Born on September 30, 1906, he was born in Wangkui County, Heilongjiang Province. In 1924, he entered Nankai Middle School in Tianjin and joined the Communist Party of China in March 1927. In 1929, he was admitted to the School of Engineering of Peking University. Since 1932, he has served as secretary of the Hebei Provincial Anti-Imperialist League, secretary of the Beiping Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and head of the Organization Department, and secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. In May 1936, he served as the secretary of Liu Shaoqi, the representative of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in the north and the secretary of the Northern Bureau. Lin Feng was one of the main founders of the Jinsui Anti-Japanese Base Area. Together with He Long and Guan Xiangying, he made immortal contributions to the revolutionary army and people under the leadership of the party in defeating Japanese imperialism and accumulating important strength for overthrowing the rule of the Kuomintang. After the July 7 Incident, he was transferred to Taiyuan with the Northern Bureau of the Communist Party of China, and successively served as deputy secretary of the Shanxi Working Committee of the Communist Party of China (later changed to the Provincial Party Committee) in September. After the fall of Taiyuan, he and Zhang Youqing, secretary of the provincial party committee, led the provincial party committee organs to Linfen to lead the anti-Japanese work in the southwest of Shanxi Province, and played an important organizational and leading role in the restoration and establishment of party organizations at all levels, the launching of the anti-Japanese salvation movement, the expansion of the Eighth Route Army, the establishment and development of the people's anti-Japanese armed forces, the persistence of guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, and the strengthening of the party's anti-Japanese alliance and army cadres. From January 1938, he successively served as the head of the Organization Department of the Northern Bureau of the Communist Party of China, the secretary of the Shanxi Southwest Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (later known as the Shanxi Southwest District Party Committee) and the political commissar of the Jinxi Detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, conscientiously implementing the principles and policies of the Party Central Committee on party building, armed struggle and the united front, establishing 26 county party committees in the whole region, and most of the counties established the party's grass-roots organizations and anti-Japanese regimes, anti-Japanese armed forces, and opened up base areas of nearly 30,000 square kilometers, with a population of more than 3 million. He actively and steadily established a secret communication network and ensured the safety and regularity of Yan'an's secret communication routes to the base areas through it. In the struggle to smash the Jinxi Incident planned by Yan Xishan, he did not panic in the face of danger, calmly dealt with the situation, adhered to the principles of reasonableness, advantage, and moderation, actively organized the Jinxi detachment of the Eighth Route Army and all units of the New Army to defend themselves and counterattacked, and promptly transferred party and government organs and troops to safe areas, and quickly transferred party organizations in various localities to the underground, thus preserving the party's vital strength. In February 1940, he served as secretary of the Party Committee of the Western Shanxi District (formed by the merger of the Party committees of the two districts of Southwest Shanxi and Northwest Shanxi) and a member of the Military and Political Committee of the Northwest Shanxi District. He also led the construction of the "three-three system" regime, focused on promoting the development and growth of the anti-Japanese armed forces, created a stable social order for the construction of the base areas, and provided political organization guarantees and armed force support.
In November 1941, he concurrently served as vice chairman of the Preparatory Committee of the Provisional Senate of Northwest Shanxi, and in October 1942, he was elected chairman of the Provisional Senate of Northwest Shanxi. In June 1942, he concurrently served as the deputy political commissar of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningjin-Sui Joint Defense Army. From August 1942 to September 1945, he successively served as deputy secretary and acting secretary of the Jinsui Branch of the CPC Central Committee, and concurrently served as deputy political commissar and political commissar of the Jinsui Military Region. In the winter of 1942, he actively implemented Mao Zedong's policy of "squeezing out the enemy," organized and led the party, government, military, and people in the Jinsui area to take action together, and made unified arrangements in the military, political, economic, and cultural fields, and drew one-third and one-half of the troops from the main force and local troops respectively, and more than 320 military and political cadres with experience in struggle to form a military engineering team to go deep into the guerrilla areas and enemy-occupied areas to launch an all-round struggle to "squeeze the enemy." Continuously expand the Jinsui base area and make it a solid barrier in Yan'an. He led the vast rural areas of the Jinsui Border Region to carry out an unprecedented campaign to reduce rents and interest rates and to carry out large-scale military and civilian production. He went deep into Xingxian, Linxian and other places to guide and promote the work, summed up experience in a timely manner, and helped solve problems. In 1944, he summarized and popularized the organizational form of combining labor and military force and mutual assistance initiated by Zhang Chuyuan, the head of the militia detachment of Ningwu County, and under his leadership and call, the Jinsui Border District actively restored and developed production, and fully supported the financial and economic development of Yan'an. He attaches great importance to the development of cultural and educational undertakings, and turns the original party member training class into a regular party school, and concurrently serves as the principal; It has successively established the Seventh Branch of Kang University, the Northwest Branch of Lu Yijin and other cadre schools, and trained a large number of military, political, economic, and cultural cadres; the restoration and establishment of new schools and various social and educational organizations; At the same time, he led the establishment of newspapers, magazines and literary groups such as the Anti-Japanese War Daily and the Popular Drama Society.
On September 22, 1945, he was ordered to lead more than 1,900 central cadres to advance to the Northeast Liberation Battlefield. In September 1945, he was appointed as a member of the Northeast Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and later concurrently served as the head of the Organization Department of the Northeast Bureau. In May 1948, he was appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the Northeast Bureau. At the beginning of 1946, he served as the secretary of the Jiliao Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (i.e., the East Manchurian Branch) and the political commissar of the Jiliao Military Region. In August of the same year, he presided over a joint meeting of representatives of the Northeast provinces, adopted the "Program for the Joint Administration of the Democratic Government of the Northeast Provinces and Cities (Special Cities)" and the "Organizational Outline of the Joint Administrative Office of the Northeast Provinces and Cities (Special Cities)", and was elected as the first chairman of the Northeast Administrative Committee. In August 1949, he was appointed vice chairman of the Northeast People's Government. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as a member of the Central People's Government Committee, first deputy secretary of the Northeast Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, first vice chairman of the People's Government of the Northeast Bureau, vice chairman of the Northeast Administrative Committee, deputy political commissar of the Northeast Military Region, deputy secretary general of the CPC Central Committee, director of the Second Office of the State Council, director of the Amateur Education Committee of the State Council, member of the Cultural and Educational Group of the CPC Central Committee, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Second and Third National People's Congress, president and secretary of the school committee of the CPC Central Senior Party School, member of the Eighth CPC Central Committee, and chairman of the China-DPRK Friendship Association.
First, Lin Feng, a figure in the Jinsui Revolutionary Base Area: At the age of 45, he was elected deputy secretary of the Northeast Bureau, and his adopted son is a professor at Peking University
In the history of our party, Lin Feng is a very influential figure, he served as Liu Shaoqi's political secretary, and was ordered to reorganize the northern district committee, such as the Beiping Municipal Party Committee, the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee, and the early party organizations in Hebei, which were led and created.
In 1923, Lin Feng was admitted to Tianjin Nankai Middle School to study, in 1925, the May Massacre occurred, Lin Feng founded a civilian night school in Tianjin, organized students and workers to carry out a strike movement, the following year, the Northern Expeditionary Army hit Wuhan, Lin Feng decided to put pen to paper, secretly admitted to Wuhan Branch. However, due to the obstruction of the warlords of the Feng family, he had to stay in Tianjin to lead the revolutionary work, and joined the Communist Party of China under the introduction of Fan Wenlan.
In the twenties of the last century, the Beijing-Tianjin region was completely under the control of the warlords, and at that time, on the outskirts of Beiping, not only the troops of the warlord Zhang Zuolin of the Feng family, but also the Jin and Gui armies of the new warlords Yan Xishan and Bai Chongxi. In order to lead the citizens of Beiping against the warlords, Lin Feng secretly went underground to carry out activities, and under the leadership of the Northern Bureau, he took on the work of restoring the party organization in the north.
In 1930, Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan and Chiang Kai-shek broke out in the Central Plains War, and the Northern Organization ushered in a rare opportunity for development. In order to organize the Pingjin Municipal Party Committee, Lin Feng, in the name of secretary of the party branch of the School of Engineering of Peking University, set off an anti-imperialist alliance movement in Hebei Province. The following year, when the "918" incident occurred, Lin Feng led the Beiping students to the south to go south to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to propagate, and served as the secretary of the Beiping Municipal Party Committee and head of the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China.
During Lin Feng's tenure as secretary of the Beiping Municipal Party Committee, it was the most difficult period for the development of our party's party organization in northern China, when many outstanding revolutionary backbones were brutally killed by the enemy due to the continuous suppression and blockade of the Kuomintang. In order to call on the youth to oppose imperialism and to reorganize the Shunzhi Provincial Party Committee (i.e., the Hebei Provincial Party Committee), Lin Feng secretly carried out revolutionary work in Tangshan, Tianjin, Baoding and other places.
In March 1936, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China sent Liu Shaoqi to North China to reorganize the party's organs, and Lin Feng was ordered to serve as Liu Shaoqi's political secretary and assist Liu Shaoqi in carrying out united front work.
When Lin Feng was Liu Shaoqi's secretary, the situation in Pingjin had taken a sharp turn for the worse, and during this period, due to the retreat of the Kuomintang government, the Japanese garrison in North China broke through to the outskirts of Pingjin. Seeing that the situation was out of control, Lin Feng and Liu Shaoqi successively sent representatives to negotiate with Song Zheyuan and others, and with the support of patriotic generals Zhao Dengyu, Zhang Zizhong and others, the 29th Army finally rejected the unreasonable demands of the Japanese army, and in this way, the mass anti-Japanese movement in Beiping was victorious.
Although the 29th Army had great success in counterattacking the Japanese invaders, because of the encroachment of the Japanese army step by step, in July 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out.
In August of the same year, the Japanese army occupied Beiping, Lin Feng left Pingjin and went to Taiyuan, and served as the deputy secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Working Committee of the Communist Party of China and the head of the Organization Department of the Northern Bureau.
In March 1938, the first part of the Japanese army entered the area of Linfen and Jinzhong, and in order to preserve the backbone of the revolution, Lin Feng led the Northern Bureau and the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee to cross the Yellow River westward. Soon, under the instruction of the organization, he returned to the southwest of Shanxi to lead the anti-Japanese armed forces and became the secretary of the party committee of the southwest of the Eighth Route Army.
During the entire stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Lin Feng was the No. 1 leader of our party in the western Shanxi region, and at that time, he was not only in charge of the work of the party committee in the western Shanxi region, but also served as the deputy political commissar of the Jinsui Joint Defense Army and the deputy secretary of the Jinsui sub-bureau. In order to completely expel the Japanese invaders from Shanxi, Lin Feng assisted He Long, Guan Xiangying and others in commanding the Eighth Route Army, and made important contributions to the expansion of the Jinsui anti-Japanese base area.
In April 1945, the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Yan'an, and Lin Feng attended the meeting as a representative of Jinsui District and was re-elected as a member of the Central Committee.
Lin Feng worked hard for the establishment of the Jinsui anti-Japanese base area, but Yan Xishan, as the commander of the Second Theater of the Kuomintang, did not buy it, and in order to snatch the fruits of victory, from 1942 to 1945, Yan Xishan secretly ordered Zhu Huaibing and other troops to constantly harass the counties and towns in our border districts.
Lin Feng, Guan Xiangying and others were very angry at the unreasonable practices of the Kuomintang, and under the instruction of the Central Committee, in 1942, our Jinsui Military Region began to organize troops to counterattack. Soon, under the powerful attack of our Jinsui joint defense army, the stubborn Kuomintang troops were defeated one after another, and in this way, the security of our Jinsui border area was completely guaranteed.
