One day in October 1977, Comrade Xiaoping was reading a book in his room when he suddenly heard someone calling his name. He turned his head and saw that it was Wu Xiuquan and his wife who came to him with a strange woman.
Wu Xiuquan stepped forward and said to ***: "Comrade Xiaoping, I brought you a special guest today, she is ......”
After hearing this, he immediately had a liking for the strange woman, he stepped forward and took her hand, looked her up and down, and said, "You look like your father." Cong Dan cried bitterly when he heard this, and he still didn't calm down when he entered the house.
Zhuo Lin stroked her head in sympathy, but *** made her cry to her heart's content. When the woman's mood eased a little, ** asked her in detail about her family situation and whether she had joined the Communist Party, and encouraged her to be strong with her own experience.
At the end of the conversation, ** wrote down his address and said affectionately to the woman: "You have to be strong. ”
Cong Dezi, an ordinary peasant born in Fengcheng, Liaoning Province, was loved by the school's teachers and classmates because of his talent, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and optimistic and open-minded.
However, during the First Civil Revolutionary War, he realized that in order to overthrow the rotten rules and regulations and create a new world, it was necessary to defeat the imperialism and feudalism that were pressing down on them.
So, he threw himself into the revolution and became a member of the Communist Party of China. He taught at Fengcheng No. 2 Normal School and was later admitted to the School of Education of Northeastern University in Shenyang to study history and geography.
After the outbreak of the "918" incident, he and the alumni of the University of Tokyo embarked on the road to Peking to resume classes. His story is a microcosm of China's revolutionary history.
Cong Dezi's younger brother, Cong Runzi, also followed him in Beiping to pay attention to national affairs, and read revolutionary books such as the Communist Manifesto in the evenings. They befriended many aspiring young people, such as Xiao Renfeng, Zou Lufeng, and Zou Dapeng, and under their influence, Cong Dezi actively participated in anti-Japanese rescue activities, and even led his classmates to write leaflets and post slogans, calling on more people to join the revolutionary struggle.
In 1933, Cong Dezi graduated from Northeastern University and was assigned to work in the Political Training Office of the Beiping Army Branch of the Northeast Army. In the same year, because the people's call for resisting Japan and saving the country became louder and louder, Chiang Kai-shek was worried that the Northeast Army would rebel, so he transferred it to the Hubei-Henan-Anhui front to fight against the Red Army.
In February 1935, Cong Dezi went to Songbu, Hubei, under the leadership of his superiors, where he criticized the corruption of military discipline within the Northeast Army and the reactionary policies formulated by Chiang Kai-shek.
These articles put him in increasingly precarious circumstances, and on June 13 of the same year, he was arrested and imprisoned by the reactionaries on charges of being a "suspected Communist Party."
Fortunately, Zhang Xueliang appreciated his personality and bailed him out. In September of the same year, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Zhang Xueliang to go to Shaanxi to set up the "Northwest Bandit Suppression General Headquarters", and Cong Dezi was also transferred here to serve as the secretary of the General Office of the General Office.
On April 1 of the following year, Cong Dezi founded the progressive newspaper "Northwest Xiangdao", and he published 23 articles with the theme of "Northwest Knowledge Speech", which actively expressed the urgent hope of the Northeast Army and the people of the whole country to oppose the civil war, unite as one, and drive out the invaders.
On June 18 of the same year, Cong Dezi became the editor-in-chief of "Xijing Minbao" again. At that time, our party put forward the progressive proposition of establishing an anti-Japanese national united front and jointly resisting Japan, and this proposition was widely disseminated among the troops of the Northeast Army and had a great impact on them.
Cong Dezi was also more inclined to use all his strength to resist Japan and save the country, so his subsequent articles published in the "Northwest Xiangdao" and "Xijing Minbao" all contained this aspect of thinking, which made the aspiring young people who saw these publications more firm their revolutionary beliefs.
Finally, under the impetus of everyone, on December 12, 1936, the Xi'an Incident broke out, and the Northeast Army arrested Chiang Kai-shek in the Lintong area, and at the same time, the 17th Route Army also disarmed all the armed forces of the Kuomintang reactionary stationed in Xi'an, and Chiang Kai-shek's plan to attempt to surrender was declared bankrupt.
