When you think of The Red Agent, you always think of the unsung heroes lurking in the heart of the enemy. A good agent has to fool everyone, more like a bad person than a bad person, in order to hasten the defeat and demise of the enemy.
However, not all red agents need to do this, sometimes staying at home, there will be Kuomintang agents to send to the door, the provincial public security department to arrest one by one. At the time of liberation, Qi Wenshan was such a fishing red agent.
A native of Tianjin, Qi Wenshan was born into a poor family in 1917, lost both parents at the age of 15, and had to run to his third brother in Jiaozuo, Henan. It was while studying in Henan that Qi Wenshan, inspired by his teachers and relatives and friends, began to believe in communism and actively participated in the student movement.
The development of revolutionary forces in schools and teachers, although it does not directly bring combat effectiveness, can inspire many young people with lofty ideals to embark on the revolutionary road. Old China was really too dark, and young people with a little conscience would have the idea of saving the country and the people, and they were the hope for the future of Chinese society.
At the age of 18, Qi Wenshan was arranged by the party organization to go to the Longhai Railway to develop the workers' movement, and because of his outstanding performance, he was officially recruited as a member of the Communist Party of China the following year. Not long after, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup, and the revolution fell into an unprecedented low.
Until the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, Qi Wenshan insisted on continuously strengthening the revolutionary force among the workers of the Longhai Railway and established a perfect party organization. In November 1938, Qi Wenshan was also ordered to escort the central leaders under the pseudonym "HuFu" to Yan'an, and only later learned that "Hufu" was Liu Shaoqi.
After the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression entered a stalemate stage, the Kuomintang no longer actively resisted Japan, but stepped up its persecution of the Communist Party. Many party organizations in the Kuomintang area had to go underground again, and their superiors demanded that henan's progressive youth be transferred to Yan'an, and Qi Wenshan took the lead in carrying out the implementation and came to Yan'an, the holy land of revolution.
Qi Wenshan was trained as a red agent because of his flexible mind and strong revolutionary will, and he also went to the Soviet Union to receive comprehensive special agent training, especially good at intelligence gathering and explosives. Over the next few years, the Soviets sent him to Qiqihar in the northeast, lurking until the end of the War of Resistance.
During this period, the party organization arranged for Qi Wenshan to marry his fellow villager Wang Jianshu, and the couple used the photo studio as a cover to collect a large amount of intelligence for the Soviet Union and the CCP, and their specific deeds are still not fully disclosed to this day.
At that time, in order to prevent the Japanese army from going north to war against the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union not only incorporated the remaining strength of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance into the 88th Brigade, but also borrowed many agents from the Chinese Communists and installed them in various key departments and places in the northeast, ready to respond to the Soviet Union's war against Japan.
One of Qi Wenshan's main tasks was to delay the reinforcements of the Japanese army in Qiqihar by blasting bridges after the outbreak of war, so as to buy time for the Soviet strategy to unfold. This kind of mission is highly dangerous, and even if the explosion is successful, it is very likely to be hunted down by the Japanese military police, and the probability of survival is very small.
Fortunately, Japan never launched a war against the Soviet Union, but instead went south to invade Southeast Asia, and Qi Wenshan's mission was not activated, thus safely surviving the entire war. After Japan's surrender, these CCP agents did not choose to continue to serve the Soviet army and demanded to return to the CCP.
Qi Wenshan did the same, writing letters according to prior agreement, reconnecting with the party organization and becoming a red agent of the CCP. He and Wang Jianshu came to Xinxiang City, Henan Province, and opened a photo studio to collect military intelligence for the Jiluyu Military Region.
In addition to the photo studio, Qi Wenshan also used his identity as a Tianjin native to run a dog bun shop, which sold buns that were famous far and wide and became a scene in Xinxiang City. It is said that when Chiang Kai-shek was passing through Xinxiang once, the local person in charge specially recommended Chiang Kai-shek to try the dog's bun.
When Qi Wenshan learned of this, he planned to ambush the sharpshooter and wait for Chiang Kai-shek to take advantage of the opportunity to get rid of the enemy's leader when he came to the door. However, the superiors did not approve Qi Wenshan's plan, on the grounds that the assassination was not in line with our Party's policy.
Throughout the period of the domestic revolution, our Party's infiltration of Kuomintang military and political leaders was very successful, and even Chiang Kai-shek had an underground party lurking around him. If there is an assassination, I am afraid that few leaders of the Kuomintang will be able to run away.
However, what our Party needs is a revolution of the whole people, a holistic transformation of Chinese society, and although assassination can eliminate a certain opponent, it will not be of real help to the revolutionary cause, but will have a negative impact. Therefore, in the history of our Party, there have been very few assassinations of the enemy, and the early red teams also took the elimination of traitors as their main task.
The Qi Wenshan Intelligence Station was the tailwind ear of the Jiluyu Military Region, and it developed quite a few intelligence personnel at all levels in Xinxiang and within the Kuomintang, intercepting a large amount of secret Kuomintang intelligence, and enabling the military region to discover the enemy's conspiracy as soon as possible.
Once, the enemy army in Xinxiang planned to send three regiments to surround a unit of the Jiluyu Military Region. After Qi Wenshan learned of this battle plan through the internal line, he immediately sent someone to contact the military region and let this unit quickly move and avoid losses.
