On the morning of May 7, 1933, Zhang Jingyao, a former Beiyang warlord, a major general of the Anhui clan, and a former governor of Hunan, was killed three times at close range by an assassin who suddenly broke in at the Six Kingdoms Hotel, and this mysterious killer was the prototype of Meng Wei on the chinese side of "No War in Peiping", Bai Shiwei.
Bai Shiwei
To ask Zhang Jingyao why he was assassinated, we must start from his becoming a traitor. Zhang Jingyao, a native of Anhui, joined the army in 1896, studied in the Beiyang New Army Camp Academy and the Baoding Officers' School, and successively served as commander and commander under Wu Peifu, Zhang Zuolin, and Zhang Zongchang. Under Duan Qirui's policy of unifying force by force, Zhang Jingyao led his troops to defeat the Xianggui coalition army and entered Hunan, where he became the governor and governor of Hunan. He and his three brothers, Zhang Jingshun, Zhang Jingyu, and Zhang Jingtang, did nothing wrong in the local area. The Hunan people made up the first smooth mouth for the four brothers: "Tangtang Hu Zhang, Yao ShunYu Tang; one two three four, tigers, leopards, jackals; Zhang poison is not removed, Hunan is hopeless." ”
Zhang Jingyao
Under the opposition of many parties, Zhang Jingyao was expelled after only two years in Hunan. After that, Zhang Jingyao became more and more inferior, and later lived in seclusion in the Japanese concessions of Dalian and Tianjin, but he always longed for a comeback. Soon the opportunity came, but it was an olive branch thrown by the Japanese, when in order to achieve the goal of complete control of North China, the Japanese went around bribing the remnants of the warlords and frustrated politicians in Beiyang to form a puppet regime. Zhang Jingyao, who still had a certain degree of influence, was also in the ranks of the Japanese army, and he did not hesitate at all, eager to come out again, and betrayed himself as a traitor. Although he had the opportunity to "get out", Zhang Jingyao was not far from his own death date.
One day in May 1933, Bai Shiwei, a secret agent of the Kuomintang Revival Society, Wang Tianmu, the director of the Tianjin Station, and Chen Gongshu, the director of the Beijing Station, received instructions from the commissioner, Zheng Jiemin, to impose a one-week deadline and sanction Zhang Jingyao, the former governor of Hunan. At this time, Zhang Jingyao had already lived under the pseudonym "ChangshiGu" in the Six Kingdoms Hotel in Dongjiaomin Lane. After careful investigation of the situation, Zheng Jiemin and other agents formulated a plan of action, and the assassination was carried out by Bai Shiwei, a secret agent who took the initiative to ask for help.
Zheng Jiemin
In order to ensure the smooth completion of the task, Wang Tianmu invited a helper surnamed Hou from Tianjin. At that time, it was learned that Zhang Jingyao had chartered three rooms on the third floor of the Six Kingdoms Hotel, and in addition to one for himself, the other two were zhao's chief of staff and aide-de-camp. Originally planned, Wang Tianmu went upstairs to knock on the door to find Chief of Staff Zhao to determine zhang Jingyao's room, and after determining the room, Bai Shiwei and Lao Hou rushed into the room to see Wang's gestures. But they didn't think that on the day of the action, things would be much easier to do than they thought.
At that time, in order to facilitate the approach to the target, Bai Shiwei and Lao Hou opened a room on the second floor, but they did not want to see a room on the second floor with half a window on the way to the room, and a person lying on the bed was lying on his side, which was the target of their assassination, Zhang Jingyao, because Zhang Jingyao had a pinch of long hair on his chin, so it was easy to identify. It turned out that Zhang Jingyao liked to smoke a lot, go to bed late and get up late, plus he did too much evil and was very suspicious, so he played a slippery head and opened another room on the second floor, but he did not want to be smart but was mistaken by smart. Just as the so-called opportunity must not be lost, Bai Shiwei rushed forward, aimed at Zhang Jingyao's chest and fired three shots in a row, and after the fight, he ran away with a cigarette. From the discovery of the target to the evacuation of the Six Nations Hotel, it took less than 5 minutes to do a very beautiful job.
FormerLy the Six Nations Hotel
After the successful assassination of Zhang Jingyao, Bai Shiwei, who was only 24 years old at the time, was commended, promoted to the rank of head of the Beiping Station Action Group, and was sent to the Central Army University for further study, and later married Cao Jiying, the eldest granddaughter of the former Beiyang President Cao Kun. In September 1947, Bai Shiwei was transferred to the deputy chief of the Beiping City Police Bureau, during which time in order to maintain the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang, he suppressed the patriotic student movement, resulting in 17 deaths and 124 injuries. After the liberation of Tianjin, he fled to the south and finally to Taiwan. Although Bai Shiwei was iron-blooded and committed rape and shot Zhang Jingyao, his suppression of patriotic students was also a complete atrocity.