A Brief Introduction to the Relationship between Martyr Cao Yan and Me and Zou Xianzhou - Selected Works of Qingbai Anthology

Selected Works of Qingbai (author: Zou Xiang< My grandfather >, Qingbai).

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This article was originally published in the Eighth Series of Qidong Wenshi, edited by the Committee of The Cultural and Historical Society of the Qidong County Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, 1999.9

As early as my youth, I met Comrade Cao Yan, who was only a day older than me and respected each other. When I was studying at the Provincial First Normal School, I returned from winter and summer vacations to discuss the anti-Japanese propaganda work with Cao and carried out activities separately. During my three years of teaching at Sanmin Middle School (1945-1948), I corresponded with him. We are very indignant about the Kuomintang's traitorous behavior, believing that Chiang Kai-shek is a traitor and that the Kuomintang is a "kuomintang." In June 1947, I sent my nephew Zou Zhenpu to Shanghai (Zhenpu was the editor of the China Economic Research Institute), and I went to Jiaotong University to invite Cao to Zhenpu's house for dinner and talks, and in the conversation, Zhenpu admired Cao very much. I taught at Huisanmin Middle School in Shanghai (the treatment was one-third higher than that of Daxiao), but he had been hired by Daxiao Middle School, and since Zhou Pengyi, the deputy principal of Daxiao Middle School, was my uncle, it was not good to force Cao to go to Sanmin, and Cao was unwilling to betray his faith and leave Daxiao, which showed the nobility of his personality.

In the second semester of 1948, I went to Shanghai New China Law Business School to study, returned home from winter vacation, and met with Cao in Hongqiao once, and he encouraged me and Zou Xianzhou to study at The Southern College in Hong Kong. In January 1949, Liang Feng and Li Ruiqi introduced me to study at the Southern College in Hong Kong, and returned to Guangzhou in late April of the same year, where they returned to Their native Qiyang to organize armed struggle against the enemy on the orders of Li and Liang (Li was a member of the Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party and Liang was a member of the Communist Party of China) to organize an armed struggle against the enemy in order to welcome the liberation of Jiangnan by our army. Zou Xianzhou and I went to Hongqiao Daxiao and Cao twice to discuss organizing an armed struggle. At that time, I thought he was a party member, but he signaled that he was not, and he asked Zou Xianzhou to go to Guangzhou to find organizational relations. We decided to go up the hill together. He could go before me, and I and Xian zhou were actively looking for someone to find a gun in the Area of Jiu'an Township, but due to the short time, they could not do so. Knowing that Cao had gone to the Qishaoheng Border District Column, we could not wait to find Cao, and Cao warmly welcomed us to participate and be the introducer for the two of us. Cao Yan met with the leaders of Hu Zheng and Wang Zuo, exchanged views, and decided that I would be the deputy director of the Political Department (and considering the important writers, I would later be changed to the post of secretary general), and Xian Zhou would be the head of the political work team. Cao Yanfu ordered me to go back to the North District with Xian zhou to find someone to find a gun and wait for the opportunity to return to the team. I found nineteen guns and more than twenty people with Xianzhou in ten days. Knowing that the troops had driven back to Qiyang from Shaoyang, we led the team to Qiaomutang and were taken in by the Tan Xianxian Department of our fourth brigade. I urged Xian Zhou to rush to the headquarters to report the situation, and invited someone to lead us back to the team, but we just happened to encounter the "June 3" massacre. Several leaders of our column died heroically, and Xianzhou was hidden in the wall and survived. Under these circumstances, the two of us had no choice but to lead the team back to the North District to carry out activities, determined to inherit Comrade Cao Yan's legacy. Shortly thereafter, a second detachment was established under the leadership of Comrade Liu Wentong. Continue to carry out revolutionary work.