In 1949, the Chinese People's Liberation Army occupied the Nanjing government, the Kuomintang was defeated and retreated to Taiwan, and various departments were arranging for evacuation. However, 3 military command agents did not want to follow the Kuomintang army to leave, so they stayed on the mainland and lived in anonymity for 64 years.
Until 2013, 3 people met with the help of relevant departments. At this time, the 3 people are already white-haired old people, and after meeting each other this time, I don't know if they can see each other again in their lifetime. The 3 people unanimously decided to take a group photo. With a "click", the precious meeting of the 3 people was frozen forever.
When asked why they didn't want to leave the mainland, they replied:
"I'd rather love my hometown with a twist of soil, and I would love a million gold in my hometown." I must stay here. ”
"My elderly mother would wait at the door every day for me to come home, and I couldn't leave her and just leave."
"I've been an orphan since I was a child, and my hometown is my only attachment."
In the torrent of the times, no one can be left alone. However, when faced with a choice, they still stick to their bottom line.
Their homeland is their final bottom line, and they would rather bear all the consequences than leave the land where they were born.
Who are they? What kind of ups and downs did they experience in that turbulent era? After staying, how did they get to where they are today?
In the war years, having food to eat is the greatest luck
After the three of them met, the dusty past, like a frame of yellowed old movies, pressed the play button and began to slowly stage.
According to Comrade Wang Qinglian, she is a native of Jiangshan County, Zhejiang Province. At a very young age, my father died. She grew up dependent on her mother, and although her life was poor, her mother still relied on her meager income to provide her with education until the Japanese invaders invaded her hometown, making it worse for her family, which was already unable to make ends meet.
Wang Qinglian said emotionally: "In 1943, the military commander came to my hometown to recruit people, and I was 15 years old. Because of the war, my studies could not continue. However, it is not easy to find a job, and my mother and I are about to open the pot. ”
Recalling the bitterness of that year, Wang Qinglian choked up, and after a slight pause, she continued: "In order to maintain the family's survival and have food to eat, my mother let me take the secret agent exam. Unexpectedly, I was admitted as soon as I took the exam. ”
"Subsequently, I was first assigned to the Ciqikou paper mill, where I printed documents every day. Later, he was transferred to the Translation and Telecommunications Department as a translator, and his job was to translate the intercepted telegrams. The job was not like the manual work, where every day he just sat there and translated telegrams. ”
"Moreover, there was no need to risk their lives to take a gun to the battlefield, and the monthly salary was called a 'high salary' at that time." Therefore, I have not studied the nature of military unification at all. In those days, I was very satisfied to have such a stable, high-paying job to make ends meet. ”
What exactly is military unification?
During the Republic of China period, the military command was an intelligence agency set up by the Kuomintang in order to quickly and accurately grasp information, the full name was the "Investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Military Commission of the National Government", and the predecessor was the Secret Service Under the Revival Society of the Kuomintang Party Group Organization. Its nature was equivalent to the CIA of today's United States.
Under the leadership of Dai Kasa, the military command reached its peak during the War of Resistance Against Japan, with more than 50,000 secret agents and the ability to send troops on their own. Therefore, everyone calls Dai Kasa the "King of Secret Agents".
In addition to the large number of people and great power, the welfare of the military command is also very good, which is also the main reason why Wang Qinglian has chosen to translate information in the Translation and Telecommunications Department.
The Military Command Bureau can be said to be very friendly to the staff, not only can get a high salary, if there are any difficulties at home, the Military Command Bureau will also help solve. Therefore, the staff working here are basically very dedicated and very conscientious and responsible.
Among them, in the Military Command Bureau, those responsible for sending and receiving intelligence are small clerks who have no right, and their daily work is to translate the information received and then distribute it to other sponsoring departments in different categories.
Usually, intelligence is classified according to the degree of confidentiality and urgency, with white being general intelligence, yellow being the fastest, red being the fastest, and purple being the most confidential.
Wang Qinglian was an ordinary "small clerk" in the Military Command Bureau. Wang Qinglian said: "In order to make a living, I have no other requirements for this job. And I've read books to decipher telegrams according to different codebooks, and I got started very quickly. ”
Speaking of this, Wang Qinglian talked about a secret that many people don't know.