In order to make Qi Wenshan's intelligence station more real, his superiors also took his wife Wang Jianshu over, and asked Qi Wenshan to train Wang Jianshu to become the boss's wife, smoke and drink and play mahjong.
Poor Wang Jianshu was originally a virtuous woman and a member of the Communist Party, but now she had to dress up as mrs. Kuo the most hated and socialize with other mrs. Kuo. Similar plots in film and television dramas turn out to be really based on reality, and these underground parties are really good actors.
During the Liberation War, the Qi Wenshan Intelligence Station made great contributions and delivered a lot of valuable intelligence to the military region, so it was awarded the title of "Second Class People's Meritorious Hero" by the People's Liberation Army. After the liberation of Xinxiang City in 1949, it was reasonable to say that Qi Wenshan should have regained his true face as a Communist Party member, but his superiors gave him a more difficult task.
When the Kuomintang was defeated and retreated, while leaving a large number of spies behind, it desperately tried to win over all kinds of huidaomen personnel, so that they could lurk and be ready to sabotage at any time, create a terrorist atmosphere, weaken the authority of the people's government, and even want to cooperate with Chiang Kai-shek's "great cause of counter-offensive."
These lurking enemy elements are cunning, usually hidden deeply, or deliberately show the pursuit of progress in order to deceive the people's government, but in private they often collude in pursuit of the sensual enjoyment of the past, and also discuss anti-communist plans.
The newly formed people's government suppressed a large number of counter-revolutionaries, but it was not an easy task to dig out all the lurking enemies. Instead of looking for them one by one, it is better to let them jump out, which requires a bait, and the "capitalist" Qi Wenshan is the right person.
Qi Wenshan is the owner of a veteran photo studio and bun shop, has a family and a business, and has a certain relationship with the original Kuomintang government. In order to engage in intelligence at that time, Qi Wenshan did not deal with Kuomintang officials less, and of course the relationship was good.
In order to win the trust of the enemy special agents, Qi Wenshan was even sent to the study class as a secret agent, which not only strengthened the enemy's impression of his "own people", but also met many new enemy elements and fought with them fiercely.
The Kuomintang agents once wanted to carry out an uprising, connecting with the hidden agents in Xinxiang and even Henan, creating the illusion of a Kuomintang counterattack. Qi Wenshan promptly grasped the information on the organizers and timing of the riot, and enabled the public security organs to crack this major counter-revolutionary incident.
After coming out of the study class, the superior set up a sporting goods club in the most prosperous commercial street in Xinxiang, with Qi Wenshan as the boss. In this way, the enemy agents felt that Qi Wenshan's wealth was rich and unfathomable, and he also had a backer on the side of the Communist Party, so they came to him more frequently.
Suddenly, Qi Wenshan's shop became a gathering place for three religions and nine streams, all kinds of people called Qi Wenshan brothers and brothers, Wang Jianshu also played mahjong with Mrs. Kuo all day, and people who did not know thought that the Officials and Masters of the Kuomintang had returned.
The people of Xinxiang saw it in their eyes and hated it in their hearts, and they reported to the public security organs one after another that the sporting goods store in Qi Wenshan was a den for agents. Unexpectedly, the public security organs not only did not seal it, but instead shirked that there was nothing wrong with Qi Wenshan, and that they were all legitimate and normal exchanges. Of course, the police would not say that this was a fishing shop, and the task was to fish out all the hidden agents.
With the protection of the public security organs, Qi Wenshan's "arrogance" has become more and more arrogant, and he has completely ignored the people's eyes, and the goods in the store are amazingly expensive, and they do not care about the people at all.
In fact, Qi Wenshan deliberately raised the price and only received "guests" with special needs. All the "guests" who come here will be secretly targeted by the public security organs, and then put long lines to catch big fish, dig out larger gangs, and wait until they have a move before arresting them.
Through qi wenshan's shops, the lurking enemies in Xinxiang and Henan and those who were dissatisfied with the new society were fished out, saving the public security organs a lot of trouble. It was only for Qi Wenshan that it was difficult to usher in liberation, but it was necessary to lurk in the new society, disguised as the "enemy" of the people, and lurked for a full 19 years.
To Qi Wenshan and Wang Jianshu, who had been fighting on the hidden front for a long time, it was their children who were really uncomfortable. Her daughter, Qi Baozhu, was said by her classmates at school to be the daughter of a capitalist and a traitorous businessman, and she was blinded and ridiculed. Whenever she saw her daughter's tears of grievance, Wang Jianshu had to comfort her as much as possible, saying that her father was not a bad person.
Qi Wenshan also went to Hong Kong as a capitalist to collect more intelligence and find out the overseas relations of many hidden agents, and did not return to Xinxiang until 1963. After more than ten years of investigation, the secret agents hidden in Xinxiang and even the whole of Henan have basically appeared, and Qi Wenshan's mission has finally been completed.
In 1968, the people's government revealed the true identity of Qi Wenshan, a red agent on a special mission, code-named 112, and made great contributions to the purging of counter-revolutionaries. Qi Wenshan's family no longer had to live under the strange eyes of others.
Since then, Qi Wenshan has been working in the Henan Provincial Public Security Department, and in 1992 he was awarded the "First Class Gold Medal", which is the highest honor for comrades on the hidden front. In June 1997, in order to ensure the well-being of the people, Qi Wenshan, a red agent who had been lurking for 19 years after liberation, died of illness at the age of 80.
Resources:
Qi Baozhu: "The Power of Faith: My Father's "Latent" Career"