One day in September 1946, a 5-year-old boy was playing in an alley in Shanghai as usual. Suddenly, he found an acquaintance appeared in front of him...
This acquaintance is nothing else, it is Chinese Communist Party leader Zhou Enlai . Although the little boy is young, he has seen this elder many times before.
Zhou Enlai
So, the little boy shouted to Zhou Enlai happily: "Uncle Zhou". But to his surprise, Zhou Enlai, who was amiable on weekdays, seemed to have not heard it at this time, and quickly walked towards the other side...
The little boy was very confused and thought that the other party had not heard it, so he followed Zhou Enlai and shouted Uncle Zhou loudly. Finally, Zhou Enlai turned around, walked towards the little boy, touched his head, and then hurriedly left without saying a word...
After the little boy returned home, he told his father about his encounter with Uncle Zhou. But what unexpectedly happened to him was that after hearing his words, not only did not feel any joy, but instead looked serious...
Not only that, the day after this incident, my father took the little boy and other family members and quickly moved out of here to . The little boy at that time was unfamiliar with his intentions. It was not until later that his father mentioned this and explained it, which made his son suddenly realize...
So, what was going on?
The young revolutionary was seen by Zhou En.
Time went back to more than ten years ago. At the end of 1929, a revolutionary in Shanghai was given an important task - to cover up the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. He was Wu Kejian, who was 29 years old at the time.
At that time, the situation in Shanghai was turbulent, and it was inconvenient for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to carry out activities. Wu Kejian's main task is that when the Politburo holds a meeting upstairs, he and his family stay downstairs to let go. Whenever there was any disturbance, they would quickly go upstairs to report the news, so that the members of the Politburo who attended the meeting would be absolutely safe.
Wu Kejian
Wu Kejian must have his own meritoriousness. In fact, at this time, he was already seen by Zhou En, who was also in Shanghai.
In November 1900, Wu Kejian was born in a working family in Pingxiang County, Hunan Province. At that time, his name was still Wu Hei.
Wu Kejian's teenage years were the turbulent era of turbulent land of China. Like many people, influenced by progressive thoughts, he gradually established his lofty ideal of committing to the revolutionary cause and secretly joined the Communist Party of China in the winter of 1924.
From the first day of joining the party, Wu Heichuan changed his name to Wu Kejian. He hopes to express his loyalty to the party and his spirit of not fearing difficulties and hardships through his new name. Three years later, the Horse and Day Incident occurred in Changsha, Hunan, and the Hunan Party organization of the Communist Party of China suffered a severe blow. At the critical moment, Wu Kejian made a quick decision and preserved more than a thousand peasant armed forces at the critical moment when the Pingjiang County Party Committee was paralyzed. Later, this team participated in the famous Autumn Harvest Uprising and became part of the Jinggangshan workers and peasants' armed forces.
After that, Wu Kejian came to Shanghai again. At the beginning, he mainly worked on worker movements. When he sent intelligence to the leader of the Communist Party of China Zhou Enlai for the first time, the other party immediately fell in love with the young man and absorbed Wu Kejian into the Central Special Correspondence . From then on, he officially embarked on the hidden front.
After entering 1930, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to organize a radio training class to cultivate radio talents for the party. For hidden needs, they pretended to be a private enterprise in the training class, which Wu Kejian was responsible for organizing and managing.
Wu Kejian
In October of this year, the party organization rented a house in Xingqingli, Muerming Road and established its own radio station. Wu Kejian lives downstairs as the "second landlord", and others call him "Mr. Accountant". Later, the classic movie " Never Escape Radio " was used as a reference.
However, in April 1931, Gu Shunzhang, one of the heads of the Special Section of the CPC Central Committee, was arrested and rebelled, many secret agencies and agents of the Party Central Committee in Shanghai were exposed.
Fortunately, under the hike of the Communist Party of China , Wu Kejian and other central special departments were quickly transferred and finally escaped danger.
uses newspapers as the base to promote the party’s thoughts
In April 1936, under the appointment of the party organization, Wu Kejian went to Paris, France, where he assisted Wu Yuzhang in preparing for the "National Saving Times" and served as general manager.
"National Salvation Times" is the first official newspaper founded by the Communist Party of China overseas to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda. It often publishes documents of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and works by Mao Zedong and others, and reports on the situation of the domestic anti-Japanese national salvation movement and the anti-Japanese base areas. With the efforts of Wu Kejian and others, the "National Salvation Times" became one of the newspapers and magazines that compatriots at home and abroad, especially progressive young people, who loved it very much.
