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"Who am I?" For most people, this is not a problem at all, but for Yao Zijian, this problem has plagued him for decades, he joined the Chinese Communist Party early in the war years, and took great risks to infiltrate the Kuomintang and obtain a lot of valuable intelligence for our party.
Although he has made such a great contribution, because of the particularity of his work, he does not know who his line is, and he does not know who his comrades-in-arms are. So after the liberation of the country, he had no idea who he was working for. It wasn't until 2001 that he learned his true identity by chance, so what kind of legendary experience did he have? Three times in a circle, click a concern ~
Secretly joined the Chinese Communist Party
Yao Zijian was born in 1915 in Yixing, Jiangsu Province, his parents were businessmen, but when he was a child, his family's economy was not very rich. But his parents were well aware of the importance of education, so he received a good education from an early age. In school, he was diligent and studious, and at the age of 14, he was successfully admitted to the middle school department of Shanghai Labor University. He chose to apply here because the school not only does not charge tuition and meal money, but also distributes a set of clothes every year.
During his studies there, in addition to learning the knowledge in the classroom, he also received the influence of advanced ideas. After the outbreak of the 918 Incident, he participated in the student movement activities initiated by the Middle School department and the university department of Shanghai Labor University for many times. The local government ordered the school to leave the school in order to control the students' speech, and Yao Zijian returned to his hometown to work as a substitute teacher at a local primary school.
The work of the primary school substitute teacher is very leisurely, and the days are quite stable, but Yao Zijian's heart cannot be calmed. At the moment of national disaster, he felt that he needed to contribute to the country, and lying on the podium was not the life he pursued, so he gave up his job as a teacher and chose to continue his studies, thus becoming a talent useful to the country.
In 1933, he was admitted to the Nanjing Central Road Army Survey School, a military academy founded by the Nationalist government to cultivate military talents for the country, and the school also adopted the model of militarized management. When he entered the school, he chose to major in cartography. This is because he has participated in the student movement many times before and is well aware of the important role of propaganda in the revolution, and there is a printing-related major under the cartography major, which will definitely play a role in the future.
After a year of study, Yao Zijian successfully graduated from the cartography class, and then he was assigned to the printing and mapping department of the Central Land Survey Bureau of the National Government in Nanjing. At that time, he was concerned about the country, and he found that under the rule of the Kuomintang, the people were still living in the depths of the waters, and they were unable to fight against the invaders. He realized that if he wanted to change the status quo, the most crucial thing was to oppose the decadent rule of the Kuomintang.
So he pinned his hopes on the Chinese Communist Party, which was difficult for him to contact in life, but he would study the ideas of the Communist Party himself and demand of himself by the standards of Communist Party members. By chance, he learned that his fellow countryman Shu Yuexin had joined the Communist Party of China, and he naturally would not let go of such a good opportunity, so he immediately found the other party and expressed his desire to join the Chinese Communist Party.
Later, through Shu Yuexin, he became acquainted with Lu Zicheng, who was then subordinate to the Shanghai Central Committee and engaged in secret intelligence work, and finally through Lu Zicheng's introduction, he secretly joined the Communist Party of China in 1934. Considering the particularity of his work, the party organization asked him to try to pass on some valuable information to the party organization.
Join central special section
After joining the Communist Party of China, Yao Zijian used his position to obtain a lot of maps and information on the movement of enemy troops. But in doing so, he didn't know exactly which department he was working for. In fact, when he entered the Cartography Section of the Kuomintang Central Land Survey Bureau in Nanjing, he had become an undercover agent of the Central Special Branch.
After the April 12 Incident in 1927, the Party Central Committee established the Central Special Branch, which was commanded by Premier Zhou and headed by Gu Shunzhang. At that time, no one thought that Gu Shunzhang would defect to the revolution, and in 1931, because of Gu Shunzhang's denunciation, the central Special Branch suffered huge losses.
After Gu Shunzhang's betrayal, Pan Hannian took over this task, but after experiencing a major blow, the state of the Central Special Branch could be described as turbulent, and this mess also made Pan Hannian very headache. At such a time, the most effective way is to send an undercover agent to penetrate the enemy's interior and steal key information for the use of the party organization, which can effectively improve the difficult situation of the central special branch at that time.
But at that time, the situation was very critical, and the time was also very urgent, and our Party no longer had time to train such a professional intelligence officer from scratch. Coincidentally, at this time, Yao Zijian joined the Communist Party of China, and judging from his joining the Party, his willingness to join the Communist Party was very strong, and since he had just joined the Communist Party, the Party organization judged that he had no reason and would not betray the Party organization.
Coupled with the particularity of Yao Zijian's own job, the party organization believes that he can obtain a lot of valuable information, so he is a good choice. However, these considerations of the party organization did not tell Yao Zijian, and he became a member of the Central Special Branch without knowing it.
In order to ensure security, the intelligence officers of the Central Special Branch are single-line contacts when performing their tasks, and everyone only needs to do their own work. When Yao Zijian completes his tasks in normal times, he never asks too many things, but just does what he should do. By the time he decided to help the party organization in this way, he was ready to hide in the darkness.
