Comrades Shushi and Pixian:137
Mr. Huang Yanpei138 has received many letters from landlords in which they
have filed complaints with him. I have sent to him copies of the two directives
of the East China Bureau, one issued in December of last year on rectifying the
shortcomings in the work of suppressing counterrevolutionaries and the other
issued on January 4 on rectifying shortcomings in the work of land reform, and
he has gained a better understanding of the situation. Mr. Huang is prepared to
go to southern Jiangsu this month to do some inspection and investigation in
the various localities. I have bidden him to contact you, and I hope that at the
time you will discuss in detail the general overall situation with him.
(Signed and dated)
Source: Selection from Mao Zedong’s Letters, pp. 397-398.