In 1955, Chairman Mao's special train suffered a special "attack" on its way to Hangzhou. In the domestic and international atmosphere at the time, this incident immediately became a matter of great importance to senior officials. Finally, after five days of investigation by the police, the "murderer" was "caught and brought to justice."
However, the strange thing is that when Chairman Mao learned the identity of the "murderer", Chairman Mao took the initiative to intercede for the "murderer". This undoubtedly makes people feel deeply strange: Could it be that the "murderer" is some kind of big shot? Or do you have any special connection with Chairman Mao? However, the truth is disappointing.
All this starts with the international and domestic situation at that time. At the beginning of 1949, the War of Liberation entered its final stage. Although the Jiang Dynasty still controls half of the country at this time, everyone with a discerning eye knows that the downfall and collapse of the Jiang Dynasty is only a matter of time. Moreover, as the Liberation War deepened, by 1950, the mainland of the motherland was basically liberated. What Lao Jiang controlled was just some islands.
Faced with the incompetence on the frontal battlefield, Chiang Kai-shek thought of using espionage activities to hinder the victory of the War of Liberation. Therefore, under the instruction of Lao Jiang, the Kuomintang regime carried out the following series of operations. First of all, when the Kuomintang retreated, it left a large number of spies on the mainland.
Moreover, due to the poor governance of old China, bandits existed all over the country. As early as the Red Ruijin period, the people's political power had expressed its position on the banditry issue: that is, it would absolutely eliminate the evil and have no tolerance for the bandit armed forces that harmed the people.
Although the Kuomintang's attitude towards bandits is not friendly, relatively speaking, it is still mainly conniving. Therefore, as the liberation war deepened, bandit armed forces across the country also hated this phenomenon. At this time, the Kuomintang's special agents staying on the mainland began to appease the bandits, and even awarded these bandits the military rank of major general or even lieutenant general.
There are such detailed descriptions in the novels " Lin Hai Xue Yuan " and " Bright Sword ". Spies, bandits, and illegal Taoist sects were all working together to sabotage the construction of New China.
Therefore, starting from 1950, with the basic liberation of the motherland, the public security department began to become the department that received the most attention from the highest level - because whether it was cracking down on illegal Taoist sects and spies established, or eliminating armed spies and bandits in the mountains and forests, All need to be completed by the public security department.
After the hard work of the public security officers, this work finally achieved a very satisfactory result. However, there were still a certain number of remnant enemy agents lurking in the 1950s, and under Chiang Kai-shek's instigation, these enemy agents were always ready to take action to endanger and destroy the construction of people's political power - of course, this During this period, the focus of the spy's work has already been focused on the highest-level leaders.
In fact, the powerful attack on senior managers of our party did not begin in the 1950s. As early as the Red Army period, Chiang Kai-shek had similar methods.
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek sent out a large number of troops to attack the Soviet area, , but they were all crushed by the Red Army soldiers. So Chiang Kai-shek came up with a very clumsy but seemingly very effective way: to deal with our army by assassinating senior leaders of the Red Army. For example, Chief of Staff of the Red Army Zhu Yunqing was killed by enemy agents under such circumstances.
During the War of Liberation, Chiang Kai-shek also repeatedly sent agents to Yan'an to carry out assassinations against leaders. Sometimes, Chiang Kai-shek even assigned the air force to cooperate with spies on the ground to assassinate leaders in Yan'an. However, these activities ended in failure. After the founding of New China, Chiang Kai-shek suffered a complete military defeat. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek directly regarded espionage activities as his only hope for a comeback. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek continued to assign spies to cause trouble at home and abroad.
For example, the famous "Kashmir Princess" incident is a typical incident caused by Chiang Kai-shek's preparation to harm our leaders.Although most of these spy activities were crushed by our side, enemy agents sometimes succeeded - for example, Major General Li Fa was assassinated by spies sent by Chiang Kai-shek when he was in charge of defense work in the coastal areas of Fujian.
It can be imagined that the social atmosphere of the 1950s, especially the safety issues of leaders, did not allow for any sloppiness and slackness. The attack on Chairman Mao's special train happened in 1955.
