Chapter 113 The Old Man of Dongyang Section 2 The Heroes of the Zhang Family
Zhang Peizhi, known as Secretary of State, was born in 1891 in a well-off family in Donglu Village, Qingyuan County, Hebei Province. In 1895, his father died of illness, and the family was in decline. In 1899, when Zhang Peizhi was eight years old, the Boxer Rebellion that swept the North China Plain broke out, sowing the seeds of anti-imperialism and patriotism in the young Zhang Peizhi's heart. Since then, Zhang Peizhi has followed the revolutionary pioneers of each period, working silently and perseveringly.
In 1905, at the age of fourteen, Zhang Peizhi was able to study in the Baoding Government Middle School with the help of relatives and friends. In this year, the League was established in Japan, and the "Minbao" was published. Soon, the "Minbao" arrived in Baoding, and the organization of the League also developed to Baoding.
In 1910, the Qing Dynasty government sold the rights of the Guangdong-Hanzhou and Sichuan-Han railways to the imperialists, which aroused the opposition of the people of the whole country.
Zhang Peizhi risked his life to participate in the bombing of Beiyang Minister Yuan Shikai on Dingjia Street in Beijing (attempted), and was arrested by the Qing government for participating in the revolutionary activities of the League against the feudal rule of the Qing government, and escorted to Beijing as a "key criminal" and imprisoned. It was only after the abdication of the Qing Emperor in 1911 that he regained his freedom and was able to return to Baoding to continue his unfinished studies.
In 1914, Zhang Peizhi completed his secondary school course with honors. He felt bitterly that the Chinese people were physically weak, deeply ashamed of being the "sick man of East Asia," and was determined to study medicine and do his best to enrich the country and strengthen the army. Upon my application, the school will be admitted to Peking Union Medical College Medical College.
During his stay in Beijing, he actively participated in activities to oppose the signing of the "21 Articles" that humiliated the country. The ugly drama of Yuan Shikai being the emperor and Zhang Xun's restoration made him heartbroken.
In 1919, when it was time for him to graduate, the university diploma he was about to receive did not attract his attention and concern, he was concerned that the agreement of the Paris Peace Conference would cede Tsingtao to Japan, and that the imperialists were making dirty deals with China's rights. The modest-mannered Zhang Peizhi was furious, ignoring the warnings of the school and the dissuasion of relatives and friends. He resolutely participated in the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal "May Fourth" patriotic movement. In this way, on the eve of graduation, he was expelled from school.
After being recommended by his mentor, Zhang Peizhi became a pharmacist in Tongren Hospital. He used the Tongren Hospital, which was opened by foreigners, as a cover. Propaganda was secretly printed in the basement of the church, and leaflets were cleverly sandwiched into the Gospel of Matthew distributed by the missionaries and distributed among the masses.
At this time, Zhang Peizhi's younger brother Zhang Guozhong hated the Beiyang warlords in Baoding, and went to Beijing to discuss with his brother and conspire to kill Cao Kun, the leader of the Beiyang warlords in Baoding, with a bomb. Zhang Peizhi used his own knowledge of chemistry and referred to folk recipes. Explosives were prepared.
Li Dongyuan, a fellow countryman, was responsible for making and assembling the bomb shells, and Zhang Guozhong carried out the explosion. The bomb went off, Cao Kun was not dead, Zhang Guozhong was arrested, and Zhang Peizhi and Li Dongyuan were wanted. After Cao Kun went into the wilderness, Zhang Guozhong was released and the wanted warrant was cancelled.
Spring 1925. Zhang Peizhi returned to Baoding and served as the manager of the Huazhen Photo Museum, which he co-owned, and at the same time opened the Dasheng Hospital. Soon after the hospital opened, the government at the time cited him as not having a university diploma. Ordered to close down. After that, Zhang Peizhi bought the equipment of a small printing factory and set up a Xiesheng Printing Office on the site of the hospital.
In addition, it also successively operated "China Bookstore", "China Shoe Store", "Hengchang Photo Museum" and other shops, and sheltered and housed many revolutionary comrades. and to provide financial support for revolutionary activities. Among these stores, the "Huazhen Photo Studio" has been in existence for the longest time, and the "Xiesheng Printing Company" has contributed the most.
