There was once a group of people who, although they had never been born and died on the battlefield, had hidden their identities and sneaked into the enemy's "heart" and made outstanding contributions to the cause of the party, the future of the country and the liberation of the nation with extraordinary courage and wisdom.
Luo Ruiqing
Luo Ruiqing made a "Military Order"
11June 17, 0:40, the first meeting of the Standing Committee of the Preparatory Meeting of the Political Consultative Conference of the New China had just ended. After Zhou Enlai, then secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, sent off the participants, he came to the juicy bookstore in Zhongnanhai , Fengzeyuan. There, Peking Mayor Ye Jianying, Minister of Public Security Luo Ruiqing and others were waiting for the "national steward" who was busy with a lot of things and was about to serve as Premier of the State Council to hold another important meeting. After Zhou Enlai entered the door, he immediately cut the topic into the theme of the meeting: "...In another half a month, it will be July 1. That is the 28th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and it is also the first birthday after our party led the people of the country to defeat the Kuomintang reactionaries and achieved a decisive victory across the country... At that time, more than 600 representatives from the Communist Party of China and various democratic parties, people's organizations, the People's Liberation Army, various regions, ethnic groups, and overseas Chinese will attend the rally. The seat will make an important speech at the meeting..."
Luo Ruiqing asked: "Vice Chairman Zhou, is it decided to where the meeting will be held? "
" has been decided and will be held at Xiannongtan. At that time, the central leaders will concentrate in Zhongnanhai and Houqi to Xiannongtan venue."
Luo Ruiqing took a breath: There is a considerable distance from Xiangshan where Chairman Mao and other leaders live to Zhongnanhai and then to Xiannongtan, which will bring great difficulties to security work. It should be noted that Pei has been liberated for less than half a year, and the enemy's special forces have not been cleared yet. The Kuomintang reactionaries who fled Taiwan are even more eyeing the CCP. If the enemy sends spies to conduct assassination and explosions on the way from Xiangshan to Zhongnanhai and Xiannongtan, the consequences will be unimaginable!
Zhou Enlai stared at Luo Ruiqing: "Minister Luo, please ask your Ministry of Public Security for this meeting!"
Luo Ruiqing nodded and said, "I understand! If there is any error in security issues, I will only ask!" After the meeting, Zhou Enlai told Luo Ruiqing: In order to effectively ensure the security and protection of the "July 1st Rally", the Central Committee has notified the Central Social Ministry to open Taiwan's internal relations and collect relevant information, and these intelligence will be provided to the Ministry of Public Security as soon as possible.
The Social Department of the CPC Central Committee, led by the famous "Red Agent" Li Kenong, is an independent agency directly under the central government. One of its important responsibilities is to install inside the enemy. After the Kuomintang fled Taiwan, it put a lot of effort into counter-espionage work. Every time the inside line is used, it is risky of being exposed. Therefore, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China had already made regulations at that time that the inside line could not be used unless it was absolutely necessary. This time, the Central Committee obviously made great decisions in order to do a good job in security and protection of the meeting.
Li Kenong
Confidential was discovered by the Kuomintang spies
Three days later, Zhou Enlai, who was reviewing documents in the office, suddenly received a call from Li Kenong. Li Kenong sent an extremely important intelligence from Taipei City that he had just received: the Kuomintang Secret Service has detected the relevant information about my "July 1st Rally". There are signs that the spy leader Mao Renfeng, under the order of Chiang Kai-shek, selected operational agents to secretly go to Peking to assassinate the leader of the Communist Party of China.
How did the Taiwan Secret Service obtain this secret? This needs to start with a person who lived in Repulse Bay, Hong Kong at that time, who had a very special experience.
