In October 2010, just after the National Day holiday, a key hospital in Beijing welcomed a white-haired patient. When the old lady first arrived here, she was still in good spirits, and discussed with the people around her with great interest the grand scene of the National Day military parade. But not long after being hospitalized, the old woman's illness deteriorated sharply, and she died soon after. The patient was dead, but what puzzled the doctors and nurses was that when the old lady was dying, she kept muttering the words "I am exposed, go through the back door", and everyone was greatly puzzled.
Something even more surprising is yet to come: in the four days since the old lady's death, countless dignitaries and high-ranking political officials have come to mourn. When the funeral was held, the central leaders also came to visit. The old lady was later buried in babaoshan cemetery. What kind of person is this old lady, who can attract so many people to visit, and what kind of story does she have?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > abandon star road</h1>
This old lady whose identity made everyone curious was named Shen Anna. Shen Anna was born in 1915 in a rich family in Jiangsu, because her ancestors were all famous local literati talents, Shen Anna was also happy and studious under the influence of "Shuxiang Mendi" since childhood, intelligent and intelligent, and had a gentle and flexible temperament.
In 1932, because shen anna's family conditions were relatively wealthy, Shen Anna's parents sent her to the most famous aristocratic middle school in Shanghai at that time to study, and it was here that Shen Anna met her future revolutionary partner and her crush Hua Mingzhi.
When Shen Anna graduated from high school, it was the most turbulent period in Shanghai: in order to obtain more benefits, the four major families of reactionary forces headed by Chiang Kai-shek used official forces to coerce and induce many businessmen in Shanghai to open the way for "bureaucratic capital". This act caused the destruction of the homes of many merchants in Shanghai at that time, and the stock market often collapsed.
Shen Anna's parents had previously invested most of the family's property in the stock market, and now the stock market has collapsed, and Shen Anna's family has fallen. Shen Anna, who originally planned to study abroad, can only choose a Chinese shorthand school in Shanghai to study.
In the 1930s, in addition to the stock market turmoil, the entertainment industry was also a period of great change. Thanks to the introduction of foreign film concepts and film equipment, Shanghai, as an international metropolis in China at that time, naturally developed its film industry rapidly.
A large number of excellent and beautiful actors such as Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu have made their debuts, leaving an indelible mark on the film screen and the hearts of the public. Being a star at that time not only meant a great increase in income and treatment, but also the support of the black and white forces behind the film company, which was indeed a good choice in today's unstable situation.
Shen Anna is beautiful and gentle in temperament, and she is very popular with her classmates when she was in school. Therefore, for the identity of "actor", Shen Anna is very longing, and even once regarded it as her life goal.
But Shen Anna's family has always been a "scholarly door", and what my grandfather and father despise most is such a showy "drama and actor", so it will definitely be strongly opposed by the family. Just at this time, the Zhejiang provincial government sent someone to recruit stenographers in the shorthand school, and Shen Anna was selected because of her excellent grades and good image.
In fact, when she first learned of her admission, Shen Anna showed great resistance, she clearly knew that the current internal and external troubles and bureaucratic rampage in the country had a great relationship with the Kuomintang government, so she wanted to refuse this invitation.
However, at that time, Hua Mingzhi, a classmate that Shen Anna knew at the Noble Middle School, suddenly appeared, and after understanding the reasons why Shen Anna intended to refuse the Zhejiang Provincial Government, he strongly asked Shen Anna to accept this invitation from the Zhejiang Provincial Government.
Although Shen Anna did not understand Hua Mingzhi's plan, Hua Mingzhi, as one of her few friends, would naturally consider his request. After thinking about it again, Shen Anna still decided to give up her former "star dream" and agreed to the invitation of the Zhejiang Provincial Government instead.
At that time, Shen Anna did not know that this was a bumpy and thrilling revolutionary road, and there was no end in sight in front of the road, and she could not even be sure how far she could go on this road.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > embark on the revolutionary road</h1>
In January 1935, Shen Anna came to Zhejiang alone from her hometown in Jiangsu. On the first day of reporting in the provincial government, Shen Anna met Hua Mingzhi. Hua Mingzhi is also an insider of the Zhejiang provincial government.
After a private conversation, Shen Anna learned that Hua Mingzhi had another identity - an underground member of the Chinese Communist Party.
At that time, when the Fifth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression Campaign of the Central Red Army of the Communist Party failed and was forced to march, in order to grasp the direction of the Advance of the Kuomintang reactionary army and the encirclement and suppression plan, the Party Central Committee assigned several groups of underground Party comrades to secretly infiltrate the Kuomintang government to inquire and pass on strategic information, and to cover the Red Army's smooth escape from the encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang army. Hua Mingzhi was one of the communist underground party members who was ordered to infiltrate the Zhejiang provincial government.
