In the late 1970s, Hu Qichang, a man from Shucheng in Anhui Province, inadvertently picked up a newspaper that reported news about the CCP's underground party.
When his eyes swept over the line of notes from the report, he froze. At that moment, Hu Qichang stared at the line with some disbelief, and in order to make sure that he was not mistaken, he also read it in a special whisper:
"Hu Di, also known as Hu Baichang, is a native of Shucheng, Anhui."
The moment he put down the newspaper, Hu Qichang's tears also followed, and he realized at this time that the martyr "Hu Di" he had read in the report was actually his brother Hu Baichang, who had been missing for half a century.
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In order to further confirm, Hu Qichang hurriedly wrote a long letter to Qian Jiang, the author of this article. Qian Jiang was the son of Qian Zhuangfei, who had previously been known as the "Three Jies of Longtan" with Hu Di and Li Kenong, and he quickly replied to them after seeing the letter.
In the letter, Qian Jiang informed Hu Qichang of the information he had learned about Hu Di, and he replied very clearly: "I am sure that the eldest brother Hu Baichang mentioned in your letter is Hu Di. ”
Later, with the help of Qian Jiang, the voice of Hu Di's family was transmitted to the relevant central authorities.
In November 1981, Luo Qingchang, then director of the Investigation Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, personally wrote a letter to Cheng Zihua, the minister of civil affairs, arguing that Hu Di "should be posthumously regarded as a revolutionary martyr." Less than a month later, the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued a document to the Department of Civil Affairs of Anhui Province entitled "(81) Minyou Zi No. 211" and wrote in the letter:
"Please inform the Shucheng County Civil Affairs Bureau to compile Comrade Hu Di's name in the List of Revolutionary Martyrs and inform his younger siblings of the fact that he has been approved as a revolutionary martyr."
Subsequently, a martyr's honor certificate with the words "In order to have the courage to sacrifice more, dare to teach the sun and the moon to change the new heavens" was hung up in the hall house of the Hu family's old residence in Songyuan Village, Xinjie Township, Shucheng County.
It was only at this moment that the story of the martyr Hudi was fully known to the world.
Hu Di was born in 1905 in Shucheng County, Anhui Province. He was born into a small landlord family, and at an early age he studied at a private school run by Dabo Hu Xuzhang. Because he was studious, at the age of eight, he achieved little success in his studies. His great-uncle even praised him for "learning everything."
At the age of 16, Hu Di was admitted to the Provincial Hefei No. 2 Middle School with the third grade in the school. Because of his hard work, he is excellent in all his homework. It was also during this period that Hu Di, who had undergone the baptism of new ideas, began to become a "rebel" in the landlord family. Because he had argued with his father several times for the benefit of the poor tenant, his father felt that the son intended to "fight against him."
At the age of 18, Hu Di was admitted to the China University in Beijing founded by Sun Yat-sen. This university was a real new type of university in that era, and its purpose was to cultivate democratic revolutionary talents. Famous "red professors" in history, such as Li Dazhao, Li Da, and Wu Chengshi, have all lectured here.
Hu Di especially liked Li Dazhao's classes during his school years, and under his influence, his revolutionary ideas began to sprout.
The age of 19 was the most important watershed in Hu Di's life, and he met the most important confidant in his life during this year: Qian Zhuangfei. Qian Zhuangfei was a staunch revolutionary, his thinking was very advanced, and he had long realized that in the current environment, only revolution could save China.
Qian Zhuangfei
Before knowing Hu Di, Qian Zhuangfei had already found the real cure for the country through countless practices: revolution + proletariat! He believed that the revolutionary army must be together with the proletariat in order to overthrow the regime established by the capitalists.
When discussing the method of saving the country with Hu Di once, Qian Zhuangfei passionately said his concept of saving the country, and Hu Di only felt that every pore of his body seemed to open in an instant after listening to it. Since then, he has made up his mind: he must follow this Qian Zhuangfei, who exists like his brother and mentor.