In August 1945, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was won, and in September of the same year, Lin Feng, Peng Zhen and others flew to Shenyang by plane and began to lead the construction of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army.
In 1947, the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army was renamed the Northeast People's Liberation Army, and Lin Feng was ordered to lead the land reform work in the liberated areas, and served as the political commissar of the East Manchurian Military Region of the Communist Party of China, the head of the United Front Work Department of the Northeast Bureau, and the vice chairman of the Northeast People's Government.
Lin Feng began to serve as deputy secretary of the Northeast Bureau in 1951, when he was 45 years old, but he was still full of energy. Under the instruction of the Central Committee, he, Zhou Huan, Li Fuchun and others carried out the three major socialist transformations and made important contributions to the economic development of Northeast China.
In 1954, the Central Committee transferred Lin Feng to work in Beijing, and soon after, he was re-elected as Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Committee, President of the Central Higher Party School, and Director of the Amateur Education Committee of the State Council, becoming an important leader of our party in the field of culture and education. On September 29, 1977, Lin Feng died of illness in Beijing at the age of 71.
Lin Feng is the founder of the northern party organization of our party, and he has worked hard all his life and has made outstanding contributions to the economic development of Northeast China. In addition to Lin Feng himself, his wife and adopted son are also important leaders of the mainland.
Comrade Lin Feng's wife is Guo Mingqiu, one of the leaders of the 129th student movement. Guo Mingqiu, a native of Zhuolu, Hebei Province, joined the party organization in 1935 and served as the head of the Propaganda Department of the Beiping Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, the secretary of the Southwest District Committee of the Eighth Route Army, the vice president of the Northeast Experimental School, and the head of the Propaganda Department of the All-China Women's Federation. Guo Mingqiu was Comrade Cai Chang's secretary, and after the founding of New China, she served in the women's federation and the education department for a long time, and won the trust of the central authorities. On May 14, 2001, Guo Mingqiu passed away in Beijing at the age of 84.
Lin Feng's adopted son, Lin Yanzhi, is a famous professor at Peking University, who has served as deputy secretary of the Jilin Provincial Party Committee and director of the Propaganda Department of the Henan Provincial Party Committee. Lin Yanzhi is a top student who graduated from Tsinghua University, he has been committed to public welfare for a long time, and he also has a wide reputation in the society.
Second, Yi Lin Feng, he is a good servant of the people
In the southeast corner of the small town of Wangkui County, Suihua City, a quaint courtyard quietly opens its door to people - Lin Feng's former residence memorial hall, people who visit here can clearly feel the red mark on the exhibits: a hundred years ago, Lin Feng, an outstanding party member, a great communist fighter, a Marxist, an outstanding proletarian revolutionary and educator, lived here.
Lin Feng was born on September 30, 1906 in Wangkui County, Heilongjiang Province, and joined Nankai Middle School in Tianjin in March 1927. During his 50-year revolutionary career, he successively served as secretary of the Beiping Municipal Party Committee, secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee, deputy secretary of the Northeast Bureau, president of the Central Higher Party School, and secretary of the Party Committee.
"From the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945 to his departure from Northeast China at the end of 1954, during the 10 years, Comrade Lin Feng worked diligently, worked selflessly, and consistently put the interests of the party and the people in the first place. In the memorial hall of Lin Feng's former residence, listening to the narrator's smooth and clear explanation, looking at the yellowed letters, documents, old pens, mottled leather briefcases, and shiny copper ink cartridges...... A piece of cultural relics and a resolute expression of Lin Feng's statue are superimposed in my mind, and there seems to be a cello playing slowly in my ears, low and quiet, but impassioned, fully interpreting the magnificent revolutionary career of the protagonist of this house.
“…… I often heard him say to some cadres that it is necessary to have a profound understanding of problems and to go deep into the bones. Work requires sweat to be effective...... He is loyal to the party, a decent person, has a profound view of problems, has farsightedness, and has rich feelings......"
During Lin Feng's revolutionary career of several decades, he consistently adhered to the work style of proceeding from reality and following the mass line. He believes that only the practical activities of the masses of the people are the touchstone for testing the action of the program.
According to the information provided by Cui Yanbo, a first-level researcher of the History Research Office of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee, long before entering the Northeast, Lin Feng clearly pointed out at a meeting held in the Jinsui Border District: "Everyone should go to the Northeast to serve the people well, and everyone should become a willow tree and integrate well with the local people." After arriving in the Northeast, at the Northeast Executive Conference in 1947 and 1948, he repeatedly stressed the importance of taking the mass line. He said: "The establishment of the entire democratic regime and its work come from the masses and go to the masses. Policies, decrees, laws, systems, organizational forms, work styles, lifestyles, and so on should all come from and go to the masses. If we can always act according to this article, we will basically not be wrong. ”
Lin Feng was very concerned about the progress of the land reform movement in Northeast China. Due to the erroneous influence of the "left" at that time and the desire of the peasants who were deeply oppressed to take revenge, the land reform movement deviated from the correct track for a time, and the phenomenon of infringing on the interests of the middle peasants in various localities was quite serious, and the landlords and rich peasants could not be treated correctly. Some people have pointed out that "the poor hired peasants fight the country, and the poor hired peasants sit on the country" and "the landlords do not divide the land, and the rich peasants divide the bad land."
In response to these problems, Lin Feng, who was in charge of the work of the Northeast Administrative Committee at that time, organized several investigation teams to go to various places to conduct investigations. He personally led a team to Anda County twice, and spent more than a month in Angangxi, Qiqihar, Bei'an, Suihua, Jiamusi, Mudanjiang and other places for investigation. Through the investigation, Lin Feng learned about the actual situation and formulated relevant measures, and the "leftist" tendency in the land reform was quickly corrected, ensuring that the land reform developed in the right direction.
After the end of the land reform, a new situation emerged. In some parts of North Manchuria, peasants spontaneously organized agricultural associations such as "partnership groups" and "cooperatives," and some people thought that this was a "utopian agricultural socialism" set up by the cadres under forced order, and demanded the dissolution of these organizations. With a highly realistic spirit, Lin Feng did not engage in coercive orders, nor could he dampen the enthusiasm of the peasants. He went deep into the rural areas of Suihua, Mudanjiang, Jiamusi and other places to conduct in-depth and meticulous investigation and research. After understanding, it was found that since the North Manchurian region has a large area of reclaimable wasteland, and the small-scale peasant economy is decentralized and cannot meet the needs of production development, the poor hired peasants spontaneously organized mutual aid and cooperative organizations after being allocated land and livestock, which is a new thing under the new situation. Lin Feng believes that mutual aid and cooperation is a transitional form from general mutual aid to collective agriculture, and if we do not see or pay attention to its socialist factor, we will make a right-leaning mistake; If we ignore or negate its private base and expand public accumulation too quickly, we will make a "left" mistake. Mutual assistance and cooperation should be carried out from a low level to a high level.
The subsequent process of rural cooperation proved Lin Feng's foresight.
“…… He listened attentively to opinions, discussed calmly, persuaded and educated with an open mind, and never forced others to accept his opinions, and his democratic style won my sincere trust and respect for him......"
Yao Yilin recalled: As an administrative leader in Northeast China, Lin Feng never engaged in specialization, lived a frugal life, often drove lightly, and never caused trouble to the locality.
According to Professor Guan Mengjue, who was working in Northeast China at the time, he recalled: "In the summer of 1948, one day, I met Comrade Lin Feng on the streets of Qiqihar. After I recognized him, I accompanied him to the provincial government building (in Noi Nen) to rest. Comrade Lin Feng is really a good public servant of the people! ”
In terms of developing agricultural production, Lin Feng found that although farmers in the vast areas of the northeast and west had obtained land, the harsh natural environment still plagued them. Every spring, when the sand blows, the farmers have to take shelter, "the sand enters and people retreat". Therefore, he organized expert research, and after research, in July 1951, he proposed to the Northeast People's Government to create a shelterbelt in the western region. In January 1952, the Northeast People's Government made the "Decision on Building a Shelterbelt in the Western Region of Northeast China", which stretches from Liaodong Peninsula and Shanhaiguan in the east to Fufu and Gannan in the south of the Xing'an Mountains in the north, with a length of more than 1,100 kilometers and a maximum width of more than 300 kilometers, covering more than 60 counties, and is expected to benefit an area of about 40 million square kilometers. The formulation and implementation of this plan shows that Lin Feng attaches great importance to the interests of the people and is highly responsible.
Rectifying the flood is another major task that Lin Feng has solved for the people of Northeast China. The Liaohe River Valley, the main river in Northeast China, is often seriously flooded, and millions of acres of farmland are flooded every year, which not only threatens the safety of people's lives and property, but also causes serious soil erosion. In the practice of fighting floods and providing disaster relief, Lin Feng profoundly realized that it is necessary to fundamentally deal with floods and turn harm into benefit, otherwise the people's lives will not be stable, their enthusiasm for production will not be high, and the interests of the people will not be guaranteed. After repeated investigation and research, Lin Feng proposed to build a comprehensive reservoir integrating flood control, irrigation, urban water and power generation in Dahuofang, Hunhe River Basin. Under the guidance of Lin Feng, the reservoir was basically completed in 1958, and it played an important role in improving the conditions for agricultural production and safeguarding the vital interests of the masses.
It is precisely because of years of unremitting efforts that the situation of agricultural production in the northeast region is booming day by day, and great achievements have been made. During the three years of the Liberation War, the Northeast region supported 4.5 million tons of front-line grain. During the Liaoshen Campaign, more than 110 million catties of grain were provided to support the front line, thus ensuring the needs of the army and the people.
“… His deep patriotism, his seriousness, sincerity and clarity...... Although he looked tired on the outside, the logic and persuasiveness of his speech were more powerful than his eloquent speech. ”
In 1955, Lin Feng served as the head of the Northeast Regional Work Department, Deputy Secretary-General, and Director of the Cultural and Education Office, assisting Premier Zhou Enlai in taking charge of the country's education and culture, health, and sports. At the second and third National People's Congress, Lin Feng was elected vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
At the beginning of 1963, Lin Feng was transferred to the Central Senior Party School as the president and secretary of the party committee.
"In the new situation, it is necessary to re-educate cadres...... We should train a group of leading backbones with theoretical cultivation and strong party spirit to meet the needs of revolution and construction...... The purpose of study is to understand the objective laws, to study the objective laws of things in a realistic way, and to use effective methods to solve various problems in revolution and construction. This was put forward in the report submitted by Lin Feng to the Central Committee in 1963 when the Central Committee proposed to the whole party the important task of "re-educating cadres". And this report is also the famous "April 1 Report" in the history of the Central Party School. The formulation of these principles and principles for running schools has pointed out the correct direction for the work of party schools.
In the early spring of April 2021, standing in the memorial hall of Lin Feng's former residence, listening to the clear and crisp explanation in my ears, recalling half a century ago, the physical practice and foresight of a great person, even if projected in today's new situation, are still full of endless vitality and surging kinetic energy that continues to cleanse thoughts.
Third, Liu Huinong reminisced about Lin Feng
Lin Feng and I met in the Jinsui base area during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. From 1942 onwards, I worked under his direct leadership for more than three years, and although it was not a very long time, the inspiration and teachings I received from him were unforgettable. His noble qualities of loyalty, selflessness, generosity, honesty, and truth-seeking, as well as the glorious image of dedicating his whole body and mind to the communist ideal and cause, will forever remain in our hearts.
