1931 The fourth edition of the Shanghai Times
1931 On April 9, 1931, in the third edition of the Shanghai Times published in Shanghai, there was a news from Wuhu City, Anhui Province, titled "Nine suspects of the Communist Party, and nine arrested men and women, four people were arrested. The full text is as follows:
Anhui Provincial Government According to a secret report, Wuhu has a Communist Party organ, and many important members of the Communist Party were hiding. Yesterday, the special commissioner Zhang and others came to Wu, and went to Jiwo Street at about 11 o'clock in the evening, and captured nine suspects including Wang (a woman named Du) and reactionary documents. After the interrogation of the bureau, four people were removed from the province in seven days.
Although it is just a small news of more than 100 words, it records the biggest event in the history of Anhui's revolution during the Agrarian Revolution.
This news records important information about the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China located in Wuhu at that time, and nine others were captured by the Kuomintang reactionaries because of a traitor's sue.
This message should be the first time I discovered it. Because for a long time, there has been no definite statement about the date of Wang Buwen's arrest and the time when he was escorted from Wuhu to Anhui Provincial Capital at that time.
1924 Wang Buwen recorded the article "The Heroic Struggle of Martyrs Wang Buwen before and after the Great Revolution" written by Wang Chuanhou and Yu Xing in Shanghai
1921 in the "Selected Anhui Literary and Historical Materials" (Fourth Volume) written by Wang Chuanhou and Yu Xing. The article finally stated that it was "based on the oral narrative and related historical materials by Comrade Fang Qikun, the vice chairman of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at that time and the lover of martyrs Wang Buwen." The article reads: "On April 16, 1931, due to the rumor of the traitors He Bingxin and Zhang Zhaoming, Comrade Wang Buwen was unfortunately arrested when he presided over the provincial party committee meeting in Liuchunyuan, Wuhu. He was taken to Yinmatang Prison in Anqing on the 19th."
83, the Party History Material Collection Group of the Anqing Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Party History Material Collection Group of the Yuexi County Committee of the Communist Party of China jointly compiled the book "The Rebellion of the Refuge of the Water Village". The book said in the biography of martyr Wang Buwen: "On April 6, 1931, due to the traitor's informant, the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China was arrested. When it came to destruction, Comrade Bu Wen was arrested in Liuchun Garden, Wuhu and killed in Anqing on May 31. "
June 2, 2021, Zhongan Online published the source of the manuscript of "Wang Buwen, the First Secretary of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China", which is estimated to adopt the above two statements, and is recorded as: "On the morning of April 6, Wang Buwen was unfortunately arrested due to betrayal of the traitor. On April 19, Wang Buwen and others were escorted to Yinmatang Prison in Anqing."
How did Wang Buwen and the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China be discovered by the enemy? A preserved report on Lin Lingsheng on May 20, 1931 revealed the process and details of the incident most realistically. The report was delivered to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on May 28. The full text of the report is excerpted as follows:
Central:
Comrade Lin Lingsheng, who was arrested, was entrusted by Zhu Hua (Note: Wang Bu’s cultural name) to come to Fei to report the damage to the Anqing and Wuhu authorities, and please convey it to the Central Committee. Comrade Lin’s report is copied as follows:
Anhui West Central County Party Committee to the Central Committee:
The entire Anqing collapsed and was destroyed by Zhu Jingming (real name Gao Xiang, from Langxi, Anhui)’s personal rebellion. He surrendered himself at the Kuomintang headquarters last year and began to arrest people around the New Year. During the trip, as many as 40 or 50 people were killed, including Cao Qiu, Feng Wu, etc. The reason why he could continue to arrest people was that he was already in trouble and could not spread this news. The ruling class kept the secrets of the outside world, so his reactionary power expanded.
