Dai Li is definitely the most important person in his life for Mao Renfeng. Without Dai Li's support, Mao Renfeng would not have risen to the top, but Dai Li's existence also limited Mao Renfeng's ambition to a certain extent.
As the biggest ambitious person within the Military Control Commission, Mao Renfeng, the "smiling tiger" can go from a minor official to a later military control chief, relying on his own "forbearance, waiting, and ruthlessness".
Since Dai Li died in an airplane accident, the original undercurrents within the Military Control Commission have suddenly come to the open. Mao Renfeng, Zheng Jiemin and Tang Zong all showed strong interest in Dai Li's position.
In this process, how did Mao Renfeng step by step to eliminate dissidents and stand out? After the Kuomintang was defeated, how did Mao Renfeng lose in the battle with Chiang Ching-kuo? All this starts after Dai Li's death.
As the king of the Kuomintang agents, when Dai Li was alive, although there were many parties within the Military Control Commission, with "Boss Dai" there, all the struggles were carried out secretly.
After Dai Li crashed and died, whoever can become the new head of the Military Commission will inevitably be a major event for the Kuomintang.
According to the scene at that time, Mao Renfeng, Zheng Jiemin and Tang Zong were the "three giants" of the Military Control Commission. The three were divided into three factions: Zhejiang, Guangdong and Hunan, and the battle between them became increasingly fierce.
Zheng Jiemin
Among these three, Mao Renfeng has the least qualifications. Compared with veterans like Zheng Jiemin and Tang Zong, it seems that they don’t have much chance of winning.
But compared to the two, Mao Renfeng is powerful. If he can judge the situation, he will do so. If he doesn't take action, he will never show mercy. At this time, Mao Renfeng's strength was not enough to directly confront Zheng Jiemin and Tang Zong. Since the two were unable to directly resolve the two, Mao Renfeng was ready to take advantage of the conflict between them and reap the benefits of the fisherman.
In fact, since Dai Li died unexpectedly, who will take over the Military Control Commission is also a difficult problem for Chiang Kai-shek. He must balance the forces of all parties to maintain stability within the Military Control Commission.
Mao Renfeng knew Chiang Kai-shek's thoughts very well. In his opinion, although Zheng Jiemin was a veteran of the Military Control Commission, he had multiple positions and did not have much energy to really put it on the Military Control Commission. As long as he used a little trick later, he could solve Zheng Jiemin.
But Tang Zong is different from Zheng Jiemin. He is cautious and takes everything personally. He is also familiar with the Military Control Commission. He has deep resentment with Mao Renfeng. If Tang Zong is allowed to take charge of the Military Control Commission, Mao Renfeng will be difficult to turn over.
So, just when Chiang Kai-shek was hesitating, Mao Renfeng suggested to Chiang Kai-shek that said that most of the military commanders were in love with Zheng Jiemin and alienated Tang Zong, so it was most appropriate for Zheng Jiemin to replace Dai Li's position.
Chiang Kai-shek was still willing to believe Mao Renfeng's words, and Zheng Jiemin was the best choice at that time. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek nominated Zheng Jiemin as the acting director of the Military Affairs Bureau and Mao Renfeng as the deputy director, and then transferred Tang Zong from the Military Affairs Bureau.
Mao Renfeng used retreat as an advance, and seemed to take the initiative to withdraw from the battle and gave up the position of director to Zheng Jiemin. In fact, he used the hands of Chiang Kai-shek and Zheng Jiemin to squeeze out the biggest threat of Tang Zong from the Military Control Commission. After becoming the deputy director, Mao Renfeng's remaining task was to bring Zheng Jiemin down.
On October 1, 1946, the Military Affairs Bureau was officially renamed the Bureau of Secretariat. Zheng Jiemin is still the acting director and Mao Renfeng is still the deputy director. At this time, Mao Renfeng began to point his finger at Zheng Jiemin.
When Zheng Jiemin celebrated his 50th birthday, Mao Renfeng made a birthday wish for Zheng Jiemin with great fanfare, and secretly encouraged many spy families to take their children and go to beg for food from Director Zheng. It was forced to go to Shanghai to avoid his birthday two days before his birthday, which was really a bit embarrassed.
