Destiny is like a thread, and the thread penetrates into the soul
Chapter 1 "Handling"
This is the biggest strange thing that Xiao Shunde has ever encountered in his life: Director Tan of the Organization Department of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China made it very clear when he talked to him yesterday. , asked him to go to the Public Security Bureau of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government to enrich the leadership team of the Cadre Division. When he reported to the Municipal Bureau today with a letter of introduction from the Organization Department of the Municipal Party Committee, the deputy director of Yangfan met with him and said a few words. , this matter disappeared!
Speaking of Yangfan, he was a half-acquaintance with Xiao Shunde. After the Wannan Incident, when Yangfan served as the director of the Military Law Department of the New Fourth Army, Xiao Shunde was the company instructor of the military guard regiment. Although there is no direct working relationship, we see each other every day, and no matter what we do, we always look familiar. Xiao Shunde transferred from the position of director of the Political Department of the East China Military Region Teaching Corps to a local government. It was only after Yangfan personally called him to invite him that he decided to come to the Public Security Bureau.
However, when Xiao Shunde saw Yangfan today, Yangfan only exchanged a few polite greetings. When talking about work arrangements, he only said, "The organization of your specific job has not been decided yet. You can go to the 'hang office' first." ", even if it's over.
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When Xiao Shunde walked out of Yangfan's office, he felt as if a spoonful of paste had been poured into his head. After going downstairs, he stood in the large courtyard surrounded by the city bureau buildings, looking at the American jeeps coming in and out from time to time. He was a little at a loss.
Xiao Shunde is twenty-nine years old and has participated in the revolution for eleven years. He is from Pudong, Shanghai, and was born into a scholarly family in Zhoupu Town, Shanghai. He has been smart since he was a child. In the old days, the education sector implemented a "grade skipping" system for particularly outstanding students. Xiao Shunde skipped a grade once in primary school and junior high school. He completed the twelve academic years in only ten years, and then was admitted to Jiaotong University. At Jiaotong University, he came into contact with the underground party of the Communist Party of China. At that time, the anti-Japanese war was raging everywhere. Before he finished his freshman year, Xiao Shunde, who pretended to have progressive ideas, took a letter of introduction from the Shanghai underground party organization and went to southern Anhui to join the New Fourth Army.
The New Fourth Army is very particular about the arrangements for the enthusiastic young people who come to join the army. If they have previously joined the underground party or underground league organizations in the local area, it means that they have been tested by the revolutionary struggle and can be used as reliable elements. For example, in early 1939, Yang Fan, as a writer and journalist, organized and led the "Shanghai People's Condolence Troupe for Soldiers of the Third War Zone" to perform a condolence performance at the New Fourth Army headquarters in southern Anhui. After the performance, he stayed to join the New Fourth Army. Two years ago, he had joined the underground party of the Communist Party of China in Peking University, and was a student leader at Peking University. Therefore, as soon as he joined the army, he served as the political instructor of the cultural team of the New Fourth Army Teaching Corps, and was soon transferred to become deputy commander Xiang Ying. Secretary, and then promoted to Section Chief, Deputy Director, and Director of the Military Law Division. For people like Xiao Shunde, who has been in contact with the underground party for less than a year, has basically never done any work for the party, and is not from the proletariat, he has no choice but to work at the grassroots level. Xiao Shunde worked as a cultural instructor in the company and also fired guns. When the troops fought against Japanese devils, puppet troops, and bandits, he participated in the battle like a soldier.