Stenographers, who have always been non-staff participants in various government meetings, have access to a large amount of classified meeting information. Knowing that the Zhejiang provincial government was going to go to the Shanghai Shorthand School to select a stenographer, Hua Mingzhi and other comrades in the government recommended Shen Anna.
After the field investigation, the official in charge of the selection and transfer did think that Shen Anna was very suitable for their requirements, so he issued a work invitation to Shen Anna. And this is also the reason why Hua Mingzhi will suddenly appear next to Shen Anna.
Shen Anna was shocked to hear the causes and consequences of Hua Mingzhi's story and the news that he was a Communist Party, which was already deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and was loved and supported by the people. But Shen Anna never imagined that her friend was actually a Communist Party.
Under the persuasion of Hua Mingzhi again, Shen Anna also joined the Communist Party and passed on information to the Red Army. During this period, Shen Anna, as a stenographer, participated in many military meetings of the Kuomintang government, passed on a large amount of valuable information, and made outstanding contributions to the successful completion of the Long March of the Central Red Army.
After the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident in 1937 and the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, Shen Anna thought that her task had been completed and there was no need to lurk anymore, but due to the menacing Japanese invasion of China, the Zhejiang Provincial Government urgently ordered all government personnel to withdraw to the west together, and Shen Anna was forced to move before she could contact the party organization.
After arriving in Wuhan, Shen Anna contacted the local party organization, reflected her situation to her superiors, and asked about the next step of work arrangements. Dong Biwu, who was then the leader of the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, personally received Shen Anna and expressed the hope that Shen Anna would continue to lurk in the Kuomintang government and timely transmit information within the Kuomintang that might be unfavorable to the Communist Party.
Shen Anna accepted this order and met with Zhu Jiahua, her old leader in the Nationalist government, the next day. Under Zhu Jiahua's arrangement, Shen Anna entered the Party Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee to carry out shorthand work. After the defeat at the Battle of Songhu in 1938, Shen Anna followed the Kuomintang government to Chongqing, the capital, and served as a stenographer for the Standing Committee of the Kuomintang Central Committee.
In 1939, after an internal meeting of the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek came to the office to visit all the organizers, and many people stood up to curry favor with Chiang Kai-shek, but Shen Anna was still immersed in sorting out the shorthand manuscript, and Shen Anna's serious attitude attracted Chiang Kai-shek's attention.
After returning to his office, Chiang Kai-shek summoned Zhu Jiahua to inquire about Shen Anna, and then promoted Shen Anna to his full-time stenographer. After Shen Anna got the news, she was very surprised, but she still calmly accepted the transfer order and carefully completed a series of handover work. Shen Anna's behavior made Chiang Kai-shek pay more and more attention to her.
After becoming Chiang Kai-shek's full-time stenographer, Shen Anna was often able to follow Chiang Kai-shek in and out of various internal Meetings of the Kuomintang, and the information conveyed was also very valuable.
In 1941, when the Anhui Incident broke out, Shen Anna just accepted a mission to leave Chongqing, so she did not know this plan. When she returned to learn that Chiang Kai-shek's government had launched an "anti-communist mutiny" in southern Anhui and killed more than 6,000 people of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, she felt guilty in her heart.
At the summary meeting afterwards, Chiang Kai-shek highly praised and thanked the generals who had performed well in this incident, and when everyone thanked each other, Shen Anna could only endure the grief in her heart and continue to shorthand work without changing her face. In 1949, when the remnants of the Kuomintang were defeated in Taiwan, Shen Anna ended her task as a secret agent who had been lurking around Chiang Kai-shek for fifteen years.
Many people have to ask: As the ace stenographer around Chiang Kai-shek, has Shen Anna not encountered danger or been investigated by the Kuomintang in the past fifteen years? Danger and investigation are naturally there, in fact, Shen Anna was able to survive safely, a large part of the reason comes from her husband Hua Mingzhi.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="33" > the hand of the husband, and the husband and the old</h1>
Shen Anna's husband is Hua Mingzhi, a man who once met Shen Anna at an aristocratic middle school and later worked together in the Zhejiang provincial government.
It can be said that Hua Mingzhi was the guide on Shen Anna's revolutionary road, and it was under Hua Mingzhi's recommendation and request that Shen Anna entered the Kuomintang system as an intelligence worker. Later, Shen Anna also joined the Communist Party of China under the introduction of Hua Mingzhi.
Since the two were serving in the same system at that time, considering the smoothness of the work, the superior organization allowed Shen Anna and Hua Mingzhi to lurk within the Zhejiang provincial government in the form of male and female lovers, and coordinate the transmission of intelligence.
