Shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Zeng Xisheng, secretary of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, received a telegram from his old comrade-in-arms Liang Mingde in his office. The content is: He learned that his son was working in the Anhui Youth League and asked Zeng Xisheng for help in finding his son.
As the secretary of the provincial party committee, this request Zeng Xisheng could not resign. Let's not say that he and Liang Mingde are comrades-in-arms in hardship and sharing, and have the friendship of life and death. Even ordinary revolutionary comrades-in-arms must help in finding such a thing as a son.
Figure | Zeng Xisheng
Therefore, Zeng Xisheng found Xiang Nan, who was then the secretary of the Anhui Youth League Committee of the Youth League, and said to him: "My old comrade-in-arms Liang Mingde entrusted me to help find his son, it is said that he is working in your Youth League, you are the secretary of the Youth League Committee, I will hand over this matter to you, hurry to find the league cadre surnamed Liang, the sooner the better." ”
Zeng Xisheng couldn't have imagined that the person he was looking for was far away in the sky, close at hand!
I believe that some readers and friends have already guessed, yes, Liang Mingde asked Zeng Xisheng to find the person, that is, Xiang Nan.
Xiang Nan is Liang Mingde's biological son!
Figure | Xiangnan
As An old comrade-in-arms of Liang Mingde, Zeng Xisheng had naturally seen his son before, but why didn't Xiang Nan recognize him in front of his eyes? Why are liang mingde and Xiang Nan not the same surname?
The reason for this is a long story, please look back slowly.
(1) The truth comes out
After Xiang Nan received this task, he did not dare to be sloppy, and immediately went to the confidential room of the party committee to read the telegram sent by Liang Mingde. After returning to the Youth League Committee, Xiang Nan began to look for qualified figures.
However, the conditions given by Zeng Xisheng were too broad, only saying that it was surnamed Liang, and there was no other specific information, and Xiang Nan's work stagnated for a while.
Not long after, Zeng Xisheng waited a little impatiently, and at a cadre meeting held by the provincial party committee, he urged Xiang Nan: "Did I find the cadre surnamed Liang that I entrusted you to find?" ”
Xiang Nan immediately had a bitter melon face and said, "After you confessed, I have been looking for it." I have turned over the roster of cadres of the Provincial Youth League several times, and there are many surnames of Liang, but I can't tell which one it is, can you provide some more specific information? ”
Zeng Xisheng felt that Xiang Nan's words were reasonable, and he really didn't say it carefully before, which made him embarrassed.
It is only said that the surname Liang is indeed more difficult to find, and I also know the situation of some comrades-in-arms Liang Mingde's son. So after the meeting, Zeng Xisheng left Xiang Nan to talk to him about it.
According to his understanding of his old comrade-in-arms Liang Mingde, Zeng Xisheng gave several pieces of information: The old comrade-in-arms Liang Mingde was a Native of Fujian, who came to Shanghai in the 1930s and lived in the area of the Eight Immortals Bridge of the Great World.
Xiang Nanyi was surprised to hear this and said, "This is also too coincidental, I am also from Fujian and have also lived in the Eight Immortals Bridge." ”
Zeng Xisheng was also a little surprised when he heard it, thinking that he really didn't understand Xiang Nan's situation, so he asked him: "Where do you live in the Eight Immortals Bridge?" What did your father do? ”
Xiang Nan replied: "My father was in business, and at that time our family lived at 24 Vermont Ludrunli in the French Concession. ”
Figure | Central Patrol House of the French Concession
This was Zeng Xisheng's turn to be surprised, because the place Xiang Nan mentioned was not an ordinary residential house, but an underground liaison station of our party in Shanghai at that time!
When Zeng Xisheng was working in Shanghai, he would often go here to pass on information. Zeng Xisheng looked at the young man in front of him and suddenly felt a vague sense of déjà vu.
He continued to ask, "I've been there too, at the home of a big boss, how could you live there?" ”
Xiang Nan said: "I don't know why our family lives there, I was still young at that time, and then I studied in Nanjing, and I only went back to live there for a few days during the holidays." ”
Zeng Xisheng was more and more suspicious of what relationship between his old comrade-in-arms Liang Mingde and Xiang Nan in front of him, could it be that the two of them...
