"Let him be a high-ranking official and fully infiltrate the pseudo-regime ."
This is the instruction given by Xu Jianguo's opponent's ace agent.
In 1939, Xu Jianguo went from Yan'an to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area and served as the Minister of Social Affairs of the Northern Bureau, holding the two major intelligence networks in Northeast and North China.
At this time, he had a famous ace agent named Li Shiyu. With his own ability, became a legislator of Wang Puppet regime in 1940.
The legislators have real power and their positions are not low. Li Shiyu felt a little uneasy sitting in the position of this big traitor.
So he asked his superior, He Songting, whether he wanted to further develop in the pseudo-regime.
He Songting did not dare to reply to Li Shiyu's questions without authorization, so he asked his wife Sun Jingyun to represent Li Shiyu, directly go to the central leader Xu Jianguo for instructions. So Xu Jianguo gave Sun Jingyun clear instructions that the bigger the "traitor" should be, the better.
Li Shiyu was only thirty-two years old when he became a legislator of the Wang Puppet Regime. He came from a poor family and had no background in the Puppet Regime. He was able to rise rapidly in the pseudo-regime because of his true talent and practical knowledge, as well as his extraordinary talent as an agent.
Li Shiyu is from Bayan County, Heilongjiang. His parents regarded him as the hope of the whole family and devoted all their efforts to provide him with education. He lived up to his family's hopes and was admitted to the public Peking University of Justice.
Li Shiyu was 22 years old when Northeast China fell in 1931. He joined the Communist Party of China in school, and also served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the "Volunteer Army" in Northeast China. After the failure of "
Volunteer Army", he returned to school to continue his studies. Li Dazhao's coffin was buried in All Nations Cemetery . He was one of the escorts pretending to be his family members.
After Li Shiyu graduated from university in 1934, the organization took into account his identity as a Northeastern and asked him to go undercover in the Northeast Army to prepare for the future all-out war of resistance.
Li Shiyu broke into the Northeastern Army through the relationship between the director of the security room of Zhang Xueliang's residence and his fellow villager. However, his position in the Northeast Army was not high. By the time of the Xi'an Incident in 1936, he was only a lieutenant clerk of the "Suppression General" in Xi'an.
After the "Xi'an Incident", the Northeast Army fell into chaos and disintegration, and the Anti-Japanese National United Front was initially formed. Organizationally, based on the new situation, decided to let Li Shiyu withdraw from the Northeast Army and work as an undercover agent in the Tianjin Kuomintang government.
Tianjin was the largest port in the north at that time. If the Japanese army launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, a large amount of supplies would be transferred through Tianjin.
Moreover, Tianjin is an important town connecting North China and Northeast China. Its geographical location is very important in the all-out war of resistance. The organization regards Li Shiyu as an elite agent, so he was given the task of working as an undercover agent in Tianjin.
Li Shiyu originally thought that after quitting the Northeastern Army, he could go to the front line to kill the Japanese army. He was sent to Tianjin as an undercover agent and felt a little disappointed. However, his firm party spirit still made him accept the task without hesitation.
When he arrived in Tianjin, Li Shiyu's eyes darkened. How could he break into the core institutions of the Tianjin Kuomintang government?
At this time, Li Shiyu's outstanding academic qualifications came into play. He quickly entered the Tianjin High Court with his political and legal expertise. On July 4, 1937, he became the secretary-general of the Tianjin High Court. As soon as
gained a foothold in Tianjin, Li Shiyu received two tasks arranged by his upline He Songting: delivered a batch of radio parts from the British Concession where he lived to a designated transfer station; and rescued the arrested underground party Feng Ji.
The first task seems simple, but in fact, in Tianjin, where the Japanese and puppets are closely scrutinizing, taking a radio station with an espionage symbol to the streets can be said to be thrilling at every step.
Li Shiyu thought twice and decided to get a pass for the Japanese secret service in the name of handling the case. After obtaining the pass, Li Shiyu packed the radio parts in three suitcases and transported them to his home in two batches to be hidden and kept by Sun Jingyun.
Then he took the opportunity to go to the concession for work, drove out of a court car, went to his home, picked up two suitcases containing radio parts, and took them to his office.
had a court car and a pass from the Japanese secret service. When Li Shiyu passed the Japanese and puppet checkpoint, he was not unpacked for inspection and successfully placed two boxes of radio parts in his office.
When transporting another suitcase, Li Shiyu was pressed for time and could not get the court car for a while, so he took the risk of transporting it by tricycle.
