In March 1938, the Kuomintang organized generals above the commander of the division to conduct training in Wuchang, and Bai Chongxi, an important leader of the Gui warlords, wanted to give a speech entitled "The Relationship between the Army's Political Work and the Political Work of the Masses" at the meeting.
He informed his three secretaries of the subject, limiting them to a week to complete the speech.
Bai Chongxi attached great importance to this speech, and wanted to pick the best one from the three manuscripts, which also had the meaning of testing the three subordinates.
After receiving the task, the secretary Xie Hegeng did not immediately start writing, but contacted Li Kenong in a confidential manner and asked him for assistance.
It turned out that Xie hegeng was a secret underground member of our party, and he was now lurking in the heart of the enemy and needed to complete this task perfectly to gain Bai Chongxi's trust, and Li Kenong quickly provided him with a lot of information.
Xie hegeng spent two days and two nights studying thoroughly, wrote down the first draft, and handed it to Li Kenong, and the next day Li Kenong handed over the revised speech to Xie Hegeng.
Xie Hegeng opened it, and it was densely packed with red notes, and his heart was ashamed and moved.
Li Kenong told him that comrade Zhou Enlai revised this speech overnight. Zhou Enlai deleted more than a thousand words in a red pen, and he also asked Li Kenong to remind Xie he and Geng that the principles and methods of political training are too similar to those of our party and must be deleted.
After Xie and Geng returned home, they carefully studied the manuscript, which was revised by Zhou Enlai, which was more in line with Bai Chongxi's status as a minister of military training.
He quickly transcribed the manuscript twice, burned the original manuscript that Zhou Enlai had changed, and sent it to Bai Chongxi's office.
Bai Chongxi never told the three secretaries whose manuscript they used, and on the day of the training, Bai Chongxi told the three to go together.
Bai Chongxi did not bring a manuscript paper to lecture, but Xie he and Geng heard that every sentence he said was the same as his own speech, and the people sitting under the stage were all senior cadres above the division headquarters.
Pictured | Li Kenong, photographed in Xi'an, 1937, at the Red Army Liaison Office in Xi'an
When Bai Chongxi was proud that he had such a talented secretary, he would have thought that his speech was actually written by an underground Communist Party member and revised by Zhou Enlai himself, and every word was instilling in the high-ranking military and political officials of the Kuomintang the idea of the Communist Party of China launching the masses to resist Japan and save the people.
Later, when Xie and Geng saw Li Kenong again and reported the matter to him, Li Kenong was very happy, smiled and said, "You Have Grace come to be your 'teacher of reform', which is probably a miracle in the cooperation between the two parties." Not only did old Jiang and Bai Chongxi not expect it, it was Chairman Mao, but they also didn't expect it, Comrade Little Devil! "
In 1912, Xie Hegeng was born in Guilin, Guangxi, the son of a former Qing Xiucai, who can also be regarded as a scholar.
When Xie he was a teenager, he was deeply influenced by his second brother Xie Tiemin, who was the leader of the early peasant movement in the CCP. He brought progressive magazines such as New Youth and Guide to Xie he geng, and through these magazines Xie he geng learned a lot about revolutionary principles.
In 1930, Xie and Geng went to Beiping to study at the Department of Economics of the University of China. In 1932, he rushed to the anti-Japanese front line in Chahar and joined the anti-Japanese allied army formed by Feng Yuxiang and General Ji Hongchang.
At that time, Ji Hongchang had secretly joined the Communist Party of China, and the introducer was Xuanxia's father. Xuanxia's father admired Xie Hegeng's righteousness and patriotism, and introduced him to Ji Hongchang, becoming an ordinary soldier in Ji Hongchang's army.
Picture | Xuanxia's father took a group photo with Xu Xiangqian, Chen Geng and Zuo Quan
Ji Hongchang was a nobleman of Xie Hegeng, who had only served as a third-class soldier for 3 days before being promoted by Ji Hongchang to captain secretary and instructor of the headquarters teaching team, and was promoted to the eighth rank in a row.
At the end of 1933, the Northern Bureau informed Xie and Geng of a new assignment. It turned out that at that time, the CCP decided to take advantage of the contradictions between the Kuomintang factions and sent Xuanxia Father and Xie Hegeng to the Gui clan to do united front work.
The reason why Xie he geng was chosen was because Xie Hegeng was a native of Guilin, his father was a famous local Confucian and painter, and he had close contact with Bai Chongxi's father-in-law, and Xie Hegeng and Bai Chongxi's nephew and nephew were classmates.
