Born in 1882, Yongchuan people, character Dongqin, mingxian book. His biological father made a living selling tofu. After graduating from Yongchuan Public School (now Yongchuan Middle School), he was admitted to Chuandong Academy.
In 1904, he was sent to study in Japan and studied at the Police Supervision And Constitutional Division of dongbin academy.
In 1906, together with Hu Hanmin, Xiong Kewu, Dan Maoxin, Wu Yuzhang, Xia Shishi, etc., he joined the League, and introduced Gansu Chen Kaizhao and other volunteers to join the League and join the anti-Qing revolution.
In 1907, he returned to China and served as a supervisor and instructor at the "Chinese Public School" founded by Wu Yuzhang. Subsequently, together with Xiong Kewu and Huang Shuzhong, he was sent back to Sichuan to actively carry out the anti-Qing revolution in Sichuan.
Huichuan first founded a public school in Yongchuan, served as the president of the Education Association, vigorously promoted the new education system, and served as the main person in charge of the Yongchuan and other local league associations.
From February 1908 to August 1910, he taught at the Chengdu Law and Politics School and engaged in anti-Qing activities.
In 1912, Zheng Dongqin was appointed governor of Zizhou (Zizhong County).
In August 1911, Zhao Erfeng, the governor of Sichuan, detained 18 people, including Bo Dianhou, chairman of the Sichuan-Han Railway Consultative Bureau, ignoring the people's petition to kneel and worship, arousing the indignation of the Sichuan people. In September, the railway minister Duan Fang led 1,500 people into Sichuan to investigate and suppress it, and stationed on Zizhou East Avenue.
Zheng Dongqin and Wu Yuzhang contacted Guangda, Chen Zhiyong, and other revolutionaries in the Central Command of the Hubei Army to plan a rebellion. On October 7, the Zizhou E garrison Wen Wuchang Chongqing independence, so they convened a meeting of officers at Dongyue Temple to decide to start an incident, that night curfew, executed the Duan Fang brothers in the East Avenue Heavenly Palace, and cut off the head, on the morning of the 8th at the east street gate to hang the head to the city people, on the same day with a box to leave Zizhou to Chongqing to ask for merit and return to Hubei.
After the departure of the Ejun garrison in Zizhou, the whole city was panicked, and li Chuanjiu and He Qinfu, the gentry of the prefecture, were in charge of the defense of the city. At this time, Zhou Mou, who had been appointed by duanfang, was stationed in Shuinan Street under the banner of the Comrades' Association and waited for an opportunity to peep, Chuanjiu refused, but unexpectedly betrayed the traitor, Zhou Bandit killed Li Chuanjiu, the commander of the city defense, and Li Jiyao, a volunteer soldier, and destroyed the school facilities and smashed and robbed them.
At this time, Li Fang, a native of the prefecture, returned to the prefecture from Qian, advocated the restoration of order, convened a congress of Zizhou to declare independence, and the Military and Political Bureau, with Li Fang as the director, Lan Shiju as the commander of the army, and Zhou mou as the military academy officer. However, Zhou's wild nature was difficult to change, and the crowd persuaded them to go to Chengdu to support the revolution, and zhou bandits cheated seven thousand yuan out of it to raise funds, and in less than January, Zhou bandits prepared to occupy the mountain as king in the return of capital.
At that time, the Qian army of Sichuan was stationed at the time, and the Shu government appointed Zheng Dongqin to take over as the governor of Zizhou County. Zheng Dongqin urgently contacted the members of the Qianjun Japan Overseas Students Alliance, and the military and government jointly discussed that when most of Zhou Xingwu's troops did not enter the city, they would crush and suppress the Zhou department in the city. "Zhou Mou is far away, and people's hearts are a little at ease."
After suppressing the rebellion, Zheng Dongqin restored order in a timely manner, successively established the state parliament, the peasant association, the law society, the chamber of commerce, changed the grain to a regular tax, the Tianjin donation into a deputy tax, established a collection department, found out the property of the whole state and filed it for the record, set up a department of finance, formulated a taxation policy, and determined that the amount of positive tax collection was one yuan and six corners for every two yuan.
From 1913 to 1917, Zheng Dongqin successively served as the director of Zhangming and dayi County Taxation Bureau. During this period, he followed the instructions of Sun Yat-sen, assisted Xiong Kewu in forming the Sichuan Army, participated in the formation of the Sichuan Lecture Hall, solved the problem of military needs, and actively participated in revolutionary activities such as seeking yuan and protecting the country.