Xiao Shunde has withstood this special test, and his fate is considered good. After experiencing the Wannan Incident, the Japanese army blocked the river before, and the Kuomintang army pursued him later, he was safe and sound. So he was appointed as the company instructor of the Guard Force. At that time, he had joined the party for more than a year.
company instructor is the most basic political worker of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and is usually the first step for political officers at all levels in our army. In the following seven years, Xiao Shunde was promoted from this level to the director of the political department of the East China Military Region Instruction Corps. . The teaching regiment is one level higher than other regiments in the army, so he was already a deputy brigade-level cadre at this time. There was a shortage of cadres at the time of liberation. It would be no problem for a deputy brigade-level cadre to be transferred to the Shanghai public security system and become a branch director. If he was in the bureau, it would be normal for him to be given the position of division chief. When talking to him yesterday, Director Tan of the Municipal Party Committee's Organization Department made it clear that Xiao Shunde was there to enrich the leadership team of the Municipal Bureau's Cadre Division, so, no matter what, he should be the deputy director.However, today, Deputy Director Yangfan said that the job position had not been decided yet and asked him to go to the "Suspended Office" first. This change was so sudden that Xiao Shunde was not mentally prepared!
He is engaged in political and ideological work, and has formed a professional habit of considering everything politically first, and now of course he has to consider it politically as well.
just thought about the beginning, stretched out a huge head from the second floor window, and shouted condescendingly with a Shandong accent: "Hey! Is there a Comrade Xiao Shunde in the yard below? Xiao Shunde!" Xiao Shunde raised his head towards that person Looking at it, he was immediately locked with the other person's eyes: "Is it you? Come to room 207." When
went upstairs, Xiao Shunde was still wondering, could the big head be the leader of the cadre department, waiting for him to report? When I arrived at the door of Room 207, I realized that I had guessed wrong. There was a piece of white paper taped to the maroon oak door with the word "Hanban" written on it. But at this moment, Xiao Shunde still didn't know which department of the Public Security Bureau the "hanging office" was.
Datou introduced himself and turned out to be Yang Zongjun, director of the "Xuan Office". This Director Yang is more interesting. He didn't forget to add a sentence at the end: "My head is relatively big, so the comrades gave me the nickname 'Yang Datou'." Xiao Shunde is a serious person, not good at joking, so he didn't answer After saying this, I nodded to the other three people in the office as a greeting, and then asked directly: "I'm sorry, I don't know what department our 'hang office' is. Can you introduce it to me?"
When he came out, everyone around him had a look of surprise on his face.
Yang Zongjun said: "Old Xiao, you haven't been to the cadre office yet? Director Yangfan's secretary called to say that you have arrived. I thought you had already been to the cadre office!" After he said this, Xiao Shunde realized I was so confused by the sudden turn of events that I even forgot to report to the cadre office. Yang Zongjun brought a newly brewed cup of tea in front of him and said there was no rush. He would have a cup of tea and a cigarette to take a break. After lunch, it would not be too late to report in in the afternoon. Xiao Shunde secretly wondered what these words were, and was there any organizational discipline? However, he still kept a smile on the surface and said that I should go to the cadre office first and complete all the registration procedures. With that said, he went out and left.
Returned to Office 207 again. Xiao Shunde already knew what department the "Hanban" was.
In the twenty-two years from 1927 to 1949, the underground party of the Communist Party of China suffered countless losses under the white terror of the Kuomintang. Due to restrictions, only some of the cases have been investigated, and most have become unsolved. However, the CCP has not forgotten these cases. As early as before the Anti-Japanese War, the CCP Central Committee expressed its attitude towards this in a document: Once the time is right, all cases will be thoroughly investigated and the masterminds and executors behind the scenes will be dug out. , even if they escape to the ends of the earth, they must be arrested one by one and brought to trial!
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China immediately began to implement the ideas in the central document of that year. The Ministry of Public Security of the Central People's Government and the People's Liberation Army and other relevant intelligence departments received a notice from the central government, requiring them to clean up the relevant materials in their possession and report them.
In early November 1949, the Ministry of Public Security of the Central People's Government and relevant central departments jointly issued a document to the public security intelligence departments under the East China Bureau, Northeast Bureau, North China Bureau, and Central South Bureau of , requesting that the incidents listed in the document be investigated. Investigate several unsolved unsolved cases in various historical stages of our party and army before the founding of the People's Republic of China. According to records, the above-mentioned central departments issued a total of thirteen batches of such documents in the nine years from November 1949 to October 1958. During this period, thousands of major historical unsolved cases were solved in various places.
