After careful consideration, Li Xu felt that this kind of personality was probably caused by his long-term lack of family affection.
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A few more days passed.
That night.
Li Mei, who had just returned from get off work, said to everyone in the Li family as soon as she entered the door, "Xiao Xu's premonition has come true again. A bigger storm is coming."
Except for Yang Dong, everyone else was stunned at first, and then they all showed anxious expressions, "Tell me about the situation."
"Today we received a notice from above demanding that we launch a new movement called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to eliminate bourgeois ideology."
"What about the sports content?"
"To get rid of the four olds means to get rid of old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits."
Hearing this, Li Ping was shocked. "I understand getting rid of old ideas, but what do the other three mean?"
After a moment's silence, Li Mei explained, "The central government only talked about destroying the Four Olds, but didn't say how to do it. The provincial government, however, has come up with several measures, saying they will resolutely ban feudal superstitious activities, including fortune-telling, feng shui, burning paper, ancestor worship, and worshiping gods. All festival customs are prohibited."
"Ah?" Everyone exclaimed immediately, "What's the difference between this and before?"
You should know that these aspects have been banned a long time ago, but people didn't take them seriously.
Now that the old issue is brought up again, they still feel that it will not have much effect.
So this made them confused, how could this be considered a bigger storm?
Li Mei replied with a bitter look on her face, "There is a difference. They said they're serious this time."
Li Jiakang showed an expression of disbelief. "Are they crazy? If this were real, how many people would die?"
“No one knows whether they are crazy or not, but the people in the county government are going crazy.”
The county government is caught in a dilemma. If it doesn't do it, it doesn't know how the higher authorities will punish them.
If we do this, how many people at the grassroots level will have to die?
And who wants to die?
Even a rabbit will bite when it is anxious, let alone a person when he is anxious.
It's obvious that they are forcing people to die. Who knows what they will do?
As a member of the county government, Li Mei is one of the anxious people.
After thinking for a moment, Li Ping said thoughtfully, "Why don't we wait for Xiaoxu to come back and ask him if he has any solution?"
"Yeah." Li Mei nodded in response.
After dinner.
The Li family discussed the impact of this incident until Li Xu came home at around nine o'clock.
Seeing him enter the room, Li Mei hurried forward, took the bag from his hand and put it aside, then quickly explained the situation.
After listening, Li Xu waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, wait a few days."
"Wait?" Li Mei was a little confused.
"Yes, that's to wait." Li Xu then explained, "This order isn't very clear, so there will definitely be follow-up. Besides, the Four Cleanups Movement showed that the central government doesn't trust the local grassroots, so it's likely that this won't be your turn to do it."
During the entire Four Cleanups Movement, it can be said that apart from the rural masses and the five black categories, the local grassroots governments were the most affected.
Especially in the later stages, those who were targeted were very powerful.
To this end, the content of the movement was changed to clearing thoughts, politics, organizations and economy.
Li Mei pondered it and felt that what he said made sense, but she still had a question: "If the grassroots aren't allowed to do it, who else can do it? Are we going to have to send a million cadres to the countryside again?"
The "one million cadres going to the countryside to work on the ground" mentioned here happened in 1964.
At that time, according to the instructions of the central government, provinces, prefectures and cities organized a large number of work teams to go to the countryside to carry out the movement.
But in reality this method is not very useful.
Just like in Tang County, the work teams that came were all sent by the municipal government.
But the problem is that the city and the county are both in a mess, and everyone knows everything about them. How do you think this can be carried out?
So the work team could only pretend to do it and deal with it.
Li Xu replied, "There's no point in guessing right now. We should know in a few days."
"Okay." After responding, Li Mei sighed, "But no matter who does this, I hope the situation doesn't develop to the worst."
"You have no say in how the situation develops, and it's not your turn to worry about it. You should be worrying about the other teachers in your university now."
"Huh?" Li Mei was stunned. "What do you mean?"
Li Xu shook his head and explained, "The name of this movement speaks for itself: the Cultural Revolution. Who were the most educated people back then? The intellectuals. Furthermore, the goal of this movement was to eliminate bourgeois ideology, so university professors with bourgeois backgrounds were easy targets."
To be honest, with these two things combined, I don’t think your teachers can escape unscathed.”
Hearing this, Li Mei couldn't sit still any longer and asked hurriedly, "You mean they might be tortured to death?"
"right."
After receiving a positive answer, Li Mei became even more anxious, but after thinking about it, she couldn't think of a way to help her teacher.
You have to know that the teacher who wrote to her before was only the best one to her, and the other teachers were also very nice to her.
Naturally, she didn't want these people to die in this movement.
Seeing her like this, Sun Xiu reminded her, "My daughter, you are usually very smart, why are you confused now? Your brother said it so clearly, and you still don't understand?"
Li Mei's eyes lit up, and she quickly grabbed Li Xu's arm and asked excitedly, "Xiao Xu, do you have any way to help them?"
"It's quite simple. Let them put up portraits of great men in their homes, wear badges of great men on their clothes, keep the Little Red Book in their hands, and recite the great men's mottos. As long as they can do these things, I dare not say more, but at least it can save their lives."
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