1926 in may, Zhao Shiyan came to Shanghai according to the decision of the central authorities, and was appointed as the director of the organization department of Jiangsu and Zhejiang district committees and the party secretary of Shanghai Federation of trade unions. Before the three armed uprisings of Shanghai workers, the CPC Central Committee decided to transfer Zhao Shiyan to Wuhan to work in the central government. Because the armed uprising was imminent, he did not accept the task and stayed in Shanghai until he led the Shanghai workers to win the third armed uprising.
1927 After Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12th Anti-Japanese" revolutionary coup, the political situation deteriorated further, and Shanghai was under the white terror of a bloody battle. Zhao Shiyan shoulders the heavy responsibility of emergency response. Fearless, he still worked day and night and continued to lead the revolutionary struggle in Shanghai. He once said at the cadre meeting held by the district Committee: "The * * * production party is a fighting party. If there were no fighting, there would be no party. As long as the party exists, it will struggle for a day and is unwilling to participate in the struggle. What * * * production party! "
1in mid-June, 926, after Chen Yannian and other provincial party Committee leaders were arrested, Zhao Shiyan acted as Secretary jiangsu provincial party committee, which provoked all the burdens of the provincial party committee. He actively rescued the arrested comrades and urgently informed the district committees and contact points to make emergency preparations. Due to the traitor's betrayal,1July 2, 927, it was stormy at dusk, and Chinese and western agents besieged Zhao Shiyan's residence at Zhi 'anfang Road 190 in northern Sichuan. Zhao Shiyan was waiting outside. Zhao Shiyan's wife Xia Zixu and her mother-in-law Xia Niangniang are very anxious. Xia Niangniang saw Zhao Shiyan coming home from the window, regardless of the enemy's obstruction, and knocked down the flowerpot used as a signal on the windowsill. Because of the heavy rain, the noise of flowerpots didn't attract Zhao Shiyan's attention. Zhao Shiyan, who came in a hurry in the heavy rain, neither saw the flowerpot fall to the ground nor heard the sound of the flowerpot breaking. He still walked home and was surrounded by spies as soon as he entered the door. Zhao Shiyan's face was serene and poised. As he went upstairs, he sharply questioned the enemy spy: "Why did you search? With what evidence to search? " And publicly said: "My surname is Xia Mingrenzhang, a native of Hubei, and I came to Shanghai to do business." When the enemy spy was busy searching for evidence, he quietly told Xia Zixu the address of Wang Ruofei, the secretary-general of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, who was in Shanghai at that time, and asked her to find a way to report to the party organization as soon as possible. As the detective arrested and detained Zhao Shiyan downstairs, Zhao Shiyan slowly turned around and looked at Xia Zixu and Xia Niangniang. A thousand words are all in this concern, as if to say: We must find Wang Ruofei quickly! We must defend the party and the organization. When Xia Zixu found Wang Ruofei, it was already 9 o'clock in the evening, and Wang Ruofei organized forces to try to rescue Zhao Shiyan.
After Zhao Shiyan was arrested, he was first detained in the temporary court of the British Concession. On the evening of July 4th, he was transferred to Longhua garrison headquarters Military Court. The enemy tortured him in every way, but Zhao Shiyan remained firm and calm. He claims to be from Hubei, and his name is Xia. Because of the bandits in his hometown, he took refuge in Shanghai to do business ... The enemy couldn't find any evidence and flaws of revolutionaries from his manner, clothes and family situation. The Military Advocate General felt that it was difficult to distinguish between true and false, and he could not help wondering if he had caught it wrong. In the first round of the struggle against the enemy, Zhao Shiyan skillfully subdued the enemy.
The insidious enemy didn't let Zhao Shiyan go and continued to extract confessions from him. It was not until the enemy called Han Buxian and Zhang Baochen to identify them face to face that Zhao Shiyan confidently and loudly admitted that he was "Shiying", that is, party member, who was committed by * * *. And severely condemned two shameful traitors. He announced to the enemy: "You can only catch the right time, but it is futile to get any secrets from me!" "
On July 6, the enemy announced in the newspaper that he had seized the moment. This has caused great repercussions among hundreds of thousands of workers in Shanghai. The workers were extremely sad and angry that their leader was arrested by the enemy. Many workers immediately asked the organization to rescue Shi Shi at all costs. Many workers registered with the organization and asked them to exchange their lives for Shiying. Some even advocated armed robbery.