At the end of 1938, due to the rapid development of the anti-Japanese guerrilla war behind enemy lines led by our party, which seriously threatened the rear of the Japanese invaders, forcing the Japanese army to stop its strategic offensive on the frontal battlefield and turn its main force to the battlefield behind enemy lines in North China, the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression entered a phase of stalemate. In light of this major change in the situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in North China, the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth CPC Central Committee determined the strategic policy of consolidating North China and developing Central China. To this end, in accordance with the decision of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army was dispatched to Jizhong at the end of December under the leadership of He Long and Guan Xiangying to assist the Third Column of the Eighth Route Army in consolidating the anti-Japanese base areas in Jizhong. In April 1939, the new 358 Brigade (also known as the Peng Eighth Brigade) was formed to form the 714th Regiment, the 6th Garrison Regiment, the 1st and 2nd Independent Regiments, and the Yanbei Detachment, together with the Party Committee of the Northwest Shanxi District and the New Army, to persist in the struggle against the anti-Japanese base areas in the northwest of Shanxi. At this time, in accordance with the needs of the development of the situation, the central authorities decided to transfer me from the General Health Department of the Central Military Commission to the New 358th Brigade of the 120th Division as director of the Political Department.
The combat effectiveness of the new 358 Brigade is relatively strong, and many of its cadres are veteran comrades who survived the Red Army's Long March. At that time, the main task was to persist in and expand the anti-Japanese base areas in the northwest of Shanxi. The strategic position of the northwest of Shanxi Province is very important, it is the eastern barrier to defend the great northwest and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border region, it is the outpost position that threatens the enemy's occupation of the Tongpu Railway and other transportation arteries and Taiyuan and other large cities, and it is also an important transportation hub connecting the Yan'an Party Central Committee and the anti-Japanese base areas throughout the country. Because of this, the Japanese invasion troops and the diehard forces of the Kuomintang Yan Xishan regarded the anti-Japanese base areas in the northwest of Shanxi as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh, and they were eager to pull them out and then hurry up. In December 1939, under the influence of the Japanese army's surrender policy and the anti-communist policy of the Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek, Yan Xishan's army launched the counter-revolutionary Jinxi Incident against the New Army and the Eighth Route Army. Under the instructions of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, the New 358th Brigade, together with the columns and other anti-Japanese forces under the New Army, counterattacked Yan Xishan's troops, and launched the Lanxian Linxian Campaign to encircle and annihilate Yan Army's Zhao Chengshou and other units, crushing its main force in one fell swoop and winning a decisive victory against the Jinxi Incident. In order to concentrate forces, the independent detachment of the 115th Division (also known as the Jinxi Detachment and the Chen Detachment) and the Second Column of the New Army, under the leadership of Lin Feng and others, were transferred from the southwest of Shanxi to the northwest of Shanxi. He Long and Guan Xiangying were also ordered to return to the northwest of Shanxi. At this time, I met Lin Feng.
I remember that the first time I met Lin Feng was at an important meeting held in mid-January 1940. At this meeting, it was decided to establish the Northwest Shanxi Military and Political Committee, with He Long and Guan Xiang serving as the principal and deputy secretaries; It was decided to merge the party committees of the two districts in southwest and northwest Shanxi to form the party committee of the western district of Shanxi, with Lin Feng and Zhao Lin as the principal and deputy secretaries. After the meeting, He Long took my hand and walked up to Lin Feng and said, "Comrade Lin Feng, let me introduce you, this is Liu Huinong, director of the Political Department of the Eighth Brigade of Peng, an old comrade from the Long March in Jiangxi. There will be a lot of contact in the future, so please help me. Lin Feng replied: "Comrade Huinong, the old comrades in the army have gone through the severe test of war and have many strengths, let's learn from each other!" "The initial impression left on me by the contact at that time was that Lin Feng was modest and sincere, approachable, and made people feel a sense of intimacy. After this meeting, because the new 358 Brigade had more contact with the Jinxi District Party Committee in terms of work, I had more contacts and contacts with Lin Feng, and gradually learned that Lin Feng was an old comrade who joined the party during the Great Revolution, and in the 30s he was mainly engaged in white zone work, and that he had served as secretary of the Beiping and Tianjin Municipal Party Committees and director of the Organization Department of the Northern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
In the summer of 1942, the Central Committee decided to establish the Jinsui Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to lead the party, government, and military work in western Shanxi, including the areas of the Working Committee in the northwest and southwest of Shanxi, as well as in the Suiyuan region. The Jinsui Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was appointed secretary by Guan Xiangying, and Lin Feng was appointed deputy secretary. Later, because Guan Xiangying was seriously ill, he went to Yan'an for treatment, and Lin Feng acted as secretary and became secretary in August 1945. After the establishment of the sub-bureau, Lin Feng considered that one of the main tasks of the sub-bureau was to lead and organize the anti-Japanese military struggle in the base areas, and the sub-bureau needed to be equipped with senior cadres with rich experience in military struggle. So, Lin Feng proposed to He Long that a cadre be transferred from the 120th Division to participate in the work of the sub-bureau. As a result, I was transferred to the Jinsui Branch as a member and secretary general of the Branch. Before being transferred out of the 120th Division, Mr. He and Political Commissar Guan talked to me separately, and Guan Xiangying also pointed out: "Lin Feng is an outstanding cadre who is politically mature, has a high policy level, and is very talented. "I hope I can assist Lin Feng well in his work. Since then, I have worked directly under Lin Feng's leadership.
Lin Feng has a strong sense of principle and can accurately understand and implement the principles and policies of the Party Central Committee. Lin Feng loved and respected Chairman Mao Zedong very much. During the several years of his work in the sub-bureau, he often told us about Mao Zedong's excellent character and correct line, and also publicized and explained Mao Zedong Thought at many congresses, and demanded that the majority of party members and cadres carry out their work in strict accordance with the instructions of the party Central Committee and Mao Zedong. In October 1942, on the eve of the official convening of the Provisional Senate in the Northwest of Shanxi, the Jinsui Sub-Bureau made a lot of preparations in order to implement the party's united front policy, implement the principle of the "three-three system" regime, and hold the Provisional Senate. At that time, in the process of preparing a candidate for senator within the party, some people had different views on nominating Niu Youlan, a well-known gentry in the northwest of Shanxi, as a candidate. On this issue, Lin Feng persuaded and educated comrades who held different opinions, and implemented the policy well. At the party meeting, Lin Feng carefully analyzed Niu Youlan's anti-Japanese attitude and political performance, and pointed out that in order to support the Anti-Japanese War, he donated a large amount of money and food to the anti-Japanese government and the Eighth Route Army, which is a patriotic act of supporting the anti-Japanese resistance, supporting the Eighth Route Army, and supporting the Communist Party, and is a progressive attitude, which shows that Mr. Niu is an enlightened person we should unite in the Anti-Japanese War. After a thorough analysis, those comrades who held different views had a new understanding. Mr. Niu Youlan was also elected to the Senate. Under the correct leadership of Lin Feng, the united front work in the northwest of Shanxi Province was carried out very actively. At that time, the election campaign of the senators swept all strata in the northwest of Shanxi, and people from all walks of life put forward their own campaign ideas to offer suggestions for the War of Resistance Against Japan. This was the period in which the political and democratic atmosphere in the northwest region of Shanxi Province was most active during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which reflected the thriving scene of the masses of the people marching to the political stage, and also showed the tremendous power of our party's anti-Japanese national united front policy and the principle of the "three-three system." At the official opening of the Provisional Senate Assembly, 145 senators attended the session, including 47 Communist Party members, less than one-third. It turned out that at the time of the congress election, 49 Communist Party members were elected, which was one more person according to one-third, so two more Communist Party members took the initiative to quit. When Lin Feng, on behalf of the party committee, announced the list of Communist Party members and senators at the meeting, the democrats present at the meeting were extremely moved. Some people outside the party said: "I used to have doubts about the Communist Party's statement of cooperating with people outside the party, but now it has completely disappeared." At this meeting, Lin Feng was unanimously elected as the chairman of the provisional senate of the northwest of Shanxi, and Mr. Liu Shaobai, a progressive, was elected as the vice speaker. This meeting gave a great impetus to the building of an anti-Japanese democratic regime in the Jinsui region. After the meeting, anti-Japanese democratic regimes at all levels were established one after another, consolidating and developing the Jinsui anti-Japanese base areas.
Lin Feng is a very decent person, seeking truth from facts, and is very able to adhere to the truth and proceed from reality on major issues of right and wrong. At the end of 1942, according to the deployment of the Party Central Committee, a rectification campaign was launched in the Jinsui area. At that time, the main task was to organize cadres at all levels, especially senior cadres, to study Mao Zedong's three reports on opposing subjectivism to rectify the style of study, opposing sectarianism to rectify the style of the party, and opposing the party's eight units to rectify the style of writing. In order to strengthen the leadership of the rectification movement in the Jinsui area, the sub-bureau set up a general rectification committee, with Lin Feng personally serving as the director. As a result of the study, the broad masses of party members and cadres have basically comprehended the spirit of the document and checked their own thinking and work style, and the level of Marxist theory has generally been greatly improved, and the comrades are in a very comfortable mood. The rectification study has achieved good results. However, in the summer of 1943, Kang Sheng launched the so-called "rescue movement" in Yan'an, and the hats of "suspected spies," "suspected traitors," and "suspected Trotskyists" flew all over the sky. Soon after, Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee discovered and corrected this mistake, and on August 15, 1943, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Decision on the Examination of Cadres", which put forward a nine-point policy of "opposing erroneous practices such as coercion, confession, and letter in the trial of cadres", and rehabilitated cadres who had been framed and persecuted. Only in this way will the rectification movement return to the correct path of summing up the party's historical experience. Before the Party Central Committee and Mao Zedong corrected this mistake, the wind of the "rescue movement" in Yan'an soon spread to the anti-Japanese base areas. The same is true in the Jinsui border area, where the wind of the "rescue movement" that blew by Kang Sheng directly implicated some Jinsui cadres. For a period of time, Kang Sheng sent telegrams to the sub-bureau almost every two or three days, or sent a "rescue briefing," saying that one day he was a "spy" and the next day he said that so-and-so was a "traitor." Under the influence of Kangsheng's "rescue campaign," some units in the Jinsui Border Region have shown an erroneous tendency to suppress and expand the rebellion, and their methods have gone a little too far. Generally speaking, however, the losses in this "movement" were relatively small. At that time, the Jinsui border area was on the front line of the war, and its main energy was to deal with the Japanese invaders; In particular, because Lin Feng, the main person in charge of the sub-bureau, sees problems fairly and objectively, is good at analysis and thinking, and has rich experience in implementing policies, thus protecting a group of cadres. For example, with regard to the handling of the issue of Zhang Wenang, deputy commander-in-chief of the Shanxi New Army, Kang Sheng sent a telegram from Yan'an at that time, saying that someone in Yan'an had exposed that Zhang Wenang had been arrested by the Kuomintang and that he had committed apostasy in prison, and that he should be strictly examined. In this regard, Lin Feng was very cautious. He consulted Zhang Wenang's archival materials and conducted a careful analysis. He told me that we must be cautious about a comrade's question, especially a major matter that has a bearing on political life, and we must not draw conclusions based on anyone's speculation or just a few words. In judging right and wrong and handling problems, we must base ourselves on facts, otherwise we will easily bury a comrade's future and cause the party to suffer losses. According to Lin Feng's opinion, I talked to Zhang Wenang, read the materials written by Zhang Wenang about the situation in prison, and investigated Bo Yibo and others who had worked with Zhang Wenang. I think Zhang Wenang is innocent and a good comrade who can be trusted. Subsequently, I reported the investigation and opinions to Lin Feng. Lin Feng agreed with me and asked me to convey to Zhang Wenang: "The party organization and comrades fully believe that his history is innocent." The proper solution of this problem enabled Zhang Wenang to lay down his burden and work even better. There are many examples of similar issues being addressed. Lin Feng's strict party spirit and principles, scientific and rigorous attitude, realistic style, and generous and loyal demeanor of the elders have united a large number of cadres in Jinsui.
