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Preamble:
In May 1992, Jiangshan City, Zhejiang Province, welcomed a special guest: Mao Sen, a special agent of the military command. As a member of Chiang Kai-shek's "three hairs and one wear", Mao Sen's hands can be said to be stained with the blood of revolutionaries.
After the fall of the Kuomintang, Mao Sen fled to Taiwan, but soon after he was wanted by Chiang Kai-shek and had to leave the United States.
So what did Mao Sen do that made Chiang Kai-shek hate him so much, and why did he choose to return to the mainland to visit his relatives in his later years?
A fellow countryman of the hairy style
In 1908, Mao Sen was born in Jiangshan, Zhejiang, his father made a living from farming, and had three sons, Mao Sen was the youngest and the smartest of the brothers.
When he was a child, Mao Sen studied in a private school for a few days, but because he couldn't pay the tuition fees, he soon dropped out of school to work as a farmer, and he didn't return to school until he was 15 years old.
But at that time, the government stipulated that only after finishing primary school could he apply for middle school, so Mao Sen found his fellow villager Mao Shansen and borrowed his identity to successfully enter the normal school.
After graduating in 1930, Maussen became an elementary school teacher, but he soon grew tired of it, and in the troubled times, Maussen was determined to make a career.
So soon after, he quit his job as a teacher and applied for the police academy, and it was here that he met the noble man who influenced his life - Mao Renfeng.
At that time, Mao Renfeng was quite trusted under Dai Li, so Dai Li sent him to the police academy to select talents, and Mao Renfeng accidentally saw Mao Shansen's name when browsing student information.
He immediately became suspicious, it turned out that this Mao Shansen was his cousin of the same country, how could this cousin not say hello to him when he came to Zhejiang to study?
Immediately, he ordered someone to call Mao Sen, and the moment he saw Mao Renfeng, Mao Sen knew that he was exposed.
However, he did not panic at all, and generously told Mao Renfeng the truth of the matter, and Mao Renfeng saw that he had an outstanding temperament and was quite appreciative of his boldness.
He was immediately transferred to his subordinate and asked him to change back to his original name, Mao Sen.
Since then, Mao Sen has become a capable general under Mao Renfeng, and after graduation, he joined the notorious Blue Coat Society at that time and became a military commander agent.
In 1937, because they were not accustomed to Chiang Kai-shek's crazy "suppression of the Communists", the generals of the 19th Route Army, Cai Tingkai and Jiang Guangnai, decided to unite a group of like-minded generals to prepare to oppose Chiang Kai-shek and resist Japan and establish the Fujian People's Revolutionary Government.
Chiang Kai-shek was furious when he heard the news, and immediately mobilized 100,000 troops to quell the rebellion, but he was not sure whether the local garrison was bribed, so he prepared to let Dai Li send someone to probe the other party's tone.
Dai Li handed over this task to Mao Renfeng, and Mao Renfeng handed over this task to Mao Sen, although Mao Sen was bedridden due to illness at that time, he got up immediately after receiving the order, and he knew that his chance to get ahead had come!
Mao Sen's first visit after coming to Zhejiang was Zhang Dianji, when he was stationed in Pucheng with heavy troops, and had a good relationship with several garrison leaders around him, so he was Mao Sen's preferred breakthrough.
He came to Pucheng as a military correspondent, and after the meeting, he went straight to the point and said that he was entrusted by his boss to negotiate a business.
Zhang Dianji immediately asked him who the boss was, and Mao Sen smiled and said nothing, but just put the hat on his hand lightly. Zhang Dianji instantly understood his intention.
Mao Sen first conveyed Chiang Kai-shek's intentions, and then gave Zhang Dianji the heavy money that had been prepared long ago.
At that time, the garrisons in various parts of Fujian were already at odds, and Mao Sen also brought a large amount of money, Zhang Dianji was soon moved by Mao Sen's words, and after Mao Sen's efforts, several officers, including Zhang Dianji, did not participate in the "Fujian Incident".
Afterwards, Mao Sen became famous and was reused by Dai Li, and soon after he was appointed director of the Hangzhou Intelligence Bureau, and began to work in intelligence under the noses of the Japanese.
Arrested twice, you can kill people in prison
Since Mao Sen came to Hangzhou, the information of the Japanese army began to leak frequently, so they began to frantically search for the agents of the military command.
In January 1939, Zhao Yiyi, a military commander cadre, was arrested by the Japanese army, and he confessed Mao Sen's name, and soon after, Mao Sen was also arrested and imprisoned by the Japanese.
Fortunately, Zhao Yiyi's identity is not high, except for Mao Sen's name, the rest are unknown, and the Japanese army has not found evidence of Mao Sen's identity, so Mao Sen was released soon after.
However, the Japanese army did not relax their surveillance of him, and Mao Sen began to close his door for safety, but even so, he was discovered by the Japanese.
In 1942, Mao Sen's subordinate Chen Jilian was discovered and arrested by the Japanese, and during the interrogation he confessed Mao Sen's identity.
During this period, the Japanese army continued to persuade him to surrender and serve in the Wang puppet regime, but Mao Sen never compromised, and even secretly contacted his wife in prison and successfully assassinated the traitor Yu Jue, which made the Wang puppet regime panic.
