1927, served as secretary of the Party branch of the village, member and secretary of Puyang County Committee of the Communist Party of China, and engaged in the peasant movement in Puyang, Neihuang and hua county. 1929 entered Daming No.7 Middle School Normal School. From the beginning of 1930 to 1933, he served as secretary of the CPC Puyang County Committee and the CPC Puyang Central County Committee, engaged in secret revolutionary work. 1932, organized and led the struggle of 65,438+10,000 salt people in Daming, Puyang, hua county and Daokou, and served as the chairman of Liangjiang Salt People's Federation. From April, 65438 to April, 0933, he served as the organization director of the CPC Zhinan Special Committee and the organization director of the Lu Yu Special Committee. In the winter of the same year, he led farmers in Puyang and hua county to fight floods and organized guerrillas to carry out armed struggle. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he organized anti-Japanese armed forces in Puyang and Neihuangbian, and concurrently served as the director of the pro-democracy movement department of the political department of the fourth detachment of local anti-Japanese armed forces. 1936, Yu Ziyuan was sent to work in southwest Shandong.