Huang Zhenxia, formerly appointed commander of the Northeast Army's brigade guarding army, and major general commander of the Hulunbuir Guard Division. After the "September 18th" Incident, Huang Zhenxia led his troops to join the "Northeast People's National Salvation Army" of the famous anti-Japanese general Su Bingwen , and raised the banner of anti-Japanese and national salvation. After the July 7 Incident, Huang Zhenxia went to Chongqing and served as a senator of the Military Senate of the National Government. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, his family moved to Hong Kong and went into business, becoming a well-known capitalist.
Huang Zhenxia had contact with the underground party of the Communist Party of China as early as before the Anti-Japanese War. After moving to Chongqing, he established contacts with CCP leaders such as Zhou Enlai and Ye Jianying, and became a frequent visitor to the Zhou Mansion of Zengjiayan, Chongqing. After going to Hong Kong after winning the Anti-Japanese War, he spent several times to purchase a large amount of Western medicine, foreign cloth, printing equipment, etc. to give it to the CCP, actively supporting the War of Liberation.
In the late period of the Liberation War, Huang Zhenxia was commissioned by the CCP’s underground party and used his various relations in Hong Kong to assist the CCP’s underground party leader Pan Hannian and others in their work. He successively sent the Kuomintang’s patriotic general Cai Tingkai, one of the “Seven Patriotic Gentlemen” lawyer Shen Junru, Zhang Bojun, head of the Democratic Party of the Peasants and Workers, Tan Pingshan, member of the Central Standing Committee of the Three People’s Comrades Association Federation, poet Guo Moruo, and Chen Qiyou, head of the Zhigong Party, to the liberated area safely.
The CCP has not forgotten Huang Zhenxia's friend. When Zhou Enlai reviewed the list of attendees at the "July 1st Rally", he found that there was no capitalist from a soldier. He immediately added Huang Zhenxia's name and stated in small words at the back: This public friend of the CCP has given important help to our party several times. He can invite him to attend the meeting in Peking and arrange a visit.
Two days later, Huang Zhenxia received an invitation from the CCP to Hong Kong through special channels. He was surprised at first, and then laughed up: "Haha! The Communist Party has feelings and righteousness, and has not forgotten me, Mr. Huang!" A thought suddenly flashed in his mind: I should give Chairman Mao Zedong and his familiar Zhou Enlai and Ye Jianying some gifts!
So, Huang Zhenxia rang the bell and summoned the servant: "You ask Huang Liyuan to come."
Huang Liyuan is Huang Zhenxia's cousin and his personal bodyguard. Huang Zhenxia handed a gift list and a check book to Huang Liyuan: "You drive out and buy it according to the content listed above. After that, you go to Kellyte Foreign Company and directly find President Steve. He said that I would take the shipping rented by their foreign company to Tianjin the day after tomorrow and ask him to leave me a two-person cabin."
"Uncle went to the mainland to do business?"
"No, my purpose The place is not Tianjin, but to Peiping. "Huang Zhenxia told Huang Liyuan about the invitation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to go to Peking to attend the "July 1st Rally", and took care of Huang Liyuan: "When you go to book a ship cabin, don't reveal your real purpose in going to the mainland, just say that you can go to see friends."
After arriving at Kelite Foreign Company, Huang Liyuan called his girlfriend Peng Shuying and agreed to meet at "Qiao Marie Cafe" at 8 o'clock that night. This time Huang Liyuan is going to the mainland for a while, so he naturally has to say hello to the other party. Peng Shuying is an overseas Chinese who came to Hong Kong to work from , the Philippines, and is currently working as a handyman in a British company.
"A Yuan, do you have to go?"
"Yes."
"What are you going to do? Why do you have to accompany you?"
Huang Liyuan was able to go to Peking to attend the "July 1st Rally" of the Communist Party of China as Huang Zhenxia ordered and did not disclose to President Steve. However, he did not expect that he should keep the girlfriend in front of him secretly, so he said without hesitation. If Huang Liyuan knew the true identity and mission of his lovely girlfriend, he would probably strangle her to death!
