Mao Renfeng was a well-known spy leader in the last century, famous for "forbearance, waiting, and ruthlessness", and before the founding of New China, he was a big man in the central political whirlpool. Since the beginning of the civil war, after our party regained power, the invincible Mao Renfeng's entire army was defeated and had to flee to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek.
It was at this moment that Mao Renfeng, who had reached his old age, suffered the karma of committing the crime of the Dregs Cave Massacre that year. At the end of 1955, Mao Renfeng was diagnosed with cancer, and after going to the United States for treatment, he was still given an ultimatum.
Mao Renfeng fought for half his life in his bloody political career, and never thought that he would fall into this fate. He returned to Taiwan, but he went off the rails, listened to the slander of others, and took the earthwork of the charlatans, but unexpectedly this became his talisman.
That night, Mao Renfeng took the traditional Chinese medicine made of earthwork under the care of Xiang Yingxin, and his condition suddenly worsened, and finally he was tormented by the disease and died with hatred. Mao Renfeng was buried in Xizhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan Province, at the age of 58.
And not long after Mao Renfeng's death, his wife Xiang Yingxin actually said a sentence "It's good to be dead", why did Xiang Yingxin, who has never abandoned and took care of her husband Mao Renfeng, say such incredible words, is there any secret behind this that we haven't seen?
The abyss of desire, the road of no return to the shadow heart
In that war-torn and turbulent era, Xiang Yingxin was a mere woman, without background and status, how did she gain a firm foothold in many big families and marry Mao Renfeng, the second-in-command of the military command? Xiang Yingxin's life can also be regarded as a legend in the world.
Xiang Yingxin was born beautiful and active, she is not like other women who just want to find a lover in troubled times, she wants the supreme status that no one can match, the stars hold the moon, and everyone compliments the supreme scenery.
But it's a pity that she doesn't have a family background that can match her ambitions, in order to be able to build a bridge to the upper class faster, Xiang Yingxin ignored her parents' opposition and eloped with Hu Yifa, who was older than her father, one night.
Who is Hu Yifa? Can let this ambitious and unwilling ordinary woman leave everything behind. It turned out that Hu Yifa was a close subordinate of Yang Hucheng and the commander of the Northwest Army, and his future was open and unlimited. Xiang Yingxin valued Hu Yifa's future, and when he was still in the boudoir, he created many moments of chance encounters with Hu Yifa.
Seeing that Hu Yifa took the bait, Xiang Yingxin didn't twist it, and directly took out a look of infatuation where you are going, and the concubine will accompany you wholeheartedly. Even if Xiang Yingxin's parents broke their hearts and preached bitterly, she still went her own way and made up her mind to marry Hu Yifa to be a child.
A young woman, talented, with the beauty of Xiang Yingxin, it is not a problem to pick a young talent in Xi'an, but she was blinded by desire at a young age, and she had to roll in the world of power and money.
After Xiang Yingxin married Hu Yifa, Hu Yifa received an order from his superiors to go to Wuhan, Wuhan was full of officers and celebrities at that time, Xiang Yingxin had an active mind, and soon became famous in the circle of officers' wives in Wuhan. And this also laid the groundwork for Xiang Yingxin to become a female spy of the military commander in the future and get to know Mao Renfeng.
At a card game at Cai Mengjian's home, Xiang Yingxin wore the popular cheongsam style, and her gestures were full of charm, and as soon as she appeared, she easily won the attention of the people around her. At this time, Dai Li, who was talking to Cai Mengjian about the war, looked over, and even people like him, who had read countless women, couldn't help but look at it in a trance.
After a while, Cai Mengjian, who noticed Dai Li's eyes, had a move in his mind and proposed to form a game together. It's an enduring truth that the table knows people. Xiang Yingxin took care of everyone's cards at the poker table, and when he was distracted, he also had to chat with Mr. and Mrs. about the current situation and politics.
After this game, Dai Li, who took a fancy to Xiang Yingxin's talent, invited her to meet with him alone. During many tentative meetings, Dai Li and Xiang Yingxin began an underground lover relationship, and he also noticed Xiang Ying's crazy obsession with power. So, he offered to be willing to use political rights as a reward to let Xiang Yingxin steal military information for himself.
Dai Li's proposed deal made Xiang Ying's heart move, and the seeds of her desire for power began to take root in her heart. In this way, these two people with evil intentions reached a cooperation.
Xiang Yingxin has always been active, after marrying Hu Yifa, she tried her best to build a good relationship with Yang Hucheng's other generals, and now she wants to introduce them to Dai Li, which can be said to be effortless. Soon, the commander of the military police battalion and the quartermaster chief under Yang Hucheng secretly made friends with Dai Li.
With his own ability, Xiang Yingxin's reputation is also getting bigger and bigger in the military command, and at this time Hu Yifa was shocked to discover the true face of the person next to him, but he was afraid of Dai Li's power, Hu Yifa could only eat Coptis dumb and divorced Xiang Yingxin in a hurry.
