In April 1950, ** finally found time to open a letter from a peasant woman from Dongfeng Township, Xiangxiang County, Hunan Province. The people and requests mentioned in the letter made *** red-eyed, and he put down the letter, lit a cigarette, and immersed himself in the memory. The name of the person mentioned by the peasant woman was Zhou Furen. On September 11, 1893, Zhou Furen was born in a poor peasant family, the youngest child in the family. When he was five years old, his family sent him to a private school to study, because he had a soft spot for calligraphy, he practiced Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy, and when he was ** years old, his calligraphy was already quite good. Every Spring Festival, the neighbors look for him to write Spring Festival couplets. In 1911, Zhou Furen entered Xiaotangsi Primary School in Xiangxiang County, and then transferred to Dongshan Higher Primary School in Xiangxiang Township, where he became classmates with Yi Lirong and others.
Under the influence of ***, Zhou Furen began to come into contact with reformist ideas, convinced that in order to revitalize China, it is necessary to attach importance to education. After graduating, he returned to his hometown to teach at an elementary school. Later, Zhou Furen was influenced by the May Fourth Movement and Marxism, and decided to leave his hometown for Changsha. There, he became a staff member of the Cultural Book Society, the main venue of the Xinmin Society, disseminating new ideas and providing students, workers and peasants with revolutionary books, magazines and newspapers at home and abroad to help them understand the revolutionary situation in China and the world. Zhou Furen sold a new publication priced at three copper plates per copy at the Culture Book Society, which attracted many students, workers and peasants to buy it, and he warmly received every reader, rallying the masses from all walks of life to win their sympathy and support for the revolutionary cause.
At the cultural bookstore on Chaozong Street in Changsha, Zhou Furen warmly entertained readers while eagerly studying, accumulating knowledge, and gaining an in-depth understanding of revolutionary principles. In front of the bookstore were all kinds of progressive books and newspapers, while in the back were secret contact points, and there was an endless stream of secret work comrades from all over the country, and Zhou Furen always helped them to keep watch. **I have always been very satisfied with Zhou Furen's work. In November 1922, the Hunan District Committee of the Communist Party of China and Yi Lirong and Mao **, who was working at Hunan Self-study University at the time, went to Anyuan to lead the workers' movement, and soon Zhou Furen was also ordered to go. The Anyuan Coal Mine was part of the Han Yeping Company, the largest enterprise in the country at that time, and was built by the Chinese bureaucratic comprador capital and the capital of imperialist countries such as Germany, Britain, Belgium, and Japan.
The living conditions of the workers are very bad, the monthly income is meager, the living conditions are cramped and cramped, the environment is dark and damp, the diet is insufficient, the clothing is thin, the working hours are as long as 12 hours a day, the body is severely damaged, and most of them suffer from gastrointestinal and other diseases. The underground safety facilities are extremely poor, and accidents such as roofing, water penetration, and gas often occur, and the safety of workers' lives is not guaranteed. Capitalists, mine policemen, and even foremen can arbitrarily beat workers, and even torture them with wooden shackles and happy stools, torturing workers worse than death. Zhou Furen and Mao ** often went deep into the mines and shacks, talked with the workers, understood the suffering of the workers, propagated revolutionary principles, and educated the workers to unite and fight against the reactionary warlords and capitalists. With the help of Mao, Zhou Furen honorably joined the Communist Party of China.
In February 1923, in order to improve the living conditions of workers and reduce exploitation, the Anyuan Road Miners' Club founded the Anyuan Road Miners' Consumption Cooperative, and Zhou Furen was sent by the party to work in the cooperative. When the cooperative was first founded, the account books were in chaos, and later Zhou Furen was in charge of the bookkeeping, which strengthened the management of the cooperative economy. Thanks to Zhou Furen's effective management, the cooperative's operating conditions have improved significantly, which not only curbs the intermediate exploitation of workers by profiteers, reduces the burden of workers' livelihood, but also strengthens workers' trust in the club. In September 1925, the Anyuan Workers' Club and the Consumer Cooperative were shut down, and many key members**, Zhou Fang's wife, were imprisoned for more than a month before being released. In the "Ma-Ri Incident" that followed, Zhou Furen was unfortunately imprisoned again and was imprisoned for more than 20 days, and only then was his brother raised bail money to rescue him.
This series of encounters made Zhou Furen's hatred of the reactionary ** more profound, and at the same time, he also strengthened his revolutionary convictions. After returning to his hometown, he continued to search for party organizations, and eventually came to Changsha and opened a southern goods store called "Hengshengtai" near Tan Yanmin's mansion. At the same time, he tirelessly searched for the whereabouts of the party organization, and finally got a clue, and the party organization sent a comrade surnamed Tan to assist him in his work. Considering that the store was close to the Tan Mansion and its security was low, he moved the store to another place in March 1928 and renamed it "De Ji" and continued to engage in the party's secret activities. During this period, Zhou Furen made every effort to carry out traffic liaison work to ensure the safe conduct of underground activities.
In addition, he also used the funds from the store to support the party's work, and even handed over 300 yuan of silver to *** as revolutionary funds, and then this receipt unfortunately fell into the hands of the enemy and became Zhou Furen's "incriminating evidence". On May 10, 1928, Zhou Furen was unfortunately imprisoned for the third time, and in the face of all kinds of torture by the reactionaries, he always adhered to his beliefs and refused to reveal the whereabouts of the chairman. Finally, on the afternoon of August 18, 1928, he was killed by reactionaries on the side of the highway outside Liuyangmen in Changsha at the age of 34. Before his execution, Zhou Furen was undaunted and shouted "Down with Chiang Kai-shek!".Down with the local tyrants and inferior gentry!and other slogans, showing the fearless heroism of Communist Party members. After learning the news of Zhou Furen's murder, ** felt sorry for ....... In the early days of liberation in 1949, the regulations on the division of land were as follows: After Tan Xiude learned of the regulations that one more field could be divided, he decided to send a letter to ***
In the letter, she again recounted her husband's heroic deeds and made an application. **In April 1950, he personally wrote back to Tan Xiude, expressing his gratitude and informing her that she could report to the local people** the deeds of martyrdom of Zhou Furen. **Ask the staff to forward the letter and instruct the staff: "Let her forward the letter**." Tan Xiude went to the county with a handwritten letter from *** and got the treatment he deserved. ** In this incident, he showed care for the families of the martyrs, treating the families of the martyrs equally, which was both principled and revolutionary, but also full of humanity and affinity. This incident demonstrated his care and help to the martyrs' families, and showed his deep feelings and pragmatic attitude towards the people.