The Battle of Shanghai was launched on May 12, 1949, and ended on May 27, lasting 16 days, and Shanghai was finally liberated. The local Kuomintang officers had long since been transferred, and the buildings were empty, but due to the tight time constraints, some people could not even take their families and property with them.
Picture - The People's Liberation Army enters Shanghai
On June 8, at the home of Bi Xiaohui, the former director of radio 21 of the Kuomintang Air Force Command in Shanghai, Bi Xiaohui's two aunts and wives were discussing where to go in the future, when there was a sudden knock at the door.
After hearing a knock at the door, the younger aunt got up and opened the door and saw a group of heavily armed police officers, who did not talk to her, but went directly into the house to carry out a carpet search.
At this time, a policeman named Ou Zhen showed her a search warrant, and in the face of the sudden search, the two women were frightened and lost.
The police searched the house for a while, but found nothing suspicious except for a few weapons, and Ou Zhen once again went forward to interrogate the two women.
It was later learned that the operation was due to the public security bureau receiving a tip-off that Bi Xiaohui's family was illegally hiding weapons. When questioning Bi Xiaohui's two wives, Ou Zhen kept looking at the body of one of the wives, and the throat knot was also turning frequently at an appropriate time...
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > dominates a person's wife</h1>
The woman's surname is Zhu, bi Xiaohui's second-room aunt, only in her early 20s, and her brightly colored cheongsam shows her graceful body.
Zhu Mou's eyebrows were clear and beautiful, coupled with his well-proportioned and slender body, he quickly attracted Ou Zhen, who had been in the Liberated Area.
At this time, what three shen and five orders and strict discipline required by the troops before entering Shanghai had been left behind by Ou Zhen, and he had only one thought in his heart, that is, to occupy the woman in front of him, but there were other police comrades at the scene, so Ou Zhen had been suppressing his inner desire for routine interrogation.
The two aunts were completely unaware of Bi Xiaohui's secret possession of weapons, and their positive attitude and cooperation were first-time offenders, so the police department treated them leniently and did not pursue them.
After leaving Bi Xiaohui's home, on the way back to the police station, a group of police officers who had just searched sighed:
"This Kuomintang really didn't expect us to liberate Shanghai so quickly, you see how hasty and how embarrassed these Kuomintang officials have escaped, just like this Bi Xiaohui today, so the beautiful two wives don't want it, and they ran away alone..."
At this time, Ou Zhen couldn't hear anything, his heart had been completely occupied by the Aunt Zhu just now, and after returning to the bureau, Ou Zhen's mind always unconsciously appeared with the figure of Zhu Shi.
Driven by the strong drive of desire, Ou Zhen involuntarily ran to Bi Xiaohui's house after nightfall, and after a few minutes of knocking on the door, it was Zhu Shi who came to open the door.
Zhu Shi thought that the police had not finished something, and immediately smiled and greeted her, but Ou Zhen ignored her, pushing Zhu Shi away like an old acquaintance and going straight to the living room sofa to sit on.
Zhu Shi was surprised by his behavior, and could only follow Ou Zhen and wait for Ou Zhen to speak in horror, while Ou Zhen pretended to be serious and said to Zhu Shi:
"Although we have already interrogated you once today, it is obvious that there are still many problems that you have not explained clearly to me, if I had not said a few good words to you in front of the commissioner sent by the Ministry of Public Security and helped you cover up, how could you have been so easily confused?" However, after going back, the commissioner felt that there was still something strange about this matter, and decided to investigate it to the end, you know in your own heart, what should you do about this matter? belch? ”
Although Zhu Shi was young, after all, he had also followed Bi Xiaohui in the official arena, and naturally heard Ou Zhen's voice, and she took out 4 silver dollars and handed them to Ou Zhen:
"Sir, I only have this at hand now, not respect, and when our affairs are over, there will be a heavy thanks."
Ou Zhen looked at Zhu Shi, then looked at the silver dollar in her hand, took it meaningfully, and then casually put it in his pants pocket, Ou Zhen's intention was obvious, he could indeed be bribed, but not the price of 4 silver dollars.
