In the 1940s, Ye Wenjin was ostensibly a reporter for the New China Daily, but in fact he was a patriotic young man who had returned from staying in Japan. In 1941, Ye Wenjin was appointed as an assistant to president Yuan Shu (an underground party member). In the following four years, he successively served as the secretary of the Shanghai branch of the East Asian Union and the section chief of the pseudo-Shanghai Municipal Public Utilities Bureau, maneuvering around the Upper Echelons of japan and puppets, and rescued a large number of our party personnel.
In 1945, Japan announced its surrender. Ye Wenjin used the name of the Shanghai Office of the Commander's Headquarters of the Third Theater to receive five military trucks, detonator guns, and more than 500 boxes of explosives from the Japanese Navy, which were directly delivered to the New Fourth Army garrison at one time. Soon after, Ye Wenjin repeated the same technique, accepted Japanese materials in the same way, and delivered more than one hundred and ninety machine guns, a large number of pistols, and military radio stations to the New Fourth Army.
The sum of the military supplies that Ye Wenjin had transported many times before and after was enough for the New Fourth Army to continue fighting in Jiangnan and Jiangbei for a long time. The total amount of materials transported in total weighs 50 tons, equivalent to a value of more than "10,000 taels of gold", which is a first-class hero on the espionage front of our army! However, six years after liberation, Ye Wenjin was suddenly arrested on charges of "betraying the motherland and betraying the interests of the nation." He has been detained because of his involvement in the Pan Hannian case and the fact that his identity has never been confirmed. He was not rehabilitated until February 1980, and died the same year, posthumously recognized as a member of the Party in 1937.
1. Dancing on the tip of the knife
Ye Wenjin was born in 1916, a native of Daojiao, Dongguan. In the early years, he studied in Japan, where Ye Wenjin was introduced by his classmates and met Xia Yan, a member of our party. At that time, on the eve of the outbreak of the 918 Incident, Chinese students studying in Japan were discriminated against in the local area and were angry in their hearts. Xia Yan's arrival opened a door for Chinese students studying in Japan to serve the motherland. Since then, Ye Wenjin has embraced Marxist philosophical ideas, secretly believing that to reverse China's decline, it is necessary to rely on the spirit of communism. Subsequently, Ye Wenjin, with the help of Xia Yan, secretly joined our party.
Since From the very beginning, Ye Wenjin was secretly trained as an agent in the organization, only a very few people in the party knew about his joining the party. This laid the groundwork for his unfortunate encounter after liberation. In 1937, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, Ye Wenjin organized the "Salvation Society for Students Studying in Japan" in Shanghai and published patriotic and progressive articles in the newspaper. Later, he accepted the organizational arrangement and went to Hong Kong to work as a reporter in newspapers and magazines such as New China Daily and East Asia and China.
During his tenure as a reporter for the New China Daily, Ye Wenjin, on the pretext of the lack of funds for running the newspaper, defrauded the Japanese Consulate in Hong Kong of 5,000 yuan from the "fee for running the newspaper" and secretly sent it to the hands of our party figures to help underground party members and their families in Hong Kong maintain their lives. Later, Ye Wenjin traveled back and forth between Shanghai and Hong Kong, and between the top brass of the Japanese army, and successively served as the secretary of the "Shanghai Branch of the East Asian Alliance" and the "section chief of the pseudo-Shanghai Municipal Public Utilities Bureau." He used his position as a cover to rescue those arrested by our Party.
After Japan's surrender in 1945, Ye Wenjin used the name of the Shanghai Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Third Theater of Operations to receive military supplies from the Japanese Navy on two large scales and in a planned manner. Because he had been serving in the Japanese and puppet departments for a long time, he was not suspected by the Japanese at all, and finally the Japanese took the initiative to carry this batch of materials to his truck.
Ye Wenjin twice held the guan defense of the "Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters of the Third Theater", and with five new Fourth Army drivers, he swung through the Kuomintang blockade line and directly sent the general fire to the front line of the New Fourth Army. A total of more than 50 tons of ammunition, military radios, telescopes and other munitions were delivered to the New Fourth Army, worth more than 10,000 taels of gold. The front-line commander of the New Fourth Army wrote back to thank him and said: This batch of materials is enough for front-line operations for two or three years.
II. The "Patriotic Merchants" of the Civil War
In 1946, Ye Wenjin was sent to the northeast to work underground. Due to the destruction of the underground organization in the northeast, he was ordered to cover Zhang Weixian, Pan Hannian and Dong Hui to go south to Beiping. After arriving in Beiping, Ye Wenjin collapsed the Peace Hotel and reported to Comrade Li Kenong. After that, he stayed in Guangzhou, traveling back and forth between Sui and Hong Kong, engaged in import and export trade, and secretly prepared for intelligence work.
During this time, he used Greek ships to transport large quantities of gasoline, diesel and steel, and mint paper through Hong Kong to the Northern China Theater of Operations. At the same time, while serving as yu tong manager in Hong Kong, Ye Wenjin also infiltrated the enemy camp alone, plotted against a Kuomintang air force captain Jiang Fukao, and piloted a huge US-made transport aircraft to revolt. He also instigated the kuomintang Dongguan self-defense brigade to revolt before the front, and personally carried out the front command. The Kuomintang troops, who led more than three hundred people, went out of the city to accept the reorganization of our army.
Since Ye Wenjin engaged in commerce and trade in Hong Kong, as long as the organization needs, no matter how much difficulty it faces, transporting arms, transporting gasoline, paper stamps, and finally even transporting political leaders, Ye Wenjin has always been able to complete the task beautifully.
Third, unjust imprisonment will eventually be revealed
After liberation, Ye Wenjin, with his vision of a new China, resolutely gave up his comfortable life in Hong Kong and returned to the mainland to become an ordinary reporter at the grassroots level, but unexpectedly he was suddenly arrested and imprisoned in 1955, and the crime was "betraying the motherland and betraying the interests of the nation"! Ye Wenjin could not accept this crime no matter what, because once he admitted that he was a "traitor", it would be difficult to confess to those comrades who had fought with him in the past! He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. After 12 years in captivity, he was released from prison, but because of the time of joining the party, he had to "listen to the situation."
Subsequently, Ye Wenjin finally waited for the result, and the stigma of "traitor" on his body was purged, but as a result, he was treated as a cadre at or above the Kuomintang regiment level and was "leniently treated", which really made Ye Wenjin feel very helpless. It was not until 1980 that Ye Wenjin's repeated complaints were highly valued, and the Supreme People's Court finally rehabilitated him and restored his reputation. But in the same year, he died of a heart attack!
epilogue
Spy heroes are the most difficult to be, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, our party had a large number of spies like Ye Wenjin who were fighting in the front line. In order to work, they must gain the trust of the enemy, so they are ostensibly "in cahoots" with the enemy, making it difficult to distinguish between true and false. Ye Wenjin joined the party in the 1930s, went in and out of the wolf's den, sacrificed himself to feed the tiger, danced on the tip of the knife all his life, and made indelible contributions to China's War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation.
The most rare thing is that after liberation, Ye Wenjin did not seek high-ranking officials, gave up the superior environment in Hong Kong, returned to the mainland, and was willing to become a most ordinary reporter. Unfortunately, he encountered ups and downs in his life, and after he was rehabilitated, he died soon after. It wasn't until the year of his death that his identity was finally confirmed!