the Long March with the Central Red Army and served as political commissar of the Central 15th brigade, helped to collect food, funds and the whole supply work for the army during the Long March. In November 1935, the Long March reached the northern of Shaanxi province, he was appointed as the economy minister of the government and led the national economic Ministry to break the military blockade of Yan Xishan in Shanxi, helped to transport the cloth and cotton and organized workers to make cotton cloth for the army. In April 1937, he went to Shanghai to perform specific financial tasks. On September 17, 1942, Mao Zemin along with fellow communist Chen Tanqiu was arrested by the warlord Sheng Shicai, who had been working closely with the Soviet Union but then turned against them. In prison, Sheng Shicai used torture to force Zemin to confess to a Chinese Communist Party plot against the government and to force him to quit the Communist Party. He refused to yield and was executed. His son, Mao Yuanxin, was important in Mao's last years. Notes References "Confession of Mao Tse-min [Mao Zemin]", in Whiting (1958) pp. 287–290. Full-view Hathi Trust, "Mao Tse-min" many references. Further reading https://web.archive.org/web/20121108002053/http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-09/02/content_11982820.htm June 21, 2011(Chinese) https://web.archive.org/web/20120313112509/http://shuangbai.people.com.cn/GB/158065/9677905.html June 21, 2011(Chinese) June 21, 2011(Chinese) http://news.sina.com.cn/o/2011-04-04/062022235144.shtml June 21, 2011(Chinese) 1896 births 1943 deaths Mao Zedong family Politicians from Xiangtan People executed by the Republic of China Executed Republic of China people Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hunan 20th-century executions by China Executed people from Hunan