He was born into a wealthy family of "great young masters", received a good education and advanced ideas from an early age, and at the age of twenty-eight, on the recommendation of a friend, became one of the first people in Ningbo to join the Communist Party of China. He was also the head of the Shanghai Municipal Finance Bureau under the Kuomintang, and on the eve of the liberation of Shanghai, he committed a series of "contrary to common sense" acts, resulting in Shanghai's military defense becoming weaker and weaker, and finally being taken down by the People's Liberation Army within 16 days.
He was Wang Weiheng, and after he surrendered and was captured, he found the representative of the People's Liberation Army Military Control Commission, and only said one sentence, which made the representative comrades who had been in the battlefield stunned for a long time.
In May 1949, under the fierce offensive of the People's Liberation Army Sanye, Shanghai, the most prosperous city in the Chinese mainland, was taken by our army in only sixteen days, but liberation was liberated, how to restore Shanghai's economy and revitalize Shanghai became a problem for our army, so finally under the decision of the party organization, the Military Control Commission with an urgent mood found a group of surrendered Kuomintang officials, hoping to quickly hand over the previous work plan from their hands.
The plan went very smoothly, and most of the Kuomintang officials were very knowledgeable and reported all the information they knew to the Military Control Commission, and the comrades of the Military Control Commission looked at the information they had put together in front of them and were immediately very pleased, but just as they were about to question one of the most crucial Kuomintang officials, that is, Wang Weiheng, the former director of the Shanghai Finance Bureau and a major general of the Kuomintang, the problem arose, because this person not only kept silent, but even asked Gu Zhun, the top commander of the Military Control Commission, to receive him personally and alone.
Such an arrogant attitude made the comrades of the Military Control Commission angry in an instant, but in line with the policy of giving preferential treatment to those who surrendered, they could not sanction him, so they had to report the situation to Deputy Gu Zhun Gu, who at first did not think so, thinking that the former director of the Finance Bureau just wanted to use the information in his hands to negotiate terms with our party, and there were many cases.
It was understandable that the Kuomintang major general, who was in his fifties, wanted to do so, so Gu Zhun readily agreed, and immediately took Wang Weiheng to his office, but he did not expect that everything that happened afterwards was obviously unexpected by him.
Gu Zhun
The first words exited by this senior Kuomintang official named Wang Weiheng made Gu Zhun almost drop his jaw in shock, because he said: "I am an underground party member, I joined the party as early as twenty-five years ago, and I have been lurking inside the Kuomintang, you can go to Pan Hannian to verify." ”
Although Gu Zhun had all kinds of doubts, he still called pan Hannian, the newly appointed vice mayor of Shanghai, and the truth of the matter slowly emerged from the phone...
In 1896, Wang Weiheng was born in Zhuji County, Zhejiang Province, a relatively wealthy family, his parents operated the family's hundred acres of good land, life is very moist, with such a solid family situation, Wang Weiheng's education is naturally excellent, it can be said that from just full school age to adulthood, his learning career has not been broken, and the school he attended and the teachers invited are also the best and most authoritative people in the local area.
Of course, Wang Weiheng is not the kind of stupid disciple of a rich and noble family, he himself is also very fond of learning, like to contact knowledge, because of this, in addition to the knowledge of schools and private schools, new ideas and new cultures from the south have slowly taken root in Wang Weiheng's mind, and this has also made him a rare local talent in that war-torn era.
At the age of 21, Wang Weiheng, who had already reached the age of becoming a family, did not choose to inherit his parents' family property, and then married and had children, but under the desire to cultivate talents for China, he chose to become a primary school teacher, but before he could really teach a group of students, the war spread to his hometown, and the cannon fire and wailing were all over the field, which had a great impact on a person who was full of poetry and books and aspired to save the country, so the idea of abandoning his pen and congrong arose in Wang Weiheng's heart.
After more than a year of ideological struggle, Wang Weiheng finally ignored the opposition of his parents and resolutely rushed to Shanghai and Beijing, where new ideas flourished, and began his road of further study, and it was during this period that Wang Weiheng came into contact with the Chinese Communist Party, which was still in its infancy.
He was deeply attracted by the program of the Communist Party and the history of its birth, and also knew that the Communist Party and communism were the right solution to save China and save the general public, so in 1924, under the introduction of his friend Zhang Qiuren, he officially became a Communist Party member working in Ningbo, Zhejiang.
It should be known that at that time, the number of formal party members of our party was still extremely rare, and it was even rarer in Zhejiang, so Wang Weiheng became the backbone when he just joined our party, and the background of the times at that time was also very complicated, because at that time it was during the first period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was still relatively close, so Wang Weiheng entered the Kuomintang army under the arrangement of the organization.
Of course, at this time, Wang Weiheng's task was not yet lurking, and when he really became an underground party lurking within the Kuomintang, it was in 1927 when the relations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party had just broken down, when the "white terror" within the Kuomintang was very serious, and in Zhejiang and other places, countless members of our party were brutally killed by them without knowing it, and the party and government system in many places was paralyzed, and only a few people, such as Wang Weiheng, who had been trusted because of their previous positions in the Kuomintang, survived.
