In the northeast of Guangdong Province, in the upper reaches of the Dongjiang and Hanjiang rivers, there is a county-level city named Xingning City.
Xingning City is full of humanities, celebrities, from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Xingning has been admitted to the Jinshi, 285 people, in modern history, Xingning City has also emerged many revolutionary people, such as the founding lieutenant general Deng Yifan, the pioneer of the democratic revolution He Tianjiong, He Guanzhong, the proletarian revolutionary Huang Wenjie and so on.
The one we are going to talk about today is also from Xingning, his name is Luo Yiqun, he served as the acting chief of staff of the Northern Expeditionary Army, let's talk about Luo Yiqun's story.
In 1889, Luo Yiqun was born in Yuantang Township, Longtian Town, Xingning, Guangdong.
At the beginning of the last century, under the leadership of Sun Yat-sen and other revolutionary ancestors, revolutionary ideas were widely spread in the Liangguang region, and in 1905, the China League was founded in Tokyo, Japan, becoming a national-scale bourgeois political party leading the Chinese revolution, and Luo Yiqun, who was only 19 years old, was also influenced by the revolutionary environment, joined the China League, and did a lot of important work for the revolutionary cause in the stage of the old democratic revolution.
In January 1924, the First National Congress of the Kuomintang was held in Guangzhou, which established the three major policies of uniting Russia, uniting the Communist Party, and supporting peasants and workers, and Luo Yiqun resolutely supported the three policies, and assisted Liao Zhongkai in organizing the workers' and peasants' movement and founding the Whampoa Military Academy, and also went to Hong Kong to assist Su Zhaozheng in launching the provincial-Hong Kong general strike.
In 1925, Luo Yiqun accompanied Chiang Kai-shek's Eastern Expedition, served as the General Staff of the General Headquarters of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, and participated in the subsequent Northern Expeditionary War, serving as the acting chief of staff of the Northern Expeditionary Army, however, with the death of Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek also gradually deviated from Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary ideas, Luo Yiqun was arrested by Chiang Kai-shek at the headquarters of the Eastern Expeditionary Army because of his opposition to the ban on gambling in the Chaoshan area.
From then on, Luo Yiqun parted ways with Chiang Kai-shek and went to Japan.
In 1931, Japan planned the "918" incident and launched a war of aggression against China, this year, Luo Yiqun returned to China from Japan and threw himself into the anti-Japanese salvation movement.
In May 1945, at the Sixth National Congress of the Kuomintang, Luo Yiqun was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee, and the following year he was co-opted as a member of the Central Committee.
In July 1949, Luo Yiqun persuaded Li Zongren to accept the CCP's conditions, reopen the way of peace talks, and end the civil war.
Unexpectedly, the Central Supervisory Committee of the Kuomintang, which had retreated to Guangzhou at this time, decided to expel Luo Yiqun from the party forever, and Luo Yiqun took a-for-tat approach and published a statement in the newspaper, denouncing Chiang Kai-shek as "Premier Sun's No. 1 traitor."
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Luo Yiqun resolutely supported the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and successively served as a librarian of the Guangdong Provincial Museum of Culture and History, deputy director of the Counselor's Office of the Provincial People's Committee, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
However, Luo Yiqun has been criticized many times in political campaigns.
In 1957, when the central anti-rightist struggle expanded, Luo Yiqun was wrongly classified as a "rightist", and after the start of the 10-year movement, Luo Yiqun suffered serious persecution and died of illness in Guangzhou in September 1967 at the age of 78.
In 1981, after a review by the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, Luo Yiqun was corrected as a "rightist" in 1957, and a memorial service was held for him in Guangzhou, and his ashes were moved to the Galaxy Cemetery in Guangzhou.