His name is Yuan Shu, and he is the prototype of the TV series Pretender Zhongminglou, and he is also the only spy with a five-fold identity in the history of CCP agents. He is the person in charge of the Iwai Mansion of the Japanese intelligence agency, and has been commended by Emperor Hirohito of Japan in person, he is the head of the special operations group of the major general of the military command, and even Dai Li personally visited him, he is also the backbone of the Central Intelligence Bureau, the head of the intelligence unit of the "cadre society", and Wu Xingya, the head of the Central Unification Bureau, is also impressed by him, and he is also a closed disciple of Cao Youshan, the boss of the Qinghong Gang, and a brother of the Tongzi generation who sits on an equal footing with Du Yuesheng and Huang Jinrong, and he is also an underground member of the Communist Party of China, and has been deeply involved in the enemy camp for 14 years, and is known as the "Oriental Sorge". These identities, no matter which one of them is taken out, are extremely weighty existences. So, how does he switch between these five identities and complement each other? In the end, why did they end up with a deranged and dismal harvest?
Yuan Shu's original name was Yuan Xueyi, born in 1911 in Huanggang City, Hubei Province, in a declining official family. Young. He was a member of the League and devoted almost all his family resources to revolutionary activities. Yuan Xueyi's life in childhood was extremely difficult and poor, and his mother had to take him to Shanghai to find his father. In 1925, when the May Day Movement broke out, Yuan Xueyi, who was only 14 years old, participated in the strikes and school boycotts, and his ideas were also sublimated at this stage, and his name was changed to Yuan Shu. Later, after his friend Hu Baoyi, who was the commander of the Jiangnan Special Army of the National Revolutionary Army at that time, he was appointed as his secretary and went north to Nanjing to join the Kuomintang. Since the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was not so tense at that time, Yuan Shu also met many Communists at this time.
After the 412 Incident, the Northern Expedition failed, and Yuan was expelled from the party by Chiang Kai-shek because of his close contacts with the Communists, so he returned to Shanghai. In 1929, Yuan Shu and his girlfriend Ma Jingxing went to Japan to study together. During his study abroad, Yuan Shu read a lot of books on the ideology of the Communist Party, which laid a solid foundation for his unwavering faith in the future. At that time, Japan was suffering from a great economic downturn. Because of the publication of many progressive ideas of the New Dynasty and the first to report the news that the five gentlemen of the Left League were secretly murdered by the Kuomintang, they caused a sensation, and were soon ordered by the Nationalist Government to stop publication. At the same time, this move also attracted the attention of Pan Zinian, who was in charge of relevant cultural work at the time, and recruited him to join the Left-wing Cultural Alliance. It didn't take long for Yuan Shu to apply to Zhu Jin, a member of our party, to join the avant-garde, and since then he has started Yuan Shu's legendary agent career.
At 12 noon one day in October 1931, Yuan Shu walked into a café on Jing'an Temple Road and came to a table in the corner. There were two people in front of Yuan Shu, one of whom Yuan Shu knew, was Pan Hannian, an important leader of the Central Special Branch of our Party at that time. Pan Hannian looked at the surrounding environment and whispered to Yuan Shu, After the organization's investigation, I agree that you will join the secret avant-garde organization. Normally, people in the organization don't know the identities of other people, so it's your job to get inside the enemy and get important information, but be sure to keep an eye on your own identity. Next to him is Wang Zichun. It is the comrade who will be responsible for contacting you in the future. In the end, Wang Zichun also told Yuan Shu not to be so radical in the future, to slowly retreat from the red, become an ordinary citizen, and find a way to penetrate the enemy.
