Li Gonggong, a mingke family, was born in 1901 to a hawker family in Jiesheng Town, Haifeng County, Guangdong Province. He studied diligently at Wenting Higher Primary School. In 1918, after graduating from elementary school, he taught at The Minamicho Elementary School in Jiesheng Town, and often read revolutionary books such as "New Youth" and pursued progress.
In 1922, Li Laborer went to work in the Sericulture Bureau of Haifeng County, and after learning that Peng Pan was engaged in the peasant movement on the outskirts of the county, he went to visit Peng Pan, and the two exchanged views on the issue of carrying out the peasant movement. With peng Pan's help, he went deep into the countryside, mobilized peasants to participate in the anti-feudal struggle, and renamed himself "laborer" to show respect for the meaning of "labor sacredness". He actively developed the membership of the farmers' association, solved the difficulties for the peasants, and put forward many valuable suggestions for the reform of the farmers' association. Peng Pan once praised the important role played by Li Laborers in the development of the peasant movement in the book "Haifeng Peasant Movement". In July 1923, he assisted Peng Pan in establishing the Guangdong Provincial Farmers' Association in Haifeng, and was elected as a member, minister of agriculture and member of the Propaganda Department, becoming one of the main leading members of the provincial farmers' association.
At that time, The Haifeng peasants were very poor, and when they leased the land of the arable land owners, they had to give half or seventy or eighty percent of the agricultural products to the landlords. In the summer of this year, Haifeng suffered a huge flood and wind disaster, nearly half of the houses collapsed, and 80% of the crop losses. Li Labor assisted Peng Pan in convening a meeting of the executive committee and representatives of the peasant association, decided to "pay rent at most three", and sent propagandists to the townships to implement it. On August 15, the county farmers' meeting was held in Qiaodongshe. Li Laborer delivered a speech at the meeting, calling on the peasants to resolutely carry out the struggle to reduce rents.
Haifeng Haoshen set up the "Grain Industry Maintenance Association" to oppose rent reduction, and also colluded with reactionary military police to raid the peasant association on August 16, arresting 25 people. Li Laborer escaped and then moved with Peng Pan to the side of Da Ling Mountain, and they decided: Peng Pan and others would go to Laolong to negotiate with Chen Jiongming and demand the release of those arrested; Li Laborer would return to the countryside and continue to mobilize the peasants and organize rescues. Soon, Peng Pan returned. Li Labor inquired about the results and learned that it was invalid. They moved to Hong Kong, asked for the help of The Sittock people, received a donation, and sent it back to SITT for rescue.
At this time, a close associate of Chen Jiongming, who lived in Hong Kong, wrote an article attacking the Haifeng peasant movement and published it in the newspaper. Li Laborer saw this and immediately published an article entitled "An Observation on the Bottom of Haifeng's Peasant Movement, and with the great achievements made by Haifeng in agriculture, forestry, education, public health, arbitration, and other aspects in the past six months, he criticized the shameless rumors that the Haifeng peasant movement was very bad, and also exposed the various evil facts of Wang Zuoxin, the reactionary county magistrate of Haifeng County, and Zhong Jingtang, the commander of Chen Jiongming's division, who destroyed the peasant movement and oppressed the peasants.
After dozens of days of activities in Hong Kong, Li Laborers went to Longchuan to negotiate with Chen Jiongming and demanded the release of the peasant association cadres. Later, when he found out that Chen Jiongming was a reactionary figure to the end, and his struggle was ineffective, he went with Peng Pan to Chaoyang, Chao'an, Chenghai, Shantou and other places to carry out activities, and organized peasant associations in more than a dozen counties in eastern Guangdong, with members of more than 100,000 people, and the momentum was huge.
