After the founding of New China, many heroic generals who came out of the war were awarded important state positions. Those heroes who shed their blood for the founding of New China but eventually sacrificed themselves on the revolutionary road were also posthumously recognized as revolutionary martyrs.
In this way, the motherland has written their glorious deeds in the book of historical merits. Let every generation of new China be able to remember their contribution to the motherland and cherish this hard-won happy life. These revolutionary martyrs all treated the revolution from the end, and their firm patriotic conviction made them fight hard for it at the expense of their lives.
First, the heart is concerned about the revolution
Twenty-three years after guangxu at the end of the Qing Dynasty, China at this time was suffering from internal and external troubles. The corruption of the Qing government caused the people's lives to be miserable. Li Zhilong was born in such a chaotic period, which also created Li Zhilong's revolutionary spirit of turning himself into a master for the people from an early age.
Li Zhilong was born into a peasant family in a small village in Hubei Province. Although his father was just an ordinary farmer, he was very reasonable and knew that in order to change a person's destiny, he had to be well educated. Therefore, he sent Li Zhilong to Wuchang's famous Two Lakes Demonstration With Small School.
Li Zhilong completed his primary and junior high school studies in the Two Lakes Demonstration Primary School, and was admitted to wuchang foreign Chinese college for special study in English with excellent results. When Li Zhilong was sixteen years old, Sun Yat-sen organized a second revolution, and Li Zhilong, who had always had revolutionary fever in his heart, quickly joined the revolutionary ranks.
In the second revolution, Li Zhilong mainly participated in the revolutionary struggle of the Hukou Uprising. Although this revolution ended in failure, Li Zhilong gained a great deal of revolutionary experience in this revolutionary activity, which played a very good role in paving the way for the development of his revolutionary cause in the future.
After this revolution, Li Zhilong wanted to return to school several times for further study. However, for various reasons, he was not able to complete his studies in school. But Li Zhilong did not give up his own road of learning and growth, he was admitted to the Yantai Naval School, inspired to become an excellent admiral, and contributed to the revolutionary cause of the motherland.
Second, wobbly
While studying military knowledge in school, Li Zhilong was always concerned about changes in the domestic political situation. Together with like-minded classmates, he carried out patriotic revolutionary movements such as opposing Zhang Xun's restoration and showing solidarity with the May Fourth Movement.
Twenty-four-year-old Li Zhilong met many people of insight on the road to participating in the revolution. In particular, in his contacts with the early Communist Party leaders Dong Biwu and Chen Tanqiu, he profoundly realized that China's revolutionary cause must take the road of proletarian leadership. So he resolutely joined the Communist Party of China and became a member of the COMMUNIST Revolution.
Li Zhilong, who has just joined the CPC, is mainly responsible for the education of middle school students, and through patriotic education for middle school students, thus leading them to the correct path of patriotic revolution. During his teaching, Li Zhilong did not forget his identity as a proletarian revolutionary. He participated in the 1923 "II. Seven Strikes", and was wanted by the local government for this reason.
However, this did not make Li Zhilong have the slightest intention of retreating, but on the contrary, his enthusiasm for the revolution became more and more intense. At this time, the two parties were in a period of close relations, and Communists were allowed to join the Kuomintang as individuals. At that time, under the leadership of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the Kuomintang was a relatively advanced bourgeois revolutionary organization.
In this way, Li Zhilong joined the Kuomintang under the introduction of Tan Pingshan and others, becoming a revolutionary with a dual-party identity. This dual identity of his, on the one hand, allowed him to better participate in the revolutionary movement, and on the other hand, it also caused the uncertainty of his revolutionary convictions. In the end, he could not be posthumously named a martyr after sacrificing for the revolution.
3. Returning to China and being killed
Soon Li Zhilong was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy founded by the Kuomintang at that time. Add weight to your own better participation in the revolutionary cause. He also served as a student representative in the Kuomintang Whampoa Military Academy as an executive committee member. Of the five executive committee members in the party department of the special district at that time, only he was a dual party member.
After graduation, Li Zhilong was transferred to the naval forces of the Nationalist government at that time to engage in political management because of his outstanding personal ability and outstanding performance in the First Crusade of the Kuomintang. It can be said that Li Zhilong was prosperous within the Kuomintang, but this also caused many people to be jealous, and finally caused great trouble.
Li Zhilong's military position in the Kuomintang was getting higher and higher, and he also lost his original revolutionary direction for a while. In the Zhongshan incident, Li Zhilong and Chiang Kai-shek had an indelible contradiction. As a result, he was demoted and sent to a new theater troupe with no practical significance. At this time, a major change was brewing within the Kuomintang.
This made Li Zhilong already see the disorder of the internal struggle of the Kuomintang, and at the same time the Kuomintang began to exclude the Communists. Li Zhilong's dual party membership is very embarrassing within the Kuomintang. He also wanted to return to the Communist camp, but the leading figures of the Communist Party at the time rejected his application.
At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek threw an olive branch at him, hoping that Li Zhilong would submit to him. However, Li Zhilong had long seen Chiang Kai-shek's wolf ambitions, and instead of submitting to it, he denounced Chiang Kai-shek's practice in local publications. He also wanted to launch a mutiny uprising through the military movement, but this series of practices was defused by Chiang Kai-shek one by one.
Li Zhilong saw that he could not gain a foothold in the Kuomintang, and because he had been separated from the leadership of the CCP for a long time, he could no longer find a revolutionary organization for a while. In the end, he was forced into exile in Japan. After a short period of exile, Li Zhilong wanted to return to China to participate in the revolutionary struggle again. But news of his return was soon discovered by the Kuomintang.
The Kuomintang reacted quickly and immediately arrested Li Zhilong, who had just returned to China. The Kuomintang sentenced Li Zhilong to death for plotting a naval rebellion. Thus Li Zhilong's revolutionary career ended.
Fourth, it failed to achieve its wishes
Although Li Zhilong's life was a life of struggle for the revolution, his wandering between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party made him not firm enough. He did not fully participate in the revolutionary course of the Communist Party and made no substantial contribution to the development of the Communist Party.
Therefore, when he died, his wife applied to the CCP superiors in 1951, hoping to gain the approval of the Communist Party and posthumously crown Li Zhilong as a revolutionary martyr. But Premier Zhou, one of the party leaders at the time, firmly rejected the request after much deliberation.
summary
Li Zhilong's poor origin gave him the belief in revolution, and he gradually realized his ambitions through his unremitting efforts. It can be said that Li Zhilong's perseverance in chasing the revolution is worth learning from every young person.
But Li Zhilong did not do it from the beginning, and his hesitant character eventually buried the revolutionary enthusiasm he once proud of. It is a pity that he ended up sending himself to a road of no return and offsetting his previous exploits.