In 1993, decades after the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan, a white-haired old man dragged his sick body across the strait to his long-lost motherland. Looking at this strange and familiar land, he suddenly felt filled with emotion. Looking back on the past, everything seemed so unreal, but yet so natural.
This old man is Shen Zhiyue, the "King of Secret Agents" who was famous in both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party when he was young. Shen Zhiyue's trip to the mainland was to visit a famous doctor in Beijing to treat his cancer. After arriving in Beijing, Shen Zhiyue was arranged to stay at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse . Not only that, Comrade Deng Xiaoping also met him in person as a sign of friendship.
When talking about Shen Zhiyue, we have to mention his career as an agent. As a military spy who once lurked around Chairman Mao, Shen Zhiyue was an outstanding agent among the agents in the Kuomintang camp. However, when he was lurking next to Mao Zedong to perform tasks, an "accident" happened because of a trivial matter...
1. Patriotic youth turned agent
In February 1913, Shen Zhiyue was born in Xianju County, Zhejiang Province. His father was a carpenter. His family conditions were not bad. When he was a child, his parents sent him to a private school to study. Therefore, Shen Zhiyue received a good education since he was a child. In 1930, Shen Zhiyue was 17 years old. In this year, with excellent results, he was successfully admitted to the Transportation Department of the Nanjing Central Military Academy. For Shen Zhiyue, the true sense of school life began. Shen Zhiyue studied hard and conscientiously during school. Three years later, he was admitted to Fudan University. From then on, he began to embark on an unusual life path.
At Fudan University, Shen Zhiyue met many Communist Party classmates and became friends with them. He was influenced by advanced revolutionary ideas. During his school years, he also actively participated in various movements to support workers, taking it as his mission to save the nation and survive.
Because he was deeply influenced by the labor movement in college, after graduating from Fudan University, he chose to work in Pudong Coal Company as a worker. Since then, Shen Zhiyue has become a member of the worker group.
One day, a workers' strike broke out in Shen Zhiyue's area. Shen Zhiyue, who had been influenced by the labor movement very early, was the leader of this strike. However, this strike was quickly suppressed. As one of the strike leaders, Shen Zhiyue was also arrested by the Kuomintang and imprisoned.
After the strike movement was suppressed, the Kuomintang severely tortured those who participated in the strike. When it was Shen Zhiyue's turn, he naturally did not want to be tortured. Although he was afraid in his heart, he remained calm-headed and calm in every situation. Faced with the threat of severe torture, a drop of cold sweat broke out on Shen Zhiyue's forehead, his brain was working rapidly, and he quickly thought of a temporary response. So, he calmly told the interrogator that he had relatives working at the top of the Kuomintang, and that his participation in the strike movement was actually "acting on orders."
Seeing Shen Zhiyue's confident and calm expression, the interrogator immediately hesitated and did not dare to execute him rashly, so he temporarily put him aside and investigated his identity first, and then dealt with him. Although this method would be exposed sooner or later, it bought some time to think about the next countermeasures. Shen Zhiyue wiped the cold sweat from his hands and relaxed immediately.
Soon after, after an investigation by the special agents, Shen Zhiyue's lies were quickly exposed. However, at this time, the military commander Dai Li suddenly sent someone to take Shen Zhiyue away.
It turned out that while investigating Shen Zhiyue's identity, Dai Li learned that he had lied to deceive his interrogators in prison, and he immediately became interested in this young man. Later, he discovered that he and he were from the same hometown, so he wanted to meet Shen Zhiyue.
Shen Zhiyue, who was taken away, was confused. He didn't know what was waiting for him ahead, and he was very nervous. After the two met, Dai Li asked him some basic information and talked about other things. During the conversation, Dai Li felt that Shen Zhiyue was a talented person, with a flexible mind and calmness in situations. All the qualities needed for an excellent spy can be found in him.
Based on this, Dai Li invited him to join his intelligence agency and prepared to train Shen Zhiyue himself.