One afternoon in the spring of 1932, Yuan Shu, under the instructions of Pan Hannian and Wang Zichun, contacted his eldest cousin Jia Botao. Jia Botao was a student of the Whampoa Military Academy, and during the Northern Expedition, he served as a colonel and staff officer of the General Headquarters. Yuan Shu is well versed in the truth that wealth does not return to his hometown, just like the truth of walking at night in brocade clothes, so in a letter to Jia Botao, he said how he was down, how unbearable he was, and hoped that this eldest cousin could find a job for himself to support his family, etc., after Jia Botao saw this, he got Yuan Shu to Wu Xingya's hands to do things. Wu Xingya was the director of the Shanghai Social Bureau at that time, the secretary general of the Central Unification Bureau of the Kuomintang, and was deeply trusted by Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu, the leaders of the Central Unification Bureau. So soon Yuan Shu. He served as the head of the Central Interference Intelligence Unit, and his public identity was that of a reporter of the Xinsheng News Agency.
After the outbreak of the 918 Incident, anti-Japanese sentiment began to spread throughout China, and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the news industry needed news from Japan, so Yuan Shu was instructed by Wang Zichun to attend a press conference held by the Nanjing government as a reporter of the news agency. Before each meeting, Yuan Shu would take a Japanese magazine and look through it, which soon attracted the attention of the Japanese consul Eiichi Iwai. At that time, there were only a handful of reporters who were proficient in Japanese, so Iwai Eiichi deliberately wooed Yuan Shu. Soon after, the head of the Japanese secret service in China paid Yuan Shu 200 yuan a month for communication fees, making Yuan Shu a Japanese intelligence agent. At this point, Yuan Shu's triple spy career officially began.
During this period, Yuan Shu also slowly gained the trust of Iwai Eiichi, and used this identity to get a lot of information, from 1933 to 1934 two years, Yuan Shu continued to distribute the Japanese intelligence to the CCP and the Central Union, of course, the information sent to the Central Union was screened by Wang Zichun, due to Yuan Shu's special channels. It was necessary to be fast and accurate, which made Wu Jingya, the leader of the Central Unification, also look at him, and Yuan Shu also established his important position in the Central Unification Department. At the same time, due to Yuan Shu's special family background, our party has a sense of distrust of him. At the end of 1934, Yuan Shu was privately expelled from the party.
At the beginning of 1935, Yuan Shu came to the agreed place twice to contact the upline, but he did not see Wang Zichun on the upline, and the "disconnection" was like a catastrophe for the intelligence officers. In desperation, Yuan Shu had to contact Xia Yan, the only CCP member who knew his secret identity, and asked him to pass a letter to the CCP agent for him. Because Xia Yan was a core member of our party living in Shanghai at that time, and knew that Yuan Shu was excluded, he had to reluctantly hand over Yuan Shu's letter to Cai Shuhou, the person in charge of the special section, and Cai Shuhou was transferred from the head of the special section of the Communist Party of China to the Far East Intelligence Bureau of the Comintern, so he easily brought Yuan Shu's letter into the new organization and arranged a new contact for Yuan Shu. In this way, Yuan Shu became an intelligence officer of the Far East Intelligence Bureau of the Comintern without knowing it.
Soon after, the "Strange Westerner Case" broke out. At that time, the agents of the military command captured Guan Zhaonan, a member of the Chinese Communist Party, and found Joseph Walton, the head of the Far East Intelligence Bureau of the Comintern, and the military commander officially found Yuan Shu's name and phone number in his notebook. As a result, Yuan Shu's identity as a CCP intelligence officer was exposed. Yuan Xiaolan learned that her son was arrested, and when she was seriously ill, she still went to intercede with Chen Lifu, but she was sorry for Chen Lifu's face, and there was no substantive evidence, so Dai Li did not investigate Yuan Shu deeply. In the end, Yuan Shu was sentenced to two years in prison for cultural crimes. During this period, the intelligence department of the Central Union and the Japanese consulate in Shanghai also came forward to rescue Yuan Shu. Eight months later, Yuan Shu was released early, and after being released from prison, the military commander told Yuan Shu to go to meet with Chen Lifu immediately, but Yuan Shu refused to go straight to Shanghai, and at this time, no one from the CCP in Shanghai contacted him, and Yuan Shu had no choice but to go to Japan to study again.
