"The Tale of the West Chamber": "The only way to escape from death is to struggle, and it is difficult to lock the steel heart through the iron window." ”
The classic scene of "Infernal Affairs" remains in the hearts of many people, how difficult it is to live undercover, in order to keep their identity secret, they must completely separate themselves from their previous lives, leave familiar friends and family, leaving behind a complete stranger, fighting alone. The daily drama is like life, the mask worn on the face, after a long time, it is completely connected with the skin and flesh, and when the mask is peeled off again, it seems to forget what it used to be like.
Choosing to become an undercover agent, you may not be able to have your own life before you die, you may not have anyone to worry about after death, you may be misunderstood by the world as a bad person, and you will not have the opportunity to be justified until you die, this lonely and great sacrifice is often silent. The protagonists in spy movies often have decent identities and extraordinary skills. Exposed to the sun, they may be just ordinary journalists, businessmen, or peddlers, but in the dark they do things silently for the country, and perhaps all these truths have no chance to be revealed to the world, but they still have a lonely courage and go alone.
During the Anti-Japanese War, a large number of patriots emerged, who lurked in obscurity in different venues to dedicate themselves to the rise of China. Among these patriots was a communist, who, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, risked his life to send military equipment worth 10,000 taels of gold to the New Fourth Army.
The communist, ye Wenjin, was born in 1916 in Dongguan into a family of scholars, and was gifted and intelligent from an early age, with the name of a prodigy. Graduated from Fu Jen University in Beijing, when he was 20 years old, he chose to study abroad, the country he traveled was Japan, during which he met Yao Qianxiu, who was also a Chinese, and it was this classmate who introduced him to the Chinese Communist Party and met Xia Yan, at that time he voluntarily chose to join the underground party organization and became an excellent spy to provide intelligence for the party and the organization.
After returning to China, he relied on his background of studying abroad to be admitted to the newspaper of New China Daily and became a current affairs reporter. "New China News" was originally a newspaper under the Wang puppet government, specializing in doing things for the Wang family. Although the newspaper company is ostensibly handling public opinion for Wang Jingwei, all the newspapers, from the editor-in-chief down to the reporters, are all members of the underground party. The secret work of the newspaper, the spying on the internal information of the enemy, and the exchange of materials of our Party are also used as a cover for this newspaper. During the liberation period, the newspaper made great contributions to our Party.
During Ye Wenjin's work at the newspaper, the main task of the underground was to cooperate with the president, provide supplies to the New Fourth Army, and cover for the president. Once, together with the Japanese consulate in Shanghai, he borrowed five thousand yuan of military ticket money on the pretext of running a newspaper, but it was secretly transferred to the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu to solve the urgent need for this team's shortage of food. In the work of the newspaper, Ye Wenjin was quite optimistic because of his excellent writing, and was later transferred to the Shanghai Municipal Public Utilities Bureau Affairs Section as the chief of the section. After his promotion, he took advantage of his position and often befriended a large number of Japanese officers in the name of playing with Japanese classmates.
After Ye Wenjin had a funny personality, heroic and golden, and had a wide range of contacts, and after knowing more and more officers, Ye Wenjin found that there were also smuggling arms within the officers, and the Japanese army was loyal to the emperor, but people would always yearn for more gold and silver treasures. Most Japanese officers used their identities to trade with people they knew in bars and dance halls and other places, which may be very risky, military supplies are very tight on the front line, but they are also expensive, desperate to buy and sell for a lot of treasure, and arms trade is repeatedly prohibited.
When Ye Wenjin found out, he always wanted to buy arms for the use of our army, and this convenient transportation network played a huge role in China's anti-Japanese battlefield. Ye Wenjin and the Japanese officers resold arms more and more traded, he was happy, and many Japanese troops liked to trade with him. According to incomplete statistics, he used this transport network to transport fifty tons of arms, twenty gold bars and thousands of dollars to the New Fourth Army. Ye Wenjin used his wisdom to deal with others and got good results. On the surface, he worked hard for the Wang puppet government, but secretly did dangerous and important work.
After Japan's defeat in 1945, the civil war broke out, has been competing for a batch of advanced munitions, Ye Wenjin learned about the matter, will be his personal friendship with the Japanese army to the extreme, first grab this batch of precious materials, the Japanese army left a large number of unused machine gun rifles, grenade detonator explosives, etc., he will send this batch of materials to the New Fourth Army in its entirety.
A week after this shipment, the Japanese Navy had a large amount of leftover arms that wanted to be transferred, although the quantity of this batch of goods was not as large as the previous batch, but its military value was much higher than that of the previous batch, and the naval strength at that time lagged behind the Western powers. The good relations between the Japanese army and Ye Wenjin made him give priority to Ye Wenjin, the buyer, and the high-end military supplies such as steel helmet radio stations and explosives in the materials were transferred, and he gave all the materials worth 10,000 taels of gold to the New Fourth Army.
After the founding of New China, the party and the organization decided to let Ye Wenjin continue to lurk within the Kuomintang and go to Taiwan to stand by. He was not much different from his previous life as an undercover agent in another place, he still had a wide network of contacts, and there were many of his friends in the National Government, including a close friend named Jiang Fukao, a pilot of the captain of the Nationalist Army, who, with his encouragement and advice, jiang Fukao defected to the Communist Party and drove a C-46 heavy transport plane full of rifles back into the embrace of the motherland.
As Ye Wenjin deepened in the Kuomintang army, his status also became higher and higher, and the number of people who knew his identity gradually decreased, which made many intelligence agencies think that he was ostensibly a Taiwanese reporter, but in fact he was still working for the Wang puppet government.
After the end of the war, in May 1955, When Ye Wenjin was interviewed by a local newspaper in Nanning, China, he was arrested by the local police on the grounds that he was a spy, and sent him to prison, in which he never gave up the appeal and appealed his identity as a revolutionary, but at that time, the information conditions were relatively backward, coupled with the fact that there were very few people who knew his identity, resulting in the end, he spent twenty years in prison as a lackey of the Wang puppet government, and finally perhaps God was impressed by him, his upper line was finally found, and his crime was rehabilitated. His identity as a communist was finally revealed.
Ye Wenjin was full of vigor for many years, secretly supported our party, and did everything in his power to help our party's army, but these years of efforts were exchanged for twenty years of prison life, such an ending is inevitably a little sad, fortunately, in the end he contacted the organization, so he can be famous in history, and the life of ups and downs is also a legendary life.
Ye Wenjin's imprisonment disaster felt nothing more than this, bowing to the country and then it was his nature as a patriot, constantly putting himself in danger to transport supplies to the front, this is his bloody nature as a Chinese soldier, swallowing his anger for the country, lying down for decades, this is his choice as an underground party. Decades of underground life, he has never complained about giving up, but has hidden his true self in a hidden corner again and again, from darkness to light.
Resources:
《The Tale of the West Chamber》
Infernal Affairs