Longtan Sanjie
Hu Di, who is a figure that must be mentioned in the history of secret work in the revolutionary years of the Communist Party of China, has a legendary experience in his short life, and is known as the "Three Masters of Longtan" with Qian Zhuangfei and Li Kenong. No one could have imagined that in the revolutionary years at that time, such a young man in his 20s would go deep into the Dragon Pond tiger's den with a fearless spirit to seek intelligence for the Chinese Communist Party. Compared with Qian Zhuangfei and Li Kenong, these two heroic martyrs, Hu Di has been talked about much less often, but his position in the history of the Chinese revolution will never be erased.
In 1924, when the 19-year-old Hu Di had just been admitted to a Chinese university, the undercurrent of Beijing city was surging at this time, and although Hu Di was only a young student, under the background of such a big era, his heart had already flooded with a fiery wave of national salvation. In this year, he met Qian Zhuangfei under the introduction of his friends, and this meeting laid the foundation for the deep friendship between the two for more than 10 years. Hu Di had already read Marxist-Leninist works as early as his school studies, and his heart was very eager for revolution, although Qian Zhuangfei at this time was only a young man working hard in Beijing, his enthusiasm for serving the country had never faded, and the two saw each other as before. In 1925, under the introduction of Qian Zhuangfei's relatives and friends, Hu Di and Qian Zhuangfei joined the Communist Party of China, thus beginning their legendary revolutionary career.
Qian Zhuangfei
Just two years after they joined the Chinese Communist Party, the Kuomintang brandished a butcher's knife and slashed at its close comrades-in-arms Communists, at a time when Beijing was under Zhang Zuolin's control and the political environment was cloudy. On April 28, 1927, Li Dazhao, hu di's idol, mentor, and one of the founders of the Communist Party of China, was secretly arrested and killed by Zhang Zuolin. The underground communist party in Beijing was in danger of being completely destroyed for a while, and in order to avoid the arrest of the Beijing government, Hu Di and Qian Zhuangfei traveled to Shanghai together.
Shanghai was not at peace at this time, and the CPC Central Committee had to survive and develop like a thin ice in the Shanghai concession, and in order to ensure the security of the central government, Zhou Enlai deliberately set up a central special section and pulled Hu and Qian, who had just come to Shanghai, into the special section. Hu Di was assigned to work in the Intelligence Section and hid in Shanghai as an "actor at the Jiangwan Kunlun Film Studio" to obtain intelligence. Through his role as an actor, Hu Di was able to often enter the banquet hall of the military and political leaders of the state government and obtain valuable intelligence in it, and in the past two years of his lurking career, Hu Di was always careful not to be discovered by the enemy.
Hu bottom
At the end of 1929, Hu Di met another legendary agent in the "Three Masters of Longtan", Li Kenong, who was then a member of the Propaganda Committee of the Shanghai Huzhong District of the Communist Party of China, and the two were fellow villagers in Anhui, and they quickly became friends at first sight. At this time, Qian Zhuangfei, who had been lurking in the state capital two years ago, flew to Shanghai to report on his work, so the three finally got to know each other under the introduction of Hu Di. Qian Zhuangfei lurked in the state government for a long time, doing the work of "dancing on the tip of the knife", and he was very excited to see Li Kenong, and he was finally able to establish contact with the party organization. At this time, Qian Zhuangfei confided an important piece of information to Li Kenong, that is, Xu En, who was serving in the Organization Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee, wanted to reuse him and arrange for him to be transferred to the Central Unification. Qian Zhuangfei realized that this was a perfect opportunity for the party organization to send people to infiltrate the secret service organization of the state government, so he suggested that Li Kenong could send more people to break into the Central Unification. As a good friend of Qian Zhuangfei and Li Kenong, Hu Di himself had lurking experience and became the best choice for a time, so Hu Di and Li Kenong were also assigned by the Central Special Branch to infiltrate the secret service organs within the state government, and the three of them jointly carried out secret work under the direct command of Zhou Enlai.
