Today we introduce Shi Rongqing, an early party member.
Shi Rongqing was born in 1898 in Shanwan Village, Tonghua Township, Pujiang County, Zhejiang Province (now part of Lanxi). Shi Rongqing's father, Shi Shangzhen, saved money and let Shi Rongqing go to school, hoping that he would "learn and excel" and make the family prosperous. In Qianhu, Shenzhai and other villages, Shi Rongqing first attended private schools, and in 1915 he obtained a diploma from Puyang Primary School. Dropping out of school to substitute classes, self-funded, in the autumn of 1917, he was admitted to the school site in Jinhua's Provincial Seventh Middle School. When the May Fourth Movement broke out in 1919, he led the organization of the Jinhua Student Federation, served as the chief director (equivalent to the chairman), carried out a large-scale strike strike, boycotted foreign goods, and was expelled from the school with 11 "radicals" from the provincial seven middle schools. Shi Rongqing, who had been expelled from school, still did not "keep to himself" after returning home, and he secretly created the "Tonghua Society" without his family to contact the oppressed people in Pujiang, Yiwu, Lanxi and other places, and the spearhead was pointed at the local tycoons and inferior gentry who ran amok. Chen Zhiyan, the principal of Tonghua Primary School, acted obediently and caused public indignation. Shi Rongqing and the members of the Tonghua Society verbally criticized him, forcing the other party to restrain their arrogance. His fierce struggle against the evil forces was not limited to Hengxi, but also went to Jiang Fa on the bank of LiuYuan Creek to encourage Cao Mengqi, the founder of Yucai Academy, to fight tenaciously with the evil elements. In the autumn of 1920, with the help of relatives and friends, Shi Rongqing transferred to the provincial no. 1 Middle School. During his time at the Provincial No. 1 Middle School, he continued to participate in the student movement, dueling with the conservative provincial council, setting off a wave of expelling Xia Jingguan and welcoming Huang Renwang, for which he was arrested and imprisoned by the reactionary authorities, and later rescued. At the end of 1920, Shi Rongqing exchanged letters with Wu Rongcang, Yuan Dushi (Yuan Dashi), the main members of the revolutionary group "Hubin Gongxue Mutual Aid Group" under the leadership of Chen Duxiu, and read the "Communist Manifesto" and other red books and periodicals, and began to contact Marxism. In 1922, he served as an "organizer" at the beginning of the Hangzhou Communist Youth League, and then joined the Communist Party. After graduating in the summer of 1922, Shi Rongqing went to Zhejiang Provincial Public Law and Politics College for further study. Shi Rongqing, who was in Hangzhou Mapo lane provincial law and politics college, became a caller of revolutionary storms. Zhang Xinjin, who is also an underground party member, "Sai Zhangliang" An Ticheng, and "vanguard" Yu Shude, are regular guests of Shi Rongqing's student simple dormitory.
In accordance with the spirit of the resolution of the Third National Congress of the Communist Party of China in June 1923, Shi Rongqing, through Zhang Xinjin's arrangement, joined the Kuomintang as a secret member of the Communist Party of China and transformed the Kuomintang. In 1926, he obeyed the dispatch of the Hangzhou Party organization, broke out of Sun Chuanfang's net, and went to Guangdong to enter the Whampoa Military Academy, where he worked in the secretariat of the political department of the school, becoming a cadre under the direct leadership of Zhou Enlai. Shi Rongqing put on his military uniform and served as an assistant in the secretariat of the General Political Department of the Northern Expeditionary Army. The Northern Expedition was victorious, and the General Political Department moved from Guangdong to Shanghai with the army. In March 1927, Shi Rongqing, who liked the peasant movement, arrived in Hangzhou from Shanghai with the consent of his superior Deng Yanda. Ding Jimei, minister of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Agriculture, had a conversation with Shi Rongqing and particularly appreciated his talent. On April 7, 1927, Shi Rongqing was appointed as the commissioner of the peasant movement in Pujiang County. When he returned to Shanwan and was preparing to show his skills, something unexpected happened. Just five days after he was appointed, Chiang Kai-shek launched the April 12 counter-revolutionary incident that shocked China and foreign countries, took up a butcher knife and wantonly slaughtered the Communists, and Shi Rongqing was blacklisted. A close friend reminded Shi Rongqing to disappear for the time being and avoid the limelight. Shi Rongqing couldn't bear it and went to Hangzhou alone, wanting to get in touch with his superiors. At the end of May 1927, the reactionary police arrested Shi Rongqing, who had just arrived at the Xuanji dormitory in Hangzhou, and imprisoned him in the Hangzhou Army Prison. The Kuomintang authorities set up a reflection court in the Hangzhou Army Prison, where Shi Rongqing, Huang Wenrong, and other Communist Party members were held in the same court. A pujiang national of the Kuomintang provincial party department surnamed Zhang met with Shi Rongqing, Huang Wenrong, and others as a fellow villager and asked them to write a "letter of reflection." Zhang surnamed Zhang promised: As long as everyone writes a letter of reflection, they will be released immediately, and they will be hired according to their ability to ensure that they have no worries about food and clothing. Shi Rongqing wrote some words on the paper and pen provided by the important official surnamed Zhang, but it was not a letter of reflection, but a text that almost refuted the reactionaries. The enemy became angry and continued to imprison him. Until March 19, 1931, Shi Rongqing, who had been in the Hangzhou Army Prison Reflection Institute for nearly four years, was released on bail. At this time, his face was yellow and thin, his head was puffy and swollen, his limbs were weak, and he was struggling to move. Returning to the old mansion in ShanWan for about a season, his physical condition improved slightly. At that time, Shi Rongqing had four sons under his knees, the eldest son Bailin was 15 years old, the second son Baidu was 12 years old, the third son Baiyuan was 8 years old, and the younger son Bai Huan was only 6 years old, and even his wife Fang's family of six people basically had no financial resources. Zhu Sheng, who served as the principal of Tonghua Primary School, asked Sangu Maolu to teach and improve his family's situation with the corresponding salary. However, at that time, Shi Rongqing's wish was not fulfilled, and he did not answer Zhu Sheng's request. Before his body had fully recovered, Shi Rongqing quietly left home for Shanghai and connected with the relevant person in charge of the East China Bureau of the Communist Party. On July 18 and August 2, 1931, Shi Rongqing sent back two family letters from Shanghai to comfort his relatives and friends. In the first month of the lunar calendar in 1932, at the repeated invitation of Zhu Sheng, Shi Rongqing went to Tonghua Primary School to teach after the Lantern Festival, and by the way took the eldest son BaiLin and the second son Baidu to study. However, after a short time in Tonghua Primary School, Shi Rongqing suddenly left the school and "ran away". After passing through Hangzhou and Shanghai, he transferred to Wuxi, folded to Chiang Kai-shek's hometown of Fenghua, and served as a clerk in the judicial section of the county government. Under the eyes of Dai Kasa, the head of the military command's secret service, Shi Rongqing, who was ordered by the upper line, planned to open a "gap" here. Unfortunately, he died before he could get out. On January 18, 1934, Shi Rongqing died violently in his office in the Fenghua County Government, and it is said that he was murdered as an underground party member.
