毛泽东选集/把军队变为工作队

#§Your telegram of the 4th has been received.

# § Please proceed along these lines and do not slacken.

#§Actually, however, training and consolidation must continue in March; the study of policy must be stressed and preparations must be made to take over and administer the large cities.

#§ From now on, the formula followed in the past twenty years, "first the rural areas, then the cities", will be reversed and changed to the formula, "first the cities, then the rural areas".

# §The army is not only a fighting force, it is mainly a working force.

#§ All army cadres should learn how to take over and administer cities. # §In urban work they should learn how to be good at dealing with the imperialists and Kuomintang reactionaries, good at dealing with the bourgeoisie, good at leading the workers and organizing trade unions, good at mobilizing and organizing the youth, good at uniting with and training cadres in the new Liberated Areas, good at managing industry and commerce, good at running schools, newspapers, news agencies and broadcasting stations, good at handling foreign affairs, good at handling problems relating to the democratic parties and people's organizations, good at adjusting the relations between the cities and the rural areas and solving the problems of food, coal and other daily necessities and good at handling monetary and financial problems.

#§ In short, all urban problems, with which in the past our army cadres and fighters were unfamiliar, should from now on be shouldered by them.

#§ You are to advance and occupy four or five provinces, and in addition to the cities you will have to attend to vast rural areas.

#§ Since in the south all the rural areas will be newly liberated, the work will be fundamentally different from that in the old Liberated Areas of the north.

# § In the first year, the policy of reducing rent and interest cannot be applied, and rent and interest will have to be paid in roughly the same way as before.

#§ Our rural work will have to proceed under these conditions.

# § Therefore, rural work must also be learned afresh.

#§ Urban work is more difficult and is the main subject you are studying.

#§ If our cadres cannot quickly master the administration of cities, we shall encounter extreme difficulties.

#§ Consequently you must settle all other problems in February and use the whole month of March to learn how to work in the cities and in the new Liberated Areas.

# § The Kuomintang has only one million several hundred thousand troops, scattered over a huge territory.

#§ Of course, there are still many battles to fight, but there is little possibility of such large-scale fighting as in the Huai-Hai campaign, and it may even be said that there is no such possibility and that the period of severe fighting is over.

# § The army is still a fighting force, and in this respect there must be absolutely no relaxing; to relax would be a mistake.

#§ Nevertheless, the time has come for us to set ourselves the task of turning the army into a working force.

# § We are preparing to send 53,000 cadres south with the army, but this is a very small number.

#§ The occupation of eight or nine provinces and scores of big cities will require a huge number of working cadres, and to solve this problem the army must rely chiefly on itself.

#§ The army is a school. #§ Our field armies of 2,100,000 are equivalent to several thousand universities and secondary schools. #§ We have to rely chiefly on the army to supply our working cadres.

#§ Since severe fighting is basically over, replenishment of the army's manpower and equipment should be kept within suitable limits, and too much must not be demanded as regards quantity, quality and completeness, lest this should cause financial crisis.

#§ That is another point you should seriously consider.