Zeng Xisheng asked again, "Since your father is in business, he has a lot of friends, right?" Who are the people who usually come to the family? ”
"There are too many people coming and going at home, and I can't tell you what they do."
Zeng Xisheng continued to ask, "Then, among his friends, is there a bearded man who often comes to the house?" ”
As soon as he heard this, Xiang Nan immediately laughed out: "Yes! Yes! Yes! At that time, there was a bearded uncle who lived in my house and often took me to Nanjing Road to play..."
Speaking of this, Xiang Nan suddenly reacted, looking at Zeng Xisheng in disbelief, and the look in his eyes clearly revealed such a sentence: How do you know?
Zeng Xisheng couldn't help but sigh after listening, leaned back on the sofa, and thought about the past. He lived in Liang Mingde's house at that time, and often took the son of his old comrade-in-arms to Nanjing Road to play and visit the big world...
Figure | Old Shanghai
Zeng Xisheng sat up, and then carefully examined the secretary of the Youth League Committee in front of him, and his appearance and demeanor were indeed somewhat similar to those of his old comrades-in-arms. At this time, he could basically determine that Xiang Nan was the son of his old comrade-in-arms Liang Mingde.
There is nothing strange in this world, there can be such a coincidence!
Zeng Xisheng pointed to himself and said to Xiang Nan, "Who do you see me like?" ”
Xiang Nan looked at it carefully, his eyes lit up, and he shouted, "Uncle Beard! ”
Zeng Xisheng was also very excited, he didn't expect to find the son of the old comrade-in-arms like this, stood up, and patted Xiang Nan's shoulder hard: "Found, you little rabbit cub, you are Lao Liang's son!" ”
And Xiang Nan, for a while, was still in a huge shock, did not expect to find his father in this way, he felt a little inexplicable.
Wasn't my father a businessman, and how could he be a member of our Party again? His father was obviously called Xiang Younian, so why was he called Liang Mingde? Where did he go...
A whole bunch of questions were wrapped around his mind, and he urgently needed someone to answer his questions.
So, Zeng Xisheng told the story of his father's extraordinary experience in the past.
(ii) To devote oneself to the revolution
Liang Mingde, whose original name was Xiang Younian, was born in 1894 in Liancheng County, Fujian Province. After witnessing the fragmentation of his homeland and the division of warlords, he resolutely embarked on the road of revolution. In the autumn of 1925, he honorably joined the Communist Party of China.
Figure | Items and years of youth
At that time, it was the first period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the revolutionary tide swept the whole country. The Liangguang area became the base of the revolution, and in order to win the support of overseas people for the Northern Expedition, it was decided to send Xiang Henian to Nanyang to carry out a revolutionary movement.
He was sent to Nanyang mainly because he had friends in Nanyang and knew many people, and in addition, he could speak Hokkien, Hakka, Guangzhou, and Chaozhou dialects, which was convenient for communication among the masses. As a result, he became the best candidate.
In the spring of 1926, he left his hometown for Nanyang, and before leaving, he and his wife, children, and his hometown father and elders only said that they would go to Nanyang to do business. At that time, Xiang Nan was only eight years old, and the father and son were separated.
Xiang went to the dutch east Indian city of Samalindah, where there were many Fujian compatriots, most of whom worked in factories. After arriving here, with his enthusiasm, helpfulness, and fujian compatriots, he quickly established a lot of prestige among laborers.
Soon after, he developed a group of party members among the laborers and established a party branch. On May Day in 1927, laborers were also launched to hold a strike, accusing the colonists of persecuting Chinese workers and calling on Chinese workers to unite against colonialism.
Figure | Strike marches
Faced with such a scene, the colonial authorities were very angry and sent military police to suppress him and arrest him. After five months of detention and interrogation, through the efforts of overseas Chinese compatriots and all sectors of society, he was released from prison and deported by the colonial authorities.