After Ji Hongchang learned of Xie hegeng's task, he immediately wrote a letter of recommendation to ask him to find Feng Yuxiang. In 1934, Xie he and Gong and Xuanxia's father met Feng Yuxiang, and Feng Yuxiang wrote a letter to the Guangxi general Li Jishen, asking Li Jishen to recommend Xuanxia's father and Xie Hegeng to Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi.
In this way, Xuan and Xie infiltrated the Gui clan, and they began to plan how to enter the decision-making center and obtain more intelligence information.
Xie he and Geng were only literati, and he had no experience in fighting on the battlefield, so he wrote a book, "Economic Overview of the Semi-Colonies", and invited Bai Chongxi's brother-in-law Ma Zhongfu to co-author and publish it, which also had the reason for inviting Bai Chongxi to do the preface.
After that, Xie and Geng wrote several articles about Guangxi's economy and asked for guidance in front of Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren, who gradually admired his talent and humility.
Because he and Ma Zhongfu are close, Xie and Geng often go to the Bai family to play, and several of Bai Chongxi's children mingle, Bai Chongxi is assured to entrust the children to his care, Xie and Geng often take them to play, swim, and play table tennis.
Pictured | Bai Chongxi
Xie he geng also observed that Bai Chongxi did not smoke or drink, was a relatively self-disciplined person, his greatest hobby was to read books, and a set of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" had been read many times.
Xie he recommended the good books he had read to Bai Chongxi, and also recommended that he could buy a set of "Universal Library" published by the Shanghai Commercial Press.
Bai Chongxi was very happy, after the "Universal Library" arrived in Guilin, it was handed over to Xie he geng to manage, Xie and Geng would choose three books a week to put on Bai Chongxi's bedside table, Bai Chongxi put the books on the large desk after reading, Xie and Geng understood that they needed to fill another one.
Once Bai Chongxi's father-in-law suffered an accidental fracture in Guilin, Bai Chongxi could not leave, xie and Geng Mao proposed to go to Guilin.
Riding on a dilapidated airplane assembled from Japanese parts, he risked his life to meet Bai Chongxi's father-in-law and find a famous doctor to treat him. Bai Chongxi's father-in-law received timely treatment, and Xie he geng refused Bai Chongxi's 200 yuan thanks, which made Bai Chongxi very moved, and he believed in Xie he geng from then on.
On Li Zongren's side, Xie and Geng chose to start with his wife Guo Dejie.
Guo Dejie was born poor and had a low level of education, but she was diligent and always wanted to re-learn. Guo Dejie has her own tutor, but Xie and Geng have been managing books for Bai Chongxi, and she can quickly find the content she wants to inquire in the more than 200 volumes of the Zizhi Tongjian, and she is very admiring, asking bai Chongxi if she can let Xie and Geng help her find some information.
Xie and Geng zheng were worried that there was no way to get close to Li Zongren, and after Bai Chongxi agreed, he had been trying his best to find books and materials for Lady Li.
After gaining the favor of the two Gui leaders, Xie he was appointed as a researcher at the Guangxi Administration for Industry and Commerce, and he did not dare to relax in his post, in order to achieve the goal set for him by the party organization as soon as possible - to win li Zongren or Bai Chongxi to work.
Picture | Li Zongren and Guo Dejie
Four months later, Xie and Geng's work had initial results, and Li and Bai issued him a "special access badge." With this badge, he could enter the residence of Li and Bai without notice. According to the regulations, this is only allowed to be issued to officers above the rank of major general, and Xie and Geng can get it is already a special case.
Xie he and Geng also did not expect that Bai Chongxi, because he was extremely important to him, gave him Du Rongxu, the cousin of his wife Ma Peizhang. Xie and Geng and Du Rong have no emotional basis at all, and if they have a choice, he prefers to spend his life hand in hand with like-minded girls. But he understood that if he entered Bai Chongxi's circle of relatives, it would be more likely to work next to Bai Chongxi, and if he refused, Bai Chongxi would have some contempt for him in his heart.
Xie he geng reported the matter to the party organization, and with the party organization's permission, decided to marry Du Rong.
Before the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li and Bai actively advocated the fight against Japan, and together with Li Jishen, they sent a telegram to the whole country urging the Kuomintang Central Committee and the Nationalist Government to immediately resist Japan. Unfortunately, Li Jishen was forced by Chiang Kai-shek to leave Hong Kong, and the Gui clan was weak, and Li and Bai had to start seeking reconciliation.
