1927年8月中旬,毛泽东作为中共中央特派员,受命前往湖南组织和领导秋收起义.毛泽东是八七会议以后第一位被中央派出去组织秋收起义的中央政治局成员,其主要任务是贯彻八七会议所规定的“有系统的有计划的尽可能的在广大区域中准备农民的总暴动,利用今年秋收时期农村中阶级斗争剧烈的关键.”在此之前,中共中央曾经作出在湘鄂粤赣4省实行秋收暴动的决定.因此,毛泽东的具体任务就是组织和领导湖南的秋收暴动.事实上,在此4省中,农民武装力量和群众基础最好的乃是湖南,也唯有湖南最有可能发动这项斗争,并且成为南方诸省秋收暴动的一个中心. In mid-August 1927, Mao Zedong, as a special commissioner of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, was commissioned to go to Hunan to organize and lead the Autumn Harvest Uprising. Mao Zedong was the first Central Political Bureau member to be sent by the Central Government to organize the Autumn Harvest Uprising after the Seventy-seventh Conference. Its main task is to carry out eight The “total planned uprising of planned peasants in a vast area systematically and systematically planned by the Seventh Congress took the key to the drastic severity of the class struggle in the countryside during the autumn harvest of this year.” Prior to this, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China once made the proposal in Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi Province, the implementation of the decision of the autumn harvest insurrection .Therefore, the specific task of Mao Zedong is to organize and lead the autumn harvest riots in Hunan.In fact, in these four provinces, the peasant armed forces and the mass foundation of the best but also in Hunan, but also Hunan It is most likely to launch this struggle and to become a center for the fall riots in the southern provinces.