And afterwards, Mao Renfeng immediately secretly reported Zheng Jiemin's extravagant birthday to Chiang Kai-shek, which made Chiang Kai-shek, who had always been "self-righteous and honest".
But Zheng Jiemin quickly figured out that it was Mao Renfeng behind it. As a veteran of the Military Control Commission, Zheng Jiemin was naturally not a good-looking lamp. In order to retaliate against Mao Renfeng, Zheng Jiemin killed the management section chief of the General Affairs of the Zhejiang faction in the name of stealing and selling foreign locks.
At this point, the conflict between Mao Renfeng and Zheng Jiemin officially broke out in full swing, and the scheming Mao Renfeng had already secretly collected materials embezzled by Zheng Jiemin from all aspects, and then reported them to Chiang Kai-shek one by one.
In a furious manner, Chiang Kai-shek removed his position as director of the Secret Service and transferred to the position of deputy director of the Ministry of National Defense who had no power, while Mao Renfeng became the director of the Secret Service as he wished.
Tang Zong
At this time, although Mao Renfeng got his wish and squeezed away Zheng Jiemin, he had a deep foundation within the Military Control Commission. If his power cannot be completely eradicated, it will be a huge hidden danger in the future.
So Mao Renfeng pointed his finger at Zheng Jiemin's confidant in the Bureau of Secrets, Ma Hansan.
Ma Hansan came from the military and joined the Northwest Army of Feng Yuxiang in his early years, and later defected to Chiang Kai-shek and joined the Military Command organization. He has served as the stationmaster of the Beiping Station of the Military Control Commission and the director of the Arrangement Department of the Military Control Commission.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Ma Hansan served as the director of the Beiping headquarters' anti-traitor committee. Dai Li went to Pingjin twice to inspect, and he returned home with a full load of jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, and all of them were given by Ma Hansan.
After Dai Li's death, Ma Hansan immediately leaned on Zheng Jiemin. Zheng Jiemin's wife Ke Shufang visited Peking and bought antiques, silk, etc., all of which were paid by Ma Hansan.
In addition, Ma Hansan also invested in building a villa for Zheng Jiemin on Mogan Road, Nanjing.
Soon after, Zheng Jiemin sponsored, Ma Hansan became the director of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Peking, and Ma Hansan became a cadre under Zheng Jiemin. Later, while Zheng Jiemin and Mao Renfeng were fighting for power and profit, Ma Hansan gathered a group of backbones of the Military Control Commission to publicly support Zheng Jiemin, and even shouted the slogan of "being Zheng and overturning Mao".
Now Zheng Jiemin has lost power. With Mao Renfeng's character of revenge, he must take revenge. So after becoming the director of confidentiality, he immediately attacked Ma Hansan.
Mao Renfeng secretly reported to Chiang Kai-shek for corruption and money and efforts to Li Zongren's campaign. Chiang Kai-shek was furious and approved Mao Renfeng to kill Ma Hansan. At this point, the Military Control Commission was completely controlled by Mao Renfeng.
Overall, the reason why Mao Renfeng can achieve the final victory in his path to seizing power depends on his own "tolerance, waiting, and ruthlessness"
Few people know that Mao Renfeng is actually not a veteran of the Military Control Commission. When he entered the Military Control Commission, he was already 40 years old. However, it only took him 13 years from a slasher to a throne as director of the secret bureau of the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense, which is a miracle for the professional profession of a special agent who pays attention to qualifications.
In the eyes of outsiders, Mao Renfeng has a weak personality and an ordinary background without strong personal charm. Many people don't take him seriously.
Colleagues always make fun of him in person or in private, but Mao Renfeng heard it but took it as if he was in the ear; his superior slapped him in public, and Mao Renfeng also smiled calmly; even his wife went to bed with another man, he said that this would accumulate experience and serve him better.
The word "名" can be used to the fullest, because he firmly believes that "名" can avoid disasters and can also lay a good path for promotion and wealth.
