On May 27, 1949, on this day, Gu Zhunzheng, representative of the Shanghai Naval Administration Committee of the People's Liberation Army, and his colleagues Xie Zhuke and Zhu Ruyan handed over work to officials of the old regime at the Shanghai Finance Bureau.
What happened next would shock him.
Wang Weiheng, director of the Kuomintang's pseudo-Shanghai Finance Bureau, asked to talk to him alone, and Gu Zhun had already known about this person before. With the rank of major general in the Kuomintang army, a background in a landowning family, and Chen Cheng's confidant, what does he want to say to himself?
After entering the office, closing the door, Wang Weiheng whispered to Gu Zhun and said: "I am also a party member, I joined the party in 1924, there are some things you can ask Pan Hannian"
As soon as the words fell, Gu Zhun was taken aback, this major general of the Kuomintang army in front of him was actually older than himself!
Who is Wang Weiheng? What kind of secret is behind him?
In 1896, Wang Weiheng was born in a shabby landowning family in Wangjia Village, Paitou Town, Zhuji County, Zhejiang Province. In 1918, Wang Weiheng left his hometown for Shanghai in order to pursue new ideas and learn new knowledge. In Shanghai, he was admitted to the Shanghai French Translation School.
At that time, China was worried about external troubles and turbulence, and Wang Weiheng was in Shanghai and received a large amount of information on current affairs, and he could not help but be deeply worried about the future of the country and the nation. After a long time, he felt that just learning a foreign language might be able to make himself settle down, but it was too little and too slow to help the country and the nation.
In 1919, Wang Weiheng decisively threw himself into the army and was admitted to the Beijing Quartermaster Officers School. In 1921, Wang Weiheng graduated and returned to Cixi, Zhejiang Province to join the army. In the Zhejiang Army, he successively served as a quartermaster officer of battalions and regiments.
During this time in the Zhejiang army, Wang Weiheng came into contact with the communist Zhang Qiuren. The two had close contacts and corresponded frequently, and under the influence of Zhang Qiuren, Wang Weiheng's thinking became more and more progressive.
In 1924, Wang Weiheng and four others officially joined the party in Shanghai under the introduction of Zhang Qiuren. These four people are the first four party members in Ningbo.
In 1925, under the background of the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Wang Weiheng joined the Kuomintang across the party by organizational decision.
In 1926, the Zhejiang army rebelled, but was defeated by the Beiyang army. When the army was defeated, Wang Weiheng broke away from the Zhejiang army and returned to his hometown of Zhuji. After that, as a special party commissioner of the Kuomintang in Zhejiang Taizhou District, he rectified the KMT's grassroots party affairs in Taizhou and other places. At the same time, Wang Weiheng also shouldered the secret task of organizing and arranging to recruit our party members and establish party organizations in Zhejiang.
After Chiang Kai-shek launched the "412" counter-revolutionary coup, our party's members and leftists in Zhejiang either died or fled, and the party organization suffered a great impact. Under the arrangement of his superiors, Wang Weiheng used primary school teachers as a cover, and successively served as secretary of the Youth League Committee of the Ningbo Prefectural Party Committee and director of the Organization Department of the Zhuji County Party Committee.
In 1928, the Zhuji County Party Committee secretly planned to launch an armed uprising. Unfortunately, a party member accidentally killed his family while practicing a gun, exposing the entire uprising plan.
In a hurry, the Zhuji County Party Committee had no choice but to quickly arrange for the dispersal and evacuation of personnel. Wang Weiheng respected the instructions of Jin Cheng, secretary of the county party committee, and went to Nanjing to use his old connections to break into the Kuomintang army to lurk and wait for the awakening of the organization.
Before leaving, Jin Cheng shook Wang Weiheng's hand and said, "Don't worry, the organization will definitely find you back!" ”
In order to show his confidence and determination to carry out the revolution to the end, Wang Weiheng changed his name to "Weiheng" at this time. The implication is self-evident, that is, to hold a red heart and wait for the organization.
Wang Weiheng originally wanted to find himself organizationally, as little as a few months, or a year or two. But he didn't expect this, he waited for more than ten years.