Without this marriage contract, Xiang Yingxin can be said to be very handy in doing tasks, she is good at dancing among all kinds of officers with long sleeves, and easily steals information with a smile, the most famous of which is the assassination of the traitor Yin Rugeng.
Since then, the road to fame and fortune has been full of thorns
Mao Renfeng was known as the "smiling tiger" in the military system, and Dai Li once commented that he was a bodhisattva and difficult to become a great weapon, and was regarded as Dai Li's "spokesperson" within the Kuomintang secret service system. However, according to historical facts, after Mao Renfeng took power, he once tortured and killed countless people of our party, and he can be called an out-and-out living king of Hades, so his true face is definitely not as Dai Li said.
Xiang Yingxin took a fancy to Mao Renfeng's future potential, and directly proposed the idea of marrying Mao Renfeng to Dai Li, and at the same time she unabashedly analyzed the current political situation.
Although Mao Renfeng is Dai Li's cronies, according to Xiang Yingxin's usual observation of him, he is definitely not an ordinary person, in order to prevent it from happening, it is best to install a senior spy who can be trusted by Dai Li to control Mao Renfeng. And she has completed countless intelligence missions to Yingxin, and she can become a sharp weapon to spy on Mao Renfeng, which directly hits Dai Li's pain point.
After hearing this, Dai Li also weighed it many times, and felt that it was a good proposal to put Xiang Yingxin next to Mao Renfeng, so he quickly organized a dinner and matched Xiang Yingxin and Mao Renfeng together. However, Mao Renfeng has always been cautious, and heard Dai Li's beating from Dai Li's words, so he laughed directly at the dinner table, grateful to Dai Li for finding a good fate for himself.
But Xiang Yingxin is as she said, just for Dai Li, to spy on Mao Renfeng? If she really did this, then she is not Xiang Yingxin, Xiang Yingxin after marrying Mao Renfeng, she secretly negotiated with him, Mao Renfeng gave her the position of first lady, and she cleared the obstacles on the political road for Mao Renfeng and helped him make friends with high-ranking officials.
When he was in Chongqing, Xiang Yingxin saw Chiang Kai-shek's intention to marry Yang Sen, and quietly, he actually matched the marriage of Chiang Kai-shek's nephew Zhu Pei and Yang Yuwen, the third daughter of Yang Sen, the Sichuan army boss. At the dinner table, Chiang Kai-shek praised Xiang Yingxin many times, and praised Mao Renfeng several times for marrying a virtuous helper.
On March 17, 1946, when Dai Li was flying from Qingdao to Nanjing, he was killed in a crash in Daishan, a western suburb of Nanjing.
The military command was almost divided in order to compete for power and profit, Zheng Jiemin became the most vocal person with the support of Chiang Kai-shek, and Mao Renfeng dropped out of school due to illness when he was at the Whampoa Military Academy, and his qualifications were still too shallow compared with Zheng Jiemin and others.
Although Zheng Jiemin is cunning, ruthless and vicious, he has always been unwilling to engage in spy work, and has always undisguised his negative sabotage in his previous work.
Zheng Jiemin has no intention of working as a spy, he often likes to sort out academic research, and he is a spy with a bit of a romantic mood, and his intelligence ability and organizational ability are not as good as Mao Renfeng, if he is pushed to this position, Mao Renfeng can also empty him faster.
As a result, Mao Renfeng unexpectedly expressed his support for Zheng Jiemin as the new director of the Secret Bureau. The turmoil within the military command stopped, Zheng Jiemin became the number one, and Mao Renfeng became the second in command by retreating.
Zheng Jiemin, who became the director, was not stupid, he had already seen Mao Renfeng's tricks in his heart, but he was dissatisfied with the identity of the spy leader, so he pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger, and handed over a lot of work to him. As a result, the internal pattern of the military command has become a new situation, Zheng Jiemin ignores the world, Mao Renfeng covers the sky with one hand, and becomes the true emperor in the military command.
Looking at Mao Renfeng's achievements, Xiang Yingxin and honor, she has been dormant and endured for many years, and finally realized her dream of being a master. However, the dream was shattered so suddenly, just when Xiang Yingxin was happily planning to take her place in the army, Mao Renfeng actually sent someone to put her in a fully enclosed mental hospital, and years of planning and calculation were all in vain at this moment.
Xiang Yingxin in the mental hospital was devastated, and just when she thought that the rest of her life was hopeless, on the eve of the founding of New China, her family came to take her out and send her to Hong Kong.
After Chiang Kai-shek specifically mentioned Xiang Yingxin and talked about Xiang Yingxin's contribution to the party-state, Mao Renfeng didn't say a word, and immediately took Xiang Yingxin back. At this time, Xiang Yingxin hated Mao Renfeng very much, she couldn't wait to eat his flesh and blood, and now she was forced by the political form, she had to continue to fight with Mao Renfeng.
Xiang Yingxin has been chasing illusory rights all her life, who would have thought that she would be trapped in this mansion when she was once invincible. So there was the opening scene, Mao Renfeng's life was not long in coming, and years of resentment turned into a sentence of "it's better to die" in this instant.
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