In 1948, Liu Bocheng's army won a complete victory in the Battle of Xiangfan and captured Kang Ze, a senior leader of the Kuomintang. Even Chairman Mao, in "On the Ten Major Relationships" published in 1957, ranked Kang Ze alongside the last emperor Pu Yi, which shows this person

In 1948, Liu Bocheng's army won a complete victory in the Battle of Xiangfan and captured the senior leader of the Kuomintang Kangze.

Kang Ze is a well-known agent within the Kuomintang. His status in the Kuomintang is very high, and he is even more notorious as the spy leader. Chiang Kai-shek 's intelligence agency, the China Renaissance Society, was founded and run by Kang Ze. Countless comrades died at his hands.

Even Chairman Mao, in "On the Ten Major Relationships" published in 1957, ranked Kang Ze with the last emperor Puyi , which shows this person's status.

Chairman Mao

But he was such an enemy who had a blood feud with our party. After he was captured, Chairman Mao's reaction was beyond everyone's expectations. Chairman Mao firmly said: "You can't kill him. Send him to me immediately." Come!"

So why didn't Chairman Mao kill Kang Ze? And why compare Kangze and Puyi together? What will be Kangze's subsequent ending?

Admiration of Chiang Kai-shek

Kang Ze's original name was Kang Daibin, with the courtesy name Zhaomin. He was born in 1904 in Laifengchang, Anyue County, Sichuan Province.

Kangze

His family conditions were very poor. His father Kangli was a butcher and could not make much money, so Kangze relied on the support of his relatives Kang Jihong and teacher Liu Zhuoan to complete his studies.

Because of this, Kang Ze knew that reading is hard-won and can change a person's destiny. From then on, he worked hard and became famous for his diligence in studying and reading. This quality of his was appreciated by a person in the future. This person is Chiang Kai-shek.

In 1925, Kang Ze became a member of the third class of Huangpu Military Academy with excellent results. During his study, he heard some legendary stories about Wang Jingwei, and he developed a good impression of Wang Jingwei. Wang Jingwei often called him "Wang Ze" "proclaimed himself, so he chose to learn from Wang Jingwei and changed his name to Kang Ze. He also learned from Wang Jingwei's ability to give speeches without reading the manuscript, and was laughed at by his classmates as "Wang Jingwei is second."

Wang Jingwei

Kangze still studied hard during school. On an ordinary weekend, Kangze continued to study in the classroom as usual.

Weekends are rest days. Most students choose to relax and go around. However, Kang Ze has been working hard. Even on weekends, he has to study in the classroom. What he read that day was Chiang Kai-shek's speech.

On that day, Chiang Kai-shek came to the school to handle some matters. When he passed by the classroom, he happened to see Kang Ze who was immersed in studying here.

Chiang Kai-shek

Kang Ze's serious attitude greatly moved Chiang Kai-shek, so he walked into the classroom and asked: "Classmate, what is your name, why don't you have a rest today?"

Kang Ze quickly stood up, ready to answer. After the principal's words, the adjutant on the side took over and said: "This classmate is called Kang Ze. He has always been very serious in his studies. He comes to the classroom to study every weekend!"

After hearing this, Chiang Kai-shek smiled and nodded, and then After leaving the classroom... Kang Ze only met the principal once, but he didn't expect that the principal would be deeply impressed by him!

Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow

Not long after, Kangze received a notice from the school: Kangze was sent to study abroad at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow.

Kang Ze was very excited after receiving the notice. He knew very well that this must be what Principal Jiang meant. From then on, Kang Ze was full of admiration for Chiang Kai-shek, and the passion in his chest gradually became Personal worship of Chiang Kai-shek.

Firmly supports Chiang Kai-shek

In August 1926, after Kangze was sent to the Soviet Union to study, he came into contact with the ideas of communism. However, Kangze did not agree with the ideas of communism. He believed that Marx's words could not save China, but instead strongly supported them. Chiang Kai-shek, just because Chiang Kai-shek was kind to him.

Chiang Kai-shek

Therefore, Kang Ze was an "alien" in the eyes of his classmates in school. Although he was in the Soviet Union, he was firmly anti-Soviet and anti-communist. He and He Zhonghan established a right-wing organization to compete with his left-wing classmates.

