If we look at Dai Li's historical photographs, we will find that there are two golden triangles on his collar badge, that is, the lieutenant general logo.
Dai Li stood behind Lao Jiang with the rank of lieutenant general, indicating that Lao Jiang recognized the two golden triangles. Although Dai Li's military rank is a major general, because he is the deputy director of the Military Administration Bureau and presides over the work, the rank of military officer is lieutenant general, and several directors who do not care about anything in name are all lieutenant generals plus generals or generals: lieutenant general plus general He Yaozu, lieutenant general plus general Qian Dajun, and second-class army general Lin Wei.
He, Qian, and Lin only read the prepared draft in advance at the inaugural meeting of the military command on April Fool's Day (April 1) every year, so they are also called "director of the bureau for a day", and the real "boss" of the military command is still Dai Li.
A white horse is a horse, and a lieutenant general in his position is also a lieutenant general. Lao Jiang asked Dai Li to hang the rank of lieutenant general, and he also had his own considerations: Dai Li's two deputies are both lieutenant generals, and if Dai Li has been hanging the rank of major general, the military command will be difficult to manage.
Dai Li's two lieutenant general's deputies, of course, are not Mao Renfeng and Shen Zui, Shen Zui can't even be regarded as a "military commander lieutenant general" - Mao Renfeng was still a rare person when he was the second director of the Secret Bureau, Shen Zui only got the false title of "Lieutenant General and Commander-in-Chief of the Yunnan Guerrilla General Headquarters" before he was arrested, and he did not have regular troops under him, and before he could form a headquarters, he was arrested by the uprising Lu Han.
Although Shen Zui has the rank of lieutenant general, it was during the period of the Secret Bureau, and he is not a real "lieutenant general of the military command", so the "lieutenant general of the military command" we are talking about today does not include Mao Renfeng or Shen Zui.
When Dai Li was alive, in addition to him, there were at least five lieutenant generals in the military command, two of whom were his deputy, Zheng Jiemin, the chief secretary of the Military Command Bureau, and Tang Zong, the assistant director.
Zheng Jiemin was also one of the strong contenders for the director of the secret service (the predecessor of the military command), but later Lao Jiang wanted to use a less senior and more loyal Whampoa to be in charge of the secret service system, so he chose Dai Li as the director and Zheng Jiemin as the deputy director.
In addition to Dai Li and Zheng Jiemin, Lao Jiang also thought about letting another person be the director, but that person refused to do it - Shen Zui recalled in "The Inside Story of the Military Command: What I Know Zheng Jiemin": "In March 1932, Jiang convened a meeting of senior officials of the Fuxing Society and decided to set up a secret service. Before the meeting, Jiang first talked to Kang Ze and Gui Yongqing and asked for their opinions. Jiang wanted Kang to be the director, but Kang said that it was inappropriate at the time, but Jiang was silent and did not ask Gui again. When the meeting began, Chiang proposed that the Fuxing Society should set up a special service department, with Dai Li as the director and Zheng Jiemin as the deputy director, to solicit the opinions of those present. As soon as everyone heard this, he had already proposed the candidate, so they had no choice but to agree. Zheng was silent at the time, not daring to express his unwillingness, but he was very unhappy in his heart. ”
Kang Ze also confirmed this in his memoirs "The Origin of the Fuxing Society": "Chiang called me and Gui Yongqing to the inner room, and said to me: 'The position of the secret service is very important, and there is no suitable person yet, and they said to me, you are very suitable. How about you in this position?' I did not know beforehand, I was not mentally prepared, and I felt very sudden, so I replied: 'Not suitable, not suitable.' He didn't say anything more and let me out. ”
There are two main reasons why Kang Ze did not want to be the head of the secret service department, and later did not want to be the director of the Military Command Bureau: First, he had an armed spy organization called the "Special Service Corps" that could keep pace with the military command and the central command; second, this person was extremely ambitious and wanted to take over Lao Chiang's squad and was not satisfied with being just a spy leader.
Kang Ze was a lieutenant general when he was arrested, but he did not belong to either the Central Command or the Military Command.
Although Kang Ze is a lieutenant general, he is not a lieutenant general of the military command, and his other two classmates in the meritorious forest are genuine "lieutenant generals of the military command", one of them is Wen Qiang, the historical prototype of Liu Anguo in the TV series "Amnesty 1959", and the other is Zhang Yanfo, who did not appear in the TV series.
Many people say that Wen Qiang was promoted to lieutenant general after being transferred to the director of the Changsha Sui Administration Office, which obviously has not read "Wen Qiang's Oral Autobiography" and "Wen Qiang's Biography": Wen Qiang was promoted to lieutenant general in early 1946, before Dai Li's plane crash, when he was promoted as director of the Northeast Office of the Military Command, director of the Northeast Camp Supervision Office, and director of the Supervision Division of the Northeast Security Command's Department.
