Comrade Zheng, formerly known as Zheng, was born in a poor family in Xuchang, Henan. He was an apprentice at the age of 13, and later worked as a worker in Han Jing Railway. He used the convenience of being a ticket inspector to do a lot of work for the party. This year, Shaowen joined the * * * production party. Later, he was transferred to the central government to do transportation work, and often sent party documents and instructions to various places. He overcame many difficulties and even risked his life to successfully complete the tasks assigned by the party.
/kloc-in the spring of 0/930, he was transferred to Shanghai as the manager of Zhai Yi Bank. As a fund-raising enterprise of the Party, this bank serves as a traffic station. At this time, I am a manager at home, and I am still doing transportation at home. From then on, he changed his name to Zheng. During his two years working in a bank, in order to raise liquidity for the Party and purchase and transport important materials for the Soviet area, Zhai Yi traveled around and experienced difficulties and obstacles.
193 1 year, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's leading organs in Shanghai were moved to the Central Soviet Area. Comrade Zhai Yi also finished his work as a banker and left Shanghai on 1932 for the Hubei, Henan and Anhui Soviet area.
Comrade Zheng came to the Soviet area of Hubei, Henan and Anhui, and after his comrades, he served as the chairman of the Financial and Economic Committee and the president of the bank. It has made good achievements in developing banking business, promoting economic construction in the Soviet area and developing foreign trade.
At that time, the revolutionary situation was very good and the Red Army developed rapidly. However, due to the wrong route, the Red Fourth Front Army suffered huge losses in the fourth "encirclement and suppression" against the enemy and was forced to break through the Western Expedition. After arduous and sinister battles, it was not until we entered northern Sichuan that we gained a foothold and re-established the revolutionary base areas. With the development of revolutionary forces and the expansion of base areas, the burden of logistics support personnel is getting heavier and heavier. At this time, Comrade Zheng held several positions, serving as the chairman of the Finance Committee of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet government, the president of the Workers and Peasants Bank, the general manager of the Red Fourth Army, and the director of the Arsenal and Mint. During this time, I can't forget his lofty revolutionary dedication and selfless work spirit, which is for the cause of the party and for the victory ahead.
The Red Army hastily retreated from Hubei, Henan and Anhui and moved thousands of miles to northern Sichuan. Eating has become a big problem. The eighth district of Tongnan is close to Bashan, which is remote, backward in economy, inconvenient in transportation, with few paddy fields and many dry lands. Bashan area produces less grain, develops to the southeast, and produces abundant grain. The poor people have no food at home, and they mostly feed on miscellaneous grains, sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes, but the landlords have more food at home. Comrade Zheng made a detailed investigation and study of these characteristics and conditions, and put forward a suggestion to the army headquarters: when fighting local tyrants and distributing grain, only a part was given to the poorest families, and most of the grain was transported to the rear. In this way, general manager office department should set up grain depots and transfer stations all over the Soviet area, mobilize all men and women in the Soviet area to participate in this kind of transportation, and ensure that the troops concentrate on fighting there and have food. At the same time, it also made the enemy unable to get food in the Soviet area, which caused great difficulties to the enemy. Comrade Zhai Yi also suggested that the political organs at all levels of the Red Army should assist the government in reclaiming land, destroying tobacco and growing grain. By 1934, under the call of "more food, more vegetables and more feeding" by the provincial party Committee, production has further developed, and grain, cotton, oil, vegetables, pigs, cattle, chickens and ducks have all achieved bumper harvests and development. Comrade Zhai Yi also led the General Manager's Department to take the lead and insisted on thrift. Rice is mainly used for combat troops and the wounded and sick, and more miscellaneous grains are eaten in the rear. When the Red Army first entered Sichuan, salt was once a serious problem. After the war in Weinan, the Red Army occupied some salt fields. Comrade Zhai Yi personally went to the saltworks, organized workers and kitchen households to resume production, and transported a large amount of salt to the rear, which was not only rations, but also food and cloth for the masses.
Dressing was another big problem at that time. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/932, we set out from Hubei, Henan and Anhui, only wearing clothes, and fought thousands of miles, in a panic. When we entered Sichuan, it was already the middle of winter, and the problem of dressing was imminent. Comrade Zhai Yi agreed with all the armies and divisions that * * * should be responsible for it. Each division and division should set up garment factories, and the general manager department should set up three factories to make unified planning and division of labor to produce winter and summer garments. The source of the cloth is mainly that the general manager department has set up stations in the whole Soviet area to buy homespun (also combined with grain depots), and some of them are bought from vendors in marginal areas. Through efforts, winter and summer clothes of 1933 and 1934 were uniformly supplied.
In order to solve the problem of food and clothing for the whole army, Comrade Zheng did try his best.
The weapons and ammunition of the Red Army were mainly seized from the enemy. The repair of various weapons has also become one of the main tasks in supporting operations. Comrade Zhai Yi's method is to rely on everyone to start work and be responsible at all levels. Inform the troops that wherever they go, they should recruit local gunners and arrange them in the ordnance repair shop of the army and division. There are surplus and skilled ones to be sent to the ordnance repair shop of the general manager's department. The division of labor is: the army and the division repair guns and machine guns and guns with minor defects. The rest of the army and division can't be repaired, and they are sent to the machinery factory of the general manager's department for repair. The repair quality has been improved since the enemy's arsenal machine was seized.