It can be said that Kang Ze's factionalism is quite serious. He formed gangs with these classmates. If they were not in the same faction, they would exclude him. In the future, these classmates also became Kang Ze's cronies.

At that time, Kang Ze went to the Soviet Union with one of his seniors, named Shao Lizi. Shao Lizi is a very outstanding educator in our country. He strongly supports communism and insists on cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. He also serves as the secretary-general of the Whampoa Military Academy and can be regarded as Kang Ze's teacher.

Shao Lizi

The classmate who dated Shao Lizi was named Fu Xuewen. She was a female middle school hero and a communist fighter.

Once, Chinese students studying in Moscow decided to hold a party. Although Kang Ze was a rightist, the students attending the party did not think much and invited him too.

At the party that night, most of the attendees were classmates who believed in Marxism, but they did not reject Kang Ze.

Kang Ze is a person who doesn't like to talk and keeps his thoughts in his heart, so he was smiling and smiling that night, making him look particularly low-key.

Fu Xuewen

In the middle of the banquet, Shao Lizi's wife Fu Xuewen picked up the wine glass and said to the classmates below: "I plan to use Shao Lizi's relationship to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek when I return to China!" These words made Kang Ze's back shiver, how could he How about enduring the assassination of his most respected principal?

So when the banquet came to an end, Kang Ze approached Fu Xuewen and said, "The banquet was too chaotic just now. Can you write down what you just said?" Fu Xuewen, a simple man, didn't think much, really thinking that Kang Ze didn't hear clearly. , so I picked up a pen and paper and wrote down these remarks.

The result is here in black and white, Fu Xuewen is doomed! After returning to China, Fu Xuewen and Shao Lizi were immediately ostracized and persecuted by the Kuomintang. In the end, Shao Lizi had no choice but to quit the Communist Party due to the situation; while Fu Xuewen went to northern Shaanxi to engage in the education industry.

Shao Lizi

As for Kang Ze, he was recognized by Chiang Kai-shek because of his carefulness and alertness. In October 1927, after Kang Ze returned to China, Chiang Kai-shek asked him to serve as the instructor of the Central Party School. After that, Kang Ze was transferred to General Headquarters, serving as attendant staff officer.

These experiences were not enough to make Kang Ze famous and become a popular person around Chiang Kai-shek; and Kang Ze did not learn anything in Moscow. Soon after, an important resolution was proposed by Kang Ze, and from then on he became Chiang Kai-shek. confidant.

suggested the establishment of Renaissance Society

While studying in Moscow, Kangze noticed the Soviet intelligence organization " GPU ". He believed that if the Kuomintang wanted to awaken the party and completely eliminate communists, it must also follow suit and establish a similar organization. GPU organization.

GBPU

In 1931, with the support of Chiang Kai-shek, Kang Ze followed the example of the Nazi Germany SS and established the Nanchang Camp Ranger Corps, with himself serving as the captain of the major general. In order not to disappoint Chiang Kai-shek, Kang Ze actively launched an operation to encircle, suppress and arrest Communists in the Jiangxi revolutionary base area.

His Rangers went deep into rural areas across Jiangxi and recorded everyone in the village. If anyone in the family did not come back in time, they would be taken away on charges of counterrevolution; he also restored the joint sitting system, as long as a family gave the Red Army If you send food, the other five families will be punished together, but if you expose each other, you will win a prize.

Under Kang Ze's cruel methods, many people were too afraid to give supplies to the Red Army. That period was the most difficult period for the Red Army.

Kangze

Chairman Mao later said in an interview with American reporter Snow: "The two main culprits in the destruction of the Soviet area were Chiang Kai-shek and Kangze! The farmers were absolutely devoted to Kangze. Unforgivable!"

In addition to arresting the Communist Party externally, Kang Ze also had extremely strict internal management.

He made a lot of rules. All team members must memorize the team's disciplines and strictly abide by them. They must also read books such as "Mein Kampf" and "Philosophy of Practice". If any team member dares to read other books, the consequences will be very serious. The tragedy!

Chiang Kai-shek, Kangze

Of course, Kangze's activities in Jiangxi were not always ruthless. He also established more than 2,000 medical stations, claiming to treat farmers' diseases and win back people's hearts. After two or three years of development, Kangze's The number of the Rangers in Jiangxi reached 24,000 at its peak!