In October 1927, he returned to his hometown, and the father and elder of his hometown who did not know the inside story only thought that he had failed to do business in Nanyang. And when Xiang Nan saw his father return, he was unspeakably happy.
Figure | Zhou Enlai
In one of the most heavily defended cities by the enemy, he must be careful. This time, in order to facilitate cover, he took his wife and son from his hometown to Shanghai.
After coming to Shanghai, the family made a home at the Eight Immortals Bridge near the Shanghai Great World, which is the place mentioned above by Xiang Nan and Zeng Xisheng.
After coming to Shanghai, Xiang Henian came out early and returned late every day, acting mysteriously, dressed as a businessman, and from time to time there were some "businessmen friends" at home to discuss things, and "Uncle Beard" was one of them. Xiang Nan, who is less than ten years old, carries his school bag to school every day.
On the outside, the item and year are certainly not doing business, but performing secret tasks. In 1929, Xiang Younian and other comrades set up an ambush at Xiafei Road, waited for several days, and shot bai Xin, a traitor who betrayed comrade Peng Pan, an important leader of our party.
In addition, they also organized personnel to prepare to rescue Peng Pan, although the rescue operation failed, but also shocked the enemy.
Figure | Comrade Peng Pan
(3) Disguising the transmission of important information
In October 1933, Xiang and Nian received a mission to De'an, Jiangxi, to carry out intelligence work in the ranks of Mo Xiong, the Kuomintang security commander of Jiangxi De'an.
Mo Xiong was a progressive member of the Kuomintang, and although he served as a security commander in Jiangxi, he participated in the "suppression of the Communists." But he had great righteousness in his heart and once took the initiative to ask to join our party. However, considering his identity, lurking in the Kuomintang would have a greater role, so he did not accept his application to join the party.
The facts that follow will prove how wise this decision of the Party organization is!
In October 1933, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Mo Xiong as the commander of the security of De'an, Jiangxi, and asked him to set up his own staff. This gave my party an opportunity, and Mo Xiong asked my party to come and assist in the work.
Figure | In his later years, Mo Xiong
As a member of the special branch, Xiang Younian worked richly behind enemy lines, was good at camouflage and lurking, and his work ability was also very prominent, so he naturally became the object of consideration by the party organization, and finally decided to send Xiang Younian and Liu Dumb Buddha to De'an, Jiangxi Province, to assist Mo Xiong and collect intelligence.
Therefore, Xiang Younian left his family again, and before leaving, he only said that he was going to Jiujiang to do business. The 15-year-old Xiang Nan bid farewell to his father in Huangpu Jiangyi, and the two began a second separation.
Since Mo Xiong was his own man, he had to obey Chiang Kai-shek's orders to participate in the "suppression of the Communists." In order to confuse Chiang Kai-shek and gain Mo Xiong's trust, the Red Army and Mo Xiong began a tacit "performance."
The guerrillas of the Red Army and the Soviet government deliberately reduced their guerrilla activities in the De'an area, and also exchanged hands with Mo Xiong's troops several times, and not long after each fight began, the Red Army pretended to be defeated and retreated, creating a "record of suppressing the communists" for Mo Xiong.
In this way, the Kuomintang side greatly praised him. The chairman of the Kuomintang province of Jiangxi Province specially praised the De'an area, saying that Mo Xiong was capable and capable, and also rated the De'an area as a "model area." And Chiang Kai-shek was also very happy and commended him.
Figure | Chiang Kai-shek
It is precisely because of this cooperation between the Red Army and Mo Xiong that our army has obtained important information in the later matters.
At that time, in the face of the development situation of the Red Army in the Soviet area of southern Gannan Province, Chiang Kai-shek was deeply worried, regarded the Red Army as a "thorn in the eye, a thorn in the flesh", and was eager to get rid of it quickly. After launching four encirclements and suppressions, all failed.
Chiang Kai-shek decided to carry out another large-scale encirclement and suppression!
He summoned the chairmen and senior military generals of the five provinces of Jiangxi, Hunan, Shandong, Hubei, and Henan and asked them to go to Lushan for a meeting to discuss the plan to "suppress the Red Army." The meeting was highly confidential, presided over by Chiang Kai-shek himself, and attended by high-ranking Kuomintang officials.