It turns out that Peng Shuying is a spy from the Kuomintang Secret Service. She accepted the order of the top three months ago to come to Hong Kong as a Philippine overseas Chinese to carry out the special mission of assassinating Huang Zhenxia. According to the plan approved by Mao Renfeng himself, she first talked about "love" with Huang Zhenxia's personal bodyguard Huang Liyuan, and waited for an opportunity to start when the time was right. However, he accidentally obtained news from Huang Liyuan that the CCP will hold the "July 1st Rally" in Peking.
Mao Renfeng (center) and Jiang Jingguo (right)
Mao Renfeng learned of this information and was ashamed of treasure. He immediately went to Chiang Kai-shek's official residence for urgent consultation, proposing to send agents to Peking to carry out the special mission of assassinating the "Five Major Secretarys of the Communist Party of China". Chiang Kai-shek wrote a handwritten order on the spot and handed it over to the Bureau of Secretariat to execute.
Li Kenong knew the weight of this information and immediately asked to see Zhou Enlai late at night. After Zhou Enlai saw Li Kenong away, he immediately spoke with the Minister of Public Security Luo Ruiqing who was on a business trip.
Yang Qiqing
Please wait for the arrival of the assassin
Luo Ruiqing was accompanying Liu Shaoqi in Hebei at that time, and decided that Yang Qiqing, deputy minister who took over the daily work of the Ministry of Public Security in Peiping, was responsible for making arrangements for all matters in the investigation of the case. The Political Security Bureau handed over what Yang Qiqing told to Li Guoxiang, director of the Investigation Department of the Bureau, who has been engaged in political security for a long time.
Li Guoxiang repeatedly considered how to complete this important mission assigned by his superiors, and finally decided to issue this task to the first and fourth investigation teams of the Second Department of the Peking Public Security Bureau to complete.
After Cao Chunzhi and Cheng Runzhi, the chief and deputy captains of the first investigation team, returned to the Beiping Public Security Bureau, they made arrangements for setting up a telephone line on the Qianmen Building, and then they rode a motorcycle to the area in charge for on-site inspection. The two of them ran back and forth on the spot. The more they looked at the scene, the more they felt the weight on their shoulders: the road from Qianmen to Xiannongtan is not only long, but also densely populated and complex. There are countless alleys on both sides of the road and street, with high-rise buildings and various shops, and there is a hidden point suitable for sniping at the leader's convoy almost every three or five meters.
Cao and Cheng looked at each other and stopped. Cheng Runzhi slowly shook his head and said, "Old Cao, this matter is a big deal! How to do this warning in such a location and such an environment? It seems that we have to consider it from a different perspective."
The two carefully discussed and decided on the following three measures -
First, let all the police forces of the Public Security Bureau from Qianmen to Xiannongtan along the way to dispatch all the police forces of the Public Security Bureau to strictly control those who had assassination capabilities among the Kuomintang military and police special personnel who had registered their historical identities with the Public Security Bureau after the liberation of Peking. Temporary compulsory measures were taken for the key objects that were difficult to control. They were detained and then let them be restored to their freedom after the "July 1st Rally".
Second, the Public Security Bureau from Qianmen to Xiannongtan along the way was ordered to organize public security police, go down to the street and join forces with the residents' committee to mobilize the masses, pay close attention to the movements of migrant workers, and strictly register temporary household registration for foreign personnel within the management section. Any suspicious persons who are found to have unknown origin and incomplete certificates and procedures shall be reported to the branch investigation department immediately; those who are considered suspicious among the temporary household registration personnel but cannot take control measures, special measures may be taken, or they must leave Peking before July 1, or restrict personal freedom until the end of the assembly on the day of the "July 1st Rally". Any special measures that are intended to be taken must be submitted to each public security bureau, and the bureau director can only be implemented after approval.
Third, mobilize all secret forces and social forces that can be used, and focus on special suspects who go to Peking from other places or fugitive spies who have disappeared and appeared again.
Tan Zhengwen, director of the Beiping Municipal Public Security Bureau, made the decision on the spot to agree to implement this. (To be continued)
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