The damage to the upper tissue in Wuhu is also infected by Gao Xiang. In April, he went to Wuhu and met Zhang Zhaoming. At that time, he cracked a lot of documents from the Secretariat. He advised Zhang Zhaoming to surrender. In order to preserve his life, Zhang told Li Bingxin that after the three of them planned, he arrested all the provincial party committee, and nine men and women were all detained in the detention center.
I was arrested at the same time as Comrade Lin. The ruling class was afraid that we would collude with the confession, so he took me in the army prison and Ma in the detention center.At the end of April, we died with Zhu Hua from Wuhu during the interrogation period. He said I had hope of releasing. They asked Ma Lin, who was in the same case, about my relationship and asked me to turn to the central government to make the following report...
Wang Buwen was also concerned about the safety and life of the Party organizations and party members and revolutionary comrades in prison in Wuhu, Anqing and other places. He wrote a letter in his own hand and entrusted Lin Lingsheng to forward it to the central government:
1. The relationship between the central government and Wuhu must change, because Zhang Zhaoming and He Bingxin lived in Shanghai for a long time, and knew the relationship very clearly, so he was careful not to prevent them from going to Shanghai to destroy.
2. The central government should stop text communication in Wuhu to avoid the emergence of new evidence such as Zhu Hua and increase their case.
3. The lower-level organization in Wuhu still exists, please ask the central government to establish the upper level as soon as possible.
4. There are as many as 500 comrades in Anqing prison, and more than 100 people in the First Prison, all sentenced to imprisonment. There are 70 to 80 people in the Army Prison, and there are about 100 guarding people. There are no verdict yet. I hope Hefei will recommend to the central government to provide precise and specific life-saving comrades within the possible range.
5. I hope that Hefei and Shanghai will try to provide material relief to several comrades arrested in Wuhu. If there is considerable economic power, all comrades in prison will also hope to give material comfort.
After reading this tear-jerking report, we can see that Wang Buwen is still a childish heart that will win the revolution even though he is imprisoned.
The above two reports confirm that the news in the Times that "nine men and women were arrested" with Wang Buwen is very accurate. The arrest may be on the evening of April 6, and Wang Buwen was taken to Anqing on April 7.
The Anqing Local History of the Communist Party of China published in June 2001 records: "In February and March 1931, Gao Xiang, the arrested and rebelled Special Committee of the Communist Youth League, led the reactionary military and police to arrest people everywhere, completely destroying the Anqing Party and Youth League organization... Zhang Zhaoming (also known as Zhang Guowei) and He Bingxin ( He Jingzhi ) were then arrested and rebelled. On April 6, he led the enemy to arrest Wang Buwen, Secretary of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Lei Kunyong (He Kunrong and Huo Shuwen), Lei Kunyong (He Kunrong and Huo Shuwen), inspector of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, Zhao Xinyuan (Guo Xiuling), Secretary of the Anhui Special Committee of the Communist Youth League, Li Yingsheng, Minister of Propaganda Chen Zhongxi (Chen Zongyan), He Juemin, head of the Southern Anhui Muji Federation, and Ye Jianwu and Chen Zhongdao, etc., were all sent to Yinmatang Prison on April 19."
Gao Xiang's rebellion not only led to the "full collapse" of the party organizations in Anqing and Wuhu, and the unified leadership of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee was not re-established until the liberation of the ranks, but also caused fatal damage to the party organizations in Qianshan County, Wang Buwen's hometown. The matter has to start from the beginning:
Under Wang Buwen's direct leadership, a riot in Qianshan County broke out in February 1930, and established the 34th Division of the 12th Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. In May 1930, Zhu Ruilaiqian, a Central Military Commissioner, reorganized it into the Second Central Independent Division of the Chinese Red Army, which was directly commanded by the central government.