Before the Xi'an Incident, there was also a Kuomintang organ newspaper in Xi'an, called "Xi'an**", the president of the newspaper was named Ding Lujin, in addition to serving as the president of "Xi'an**", he was also the president of the National News Agency.
After the outbreak of the Xi'an Incident, our Party took over the Kuomintang Shaanxi Provincial Party Headquarters with the troops of General Yang Hucheng and arrested the reactionary Ding Lujin. In order to commemorate this historic event, it was decided to rename "Xi'an**" to "Liberation**" and let Cong Dezi personally write the masthead.
After some preparations, "Liberation**" was officially founded on December 13, and Cong Dezi was appointed as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. However, due to the entry of the National Army into Xi'an in 1937, "Liberation" had to stop operating, and Cong Dezi lost his job and had to find another way.
On February 9, he left Xi'an and began visiting his classmates and friends in Shanghai and Beiping. In Shanghai, he got in touch with Wang Wenjie, an old classmate from Northeastern University, and met his nephew, Queen Zhuqing.
At that time, Wang Zhuqing was studying at Lujiang University, and every night she would go to the workers' night school sponsored by our party to teach the workers knowledge. Mr. Wang's empathy deeply touched Cong Dezi, and his favorability toward the Communist Party continued to grow.
In 1937, when the "August 13" Incident broke out and the Japanese army bombed Shanghai, Cong Dezi and Wang Zhuqing felt unbearable, and they were determined to defend Shanghai with a strong patriotic heart and fight back against the Japanese army.
However, due to the large difference in strength between the two sides, Shanghai was eventually occupied by Japanese troops, and they had to temporarily return to Wang Zhuqing's hometown for refuge. At that time, they went through many difficulties and finally decided to get married.
Coincidentally, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was near Wang Zhuqing's hometown at that time, and he had a strong favorable impression of the Communist Party. They immediately got in touch with the Eighth Route Army and got to know Comrade ***.
Although Cong Dezi has not yet joined the Communist Party of China, his patriotic enthusiasm and strong desire to serve the country have won the appreciation of leaders such as ***. After that, he was arranged to go to Lanzhou to work with comrades such as Xie Jueya and Wu Xiuquan.
Cong Dezi was not only a progressive cultural person, but also the secretary and design committee member of the Political Department of the Eighth Theater of the Kuomintang. With these two identities, he devoted himself to the anti-Japanese cause and secret intelligence work.
In order to accomplish the tasks of the party organization, he proposed the establishment of a news agency, and personally consulted with Zhao Qingzheng, secretary of the Gansu Provincial Party Department, and successfully passed the examination of the news agency. In 1938, the "People's News Agency" was formally established, and Cong Dezi and his wife warmly entertained the progressive youth, arranged work according to their strengths, and let them publicize the party's progressive policy in the newspapers and periodicals, and exposed the best features of the Kuomintang.
He also participated in the rescue of Wu Bo and the lost Red Army soldiers, showing extremely high wisdom and revolutionary spirit.
They immediately invited them to get into the car and tightly covered the canopy, so that the soldiers could come to Lanzhou safely and quickly. Sheng Jian specially instructed the driver to drive the car to the vicinity of the People's News Agency at night and find President Cong inside.
After Cong Dezi received the news, he and his wife immediately warmly received these heroes who escaped from the tiger's mouth. In the early morning of the next day, Cong Dezi personally sent them to the office of the Eighth Route Army.
Soon after, these fighters threw themselves into the anti-Japanese struggle one after another. Through these events, the organization deeply realized Cong Dezi's determination to join the revolution. In October 1938, the CCP approved him to become a special member of the CCP, and Xie Jueya and Wu Xiuquan commanded him to engage in intelligence work.
In the following long period of time, Cong Dezi completed many difficult tasks delivered by the organization, and received more and more attention. However, just when he thought that the follow-up work would also go smoothly, an accident happened.
In January 1939, the Kuomintang held an important meeting, and after the meeting, the reactionaries decided to implement the policy of "preventing communism" and "limiting communism". After these policies were put into practice, the People's News Agency was also affected and was forced to close.
This is not over, in June 1940, the Gansu Working Committee of the Communist Party of China was attacked by reactionaries, and the comrades in charge of the place, Li Tielun, Lin Yiqing, and other comrades, were arrested. In this case, the organization instructed the party members to move quickly, but when the news reached Cong Dezi's ears, he firmly expressed his desire to stay here and continue to work.
