On December 25, 1912, Xie Shunzi, a celebrity in Guilin, Guangxi, added another son to his family, named Xie Hegeng.
Xie Shunzi is a late Xiucai, Yougong calligraphy painting, and the famous painter Xu Beihong and called the north and south two, there is such a deep family origin, Xie and Geng since childhood exported into chapters, the next pen into a chapter, is a well-known prodigy.
But at this time, Xie Shunzi definitely could not imagine that his son's future life would be a hundred times more legendary than his own!
After Xie Hegeng grew up, he went to Beiping to study, but it coincided with the Japanese invasion, and the vast North China could no longer lay a desk, and Xie Hegeng, who was full of enthusiasm, actively participated in the patriotic movement and often marched on the streets. Because his speeches were very contagious, they often made the onlookers boil with blood and tears.
After hearing Xie Hegeng's speech, a group of patriotic officers and men of the Northwest Army admired him very much and wrote him a letter in the name of "Anti-Japanese Soldiers of the Northwest Army" inviting him to the anti-Japanese front line in Chahar to serve the country.
Xie Hegeng was distressed that there was no way to serve the country, and after receiving this letter, he immediately gave up his studies and went all the way to the forefront of the anti-Japanese resistance at that time, devoting himself to the anti-Japanese allied army organized by patriotic generals Feng Yuxiang, Ji Hongchang, Fu Zuoyi and others.
Here, Xie he geng got to know Xuanxia's father, an underground worker of our party, and at the recommendation of Xuanxia's father, Xie and Geng gloriously joined the Communist Party.
At this time, Xie he geng was still just a small soldier of the anti-Japanese allied army, under the recommendation of Xuanxia's father, he met Feng Yuxiang, and after a conversation, Feng Yuxiang shouted that it was too big to use, and immediately wrote a letter to Ji Hongchang recommending Xie he geng.
After Ji Hongchang received him, he also found that he was indeed a wizard, so he appointed him as his confidential secretary.
In this way, Xie and Geng went from being a new recruit to eight levels in a row in one day and becoming a captain officer!
However, Chiang Kai-shek was still fighting against japan and had no intention of resisting, the anti-Japanese allies fought alone and eventually failed, General Ji Hongchang was also arrested and killed by the Kuomintang reactionaries, and Xie Hegeng and Xuanxia's father were forced to move.
At that time, the Red Army was engaged in the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression", but our Party had already seen that China's history had reached a new crossroads, and that the class contradictions in the country would inevitably be replaced by unprecedented national contradictions.
Because Xie hegeng was from Guangxi, the central government decided to send him and Xuanxia's father to Guangxi to infiltrate the Gui warlords to carry out work. Zhou Enlai and Ye Jianying also attached great importance to this, and decided that Xie Hegeng and Xuanxia's father would directly submit to their own leadership, and Zhou Enlai personally gave Xie Hegeng a meaningful code name - "Bayi".
In order to successfully break into the Gui clan, the best way was to adopt the common practice within the Kuomintang - the introduction of high-ranking officials, so Xie Hegeng and Xuanxia's father came to Mount Taishan, found General Feng Yuxiang, and asked him to write a letter of recommendation to Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi.
Feng Yuxiang gladly agreed, and, in order to increase the weight, Feng Yuxiang also wrote a letter to Li Jishen, a Cantonese tycoon, asking him to write a letter of recommendation to the two of them.
Feng Yuxiang and Li Jishen, the two big men, personally wrote a letter of recommendation, which was big enough, and Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi immediately received Xie and Geng. During the conversation, Bai Chongxi learned that Xie he and Geng's father was Xie Shunzi and that he and his father-in-law were old friends, and he felt even more cordial, so he left Xie and Geng by his side.
However, Xie and Geng were still just ordinary employees at this time, and there was still a long way to go from li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, so Xie and Geng actively created conditions for the two to look up to themselves.
Xie he and Geng soon wrote a book entitled "A Survey of China's Economy in the Semi-Colonial Colony", which was published under the name of co-authored with his classmate Ma Zhongfu (Bai Chongxi's brother-in-law), and also asked Bai Chongxi's senior counselor Liu Fei to write a preface. It is conceivable that as soon as this book came out, it immediately attracted the attention of Bai Chongxi.
