The Founding of an Army Page #3

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Such a backwards class of people.

Once the land issues are solved

and the peasants are armed,

they become the capital for our revolution

as well as our largest force.

Do you understand any of this?

Right now I don't,

but I will in the future.

Get out!

How dare you distort Marxism?

Who do you think you are?

Zedong!

Mao, get out now!

Get out!

Comrade Wang Shouhua,

today is the 49th day since you

and your 300 comrades died on April 12.

I hereby pledge

that for the realization

of our glorious common ideal

to found a new China,

I, Zhou Enlai, will fight for the rest of my life

and stay devoted

till my heart ceases to beat.

You were elected a member of the Political Bureau

at the 5th CPC National Congress.

The Congress decided to

suspend the Military Department

and organize the Central Military Commission

with you as the general secretary.

Mao Zedong made a good point.

What did he say?

He spoke the truth.

He was in charge

of mobilizing peasants in Guangzhou

and I didn't know

he had such a unique opinion on armed struggles.

He wrote "Report on an Investigation

of the Peasant Movement In Hunan"

and has a deep understanding of China's situation.

We also need to maintain our path

of urban struggles.

Fighting with two fists

is the only way to overwhelm the enemy.

Yingchao,

pack up.

We are going to Wuhan.

Wuhan?

You came to see me as soon as you reached Wuhan.

Do you have an emergency?

I read your speech

and really wanted to speak with you.

We should smokeless

and learn more.

Right now the Party needs to hear your voice.

I have already been driven out

and no one is willing to listen to me anymore.

But I am a communist and I'm willing to listen.

See, am I not here for you already?

Cigarettes are such a wonderful thing.

It would be terrible

to not know how to smoke them.

But once you know how,

they make you feel like an immortal.

They are just like a weapon.

They bring hope in good hands

and disaster in bad.

April 12 was a bloody lesson.

Almost all the armed forces in Shanghai were lost

and I am responsible.

In Sichuan,

He'nan,

Hubei and Guangdong,

they are still purging the communists.

This is because our power is still being weakened.

We should have no more illusions.

If we still want to continue our revolution

we have to create an army

with revolutionary faith.

But now is the low tide of the revolution.

Don't lose heart.

We have millions of troops.

Can't you see them?

From where?

Peasants.

China has four hundred million peasants.

For generations

they have been bullied

by the landlords and the rich

and have suffered a great deal.

They are like dry kindling covering the ground.

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