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1965, in Zhongnanhai Juxiang Study, a letter appeared on Chairman Mao’s desk. There is also a photo in the letter.
After Secretary introduced some situations, Chairman Mao picked up the photo on the table, glanced at it and recognized the person in the photo, and said, "This person is called Zhao Baocheng , we have worked together."
Who is Zhao Baocheng? Why did his photos appear on Chairman Mao’s desk?
This photo was sent by a young man named Shi Yi, and the person in the photo was his father. The reason why he sent this photo was to correct his father's name.
Shi Yi has never seen his parents since he was a child. After birth, because their parents were doing revolutionary work, they were always raised by their grandparents and other relatives.
He was young at that time and didn't know how dangerous the work his parents were doing was. When he was six years old, his mother returned to her hometown, but her father did not come back with her.
Zhao Baocheng and his wife
The young Shi Yi asked his mother where his father was. But my mother always keeps talking. The sensible child didn't continue asking.
Two years later, under the arrangement of his mother, Shi Yi entered the Children's League of Shanxi National Revolutionary University and the Second United Middle School of Shanxi Province to study.
Under the influence of his mother, Shi Yi gradually established a communist belief in the people. As he grew older, his childhood problem once again came to Shi Yi's mind, that is where his father went.
When I was a child, my mother always refused to answer on the grounds that he was still young. Now that I have grown up, why does my mother continue to hide it?
Zhao Bao imaging
could not withstand the son's repeated inquiries, so the mother had to make up a lie, claiming that his father had gone abroad to study. Seeing that his mother's attitude was sincere, Shi Yi believed it.
A year after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Shi Yi returned to Yuncheng, Shanxi Province with the Second United Middle School of Shanxi Province.
Shi Yi, who has been influenced by communist thought since childhood, also wanted to stand up and do something for the country and the people after seeing the reactionary actions of the National Government.
So after Shi Yi left the school in 1947, he joined the People's Liberation Army of China in Yuncheng area. Following the army from Linfen , Jinzhong to Hanzhong , and Chengdu, Shi Yi followed the army to fight south and north, and then broke off contact with his mother who stayed in Shanxi.
Shi Yi (left)
But Shi Yi didn't know that this time he parted, he almost never saw his mother again. In April 1949, Chaoyi County was liberated by our army.
, Shi Danfeng, who returned to Chaoyi County, Shaanxi Province, spoke on behalf of the women in the county at the Liberation Conference under the organization's arrangement. However, due to strategic needs, our army had to temporarily withdraw from Chaoyi County.
regained control of the Kuomintang reactionaries after the rule and immediately began liquidation. Shi Danfeng was caught by the Kuomintang. After being severely tortured, he was sentenced to death with .
Seeing Shi Danfeng about to die on the eve of the victory of the revolution, the People's Liberation Army once again fought back to Chaoyi County and rescued Shi Danfeng at the critical moment.
Shi Danfeng
However, after Shi Danfeng was severely tortured, his already bad body worsened and he could no longer organize any work. I had to go back to my hometown to recuperate.
After health was slightly better, Shi Danfeng applied to work on the front line again. While recuperating, Shi Danfeng wrote a letter to his son and asked whether his son had joined the party.
However, Shi Yi at this time, although he had submitted party application . However, after organizing the assessment, it was rejected and asked to inspect it for a while.
After asking why many times, the organization gave an answer. is because Shi Yi’s parents are unclear in history, but Shi Yi’s mother is not bad, it is his father, and the past is too mysterious.
In desperation, Shi Yi joined the Communist Youth League, but he still failed to pass the inspection of the party organization until he quit the League due to his age. While actively preparing to join the party, Shi Yi is also constantly looking for his father.
Based on the letter from Shi Danfeng to Shi Yi, Shi Yi realized that his father's name was Zhao Baocheng. It is also an old revolutionary who had already died twenty years ago.
But no one admits this. Even when the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China compiled the Biography of Party Members and Martyrs, the "Biography of Martyrs Zhao Baocheng" compiled by Shi Danfeng was returned.
Because no one was found to confirm Zhao Baocheng's sacrifice, he actually failed to even recognize his identity as a martyr.
Shi Danfeng, who is devoted to the revolution, never thought about what her husband wanted to live in the country because of her husband. is now unable to even recognize his identity as a martyr. has allowed Shi Danfeng and his son to embark on the road of rectifying Zhao Baocheng.
His father was once a juren of in the Qing Dynasty. Although he failed to become a high-ranking official, he was able to make a living under the Yan Xishan . Zhao Baocheng is from Wuzhai County, Shanxi Province. He was born in 1902 and his original name was Zhao Chengbi .
At that time, China's economic conditions were very backward, but following the warlords, the living conditions of the Zhao family were reasonable. Although is a vested person in the old era, Zhao Baocheng is not a playboy.
