The historical prototype of the shrewd old agent Wu Jingzhong in "Latent" is Wu Jingzhong, the former station chief of the Tianjin Station of the Secrecy Bureau, which may be known to most readers, but there is one thing that not many people may know, that is, Wu Jingzhong (for the sake of convenience, we are called Wu Jingzhong in the following historical prototypes and in the play, and it is similar to read anyway) and was later arrested by Mao Renfeng, director of the Secrecy Bureau, and cut the sugar cane for a few days - according to Mao Renfeng's original intention, it was to be killed directly after interrogation.
Unlike Dai Kasa, who frequently scolded his subordinates but was somewhat short-sighted, Mao Renfeng was a "smiling tiger" who stabbed a knife in the back when he said good things in person—a nickname that was drunkenly taken by the former Major General of the Eighth Division (General Affairs Department) of the Headquarters of the Military Command Bureau (later the director of the Yunnan Station of the Secrecy Bureau and the commander of the guerrilla command of the Lieutenant General).
When Wu Jingzhong fell into the hands of Mao Renfeng, he naturally died nine times, and Mao Renfeng had already made up his mind at that time: no matter what the outcome of the interrogation, he would be secretly shot!
Readers who have read "Latent" know that Wu Jingzhong is in awe of Dai Kasa, but he is not very interested in Mao Renfeng, although Mao Renfeng's later position and rank are higher than Dai Kasa, but his prestige in the Military Command (Secrecy Bureau) and even in the entire Chiang clan is not even one-tenth of Dai Kasa- Dai Kasa is the deputy director of the Major General (promoted by the infantry colonel on March 8, 1945), but he is also the actual controller of the Military Command Bureau, and the vast majority of military command agents only know "Dai Boss" and do not know that there is He Yao group, Qian Dajun, Lin Wei (these three men successively served as the director of the first lieutenant general of the old Chiang Kai-shek's attendant room and concurrently served as the director of the Military Command Bureau).
Deputy Director Dai Kasa controls a huge team of 250,000 to 300,000 people (professional agents and traffic police corps and other peripheral personnel), not only self-sufficient, but also allows everyone to eat and drink well. After Mao Renfeng took over, he changed his name to the Secrecy Bureau, and not only reduced the number of personnel by nine-tenths (later only about 20,000 people remained), but also lost his family foundation, asking Lao Jiang for food every day, and could not speak hard.
Mao Renfeng's prestige is not enough, and the Secrecy Bureau is also divided into three gangs in Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Hunan, and the leading big brothers are Zheng Jiemin, Mao Renfeng, and Tang Zhong.
Lu Qiaoshan, the lieutenant colonel of the intelligence department of the Tianjin Station of the Secrecy Bureau in "Latent", is the "Guangdong faction" that belongs to Zheng Jiemin, and he has always wanted to seize Wu Jingzhong's handle and replace him, which is a microcosm of the infighting among the three factions of the Secrecy Bureau -- when Dai Kasa was alive, Lu Qiaoshan only dared to make some small moves at the behest of Zheng Jiemin.
In fact, even if there is no Yu Zecheng "intercession", Wu Jingzhong cannot kill Lu Qiaoshan, because Zheng Jiemin's qualifications are older than Wu Jingzhong, wu Jingzhong can look down on the less senior Mao Renfeng, but he can't afford Zheng Jiemin, who graduated from Huangpu Phase II--perhaps readers do not know that Zheng Jiemin is not only a "Tianzi protégé" of Huangpu II, but also studied at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, enrolled in the same year as Wu Jingzhong, and knows everything about Wu Jingzhong's "traitor" LaoDi.
Wu Jingzhong did not belong to Either Zheng Jiemin's "Guangdong Faction" nor to Mao Renfeng's "Jiangshan Gang"; the only person he respected was Dai Kasa, because during the glorious period of Wu Jingzhong's career as a secret agent, he had always been under dai Kasa's direct leadership, and Shen Wei mentioned more than once in his memoirs how much Wu Jingzhong was valued by Dai Kasa: Dai Kasa opened the "Linli Special Training Class" and became the "principal" of "Secret Agent Huangpu", and Wu Jingzhong held a position similar to that of a class teacher, that is, a political instructor of the second squadron of a large team.