By the way, at that time, China had achieved an unprecedented victory in the diplomatic field - although the People's Republic of China had been established as early as 1949, in the following years, except for the Eastern European countries that announced their recognition of the People's Republic of China, the rest of the countries still cooperated with Chiang Kai-shek. Maintaining diplomatic relations there - to a certain extent, this is directly related to the demonizing propaganda of the United States and Chiang Kai-shek.
In July 1955, Premier Zhou attended the famous Bandung Conference in Indonesia. At the meeting, the Chinese delegation showed the style of New China. Therefore, many countries expressed their intention to send diplomatic missions to visit China. China's diplomacy has achieved an unprecedented breakthrough.
The Soviet Union also expressed its intention to send a diplomatic mission to China for a visit. Although the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations with New China as early as the second day after the founding of New China. However, at that time, the Soviet Union was the big brother of the socialist camp, and the visit of the Soviet diplomatic mission naturally aroused the great attention of Chairman Mao and others. To this end, Chairman Mao specially invited the Soviet delegation to visit various parts of the country on his own special train.
Among them, when arriving in Hangzhou area, something happened. At that time, Chairman Mao and the head of the Soviet delegation Malenkov were talking on the train when they suddenly heard a sharp sound. This sudden noise caught Chairman Mao and the Soviet representatives off guard. As a result, the ongoing conversation was interrupted.
The security personnel in the carriage also heard the sudden noise. The well-trained guards immediately realized that this might be a very serious incident, so the atmosphere inside and outside the carriage became very tense.
Especially Wang Fang, who was the director of the Public Security Department of Zhejiang Province at the time, was even more aware of the pressure and responsibilities - after all, he was responsible for the public security and security of Zhejiang Province. Now, if it is true that within his jurisdiction If something unfavorable to Chairman Mao occurs, he himself may be regarded as a poor leader.
Moreover, there is actually a precedent for targeting trains before - during the Liaoshen Campaign , Marshal Luo Ronghuan was ordered to go to the Northeast region to control the situation in the Northeast region with Marshal Lin. On the way, enemy agents were shooting at the train, preparing to harm Luo Shuai. Later, under the cover of the guards around Luo Shuai, Luo Shuai was able to reach the Northeast safely. However, Luo Shuai's guards also died in the process of covering Luo Shuai.
Therefore, when the guards heard the sudden noise, they immediately entered the alert equipment and were prepared to deal with emergencies - after all, in addition to Chairman Mao, there were also Soviet envoys in the car. Anyone harmed by the enemy will have a very negative impact on New China.
Subsequently, Wang Fang immediately organized the security personnel in the train and began to inspect every corner of the train. Wang Fang told the security personnel: Don't miss any corner, let alone miss any clues. Wang Fang and the security guards also came to a common preliminary judgment regarding the sound just now: that was the sound just now, and it was probably the sound of gunfire.
But if it was really the sound of gunfire, then the matter would be serious - because in this case, where would ordinary people have guns in their hands? Even though there was a gun, the motive for shooting at the chairman's special train was obvious, and the characterization of the case could also be regarded as the nature of sabotage by enemy agents. However, if the theory of sabotage by enemy agents is true, then an even more terrifying thing lies behind: Chairman Mao’s whereabouts are kept secret. How did the enemy agents know so clearly?
This indicates that an internal leak is likely to have occurred.As for enemy sabotage incidents and counter-leakage incidents, they are top priority at any time, and there is no room for sloppiness.
Finally, under inspection by the security personnel, a hole was found in a piece of glass in the sixth carriage of the Chairman's Special Train. The hole is round and about the size of your thumb. Combined with the sound just now and the shape of the hole, it seems to be a definite conclusion that the hole was caused by the shooting.
Therefore, Wang Fang immediately sent someone to notify the local Xiaoshan District Public Security Bureau and asked the Xiaoshan Public Security Bureau to solve the case as soon as possible. After all, this is no small matter. Even because of this incident, Xu Jianguo, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security, rushed from Beijing to Xiaoshan, Zhejiang Province to supervise the local public security organs in handling this case.
