In Caizhuang Village, Nianzhuang Town, Pizhou, Jiangsu Province, on the north side of the 323 Provincial Highway, there is a memorial hall of pine and cypress, solemn and solemn martyrs, and in the center of the memorial stands a general dressed in military uniform, holding a telescope in his hand, looking resolutely, looking into the distance, which is to commemorate the general Li Chaoshi, the commander and political commissar of the Red 14 Army who was born in this village.
Li Chaoshi, also known as Li Zhen, was born in 1906 in Caizhuang Village to an ordinary peasant family, when he was a teenager, he witnessed that he was in a dark period of semi-feudal and semi-colonialism, warlords were fighting, foreign insults were increasing, the people were not happy, and the miserable life of the poor peasants in his hometown deeply affected his young soul, laying the foundation for his ambition to seek knowledge and save the country, and joined the party at this time.
After graduating from school, Li Was sent back to his hometown to carry out revolutionary work, mobilized and organized the masses, established grass-roots organizations, and successively served as secretary of the special branch of Donghai County, secretary of the county party committee, secretary of the central county party committee, and secretary of the (South) Tonghai (Gate) Special Committee, responsible for reorganizing the local guerrillas and rectifying the peasants' armed forces.
In the spring of 1930, according to the instructions of the Central Committee, the guerrilla unit he led was reorganized into the 14th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, with He Kun as its commander and Li Chao as its political commissar. Soon after, when the Red 14th Army was fighting against Laohuzhuang in southwest Rugao, the commander He Kun was unfortunately killed, and Li served as the commander and political commissar of the army, leading the reorganization of the troops, rectifying discipline, and strengthening military and political training. Under his leadership, the 14th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army used guerrilla tactics to repeatedly thwart the "advance and suppression" of the Kuomintang army, led the opening of the Tonghai guerrilla zone, and won a series of victories.
However, the base area established by the Red 14th Army was close to Nanjing and Shanghai, the center of Kuomintang rule, and on the side of the bed, it was better to allow others to sleep, Chiang Kai-shek said that he wanted to relieve the "trouble of the heart" and continuously carried out large-scale "encirclement and suppression" of this Red Army.
In order to preserve the revolutionary forces, the higher-level organization ordered the military commander and political commissar Li Chao to serve as an inspector of the provincial party committee, and in June 1931, when Li Overtime went to the Xuhai beng area to inspect the work, he was targeted by secret agents, and immediately decided to get off the bus in Zhenjiang in advance. However, the cunning agent has recruited the police and taken to the Wanquanlou Hotel in Zhenjiang Steamship Dock.
At this time, since Nanjing was designated as the capital of the Kuomintang, the capital of Jiangsu Province was moved from Nanjing to Zhenjiang, and the chairman of Jiangsu Province at that time was named Ye Chuling, and when he learned that Li Chaoshi, the commander of the Red 14th Army, had been captured, he was overjoyed and decided to personally persuade him to surrender.
Ye Chuling, a native of Wu County, Jiangsu (present-day Zhouzhuang, Kunshan), was initially known as a famous newspaperman, novelist, and poet of the Nanshe Society, and later became the head of the Propaganda Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee, when he served as the chairman of Jiangsu Province. He is tall, orange-skinned, and has the aura of a swallow, and the name "Chu Ling" is very suitable. The identity is a famous Nanshe poet + Kuomintang bureaucrat, and people say that his articles can be written, but it is really impossible to govern a province.
Ye Chuling, the chairman of the province, did not know anything about management and could not come up with any good recipe for reform, so he could only follow the old ways and talk perfunctorily. Especially in terms of employing people, he was not clear about the quality of the subordinates such as the county chiefs below, and someone asked him how do you think of the county chief of a certain county? He always replied that it was definitely not possible, so as soon as he took office for a few months, more than 40 county chiefs were replaced in 61 counties in Jiangsu, and an average of one county chief was removed in 3 days.
Ye Chuling could not employ people, but he was radical in his thinking and always wanted to liberate the problem of governance in the way of a poet, so he held a so-called "civilized New Year's Meeting" in the local area, requiring members to clean themselves, not gamble, not to drink, not to be superstitious, and to have a happy New Year. The activity time is mainly concentrated from the fifteenth day of the waxing moon to the fifteenth day of the first month of the following year. Why avoid the words "Wishing you prosperity"? Because it's so cheesy! It's customary to raise money!
But some things Ye Chuling is still very superstitious, one year Ye Chuling's parents died, he wanted to go back to Zhouzhuang's hometown to build a tomb for his parents, at that time Zhouzhuang Township Public Office did not dare to be sloppy, specially invited a well-known feng shui gentleman to show the cemetery. This old man had lived for sixty or seventy years, had watched yin and yang all his life, and had not yet taken on such a big job. When I heard that I was serving the high official, I was really a little weak, and I was afraid that I would not be able to resist. Everyone knows that this thing is not real.
For the sake of safety, the old man chose the cemetery on Shen Wansan's treasure land, the East Mansion, staining the wealth of the richest man, and no one said anything about it. After the site is selected, the burial is selected. There were not a few people who came to kowtow to Ye Chuling's parents' graves, and Ye Chuling treated the guests to the end of the ceremony, and also had to arch back the salute. Mr. Yin Yang was also present, kneeling in front of the grave and almost didn't scare himself to death, and slammed his scalp twice. When he finished prostrating his head and wanted to stand up, he saw Ye Chuling next to him, and he felt that the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, his stomach was weak, he was nervous, his feet were on the robe, and he couldn't stand up.
Ye Chuling used to personally lift Mr. Yin Yang up, saying that he could bury his parents' graves in the camp of the richest man, Shen Wansan, and indeed fell into the treasure land of feng shui, hoping for some wealth, so he went back with a smile.
During Ye Chuling's tenure as chairman of Jiangsu Province, at a time when the contradictions between the Kuomintang factions were fierce and the new warlords were constantly fighting, the revolutionary situation in China was also on the rise, especially after the establishment of the 14th Army of the Jiangsu Red Army in the Tonghai Rutai area of northern Jiangsu, he felt that he posed a great threat to himself, and repeatedly sent troops to "assist in suppressing" the Red 14th Army, and also sent the provincial security director to "supervise and suppress.", several sieges failed, he seemed to be sitting on a needle felt.
Later, the Red 14th Army was defeated under the joint "attack and suppression" of the Kuomintang Central Army and the Jiangsu Provincial Security Team led by Ye Chuling, especially the political commissar of the 14th Army of the Red Army, Li Chaoshi, was unfortunately arrested at Zhenjiang Station, and Ye Chuling repeatedly lured Li Overtime, all of which were severely reprimanded. After failing to lure and torture, Ye Chuling ordered Li to be killed at Gushan, north of Zhenjiang.
After he killed Li Overtime, in the face of the revolutionary fire, Ye Chuling felt that only one security regiment in Jiangsu was not enough to call, and then he decided to expand it into 4 more security regiments, and also proposed that the central government in Nanjing send one to four more divisions of the Central Army to Jiangsu to suppress the revolutionary activities of the Jiangsu people.
Although Ye Chuling was the chairman of Jiangsu Province, although his political achievements were mediocre and he did nothing, the locals called him a typical mediocre official, but he received chiang kai-shek's approval in encircling and suppressing the Red Army and killing Commander Li Chao, and then rose to the standing committee and secretary general of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, vice president of the Kuomintang Legislative Yuan, and so on.