When he arrived at the Japanese and puppet checkpoint, the tricycle was stopped and was not allowed to pass. Fortunately, Li Shiyu had a pass from the Japanese secret service. The suitcase was still not opened for inspection. He brought the radio parts to the office again without any danger.
Li Shiyu then delivered all the radio components to the transfer station in time. He Songting was very satisfied with his ability to move.
The difficulty of rescuing underground party Feng Ji is much greater than delivering radio equipment. In the file of Feng Ji's case, there is conclusive evidence that he is an underground party. To "legally" rescue him, that evidence must be destroyed first.
Li Shiyu used a simple and direct method to quietly burn Feng Ji's files. After the clerk in charge of Feng Ji's case discovered that the files had been burned, he came to report to Li Shiyu in panic.
Li Shiyu scolded him harshly first, which scared the clerk into a cold sweat. Seeing that the heat was on, Li Shiyu pretended to be considerate, implying that Japanese aircraft had bombed the Tianjin High Court.
The clerk suddenly realized it and immediately wrote a report saying "Feng Ji's file was destroyed by the bombing of Japanese planes" and the matter of the file being burned was ignored.
Later, Li Shiyu took the opportunity to inspect the prison to meet with Feng Ji, and secretly told him to reverse the case. He refused to admit that he was a communist, and was said to be a communist. It was all because of the fight that he was framed by his enemies.
As soon as Feng Ji reversed the case, Li Shiyu acted from the side and acquitted him.
Completing these two tasks was just a small test for Li Shiyu, and soon he had the opportunity to become a senior agent.
In August 1939, Wang Jingwei planned to hold the "Sixth National Congress of the Kuomintang" in Shanghai to prepare for the establishment of a puppet regime. The organization believed that participating in the "Sixth National Congress" was a good opportunity to break into the top management of Wang Puppet, and decided to let Li Shiyu try to become a representative of the "Sixth National Congress".
Li Shiyu met Zhu Jing, the convener of the Northern Representative of the "Six Major Countries" through his connections with fellow villagers. Zhu Jing is an active figure in the Kuomintang reorganization faction. The main initiator of the reorganization faction is Chen Gongbo, who is already colluding with Wang Jingwei.
What Li Shiyu didn't expect was that as soon as he and Zhu Jing sat down, Zhu Jing looked at him with an air of "a hero does not ask where he came from" and said: "I am an undercover, working for the Institute of International Studies of the Ministry of National Defense of the Chongqing Government." Collect information."
told Li Shiyu his true identity. Zhu Jing then said that he would definitely make Li Shiyu a representative of the "Big Six" and discussed with Li Shiyu how to fill in Li Shiyu's resume more appropriately.
At this time, Zhu Jing didn't know what kind of hero Li Shiyu was, but he obviously knew that he didn't join the "Sixth National Congress" to become a traitor, so he tried his best to win him over to work as an undercover agent.
Li Shiyu naturally would not refuse to open up an additional intelligence line for the organization, and readily agreed to Zhu Jing.
After attending the Sixth National Congress, Li Shiyu was appointed as a member of the Tianjin Puppet Party Headquarters Executive Committee. Soon, when he went to Nanjing to report to Wang Jingwei about the "peace movement" in Tianjin, attracted Wang Jingwei's attention with a series of insightful views.
As soon as the Nanjing puppet regime was established in 1940, Wang Jingwei ordered Li Shiyu to be transferred to Nanjing to serve as a "legislator" of the "Nanjing Government".
It was this transfer order that made Li Shiyu uneasy. He had to get confirmation from the organization before he could take up the post with confidence. Sun Jingyun brought back the instructions from the senior leaders, and Li Shiyu started working freely in Nanjing.
In Nanjing, he gained the attention of Wang Jingwei and won many awards for his success. The Shanghai film company also used him as a prototype to make a movie praising "advanced figures".
In addition to being prosperous in Nanjing, Li Shiyu also used his status as a recommendation from the "reorganization faction" and his relationship with Chen Gongbo's female secretary who studied at Peking to win the favor of Chen Gongbo, the pseudo-Mayor of Shanghai. favor.
So starting from 1941, Li Shiyu, the "legislator", also held many important positions of real power.
He has held many official titles such as "Director of the Secretariat of the Shanghai Security Command", "Director of the Judicial Division", "Director of the Fourth Division of the Qingxiang Committee Shanghai Branch", "Captain of the Law Enforcement Team" and so on.
Utilizing these positions, he made important contributions to the Anti-Japanese War led by our party.
