Career
He was the father of Zeng Qinghong, Vice President of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2008. Zeng backed Mao Zedong in the Jiangxi Soviet confrontation with Li Lisan, and was at one point Chairman of the Chinese Soviet Republic government. He was a key player in the violent 1931 purge of the so-called Anti-Bolshivik Corps.
Zeng did not participate in the Long March, but rather stayed behind to command a small guerrilla unit on the Guangdong-Guangxi border.
He served a Minister of Internal Affairs (ie, security) from 1960 to October 1969.