He was once written by Li Lisan in an article in memory of Cai Hesen: "At that time, the young people of Hunan were famous for Mao Cai, and they were regarded as an example.
In 1919, the famous educator Yang Changji was seriously ill and worried that he would soon die, and wrote a letter to his friend Zhang Shizhao, recommending two students to him, hoping that Zhang Shizhao would take more care of these two people.
He wrote in the letter: "I solemnly told Brother Zhang that these two people are talents from all over the world and have a great future. Didn't you say salvation? To save the country, we must first pay attention to these two people. Two of the sons were Mao Zedong and Cai hesen.
There may be some small partners who are not familiar with Cai Hesen, so today we will introduce this historical figure that can be compared with Mao Zedong.
Cai Hesen, Mao Zedong and Xiao Zisheng were all students of the Hunan First Normal School, under the famous educator Yang Changji, all three of whom were rich in learning, talented, and full of spirit, known as the "Three Friends of Xiangjiang River"
Cai hesen was born in Shanghai in 1895 and returned to his hometown of Shuangfeng, Hunan, with his mother Ge Jianhao. Ge Jianhao is one of the "Three Daughters of Xiaoxiang" and the first mother in China to accompany her children to study abroad.
In 1908, Cai and Sen's family moved back to Yongfeng Town, and in order to make a living, they once went to Cai Guangxiang's hot sauce shop as an apprentice, but Cai he sen was tired of this life and wanted to enter the school to study, and finally after the expiration of the three-year apprenticeship, he entered the third grade of Yongfeng National Primary School.
In 1913, Cai and Sen were admitted to the Hunan Provincial First Normal School, where they met Mao Zedong, and the two had common hobbies and lofty ambitions, and became lifelong friends. The two and some like-minded students organized the Xinmin Society, a progressive group, founded the Xiangjiang Review, and participated in the May Fourth Movement.
In 1918, Cai he and Sen rushed to Beijing to organize work-study in France, and finally entered the Work-study Institute in France through the introduction of Yang Huaizhong, a professor at Peking University. After practicing with friends, I met Cai Yuanpei, president of Peking University, and Mr. Shouchang, the leader of the New Culture Movement.
In a letter to Mao Zedong, he once wrote: "It was advocated by Mozi to calculate only the interests of the overall situation and not to calculate the interests of the small situation, and lenin in Russia has recently been quite capable of acting, and I am willing to emulate him." This sentence sounded the clarion call for the October Revolution in the Xinmin Society.
At the end of December 1919, Cai Hesen, together with his mother, sister and Xiang Jingyu, went to France to study for work and study, and entered the Montani Boys' High School, during which time Cai carefully studied a large number of Marxist works, tirelessly drew on the experience of the October Revolution, and became a staunch Marxist. In May 1920, Cai and Sen and Xiang Jingyu held a wedding ceremony in France. Later became famous as the "revolutionary couple".
During his studies in France, Cai hesen repeatedly wrote letters to Mao Zedong in China, blatantly proposing the idea of "establishing a Communist Party of China", which was also the first written document in Chinese history to propose the establishment of a Chinese Communist Party. After reading this, Mao Zedong was greatly pleased and replied: "It is too good to say, there is not a word that does not approve."
In 1921, Cai and Sen were deported back to China for leading the work-study struggle in France. After returning to China, he joined the Communist Party of China through the introduction of Chen Duxiu and others.
In May 1922, Cai Hesen became a member of the first Central Executive Committee of the League. During this period, he wrote a large number of articles to publicize Marxism-Leninism and the Party's program and criticize the evil behavior of imperialism and feudal warlords.
Cai he and Sen also combined Marxism-Leninism with China's national conditions and actively sought the road to national salvation. It has made significant contributions to the nature, tasks and future of the Chinese revolution.
When the May Thirtieth Movement broke out in 1925, Cai and Sen were among the leaders. The May Thirtieth Movement was sparked by a Japanese businessman who killed a worker with a pistol and then wounded more than a dozen Chinese workers with a gun. After the evil deeds were revealed to the world, the Japanese businessmen resolutely did not apologize or compensate, and their attitude was very arbitrary and unreasonable.
Although Chinese is gentle, our tradition has always been "killing people to pay for their lives", which is the traditional Chinese custom of public order and goodness. Japan's evil deeds aroused the public indignation of people from all walks of life in Shanghai, and more than 2,000 students rushed to the Shanghai Concession to march and hold high the banner of opposing imperialism.
At this time, Cai Hesen stood up, and soon he published a "Letter to the People of the Whole Country" in the name of the Communist Party, which pointed out the solution to the problem to the point, "To put an end to the atrocities committed by the imperial powers in China, we must abolish all unequal treaties and overthrow all the privileges of imperialism in China."
After the article was published, it triggered a patriotic upsurge, and patriotic people at home and abroad held high the patriotic banner one after another, and finally pushed the anti-imperialist movement to a peak. It is a pity that the life of such a great revolutionary who strategized to save the country and the people was finally in 1931.
In 1931, Gu Shunzhang betrayed the organization and led Kuomintang agents to Hong Kong to arrest Cai Hesen, who had received a reminder from the organization in advance, but he was going to attend an important mass meeting, and he had to stick to the revolutionary position.
After being taken away at the venue, Gu Shunzhang took him back to the prison in Guangzhou, and in order to make Cai hesen betray the organization, the secret agents repeatedly punished him, but Cai hesen gritted his teeth and never shook his determination to love the party and never betrayed his comrades-in-arms.
The agents gouge out his eyes with a knife, cut off his ears, nailed his limbs to the wall, and used the knife to cut off his flesh little by little, and the knife slowly crushed and inserted into his chest. Even in the heart-wrenching pain, this great communist fighter still did not give in. On August 4, 1931, his life was finally fixed at the age of 36.
Looking back on Cai Gong's life, he was silently exploring for the salvation of the country, studying Marxist-Leninist ideas during his study in France; actively propagating Marxism-Leninism and exploring the way to save the country after returning to China; and calling on the broad masses of the people to stand up together during the May Thirtieth Movement and overthrow the privileges of imperialism.
He obviously had the opportunity to escape, but for the sake of revolutionary propaganda, he still chose to be generous and righteous. In order to realize his long-cherished wish of "saving the people in Kuangshi", he dedicated his life.
After 90 years, I would like to say to Cai Gong that the dream of a strong China you want has long been realized, thank you for your efforts, look, this prosperous world, as you wish.