In 2006, a photo was suddenly exposed through some media.
An old man in the photo, looking ahead with his mouth open, is described as emaciated as a skeleton, and his eyes are very empty.
Almost at the same time, some of the old man's situation also went viral on the Internet, saying that he was abandoned by his own children and had a very difficult life.
This old man is the big traitor and spy Gu Zhengwen, who is known as the "Living Hades" and is afraid even by Mao Renfeng.
He almost single-handedly paralyzed the entire northern intelligence system of our party, and he also presided over many assassination attempts, and even Premier Zhou was almost murdered.
So, what kind of past does this person have that people can't bear to look at, and how did he fall to the point of being described as withered and abandoned by his family?
If you want to clarify this, you have to start with the first half of Gu Zhengwen's life.
Gu Zhengwen's name is Guo Tongzhen and he is a native of Fenyang, Shanxi. In his early years, he was determined to be a scholar, and once came to Beijing to study with excellent grades.
After the "918" incident, he devoted himself to the patriotic student movement, and then entered the underground organization of our party.
After the official start of the Anti-Japanese War, he entered the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. In a failed operation, Gu Zhengwen was captured by Kuomintang spies, and immediately transferred to the Military Unification Bureau.
The above is the official record of Gu Zhengwen.
But he himself gave a different story about this experience. He said that when he was still a student, he had already defected to the military commander. This point may be that he himself lied to the agents of the Military Command Bureau in order to avoid suspicion.
However, he was appreciated by Dai Li, the head of the Military Command Bureau, and this is absolutely true. Gu Zhengwen was literate and studious, and was a very rare talent at that time.
Dai Lian likes this person very much, thinking that he is "very useful".
Li
However, in the following years, Gu Zhengwen's situation has been confusing. According to some records, he once served as a "pillar" in the student troupe in North China and performed anti-Japanese dramas, and later, he worked in the Soldier Drama Club of the 115th Division, serving as the captain of the drama troupe.
He is very good at acting and singing, and he is indispensable in almost every performance. These records have appeared in many people's memoirs.
So we can draw a conclusion: Gu Zhengwen is lurking in the Eighth Route Army Drama Club as an undercover agent.
In Gu Zhengwen's own memoirs, he admitted that he had been an undercover agent and was noncommittal about his participation in the work of the Communist Party.
However, there is not a word about his other career. Because, it was a traitorous career that even Dai Li couldn't tolerate.
How he defected to the enemy is now difficult to say. But what is certain is that his defection was before 1941.
Because in the autumn of this year, many outstanding comrades were arrested in the "big sweep" in Luzhong. And the Japanese puppet army is responsible for monitoring them, and it is Gu Zhengwen.
At this time, Gu Zhengwen began to show his ruthless side.
He tortured his former comrades who had been arrested, sabotaged local underground organizations in Shandong, and even participated in the arrest of some Kuomintang people in charge of "hoeing and raping."
It can be said that Gu Zhengwen brutally attacked the personnel of both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party at this time. If he is also on an undercover mission, then it is too realistic.
On the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Gu Zhengwen saw that the situation was not good, and officially changed his name from "Guo Tongzhen" to "Gu Zhengwen", and then took the opportunity to abscond to Beiping.
However, at this time, he was already a person who had been in both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and Japan's intelligence organizations, and his methods were already unusual.
So soon after returning to Beiping, he covered up his history as a traitor, returned to the military command, and even became the head of the special service group in Beiping with the support of Dai Li. However, Dai Li still had reservations about him at this time and did not give him real power.
In 1946, Dai Li's special plane crashed in Daishan, and a generation of "mysterious people" disappeared. And next, it was the era when Mao Renfeng and Zheng Jiemin competed for military command, which was later the power of the Secret Bureau.
When Mao Renfeng was sorting out Dai Li's relics, he unexpectedly found the small note that read "Guo Tongzhen is of great use". In order to win more people for his own use, he accepted this person with an unclear background.
Since then, the big spy Gu Zhengwen has been born, and a bloody history is about to officially begin.
After Gu Zhengwen re-entered the military command gate, the first major thing he did was to rebel against the snitch Duan Yunpeng.