In February 1924, Li Laborer accompanied Peng Pan to Jiesheng to restore the peasant association. On March 17, he assisted Peng Pan in restoring the Haifeng County General Farmers' Association. Chen Jiongming found that the peasant association was very powerful and unfavorable to his rule, so he asked Wang Zuoxin to dissolve the peasant association. Wang Zuoxin issued a notice in the name of the Haifeng County Office, saying: "Under the order of the commander-in-chief (Chen Jiongming), Ke Ri must disband the peasant association. If you dare to violate it, you will be strictly investigated. ”
In late March, Li Laborer went to Guangzhou to engage in the workers' movement, established the Guangzhou Rickshaw Workers' Club, and was elected as the director. In order to unite the handcart workers to rise up and participate in political activities, he made friends with the workers, pulled rickshaws with the workers, and repaired the handcarts. His spirit of hard work won the support of the workers. On The day of Labor Day, workers from all walks of life in Guangzhou held a grand rally, and Li Laborer disguised himself as a handcart worker and pulled a rickshaw to the conference. When the conference announced his free speech, he took the stage to speak, passionately and generously, very wonderfully, and received a torrential shower of applause. He also led the handcart workers in the struggle against the exploitation of the contractors in the middle and against the arbitrary beating of the handcart workers by the military and police, thus safeguarding the vital interests of the working class.
In 1924, Li Laborer joined the Communist Party of China and was later admitted to the second phase of the Whampoa Military Academy. Through his studies, he mastered more revolutionary theory and military knowledge, participated in military training, became proficient in military technology, and was determined to rush to the battlefield in the future to charge the battlefield and make meritorious contributions to killing the enemy.
In February 1925, the Guangdong revolutionary government decided to hold the Crusade. According to Zhou Enlai's instructions, Li Laborer and Lin Wunong selected 60 hailufeng handcart workers as advance teams to guide the transportation of Huiyang and Haifeng mountain areas, and launched local peasants to attack the reactionary army. On February 4, Li Labor led the leading detachment to advance into the Huiyang and Haifeng Border Areas, and cooperated with the Eastern Expeditionary Army to attack the enemy army. The Eastern Crusade Army, with the support of Huiyang and Haifeng peasants, defeated Chen Jiongming's troops and took advantage of the victory to occupy Haifeng City.
On March 3, the people of Haifeng held a county-wide meeting to welcome the Crusader Army, and 30,000 people attended the meeting, and Li Laborer attended the meeting. In mid-March, under the presidency of Peng Pan, the Haifeng County Farmers' Congress was held. The congress decided to establish the Haifeng Peasants' Self-Defense Army, with Li Labor as its leader. Zhou Enlai attached great importance to this peasant armed force, personally awarded guns, and sent a number of armed cadres such as Wu Zhenmin and Wan Danping, graduates of the Whampoa Military Academy, to work in this unit, and also regarded the advance team as the backbone of this peasant army. During this period, Haifeng also established the Peasants' Self-Defense Army Training Center, and Lufeng also established a squadron of the Peasants' Self-Defense Army. These armed forces were all headed by Li Gonggong. He mingled with the warriors and was well received by the warriors.
In order to eliminate the remnants of Chen Jiongming, Li Laborer led the peasants to collect a batch of weapons from the local reactionaries to expand the peasants' armed forces; at the same time, the remnants of Chen Jiongming, who had committed many evil deeds, were fined and used to fund the activities of the peasant associations and peasant armies. In this regard, the Kuomintang rightist figures once falsely accused Li Laborers of the Eastern Expeditionary Army Headquarters. Chiang Kai-shek asked about this matter when he went to Haifeng for an inspection, and Li Laborer stated:
"Collect the enemy's guns to arm themselves, strengthen the revolutionary forces, punish the reactionaries for their illegal income to be used as funds for peasant associations and peasant armies, and consolidate the revolutionary contingent, so as to benefit the enemy without any harm; as for the accounts of income and funds, they are clear and have accounts to check."
After hearing this, Chiang Kai-shek also had to think that Li Labor's words were reasonable. He discovered that Li Gong was a talent that he could use, so he appointed him as the director of the Whampoa Military Academy's rear office in Hailufeng.
Due to the victory of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, Chen Jiongming retreated to the Zhangzhou area on the Fujian-Guangdong border, and the Haifeng peasant movement flourished. During this period, Li Labor led the peasant army to carry out work in the remote areas of Hailufeng, cracked down on the bully reactionary forces, helped establish peasant associations, developed the peasant army, and carried out the struggle to reduce rents, and the local peasant masses were very supportive of him.
