Dai Kasa, alias Dai Chunfeng, word rain farmer. In the late 1920s and mid-1940s, he was active in various intelligence efforts and was known as the "King of Secret Agents". He collected a lot of intelligence for Chiang Kai-shek and removed many powerful political enemies for Chiang Kai-shek, and was a sharp "sword" in Chiang Kai-shek's hand.
However, such a loyal and powerful general was suspected and jealous by Chiang Kai-shek and eventually died. After Chiang Kai-shek's defeat in Taiwan, he lamented as Cao Cao lamented Guo Jia:
If the rain farmer does not die, I will not be this!
Dai Kasa, why did he get such a high weight? And why did Chiang Kai-shek have to be jealous of him? Everything must start from dai Kasa's life.
▲ Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Kasa
Past and present lives with intelligence work
Dai was born in 1897 in Baoan Township, Jiangshan County, Quzhou Province. The family has 100 acres of good land, food and clothing. But Dai Kasa's father became obsessed with gambling, and within a few years, he lost the family's land, and when Dai Kasa was 4 years old, he died. Therefore, Dai Kasa and his mother Blue Moon xi were dependent on each other, and they came into contact with the cold and warm of society early on, and they were familiar with people's feelings.
In 1926, Dai Kasa was admitted to the sixth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and he was surprised to find that the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy was originally Chiang Kai-shek. As early as 1923, Dai Kasa had a relationship with Chiang Kai-shek in Shanghai, and although the two were not close, they also had a clear understanding of each other, which also made Chiang Kai-shek have more trust in Dai Kasa than others.
Because Dai Kasa had practiced martial arts in the Shaolin Temple a few years ago, coupled with his flexible brain. After reading the various books recommended by Chiang Kai-shek, he was quite knowledgeable.
Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek praised Dai Kasa and called him: "Wen Ke An Bang, Wu Neng Ding Guo." ”
Dai Kasa was grateful for Chiang Kai-shek's cultivation and became more and more respectful of The Principal Chiang Kai-shek. After graduation, Dai served as Chiang Kai-shek's secretary, bodyguard and aide-de-camp.
▲Chiang Kai-shek, president of the Whampoa Military Academy
The person who allowed Dai Kasa to deal with intelligence work was Hu Jing'an, a senior counselor who was in charge of intelligence work at that time. In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the heinous "April 12" coup in Shanghai, and the first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation broke down.
In order to gain a firm foothold, Chiang Kai-shek urgently needed intelligence workers to collect a large amount of intelligence. It was at this time that Dai Kasa crossed the bridge with Hu Jing'an and began his career in intelligence work. At first, Dai Kasa couldn't touch the doorway because he had just arrived. In addition, they are not members of the intelligence group and have no financial support for activities, the development of intelligence work is very unsuccessful, and the information provided to Hu Jing'an is also very ambiguous.
However, with his own efforts and a set of methods of dealing with people and things that he had worked out over the years, Dai Kasa still managed to find several members of our party. Hu Jing'an was overjoyed when he learned of this, and began to systematically cultivate Dai Kasa's intelligence gathering ability, and Dai Kasa made rapid progress.
In March 1932, Chiang Kai-shek became increasingly aware of the importance of intelligence work and decided to strengthen the rule of secret agents. To this end, Chiang Kai-shek successively organized the establishment of the Lixing Society and the Revival Society, and the fledgling Dai Kasa was appointed as the chief of the special service department of the Revival Society. This secret service organization under Dai Kasa was the predecessor of the military command as we later knew it. Dai Kasa, as the head of the secret service, extensively developed the secret agent network and recruited and expanded personnel.
▲Dai Kasa
During this period, Dai Kasa led the agents to complete a series of tasks, including assassinating zhang Jingyao, a traitor to the Beiyang warlord, and assassinating Ji Hongchang, the commander of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army. Later, even his brother Who was righteously married to Jinlan did not spare him, and personally planned to assassinate Wang Yaqiao, who was known as the "Assassination King" at that time. This series of work made Chiang Kai-shek more trusting of Dai Kasa and his subordinate organizations.
In 1936, Chiang Kai-shek was asked by Zhang Xueliang to get up and go to Xi'an. On the eve of the take-off, Dai Kasa had vaguely pointed out that Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng had ulterior motives, but they were ignored by Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek confidently believed that Zhang Yang and the two were loyal to themselves and had no second thoughts, and the intelligence collected by Dai Kasa through intelligence work was not accurate. Dai Kasa had no choice but to go along with Chiang Kai-shek's wishes.
Sure enough, on December 12, 1936, Zhang Yang and his men jointly launched a military campaign against Chiang Kai-shek, known in history as the "Xi'an Incident". Dai Kasa believed that his dereliction of duty had caused Chiang Kai-shek to suffer this disaster, and immediately went to Xi'an to rescue him. During this period, although Dai Kasa was placed under house arrest, fortunately, Zhang Yang and zhang Yang intended to unite against Japan, and finally survived.
After escaping from Xi'an, Chiang Kai-shek learned of Dai's actions and became closer to Dai and gave him more power. In 1938, after the establishment of the military command, Dai Kasa was appointed deputy director, responsible for collecting intelligence, removing obstacles, and directly responsible to Chiang Kai-shek. It is equivalent to saying that Chiang Kai-shek has mastered the loyal Dai Kasa, which is equivalent to controlling the entire network of secret agents. Dai Kasa's career as a spy also reached its peak at this moment.