The year after he met Qian Zhuangfei, Hu Di joined the Chinese Communist Party, and he vowed to join them in the revolution, even at the cost of sacrifice.
Compared with other underground parties of his time, Hu Di, who followed Qian Zhuangfei, took a different path: his important task was to obtain intelligence from the enemy through lurking.
In order to cover up, Hu Di and Qian Zhuangfei founded the Guanghua Film Company. Their original intention of running a film company was simple: while promoting patriotic ideas through films, they carried out the party's underground work under the cover of the film industry.
Shortly after Hu Di began underground work, the Beiyang warlord Zhang Zuolin raised a counter-revolutionary butcher knife. Soon after, the arrested Hu Di'en teacher Li Dazhao was killed after his arrest.
Hu Di's sacrifice deeply touched Hu Di, and during those days, the city of Beijing was shrouded in white terror. But this horror did not make Hu Di afraid, on the contrary, he and other comrades united more closely, and his fighting spirit became more and more vigorous. Hu Di silently swore in his heart: He must carry out the revolution to the end, so as to comfort the spirit of the teacher in heaven.
Li Dazhao's sacrifice also made Hu Di have more heart for his own safety, and he understood that if the enemy could catch Li Dazhao, he would definitely be able to find him. In order to keep "Qingshan", Hu Di decided to abscond.
Li Dazhao
Thus, at the end of 1927, a man with a beard and elaborate clothes appeared at the Shanghai dock, and after getting off the ship, he flashed into the crowd at a very fast speed, and this person was Hu Di, one of the "Three Masters of Longtan" who later broke into the heart of the enemy.
After successfully escaping Beijing, Hu Di assumed the pseudonym "Huma" and Qian Zhuangfei assumed the pseudonym "Nanfei".
In the vast city of Shanghai, how should Hu Di, who left no clues for safety reasons, contact the underground party? Standing on the streets of Shanghai, Hu Di was at a loss, and after walking back and forth on the street countless times, Hu Di decided: find a place to live first.
At this time, Hu Di did not know that long before he came to Shanghai, Comrade Nanfei, that is, Qian Zhuangfei, had already worked on an errand at the Shanghai Telecommunications Administration Office of the National Government, and at this time, he was also looking for the party's secret organs.
If Hu Di did not happen to become a movie star at such a time, perhaps the subsequent story would not have happened, and perhaps, with his whole life, Hu Di would only be an obscure underground party. But history did not have if, shortly after arriving in Shanghai, Hu Di came to the shining place of his life by chance: a movie star.
When Hu Di arrived in Shanghai, it was the boom of the Shanghai film industry, and various martial arts movies were popular at this time. After watching a job advertisement, Hu Di decided to go to the "audition". Hu Di wanted to get the job because: first, he had run a film company; second, the film industry was in the open, but it was conducive to cover.
Because of his handsome appearance and excessive wind, Hu Di was selected as the male number one after the audition, and he successively filmed films such as "Pansi Cave" and "Kunlun Thief", which were unanimously praised by the audience.
After Hu Di took the initiative to "expose" himself, Qian Zhuangfei and the underground party of the CCP quickly found him. It can be said that Hu Di's trick is really wonderful, he not only let himself gain fame and fortune, but also found the best way to cover by the way, and he also successfully let himself and his comrades connect the head.
Soon, Hu Di also met Li Kenong, who was then a member of the Propaganda Committee of Shanghai's Huzhong District. Li Kenong is a fellow of Hu Di, and his great name in the revolutionary camp of the COMMUNIST Party has long been heard of by Hu Di. Under the introduction of Hu Di, Qian Zhuangfei also became acquainted with Li Kenong.
The "Three Masters of Longtan", which later shook China, converged.
After Qian Zhuangfei entered the Nanjing Party Affairs Investigation Section, Hu Di and Li Kenong "naturally" followed them to Nanjing, which was a place specializing in stealing information on the CCP's underground party and anti-Chiang faction. In addition to investigating all kinds of intelligence at any time, they also had to secretly set up radio stations to command the national secret service and hundreds of thousands of agents.