From April 1917 to March 1918, he served as the governor of Hechuan County. The Hechuan garrison was Liu Xiangbu of the Second Sichuan Division, and although it had been clearing the countryside to suppress bandits, due to the long-term melee between the Sichuan army and the Beiyang warlords, the bandits were still rampant, and the common people were suffering, while the former county governor Zhang Kaitao was told by the townspeople to Chongqing Prefecture for embezzlement and embezzlement of public funds, and was later expelled and replaced by Jia Kunyang. At that time, the situation in Hechuan was turbulent, Xiong Kewu was ordered, and the Sichuan provincial government appointed Zheng Dongqin to go to the line of fire.
Zheng Dongqin took office with great vigor and vigor, got off the bus for three days to arrest several bandits, and on the second day personally led dozens of people out of the Niubi Gorge to arrest more than a dozen bandits, and escorted them back to the streets to show the public to behead them, and since then the bandits have been greatly intimidated.
In August 1917, Zheng Dongqin proposed to revise the county chronicle, and immediately ordered the county visual official Huang Baochu to write to Zhang Senkai, and agreed to follow the county ministerial order to revise the "Hechuan County Chronicle", so Zheng Dongqin Zhang Luo raised funds and hired Zhang Senkai as the general editor of the reconstruction of the "Hechuan County Chronicle". Zhang Senkai immediately put it into practice, drafted the "Nine Articles of Proposed ZhiFan Cases", "Thirty Articles of Interview Instructions", and "Ten Articles of Surveying and Mapping Instructions" and published them by the county government, and then completed the 2.23 million-word "Chronicle of hechuan County of the Republic of China" after five years.
The chronicle covers rich contents such as territory, history, customs, official system, genealogy, art and literature, and inscriptions, and for the first time, the heroes and martyrs of the anti-bandit people are compiled into the county chronicle. Once it came out, it shocked the historians of the Republic of China at that time and was praised by Liang Qichao as a masterpiece of The History of The County Chronicle in China in the past three hundred years.
At the same time, vigorously promoting modern education, Zheng Dongqin issued an order to establish several girls' middle schools during his tenure as governor of the county.
The governor of Zhengdongqin County served in Hechuan County for one year, and his governance was good, and he won the hearts of the people, and the common people praised wuli and erected an inscription to commemorate it. Geng Bucheng, a squire of Hechuan Township (chairman of the later early Minsheng Company), recorded Zheng Dongqin's political achievements and ideological records related to people's livelihood, civil law, people's strength, and people's wisdom, and made it a "Record of Going to Thought" and engraved it on the beam of the county government lobby, and Zhang Senkai proposed to select Mo Yan as an immortal for his meritorious service.
From June 1918 to February 1920, Zheng Dongqin served as the head of the Chongqing Police Department, fully supporting Xiong Kewu's struggle with Duan Qirui to protect the Law of the Beiyang regime. In September 1919, the three provincial armies of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Qian and the Hubei army formed a Dharma Protector Alliance in Chongqing to oppose the Beiyang regime.
During the May Fourth movement in 1919, Zheng Dongqin adopted a tolerant and understanding attitude toward more than 2,000 patriotic students, including the Chuandong Normal Academy, which suppressed Japanese goods in November and besieged the Chongqing Police Department, and properly handled them to avoid bloodshed.
From 1920 to 1923, Zheng Dongqin served as the governor of Fuling, Yuechi, Guang'an and other counties. During this period, together with Dan Maoxin, he carried out the campaign to ban opium and clear the countryside, established public schools, promoted a new style of education, and coordinated to support Xiong Kewu's Battle of Jingchuan.
At the same time, Zheng Dongqin initiated the study of righteousness in Guang'an, and the gentleman set up a banquet for him to celebrate his birthday, but he avoided it and was deeply loved by the people.
From 1923 to 1925, Zheng Dongqin served as the governor of Nanchong County, and the Nanchong garrison was the Fifth Division of Xiong Kewuchuan Army. During this period, Zheng Dongqin participated in the Battle of Jingchuan in support of Xiong Kewu and Beiyang representative Yang Sen and other warlords, and vigorously promoted new-style education.
In 1924, Xiong Kewu lost his position and went to Xiangyue to prepare for the Northern Expedition. After Sun Yat-sen's death in 1925, Chiang Kai-shek detained Xiong Kewu and his cronies at a banquet at the Hongmen Gate in Guangdong, among which the secretary who had been detained for a year was Zheng Dongqin's second son.
