After the outbreak of the "77 Incident", the Pingjin area immediately fell and fell to the area controlled by the Japanese.
In order to more effectively organize the masses of the people in their struggle against the Japanese invaders and to support the Eighth Route Army in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, the Party Central Committee decided to set up a secret radio station in Tianjin.
From late August 1938 onwards, whenever night fell, people who had worked hard all day fell asleep with a deep sense of exhaustion, when a faint "tick" sound could be heard from a room in the British Concession No. 62.
Behind these faint "ticking" sounds, there is one top-secret information after another.
It was precisely these pieces of information transmitted by the red signals that made the communists and the masses who were still persisting in the war of resistance in the occupied areas see the dawn of victory.
The reason why residential building No. 62 has undergone such a change can be traced back to the story of a young couple......
In August 1938, Wang Shiguang, who had just joined the party for only three months, received his first task since joining the party - to go to Tianjin to set up a secret radio station.
The person who arranged for him to carry out this top-secret mission was Yao Yilin, a friend he had met at Tsinghua University.
Yao Yilin was already the head of the Propaganda Department of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China at this time, and the reason why he entrusted such an important task to Wang Shiguang was precisely because of Wang Shiguang's outstanding ability in telecommunications technology.
Wang Shiguang has been obsessed with radio equipment since he was a child.
His background is very prominent, his father Wang Zhichang studied in Japan in his early years, and even participated in the Paris Peace Conference as a Chinese minister, and his status is very high.
It is precisely because of this family background that Wang Shiguang often used his pocket money to buy various radio equipment and tried to assemble radio stations by himself.
After graduating from high school, he was admitted to the Department of Mathematics of Peking University with excellent grades. However, it wasn't long before he found that he enjoyed learning radio more than the tedious mathematical formulas.
As a result, he transferred to the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University, where he specialized in radio courses. During this period, he became acquainted with Yao Yilin, Zheng Tianxiang and other Communists.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Beiping, Tianjin and other cities fell one after another. Although Wang Shiguang had the opportunity to move south as a student at Tsinghua University, he chose to stay and resist the invaders with tens of thousands of compatriots.
At that time, a radio station in the Soviet Union specialized in broadcasting anti-Japanese broadcasts. In order to listen to this broadcast, Wang Shiguang used the equipment at hand at home to assemble a simple radio station by himself.
Using this relatively rudimentary radio equipment, he translated anti-Japanese radio into Chinese and carried out propaganda in the local area.
In May 1938, Wang Shiguang officially joined the Communist Party of China under the introduction of Yao Yilin and others. Three months later, Yao Yilin received instructions to establish a secret radio station in Tianjin.
Yao Yilin quickly thought that his friend Wang Shiguang had independently manufactured radio equipment at home, so he immediately recommended him to his superiors and thought he was the right person.
In the process of establishing a secret radio station, it was necessary to avoid the surveillance of Japanese puppet agents and Kuomintang agents. Therefore, the organizers must know all of Wang Shiguang's personal information in detail in order to better disguise his identity.
Considering that a man who lived alone in a rented house might arouse suspicion among others, the organization decided to assign him a "daughter-in-law". The person who plays Wang Shiguang's "daughter-in-law" is none other than Wang Xin, who is only 17 years old.
So, what is the identity of this girl under the age of 18?
New occupant of residential building No. 62 Wang Shiguang's "fake wife" is named Wang Xin, born in 1921, six years younger than Wang Shiguang.
Her father, Wang Duanhua, was a fierce general under Zhang Zuolin, and later served as the governor of Jinzhou Province.
Wang Xin has been smart since he was a child, and his learning speed is amazing. Since her father was a soldier, by the time she was 15 years old, she already knew what the righteousness of the family and the country and the interests of the nation were.
At the age of 15, Wang Xin joined the Chinese Communist Party. Although she is young, according to the "party age", she is actually Wang Shiguang's predecessor!
After the outbreak of the July 7 Incident, Wang Xin repeatedly applied to the party organization, hoping to be transferred to the anti-Japanese base area to participate in the struggle.
In 1938, Wang Xin's request was finally answered. Underground party members told her that the organization had approved her to study at the Kang University branch in Nangong County, Hebei Province.
Wang Xin was excited when he heard the news. The opportunity she had been waiting for had finally arrived, and she was about to set foot on her favorite revolutionary base.
However, just as she began to have beautiful fantasies about the revolutionary base areas, an urgent task suddenly came to her - the organization asked her to go to Tianjin, pretend to be husband and wife with Wang Shiguang, and assist him in setting up a secret radio station.
As a member of the Communist Party, Wang Xin accepted the task without hesitation. However, when she learned that her "husband" was six years older than herself, Wang Xin, as a young girl, was inevitably a little apprehensive.
So, under the arrangement of the party organization, 17-year-old Wang Xin and 23-year-old Wang Shiguang met for the first time at the Summer Palace Hostel in Tianjin.
After a brief mutual understanding, the liaison of the party organization explained the importance of the task to the "young couple". They were told to be mentally prepared for a long struggle and told to be cautious and attentive in their daily work.
In particular, it is necessary to guard against the surveillance of the Japanese military police and Japanese puppet spies, and at the same time pay special attention to the existence of hidden Kuomintang personnel. One day in late August 1938, Wang Xin and Wang Shiguang came to their new home at No. 62 British Concession in Tianjin with their luggage.
Due to its location in the concession area, it was less exposed to Japanese military infiltration than the rest of Tianjin. Moreover, this three-storey building facing the street is located at the intersection of multiple roads, with convenient transportation and a wide field of vision, which is conducive to both reconnaissance and action.
