Chapter 71 3. She remembers: the pursuit of life has always been so rough

How can people believe that just holding another living person, the warmth of the palm is still there, and the yin and yang are separated in a blink of an eye? Li Meiqun felt deeply regretful, feeling sorry for her husband, after several years of marriage, she did not leave a son to the Zhong family. Missing and regret haunted Li Meiqun.The figure of her husband lingers in her mind from time to time. At the beginning of 1931, Comrade Cai Chang came to Xingguo and served as the Minister of Women of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Chairman of the Provincial Supervisory Committee.

Cai Chang is a highly respected founder of the women's movement of the Communist Party of China. As soon as she arrived in the Central Soviet Area, she started to train more than a dozen important women cadres, and Li Meiqun was one of them. Cai Chang is not very old, but like a simple and caring elder sister, she gets along well with others after chatting about household chores.She often stayed with Li Meiqun, and went to the countryside to visit the poor, investigate and study, and taught Li Meiqun how to mobilize and organize women and how to carry out various activities. Soon, Cai Chang discovered that Li Meiqun was educated, active in work, and highly motivated, and he was a very good young cadre.Then actively carry out training and education, strict requirements.Cai Chang also moved to Li Meiqun's house for two or three months, sleeping in the same bed with her every night, talking about everything.In his spare time, he talked most about his life circumstances. He told her about the revolutionary struggles and the principles of the women’s movement that he heard and saw when he was studying in France and the Soviet Union.

For a native rural woman, this is simply another world, another world.Li Meiqun has never heard of it, and never tires of hearing it.She sincerely respects and loves Cai Chang, and regards him as a big sister, a bosom friend and a role model for action. Once, Sister Cai told a true story in a targeted manner: During the white terror, she had witnessed countless revolutionaries being killed. Killed one after another in the bloody wind... She was enduring the great pain of losing her loved ones.But the atrocities of the reactionaries, instead of intimidating her, made her stronger. The pursuit of life has always been so rough.

The down-to-earth Sister Cai has shocked her heart time and time again.Li Meiqun felt deeply guilty, realizing that her painful emotions had lasted too long because of the loss of her loved ones, which was a sign of weakness.Since then, her spirit has been lifted, her thinking has become more mature, and she has become stronger and braver in fighting against the enemy. In April 1932, the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee ordered Li Meiqun to be appointed as the Organization Minister of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee of the Shaoxing Communist Party. After receiving the transfer order, Li Meiqun was a little dazed, deeply feeling that she had little experience, poor ability, and incompetence.She knew that Sister Cai's lover, Li Fuchun, was the secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, so she begged Sister Cai to come forward, talk to Li Fuchun, and take back the transfer order.

Cai Chang couldn't help laughing, and told Li Meiqun: This is not a matter between husband and wife, but an organization and individual matter.In a revolution, first of all, the relationship between the organization and the individual must be properly handled. Communist Party members must obey the organization's decisions without bargaining... Listen, Li Meiqun's understanding has improved a step further: the decisions of the party organization must be implemented 100%, and the implementation China's thinking cannot be discounted in any way.So, she packed her luggage and set off to work at the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee of the Shaoxing Communist Party in Bosheng County.

A few months later, she was transferred to Jiangxi Provincial Women's Minister.This time, he moved with the tune without embarrassment. Spring breeze turns into rain.Under the direct nurturing of Sister Cai, Li Meiqun experienced the wind and rain, saw the world, and thrived in the complicated struggles. Her work ability has been greatly improved, and she sometimes publishes articles to guide the overall work. In April 1931, "Youth Truth" Volume III, No. 21, published her article "How to Establish Young Women's Work". In the fiery life, she has a more mature understanding of revolution, work, and life... Later, she fell in love with Ni Zhishan, a cadre of the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee at work, and married Ni Zhishan after obtaining the consent of her mother-in-law.

In the spring of 1933, the central government issued a call to expand the Red Army by one million.At that time, due to the consumption of the protracted war, the supply of troops was relatively tight.Putting herself in her shoes, Li Meiqun is well aware of the role and status of women in the popular movement. At a meeting of provincial party committee cadres, she was the first to stand up and mobilize her newlywed husband Ni Zhishan to join the Red Army. This action moved everyone present. Soon, a large-scale campaign to expand the popularity began, and the Provincial Party Committee sent Li Meiqun to Xingguo to inspect and guide the work of expanding the popularity.

At that time, Li Meiqun was pregnant, and she was constantly harassed by the pregnancy reaction. She didn't say a word, packed her backpack and immediately set off for Xingguo. Back in her faraway hometown, Li Meiqun first mobilized her ex-husband’s younger brother, Zhong Yanshu, and her only younger brother, who is also the only Miao Miao Li Qihuan most loved by her parents, to join the army (later incorporated into the special agent company of the Sixth Division and Sixteenth Regiment Headquarters of the Third Red Army, and sacrificed in combat. ).Then, organize women, especially the family members of the Red Army, to set up a red propaganda team to carry out agitation and propaganda.

She is a local, familiar with the situation, careful and meticulous in her work, and can lead by example. She is especially good at uniting cadres and relying on the masses. Therefore, Xingguo County quickly set off a wave of popularization. "It is the most glorious to be in the Red Army", the touching scenes of fathers sending off their sons, wives sending off their husbands, and brothers vying to go to the front can be seen everywhere.In the Red May of this year, 5,161 young people signed up collectively, and the famous "Xingguo Model Teacher" joined the main Red Army, which caused a sensation in the entire Central Soviet Area and became the most spectacular record in the history of the development of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.

As time went by, and the work of expanding popularity was carried out in depth, Li Meiqun's belly was protruding day by day.Caressing her increasingly protruding belly and reading her husband's home letters from the front line are the best ways for her to relieve her fatigue. That day, she received another letter from her husband, which was neat and neat, with only one line: "Take good care of the child."Tears flowed silently, wet the skirts of the clothes, and moistened the unborn posthumous child... She buried the bad news in her heart, and still got up early in the dark, traversing mountains and mountains, and went to districts, townships, and villages to set up and spread red.Sometimes, she had to vomit twice in one meeting, and she ran outside the house to vomit, and then went back to speak after vomiting.

Due to the exemplary role of the "Xingguo Model Teacher", 80% of the young and middle-aged people in Xingguo County joined the Red Army this year, and the number reached more than 20,000. (December 6, 1933) the title of "Model County for Women's Work" was awarded the "No. The Central Committee, the Central Government, the Central Bureau of the Soviet Area, the Red First, Third, and Fifth Army Corps, and leaders such as Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, and Wang Jiaxiang received telegram awards.As a result, Li Meiqun was rated as a model worker in Jiangxi Province, elected as a member of the Second Executive Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial Soviet Government, and an official representative of the Second National Congress of the Chinese Soviet Republic. At the Second National Congress of Soviets held in early 1934, she was awarded the honorary title and medal of "Model Expansion of Red", and was elected as an alternate executive member of the Central Committee. On February 3, 1934, the provisional central government organ of the Chinese Soviet Republic "Red China", the first edition of the seventh issue of the "Second All-Soviet Congress Special Issue", announced that 170 formal Central Executive Committee members and 36 members were elected by the Congress. The list of alternate executive members of the Central Committee.Among the alternate executive committee members, the names of Li Meiqun, Luo Ronghuan, Deng Zihui, Kang Keqing, Zhang Aiping, Li Kenong, Li Yimeng and others were lined up. In the 1960s, Cai Chang recalled the work of expanding his popularity, and his contribution to Li Meiqun was still cherished and appreciated.