At 4:00 p.m. on September 9, 1976, after a silence, the same news was played on the radio across the country. Chairman Mao, the great leader of the People's Republic of China, died of illness in the early morning. For a moment, the whole country was sad.
Alarm bell rings, and the masses spontaneously stop to mourn this sad moment together. After learning the news, the United Nations immediately lowered the flag to express condolences.
At this time, an old man living in a nursing home in Toronto, Canada, wearing glasses and holding a newspaper, looked carefully and then carefully.
Although he was full of wrinkles and gray hair, he could still see how he looked when he was young. This was Zhang Guotao who left the Communist Party and left.
A reporter from the London Daily sat upright beside him. After reading it, he asked him a question: " China's leader Chairman Mao just passed away. I wonder what you think now? "
Zhang Guotao slowly put down the newspaper with big words, spoke slowly, but only said ten words.
What did Zhang Guotao say? What was he thinking?
1938, after the Kuomintang and the Communist Party made an appointment to worship the Yellow Emperor Mausoleum 5, Zhang Guotao used the excuse of asking Lin Boqu for something and insisted on not being willing to return to the party.
But he has not gone to find Lin Boqu for a long time, and some people have more or less guessed something.
Later, Zhang Guotao moved to Wuhan. Premier Zhou ignored his past grudges and personally came forward to receive Zhang Guotao from the party’s office set up in Wuhan. However, Zhang Guotao made a very angry request, and he actually asked to meet with Chiang Kai-shek.
Premier Zhou also advised him hard, but Zhang Guotao was a very pessimistic person in politics.
, especially what has happened in the past few years, made him feel even more at ease in his heart, so no matter how he advised him to not cause trouble, he still couldn't stop his desire to leave.
Whether he was worried that his status would be affected or that he was worried about the past, it would be fine for Zhang Guotao to leave like this alone, but what Chairman Mao and others never expected was that he would leave his pregnant wife and daughter and leave northern Shaanxi.
When Yang Zilie learned that her husband had left the Communist Party, he was stunned. He was taking care of his children at home for a long time. She was too dependent on Zhang Guotao. Now that her husband left, she had no backbone and could only run to Xi'an and cry to Chairman Mao.
In April of this year, Yang Zilie ran from Yan'an to Xi'an crying and found Chairman Mao. At this time, her belly was already showing. The journey made her look very tired, especially her red eyes, which meant that she might have been crying for this incident for a few days.
Chairman Mao sighed, quite helpless.
Seeing that Yang Zilie was crying and the pear blossoms were raining, Chen Yun was heartbroken and couldn't bear it. He handed the letter left by Zhang Guotao to her: " This is the letter he left to you, and told you to go to Hankou , whether you go or not depends on your own. "
Yang Zilie took the letter and read it again and again, but in the end he didn't say anything.
Who would have thought that after a few days, Yang Zilie suddenly felt like he was enlightened and found Chairman Mao again with his stomach. She sincerely made a request to Chairman Mao: " I want to go to Hankou to find Zhang Guotao. After all, I am pregnant with his child. For the sake of the child, I should be able to persuade him back. "
Now there are chaos everywhere. The staff of the office are worried that Yang Zilie will make mistakes when he goes to Hankou with his big belly, so he wants to leave him for ideological work.
But Yang Zilie had made up his mind and insisted on "retrieving Zhang Guotao back".
Seeing her firm attitude, Chairman Mao waved his hand and said, "If you want to go , let her go. The journey is dangerous, so I will find two comrades to escort her over."
Before leaving, Premier Zhou found Yang Zilie again and repeatedly told her: " Comrade Zhang Guotao's work will be handed over to you. It is naturally the best result to get him back. "
But anyone with a discerning eye can see that Yang Zilie cleaned up everything and even took his daughter away from him. There was a tendency to never go back.
After the explanation, Premier Zhou sent Qiu Nanzhang and others to escort Yang Zilie all the way to Zhang Guotao. When Yang Zilie went there, he did not come back.
Not long after, Zhang Guotao asked someone to bring a letter to Pingxiang, Jiangxi. At home, someone brought his old mother to Wuhan, and the family finally reunited in Wuhan.
Since then, the name Zhang Guotao has only left the name of a "traitor" in the party.
Later, with the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party started cooperation, but because anti-Japanese war was always the top priority at that time, they did not fully investigate Zhang Guotao's guilt.
And with the advancement of the Anti-Japanese War, our party's reputation in the country has become higher and higher, and Chairman Mao has become a well-deserved leader in our party Xiu, his military strategy , his long-term vision and thought play a crucial role in the development of the Communist Party.
In this way, the Communist Party began to occupy an increasingly important position in the country. Chairman Mao has always liked to do work among farmers, and naturally he has been loved by more people.
Zhang Guotao, who had defected to Chiang Kai-shek at this time, did not realize what he was about to face in the future. His short-sighted eyes and pessimistic political thoughts also made him The sadness of the second half of his life was laid.
When he first joined Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek valued Zhang Guotao very much. After all, he had many secrets about our party on his back. Chiang Kai-shek specially sent his confidant Chen Lifu to seek Zhang Guotao's opinions and wanted to arrange a suitable job for him.
Zhang Guotao was still unwilling to do so at this time. He wanted to go against our party, but he knew that Chiang Kai-shek would not let him lead his troops, so he wanted Chiang Kai-shek to allocate funds to establish a A regular journal "awakens" the thoughts of young people.
But for some reason, Chiang Kai-shek did not agree to Zhang Guotao's request in the end.
As Wuhan was about to fall, Zhang Guotao had to travel around Guilin and then travel to Chongqing. Here, Chiang Kai-shek finally made arrangements for his work, and he handed Zhang Guotao to another confidant Dai Li .
