The road of revolution is always full of thorns and bumps, and it is accompanied by bloody sacrifices. During the Second Civil Revolutionary War, in 1931, due to the rebellion of Yan Hongjiao, secretary of the Haikou Municipal Party Committee, many Communists working in Haikou were arrested by the Kuomintang, including a young man named Li Shuoxun.
Even in the face of the enemy's severe torture, the young man did not hesitate to reveal any news from the party except to say, "I am a member of the Communist Party." Seeing death as a homecoming, he calmly wrote a letter to his wife, in which he wrote:
"I am going to leave you forever, and now I have to sacrifice countless people every day in prison, and I don't have much time. I have to take care of my child after I die, raise him and raise him, and you have to learn to be independent. After I die, there will always be people who collect corpses, you must not come to collect corpses for me, you must not come! ”
Soon after, this young man named Li Shuoxun was heroic and righteous, only 28 years old.
What position did Li Shuoxun hold in the party, and why did the enemy torture him and ask questions? What happened to the traitor who killed him?
I. The "Screws" in the Revolutionary Ranks
Li Shuoxun, also known as "Li Tao", was born in 1903 in Qingfu County, Sichuan Province, and was a young talent. At the age of 15, he went to chengdu to study at the provincial no. 1 middle school, received progressive ideological education, and later participated in the Sichuan Socialist Youth League. When he was studying, he participated in many student movements in Chengdu, Yibin and other places, and after getting to know Wu Yuzhang, he came into contact with Marxism under his influence and began to engage in revolutionary activities.
When the 17-year-old Li Shuoxun first came into contact with the Communist Manifesto, he was shocked by the theory of the proletariat. He then firmly joined the revolutionary ranks. Later, due to frequent activities, he was targeted by the Kuomintang reactionaries and had to move to Chongqing and other places.
From 1922 to 1923, he studied in Beijing and then at Shanghai University, a joint venture founded by the Communist Party of China. Shanghai University was taught Marxism-Leninism by Cai Hesen, Qu Qiubai and other Communist Party members, spreading the ideas of the Communist International, and also using this to absorb progressive and intellectual youth for our Party. Progressive young people like Li Shuoxun were quickly discovered and cultivated by our party, and joined the Communist Party of China in May 1924.
Li Shuoxun became a Communist Party member at the age of 21, which shows how good he was at that time! In May 1925, when the proletariat launched the May Thirtieth Movement in Shanghai, Li Shuoxun organized students to march in the streets to participate in the anti-imperialist struggle in solidarity with the revolution. For his outstanding performance, he was also elected as the representative of the Shanghai Students' Federation and also served as the president of the National Students' Federation. In one year, he held two consecutive national student congresses to propagate revolutionary ideas among outstanding young people and develop young people with aspirations.
Between 1926 and 1927, the 24-year-old Li Shuoxun was ordered to preside over the Communist Youth League in Hubei and help quell the Xia Douyin rebellion during the Northern Expedition. During his stay, he was also responsible for assisting the work of the 25th Division, so he befriended Ye Ting, and was soon transferred to the director of the political office of the 25th Division. It was also because of Li Shuoxun's ideological and political education in the army according to local conditions that he changed the old warlord habits of the 25th Division and became an organized and disciplined revolutionary contingent.
On August 1, 1927, Li Shuoxun led the 25th Division to Nanchang to participate in the uprising, and after the uprising, the team was reorganized, and Li Shuoxun served as the party representative of the 25th Division. In October 1927, when Li Shuoxun returned to Shanghai to report on his work, he was left to work in the white area of the party, he was clever and resourceful, calm at a critical moment, avoided many risks for our party, and saved the safety of revolutionary comrades.
From 1928 to 1930, he successively served as the secretary of the provincial party committee and the secretary of the district party committee in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and other places. Every time he took office in a local area, he greatly propagated revolutionary ideas. When he was in Jiangsu, he launched and led the local proletariat in a peasant uprising, and also participated in the preparation of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.
