However, before the cause of Dai Li's death was clearly investigated, a major earthquake occurred within the army. In order to seek the dominance of the army, many people began to fight overtly and covertly.

On March 17, 1946, Dai Li was taking a special plane from Qingdao to Nanjing. Due to bad weather on the way, he crashed and died in Daishan, the western suburb of Nanjing.

However, the cause of Dai Li's death has not yet been clearly investigated. A major earthquake occurred within the military command . In order to seek the dominance of the military command, many people began to fight overtly and covertly. Now we look at it from a historical perspective and we all know that after Dai Li's death, Mao Renfeng became the successor of the military commander. However, it was not easy for Mao Renfeng to take this position at the time.

Just after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the country was about to face peace. As a spy agency, the military command naturally aroused dissatisfaction from all parties. Representatives of the Communist Party of China also proposed in the peace talks that they wanted the Kuomintang authorities to abolish the spy agency, but Chiang Kai-shek wanted to keep this The secret service organization can also be said to be very painstaking. The Military Unification Bureau also followed Chiang Kai-shek's wishes and merged the subordinate Loyalty and National Salvation Army, the Rangers, and the Military Commission's Unified Water and Land Transportation Inspection Office into the Traffic Police General Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, and unified the supernumerary special agents into the Traffic Police Corps.

Chiang Kai-shek

After Dai Li's death, Chiang Kai-shek was even more eager to find someone who could succeed Dai Li.

With Mao Renfeng's qualifications, he does not have an advantage among the candidates for the director of the Military Command Bureau. Although he was admitted to the fourth grade of Huangpu in his early years, he dropped out of school due to illness not long after entering. Therefore, he is not from Huangpu. In addition, he is not from Huangpu. He was not the main backbone of the Fuxing Society, the predecessor of military unification. More importantly, Mao Renfeng had never done front-line work in the military unification.

Although Mao Renfeng has too many disadvantages when competing for the position of director of the Military Command Bureau, he also has an advantage, which is that he can endure. In the past, it was precisely because of this that his status in the military system rose rapidly.

After Dai Li's death, the military command was in chaos. Mao Renfeng knew very well that although he was the acting chief secretary who had long assisted Director Dai Li in his work, he could not clean up such a mess by himself, so he took the initiative to suggest to Chiang Kai-shek that he should choose Zheng Jiemin is the director of the Military Unification Bureau, because although Mao Renfeng is the acting chief secretary, the real chief secretary of the Military Unification Bureau is the veteran Zheng Jiemin. Zheng Jiemin is not only a graduate of the second phase of Huangpu, but also the 13th Taibao of Fuxing Society, the predecessor of the military unification. one.

Although Zheng Jiemin has held a high position in the military command for a long time, in fact he is not interested in running this spy organization. In the past, when he was the director secretary of the military command bureau, he could not bear to obey Dai Liguan, who was junior to him, so he After being absent for a long time, even though Dai Li had died and he took over as the director of the Military Command Bureau, Zheng Jiemin still didn't want to get involved in this matter. A few days after being sworn in in Chongqing, he ran back to Peking . After Zheng Jiemin left, he recommended Tang Zong as acting director of the Military Command Bureau.

Tang Zong

Tang Zong was not stupid at all. He knew that Zheng Jiemin pushed him out just to offend people, so he simply ignored him. In this way, the power of the Military Command finally fell into Mao Renfeng's hands. .

Although Mao Renfeng did seize the power of the military commander, within the military commander at that time, there was a power struggle between the Hunan faction headed by Tang Zong, the Guangdong faction headed by Zheng Jiemin, and the Zhejiang faction headed by Mao Renfeng It's very intense.

In August 1946, the Military Commission reorganized the Ministry of National Defense, and the Bureau of Military Control was officially renamed the Secret Service of the Ministry of National Defense. Its public secret service department was merged with the Second Office of the Military Command Department of the Military Commission to form the Second Office of the Ministry of National Defense, with Zheng Jiemin as director, and the secret core The Ministry of Defense Secrecy Bureau was formed, with Mao Renfeng as the director. When the Kuomintang authorities were at the end of their rope, Mao Renfeng had committed many massacres and massive destructions, which could be said to be a heavy debt of blood.