At that time, Lin Feng was the acting secretary of the Jinsui Branch of the CPC Central Committee, and later served as the secretary, and was also the political commissar of the Jinsui Military Region, and had a particularly sincere affection for the people's army under the leadership of the party. He often told me and his comrades that without the heroic struggle of the 120 th Division led by He Long and Guan Xiangying and the Jinsui Military Region led by Lu Zhengcao, the consolidation and expansion of the Jinsui anti-Japanese base area would not have been possible. Our party committees and governments at all levels must do their utmost to do a good job in supporting the front and ensure the supply of the army. He has great respect for Mr. He and Political Commissar Guan, and often informs them of the work of the sub-bureau and communicates the situation in a timely manner. The same is true for Lu Zhengcao. In 1943, shortly after Lu Zhengcao was transferred from the Jizhong Plain to the Jinsui Military Region as commander, Lin Feng accompanied Commander Lu to the sub-district to learn about the work of the investigation troops and localities. Along the way, Lin Feng briefed Comrade Zhengcao in great detail on the leading comrades of various sub-districts and the work situation at that time, and personally inquired about and arranged the lives of Lu Zhengcao and other leading comrades of the army, which made people feel considerate. Lin Feng is very thorough and proper in handling the relationship between the party and the government and the relationship between the military and the people. In order to maintain unity, Lin Feng always criticized and persuaded the local cadres to help the troops overcome difficulties as much as possible to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops. For example, Wan Liangcai, who was then the head of the administrative division of the sub-bureau, was a veteran of the Red Army who had participated in the Long March in the Second Front Army of the Red Army, and was transferred from the adjutant office of the Jinsui Military Region Headquarters to work in the sub-bureau. This comrade works very hard, is very responsible in everything, and is a very good comrade, but his working methods are a little blunt and not democratic. For this reason, some cadres of the sub-bureau organs had a strong opinion, and some even demanded that he be sent back to the troops. When Lin Feng found out, he said to me: "Wan Liang is a good comrade, and there are many strengths and merits that comrades in many places do not have, and not only cannot send him back to the army, but also criticize those comrades who do not understand the strengths of army cadres and the old Red Army." Of course, we must also educate and inspire Comrade Wan Liangcai to correct his shortcomings. Lin Feng also asked me to give a lecture at the organ meeting, calling on everyone to learn from the merits and strengths of military cadres, and at the same time to help him overcome simple work methods that are not suitable for local work.
After the establishment of the Jinsui Sub-Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, in addition to leading the military and civilians in the base areas to carry out the anti-Japanese armed struggle, another major task was to lead the masses of the people to carry out production and construction, to be self-reliant, and to have enough food and clothing. On how to implement the instructions of the CPC Central Committee on launching a large-scale production campaign, Lin Feng proceeded from reality and put forward his opinions on developing different forms of production in different environments and in different regions in light of the characteristics of the Jinsui Border Region. In accordance with this spirit of Lin Feng, the sub-bureau and the local and county party committees actively organized the masses to overcome difficulties and fight while producing. By 1944, 37 percent of the labor force in the base areas had joined the labor brigades, and a form of combining labor and military force was created, in which the labor teams were combined with the armed forces and the militia self-defense forces. At the third group meeting held in the Jinsui Border Region in early 1944, Lin Feng summed up the experience and affirmed this form of combining labor and military force as an effective form of production in the base areas behind enemy lines, and popularized it. In this year, the large-scale production movement has further developed, and in the spring ploughing alone, the masses in various places have opened up 420,000 mu of wasteland; 180,000 acres of land were cultivated by organs and troops. At the same time, the labor organization also developed from a migrant worker team to a migrant cooperative. On the basis of mutual aid in changing jobs, a large number of surplus labor forces were organized, and the development of agriculture, handicrafts, transportation, animal husbandry, and sideline industries was expanded. Under the correct leadership of the Jinsui Sub-Bureau headed by Lin Feng, the economy of the base areas has been invigorated, the living standards of the military and the people have improved, the combat effectiveness of the army has been greatly enhanced, and the base areas behind the anti-Japanese enemy lines have been consolidated and strengthened. As some comrades later recalled: "The Jinsui border area fought while producing, had enough food and clothing, and had strong soldiers and horses."
In 1945, after Lin Feng and I participated in the Seventh Party Congress held in Yan'an, coinciding with the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Party Central Committee decided to strengthen the forces of the Northeast and sent Lin Feng to lead the first batch of cadres to support the Northeast. After arriving in the Northeast, Lin Feng served as the head of the Organization Department of the Northeast Bureau, and later served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Northeast Bureau and chairman of the Northeast Administrative Committee. I returned to the army and served as director of the Political Department of the Liaoning Military Region. Since then, I have never worked directly with Lin Feng again.
Recalling Comrade Lin Feng, I cannot help but think of the spirit of serving the people wholeheartedly and dedicating everything to the communist ideals and cause, and the style of taking into account the overall situation, doing things fairly, seeking truth from facts, being modest and prudent, maintaining ties with the masses, and showing concern for comrades. Lin Feng's outstanding contributions to the history of the Chinese revolution will always be engraved in the hearts of the people.
Fourth, Comrade Lin Feng's War of Resistance was one of the Jinsui
"3,000 troops in 20 days"
After Lin Feng arrived in Taiyuan, he was sent by the Northern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to Shanxi Province as deputy secretary to assist Zhang Youqing, secretary of the Provincial Working Committee, who was ill. In accordance with the spirit of the instructions of the CPC Central Committee and Liu Shaoqi's entrustment, he became familiar with the local situation and formulated a strategy and guidelines for carrying out united front work against Yan Xishan, and on the other hand, he actively made arrangements for his work, focusing on building party organizations and mobilizing the masses to participate in the anti-Japanese war activities. Through his efforts, he successively established the Workers' Armed Self-Defense Force (which later developed into the New Army Workers' Guard Brigade) and established the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party over the Sacrifice League. In his work, he not only paid attention to taking care of the united front, but also broke through the framework of the official office, so that the mass struggle and the CPC organization in Shanxi developed in many places. In October 1937, according to the instructions of the Central Committee, the Northern Bureau deployed: relying on Wutai Mountain, Guanshu Mountain, Taihang Mountain, and Luliang Mountain, all units of the Eighth Route Army advanced and occupied strategic points on the enemy's flanks and rear in the northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest of Shanxi, extensively mobilized the masses, organized the people's armed forces, and established anti-Japanese base areas; The Shanxi Provincial Working Committee was changed to the Shanxi Provincial Committee, with Lin Feng as secretary. The Shanxi Provincial Party Committee made a decision in accordance with the spirit of the instructions of the Central Committee and the Northern Bureau: Communists were not allowed to cross the Yellow River and persist in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines in Shanxi. On November 8, 1937, Taiyuan was lost. Yan Xishan, the headquarters of the commander of the Second Theater of Operations, and the Shanxi Provincial Government moved to Linfen in southern Jinnan. Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, the Northern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee, and the Taiyuan Office of the Eighth Route Army were also transferred to Linfen. Soon after arriving in Linfen, Lin Feng concurrently served as the head of the Organization Department of the Northern Bureau. At this time, Lin Feng often rode a bicycle to various localities to conduct investigations and studies, inspect work, adjust and strengthen the leading bodies of local party committees, and solve the problems existing in some local party committees.
At this time, the ancient city of Linfen became the center of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the north, and the Eighth Route Army, which went to the Shanxi battlefield to fight continuously, shouldered the heavy task of carrying out guerrilla warfare. In order to expand the troops, replenish the source of troops, and carry out the struggle against Japan. Zhou Enlai personally proposed to the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee the task of "expanding the army by 3,000 people in 20 days".
Time is tight, the task is heavy, and the difficulties are considerable. Lin Feng and the comrades of the provincial party committee attached great importance to this task and promptly made serious studies and arrangements. In December, Lin Feng personally went to Yuncheng to hold an enlarged meeting of the Hedong Special Committee and made specific arrangements for the expansion of troops. Through the mobilization and organization of party committees at all levels, the counties in Hedong quickly set off an upsurge in the expansion of the Eighth Route Army. In the process of expanding the troops, Lin Feng went to Yuncheng and Houma to inspect the work and help solve the problems that arose in the expansion work, so that all kinds of troubles encountered in the expansion of the troops could be solved in a timely manner. As a result, in only half a month, the task of expanding the troop was completed ahead of schedule. The new fighters were sent to Yuncheng and Houma respectively, and after intensive training, they were supplemented to the 115th and 120th divisions.
Stick to the front line of the struggle
Under the leadership of Lin Feng, the military and civilians in the base area in southwest Shanxi Province actively carried out the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and production and construction. The newly established democratic anti-Japanese regime changed the old bureaucratic system and appointed people on the basis of merit, and a large number of enthusiastic young people who actively resisted Japan took up leading posts in counties and townships. "They went deep among the masses, understood the people's weal and woe, listened to their opinions, and did everything that was beneficial to the anti-Japanese resistance and the masses." In order to ensure that the new political power could be firmly in the hands of the Communist Party members, the party in the southwest of Shanxi Province appointed a large number of Communist Party members to fill in the leadership work of the democratic regimes at all levels. In November 1938, the Central Military Commission decided to merge the supplementary regiment of the 115th Division with the guerrillas of southwest Shanxi to form the first independent detachment of the 115th Division (later known as the Jinxi Detachment of the Eighth Route Army), with Lin Feng as political commissar and Comrade Chen Shiyu as the leader of the detachment.
With the passage of time, the political situation in Shanxi has been constantly changing. After Yan Xishan "gained a firm" foothold in the western Shanxi region, he gradually developed a negative attitude toward the war of resistance, the contradictions with the Communist Party and the progressive forces gradually intensified, and the struggle between the new faction and the old faction in Shanxi became increasingly intense. At this time, the army and civilians in the southwestern base area led by Lin Feng not only had to fight against the Japanese invading army, but also had to deal with Yan Xishan's anti-communist sabotage activities. At the beginning of December 1939, the "Jinxi Incident" broke out, and the Party Committee of the Southwest Shanxi District decided to establish the "General Headquarters of the Southwest Shanxi District Party Committee to Resist Japanese Aggression and Support Yan and Fight against Rebellion" under the unified leadership of the Party Committee of the Southwest Shanxi District, with Zhang Wenang as the commander-in-chief, Han Jun as the deputy commander-in-chief and commander-in-chief of the former enemy, and Liao Jingdan as the chief of staff and director of the Political Department, commanding all the new armies in the southwest of Shanxi to act in unison. In order to strengthen the command and leadership of the troops, a number of military and political cadres were transferred from the western Jinxi detachment to the 2nd Column and the 209th Brigade of Political Guards. On December 7, 1939, the attack of the old army against the new army and the Eighth Route Army in the western Shanxi region was in full swing. Under the unified command of the Central Military Commission, Lin Feng led the whole army to resolutely counterattack, and at the same time telegraphed Zhang Youqing on the southern front, asking him to take charge of transferring the party organizations in the Xiangji area (including Xiangning and Ji County) to the underground and trying to transfer the 212th and 213th Zhengwei Brigades to Taiyue District.
"After Gao Jiatiao (now part of Jiaokou County) took the oath, Comrade Lin Feng actually became the general political commissar of our self-defense and counterattack war, he brought a radio station, and got in close contact with the Central Military Commission, and he and Chen, Huang, and Han have always insisted on the front line of the battle, and Zhang Wenang and I stayed behind in the rear." Zhang Jiafu, then director of the Propaganda Department of the District Party Committee, said in the book "Remembering the Passing in Gengzhong".