Readers who are familiar with that period of history are all gentlemen, the "Supervision Office" and "Intelligence Department" in the army are actually the organs of the military command, and the directors are all military commanders, so no matter what, Wen Qiang is a serious "lieutenant general of the military command".
There is also Zhang Yanfo, who is a classmate of Wen Qiang in the war criminals management center, and this is a very special person: this person participated in the Hunan peaceful uprising led by Cheng Qian and Chen Mingren, but finally entered the war criminals management center like Shen Zui.
Zhang Yanfo served as the secretary of the Secretariat of the Headquarters of the Special Service Department of the Lixing Society, the deputy director of the Military Command Bureau, and the chief secretary, because of his deep qualifications, he became a "military commander lieutenant general" very early, which may be Zheng Jiemin's great efforts - Dai Li was in the Military Command Bureau back then, but Zheng Jiemin was not convinced, and he has been cultivating his own forces, and Zhang Yanfo is also considered "Zheng Jiemin's person".
During his tenure as chief secretary of the Military Command Bureau, the last director of the Military Command Bureau, and the first director of the Secret Bureau, Zheng Jiemin also concurrently served as director of the "Second Department of the Ministry of National Defense" and executive deputy director of the "Ministry of National Defense." Therefore, it is more convenient for his cronies to be promoted to military rank -- the military command belongs to the military system, and the full name of the State Secrets Bureau is the "National Defense Secrecy Bureau," which is equivalent to a department-level unit.
Shen Zui called Zhang Yanfo a "veteran spy with old qualifications" in "What He Saw and Heard in the Reform of War Criminals": "In the military system, Zhang Yanfo, whose status is second only to Mao Renfeng and whose qualifications are much older than Mao Renfeng, is also known as Zhang Yifu, has a crooked nose, so people who meet him for the first time will have an unclear opinion about him: 'Crooked nose and wrong heart', this person must not deal with him." ”
Zhang Yanfo was promoted to the chief secretary of the lieutenant general of the headquarters of the Military Command Bureau in March 1946, and the military commander was separated in June of the same year, and the open armed spy part was transferred to the Second Department of the Ministry of National Defense, and the secret core part was reorganized into the National Defense Secret Bureau, so Zhang Yanfo is also a real "lieutenant general of the military command", and Shen Zui can only be regarded as half a "lieutenant general of the secret bureau".
Wen Qiang and Zhang Yanfo, the two lieutenant generals of the military command, one was only the last to be pardoned in 1975, and the other failed to come out, and the one who failed to come out was naturally Zhang Yanfo.
In this way, in addition to Dai Li, the Military Command Bureau also has Wen Qiang and Zhang Yanfo, two lieutenant generals who have entered the war criminals management center, and the remaining three, we have already mentioned two: Zheng Jiemin (promoted to lieutenant general director of the second department of the Military Command Department in February 1944) and the head of the sixth group (intelligence group) of the old Jiang Attendant's Office and the deputy director of the Military Command Bureau, the lieutenant general of the government's military service department joined the army (1946), and Tang Zong, the political secretary of the Ministry of the Interior.
After Dai Li's plane crash and before Zheng Jiemin became the director of the Military Command Bureau, Tang Zong acted as the director of the Military Command Bureau for a period of time, but he was more interested in open police work, so he withdrew from the battle for the director and became the "director of the General Police Administration". After the liberation of the whole country and the escape of the Chiang gang to Taiwan, Mao Renfeng and Zheng Jiemin died one after another, and only Tang was the only big boss in the past military control period who continued to preside over spy activities for Chiang. ”
Zheng Jiemin and Tang Zong, the two full-fledged lieutenant generals of the military command, both escaped, Dai Li, who held the rank of lieutenant general, fell to his death, and another lieutenant general finally froze to death - the "lieutenant general of the military command" who froze to death, if he did not defect, how high the final position was, the author would not dare to write at all.
The lieutenant general of the military command who froze to death was surnamed Zhang, and Shen Zui recalled: "Zhang was the second or third person in the Red Army, and he was almost the first. He was still a little famous at home and abroad in the past, and it seems that he can still leave a stench for decades, and it seems that he can gossip about him for a while. ”
After the mutiny, Zhang became the director of the "Special Political Issues Research Office" of the Military Command Bureau and a member of the Military Commission (Shen Zui said that he was a "powerless empty member"), and was kicked away by Lao Jiang after losing his use value, and finally froze to death in a nursing home in Toronto in the cold winter of 1979.
In addition to Dai, Zheng, Tang, Wen and Erzhang, there may be other big spies in the Military Unification Bureau who are also lieutenant generals, but the author does not have much information at hand, so there may be omissions: As far as you know, during the period of military unification, what other spies were awarded the title of lieutenant general? The lieutenant general surnamed Zhang, do you know his name?