Due to historical reasons, the central government distributes a relatively large number of cases to the East China Bureau for investigation, and within the jurisdiction of the East China Bureau, most of them are in Shanghai.After research, the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government decided to instruct the Shanghai Public Security Bureau to set up a temporary department to be responsible for this work. The name of this department is called "Historical Unsolved Case Investigation Office", or "Hanban" for short.
Just now, when introducing the "Hanging Office" to Xiao Shunde, Director Gu of the Cadre Department said: "Comrade Xiao Shunde, according to the decision of the Bureau Party Committee, you will be assigned to the "Hanging Office". Director Yang Zongjun will tell you what specific work you will do. "Xiao Shunde knew there was something wrong with this as soon as he heard it. According to Director Gu's introduction, the "Hanban Office" is only a temporary department, with the highest level being the regiment level. (It was later learned that when Director Yang Zongjun was transferred to Shanghai from Shandong two months ago, his position was only Qingdao City Director A branch director under the Public Security Bureau , deputy regiment level), and he is at the deputy brigade level. According to normal circumstances, even if he is assigned to be the head of the "hanging office", he still has to say "when talking to the organization" "I feel sorry for you", I said a few words of comfort, but Director Gu in front of me was not so polite, which meant that this time he went to the "Hanban", not to be an official, but to work.
As a result, Xiao Shunde felt as if his heart was blocked by something, and he was so depressed. Not only was he panicked, but he also had doubts: from yesterday when Director Tan of the Organization Department of the Municipal Party Committee told him to come to the Cadre Office of the Municipal Public Security Bureau to enrich the leadership team, to today when Director Gu of the Municipal Bureau of Cadres Office asked him to go to the "Handling Office" to listen to Yang Datou's arrangements. Not even twenty-four hours. The party's organizational work is an extremely serious matter. Once an organizational decision is made, it cannot be changed overnight. Unless there is a situation - you have a certain specialty, and a department suddenly has a vacancy due to some accident, and your specialty is just suitable to replace this vacancy, the organizational department will change its decision. Even in this case, the organizational department will symbolically ask for your opinion, or at least inform you in advance. Generally, such a sudden attack will not happen. Besides, Xiao Shunde thought, the "Suspended Office" is a department purely for investigating cases, but he has no expertise in investigation. Why would the organization transfer him here?
Of course, there is another possibility, that is, the organization discovers that a comrade who is about to be assigned to an important position has serious historical or current problems. Since the problem has not yet been identified, it is not suitable to be assigned to the original position. It was also inconvenient to assign him to other positions of the same level, so he was sent to a temporary department until the problem was clarified before making further plans. But Xiao Shunde thought about it and found that he had no historical or current problems. Although his family background is not working people, they are not landlords, capitalists, gang bullies, reactionary officers or the like. The headline number is: Sonar Research Institute. Moreover, not long after he went to southern Anhui to join the New Fourth Army, his family had already been involved in the Japanese army's attack on Pudong . Everyone was killed in a bombing, and the house was naturally in ruins. At this moment, he himself is considered a proletarian, and his social relations are simple and innocent. The above situation does not exist at all.
Despite this, Xiao Shunde secretly warned himself: You must believe in the organization. No matter what arrangements are made, it is decided collectively by the party committee. There must be a reason for such a decision, and you must do your best no matter what.
Seeing Xiao Shunde back, Yang Zongjun handed out a cigarette to everyone present, and the room suddenly filled with smoke. In the curling smoke, Yang Zongjun introduced two other comrades to Xiao Shunde—Huang Xiangming, deputy director of the "Xuan Office", and Xiao Xu, the back office and material clerk. Then, it came to the arrangements for Xiao Shunde: Among the cases assigned to the East China Bureau from Beijing this time, six were assigned to the Shanghai Public Security Bureau for investigation. According to the instructions of the bureau leaders, six special teams will be formed for "suspended handling" , each group is responsible for investigating a case; Xiao Shunde is the leader of the third task force.
