One day in 1952, several police officers came to the Southeast Bookstore in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, and after identifying themselves, they immediately arrested the owner of the bookstore, Guo Zijian.
After a detailed investigation and interrogation, a major case that occurred in 26 years was unveiled, and the real identity of the bookstore owner named Guo Zijian was not simple.
In the summer of 1926, Chen Zanxian, one of the founders of the Gannan Party organization, was ordered by Liu Shaoqi to carry out the workers' movement in Ganzhou, Jiangxi.
<h1>Chen Zanxian was in Ganzhou</h1>
Chen Zanxian, a native of Kang, Southwest Jiangxi, studied in jiangxi in his early years, joined the Communist Party of China after the May Thirtieth Movement, and was responsible for leading the workers' and peasants' movement for a long time.
After arriving in Ganzhou, Chen Zanxian immediately went deep among the workers to investigate; he found that many of the workers here had joined the "Divine Society," an organization with a certain feudalism, and a little carelessness would lead people astray; therefore, Chen Zanxian advocated abandoning the "Divine Society" and leading the creation of trade unions to safeguard the rights and interests of Workers in Ganzhou; under Chen Zanxian's leadership, Nearly 60 grass-roots trade unions were established in Ganzhou in a short period of time, with more than 18,000 members.
Subsequently, the trade unions waged a struggle to increase wages, improve treatment, and implement an eight-hour working day, but these reasonable demands were rejected by the capitalists headed by Liu Jiadi, president of the Merchants' Association.
To this end, Chen Zanxian urgently held a meeting, believing that the thief should first capture the king, Qianzhuang is the economic hub of the entire Ganxian County, and the businessmen in this industry are powerful figures here, and if the workers in the qian industry are allowed to strike first, it will greatly hit the arrogance of the capitalists and thus agree to the conditions of the trade union.
<h1>Led the strike in Ganxian County</h1>
In early November, under the leadership of Chen Zanxian, the workers of Qianye in Ganxian County held a general strike, which made it difficult for the capitalists to sleep and eat, and the capitalists from all over Ganxian County urgently gathered to discuss the method of dealing with the trade unions, and even invited Qiu Enhua, Chen Zanxian's primary school teacher and then president of the Ganxian Lawyers Association, to come forward and hope to help the capitalists mediate in this matter, but Chen Zanxian sternly refused.
As the strike continued, the county's finances were suddenly plunged into chaos, and in order to quickly quell the incident, the capitalists bought Xu Jian, the county magistrate of Ganxian County, and opened a "labor arbitration meeting" in the name of the government; as we all know, the labor arbitration meeting immediately fell to the side of the capitalists at the beginning, and did not protect any rights of the workers at all, and Chen Zanxian also immediately saw and exposed their conspiracy, so that Xu Jian could not step down.
Finally, the next morning, Xu Jian abandoned his official position and fled.
After continuous struggle, Chen Zanxian led the trade union to achieve basic victory; workers' wages were increased by 30%, the 8-hour system was implemented, and labor contracts were signed, which had a great impact on the whole country.
However, Chen Zanxian was also regarded as a thorn in the side of the Ganzhou capitalists, and Liu Jiadi also sued Chiang Kai-shek, who was in Nanchang at the time; in order to crack down on the revolutionary forces, Chiang Sent the reactionary Guo Gong as the county magistrate of Ganxian County, and transferred the newly organized First Division of the Nationalist Army to Gannan to deal with Chen Zanxian specifically.
After Guo Gong arrived at his post, he immediately organized the media to vigorously attack Chen Zanxian, but Chen Zanxian was not intimidated; he immediately countered Guo Gong's fallacy in the newspaper, and the Ganxian reactionaries headed by Guo Gong did everything they could, but found nothing.
Immediately after, Guo Gong and his gang provoked an incident on the evening of December 30.
At that time, Zhang Hu, an apprentice in the foreign goods industry, went to the Second Female Division to watch a play, but he was turned away and zhang Hu was not allowed to enter the school; Zhang Hu, in anger, wrote slogans such as "Down with the Second Female Division" on the school wall; subsequently, the principal of the school quickly reported to Ni Bi, the party representative of the newly organized First Division.
Ni Bi, Guo Gong, and others thought that this was a good opportunity, so they asked the principal to expand the incident; under the constant speculation of the reactionaries, the incident became more and more noisy, and the capitalists demanded the dissolution of the trade unions and the "severe punishment" of Chen Zanxian.
On January 27, Ni Bi and Guo Gong jointly issued a warrant for arresting Chen Zanxian and other trade union leaders, but Chen Zanxian evaded in time and was spared during the raid.
Because the situation was very critical, Chen Zanxian organized some workers in Ganzhou to petition the General Political Department of the Nationalist Army in Nanchang, demanding the removal of Ni Bi and the release of arrested trade union members; Guo Moruo, who was then deputy director of the General Political Department, reported Chen Zanxian's request to Jiang Renren, and under various pressures, Jiang ostensibly removed Ni Bi, but behind his back secretly received Ni Bi and supported continuing to oppose the trade union.
Chen Zanxian prepared to return to Ganzhou after attending the first workers' congress in Jiangxi; Li Fuchun, who was then director of the political department of the Second Army of the Nationalist Army, considered Chen Zanxian's safety and asked him not to return to Ganzhou first.
<h1>Blood spilled in Ganzhou</h1>
Thinking that there were more than 10,000 workers in Ganzhou who had fought side by side, Chen Zanxian was biased towards the Tiger Mountain and returned to Ganzhou, which was full of murderous opportunities.
Guo Gong and others gritted their teeth in hatred for Chen Zanxian, and after learning that he had returned to Ganzhou, they and Ni Bi and others set up a poisonous plan to kill Chen Zanxian.
On the evening of March 6, 1927, Chen Zanxian, who was in a meeting, was arrested by Guo Gong for going to the county government for a meeting.
The reactionaries demanded that Chen Zanxian order the dissolution of the trade union, but was sternly refused; because Chen Zanxian never bowed his head, he was killed that night by the reactionaries led by Guo Gong, at the age of 31.
After the news of Chen Zanxian's murder came out, workers throughout Ganzhou held a general strike to show their protest; they also organized petition groups to petition Nanchang and Wuhan to demand that the government severely punish the murderers.
In 1952, Guo Gong was arrested by the police; after a trial, on March 6, 1953, Chen Zanxian shot Guo Gong at trial on the 26th anniversary of the 26th anniversary of righteousness, in order to comfort the heroic souls of the martyrs.