In the summer of 1925, Li Laborer concurrently served as the head of the Lufeng Party organization. He extensively mobilized local peasant youth to join the Peasant Self-Defense Army. During this period, Lu Feng's masses accused the county magistrate Xu Jianxing of embezzlement and other illegal acts, and demanded liquidation. Lee laborers support the righteous actions of the masses. After Xu Jianxing was dismissed from his post, Li Laborer and others recommended Liu Qinxi, a member of the Communist Party and honest and honest, to his superiors as the county magistrate. In early June, Yang Ximin, commander-in-chief of the Dian Army, and Liu Zhenhuan, commander-in-chief of the Gui Army, launched a counter-revolutionary military rebellion in Guangzhou, plotting to overthrow the Revolutionary Government of Guangdong. The warlord Chen Jiongming took advantage of this opportunity to gather reactionary troops to make a comeback from the border between Guangdong and Fujian and attack Hailufeng. At that time, Li Laborer received a notice from his superiors that the Lufeng Peasants' Self-Defense Army should immediately transfer to Haifeng concentration and then to Guangzhou. Li Laborer immediately gathered Lu Feng's peasant army and arranged for them to leave haifeng, leaving Lu Feng to deal with the aftermath. In September, Chen Jiongming colluded with the warlord Liu Zhilu and violently counterattacked Lu Feng. Li Labor led the army and the people to resolutely resist the invading enemy, but fought alone and were outnumbered. At that time, he and another comrade-in-arms were preparing to take a detour to TianQian to find contact with the revolutionary team, but because they got lost in the dark, they were arrested by the reactionary armed militia group of the local bully Chen Bingding in Linpu, the inner city of the lake, and sent to Tian Qian. The reactionaries tortured Li Laborer and forced him to surrender. Unyielding, Li Laborer said in a categorical manner: "The head can be broken but the will cannot be seized," and denounced the vile and shamelessness of the reactionaries.
The morning of September 24 was the day when Li Laborer was righteous. Many peasants and poor people in Weizhen rushed to bid farewell when they heard the news. The enemy was frightened and ordered the vigilante groups to dispatch martial law. On the execution ground, Li Laborer publicly accused the local tycoons and inferior gentry of oppressing and exploiting the peasants, and preached the truth that the revolution must win. He said with great righteousness:
I have followed Comrade Peng Pan in the peasant movement for many years and have been fighting for the interests of the broad masses of peasants. Although I am unfortunately arrested, the enemy can destroy my flesh, but the great cause of communism can never be destroyed by the reactionaries. Although I am dead, there are still thousands of comrades who have risen up to continue fighting. The cause of the Chinese revolution will surely be victorious!
The enemy hurried to stop him from speaking, but he ignored him and continued to speak loudly, and the reactionaries, frightened, hurriedly shot at him.
When he boarded, red blood spewed from his chest, but he remained still, scolding the enemy for not stopping, and shouting with all his might, "Down with the reactionaries!" Long live the revolution!"" Long live the Communist Party of China!" The big bully Chen Bingding quickly ran to his side and fired several shots in a row. Li Laborer fell like a giant in a pool of blood, only 24 years old when he was righteous.
The crowd said with great anger and sorrow: "Laborers should not die!" These murderous executioners, sooner or later we will clean them up!"
In October 1925, the Revolutionary Army held the Second Crusade and reoccupied Haifeng. In his report at the Haifeng County Peasants' Congress, Peng Pan spoke highly of Li Laborer's heroic sacrifice: "Comrade Li Laborer's sacrifice is a great loss to our peasant brothers. We must turn grief into strength and ruthlessly destroy the enemy. Every drop of blood of the martyrs must be repaid with the blood of the enemy!" After he finished speaking, all the deputies stood up and mourned the martyrs such as Li Gonggong.
After his heroic sacrifice, the people of Hailufeng built the Monument to the Martyrs of Li Labor. After the defeat of the Revolution, the enemy destroyed this magnificent monument. However, the glorious deeds of Li Laborer's lifelong heroic battle will always live in the hearts of the broad masses of the people.
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