After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he helped Ye Ting to form the New Fourth Army as the Secretary-General. After the Southern Anhui Incident, he returned to the headquarters of the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu in the summer of 194 1.
1February, 942, decided by the Central China Bureau of the Communist Party of China, he was appointed as the director of Huaihai District Administrative Office and deputy secretary of Huaihai District Committee. Since then, he has forged an indissoluble bond with Huaiyin. After he took office, together with Jin Ming and Liu Zhen, he carefully analyzed the situation at that time and actively carried out the work of the party, government and army in Huaihai District. He later wrote in his memoirs: "The establishment of the anti-Japanese base area is mainly to consolidate and develop this base area and develop this anti-Japanese team. Consolidating the base areas is mainly to develop agricultural production and ensure that the army eats the people's meals. " "Therefore, it is necessary to improve the enthusiasm of farmers. The specific problem is to do a good job in the' Twelfth Five-Year Plan'. " He held this "bull's nose" tightly and made every effort to do this work with high revolutionary enthusiasm and rigorous scientific attitude. In the implementation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's document on land issues, the Regulations on the Collection of Public Grain and Grass for Salvation in Huaihai District and the Detailed Rules for the Classification of Fields in Huaihai District have been formulated successively, and a lot of publicity work has been done to ensure the smooth progress of rent reduction in Huaihai District and lay a solid foundation for the development of the base areas. In view of the fact that some local cadres in this area come from many landlord families, and some comrades are resistant to rent reduction and interest reduction, Li Yimang also published the article "The 25th Rent Reduction for the Education of a Class of Huaihai Party", which enabled the comrades in the Party to quickly unify their understanding.
In order to ensure the supply of rations and prevent our frontline troops from looking back in the tenacious struggle against Japan, Li Yimang proposed to set up a secret rations supply point every 40 miles in this area in view of the weak links in the supply of rations in the past, and the logistics personnel of the troops would take the rations nearby with the vouchers issued by the administrative office. In this way, it is not only convenient for troops to move lightly and quickly, but also close the relationship between the military and the people.
In finance, Li Yimang presided over the design and issuance of Huaihai coins. The currency circulating in the market before and after investment reached as much as 20 million yuan. At the same time, it is also arranged to exchange some grain for cloth and medicine to supply military supplies. In order to ensure the investment in spring ploughing and autumn planting and small-scale handicraft industry, Huaihai Administrative Office gives out tens of millions of yuan in currency to issue loans every year, and awards incentives for large-scale production. Li Yimang also personally wrote letters to model workers such as Lianshui Wang Fengshan and Simu Weide Wang, encouraging them to carry out labor competitions, which promoted the mass production movement and promoted the economic development of Huaihai District. In Huaihai District, 1942 collected about130,000 Jin of public grain, and 1944 reached more than 30 million Jin. The fruitful results of the large-scale production movement provided a strong guarantee for the supply of clothing, food and ammunition for the anti-Japanese troops in Huaihai area.
During his work in Huaihai District, Li Yimang took measures to promote the economic development of Huaihai District. On the one hand, he demanded hard work and simplicity, and never allowed party and government departments at all levels to invite guests to dinner casually, or even severely criticized the waste of paper. He conscientiously implements the spirit of "better troops and simpler administration" and never uses redundant staff.
During his tenure as director of the administrative office in Huaihai area, Li Yimang devoted himself to the political power construction, legal system construction and economic construction in Huaihai base area, and contributed his wisdom and talents. During this period, Huaihai Administrative Office successively promulgated a series of economic laws and regulations such as Policy Outline, Huaihai District Court Regulations and Public Security Regulations. Li Yimang also personally served as the president of the Huaihai District Court, which strengthened the rule of law.
With the close cooperation of Li Yimang, Jin Ming, Liu Zhen and others have also made great achievements in their work, especially in the struggle against "mopping up" and tenacious struggle, which has effectively promoted the development and growth of Huaihai base area. Li Yimang also left many poems during his work in Huaihai area. He wrote sincere elegies and mourning poems for Liu, Zhu Qixun and other heroically sacrificed subordinates. 1942 published the poem "July 7th" in Xinzhi magazine;
What is striking is that there are many old base areas in the suburbs, and guerrilla warfare has been going on for half a year.
Qin Shu snubbed the old poet and generously paid a lifetime's horseshoe.
In July, the clouds are still dark and the six ponds are green.
Don't cry about the scenery of the new pavilion, there are soldiers on the bee.
After more than three years of war in the North, there are ghosts in the South.
Xu Yang had no children in Huaihai, so it was difficult to annihilate the New Fourth Army in history.