Yang Zongjun did not ask for Xiao Shunde's opinion in a symbolic way, and without even looking at him, he continued: "The municipal bureau only has such a small space, and there is no room for the task force to use as an office, so we have to ask the people below. The branch has borrowed the office as its base. The third group is stationed at the North Station Branch. Lao Xiao, I will send a car to take you there in a moment."Although Xiao Shunde had warned himself just now, after hearing about this decision, he couldn't help but speak: "I must have seen the organization of my files, and I have never done any investigation work. Director Yang, look, in a situation like mine, can I lead a task force to solve historical unsolved cases? I know that as a party member, I should not bargain with the organization, but if I don’t make it clear to the leaders now, problems may arise after the investigation is officially launched. That is irresponsible to the revolutionary cause and a crime against the people. . "Yang Zongjun nodded frequently while listening, and the expression on his face seemed to reveal a little helplessness. After Xiao Shunde finished speaking, he winked at Huang Xiangming and Xiao Xu, and the two went out immediately.
Yang Zong Jun walked to Xiao Shunde and sighed softly: "Old Xiao, your work arrangements were handed down by the Municipal Bureau Party Committee, and I can't change them. I think the leader must know your experience, don’t you think so? You are an old comrade, you are older than me, you have more experience in revolutionary work than me, and you are much more capable, so I won’t make big claims. I believe that with your loyalty to the revolutionary cause, Lao Xiao, you will be qualified for the position of leader of the task force. "Xiao Shunde had nothing to say. At the same time, he thought to himself that this arrangement was strange. Is there any organizational intention? However, even if there was, he couldn't figure it out for a while. So don't think too much about it. Right now, Since he is asked to be the leader of the task force, how many members will he have in his team? Yang Zongjun told him that the "Hanban" has already selected the investigators and will notify them to report in the next two days. , but I haven't thought about how to assign them specifically. "How about this? The third group of companies you are responsible for has a total of six people. I will show you the list of all the investigators who will be transferred, and you can choose by yourself. "Xiao Shunde took the list and glanced through it. He found that his name was not on it, but the names of Yang Zongjun, Huang Xiangming and Xu Guangyi (Xiao Xu) were there. This shows that when the list was made, the organization had not decided yet. Let him be "suspended". The date at the end of the list is November 22, 1949, which is yesterday. From this point of view, the one that caused him to be demoted from the position of director or deputy director of the Cadre Department to "suspended" a task force. The decision was made just now.
In fact, it is meaningless to select people from a list that contains no other content except name and gender, but this was Yang Zongjun’s kindness, so Xiao Shunde ticked it off casually. Among them, there are two acquaintances: Zhuang Jingtian, Zhong Mengbai, Peng Qianli, Ma Qilin, and Li Yueliang. Among them, Xiaozhuang was once his subordinate. Xiao Shunde thought that sometimes a woman might need to come forward to investigate a case, so he chose her.
Yang Zongjun was very happy and said that these five people would report to the North Railway Station branch tomorrow morning.
This time, the Shandong guy was transferred to the "Suspended Office". Zhuang Jingtian was quite happy. Xiaozhuang was a tall man of 1.8 meters, 23 years old. He joined the army in 1947 and was a deputy platoon leader of the infantry regiment where Xiao Shunde served as the regiment's political commissar during the Shanghai Liberation Campaign. Later, the organization arranged for him to transfer to the Songshan Branch to become a plainclothes criminal police officer. This morning, he walked from his accommodation to the North Station Branch to report. Along the way, he was humming the hometown tune happily, but he didn't expect that he would be there soon. He was about to make a fool of himself in public.
When he arrived at a small intersection a stone's throw away from the North Railway Station branch, Zhuang Jingtian saw a group of people gathering in front of him, and a woman in her thirties was talking in a high voice. What. It sounds like this woman was bullied by the two young men standing in front of her. When she was queuing up to buy fried dough sticks at the dim sum shop across the street, she felt the bag on her shoulder move. When she looked down, she saw that the outside of it had been moved. She opened a hole and hurriedly opened it to check. Fortunately, it was not stolen. After she breathed a sigh of relief, she glanced at the young man behind her and grabbed her without saying a word. "Thief". The young man innocently argued that he had nothing to do with baggage, and even took the initiative to rummage through his pockets, finding out that there was no razor blade. The woman refused to give up, and did not buy the fried dough sticks. put.The owner of the snack shop came out and said if you two have any issues with each other, please move to another place to discuss it. I have to do business in front of my door. So, the woman grabbed the young man across the street and stopped at the corner to continue arguing.