At this time, Xie Hegeng had been propagating the anti-Japanese ideology, attacking Chiang Kai-shek, and using every opportunity to propagate "promoting an all-round war of resistance with a partial war of resistance." Everything he did was seen by some high-ranking officials of the Gui clan.
At a meeting of the militia cadre school, Li Zongren, who had always been polite to Xie Hegeng, suddenly scolded Xie Hegeng in front of many teachers and students for engaging in "the same set that the Communist Party propagated," and said that he was a complete Communist Party and an out-and-out "Turkish Communist Party."
Xie and Geng sat on a needle felt, did not say a word of defense, and let Li Zongren scold.
After returning home, he immediately met with Xuanxia's father, and after the two calmly discussed and analyzed, they felt that Li Zongren did not have the information that Xie and Geng were secret Communists, but that someone had recently provoked right and wrong in front of him and wanted to split the relationship between Li and Bai.
Xie and Geng are in a very dangerous situation and may be imprisoned at any time. But he had not yet completed the task entrusted to him by the organization, and if he escaped, it would inevitably involve others.
He was willing to fight with his life to gamble, took the initiative to find Bai Chongxi, and told Bai Chongxi exactly what Li Zongren said at the militia cadre school meeting.
Bai Chongxi did not believe that Xie he geng would be a Communist Party, and naturally felt that someone was tricking the ghost inside. He promised Xie and Geng that he would make it clear in front of Li Zongren, and also told Xie and Geng not to offend the red people in front of Li Zongren.
Figure | Xie and Geng
After this crisis passed, Xie and Geng also began to introspect. Because of his carelessness and aggressiveness, he almost destroyed the organization's plans.
In 1937, the all-out War of Resistance began. Chiang Kai-shek finally began to call on the whole nation to resist the war, and invited Bai Chongxi to Nanjing to discuss the anti-Japanese resistance.
There were differences within the Gui clan for this reason, Li Zongren believed that Bai Chongxi could not go, Chiang Kai-shek was cunning, Bai Chongxi was likely to be divided once he went to the Gui clan, and Bai Chongxi was also undecided.
Xie Hegeng was anxious in his heart, and wrote a long letter to Bai Chongxi, pleading with Bai Chongxi to put the interests of the nation first and quickly go to Nanjing. Bai Chongxi finally decided to resist the Japanese together, defied the public opinion, and took Xie and Geng with them to Nanjing.
Since then, Xie he geng officially became Bai Chongxi's confidential secretary, handling daily documents and correspondence for Bai Chongxi. Bai Chongxi also introduced Xie Hegeng to Chiang Kai-shek, who became the only secretary of the National Defense Conference at the base camp and was responsible for the record-keeping of the National Defense Conference.
After the Battle of Songhu, the Kuomintang headquarters retreated to Wuhan, and Xie and Geng could not get in touch with the party organization for a while. Zhou Enlai managed to meet with him in Wuhan.
Hearing that he had become Bai Chongxi's confidential secretary, Zhou Enlai was very happy, but still solemnly reminded him: "You must not forget that you are working by the side of 'Little Zhuge Ge', you must be cautious and careful in everything, step by step, even if the Cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party begins now, but in the face of past political enemies, we must not take it lightly, and the lessons of the past blood must never be forgotten!" "
Xie and Geng took this sentence to heart.
In 1938, Chiang Kai-shek sent someone to bring a message to Bai Chongxi, asking him to arrange for his subordinates Liu Zhongrong and his confidential secretary Xie Hegeng to join the party.
Xie and Geng had already accepted a failed marriage because of the lurking mission, and now that he had violated his ideals to join the Kuomintang, he was naturally resistant in his heart. He told Zhou Enlai about his insistence, and Zhou Enlai asked him to do as Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi wanted, and not to expose it.
Xie he and Geng found that the procedures for the Kuomintang to join the party were not strict, and after he completed the formalities for joining the party, he only handed over the file of Senator Liu Zhongrong and withheld himself. At that time, it was one of the most chaotic periods of the Kuomintang, and everyone thought that Xie Hegeng had already joined the Kuomintang, but they did not expect that he had crossed the sea in secret.
Not only that, Xie and Geng also discovered that Liu Zhongrong was not as willing to join the Kuomintang as he appeared. Liu Zhongrong hated Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorship and sympathized with the Chinese Communist Party. Therefore, he has been running between Feng Yuxiang, Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang's department, and finally stayed in the Gui family.