In smashing the Jinxi Incident planned by Yan Xishan, Lin Feng adhered to the principle of reasonable, beneficial, and restrained struggle, and actively organized the Eighth Route Army's southwestern Jinxi detachment and various units of the New Army to defend themselves and counterattack, so that Yan Xishan's conspiracy went bankrupt and successfully preserved the vital forces of the New Army and the Eighth Route Army in southwest Shanxi.
He served as Secretary of the Party Committee of Jinxi District
After the Jinxi Incident, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to merge the party committees of the southwest and northwest districts of Shanxi into the party committees of the western Shanxi region. Lin Feng served as the secretary of the district party committee, and Zhao Lin served as the deputy secretary. Unified leadership of the local work in the northwest of Shanxi and the activities of the underground party in the southwest of Shanxi. At this time, He Long and Guan Xiangying led the main force of the 120th Division to return to the northwest of Shanxi. In accordance with the instructions of the central authorities, the Northwest Shanxi Military and Political Committee was established, with He Long as secretary and Guan Xiangying as deputy secretary, to lead the party, government, and military work in a unified manner. Then, the party, government, military, and civilian leadership organs in the northwest of Shanxi Province were adjusted. Our party has completely mastered the northwest region of Shanxi Province, and since then a new period has begun in the construction of anti-Japanese democratic base areas in the northwest of Shanxi Province.
In order to strengthen the construction of political power and consolidate the anti-Japanese national united front, the Northwest Shanxi Administrative Office was established with the Kuomintang veteran and patriotic general Xu Fanting as the director (the name of the "Second Guerrilla Administration of Shanxi Province" was used at the beginning); The Jinxi Anti-Japanese National Salvation Federation was established, which unified the leadership of the workers', peasants', youth's and women's mass organizations in the region; The General Headquarters of the New Army was formed, with Xu Fanting as the commander-in-chief and Luo Guibo as the political commissar. The military reunification of the whole region is under the command of the Northwest Shanxi Military Region Command headed by Commander He Long and Political Commissar Guan Xiangying. Later, the Federation for the Salvation of the Cultural Circles of Western Shanxi was also established to readjust the original cultural and artistic groups in the southwest and northwest of Shanxi Province, and to lead the literature, drama, music, and art associations established according to their specialties and the branch of the China Young Journalists Association. The party, government, military, and people have completely shaken off Yan Xishan's restrictions, oppression, and control, completely destroyed Yan Xishan's remnants of forces in various localities within the base areas, and independently carried out the construction of the base areas under the unified leadership of the party.
Preside over the party training class to train cadres
In view of the urgent needs of the development of the anti-Japanese situation, Lin Feng, who was in Linfen, attached great importance to the work of cultivating party members and cadres. Although the Northern Bureau and the Provincial Party Committee only stayed in Linfen for more than three months, the party training class presided over by Lin Feng was held for four sessions. There are more than a dozen to dozens of students in each session, and the study time is one week to half a month; because Liu Shaoqi, Lin Feng, and many other responsible comrades personally give lectures, after a short period of study, the students have made considerable progress in ideology, the party's basic knowledge, and basic policies. The training course is better than the first one, and the quality is higher than the first one; At the same time, the Eighth Route Army Cadet Corps was also set up in Liu Village, where the Northern Bureau was stationed, to absorb and train patriotic and intellectual youths from all over the country. In February 1938, Linfen was lost. In order to resist the westward advance of the Japanese army, Lin Feng, in accordance with the instructions of the Party Central Committee, organized an armed force to carry out guerrilla warfare, cooperated with the main force of the 115th Division headed by Luo Ronghuan, and made every effort to open up an anti-Japanese base area based on Luliang Mountain, and fought against Japan many times, smashing the conspiracy of the Japanese army to attack northern Shaanxi and defending the Party Central Committee.
At this time, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to abolish the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and establish the Party Committee of the Southwest Shanxi District in light of the situation in Shanxi. At the beginning of May 1938, Lin Feng presided over a meeting in Xiaoyi West Songzhuang and announced the formal establishment of the Communist Party of China's Southwest Shanxi Regional Committee. Lin Feng served as secretary of the district party committee, Zhang Youqing, former deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, served as director of the propaganda department, Wang Dacheng served as director of the organization department, and Huang Hua served as the head of the military department. Its main tasks were to establish an anti-Japanese base area in Luliangshan, develop anti-Japanese armed forces, establish a democratic regime, and do a good job in the united front work with Yan Xishan in the struggle.
Soon after the establishment of the party committee of the southwest district of Shanxi, according to the situation at that time, the district party committee decided to set up a party school in order to train new party members in the rural areas. Comrade Lin Feng served as the principal, Zhang Youqing, director of the Propaganda Department, served as the vice principal, and Guo Mingqiu, Lin Yueqin (Luo Ronghuan's lover), Chu Fengqi and others served as class teachers. According to the needs of the development of the situation at that time, the party school set up semi-monthly, one-month, and three-month classes, and returned to work in the same place after graduation. The party members in the southwest of Shanxi Province have basically been trained in rotation, and the majority of party members are also very interested in the training class. All party members and cadres who have come to study have improved their political ideology and policy level to a certain extent, and have become the backbone of party, government, and mass work at the county, district, and administrative villages. The successive party training classes have trained a large number of cadres for carrying out the work in southwest Shanxi and establishing an anti-Japanese base area in southwest Shanxi.
Fifth, Comrade Lin Feng's War of Resistance was in Jinsui II
We are willing to contribute to democratic politics
After the "Jinxi Incident", the anti-Japanese democratic regime in the northwest of Shanxi Province was established, ending the situation in which two kinds of political power and two armies coexisted in the northwest of Shanxi since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. It grew up in constant opposition to the enemy's frantic attacks, and grew stronger by constantly overcoming difficulties. Without a consolidated people's power to support the war, the persistence of the base areas would be unthinkable. But in order to completely transform the regime, it is necessary to carry out genuine universal democratic elections, and let the people themselves choose their public servants, so that the people can truly become masters and stride onto the political stage with their heads held high. Therefore, on January 31, 1940, the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission issued a joint telegram directing that "the transformation of the political power should be completed, and the transformation of the political power from the Shanxi Northwest Administration to the rural organs must be in the hands of the Communist Party members and progressive elements, and a genuine anti-Japanese people's power should be established." Lin Feng led the Jinxi District Party Committee to actively implement the instructions of the Party Central Committee, start with the village election to transform the political power, and thoroughly implement the party's "three-three system" policy.
In 1920, Lin Feng graduated from the No. 1 Higher Primary School in Wangkui County, Heilongjiang Province. The picture shows the old site, now Wangkui No. 3 Middle School.
The basis of political power lies in the village
"Thousands of high-rise buildings start from the ground, and the foundation of political power lies in the village." After the establishment of the Jinxi District Committee of the Communist Party of China, Lin Feng actively carried out the instructions of the Party Central Committee, immediately led the Jinxi District Party Committee, mobilized the masses in depth, launched a movement to build political power democratically, actively prepared for village elections, and began the work of transforming political power from the village elections. The first administrative meeting held in 1940 established the principle of electing village and district heads; The Second Executive Council passed the "Interim Regulations on Village Elections in Northwest Shanxi Province" and the "Interim Regulations on the Organization of Village Elections." From March to May 1941, village elections were carried out in all parts of the border region. The work of mobilizing village elections has been carried out in a relatively in-depth manner, and voters have enthusiastically participated in the election and displayed a high degree of enthusiasm. After the efforts of 1941 and 1942, village elections were held in the northwest of Shanxi Province, laying the foundation for the democratic regime of the "three-three system".
At the third executive meeting, Lin Feng, on behalf of the Party Committee of the Western District of the Communist Party of China, put forward a proposal to convene a provisional senate in the northwest of Shanxi. After a heated discussion, the executive meeting accepted Lin Feng's proposal. Subsequently, the administrative meeting of the Northwest Shanxi Administrative Office resolved: to organize the Preparatory Committee of the Provisional Senate of the Northwest Shanxi Province, with 15 people including Lin Feng (a member of the Communist Party), Xu Fanting (a member of the Kuomintang), and Liu Shaobai (a representative of the local enlightened gentry) as the preparatory members. On November 26, 1941, the Preparatory Committee held its first meeting, and Lin Feng attended the meeting and was elected as a member of the Standing Committee and vice chairman of the Preparatory Committee (the chairman was Xu Fanting, a member of the old Kuomintang). The meeting decided to convene the Provisional Senate of the Northwest of Shanxi Province in the summer of 1942. In the spring of 1942, the Preparatory Committee of the Provisional Senate of Northwest Shanxi Province issued a "Letter to the Compatriots" to all special offices and counties, urging all localities to conscientiously elect senators from all walks of life in accordance with the methods for selecting and electing senators formulated by the Preparatory Committee. On May 20, 1942, "in order to further implement the policy of 'three-three system' and welcome the arrival of the Shanxi Northwest Linlin Conference; In order to improve the efficiency of political power work and further consolidate the anti-Japanese democratic base areas in northwest Shanxi," the party committee of the western district of Shanxi Province issued the "Instructions on Further Implementing the 'Three-Three System' Policy in Political Power Work."
In 1940, Lin Feng served as the secretary of the Party Committee of the Southwest District of Jinsui. The picture shows Lin Feng taking a photo in Fengjiatun, Xing County, Shanxi Province
"Faithfully work for the people of Northwest Shanxi"
After a year of preparation, on October 24, 1942, the Provisional Senate of the Northwest of Shanxi Province (Jinsui Border District) opened in Hujiazhuang, on the west bank of the Yellow River, on the border of Shenfu County. More than 400 senators and people from all walks of life attended the meeting, 145 senators of the session, and 47 Communist Party members from all walks of life were elected as senators, less than one-third of the senators of the congress. The permanent committee and the administrative committee elected at the meeting have implemented the "three-three system" policy. Among the 19 people who presided over the presidium of the congress, only 3 were members of the Communist Party; Among the nine members of the Permanent Committee who participated in the temporary meeting, three were members of the Communist Party; Of the 21 members of the Northwest Shanxi Administrative Committee, 7 were members of the Communist Party. Two-thirds of the personnel in these institutions are members of the Kuomintang and people without party affiliation. The highest legislative and administrative organs in the Jinsui Border Region are all formed in accordance with the principle of the "three-three system." This shows that the Communist Party unites all parties, strata, and nationalities to jointly build the country, is most loyal to its policies, and uses all its strength to ensure its realization. This also shows Lin Feng's attitude of resolutely implementing the party's policies. From the very beginning of the establishment of the new political power, he devoted himself to the consolidation and expansion of the united front, and finally led the district party committee and sub-bureau to remove all kinds of obstacles inside and outside the party, and made tremendous achievements. Because of this sincere attitude of the Communist Party, in the course of this congress, the mutual understanding and unity between the party and the non-party have been further enhanced.
