The whirlwind action of the Fifth Group Army of the Revolutionary Army and the Nanyang Column of the Fifth Group Army naturally set off a storm, but the development of this storm even Xie Niancheng never expected.

After Zhang Linfu returned to report to Jiang Wei, Jiang Wei immediately called a meeting of senior military officers, and soon they also came up with ways to deal with the opposition in the Socialist Party and the radical wing of the Socialist Party in the localities.

"Revolution is life and death, revolution is not a dinner party. To be merciful to one's enemies is to be cruel to oneself. It's better to kill 10,000 more than to injure 1 of your brother! Commander-in-Chief Xie said well, we should do the same. ”

"Go down and divide up, and arrest all those who should be arrested, and kill a group of those who should be killed; Look at Sichuan, killing hundreds of thousands of people, it can be regarded as killing a quiet place; It is precisely because they dare to kill and can kill that they have come out of the current situation; Be bolder! ”

If Xie Niancheng knew that Jiang Wei understood what he was doing in this way, he really wanted to take a flashlight to take care of Jiang Guangtou's head, I don't know how his head grows to make such a decision?

The Sichuan government and the revolutionary army under the leadership of Xie Niancheng did kill a lot of people; Those who can be killed are those who are against the Revolutionary Army and the National Salvation Association.

Jiang Wei, this guy, plans to take the opposition in the party!

The Socialist Party is now at odds with each other; The socialists in the upper strata were mostly gentry and capitalists; What they want is to maintain the existing order.

The Socialists of the lower classes believed in equal land rights and average capital; Because no one took the lead, they shouted slogans that were also chaotic, in some places. also did something to kill the landlord; They joined the Socialist Party and fought the revolution; The picture is a change.

Originally, the contradiction between the upper and lower levels, Jiang Wei as the leader. Something should be found to adjust; After all, everyone is still in the same party, and they are still in the same boat.

It's a pity that Jiang Wei chose to slaughter.

On July 22, the massacre began.

The units of Jiang Wei's 1st Army and local militia groups took action to arrest leftist activists of the Socialist Party and dissidents who preached other high-level anti-Socialist theories.

During this purge, a large number of middle and lower members of the Socialist Party were killed. For example, the Jiangsu Provincial Party Department of the Socialist Party claimed when summing up the lessons and lessons of the purging of the party: "After the purging of the party took place, the majority of the revolutionary loyalists of the party have lost their protection and are in danger of being framed and fabricated by local shoddy corruption at any time. The situation is as miserable as a lost dog. ”

"The Lost Dog" vividly describes the mentality and situation of all the middle and lower strata of the Socialist Party at that time. The clouds of white terror hung over the heads of the Socialists. The slightest carelessness in words and deeds can lead to the "thug hat". Accusing people of thugs. It was the easiest "trick" to put people to death at that time. Those who had a gap with others in the past can vent their personal hatred by accusing them of being thugs; Those who usually have conflicts with others can get rid of their opponents by falsely accusing them of being thugs; Some people even failed to ask for marriage, and also falsely accused the other party of being a thug.

On August 10-11, 2015, the Socialist Party's Central Daily serialized a letter from readers entitled "The Sad and Desperate Cry of Comrades Working in the Lower Classes". It clearly reflects the panic and anxiety of the local members of the Socialist Party at that time:

The party is unfortunate. The occurrence of the purging movement of the party because of practical needs has given corrupt and opportunistic corrupt elements the opportunity to rise up and counterattack the revolutionary forces. There are those who have been killed, and there are those who have been falsely accused. There are those who are arrested, and there are those who are imprisoned.

The purging movement was not shallow in its self-inflicted harm on the Socialist Party. In addition to the fact that some of the Socialist youth were killed in this movement, a considerable number of Socialists were discouraged, disappointed, and even left the party because of the purge.

For example, in 2016, when the Jiangsu Provincial Party Department held the general registration of socialist party members, "party members are discouraged by the party, and those who do not come to register account for three or four out of ten; 45 out of 10 will be registered on the sidelines; 23 out of 10 people do not register due to counter-propaganda. ”

This situation is not unique to Jiangsu Province. The re-registered socialist party members in Guangzhou are less than 10% of the original party members in the city; The number of applicants for registration in Guangdong Province is only 35% of the total number of original party members. In Hankow, there were more than 30,000 party members before the Qing Dynasty, but only 5,000 at the time of registration. In Changsha, before the purging of the party, it was claimed that there were as many as 190,000 party members (this number may be water), and after the purging of the party, only 1,526 "qualified party members" remained. Among the more than 1,500 "qualified party members," "there are very few in the peasant and industrial circles." Before the purging of the party, the total number of Socialist Party members in the country was more than 1 million. After the purging of the party, according to statistics in October 1929, the total number of Socialist party members was reduced to more than 350,000, a decrease of two-thirds.

Among the more than 300,000 socialist party members who have been reduced, there are probably two main types of people: one is young party members who are more radical in their thinking; One category is the lower class of peasants and workers.

Most of the former were purged, and most of the latter were automatically left the party. It can be said that in this campaign to purge the party, the main ones who were eliminated and attacked within the socialist party were a group of party members who had ideals and enthusiasm for the revolution.

