One day in May 1957, an old man over half a hundred years old got up very early, squatted in front of his house to wash up, and combed through today's work in his mind. His name is Liu Zhigang, and he works as an accountant at a sales office in Xinnong Township.
Liu Zhigang was preparing to enter the house, when he looked up, he saw Officer Li walking towards this side, his face was full of smiles, and he was greeting himself: "Uncle Liu, you got up very early today!" ”
Before Liu Zhigang could react to why he was looking for the door, Officer Li suddenly sped up his movements just a few steps away from him, directly pounced on him, and pressed his body with both hands to press him against the edge of the faucet, Liu Zhigang was shocked and angry, and was about to question, when he heard the other party shouting: "Dog agent, be honest, don't move!" ”
As soon as the three words "dog agent" came out, Liu Zhigang's mind was buzzing with chaos, and he looked sideways, a group of police officers with guns had already pointed the muzzle of the black hole hole at him, if he had the behavior of hurting people and escaping, his body would probably be immediately sieve by bullets.
The picture | old photo of the police in the 1950s
Liu Zhigang swallowed his spit, his expression was not as panicked as the other arrested criminals, he did not struggle a little, but just smiled miserably at Li Guan, who was pressing himself, and said: "You doll, usually look Sven, I didn't expect to have this set." ”
At this time, Zhang Section Chief of the Public Security Bureau walked over with a gun in his hand, and a sentence punctured his identity: "Zheng Yunxia, you have been arrested!" ”
That's right, this ordinary-looking old peasant is a Kuomintang agent who fled for eight years after liberation, Zheng Yunxia! And he was also the last Kuomintang major general to be arrested on the mainland.
In these eight years, Zheng Yunxia borrowed the shelter and help of kind villagers to settle down in the local area, and he was a man with his tail between his legs, and he was cautious in every move, for fear of exposing his identity. But I didn't expect that the four words blurted out during small talk with people turned out to be the key clue for the public security organs to hunt down themselves, and the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau, which received the report, sent a special team as quickly as possible to arrive in Maoshui Town to arrest this long-dormant big agent.
What's going on here?
Pictured| Zheng Yunxia
All of this must start with the felony committed by Zheng Yunxia.
Zheng Yunxia, born in 1907, entered the Kuomintang at the age of 26, and in just a few years, he rose all the way from the legal commissioner of the Central Judicial Yuan of the Kuomintang government to become the commissioner of the "Central Unification" major general. How big is this officer? You must know that Dai Kasa, the leader of the Military Command Bureau, is only a major general.
The reason why Zheng Yunxia's career is smooth is because he is not only a student of Huangpu Ivy, but also has the experience of further studying at Shanghai Law School. For Chiang Kai-shek, anyone who came out of the Whampoa Military Academy was basically his concubine troops, and Zheng Yunxia often showed a willingness to surrender when he was working, so Chiang Kai-shek regarded him as his confidant and vigorously promoted him.
Of course, when Zheng Yunxia came under lao Jiang's command, what he did was not all bad. After all, he was a Chinese, and he gritted his teeth in hatred for the little Japanese devils who invaded China, so during the eight years of anti-Japanese resistance, he still had some help in the work against Japan. For example, in the Battle of Taierzhuang in March 1938, Zheng Yunxia once risked his life to lead a political work team to the first-line battlefield, participated in the defense of Tengxian County, and fought with other anti-Japanese fighters to fight and compete for the battlefield.
But unfortunately, he was wrong to choose the object of his allegiance in the first place!
When Zheng Yunxia wrote the adapted Yue Fei's "Man Jiang Hong" to express his determination to expel the Japanese Kou, the Kuomintang forces headed by Chiang Kai-shek were thinking about how to seek peace with the Japanese side; they not only passively resisted the war, but even secretly made many small moves, deliberately sabotaging the anti-Japanese national united front, and vainly trying to suppress the Communist contingent that held high the banner of anti-Japanese national salvation.
In August 1945, after Japan announced its unconditional surrender, Zheng Yunxia obeyed the dispatch of the Kuomintang and shifted the focus of his work from anti-Japanese to "anti-communist", during which he committed numerous crimes, the most notorious of which were the "Cangbaitang Incident" and the "Bloody Case", two cases in which Zheng Yunxia participated in and led the whole process.
