Chen Long
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There was such a person who was ordered by the central authorities to come to Beijing three times to take charge of Chairman Mao's security work, but he refused.
When Chairman Mao learned of this, he only said one sentence: "People don't want to come, forget it!" ”
Chairman Mao
So who is this person? Why did he refuse to defend Chairman Mao's order three times?
This person is Chen Long, who is known as "escorting Zhao Zilong".
He defended Chairman Mao for 43 days during the negotiations in Chongqing, and Chairman Mao also commented on him in four big words: loyalty and dedication.
And Chairman Mao also broke the precedent of not giving gifts within the party and personally gave Chen Long an expensive watch.
So what exactly did Chen Long do? Why did chairman Mao get such praise and make an exception to give gifts?
Chen Long (far left)
All this must start with Chen Long himself.
Chen Long, whose original name was Liu Hanxing, was born in 1910 in a peasant household in Fushun, Northeast China, and when he was a child, he studied in a private school for several years, and he loved novels such as "Yue FeiChuan" and "Yang Jiajian".
This has greatly affected his choice of future career.
After graduating from middle school in 1926, Chen Long joined the Northeast Army, and there were few people who read and read at that time, so it was not long after. Chen Long obtained the weight of the company commander with a good hand, and was then sent to the Jilin Army Officer College to learn military concepts.
After graduating in 1928, Chen Long was promoted from an ordinary soldier to a company commander, and then stationed in Mudanjiang and nearby along the railway.
railway
"After the September 18 Incident", Chen Long was one of the first people to learn the news, but the Kuomintang's non-resistance made him very cold, watching the great rivers and mountains fall into the hands of the enemy.
Chen Long resolutely decided to lead the whole company to join the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army led by Li Yanlu, a member of the Chinese Communist Party, and vowed to die as a slave to the country.
It is also the experience of this period that made Chen Longche completely transform his life!
Chen Long and his wife
During Chen Long's struggle against the Japanese in the northeast, his heroic performance attracted the attention of Li Yanlu and Zhou Baozhong, who not only made many achievements in the battlefield, but also exuded a strong patriotic atmosphere, did things very kindly, and did not have the style of a habitual warlord.
Zhou Bao, Chen Long's introduction to the party, had the habit of writing a diary, and he recorded it like this:
"Our second and fifth joint troops, with Chen Long's battle plan, disarmed the first company of the Twenty-seventh Regiment of the Lackey Army stationed at Tun Daohe with light and sensitive means of seducing the enemy. After obtaining seventy-two Type 38 rifles and two Eleven-year light aircraft, and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition, the company commander had a hot pillow for anti-Japanese national salvation and surrendered to our army. ”
Zhou Baozhong never easily praised people, but he was able to record Chen Long's achievements in such detail in his diary, which showed his recognition of Chen Long. Chen Long also recalled:
"Zhou Baozhong, secretary of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Resistance League, had a great influence on me, and without his help, there would be no future me."
In the face of such an excellent talent, the organization also intends to further cultivate him.
Chen Long (left)
In 1934, through the introduction of Zhou Baozhong and Wang Yancheng, Chen Longrong joined the Communist Party of China, and three years later organized and arranged for him to go to Moscow for military training.
After returning to Yan'an in 1938, Chen Long first served as a military instructor at the Central Party School and later as the chief of the public security section of the Central Social Department.
The department initially consisted of only a dozen people and a few radio stations, and even the desks were made of improvised wooden planks. However, even if the conditions were difficult, Chen Long was always able to turn the danger into a disaster and eliminate his internal line when facing all kinds of conspiracies of the enemy and special forces.
Chen Long's various performances were naturally also in the eyes. In 1945, Chen Long's classic incident of protecting Chairman Mao also began.
On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and the danger of foreign invasion was resolved, but domestic contradictions became increasingly prominent.
national party
The Kuomintang bourgeoisie headed by Chiang Kai-shek wanted to monopolize the "fruits of victory" after the victory of the War of Resistance, so they longed for the Establishment of a nationwide dictatorship by the Kuomintang.
However, the masses of the people under the leadership of Chairman Mao want to build a "peaceful", "democratic" and "united" communist state.
However, this idea was resolutely opposed by the Kuomintang, so the two parties held their own views, and even Chiang Kai-shek's side put forward the idea of "eliminating our party."
In the face of such a situation, our side is very worried about triggering a civil war, because at this time China has just driven out the invaders, and the people urgently need to recuperate and develop their economy.
But Chiang Kai-shek did not think so, and in order to achieve their own goals, they did not hesitate to make the decision to "lose their conscience."
