It turned out that this was an ingenious arrangement to create conditions for Li Tiefu to work in Tianjin. The young lady's real name is Zhang Xiuyan (1895- 1968), and she is also a staunch Marxist. She has just been transferred from Beiping to Tianjin Municipal Committee as the Party Secretary of Tianjin Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Zhang 1926 joined the China * * * Production Party and has rich experience in underground struggle. He used to be the secretary of the Left Alliance Party in Peiping Cultural Circle and the Secretary of the General Alliance Party of Peiping Culture.
Li and Zhang were originally disguised as husband and wife for revolutionary work, but they have been engaged in revolutionary work together for a long time and gradually established sincere feelings.
Li Tiefu's original wife died of illness in her early years, while Zhang Xiuyan remained single. At the end of that year, with the approval of the party organization, they formally became partners. Zhang Xiuyan successively found jobs in Tianjin Taxation Bureau and Beining Railway Bureau of Kuomintang authorities, and maintained the simple life of this special family with meager income. Li Tiefu took on the housework. On weekdays, the husband teaches his wife Japanese, and the wife helps her husband sort out his reading notes and articles.
After the "September 18th Incident", some leaders of the northern party organizations, despite their difficult situation, mistakenly put forward slogans such as "launching guerrilla movements, establishing the northern Soviet area and establishing the Red Army" without their own conditions, blindly demanding active struggle, holding public flying rallies and blindly launching a series of armed riots, which led to the repeated destruction of the struggle between the party organizations and the masses, and many party member were arrested and sacrificed, resulting in serious losses.
Li Tiefu was deeply saddened by this. He adhered to the party's work discipline and principles in the white area. Starting from the interests of the Party, he made an objective assessment and analysis of the situation on the basis of calm thinking. From 1933 to 1 1 to 1934 in February, he wrote several opinions on inner-party problems, several opinions on reorganizing organizations at present, the seriousness of bureaucracy, the reactivity of left opportunism and inner-party struggle.
Li Tiefu went to the Hebei Provisional Provincial Party Committee eight times in a row, demanding a change in the strategy of struggle, and also put some articles in the party's northern publication "Firewire". His opinion was endorsed by some leading members of the Provisional Provincial Committee of Hebei Province. However, some representatives of the northern central government were furious about this, thinking it was a serious political problem and severely criticizing it. On March 30th, 1934, the Provisional Central Committee sent a letter to the northern delegates and the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, demanding that Li Tiefu be given a "serious warning for the last time and stop all his leadership work" and "wage an extremely cruel struggle within the Hebei Party" and severely deal with comrades who support Li Tiefu's views. Subsequently, the Hebei Provisional Provincial Party Committee made the Resolution Against Right-wing Abolitionism. A critical struggle against the so-called "right-wing abolitionist iron-rich route" was launched on a large scale. In May, Li Tiefu was wrongly labeled as a "right opportunist anti-Party member" and lost his organizational ties and working conditions.
At that time, Li Tiefu was committed to the propaganda work of resisting Japan and saving the nation. He attended the lectures of the anti-Japanese armed training class held in Ji Hongchang, and also squeezed out the living expenses to help run the publication. After the "December 9th Movement" broke out, Li Tiefu participated in organizing and leading the "December 18th" student parade in Tianjin by contacting young students. He also organized some progressive youths to set up Marxist-Leninist study groups, which were often active in the Old Russian Park in Hedong.
However, whenever they organize the masses, some provincial party Committee leaders send people to intervene, take over the tasks he is responsible for, send others to lead and give him a warning. Although not trusted and excluded, Li Tiefu and Zhang Xiuyan are not disappointed. Time and time again, they keep opening up new fields, trying to eliminate resistance and establish new relationships. They are unswerving and worthy of the cause of the party.
1Since August, 934, the CPC Hebei Provincial Committee has moved from Beiping to Tianjin. The "ruthless attack" and "cruel struggle" on the "Tiefu Route" took Tianjin as the main position and lasted for more than a year. At the beginning of March, 1936, Tianjin Municipal Committee was rebuilt. Zhang Xiuyan served as the Minister of Women's Department of the Municipal Party Committee. In the spring of the same year, Liu Shaoqi was appointed by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to Tianjin to preside over the work of Beifangju, implement the spirit of the Wayaobao meeting and correct the "Left" mistakes. Li Tiefu and Zhang Xiuyan also participated in the daily work of Tianjin Municipal Committee as members. In May, Japanese imperialism sent more troops to North China. Li Tiefu promptly suggested to LAM Raymond, secretary of the municipal party committee, to expose the Japanese invaders' plot to destroy China and publicize the party's anti-Japanese United front policy. According to Liu Shaoqi's deployment, the Municipal Party Committee decided to organize patriotic students to March again. On the eve of the March, Li Tiefu went deep into the Law School and Beiyang Institute of Technology, looking for "people first" party member and the backbone, and arranged an action plan. Thanks to the strong leadership of the Municipal Party Committee, the March in Tianjin on May 28th was a success. Soon, on behalf of Beibuju, Liu Shaoqi fully affirmed Li Tiefu's thought and contribution to the Party, corrected the false words imposed on him, called a meeting, decided to restore Li Tiefu's contact with the Party, and appointed him as a member of Hebei Provincial Party Committee and secretary of Tianjin Municipal Party Committee. Zhang Xiuyan was also appointed Deputy Secretary-General of the Municipal Party Committee. The so-called struggle against the "Tiefu Line" has also been basically curbed.
After Li Tiefu presided over the work of the Municipal Party Committee, he gave full play to his organizational advantages, developed the work of party member and grass-roots branches, constantly cultivated revolutionary forces, promoted the formation of the anti-Japanese national United front, and created a new situation in the work of the Tianjin Party. He helped the School of Law and Business and Nankai University to set up party branches, and also set up People's Salvation Society, Workers' Salvation Society and Farmers' Salvation Society. The municipal party Committee also organized the broad masses to strongly oppose the smuggling of Japanese goods. Tianjin's anti-Japanese national salvation movement showed a good momentum of vigorous development.
1937 in may, according to the instructions of the central authorities, Li Tiefu went to Yan' an to attend the national congress of China * * * production party and the working conference of the national party in the white area as a representative of the work in the white area. At the White Area Work Conference, the Central Committee completely ended the rule of Wang Ming's "Left" opportunist line in the work of the White Area. In his two speeches at the meeting, he criticized the "left" tendency of closed-doorism, which was a common concern of the participants. When Mao Zedong had a heart-to-heart talk with him, he complained that he and Zhang Xiuyan were "hit and wronged". Because I have been engaged in the underground work of the party for a long time in the white area, I have contracted tuberculosis from overwork. The CPC Central Committee left him to work and rest in the Northwest Bureau of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia. During the period of Li Tiefu's serious illness, the Central Committee sent a telegram to Zhang Xiuyan that "Big Brother is seriously ill". But when Zhang Xiuyan arrived in Yan 'an, he had died unfortunately. Xinhua newspaper published his biography.