From February to June 1926, Zheng Dongqin served as the governor of Ba County (Chongqing).
In the second half of 1925, a 200 yuan copper dollar incident occurred in Chongqing. In order to raise salaries for the army, the Qian army stationed in Chongqing issued a new 200 yuan copper coin in Chongqing, causing prices to rise and the people to panic. Yuan Zuming had to expel Xian Ying to calm the storm, and then Zheng Dongqin was appointed governor of Ba County.
During the period of domestic turmoil, Zheng Dongqin once covered Liu Baicheng's residence in Ba County, and the two often talked secretly and became friends. While living in the county, Liu Baicheng joined the Communist Party of China through the introduction of Yang Mingong and Wu Yuzhang, while Zheng Dongqin had already planned to do business and decided to abandon politics and business.
When the Minsheng Company Hechuan was preparing, the Hechuan squire waited and watched, Zheng Dongqin lobbied, opened the financing situation, and poured out money to help, immediately lent 3,000 yuan, and then said that the Hechuan County Government moved on the grounds of office-appropriate undertakings, and only then did it lend 8,000 yuan to the county education bureau to support the establishment of the Minsheng Company, go to Shanghai to order the first ship, and thus open up the Hechuan-Chongqing route.
On June 10, 1926, Minsheng Company held its inaugural meeting in Chongqing, adopted the articles of association, and elected the first board of directors. Zheng Dongqin, Geng Bucheng, Li Yungen, Li Zuocheng and other nine people are the first directors, Zhou Chunqin and other three people are the supervisors, and Zheng Dongqin was elected as the chairman. According to the provisions of the articles of association, directors and supervisors may not concurrently serve as the general manager and associate of the company, so the shareholders recommend and are decided by the board of directors that Lu Zuofu serve as the general manager, Chen Bozun and Huang Yunlong as the assistants.
After the first board of directors decided to increase the share capital to 50,000 yuan, in addition to the funds that have been raised, the remaining tens of thousands of yuan are borrowed by Zheng Dongqin. Zheng Dongqin pooled all the shares and took a lot of effort, not only mortgaged the land property that his father had sold tofu all his life, but also pawned the marriage dowry of his eldest daughter-in-law (the daughter of Yongchuan Fusheng), and also borrowed money from the bank foreign bank.
The initial operation of the "People's Livelihood" wheel can be described as mixed. After driving for half a year, the timing entered the winter dry season of the Jialing River, and the "Minsheng" ship faced suspension. Sui Lu Zuofu consulted with Zheng Dongqin and decided to increase the Chongqing-Fu line. Zheng Dongqin used his personal resources as the governor of Fuling County in his early years to actively coordinate and get strong support from Fuling people and the military to finally tide over the difficulties and make the "people's livelihood" wheel run in both dry and rising seasons.
From 1927 to 1929, Zheng Dongqin served as a director and supervisor of Minsheng Company. During this period, he founded the Yangtze River Steamship Company and served as the chairman of the board.
In January 1927, the "Minsheng" ship began to sail the Chongqing-Fu line, and the business was very good throughout the dry season. In the summer of this year, Minsheng Company held the second shareholders' meeting, Zheng Dongqin was elected as the supervisor, and Lu Zuofu and others decided to send 2 minutes and 5% of the red interest rate from August to December of the previous year to the shareholders, and the shareholders smiled happily.
Zheng Dongqin took the opportunity to propose a capital increase to the shareholders' general meeting, which was unanimously approved. The actual capital increase was 73,000 yuan, more than 46% of the original quota. After the additional funds arrived, Minsheng Company immediately ordered a new round in Shanghai and named it "Civil". The "civil" ship is shallower than the "minsheng" ship, and the hull is slightly larger, which can navigate the Chongqing Line throughout the year. Since then, the profit income and expenditure of Minsheng Company have begun to be profitable.
In 1928, The Shunqing (Nanchong) merchant Tan Qianlu (also known as Tan Qianliu) had just built a steamship named "Shunqing" in Shanghai, but was unexpectedly detained by Fan Shaozeng of the Sichuan Army on the way back to Chongqing. When Zheng Dongqin was the county governor of Shunqing for nearly three years, he met Tan Qianlu, and Fan Shaozeng was also an old part of the Sichuan Army, and there were many old friends of Zheng Dongqin in the army, so Tan entrusted Zheng Dongqin to mediate from it.