After 18 days, the congress successfully completed various agendas and adopted the "Report on the Work of the Northwest Shanxi Administration", "Consolidation and Construction of the Governance Program of the Northwest Shanxi", "Regulations on the Protection of Human Rights in the Northwest of Shanxi", "Regulations on the Organization of the Administrative Office of the Northwest of Shanxi", "Regulations on the Collection of Public Grain in the Northwest of Shanxi", "Regulations on Rent Reduction and Rent Payment in the Northwest of Shanxi", "Regulations on the Reduction of Interest and Interest in the Northwest of Shanxi", and "Resolution on Expanding the Militia and Strengthening the Local Armed Forces to Strengthen the Struggle against the Enemy" and other documents. After democratic discussion and full deliberation and consultation, Lin Feng was finally elected as the speaker, and Liu Shaobai and Niu Yinguan were elected as the vice speakers. On November 1, Lin Feng said at the time of his inauguration, "For the work of the Northwest Shanxi Senate and the 3 million people in the northwest of Shanxi, I will faithfully contribute all my ability, to what extent?" Like loyal to the Communist Party. Because the CPC has always been loyal to the Chinese people, the interests of the CPC are consistent with the people, and every member of the CPC has been loyal to the Chinese people in the past, and this is and will always be the case. He also declared in public: "In the past, I faithfully worked for the people as a Communist Party member, and in the future, I will faithfully work for the people in the name of the people." ”
The democratic regime aroused anti-Japanese fervor
The "three-three system" policy proposed by the Communist Party of China was thoroughly implemented in the northwest of Shanxi Province under the impetus of Lin Feng, and was warmly supported by all strata. Zhang Dengrong, a senator from Datong, said: "After listening to Mr. Lin Feng's report at this meeting, I believe that the Communist Party is sincere and frank, and my doubts about the Communist Party are gone. Zhao Gui'an, a senator of Xin County, took the stage and said: "I came from an enemy-occupied area, witnessed the enemy burning, killing and looting, and today I saw the democratically elected government, and the people laid flowers with their own hands, and my heart was filled with joy and sorrow, and I couldn't help but shed tears on my chest!" May we all be firm and united, fight the enemy out, and save the people in the enemy-occupied areas so that they will see the light of day again. ”
During this period, the principle of the "three-three system" was implemented in the political power organs at the county, district, and village levels. Its impact is huge and far-reaching. At that time, there was an investigation report that read: (1) The original intermediary elements in the regime have become active in their work, and a large number of intermediary elements have been brought in to participate in the work of the regime; (2) In some counties, the gentry were recruited to participate in the financial and economic construction work, and the wealthy began to dare to invest in the production industry; (3) The landlords and the old wealthy, as well as those who did not dare to speak in the past, now dare to complain and complain to the government, and they ask the government to protect their property and are willing to serve the anti-Japanese resistance; (4) The implementation of the "three-three system" has eliminated the "leftist" tendency in the united front, the landlords and the bourgeoisie believe that they still have a part in today's political power, eliminated antagonism and moved towards approach, social order is stable, and production has developed; (5) Some well-known personalities in enemy-occupied areas defected to the base areas.
Under the leadership of the democratic regime, the production movement in the Jinsui base area has developed greatly, and the people's enthusiasm for the War of Resistance has been further enhanced. During that period, the Japanese army carried out 17 local "sweeps" in the northwest of Shanxi, and the military and civilians in the whole region not only smashed the Japanese "sweeps", but also took the initiative to attack and fought more than 1,000 battles. Guerrilla groups and young anti-Japanese vanguard units in various localities have been mobilized one after another, and they have been able to cooperate with the regular army in every struggle against "sweeping." The number of militias grew to 30,000 in mid-1941 and 672 battles were fought against the enemy. There are also many creations in the militia's struggle against the enemy.
Sixth, Comrade Lin Feng's War of Resistance was in Jinsui III
Rely on the masses to wage a struggle against the enemy
After the establishment of the new anti-Japanese democratic regime in the northwest of Shanxi, the Japanese army was full of hatred and fear, and constantly swept through the base areas in the northwest of Shanxi, and the human, material, and financial resources of the base areas suffered serious damage. Although the army and people in the border areas rose up to resist and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army, the area of the base area was reduced by one-third and the population by more than two-thirds was reduced by one third because the enemy was strong and we were weak, and the situation was extremely grim. In order to strengthen the party's leadership over the political power and production and construction in the base areas, in August 1942, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to abolish the Jinxi District Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Military and Political Committee of the Northwest Shanxi Province, and established the Jinsui Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Guan Xiangying served as the secretary of the sub-bureau and Lin Feng as the deputy secretary. During Guan Xiangying's recuperation, Lin Feng acted as secretary. After the establishment of the Jinsui Sub-Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, under the leadership of Lin Feng, the Jinsui Border Region launched an unprecedented campaign to reduce rents and interest rates and large-scale military-civilian production, actively restored and developed production, mobilized the masses unleashed, organized military engineering teams to go deep behind enemy lines, implemented the "three combinations" of the regular army, guerrillas, and militia, launched an all-round struggle to "squeeze the enemy," and constantly expanded the Jinsui base area to make it a barrier to Yan'an.
Labor is combined with force
After the establishment of the anti-Japanese base area in the northwest of Shanxi Province, two major events were placed on the agenda for the construction of the base area's political power: production and combat. The war caused serious damage to the base areas, and in particular, the "three lights" policy of destroying everything carried out by the Japanese army caused major economic difficulties in the base areas. In order to finally defeat the enemy, on the one hand, it is necessary to step up the building of the people's armed forces and carry out a general mass guerrilla war to defend the base areas. On the other hand, it is necessary to reduce the burden on the people, develop agricultural and industrial production, and cultivate the people's strength to meet the needs of a protracted war. Holding a gun in one hand and a hoe in the other should have been the characteristics of the militia in the base area. But in the early days of the militia, production was abandoned in order to fight the war. In view of this situation, in September 1943, at the mass work conference in the border areas presided over by Lin Feng, the principle of "combining labor and force" was proposed, and it was determined that the militia's activities must be based on the principle of not separating themselves from production. In 1943, Zhang Chuyuan, a well-known mass hero in the border region, combined the production and combat of the local masses of the people in the process of "squeezing" the enemy and besieging the enemy's stronghold in Shijiazhuang, Ningwu County, and solved the important problem of developing the mass armed forces and fighting against the enemy. In January 1944, Zhang Chuyuan was elected by the working people of Ningwu County to attend the Labor Heroes Conference of Jinsui Border District. When Lin Feng learned of Zhang Chuyuan's deeds, he attached great importance to his experience in leading the masses of Xintunpu Village to combine labor and force. He had a long conversation with Zhang Chuyuan before the meeting, and at the meeting he listened to Zhang Chuyuan's report on the experience of combining labor and military force. He delivered a speech at the closing session on January 15, the theme of which was: Responding to Mao Zedong's call to "organize" and learning from Zhang Chuyuan, a model labor hero. He regarded Zhang Chuyuan's creation as a banner and called on the people in the border areas to learn from this example. At the meeting, Lin Feng also called for "combining force with labor" and vigorously organized the production of combat units and organ personnel. He said: "The combination of force and labor means that he who always takes up a weapon also takes up a hoe." He hoped that the responsible persons of various organs and units would personally lead the planning, arrangement, and organization of production in the new year.
After the Third Conference of Model Workers in the Jinsui Border Region, the banner of Xintunpu guided the people of the border area to move forward, and the combination of labor and military force became the direction of the people of the whole border area. In the entire base area, a climax of production and fighting was formed. The production of the organs and troops in the border areas was also stimulated, and they enthusiastically responded to the call put forward by Lin Feng on behalf of the Jinsui Sub-Bureau, and quickly achieved the goal of "combining labor with force" and "combining production with combat." In 1944, the militias in various localities made new developments, and the first important creation was the combination of work change and explosion, which developed the change work group that was originally dedicated to production into a combat explosion group. This creation, with the militia as the backbone in the work change, strengthened the armed struggle of the masses, and opened up a concrete road to the whole people becoming soldiers, was considered to be the most appropriate organizational form for the combination of labor and armed forces. The militia families have the support and help of the change group in their production and in the difficulties of intelligence, reconnaissance, and mine planting in wartime, which has brought the militia closer to the masses and increased their enthusiasm for the struggle to defend their hometowns.
As a result of the all-round struggle waged by the military and the people in the border region against the enemy, the grim situation in the Jinsui border region was quickly reversed. After one year and eight months of arduous struggle, the Daqingshan area, where the situation was most serious, basically restored the three guerrilla base areas of Suixi, Suizhong, and Suinan, and reached the situation before the enemy's sweep in July 1942. In the past year, the base areas have been self-sufficient in grain and cloth, the people's living standards have improved markedly, and the base areas have also developed and expanded.
"Squeeze the enemy out!"
In the spring of 1942, while Lin Feng was in Yan'an, he reported to the Central Committee on the struggle against the enemy and other situations in the Jinsui border area. The CPC Central Committee and Mao Zedong fully affirmed and praised the construction of the base areas in the northwest of Shanxi Province. At that time, all the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines were in a difficult period, the base areas were shrinking, and it was impossible for the troops to engage the enemy head-on. Mao Zedong told Lin Feng that it was necessary to mobilize the masses in the front and set up an armed task force behind enemy lines. Mao Zedong said that the task of the current northwest of Shanxi is to "squeeze the enemy out!" In late August, Lin Feng returned to Xingxian County and, in accordance with the decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, formally established the Jinsui Branch. At the same time, Mao Zedong's instructions were conveyed: "Squeeze the enemy out!" First of all, he discussed with the responsible comrades of the sub-bureau and the military region this principle put forward by Mao Zedong in light of the situation of the struggle between the enemy and us in Jinsui. Subsequently, after gaining an in-depth understanding of the current situation of the struggle against the enemy in the Jinsui Border Region, the Jinsui Sub-Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting of senior cadres from the northwest of Shanxi Province at the Caijiaya Military Region in Xingxian County. At the meeting, Lin Feng conveyed important instructions from the CPC Central Committee and Mao Zedong on "squeezing out the enemy", conscientiously implementing the "three-three system", and streamlining the administration of the army. Focusing on Mao Zedong's instruction to "squeeze the enemy out," the participants had a lively discussion in light of the actual situation in the Jinsui region. On December 5, 1942, in accordance with the instructions of Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi, as well as the resolution of the Senior Cadres Council, the Jinsui Sub-Bureau issued the "Instructions on Launching the Struggle against the Enemy". The "Instructions" point out: "Squeezing out the enemy" is the principle and task of the future struggle against the enemy. It is necessary to mobilize all the forces of the party, the government, the military, and the people, and under the unified leadership of the party committees at all levels, closely coordinate with each other, actively carry out the struggle against the enemy, and comprehensively "squeeze" the enemy militarily, politically, economically, and culturally.
Under the call of "squeezing the enemy out," which was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the struggle to "squeeze" the enemy was immediately in full swing. In the first three months of 1943, our troops fought 387 battles against the enemy, and 222 battles against the militia. In the anti-maintenance struggle, 881 puppet village regimes were destroyed and 555 anti-Japanese democratic village regimes were established, thus narrowing the scope of the enemy's strongholds from 30 to 40 li to less than 5 li. The principle of "squeezing the enemy out" quickly achieved tremendous results, and the military and people in the border areas changed from passive to active in their struggle against the enemy.
After the establishment of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningjin-Sui Joint Defense Command, Lin Feng concurrently served as the deputy political commissar of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningjin-Sui Joint Defense Army, and the main force of the 120th Division drove to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region. In August 1943, Lu Zhengcao led the Third Column of Central Hebei to the northwest of Shanxi Province, bringing with them the experience of the military and civilians in carrying out tunnel warfare and mine warfare against the enemy, vigorously carrying out explosive campaigns, and bringing about new developments in the situation of the struggle against the enemy. At this time, the Jinsui Sub-Bureau of the Communist Party of China held a mass work conference in the border areas, and Lin Feng presided over the study of the typical experience of "squeezing" the enemy in the previous stage, and proposed that the explosion campaign be carried out on a general basis. A boom of explosions arose in various parts of the border area, creating a situation in which "every household builds a mine, and everyone can explode." Since then, a powerful weapon -- landmines -- have been added to the siege warfare, greatly pushing forward the struggle to besiege and "squeeze" the enemy. In 1943, the Jinsui border region won a major victory in the struggle against the enemy. Throughout the year, 58 enemy strongholds were "squeezed", more than 1,000 villages were recovered, and 13 sweeps of the enemy's size were smashed, and all the enemy's illusions of "counter-squeezing" were shattered. The all-round struggle of the army and the people in the base areas to "squeeze" the enemy has brought into full play the tremendous power of the people's war.