In early 1937, Yuan Shu returned to China and rejoined the Central Union, and after getting in touch with Feng Xuefeng, he continued to provide intelligence to Pan Hannian as a non-CCP member. In April of the same year, in order to strengthen his own protection, Yuan Shu. Officially joined the Qinghong Gang and became a brother of the same generation as Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng. In fact, as early as 1934, Yuan Shu officially joined the disciple of Cao Youshan, the elder of the Qinghong Gang, as a closed disciple. With his seniority, Yuan Shu could easily command many disciples in the gang to assist him. In 1937, when the July 7 Incident broke out and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression began, Dai Li, the head of the military command's spies, personally visited him and asked Yuan Shu to meet at 9 o'clock in the morning the next day. Yuan Shu keenly sensed that this matter was unusual, and immediately reported it to his superior, Pan Hannian. Pan Hannian thought that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it was only Yuan Shu who took the opportunity to break into the military command. On November 5, 1937, Shanghai fell, and Yuan Shu was awarded the rank of major general by the military commander, serving as the leader of the special operations group, and stayed in Shanghai to specialize in undertaking traitors and invaders. At this point, Yuan Shu's identity as a Gu heavy spy is complete. At this time, Yuan Shu was only 26 years old.
In 1938, Japan was established by rigorous translation and translation. The Yanjing Mansion, an intelligence agency, was established in Shanghai. On the instructions of Pan Hannian, Yuan Shu cooperated with Iwai as a military commander. When the rape operation against Li Shiqun, deputy director of the No. 76 Secret Service Headquarters of Wang's puppet government, failed and was arrested due to a traitor's whistleblowing, Yuan Shu's family directly asked Yanjing for help. As a result, Yuan Shu's traitor identity also changed from underground to public. Later, due to his outstanding performance, Yuan Shu was rewarded by Emperor Hirohito of Japan in person, and Yuan Shu also became the head of the Iwai Mansion. In the years since he officially became a traitor, Yuan Shu used this identity to cover CCP members and sent back a lot of valuable information to Yan'an.
In July 1941, Pan Hannian forwarded the information sent by Yuan Shu to Yan'an, which in turn sent the information to the Soviet Union. Based on this intelligence, the Soviet Red Army repelled the Germans and turned the tide of World War II. In December of the same year, when the Pacific War broke out and Hong Kong fell, Yuan Shu successfully transferred more than 800 important figures of our party, including Song Qingling, He Xiangning, Liu Yazi and others. In 1945, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Yuan Shu was awarded the rank of lieutenant general by the military commander. He was appointed as the head of the third station directly under the military command, but Yuan Shu privately sold his property, and all the funds obtained were handed over to the Shanghai underground organization of the Communist Party of China. At the beginning of 1946, Yuan Shu returned to the liberated area and changed her name to Zeng Dazhai. At this point, the military commander discovered Yuan Shu's identity as a member of the Communist Party of China, and Yuan Shu also ended her 14-year spy career.
In 1955, Pan Hannian was arrested, and Yuan Shu was investigated for his long-term work under Pan Hannian's leadership, and was sentenced to 12 years in prison for failing to prove his innocence. Later, he encountered the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, and after being released from prison after eight years in prison, he was sent to a farm for reform. Until 1980, although Yuan Shu was released, he was still restricted from movement and had no freedom. It was not until Pan Hannian was rehabilitated in 1982 that Yuan Shu was declared innocent. At this time, Yuan Shu was already alone, and his body basically collapsed. Due to his perennial detention, Yuan Shu's mental condition is very bad, and he often talks nonsense about developing offline, sometimes he will cry, and sometimes he will shout frantically to send information. Who would have thought that this once. The mighty Shanghai Tang tycoon will finally die alone in Beijing at the age of 76.