Duan Yunpeng is rumored to be the descendant of Li San, the thief of the Republic of China, and he is known as the "raccoon cat". He once broke into the home of Okamura Ninji, the commander of the Japanese garrison in North China, and stole a lot of treasures that the Japanese army had looted from China.
However, there are times when the snitch misses. During a theft operation, Duan Yunpeng fell into the trap laid by the military commander and was imprisoned.
After tossing him for a few days, Gu Zhengwen appeared at the right time and tempted him with money, beauty and status.
Duan Yunpeng didn't have any bottom line for being a person, and as soon as he saw that the conditions were suitable, he was immediately "recruited". And his appearance also uncovered a tragic history of our party's northern intelligence station.
Duan Yunpeng
Our party's intelligence work has always been quite legendary. Before and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, a large number of underground party members headed by Wang Shijian established an intelligence network covering all departments of the Kuomintang.
The information they obtained would be sent back to Yan'an by radio every day. The agents of the military command have long used modern surveillance technology to locate the approximate location.
However, members of our underground party are very alert, and when they notice something unusual in the vicinity, they will immediately stop sending reports. Therefore, the agents never found our radio station.
And the appearance of Duan Yunpeng has changed all this. This person relied on his extraordinary light skills to quietly go back and forth between the roofs and walls, so that people could not even notice it.
Moreover, once he finds a suspicious room, he will use his "upside-down golden hook" stunt to peek into the house. With this hand, he soon discovered the secret radio station in the No. 4 courtyard of Beiping Table Leg Hutong.
After receiving Duan Yunpeng's report, Gu Zhengwen immediately led people to arrest Li Zhengxuan, director of our underground party radio station, and others. Then, Gu Zhengwen went along and destroyed all of my more than 100 small intelligence groups in North China, Shanghai, and other places.
When the wind was no longer right, Wang Shijian took it lightly and did not retreat in time. As a result, he was also arrested by Gu Zhengwen. Now, we don't know what method Gu Zhengwen used to deal with Wang Shijian.
Wang Shijian
But what we do know is that Wang Shijian eventually rebelled and confessed a lot of secrets.
As a result, his confession led to the arrest of hundreds of our intelligence agents who were lurking inside the enemy, and the intelligence networks in Xi'an, Chengde, Shenyang, Tianjin, and other places were dealt a devastating blow.
The consequences of his sabotage were even greater than Gu Shunzhang's rebellion. It was not until more than a year later that the underground party's intelligence network was re-established.
Since there is no specific record in the information, we are not very sure how Gu Zhengwen treated the arrested underground party. However, as we can imagine, this must have been a very cruel process.
Because Gu Zhengwen got the nickname of "Living Yama" during this period.
After his interrogation, there were many people who finally defected and confessed. Thinking that he once spent time with the Japanese, we can imagine that he must have learned all the methods of extorting confessions by torture from the Japanese.
So much so that once Mao Renfeng said "He is more ruthless than me" after watching Gu Zhengwen's interrogation.
Since then, Gu Zhengwen has truly become a celebrity in the Secret Bureau, and has done several shocking cases in Beijing!
At the end of 1948, the Huaihai Campaign had ended, and the Pingjin Campaign had begun to end. Fu Zuoyi had no choice but to prepare for an uprising at this time. Gu Zhengwen was aware of Fu Zuoyi's attitude, so he suggested that Jiang Weiguo, who came to inspect, be detained.
Fu Zuoyi's status was too high, and Jiang Weiguo didn't dare to do it. Gu Zhengwen persuaded him many times, but he still failed to change Jiang Weiguo's mind. As a result, Fu Zuoyi successfully revolted and liberated Beiping peacefully.
Gu Zhengwen has always regarded the attempted arrest of Fu Zuoyi as the regret of his life, and he still thinks so even in his old age.
In 1949, Yang Jie, a military scientist known as "China's three and a half chiefs of staff" along with Jiang Baili, Bai Chongxi, and Liu Bocheng, led the local democratic forces in the southwest and instigated an armed uprising.
After persuading Lu Han to revolt, he went to Hong Kong to take refuge in order to avoid being pursued. Before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yang Jie prepared to return to Beiping to attend the meeting of the New Political Consultative Conference. When Chiang Kai-shek learned of this, he was furious and ordered Gu Zhengwen to assassinate him.
