In 1932, The Hong Kong Newspaper Published a message titled: China's highest military authorities are manufacturing morphine and selling them overseas. There was an uproar in public opinion. Greatly angered, Chiang Kai-shek sent a secret telegram to Peng Shanhou, commander of the First Regiment of the Kuomintang Gendarmerie Regiment, to the effect that the news in the newspaper was purely fabricated with ulterior motives and slandered the reputation of our army, and it was necessary to carefully trace the origin of the news.
Peng Shanhou was a huangpu second-term student, and Chiang Kai-shek appreciated him when he was in school. After receiving the secret telegram, he did not expect the headmaster to entrust him with such an important task, and he immediately felt flattered.
Peng Shanhou immediately sent someone to investigate, and found that there was a secret morphine manufacturing factory in the southern suburbs of Shanghai, which belonged to Jin Jinrong and Du Yuesheng, the leaders of the Shanghai gang. The factory is hung with a "Chemical Pilot Factory" signboard, guarded by police, french as technicians, and Green Gang apprentices as technicians. Every week, Du Yuesheng personally takes a special car to check the work and extract morphine.
What's next? Chiang Kai-shek's secret telegram made it clear that "tracking down the origin of the news" means only investigating how the morphine factory leaked out, not targeting the factory. But this Peng Shanhou, a bit of a brainiac, knows nothing about politics, he only thinks that morphine is a drug, something harmful, the principal asked me to check, definitely want me to eradicate this harmful thing. He also did not want to think about the relationship between Jin Rong and Du Yuesheng and the Kuomintang authorities.
Peng Shanhou thought that he had done the case according to the "holy will", so he had no fear and called three cars, full of three rows of gendarmes, commanded by a company commander, to surround the factory. The guards then all surrendered their weapons, all the mechanics arrested, and the factory closed. After arranging for some gendarmes to set up guards at the factory and after listening to orders, a cadre of criminals was sent to the Nanjing Gendarmerie Headquarters for handling.
Du Yuesheng
This lightning strike, in addition to not catching Du Yuesheng a little regret, can be described as a big victory. Peng Shanhou was proud and proud, thinking that breaking the case explained by the principal so quickly should be a great achievement, and he would definitely get the praise of the principal.
How to decide the next step, Peng Shanhou thought about it carefully, or see what the principal said! He immediately rushed to nanchang to visit the camp with great interest, met with Chiang Kai-shek, and asked for instructions on how to deal with it. Along the way, Peng Shanhou hummed a small song happily. After arriving at the camp in Nanchang, upon inquiry, Chiang Kai-shek went to Linchuan, and Peng Shanhou could not rest, so he borrowed a jeep from the Nanchang Gendarmerie Corps and went straight to Linchuan.
Arriving at Linchuan, accompanied by Deng Wenyi, Peng Shanhou entered Chiang Kai-shek's office, stood in front of Chiang Kai-shek in a straight line, and eagerly made a detailed report and requested instructions. When Peng Shanhou finished speaking, Chiang Kai-shek glanced at him with both eyes, and said without smiling: "Well, this, this, you did a good job!" Later he said, "This, this, I'll call Gu Zhenglun back." You have worked hard, you can go to Nanchang to rest for two days and then go back to Nanjing! ”
Deng Wenyi sent Peng Shanhou out and said, "Old Peng, the principal has praised you, and your future is great!" ”
Peng Shanhou's heart was like eating honey at the moment, not to mention how beautiful it was. He went to Nanchang to play for two days before returning to Nanjing.
Wu Tiecheng
Peng Shanhou returned to the Nanjing Regimental Headquarters, but he was greeted by the new regimental commander, who was dumbfounded and rushed to inquire about the gendarmerie commander Gu Zhenglun, who said coldly: "You are back, very good." The principal has a phone call to me, you, just transfer to the headquarters to become the chief of the section! Peng Shanhou was like a wooden chicken for a while, and lost his soul.
Peng Shanhou later learned that the real owner of the morphine factory was Chiang Kai-shek himself. Du Yuesheng was the general manager, Song Meiling and Shanghai mayor Wu Tiecheng manipulated behind the scenes, and most of the huge profits obtained were handed over to Chiang Kai-shek, and a small part was divided between Wu Tiecheng and Du Yuesheng and Jin Jinrong. On his way to Nanchang, Wu Tiecheng and Gu Zhenglun reported the situation to Chiang Kai-shek by telephone, and Chiang Kai-shek scolded on the phone: "Niang Xipi, Peng Shanhou this straw bag!" ”
Wu Tiecheng and Gu Zhenglun immediately made a decision: 1. Dismiss Peng Shanhou from his post as regimental commander and transfer him to the Gendarmerie Headquarters as an idler; 2. The case is characterized as follows: Scattered soldiers and braves colluded with rogue bandits to gather crowds to rob, destroy chemical research institutions, and endanger social order. The death penalty is carried out for company commanders, platoon commanders and registrars in the performance of their duties. 3. All morphine factory personnel who have been arrested will be released and the factory will resume production.
Gu Zhenglun
Two platoon leaders and a clerk were shot. The company commander was very ghostly, and when he escorted the prisoners back to Nanjing, he packed the captured morphine in a suitcase, and when he passed through Suzhou, he quietly slipped away and did not know where to go. He saved his life and made a fortune.
Peng Shanhou was soon squeezed out of the gendarmerie by Gu Zhenglun and sent to Hunan to serve as an empty regimental commander, and later Chen Mingren invited him to serve as a staff officer in the 21st Corps. In 1949, Chen Mingren led the uprising, and Peng Shanhou also signed the telegram.