Chiang Kai-shek
On August 15, 1945, under the pretext of jointly creating a "democratic and peaceful country," Chiang Kai-shek sent chairman Mao three telegrams of the Chongqing negotiations.
Chiang Kai-shek's real purpose was not actually peace talks, and he cleverly believed that Chairman Mao would certainly not dare to come, so that the hat of "refusing peace talks and undermining peace" could be put on our side, and at the same time he would find an excuse to go to war.
In fact, we know very well what Chiang Kai-shek thinks, but Chairman Mao will not give up for the sake of the peaceful will of the entire Chinese people, even if there is a slight possibility of peacefully resolving the Kuomintang-Communist issue.
Chairman Mao finally decided that chongqing negotiations himself had to go.
Everyone knows that this is undoubtedly a feast of great doors, and beyond the negotiating table there must be swords and swords, and there are countless dangers lurking.
Chongqing is also the capital of the Kuomintang, which is full of Kuomintang secret service organs, and Chairman Mao's going can be described as "a wolf into the mouth of a tiger"!
Therefore, the security work of this trip must be meticulous, and under such a background, the selection of Chairman Mao's personal guards has undoubtedly become the most important issue.
Immediately, Li Kenong, minister of the Central Ministry of Social Affairs and vice ministers, and Kang Sheng made a list of some of them who were experienced in hundreds of battles, but Chairman Mao was not very satisfied after reading it, and then asked Kang Sheng on the side:
"Isn't there a guy named Chen Long?" If he is still a martial artist, let him come."
Ke Kangsheng thought about it and said:
"There's nothing wrong with this guy, but he just has a bit of a temper."
But Chairman Mao laughed and said:
"Jin has no feet and no one is perfect, so let this warrior accompany me."
When Chen Long learned of this news, he could not say anything excited, and then Kang Sheng commanded him:
"You will assume the pseudonym Chen Zhensheng as the chairman's secretary, and remember that your task is to take full responsibility for Chairman Mao's personal safety."
Then Chen Long replied solemnly:
"Even if I sacrifice my own life, I will certainly ensure Chairman Mao's safety, chairman Mao will come back, Chairman Mao will not come back, I will not come back."
In this way, on August 28, 1945, Chairman Mao led Zhou Enlai and others from Yan'an to Chongqing. During the flight, Chen Long speculated that Chiang Kai-shek would definitely give them a "dismount" first.
Sure enough, when Chairman Mao stepped off the plane, he encountered "trouble."
Chairman Mao got off the plane
As soon as Chairman Mao stepped off the plane, he was "besieged" by a large group of people for interviews, and for a time the scene became extremely chaotic. It can be seen that Chiang Kai-shek's layout is deep.
You must know that the leader of a party came to interview, and the surrounding public order should be maintained very well, but now it is so chaotic, Chen Long's side immediately realized that he had to do something after seeing it.
Zhou Enlai and Chairman Mao
Chen Long immediately used his own body to open up a road for Chairman Mao, during which Chen Long's thinking was highly concentrated, and it can be said that he could see the six roads and listen to the eight directions.
At this time, Chen Long, while protecting Chairman Mao from leaving the crowd as soon as possible, used his body to block the dangerous attacks that might occur around him.
When Shen Junru, a representative of the Kuomintang, saw this scene, he felt that there was no need to continue to be embarrassed in this way, so he took the initiative to go forward and picked up Chairman Mao and others and went to Chiang Kai-shek's mansion.
And this is the beginning of the Kuomintang's "evil" plan!
At seven o'clock that evening, Chairman Mao met with Chiang Kai-shek, and during the banquet, Chairman Mao and Chiang Kai-shek sat side by side.
Chen Long and the others were accompanied by Chiang Kai-shek's bodyguards, but during this period, Chiang Kai-shek's bodyguards kept showing off their large gold watches, gold buttons and other expensive items to Chen Long, which can be described as a sense of superiority.
But Chen Long and the others did not bird them at all, and the guards who saw that chiang kai-shek had not achieved their goal asked Chen Long:
"I wonder where Mr. Chen is from?"
Chen Long replied slowly:
"Northeasterners."
This made Chiang Kai-shek's bodyguards show a surprised expression:
"You can really joke, Mr. Mao is from Hunan, how can Mr. Chen be from the northeast?"
Chen Long knew what the opposite side meant, and immediately said:
"Listening to the accent, you must all be from Zhejiang, right?"
"Yes, we are all devoted"
Chiang Kai-shek's bodyguard answered
Chen Long nodded and said:
"That's right, Chairman Jiang is also a Fenghua person."