Another young man appeared out of nowhere to support the previous one. When Zhuang Jingtian came over, the argument had escalated into a quarrel.
After Zhuang Jingtian understood what was going on, he separated from the crowd and squeezed into the middle. He said that if you three are so noisy, there will be no results. It is better to go to the branch and let the police solve it. This sentence set off a fire, and the two young men immediately pointed the finger at Zhuang Jingtian, cursing at him, with spittle flying straight into his face. Zhuang Jingtian got angry and grabbed the accomplice who came out later and said, I don’t think you are a good person. Maybe you are the one who made the mistake. How dare you turn your pockets inside out for everyone to see like he did? ?
later found out, and Zhuang Jingtian really said that these two were really accomplices in pickpocketing. After the former one was caught cutting the bag, he quickly transferred the blade to the latter one while the woman was checking whether she had lost anything. , the blade is hidden in his pocket at the moment. In this case, of course he would refuse to rummage through his pockets. Zhuang Jingtian was even more convinced that there must be a problem between the two of them, so he grabbed one of them with one hand and said, "You two, let's go to the branch to resolve this matter. It's not far, just in front." How could the other party be willing to go to the branch? The two struggled to free themselves, so they moved their hands.
Zhuang Jingtian was tall and powerful. He had practiced boxing when he was young, and received grappling training in the army. It was no problem to deal with such a little gangster one against two. The embarrassing scene for him happened after he knocked down the two pickpockets - he was about to turn the two pickpockets to the public security bureau when he suddenly felt something behind him and hurriedly stepped aside to let a thirty-five-year-old man pass. A sneak attack by a six-year-old man wearing a black leather jacket. The other party missed the sneak attack and seemed slightly stunned. Zhuang Jingtian counterattacked without saying a word, but he didn't know that he was playing into the opponent's hands. What he wanted was a close combat. Before Zhuang Jingtian understood what was going on, his arms were already entangled, and then he stumbled under his feet and fell down together with his opponent. Zhuang Jingtian didn't understand the opponent's downward moves even more. He didn't use fists and palms. He just used his flexible limbs to control his hand and foot joints like a snake wrapping around its prey during the rolling and wrestling. In the end, he was as fastened as nails to a wooden board. He was firmly "nailed" to the ground, facing up to the sky, unable to move!
"Leather Jacket" pressed Zhuang Jingtian with his body: "Tie his hands and feet!" Just as the two accomplices were about to take action, someone in the crowd shouted "The People's Liberation Army is coming." As soon as he finished speaking, "Leather Jacket" and two The pickpockets immediately dispersed, and Zhuang Jingtian was freed. When he got up and slapped the dust on his clothes in embarrassment, his eyes suddenly caught sight of a fair face wearing tortoiseshell glasses outside the crowd. He couldn't help but feel a thump in his heart, and thought to himself: Unlucky, how come he happened to see this? A "good show".
Not only did Bai Jinglian meet Zhuang Jingtian, his name had also been hooked up to the third task force - Zhong Mengbai by Xiao Shunde. Zhuang Jingtian complained: "Xiao Zhong, why are you so blind, and you didn't save me when you saw me in trouble!" Zhong Mengbai explained: "It's not that I didn't know, I didn't even recognize the person who was pressed to the ground and couldn't move. "Hey, I thought it was just a fight between gangsters!" "You have to stand up even if the gangsters are fighting! You are a glorious people's policeman. It is your responsibility to stop the street fight. I just got a "leather jacket". "Then you have suffered a loss, why don't you shout, 'I am a policeman'? If you shout, the onlookers will help you." Zhuang Jingtian disagreed: "Please note, I am a plainclothes policeman. Identity cannot be disclosed to the public. "I am also a plainclothes policeman!"