Originally, according to Mo Xiong's rank, it was not enough to attend such a meeting, but Chiang Kai-shek, in view of his previous merits in "suppressing bandits" and the fact that the vicinity was also his defense zone, let him also participate in this meeting, and it was his participation that learned of the top-secret plan to encircle and suppress the Red Army this time.
According to the advice of German military advisers, Chiang Kai-shek planned to mobilize 1.5 million troops, in addition to a large number of aircraft, tanks, and artillery, to encircle and suppress the Central Soviet Zone.
At the same time, all the troops moved together, imposing a tight seal on the Central Soviet Area, and then advancing step by step, gradually narrowing the encirclement, encircling the Red Army like an iron barrel and eliminating the Soviet Area, so this plan was also called the "Iron Barrel Plan".
Figure | Kuomintang army
This plan was very specific, ranging from the direction of encirclement and suppression by the troops to the liaison slogans of each unit. Each participant was issued a copy of the encirclement and suppression plan, stamped with the words "top secret", and each plan was marked with a serial number, stating that if someone leaked the secret, he would be killed immediately.
Mo Xiong looked at the encirclement and suppression plan in his hand, indicating that he pretended to look at it seriously, and his heart was anxious. As soon as the meeting ended, he immediately rushed back to De'an and reported the situation to Xiang Younian and others.
Xiang Younian was also shocked to see this plan, and a lot of sweat appeared on his head, and they understood that if this plan was implemented, it would be no less a disaster for the Central Red Army and the Central Soviet Region.
Xiang Henian hurriedly activated the secret radio station and first sent the main points of this plan to the Central Committee by telegram. He then used a special pharmaceutical water to write the specific details of the plan into 4 dictionaries.
Because Xiang Younian was familiar with the terrain and traffic in various parts of Jiangxi, and the people were also polite and polite, he decided to disguise himself as a teacher and rush to the Central Soviet Region to pass on information.
From De'an to Ruijin, along the way, I don't know how many Kuomintang troops there are, and how many checkpoints, once discovered, the life is immediately in danger, this is a life and death trip.
At a checkpoint in Nanchang, he was severely interrogated. Fortunately, he was calm enough to take out a dictionary and tell the sentry that he was teaching, and there were only a few dictionaries. The sentry flipped through the dictionary, there was nothing unusual, and when he saw him with a bookish appearance, he raised his hand and let him go.
The more levels passed by Xiang and Nian, the more uneasy I felt, and the four dictionaries on my body were indeed a bit conspicuous, and no one knew whether the next level sentry would be confiscated.
Figure | Item with year
To be on the safe side, he found an underground liaison station along the way, wrote the information in the dictionary on a piece of tulle paper overnight, and then hid it in a cloth insoles and wore it on his feet to continue his progress.
The further south he went, the more the enemy's interrogation, for the sake of this information on his body, he decided to rest during the day, move at night, take the mountain road, avoid the main road. When it was almost time to reach Ruijin, Xiang Andian disguised himself again in order not to arouse the suspicion of the enemy.
He hid in a wood, ripped his clothes to shreds, and stoned off a few of his teeth, leaving himself covered in blood and his hair in a mess.
So on the way to Ruijin, there was one less mr. teacher and one more crazy beggar.
On the way to the checkpoint, he pretended to be a beggar, crazy, drooling from the corners of his mouth, and a foul smell on his body. When the enemy sentries saw such a crazy beggar, they were eager to drive him away, and they all shot him and left, and no one bothered to interrogate him.
In this way, he sent this information that determined the fate of the Red Army all the way to Ruijin and handed it over to Zhou Enlai.
Figure | Zhou Enlai in the Soviet Union
Due to the timely information sent by Xiang and Nian, the Party Central Committee immediately decided to carry out a major strategic transfer. In mid-October 1934, the Red Army began the world-famous 25,000-mile Long March.