In 1941, the Japanese puppets launched a major sweep against the New Fourth Army. Li Shiyu handed over the raiding plan to the New Fourth Army in advance. Chen Yi After reading the "Qingxiang Plan" sent by Li Shiyu, which contained detailed contents such as troop deployment and march route, he said: "This information is at least equivalent to the strength of one division.".
holds a high position. In addition to providing intelligence, the value of senior agent Li Shiyu is also reflected in his influence on policy.
He "admonished" Chen Gongbo and used publications to guide middle intellectuals to support "peaceful founding of the country." Chen Gongbo adopted his opinions and authorized the founding of the "Pioneer" magazine.
Once this magazine was established, it became our party's base for protecting progressive books and concealing underground personnel. Many intelligence officers of the Central China Bureau used this magazine as a cover to carry out their activities.
Chen Gongbo appointed him as the director of the Military Law Department of the Shanghai Puppet Security Command. He introduced the policy of abolishing torture and acting in accordance with the law. He also established the "Human Rights Protection Association", which allowed many underground parties and progressive people to get out of prison from the policy level. Be free.
His newly established prevention department played a very good role in preventing criminal crimes and maintaining social order, which made the puppet regime and the people happy, and thus allowed him to implement a series of policies that were actually beneficial to the anti-Japanese war and also gained recognition from the Japanese puppets. .
Even if the traitors all believed that Li Shiyu was Chen Gongbo's confidant, he could not completely avoid the secret investigation of him by pseudo-spies.
The agent felt that Li Shiyu's clean and honest style did not match his identity as a traitor, and he became suspicious of him.
If you don’t care about wealth or sex, then why do you want to be a traitor? This is very abnormal. So one time, the agents found a reason to arrest Sun Jingyun, hoping to find out his true identity from Li Shiyu's wife.
The agent failed to hide Li Shiyu. With Li Shiyu's position, he complained to Chen Gongbo. Chen Gongbo immediately called and ordered the agent to release him. Li Shiyu and Sun Jingyun survived the crisis without any risk.
After Wang Jingwei died in 1944, Zhou Fohai succeeded Chen Gongbo as mayor of Shanghai. As soon as Zhou Fohai took office, he first had to clean up Chen Gongbo's people. Li Shiyu originally thought that he was Chen Gongbo's "confidant" and had already taken the initiative to apply for transfer.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Fohai felt that he had many good connections and rare talents, so he insisted on keeping him in Shanghai and let him serve as the judicial director of the Shanghai Puppet Police Station.
Zhou Fohai showed an appearance of wooing Li Shiyu, allowing him to report directly to his mansion , which gave Li Shiyu many opportunities to collect intelligence.
When Zhou Fohai was preparing to openly surrender to Chiang Kai-shek , Li Shiyu was appointed as the deputy director of the Military Law Department of the Shanghai Action Corps of the Military Commission.
At this time, our party's underground organization tried to instigate the Shanghai Navy Police to seize Shanghai. Unexpectedly, a pseudo-legion that had been instigated was reorganized and transferred out of Shanghai by the Kuomintang.
Li Shiyu sent intelligence in time, allowing this puppet army to be defeated by our army. The pseudo-tax police corps was annihilated by our army also thanks to Li Shiyu's intelligence.
Taking advantage of the chaotic situation, Li Shiyu also took risks and impersonated Fan Jiman, a senior adviser to the Kuomintang, to rescue a political commissar of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Guerrilla.
Before the Kuomintang entered Shanghai, Li Shiyu prepared to take off his disguise and return to the army. At this time, a lawyer he had cared for, Yu Xiangqin, found him and asked him to join the military.
Yu Xiangqin told Li Shiyu that he was actually the chief of the Shanghai Military Command Command Station, and Li Shiyu could follow him in the future.
When Li Shiyu paid attention to him, he realized that he had a hidden identity. But at this time Li Shiyu pretended to be surprised and expressed disrespect to him repeatedly.
Then Li Shiyu's expression darkened and he said that many people thought that he was a confidant of the traitor Chen Gongbo, and the military commander would definitely not tolerate him.
As soon as Yu Xiangqin heard this, he immediately stared at Li Shiyu connotatively and said : "You are not Chen Gongbo's confidant at all, you have always been my operator.". operators are members of the pseudo-regime developed by the military and are equivalent to informants of the military.
Li Shiyu understood this and immediately expressed his willingness to serve with "tears of gratitude". He then reported the situation to the organization, and the organization agreed that he would join the military and continue to work as an undercover agent. After
joined the army, Li Shiyu was appointed as the leader of the second team of the Shanghai District of the army. Utilizing his contacts in Shanghai for many years, Li Shiyu quickly achieved outstanding results in the army.
plus Yu Xiangqin, in order to make money for themselves, some did not publicize Li Shiyu's contribution to military unification during the Wang Puppet period, made Dai Li all favor Li Shiyu.