Li Kenong
Xu En, who had great trust in Qian Zhuangfei, also let Qian Zhuangfei carry out the secret work of the Kuomintang, so Qian Zhuangfei took the opportunity to establish the "Yangtze River News Agency" in Nanjing, Shanghai and other places. On the surface, this organ is a secret service organ of the Kuomintang, but in fact it is an intelligence transit station under the control of secret party members of the CPC, with Qian Zhuangfei as the president and Hu Di as the editor of the news agency. In 1930, Hu Di was sent to Tianjin by the state government to found the "Great Wall News Agency" and served as its president, with full responsibility for the Kuomintang intelligence agency in the north, so that Qian Zhuangfei was in Nanjing, Hu Di was in Tianjin, and Li Kenong was in Shanghai, all three of whom were lurking in the core secret service of the state government. With the approval of the Party Central Committee, the three of them also deliberately set up a party group, and as soon as Qian Zhuangfei and Hu Di had information, they immediately transferred it to Shanghai Li Kenong, who transferred it to the CPC Central Committee.
Xu Enzeng
From the end of 1929 to April 1931, Gu Shunzhang, the head of the special branch of the CPC Central Committee, was arrested and defected, and for more than a year Hu Di single-handedly engaged in secret work in Tianjin, with no comrades-in-arms, no comrades, and only a silent secret radio station and a sincere heart to serve the country. After Gu Shunzhang's arrest, Hu Di, Qian Zhuangfei, and others immediately called the Party Central Committee and ordered them to evacuate immediately, although their identities were exposed after Gu's rebellion, but the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was preserved. The Kuomintang side was naturally furious, and they could not accept that even Gu Shunzhang had defected, but they still could not crack the organs of the CPC Central Committee, so they called Hu Di and others "monsters" of the Chinese Communist Party and laid down a net to arrest them.
The former site of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee in Shanghai
Hu Di rushed from Tianjin to Shanghai immediately after Gu Shunzhang's arrest, and at the request of the Party Central Committee, went to the Central Soviet Region. He once worked as a film actor in the Soviet Union to give full play to his talents, engaged in literary and artistic propaganda work, he can not only write but also direct and perform, countless dramas created by him, in the Soviet area and the Red Army soldiers caused a warm response. In 1934, Hu Di followed the Central Red Army out of the Soviet Zone and embarked on a long long march, and as the director of the Political Protection Bureau of the Red Army, he did his best to ensure the safety of the Red Army's retreat. On the way, he repeatedly captured spies from the state who came to spy on intelligence, and obtained important enemy information from them. In June 1935, the Red Front and the Red Fourth Front met in Sichuan, and Hu Di continued to march with the Red Fourth Front, the army presided over by Zhang Guotao. But soon Zhang Guotao refused to recognize the authority of the central authorities, not only rejected the opinion of the CPC Central Committee to go north, but instead tried to set up another mountain in Sichuan, and Hu Di was very disgusted by this, and he once shouted that Zhang Guotao was a fascist in a high fever.
Former site of the Central Soviet District Government
Hu Di's sincere love for the party caused Zhang Guotao to hate him, especially when he shouted that Zhang Guotao was a fascist, which made Zhang Guotao remember and hate it. Zhang Guotao used the fact that Hu Di had been lurking in the state capital, slandered him as a Kuomintang agent, and in this name cancelled his horse riding treatment, and also removed his attendants, leaving the sick and weak Hu Di to walk with a big burden on his own. In September 1935, Zhang Guotao's ambitions could not be hidden, he tried to dominate the king in Sichuan, and purged party members in Sichuan who disobeyed him, and Hu Di was brutally killed by Zhang Guotao in the name of "Kuomintang agent". It was not until 1981, after a thorough investigation, that the Party Central Committee announced the restoration of Hu Di's reputation and the identity of a revolutionary martyr, that an unjust case of more than 40 years was revealed to the world.
Hu Di was only 30 years old when he died, and just a few months before his sacrifice, his good friend Qian Zhuangfei also died in the Long March, and two revolutionary comrades died one after another, leaving only one Li Kenong in the "Three Masters of Longtan". For Hu Di, for Qian Zhuangfei, and for tens of millions of martyrs, all we can do is to remember and inherit.
Ye Jianjun and Li Wanqing: "Top Ten Red Agents", Zhuhai Publishing House, 2009.
Zhang Yingsong, "The Prodigy Hu Di of the "Three Masters of Longtan" Fights in the Heart of the Enemy", Archives Heaven and Earth, No. 5, 2019.
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