And unlike other Kuomintang members' insatiable greed, Mao Renfeng lives in simplicity and is cautious in her daily life, and rarely takes the initiative to fight for anything. He knew very clearly that he had little experience and was not super talented, so he was very patient in the face of major events and just accumulated his capital silently.
But Mao Renfeng is definitely not a good man and trusting woman. He remembers every insult he has caused to him in his heart. When he gains power, he will take revenge wildly. The most typical thing here is his approach to his wife Xiang Yingxin.
Xiang Yingxin was originally the wife of Dai Li. She was as beautiful as a flower and was capable of doing things. As we all know, Dai Yunong, Boss Dai is famous for being lustful, so Xiang Yingxin, who is good at singing and dancing, was "attention" by Dai Li early, and soon the two became lovers.
Xiang Yingxin's husband was forced to divorce Dai Li's power. After the divorce, Xiang Yingxin became Dai Li's mistress. Dai Li later directly made Xiang Yingxin an excellent female spy, wanting to use the beauty trick to obtain information.
Later, in order to win over Mao Renfeng and to monitor him, Xiang Yingxin arranged for Mao Renfeng to be his wife. Although he is a wife again, Dai Li and Xiang Yingxin still maintain a despicable underground relationship.
But Mao Renfeng turned a blind eye to this and even took the initiative to provide convenience to the two. Therefore, he has been ridiculed in the officialdom. He even received "praise" from Dai Li, calling him an "honest man".
But in fact, Mao Renfeng has been enduring and waiting for opportunities. Sure enough, after Dai Li passed away, Mao Renfeng immediately attacked his wife.
The relationship between Xiang Yingxin and Dai Li helped Mao Renfeng to rise to the top, but it also brought him a lifetime of shame. So after he gained power, he locked Xiang Yingxin in a mental hospital and claimed that Xiang Yingxin was suffering from mental illness.
The reason why Mao Renfeng did not kill Xiang Yingxin may be because she gave birth to 8 children for herself.
It can be said that Mao Renfeng's desire for power is extremely perverted. In order to obtain power, he can sacrifice anything. But it is precisely because of this extreme desire for power that Mao Renfeng ended in his later years.
Just after Mao Renfeng defeated Zheng Jiemin and took charge of the Military Control Commission alone, compared with Mao Renfeng's pride, the Kuomintang's life is getting harder and harder. Under the strong offensive of the People's Liberation Army, the Kuomintang retreated step by step and was eventually completely driven out of the mainland and lived in Taiwan. After coming to Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek also reflected on the reasons for his failure. In his opinion, the failure on the secret front was an important reason for the final failure of the National Army.
In fact, this is indeed the case. The Military Control Commission was too corrupt at that time. Therefore, after Chiang Kai-shek was crowned the "President of the Republic of China" in Taiwan in 1950, the first thing he had to do was to reform the Military Control Commission.
At this time, Mao Renfeng also became the director of the "Secret Bureau". After taking office, Mao Renfeng used "framing" methods to shoot Li Zongren "acting president" on the charge of collusion with bandits. Xu Zhidao, the former director of the Confidentiality Bureau, was appointed at the time, and eliminated his major troubles.
After re-controlling the Military Control Commission, Mao Renfeng also wanted to have a thorough reform, so he racked his brains to formulate a detailed plan and submitted it to Chiang Kai-shek.
Mao Renfeng didn't know at this time, and Chiang Kai-shek's inner thoughts were slightly different from him. While Chiang Kai-shek wanted to clean up the military regime, he also imitated the Communist army and also "highlighted politics".
But after Chiang Kai-shek experienced a crushing defeat at this time, he could no longer believe in the original team. In order to ensure that everything was foolproof, Chiang Kai-shek handed over this task to his eldest son Chiang Ching-kuo and asked him to serve as the director of the "General Political Department of the Ministry of National Defense".
Dai Li
Although the official title is not high, its power exceeds that of the generals of the three armies. Chiang Kai-shek also gave Xiao Jiang two important powers: the first is to supervise the planning of intelligence services; the second is to send spies to the mainland.