Therefore, in a few years, Yao Zijian only knew that his online line was Shu Yuexin and Lu Zicheng, and the others did not know anything else, but although he did not know which department he was working for, he was still conscientious, and he could always successfully complete the tasks entrusted to him by the organization.
Priceless intelligence
Yao Zijian was then in the Nanjing General Bureau of Land Surveying, serving as the fourth technical assistant of the Cartography Section. At that time, the drawing of military maps was a very critical technology, so he was also an important technical talent within the Kuomintang, with a monthly salary of 28 oceans.
At that time, military maps were very important military resources, and the military maps of the mainland in the early days of the Republic of China were very backward, and Feng Yuxiang once lamented the fineness of British maps in his autobiography. At that time, the government maps they used were so error-prone that they could not be used when they went to Sichuan to suppress bandits, and the maps given by the British even recorded the number of trees on the side of the road.
At that time, if there was a high-precision military map in combat, it was very helpful for the army. Therefore, Yao Zijian's work at that time was very important, but his main job was to draw the base plate used for military map printing, and it was difficult to obtain some useful information for the party organization. At this time, he found that the fifth unit, which was responsible for keeping and sending and receiving military maps, could obtain more useful information, so he began to think about how to move through.
Later, he found his leader and said that he had an eye disease and was no longer able to do his previous job, and eventually he was transferred to the fifth unit as he wished. There he managed the most high-proportion and top-secret military maps, while the Nationalist troops fighting on the front lines would send people to Nanjing to retrieve the latest military maps every time they wanted to fight the Red Army.
When these people came to Yao Zijian to get a map, they would leave specific information about their troops, and through this detail, Yao Zijian could learn the specific deployment of the Kuomintang army, which was crucial intelligence for the Communist Party. Therefore, Yao Zijian would record the details of the Kuomintang troops coming to get the military map every time, analyze the information on the movement and operation of the troops, and then pass the information to the party organization.
In addition to passing on this valuable information, Yao Zijian would also secretly take out some high-precision military maps of the Kuomintang and send them to the party organization. At that time, such high-scale and high-precision military maps were very scarce and precious resources, but the number of maps owned by our Party was very small. But in Yao's fifth year, such maps were piled up in warehouses, detailing the distribution of roads, villages, towns, and populations in the region.
Usually, when he went in and out of the warehouse, he would secretly take out some maps, and the Kuomintang neglected to manage the maps in the warehouse, even if he took away dozens of maps every time, it was difficult for the agents to find out the problem. However, Yao Zijian was still very cautious, and every time he took away the map, he would try to avoid leaving traces, so in three years, Yao Zijian got a lot of maps, which were very valuable to our party at that time.
Although it is easy to get the maps, how to send them out has become a problem. However, Yao Zijian had his own way, and in order to cover his actions on weekdays, he pretended that he was very greedy. Every weekend, he would leave from Nanjing to Shanghai for a lap, but in fact he was passing on the military intelligence he had just obtained.
Because he always wore the uniforms of the central authorities, when passing by the Kuomintang checkpoints, the spies generally did not check carefully, so that he could smoothly deliver the information to his old friend Shu Yuexin every time, where he also met Shu Yuexin's wife, Shen Yina.
Go to war
In the three years since he became a member of the Communist Party, Yao Zijian has sent a lot of important information, and the cooperation between him and Shu Yuexin on the line is also seamless, and there has never been a mistake. However, after the outbreak of the July 7 Incident, Shu Yuexin and Shen Yina were transferred out of Shanghai, and at the same time Yao Zijian was transferred to Wuchang, and his upper line also became "Mr. Xiong".
In Yao Zijian's view, Mr. Xiong is a very mysterious person. Before, when he exchanged information with Shu Yuexin, the two people would also chat and reminisce about the past, and Shu Yuexin would also introduce some other comrades to him. However, when exchanging information with Mr. Xiong, the two people only changed hands every time and never communicated verbally, which also made Yao Zijian think that Mr. Xiong was a mute.
Later, with the full outbreak of the War of Resistance, Yao Zijian was not willing to do some intelligence work only in the rear, and he hoped that he could also go to the battlefield to kill the enemy. So he began to find a way to break away from the Kuomintang and return to the embrace of the party organization. Therefore, in April 1938, Yao Zijian asked the leaders of the Kuomintang for leave, saying that he was unwell and hoped that he could go to Hong Kong for a period of time to recuperate.
He then bought a summons to leave Nanjing, and when he arrived in Hong Kong, he met a man named "Xiao Kai" who gave him a note and asked him to take it with him to Yan'an. The note read, "Yao Zijian has anti-Japanese enthusiasm and has been working for the party for many years." What Yao Zijian did not know was that the person who wrote this note was Pan Hannian, a legendary agent of our party.
After arriving in Yan'an, Yao Zijian went to the Anti-Japanese University under Chen Yun's arrangement for further study, and after a year of study, Yao Zijian went to the battlefield as he wished, participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and then he participated in the War of Liberation and the subsequent War of Suppression of Bandits.