In addition, near the small building is the British army camp, which has sufficient drinking water and electricity supply, and can use the radio frequency of the British military camp to provide cover for the party's secret radio station.
Considering that Wang Xin was too young, the organization was worried that she and Wang Shiguang would be targeted by spies, so they specially arranged for a martyr's family surnamed Pan to live with them in residential building No. 62. Mrs. Pan's external identity is Wang Shiguang's mother, and the teenage boy next to her is portrayed as "Wang Shiguang's younger brother", making this "family of four" seem normal to outsiders.
After the arrangements were made, Wang Shiguang and Wang Xin set up a red radio station in this hut. Since then, the first secret radio station of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee of China has been officially put into operation.
According to the rules of the time, the party's underground intelligence agents used pseudonyms. Therefore, during the day, Wang Shiguang, who goes by the pseudonym Wu Houhe, is a maintenance master in SkyOcean Mall who is responsible for repairing radios. This work is not only in line with Wang Shiguang's professional skills, which is not easy to arouse suspicion, but also convenient for him to collect the necessary telecommunications materials, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
His wife, Wang Xin, lives the life of a stay-at-home wife, usually chatting with the landlady downstairs or playing cards with the landlord's wife of another tenant. In the process, she took the opportunity to observe the surrounding environment, and once she found something suspicious, she passed the danger information to Wang Shiguang through special signals.
Wang Xin developed the habit of skipping rope on the balcony every afternoon. The landlady and another tenant thought it was her unique way of staying in shape, but they didn't know that it was actually a special signal from the agreement between her and Wang Shiguang. If Wang Shiguang comes home from work and finds his wife skipping rope on the balcony, it means that "everything is safe at home"; Otherwise, it means "there is danger in the home".
A few months passed in a hurry, and Wang Shiguang and Wang Xin gradually developed feelings in getting along. However, the two shy people never dared to break through the emotional barrier.
Once, Wang Shiguang suddenly suffered from a cold and was unable to work in bed. During this time, Wang Xin took care of Wang Shiguang like his husband, wiping his body, feeding medicine, and staying by his side all night. In terms of life, she gives meticulous care. At work, the smart Wang Xin quickly mastered the skills of sending and receiving newspapers under the guidance of Wang Shiguang, and helped Wang Shiguang who was sick to complete his daily work.
This common experience made Wang Shiguang's feelings deeper. Therefore, at the end of 1938, Wang Shiguang officially expressed his love to Wang Xin, and Wang Xin gladly accepted this feeling. So, on December 26, with the approval of the party organization, Wang Shiguang and Wang Xin, a "fake couple", tied the knot and completed their love story.
However, as the infiltration of Japanese military forces into the British Concession intensified, Wang Shiguang and Wang Xin's underground work also faced increasingly severe challenges.
On the basis of comprehensive consideration, the higher-level party organization made a decision to transfer Wang Shiguang and his wife from Tianjin to the Pingxi revolutionary base area to await new instructions from the party organization.
Soon, the couple ushered in a new task, and Wang Shiguang was transferred to the Jichareliao Military Region Headquarters as the director of the radio squadron. His wife, Wang Xin, was sent to Fangshan, Laishui, and Zhuozhou to engage in women's work.
The couple, who had just celebrated their first wedding anniversary, were separated for the cause of the party. Despite being in a different place, Wang Shiguang and Wang Xin's relationship has never diminished due to distance, and they have always maintained correspondence.
However, Wang Xin's disappearance made Wang Shiguang worried, and he asked around about his wife, but finally received the bad news that "Wang Xin has died".
According to insiders, the sacrificed "Wang Xin" is very similar to Wang Shiguang's wife in terms of age and appearance. Although Wang Shiguang was extremely reluctant to accept this cruel truth, he still had to accept it in the end.
Since then, Wang Shiguang has turned his grief into strength and devoted himself to his work. On September 1, 1946, with the only communication materials at hand and extremely rudimentary conditions, he cooperated with his comrades-in-arms to establish the "Handan Radio Station", which became the only radio station founded by the Communists at that time.
Since then, the red radio waves have spread all over the country, conveying the voice of the Communist Party, which symbolizes the truth, to every corner of the land of China. All this is thanks to Wang Shiguang's efforts, so the comrades affectionately call him the "telecommunications king", a "telecommunications king" on Taihang Mountain.
After the successful establishment of Handan Radio Station, Wang Shiguang became famous, and many people learned that he was still single and expressed their willingness to "matchmaker" for him, but Wang Shiguang resolutely declined these kindnesses.
After learning the news of his wife Wang Xin's sacrifice, Wang Shiguang did not remarry for seven years and has been alone. Until one day at the end of 1947, the arrival of a visitor changed his life completely.
In December 1947, Wang Xin, who had allegedly been "sacrificed" for seven years, appeared in front of Wang Shiguang again. It turned out that the "sacrificed" Wang Xin that Wang Shiguang first heard about was not his wife at all, just a girl who was very similar to her. At that time, Wang Xin's brigade was attacked by the enemy, resulting in the loss of contact with the outside world. With the help of the party organization, Wang Xin braved hardships and dangers, crossed multiple blockade lines, crossed several liberated areas, and finally returned to her husband.
Although the husband and wife were separated for seven years, after a brief reunion, they returned to their respective jobs and continued to complete their unfinished mission.
To sum up, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Shiguang continued to make outstanding contributions in the field of communications. Under his leadership, New China's telecommunications industry made rapid progress. As an expert in communications technology, Wang Shiguang also participated in the development of the mainland's "two bombs and one satellite" and made indelible contributions to the development of measurement and control equipment for key national defense projects. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Xin was assigned to work in the Beijing Posts and Telecommunications Design Institute, and the husband and wife contributed their strength to the construction of New China.