While the vast numbers of the army and the people were waging an armed struggle to "squeeze" the enemy in the marginal areas, the peasants in various localities launched a campaign to reduce rents and interest rates on an unprecedented scale in the base areas where they were liberated earlier.
After the establishment of the new regime, in order to support the long-term war of resistance and stimulate the enthusiasm of the peasants to participate in the war and production, the Shanxi Northwest Administration promulgated a "Provisional Regulations on Rent Reduction and Interest Reduction" on April 1, 1941. On January 28, 1942, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China promulgated the Decision on the Land Policy in the Anti-Japanese Base Areas. On February 4, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) issued a "Directive on How to Implement the Land Policy Decision" to the party. On September 20, 1942, the Shanxi Northwest Administration simultaneously promulgated the "Shanxi Northwest Rent Reduction and Rent Payment Regulations" and the "Shanxi Northwest Interest Reduction and Interest Payment Regulations". After the promulgation of these two regulations for trial implementation, they were amended and passed by the Shanxi Northwest Provisional Conference on November 6, and then officially promulgated by the Executive Office. In formulating these two regulations, the Executive Department implemented the land policy of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and firmly grasped the principle of reducing rents and interest rates while ensuring the payment of rents and interest.
"The basic problem is to mobilize the masses
From this time until the spring of 1945, the peasants in the border areas responded to the call of the Jinsui Branch and the Jinsui Administration and launched a fierce struggle to reduce rents and interest rates. Later, a rent inspection campaign was launched to ensure the complete realization of rent reduction and to extend the rent reduction struggle to the newly liberated areas. The reduction of rents and interest rates has increased the peasants' enthusiasm for production and the struggle against the enemy, and has directly promoted production and construction in the base areas. The peasants in the three districts of Xingxian County held a celebration meeting after the rent reduction, and the young peasant Lei Gou happily patted a militiaman on the shoulder and said: "This is a good time, the old poor roots of the three generations of ancestors have also been smoked!"
Through the joint efforts of all the military and the people, tremendous achievements have been made in the mass work in the Jinsui Border Region, in the struggle against the enemy, and in production and construction. On July 1, 1943, Lin Feng made a statement in an interview with a reporter from the "Anti-Japanese War Daily": "Since the meeting of senior cadres last year, we have made great achievements in our work. The struggle against the enemy has been waged, the people's morale and morale have been invigorated, and our area has not shrunk anymore, but has expanded on the contrary. Production and construction have developed further, the mood for production has risen to an unprecedented height, and the living standards of the broad masses of the people and the organs and troops have improved. ”
Seventh, Comrade Lin Feng's War of Resistance was in Jinsui Fourth
Attach importance to ideological work
In the construction of the Jinsui revolutionary base area, Lin Feng attached importance to the work in the ideological field, cared about the development of cultural undertakings and the growth of cultural workers, and paid attention to uniting intellectuals to participate in the cultural and educational construction of the base area. He turned the original party member training class into a regular party school, and concurrently served as the principal; It has successively established the Seventh Branch of Kang University, the Northwest Branch of Lu Yijin and other cadre schools, and trained a large number of military, political, economic, and cultural cadres; the restoration and establishment of new schools and various social and educational organizations; At the same time, he led the establishment of newspapers and periodicals and literary groups such as "Five Days of Current Affairs", "Anti-Japanese War Daily", and Popular Drama Society.
In 1941, a meeting of senior party, government and military cadres in northwest Shanxi Province was held in Xiaoshan Village, Shanxi Province. The picture shows Lin Feng (fourth from left in the front row) and all the comrades
Supporting the "July Theatre Company"
Lin Feng not only pointed out the direction of progress and relevant principles and policies to cultural workers, but also often paid attention to and guided the specific activities of the cultural front. At that time, the July Drama Society, which was very active in the base area, was supported and supported by Lin Feng, was born in the Luliangshan Anti-Japanese Base Area, and gradually developed and grew after arriving in the Jinsui Border District.
The July Troupe was founded on July 1, 1939, also known as the Propaganda Team of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army ("Left-behind Office" is the code name of the Party Committee of the Southwest District of the Communist Party of China). Lin Feng attaches great importance to its establishment, supports its growth, and cares for everyone's life. The personnel required by the troupe shall be selected and transferred by order of the district party committee from the organs and the party, government, and military departments to which they belong. Qin Mubo, secretary general of the district party committee, Cao Su, chief of the clerical section, played the bangzi, and some cadres played the huqin and enthusiastically assisted them in rehearsing and performing. At that time, due to the attack by the Japanese army and the diehards, the situation was tense and the fighting was frequent, and the district party committee organs and the Jinxi detachment were frequently transferred. Lin Feng and the cadres and soldiers trekked through mountains and rivers together, living a very hard life. When I was particularly nervous, I had to move several places a day, and I couldn't even eat. Lin Feng was worried that the "little ghosts" of the troupe would be left behind, so he often asked the soldiers of the guard squad to help them take props and carry quilts; In case of emergency, the guard company was specially instructed to protect the safety of the troupe.
After the establishment of the Party Committee of the Western District of Shanxi, Lin Feng merged several troupes that were originally active in the northwest region of Shanxi into the July Troupe. In the winter of 1940, the district party committee decided to send the July Troupe to Yan'an to study, and Lin Feng personally wrote a letter of introduction to Luo Fu (Zhang Wentian), asking him to greet and arrange. When the troupe arrived in Yan'an, it successively entered the Lu Xun Art Academy and the Military Art Academy. After more than a year of study, practice, observation, and tempering, the political, ideological, literary and artistic qualities of the entire regiment have been improved to varying degrees.
From its establishment in July 1939 to the beginning of 1946, the July Drama Society performed more than 1,500 performances, performed more than 100 kinds of scripts, and had an audience of about 3 million. Their footprints cover most of the border areas, sometimes performing in villages very close to the enemy. Most of the dramas they staged were modern programs that expressed the struggle and life of the people in the border areas, and the traditional programs they performed also had high skills and were well received by the masses.
Pay attention to "Northwest Literature and Art"
In July 1941, under the attention of Lin Feng, "Northwest Literature and Art" was founded in Xingxian County. Lin Feng wrote an inscription for it: "To the Northwest Literature and Art". In the inscription, he hoped that the publication would be in close contact with the masses: "She is the gentleman of the masses and a student of the masses. It is necessary to educate the masses and improve the quality of the masses, but also to learn from the masses and listen to their voices. Whether it is music or drama, whether it is literature and art, its content must be anti-Japanese and progressive, oppose brutal oppression, and oppose dark reaction. It must be in a form that can be accepted by the masses and 'appreciated by the vulgar', gradually rising, against low-grade tastes, and complacents (especially in content). Therefore, she must be built-up, national, massive. At the same time, "I hope that she can become the core of unity of literary and artistic workers in northwest Shanxi Province and establish an anti-Japanese national united front in literature and art." ”
In the early days of the establishment of the base areas in the northwest of Shanxi Province, the economy of the base areas was extremely difficult, and due to the lack of necessary nutrition and medical conditions, many cultural workers became ill, and they often died because they were seriously ill and could not receive timely treatment. Lin Feng was very concerned about their life and health, and on October 27, 1941, the Northwest Shanxi Administration promulgated the "Measures for the Treatment of Cultural Workers in Northwest Shanxi". There is a special provision in it: "Cultural workers who are weakened by overwork are entitled to health care treatment if they are certified by a doctor." "The earnest concern of the party and the government has made the cultural workers in the base areas feel gratified.
Pay attention to "Five Days Current Affairs" and "Anti-Japanese War Daily"
Lin Feng attaches great importance to the role of the party newspaper and is good at using the newspaper to guide the work. Soon after the establishment of the Party Committee of the Southwest District of the Communist Party of China, Lin Feng initiated the establishment of the "Five Days Current Affairs" newspaper. This newspaper often publishes an analysis of current affairs in the past five days, the battle situation on various battlefields, as well as the instructions of the district party committees, and articles on informing and guiding practical work, so that cadres in various localities can understand current affairs and communicate with each other about the situation, and it is well received by readers. After the "Jinxi Incident", the "Five Days of Current Affairs" newspaper was transferred to Xingxian County to continue publication, and it was not until the "Anti-Japanese War Daily" was first published that it was suspended. In the spring of 1940, in order to adapt to the revolutionary situation, Lin Feng decided to publish the newspaper of the Party Committee of Jinxi District, the Anti-Japanese War Daily, and immediately dispatched personnel to start preparations. On September 18 of this year, the Anti-Japanese War Daily was officially launched, and it was initially published as a three-day journal twice a week. Lin Feng always paid attention to the work of the party newspaper, and paid special attention to the writing of editorials. Under the leadership of the district party committee, an editorial committee has been set up, and all important editorials have been collectively discussed and written by people who are more familiar with relevant issues, so as to provide targeted guidance for practical work. The editorials he writes usually have to be reviewed by Lin Feng and revised in person. After the establishment of the Jinsui Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1942, the "Anti-Japanese War Daily" became the organ newspaper of the Jinsui Branch. On October 1 of this year, the Jinsui Branch passed the "<抗战日报>Decision on Work". In order to enable party committees at all levels to earnestly implement this decision, on 22 October, at a meeting of senior cadres held by the Jinsui Sub-Bureau, Lin Feng also made a special report on the issue of the "Anti-Japanese War Daily."
During Lin Feng's participation in the preparatory meeting of the Seventh National Congress in Yan'an, Mao Zedong talked with Lin Feng and talked about his opinions on the "Anti-Japanese War Daily". At that time, Mao Zedong picked up two newly received newspapers and compared them. The headline in the newspaper on December 1 was "Our Army in the Eighth Division Recovers Dongshe," and he said that the newspaper of this day was well organized and should be so; In the newspaper on 6 December, the first and fourth pages were full pages of Lin Biao's speech: "How to Train the Troops This Year." He said that the newspaper on this day should not be compiled like this, and long articles could be printed in pamphlets or excerpted from some of the main points and published in the newspaper. Subsequently, Mao Zedong gave important instructions on how to improve the editorial work of the "Anti-Japanese War Daily": "Local news should occupy at least two to three pages, and when arranging news, it should be mainly local, followed by domestic and international news. Field and international messages should be transformed. The Xinhua News Agency should not publish all the articles, some should be summarized, and some should be printed as pamphlets. Instead of running a newspaper for the Xinhua News Agency, it should be run for the people of the Jinsui Border District, and it should be based on the needs of the local people (contacting the masses and serving the masses), otherwise it will be divorced from the masses and lose its local guiding significance. ”
After Lin Feng and Mao Zedong talked, he conveyed these opinions to the Anti-Japanese War Daily in a timely manner, and organized the newspaper's editorial staff to study and discuss them carefully. How to strengthen the locality of a newspaper in a base area, maintain close ties with the masses in the base areas, and serve the masses in the base areas, so as to strengthen its guiding role in practical work is a major topic that the "Anti-Japanese War Daily" has been exploring and resolving since its inception. Although there have been many efforts in the past, little improvement has been made. As a result of this discussion, the political nature of the newspaper has also been strengthened, local news has taken up at least three pages, the pages have become more lively and lively than before, the newspapers have become more closely linked with the masses, and their guiding role in practical work has been increasingly strengthened, and they have gradually become indispensable reading materials for the people of the Jinsui Border Region.
