Hey everyone, Lauslle Montgomery again, after leaving you hanging for more than a month.

We're back with more Joe and Lie, part 5 this time.

The last episode we left off right at the founding of the PRC in 1949 after surviving several assassination

attempts dodging the KMT secret police for years illness the long march and the Civil War, Joe and Le I got to stand near

Mao and the chairman said those famous remarks on the Tiananmen viewing platform on 10- 149.49.

Around five months before that historic moment after deciding the drive from the fragrant

hills into the city was becoming a hassle.

Joe decided he just moved to Beijing.

Despite Joe's well-known ascetic taste, he and Deng Ying Cho moved into Jong-An-Hai.

Adjacent to the forbidden city,

Jong-An-Hai there, became, and still is today, the compound

where all China's top leadership hang their hat.

Joe's first office and residence was in the Juyang Shoo

located in Yintai.

If you look at a map of the Jong Nanai compound,

you'll see this island in the center of the Nanai or South Lake connected to the shore by a bridge, pretty exquisite.

In late Chinese history, it's best known as the place where the Empress Dowager

She locked up the Guangshu Emperor after he went a little bit too far with all his reforms.

It all sounds nice and cozy and with all the royal comforts one might expect. the truth of the matter was it was in a terrible state of disrepair.

But no matter, because after Mao decided it was time for him to head to Beijing,

he coveted Joe's digs and the Premier gave up his Yintai address and moved his

residence to the Shihwating, another pavilion located in Jong-An-Hai that was originally

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