In the course of the struggle between the Communist Party and the Kuomintang for many years, there was such a special group of talents who walked in the shadows, danced on the tip of the knife, silently lurked in the enemy camp, mixed with the enemy, collected the enemy's dynamics, and constantly transmitted useful information to their own organizations.
They lurk in the shadows and wait for their time, taking great risks in every action, and once exposed, they are dead. Every piece of information they send can save the lives of millions of people, but they can't leave any information. he
Their identities are ever-changing, they may be the commanders of the enemy army, they may be the red men next to the enemy's senior generals, and sometimes they may be just a humble stenographer.
Shen Anna is one of these mysterious people. She was Chiang Kai-shek's most trusted stenographer, lurking in the Kuomintang for fourteen years without ever revealing a single bit.
She was a microphone installed by the Communist Party within the Nationalist Army, and because of her special profession, she had access to many important meetings and decisions of the Nationalist Army, and passed on a large amount of useful and confidential information to the Communist Party, and made great contributions.
After the dispute between the two parties came to an end, she was called "the person who held the pulse of Chiang Kai-shek", and Mao Zedong also called it "a treasure in a bottle", and her important role can also be seen.
However, such a heroic and witty "Iron Lady", but was born in a scholarly door, her dream was once to become a movie star, so how did she become a retrograde of the Red Revolution? What has she experienced in her fourteen years of incubation? Why, in the past fourteen years, with Chiang Kai-shek's suspicious character, has not doubted Shen Anna?
From red makeup to armament
In 1915, Shen Anna was born in Taixing, Jiangsu Province, and the family named her Shen Huan at that time. And Shen Wan's family can also be regarded as the local Scholar Xiang Mendi, the father is Xiucai, the uncle in the late Qing Dynasty as an official to achieve Hanlin, although the brothers died early, but the Shen family can also be regarded as a reading family.
After the death of his father and uncle, the Shen family gradually declined.
Although the family is in the middle of the road, the Shen family still clings to the old feudal thinking, believing that the daughter's family should be three inches of golden lotus, and find a good husband early.
Therefore, Shen Wan's second sister was married to the son of a local landlord early, her husband was more than ten years older than her, and he also received a lot of cold eyes in his husband's family, and his life was very unsatisfactory.
Shen Wan, who grew up in such an environment, did not have the cowardice of the old-school ladies.
Although Shen Huan received a traditional education in a private school when he was a child and grew up in the deep wall compound, this did not restrict his nature.
When Shen Huan was seven years old, the family wanted to wrap her small feet, and Shen Huan was unwilling, so she confronted the elders of the family, who were not willing to be arranged fate, and the spirit of daring to resist and seek freedom was evident from this.
In 1931, when the September 18 Incident broke out and the national disaster was at the head, Shen Huan did not choose to stay out of the matter, but took to the streets to actively publicize the concept of resisting Japan and saving the country.
Although Shen Huan had just entered junior high school at that time, he was already quite bold. In the same year, the family arranged a family affair for Shen Wan, who was only 16 years old. In order to rebel against the family's arranged affair, she decided to leave the place and go outside to have a look. Not only that, she also persuaded her second sister, who had already become a relative under the family arrangement, to leave with her.
After turning, the two sisters arrived in Shanghai. Separated from the help of their families, the sisters had to earn their own money to support themselves.
Although life was hard, the two also saw the wider world in Shanghai, learned about new progressive ideas, and found a good match for their life here.
After arriving in Shanghai, Shen Huan entered Nanyang Commercial Senior High School.
Once, when Shen Huan went to the teacher's house to visit the New Year, he met Hua Mingzhi and Shu Yuexin by chance, and the three of them talked very happily, so they got to know each other.
In 1934, because he could not afford to pay the tuition fee, Shen Huan had no choice but to go to the Feng Xun Shorthand School to learn shorthand.
In the era when communication was not yet developed, stenographers were indispensable and important.
And the shorthand learner has a shorter learning cycle and a lower learning fee. This was undoubtedly the best choice for Shen Wan, who was financially strapped at the time. But for Shen Wan, the profession of stenographer is just a stepping stone in her life. Her dream is to become a film star who shoots progressive movies and become famous all over the world.
In the shorthand school, Shen Huan's performance is very good, his recording speed is very fast, the content is accurate and complete, and the work efficiency is very high.
At the same time, Shen Wan's two good friends, Hua Mingzhi and Shu Yuexin, had quietly joined the Communist Party, and Shen Wan's second sister had also become a confidential traffic officer in the Communist Intelligence Department.
In 1934, Hua Mingzhi and Shu Yuexin transferred to the Central Special Branch and became intelligence workers.
At that time, Wang Xuewen, the leader of the Central Special Branch, learned about Shen Wan's excellent shorthand ability and firm patriotic belief through Hua Mingzhi and Shu Yuexin, and he had the idea of recruiting talents.