Xiesheng Printing Company has 32 hand-cranked printing machines, two 16-open pedal printing machines, and lithographs, casting machines, etc. With 20 to 30 workers, it was the largest printing plant in Baoding at that time, and Zhang Peizhi was the manager. Zhao Yuntao, a former teacher and member of the Sixth Middle School, was dismissed from the school. Zhang Peizhi arranged for him to become the editor of Xiesheng Printing Company and the manager of the Chinese bookstore.
The Xiesheng Printing Company openly printed supplementary reading materials for students and teaching reference books, and at the same time contracted odd jobs such as advertisements, form books, and letterheads, and secretly printed a large number of Marxist-Leninist books and periodicals and progressive literary and artistic works.
In the twenties, Zhang Peizhi had close contacts with Zhang Tingrui and Liu Xianzeng, who were the first people in Baoding in the early days, and was responsible for printing the printed materials they needed. In the early thirties, the printing business of the Northern People's Publishing House, presided over by Comrade Wang Yuaxe, the leader of the Baoding Special Committee, was undertaken by the Xiesheng Printing Bureau.
Under the conditions of secret work, the so-called Northern People's Publishing House is actually the only one Wang Yuaxe, who undertakes all the work of editing, proofreading, distribution, and liaison. The only people who can assist Wang Yuaxe in some editing and proofreading work, and are responsible for organizing printing and binding, are Zhang Peizhi and Zhao Yuntao.
Under the brutal White Terror, and at great risk, the Xiesheng Printing Company raided typesetting, printing, proofreading, and binding at night. Later, these books were cleverly mailed out by Wang Yuaxe. The places sent to are: "Pioneer Society" and "Conversion Society" of Peking University; Tsinghua University's "Northern Youth Society"; the Moore Reading Club at Beijing Normal University; Zhang Qingyi of Tsinghua University, the recipient of the Beiping Party organization at that time; "Oriental Youth Club" of Jinan University in Shanghai; There are also Zhengding Hebei Eighth Normal School, Xingtai Hebei Fourth Normal School, Daming Hebei Seventh Normal School, and Bozhen Hebei Ninth Normal School.
These Marxist-Leninist books were widely disseminated, providing spiritual food to the revolutionary people and sowing the seeds of revolution among the vast number of young students.
From 1931 to 1932, Comrade Qi Qingxiang, who served as the head of the distribution department of the Special Committee of the Communist Youth League, became close friends with Zhang Peizhi, and he handled, distributed, transported, mailed, and sold progressive books and periodicals and some party materials, most of which were printed by the Xiesheng Press.
In order to prepare for the Gaoli riot, the Hebei Provincial Party Committee obtained a batch of guns from Ji Hongchang in Tianjin, transported them out of Tianjin by water, and was found and detained by the Kuomintang Water Public Security Bureau when they passed through Baiyangdian. After the activities of Comrade Li Zhiguang, who served as the head of the Kuomintang district in Anxin Tongkou, he managed to take it out of the Public Security Bureau, put it into a mezzanine beehive, and transport it to Liu Shoumiao in Baoding, where he handed it over to Zhang Peizhi for receiving and transporting.
During the Gaoli riot, the provincial party committee organized a transportation brigade and established three transportation stations and three receiving stations, which were responsible for the transfer and transportation of personnel, guns and materials. Zhang Peizhi's home in Donglu Village, Qingyuan County, is the receiving terminal.
After the failure of the Gaoli uprising, Bai Jian, Qi Qingxiang, Li Yongmao, Liu Ziling, Li Xuemin and other comrades successively went to Zhang Peizhi's house in Donglu Village, and from there they went to Tang County and Mancheng. Bai Jian, inspector of the provincial party committee of the Communist Youth League, was personally sent to Baoding by car by Zhang Peizhi for transfer.
Since the thirties, until Zhang Peizhi's sacrifice, he turned into a real photo studio on the cabinet. There are often people who withdraw money and "borrow money" with Zhang Peizhi's handnotes. The Hengchang Photo Museum is actually a secret library, and there are often people who pick up books with Zhang Peizhi's slips. At that time, the party was in a state of secrecy and did not have sufficient funds. The comrades all went to Zhang Peizhi to "borrow". Zhang Peizhi responded to requests, and the real photo studio actually became the "logistics office" of the comrades.