Fan Shao increased the face of Zheng Dongqin, so he returned the seized ship, and at the same time Tan realized that there were many obstacles to engaging in Yangtze River shipping, and it was not his own efforts, so he authorized it to be included in the operation of the Yangtze River Steamship Company, of which Zheng Dongqin was the chairman, and changed the "Shunqing" ship to the "Yangtze River" ship and traveled on the Chongqing-Xuzhou Line.
However, Tan Qianlu did not know how to operate, so he had to transfer his equity and management rights, zheng Dongqin immediately invested, and then transferred the management rights to the Minsheng Company, and since then the Minsheng Company has begun to sail between Chongqing and Xufu and Jiading in the summer of that year.
On October 18, 1929, Minsheng Company officially accepted the "Yangtze River" ship and renamed it the "Minwang" ship. With the addition of the "Minwang" wheel, the shipping operation of Minsheng Company officially entered a new stage of shipping development on the Yangtze River from the Jialing River, and the output value doubled that year. Therefore, the "People's Hope" ship is also called the Fortune Ship.
From 1930 to 1952, Zheng Dongqin served as the chairman of minsheng industrial co., LTD., and at the same time successively served as chairman of Tianfu Coal Mine, chairman of Yuxin Iron and Steel Company, chairman of Pacific Steamship Company, vice chairman of western academy of sciences, etc. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as a member of the Provisional Senate of the Chongqing Government.
In February 1930, Minsheng Company held the Fifth General Meeting of Shareholders. The shareholders' meeting decided to increase the company's capital to 300,000 yuan (250,000 yuan in actual income that year), and zheng Dongqin was elected as the chairman of the board. Since then, Zheng Dongqin has held this position until after liberation. During his tenure as chairman, he gave Great support to Lu Zuofu in the development of Minsheng Company.
At the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, inflation and minsheng company were on the verge of bankruptcy. Song Ziwen took the solution of the economic difficulties of the Minsheng Company as a bait and asked to be the chairman of the Minsheng Company. Zheng Dongqin resolutely resisted this and personally came forward to solve the problem of funds, so that the minsheng company turned the crisis into safety.
Later, it also established the Pacific Steamship Company, with minsheng branches in Taiwan and Hong Kong, to develop coastal shipping business.
In September 1949, when Yang Sen deliberately destroyed the mountain city and blocked the liberation of the whole country, Chairman Zheng Dongqin immediately made a decision and sent several steamships to transport more than 200 tons of explosives, thousands of barrels of gasoline and a large number of military materials out of Chongqing, avoiding a catastrophe.
In the later period of the Liberation War, the Kuomintang regime was on the verge of disintegration, and a large number of gold and silver coupons were issued, in order to protect the assets of the People's Livelihood Company, Zheng Dongqin purchased and exchanged a large amount of gold, and at the same time strengthened the safety supervision and management of accounting funds to avoid the loss of gold abroad.
In November 1949, Zheng Dongqin led Chongqing's industrialists and merchants to welcome Liu Deng's army to liberate Chongqing at Nan hot spring.
In early 1950, Zheng Dongqin sent representatives such as He Beiheng, a member of the board of directors, to Hong Kong to assist Lu Zuofu in dealing with the seizure of more than 10 ships in Hong Kong due to Canadian loans.
In October 1950, Chairman Zheng Dongqin announced to the world at the British Embassy on Xinjie on the South Bank that Zheng Dongqin, chairman of Minsheng Company, was the legal person of Minsheng Company, and minsheng company headquarters in Chongqing, the only legal headquarters, Taiwan and other other other areas of minsheng company can not represent the Chongqing headquarters of Minsheng company.
After the establishment of the Southwest Military and Political Committee, Chairman Mao appointed Zheng Dongqin as a member of the Financial and Economic Committee of the Southwest Military and Political Committee.
From 1952 to 1965, after the company's joint venture, Minsheng Company was changed to Changhang, and Zheng Dongqin has been serving as vice chairman, member of the Standing Committee of Chongqing Federation of Industry and Commerce, member of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, deputy to the Sichuan Provincial People's Congress, and member of the Democratic Construction And Revolutionary Committee.
At the time of liberation, the salary was 500 yuan, and after the company's joint venture, it knew that it was higher than Chairman Mao's salary, so it reduced its salary to 350 yuan.
Zheng Dongqin died in 1965 at the age of 83.