Figure - Silver dollar is commonly known as "ocean", "foreign money" or "lace money". The silver dollar originated in Europe in the 15th century and was the main circulating currency of the silver standard countries
Ou Zhen stood up and approached Zhu Shi, suddenly reached out and put his arm around Zhu Shi's waist, and said to her:
"Today is different from the past, now the world is destined to be communist, your husband was so frightened that he fled to Taiwan without even taking you with him, and when we fight Taiwan in the future, he does not know where to run, and he will not be able to come back in this life." If you are still aware of current affairs, you must make plans for your future, now I am from the Military Control Commission, as long as you choose to follow me, I will not treat you badly in the future. ”
Although Zhu Shi is smart and knows a thing or two about the current situation, he is also young, and for Ou Zhen's coercion and inducement, Zhu Shi can only choose to obey.
Ou Zhen got Zhu Shi in this way, and in the next few days, Ou Zhen often ran to Bi Xiaohui's house. Although Bi Xiaohui's aunt knew something about the two of them, she only turned a blind eye.
Ou Zhen knew that this was not a long-term solution, and in order to be able to dominate the Zhu clan for a long time, Ou Zhen began to think carefully.
Because the Kuomintang was defeated and retreated quickly that year, after the People's Liberation Army took over Shanghai, as long as the original police were not the most heinous people, they chose to retain them, after all, they were from the old system, and these people were afraid of settling accounts after the autumn, so they were responsive to the needs of the PLA policemen like Ou Zhen.
Ou Zhen took advantage of his identity and position to ask an old policeman in the bureau to help him find a house near the police station, and then coaxed Zhu shi to say: "Ming Media is marrying Zhu Shi." Thus began the life of Kanaya Zoko.
In order not to arouse the suspicion of other colleagues in the bureau, Ou Zhen declared to the outside world: I have taken my fiancée to live in Shanghai.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="66" > east window incident</h1>
In fact, at the beginning, Ou Zhen was also very worried in his heart, after all, he had received discipline education and knew that it was wrong to do such a thing, it would violate discipline, the future would be ruined, and he might even be shot for it. But after every ou zhen and Zhu Shi had some clouds and rain, he felt that it was worth it to go to the soup for this purpose.
After the two lived a hidden life, Ou Zhen found that no one paid attention to this matter at all, let alone suspected, and over time he let down his vigilance and slowly became unscrupulous.
It's just that Ou Zhen didn't know that the reason why no one checked him was because Shanghai at that time, as the only international metropolis in China, needed to do too much, and the Communist Party had just taken over Shanghai, and the administrative system and legal system at that time were not perfect, so everything was mainly focused on grasping the key points, and the organization had confidence in its own cadres, so it relaxed its vigilance in the anti-corruption aspect.
Photo - Old Shanghai
It is in this chaotic situation that Ou Zhen, as a cadre of the Military Control Commission who controls excessive power, has always shown hard work, so no one has suspected him, and over time Ou Zhen has swelled up a bit.
Looking at the spirited Ou Zhen, one day, Zhu Shi quipped with Ou Zhen:
"They all say that Communist Party members are honest and cannot tolerate corruption, have you ever thought about it, if one day your comrades in the Military Control Commission or the Public Security Bureau find out that you have seduced the wife of a Kuomintang officer, you will not be afraid that the Communist Party will punish you?"
Ou Zhen was in the gentle township and casually replied:
"You, that is, you have long hair and short knowledge, and our Communist Party only deals with the Kuomintang, such as your husband... Now that I control the power, I am both a public security bureau and a military control commission, and I will only enforce the law against others. I don't worry about it myself, so don't worry about me! ”
At this point, Ou Zhen completely fell.
One day, Ou Zhen, who was busy in the office, suddenly put down the work in his hand, because he was thinking about the Zhu family at home, thinking about it, he couldn't help but play with the few silver dollars that Zhu Shi had given him in his hand.
Ou Zhen, who was playing while falling into sweet memories, did not pay attention to the sudden intrusion into his office, and when he reacted, he immediately threw the silver dollar into the drawer, but his behavior was clearly seen by the comer Lao Liu.
This old Liu was also an old comrade from the revolution, and although he only saw Ou Zhen playing with a silver dollar, he was also alert.
Because the life of the public security personnel at that time was too hard, they were willing to accept the supply system formulated by the state in order to get Shanghai on the right track as soon as possible.