Between the lines, not only the heroic spirit of resisting the enemy is vividly on the paper, but also his deep feelings for Huaiyin.
/kloc-in the winter of 0/945, Xia Re 'ai, the magistrate of Siyang County, invited Li Yimang to write an inscription to commemorate the soldiers killed in the Anti-Japanese War. Li Yimang named the cemetery "Love Garden" and wrote the inscription of the Fourth Uncle Anti-Japanese Martyrs Cemetery in parallel prose. Its conclusion is that "ghosts are also heroes, and the soul is loyal and strong, and things can be sad." If Guy had fought back earlier, he would have won. Today's turbulent enemy lines are not a peaceful village. Aren't today's martyrs construction cadres? "The feeling of sighing is like crying, which makes people feel deeper after reading it.
1in March, 944, Mao Zedong called on all cadres to study Guo Moruo's "Three Hundred Years Festival of Shen Jia" in Yan 'an. Based on this, Li Yimang created the drama Jiugong Mountain, which showed Li Zicheng's tragedy from gradual success to final failure, and organized the Huaihai Experimental Peking Opera Troupe to rehearse and perform. In the base areas where literary and artistic activities are extremely scarce, Jiugongshan's performance was warmly welcomed and produced quite a sensational effect. The troupe has been invited to perform in the military department and Yanfu base area for many times. Influenced by it, various counties in Huaihai District have also set up cultural and art troupes.
1943165438+10. In October, Li Yimang led the establishment of Huaihai Branch of Huhai Literature and Art Society, echoing the Huhai Literature and Art Society established by Chen Yi and others in Yanfu. Literature and art behind enemy lines in Huaihai District are unprecedentedly active.
1945 In the spring season, Comrade Li Yimang wrote a poem "Viewing the Exhibition" after watching the cultural performances in Huaihai District:
Peach, willow and green cauliflower are yellow, and the countryside is busy.
Rou Er firewood and singing, strangers on the flower field.
Described the grand occasion of the mass literary and artistic activities in the base area.
1July, 945, Yanfu and Huaihai merged into Subei Administrative Region, with Li Yimang as the chairman. Later, he loved the garden, feeling that War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory was just around the corner, and the anti-Japanese soldiers were buried underground. The scene was touching, so he wrote a poem "Love Garden":
What does the title of Love mean?
Cover the grass and argue irrationally to leave a stone wall, but also chase Hugh from the Huaihe River.
Ten thousand flowers will make the country rich, and people with lofty ideals will be more brave.
Wind and rain six ponds up and down, eight years often with the national sales mill.
Eight years of anti-Japanese war, a victory, during which bullets rained, running north and south, life and death were uncertain. From this well-known structure, we can see Li See's mind and ambition at that time. On September 6, 1945, the main force of the third division of the New Fourth Army and the local armed forces in northern Jiangsu completed the siege of Huaiyin City. Pan Ganchen, a former puppet army entrenched in the city, refused to surrender to our army. At 2 pm that day, all our troops launched a siege under unified command. In just 90 minutes, we wiped out 8000 enemies in the city. Li Yimang, director of Subei Administrative Office, and Wu Jue, Commissioner of Huaihai Office, acted with the troops. During the siege, Li Yimang and Wu Jue stood on the third floor of Zhonghua Hotel at Zhakou, watching soldiers from 28 regiments forcibly invade the East Gate. After entering the city, Li Yimang lived in a house in Anle Lane in the city.
The liberation of Huaihe River is an important victory in the history of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in northern Jiangsu. After the northern Jiangsu administrative office entered the city, the regime immediately entered an efficient operation. Issue a notice to protect the people and allocate 1.2 million Jin of grain to help the affected refugees. Subei Bank issued "anti-currency" interest-free loans of 65,438+10,000 yuan to poor vendors inside and outside the city. Huazhong Bank sent personnel to collect and exchange counterfeit money. Subei Public Security Bureau handles all kinds of cases day and night, and registers fake organizations and fake personnel. Subei Administrative Office has done a lot of fruitful work in restoring traffic and rectifying social order. In the meantime, Li Yimang also worked hard.
1945101On October 8th, more than 35,000 officers and men of the Third Division led by Huang Kecheng were ordered to make rapid progress to the northeast. Before he left, Li Yimang hosted a banquet for more than 65.438 million cadres above the third division in the name of the party and government leaders of Subei Administrative Region. Comrades who lived and fought together in the most difficult four years in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression once broke up, and the feeling of parting can be imagined. The banquet used local Gaogou Daqu in northern Jiangsu. Li Yimang often appeals to drinkers, and the cups and cups are staggered. Forty years later, Li Yimang wrote his memoirs and mentioned his lofty aspirations, still excited.