Therefore, in order to hide the identities of the party members and to one day make a comeback, the party organization secretly issued orders to Wang Weiheng and others, asking them to continue to lurk and not to reveal their identities unless they had to, and Wang Weiheng also broke into the enemy's interior.
In order to complete the tasks assigned by the party organization and to better obtain the enemy's intelligence, Wang Weiheng made a decision immediately after the start of the incubation plan, and he first took advantage of the personal advantages of the contacts he had studied in Beijing and Shanghai before, and found his good friend, that is, Chen Liang, who was then the director of the Kuomintang Central Military Academy.
In this post, Wang Weiheng can be described as exquisite, and he has become good friends with many senior Kuomintang generals with his outstanding insights and extraordinary conversations, including Chiang Kai-shek's concubine general Hu Zongnan, who greatly appreciated this young man, so he was transferred from the post of section chief to his side, and in the years that followed, Hu Zongnan also regarded Wang Weiheng as a confidant, whether it was the encirclement and suppression of our party, or in the War of Resistance Against Japan, large and small battles took him to study.
Wang Weiheng
Of course, with such an experience, naturally no one dared to doubt Wang Weiheng's identity, and he was also promoted one after another under the protection of Hu Zongnan, but what made Wang Weiheng sad was that after so many years, somehow the party organization had not contacted him again, so when the War of Resistance Against Japan was in full swing, he thought of taking the initiative to contact the party organization, and he risked his life to find a person in charge of our party's spy organ and handed over a very important piece of information to the other side.
The content of this information is very crucial, basically saying that Chiang Kai-shek's side has realized that the time of Japanese aggression in China will not last long, they have begun to prepare to restart the policy of "outside the country must first be at home", and hope that the Party Central Committee can prepare in advance for Chiang Kai-shek's military movements in case of an accident, and it is precisely because of this information of his that our Party has finally succeeded in stopping the enemy's conspiracy.
Since then, Wang Weiheng has finally gained contact with the party organization, and also let the party Central Committee know that this old party member who has persisted in the enemy for many years has not given up his faith, so with the beginning of the liberation war, a series of more difficult tasks have been handed over to Wang Weiheng.
During the Period of the Liberation War, Wang Weiheng had already become a senior official in charge of logistics and finance of the Kuomintang Central Committee because of Hu Zongnan's relations; the information he possessed was related to the national economy and people's livelihood of the Chinese people, as well as the logistical mobilization of Chiang Kai-shek's army.
Therefore, under his mediation, our party knew in advance about the enemy's detailed defense and mobilization of troops in the Liaoshen Campaign, the Pingjin Campaign, the Huaihai Campaign, and so on.
Of course, after losing many battles, Chiang Kai-shek also found that there must be a high-ranking spy within the Kuomintang, and he also sent people to investigate secretly many times, but because of Hu Zongnan's reasons, they suspected that no one suspected Wang Weiheng's head, and Wang Weiheng, under the efforts of many parties, instead, was promoted to an official, became the director of the supply bureau in Taiwan Province, and received the rank of major general.
However, Wang Weiheng was not much happy about this, but on the contrary, he became more and more worried, and the reason was very simple, because the clear-eyed people at that time could see that Chiang Kai-shek had fallen into a disadvantage, and their rule on the mainland would never last long, and Wang Weiheng, as a member of the Kuomintang, naturally knew this, so how to safely return to the embrace of our party became an urgent problem for him, but at this juncture, he was transferred to Taiwan, and it was difficult to return to the mainland when he arrived here.
But fortunately, Wang Weiheng had only been working in Taiwan for a year, and he received an order from the Kuomintang superior, and the content of the transfer order simply made him ecstatic, because the situation in Shanghai was precarious, and the Shanghai municipal government urgently needed a "back cooker", and Shanghai Mayor Chen Liang, because of his previous good relationship with Wang Weiheng, recommended him to return to Shanghai to preside over the overall financial situation, and Wang Weiheng also came to Shanghai as he wished.
After Wang Weiheng arrived in Shanghai, he could have returned directly to the party organization, but he understood that Shanghai, as The financial center of China, would be difficult to restore in the future if it was messed up by these Kuomintang officials, so for the sake of the new China that was about to be established, he still resolutely took office, in order to protect Shanghai's funds from flowing out, but also to protect Shanghai's many financial archives.
Wang Weiheng righteously stood in front of many officials who wanted to profit from them, successfully drank away their misdeeds, made great contributions to the recovery of Shanghai's economy in the future, and because of his good relations with Chen Liang, when the Platon Soldiers approached the outskirts of Shanghai, he also repeatedly suggested that Chen Liang should not be too insistent and should not be martyred for this decadent National Government.
It was also under the advice of Wang Weiheng that Chen Liang finally gave up the proposal of many Kuomintang generals to urge him to strengthen the defense of the city, and this was one of the reasons why our People's Liberation Army was able to take Shanghai within sixteen days.