Therefore, Wang Xuewen sent Hua Mingzhi and Shu Yuexin to try their best to persuade Shen Huan to join the Communist Party and participate in the revolution.
Shen Huan did not have a deep understanding of Wang Xuewen's co-optation and the revolutionary issues. However, based on the relationship between Hua Mingzhi and Shu Yuexin, Shen Huan still promised to seriously consider it.
Soon, the Zhejiang provincial government sent people to select stenographers to work for the government, and the school selected three students with the best grades for them to choose, and Shen Huan ranked first. Behind the Zhejiang government was the Kuomintang, and Shen Huan was standing at a fork in the road at this time, and Shen Huan had no way to start where to go. So she asked Hua Mingzhi and Shu Yuexin for advice, asking why they chose to join the Communist Party.
Hua Mingzhi and Shu Yuexin explained the communist concept to Shen Huan in detail, and suggested that Shen Huan enter the Zhejiang provincial government as a shorthand worker, secretly collecting intelligence for the Communist Party.
Even though Shen Huan could not fully understand what the job meant at the time, she knew that once she accepted the job, danger would follow.
In the end, under the persuasion of Hua Mingzhi and Shu Yuexin, Shen Huan accepted the job and began to collect intelligence for the Communists. at
Under the advice of Hua Mingzhi and Shu Yuexin, Shen Huan changed her name to Shen Anna, gave up her dream of becoming a movie star, embarked on the battlefield without gun smoke, and became a heroine with excellent acting skills in the revolutionary cause.
An undercover career where challenges and dangers coexist
In January 1935, Shen Anna officially entered the Zhejiang Provincial Government as a stenographer. Shen Anna belongs to the Secretariat's Deliberative Section, and her operational ability is very prominent.
In the complicated meetings, Shen Anna can accurately record the content of the meeting and convey the spirit of the meeting every time.
Its recording speed can reach 200 words per minute, and at the same time, it can also ensure that the font is neat, and the beautiful fly-headed small kai in one hand is pleasing to the eye, and it was quickly recognized by colleagues, and soon Shen Anna gained a foothold within the Kuomintang.
Soon after, Hua Mingzhi accepted orders from his superiors to travel from Shanghai to Zhejiang, where he was responsible for contacting and guiding Shen Anna's work.
The two were old acquaintances, and at this time they relied on each other in a foreign land to tide over the difficulties together, and the revolutionary feelings naturally warmed up rapidly. In 1935, after the approval of the organization, the two entered the palace of marriage and had their first child the following year.
Although the love life is very happy, the two did not shelve their careers. In order to better convey intelligence, Shen Anna developed some special symbols to replace dangerous sensitive words. In 1936, Zhu became chairman of the Zhejiang provincial government.
Shen Anna also received his attention and appreciation for her excellent professional ability and decent style, laying the foundation for her to break into the core organs of the Kuomintang.
At that time, Shen Anna did not expect that she would lurk in the enemy camp for so long, let alone that she would be able to get the opportunity to contact Chiang Kai-shek later.
In 1937, Shanghai fell, and Shen Anna and Hua Mingzhi lost contact with the party organization.
But both of them held firm convictions in their hearts and did not act rashly. During this period, due to Shen Anna's excellent work performance, the Kuomintang side offered to arrange better accommodation conditions for her, but Shen Anna refused. She and Hua Mingzhi still insisted on their residence in Shanghai to facilitate the organization's contact.
In 1938, the situation became more turbulent, and the couple realized that they could no longer wait idly, so they decided to take the initiative to contact the party organization. Under the cover of Hua Mingzhi, Shen Anna quit her job as a stenographer in the Zhejiang provincial government and arrived in Wuhan.
Although I arrived in Wuhan, due to the special period, the party organizations are very hidden, and how to find the organization without revealing the identity is another difficult task.
A few days after arriving in Wuhan, Shen Anna met her own party introduction on the street, and then came to the Eighth Route Army's garrison in Wuhan and met Zhou Enlai and Dong Biwu.
After meeting Shen Anna, the two first expressed their condolences to the husband and wife, and then expressed their affirmation for their work.
After that, they told Shen Anna that she now had a further opportunity, shen Anna's former boss Zhu Jiahua had been promoted to the party department of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang as secretary general, and Shen Anna could use this relationship to break into the core organs of the Kuomintang and access more core intelligence.
Shen Anna accepted this task and came to Zhu Jiahua the next day, indicating her intention to defect. Zhu Jiahua was very happy, and it just so happened that there was a shortage of shorthand talents in the Kuomintang at that time, so Zhu Jiahua stayed with Shen Anna. However, the confidential stenographer at that time required that he must be a member of the Kuomintang. Faced with this problem, Shen Anna said that she was still young and had no chance to join the party.