In the face of Dai Li's invitation, Shen Zhiyue, who had just been tortured by the Kuomintang, was very resistant. However, Dai Li was extremely "abiding on talent" and tried a lot of verbal advice to Shen Zhiyue. In the end, whether it was moved by Dai Li's sincerity, or as a stopgap, or facing the temptation of interests, Shen Zhiyue finally accepted Dai Li's invitation and joined the Kuomintang camp. After
, Dai Li sent Shen Zhiyue to the Zhejiang Police Officer School that he controlled, and at the same time allowed Shen Zhiyue to continue learning his favorite communism-related books. During this period, Shen Zhiyue laid a solid foundation for his future spy work.
Under Dai Li's careful training, Shen Zhiyue made great progress, and Dai Li gradually asked him to take over some confidential tasks as training. Soon, he grew into an excellent agent.
2. Enter Yan'an without hesitation
After Shen Zhiyue graduated from Zhejiang Police School, Shen Zhiyue used a spy name Li Guodong to conduct spy activities and joined the underground party organization located outside Shanghai. During this period, Shen Zhiyue destroyed many Communist Party organizations, and Dai Li attached more importance to him.
1937, the Japanese invasion of China became increasingly fierce. Seeing that the Chinese nation was facing the hidden worries of destruction, on July 15, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued a declaration of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. With the efforts of many parties, in September, the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was officially formed.
Although the Kuomintang and the Communist Party temporarily stopped the civil war and were unanimous to the outside world, the Kuomintang was still afraid of the Communist Party and tried every means to harm the Communists. In early 1938, Dai Li ordered Shen Zhiyue to wait for an opportunity to sneak into Yan'an, try to enter the Communist Party organization, help the Kuomintang collect important intelligence, and find opportunities to assassinate important leaders of the Communist Party of China, such as Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai.
As a military commander, it was not easy to sneak into Yan'an. Shen Zhiyue actively participated in the workers' movement in the early days, and Marxism-Leninistan thoughts were learned very deeply. On the surface, Shen Zhiyue was undoubtedly a patriotic and passionate young man, and no one would have thought of connecting him with the Kuomintang spies.
Under Dai Li's arrangement, Shen Zhiyue once again named him and followed Xiao Zhiping to Yan'an to visit in the name of Shen Hui and Professor Xiao Zhiping's personal assistant. During that time, Professor Xiao Zhiping had a close personal relationship with Chairman Mao and was a famous scholar who supported the Communist Party. The two met frequently, and Shen Zhiyue also entered Chairman Mao's sight.
When Xiao Zhiping's visiting delegation was about to leave Yan'an, Shen Zhiyue expressed that he wanted to stay in Yan'an and participate in the revolutionary cause. Yan'an was naturally very happy to accept such aspiring young man, so the organization gave him this opportunity. However, the opportunity was given, and the political review level must be passed. Dai Li and Shen Zhiyue had already expected this situation. Dai Li had already arranged the identity background of "Shen Hui" without any flaws.
Shen Zhiyue was very cautious about this. He believed that if his resume was really as flawed as a piece of white paper, it would have the possibility of arousing doubts. Therefore, in the organizational arrangements, "Shen Hui" from Henan deliberately exposed his accent in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
As expected, the investigators asked questions as soon as they heard this. Shen Hui replied that he had studied in Zhejiang and lived with his uncle's house in Zhejiang for a while, so he spoke with a Jiangsu-Zhejiang accent, and this "uncle" had naturally been arranged long ago. As expected, Shen Zhiyue successfully passed the political review and successfully entered the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University.
However, after entering anti-large , it does not mean that you can rest assured. There will still be some "sudden" investigations within the anti-large html. One day, in class, Shen Zhiyue was listening to the teacher's lecture attentively. Suddenly, the teacher on the podium shouted, "That person is a spy!", and then there would be a person who was responsible for observing the expressions of students under the stage to make records.
In this case, the real spy is likely to be frightened and exposed, but Shen Zhiyue is extremely calm and calm in the face of this situation. In order to confuse the public, he also wrote a special application for joining the party. From beginning to end, his identity as a spy has not been exposed.
