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¡@ ¡@ Mao Ze-dong certainly wanted to counteract this "adverse current". He wanted to publish books in Beijing, but was blocked by a group of Communist Party members including Beijing's mayor Peng Zhen. ¡@ ¡@ The "aged" Mao Ze-dong knew military strategies very well, he had a clear and thorough view of everything. ¡@ ¡@ Forecasting the tendency of rain from the mountains, Mao then returned to Shanghai to publish his Machine gun and Mortar. ¡@ ¡@ In order to reverse the ever increasing acute confronting situation between the Communist Party and common people nationwide, ¡@ ¡@ in order to cover up various policy faults during the ten plus years since his founding the state, ¡@ ¡@ in order to prevent possible coup d'etat aiming at "overthrowing the Mao Ze-dong regime", and stopping possible civil war, ¡@ ¡@ he needed to "do something", this is going to be a "big overt plot" which could "kill several birds with one stone". ¡@ ¡@ At last, he found the approach, which was to unleash the cultural revolution. ¡@ ¡@ Mao made a special effort in calling on the commander of a large military region, brave field warrior Xu Shi-you to assume personal command of Nanjing military region. ¡@ ¡@ He assigned important positions to Lin Biao, Chen Bo-da, Kang Sheng, as well as Wang, Zhang, Jiang, Yao (Wang Hong-wen, Zhang Chun-qiao, Jiang Qing, Yao Wen-yuan). ¡@ ¡@ Lin Biao controlled the army and dominated the Ministry of Defence. ¡@ ¡@ Chen, Kang, Wang, Zhang, Jiang and Yao were responsible for taking charge of the cultural revolution. |
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