Lin Biao, Premier, and Comrade Tao Zhu [3]:
I have been ill for three days and still have a slight fever. I am feeling better today. Can you
hold a 700,000-person rally in Tiananmen Square at 10:00 a.m. or 5:00 p.m. tomorrow (the
14th) or the day after tomorrow (the 15th). If I can get up, I will go and meet the crowd. If I
can't get up, please preside over it. I won't go. [4]



Mao Zedong
September 13, 19:00

[1] Lin Biao was re-elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of
the CPC Central Committee at the 11th Plenary Session of the 8th CPC Central Committee
and was soon named Vice Chairman of the CPC Central Committee.
[2] Premier refers to Zhou Enlai. Tao Zhu was then a member of the Standing Committee of
the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Executive Secretary of the Central
Secretariat, and Advisor to the Central Cultural Revolution Group.
[3] According to a Xinhua News Agency report published in the People's Daily on September
16, 1966, Mao Zedong once again met with millions of teachers, students, and Red Guards
from all over the country and the capital in Tiananmen Square on the afternoon of the 15th.