His father worked under the warlords. He saw the tragic life of the peasants under the warlords' rule and the suffering brought to the country by the warlords' melee. He wanted to change all this and find a way to save the country that could change all this.
Yan Xishan
Since his father was an intellectual in the feudal period and served the warlords, he wanted to go out and take a look elsewhere to find a way to save the country.
So, in 1923, Zhao Baocheng went to Kyoto University in Beijing at that time. In higher education institutions, various new ideas collide.
plus New Culture Movement and May Fourth Movement at that time, several years have passed, and new ideas emerge in various universities in Beijing, especially communist thought has attracted much attention.
Zhao Baocheng gradually accepted the basic views of Marxist thought while constantly learning and comparing. As a loyal fan of Mr. Li Dazhao, he has been listening to Li Dazhao's lectures many times, and his thoughts are constantly sublimating.
Li Dazhao
After studying in college for a year, Zhao Baocheng joined the young Communist Party of China. After graduating from university, Zhao Baocheng, Bo Yibo, Cheng Zihua and others made a special trip to Shanxi under the arrangement of the organization.
not only should we promote Marxist ideas there, but we should also develop organizations there and lead the struggle of local poor people.
Although he is young, Zhao Baocheng still shows strong work ability. In just a few years, he has achieved great success in his work.
But the good times didn't last long. Chiang Kai-shek launched the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup, clarified the party within the Kuomintang and massacred Communists.
And after Yan Xishan received Chiang Kai-shek's instructions, he did not make any ambiguity at all. He did not think about Zhao Baocheng's father and himself at all, and pursued Zhao Baocheng all the way.
There was no way, Zhao Baocheng arranged in the organization to go to Shanghai, and he barely survived. While continuing to organize work in Shanghai, Zhao Baocheng met Shi Danfeng.
are also from Shanxi, and both of them fall into the same state at first sight. Shi Danfeng is also a progressive woman. Because she was dissatisfied with her father, forced to enter the Taiyuan Women's Normal School by relying on her own skills.
means that in the process of studying in college, I gradually came into contact with and believed in Marxism.
Yan Xishan
This time, the two are not only fellow villagers, but also comrades with the same beliefs. The relationship between the two quickly heated up.After completing the work assigned by the organization and submitting an application, the organization agreed to go home and get married first.
So in 1929, Zhao Baocheng and Shi Danfeng got married in their hometown in Shanxi. Due to the severe domestic struggle at that time, the couple returned to Shanghai to continue their underground work not long after getting married.
However, in 1931, Gu Shunzhang rebelled, and the party organizations in Shanghai were basically confessed. Fortunately, the party organization discovered the problem earlier and organized the evacuation urgently, so there was no result in too many casualties.
, and Zhao Baocheng and his wife came to the capital of the Central Soviet Area at that time, Ruijin , under the organization's arrangement.
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After Ruijin came, Zhao Baocheng was responsible for the publicity work of the Workers and Peasants News Agency. has achieved good work results due to its friendly treatment and excellent work ability.
So with the recommendation of Premier Zhou, Chairman Mao approved him as the director of the General Affairs Department of the Central Soviet Area, which can be said to be the butler of the entire Ruijin.
, and Zhao Baocheng established a revolutionary friendship with Chairman Mao at this time. Chairman Mao was excluded not long after he approved Zhao Baocheng as the butler of Ruijin.
Because in 1933, the Provisional Party Central Committee of Li De and others came to Ruijin. Under the banner of Comintern , these people vigorously promoted the "left-leaning" line in the Soviet area.
, and Chairman Mao was gradually squeezed out of the core leadership because he had different opinions from them. Many people are worried that they will be implicated because of their good relationship with Chairman Mao, and they will take the initiative to alienate Chairman Mao.
But again, there are some people who always stand around Chairman Mao . Zhao Baocheng is a typical example, and it is precisely because of this that many years later, Chairman Mao could recognize Zhao Baocheng at a glance.
However, due to long-term working behind enemy lines, Zhao Baocheng actually lacks some experience and ability to act as a steward.
In order to complete the tasks assigned by the organization, Zhao Baocheng had to let some of the work be done by experienced subordinates, which laid the groundwork for his later ending.
Because Zhao Baocheng has always been close to Chairman Mao, it has attracted dissatisfaction from Li De and others. In order to take the position of "Master" in his own hands, Li De and others were looking for opportunities.
At that time, the fourth anti-encirclement and suppression operation was won. The successive victory made Li De and others dazzled.
did not think about continuing to stabilize Suzhou District and preventing the enemy's counterattack. Instead, he became very happy and prepared to carry out some image projects, namely, establishing six major buildings to demonstrate the great achievements of the Soviet District.