During the Long March, when Chairman Mao talked about the great transfer of the Red Army, he once said with emotion: "Comrades engaged in intelligence have made meritorious contributions!" ”
(4) Father and son are separated for 14 years and finally recognize each other
Xiang and Nian participated in the Long March with the troops, but he was assigned another mission in the middle of the way. When Chiang Kai-shek learned that the Central Red Army had escaped from the encirclement, he was furious and mobilized his troops to pursue and intercept along the way.
Figure | The Long March of the Red Army
In order to stop the enemy, Xiang Younian was again assigned a task to return to Shanghai urgently, leading two demolition team members to blow up the bridge and the Nanchang airfield and oil depot on the Jiangxi Nanxun Railway, in order to disrupt the enemy's logistics and transportation lines and disrupt the enemy's "encirclement and suppression" operational deployment.
However, this time the mission was not smooth, and their group was arrested by the Kuomintang in Nanjing, but fortunately he escaped with his own wisdom, and for safety, he once again disguised himself as a businessman and wandered around.
The party organization, considering that he had been exposed, told him to return home, not to appear outside, and to cut off all contacts with all personnel. This time, he stayed at home for more than a month, and this month was very impressed by Xiang Nan, and his father talked to him a lot.
In Xiang Nan's heart, it was the longest time of contact with his father, and it was also the happiest time. However, the separation came again, and just after the Spring Festival in 1935, Xiang Henian received the task of organizing, left the family again, and began a third separation with his son.
And this time, in the blink of an eye, it is 14 years!
Fast forward to 1949!
Xiang Nan listened to Zeng Xisheng introduce his father's past deeds, and he couldn't help but cry like rain as he listened. He never imagined that his father had been engaged in the revolutionary movement from the very beginning, that he was not a businessman at all, but a red agent of our Party.
Xiang Nan was also very happy for a while, and he didn't expect that his father, who had been looking for many years, would find it at once.
That night, he wrote a letter to his father, who was far away in Shenyang, in which he poured out his father-son feelings after 14 years of separation, and also reported his experience in participating in the revolution.
It wasn't until 1953 that they had a chance to see each other.
Xiang Nan, who was the secretary of the East China Youth League Working Committee at that time, went to Beijing to attend the second congress of the National Youth League, and Xiang and Nian were also in Beijing, so the father and son met at the Summer Palace.
Figure | Summer palace
That meeting was destined to be unforgettable, as the father and son separated from the Spring Festival in 1935, to the recognition after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, and then to 1953, nearly 20 years apart. The father and son hugged each other tightly after meeting, and at this moment, joy, excitement, and bitter feelings were intertwined.
In 1978, when Xiang Nan was preparing to lead a Delegation of Chinese Agricultural Machinery to Italy, he suddenly received a telegram: the elderly Liang Mingde had died of illness in Longyan at the age of 82 due to ineffective treatment.
After Xiang Nan learned of this news, he was deeply saddened and did not expect his father to leave like this. However, because of the mission, he had to hold back his grief and fly to Italy on official business.
On November 17, 1978, Liaoning Province held a memorial service for Liang Mingde in Shenyang. Because Xiang Henian has been engaged in underground work for many years, he has not changed his name, and he uses the name Of Liang Mingde.
Figure | Later years with years
After Xiang Nan learned the news, he and his wife went to Shenyang for funerals. At this time, he was already the deputy director of the First Ministry of Machinery Industry, but he did not inform the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee, and he and his wife quietly found a hotel to live in.
At Xiang Henian's memorial service, many leaders came, including Ren Zhongyi, the first secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee. Xiang Nan did not inform others, and silently lined up himself, slowly following the mourning crowd.
Xiang Nan and his wife have been serving in the central government for a long time, and many people also know each other, and they are very surprised to see them appear at the memorial service.
Zhongyi, who was re-elected, did not know the reason, and did not know the relationship between them at all. He quietly pulled Xiang Nan aside and asked him, "How did you know Elder Liang?" ”
Xiang Nan said slowly, "He is my father!" ”
In the process of the founding of New China, there were many comrades lurking on the hidden front, who hid their names in anonymity, did not show their true identities with their wives and children, did not care about personal gains and losses, and had only one belief in their hearts: everything is for victory.
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