But these two powers have always been what Mao Renfeng values the most. In this way, it is equivalent to seizing Mao Renfeng's power in disguise.
, and Chiang Ching-kuo, who was in power, also began to target the older generation of military and political leaders, vigorously rejecting dissidents. The first thing he started was the CC system headed by the Chen brothers.
One day, Chiang Ching-kuo and Chen Cheng invited two CC generals Yu Jingtang and Zhang Daofan.
After the meal, Jiang Jingguo left first. Chen Cheng talked with the two people for a while and said, "Director Jiang, please tell me the two of you."
"What do you say?" Yu and Zhang knew that Xiao Jiang and Chen Lifu had a deep conflict, and they didn't know what Chiang Jingguo did.
"Chen Lifu is a bastard!" Chen Cheng said viciously.
"Yes." Yu and Zhang were shocked.
Jiang Jingguo's words scared Chen Lifu so much that he no longer dared to ask about party affairs, so he went to New York to raise chickens soon.After Chen Lifu left, his "Central Commission" spy organization was also annexed by Chiang Ching-kuo.
As the saying goes: Rabbit dies and foxes are sad, and things hurt their species. Chen Lifu's fate was in front of him, which shocked Mao Renfeng a lot. Since Chiang Ching-kuo was ordered by his father to carry out intelligence work, Mao Renfeng has always felt the threat from Chiang.
Now Chen Lifu has fallen. Although they were opponents before, they are now facing a common opponent. Once Chen Lifu falls, the next one is Mao Renfeng.
Sure enough, not long after Chen Lifu left the United States, Chiang Ching-kuo publicly proposed to combine the two major spy organizations of the Military Commission and the Central Commission for Development into one and coordinate management.
's move undoubtedly caused Mao Renfeng's life. As we mentioned earlier, Mao Renfeng is a person who is extremely greedy for power. In order to obtain power, he endured it for many years. Now it is impossible to let him hand over power.
In Mao Renfeng's opinion, I can charge for the sake of your Jiang family dynasty, but I must not take away the rights in my hands.
So, Mao Renfeng, who always believed in "forbearance, waiting, and ruthlessness", couldn't hold back any more. In his opinion, if there is no struggle at this time, then there will be only the result of being swallowed by Xiao Jiang.
So Mao Renfeng has since claimed in many public occasions, even at the Central Standing Committee of the Kuomintang: "Information work is a very professional thing, and outsiders cannot be allowed to lead experts."
The goal of these words is very clear, that is, to say it for Xiao Jiang. When these words reached Chiang Ching-kuo's ears, Chiang Ching-kuo was also very angry.
, who had already snatched the Central Committee from Chen Lifu, was about to find an opportunity to deal with Mao Renfeng, but he never expected that Mao Renfeng would attack the first one.
What Xiao Jiang did not expect was that Mao Renfeng's counterattack was not just verbal talk.
At that time, Jiang Ching-kuo's subordinates learned through intelligence that an intelligence officer from the Bureau of Secrets was detained for reselling gold. Chiang Ching-kuo moved to the top and sent someone to execute the intelligence officer. However, because the incident was rushed, the person was arrested wrongly and an unjust case was created.
Mao Renfeng seized Jiang Jingguo's handle, and while instructed the families of the unjustly deceased to complain everywhere, he instructed his subordinates to fan the flames and incite some people and groups to march and demonstrate in Taipei.
After the incident broke out, Chiang Kai-shek asked about it, and Mao Renfeng took the opportunity to sort out a piece of materials and pointed the finger at Chiang Ching-kuo. He counted his work mistakes, took the opportunity to re-produce the old tune, and emphasized that the reform of the Military Commission must be handled by professionals.
Jiang Jingguo
After seeing it, Chiang Kai-shek was also very disappointed and called his son to scold him. Chiang Ching-kuo was respectful to Chiang Kai-shek and repeatedly admitted his mistakes, but after he came down, he hated Mao Renfeng even more.
Seeing Mao Renfeng frequently use her tricks, Xiao Jiang is naturally not a good-looking lamp. Since you are playing with Mao Renfeng, don’t blame me for being polite.
