In recent years, there is a new view that Mao Zedong only entered the core decision-making level of the Central Committee and the Red Army at the Zunyi Conference, and did not establish his leadership position in name or substance. Zunyi Conference established Zhang Wentian's leading position. What was the actual situation at that time?
First of all, Mao Zedong made a lot of preparations before the Zunyi meeting.
In Mao Zedong, which was marginalized in the Central Soviet Area, a lot of work was done before the Zunyi Meeting in order to urge the party leadership to reflect on the reasons for failure, take responsibility for failure and re-enter the core decision-making level.
1. After exchanging views with Wang Jiaxiang, Wang said, "I'm going to do ideological work, and I must knock Li De down!"
Since the Long March, Mao Zedong has been with Wang Jiaxiang, Deputy chairman of the Central Military Commission and Director of the General Political Department. The two began to exchange views on the failure of the anti-encirclement campaign and the serious losses in the early days of the Long March. At that time, according to Wang Jiaxiang's wife Zhu Zhongli said in the article:
"On this day, Mao Zedong said to Wang Jiaxiang:' Smoking is better than getting sick, but the heart disease you lost is very difficult to cure!' Wang Jiaxiang asked: "Comrade Dong Ze, I just want to ask you, what do you think of the current situation?" Mao Zedong asked, "What about you?" "What do you think," Wang Jiaxiang said? "In short, it will be terrible to let Li De and others continue to command like this!" "
"Before entering Tongdao County on the western border of Hunan Province, Mao Zedong and Wang Jiaxiang discussed in more depth how to get rid of the current predicament. Wang Jiaxiang said, "Bo Gu will never lead the troops. Although Li De is rich in military knowledge, since he entered the Soviet area, he has turned a blind eye to the current situation and blindly commanded! "Mao Zedong said,' This is the problem. Where did Li De's military knowledge come from? It comes from a laptop, from a foreign country in the west ... and the nature of our war against "encirclement and suppression" is even more different because of different circumstances and conditions. With hundreds of thousands of miles away, decades or even years ago, how could he be invincible? "... Wang Jiaxiang said,' I totally agree with you.' Mao Zedong said with a wry smile: "Unfortunately, I am now in a position where I have no right to speak." Wang Jiaxiang said,' Not necessarily. I think many comrades will agree with you now. Mao: "Who do you think will agree with me?" Wang: I think some comrades in the Politburo must agree with you:' Have you talked to them recently?' Wang nodded. Mao:' ok, we can find more comrades to exchange views.' Wang: "I will definitely tell them your opinion."
"Wang Jiaxiang first found Zhang Wentian and talked about Mao Zedong and his own views in detail. Hearing this, the Zhang Wentian obviously agreed. ..... Three people gradually formed a more consistent view ... At the same time, Mao Zedong also talked with Zhou Enlai and Zhu De and got their support. Nie Rongzhen, the political commissar of the First Corps ... and Wang Jiaxiang trust and understand each other very much. Wang Jiaxiang said bluntly to him, according to the current situation, it is necessary to remove the military command of Bo Gu Kailai and Li De, reorganize the leadership, and it is best for Comrade Mao Zedong to come out again to command the troops. Nie Rongzhen said happily: "I totally agree, I already have this idea." "
Later, when Wang Jiaxiang was specifically asked this question, Wang said, "First of all, I am very dissatisfied with Bo Gu's military command. I once questioned read, but it didn't work. One day, Chairman Mao and I were both lying on a stretcher. We were both in poor health and lying side by side on the stretcher. After sighing, I said to Chairman Mao,' Zunyi City is just ahead, and we will have a meeting to sum up our experience. If we continue to drag on like this, the revolution will lose too much. Chairman Mao quickly asked,' Can you drive? "Just the two of us!" I said,' Go ahead, I'll do the ideological work, and I must blow Li De down! In this way, the Zunyi meeting was successfully held. "…
In fact, Li De is well aware of Mao Zedong's activities. He once said to Bo Gu Kailai: "(Mao Zedong) stayed in this regiment for a while and in that regiment for a while, regardless of marching discipline, in order to persuade the commanders and political commissars of the regiment and division to accept his ideas.