During the revolutionary years, countless progressives, in order to change the unstable situation of the country, threw themselves into the revolutionary cause without hesitation. There were also many large revolutionary families in this era, such as the Zeng family, which was one of them. One father and two brothers of the Zeng family have successively devoted themselves to the revolutionary cause, and the youngest son, Zeng Shan, has witnessed the founding of New China. After the establishment of the state, he also held a number of important positions and contributed to the construction of the country. Today, let's take a look at the life of Zeng Shan.
Zeng Shan was born in 1899, his father Zeng Caiqin, a Qing Dynasty Xiucai and a private school in his hometown. Zeng Caiqin was noble and helpful, many local youths were his students, and he was also quite prestigious in his hometown. Under the influence of his father, the two brothers successively embarked on the road of revolution, and Zeng Caiqin also secretly helped our party to carry out the revolutionary cause because of her son.
In 1925, under the influence of his brother, Zeng Shan participated in the peasant movement together, and a year later joined the Communist Party, embarking on the revolutionary road with his brother. For the actions of his two sons, Zeng Caiqin fully supported, and he even took the initiative to make the primary school a traffic station for our party, so that the father and son three became revolutionaries. Unfortunately, in 1928, Zeng Yansheng was unfortunately arrested, and after undergoing severe torture, he bravely became righteous. Three years later, his father, Zeng Caiqin, was also persecuted by the Kuomintang.
The death of his father and brother was a huge blow to Zeng Shan, but he was not crushed, and the actions of the Kuomintang made him even more determined to revolution. In 1927, the Nanchang armed uprising broke out, Zeng Shan found the troops for the first time, and participated in the uprising movement with the troops, and later the Guangzhou Uprising, he was also in the ranks. These two uprisings gave him a deeper understanding of the revolution and the cruelty of war.
When he was chairman of the Jiangxi Soviet Government, the revolutionary base areas were surrounded and suppressed by the Kuomintang, and Zeng Shan became an important role in logistical support; although he did not go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, he always paid close attention to the situation of the front-line troops, transported a large amount of materials from the rear to the front, and ensured that the soldiers on the front line had sufficient materials when resisting the encirclement and suppression of the reactionaries. By uniting as one, the Kuomintang's plans were finally crushed.
In 1934, after the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression plan, in order to preserve its strength, the large red army had to carry out a large-scale strategic transfer. At this time, Zeng Shan's post was the secretary of the provincial party committee of Jiangxi Province, and in order to buy time for the large troops to transfer, he took the initiative to apply to stay, and with a group of Red Army fighters, relying on favorable terrain, they fought a guerrilla war with the Kuomintang troops, so that they could not closely pursue the large Red Army troops.
With his familiarity with the terrain, after delaying the pace of the Nationalist army, Zeng Shan led the troops and successfully highlighted the encirclement. At this time, he had become the target of the Kuomintang's bounty, and the bounty was as high as tens of thousands of oceans. At that time, Zeng Shan also lost contact with the party organization, and he had no choice but to hide his identity, evade many interceptions, and go to Shanghai. Zeng Shan, who had gone through twists and turns, returned to the organization.
After that, the central government sent him to study in the Soviet Union to learn financial and economic knowledge, and after returning to China, his main task also changed from combat to being responsible for financial management and material supply. During the Liberation War, Zeng Shan was mainly responsible for the supply of materials in the rear of the Huaihai Campaign. After the founding of New China, he was transferred to Shanghai as a vice mayor, but also left the military system and stepped down as a soldier.
Since then, Zeng Shan has been active in positions related to economic construction, and has successively served as the minister of commerce, the minister of internal affairs and other important positions, contributing all his own to the economic construction of new China. In 1955, the army held a ceremony to award titles, because he left the army early, Zeng Shan did not get the rank. But he didn't feel sorry for it, because he knew very well that a new country needed a new atmosphere in every way.
Especially in terms of economy, someone must be built, he once studied in the Soviet Union, studied economic related majors, rather than military ranks and honors, he hopes that he can continue to contribute to the construction of the country. Even after entering politics, Zeng Shan never lowered his requirements for himself. When he was the vice mayor of Shanghai, he wore a tattered cotton jacket on his body, and when he couldn't wear it, he put on a dress on the outside and wrapped the tattered cotton jacket inside.
Not only that, but he was also strict with his children, and the eldest daughter was just an ordinary textile worker in Shanghai, never mentioned to anyone that he also had a father who was a deputy mayor. The two sons and their nephews also joined the army and were eventually promoted to major generals, and the eldest son served as the vice president of the country. Zeng Shan died in Beijing in 1972, but the story of the Zeng family continues to be written by his descendants.