On October 13, 1949, after Mao Renfeng arranged a spy lurk in Kunming, he flew to Taiwan afterwards.

Mao Renfeng has a huge spy organization in his hands. He originally wanted to flex his muscles, but after arriving in Taiwan, he was surprised to find that there was an opponent standing in front of him: Jiang Jingguo.

Chiang Ching-kuo

Chiang Kai-shek spared no effort in cultivating Chiang Ching-kuo. In January 1949, just before Chiang Kai-shek announced his resignation, Chiang Ching-kuo took office as chairman of the Kuomintang Taiwan Provincial Party Committee to prepare for the relocation of the Kuomintang ruling group to Taiwan. In addition, Chiang Kai-shek was well aware of the importance of intelligence work in the past several political turmoils, so he was especially prepared to let Chiang Ching-kuo take control of the intelligence governance system.

Chiang Ching-kuo also knew very well that when the Kuomintang authorities retreated from Taiwan, in addition to strengthening Taiwan's military defense, the most important thing was to master agents and intelligence work. At that time, Mao Renfeng was responsible for these two tasks.

Although he had buried the idea of ​​​​bringing down Mao Renfeng deep in his heart, Jiang Jingguo did not act rashly. Instead, he found the backbone of the Fuxing Society, Zheng Jiemin, who was brought down by Mao Renfeng. Zheng Jiemin was originally a lover. As a veteran of political work, he suggested that Chiang Ching-kuo should set up training classes while retraining the cadres of the two bureaus for "confidentiality" and "internal transfer", and wait for a suitable opportunity to mix the personnel of the two bureaus. Chiang Ching-kuo had previously run the "Central Cadre School" ”, I am no stranger to this whole process.

Mao Renfeng's Secret Bureau, Peng MengjiTaiwan Intelligence Office, as well as Chiang Ching-kuo's Political Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense and the Political Action Committee were all intelligence and governance agencies that Chiang Kai-shek trusted and relied heavily on at the time. However, Peng Mengji's Taiwan Intelligence Office was originally from Chiang Ching-kuo's group. As a result, Mao Renfeng felt even more that he was becoming more and more isolated.

Mao Renfeng was originally the best at assessing the situation. If he still couldn't see Chiang Kai-shek's intentions at this point, then all these years would have been in vain. However, Mao Renfeng could not give up the power he had, so he started an open and secret fight with Chiang Ching-kuo.

Mao Renfeng

Through investigation, Jiang Jingguo discovered that an intelligence officer under the Secrecy Bureau was reselling gold, so after an investigation, he sent someone to execute the intelligence officer. Originally it was only a minor matter, but during the handling of the case There were mistakes and an unjust case was made. This matter was later seized upon by Mao Renfeng. Not only did he write a report and submit it directly to Chiang Kai-shek, he also encouraged some people who did not know the truth to demonstrate in the streets.

However, Chiang Kai-shek only criticized his son lightly and did not give him severe punishment, which made Mao Renfeng very unhappy.

Although Chiang Ching-kuo had Chiang Kai-shek as a shield, he also knew that if Mao Renfeng was not dealt with in time, he would be a disaster in the future, so he went around to win over the backbone of the Secrecy Bureau, and even recruited Ye Xiangzhi, director of the Second Division of the Secrecy Bureau. Ye Xiangzhi , Mao Renfeng Renfeng was very dissatisfied with Jiang Jingguo's behavior, and at the same time hated Ye Xiangzhi's betrayal. Through investigation, he found that Ye Xiangzhi had blackmailed wealthy businessmen and extorted 170 gold bars. Therefore, Mao Renfeng reported the matter while preparing to " "Family Rules" dealt with Ye Xiangzhi.

Ye Xiangzhi was also very straightforward and could not tolerate Mao Renfeng. He simply turned to Chiang Ching-kuo. Mao Renfeng simply reported to Chiang Kai-shek all about Ye Xiang's corruption and Chiang Ching-kuo's protection of Ye Xiang.

Originally, according to Mao Renfeng's idea, he hoped that Chiang Kai-shek could follow the thunderous methods used in Mao Bangchu's case. This would not only deal with the betrayal Ye Xiangzhi, but also knock the mountain to shake the tiger and warn Chiang Ching-kuo. But what he didn't expect was that Chiang Kai-shek was determined to protect him. Son, he even scolded Mao Renfeng.