They could never have imagined that three underground parties would be installed here.
It can be said that at the beginning of its establishment, the investigation section led by Xu Enzeng, a senior general of the Kuomintang, carried a strange red color.
Through the Investigation Section, Hu Di and others continuously channeled the intelligence of the Kuomintang into the hands of the ccp's underground party. They have also been guarding the Party Central Committee in this way.
According to later historical data, the "Three Masters of Longtan" were like three sharp swords, forming an iron triangle in the form of division of labor and cooperation: Hu Di controlled the highest intelligence organ of the Kuomintang in Tianjin, Qian Zhuangfei controlled the Intelligence Organ in Nanjing, and Li Kenong lurked in the Shanghai Intelligence Agency.
The Three Masters of Longtan, like three steel blades, were inserted into the heart of the Kuomintang.
From the end of 1930 to the beginning of 1931, after he and Qian Zhuangfei heard from Xu Enzeng that Chiang Kai-shek would "encircle and suppress" the CPC revolutionary base areas, they immediately handed over the information to the Party Central Committee, thus powdering Chiang Kai-shek's "encirclement and suppression."
During his time as a spy, because he knew the danger of the nature of his work, Hu Di resolutely broke up with his original wife after finding him.
People say that "what you think often comes from", and Hu Di, who is bent on "danger", really ushered in danger. Shortly after he broke up with his wife, Gu Shunzhang, a communist, defected after his arrest. This traitor is not an ordinary party member, but a CCP leader who holds the core secrets of the central special branch.
Gu Shunzhang's rebellion also means that Hu Di's spy career has reached the most dangerous moment!
Fortunately, Gu Shunzhang's defection was intercepted by Qian Zhuangfei for the first time, thus avoiding a catastrophe that would be enough to rewrite the history of the CCP. Also with Gu Shunzhang's rebellion, the identity of Hu Di and others was exposed, and as a last resort, Hu Di returned to Shanghai again in disguise under zhou Enlai's arrangement.
When Hu Di, Qian Zhuangfei, and Li Kenong were reunited in Shanghai again, they all sighed: After all, they were exposed.
Hu Di, who could no longer be a spy, was transferred to Ruijin, Jiangxi, at the end of 1931, the base area of the Ccp's Soviet zone. From this point on, he began the years of struggle against the Kuomintang.
After knowing that Hu Di had worked as a movie star and opened a film company, Mao Zedong personally instructed Hu Di: "You must do a good job in cultural propaganda and stabilize their political sentiments." ”
Hu Di, who had been appointed as the chief of the executive department of the Political Protection Bureau at this time, heard this and said firmly: "We must live up to the hopes of the chairman!" ”
Chairman Mao
Everyone said that "gold can shine wherever it goes", and Hu Di, who did propaganda work, quickly promoted the ideological education work of the troops with the help of his choreographed "For Whom to Sacrifice", and the spiritual outlook of the 26th Army to which he belonged was also renewed. Soon, the 26th Army was smoothly reorganized into the Fifth Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.
In 1934, with the beginning of the Long March after the failure of the Fifth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression Campaign, Hu Di was able to continue to do his favorite "intelligence gathering" work. It turned out that during the Long March, the troops knew that Hu Di had been a spy and had rich experience against the enemy, so he was appointed as the chief of the reconnaissance section of the Red Army Protection Bureau, and his main task at that time was to deal with various emergencies along the road and collect enemy intelligence.
Because of Hudi's excellent work and affinity, he has always been very popular in the army.
Unfortunately, just when Hu Di began to shine, he died on the long march. Hu Di sacrificed this year, only 30 years old. Because of the revolution's break with his original wife at the time of his death, HuDi, who had been single since then, left no heirs for the rest of his life.
Because Hu Di had no queen, because Hu Di had always used the pseudonym "Hu Di" instead of the real name "Hu Baichang", people did not know who he was for a long time after his sacrifice.
The world knows the real Hudi in 1981, when he was identified as a martyr at the beginning of the text. Alas, nearly half a century has passed since his sacrifice...