On May 17, 1957, a regular meeting of the staff was held in a cooperative canteen in a town in Qianjiang District, Chongqing, as usual. At the meeting, Secretary Zhang, the person in charge of the canteen, made a speech summarizing the work and asked everyone to express their views.
Old photo of the co-op canteen
The employees are from poor peasant families, have not read the book, think that Secretary Zhang has just summed up very well, there is nothing to add, they have praised Secretary Zhang. Secretary Zhang was very modest and waved his hands in embarrassment. When everyone saw the situation, they felt that he was a good leader and praised him louder.
Secretary Zhang was a little overwhelmed, but suddenly he heard someone in the crowd shouting loudly: "Secretary Zhang is really humble!" All the employees who had not read the book ignored this sentence, but Secretary Zhang suddenly became vigilant. How can a canteen employee with no culture know such a complicated idiom as "humble and humble"?
Secretary Zhang did not immediately show his vigilance, but remembered the old man who spoke, and after quietly saying goodbye to the employees, he immediately came to the local public security bureau department.
Public security after the founding of New China
The man was unaware and continued to live and work as usual. As usual, when he got up early for a walk, he was shot at by a group of policemen as soon as he went out. Zhang Yonghui, the director of the local county public security bureau, personally followed him and said to him: "Zheng Yunxia, you have been arrested!" ”
What is the origin of this Zheng Yunxia?
Why would an idiom reveal his identity?
This man named Zheng Yunxia looked honest and simple on the outside, but he was just an ordinary old farmer. While working in the local canteen, this "ordinary old farmer" has always used the pseudonym "Liu Zhenggang", because his real identity is a national army agent, the maker and participant in many bloody cases, and Premier Zhou once called for his arrest.
Zheng Yunxia
Zheng Yunxia's ancestral home is in Jiangxi, but he grew up in Sichuan and speaks fluent Sichuanese. His grandfather Zheng Zhengguang served as a local zhi county, and his father Zheng Zongyao met Sun Yat-sen when he was studying in Japan, and also followed Sun Yat-sen to join the League, participated in many uprisings to overthrow feudalism, was deeply appreciated by Sun Yat-sen, and was promoted to work in the presidential palace. But this rush for the revolution gave Zheng Zongyao little chance to go home.
Presidential palace
Zheng Yunxia grew up in the environment of lack of father's love since he was a child, fortunately, his well-born mother attached great importance to his upbringing and told him many patriotic heroes, which made Zheng Yunxia not only receive a good education, but also established the idea of serving the country early.
After graduating from high school, he was admitted to the law department of Shanghai Law School with excellent results, and still maintained an excellent learning condition, and all the teachers were optimistic about his future, thinking that he would be able to become an excellent lawyer in the future.
Old photo of Shanghai Private Law College
But soon after, when Zheng Yunxia and his classmates took a walk in the street, they were harassed by three drunken British soldiers for no reason, and the harassment soon escalated into an argument. How could a group of students with no chickens be rivals to the soldiers, and one of their classmates' legs was broken by the soldiers.
Certificate of Award of Shanghai Private Law Institute
However, the soldiers who worked with them were extradited to the British Concession after the accident and enjoyed extraterritorial jurisdiction, and the Chinese police had nothing to do with them, but to persuade Zheng Yunxia to calm down. This made Zheng Yunxia very angry, thinking that even if he studied the law, the country could not stand up, and what was the use.
So Zheng Yunxia gave up a good future in the legal profession and turned to the Whampoa Military Academy and became the fourth batch of students of the military academy. Among the many students trained at the Whampoa Military Academy, the most famous is the fourth period where Zheng Yunxia is located. Many of the students in this period came out and became famous generals, and Mr. Lin and Zhang Lingfu and others were the graduates of the fourth period.
Whampoa Military Academy
The study experience of Shanghai Law School and Whampoa Military Academy provided Great convenience for Zheng Yunxia. During the Northern Expedition, Zheng Yunxia, who was only 20 years old, was able to work under He Yingqin. After the end of the Northern Expedition, Zheng Yunxia was appreciated by Chen Lifu's faction, and was introduced into the so-called "Party Affairs Investigation Section", that is, the Central Unification, and became a national army agent, who was quickly reused and became a backbone personnel.
Chen Lifu
During this period, Zheng Yunxia was mainly responsible for the work related to the law of the Central Government, and strictly speaking, although he was aiding and abetting abuse at this time, his hands were not stained with the blood of revolutionaries. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Zheng Yunxia, who was determined to serve the country in his early years, actively joined the anti-Japanese work with full enthusiasm.