Dai Li has always been the top leader of Military Control Commission , whether in intelligence work or catching In the arrest work, he has always been deeply trusted by Chiang Kai-shek, and the reason why Chiang Kai-shek handed over Zhang Guotao to Dai Li was also his own selfishness.
From the identity of Zhang Guotao, Chiang Kai-shek did not trust him. He believed that no one would betray him a second time, especially those like Zhang Guotao who like to hide his thoughts, which was even more difficult to control.
So from the beginning, Chiang Kai-shek just wanted to get more information from him and did not intend to give him too high Position.
The so-called lieutenant general member of the Military Commission given to him by Chiang Kai-shek was just an empty name that was not worthy of his name.
But in the Military Control Commission, Zhang Guotao was also "like a fish in water", because Dai Li seemed to value him more than Chiang Kai-shek.
In order to give full play to the role of Zhang Guotao, Dai Li specially established a " Special Political Issues Research Office " to let Zhang Guotao serve as the director of the major general, and the main research on spy activities is.
Zhang Guotao was also not polite. He proposed to set up a training class to train spies to invade our party. Dai Li immediately selected the best group of people and sent them to Zhang Guotao for training. Zhang Guotao said that he wanted to make some counter-attack sites in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, and Dai Li sent people to execute without hesitation.
Rather than saying that Dai Li was complimenting him, Dai Li gave him great hope, hoping to completely overthrow the Communist Party through Zhang Guotao, but never thought that Dai Li completely played the wrong chess this time.
The group of spies selected by Dai Li himself and handed over to Zhang Guotao for training did not have the effect Dai Li expected. Only a very small number of spies they carefully trained could enter the "rebel workstation" in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.
However, these spies did not perform well after arriving in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. Some people couldn't even enter, while others never came out again after entering. Even if a few lucky ones came out, they almost got nothing.
Zhang Guotao tried all his best for this, but it never worked. Dai Li was a person who valued reality very much. Seeing that Zhang Guotao could not get the information he wanted, he immediately stopped Zhang Guotao's training course.
Later, Dai Li arranged for Zhang Guotao to pick up other captured people from the Communist Party and asked him to do the work of rebellion. However, Zhang Guotao's reputation in the party was not very good before, especially after leaving the party, it became a laughing stock in the eyes of everyone. Therefore, in the end he failed to complete what Dai Li told him. Almost everyone in our party would rather die than die and insisted on obeying Zhang Guotao's sophistry.
Because Zhang Guotao never played any role in the Military Control Commission, Dai Li was very annoyed by this. He said angrily: "The principal of surrendered to Zhang Lai, thinking it was a fatal blow to Yan'an. He gave it to me for use, but it was disappointing for several years, making it difficult for me to submit to the principal! "
Since then, Dai Li's attitude towards Zhang Guotao has taken a sharp turn and he has no original enthusiasm at all.
Zhang Guotao was sensitive and naturally noticed the change in Dai Li's attitude, but the more anxious he was, the less he could not do anything. In this way, he gradually lost all his special treatment and even fell into the situation of having to take the bus when he went out.
Dai Li was always angry when he saw him. He either mocked him coldly or cursed him, and insisted on not giving him work to Zhang Guotao again.
Later, after Zhang Guotao climbed to a high position through his fellow countrymen, he became a laughing stock in the Kuomintang and was rewarded without any contribution. Zhang Guotao took this position without any "achievements", so it was naturally difficult to convince the public.
Especially after Dai Li passed away unexpectedly, his life became even more sad. No matter what he did, he could not be appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek.
He once tried to create an "anti-communist" newspaper and named it "Chuangjin". As a result, the Kuomintang was reluctant to even ration paper for official prices, and Zhang Guotao became a person who was not pleased with both sides.
After the Kuomintang was defeated in 1949, Mao Renfeng specially found Zhang Guotao, wanting him to stay in the mainland. He said: " You stay in the mainland, and the Communist Party will not touch you even if it comes. You can still have an old friend in the Communist Party who has worked with for many years. It is better than going to Taiwan. "
In fact, this is just because Zhang Guotao really did not make any contributions. Chiang Kai-shek was unwilling to take this burden, so he wanted to abandon this "burden".
Zhang Guotao's film and television image
Zhang Guotao did not speak or nodded. Later, when he was evacuating, he specially asked someone to find a plane and flew to Taiwan.
But Chiang Kai-shek had lost his power, and even his old subordinates were unwilling to be appointed, let alone an unpopular person.
A few months later, Zhang Guotao, who had nowhere to make a living in Taiwan, had to take his family to Hong Kong and live on his meager royalties.
Later, with the founding of New China , Chairman Mao once ignored past grudges and wrote a letter to Zhang Guotao, inviting him to return to the mainland, and promised to give him corresponding living allowances, but asked him not to continue writing words to the United States to smear China.
But Zhang Guotao ignored Chairman Mao's kindness. Instead, after living in Hong Kong for more than 20 years, he went to Toronto and moved into a nursing home.
He became an old man in his twilight years, while Chairman Mao became the new sun in the new China. I wonder if Zhang Guotao regretted his decision at this time.
1976, bad news came from China thousands of miles away. Chairman Mao passed away due to illness, and the whole country was sad. Even the United Nations lowered the flag and mourned the Chinese leader.
As a former main member of the party, a reporter from the London Daily came to interview him specially.
. Facing the reporter's camera, Zhang Guotao didn't say much, but said: " Our era is over. "
He could not hear any emotion in this sentence, but he seemed to have said thousands of words. His infidelity and injustice led him to this ending, reaching such a point where no one cares about it and everyone dislikes it.
In December of this cold winter, Zhang Guotao also passed away in a nursing home in Toronto.
