Telegram to Zhou Enlai[1]

(July 1948)

Please wire Jin-Sui to send Yang Chengyuan[2] immediately to Xu Xiangqian, to be placed in Taiyuan to conduct negotiations with Yan Xishan.

[1] This is the main content of Mao Zedong’s telegram to Zhou Enlai.

[2] Yang Chengyuan, formerly the general commander of the Jinxi region under Yan Xishan’s forces, was captured by the troops of the Jin-Sui Military District in the Xi County campaign on November 28, 1946.