Therefore, for the police who came from the People's Liberation Army, it was a very rare thing to have silver dollars in their hands, and in Shanghai at that time, even the silver dollars of large households were very rare, not to mention Ou Zhen, a new policeman who had just entered Shanghai, Lao Liu noticed that the silver dollars in Ou Zhen's hands were only afraid that they were not obtained from the right way.
Old Liu was well aware of the seriousness of this matter, so he immediately reported it to Liu Yongxiang, director of the Yulin Branch, and Liu Yongxiang felt that the matter was not simple when he heard it, so he called Ou Zhen and asked him to explain the problem of silver dollars.
Picture - The former site of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau when it was established
In the face of the bureau chief's inquiry, Ou Zhen insisted that there was none, and later the bureau chief ordered someone to search his office and found that there was more than one silver dollar.
Under the conclusive evidence, Ou Zhen had to admit it, but Ou Zhen was not honest in his confession, he lied that the silver dollar was sent by his friend, but when asked which friend sent it, Ou Zhen could not say it.
In the face of more and more doubts, Director Liu Yongxiang made up his mind to dig this matter deep into the end and must find out what was going on. To this end, a special task force was set up to deal with the issue of Ou Zhen's silver dollars with great fanfare, and began to investigate the people around Ou Zhen.
The old policeman who helped Ou Zhen find a house was afraid of starting a fire, coupled with the publicity of the policy, so he took the initiative to explain the matter of finding a house.
At this time, Ou Zhen had been suspended from the police station at home, and after receiving the news, the special case team immediately rushed to Ou Zhen's residence and arrested Ou Zhen and Zhu Shi, who were still in bed, on the spot.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="89" > pull out the radish and bring out the mud</h1>
Looking at Ou Zhen and Zhu Shi, who were escorted back in disheveled clothes, Director Liu Yongxiang could be described as heartbroken.
He knew that at this time, Shanghai had only recently been liberated, and the unhealthy living atmosphere left behind by the corrupt officials of the Former Kuomintang would affect some party members who were not mentally firm enough, but he did not expect that even the public security system he managed would also have this situation, which was obviously a violation of the law, and if Ou Zhen was not severely punished, then the public security system that had just been established for a long time would be taken as a joke.
At the beginning of this nascent people's power, the emergence of corrupt elements within the country is not dealt with, which will directly affect the prestige of the government among the people.
But how to deal with Ou Zhen, everyone made a mistake.
As Ou Zhen's immediate boss Liu Yongxiang, he believed that Ou Zhen was a cadre going south with a different identity, and he suggested that the issue of Ou Zhen should be dealt with as privately as possible, and if it was handled publicly, it would give the Kuomintang agents a handle to publicize it, which would cause bad political impact.
At this time, Li Shiying, the first director of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, also had his own concerns, and after listening to the situation reported up, Li Shiying's heart aggrieved a little pity, after all, Ou Zhen was only 25 years old, and the young cadres who came down from Jinan, Shandong Province, may be unsteady in their will, and they did this stupid thing for a while, so they wanted to give him a chance to reform themselves.
In order to save Ou Zhen, Director Li Shiying asked the special case team to investigate Ou Zhen's background history and see what his criminal motives were, so that in the future, he could serve as a typical warning to other comrades and give Ou Zhen a chance.
However, what Li Shiying did not expect was that this investigation found that Ou Zhen was not a simple person.
Li Shiying was deputy secretary of the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee, vice chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government, deputy procurator general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and executive vice governor of Jiangsu Province
Ou Zhen, a native of Zhejiang, joined the Kuomintang Youth Army as early as the age of 16, and also joined the Kuomintang's "Three Youth Leagues" in the same year.
At the age of 18, Ou Zhen officially joined the Kuomintang and became a member of the Kuomintang.
After becoming a party member, he was selected by the Kuomintang to join the Taizhou Security Brigade in Zhejiang Province and became a squad leader of the security team.
Ou Zhen was young, hard-working, and knowledgeable, so it wasn't long before he was transferred by the Kuomintang authorities to a police officer at the Nanhui Police Station.
Later, when the Battle of Huaihai broke out, the Kuomintang was beaten by the People's Liberation Army, and in order to change the situation of defeat, the Kuomintang wantonly dispatched personnel in Zhejiang that could be drawn to supplement the Kuomintang troops who had been beaten to the ground on the front line.