Zhong Mengbai is the same age as Zhuang Jingtian. Although he has not worn a military uniform, his experience is more complicated than Zhuang Jingtian. He is a native of Shanghai. He was admitted to the Chinese Language Department of Fudan University in 1946. He was exposed to progressive ideas at school and was developed into an underground league member in his sophomore year. In 1948, he was blacklisted by the Kuomintang authorities for drafting a leaflet for an "anti-hunger" march.Soon, insiders received information that Zhong Mengbai was among the names on the list of arrests made by Shanghai Police Chief and "Secret Bureau" agent Mao Sen from various universities in the city. The organization then informed Zhong Mengbai to "evacuate immediately." . According to the organizational arrangement, Zhong Mengbai immediately went to Pudong and crossed the sea from Fengxian to the Siming Mountain guerrillas in eastern Zhejiang.
At this time, the outcome of the armed struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was already very clear. The underground armed forces of the Communist Party of China in eastern Zhejiang attacked counties and towns from time to time, or eliminated enemy lords and bullies. Notices were prepared before each action, and were publicly posted and widely publicized after the action. Launch a political battle to gain traction. However, the guerrillas lacked talents in this area, so they often had to temporarily recruit local teachers, accountants and other pen-holders to write on their behalf, which was detrimental to confidentiality work. Therefore, Zhong Mengbai's arrival was regarded by the guerrilla leaders as a treasure dropped from the sky. Not only did they arrange for Xiao Zao, but they also sent four short-gun guards to guard him day and night.
Zhong Mengbai spent half a year in Simingshan . It was not a day when the leader was better than the leader. Because the Shanghai War was about to begin, he was ordered to return to Shanghai and hid in the countryside of Pudong to join the Shanghai underground party in welcoming the liberation. After the Battle of Shanghai started, Zhong Mengbai was ordered to assist the military in mass work in Sanguan Town, where the infantry regiment where Xiao Shunde served as political commissar was based. It was then that he met Zhuang Jingtian, then deputy platoon leader of the guard force. An enemy plane attacked Sanguan Town, and Zhong Mengbai was injured while rescuing a local girl who was helping in the field hospital. When he recovered from his injuries, Shanghai had been liberated. The organization assigned him to the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, where he first did paperwork in the secretarial department. Zhong Mengbai was used to the uncle-like life in Siming Mountain, and was not used to squatting in an office all day, so he strongly requested to work at the grassroots level. Two months ago, he was transferred to the Yimiao Branch to engage in intelligence, and he was also a plainclothes policeman. He had not contacted Zhuang Jingtian for many days, and the latter did not know that he had gone to the Yimiao branch.
The two of them walked to the door of the North Railway Station branch together, and then they realized that they were both going to the "Hanging Office" to report. Zhuang Jingtian said: "Brother Mengbai, when you were shot while trying to save that girl in Sanguan Town, it was I who carried you to the field hospital. The military doctor said it was fortunate that you were transported quickly, otherwise the person would have died due to excessive blood loss. I even gave you a blood transfusion at that time. So, you are the savior of the girl named Yu in Sanguan Town, and I am your savior." Zhong Mengbai looked at him in confusion: "You said. What do you mean? ""What I mean is that from now on, we are eating in the same pot, and you have to respect me just like you respect the leader--maybe I will be appointed as the leader of the task force or something. It's hard to say! I have served three times, and I am a platoon leader. I am a cadre, so the organization will not ignore it. "Zhong Mengbai reminded: "The deputy platoon leader is not a cadre." : "No matter what, the deputy platoon leader is in charge of more people than the task force leader. As a team leader, I am overqualified and demoted. Anyway, now that we work together, you have to listen to me in everything. Do you understand? That's good. , Leader Zhuang’s first order is: Don’t reveal the No. 1 secret to anyone!” Zhong Mengbai rolled his eyes at this statement; “What is the No. 1 secret?” “That’s what happened just now, I am. What a shame and humiliation. I have to practice martial arts hard and find that boy to avenge him! "