Li Shuoxun presided over a lot of work and held many positions in his lifetime, and he was like a screw in the revolutionary ranks, where it needed to be moved. Regardless of the size of the position, the intensity of the work is difficult, never complain, always diligent and sincere in the work, hard work and complaints.
Second, the wife has been widowed for 54 years, and the son inherits the legacy
In August 1931, Li Shuoxun received a work task and went to Hainan to guide military work, and Na Cheng wanted this trip to be targeted early by traitors. On August 13, Li Shuoxun was arrested by Kuomintang reactionaries at his hotel.
After his arrest, no matter how severely the enemy tortured him, he always kept his mouth shut about party affairs. The enemy was furious and wanted to test how hard the communist general's bones were, break his leg bones, break his flesh and skin, and still could not get any information.
In prison, the only thing he couldn't let go of was his wife and children. He was a communist with strong convictions, but also a loving husband and father. Before the Nanchang Uprising, he had seen his pregnant wife, and the military situation had to say goodbye in a hurry.
When he worked in Shanghai's white district, he walked on the tip of the knife every day, and he had to ask his wife to dress him up before going out every time to reduce her worries. In May 1931, Lee Shuo-hoon traveled to Hong Kong on a business trip, and when he stayed with his wife and children due to illness, he had a brief reunion, but he did not expect that this parting would be forever.
When he wrote "Letter to His Wife" in prison, he deliberated every word for fear of falling into the hands of the enemy army, and his words were full of attachment to his family and the heart of a child who had not completed the revolutionary cause. In the letter, he instructed his wife to raise her children and to rely on herself, not to cause trouble to the party organization, and in the conclusion, he instructed his wife not to come to the execution site to collect the body, and to protect her own safety.
On September 16, 1931, Li Shuoxun, whose leg bone was broken, was unable to walk on his own, and the enemy carried him to the East Campus in Haikou City with a bamboo basket, where he was only 28 years old at the time of his death. After the founding of New China, Zhu De and Deng Xiaoping highly praised him for his tremendous achievements in the revolutionary cause and praised him as "a good soldier and excellent party member of the people."
3. Traitors
Yan Hongjiao, a traitor who betrayed Li Shuoxun, was originally a native of Qiongshan, Hainan, and was considered a progressive youth when he was studying, and later joined our party and held important official positions. In February 1929, Yan Hongjiao was arrested by the Kuomintang reactionaries because he could not stand the torture and betrayal of the enemy. After Yan Hongjiao defected, he gave up the key sites of our party's special committee and municipal party committee organs in Haikou, resulting in the killing of many comrades of our party, including Huang Xuezeng, secretary of the Qiongya Special Committee.
Yan Hongjiao was soon promoted to captain of the detective team because he wantonly sabotaged the party organization and killed communists, but because he wore a mask every time he was arrested, coupled with poor communications, our party did not find out in time. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yan Hongjiao was killed by the commander of the Japanese puppet army because of a gun problem.
At the time of Li Shuoxun's sacrifice, his son Li Peng was only 3 years old, and his wife Zhao Juntao was also an excellent Communist Party member, and she remembered her husband's instructions to raise her children alone and never remarried for life. Later, with the help of the party organization, Zhao Juntao returned to Sichuan with his children.
Since then, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, he has been working as the head of the nursery, teaching children to read and study, and adopting more than 800 children. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he participated in the establishment of zhongnan experimental workers and peasants accelerated middle school, Beijing Institute of Chemical Technology and other schools, and devoted himself to education.
Their only son, Li Peng, also inherited his parents' revolutionary cause, studied in the Soviet Union as a senior engineer, joined the Communist Party in 1945, and later became the premier of the State Council of New China. In 1986, in order to commemorate the martyr Li Shuoxun, a special memorial pavilion was built in Haikou Five Schools, and the road in front of the pavilion was named "Xunting Road".
Text/Born to the Sun
References: 1. "Li Shuoxun's Suicide Note to His Wife", Bianji 2, "Iron Bone Zheng Zheng Li Shuoxun", Yang Yalan, Cheng Hongyi
3. "Monument to Eternity (65):" Li Shuoxun, "The People's Strong Warrior", Wang Xinling