, and Zhao Baocheng is fully responsible for the overall construction. Zhao Baocheng led the overall situation and let his subordinates do some things that he was not sure of.
Soon, six major buildings were completed in less than five months. But at this moment, someone reported serious corruption in the six major construction processes.
After scrutiny of , many Soviet officials cut corners, embezzled public funds, and fed their private pockets during the construction process. and the general manager Zhao Baocheng was also involved.
Zhao Baocheng was really wronged. He did not expect that his delegation of power would end in such an ending. Although Zhao Baocheng did not participate in the corruption of these people after the organizational review.
, but he was also implicated because of his unknown knowledge, and he changed from a butler to an arsenal worker.
And at this time, a huge change in the Soviet area is about to happen. If the fourth anti-encirclement and suppression of in was a miserable victory, then under the influence of the "left-leaning" idea, the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression encountered a complete failure and the Party Central Committee had to evacuate.
In order to ensure the safe withdrawal of the large army, a group of soldiers had to stay in Ruijin to fight guerrillas, leaving time for the large army to transfer.
In addition to the Red Army soldiers who volunteered to stay, there were also some old revolutionaries who were too close to Chairman Mao and were also arranged by Bogu and others to stay in Ruijin to perform this life-and-death task, and Zhao Baocheng was among them.
Zhao Baocheng, who has lofty ideals, has no complaints about this arrangement. After the fall of Ruijin, Zhao Baocheng also organized a guerrilla team and fought with the reactionaries for more than half a year of guerrilla warfare .
In October 1935, Zhao Baocheng was surrounded by the enemy and had run out of ammunition and food, and unfortunately died. At this time, the organization was already thousands of miles away, and the soldiers around them who witnessed Zhao Baocheng's sacrifice also sacrificed their lives for the revolution.
And the wife who is in her hometown far away, who can miss Zhao Baocheng in her hand, is the only one who looks very similar to her father, and the couple who took a photo of her newlywed year.
For decades, Shi Danfeng silently shed tears whenever he thought of his sacrificed husband. Every time my son asked a question, he was like a heavy hammer, hitting her heart hard.
New China has been established , and the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee is about to compile a collection of the disadvantages of Shanxi Party members. Shi Danfeng wrote down Zhao Baocheng's deeds and handed them over to the organization.
originally thought it would be recognized by superiors, but who knew that the materials he had worked hard to write were knocked back. The reason is that it cannot prove that Zhao Baocheng is really sacrificed for the revolution.
is not easy to find evidence like this. Let’s not talk about the incident that year, twenty or thirty years have passed, and no one has seen her husband’s sacrifice. But Shi Danfeng and his son did not give up and continued to search hard.
Due to physical reasons, Shi Danfeng was arranged to go to Beijing to heal his wounds.
While he was healing, Shi Danfeng met the old leader of the Soviet area, Zhao Pinsan, deputy director of the Chinese Revolutionary Museum of the Ministry of Culture after the founding of New China.
Deng Yingchao
After Zhao Pinsan heard about Shi Danfeng’s experience, he thought of a solution for her, and asked her to contact Deng Yingchao in . Because Deng Yingchao was the one who assigned Zhao Baocheng and his wife's work, , with the help of many parties, Shi Danfeng contacted Deng Yingchao.
Although Deng Yingchao is willing to help Shi Danfeng and his son, he cannot prove the sacrifice for Zhao Baocheng. He suggests that they find Chairman Mao directly.
plus some other old Red Army soldiers’ suggestions. After discussing with his mother, Shi Yi and his mother were about to write a letter to Chairman Mao directly.
After thinking for several months, Shi Yi wrote a heartfelt letter and sent it directly to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China located in Beijing.
Deng Yingchao
Chairman Mao soon received this letter. Seeing the photo of Zhao Baocheng and his wife inside, Chairman Mao recognized his revolutionary friend at a glance.
After learning that the identity of martyr Zhao Baocheng was not confirmed and his son was unable to join the party, Chairman Mao immediately said: "This person is Zhao Baocheng, we have worked together."
After being confirmed, on December 19, 1966, the immortal plaque of martyr Zhao Baocheng finally hung on the door of the Zhao family.
From 2009, all the specific situations of the deeds of martyrs Zhao Baocheng were finally sorted out, and the Hongdu Butler was renamed that year.
On the road of our revolution, many martyrs have sacrificed their precious lives. Zhao Baocheng was lucky that his deeds were excavated and praised by future generations.
But how many martyrs are still alive on the road of revolution in the motherland. They not only failed to see the final victory, but also failed to leave their names.
Nowadays, while enjoying a better life, we cannot forget those martyrs who have given their blood for today.
If you have time, you can go to the Martyrs Cemetery around you, present a bouquet of flowers to those martyrs and talk to them.
