The popularity of the TV series "The Age of Awakening" presents the struggle stories and beliefs of all progressive people in the early days of the revolution in front of us in a lifelike way.
Li Dazhao, Lu Xun, Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi, etc., these names in our books have gradually come alive, and Qu Qiubai is also a well-deserved historical great.
He was the first to translate the international song into Chinese, and he took over the baton from Chen Duxiu as the second leader of the Communist Party of China.
The famous death of Qu Qiubai was directly attributed to his arrest after the Failure of the Red Army's anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, and he was brutally killed by the enemy. At that time, it was said that he was betrayed by comrade Zhou Yuelin who broke through together and was executed.
Zhou Yuelin was also convicted of this, but after Zhou Yuelin was convicted, he refused to admit guilt and began a 24-year appeal, and finally the truth of the matter came out.
If Zhou Yuelin was innocent, who was it that betrayed Qu Qiubai? How did Zhou Yuelin prove his innocence? This article will tell you the story of Qu Qiubai's death from the perspective of Zhou Yuelin.
Restore the truth of the matter from Zhou Yuelin's perspective
Zhou Yuelin was born in 1906, the family conditions are very ordinary, she is just a textile factory assembly line female worker, with the least salary, working day and night at the workstation.
Like all Communists of that era, she looked so ordinary and so different. Seeing that the country was in danger and the people's lives were in dire straits, she chose to do her part.
After she left work, she insisted on going to night school, and after a while, the organization noticed the self-motivated woman, issued an invitation to join the party, and decided to send her to the Soviet Union to study.
In the process of studying in the Soviet Union, she met someone she liked, married, and gave birth to a pair of children in the Soviet Union.
When they were transferred back to China to work, they chose to leave their children in the Soviet Union, and the two returned to their motherland to fight for their cause.
The organization assigned her to be the minister of women's affairs and presided over the work of women throughout the party, which was a high recognition of the ability of women to work at that time.
In 1935, Chiang Kai-shek launched the main force to completely eliminate the Communist Party, the Red Army suffered heavy losses in many anti-encirclement and suppression, and the Kuomintang quickly occupied most of the area by relying on strong troops and advanced munitions.
After the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, Qu Qiubai and his party chose to secretly break out of the enemy's encirclement and trekked all the way to the vicinity of Changting County in Fujian Province.
This small detachment was supposed to be escorted by elite escorts, but it suffered heavy losses along the way, leaving only five people.
These five people are not exaggerated to say that they are old, weak, sick and disabled, Qu Qiubai suffers from severe tuberculosis, and we all know that tuberculosis is a chronic disease that wastes people's bodies.
He Shuheng was nearly sixty years old, and his wife, Zhang Liang, was still pregnant with Liujia at the time, and Zhou Yuelin was a weak woman.
In this team, only Deng Zihui was a strong man, and the rest were pregnant women and elderly patients.
The enemy is pressing forward step by step, Qu Qiubai's death, who is the informer?
Although everyone's physical strength was relatively weak overall, they did not choose to be tough, but disguised as the captured Red Army, so that it was not easy to make the enemy suspicious.
Finally reaching the border of the town, the small bridge on the Tingjiang River is guarded by the enemy, and they can only choose to swim secretly from the river.
The time is in February, although the winter in the south is not frozen, but the river is as cold and bone-chilling, which is too difficult for patients and pregnant women, although across the river, but there is little physical exertion left.
A few people who were incapacitated and frantically hiding, were eventually arrested and imprisoned by the enemy, and the comrades of our party, in order to cope with the situation at that time, arranged new identities and story backgrounds for several people.
In the script they arranged, the pregnant woman Zhang Liang was kidnapped by the Red Army to ask for money, and finally abandoned by her husband; Zhou Yuelin was a medical worker who was arrested by the Red Army to treat wounded soldiers; Qu Qiubai was a doctor and a cultural person who had done the business of a bookstore.
Several of them repeatedly checked every detail of the story to make sure nothing was wrong.
After being arrested, the Kuomintang separated them in different rooms for interrogation, and the chief of the Kuomintang side at that time was Zhong Shaokui, and although their testimony was not flawed, he did not fully believe it.
It's just that he thinks that Zhou Yuelin and Zhang Liang are both women, Zhang Liang still has a big belly, must be a small person who doesn't have enough teeth to hang on, after being detained for a while, he let them out of prison, only leaving Qu Qiubai in prison.
After the two were released from prison, they were also very anxious, and wanted to find a way to rescue Qu Qiubai, just to cover their identity, and did not dare to act rashly for a while.
Qu Qiubai continued to maintain his identity as a doctor, he wrote to Lu Xin and his wife to release himself on bail, Lu Xun and Yang Zhihua were far away in Shanghai, and just when they tried to find a way, Qu Qiubai's identity was exposed.
Who is the traitor? In fact, the secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee at that time was sacrificed, and his wife was arrested, unable to bear the torture of the enemy, so he said all the information he knew.
Perhaps Qu Qiubai was arrested, so he began to find someone to identify all the detainees, Qu Qiubai was a celebrity, and was quickly recognized, and Zhang Liang and Zhou Yuelin were immediately arrested.
An old newspaper exposes the truth, and 24 years of persistence bear fruit
On June 18, 1935, Qu Qiubai was shot by the enemy, and Zhou Yuelin and Zhang Liang were given the title of "traitors to the Communist Party, exposing Qu Qiubai's identity."
The two of them tried all means to clarify themselves, and they did not get anyone's trust, after all, the three of them were imprisoned together, Qu Qiubai's identity was exposed, and it was also true that the two of them kept a life, making it difficult to believe their words.
In the politically sensitive era, perhaps political life is more important than her own life, Zhou Yuelin not only has to endure difficulties everywhere in life, but on the anniversary of Qu Qiubai's murder, she was once arrested and imprisoned.
Zhou Yuelin did not give in to the court's judgment, and she appealed again and again to reflect the situation to the relevant departments, but no one paid any attention.
The truth was like this, until 1979, Zhou Yuelin once again came to the people's court to appeal, but this time was different from the past, things took a turn for the better - new evidence appeared!
A transcript of the interrogation of the captured family members of the Red Army, on which it is impressively written that the secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee was shot, and the wife surrendered to confess Qu Qiubai, combined with the intelligence collected by Zhou Yuelin's continuous appeal and trial investigation over the years, and finally pieced together a complete story line.
Some say justice may be late, but it will not be absent.
After 24 years, Zhou Yuelin finally regained her innocence, and the 74-year-old stood in front of the court, holding a verdict and crying.
Later, Zhou Yuelin returned to his hometown to settle down, served as a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and spent the last period of his life.