After the Xinhai Revolutionary Army launched the uprising in 1911, he returned to Shanxi Province to join the Xin Daining Public Corps (head of the continued Tongxi) as a coach.

In November of the same year, two thousand people from Xin Daining Public Corps attacked Datong through Ruyuekou in Fanshi County.

In 1912, the Xin Daining Public Corps was disbanded, and Zhao Chengshou re-entered the Qinghe Army First Preparatory School.

On November 16, Zhao Chengshou and Fu Zuoyi went to the front line of Jining District to command troops.

When Zhao Chengshou was continuing to expand the results, he was forced to relocate due to the defeat of the right-wing flat-sui line and returned to Northwest Shanxi in early 1938.

After learning of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Zhao Chengshou was sent to Yan'an and a welcome meeting was held.

Yan Xishan appointed Zhao Chengshou as commander-in-chief of the field army of the Taiyuan Suijing Office.

After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he worked in the Water Resources Ministry and died of natural causes in Beijing.