On January 10, 1946, with the joint efforts of the Communist Party and other democrats, the Political Consultative Conference was held in Chongqing, and the establishment of the Association was announced at the meeting.
The purpose of the Political Consultative Conference is to stop the civil war, unite the forces of all sectors of society, and rebuild post-war China; this is the common expectation of the people of the whole country, but it is not what the Kuomintang reactionary forces want to see.
After receiving Chiang Kai-shek's secret orders, Chen Lifu, the head of the secret service, had been plotting to sabotage the actions of the Association. Using his high salary as bait, he hired a large group of thugs and thugs to openly sabotage and disrupt the people's meetings from all walks of life led by the Association for the Advancement of The Advancement of The Association, interfering with the normal conduct of the meeting.
At that time, the place where the people's congress from all walks of life was held was in Cangbaitang.
Picture | Chen Lifu
Due to the sabotage of the secret agents and the disorderly order of the meeting, the people's congresses from all walks of life had to adjourn the meeting many times; Wang Ruofei, Guo Moruo, Li Gongpu, and others who took the stage to give speeches were all attacked by the enemy with stones and wooden sticks; even after the meeting, the Kuomintang reactionaries would block the workers of the CPPCC on the road and illegally detain or beat them severely.
After 23 days of struggle, the Political Consultative Conference finally made some progress, and they reached agreement on five issues, including government organization, administrative program, military issues, the National Assembly, and the draft constitution.
In order to consolidate the results of the CPPCC, 23 groups in Chongqing formed a preparatory meeting and decided to hold a "meeting to accompany all walks of life in the capital to celebrate the success of the POLITICAL CONSULTative conference" on February 10, and more than 20 people, including Guo Moruo, Ma Yinchu, and Li Gongpu, set up a presidium of the meeting, of which Li Dequan was the general chairman and Li Gongpu was the general commander.
Pictured| Guo Moruo
As soon as the news came out, the Kuomintang reactionaries immediately took action again.
On the morning of February 10, the various mass organizations participating in the congress entered the venue one after another, but the central command agents also organized a "presidium" to mix in. The group took advantage of the fact that the group participating in the meeting had not yet arrived, and asked Liu Yeqiao, one of the "presidium", to serve as the executive chairman and announce the meeting.
Li Gongpu and Shi Fuliang immediately stepped forward to block it, but they gave the Kuomintang agents a rough excuse, and the thugs who ambushed on both sides of the venue went out one after another to carry out inhumane atrocities against the people in the venue. More than 60 people were injured at the scene, and it was not until Zhou Enlai and Feng Yuxiang arrived that the group of agents fled the scene, and Li Gongpu, who was seriously injured, was rushed to the hospital by Zhou Enlai in a car for rescue.
In the "Cangbaitang Incident" and the "Bloody Case," the person who commanded the secret agents to commit violence against Li Gongpu, Guo Moruo, and others was Zheng Yunxia, and not only that, he also personally led people to destroy the CCP's "Xinhua Daily."
Before the liberation of Chongqing, Zheng Yunxia still did not want to repent, continued to resist, and served as the director of the political department of the first army of the newly organized "Anti-Communist National Salvation Army" of the Kuomintang, waiting for an opportunity to sabotage the great cause of China's liberation.
But the Kuomintang had long since reached the point of exhaustion. On November 30, 1949, the PLA troops took to the streets of Chongqing amid the cheers of the people, and as for the remnants of the Kuomintang such as Chiang Kai-shek, Yan Xishan, and Zheng Yunxia, who had originally stayed in the city, they had already packed up and fled overnight.
The underground party comrades had already contacted Zheng Yunxia's driver Li Zengrong one step ahead, hoping that he could help capture Zheng Yunxia. However, when Zheng Yunxia fled to Chengdu, he arranged many additional guards to protect his safety, resulting in Li Zengrong not being able to find the opportunity to attack.