So, Jiang Ching-kuo learned from his mistakes and decided to give Mao Renfeng a trick to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot. He brought Ye Xiangzhi, director of the Second Department of the Secret Service, to entrust him with important tasks, and in this way, he achieved the goal of separating the Mao Renfeng power.
Mao Renfeng learned about Chiang Ching-kuo's actions, and saw that Ye Xiangzhi had turned to Chiang Ching-kuo, so she simply did not do anything. Since he could not use it for himself, he would never strengthen his strength for Chiang Ching-kuo.
So Mao Renfeng used Chiang Kai-shek's "purge of discipline" to search for all the evidence of Ye Xiangzhi's acceptance of 170 gold bars, and prepared to submit it to Chiang Kai-shek in person.
According to the family rules of the Military Control Commission, Ye Xiangzhi will neither submit it to the Military Law Department of the Army nor to the local judicial investigation and punishment, but will be executed as a rebellion by extremely cruel means.
Ye Xiangzhi was panicked and found Jiang Jingguo for help crying.Chiang Ching-kuo finally pulled Ye Xiangzhi to his place, so naturally he would not let Mao Renfeng succeed easily. So on the one hand, he comforted Ye Xiangzhi, and on the other hand, he took advantage of Mao Renfeng's report to Chiang Kai-shek, and found Chiang Kai-shek first and asked Ye Xiangzhi over.
When Mao Renfeng brought Ye Xiangzhi's materials to find Chiang Kai-shek, he didn't expect that when Chiang Kai-shek saw the materials, he became angry: "What are you doing? Ye Xiangzhi is obviously a good cadre, why do you have to mess with him?"
Mao Renfeng knew that Xiao Jiang had already taken the lead and seized the opportunity. So Mao Renfeng didn't dare to argue and left in shame.
This time, he lost.
After that, Mao Renfeng went to ask Soong Mei-ling again. Through Soong Mei-ling's pleading, Chiang Ching-kuo finally temporarily stopped his plan to destroy the Secret Service. However, the relationship between him and Mao Renfeng was not able to ease.
Although Mao Renfeng temporarily escaped from the risk of being eliminated by Chiang Ching-kuo, she was unable to recover the decline of the Military Control Commission of . The failure of several subsequent missions, especially the failure of the assassination of Premier Zhou Enlai before the Bandung Conference, made Chiang Kai-shek completely lose trust in Mao Renfeng.
At this time, Jiang Jingguo, who was sitting on the mountain watching the tiger, saw that the time was ripe, and he was once again preparing to completely seize the power of the Military Control Commission from Mao Renfeng.
Jiang Jingguo and Mao Renfeng
Seeing Jiang Jingguo coming in full force, Mao Renfeng certainly would not sit still and wait for death. But now I am still at a disadvantage. What if I can turn the situation around?
In desperation, Mao Renfeng completely lost her usual calmness and plotted to kidnap Chiang Ching-kuo, attempting to use the rogue means used by the Military Control Commission to give color to the other party.
The person in charge of this matter is Mao Renfeng's confidant Du Changcheng.
Du Changcheng was originally a greedy person. When he saw that Mao Renfeng and Jiang Jingguo were incompatible, he came up with this idea in order to please Mao Renfeng, and used the old methods of the Military Control Commission to kidnap Jiang Jingguo. Then Mao Renfeng came forward to rescue Chiang Ching-kuo.
In this way, one can teach Chiang Ching-kuo a lesson, and the other can also seek credit from Chiang Kai-shek, indicating that Mao Renfeng and his military command are still trustworthy and entrusted.
It is logical that Mao Renfeng's alertness would never agree with this idea, but Mao Renfeng had already been blinded by the fact that he had no way out of his way out by Jiang Jingguo, and he did not consider the consequences of failure.
As expected, Du Changcheng was not confidential when he was conspiring in specific operations and was found to be investigated by Chiang Ching-kuo for suspected smuggling of gold. Everything was dug out at once. After learning about Du Changcheng's plan, Jiang Jingguo felt ecstatic. This was an excellent opportunity to bring down Mao Renfeng!