Kang Ze's "achievement" caught the eye of Chiang Kai-shek. He expressed his affirmation of Kang Ze's ability. Kang Ze struck while the iron was hot and soon proposed another policy, which profoundly affected Chiang Kai-shek.

This policy was to establish the Fuxing Society. In early 1932, in order to strengthen Chiang Kai-shek's dominance and establish a tall image, Kang Ze and others jointly proposed to Chiang Kai-shek to establish a specialized intelligence organization to strengthen the internal management of the Kuomintang.

Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek was deeply convinced of this and convened a large number of backbones, including Kang Ze, He Zhonghan, Dai Li, to discuss the matter.

Kang Ze and Dai Li were called Chiang Kai-shek's "right-hand men", and Kang Ze became Chiang Kai-shek's "Thirteen Taibao".

On March 1, 1932, after some fierce discussions, the Chinese National Renaissance Society was officially established, and the name was proposed by Kang Ze himself.

Chiang Kai-shek

The Fuxing Society declared to the outside world: drive out Japanese pirates, revive China, equalize land rights, and complete the revolution. As a result, the slogan was put forward: to fight against the outside world, we must first pacify the inside, and to pacify the inside, we must first suppress the bandits. Taking fascist ideas as their guiding principle, they tried their best to create white terror in society and arrested communists in large numbers.

The Fuxing Society consists of three major systems. He Zhonghan is in charge of the political training system; the agent is in charge of the spy system; and Kang Ze is in charge of the Rangers system. From then on, Kang Ze and Dai Li were known as two important representatives of Chiang Kai-shek's intelligence system.

Member of the Fuxing Society

In 1937, Kangze's power reached its peak. Since Kangze tried his best to rescue Chiang Kai-shek during the Xi'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek directly made him the leader of the Fuxing Society in order to repay him. At that time, there were direct rumors within the Kuomintang that once Chiang Kai-shek abdicated, the person who would succeed him would be Kang Ze.

Can Kang Ze really become Chiang Kai-shek's successor? The answer is of course no. There is an old saying in China that "everything must be reversed when it reaches its extreme." After Kang Ze reached the peak of his power, he began to go downhill!

Medal of the Fuxing Society

Kangze Xiangyang Defeat

After Kangze became the head of the Fuxing Society, he became jealous of Chiang Kai-shek. Although Kangze was his student, Chiang Kai-shek could not let go of his students! He was afraid that Kang Ze would monopolize intelligence information, and it would be very possible for him to die in his hands in the end.

In addition, the cold relationship between Kangze and his colleagues is also an important factor. Kang Ze was never very happy or sad, and looked extremely cold to outsiders. On the surface, he was kind and gentle, but on the inside he was very vicious and liked to be suspicious of others.

Chiang Kai-shek

Many colleagues could not stand Kang Ze's cold treatment and lived in fear every day. Such days were unacceptable, so many people complained to Chiang Kai-shek and told Kang Ze's crimes.

Chiang Kai-shek also intended to get rid of Kang Ze, but there was no suitable excuse yet. Finally, after Chiang Ching-kuo returned to China, a suitable reason came.

In December 1937, Chiang Ching-kuo returned to China. Chiang Kai-shek had always regarded his son as his successor, but many people in the party felt that Kang Ze was also capable, so the conflict between the two was inevitable.

Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo

Soon, under the arrangement of Chiang Kai-shek, the Sanqingtuan League, an organization established by Kang Ze, was taken over by Chiang Ching-kuo. Perhaps Kang Ze was dazzled by power, and he actually spoke rudely to Chiang Ching-kuo, and the two had a feud.

Chiang Kai-shek took this as an excuse and directly removed Kang Ze and gave him a second-line sinecure. Then in 1945, Kang Ze was sent to the United States. From then on, Kang Ze completely lost power.

In March 1947, when the Kuomintang showed signs of retreat, Chiang Kai-shek hurriedly called Kang Ze back from the United States and made him a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang. He then transferred Kang Ze to the Xiangfan front line to supervise the war.

Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo

Kang Ze was very dissatisfied with this arrangement. Kang Ze himself had never led soldiers to fight, but Chiang Kai-shek arranged for him to be the commander-in-chief to resist Liu Bocheng's frontal troops. This was obviously to Go take the blame.

Although Kang Ze was dissatisfied, he had no choice, so after taking office, he tried his best to resist the People's Liberation Army's attack.

In order to win the battle, Kangze chose to do whatever it took. When the Kuomintang troops stationed in Fancheng heard that the People's Liberation Army was coming, they abandoned the city and fled.

Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping

Kang Ze heard about it and stopped the fleeing team and asked: "Why did you escape before the battle?"

The soldiers said: "We were scolded by the common people in Fancheng. After we left, the common people opened the city gates. , prepare to welcome the People's Liberation Army into the city!"

After hearing this, Kang Ze became furious and even ordered the use of yellow phosphorus bombs to kill the people in Fancheng! Yellow phosphorus bombs are poison gas bombs that are expressly prohibited, but Kang Ze, who was angry, ignored them and used yellow phosphorus bombs to kill ordinary people and a large number of People's Liberation Army!

Wang Jinshan

Kangze faced General Wang Jinshan, known as "Crazy King". Wang Jinshan's team fought extremely fiercely and captured Fancheng despite poisonous gas. Then Liu Bocheng's army aimed at Xiangyang.

In Kangze, Xiangyang, he sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek: "Determined to live and die with the city, in order to repay the party, state and principal!"

Then he continued to use yellow phosphorus bombs to resist the People's Liberation Army, but under the powerful offensive of our army, the Kuomintang team was overwhelmed With one blow, our soldiers rushed into the city despite the poisonous gas, and Xiangyang was liberated!

Liberation of Xiangyang

After the city of Xiangyang was defeated, Kang Ze knew that the end was over and decided to pretend to be dead among the dead in order to get through. Can he succeed?

Chairman Mao's decision

After Xiangyang was captured, Marshal Liu Bocheng said: "We must capture Kang Ze alive. If we cannot capture Kang Ze, this battle will not be considered a victory!"

Our army officers and soldiers also tried their best to search for Kang Ze in Xiangyang. , Kangze hid in an underground fortress, and several Kuomintang prisoners led our army to the underground fortress.

Capturing Kangze alive

When our soldiers arrived here, they saw many dead Kuomintang soldiers. One of them was Kangze, and his face was covered with blood. Is Kang Ze dead?

Our soldier used a knife to scare Kang Ze, but Kang Ze quickly jumped up and said that he was not dead. Then our soldiers asked: "Are you Kang Ze?"

As a result, Kang Ze refused to admit it and said, "I'm not, Kang Ze ran away long ago!"

Liu Bocheng

Although he spoke very hard, the prisoners underneath Everyone knew him, and everyone unanimously said: "This person is Kang Ze!"

In this way, Kang Ze was brought to Marshal Liu Bocheng by our soldiers. Marshal Liu Bocheng became extremely angry when he saw him and said: "You don't know how to use Do gas bombs violate international law ?"

Kang Ze quickly knelt down and kowtowed and said: "I am guilty, I am guilty!"

Liu Bocheng

Liu Bocheng then had Kang Ze pressed down, and then asked Chairman Mao for his opinion. Originally Everyone thought Chairman Mao would execute Kang Ze, after all, he had killed so many Communists, but Chairman Mao's reply was very surprising.

Chairman Mao wrote: "You must not kill this person. Send Kangze to North China, and send reliable armed forces and shackles him properly."

So why didn't Chairman Mao kill Kangze? He later gave the answer: Not killing them does not mean that they are not guilty of killing them, but it is disadvantageous to kill them.First, if you kill one, you have to kill two, and many heads will fall on the ground; second, if you kill someone, you cannot correct your mistakes; third, the international impact after killing will be negative; fourth, after killing, it will have a bad reputation of killing prisoners; fifth, it is against All counterrevolutionaries should be given a way out in life and given the opportunity to make a new start. Doing so will be beneficial to the people's cause and international influence.

Kangze

Later Chairman Mao added: Kangze confessed his crime thoroughly and confessed his crime deeply. The significance of reforming a spy chief is no less than reforming the last emperor.

It is said that Chairman Mao thought about the issue of Kang Ze for a whole night. It can be seen that Kang Ze is indeed hated, but he cannot be killed!