Therefore, when Li Zengrong was resting, he secretly threw a handful of sand into the engine of the jeep, deliberately making the car turn off halfway and separate from other vehicles. Unfortunately, Zheng Yunxia, who had been a secret agent for more than ten years, was too vigilant, and Li Zengrong did not have rich experience in arresting, and if he did not pay attention, he still let this big spy find an opportunity to escape.
Zheng Yunxia disguised himself as a small businessman, changed his name to He Anping, and went into hiding all the way to Chengdu, knowing that the Communists were hunting him around, so he decided to turn to Wang Yuanhu, a distant relative who had been the commander of the Sichuan Army.
But to Zheng Yunxia's surprise, Wang Yuanhu had revolted, had become a member of the People's Liberation Army, and was now studying intensively at Baoguang Temple in Xindu County.
After Wang Yuanhu returned home, as soon as he saw Zheng Yunxia, he regrettably patted his thigh and said, "You should have come early!" If you had come earlier, I would have added your name to the roster of rebels!" Of course, Wang Yuanhu sincerely considered his relatives and hoped that Zheng Yunxia could abandon the dark and cast light, but this remark fell into Zheng Yunxia's ear and changed his meaning.
Zheng Yunxia believes that Wang Yuanhu may not be able to hand himself over to the Communist Party for meritorious service. He had this idea because he knew in his heart how many evil things he had done for the Kuomintang before, and how many innocent revolutionaries' blood had been stained on his hands. After the fall of the Kuomintang, he was afraid, he was afraid that the Communist Party would find him and settle the blood debt of the past!
The Communist Party remembers those who have made meritorious contributions to the country and the people; the Communist Party also remembers those who have harmed the country and the people. After liberation, Premier Zhou Enlai personally gave instructions on the pursuit of Zheng Yunxia: To see people in life, to see corpses in death!
Pictured| Zhou Enlai
Zheng Yunxia did not dare to continue hiding in the Wang family, he went to another small inn in Chengdu to stay temporarily, during the day, he dressed up as ordinary people to listen to the situation around. One day when he was passing through the alley, he met another agent of the Central Command, You Shaowu, and when Zheng Yunxia saw him, his heart was about to jump out of his throat, so he quickly pulled him into the small room of the hotel.
You Shaowu briefly explained his situation and asked Zheng Yunxia if he had gone to "register" by the way. The so-called "registration" means that those secret service personnel who have done things for the Kuomintang go to the public security bureau and voluntarily turn themselves in.
But veteran Kuomintang members like Zheng Yunxia and You Shaowu, who committed serious crimes, did not dare to show their faces, and both of them believed that even if they surrendered themselves, they would be the result of "eating guns", so they could only hide around and live a precarious life.
Zheng Yunxia hid his two pistols and ran to the "Anle Temple", the largest speculative market in Chengdu, to prepare to exchange 100 silver dollars for yuan, but he did not expect to meet the public security bureau to arrest people, and he was arrested as one of the outlaws who disrupted the financial order.
The figure | the previous silver dollar
In the public security bureau, Zheng Yunxia still showed his previous forged "He Anping" national identity card and successfully passed the customs clearance. He was held in prison for a full 8 days, undergoing labor reform in the morning and studying in the afternoon and evening.
As soon as there was any disturbance outside the cell door, Zheng Yunxia thought that the people of the Public Security Bureau knew his true identity, and as soon as the public security comrades approached, he thought he was going to be shot... By the time Zheng Yunxia was released, the public security comrades had not done anything to him, and he had already scared himself into half of his souls.
Can't stay in Chengdu anymore!
Zheng Yunxia escaped from Chengdu, and at first he planned to go to Yunnan, thinking that he would be able to evade the pursuit of the public security bureau when he arrived there, but as soon as he arrived in Bijie, Guizhou, he heard the owner of the inn say that due to the remnants of the Kuomintang and bandits, the PLA troops had cut off the road to Yunnan, and Zheng Yunxia knew that if he insisted on advancing, he would be drilling into the encirclement of the public security bureau, and he had no choice but to turn around and return.