A year later, in July 1937, the July 7 Incident that shocked China and the world occurred, and the Anti-Japanese War broke out in full swing. At this critical moment, Wu Kejian suggested to the party organization that he wanted to return to China immediately and join the War of Resistance.
July 7 Incident
However, at this time, the organization decided to send Wu Kejian to New York, USA to host another newspaper - " Pioneer ". In response to this, Wu Kejian expressed his willingness to return to China many times and issued a bold statement from "I would rather die in battle than be an old overseas Chinese." In a letter, Wu Kejian said:
"About transferring me to New York, USA to handle newspapers, after repeated consideration, I think when artillery fire in various parts of the motherland is in full swing, and the great struggle against Japanese fascism is in full swing, especially the Party Central Committee of the Yan'an Holy Land and Chairman Mao Zedong issued a great call to resist Japan and save the country, I think I should return to China and contribute my own little strength. ."
Finally, in early 1938, Zhou Enlai sent a telegram to Wu Kejian, "Return to China immediately and go to the national crisis together." On February 4, he returned to Wuhan via Hong Kong and was later appointed as Deputy Secretary-General of the Yangtze River Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. In May of the same year, Wu Kejian served as the editor-in-chief of "Xinhua Daily".
" Xinhua Daily " As the only newspaper publicly issued by the Communist Party in the Kuomintang-Communist region during the anti-Japanese war, the Communist Party of China was the only publicly issued newspaper in the Kuomintang-controlled area. Its importance is self-evident. With the efforts of Wu Kejian and others, its influence has expanded and has become an important ideological position for the Communist Party. Wu Kejian himself published dozens of editorials and articles on it.
In early 1941, after the outbreak of the Southern Anhui Incident, which shocked the whole country, there were great doubts about the New Fourth Army at home and abroad. The relevant reports and comments originally written by Xinhua Daily were also detained by the authorities' news inspection agencies.
Faced with this unfavorable situation, the Southern Bureau of the Communist Party of China actively responded. Under Zhou Enlai's instructions, the staff of the Xinhua Daily first filled out the vacant places after being detained, printed several newspapers and sent them to the inspection. After sending the news inspection agency, they immediately wrote Zhou Enlai's inscription on the matter "A strange injustice for all ages, a leaf in the south of the Yangtze River. Why not fight each other in the same room?!" and the report "Mourning for those who died in Jiangnan", refilled the blank space in the reserved and arranged plate printing. Not only that, the party organization also organized distributors to deliver them to readers before major newspapers were issued the next day.
The Xinhua Daily
was like this. Early the next morning, a large number of Xinhua Daily broke through the blockade and appeared in the streets and alleys of Chongqing . Zhou Enlai's inscriptions and elegy for the Southern Anhui Incident strongly impacted the hearts of many people. Even Mao Zedong, who was in Yan'an, sent a telegram to Zhou Enlai, saying that "I also saw the inscriptions on the newspaper, and was fascinated by it to establish a huge intelligence network to instigate the fleet and rebel the "two aviations"
0. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, Zhou Enlai and others talked to Wu Kejian and decided to let him leave his job in the Xinhua Daily and serve as the deputy director of the Intelligence Department of the Southern Bureau.
In the summer of the second year, with the changes in the domestic situation, Wu Kejian brought his family to Shanghai again. According to the previously agreed method, he rented a writing room on Bund through the funds he received, and also rented a Shikumen house on Changde Road in west Shanghai to establish a foothold.
Then, in this Eastern Magic City, Wu Kejian gradually established a huge intelligence system. The intelligence network of has a total of 9 secret radio stations, covering East China, Northeast China, North China, Southwest China and other parts of the country. The working relationship he developed and mastered was as many as 1,500 people.
As the War of Liberation gradually deepens, the situation becomes increasingly clear. Just as the enemy was defeated repeatedly, in April 1949, their commander of the Second Navy Naval Coast Defense Fleet, Lin Zun 2, led more than 40 warships, and thousands of officers and soldiers to revolt together, shocking the country.
It turns out that behind the other party’s surrender was the result of Wu Kejian’s intelligence system personnel’s rebellion. Lin Zun was the nephew of Lin Zexu, a famous national hero of the Qing Dynasty, and held this position in early 1948.
Lin Zun
However, in Lin Zun's heart, he had doubts about this civil war . Therefore, under the mobilization of the underground members of the Communist Party of China around him, he gradually had the idea of leading his troops to revolt.
