until the other three people reach an agreement on the revision opinions, Chen Boda will write the revision.
This scene left a deep impression on Zhang Yunsheng, and he described it in the book:
"Through this small scene, I saw that the young generals did not look at their old masters in the eyes, so I thought, in all places, there may be a gap between the surface and the inside."
Let the leaders also be afraid of three points (two)
Like Wang Li and Guan Feng, Qi Benyu was not very good at buying Chen Boda's "face", and Wang Wenyao (one of Chen Boda's secretaries) once talked to Ye Yonglie about one thing, and from this incident, he could feel this situation of not buying the face of the leader.
If the Academy of Sciences wants to hold a relatively important meeting, it will invite Chen Boda to speak at the meeting, and Chen Boda, as vice president, is definitely going to go, but he does not want to go alone.
Therefore, he asked his secretary Wang Wenyao to call Qi Benyu and let Qi Benyu follow, and at the same time asked him to inform Guan Feng and let Guan Feng go with him.
At that time, Qi Benyu and Guan Feng lived upstairs and downstairs, and it was also convenient to say hello.
At first, Qi Benyu replied on the phone, saying that he was going to follow and said that he would notify Guan Feng downstairs in time.
However, when he learned that Kang Sheng and the others would not go, he changed his mind and thought about it for a while, and he called Wang Wenyao to tell him that Guan Feng was asleep and would not go to the meeting.
And incidentally said that he was going to sleep too, and could not go to the scene, expressing regret.
Hearing this reply, Chen Boda was very angry and directly took Wang Wenyao to find Qi Benyu.
However, Chen Boda did not meet Qi Benyu directly, but sat downstairs and asked the secretary to go upstairs and call him out.
When Wang Wenyao knocked on the door and saw Qi Benyu standing in front of him, he had no intention of sleeping, and Wang Wenyao told him that Chen was sitting downstairs waiting for him.
This made Qi Benyu feel a little disgusted in his heart, and he shook his hand and said:
"Don't go, don't go, the old master will go alone"
Helplessly, Chen Boda had to take the secretary to the venue, because he went alone, in order not to cause the necessary trouble, Chen Boda did not attend the conference, nor did he give a speech at the meeting, but only received some representatives of the Academy of Sciences, greeted for a while and then left by car.
Lead to the downfall
After the fall of Wang Li and Guan Feng, Qi Benyu, who was also one of the "Three Xiucai", was also difficult to be alone, because many things also involved him.
Qi Benyu, who has a sensitivity, naturally smells the dangers involved, and in order to protect himself, he writes a lot of materials to expose and criticize Wang Li and Guan Feng.
However, in order to avoid risks, Chen Boda pushed the responsibility and problems to the three people of "Wang Guanqi".
In December 1967, Chen Boda went to the editorial office of Red Flag magazine and had a conversation, and the main theme of this conversation was this sentence:
"In Red Flag Magazine, except for me, when exposing the problems of Wang Li and Guan Feng, everyone can expose them!"
On January 14 of the following year, Qi Benyu was asked to "take a leave of absence" and make a review, and five months earlier, Wang Li and Guan Feng had been treated the same.
This leave and review also means the fall and curtain call of Qi Benyu.
At 7:58 on April 20, 2016, Qi Benyu died of illness in Shanghai at the age of 85.
postscript
Regarding the mistakes that Qi Benyu once made, the indictment of "JingJian Zi No. 42" in 1983 has been listed in detail, and I will not repeat it too much here.
History has become a foregone conclusion, and the pen of the literati is sometimes like a sharp blade, and a sentence and an article can cause a lot of turmoil.
Especially when the direction of public opinion is mastered, there is no bound power and ambition, and in the pen, ink and paper, what flows out is not talent, but the lamentations of other people and families.
The articles I write, just my personal opinions, play a role in throwing bricks and stones, and stimulate your interest to search.
References:
1. "Maojiawan Documentary" by Zhang Yunsheng;
2. "Ye Yonglie's Interview Notes" by Ye Yonglie;
3. Party Literature, No. 3, 1998.