Comrade Tan Zheng, and to inform all comrades:

Your directive of February 1 to subordinate units is very good, proving that you have found the right approach, and there is hope for tiger hunting. However, the report you sent me on January 31 (which mentions the numbers assigned to each province for the task) is far too low and does not correspond to reality. You must guide them to increase the numbers step by step. In particular, the Guangdong military district system, including coastal defense and all army units, has at least several hundred or even up to a thousand large, medium, and small tigers, yet you have assigned that military district only 20 large tigers and 180 medium and small tigers. This is entirely inappropriate. You are exerting too little pressure on the provinces, accommodating their right-leaning thinking, especially toward Guangdong. I hope you will pay attention to correcting this.

Mao Zedong
February 4, 10:00 a.m.