After Xie Hegeng learned about his family background and ideological situation, he revealed his identity to him, hoping that he could help him carry out the secret work of the party organization, and Liu Zhongrong quickly agreed.
Liu Zhongrong's work is of a special nature, he does not have to sit on work every day, nor does he have commuting time, and is responsible for contacting prominent figures of various parties and collecting relevant intelligence, including the Communist Party, of course. Therefore, he is the best person to help Xie and Geng pass on information.
Because of Liu Zhongrong's joining, important information in the hands of Xie hegeng could be sent to the CCP leadership in a timely and safe manner.
At the same time, Xie and Geng also meet their destined lovers.
After a year of marriage to Du Rong, Xie and Geng and Du Rong formally separated due to emotional discord. Although Bai Chongxi was very sorry, he never blamed Xie and Geng for this incident.
In 1938, the "Shanghai Anti-Japanese War Drama Second Team" led by Jinshan and Hongshen went to Guishi to carry out propaganda performances according to the instructions of the underground party, and Xie Hegeng was ordered to visit and offer condolences.
At that time, the most famous star of the "second team" was Wang Ying.
Pictured| Wang Ying
Wang Ying, formerly known as Yu Zhihua, a native of Wuhu City, Anhui Province, joined the Shanghai Communist Party's peripheral organization "Relief Society" at the age of 15, and was the youngest female revolutionary in Shanghai's cultural circles at that time.
She starred in "Sai Jinhua", which was famous on the beach and was known as the "heroine of actresses". She is also a rather talented female writer, Xie and Geng like to read her prose, film reviews, and can guess that Wang Ying is an underground party member.
This was the first time Wang Ying had met Xie hegeng, and she admired Xie hegeng very much, but the other party was a Kuomintang officer, not a road person, and she had to keep a distance.
Until one day, Li Kenong was discussing the matter of performing abroad with downtown areas and Jinshan and Wang Ying, when he saw Xie Hegeng's car slowly approaching in the distance, Li Kenong waved at Xie he and Geng and shouted: "Xie Hegeng!" "
Xie he and Geng have always been in contact with Li Kenong, and his underground party identity is known only to Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu, Ye Jianying and other superior leaders. According to the regulations, as long as there is a third person present, he must not say a word to Li Kenong.
Xie and Geng were sending funds for the performance troupe this time, and seeing that Li Kenong had only two comrades of his own, he hesitated for a moment, got out of the car, and said two words to Li Kenong.
Although it was only two very short and ordinary conversations, Wang Ying's heart rippled, and she couldn't help but gently shout Xie Hegeng: "Comrade! "
Xie hegeng just looked at her, didn't say a word to her, and hurriedly got into the car and left.
The news reached Zhou Enlai, who severely criticized Li Kenong. It was not until more than 20 years later that Li Kenong recalled this incident at Dong Biwu's home: "At that time, He Geng was in the Tiger's Den, accompanied by the 'White Tiger', and did so important work for the party, that he could lose his head at any time." Fortunately, Wang Ying and Jin Shan were both their own people at that time, otherwise I really couldn't eat and walk. "
Li Kenong was deeply aware of his mistake, but there was no small thing that made Wang Ying let go of the defenses in her heart, and Xie and Geng finally came together.
In 1942, after the fall of Guilin, Xie and Geng went to Chongqing with a large army.
Many left-wing cultural circles in Chongqing heard that Wang Ying and Xie Hegeng had a close relationship, but they vigorously opposed it. The film industry, the theater industry, the press, and the music industry all regard this as explosive news. Guo Moruo, Tian Han, and others criticized Wang Ying for being "infatuated with Kuomintang officers, which is intolerable," and some even scolded Wang Ying for being "willing to be a concubine of a warlord's lackey."
Every time Wang Ying attends a party, she will inexplicably become the target of everyone. Listening to the chatter of her comrades, she understood that they all had good intentions, but she had to restrain her feelings and not say a good word for Xie and Geng.
Zhou Enlai was very familiar with the situation of Xie hegeng and Wang Ying, and when others repeatedly proposed to him to stop Xie Hegeng and Wang Ying from falling in love, Zhou Enlai always advised them to calm down: "You must believe Wang Ying, don't talk nonsense, don't interfere in her private affairs." "
On Bai Chongxi's side, because Wang Ying and the "China Salvation Theater Troupe" raised a lot of funds for the Gui clan after performing in Nanyang, Bai Chongxi did not say a word of accusation against xie and Wang's love.