After the negotiations in Chongqing, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party signed the Double Tenth Agreement. Under the new situation, the Central China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China telegraphed the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China 1945 in Yan 'an on122, suggesting the establishment of the Central China Branch of the Communist Party of China, the Central China Military Region and the unified political power. 194510/KLOC-0 on October 24th, Liu Shaoqi, who had worked in Central China, revised the draft by Comrade Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and read it out by the Standing Committee of the Central Committee, and agreed to the plan of the Central China Bureau and Li Yimang as the main person in charge of administration.
1945, 10 year 10 On October 29th, the leaders of the four liberated areas in Central Jiangsu, Northern Jiangsu, Huainan and Huaibei held a joint meeting in Qingjiang City to discuss and decide to unify the administrative organs of the four liberated areas, set up the Jiangsu-Anhui Border Region Government, and jointly elect Li Yimang, director of the Northern Jiangsu Administrative Office, Liu Ruilong, Ji Fang, and Wei Wei, an educator. A total of 27 members of the Central China Party, Government and Army and a group of Democrats were elected as government members. Li Yimang was also appointed as the propaganda minister of the Central China branch of the Party, in charge of cultural and educational work.
From/kloc-0 stationed in Qingjiang River on June 6th, 945 to/kloc-0 evacuated on June 9th, 946, Li Yimang spent a whole year in Huaiyin (now Huai 'an). He was 42 years old when he was the chairman of the border region government, which was the golden age of his energy, experience and wisdom. Li Yimang runs the political power machine efficiently, and has set up 13 government departments and related institutions, such as departments, bureaus, high courts, border banks, etc., in a relatively short period of time, undertaking various missions of organizing the life, work and construction of 30 million people in Jiangsu and Anhui. Less than a year after its establishment, the Border Region Government has promulgated as many as 53 laws and regulations on politics, economy and culture. Remarkable achievements have been made in building water conservancy projects, repairing highways, developing production, prospering industry and commerce, and helping the poor in disaster relief.
Under the advocacy and organization of Li Yimang, many mass cultural academic groups such as Huazhong Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Journalists' Association, Poetry Association, Art Association, Social Science Association, Natural Science Association and Education Association have been established in the border area, and specialized schools such as Huazhong Jianda, Jiangsu-Anhui Education College, Subei Engineering College, Huazhong Medical College, Huazhong Journalism College and Finance and Economics Cadre School have been established in succession.
In order to develop the cultural and educational undertakings in the border areas, Comrade Li Yimang United a large number of well-known intellectuals such as A Ying, Huang Yuan, Lou Shiyi, Fan Changjiang and Yun Yiqun who were hired by China literary circles in the 1930s, making Qingjiang, a tiny place, gather talents for a while. At that time, under the financial difficulties of the border region government, Li Yimang personally decided to give more favorable treatment to cultural and educational personnel and create better working conditions for them, thus effectively promoting the vigorous development of cultural education and press and publication in the border region.
Li Yimang often personally wrote articles for the central China edition of Xinhua Daily, the organ newspaper of the border region government. On the Jianghuai Culture sponsored by the Central Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Li Yimang published the article "On Culture" in the journal.
1946 March 18, on the occasion of the 4th anniversary of the 82nd martyr's sacrifice in Liulaozhuang, Li Yimang personally wrote an elegy for the loyal soul who fought bravely against the Japanese aggressors:
From Shaanxi to northern Jiangsu, fame spread behind enemy lines;
From dawn to dusk, the whole company is working hard for Liu Zhuang.
The elegiac couplet inscribed by Comrade Li Yimang has always been the couplet of the 82 Martyrs Cemetery in Liulaozhuang, and it will always be engraved in the history of the Anti-Japanese War in northern Jiangsu. 1On April 23rd, 946, the border government held a rally of ten thousand people in South Park to commemorate the tragic deaths of Ye Ting, Deng Fa, Qin Bangxian and Wang Ruofei. Li Yimang made an impromptu speech during his mourning. There is an elegy cloud:
Struggle for the survival of the country, take justice into benevolence, and the world will be blessed;
Martyrdom for the nation, reporting death, mountains and rivers are full of sorrow.