"At that time, the staff working in the Translation and Telecommunications Department were all from Jiangshan County, and everyone spoke the dialect of Jiangshan Hometown. One day, a Communist Party came, and because he couldn't understand what we were saying, he could only return in vain. I also learned about this later, and it turned out that Dai Kasa had specially recruited translators and telegraphers from Jiangshan County in order to prevent others from coming to listen to the information. ”
Wang Qinglian worked in the Translation and Electronics Department for 3 years. During this time, she deciphered more than 800 kinds of intelligence about the Japanese invaders and dedicated her share to the victory of the War of Resistance.
In 1946, Dai Kasa was tragically killed while on a plane, and the plane crashed near Nanjing. Wang Qinglian left the Translation and Telecommunications Department at this time. In 1949, when the Kuomintang was defeated in Taiwan, her colleagues in the Translation and Telecommunications Department came to her and asked her to go to Taiwan as well. However, Wang Qinglian refused.
In this regard, Wang Qinglian said: "My mother is old, her living habits can no longer change, and she can't experience long-distance travel. My mother pulled me up hard, and I couldn't leave her at this time for myself. ”
Later, under the arrangement of the party government, Wang Qinglian went to work in the Grain Bureau of Jiangshan County, and with a stable job, her life returned to tranquility. Wang Qinglian also got married, had her own children, and after retirement, her children and grandchildren were full of halls, and Wang Qinglian also enjoyed the joy of heaven.
Finally, Wang Qinglian said emotionally: "Thanks to the Communist Party, I was assigned a job, so that I could have a happy life after that." I was right to choose to stay! ”
Because of love, so fearless
In order to have a mouthful of food to eat, Wang Qinglian mistakenly hit and bumped into each other before she became a spy of the military command. Wishing Rinpoche should be lucky compared to this, after all, nothing compares to true love. However, it seems inappropriate to use "luck" on Zhu Rinpoche, whose life is more bumpy and tortuous than Wang Qinglian's.
Zhu Rinpo was born in 1922 and is an authentic Shanghainese. When he was young and ignorant, he experienced the heavy blow of the death of his parents and the broken family. At a young age, he could only find some places to collect child labor, and earn a little living expenses by relying on his strength.
When he recalled this experience, the already old man's Rinpoche had tears in his eyes and said, "Anyway, I grew up." Later, with the help and recommendation of my brother-in-law Chen Yibai, I went to the Zhejiang Police Academy to learn radio communication technology. ”
Interest is the best teacher. Although for Zhu Rinpo, who was new to communication technology, he only knew a little about communication, but he couldn't stand his liking. "Because I could learn communication, those days were really one of the few happy times of my life."
If Zhu Rinpoche himself is a thousand-mile horse, then Chen Yibai is his Bole.
At that time, Chen Yibai was working as an instructor at the Zhejiang Police Academy, and when he saw Zhu Rinpo studying hard, he knew that Zhu Rinpo would definitely learn something.
As one of the top telecommunications experts, Chen Yibai not only gave Zhu Rinpo a lot of encouragement, but also helped him understand the obscure telecommunications knowledge. Seeing that Chen Yibai was so helpful to himself, Zhu Rinpo said to him: "Although my current results are a bit behind, I will definitely catch up." ”
Looking at his firm eyes, Chen Yibai was also convinced of this. Later, Rinpoche's achievements really caught up, and he has always been at the top of the list.
Zhu Rinpoche is like a sponge that absorbs a lot of water, eager to absorb more expertise. Subsequently, Chu Rinpoche learned the more difficult content of the machine, not only to learn physics and calculus, but also to learn English, because the transmitter was purchased from abroad.
With a strong passion and diligent study, Rinpoche soon mastered the essence of aircraft maintenance.
When he said when he entered the Military Command Bureau, Zhu Rinpo's face became solemn: "After the Battle of Songhu, I entered the fourth section of the military command, the second section, responsible for making and repairing the transmitter for the staff who received the telegram. ”
"People think that making and repairing the transmitter is behind the scenes, yes, but it's not. Many times, I was bombarded by the Japanese army and braved the rain of bullets to complete the repair task. There were many times when I felt like I was dead, but I miraculously survived. ”
Later, when the confidential personnel of the military command withdrew, Zhu Rinpo resolutely chose to stay. Asked why, the old man pondered for a long time before he said: "There is a sentence that can express my thoughts in particular: 'You ask me why I am always full of tears, and it is because I love this land so much.'" My parents died since I was a child, and it was this land that nurtured me, and I was reluctant to leave. ”
Zhu Rinpoche, who chose to stay on the mainland, returned to his birthplace of Shanghai. There, he started a business with the telecommunications knowledge he had learned before. After having a certain amount of savings, under the introduction of friends, I wished Rinpoche to marry and have children and enjoy the happiness of this ordinary life.
