"Li Kenong, why do you call him 'comrade'? I wonder if there were still people present at that time?" Zhou Enlai raised his sword eyebrows and looked very angry.
"Wang Ying. Although Kingsoft is present, they are comrades of our party who have been tried and tested. I promise that there will be no problem." Li Kenong explained.
"You guarantee? You are emotional! What if he is exposed? We who do underground work can only guarantee ourselves, no one can guarantee it."
Seeing that Zhou Enlai's tone became more and more severe, Li Kenong lowered his head and said nothing.
But Zhou Enlai's anger was not gone. He pointed at Li Kenong and said sternly: "He is exposed, you have to be responsible!"
Li Kenong is the king of agents trained by Zhou Enlai. Zhou Enlai admired him very much and was proud of him.
Mao Zedong also had a very high opinion of him. He once said: "Comrades Li Kenong, Qian Zhuangfei and other comrades made great contributions. If it weren't for them, many central leaders at that time, including Zhou Enlai, would no longer exist."
Why did Zhou Enlai get angry because Li Kenong said hello to others?
Because the person Li Kenong greeted him has a special identity. This person's name is Xie Hegeng, an underground worker. At that time, he was the confidential secretary of the Guangxi warlord Bai Chongxi .
Xie Hegeng was born in 1912 in a scholarly family in Guilin City, Guangxi. He has been diligent and studious since childhood, determined to be a doctor, save lives and relieve his illness. In fact, many people had this ideal at that time. Sun Yat-sen and Lu Xun's original ideal was also to be a doctor. But the cruel social reality made them realize later that the most important thing in China at that time was to save the country.
, Xie Hegeng gave up studying medicine and engaged in politics, and was completely influenced by his elder brother. The eldest brother Xie Tiemin is 7 years older than him and has a high ideological awareness. At the age of 16, he organized the "New China Society" in Guilin to study and explore the best way to save the country and the people.
In September 1925, Xie Tiemin entered the Guangzhou Peasant Sports Training Institute founded by Pengpai to study. During his studies, Xie Tiemin became a communist fighter.
Unfortunately, in 1927, 22-year-old Xie Tiemin was unfortunately arrested and killed. The brother's sacrifice did not intimidate Xie Hegeng, but instead inspired his deep hatred for the Kuomintang reactionaries and strengthened his determination to participate in the revolution.
1932, 22-year-old Xie Hegeng took the oath under the party flag and decided to fight for communism for life.
Chiang Kai-shek After betraying the revolution, the Communists understood a truth: power emerged from the barrel of a gun. Since then, possessing an armed force has become the unremitting pursuit of the Communists.
After owning an army, you have to face the enemy's "encirclement and suppression" and compete with the enemy on the battlefield. Knowing yourself and your enemy will never be defeated. Only by obtaining information and mastering the enemy's movements can you defeat the enemy.
So, another front, the intelligence front, came into being.
The most famous intelligence organization of our party is Central Special Correspondence , which is led by Comrade Zhou Enlai.
The most effective way for intelligence organizations is to invade the enemy.
After joining the party, Xie Hegeng entered the Feng YuxiangNorthwest Army, became a clerk, and began his undercover career.
In fact, Feng Yuxiang knew Xie Hegeng's identity well. At that time, he was very courteous to many Communists in his team.
Since Feng Yuxiang failed to fight against Chiang in the Central Plains War in 1930, he has been marginalized and his glory has disappeared. After the outbreak of September 18th Incident, ethnic conflicts rose to the main contradiction, and the Communist Party began to unite all forces that can be united to fight against Japan. Under the promotion of the Communist Party, Feng Yuxiang summoned his old friends of the Northwest Army and formed the Chahar Anti-Japanese Allied Army with Ji Hongchang, Fang Zhenwu and others, and invited many Communist Party members to join to help them improve the combat effectiveness of the army.
Feng Yuxiang
In this background, Xie Hegeng joined Feng Yuxiang's team and served as secretary to Feng Yuxiang and Ji Hongchang. At this time, General Ji Hongchang was already a Communist Party member.
You cannot sleep soundly beside the couch, and Chiang Kai-shek did not allow Feng Yuxiang to make a comeback.
Under the dual suppression of the Japanese invaders and the Kuomintang, the team eventually fell apart, and Ji Hongchang was also arrested and executed in November 1934. The Chahar Anti-Japanese Allied Army became history, and Xie Hegeng's chief was also executed by Chiang Kai-shek. Under the arrangement of the party organization, he began a new mission.
Xie Hegeng’s new mission is to come to Guangxi with his old superior and old colleague Xuan Xiafu.
Under the introduction of the Kuomintang veteran Li Jishen, Xie Hegeng invaded Guangxi warlords Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi's army (Xie Hegeng became Bai Chongxi's secretary).
Because Li Jishen has made great efforts in the rise of the Guangxi clique, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi attached great importance to the people he recommended and quickly reused them.
Xuan Xiafu is 13 years older than Xie Hegeng, and he has been 8 years older than party membership.