During this period, Lu Zicheng served as an adviser to the Supreme Court, and as Yao Zijian's introduction to the party, he could prove Yao Zijian's contribution to the party, so Yao Zijian's work experience could be confirmed, and he was also able to serve in our party's army. However, because of the particularity of the Central Special Branch, for a long time, Lu Zicheng did not tell Yao Zijian about the Central Special Branch, and there were very few people who knew about it.
In fact, the Central Special Branch only existed from November 1927 to October 1935, and as a hidden front, many people in the Central Special Branch were not known to the outside world, in addition to Yao Zijian, there were also many agents who had served the Central Special Branch, and it was not clear which department they were serving.
Truth
In 1969, lu Zicheng died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 76, and with his death, Yao Zijian's true identity was even more difficult to confirm, and in the decades since, Yao Zijian has never mentioned his experience working in the Central Special Branch. The secret of Yao Zijian's work for the Central Special Branch may never have been known, but after 67 years of working for the Central Special Branch, a chance allowed him to figure out the department he was in decades ago.
In 2001, Yao Zijian's son Yao Yiqun participated in the activities of the unit, the main content of which was to listen to the old revolutionary predecessors recall the past of the war. At that time, she shared with them shen anna, a legendary female agent of our party, who was the sister of Shen Yina, Shu Yuexin's wife, who had gone to Shanghai to study, where she met Hua Mingzhi, a party member who was engaged in secret intelligence work in the CCP's special branch.
In 1934, because she had no money to pay tuition, she chose Chinese shorthand school with low fees and short semesters, and after successfully graduating a year later, she entered the Kuomintang Zhejiang Provincial Government as a shorthand reporter, taking advantage of her position to provide intelligence for our party. Since then she has worked for the Central Special Branch and joined the Communist Party of China four years later.
From 1938 to 1949, she was assigned by Zhou Enlai to join the Kuomintang Central Committee as a stenographer, because she was good at writing and typing quickly, and many Kuomintang leaders admired her. Therefore, she also attended many important meetings of the Kuomintang, and she could also participate in some important meetings directly presided over by Chiang Kai-shek. None of the senior officials attending the meeting knew that this beautiful stenographer was actually an underground party member, and she also passed on a lot of important information to the top level of the Communist Party, making great contributions to the final victory.
After 1946, she was also commended by Premier Zhou Enlai and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and she was also praised as "the person who held the pulse of Chiang Kai-shek". After the founding of New China, this former behind-the-scenes hero came to the front of the stage, and she often participated in various speeches to publicize the deeds of the revolutionary martyrs of that year.
Yao Yiqun knew from a young age that his father had also been engaged in underground work, but his father had never figured out which department he belonged to. Knowing that Shen Anna had worked in Central Special Branch, he felt that her experience was somewhat similar to that of her father, so he was very attentive when listening to Shen Anna share his story. Just as Shen Anna was recounting his lurking experience, he heard the names of "Shu Yuexin" and "Shen Yina".
These two names are all too familiar to Yao Yiqun, because when his father, Yao Zijian, told his revolutionary experience, he would often mention Shu Yuexin, the leader who led him into the Chinese Communist Party, and his wife, Shen Yina. Thinking of Shen Anna's work and his father's work, Yao Yiqun felt that his father and the other party may have some contact.
After listening to the lecture and returning home, Yao Asked Yao Zijian if he had heard of Shen Anna, and the eyes of the old man who heard the familiar name immediately lit up. He said that Shen Anna himself of course knew, she was Shen Ina's sister, and he immediately expressed the idea of hoping to meet Shen Anna.
Subsequently, the father and son came to visit Shen Anna, and as soon as they entered the door, Yao Zijian found an acquaintance. When he went to Shanghai to pass on information to Shu Yuexin, he once had a relationship with the people in the house, and Shu Yuexin introduced this person as "Mr. Li" at that time, in fact, this person was Hua Mingzhi. Although the two did not speak at that time, the intersection between Hua Mingzhi and Yao Zijian was enough to help him find out Yao Zijian's identity at that time.
After the former comrades-in-arms met, they were full of emotions, and Hua Mingzhi and Shen Anna also learned Yao Zijian's desire to find out the specific situation of his work that year. After examination, the two men quickly figured out the intelligence line that Yao Zijian was in at that time, and he also found out the superior above Shu Yuexin. Subsequently, Shen Anna herself personally wrote materials for Yao Zijian and submitted them to the relevant departments, and the identity of Yao Zijian's central special section was also confirmed, and after 67 years, Yao Zijian finally knew "who I am".
After learning that Yao Zijian had worked for the Central Special Branch, many people came to visit, and some people asked the old man how he felt about learning that he was a member of the Special Branch in his old age. Yao Zijian said: "What special branch is not special branch, the party will do whatever it wants." This sentence also reflects Yao Zijian's determination to dedicate everything to the cause of the party, in his view, his identity is not important, it is precisely because thousands of martyrs like him are willing to sacrifice and pay for the revolution, we have today's prosperous world, and their spirit is always worth remembering.