However, the happy life was as short as if it had never happened, and due to Zhu Rinpo's special status and job position in the military command, he was isolated and censored after the founding of New China. Once in prison, his wife and daughter were separated, and all that was left to accompany Rinpoche was the land under his feet and the telecommunications he loved.
Zhu Rinpo said, "As long as my feet can step on this land and do what I like to do telecommunications, I have no regrets or regrets." ”
After the end of the 10-year labor camp, due to Zhu Rinpo's superb communication skills, the converted farm continued to retain him for 16 years.
In 1980, the lonely Zhu Rinpo was freed and, under the arrangement of the government, spent his old age in a small town in Ninghai, Zhejiang Province. Although he was tried and re-educated through labor, Zhu Rinpo was full of gratitude, and he said contentedly: "It is already very good, I still live in this land, and I still have a cause that I love, I thank the party and the new China." ”
In 2013, when the relevant departments found Zhu Rinpo, he seemed extremely excited and happy, and he was impatient to meet the other two elderly people. Perhaps in the depths of Zhu Rinpo's heart, only Wang Qinglian and Dai Yiqian, who had also experienced the cruel years with him, could more deeply understand his desire to stay in the mainland!
Wishing Rinpoche's life was like duckweed wandering, lonely and lonely. However, he never had the idea of giving up for a moment, and the firmness and strength of his heart made his life, although it had fallen, it was not lost.
On October 9, 2019, the elderly Zhu Rinpo passed away at the age of 98.
The most special agent
Compared with the bumpy lives of Zhu Rinpoche and Wang Qinglian, Dai Yiqian was an orthodox military man, and his family was the most prosperous of the three. Moreover, he also had a layer of kinship with Dai Kasa, the head of the secret service at that time, and if he talked about generations, he would call Dai Kasa "Ten Uncles".
During the war, and because of this special relationship, Dai Yiqian was appointed as a confidential staff officer of the Military Command Bureau, not only had the right to make decisions on major confidential matters, but also received preferential treatment everywhere in life.
With the changes in the world, after the founding of New China, this position once brought Dai Yiqian an infinite scenery, and now dai Yiqian cannot get rid of the trial and punishment of the new Chinese law.
In 1958, Dai Yiqian, who worked as a farmer in his hometown, was taken away by the local authorities, and after review, Dai Yiqian was sentenced to five years in prison. In response to this judgment, when the judge asked Dai Yiqian whether he wanted to appeal, Dai Yiqian calmly replied: "I accept it unconditionally and have no complaints." ”
In fact, Dai Yiqian only joined the army to resist Japan. As a young and promising man, he went to the battlefield very early and fought against the Japanese. He was brave and fearless, bravely killed the enemy, and dedicated his share of strength to the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
So how did he meet Dai Kasa and be promoted by Dai Kasa to a confidential staff officer of the Military Command Bureau?
Dai Yiqian recalled: "When I was young, my mind was flexible and I could also speak. He also went to the battlefield and killed the Japanese. In 1943, when I was just 18 years old, I was promoted to work in Leadshan, Jiangxi, an office set up by the Nationalist Army. ”
"It was here that I met my uncle Dai Kasa. At that time, he was already a 'prominent figure' in the Kuomintang, and old Chiang especially trusted him and sent him to Jiangxi to inspect the work, and we met in this way. ”
According to Dai Yiqian, Dai Kasa saw him and asked him kindly, "What are you doing here as a young man?" Dai Yiqian said that he had just been sent here to work.
As a result, soon, Dai Yiqian's superior leader received the order conveyed by Dai Kasa. The order said that due to the urgent shortage of manpower, Dai Yiqian is now specially transferred to the Military Command Bureau, and the relevant departments are invited to actively cooperate and do a good job in handing over the work.
You must know that at that time, the Military Command Bureau was a department that the National Government attached great importance to, and no one could enter it casually. There are even fewer parachutes like Dai Yiqian.