He and Hu Zongnan, the celebrity in front of Chiang Kai-shek, were fellow villagers. They applied for the Whampoa Military Academy together, but Hu Zongnan became Chiang Kai-shek's darling and was known as the "No. 1 disciple of the emperor". However, Xuan Xia's father was expelled from Huangpu by Chiang Kai-shek because of his record of "disobeying orders".
In 1928, Xuan Xiafu came to Feng Yuxiang and engaged in revolutionary work in the Northwest Army, where he developed party members. Ji Hongchang joined the party because of Xuan Xiafu. Therefore, Xuan Xiafu is Xie Hegeng's comrade-in-arms and leader, which is an indisputable fact.
Why did they invade the Guangxi warlords? This is not unrelated to the situation at that time.
Even before and after the outbreak of the full-scale war of resistance, Chiang Kai-shek still stubbornly adhered to the policy of "staying home first for resisting foreign wars", regarded Red Army as the greatest danger, and dispatched troops to "encircle and suppress" the Red Army.
In order to reduce military pressure and carry out comprehensive anti-Japanese resistance, our party disintegrated the warlord forces in various places, undermining Chiang Kai-shek's "suppression of the Communist Party". The Guangxi warlords led by Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were originally disagreeing with Chiang Kai-shek and had deep old grievances.
As early as 1928, Jiang Gui broke out in a war, which ended in the failure of the Guangxi clique. Although Chiang Kai-shek did not kill Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi for various reasons, and the two sides shook hands and made peace, they formed a straitor.
If the Guangxi clique could be differentiated, Chiang Kai-shek would lose a lot of strength to "suppress the Communist Party".
In fact, Li Zongren cannot know nothing about the origin of Xuan Xiafu and Xie Hegeng, and he can guess it roughly.
Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren
The key point is that the Guangxi warlords have no political beliefs or moral bottom line. They are extreme egoists. The second-ranked person Bai Chongxi is the cunning "Little Zhuge". How to make them put national justice first and raise an army to oppose Chiang Kai-shek is the top priority of their work.
After coming to the Guangxi clique, Xuan Xiafu and Xie Hegeng carried out the intensive " alliance with the " work, which finally impressed Li Bai and the others.
In 1936, in order to avenge a single arrow and for the country and nation, the Guangxi clan and Guangdong warlord Chen Jitang jointly launched the " Guangdong-Guangdong Incident " that shocked China and the foreign countries. There is only one purpose, that is, to force Chiang Kai-shek to stop the civil war and fight against Japan unanimously. Although the incident ultimately failed, it also reduced the military pressure of the Shaanxi Red Army to a certain extent, making Chiang Kai-shek more passive in politics, creating conditions for the Xi'an Incident by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng.
It should be pointed out that Xuan Xiafu left the Guangxi clan and went to Hong Kong in 1935, and the work of dividing the Guangxi clan was mainly completed by Xie Hegeng alone.
Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren
This shows that Xie Hegeng has a strong working ability.
So, how did Xie Hegeng and Li Kenong meet?
Xie Hegen met Li Kenong when he was in the Northwest Army and carried out underground work under the leadership of Li Kenong. But at first, the two didn't know each other. In order to keep it confidential, Xie Hegeng only contacted Xuan Xiafu alone, while Xuan Xiafu was directly led by Zhou Enlai and Li Kenong.
Later, Xuan Xia’s father arrived in Hong Kong, and Xie Hegeng began to accept Li Kenong’s direct leadership.
Xuanxiafu
After the outbreak of the Xi'an Incident, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party carried out the second cooperation, and Xie Hegeng's mission in the Guangxi clique was also considered to be a victory completed.After the formation of the united front, Bai Chongxi was appointed as the deputy chief of staff of the National Government and became Chiang Kai-shek's number one think tank. Xie Hegeng went to Nanjing as Bai's confidential secretary and began to convey intelligence to our party. The way to transmit
intelligence is transmitted to Yan'an through Li Kenong.
Li Kenong
Let’s talk about the character mentioned at the beginning of the article - Wang Ying. She joined the Communist Party of China as early as 15 years old and has been engaged in literary and artistic work in the Kuomintang-ruled areas.
Wang Ying has artistic cells. She acted in the early days and was a famous actress. Since 1936, the party organization arranged for her to enter the film industry. She was talented and quickly emerged and became a dazzling movie star.
The entertainment industry has always been very dirty and messy. It was very common for the big guys, directors with hidden rules, drug use, dating, acting in vulgar movies, etc. at that time. But Wang Ying is untainted and keeps herself clean, and is called "a pure white movie star".
Wang Ying in the Pictorial
Wang Ying's fame at that time was much bigger than actor Lan Ping.
The two once competed together for the starring role of " competition, Golden Flower ", but Lan Ping was not selected.
Wang Ying and her lover Jinshan met Bai Chongxi's secretary Xie Hegeng while performing in Guilin, and their relationship quickly heated up. However, at that time, Wang Ying and director Jinshan were in love, and Xie Hegeng had already married Bai Chongxi's cousin. Under this circumstance, Kingsoft was very generous and chose to quit. Xie Hegeng left the Guizhou department and Wang Ying both went to study in the United States.