The two have been partnering in a male-female relationship for a long time, and they can't help but have secret feelings for each other. Shen Anna was gentle and moving, Hua Ming was elegant and generous, and the two soon really came together. In 1935, with the approval of the superior organization, Shen Anna and Hua Mingzhi held a wedding ceremony in Shanghai.
When Shen Anna first came to the Zhejiang Provincial Government to carry out intelligence transmission work, because it was the first time to do it, it was inevitable that there were many flaws, but fortunately, Hua Mingzhi helped her to do the finishing work in time to avoid the risk of exposure.
In 1946, at an internal high-level meeting convened by Chiang Kai-shek, Shen Anna was working on shorthand. Suddenly, Chiang Kai-shek said: "The following content must not be recorded by anyone." Shen Anna realized that what was to be said below was likely to be a high-level secret or a battle plan, so she stopped and listened intently. What Chiang Kai-shek was talking about was indeed the next battle plan of the Kuomintang army, and Shen Anna took advantage of her opportunity to go to the bathroom to write all the battle plans she had memorized in her mind in "invisible ink" in the book.
At that time, when secret intelligence records were made, special "invisible ink" was used, and the information written with this potion would not appear for a certain period of time, and if it exceeded the established time, it would appear immediately.
The meeting, which used to end in two hours, has been three hours today, and it is not over yet. Seeing that the expiration time of the "invisible ink" was approaching, Shen Anna was anxious, lest she be found out by the guards at the door when she finally left.
At the critical moment, Hua Mingzhi arrived in time to escape shen anna and avoid danger on the grounds that "there is an important matter in the family". This important information was quickly transmitted by Hua Mingzhi and sent to the CPC Central Committee, helping our army to grasp the movements of the Kuomintang army in a timely manner and deploy countermeasures. Zhou Enlai, who was then a member of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee, specially rewarded Shen Anna and Hua Mingzhi for this incident.
The leak of intelligence from the military conference quickly aroused the alarm of the Kuomintang government. At the behest of Chiang Kai-shek, a comprehensive and strict self-examination campaign was launched within the Kuomintang, and at the same time a new round of "suppression of the Communists" climax was also launched in the city of Nanjing.
Xu Zhonghang, an underground party intelligence officer who had previously been responsible for single-line contact with Shen Anna and her wife, was accidentally arrested during the campaign. Although Xu Zhonghang did not disclose the information of Shen Anna and Hua Mingzhi, the Kuomintang agents still found evidence of Shen Anna and Xu Zhonghang's contacts from the clues.
On this day, Shen Anna was sorting out the shorthand materials of the past in the office, when suddenly a team of Kuomintang agents came to ask for a search of Shen Anna's office. Although they did not find evidence of Shen Anna's "communism" in the end, they still took Shen Anna away and detained and interrogated her.
After receiving the news, Hua Mingzhi quickly rushed to Chiang Kai-shek's mansion, risked being shot, asked to see Chiang Kai-shek, pleaded for Shen Anna's grievances, and asked Chiang Kai-shek to imprison himself so that he could take care of and accompany Shen Anna.
Chiang Kai-shek also did not believe that his personal stenographer would have any involvement with the Communists, so he repeatedly assured Hua Mingzhi: "Shen Anna will not be bullied in any way in prison, and she will be released after the investigation of the special agent group is completed." ”
After that, Hua Mingzhi would come to the presidential palace every day to ask for Chiang Kai-shek and inquire about Shen Anna, and Chiang Kai-shek was also touched by the true feelings of his husband and wife, and after seeing that the special agent team had investigated for several days or had not found evidence of Shen Anna's "communism", he ordered Shen Anna to be released.
In April 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek's government was defeated in Taiwan, Shen Anna and Hua Mingzhi received orders from their superiors to retreat, so they packed their bags and secretly left Nanjing to go to Shanghai to meet the organization.
After the founding of New China, considering that Shen Anna and Hua Mingzhi had always been engaged in espionage work, the higher-level organization arranged for the two to enter the State Security Bureau, which contributed greatly to the stability of New China. It wasn't until 1983 that the two officially retired.
After retirement, the two lived a simple pension life, and often recalled the intelligence work they experienced together, and the two really went from black hair to whiteheads.
In 2003, Hua Mingzhi died of illness, and Shen Anna held her husband's hand for a long time and was reluctant to let go. Also because of the death of her husband, Shen Anna was deeply shocked and her own physical problems: when she was in a trance, Shen Anna always thought that she was still in intelligence work. This is also the reason why At the beginning, Shen Anna will always mutter: "I am exposed, go through the back door" at the end of her life.
The republic came out of blood and fire, and in those revolutionary years, there were countless people like Shen Anna and Hua Mingzhi lurking in the front line of the enemy and silently contributing their lives to the country. We should always pay tribute to them.