In fact, there may be more than 300,000 people who have been purged and voluntarily left the party. This is because at the same time that the members of the Peasants' and Workers' Party and the radical youth were purged from the Party, there was also an influx of opportunists into the Party. For example, in Nanjing, there were only about 3,000 party members before the purging of the party, and more than 10,000 people applied for registration after the purging of the party. Jiangsu Province registered more than 50,000 party members after the purging of the party, which is several times more than the number of party members before the purging of the party, and the socialist party department of Jiangsu Province pointed out in its work report after the purge that the counties "either have a large number of party members but very few registrations, or have very few party members and too many registrations." He also called the latter mostly opportunistic. There are four types of cases in which they pretend to be party members and register in a vague manner: first, they hope to obtain party membership to carry out activities in political circles; the second is that the ruffians and hooligans want to eat party food; third, the inferior minions infiltrated the party in an attempt to maintain its feudal power; Fourth, party members planted the party for personal gain. At that time, some people in the Socialist Party commented that although the Socialist Party "won a military victory, it was in a terrible political situation, and local tyrants, shoddy gentry, and opportunistic elements infiltrated the party in a hidden way, and pretended to be party members to slander loyal comrades under the pretext of slandering loyal comrades." ”

"The people's belief in this party can be regarded as completely eroded at this time!"

For the Socialist Party, the purging movement was actually a movement to eliminate talent within the party. Many party members who truly had beliefs, ideals, and revolutionary enthusiasm were purged and eliminated, and some were brutally killed as thugs because they mingled with the masses of workers and peasants. For example, the wealthy landlords of Zhejiang, "in the name of the Qing Party, falsely accused those who propagandized and advocated rent reduction in various places as thugs, and reported them to various organs. After the various organs accepted the complaint, the major events were searched and arrested, and the innocent victims were difficult to count. This is tantamount to reminding those who remain in the Socialist Party to stop solving social and economic problems in a radical way. On the other hand, those opportunistic and corrupt elements and local tyrants and shoddy gentry who used the party for their own purposes poured in or remained in the party as they were.

After such a reverse elimination, the people's faith in the Socialist Party plummeted. The Jiangsu Provincial Party Department of the Socialist Party wrote in the report on the purging of the party: "The local tyrants used the name of purging the party to carry out revenge and try to revive. The faithful are defiled, the turbidity is not distinguished, and right and wrong are reversed. Those who are weak-willed regard the revolution as a daunting path, and those who are enthusiastic will hurt the hopelessness of the party, and speculation will become corrupt and come one after another." This leads to "the decline of the party's morality," "the party's power is declining," "the party's machine is ruined," and "the people's faith in the party is completely lost."

Jiang Wei finally admitted: "During the Qing Party period, after more than half a year, the rebellion of the rioters was extinguished, and the spirit of the Party was also annihilated. ”

Jiang Wei's purging of the party can be said to have turned the originally progressive Socialist Party into a 'club of the upper class'; the socialist regime, like the old warlord regime, became the protective umbrella of the local tyrants and the inferior gentry, and the oppressor of the workers and peasants.

Jiang Wei's practice was unanimously applauded by the new warlords of the Socialist Party, and Feng Xiangyu, Cai Hua, Tang Zhi, Li Zhongren, and Bai Gaoxi also followed Jiang Wei's practice and began to "purge the party." ”

In order to achieve "cooperation in cleaning up the party" and "unifying party affairs," they carried out a series of deliberations and contacts. Feng Xiangyu took the lead, repeatedly e-commerce with all parties, and proposed specific measures to solve the cooperation between Nanjing and Han on August 20.

Wang Zhongzheng and others expressed their willingness to "peacefully reunify" and agreed to "move the capital to Nanjing."

Jiang Wei, Li Zhongren, Bai Gaoxi, and others welcomed important elements from Wuhan to Nanjing to "govern" and agreed to the "joint Northern Expedition" of all parties.

In early September, the two sides basically reached a compromise. At this time, although Wang Zhongzheng and others agreed to cooperate with the Ning side, they still adhered to an anti-Wang attitude and made a lot of noise.

At the same time, Jiang Wei rejected dissidents, causing dissatisfaction among the Gui family, and Li Zhongren, Bai Gaoxi, and others no longer adopted an active and supportive attitude towards Chiang. Coupled with the defeat of the battle on the Jinpu Line personally commanded by Jiang Wei, it was in a difficult situation. Jiang Wei felt that his position was not yet consolidated, so he adopted the strategy of retreating into advance, and on September 13, he issued a manifesto announcing his resignation from the post of commander-in-chief of the Chinese Revolutionary Army and returning to Fenghua, Zhejiang. Soon, he traveled east to Japan.

Jiang Wei's descent accelerated the pace of cooperation between Ningbo and Han.

From September 11 to 13, representatives of Nanjing, Han and Shanghai held a meeting in Shanghai to officially announce the establishment of the 'Nanjing Federal Government'.

Soon after the establishment of the government, Wang Zhongzheng and Li Zhongren in the Socialist Party were full of contradictions and could not hold each other, so they had to bring out Jiang Wei as a buffer, and Jiang Wei's "market" was bullish and returned to Shanghai from day to day.

In early February 2016, the Fourth Plenary Session of the Third Central Committee of the Socialist Party was held in Nanjing. He was elected chairman of the Central Political Committee of the Socialist Party and chairman of the Military Council. On February 18, he also served as the chairman of the Nanjing Federal Government, integrating the three "chairmen".

The Socialist Party officially entered the era of Wang Wei.

These are all later words, and the Socialist Party purge the party is far from Xie Niancheng's clique, because there is no Socialist Party organization in Xie Niancheng's army and the Sichuan government.

Xie Niancheng's private agreements with the Kong family, the Song family, and even Jiang Wei did not have a half-point discount because of the Qing Party.

If anything, in September 2015, the Qing Party allowed Luo Wenxuan, Yan Xuejun, Lin Xianyun, and hundreds of leftist graduates of the Qingpu Military Academy to flee to Sichuan, enriching the Fifth Army. (To be continued......)