After Xu Jianguo arrived at the boundary of Xiaoshan, he did not dare to waste a moment and hurried to the carriage where the bullet hole was found. After Xu Jianguo carefully studied the bullet hole, he breathed a sigh of relief: The staff remembered that Xu Jianguo frowned at first on the way to the train, but after studying the bullet hole, Xu Jianguo became obviously much more relaxed. . Later, Xu Jianguo told Lu Jianguang, deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department: The small holes in the glass were not caused by bullets.
Xu Jianguo's words surprised the staff present. They were surprised and relaxed to a certain extent: What was surprising was, how did Xu Jianguo know that this small hole was not caused by a bullet? The reason for a slight relaxation is: if it is determined that it was not caused by bullet shooting, then the nature of the case will be relatively less serious - at least, it will not be a matter of sabotage by enemy agents, nor will it involve the issue of leaking secrets.
Xu Jianguo also knows that everyone really wants to know the basis for their judgment. So Xu Jianguo told everyone: After the bullet is fired, there are ballistic rules. The bullet is fast and has strong penetration. If a bullet penetrates the glass, it will definitely leave another bullet hole on the opposite side of the glass. However, neither another bullet hole nor other traces left by bullet shooting were found in the entire train carriage, and no bullet heads were found. All this shows that the small holes in the glass were not caused by bullets, but more likely by small stones.
However, if it was not an enemy agent who wanted to harm the leader, then who was it and what was his motive for throwing small stones at the train? If this question cannot be answered, the case cannot be closed. Therefore, the staff did not relax and continued to investigate the truth behind this bizarre incident. The first thing the
staff thought of was to narrow the scope of the investigation. During the investigation, the staff determined that the train was in a place called Caojiaqiao Village when the train made strange noises. Therefore, the scope of investigation must first start from Caojiaqiao Village. So the public security officers rushed to Caojiaqiao Village to investigate.
The villagers in Caojiaqiao Village usually live a life of sunrise and peace of mind. Therefore, when so many police officers suddenly came to the village, although the villagers did not know why the police officers came here, they also vaguely realized that something big must have happened.
Therefore, when the police were extracting confessions, the villagers reported everything they knew to the police. In this way, without much effort, the police officers found the person who threw stones at the chairman's train that day - this person's name was Cao Wensheng. So the public security officers approached Cao Wensheng and asked him about his motives and experiences of throwing stones at the train that day.
Speaking of Cao Wensheng, he is actually an ordinary farmer who cannot be more ordinary, and he is very honest and honest. He told the police officer: That evening, after a day's work, he and several villagers were chatting next to the railway.
As a result, I saw a train passing by. Cao Wensheng had never seen much of the world in his life, so he became excited after seeing the Chairman's special train. In addition to being excited, he also felt bored, so he threw the stone in his hand towards the special train.
Cao Wensheng didn't know exactly where the stone hit. After all, the train was too fast, and he didn't care at the time. Of course, Cao Wensheng had no idea who the passengers in the train were.
It took five days from the incident to the time the police cracked the case. After Cao Wensheng's situation was discovered by the public security officers, the security staff breathed a sigh of relief. However, the next things still need to be dealt with - for example, how to deal with the "murderer" Cao Wensheng?
So Xu Jianguo returned to Beijing, submitted case handling materials to Chairman Mao, reported on the case, and asked Chairman Mao for instructions: How should Cao Wensheng be dealt with?
After learning the truth of the case, Chairman Mao immediately smiled: I am a farmer who has never seen much of the world. He saw a special train lose a stone, and it did not lead to any serious consequences. This matter is understandable. You just need to educate this big farmer brother, but don't make it difficult for him.
However, although Chairman Mao begged for mercy, after all, it was indeed illegal for Cao Wensheng to throw stones at the train. Therefore, the local public security department detained him for 23 days in the name of disrupting railway transportation. In this way, this bizarre but ordinary case came to an end.
Reference materials: "Collected Works in Commemoration of Xu Jianguo"
"Government Legal System" Journal, 2011 Volume
"The Biography of Mao Zedong"