Wang Weiheng, who was ordered to lurk, found his old superior Chen Liang, and under Chen Liang's arrangement, he first went to study at the Institute of Law and Law of the Manager of the Kuomintang Munitions Administration. After studying for three months, Wang Weiheng went to the headquarters of the Central Military Academy and the Luoyang branch of the Central Military Academy as a major quartermaster section chief.
During the Songhu War of Resistance, Wang Weiheng followed the 87th Division to the anti-Japanese battlefield. Although the quartermaster did not have to go into battle to kill the enemy, Wang Weiheng had a strong ability to work, arranged the supply of military supplies clearly, and was very popular because he was honest and not corrupt.
Wang Weiheng had a good reputation in the army, was honest and upright, and was incompatible with other Kuomintang officers, which naturally attracted the attention of the underground party. It just so happened that Shi Yong (formerly known as Sha Wenwei) of the Nanjing underground party organization met Wang Weiheng when he was engaged in student movements in his early years. Shi Yong knew that Wang Weiheng had progressive tendencies before, but he did not know Wang Weiheng's party membership.
After several trials, Shi Yong felt that Wang Weiheng had the possibility of fighting, so he asked him if he could help our party do something. Wang Weiheng thought that the organization sent someone to find him, and decisively agreed; But Shi thought that Wang Weiheng was an enlightened person and did not know that he was ordered to lurk.
This historical oolong existed for many years, and it was not until Jincheng confirmed Wang Weiheng's identity in the later period that it was eliminated
In this way, Wang Weiheng took advantage of his peculiarities in his munitions post to continuously pass on a lot of information about the Kuomintang army to the organization.
After that, Wang Weiheng followed Hu Zongnan to the northwest, and Wang Weiheng continued to lurk beside Hu Zongnan. Not only that, he also developed his younger brother Wang Yikun. In 1942, the two brothers jointly filled out an application to join the party. The two brothers' applications for joining the party were handed over to Qian Zhiguang, director of the Hongyan Office of the Eighth Route Army, but later the Eighth Route Army office was evacuated in a hurry, and their applications for joining the party had to be destroyed.
In 1943, Chiang Kai-shek secretly ordered Hu Zongnan to send troops to attack our Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.
Although the enemy's actions are extremely secretive, the army needs to keep up with the movement of large armies, just as the so-called "three armies have not moved, grain and grass go first." Wang Weiheng, as the head of the quartermaster, sensitively discovered this anomaly.
The situation was urgent, and Wang Weiheng quickly passed this information to Qian Zhiguang and reported on the deployment of Kuomintang troops in the northwestern provinces. In addition, our party learned the same information from other channels, and the Eighth Route Army was able to prepare in advance.
Chiang Kai-shek found that the Eighth Route Army had been prepared and had to abandon this plan.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Weiheng returned to Nanjing and served as deputy commander of the Joint Logistics Headquarters and deputy director of the Manager's Office. And his contact person changed back to Shiyong.
After the outbreak of the civil war, Wang Weiheng passed all the information he had to the organization through Shi Yong, and the information line "Wang Weiheng -- Shi Yong" obtained a large amount of valuable information for our army.
For example, in the Battle of Dabie Mountain, Wang Weiheng quickly transmitted the number of Jiang's army, the number of troops, the offensive route, and the date of dispatch to our army;
Another example is the Liaoshen Campaign, where Wang Weiheng took the opportunity to go to northeast Hebei to inspect military supply work and collected a lot of intelligence. After the First Battle in Liaoshen, our army summed up the battle situation and found that the real situation was almost consistent with Wang Weiheng's intelligence.
On the other hand, Wang Weiheng's career within the enemy was also smooth. He was appreciated by Chen Cheng and regarded by Chen Cheng as a confidant. After Chen Cheng was forced to step down from his post as chief of staff and other posts due to the unfavorable war in northeast China, Chiang Kai-shek appointed him chairman of Taiwan Province and commander-in-chief of Taiwan's garrison.
After Chen Cheng went to Taiwan, he quickly transferred Wang Weiheng to Taiwan and appointed him as deputy commander of Taiwan's 10th Supply Area and director of the Supply Bureau, responsible for the supply of military supplies after the defeat of the Kuomintang troops to Taiwan.
