Li Tiancai was studying in Zaoyuan Primary School at that time, which gave him the opportunity to receive revolutionary education and planted the seeds of revolution in his heart. In the future, whenever the national army passed through his hometown and organized political activities, he took an active part and helped the troops distribute propaganda materials, which laid a good ideological foundation for him to join the revolution in the future.
In the 18th year of the Republic of China (1929), Ningxia Province was founded, and Li Tiancai was admitted to Ningxia Provincial No.1 Middle School. Sun Diancai, a servant of Zhongningxiang, also studied in this school. Li joined the China Youth League on 1926, and Li and Sun have a good relationship. They often exchange ideas and explore the truth of saving the country and the people. With Sun's help, our revolutionary consciousness improved rapidly. At this time, he has made up his mind to devote his youth to realizing his revolutionary ideal, overthrowing the dark rule of reactionary warlords, saving the working people all over the world and achieving the success of the China revolution. In the first semester of the second year, Liu Ping Student Union of Ningxia recommended Du Liting, a graduate of Peking University, to teach in Ningzhong, and later served as the academic director.
At this time, according to the favorable situation of unstable political situation, numerous miscellaneous armies, complicated contradictions and weak ruling power in Ningxia, the Central North Bureau decided to seize this favorable opportunity to restore the local party organizations that were basically interrupted after the Qing Dynasty, and sent Du Runzhi, former member of the Beiping Municipal Committee and organization minister, as a special correspondent to Ningxia to make preparations. He found a job as an ethics teacher in Ningzhong through the relationship between his hometown in Mizhi, Shaanxi Province and Du Liting, a classmate of Peking University. When going to Ning via northern Shaanxi, the Shaanxi Special Committee sent Zhao Ziyuan, Ma and other comrades to Ningxia to apply for a teacher in No.1 Middle School to assist Du Runzhi's work. At that time, the party organizations in Kaifeng and Anyang, Henan Province were destroyed, and underground party member led party member and progressive youth to work in the capital of Ningxia through the introduction of his friend and then director of finance of Ningxia Provincial Government. Soon, the Ningxia Party Organization was established with Du Runzhi as its head. Among the five students from party member, except Liu Meilin who teaches in the primary school affiliated to the Second Normal University, the other four students are concentrated in Ningzhong. This group of party member teachers, with high academic qualifications and wide knowledge, have experienced the practical training of the Great Revolution. They are not only knowledgeable and well-taught, but also well-organized, approachable and good at uniting teachers and students, and soon formed a core in the school.
They also mobilized and united the progressive students in the school, such as Sun Diancai, Liang Dajun, Li Zhenbang, Pan, Zheng Kefei, Zhang Qi, Ye Songling, He Wenshao, etc. Around the underground party organizations, they strengthened the cultivation of these key elements, organized them to study politics and read books on revolutionary progress, and spread revolutionary ideas through them, which improved the consciousness and ideological consciousness of the teachers and students of the whole school. Soon, Zhang Desheng was specially appointed by northern Shaanxi to assist in Ningxia, which made the Party's student movement work in Ningxia vigorous and laid a good foundation for the Party organizations to further carry out revolutionary work in Ningxia.
In the second semester, Sun Diancai, Li Tiancai, Liang Dajun and others, according to Du Runzhi's instructions, publicly proposed "expelling the gentleman's principal Xu Zongru" and "supporting Du Liting as the principal!" The student movement held a school strike.
The provincial authorities actually dispatched police to surround the school and then arrested the backbone students who created the student tide. In order to rescue the arrested students, Li Tiancai and others actively organized students to take to the streets to protest, and at the same time contacted the parents of the arrested students to appeal to the society, exposing the illegal acts of the authorities and schools, and finally forced the provincial authorities to basically meet the students' requirements, release all the arrested students, transfer Xu Zongru, and appoint Du Liting as the principal of Ningzhong, and the student movement won. After leading the student movement to complete victory, the Ningxia Party organization lost no time to actively carry out the army movement and prepare to establish a revolutionary armed force controlled by our party. At this time, Ma Zhongying, commander-in-chief of the former Northwest Frontier Alliance who had led the opposition to Feng Yuxiang's armed uprising, returned to the northwest and came to Ningxia. He was entrusted by Ma Hongbin, chairman of the province, to teach the battalion chief a lesson to prevent this "commander-in-chief" from happening again. It is said that Ma Zhongying has secretly joined the Communist Youth League in the Mainland at this time. With the help of party member and progressives, his thoughts have changed greatly, and he is always on standby, so he often goes to Ningzhong to participate in some purposeful teacher-student activities and make friends with Li Tiancai and other progressives. Party organizations also instructed Li Tiancai to use this relationship to instigate the Ma Zhongying Uprising. Li Tiancai also went to Zhongwei County to contact Liu Chengdong, Zhang Xi and more than ten young students to do the work of Ma Qian, the former headquarters of Ma Zhongying in Zhongwei County, and strive for them to continue to follow Ma Zhongying to raise the banner of anti-warlords.
