Many people are familiar with the name He Zizhen. She was Mao Zedong’s second wife, who was later abandoned by Mao. When did Mao and He Zizhen meet? The time was after Mao went to Jinggangshan Mountain. At that time, He Zizhen was already in Jinggangshan.
In September 1927, after the autumn harvest riots, Mao led his troops to set up camp in Jinggangshan Mountain in Jiangxi, a remote area away from the city. Jinggangshan Mountain is located in the middle of the Luoxiao Mountains on the border of Jiangxi and Hunan provinces.
However, long before Mao’s arrival, Jinggang Mountain already had two “kings of the mountain”: Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo. They “robbed the rich to help the poor,” were well supported by the local people, and were considered to be “Green Forest” heroes. The former, who was an intellectual, joined the CCP in January 1927. It was with his help that Mao Zedong gained a foothold in Jinggangshan. Yuan also sent He Zizhen, who was hiding from the KMT in his cottage, to live with Mao. However, Mao did not divorce Yang Kaihui at that time, and Yang and her children lived in the Changsha area.
After gaining a foothold in Jinggangshan Mountain, Mao sent He Changgong to negotiate with Wang Zuo, and later went to the mountain to have a long talk with Wang Zuo himself. Mao said, “Those who work in the Green Forest have no good results in the end, either being eaten by the government or fighting with their subordinates. Only by following the Communist Party to make a revolution can they grow from small to big, from weak to strong, and take over the world. Wang Zuo was deeply convinced, so he approached Yuan Wenzai and expressed his intention to merge with Mao’s Chinese Communist army. Yuan Wenzai, who had long been so inclined, was naturally willing to do so.
In early February 1928, in Ninggang County, Dalong, Yuan Wenzai, Wang Zuo two peasant self-defense army was formally incorporated into the Chinese Communist Army, which became its first division, second regiment, under the jurisdiction of two battalions. Yuan Wencai’s department was the first battalion, Wang Zuo’s department was the second battalion, Yuan as the head of the first battalion and commander, Wang as deputy head of the second battalion and commander.
Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo’s Green Forest Troops were incorporated, strengthening the power of the CCP, and Yuan and Wang became the Red Lords. However, it was not long before Yuan and Wang were brutally murdered.
Yuan Wang’s Brutal Death
Due to the KMT’s pursuit of CCP members, the CCP ran to Moscow in June 1928 for the Sixth Congress. The congress adopted a program document, “Resolution on the Organization of the Soviet Power,” which stipulated that “alliances of groups similar to the armed bandits (meaning alliances with which to form a united front) may be used before armed uprisings, and after armed uprisings it is advisable to disarm them and severely suppress them.” “Their leaders should be counter-revolutionary leaders, even if they are made to help the armed uprising, and all such leaders should be completely annihilated.”
In early 1929, Wang Huai, head of the Yongxin County Committee, and Long Chaoqing, head of the Longgang County Committee, at an enlarged meeting of the Red Fourth Army to study the resolutions of the Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, proposed a motion to eliminate Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo in the spirit of the Sixth Congress. In the past, the two of them had strongly advocated killing Yuan Wenzai and Wang Zuo.
In the fall of the same year, the CPC Central Committee, which had been working in Shanghai, sent Peng Qingquan (Pan Xinyuan) to inspect the Xiang-Jan border. After listening to the reports of the Special Committee on the Xiang Gan Border and some county committee heads, the Central Committee requested the Red Fifth Army and the Special Committee on the Xiang Gan Border to deal with Yuan and Wang according to the resolution of the Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
In January 1930, the military committee of the Red Fifth Army and the Special Committee of the Western Ganxi and Xianggangan Border held a joint meeting and secretly made a decision to deal with Yuan and Wang by force, and on a day in late February, Yuan and Wang received a notice that they should rush to Yongxin County with more than 700 troops to attend a meeting of the Special Committee and to upgrade the troops to the third column of the Red Sixth Army. Upon their arrival, the Special Committee and the Yongxing County Committee organized over a thousand people and lined the streets to welcome them. In the evening, the special committee also hosted a banquet. Later, the Special Committee surrounded Yuan and Wang with troops borrowed from Peng Dehuai during the night and disarmed them in their sleep, killing some of the resisters immediately.