In May 1934, Zhang Peizhi was summoned to the Baoding camp of the Kuomintang Military Commission. The next day, the Xiesheng Printing Office was raided. With the assistance of porters, the books stored at the printing office were rushed out overnight. The reactionary authorities only copied some supplementary textbooks for primary schools, teaching reference books, and then some samples of pornographic books and periodicals. The library of the "Hengchang Photo Museum" has not been found. Zhang Peizhi knew that the books that existed in "Hengchang" could not be transferred for a while, so he took the opportunity of a friend to deliver food and secretly ordered the books to be burned. Zhang Tonglu, who was looking at the library, burned all the books for three days in a row.
The reactionary authorities did not catch the evidence. Zhang Peizhi was detained for three days, and under the pretense of agreeing to be released on bail, "in order to capture him", they strengthened the surveillance of the Xiesheng Printing Office. In early July, Zhang Peizhi was arrested again. There are three crimes: 1. Harboring the commander of the Second Division's student uprising and taking in the dismissed personnel; 2. Covering the planners of the Gaoli riots; 3. Printing and distributing newspapers, periodicals, and leaflets that poison young people. The first two items were not substantiated, and Zhang Peizhi flatly denied them, skillfully coping with the enemy's interrogation.
During this raid, the reactionary authorities copied a literature on the automobile revolution. So Zhang Peizhi was imprisoned in Baoding Xingying Prison. After Zhang Peizhi was arrested and imprisoned. He was imprisoned with Comrade Qi Qingxiang, who was arrested by the Hebei Provincial Commission for the Restoration of the Special Commission.
Among the more than 40 fellow prisoners, Zhang Peizhi was older and had more experience in struggle, and he actively gave advice to fellow prisoners and fabricated confessions; Organize fellow refugees to fight for enough water to drink from the prison. Fight for the right of the wounded and sick to receive food on behalf of their friends. He also used soil methods to heal his wounds for fellow victims. Qi Qingxiang later said: "If it weren't for Lao Zhang, I would have died in prison." ”
Qi Qingxiang learned about Zhang Peizhi's previous work, and saw Zhang's performance in prison, and talked to Zhang Peizhi about introducing Zhang Peizhi to participate in China's **. Zhang Peizhi smiled, and he asked Qi Qingxiang: "After the failure of the Gaoli riot, who did you come to my house to see?" Qi replied: "I have met Bai Jian, Li Yongmao, Liu Ziling, and Li Xuemin." Zhang asked again: "Didn't Li Yongmao say anything to you?" (Li Yongmao was a member of the Special Committee for the Protection of the People's Republic of China, participated in the Lixian County Party Committee during the Gaoli Riot, and was the main assistant to Song Luoshu, and died together with Li Yake, Secretary of the Special Committee for the Protection of the Family, in October 1932) Qi Qingxiang suddenly realized.
In October 1934, Zhang Peizhi was sentenced to seven years in prison and escorted to the Beijing Army Prison.
In 1935, Japanese imperialism used political, military, and diplomatic means to advance into North China step by step. The patriotic students' anti-Japanese movement to save the country was growing day by day, and the reactionary Peiping authorities were unable to cope with it both internally and externally. Under these circumstances, Zhang Peizhi was released early in January 1935.
After he was released from prison, he lived in an apartment on the beach in Peiping, claiming that he had arthritis in prison and needed a spa, and that he bathed in the bath every day, but in fact waited for someone to connect. After waiting for more than a month, the connector did not come, and the Spring Festival had passed, so he returned to his hometown. The family complained: "The 70-year-old mother is in suspense day and night, and she should not come back immediately after being released from prison, nor should she not go home during the Spring Festival."
He explained politely: "Entrusted by others, loyal to people, difficult friends and difficult things, and the things entrusted to me are not handed over, it is not good to go home early, so as not to miss the opportunity." He unfolded the secret letter disguised as a paper cigarette brought out from prison and carefully hid it in the mezzanine of the thread-bound "Three Kingdoms". In March, he took "Three Kingdoms" to Baiyangdian, but the relationship was not connected, and "Three Kingdoms" came back as it was.