After the Red Army captured the Arsenal and Mint, Comrade Zhai Yi personally organized the relocation of machinery, equipment and raw materials, and established the Arsenal and Mint of the Red Army. In a short time, despite several relocations, Baiyao (propellant), explosives, bullets, mortar shells and grenades were still produced, among which grenades ensured the needs of the whole army.
Other materials needed by the Red Army, such as rain gear, non-slip palm (full-scale), rice bowl (wooden bowl), western medicine and medical supplies, were given specific guidance by Comrade Zhai Yi and solved one by one.
At that time, no one knew anything about banking. Comrade Zhai Yi has worked in Shanghai, Hubei, Henan and Anhui for several years, and he is the only expert among us. But he still studied the political economy of Marxism-Leninism with an open mind and understood the monetary theory. He personally investigated and studied, and according to the specific conditions of the Soviet area, he put forward several guidelines for banking work to his superiors, all of which were agreed by the leaders. Comrade Zhai Yi attached great importance to the propaganda work of banks and won the trust of the people. On the opening day of Sichuan-Shaanxi Workers and Peasants Bank, we took the opportunity to publicize and handle the deposit exchange business on the spot, which expanded our influence.
After the Red Army 1935 crossed the Jialing River in March, the whole movement continued. According to this situation, Comrade Zheng immediately formed three stations to track the actions of the troops, raise food and materials on the spot and distribute them to the troops. Comrade Zhai Yi led the General Manager's Department and its affiliated factories to track the troop movements. As long as we rest for more than two or three days along the way, the factory will start production immediately, using local materials to make clothing supplies, repairing weapons, making grenades and so on. Everyone is in full swing.
Comrade Zheng takes his work seriously and has a warm heart for his comrades, which is closely related from top to bottom. He is strict with himself and leads a hard life. He is a big man. His clothes never fit him, but he never asks him to make another one. From Hubei, Henan and Anhui to northern Sichuan, it is a gray cloth coat. Wear it during the day and cover it at night. After wearing it for three or four winter and spring, it doesn't look like it anymore. No one else can change it. 1in the autumn of 934, Comrade Zhai Yi suffered from malaria and was sweating all over. Seeing that his clothes could not be changed, the guard brought him a set of shirts and underwear in the military supplies department. When he knew this, he severely criticized the guards and told them to return. On the March, he seldom rode a horse, gave it to the sick and wounded, or stayed in a shelter. When he arrived at the campsite, he heard that there was an injury there, and he always went to see it himself.
Do not attach importance to talents. Members of the General Manager's Department, including those from Hubei, Henan and Anhui, workers and technicians who participated in Sichuan, and those who were attacked by Zhang, do not need to be placed in the General Manager's Department. Under the influence of Comrade Zheng's ideological style, they can work with peace of mind, unite as one and give full play to their work enthusiasm.
1September, 935, Zheng and Comrade were ordered to be the ministers of the work department of the White Area, and later served as the head of the delegation of the Fourth Army to join the Second Army. 1in July, 936, he was transferred back to the General Supply Department and continued to serve as Minister. Comrade Zhai Yi told me cheerfully that the troops will arrive in northern Shaanxi soon, and all the army will meet and greet Chairman Mao!
1936 10, the headquarters of the Red Fourth Front Army led the Fifth Army, the Ninth Army and the Thirtieth Army to cross the Yellow River to the west, and began an extremely difficult battle course in the northwest of Gansu.
1937 In late February, we were besieged by the enemy in Nijiayingzi area. Here, the troops fought bloody battles with the enemy for seven days and seven nights, causing heavy casualties and running out of ammunition and food. On March 5, they were forced to break through and move to the northwest. I was repeatedly chased and intercepted by the enemy along the way. Our army retreated while fighting and retreated into Qilian Mountain. Seeing that the situation has reached a very critical moment, the headquarters of the marked army temporarily convened a military and political Committee in Shiwo, south of Kanglong Temple, to discuss and decide on the future course of action.
After receiving the notice of the meeting, Zhai Yi put away the gold and silver dollars kept separately by the Ministry, wrapped them into several packages, and told me to sew them with a needle and thread, ready to take them to the general headquarters to pay the leading comrades who are about to return to Yan 'an. Then, he led 10 soldiers, took the gold, left us, and set out along the ravine to the location of the general headquarters. Who knows, I met the enemy before I went far, and they were surrounded. Zhai Yi commanded the soldiers to take up the battle calmly, retreated to the hillside while fighting, and repelled the enemy's attacks many times. However, the enemy's reinforcements surrounded more and more, like a group of red-eyed wolves, screaming and rushing up, watching the enemy's encirclement getting smaller and smaller. In order to prevent the funds from falling into the enemy's hands, Comrade Zhai Yi made a decisive decision and ordered the soldier Zhang Kaiqing to break through with gold and send it to the headquarters, while he himself stayed in the rear to command the cover. Xiao Zhang rushed out, and the funds were safely sent to the leading comrades of the headquarters.
However, Comrade Zheng was shot several times, and all the guards left behind died heroically. It was1March, 937 13, when Comrade Zheng was still under 36 years old.