In the spring of 1946, Zhou Enlai hosted a banquet for a family of 9 at No. 50 Zengjiayan in Chongqing, and when everyone was seated, Zhou Enlai suddenly knelt down in the southwest direction where Guizhou was located, and said with tears in his eyes: "I did not take good care of Qian Zhuangfei." ”
Zhou Enlai
Qian Zhuangfei's wife, Zhang Zhenhua, was suddenly shocked and unable to speak, she had not seen her husband for a long time, and she did not know where he had gone, and now suddenly there was such bad news, and she could not help herself.
After the founding of New China, Chairman Mao said: "Comrades Li Kenong, Qian Zhuangfei, and others have made great contributions, and if it were not for them, many leading comrades of the Central Committee would no longer be there." ”
Then, what kind of meritorious deeds has Qian Zhuangfei made for the party and the people, and won such a high evaluation from Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou?
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Let us first set the time back to the night of April 25, 1931, when Chen Duxiu, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Qu Qiubai and other leaders of the Central Committee were discussing matters at the seat of the Central Committee in Shanghai. Just as their discussion was in full swing, an urgent telegram was sent in by an underground party member in charge of guarding outside the door. As the head of the Central Special Branch, Zhou Enlai quickly glanced at the contents of the telegram and suddenly changed his look.
The telegram was short, only 8 words—dawn was woeful, and grandma was critically ill.
Li Ming, whose real name is Gu Shunzhang, was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee and was one of the early leaders of our party. Gu Shunzhang has long been in charge of underground work in Shanghai and is Zhou Enlai's right-hand man. The dawn is in danger, indicating that Gu Shunzhang has defected and the underground organization of the CPC Central Committee in Shanghai is in danger.
At this time, Zhou Enlai showed extraordinary courage, he resolutely analyzed the current situation, arranged for the leaders at all levels to evacuate the meeting in a quick and orderly manner, and transferred all the secret organs of the CPC Central Committee and various localities within one day, ensuring the safety of most Communists.
After the storm subsided, Zhou Enlai said with emotion: If it were not for Qian Zhuangfei, we would all be dead.
Qian Zhuangfei was the same person who sent the top-secret telegram at a time of crisis.
Longtan Sanjie
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In 1896, Qian Zhuangfei was born in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, to a wealthy merchant family, from an early age, he was well fed and clothed, and received a Western-style education. However, by 1912, Qian Zhuangfei's father was frustrated in the mall, with high debts, and he was under pressure and screamed for his life. Qian Zhuangfei, who fell into the middle of the family road, had to fend for himself, went to Beijing to study, and met his future wife, Zhang Zhenhua. When Qian Zhuangfei was most miserable, Zhang Zhenhua accompanied him and sponsored him to finish college.
After graduation, Qian Zhuangfei became a doctor, the number of people who came to see him was endless, he also entered the show business circle, filmed movies, if it were not for the appearance of a person, his life would be solid and plain, and China would have lost an excellent red agent.
This person is Zhang Zhenhua's younger brother Zhang Xianzhong. Zhang Xianzhong was an early member of the Communist Party of China, and often went to the homes of his sisters and brothers-in-law, so he unconsciously instilled communism in them. Under his influence, Qian Zhuangfei and Zhang Zhenhua joined the Communist Party of China and embarked on the revolutionary road from then on.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup, and Qian Zhuangfei, who was in Beijing, was wanted by the Beiyang warlords and forced to come to Shanghai to seek a living, and secretly got in touch with the party organization and carried out underground work under the organization's arrangement.
Qian Zhuangfei
By chance, he saw the Kuomintang recruiting radio trainers, taking the exam with the consent of the organization and being selected, breaking into the enemy and working under Xu Enzeng. Qian Zhuangfei and Xu En were once fellow villagers, and Qian Zhuangfei threw himself into his favor and gave the front building of his house to Xu Enzeng's mistress to live in, winning the favor of Xu Enzeng and serving as Xu Enzeng's personal secretary, and was regarded as a right and left hand.