"After I went, I didn't directly become a confidential staff officer, but first went to a special special agent training class to study and train, and after graduation, I went to work in the southeast office of the Military Command Bureau."
"Perhaps because I was down-to-earth and flexible, Dai Kasa quickly promoted me to a confidential secretary by his side, responsible for various important intelligence work."
Watching Dai Kasa ascend all the way, many people around him wanted to ask him to do things, and Dai Yiqian at that time could be said to be hot. And Dai Kasa, who attaches great importance to Dai Yiqian, will also try to meet Dai Yiqian's needs as much as possible. Most of the people he recommends will be reused.
With the help of Dai Kasa, Dai Yiqian entered the peak moment of his life. It can be said that it is Dai Kasa who has achieved Dai Yiqian. The grateful Dai Yiqian has always been loyal to providing intelligence to Dai Kasa, and even during the civil war, he still followed Dai Kasa to serve the National Government.
Later, the plane that Dai Kasa was riding on accidentally crashed. Immediately after, the Kuomintang was forced to retreat to Taiwan, and the bad news that came one after another was like a basin of cold water splashed on Dai Yiqian's head, and he was momentarily awake. He thought that his original intention was only to fight away from the Japanese, and now that his family was beating his own family, it was really against his original intention.
When former colleagues of the Military Command Bureau persuaded him to go to Taiwan with him, he resolutely refused.
"I wanted to understand, went to Beiping, met Fu Zuoyi, and the two of us decided to surrender to the Communist Party together." Dai Yiqian, who is now elderly, said, "This is really an incomparably correct decision, if it were not for this decision, now I would not have been treated like this by the party government, living in such a good nursing home, and receiving subsidies every month, I am grateful!" ”
Dai Yiqian, who accepted the sentence, had remarried his wife after his release from prison. At this time, he was helpless, old, frail and sickly, and without the care of the party government, perhaps Dai Yiqian's old age would have been more miserable than that of Zhu Rinpoche and Wang Qinglian.
Dai Yiqian's life is to become a dai ka, and to lose is also to wear a kasa. However, as he himself said: "In journey to the West, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty said to Tang Sanzang, who was about to take the Western Heavens: 'I would rather love my hometown and twist the soil, and I would not love the gold of my hometown', and I knew that I could be blessed to go to Taiwan, I could also be exempted from punishment, and maybe I could live a better life. However, even if it is good there, it is not my home after all, and even if there is no relative who is related to me, it is the place where I am most concerned. ”
After the widowed old man Dai Yiqian lived in the nursing home, the staff was afraid that he was lonely and always chatted with him. Once, when he inadvertently talked about working as a spy in the Military Command Bureau, Dai Yiqian felt that he was definitely not the only one who chose to stay on the mainland. He said that he did not know whether he could find people like him, who had worked in the Military Command Bureau in those years, and that he would like to meet them in his lifetime and reminisce about the past.
With the help and coordination of various relevant departments, the news of Zhu Rinpo and Wang Qinglian, two secret agents of the military command, was soon found.
In October 2013, on a pleasant morning, three elderly people set off to meet at the meeting place.
Although they had never met as spies at that time, after experiencing the changes of the years, they now face the same identity, and they have invisibly built a bridge of tacit understanding. After the 3 elderly people met, it was like a good friend for many years, you said a word, I said a word, told how they were spies, and how they walked through these years. The taste cannot be fully expressed in words. The accompanying staff recorded their conversations one by one.
Before leaving, the 3 people unanimously asked the accompanying staff to take a group photo for them to commemorate the date, which spanned centuries.
Zhou Guoping said: "Faith is the light of a person's heart, which illuminates the road of life. People without faith are like walking in the dark, not discerning the direction, not having a goal, going with the flow, and living a lifetime is just muddled. ”
President Xi Jinping also said: "The people have faith, the country has strength, and the nation has hope." ”
Wang Qinglian, Zhu Rinbo and Dai Yiqian, the three old people in such difficult years, with a strong and indomitable spirit to face the wrapping of fate, always adhere to their life beliefs, and stick to the bottom line of not leaving their hometown. In the end, the clouds were opened to see the moon, and waited for a happy ending.
Their spirit of "the more bitter, the more tenacious" and "the more difficult, the more persistent", even after many years of stumbling, is still worth learning!