Party organizations took various measures to rescue Zhao Shiyan. Under the command of Wang Ruofei, they tried to buy off the relevant personnel of the enemy, including the little wife of yang hu, the Shanghai garrison commander. But it soon became clear to the Party that no matter how much money was spent, Zhao Shiyan could not be saved. Knowing that he was arrested on time, the enemy was ecstatic and would not let him go easily.
When the Party organization learned that the enemy was going to escort Zhao Shiyan to Nanjing, it deployed the Shanghai-Nanjing Line to intercept the train and rob Zhao Shiyan. As a result, the enemy did not dare to take risks and decided to execute it quickly and secretly in Shanghai. The party decided to attack the court by force and made careful arrangements. The team that attacked Huiji and rescued Zhao Shiyan lay in ambush near the enemy headquarters for several nights. However, the cunning enemy suddenly attacked and failed to realize the rescue plan.
Now that Zhao Shiyan's identity has been made public and he knows that he will die, he still insists on fighting and regards the prison as a battlefield. During the 17 days in prison, the struggle against the enemy never stopped. During the enemy's interrogation, he talked about the national revolution and capitalism in front of the enemy, exposing Chiang Kai-shek as an imperialist running dog and betraying the revolution. He also claimed that he didn't do anything to undermine the country or violate any security laws, and protested against his unreasonable arrest. In his cell, Zhao Shiyan paid great attention to educating his cellmates about honesty in production. From time to time, he encouraged prisoners to "fight tenaciously, don't be afraid, the more afraid they are, the more hopeless they are." "The revolution will bleed, and the transformation of society will pay a price." His persistence in materialism and indomitable spirit of fighting to the death with the enemy inspired prisoners and increased their courage and strength in their struggle.
Zhao Shiyan, at the critical moment when he was trapped in the enemy prison, still insisted on doing security work, and within a few days, he became one with these people. On one occasion, he asked a guard to bring a note to the party organization, repeatedly urging the party organization to take care of the backbone of unemployed workers (these unemployed workers are activists in strikes and uprisings, and some are party member, who was fired by the capitalists after the "April 12th Incident") and protect the revolutionary forces.
At that time, a series of things happened in the prison that frightened the enemy: four boxes of guns guarded by yang hu were missing; Some prisoners were told in their cells that they were going to break the shackles and escape from prison. Soon after, several guards of the enemy camp disappeared and so on. The enemy associated these events with Zhao Shiyan's name, and felt that the existence of Zhao Shiyan was a great threat to them, and they wanted to kill Zhao Shiyan with a butcher knife.
The night before Zhao Shiyan was killed, the enemy interrogated Zhao Shiyan for the last time. Zhao Shiyan is more declamatory, high-altitude, and bought a pen and paper, began to write, * * * wrote eight pieces of paper in an hour. This is a condemnation of the enemy and a revolutionary declaration. Zhao Shiyan would rather die than surrender, and his heroic spirit of death made the reactionaries feel extremely afraid.
/kloc-One morning in July, 0/9, just after breakfast in the prison, the horn sounded outside. Anyone familiar with the prison situation knows that the enemy is going to kill again. A guard opened the prison door and asked, "Who is on time?" Zhao Shiyan replied calmly: "I am timely." Then he stood up calmly, with handcuffed hands, struggling to sort out a light gray suit, tied his tie, buttoned his cuffs, and adjusted his skirt and trousers, as if he were going out to attend some meeting. Zhao Shiyan looked back at his friends from time to time, nodded goodbye, and calmly said to his comrades: "Farewell! Comrades! Friends! " He squared his chest, strode and walked out of the prison gate.
The executioner began to chop off his head. Zhao Shiyan shouted enthusiastically: "Long live the * * * Production Party!" "Down with the new warlord Chiang Kai-shek!" "Workers, peasants and soldiers unite!" The executioner stabbed several times in a row, but Zhao Shiyan did not move! A strong and great warrior, a heroic sacrifice!