Once at a cocktail party held by the military commander, Dai Li specifically asked Yu Xiangqin: "Who is Li Shiyu? Let him come and have a drink with me."
Yu Xiangqin quickly introduced Li Shiyu to Dai Li.
Dai Li not only drank with Li Shiyu, but also praised Li Shiyu in front of all the military commanders. Li Shiyu was known as a good person in Wang's puppet government, and he was able to handle these situations with ease. When
heard Dai Li's praise, he immediately said that achieved these results because of Dai Li's leadership. This kind of "commercial mutual bragging" enhanced Dai Li's good impression of him and improved his status in the military command.
With Dai Li's endorsement, Li Shiyu gradually deepened his friendship with many military reunification agents, which allowed him to have a relatively comprehensive understanding of military reunification personnel, activities, and the situation of receiving Shanghai. This information is very important for our underground party to deal with the sabotage of military reunification. plays an important role.
The instructions and announcements delivered by Li Shiyu to various military reunification districts have helped underground parties avoid arrest many times. His role in military reunification has been highly recognized by the leaders of our party's intelligence department.
When his men uncover the underground party, Li Shiyu always risks being exposed to rescue his comrades. Once a spy reported to him the time and place of a meeting of an underground party organization.
After he quietly informed Sun Jingyun, he arranged for the arrest vigorously, but the military commander naturally failed.
However, military reunification agents are not fuel-efficient. Some agents dug up Li Shiyu's participation in progressive activities during his student days, and Sun Jingyun's experience of working for our party as an undercover agent.
This information was reported to Dai Li, which aroused Dai Li's vigilance. What Dai Li could not tolerate the most was undercover agents in the military command. He immediately found Li Guozhang, the then Inspector General of the Inspection Division of the Peking Police Command, to verify Li Shiyu's experience in Peking.
Didn’t know that Li Guozhang was also an underground party. He not only clarified Li Shiyu, but also sighed and said: "It turns out that the factional struggles within the military system have reached the point of killing each other."
On the one hand, Dai Li could not get the actual evidence that Li Shiyu was an undercover agent. On the one hand, the concept of face was at work, and he did not want to take down the person he was promoting and reduce his prestige, so he sent a telegram back to the spy who reported Li Shiyu: "...It must be investigated and re-verified in detail, and he cannot be arrested!"
The matter of Li Shiyu being an undercover agent was just Letting it go temporarily does not completely let it go. After Dai Li's death, the military commander immediately brought up the old matter again and decided to secretly arrest Li Shiyu.
When Shanghai Vice Mayor Liu Fangxiong asked Li Shiyu to go to his house to discuss matters, Li Shiyu was keenly aware that this act was more dangerous than good.
He told the driver that if he did not come out of Liu Fangxiong's house in an hour, the driver would go home and hide at the door for two or three days, telling visitors that he had been arrested.
The military commander had previously investigated Li Shiyu, and after the organization found out, his family had been transferred. At this time, he stepped into the dragon's den and had no worries at all.
As expected, the military commander arranged for the arrest at Liu Fangxiong's home. Li Shiyu was tortured after his arrest, but he refused to admit that he was an undercover agent. The military commander has no conclusive evidence and cannot deal with him immediately.
A few months later, the military command was changed to the Security Bureau . The internal disputes were in a mess. They didn't have time to pay attention to Li Shiyu's affairs anymore, so they imprisoned him in Tilanqiao Prison and ignored him.
After Li Zongren became the acting president in 1949, senior figures in the Kuomintang judiciary who were instigating rebellion from the Nanjing underground party worked to pass a decree on the release of political prisoners, and Li Zongren signed and agreed. Li Shiyu was also on the list of releases and was able to regain his freedom.
After being released from prison, Li Shiyu traveled to Peiping. After Comrade Liu Shaoqi personally received him, many veterans of the New Fourth Army learned that he was the famous senior agent "Eavesdropper" during the Anti-Japanese War.
From 1934 to 1946, Li Shiyu's undercover career lasted for twelve years. Including the days he spent in prison, he stayed in the enemy camp for a full fifteen years.
He is one of the most outstanding agents of our party’s northern intelligence network. On the surface, his experience as an agent is not as thrilling as in spy films, but in fact it is full of murderous intent. His achievements are no better than those of our party’s senior officers in spy films. Agents are inferior.