Figure | present-day Bijie, Guizhou
At the end of 1950, a ragged foreigner came up in Maoshui Town, and as long as he saw the villagers, he came forward and asked: "Do you recognize a woman named Liao Zhongyu, she is my cousin, the man she married is called Jiang Yuqing, and there is a little daughter in the family, do you know where they live now?" ”
As soon as the villagers heard it, they knew that he was talking about the Jiang family in the town, so they kindly replied: "You are late, and the three of them have gone back to their hometown in Shandong." When the foreigner heard this, his eyes turned red at the time, and he crouched down on the side of the street, reached out and wiped his face, and with a pitiful and miserable look, said to himself: "Cousin, cousin-in-law, you two can just leave, I can't find your people now, and I don't have any money on me, you tell me to do it." ”
This person is Zheng Yunxia, who fled to Maoshui Town. During his wandering time, he got a fake certificate, filled in the name "Liu Zhenggang" on it, changed his appearance, and successfully escaped repeated searches. But Zheng Yunxia knew in his heart that if he wanted to ensure that he would not be caught by the public security bureau, he must find a place that was willing to accept himself.
At that time, the people in various counties, towns, and villages often visited each other's doors, and if there were suddenly more foreigners, it would definitely arouse their suspicions, and as long as someone reported this situation to the local public security bureau, Zheng Yunxia would not be able to run away.
Picture | a peasant working in a village in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China
Therefore, Zheng Yunxia took advantage of the kung fu of the boat and the couple in the passengers to set up almost, he used his set of confessions when he was a secret agent, and learned their identity information from the couple in three or two clicks.
When Zheng Yunxia learned that the couple was going to settle in their hometown in Shandong and never return to Maoshui Town, he immediately came to Maoshui Town and made up his own words of coming to look for relatives, deceiving the kind villagers and hoping that they would accept him to settle in the local area.
The villagers saw that Zheng Yunxia's appearance was really pitiful, and they could accurately tell the situation of Liao Zhongyu's family, so not only did they not doubt his origins, but also enthusiastically got together to solve the difficulties for him. Someone comforted him: "Big brother, don't be sad first, although your cousin's family is gone, but you still have the government's proof, it is better to stay with us for the time being." ”
As soon as Zheng Yunxia heard this, his eyes lit up, he pretended to be overwhelmed, wiped his tears, thanked these villagers who were willing to take him in, and then pushed the boat along the water to live in this town as "Liu Zhenggang".
No one could have imagined that this former major general of the Kuomintang Central Unification Who had been dressed in fine clothes had actually transformed himself into an ordinary working people. At first, Zheng Yunxia followed the villagers as a mobile peddler, and later the local farmers' association designated him as a "poor peddler" according to the evaluation of the surrounding villagers, and gave him land to grow grain.
The picture | Zheng Yunxia in the film and television drama
In 1956, in order to further hide his identity, Zheng Yunxia married a woman named Shao Chunlan.
In the small place of Maoshui Town, where he has land, a serious occupation, and a complete family, Zheng Yunxia believes that no one can see through his identity, and he can live in peace in this small place and then die.
But will things go on as he hoped? Under the instruction of the Kuomintang, he has done so many things that harm nature and reason, beating revolutionaries and sabotaging revolutionary actions, and so far he has not thought of atonement for his past mistakes, but intends to evade the investigation of the party and the people!
The public security comrades who have been searching tirelessly will not allow him to live this life in a confused way!
Beginning in 1956, because Zheng Yunxia was usually active and very stable, the Maoshui town government first sent him to the county to study, and then let him work as an accountant in Maoshui's cooperative canteen, and before long, he was transferred to the store.
For ordinary people who are bright and upright, these are all good things, but not necessarily for Zheng Yunxia.
When Zheng Yunxia worked in the canteen, in order to catch up with the progress, the abacus beads were dialed quickly, and he looked as skilled as Mr. Bookkeeper who had worked for decades. This situation aroused the suspicion of other staff members: "Liu Zhenggang" did not mean that he had not studied at all, and had only recently begun to learn to read and plan to plan the disk, how could he play the abacus so smoothly in just one day? Had he learned it before? But why would he lie to people that he hadn't learned it?
