Wei Ziyu, formerly known as Wei Gengheng, was born in Xiligezhuang, Daligezhuang Township, Wenren District, Qingyuan County, Baoding City, Hebei Province. Born in an ordinary farm family in 1915. In 1935, Wei Ziyu joined the Communist Party of China; in 1938, he was appointed as the financial director of the village; in 1942, he was appointed as the party branch secretary of the village; in 1945, he was appointed as the head of the Sixth District of Qingyuan County. In July of the same year, he went to study in Anguo County, No. 7 District, Central Hebei Province. After the Japanese surrender, the Party Central Committee decided to mobilize 20,000 cadres to the Northeast. In September, Wei Ziyu accompanied the No. 7 Division of Hebei Province into the Northeast Cadre Corps. The second team set out from Anguo County and went to Jizhong Military Region in Diba County for two days of repairs. , the team was renamed as the Northeastern Detachment of the Seventh Division of Hebei Province. After exchanging letters of introduction, it moved to Marco Polo Bridge, passing through Tong County, Sanhe County, and Gubeikou of Yutian County, to Chengde . On the way, some comrades had the idea that they were unwilling to go to the Northeast to start a business after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Wei Ziyu promptly did their ideological work and pointed out that the people in the Northeast had suffered a lot since the fall of the Northeast for fourteen years and that they were eager to take over. This helped these comrades eliminate their inner concerns. , ideological enthusiasm gradually increased. They went straight to Shenyang from Chengde via Lingyuan County, Ye Baishou , Chaoyang , Jinzhou . It was already December. The Northeast Bureau and the Liaoning Provincial Party and Government Army were preparing to withdraw from Shenyang in accordance with the central government's strategic policy of "get out of the way and occupy the hatchbacks." When the train arrived at Masanjiazi Station in the suburbs of Shenyang, Wei Ziyu and his party got off the train. On call.
The Provincial Party Committee withdrew northward and passed through Xinmin County. Wei Ziyu, Zhao Yinnan, and Zhao Jinrong were assigned to Gongzhutun in the eighth district to form the district government. The work arrangement at that time was that Wei Ziyu was appointed as the district committee secretary and organizational member of the eighth district, Zhao Yinnan was appointed as the district chief, and Zhao Jinrong was the district squadron leader. After Wei Ziyu arrived at Gongzhutun, the provincial party committee had decided that Comrade Wang Feng, the representative of the Seventh National Congress, would serve as the secretary of the district party committee. He obeyed the decision of the provincial party committee and served as deputy secretary and organizational member of the district party committee, actively assisting Comrade Wang Feng in actively commence to work. The leaders of the Provincial Party Committee assigned five tasks to the Eighth District Committee: 1. Promote the ideas of the Communist Party, publicize the Party's principles and policies, establish relationships with the masses, and eliminate reactionary influences; 2. Build up its own armed forces, collect local weapons, and eliminate the remaining enemy and puppet forces. ; 3. Find out the hidden Kuomintang enemy agents and grasp the enemy's situation; 4. Mobilize the masses to fight against rape and hegemony, and carry out the struggle of rent reduction and interest rate reduction ; 5. Strive to unite the progressive people at the top to work with us. During the execution of his mission, Wei Ziyu visited the masses day and night, mingled with the masses, and promoted the revolutionary truth that only under the leadership of the Communist Party can the Chinese people stand up for liberation. Wearing half a black cotton-padded jacket and a white towel on his head, Wei Ziyu is honest and kind. He appears in front of the masses as a typical Jizhong farmer and moves among the masses. The masses affectionately call him "Big Brother Guanli". Comrade Wei Ziyu learned from the masses that Li Huamin, the former head of the puppet village of Gongzhutun, never blackmailed the masses and could also help poor families. During his tenure, he sold part of his land to help the poor. He told this situation to the people who lived in the Eighth District when he was passing by. Tao Zhu, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of Gongzhutun, made a report. Comrade Tao Zhu instructed the Eighth District Committee to treat Li Huamin as an enlightened gentry. Li Huamin was deeply inspired and educated after learning about it, and expressed his willingness to work for the government. Wei Ziyu has close contact with the masses and works conscientiously and responsibly. He closely cooperates with Wang Feng, secretary of the district party committee, to mobilize the masses to eliminate traitors and fight against hegemony, fight against landlords, reduce rent and interest, publicize the party's principles and policies, and continuously strengthen the revolutionary forces in Gongzhutun area during the struggle. .
In the first row, the first from the left is Wei Ziyu, the deputy secretary of the district committee, the second from the left is the district captain Zhao Yinnan, and the third from the left is Wang Feng, the secretary of the district committee.
In early February 1946, the Kuomintang troops in Xinmin County invaded north, Gongzhutun The armed landlords in the area are ready to move, and people are panicked. In order to calm the people and stabilize the situation, leading comrades such as Zhao Yinnan, Wei Ziyu, and Sun Xuefu led some division teams to hold a mass meeting at Liaobin Tower . During the meeting, some people reported that the Kuomintang troops had reached waist height and showed signs of continuing to invade northward. Wei Ziyu and Sun Xuefu led the soldiers of the district squadron to go out to guard and reconnaissance the enemy. When they reached the intersection of Wu Changgang Street, they were discovered by the landlord armed Li Fengshan and Li Huihui, their father and son. They secretly fired concealed guns from the fort, wounding Wei Ziyu and Sun Xuefu, and also Killed a soldier.Zhao Yinnan, who was speaking at the venue, rushed to the scene immediately after hearing the gunfire, buried the bodies of the sacrificed soldiers, and carried the injured Wei Ziyu and Sun Xuefu to Qianwujiazi Village for rescue. However, Wei Ziyu died due to excessive bleeding and died at that time. Aged thirty-one. Comrade Wang Feng, secretary of the Eighth District Party Committee, was doing mass work in Dongsheshanzi at the time. After getting the news, he rushed back immediately and arranged for other comrades to buy clothes and coffins. He personally presided over the cleansing, dressing and coffin of Wei Ziyu, and buried Wei Ziyu in Wujiazi Village Head.
In times of peace, we must firmly remember the revolutionary martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the party and the people.
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