After several people nodded before the meeting, Chen Long continued:
"The principle within our Party is meritocratic, which is different from your Kuomintang. You see none of you here is from Xiangtan, Hunan, we are all from all over the world. ”
This made Chiang Kai-shek's bodyguards on the side so embarrassed that they could not speak. Then they changed their ways, that is, to take turns toasting Chen Long, hoping that when drunk, they would get some secrets about Chairman Mao or the Communist Party out of his mouth.
But Chen Long, a northeasterner, could possibly be put down by a few southerners, and in the end Chiang Kai-shek's bodyguards were all drunk, but Chen Long was still sober.
Seeing that the opportunity had arrived, Chen Long began to fight back!
Chen Long took the initiative to start toasting to several Kuomintang guards on the opposite side, but Chiang Kai-shek's guards saw it and pushed back, and finally said that they had obeyed.
After the banquet, Chiang Kai-shek left Chairman Mao and others to rest in the villa in the garden, and Chen Long let Chairman Mao enter the room after thoroughly inspecting the room with other guards.
During the night of sleep, Chen Long pretended to sleep soundly, but in fact, he kept a state of vigilance in his heart, while holding the gun tightly in his hand. When it was almost dawn, there was a slight sound of footsteps outside the door, and Chen Long immediately became alert.
He whispered softly in his mouth, but his eyes were carefully staring out the window, and when he got closer, he found that it was the Kuomintang gendarmes patrolling.
In the few days when he first went to Chongqing, Chen Long was almost day and night, and as long as there was wind and grass around, he would find and remain vigilant for the first time.
This made Chairman Mao on the side look in his eyes and hurt in his heart. Then "tough" ordered him that he must sleep enough for a day and a night.
Throughout the Chongqing negotiations, Chen Long was not only responsible for Chairman Mao's safety, but also used his early morning walk time to report to Chairman Mao the information of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition. But more crucially, through the intelligence network, Chen Long obtained information on the attempts of Kuomintang agents to carry out assassinations.
Although Chiang Kai-shek did not dare to murder the leaders of the Communist Party head-on, they tried to delay the progress of the conference while secretly planning a civil war.
Even in the later stages of the Chongqing negotiations, due to the disagreement between the two sides and the stalemate on many occasions, Chen Long received news that some people within the Kuomintang were willing to exchange their lives for Chairman Mao's life.
Premier Zhou Enlai's side immediately made corresponding arrangements, they made this news public, and later under the pressure of public opinion and high-intensity security measures, the secret service organ headed by Dai Kasa did not dare to act rashly.
While Chiang Kai-shek was waiting for the outcome of the "Shangdang Campaign," Chairman Mao wrote the famous "Qinyuan Spring and Snow." As soon as this poem was published, it aroused great public opinion in society, and Chiang Kai-shek also knew that he was wrong, and finally agreed to sign the peace talks agreement. After this incident, Chairman Mao would return to Yan'an.
But at the farewell party on October 8th, an accident happened!
Chairman Mao and Chiang Kai-shek
That night, on the Jialing Riverside Highway, not far from Chairman Mao's residence, Li Shaoshi, the secretary of the Eighth Route Army's office in Chongqing, who looked like Zhou Enlai, was shot and killed at the age of 39.
Upon learning of this, Premier Zhou immediately decided to use the car of Zhang Zhen, a Kuomintang officer, to send Chairman Mao back to his residence. What Zhang Zhen didn't know, however, was that on Chairman Mao's way back, Chen Long's pistol had been pointing at him in the dark.
By October 10, after 43 days of repeated competition between the Kuomintang and the Communists, Chairman Mao and Chiang Kai-shek signed the Double Tenth Agreement. At night, Chiang Kai-shek tossed and turned, and finally wrote in his diary:
"I even lament that the Communist Party cannot be in the same group."
On the morning of October 11, Chairman Mao and others flew back safely to Yan'an. On the plane, Chairman Mao looked at the exhausted Chen Long.
Patted him on the shoulder and said to him
"This time has been hard for you".
After saying that, he took off his watch and gave it to Chen Long.
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For the first time
Since the Chongqing negotiations, Chairman Mao wanted to keep Chen Long by his side, given his outstanding performance.
Then Wang Taojiang told Chen Long the news, and at first Chen Long was very excited, and he almost shouted:
"I am willing to throw my head and spill my blood for Chairman Mao."
Chongqing and his party gave Chen Long a deeper understanding of Chairman Mao's mind, temperament, and courage, and even more admired Chairman Mao incomparably, and it was a great honor to be able to receive Chairman Mao's weight.
But after calming down, Chen Long refused this order! Why?