Going to Taiwan, to be honest, Wang Weiheng hesitated. Lurking in the enemy camp for so many years, it seems that the dawn of victory is about to be ushered in, and if you go to Taiwan, you will inevitably continue to lurk, and the whole family will probably not be able to return.
Lurking in the enemy camp for 20 years, every day is walking on the tip of the knife, such a day can not be lived forever. Wang Weiheng also hopes that he can return to the organization in an honorable manner and no longer have to lurk in fear.
However, he also knew very well that the information on the deployment of the Kuomintang troops in Taiwan was of great significance to our army, and the organization also agreed that he should go to Taiwan, but as soon as he received a new order, Wang Weiheng should immediately withdraw from Taiwan.
After much deliberation, Wang Weiheng took the whole family to Taiwan. And at about the same time, the organization also sent a comrade to Taiwan to be his liaison officer. This comrade's name is Xu Hancheng, and he joined the party in the same group as Wang Weiheng, and he was one of the first four party members in Ningbo.
After Wang Weiheng arrived in Taiwan, he successively passed on a lot of information to the organization through Xu Hancheng, even including the activities of the US military advisory group in Taiwan.
Soon, the Kuomintang troops on the mainland were completely defeated, and Wang Weiheng secretly listened to our party's radio station every day in Taiwan, ready for new instructions.
In the spring of 1949, Wang Weiheng, who was in Taiwan, suddenly received a letter from the mainland. The person who wrote the letter is Shi Yong, and just looking at the content of the letter cannot be a reminiscence and worry between friends, but a poem in the letter is an agreed code for evacuation.
Wang Weiheng's heart was ecstatic, but he soon became worried again.
Because at this time, it was really difficult for him to find a reasonable excuse to return to the mainland with his whole family.
Perhaps Wang Weiheng was lucky, the supply management bureau he worked for was dissolved for some reason, and Chen Cheng went to recuperate, so he told Chen Cheng that he wanted to return to the mainland on the grounds that his mother was seriously ill.
When Chen Cheng heard this, he naturally persuaded him not to go back, saying that the situation on the mainland was critical, and sent his wife to persuade him. In order not to make Chen Cheng suspicious, Wang Weiheng had to leave his whole family in Taiwan and return to the mainland alone. The family returned to Shanghai in early May 1949.
Seeing that he could not be retained, Chen Cheng had to make Wang Weiheng the deputy commander of the supply area stationed in Shanghai. It just so happened that at this time the acting mayor of Shanghai was Wang Weiheng's old superior Chen Liang, and Chen Liang was very happy that Wang Weiheng could return at this time, and made him the director of the Shanghai Municipal Finance Bureau and chairman of the bank.
After Wang Weiheng returned to Shanghai, he temporarily lost contact with Shi Yong. Wang Weiheng patiently continued to lurk, and taking advantage of his work, he began preparations for liberation on his own: keeping a sealed file to prevent a large amount of funds from fleeing.
The most important file that Wang Weiheng has preserved is Shanghai's "Basis Map for Housing Donation Expropriation". This map clearly shows the area and structure of the buildings in various neighborhoods of Shanghai, which can be preserved and played a great role in the municipal construction after the liberation of Shanghai.
At the same time, he repeatedly persuaded Chen Liang not to be an enemy of the people, and even refused to allocate funds to Tang Enbo for repairing fortifications on the grounds of financial shortfall.
After the liberation of Shanghai, Wang Weiheng came into contact with our military personnel in the name of "surrendering sincerity," and the first scene occurred. Because the organization had previously confessed to him, he could contact Pan Hannian to prove his identity if necessary
Gu Zhun was shocked and quickly found the organization to verify Wang Weiheng's identity. He couldn't help but be in awe of the comrade in front of him who had been lurking in the enemy camp for more than 20 years.
After liberation, Wang Weiheng successively served as deputy director and director of the Shanghai Municipal Direct Taxation Bureau, the Land Affairs Bureau, and the Real Estate Management Bureau, and died of illness in 1971.
Wang Weiheng was able to lurk in the enemy camp for more than 20 years precisely because the red belief in his heart has never wavered, and his revolutionary flame has never been extinguished.
He knew that the organization would come to him.
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