In the study and life of the Anti-Japanese University, Shen Zhiyue was serious and diligent, had excellent grades, and was moderately relaxed and loved and appreciated by his classmates and teachers. After graduation, Shen Zhiyue was quickly entrusted with important tasks by the organization, and was promoted continuously. Gradually, Shen Zhiyue entered the organization's confidential department. After some planning, he was finally arranged by Chairman Mao and became the personal secretary of Chairman Mao's office.
When Shen Zhiyue was lurking in the top leaders of the Communist Party of China, he used his position to steal a lot of important information. Over time, Dai Li became more and more trusting in him. Soon, a new task was issued to Shen Zhiyue: wait for an opportunity to assassinate an important leader of the Communist Party of China.
3. "Cigarette accident" exposed the identity of the agent
Shen Zhiyue, who worked next to Chairman Mao, began to constantly look for opportunities to assassinate Chairman Mao after receiving the assassination mission. However, as an important leader of the central government, the security around him was naturally strict, and people close to him were not allowed to carry any weapons, so the assassination mission could not be carried out, so Shen Zhiyue had to continue to lie dormant and look for opportunities.
One day, Chairman Mao had just finished his work and was exhausted. He returned to sitting at the table to smoke a cigarette to relieve stress. Seeing that Chairman Mao had become "don't smoke", Shen Zhiyue, who knew Chairman Mao's life habits, life details, and personal preferences, immediately stepped forward and handed a cigarette to Chairman Mao.
Seeing this, Chairman Mao took his cigarette, and there was no inconsistency on the surface, but Mao Zedong had experienced a lot of fluctuations in his heart. He had previously remembered that this young man named Shen Hui did not smoke, but in this case he actually carried cigarettes with him, but it was still the brand he liked to smoke, which shows that Shen Hui had studied himself carefully.
Thinking at this point, the Chairman was vigilant and looked at Shen Zhiyue, smoking while watching him. Shen Zhiyue noticed that Chairman Mao's eyes were always on him, so he began to become nervous, and a thin layer of sweat appeared in the palm of his hand. In order to relieve this strange atmosphere, Shen Zhiyue also took out a cigarette and started smoking, but the smoking movement seemed extremely unfamiliar and stiff. Seeing this scene, Chairman Mao was even more sure of his judgment.
Although he had some doubts about Shen Zhiyue, there was no conclusive evidence after all. After some consideration, Chairman Mao decided to transfer Shen Zhiyue from Yan'an and arrange for him to go to the Bai District of Zhejiang to assist Ye Ting, commander of the New Fourth Army, in his work. Although the task of assassinating the main leaders in Yan'an was ruined, Shen Zhiyue still worked as a spy in Zhejiang, collecting various intelligence in the army and passing it out.
1941, Ye Ting led the New Fourth Army to go north, but on the way north, the New Fourth Army was raided by the Kuomintang army, causing a large number of casualties. The main general Ye Ting was controlled and the deputy commander Xiang Ying was killed. This incident was later called the "Southern Anhui Incident." Undoubtedly, the initiator of this incident was Shen Zhiyue. It was Shen Zhiyue who passed on the intelligence of the New Fourth Army to the north to the Kuomintang that they set up an ambush on the road and caught the New Fourth Army off guard. After
, Shen Zhiyue's identity was completely exposed, so Chiang Kai-shek recalled him to Chongqing. Since then, Shen Zhiyue's career as a secret agent in Yan'an has come to an end.
In 1994, Shen Zhiyue died of cancer at the age of 81. Although Shen Zhiyue is a Kuomintang member, he has been lurking in the Communist Party for many years. In his 9 years of Communist Party membership, he was named a model party member for 7 years. When Shen Zhiyue passed away, our General Zhang Aiping commented on him: "We are both wise and brave, have a good governance of the country, have two masters in one matter, and have no harm on both sides."
As a military spy, Shen Zhiyue's ability is naturally impeccable. If he did not take the "wrong way" in his youth, he would probably show his skills on another stage, and his life might also take another different path...
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