Soon after, Kang Ze was escorted to Chairman Mao. He admitted his mistake to Chairman Mao and accepted the punishment. However, Kang Ze was unwilling to admit that Chiang Kai-shek was guilty and still defended Chiang Kai-shek. He even said: "It is absolutely impossible for me to frame Principal Chiang!"

Chiang Kai-shek

At this time, Chiang Kai-shek believed that Kang Ze, as his favorite disciple, would definitely die for his country. He also wanted to take this opportunity to vigorously publicize the news of Kang Ze's death to intimidate the frontline soldiers.

Therefore, in the " Ta Kung Pao ", an article titled "Kangze was martyred in the Battle of Xiangyang, Deng Wenyi announced at the press conference" was published. In order to make the fake show come true, Chiang Kai-shek gave Kang Ze's wife and children 100,000 yuan gold yuan coupons in a decent manner, and then sent their family to Taiwan.

But Chiang Kai-shek's tricks could not hide the fact. The next day, " Xinhua Daily " reported that Kang Ze had been captured by the People's Liberation Army instead of dying in battle. Chiang Kai-shek's conspiracy was exposed.

Kangze

After Chiang Kai-shek learned that Kangze was captured, he was so anxious that he kept stamping his feet and lamented that the situation was over. In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek launched the mainland, and New China was established shortly after.

Gongdelin accepts reform

In 1949, Kangze was sent to "Gongdelin" to receive reform. When he was imprisoned, everyone in the prison attracted the attention of him. Kangze was one of the highest-ranking people here, and also The only member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang.

After being imprisoned, Kang Ze did not actively accept reform at first because he did not believe in Marxist theory. Every time people read Marx's works, Kang Ze either did not read them or became distracted.

Gong De Lin

Moreover, he felt that his official position was relatively high, so he often asked others to do work for him in prison as before.

Kang Ze's former subordinate Qiu Xingxiang disliked him very much. Because of Qiu Xingxiang's positive performance, he was appointed as the squad leader and was responsible for watching the meal at noon. He decided to take the opportunity to rectify Kang Ze.

Kang Ze was the first to cook once and scooped a large spoonful of meat sauce into his bowl. After reading this, Qiu Xingxiang was extremely angry and said, "Pour it back!" Then he took the bowl from Kang Ze's hand, poured the meat back, and gave Kang Ze an empty bowl, asking him to line up at the end.

Qiu Xingxiang

Kang Ze was a little annoyed and immediately said: "How come you are more powerful than the Communist Party?" Then the two quarreled, which also attracted the attention of the prison management staff.

In the end, the two were persuaded to reconcile. From then on, Kangze no longer disrespected others, but was cautious in everything.

In 1957, Chairman Mao felt that it was not enough to educate them with book knowledge, so he decided to let the war criminals' old friends visit them in order to influence the war criminals.

Shao Lizi

The people who came to visit Kang Ze were none other than Shao Lizi and Fu Xuewen. When Kang Ze saw his former teacher coming to persuade him, and then thinking about how he wanted to murder someone back then, he suddenly felt ashamed! At Shao Lizi's urging, Kang Ze decided to change his past.

Chairman Mao also allowed war criminals to be released from prison to visit socialist construction . Kang Ze followed the team to Beijing, Tianjin, Changchun, Shenyang and other places. After seeing the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, he was finally inspired!

Since then, Kang Ze has actively cooperated with the transformation and written more than 3,000 pages of articles, all of which are memories of Chiang Kai-shek.Since Kang Ze and Chiang Kai-shek had been together for many years and had mastered the core secrets, the articles written by Kang Ze had very high research value.

War Criminals Amnesty

In 1965, Kang Ze was pardoned by the country. On the day he was released from prison, he always thanked Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao's grace of not killing him allowed him to see the light of day again!

The news that he was pardoned also spread to Taiwan. After hearing that her husband was fine in the mainland, Kang Ze's family also let go of their worries and expressed their anger at Chiang Kai-shek's lies!

After being released from prison, Kang Ze served as a cultural and historical commissioner in the CPPCC and continued to provide a large amount of information about the Kuomintang. Two years later, Kang Ze died of a heart attack in Beijing and ended his life.