In order to mourn the famous journalist Yang Zao who was killed by the Kuomintang spy, Li Yimang also published a poem "Mourning Yang Zao" in the second edition of Xinhua Daily on February 13, 946, expressing his hatred for the Kuomintang reactionaries and his deep affection for cultural figures. 1June, 945, the Kuomintang army brazenly tore up the agreement and launched a key attack on the Jiangsu-Anhui liberated area with all American equipment. At this critical moment, Li Yimang personally served as the director of the Self-Defense Preparedness Mobilization Bureau, mobilized and organized many former troops, and strongly supported the frontline troops.
In order to better annihilate the enemy's effective forces, our army decided to make a strategic evacuation from Huaibei. 1946 September19, Li Yimang and Tan Zhenlin reluctantly took a jeep around Huaiyin City, and the last batch bid farewell to Qingjiang City (now Huai 'an City), where the government of the Jiangsu-Anhui Border Region is located. Until March of 1947, Li Yimang still led a few government officials and some personnel of the public security bureau of the Jiangsu-Anhui border region government to fight in Huaiyin. During this period, Li Yimang was also ordered to form the Yellow River Brigade with more than 2,000 cadres from government agencies and relevant units in the border region, with Ji Yuting as the battalion chief, Xu Pingyu as the deputy battalion chief, Jiping Liu as the political commissar and Gao Dan as the deputy political commissar. There are 10 squadrons, all equipped with strong leaders. 1947 After the Yellow River Brigade was established in March, it was ordered to withdraw from Shandong in the north. Most of these people are intellectuals. This has preserved a number of important construction talents for the new China. After the founding of New China, Li Yimang has never forgotten Huaiyin and Huaiyin people. Leaders at all levels in Huaiyin, especially his old colleagues and veteran cadres, always ask about the life and economic development of Huaiyin people with great concern.
1958, when he was China's ambassador to Myanmar, he also sent a Swiss watch to the former Baoan Wang, asking about the living conditions of the people in Shuyang where Wang lived, and encouraging him to work hard and keep learning.
/kloc-In the late autumn of 0/979, Li Yimang, then the vice minister of the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee, came to his unforgettable hometown with his wife Wang Yi who fought with him and lived in Huaiyin. In the former site of the Jiangsu-Anhui Border Government, a snowy Li Yimang stands in the autumn wind, facing the ruined and solidified history, standing silently and feeling with emotion. He said to the accompanying Qingjiang (later changed to Huaiyin, now Huai 'an) Municipal Committee: "A stone tablet can be erected here as a memorial, and I will write an inscription." That night, Mr. and Mrs. Li Yimang were arranged to watch a traditional China drama performance at the People's Theatre. At the end of the drama, Li Yimang, who was interested in China's traditional drama, suddenly left and went back to his hotel. He faced the porch window for a long time, and the accompanying leaders were puzzled. In a short time, Comrade Li Yimang brainstormed and wrote an inscription on the former site of the Jiangsu-Anhui border region government in one breath; "1945, the victory of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the liberation of Huaibei, Huainan, Central Jiangsu and Northern Jiangsu four areas for the Jiangsu-Anhui border region, the establishment of political organs. Now the development of socialist construction needs to be demolished. This former site is commemorated by the Teli Monument in Qingjiang City. 1979 65438+ Li Yimang in February ". Shortly thereafter, Huaiyin Municipal Government will restore the former site and list it as a memorial site for revolutionary traditional education.
During my revisit to Huaiyin, I also visited Nanyuan, Ruofei Bridge (Qingjiangmen), Zhakou, Huajie and other places, and wrote a poem "Recalling Huaiyin" for Li, a painter I met that year:
Thirty years after the dream of Huaihai, Qinghe was bombarded by artillery.
Flying in the smoke, watching the edge of the windy city in spring.
Mulian has a new look. Oil, grain, rice and wheat are better than Jiangnan.
Will be more important than the original guest, carry water and get drunk.
His poem was written on the National Day of 1979. At that time, Li Yimang had just been released from the prison of the Gang of Four. What he is attached to is Huaiyin, and what he wants to express is his feelings of caring for each other and fighting together with Huaiyin people.
Li Yimang and his wife also visited the Love Garden in Siyang and the Xuefeng Cemetery in Sihong. 1 May, 9451Sunday wrote a couplet for Xuefeng Cemetery, changed a word, re-written it neatly, and presented it to the cemetery. This joint sentence is:
Half of the rivers and mountains are remembered, and the wind and rain of Huaihe River comfort the loyal soul.
It is particularly appropriate to change the loyal soul "hanging" in those days into the loyal soul "consolation" today.
Li Yimang and his wife Wang Yi visited Zhang Wei's old place, where Huaihai District is located, and talked with the old saying. In the tearful laughter, they talked about the old things in the hard years and relived the affection of Huaidian.