According to the Chinese Communist Party’s history, the sleeping Yuan Wenzai came out of his house to see what was going on and was shot dead by Zhu Changxi, the secretary of the special border committee, who was ambushed outside the house. Wang Zuo heard the gunshots and jumped out of the back window, and in the midst of the chase jumped into a river, drowning halfway through the swim.
In a book published in May 2001 by the Hong Kong-based Chinese Children’s Publishing House, another version of the story was published: Zhu Changkai led his men to No. 22 Yinjia Lane, where they killed Yuan Wencai, who had been awakened by a sudden awakening, on a bunk. Another group of men, led by Peng Wenxiang, went straight to the “Family Shrine” to deal with Wang Zuo. In the end, they were all eliminated.
In the end, they were all annihilated. No matter which version is used, the fact that Yuan Wentian and Wang Zuo died at the hands of their own people is indisputable.
There is a reason behind their tragic deaths.
Why were Yuan Wenzai and Wang Zuo, who had already defected to the Chinese Communist Party, finally killed? The first reason was, of course, the bill introduced at the Sixth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which sentenced Yuan and Wang to death; the second was the dispute between locals and outsiders.
Secondly, there was the dispute between locals and outsiders. Locals were the native people, while outsiders were the guest people. The party and government leadership of the Xiangjiang-Jiangxi border has always been in the hands of the native people. In the case of Ninggang region, the guest population is not much smaller than the native, despite the guest Yuan Wencai no matter how hard he fought, but only two seats in the nine Standing Committee, the party and political power is basically controlled in the hands of the county Long Chaoqing and other native people. The “native of the party and the guest of the gun” was a common saying back then.
In the past, there have been a number of cases in which the government has been unable to provide the necessary information to the public. In the end, the company was able to get a lot of people to buy guns from the other counties and to ask for help from the Red Five Army, and after several efforts they were able to pull together a group of 63 guns. This was clearly aimed at Yuan Wentian and the entire Hakka population. As a result, Yuan Wenzai and Wang Zuo increased their wariness of Long Chaoqing and others, and friction between the two sides continued.
After the resolution of the Sixth Communist Party Congress arrived in Jinggangshan nearly half a year later, Mao Zedong asked Zhu De, Chen Yi, Peng Dehuai, Tan Zhenlin, and Deng Qiyuan to discuss the matter in a small group, and most of them said that Yuan and Wang Zuo’s situation should not be compared to that of bandits and the Green Forest, and that the Central Government’s policy was not applicable to them. However, the secretaries of the special border committee did not have the slightest affection for Yuan Wenzai and Wang Zuo, and advocated the implementation of the Six Major Resolutions. Mao and Peng eventually agreed to this.
In February 1930, Yuan Wencai’s commanding officers captured alive Luo Keshao, the head of the Nationalist United Defense Corps in Chailing and Ninggang counties, and moved his small arsenal of eighteen workers and several machines to Ninggang. The motive of Yuan, Wang and others was to use Luo’s arsenal to make guns and bullets. In order to win Luo Keshao’s heart, Yuan Wenzai adopted a strategy of softening and sensitizing him, treating him with courtesy as if he were an honored guest. Rumors of Yuan Wencai’s collusion with Luo Keshao’s rebellion soon spread. Yuan and Wang were trapped and killed.
Chen Shiju, a former senior general of the Chinese Communist Party, once said: “Yuan Wincai and Wang Zuo were killed by their own people, and this is a matter that cannot be tolerated by heaven. I don’t know if Chen Shih knows that the CCP has killed not only so many people within the party, but also many innocent Chinese people along the way, which is unacceptable to God.
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