What made Bai Chongxi even more astonished was that Xie hegeng also wrote a "Plan for Autonomous Self-Defense and Self-Sufficiency", which had a far-reaching impact on the construction of Guangxi, which was of great guiding significance; Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi decided that Xie he and Geng were a rare talent, and decided to give him a heavy responsibility, and specially issued him a "special access permit" that could directly enter their office without reporting.
Not only that, Bai Chongxi also introduced his wife's sister to Xie hegeng, so that Xie hegeng and Bai Chongxi became a brother-in-law, one step closer than his confidants.
On July 7, 1937, the July 7 Incident broke out, and China entered a period of all-out war of resistance, but at this time, the Gui warlords were still watching, and when Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to Li Bai to Nanjing to hold a military conference, the two were still worried about being detained by Chiang Kai-shek and did not dare to go.
At this time, Xie he geng did a meticulous persuasion work for Bai Chongxi, pointing out
At present, it is a new period of the Chinese nation's common war of resistance, everything is based on obedience to this overall situation, and even the Communist Party has sent people to Nanjing for a meeting. Even if Chiang Kai-shek is even more sinister, he will never dare to risk the world's great disobedience at such a moment and commit any wrongdoing, and if the Gui clan can actively participate in the great cause of the War of Resistance, it will inevitably make the people of the whole country re-understand the Gui clan, and the Gui clan can naturally take the opportunity to "lay out" in the whole country...
Xie Hegeng analyzed the head of the Tao, and Bai Chongxi suddenly realized that he decided to attend the meeting, accompanied by Xie Hegeng, as Bai Chongxi's personal confidential secretary.
After arriving in Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek also greatly appreciated Xie Hegeng's talent, and in order to win over the Gui clan, he even appointed Xie Hegeng as the sole secretary of the national defense conference, and all the documents handled were first-class top secret documents!
In the ensuing War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xie he geng repeatedly drafted very important speeches for Bai Chongxi, and after Xie and Geng finished writing them, they would be sent to Zhou Enlai at the first time, and after Zhou Enlai's approval and revision, they were handed over to Bai Chongxi's hands.
This secret is said to be unknown to Bai Chongxi until his death.
The first major contribution of the Gui clan in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was the famous Taierzhuang Victory, and the battle plan for the Taierzhuang Campaign was formulated by Xie hegeng. When Xie Hegeng was formulating the plan, in order to keep it secret, he also gave Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei, and the Communist Party three communication codes of "Miss Zhao, Li Niang, and Mr. Qian" respectively, which made the soldiers of the Gui clan feel catchy, and since then they have always called Chiang Kai-shek "Miss Zhao."
After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the far-sighted Communist Party turned its attention to the united front on the other side of the ocean, so, under zhou Enlai's arrangement, Xie Hegeng, as an external observer of the Kuomintang, and Wang Ying, a famous Chinese movie star at that time, and a group of young students, went to the United States. We have won a large amount of money and materials for our Party.
During their time in the United States, Xie and Geng and Wang Ying also had a love affair and married a revolutionary couple.
After the founding of New China, the United States was shrouded in the cloud of "McCarthyism," and Xie Hegeng and Wang Ying were also condemned as spies by the United States and thrown into prison.
Premier Zhou has always been concerned about them, and through unremitting efforts in all quarters, finally in 1955, through negotiations, China and the United States decided to exchange the US spies and prisoners of war arrested and captured by New China for our Party personnel and famous scientist Qian Xuesen and others who were detained by the United States.
After Xie and Geng returned to China, they were personally received by Premier Zhou, who tightly held their hands and said:
"You two have gloriously fulfilled the mission entrusted to you by the Party and made important contributions to the cause of the revolution!"
Later, Xie he geng served as the senior editor of World Knowledge and the head of the European and American group, and was also transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work under the leadership of Premier Zhou.
In 2006, Xie and Geng died at the age of 94, ending his legendary life.
#值得怀念的人物 #
(References: "Biography of Xie He geng", "Yanhuang Chunqiu", "Celebrity Biography")