Zhang Peizhi used his identity, status, and technology to do work that ordinary ** members could not do.
On July 7, 1937, after the Lugou Bridge Incident, Zhang Peizhi called his eldest son **Chi and his second son Zhang Yingchi home, and each gave them travel expenses: "The enemy is now, go your own way!" **Chi changed his name to Zhang Chong and went to the mountainous area of western Hebei to find the party. Zhang Yingchi changed his name to Zhang Fan and moved to Yan'an.
On September 29, 1937, the Japanese invading army invaded and occupied Baoding. Zhang Peizhi returned to his hometown in Donglu, Qingyuan.
In October 1937, Comrade Nie Rongzhen led the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army to establish a base area behind enemy lines centered on Wutai Mountain in Shanxi. On November 7, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region was established.
On January 15, 1938, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region held a military, government, and civilian congress in Fuping County, Hebei Province, and democratically elected the Provisional Administrative Committee of the Border Region. At the beginning of 1938, Zhang Peizhi returned to Baoding from Qingyuan. He couldn't suppress the joy in his heart, and said to his family: "The Eighth Route Army is here, and it has arrived at the xx place, and a battle has been fought. The advance team has been in contact with the place, and xx has a letter to find me!"
Zhang Chong entered the mountainous area of western Hebei, organized the masses to resist Japan under the leadership of the party, and served as the county magistrate of the anti-Japanese government of Tang County. In the anti-Japanese base area in the early days, all kinds of materials were very scarce, and Zhang Chong often sent people home secretly to ask Zhang Peizhi to buy medicines, electricity, and stationery. After Zhang Peizhi bought it, he first sent it to Donglu and then transferred it to Tang County.
At that time, Comrade Deng Tuo was in charge of propaganda work in the border region. Printing documents and materials, publishing newspapers, printing equipment and equipment are urgently needed. Deng Tuo asked Comrade Peng Zhen to convey to Zhang Chong, hoping that Zhang Chong would mobilize his father Zhang Peizhi to transport the equipment of the Xiesheng Printing Company to the anti-Japanese base area to serve the anti-Japanese struggle.
In the autumn of 1938, Zhang Chong sent Zhang Lanchi (Zhang Chong's cousin, who was a guard for Zhang Chong at the time) to secretly return to Donglu and convey the above meaning. Zhang Peizhi readily agreed, and first sent Zhang Guoqi to escort him, and Zhang Xingzhao rushed to the car and transported a cart of medicines, paper, and ink.
At the end of the year, a batch of medical equipment, lithographs, and lead blocks were shipped. In the spring of 1939, the Japanese blockade became tighter and tighter day by day, and the original road was no longer passable.
Due to the traitor Chen Yutian's informant, the equipment loaded onto the ship was detained by the Japanese gendarmerie at Nanguan, Baoding. Zhang Peizhi was also arrested by the gendarmerie. The gendarmerie tortured and asked where these things were going to be shipped, and Zhang Peizhi insisted: "The business is not good, so it will be shipped to Tianjin for auction." ”
The Japanese invaders wanted to buy Zhang Peizhi to work for them, and proposed to Zhang: "Call your son Zhang Chong back, and we will do something for him." Zhang replied: "I don't have Zhang Chong's son, my son **Chi went to university in Germany and studied chemistry." "You can be the president of the Chamber of Commerce, and you can do anything else." Zhang replied: "I'm used to being idle, I don't want to do things, and I can't do things. "The gendarmerie gave him a month to go home and think about it.
Zhang Peizhi returned home and felt that things were in trouble, and the things that were going to be transported away had to be shipped quickly, and after some intense planning, the arrangements for direct transportation to the city were almost ready, and Zhang Peizhi was considering how to get out and go to the base area, but unexpectedly, on May 30, 1939, Zhang Peizhi was arrested by plainclothes agents of the Japanese Sangmu secret service.
Zhang Peizhi never returned, and many years later learned that he was bitten to death by a wolf dog released by Japanese spies.
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