Gu Zhengwen and ace killer Ye Xiangzhi teamed up to deceive Yang Jie in the name of sending a letter, and fired three shots at this high-status democrat. A generation of military scholars was killed by Gu Zhengwen in this way.
After the complete defeat of the Kuomintang and the retreat to Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek was always thinking about counterattacking. In order to make trouble for the people's government, Gu Zhengwen planned a counterfeit banknote case, using fake renminbi to disrupt the market and maliciously create inflation.
As a result, counterfeit banknotes not only brought a certain economic impact to New China, but also caused heavy losses to foreigners doing business in China. As a result, under the orders of the Americans, Gu Zhengwen died down and stopped printing counterfeit banknotes.
Immediately afterwards, Gu Zhengwen handled two more major cases: First, through the renegade underground party Tsai Hsiao-qian, he arrested Wu Shi, Chiang Kai-shek's most trusted deputy chief of staff of the Kuomintang, and completely destroyed the entire underground organization in Taiwan.
Then, he planned the famous bombing of the "Kashmir Princess", which almost killed our Premier Zhou.
His "great achievements" made Mao Renfeng appreciate and be a little scared. He once said to Gu Zhengwen in a weird way: "You are so powerful, I will have to guard against you in the future!"
Hairy Phoenix
However, Gu Zhengwen's madness ended up harming himself. After Chiang Ching-kuo's death, the leader of Taiwan Province, who had always been low-brow and pleasing to the eye, suddenly emerged and became a hot political star.
At this time, someone once came to consult Gu Zhengwen to see if he had any "material" to rectify him. In Gu Zhengwen's hands, there is really such "material".
However, Li had the support of the Americans behind him, and Gu Zhengwen was afraid of the sky, but he did not dare to provoke the Americans. So in the end, he didn't make any moves.
However, this incident made Li and his subordinates restless. They knew that Gu Zhengwen had the ability to make them uncomfortable.
As a result, Gu Zhengwen was completely shelved in his later years and became a "doorman" supported by the Taiwan government.
Since then, this "living Hades" has become a person with no real power.
However, Gu Zhengwen did not restrain his temperament, he threw all his negative emotions at his family.
Over the years, he has always maintained a cautious habit of not eating and drinking anything given by others, not taking any packages, and even his own wife and children.
After a long time, this kind of watery family life makes people feel suffocated. At the same time, as soon as his temper of "Living Hades" came up, he even beat and scolded his wife and children, and even shot and crippled his daughter's leg.
Later, his wife took Gu Zhengwen's biological children to go abroad, and the family was separated.
In his later years, Gu Zhengwen was alone, and he could only rely on his adopted daughter for his life. But who would have thought that the husband of the adopted daughter was not honest and actually had an affair.
Gu Zhengwen, who was in his eighties, was furious, found this "son-in-law", and stabbed two holes in the other party's ass with a Swiss army knife. As a result, his actions frightened his adopted daughter, who stayed away from him from then on.
In 2006, 96-year-old Gu Zhengwen entered the last stage of his life.
He suffered from severe asthma and could not even breathe without opening his mouth. Other bodily functions are also failing, which makes Gu Zhengwen look like he is only skinny and bones.
Once, the media came to interview him, took him the picture we mentioned at the beginning, and asked him about the past. Who knows, Gu Zhengwen is about to die, and he is still vicious and abnormal.
He told reporters: "There is no difference between killing people and killing pigs. Every time I 'work', I prepare coffins for them, which is worthy of them. And soon after saying this, he died.
Gu Zhengwen, the "living Hades", really lived himself to hell.
Resources:
1, CCTV: "CCTV.com - Planned to assassinate Zhou Enlai, Taiwan's old spy died in loneliness"
2, in the same boat: ""Snake God in Troubled Times": The Mystery of the Great Traitor and the Great Spy Gu Zhengwen
3. International Press: "The Murder of Zhou Enlai Exposed-Gu Zhengwen, a big spy who has concealed his identity for a long time, reveals a conspiracy 38 years ago"
4, Centennial Tide: "The Truth of the Truth of the "Spy Sea Male" Gu Zhengwen