However, due to the leakage of news, Ma Hongbin is ready to arrest Ma Zhongying, Li Tiancai and others first. Ma Zhongying, with a straight face, escaped from the provincial capital and rushed to Zhongwei County in the name of riding an eagle, and collected more than 1000 people who had worked in Li Tiancai and others and took them to Hexi Corridor. A group of young students, such as Li Tiancai, also participated in the Ministry of Ma Zhongying and did political work in the Ministry of Horse.
193 1 At the beginning of the year, Ma Zhongying was frustrated in Hexi, and Li Tiancai and others returned to Ningxia. At this time, Du Runzhi and Du Liting were both detained because of the middle school students' movement in Ning and the "rebellion" incident in Ma Zhongying, and were suspected to be * * * parties. Due to the care of Du Bincheng, secretary-general of Shaanxi Provincial Government, Du Liting was released soon, and Du Runzhi still insisted on leading the work of Ningxia Party organizations in prison. After Li Tiancai returned to Ningxia, Du Runzhi personally introduced him to join the China * * * Production Party according to his actual performance in the student movement and military movement. In August of the same year, the "Leima Incident" broke out in Lanzhou. Feng Yuxiang's remaining eighth division commander, Lei Zhongtian, launched a mutiny and detained Ma Hongbin, the provincial chairman. The news reached Ningxia, Ma Hongbin's base area. His third uncle Ma Fushou, as acting chairman of Ningxia Province, ordered the brigade commander of the seventh division of Ma Hongbin Department to lead the main force of Ningxia Ma Department to Gansu, ready to rescue Ma Hongbin by force. At this time, there were only some miscellaneous troops left in Ningxia, and the defense was empty for a while.
Du Runzhi, who was in prison, decided to seize this good opportunity to launch a mutiny in the non-lineal troops of the Ma family. The party organization decided that Li Tiancai, Liang Dajun and Li Zhenbang were responsible for organizing armed riots in Ning 'anbao (now Chengguan Town, Zhongning County, Ningxia) and the three garrison areas of Xiaonanmen and Zhangzhengqiao, the provincial capital. At that time, the garrison in Ning 'an Fort was a spy battalion of Ma Hongbin Department. Sun Tiancai and Li Tiancai, the machine gun commanders of this department, are fellow villagers and primary school classmates of Zaoyuanbao. Sun Yuan is the captain of Zaoyuan Road Protection Team, and Ma Hongbin recruited him to expand his strength. Zhang Zizhen, the deputy battalion commander of this battalion, used to be the captain of the road protection team in Enhebao, and was also incorporated by the Ministry of Horses, but he didn't want to take office and stayed at home. Both of them are dissatisfied with the exclusion of "ma bu" or horse stance just look and want to find another way out of Ma Jiajun. After in-depth and meticulous ideological work, both Sun and Zhang agreed to cooperate with Yinchuan armed uprising and * * * anti-horse.
After Li reported to Du Runzhi, the party organization decided to act in three places at the same time on the night of 65438+February 23, in the name of "resisting Japan and saving the Northwest Army". On the night of 23rd, Li Tiancai assembled more than 100 people mobilized from Enhe, Mingsha and Long Beach outside Nanhe Bridge. After a short pre-war mobilization, he marched near Xiangyang. Liang Shenghai, the company commander of the secret service battalion who should be responsible, misread the appointed time and mistakenly thought that the enemy situation had happened. He immediately shot and killed Li Xu Eva who besieged the fortress city. The gunfire also alarmed the battalion commander Yang Shoutang, and the whole battalion immediately organized vigilance and resistance. As a result, the attack plan failed and the riot failed. Li Tiancai himself was arrested and taken to the provincial capital prison. Under the cruel torture of the enemy, he never revealed any party secrets. 1932, the "Mahler Incident" in Lanzhou was settled peacefully, and Ma Hongbin was released back to Ningxia as the "provincial president". Li Tiancai and Du Runzhi were released on bail in this context in order to manage the base areas in Ma Hongbin and ease the relations in all aspects. In March this year, Li Tiancai was hired as a Chinese teacher by his cousin, the principal of Zaoyuan Primary School.