Promote the base to the world
In the summer of 1944, a delegation of Chinese and foreign journalists from the northwest broke through the long-term blockade of the Kuomintang government and arrived in Yan'an from Chongqing. Some of the foreign journalists, who came to visit the Jinsui border area after visiting Yan'an, arrived in Xingxian County on 30 August. They are: Israel Epstein, a reporter for Time magazine, the New York Times, and the United Labor News Agency, Harrison Foreman, a reporter for the United Press and The Times in London, and Maurice Takeau, a reporter for Reuters, the Star in Dolando, and the Baltimore Sun. At the request of the reporters, Lin Feng briefed them on the situation of the struggle against the enemy, economic construction, political and democratic facilities, and helped them inspect the front line of the Eighth Army Division, and saw with their own eyes the battle scene of our army's bloody battle, attacking Fenyang Chengguan and capturing Renyan, an enemy's strong stronghold. During their visit to the Jinsui Liberated Area for more than a month, they were deeply moved by the solidarity between the masses of the people and the anti-Japanese army, and praised the Eighth Route Army as the best people's army in the world. Based on their own experience, they wrote articles and writings that reported to the world the achievements of the Jinsui Border Region in the struggle against the enemy and in the construction of base areas.
Foreign journalist Epstein recalled interviewing Lin Feng and said: "The most impressive thing about my interview in the Jinsui border area was the interview with Lin Feng. His remarks on the work of the Party presented a clear picture of the coordination of military, production, political and mass cultural work under the leadership of the Party. His remarks not only affirmed the perceptual understanding we have gained through our own observations, but also helped us to raise our level of rational understanding and form an optimistic belief in the future with a solid foundation. ”
Eighth, Comrade Lin Feng's War of Resistance was in the fifth of Jinsui
From April 23 to June 11, 1945, the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Yan'an. Lin Feng attended the meeting and was elected as a member of the Central Committee. During the meeting, the central authorities convened several forums with representatives from the northeast from the liberated areas. Mao Zedong said to Lin Feng: "You are from the Northeast, you have to prepare to work in the Northeast." ”
Farewell to the people of Jinsui according to pity
After the conclusion of the Seventh National Congress, Lin Feng stayed in Yan'an temporarily. On August 18, 1945, Lin Feng returned to Xing County, the capital of Jinsui Border District. Soon after Lin Feng left Yan'an, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China officially decided to transfer him to work in the Northeast. On August 19, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China instructed in a telegram to He Long and Lin Feng: "Lin Feng is ready to go to the Northeast,...... 1,200 cadres went to the Northeast, and a week later they set off from Yan'an, and handed over to Lin Feng to lead the north, asking Lin Feng to prepare first. "In mid-September, the Yan'an Cadre Regiment and the 1st Teaching Brigade arrived in Xingxian County, and after meeting with the party, government, and military cadres transferred from the Jinsui Border Region, they were organized into a cadre regiment after a short period of rest. On September 22, the cadre group set off from Xingxian. There are more than 1,900 members of the cadre regiment, mainly senior and middle-level leading cadres, as well as some security personnel and miscellaneous personnel. Lin Feng is the overall leader of this team. On this day, all the cadres and fighters of the detachment gathered, and Lin Feng first introduced several leading comrades of the detachment to everyone, and then made a brief mobilization.
When bidding farewell, Lin Feng stood on the side of the road, said goodbye to the leading comrades and representatives of the masses one by one, then turned around and got on the horse, and slowly marched with the long queue. "Ruthless may not be a true hero", at this moment, Lin Feng, who is known as "cold on the surface and hot on the inside", is full of emotions and emotions. On the one hand, he is leading the cadres to fight back to his hometown after 14 years of occupation, marching towards the white mountains and black waters ravaged by the Japanese invaders, and he feels infinitely excited; On the other hand, he fought side by side with the people of Shanxi and the Japanese invaders for eight years, and formed a deep friendship of fighting. "After the liberation of the whole country into the city, my father often missed the 120th Division that fought together in Jinsui and the old comrades in the local area at that time, and he felt particularly cordial to people with Shanxi accents." Comrade Lin Feng's daughter Lin Genggeng told reporters.
Pay attention to the unity of the party, the government, the army and the people
Comrade Lin Feng left Shanxi to work in the northeast, but his work ability and achievements during the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Shanxi were unanimously affirmed by the party and the masses. "He has the ability to lead, the ability to overcome all difficulties and solve difficulties. In 1940, the northwest of Shanxi Province caused a great deal of social chaos after the war, and when he first arrived here, he was able to deal with this chaos very calmly, so that it could quickly settle down. He did not study military affairs, but since the Anti-Japanese War, he has never left the war, the enemy swept the northwest of Shanxi, many sick and weak cadres crossed the river, his health is not very good, but he always stayed with He and Guan, and insisted on working in Hedong. ......" the "Anti-Japanese War Daily" of that year introduced him like this.
Lin Feng had a high degree of principled spirit, attached great importance to the unity of the party, the government, the army, and the people, often took the initiative to strengthen the relationship between the party and the people's army, and also respected He Long and Guan Xiangying very much, and often asked them for instructions, informed them of the work of the party committee, communicated the situation in a timely manner, and jointly participated in the decision of important principles and policies in the northwest of Shanxi. Comrade Lin Feng's daughter, Lin Genggeng, told reporters: "In 1942, the Central Committee decided to reorganize the Jinxi District Party Committee to establish the Jinsui Branch of the CPC Central Committee, and the Suiyuan District was also placed under the unified leadership of the Jinsui Branch. The central government decided that Lin Feng would be responsible for the formation work. Regarding the candidates and organizational structure of the Jinsui Branch, Lin Feng submitted a report and asked the central authorities for decision. At first, the Central Committee asked Lin Feng to be the secretary of the Jinsui Branch, but Lin Feng, out of respect for Comrade Guan Xiangying, said very modestly that he could not afford this burden, and suggested that Guan Xiangying be asked to be the secretary, he could serve as the deputy secretary, and the actual work would be done by him, so that Guan Xiangying could recuperate in Yan'an. Later, the central government accepted his opinion, and after the establishment of the Jinsui Branch, Guan Xiangying was the secretary, Lin Feng was the deputy secretary, and Guan Xiangying was the acting secretary of Lin Feng on sick leave. ”
Lin Feng also has a particularly fond affection for the people's army under the leadership of the party. He often told local cadres that the establishment, consolidation, and expansion of the Jinsui base area were inseparable from the bloody battles of the commanders and fighters of the 120 th Division. In 1943, not long after Lu Zhengcao was transferred from the Jizhong Military Region to the Jinsui Military Region as commander, Lin Feng accompanied him to various sub-districts to investigate and understand the work of the troops and localities. Along the way, Lin Feng briefed Lu Zhengcao in great detail on the leaders of the various sub-districts and the work situation at that time, and personally arranged and inquired about the lives of Lu Zhengcao and other leading comrades of the army, which made people feel considerate and meticulous. He was very concerned about the troops, and he gave careful and meticulous consideration to the handling of military relations and military-government relations. He was even more considerate and considerate of the commanders and fighters of the Jizhong Army, who had just come to the mountainous areas from the plains, and often reminded local cadres on various occasions to support the troops, expand the armed forces, and ensure the supply of troops. Because the party, government, army, and people were united, they were able to overcome all difficulties, so that the Jinsui anti-Japanese base area could be continuously consolidated and developed, and won the final victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Take into account the overall interests of the revolution
Lin Feng not only united comrades, but also proceeded from the overall situation when dealing with problems, inspiring everyone to see the big goal and realize the overall interests of the revolutionary cause. He conscientiously and resolutely implemented the directives, principles, and policies of the CPC Central Committee, and respected and supported the central leading comrades very much. He often taught cadres that when thinking about problems and doing things, we must proceed from the overall situation, and we must support the party Central Committee headed by Mao Zedong; without the correct leadership of the party Central Committee, there will be no Jinsui base area. The anti-Japanese democratic base areas behind the enemy line are far away from Yan'an, and only Jinsui is the closest. The Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region and the Jinsui Border Region are equally poor, and the central leading organs live there, and their economic burden is heavier than ours. As soon as the "Jinxi Incident" ended, he sent people to Yan'an one after another to send the seized materials and silver oceans, and Dutch cattle and merino sheep to the Guanghua Farm in Yan'an, so that the central authorities could tide over the difficulties and be able to do business with the enemy-occupied areas, purchase medicine, photography, and communication equipment, and subsidize the survival and work of comrades on the secret front. Let the people of Yan'an, especially the wounded and sick, infants and young children have milk to drink, and use wool to weave sweaters for soldiers and cadres in the large-scale production movement. Lin Feng, who had just discovered that the big kitchen was cooking mutton and smelled the fragrance of mutton, hurriedly investigated the source of mutton, and heard that it was seized from Yan Xishan Farm. He immediately asked the subordinates to stop killing sheep and sent troops to escort Yan'an. And he himself eats black beans to satisfy his hunger as everyone else. No matter in the difficult days of the Jinsui base area, or when he gradually reached abundant food and clothing after the large-scale production movement, Lin Feng always tried his best to support the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area with materials and help the border area overcome difficulties.
Since the main force of our army withdrew from the southwestern Shanxi region in the "Jinxi Incident", the Jinsui border area has become the only communication channel between Yan'an and the anti-Japanese base areas in northern, central, and southern China. The 8th and 6th Divisions in the northwest of Shanxi Province were the choke points of the CPC Central Committee to the liberated areas behind enemy lines at that time. Lin Feng has worked in the White Zone for a long time, has rich experience in secret work, and attaches great importance to the work of establishing secret communication lines. He was extremely concerned and caring for the comrades who passed through Jinsui to Yan'an in various base areas, and not only often reminded the relevant localities to pay attention to the safety of passing personnel, but also often asked the relevant comrades to take care of the lives of passing personnel. Lin Feng often told the comrades who were responsible for arranging the lives of the passers-by: No matter how hard we are, we must also receive guests from all walks of life well. When the cadres and the masses in the border areas eat black beans, the relevant personnel always try their best to find some millet for the passers-by; When you eat millet and potatoes yourself, you always have to find some white noodles for your guests to eat, so that they can feel as warm as if they were in their own homes. During the entire War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, no matter how dangerous the situation in the Jinsui Border Region became and how serious the difficulties were, the two secret communication lines of the 6th and 8th Divisions were always unimpeded, like steel trunk lines that could not be destroyed by any force. In the work of escorting personnel in the past, he escorted many comrades such as Liu Shaoqi and Xu Xiangqian who went to Yan'an from behind enemy lines, escorted all the deputies to the National Congress of the Communist Party of China who went to Yan'an from the base areas behind enemy lines, and tens of thousands of party, government, military, and civilian personnel from various base areas. Thousands of escort missions have been successfully completed.
In his speech at the symposium commemorating the 100th anniversary of Comrade Lin Feng's birth, Comrade Wang Zhaoguo commented on the achievements of the Jinsui Revolutionary Base Area: "During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Comrade Lin Feng was one of the main founders of the Jinsui Anti-Japanese Base Area. He cooperated with He Long and Guan Xiangying to mobilize the masses, develop party members, train cadres, establish democratic regime, restore and develop production, and fully support Yan'an's financial economy; Establish and develop the people's armed forces, persist in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, actively implement Comrade Mao Zedong's policy of "squeezing the enemy out", and constantly expand the base areas to become a solid barrier in Yan'an; It has actively and steadily established secret communication lines between Yan'an and various base areas. In these respects, Comrade Lin Feng made immortal meritorious deeds, contributed to the defeat of Japanese imperialism by the revolutionary army and people led by the party, and accumulated important strength for the overthrow of the rule of the Kuomintang. ”