It turned out that Chen Long knew that he had a violent temper, while the Party Central Committee was relatively stable and needed to stay in the office for a long time, and he thought that his personality was not suitable for this job.
He wanted to return to the northeast because there were cadres needed there, and some remnants of Kuomintang agents and overseas enemy elements were very likely to wreak havoc in the northeast region, and Chen Long already had a way to deal with them in his heart, so he felt that it was more conducive to protecting New China in the northeast region.
However, if he did this, Chen Long felt that he would fail to live up to Chairman Mao's wishes, so he was ready to personally explain it to Chairman Mao.
After meeting Chairman Mao, Chen Long saw the documents piled up on the table, did not want to delay Chairman Mao's time, and immediately said directly:
"Chairman, I want to go to the northeast, where there is an urgent need for people, and I am familiar with the situation there, do you think?"
Chairman Mao thought about it for a moment after hearing this, and then nodded slowly:
"Well, now that you've decided that I can't stop you, I hope you'll make good results in the northeast."
Then Chairman Mao stood up and took out three photographs from a book, one of which was a group photo of Chairman Mao, Zhou Enlai, Chen Long, and others during the Chongqing negotiations, and the other two were of Chairman Mao at work.
Chairman Mao handed these photos to Chen Long together and said:
"We're going to break up, the photo is sent to you as a souvenir"
Chen Long tried to restrain his emotions after taking it, and then said in a trembling voice:
"Chairman, you must take good care of your body"
Proceeding from the overall situation, Chairman Mao abandoned the original plan to leave Chen Long in Beijing. After this, Chen Long handed over the work to Wang Dongxing, and he led the team to the northeast.
Chen Long successively served as deputy director of the Social Department of the Northeast Bureau and minister of society of Songjiang Province, and successfully blocked the secret missions of the enemy on many occasions, and also cracked many major counter-revolutionary cases and was commended by the central authorities.
second
In September 1949, the Kuomintang army led by Chiang Kai-shek was defeated and retreated to Taiwan.
Against this background, our party is planning the work of the founding ceremony, but Chiang Kai-shek's side always wants to sabotage on the mainland, so defending the safety of leaders at the founding ceremony has become the most important issue!
Founding Ceremony
At this moment, the Central Ministry of Social Affairs wrote a letter to Chen Long, which said:
"The defense work of the Party Central Committee needs to be strengthened, and Chairman Mao mentioned you more than one meeting and hoped that you would be the person in charge of the security work of the founding ceremony.
Chen Long was very excited after seeing the letter, but he thought that the people who threatened the safety of the leaders now were Kuomintang agents and some imperialist lawbreakers.
If he was on the front lines, he was sure to kill these threats on the periphery, after much deliberation. Chen Long picked up a pen and wrote a letter to Chairman Mao expounding his true thoughts.
Chairman Mao nodded his head after seeing this, and in his heart he appreciated him even more, and then said to Li Kenong, who was beside him:
"People don't want to come, just forget it."
Third time
In 1952, Zhou Enlai called Luo Ruiqing to the effect that the central government now did not have enough police personnel and needed to dispatch talents from other places, and at this time Chairman Mao remembered Chen Long, and he thought it would be more appropriate to transfer Chen Long.
But then Chairman Mao got a message that made him extremely anxious.
Due to Chen Long's gas poisoning earlier, he suffered from heart disease, and when he walked from the bedroom to the living room, he would be out of breath, and when Chairman Mao knew about it, he immediately sent someone to send Chen Long to the Soviet Union for treatment.
Chen Long was very touched when he heard this, and immediately replied to Chairman Mao with a letter:
"I understand the chairman's good intentions, but my health is really not good, and I am afraid that I will not be able to go to the post of Beijing."
In June 1954, Chen Long went to the Soviet Union for treatment, and after two months, Chen Long set off to return to China, but due to the limited medical level at that time, Chen Long's condition has been repeated.
In October 1958, Chen Long died of ineffective rescue at the age of 48.
Chairman Mao was sad for a long time after hearing this, and at the memorial service, Premier Zhou Enlai personally laid a wreath, and Zhou Baozhong, chen Long's introducer, came with an illness just to send his old comrades on their last journey.
Zhou Baozhong
Throughout Chen Long's life, we find that he was a patriotic, bloody, and responsible man; in his short life, he rejected Chairman Mao's three orders, and he adhered to personal principles and insisted on working on the front line.
In that revolutionary era, this quality of the ancestors was exactly what our generation of young people needed to learn!
We still need to fight for the cause of communism all our lives, inherit the spirit of our revolutionary ancestors, and build the motherland into a more prosperous and strong country.
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