In order to recruit talents, Zhu Jiahua specially applied for Shen Anna to apply for a "special party" and arranged the position of confidential stenographer for her.
And Shen Anna did not live up to Zhu Jiahua's expectations, and soon after, she was valued for her extremely high professionalism.
At the same time, Shen Anna's heart was not good. During the days and nights when the Kuomintang was lurking, she was terrified, and the bureaucratic atmosphere within the party was also very serious, and the internal atmosphere was dead.
Just at this time, she learned that the Communist Party wanted to send a group of young people to Yan'an to learn, and Shen Anna proposed that she wanted to go to Yan'an to vigorously carry out the revolution, learn more advanced education, and accept more advanced ideas, but was blocked by Premier Zhou.
In premier Zhou's view, Shen Anna's shorthand talent is rarely compared, not to mention that she has broken into the enemy's interior, and now quitting is undoubtedly a major loss of the revolution, so I hope that Shen Anna will focus on the overall situation and be an unsung hero.
After some thought, Shen Anna decided to stick to her job and continue to pass on information to the Communist Party.
This kind of work is full of dangers, walking on the blade every day, and if you are not careful, you will lose everything. Therefore, Shen Anna needs to be vigilant all the time.
At a meeting, Zhang Ji directly pointed at Chiang Kai-shek and scolded him, bluntly saying that maybe the Communist Party is next to you Chiang Kai-shek, but you don't know anything about it.
This made Shen Anna very nervous, and once thought that she had exposed some horse's feet, but she was not excited, but she kept her face calm, and took the opportunity to look around and find that no one noticed her, which was relieved.
In 1941, Xu Zhonghang, the husband and wife, was arrested, and because of their close ties to them, they were also regarded as key suspects by the Kuomintang, and they were interrogated by the Kuomintang intelligence department.
After returning home, just in case, the two burned all the shorthand materials and progress books, and still maintained their original living conditions.
Fortunately, Xu Zhonghang was eventually rescued by the Communists and did not expose any information about the two, and the intelligence department of the Nationalist Army did not find evidence that the two were in common, and in the end it was also a false alarm.
It is only a matter of mutual prowess and concealment
In the fourteen years of undercover career, Shen Anna has encountered many crises, but they have been resolved one by one with her extraordinary courage and ingenuity.
In the eleven years that She was undercover by Chiang Kai-shek's side, Shen Anna was even more cautious, afraid that if she was not careful, she would lose everything. Fortunately, with her outstanding shorthand talent and low-key and modest style, Shen Anna won the trust of jiang and song couples and was never suspected.
On the one hand, Shen Anna's own talents are very prominent, and her behavior is also very low-key; and in order to better penetrate the Kuomintang, she has also disguised herself to a certain extent in terms of living habits and other aspects.
On the other hand, Shen Anna relied on her own efforts to win the blue eyes of several important figures of the Kuomintang, including Zhu Jiahua and Song Meiling.
At that time, Shen Anna was a rare talent in the shorthand industry, so she would follow Zhu Jiahua to attend various important conferences. With accurate and comprehensive meeting records in shorthand, he helped Zhu Jiahua to complete the tasks assigned by Chiang Kai-shek brilliantly many times, making Chiang Kai-shek pay more and more attention to Zhu Jiahua, and Zhu Jiahua also relied heavily on Shen Anna. Despite the scenery, Shen Anna will not be in the limelight or the idea of showing off to her colleagues, but still complete her own work in a low-key manner, and such a modest and decent style is also appreciated by Zhu Jiahua.
In addition to Zhu Jiahua, Shen Anna was also very popular with first lady Song Meiling. Every time she goes to see Song Meiling, Shen Anna will dress up elegantly and decently in order to leave a good impression on Song Meiling.
And every time Song Meiling's speech she shorthand, she will carefully organize the content of the speech, bound very beautifully and then sent over, Song Meiling is very happy about this, and she is getting closer and closer to it.
In life, in order to better integrate into the Kuomintang, Shen Anna also intends to move closer to the Westernized lifestyle of the Kuomintang, dress fashionably, watch foreign movies, listen to foreign music; befriend the elders, learn to sneak and shoot horses, and ask for ink treasures from colleagues and elders, and be welcomed and loved by them.
In the eyes of outsiders, Shen Anna's relationship with the elders is very good, and naturally they all give up three points to them, and finally she has a place within the Kuomintang. Although Shen Anna is not Chiang Kai-shek's exclusive shorthand, Chiang Kai-shek loves to take her everywhere he goes, and Song Meiling also likes to take her when she gives speeches.
It was precisely with her superior wisdom and superb business ability that Shen Anna was able to go undercover in the enemy camp full of traps for fourteen years and become the best heroine in the Red Revolution, until the founding of New China, when she put on the uniform of the People's Liberation Army and stood under the sun.