As a police officer of the Kuomintang, Ou Zhen was naturally within the scope of the dispatch, and soon he became a front-line soldier under the jurisdiction of the Kuomintang Du Yuming's army.
However, although the Kuomintang frantically replenished its troops, the defeat was already decided, so Ou Zhen and his commander Du Yuming became prisoners of the People's Liberation Army.
After being captured, he actively helped the People's Liberation Army to understand the Kuomintang and helped the People's Liberation Army to reform the captured Kuomintang soldiers, coupled with his young age, the People's Liberation Army thought that he was brought here by La Zhuangding and was not eroded and corrupted by the Kuomintang, so he quickly let him go home.
Figure - Captured Nationalists
After Ou Zhen returned home, he did not mention his experience in the Kuomintang, and always claimed that he was coerced by the Kuomintang.
Therefore, after spending some time in his hometown, he successfully passed the political examination and entered the Jinan Police Academy, and eventually became a reserve officer of the People's Liberation Army.
After the liberation of Shanghai, in order to better manage Shanghai, Li Shiying personally went to the police academy to select and took him south to make him a policeman in the local public security system in Shanghai. But after the results came out this time, Li Shiying's face could not hang.
Ou Zhen had been a soldier and policeman of the Kuomintang, he had seen the corruption of the Kuomintang, he had seen the abuse of power for personal gain, his behavior was undoubtedly challenging authority, his previous self-motivated performance was a disguise made for better happiness, and his real purpose was not to serve the people, but to discredit the organization.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="96" > Chen Yi personally gave instructions for the execution</h1>
When the report of the special case group was placed in front of Li Shiying's desk, Li Shiying was very angry; at the beginning, Li Shiying had considered this issue when he was heading south, and he was also very afraid that after the Communist Party occupied Shanghai, some party members would use their power for personal gain and burn and loot like the previous Kuomintang.
After some deliberation, Li Shiying picked up the pen in his hand and wrote ou zhen's crimes on the report he handed in, including extortion and seduction of women, and Li Shiying decided to shoot Ou Zhen and kill a hundred to maintain discipline.
Seeing Li Shiying's decision, Liu Yongxiang, the sub-bureau chief on the side, still wanted to persuade him, but Li Shiying loudly reprimanded:
"When I took them to Danyang to wait for orders to enter the city, I told them that I had to carry the sugar-coated shells and resist the temptation, and this Ou Zhen had only been in Shanghai for a few days?" Dare to act so boldly, if this is not severely punished, it will be repaid later? Don't say it again, this case is unforgivable and must be severely punished. There are one or two scum in the ranks of thousands of people who are normal, and it is not normal to deal with them, and we must learn a lesson. This case must be made public, not concealed, and let people in the party see it with their own eyes, so as to prevent the recurrence of corruption and let the people know our determination to deal with corruption. ”
Since this was the first corruption case in Shanghai, the Public Security Bureau compiled Ou Zhen's case into a book and sent it to the desk of Shanghai Mayor Chen Yi for his instructions and informed the following personnel of their handling opinions.
Mayor Chen Yi sighed after listening to the report and said:
"The people of Shanghai welcomed our People's Liberation Army into Shanghai, and it has only been a few days? At this time, there are corruption cases of law enforcement personnel? If we don't care, it is to appease adultery, this kind of thing absolutely cannot happen, since it is a law enforcement team, it should be even more self-righteous, and it should be more responsible for ourselves. ”
After speaking, Chen Yi wrote the final conclusion of "agreeing to shoot" on the request form handed in.
Photo - Mayor Chen Yi's Instructions notes on the case - "Agree to shoot"
When the news of the death penalty was announced to Ou Zhen, Ou Zhen could no longer sit still, and at first he thought that even if he had no merit, he would have hard work, and that he was guilty but not dead for such a thing as just occupying the wife of a Kuomintang officer.
From the current legal point of view, Ou Zhen's affairs are indeed not fatal, but the fault lies in Ou Zhen's bad head in Shanghai, he overestimated his identity, and also underestimated the determination of the organization to eliminate corruption.
On the afternoon of August 14, 1949, in the crowds of Shanghai citizens, Ou Zhen was sent to the execution ground, followed by a gunshot, and Ou Zhen was killed on the spot.