Although everyone did not say anything on the surface, their hearts were full of muttering. Later, when Zheng Yunxia was chatting with people, he blurted out four words, deepening their suspicions, and the more some people thought about it, the more wrong it was, so they found the public security organ to report the matter.
These four words are actually very simple, just an idiom "disappearing". But it is very abnormal that an illiterate who claims to be illiterate with few big characters can use idioms naturally.
After the public security organs received the report, they immediately sent someone to closely monitor this "Liu Zhenggang" who was suspicious everywhere. They value it so much because a few months ago, a person came to the Public Security Bureau to report that he had met Zheng Yunxia near Cai Jiaping!
The whistleblower, named Wang Hengxing, intersected with Zheng Yunxia while in Chongqing and was deeply impressed. Although Zheng Yunxia is now black and thin, and he is the appearance of a simple working person, Wang Hengxing still recognized him at the first time.
Zheng Yunxia also recognized Wang Hengxing at that time, he was frightened, and the more he thought about it after returning home, the more frightened he became, and he simply left Maoshui Town on the grounds that he wanted to go out to do business, and hid outside for eight or nine months in a row, until he heard that Maoshui Town did not arrest people before he dared to come back.
Since then, the public security comrades have set their sights on Zheng Yunxia.
Figure | former working people
One day in 1957, the leader found Zheng Yunxia, who was lucky, and asked him to go to the county to study the next day. As soon as Zheng Yunxia heard this news, his heart was half cold, and when he looked up, he saw the expression of the leader's words, and the other half of his heart was also cold.
What can I learn when I go to the county to study on my own? Isn't it that the above already knows his past situation and wants him to take the initiative to confess?
Zheng Yunxia knew that he could not escape, and he did not want to escape again. In the past 8 years, he has not eaten a solid meal, slept for a day, opened his eyes every day, thought about the things he had committed before, closed his eyes and fell asleep, and dreamed that the public security bureau pointed a gun at him and shot him directly.
Zheng Yunxia was discouraged, and at the meeting, he truthfully explained his previous position and the evil things he had done, and he was also very clear that his "wanton offender" could not be directly sentenced to death by the small county, so he returned to Maoshui Town after the end of his studies, and while continuing to do accounting, he waited for the people from the public security bureau to arrest him.
Not long after, Zheng Yunxia was arrested and arrested by the public security organs, and after hearing this news, Yu Chengfu, the manager of the Maoshui store, couldn't believe his ears, how could he think that the honest accountant would be a former agent of the Central Unification.
The picture | Zheng Yunxia in the film and television drama
During the interrogation, Zheng Yunxia confessed to his crimes, and at the public trial in late 1958, he was unsurprisingly sentenced to death. Zheng Yunxia knew the depth of his sins, so he did not choose to appeal, but quietly waited for death to come.
What he did not expect was that according to the new regulations of the CPC Central Committee on punishing counter-revolution, if a criminal who could be killed or not killed was treated as a non-kill, so at the time of the final judgment, the original death sentence was changed to fifteen years' imprisonment. Not long after, Zheng Yunxia was escorted to the "general school team" of the Furong Coal Mine in Sichuan County for transformation.
On December 20, 1975, zheng Yunxia, who was already 68 years old, was released leniently. When he heard the news of his pardon, Zheng Yunxia couldn't help but shed tears, he didn't expect that the Communist Party not only gave the whole Chinese a new life, but was also willing to give himself a chance to repent and let himself, a wicked man with deep sins, also get a new life.
After his release from prison, Zheng Yunxia wrote many articles of historical value based on his past experiences, and he hoped to use these articles to repay the favor of the Communist Party. Not only that, in the decades that followed, he devoted all his energies to the cause of opposing "Taiwan independence" and promoting cross-strait reunification, hoping to atone for his past sins and repay the concern of the party, the state, and the people for their concern.
On July 10, 2009, 102-year-old Zheng Yunxia was lying quietly on a hospital bed, and he felt that he was about to die, so he looked at his relatives around him with tears in his eyes and said his last wish that he had not fulfilled: to return to the entrance of the battlefield and stand in front of history to repent.
After the old man finished speaking with remorse on his face, he closed his eyes forever...