The frightening "mysterious man"
Dai Kasa followed Chiang Kai-shek's side, and the biggest advantage was that he could speculate on Chiang Kai-shek's intentions. When he entered the Whampoa Military Academy, he deliberately changed his name to Dai Kasa. Dai Kasa is also like his name, so that people can't see his true face. He is known as the "Gestapo of China" and makes people feel worried and afraid all the time.
People's faces change when they mention Dai Kasa, because no one knows what Dai Kasa really looks like, where she is now, and what kind of things she is doing. And the agents under Dai Kasa seemed to be everywhere, so that people did not dare to have the slightest resentment.
In the streets and alleys of the time, there were many opinions about Dai Kasa's power: some people said that he had millions of spies under his command, all over the country's towns, and some people said that Dai Kasa led more than 7 million men and women, all over all walks of life, all over the streets and alleys. Secret information was passed up through these people layer by layer, up to Dai Kasa's hands.
Its authenticity is unknown, but various bizarre versions also let us understand how powerful Dai Kasa, a man who seems to have no sense of existence, has.
▲ Stills
Whenever he acts, Dai Kasa always exerts his secret service ability, disguises himself, and hides his body. Only his closest direct subordinate Mao Renfeng could know a little about Dai Kasa's recent situation. In China, there are his homes and hiding places everywhere, and in each house there are two identical cars, in order to prevent being tailgated, and the route of each trip and return is not fixed.
Since phone calls could be tapped, Dai Kasa forbade his subordinates to communicate things by phone, especially the part of the schedule that was easily attacked by the enemy. Dealings with the outside world are carried out through letters, including meetings with Americans. For safety, Dai Kasa will keep the contents of the documents in his mind before traveling, so he rarely carries documents to prevent documents from being stolen and leaking information.
Forced by Jiang, he died unexpectedly
Under Dai Kasa's hands, the development of military unification was in full swing, the power was getting stronger and stronger every year, and the ability to collect intelligence was getting stronger and stronger. For Chiang Kai-shek, this should be a good thing. But one thing made Chiang Kai-shek a little wary of the existence of military unification and the existence of Dai Kasa.
In 1942, the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Military Command (beginning with the establishment of the Secret Service of the Revival Society), Dai Kasa held a celebration for this purpose. In order to show Chiang Kai-shek the strength of military unification, Chiang Kai-shek was specially invited to go to inspect it. Unexpectedly, Chiang Kai-shek did not know what he read, and he was shocked when he read it.
Chiang Kai-shek inspects the Kuomintang troops
Because of Chiang Kai-shek's trust in Dai Kasa, Chiang Kai-shek was relatively delegating power to Dai Kasa. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek only has a general ambiguous understanding of the power of military unification. But this inspection surprised Chiang Kai-shek. Whether it is in numbers or equipment, the strength of military command far exceeds Chiang Kai-shek's estimation.
Among them, there are more than 50,000 light intelligence agents, and more than 200,000 people in the special service armed forces under the military command, which is not counting the non-staff personnel who are left within the military command. It is no wonder that the Central Unification is always suppressed by the military command, and the gap in strength is like ironclad evidence before Chiang Kai-shek's eyes.
Such a huge military command is subordinate to Dai Kasa, and if Dai Kasa has two hearts, the consequences will be unimaginable. This made Chiang Kai-shek feel a little worried about the existence of Dai Kasa and the existence of military unification, and he was determined to suppress Dai Kasa and military unification, but it was clear that at this juncture in 1942, it was not the right time.
On August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, and the mission of military unification was more than half completed. Coupled with the domestic people and the internal calls for the dissolution of the military command, Chiang Kai-shek had every reason to attack Dai. After that, Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly proposed the reorganization of military unification, but was politely rejected by Dai Kasa on the grounds that the task had not yet been completed.
Dai Kasa also knew that this delay was not a long-term solution, so he decided to seek another position, and successively proposed to Chiang Kai-shek to become the commander of the navy, but Chiang Kai-shek rejected it. Chiang Kai-shek increasingly felt that Dai Kasa had two hearts and was determined to deprive him of his power. Dai Kasa also felt that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to harm him, and the two suspected each other and went farther and farther.
In early 1946, Chiang Kai-shek asked Dai to fly to Chongqing to attend the "eight-member conference" to discuss the reorganization of the military. But dai Kasa looked at it, the people at this meeting were basically their opponents, and if they went, they would die nine times and have no life. But the irony is that Dai Kasa has not yet flown to Chongqing, and he is dead.
In March, on the way from Qingdao to Nanjing, Dai Kasa encountered thunderstorms, and a plane crashed on the way to Nanjing, crashing in Daishan, Nanjing. Because Daishan is also known as the Sleepy Rain Ditch, people at that time felt that Dai Kasa was destined to have this great disaster.
However, no matter what the reason, this was a "great thing" for Chiang Kai-shek, and there was no longer any resistance to the reorganization of the military command, and Dai Kasa, who held great power, disappeared.
▲ Aircraft wreckage
With the passage of time, there are many opinions about the cause of Dai Kasa's death, but Dai Kasa's death has not brought much benefit to Chiang Kai-shek, but it has been proved by history. After Dai Kasa's death, the military commanders were leaderless, and although they were reorganized, their abilities were much less than before.
After the defeat of Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek felt great heartache over Dai Kasa's death, and in order to show his nostalgia for him, he specially ordered someone to take his descendants to Taiwan for resettlement. History has proven that Dai Kasa's death was deserved. He used his secret service ability to gather intelligence everywhere, and killed many innocent people for this. As the last burial place of this rain farmer, the rain ditch is also famous for him.