At this time, Li Tiancai has fully grown into a conscious proletarian revolutionary fighter. Wherever he goes, his combat post is always there, and the podium is no exception. During his teaching in Zaoyuan Primary School, he used the podium to educate students to "be the new master of the new dynasty, not to be conquered people, to save the country and the people, and to dare to take the lead." When he was teaching 72 revolutionary martyrs of 1911, he encouraged students to learn from them in the future, and to have the dedication of daring to shed blood and sacrifice for the benefit of the country and the liberation of the laboring masses in Qian Qian. At this time, the Japanese invaders have occupied the three northeastern provinces of China. In order to publicize the Anti-Japanese War, he also wrote new anti-Japanese songs to teach students to sing.
1April, 932, Du Runzhi left Ningxia for Lanzhou, and together with Xie Zichang and Wang Rulin, he prepared to form the Shaanxi-Gansu Guerrilla of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army and prepare for the Jingyuan Spring Riot. In May, Li Tiancai also went to Lanzhou and went to the spring with Du Run. In June, the spring soldiers rioted successfully, and the Shaanxi-Gansu Guerrilla of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants was proclaimed, with Sun Zuobin as the commander and Du Runzhi as the political commissar. Li Tiancai served as a liaison committee member, doing logistics work.
Later, due to the disparity between the enemy and ourselves, the guerrillas went underground, and Gansu and Ningxia provinces began to want guerrilla leaders, and Li Tiancai was also included in the wanted list. He sneaked home alone, hid for a few days, then disguised himself as a boatman and went to Peiping via Baotou.
/kloc-in the autumn of 0/932, Li Tiancai found Liu Ping, a classmate from Ningxia, in Peiping, and soon got in touch with Zhang Zihua and Sun Diancai. According to the arrangement of Zhang Zihua, a secret contact point was set up in Xicheng to assist Zhang Zihua in his work.
The following year, Li Tiancai took the initiative to carry out underground activities. He organized students from Ningxia to take part in some revolutionary activities, and also established strongholds in Beiping Houmen Foreign Cars Trade Union and Dongcheng Gu Russian Business School to ensure smooth contact with Rao Shushi, head of North China Federation of Trade Unions, and his secretary. Sometimes, in order to cover his comrades-in-arms and avoid the enemy's pursuit, he often hides alone in ancient temples, behind statues and even in the coffin of Ji Gu Temple in the middle of the night, risking his life again and again and successfully completing the task. 1933 During June and July, Li Tiancai actively organized workers to hold various celebrations in Peiping to publicize the great victory of the anti-Japanese coalition of Chahar people led by patriotic generals such as Feng Yuxiang and Ji Hongchang, and to recover lost ground. Railway workers also held a general strike to prevent the Kuomintang troops from attacking Zhangjiakou, persist in resisting Japan and oppose surrender. In this activity, because Li Tiancai often appeared among the workers, he was very active, which attracted the attention of enemy agents and strengthened his surveillance.
In August and September of the same year, Li Tiancai was secretly arrested in Mentougou and sent to Tianjin prison for detention. In prison, he fought resolutely against the enemy with amazing perseverance. No matter what severe punishment, such as pulling out the tendon bed, ironing the nail bed barefoot, or what sugar-coated shells, such as high officials, money, and beautiful women, can shake his revolutionary will at all.
He also angrily questioned the enemy: "China workers love their country, oppose imperialist aggression, and defend national sovereignty and people's freedom. What crime? " "You traitors and traitors have committed heinous crimes for Japanese imperialism to suppress workers and oppress compatriots. The people will not forgive you, and one day you will be liquidated! "
The enemy couldn't do anything about this young man who didn't eat hard or eat soft, but he poured pepper water into his nostrils inhumanely, causing Li Tiancai to suffocate. He was only 24 when he died.