Soon after, the party organization decided to transfer Comrade Wu Xiuquan back to Yan'an to work, and before Wu Xiuquan left, he specially found Cong Dezi and said to him: "The situation is not good now, the wind outside is very tight, and we must be fully prepared." ”
He meant to ask Cong Dezi to leave with him. Cong Dezi understood what he meant, however, for the sake of the revolution, he still said firmly: "You can go with confidence, I will stay here and hold on for a day." ”
Wu Xiuquan saw that he couldn't persuade him, sighed, and advised: "Remember to leave Lanzhou when you need to go to other places to hide." In this way, during the period of the White Terror, Cong Dezi still insisted on the revolution.
Cong Dezi's bravery and fearlessness are admirable, but fate has mercilessly afflicted him. On January 20, 1941, he was arrested and imprisoned in the secret prison of Dashagou on the outskirts of Lanzhou.
The reactionaries tried to lure him into submission with fame and fortune, but he remained steadfast and never wavered in his belief in the party. No matter how much the reactionaries tried to persuade him, he ignored them.
As a result, the reactionaries began to torture him to extract a confession, locked him in a small cell, tortured him, and tortured him. However, even in this situation, Cong Dezi did not compromise, and his strength and optimism are deeply admired.
In between executions, he would send messages to other fellow refugees to encourage them to persevere. However, the reactionaries were unwilling to let him continue, so on April 19, 1942, they poured Cong Dezi with a bowl of poisonous vegetable washing sewage, and let him die in his short life.
Although Cong Dezi died in the war, his contribution was deeply remembered by every leader. In November 1951, the people issued a "glorious commemorative certificate" of the revolutionary martyr signed by *** to commemorate his heroic deeds.
It was at this time that Cong Dezi's daughter Cong Dan learned her father's true identity. That night, her mother, Wang Zhuqing, told her and her brother Cong Gan the story and decided to restore their names as a way to comfort Cong Dezi's soul.
According to Cong Dan, after the liberation, the ** Military Commission began to look for them in many ways, especially Comrade Xie Jueyai, Cong Dezi's old boss, and always paid attention to their orphans and widows.
Thanks to his efforts, their whereabouts were finally found, and they were in Lanzhou.
Cong Dezi's children are still alive, and in order to prove this, he wrote a letter to Wang Zhuqing and asked him to take a picture. Wang Zhuqing followed his advice and took his sister and brother to a nearby photo studio to take a black and white one-inch **.
When Xie Lao saw **, his heart was about to break: the clothes on the two children were in tatters, and Cong Dan's toes were still exposed. So, when ** planned to implement the political treatment of the bereaved families of the martyrs, Xie Lao thought of Cong Dezi's family and wrote a report to ***, describing their living conditions.
**After watching it, I also remembered this martyr who played a great role in the revolutionary years, and personally signed the "Martyr's Family Certificate No. 00001". Since November 1952, the people of Lanzhou City have begun to give preferential treatment to Cong Dan and her younger brother.
When Cong Dan was a student in a girls' middle school, she was given 14 yuan a month for food, and when her brother was in primary school, she was given 15 yuan a month for food. In addition, they will be given clothing, shoes and socks twice a year, and stationery will be provided according to their actual needs.
Cong Dan and Cong Gan suffered from lung disease in 1952 and were admitted to the Provincial People's Hospital for treatment. During this period, ** paid more than 300 yuan for food, nutrition and other expenses for them.
After learning their identities, the hospital waived more than 280 yuan of medical fees, and promised that after they were discharged, the hospital would do a free physical examination for them every quarter to prevent their illness**.
In 1953, Wang Zhuqing entered the Cultural and Educational Committee under the introduction of **, and since May of that year, she has an annual income of more than 80 yuan. Therefore, under the care of ** and the people, Cong Dan and her younger brother were able to grow up healthily in a very superior environment.
In 1977, Cong Dan made a special trip to Beijing to deal with some things, and after she arrived at her destination, Wu Xiuquan and his wife cordially received her.
Cong Dan was invited by Wu Xiuquan and his wife to take a walk in the yard in the evening, and was unexpectedly taken to meet *** After listening to Wu Xiuquan's introduction, he recalled the days when he worked with Cong Dezi and had a conversation with Cong Dan.
He said: "Child, you can come to me directly if you have something in the future. ”