Chiang Kai-shek

Mao Renfeng was completely confused at this time. From being cautious in the early years to openly challenging Chiang Ching-kuo now, his path has gone further and further. At this time, the appearance of two more people completely pushed Mao Renfeng into the abyss of destruction.

Captain and deputy captain of the Technical Corps of the Ministry of National Defense Du Changcheng and Hu Lingying had been favored by Mao Renfeng in his early years and were his die-hard confidants. During the Chinese New Year and holidays, the two of them often visited Mao Renfeng. Du Changcheng and Hu Lingying and Hu Lingying were not clean at first. During the exercise, they fabricated the budget, sold military supplies on the black market, and obtained gold. Jiang Jingguo, under the guidance of Ye Xiangzhi, successfully linked the corruption case of the two to Mao Renfeng. hook.

When Chiang Ching-kuo reported to Chiang Kai-shek, it was originally just a corruption case involving Du Changcheng and Hu Lingying, but suddenly there were many more stories. The report said that the two of them were dissatisfied with his integration and reorganization of Taiwan's secret service and intelligence agencies, and were connived by Mao Renfeng. , in order to cover up the crime of corruption and division, intending to kidnap Chiang Ching-kuo and force Chiang Ching-kuo to stop coveting intelligence agencies such as the Bureau of Secrecy.

Faced with such a report, Chiang Kai-shek immediately made the decision to shoot Du Changcheng and Hu Lingying and close the case as soon as possible. In fact, it was equivalent to announcing the end of Mao Renfeng's political life.

Chiang Kai-shek quickly closed the case without pursuing Mao Renfeng. On the surface, it seemed that he was protecting Mao Renfeng, but in fact, Chiang Kai-shek's move was tantamount to confirming the case. Mao Renfeng They were preparing to kidnap Chiang Ching-kuo, and Chiang Kai-shek personally came forward to defend him.

Mao Renfeng was inexplicably involved in a kidnapping case, and the kidnapper was Chiang Ching-kuo. No matter how he defended himself at this time, it was actually of no avail and he had to repent and admit defeat.

Mao Renfeng

Shortly after the Kashmir Princess incident, Chiang Ching-kuo began to vigorously reorganize the Secrecy Bureau and separated its operational and intelligence responsibilities.

In July 1954, Peng Mengji, one of the troika of Taiwan's secret service intelligence system, was also transferred to Deputy Chief of Staff of the National Army Staff Headquarters, transferring all intelligence and governance powers to Chiang Ching-kuo.

By 1955, the Secrecy Bureau was changed to the Intelligence Bureau, which was no longer responsible for espionage and security, and was subordinate to the National Defense Ministry of the Kuomintang. Mao Renfeng served as the first director of the Intelligence Bureau of the National Defense Ministry of the Kuomintang, and his military rank was promoted to Army Lieutenant General. However, Mao Renfeng basically had no real power in his hands at this time.

In the twilight years of his life, Mao Renfeng could be said to be desolate in front of the house. More importantly, Mao Renfeng, who had lost the power in his hands, was in panic all day long, for fear that one day a butcher's knife would be hanging from his neck, causing him to lose weight day by day. , The whole person's mental state became worse and worse. By 1956, Mao Renfeng had a poor appetite, vomited all day, and had pain under his ribs. At that time, his family persuaded him to go to the hospital, but Mao Renfeng Feng relied on his youth and strength, and refused to go to the hospital to see a doctor.

It was not until his condition worsened that Mao Renfeng had to go to the Taiwan Military General Hospital for examination. The result was diagnosed as liver cancer . The doctor concluded that he would not live for more than half a year. Mao Renfeng was shocked. He had been used to seeing life and death all his life, but in his later years he suddenly cherished his life. He quickly followed the doctor's advice and was hospitalized. Later, he had an operation in the United States. However, no matter how he was treated, Mao Renfeng's condition remained Getting worse day by day.

On October 14, 1956, just three days after Mao Renfeng came back from the United States, her condition worsened. After being sent to the hospital for treatment, the doctor concluded that Mao Renfeng was already terminally ill, and his liver and lung functions had entered a state of failure and could not be treated. , at 11 o'clock that night, Mao Renfeng died of liver cancer in the hospital at the age of 58.