In order to strengthen the leadership of the Qianshan Red Army, the central government has previously selected a group of military and political backbones to Qianshan to assist in the work. This is how Gao Xiang was sent from Shanghai to Qianshan as the director of the Political Department of the Red Army Division. According to Wu Hairuo's memoirs, Liu Wen, an inspector of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, who was arrested with Wang Buwen, "at the time, his pseudonym was Zhang Guocai. He was said to be from Jiangxi. He was born as a painter in Jingdezhen. He was a young Communist Party inspector. He worked in Anqing. He once disguised himself as a hawker to work in the security group and instigated a company to join the Qianshan Red Army. Liu was arrested and wrote a poem in prison: "I want to fulfill my life's ambition, regardless of my life and my family, I hope that my blood and tears will bloom the flowers of freedom."
On June 18, 1930, the Qianshan Red Army attacked Qianshan County in order to implement the military adventure plan of "first attack Qianshan, then attack Anqing, and fight to Wuhan to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival". However, not only failed, they sacrificed dozens of commanders and fighters of the Second Regiment, including Jin Chi (4 people from the Whampoa Military Academy, graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy in the autumn of 1929, and sent by the central government to Qianshan to assist in the peasant riots).After Gao Xiang killed Zheng Zhitang on the grounds that Zheng Zhitang, a member of Qianshan County Party Committee, was questioned by many insiders in the Qianshan Party, government and military circles. As a result, Gao Xiang was dismissed and transferred to Anqing to work, which unexpectedly caused great damage to the underground party organizations in Anhui Province.
In September 1930, due to the attack of a strong enemy, the Independent Second Division of the Central Red Army was forced to break it into pieces and disperse the operation. The riot in the Shuizhai came to an end. More than 500 underground party members in Qianshan County scattered everywhere outside the county to make a living. In the spring of 1931, the lurking Communist Party member Jin Jie came to Wuhu to find Wang Buwen to ask for instructions on the next step. Wang Buwen instructed him to return to Qianshan to rebuild the county party committee organization, continue to carry out the revolutionary struggle, and handed over 80 yuan of ocean to Jin Jie as activity funds. When the Jinjie appeared in Anqing, he was discovered by Gao Xiang and sent someone to arrest him. On September 2, the Kuomintang Qianshan County Mayor, Su Buqing, was ordered to arrest Xia Jinrong, an economic member of the Qianshan County Party Committee who had been established for a short time. Xia Jinrong confessed to the Communist Party of China's Qianshan County Party Committee he knew. As a result, six people were killed, including Jin Jie, the county party committee secretary, Wang Guangrong, the training committee member Wang Dazhong, the first district committee member Liu Ding, and the party members Xu Ruxian and Chu Shaoji. More than 30 party members and the masses were arrested. The party organizations in Qianshan County and surrounding areas were completely paralyzed.
After Wang Buwen was escorted to Anqing, Anhui Provincial Chairman Chen Tiaoyuan personally appointed an official and made a wish, attempting to bribe him, but Wang Buwen was unmoved. Gao Xiang went to prison to "persuade surrender" and was denounced by Wang Buwen. The enemy used both soft and hard skills, and Wang Buwen was always steadfast and unyielding. On May 31, an hour before his execution, Wang Buwen calmly wrote a desperate letter to Fang Qikun: "I died for the revolution. Don't be sad, don't be sad, you should raise love to live and continue to be my ambition."
Influenced by Gao Xiang's rebellion, Cao Qiu, former leader of the Third Regiment of the Qianshan Red Army and later Secretary of the Gaohe District Committee of the Communist Party of China, He Kunyong, Standing Committee Member of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and Minister of Organization, and Liu Wen, inspector of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, were killed one after another. Gao Xiang became the most harmful traitor in the revolutionary history of Anhui Province.
In 1991, after the 60th anniversary of Wang Buwen's sacrifice, a hexagonal pavilion was built on the bank of Jinghu in Wuhu City, called "Buwen Pavilion"; in 2021, a "Original Aspiration and Mission Pavilion" was built in Wang Buwen's hometown residence to commemorate this proletarian revolutionary who firmly upholds his ideals and beliefs, adheres to his original aspirations and pursues the truth, and sacrifices his life for justice.