So, he immediately ordered someone to torture Du Changcheng. After receiving Du Changcheng's confession and specific plan to kidnap him, he wrote it into a report and submitted it to Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Kai-shek could have turned a blind eye to the battle between Chiang Ching-kuo and Mao Renfeng, but now Mao Renfeng's kidnapping is tied to his son's head, which Chiang Kai-shek could not tolerate.
So, he criticized the report for "punishing the Military Control Commission and shooting Du Great Wall immediately." Then, in a rage, Chiang Kai-shek even prepared to detain Mao Renfeng.
This time, Mao Renfeng completely reaped his own consequences. In the end, thanks to Soong Mei-ling and other Kuomintang veterans, he saved his life.
But at this time Mao Renfeng was still completely defeated by Chiang Ching-kuo, and was forced to hand over all the teams of the Secret Bureau, which was led by Chiang Ching-kuo. The Secret Bureau was officially changed to the Kuomintang Military Intelligence Bureau.
As a result, the military command that has been in the intelligence community for decades collapsed. Mao Renfeng himself only had the air rank of a lieutenant general in the army. Not only did he lose his glory in the past, but he even did not come to the door for his spies who had always been close to him.
At this time, Mao Renfeng also felt the warmth and coldness of human feelings and the coldness of the world. Those who used to surround him are now gone.Soon, he had always had a good appetite and suddenly felt unwell. The doctor diagnosed him with advanced liver cancer and survived for at most half a year.
, Mao Renfeng himself has always been a jealous doctor and is very superstitious, so he refused to be hospitalized and turned to various folk remedies.
On December 11, 1956, Mao Renfeng, who was full of hope, suddenly vomited and had diarrhea and rolled from the bed to the ground after taking herbal remedies. After being rushed to Taiwan’s Three Army General Hospital, Mao Renfeng has entered a state of dying.
Doctors have failed in liver and lung functions according to their examination, mainly due to improper use of the drug. At 11 o'clock that night, the notorious military commander took his last breath, at the age of 58.
The cause of Mao Renfeng's death was not announced until the end of the 1980s. The executioner, whose hands were stained with the blood of the people, did not escape the judgment of fate and ended his life in humiliation. After Mao Renfeng passed away, his wife Xiang Yingxin, who was tortured, soon walked out of her sadness and got together with Chiang Kai-shek's chief guard Yu Jishi.
Xiang Yingxin not only enjoyed her old age in Taiwan, but also raised all of Mao Renfeng's children and became good talents.
The most accomplished ones are the eldest son and the third son.
Mao Renfeng's eldest son Mao Yunan has been an excellent student with excellent character and academic performance since childhood. He graduated from Cornell University in the United States and has a bachelor's degree in materials science, a master's degree in metallurgical engineering and a master's degree in business administration from MIT.
After graduation, Mao Yunan did not enter politics, but instead switched to the mall. He once served as chairman of Foxconn and chairman of HP China. He is a recognized leader in the global telecommunications industry.
The third son Mao Shunan is the most disobedient among Mao Renfeng's many children. He studied abroad with his elder brother and pursued his doctorate.
has always been committed to cooperation and exchanges between China and the United States, and is a famous patriotic overseas Chinese. In the early stages of reform and opening up, external investment was needed because the country was in ruins. So Mao Shunan mobilized overseas Chinese to return to China to build factories, support national construction, and make his own contribution to the development of New China.
Looking at Mao Renfeng's life, she has always stood opposite to the people. Her miserable situation in her later years is really a cycle of Britain, and she should be rewarded. It is hard for us to imagine what it would be like to live by his side. But whether it is Mao Yunan or Mao Shunan, they are fundamentally not affected by their father's extreme personality.
As they grew up, they have created a career through their own efforts, which is not easy. Facts have proved that everything in the past has been buried in the long river of history. How to grasp the present is what every descendant of Yan and Huang should do the most now. I believe that in the near future, Taiwan will return to the embrace of the motherland, because this is our common expectation!