In 1929, Xu En, who took office as director of the Kuomintang Party Affairs Investigation Section (the predecessor of the Central Unification), was highly valued, and successively introduced CCP members Li Kenong and Hu Di into the Investigation Section, and the three of them jointly delivered a number of valuable intelligence to help the Red Army defeat the Kuomintang's repeated "encirclement and suppression" of the Soviet area. Qian Zhuangfei, Li Kenong, and Hu Di were called "Three Masters of Longtan" by party insiders.
Chairman Mao once commented: Although Qian Zhuangfei is a man, the role he has played can reach 10 elite divisions!
Xu Enzeng
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In April 1931, Gu Shunzhang, head of the "Red Team" of the Central Special Branch, escorted Zhang Guotao to work in the Eyu-Anhui base area, and after returning to Wuhan, he completely disregarded organizational discipline and performed magic tricks on stage to make money, and also socialized with some dusty women, and as a result, he was arrested by Kuomintang agents.
Without waiting for the Kuomintang agents to be severely tortured, Gu Shunzhang naturally defected. He first confessed to the secret central organs in Wuhan, and at the same time betrayed the Communist Party leaders working in Shanghai, threatening to wipe them out within three days and completely destroy the Chinese Communist Party.
The agent in charge of interrogating Gu Shunzhang saw that his account had gone so smoothly, but he was suspicious, and on April 25, he sent six special secret telegrams to Chiang Kai-shek, Chen Lifu, and Xu En, informing Gu Shunzhang of his "submission" and requesting the next order.
It happened that on this night, Xu En had gone to the world of flowers and flowers, and Qian Zhuangfei was shocked to see the translated telegram, as a member of the Central Special Branch, he knew what Gu Shunzhang's defection meant, and he also knew that once this Tianzi information was transmitted, he would be completely exposed.
Qian Zhuangfei didn't have time to think about it too much, so he immediately called Li Kenong: "The dawn has left, the mother is critically ill, and she will be transferred to the hospital quickly." ”
Qian Zhuangfei was still not at ease, and he called his son-in-law Liu Qifu. Let him rush to Shanghai overnight and tell the central government that "there will be great damage if the dawn rebels." ”
After doing all this, Qian Zhuangfei evacuated Nanjing, and before leaving, he left a letter to Xu Zengen, explaining that the two were in different positions, hoping that he would not take out his wife and children after he left, otherwise the scandal of Xu Zengen would be made public.
The next day Xu Zengen came to work to learn the news of the intelligence leak, it was really a fellow countryman who saw his fellow countryman and put a cold gun behind his back. His own secretary rebelled, xu Zeng'en did not dare to stretch out, so he fooled the past.
Qian Zhuangfei Monument
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Qian Zhuangfei ended his revolutionary career undercover in the Tiger's Den and went to the Central Soviet Region to continue his intelligence work. In October 1934, the Central Red Army began the Long March, and Qian Zhuangfei was also on the team list. After the Zunyi Conference in January 1935, Qian Zhuangfei was appointed deputy secretary-general of the General Political Department of the Red Army, but it was at this time that he mysteriously disappeared.
According to the recollection of Ouyang Yi, the founding lieutenant general, after crossing the WuJiang River, the Red Army came to the vicinity of Xifeng County in Guizhou, and the next day the enemy planes attacked, and the troops were scattered and hidden. After the enemy planes left, the troops regrouped, and Zhou Enlai found that Qian Zhuangfei was not around, and immediately ordered Ouyang Yi to send troops to look for them, but the local forests were dense, the sheep intestine trails were crisscrossed, and the enemy army chased forward and blocked, and qian Zhuangfei's whereabouts were not found.
After the Red Army arrived in Yan'an, it managed to learn the news of Qian Zhuangfei, who had been kidnapped by bandits and killed in this way. I didn't expect such a legendary agent to die at the hands of Xiao Xiao.
In 2009, Qian Zhuangfei was awarded one of the 100 heroic and exemplary figures who made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China, and his great achievements for the party and the country and the people will always be remembered by future generations.