Wu Jingzhong was extremely disgusted by the fight against the civil war, and more than once poured cold water on Li Yayu and turned his eyes at Ma Kui and Lu Qiaoshan, all for a reason -- he was a "second-type traitor" who had changed camps but had not betrayed comrades (Shen Drunk classified traitors into three categories, the first was a shameless traitor who betrayed his comrades-in-arms, the second was to find another way out after losing contact, and the third was a false defection to real lurking)", which was fundamentally different from Ma Kui.
After Dai Kasa's death, Wu Jingzhong basically did not work much, and all he wanted to do was to exchange for some antique calligraphy and paintings, gold bars and US dollars, and even the Stipunk car became seven gold bars - in that year, it was estimated that it was one or two gold bars (one gold bar was twelve, at that time one or two gold was exchanged for thirty-five to forty-five silver dollars, and Lu Xun bought a courtyard and spent eight hundred silver dollars).
Wu Jingzhong had already made up his mind to do business, and naturally he had no enthusiasm for secret service work, and the richer the person, the more he spared his life, so he didn't want to offend anyone, just thinking about how to escape from Tianjin, which was about to be conquered, and he really did it.
In the autumn of 1948, Wu Jingzhong sent his wife "Sister Mei (historically called Su Huijia, the two had a very good relationship)" to the ship, and he spent all day wondering how to slip away, Li Yazhi and the like did not die, Yu Zecheng was not Emei Peak, he did not care.
As an old agent who entered the industry in 1922, Wu Jingzhong wanted to go, and he would definitely find an opportunity. Soon after, "Sister Mei" saw such a message in the newspaper: A certain general of the Secrecy Bureau snatched the plane of a certain textile company to pick up and transport employees in Tianjin and flew directly to Nanjing.
Readers familiar with that period of history know that the Secrecy Bureau had two stations in Tianjin, and of course there were two stationsmasters, one of which was engaged in general intelligence, the station chief Wu Jingzhong, the second station specialized in foreign affairs reports, and the station manager Huang Tianmai. Huang Tianmai was a student of Situ Leiden and a close confidant of Zheng Jiemin, who had long been transferred back to the headquarters of the bureau before the siege of Tianjin, and the second station was really dead, and the secret bureau general who really snatched the plane and ran away could only be Wu Jingzhong.
Wu Jingzhong fled to Nanjing, and as soon as he got off the plane, he was arrested by Order of Mao Renfeng, who wanted to kill a hundred people -- Dai Jingzhong's cronies shen drunk and had been sent to Kunming, which meant that he had already been sentenced to death, and Wu Jingzhong, another of Dai Jingzhong's cronies, naturally would not have good fruit to eat, and Mao Renfeng directly ordered: Take him to the island to cut sugar cane (metaphorically), no matter what the outcome of the interrogation, this kind of guy who is on the verge of escaping must be shot.
Just as Wu Jingzhong couldn't kill Lu Qiaoshan, Mao Renfeng couldn't kill Wu Jingzhong: Wu Jingzhong was in a different class from Zheng Jiemin at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, but among Wu Jingzhong's classmates, there was another figure who was ten times more powerful than Zheng Jiemin, and that person's surname was Jiang!
Knowing that his old classmate Wu Jingzhong was sent by Mao Renfeng to cut sugar cane and prepare to cut off his head, Xiao Jiang made a phone call as a prince: "Brother Qi, how can I be a guarantor for Wu?" ”
According to the description of Shen's memoirs, Mao Renfeng met Xiao Jiang, who was twelve years younger than himself, just like his son met his father: "In September 1949, on the day that old Jiang went to Kunming, Mao Renfeng and I went to the airport to arrange it first, and Xiao Jiang came first, and I saw Mao Renfeng in the lounge with a low and low spirit towards Chiang Ching-kuo, which was really disgusting... Xiao Jiang asked some questions, and he always answered them first, and his tone was very deferential. When he came back that day, he also said to me: 'To Mr. Jingguo, we should do the same as the president, no matter how well we do, no one speaks for us in front of the president, or it is equivalent to doing nothing!' ’”
Xiao Jiang's position as crown prince at that time was already stable, equivalent to the Jinyi Wei commander and the Mao Renfeng of the Dongxi Factory's palm seal eunuch (also known as the factory duke and the overseer) naturally knew what to do, so Xiao Jiang made a phone call, and Wu Jingzhong did not cut the sugar cane for a few days before he regained his freedom and went to do the business he liked to do...