Just when Wang Ying was on the verge of collapse by these negative public opinions, she was approved to study in the United States as an external inspector of the Kuomintang.
At that time, in order to win the Support of the United States for China's War of Resistance, both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party sent students to the United States. Xie hegeng and Wang Ying both went to inspect and study in the name of the Nationalist government, and in fact all their action plans were carried out under the guidance of Zhou Enlai.
Pictured| Wang Ying and Xie Hegeng
Zhou Enlai tried to meet them before they went abroad, and told them to sincerely love each other, learn from each other, and win glory for the country in a foreign country. It's just that Xie and Geng have not yet officially divorced, and the central government does not allow them to live together or get married for the time being.
Xie Hegeng and Wang Ying listened to Zhou Enlai's encouragement and said with great excitement:
"Our feelings for the party and the love between us will always be as pure and sincere as being in the first love, and the heavens can testify."
Xie and Geng never saw Bai Chongxi again after going abroad this time, and Bai Chongxi did not know that he was an underground member of the CCP until he was defeated and retired to Taiwan.
After arriving in the United States, Xie Hegeng took over the establishment of the overseas Chinese newspaper "New York New News", serving as the editor-in-chief, responsible for translating and writing editorials to publicize the CHINESE Communist Party's policy of resisting Japan and saving the country to the Chinese and overseas Chinese. Wang Ying, on the other hand, entered Yale University and studied dance at the Duncan Dance Academy.
The Soviet Union, the United States, britain and other countries of the anti-fascist front held a world youth congress in Washington, and Xie hegeng wrote a speech for Wang Ying, encouraging her to publicize China's anti-Japanese situation to the people of all countries.
Wang Ying also organized a troupe with Chinese students, came to the White House at the invitation of President Roosevelt and his wife, and then toured the United States.
Xie and Geng and Wang Ying fought together in the United States for 8 years in accordance with the instructions of the party, as an unmarried couple. It was not until 1950 that Xie and Geng received a divorce judgment from his sister and his ex-wife, and the Guilin Daily, which published the notice of the divorce of Xie and Geng.
On February 22, 1950, Xie and Geng and Wang Ying finally got married, when they were both in their 30s.
Figure | Wang Ying's posthumous work "Baogu"
In 1954, the United States rose up a McCarthyian frenzy, anti-communist far right, persecution of progressives, as long as they were involved with the Communist Party, they were persecuted, Xie hegeng and Wang Ying were also arrested by the CIA.
Premier Zhou Enlai tried several times to rescue them, and finally decided to exchange the American prisoners of war captured on the Korean battlefield, hoping that the two would return home safely.
Just as the two were preparing to return to China, the USCIS began all kinds of obstructions, forcing the two to become American nationals, xie and geng solemnly refused: "We are upright Chinese, and we will never join the United States citizenship!" "
It was not until the end of 1954 that the two were "expelled" from Honolulu and returned to their homeland via Hong Kong in 1955, where they continued to engage in cultural work.
In 1974, because she was slandered as an "American secret agent", Wang Yinghan died of an unjust illness. It wasn't until May 1975 that Xie and Geng learned that their wives were no longer there.
Xie Hegeng, who loved his wife deeply, could not bear the blow, fainted on the spot, and returned to Xiangshan half a year later and was already insane. It wasn't until 1979, when his wife's case was rehabilitated, that he gradually recovered.
Xie and Geng and Wang Ying's married life is only 12 years, friends hope that Xie and Geng can come out and find a wife to spend the rest of their lives, Xie and Geng have been on blind dates many times under the arrangement of friends, and they cannot accept other women.
Picture | On March 8, 1998, Xie Hegeng visited Wang Ying's grave, which was Wang Ying's birthday.
He specially went to Taishan to ask the craftsmen to create a ring with the words "Wang Ying Baby". He sorted out Wang Ying's posthumous works, published two long autobiographical novels "Baogu" and "Two Americans", and wrote more than 300,000 words of biographical literature "Forever in First Love", spending the rest of his life in deep thoughts.
In order to complete the tasks of the party organization, Xie and Geng lurked in the heart of the enemy in the complex environment of the struggle and cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and reported important information to the organization; he chose to sacrifice his marriage, fell in love with Wang Ying for thirteen years but could not reveal his true identity, and fought side by side with his lovers in a foreign country. This is a revolutionary loyal to the state and the party, and a husband who is unswerving to the death of his lover.