Presumably, in May 1932, Deng left his position as party secretary of Ruijin County to become party secretary of the Hui-Xun-An Central County in the southern part of the Central Soviet. On March 12, 1933, the Jiangxi Provincial Committee delivered a letter to the Hui-Xun-An Central County Committee, blaming the latter for the loss of Xunwu and labeling it as “an opportunist mistake similar to the Luo Ming line.” Several days later, on March 23, 1933, a conference of party activists in that central county was convened, in which Deng was harshly criticized. On May 5, 1933, the Chinese Communist Party Provincial Committee of Jiangxi passed a resolution regarding disciplinary actions against Deng and his three associates. The year 1936 was less eventful for Deng than it was for the Communist Party. He remained the director of the Propaganda Department of the First Army Corps—a marginal position in the central leadership.