In 1944, Mao Sen successfully escaped from prison with the help of his companions, and then came to Chun'an to meet Dai Li, who praised him and immediately appointed him as the commander of the southeast region of the Sino-US Cooperation Institute. Mao Sen's reputation also began to stink from this moment.
Bloody debts were eventually abandoned
On the eve of liberation, Mao Sen was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the chief of the Shanghai Police Department, at this time the three major battles had ended, the People's Liberation Army was preparing to force the Yangtze River, Tang Enbo, who was then the commander-in-chief of the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou garrison, was afraid of a fire in the backyard, so he asked Mao Sen to vigorously ensure the security of Shanghai.
As for how to ensure that Mao Sen also knew very well that there were a large number of underground parties lurking in Shanghai, and his task was to find out all these people.
Soon after, according to Mao Sen's investigation, a large number of underground party members and progressives were arrested, and in order to quickly complete their "tasks", many Mao Sen directly ordered to be shot without even interrogating, and for a time the people of Shanghai panicked.
One morning, as soon as Mao Sen came to the office, he saw a notice jointly issued by Chairman Mao and Mr. Zhu on his desk, urging these Kuomintang soldiers to surrender, in addition to a page of warning.
These diehards in the Shanghai police station were warned not to resist stubbornly, and once Shanghai was liberated, they would be severely punished.
At that time, almost all the Shanghai policemen except Mao Sen received the same letter, and it is said that Mao Sen was so angry that he scolded his subordinates and asked his subordinates to arrest all these Communist Party spies. However, this time, until the liberation of Shanghai, he did not find out the results again.
About three months passed between Mao Sen's appointment and the liberation of Shanghai, and during these three months, Mao Sen showed real madness.
During this time, he arrested more than 3,000 progressives, more than 300 of whom were brutally murdered without trial, and imposed a system of joint sittings on the police to ensure that no one inside reported to Mawsen.
said that once someone reports the traitors around him, there will be a heavy reward after verification, and he will win three levels in a row. If a Communist Party member wants to turn himself in, he can even avoid the past and even send them to Taiwan.
But what Mao Sen didn't know was that the number of underground party members at that time was far beyond his imagination, and according to later records, by the time of liberation, the underground workers in Shanghai had set up a general branch and 17 branches in various units such as the General Bureau, various sub-bureaus, security squadrons, and prisons.
The total number of members is as high as 2,500, and almost one-tenth of the police force is in Shanghai, which has less than 20,000 police.
On May 23, 1949, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) cleared the remnants of the enemy on the periphery of Shanghai and prepared to launch a general offensive.
As the head of the military commander's spies, Mao Sen naturally sensed that the end was coming, and on the afternoon of the 24th, he entrusted his police chief's seal to others and fled in a car in embarrassment.
Before leaving, someone asked him how to deal with the "CCP elements" in the detention center.
Mansson said: What else can I do! All shot!
This was the last group of martyrs killed by Mao Sen on the mainland, after which he fled to Xiamen and was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the garrison of Xiamen Lieutenant General.
But soon after Xiamen was liberated, he fled to Taiwan in disgrace.
At that time, he thought that he could change a good future with his previous "merits", but what he didn't expect was that Chiang Kai-shek actually issued a wanted warrant for him soon after.
This has to start with the infighting in the Kuomintang. After coming to Taiwan, Mao Sen wanted to rely on his previous merits to go further, but there were so many generals who came to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek at that time, and there was no spy leader like Mao Sen at all.
In addition, due to the hurry of running, Mao Sen did not have time to transfer his assets in the mainland, so he lived in poverty for a period of time, and even had to find his old boss Mao Renfeng to borrow money to survive.
Soon after, Mao Sen remembered that he still had a relationship with the Americans before, so he got in touch with old acquaintances in the United States, got a batch of weapons, and gained a firm foothold in Taiwan again.
But who knew that it was this incident that directly made Chiang Kai-shek murderous towards him.
After coming to Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek began to deliberately train his son Chiang Ching-kuo and prepared to let him take over his class, but Soong Meiling had a lot of complaints about this "son", and the two sides fought like fire and water.
Chiang Kai-shek himself naturally didn't want to care about either side, so he turned a blind eye, but after all, Chiang Ching-kuo was his own son, and Chiang Kai-shek still helped him.
If the crown prince wants to ascend to the throne, he must establish authority, and at that time, Chiang Kai-shek hit the idea on the forces in the hands of Mao Sen.
Mao Sen himself was naturally quite chilled by Chiang Kai-shek's approach, and at the same time, he could not give away the forces he had worked so hard to build, so he directly rejected Chiang Ching-kuo's request.
But who would have thought that this move directly angered Chiang Kai-shek, and he actually issued an order to arrest Mao Sen regardless of his old feelings!
In desperation, Mao Sen had to flee to the United States, and for the rest of his life his greatest wish was to return to China, and since 1998 he has sent money to his hometown to help the local government build schools.
Seeing that he had sincerely repented, his hometown granted his request to return home in 1992. Before leaving, he burst into tears and said, "I will definitely come back in two years." ”
Unfortunately, he never had that chance again. Half a year later, he suffered heart and lung failure and died in the United States.
Reference: Before the liberation of Shanghai, underground party members and Kuomintang defectors were shot (photo) (7) - Chinanews.com