1987 At the beginning of this year, curator Gu Shuqing and I visited the memorial hall of the former site of the government of Li Yimang Su-Wan Border Region. An old man refused to accept the local products we brought him as a sign of respect. We were deeply impressed by his attitude of being strict with himself, observing party discipline and being strongly dissatisfied with social unhealthy trends. During the subsequent visit, Li Yimang said to the comrades in the memorial hall, "You should not publicize me personally, but the leadership of the party and the wisdom and strength of the collective." Every time I talk about Huaiyin, the hellhole where he once worked and fought, an old man's voice becomes soft. He said: "When the problem of food and clothing for Huaiyin people is solved, it is necessary to develop from industry and agriculture." Speaking of the history of the Anti-Japanese War in Huaiyin, as well as the topography, customs and customs of Huaiyin, this octogenarian is very excited.
In his later years, Mo Bao in Li Yimang is getting better and better. Huaiyin people often ask him to write for newspapers, magazines, cinemas and other places, but an old man always tries his best to satisfy him. He also wrote "Memories and Hope" for the 45th anniversary of the publication of Huaihai Daily, prefaced the book "Changfeng Sweeps War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's Hard Enemy", and wrote a banner for the Huaiyin Communist Youth League "Zhou Enlai's hometown goes to Beijing for photography, art and books".
1in the winter of 986, comrades of Huaiyin Party History Working Committee visited Li Yimang under the leadership of Li Hongmin, deputy secretary of the municipal party committee, and invited him to participate in the symposium of old comrades who had worked in Huaihai District. An old man who protects himself readily agrees. Old comrades refused to sit down when taking a group photo at the meeting. Li Yimang, who was revered as "protecting the public", said humorously and realistically: "Jin Ming and Yang Chun are the heroes who opened up Huaihai District, and they opened up the situation. They should sit down first. I'm late, so I'd better sit next to you. "
In his later years, Li Yimang still held several posts and needed a civil servant. With the consent of the organization, he entrusted Huaiyin city leaders to handle it. This also reflects his trust and feelings for Huaiyin people from one side.
1On June 29th, 990, when Qiao Shi, The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) of the Communist Party of China visited the memorial hall of the former site of the Jiangsu-Anhui Border Government, he saw the photos of Li Yimang as chairman and asked the comrades accompanying him to visit the memorial hall: "The memorial hall is unique. Have you reported to Li Lao? " The comrades accompanying the tour replied: "We reported to Li Lao. He said that we should not publicize individuals, but the leadership of the party and the masses." Qiao Shi said with a smile, "When you get to Beijing, report back to Li Lao."
1990165438+1At the end of October, the author and Xu Zhongning, who had been a civil servant beside Li Yimang for more than three years, went to visit Li Lao and prepared to report to him on the next work of the memorial hall. Who knows that Li Lao has been admitted to the Capital Hospital for treatment? Wang Yi advised us not to go to the hospital for a while. She said, "Come to Beijing again next time!" Who would have thought that on our way home, Li Yimang died on February 4th, 65438! It is too late to hate, and its pain is heavy.
Li Yimang pursues realism as well as books. The last words only called "an old man" and asked him to "scatter the ashes on the land of Huaiyin Plain". Li Yimang is infatuated with Huaiyin. He is familiar with and loves the rivers and villages in this land.
1991On April 27th, a MIG -8 military plane carried relatives, Li Hong, deputy secretary-general of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Jiang Guanghua, deputy secretary of the International Liaison Department, and Sun, deputy secretary of jiangsu provincial party committee, to escort their ashes over Huaiyin. Scattered in Lianshui, Siyang and Huai 'an (now Chuzhou District). On the same day 1: 20, it landed at Chengnan Stadium. Wang Yi, the party and government leader of Huaiyin City and his wife who arrived early, put the urn covered with party flag of China at night under the Taihu Rockery in the backyard of the former site of the Jiangsu-Anhui Border Region Government. On the stone of Taihu Lake, like a pen and a sword, there is an eye-catching regular script "The ashes of Comrade Li Yimang are scattered". Since then, Comrade Yimou has returned to the hot land, and he and the Huaiyin people depend on each other day and night.
1991September, the propaganda department of jiangsu provincial party committee agreed to the application report of the propaganda department of Huaiyin Municipal Committee for adding a Li Yimang showroom in the memorial hall of the former site of the government of the Jiangsu-Anhui border region. The people of Huaiyin will better receive the revolutionary traditional education in this revolutionary memorial place, and learn from Comrade Li Yimang's thorough materialism, the noble sentiments of communism and the integrity of an old man.