So, on April 23, Lin Zun revolted on the Lidoushan River in Nanjing and passed a tribute to Mao Zedong. Zhang Pusheng, Minister of the Liaison Department of the 35th Army of the People's Liberation Army, held his hand excitedly and said, "On behalf of the Communist Party of China and the leader of the Third Field Army of , I welcome you and congratulate you on your success in the uprising."
Not only that, in the spring of 1949, the enemy transferred a large number of technical personnel and financial equipment from the only two airlines in China, China Airlines ( AVIC ) and Central Airlines (Central Airlines), to Hong Kong, and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued a mission to Wu Kejian: to master the air routes.
So, in March and April of that year, Wu Kejian joined the line with General Manager of Zhonghang Chen Zhuolin and business director Deng Shizhang. Two months later, with the assistance of Wu Kejian's intelligence system, the intelligence system under Pan Hannian, another intelligence worker in the party, contacted three underground party members in AVIC in Hong Kong.
On August 24, 1949, two secret members of the Communist Party came to Hong Kong, joined the Hong Kong Underground Party and the Hong Kong and Macao Working Committee, and established the core group for the uprising work.
After careful and meticulous work by many parties, On November 9, that year, employees of the "two airlines" announced an uprising in Hong Kong. A total of 12 aircraft (10 AVIC and 2 Central Airlines) carried more than 100 employees, flew back to mainland China from Hong Kong.
Uprises
Later, a large number of professional and technical personnel who returned from the uprising became a backbone force in the civil aviation industry of New China, supporting the sky of civil aviation in New China.
Work carefully and meticulously. I moved immediately because of a word from my son
While doing my best for the revolutionary cause, Wu Kejian also had his own family. His wife is from Ningbo, Zhejiang and she is relatively tall. 941, their son Wu Zhaoli was born in an air raid shelter in Chongqing.
Later, with their parents coming to Shanghai, Wu Zhaoli lived with them in Shikumen Alley in Hengdeli, Changde Road. The family's house is located in the deepest part of the alley, with a total of two floors, below the living room and upstairs the bedroom. Not only that, there is a small pavilion in the middle of the stairs, and there is a balcony outside. If there is a danger, you can turn it out from the balcony and reach another Shikumen alley to facilitate escape.
And the living around this alley are all ordinary people in Shanghai. In order to protect his identity, Wu Kejian also served as the grassroots baojia chief in the local area.
"It is equivalent to a position at the grassroots level. Most people are unwilling to do this job. Of course, my father did not refuse. He thought it was a good cover." Many years later, Wu Zhaoli recalled.
However, under the treacherous situation at that time, danger was still everywhere. One day in September 1946, a big and small accident came to Wu Kejian's family.
Wu Kejian's family
On this day, Zhou Enlai, who had left Nanjing and came to Shanghai, went to Shikumen on Huaihai Middle Road to visit Lu Xun's wife Xu Guangping .
At this time, because Wu Kejian's family had just arrived in Shanghai, they were still crowded with a family living in an acquaintance. It’s a coincidence that this family and Xu Guangping are neighbors...
Not only that, when Zhou Enlai came, he was just about to catch up with 5-year-old Wu Zhaoli playing in the alley. When he suddenly saw this acquaintance appearing in front of him, he instinctively called "Uncle Zhou"...
After Zhou Enlai saw Wu Zhaoli, he immediately became alert and decided to leave quickly. However, Wu Zhaoli, who was unknown, did not give up and continued to shout "Uncle Zhou" behind the other party...
In this way, Zhou Enlai was embarrassed to leave directly, so he had to turn around and touch Wu Zhaoli's head, and then hurried away without saying a word.
Wu Zhaoli, who was still confused about the situation at this time, told his father about Uncle Zhou when he returned home. When Wu Kejian heard this, he became alert immediately. Not only that, on the second day of , he took his whole family to move out of .
When after liberation, Wu Kejian mentioned this matter to his son. He told Wu Zhaoli: "A person like Zhou Enlai, I don't know how many spies he has followed behind him. When calling Uncle Zhou in the alley, it may not only bring danger to Uncle Zhou, but we may also be exposed. How can we do underground work like ? "
In addition to being cautious and meticulous, Wu Kejian, as an intelligence officer, also has a brave side of being skilled and talented. Wu Zhaoli told a story: Wu Kejian will send
to particularly important information in person. He likes to use expensive silk to wrap information layer by layer, just like a precious gift.
Wu Kejian and others
Once, Wu Kejian was sitting in the car and encountered a military police inspection. After getting off the car, he took out the silk and slowly opened it layer by layer for the military and police to see with a calm expression on his face.
Seeing that the silk could not be removed for a long time, The military and police gradually became impatient, and finally let Wu Kejian go...