The two did this because of their relationship, but also obtained the consent of Zhou Enlai. They came to the United States mainly for the sake of revolutionary work. After unremitting efforts, Xie Hegeng finally divorced his wife and married Wang Ying in the United States.
Going to the United States is a later story, press it to not display it.
Under what circumstances did Li Kenong, Xie Hegeng, Wang Ying and Jinshan meet together?
On August 29, 1937, Li Kenong was ordered to go to Nanjing to establish the Eighth Route Army Office in Nanjing.
Bai Chongxi went to Nanjing after the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out in 1937 and served as the deputy chief of staff of the Military Commission. Xie Hegeng also became the confidential secretary of the National Army and Bai Chongxi, and followed him to Nanjing.
At this time, Xie Hegeng and Wang Ying's relationship is in the nurturing and heating up, and Kingsoft is Wang Ying's director and boyfriend.
Xie Hegeng's information was transmitted by Li Kenong.
Therefore, four people met unexpectedly while working.
It was the first time Li Kenong saw Xie Hegeng. He was happy. He also saw that two Communist Party members, Kingsoft (joined the party in 1930) and Wang Ying were also present at the same time, and were in a very happy mood.
So, as soon as we met, he held Xie Hegeng's hand and said excitedly: "Comrade Xiao Xie (Li Kenong is 13 years older than the other party), we finally met."
Underground parties are all single-line contacts. Although Xie Hegeng and Wang Ying are lovers, according to the discipline of the underground party, even couples cannot disclose their identities privately, so they do not know that the other party is a Communist Party member (they only disclosed their identities when they went to the United States in 1942).
, and Jinshan, I don’t know that Xie Hegeng is a Communist Party member. As for Xie Hegeng, I don’t know that Wang and Jin are members of the Communist Party.
Therefore, when Li Kenong shouted, Xie Hegeng was so scared that his face turned pale. I thought to myself, what happened to Lao Li, how did I make my identity public?
Jinshan was of course also shocked. After a long time, my "love rival" was also a Communist Party member. No wonder Wang Ying was deeply in love with him.
Wang Ying was very happy. No wonder the two fell in love with each other. It turned out that their boyfriend was also a Communist Party member. Now, the two have similar interests and their relationship will be deeper and can stand the test.
Xie Hegeng and Wang Ying
But this incident reached Zhou Enlai's ears, and Li Kenong's trouble came.
Zhou Enlai felt incredible and even got angry. Because Zhou Enlai has been in intelligence work for many years, he has always been cautious in his work, fearing that he would sacrifice his comrade's life after something happened.
Underground parties have strict discipline, and are generally single-line contacts. Some couples are underground party members, but as long as they are not on the same line, their identities will not be easily exposed.This is to avoid the arrest of one person and the arrest of others.
We have learned a profound lesson about this.
For example, in late April 1931, Gu Shunzhang , an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and one of the heads of the special sections of the CPC, escorted Zhang Guotao and Chen Changhao from Shanghai to the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area, and returned to Shanghai via Wuhan. Later, he dated his lover for violating discipline and was arrested by Cai Mengjian, director of the Kuomintang Wuhan Police Bureau.
This cartilage betrayed before being interrogated, and confessed to multiple underground party contact stations, and many underground workers were tragically injured.
Not only that, Gu Shunzhang also kept doing it and confessed to the enemy the residence of our party leaders Xiang Zhongfa, Zhou Enlai and Qu Qiubai, as well as the location of the Central Secretariat and the Special Corps organs.
Fortunately, Qian Zhuangfei, an underground member of the Communist Party of China who was involved in , got this information in time and reported it to Zhou Enlai immediately, so that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was able to quickly transfer before the enemy carried out operations.
Therefore, Zhou Enlai was very angry and thought to himself that it would be fine if he was a new comrade who had just started working. You, Li Kenong, are the number one person in charge of the intelligence front, how could you be so careless?
You should know that once the people present, no matter whether they are Kingsoft or Wang Ying, will betray the comrades, then Comrade Xie Hegeng's identity will be exposed and they will be arrested by the Kuomintang secret service agencies.
You should know how difficult it is to train an underground worker to penetrate the enemy. If you are negligent, the comrades will pay the price of their lives. Therefore, Li Kenong's actions were extremely dangerous. Therefore, after Premier Zhou Enlai learned about it, he immediately scolded Li Kenong: "He is exposed, you are responsible!"
Xie He Geng
Li Kenong later defended himself, meaning that he knew too much about the three present, they were all loyal soldiers of the Party and would not betray comrades.
This makes Zhou Enlai even more annoyed, because the most taboo thing about engaging in underground work is emotional work. Just as Zhou Enlai said, a person can only guarantee that he will not betray him, and no one can guarantee that he will, especially the three of them still have certain emotional entanglements.
Although Li Kenong is dedicated and a competent "King of Agents" and has made outstanding contributions to the revolutionary cause, Zhou Enlai still wants to "do a big deal" and teach and prevent problems before they happen. In this matter, Li Kenong can only accept criticism humbly.