In March 1938, the Battle of Taierzhuang was fought, and Zheng Yunxia led a political work team to the front line and participated in the defense of Tengxian County, making his own contribution to the victory of this battle. He was also honored by Chiang Kai-shek after the war and was awarded the rank of major general.
Battle of Taierzhuang
But after the end of the War of Resistance, Zheng Yunxia embarked on the road of no return to persecuting party organizations and other revolutionaries. The Cangbaitang Incident, which occurred in February 1946, and the Bloody Case that occurred in February of the same year, Zheng Yunxia, as the organizer and participant, was mixed up from beginning to end. The famous literary artist Guo Moruo was beaten in the incident, which was also written by Zheng Yunxia.
Comparative mouth blood case
Among them, the bloody case caused thousands of casualties, shocked China and foreign countries, seriously undermined the process of peaceful nation-building after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and also exposed the cruel side of the nationalist military government. The Party Central Committee soon learned the news and slapped Chairman Mao on the table in anger. Premier Zhou even directly ordered the PLA troops involved in the Southwest Campaign to seize Zheng Yunxia, whether dead or alive.
At that time, because the Nationalist troops were unable to form an army on the mainland, Chiang Kai-shek and others had already fled to Taiwan. Zheng Yunxia was ordered to destroy all confidential documents. This task seriously delayed Zheng Yunxia's time, and when he rushed to the Chongqing airport, the entire airport was destroyed. He wanted to flee to Chengdu again, but Chengdu had long been liberated by the People's Liberation Army.
Liberate Chengdu
With nowhere to go, Zheng Yunxia had to take off his decent military uniform, dress himself as a small trader, and sneak into Chengdu to try to personally help Wang Yuanhu. Wang Yuanhu was originally a Sichuan warlord, but he had already surrendered to the People's Liberation Army, and when he saw Zheng Yunxia, he persuaded him to turn himself in.
Zheng Yunxia agreed with his lips, but in fact he found an opportunity to escape from Wang Yuanhu's house. When Wang Yuanhu saw this, he informed the People's Liberation Army of the news. In order to continue to escape, Zheng Yunxia once went to the black market to sell silver dollars, and also pretended to be a fake identity to work in a local vegetable factory for a while, but each time he stayed for a short time, he began to run around.
The leader of the nationalist army
In the end, after several twists and turns, the exhausted Zheng Yunxia came to the irrigation town of Qianjiang District in Chongqing and struggled to make a living by buying daily necessities. At this time, after years of running, Zheng Yunxia had already sunburned like a farmer. In order to find a more secure identity, he married a Shandong woman named Shao Chunlan in 1952. The two supported each other after marriage, and their lives were good.
In 1956, China began to carry out cooperative transformation of private transformation, and Zheng Yunxia was arranged to study in the county, and after returning, he became an accountant in the cooperative canteen of Guanshui Town. During this period, he worked hard to pretend to be illiterate and even planned to be taught by others.
Co-operative transformation of private
He thought he was well disguised, but he did not know that the good education he received in his early years made him develop a habit of always inadvertently bringing out some idioms when speaking, such as "missing" and "empty and empty", so the scene that began with a meeting in the canteen occurred.
On May 19, 1957, under the alert of Secretary Zhang, Zheng Yunxia, a big secret agent who had been hidden for many years, was finally exposed to the police and was quickly arrested. Zheng Yunxia, who was originally worried, suddenly calmed down, and even breathed a sigh of relief. He repented of what he had done in the past, and now that he had been arrested and arrested, he could finally sleep peacefully.
Purge the secret agents
Originally, Zheng Yunxia was carrying a bloody case and was sentenced to death. However, at that time, the Central Committee had already promulgated new counter-revolutionary regulations, "those who can kill but do not kill", Zheng Yunxia was identified as "not killed" and sent to undergo labor reform.
In 1975, Zheng Yunxia was pardoned for China's last batch of war criminals. After being pardoned, he chose to stay on the mainland to work, was also appointed as a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and actively threw himself into the cause of promoting peaceful reunification of the two sides of the strait, and made many contributions to this end.
The last of China's war criminals were pardoned
He died in 2009, the year Zheng Yunxia was 102 years old. Before his death, he always felt guilty, and regretted that he could not go to the entrance of the field to see.
Performing well, Zheng Yunxia won the award
Zheng Yunxia has done many wrong things in his life, his hands are stained with the blood of innocent people, and his guilt cannot be forgiven, but his achievements in actively participating in the anti-Japanese struggle and defending national security cannot be forgotten.
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