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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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