<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > preface</h1>
On April 24, 1931, Gu Shunzhang, the head of the special branch of the CPC Central Committee, defected after being arrested in Wuhan, which was undoubtedly a "disaster" for the CPC Central Committee organs. However, at this most critical juncture, it was agent Qian Zhuangfei who, with extraordinary wisdom, turned the tide and turned the tide...
Figure | Photo of Qian Zhuangfei sitting in a chair
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="77" > Gu Shunzhang rebelled and shook Teco's family base clean</h1>
On April 23, 1931, the organization instructed Gu Shunzhang to escort Zhang Guotao from Shanghai to Hubei to the Eyu-Anhui Revolutionary Base Area, and after completing the task, Gu Shunzhang came to the Chunxiang Brothel and found Yang Liuying, a prostitute he had known two years before, and the two lived in the Xingxing Hotel in the name of husband and wife.
Yang Liuying was accustomed to a life of spending days and drinking, and he felt that Gu Shunzhang was poor and had no money to provide her with words, and he was very unhappy. In order to get some money, Gu Shunzhang violated discipline and came to the Hankou wharf in Wuhan to play magic, but was unexpectedly encountered by the traitor Wu Wenzhong.
Figure | Gu Shunzhang
Wu Wenzhong, who was originally the head of the Yangtze River Bureau of the CPC, was arrested by the Kuomintang secret service half a year ago and could not withstand torture and defected. The head of the secret service wanted him to capture a Communist within three months, or else secretly kill him. After that, Wu Wenzhong walked around the station dock all day, seeing that the deadline was approaching, and he did not meet a Communist Party member he knew. Unexpectedly, on the 23rd, he had just come out of the secret service agency opposite the Hankou wharf and saw Gu Shunzhang, an old acquaintance who was "selling art.".
In this way, the spies, under the leadership of Wu Wenzhong, arrested Gu Shunzhang.
The person who interrogated Gu Shunzhang was He Chengjun, the head of the Wuhan Appeasement Office, who had great means and knew how to "do what he liked." When he learned that Gu Shunzhang was a big man, he deliberately arranged the interrogation room. On the left side of the interrogation hall stood ten big men with large shining knives next to them; on the right stood ten prostitutes with pink faces pulled from the brothel.
Figure | He Chengjun
He Chengjun smiled and squinted: "The ancients said, 'The person who knows the times is Junjie'. Gu Shunzhang, now, there are two paths in front of you, one is a knife, and the other is a money beauty. Which one do you choose? ”
As soon as Gu Shunzhang saw the beautiful woman, his mouth did not listen to the call, and he shook the bottom of Teko's house clean. Gu Shunzhang said: "Tell you, the CCP has installed many Communist Parties in your most important departments. I can say a whole bunch of them, and you guys go and arrest people. ”
When He Chengjun heard this, he raised his eyebrows in delight, and immediately asked Gu Shunzhang to untie himself, and made a look to the prostitutes who were waiting. For a time, Gu Shunzhang fell into the "gentle township" and was unable to extricate himself.
Soon, Gu Shunzhang said some confidential matters. He chengjun said to He Chengjun: "Qian Zhuangfei, your key department, was sent in by the Communist Party, and you told the Communist Party a lot of your secrets. If you want to reduce your losses, you must catch him quickly. I can also tell you the addresses of many important leaders in the Communist Party and where they work. ”
At that time, the situation was that Gu Shunzhang had always been specifically responsible for the work of the special branch and knew all the special branch personnel; the relatives of the Gu family were all in the central residential organs and had all the secret addresses; as long as Gu Shunzhang opened his mouth, the central organs of the CPC Central Committee would be wiped out by the enemy.
Obviously, Gu Shunzhang failed to resist the enemy's "coercion and inducement." As early as before, Gu Shunzhang violated party discipline on the grounds that the agent needed to be needed, which made Zhou Enlai very worried, and Zhou wanted to send Nie Rongzhen to work in Teco to try to supervise Gu Shunzhang politically. But before it was too late, Gu Shunzhang had an accident.
Figure | Zhou Enlai
Next, Gu Shunzhang began to list them one by one. For example, Xiang Zhongfa, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, Zhou Enlai, director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Central Military Commission, Qu Qiubai and Wang Ming, members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Zhang Wentian, director of the Propaganda Department, Qin Bangxian, secretary of the Communist Youth League of China, and so on. However, the key information, he said he was going to Nanjing, and he could not tell him after meeting Chiang Kai-shek.
He Chengjun was stunned by Gu Shunzhang's words, he did not expect that Gu Shunzhang had so many important Communist Secrets, he was secretly happy in his heart, this time he really caught a "big fish"! At this time, He Chengjun considered that this matter must be reported to Chiang Kai-shek quickly, otherwise the news of Gu Shunzhang's arrest would be leaked out, let the Communist Party know, let all these important figures escape, they could not eat and go, and they would not want their lives.
Thinking of this, He Chengjun immediately sent a telegram to Nanjing. However, Zhou Enlai and others who were far away in Shanghai did not perceive that the danger was quietly approaching...
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="78" > Qian Zhuangfei received 3 "100,000 urgent" telegrams in a short period of time, and it is expected that something very big will happen</h1>
After the establishment of the National Government in Nanjing in 1927, Chen Lifu became the chief of the Party Affairs Investigation Section of the Organization Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee, and regarded anti-communism and dealing with anti-Chiang Kai-shek forces inside and outside the Party as the main tasks of this section, making it gradually become a powerful secret service system.
At the end of 1928, in order to cultivate his henchmen and expand his own power, Chen Lifu extended his hand to the Shanghai Radio Administration Office and installed his cousin Xu En, a classmate who stayed in the United States, as the director of the department.
Figure | Chen Lifu
Because Qian Zhuangfei was Xu Enzeng's Fellow villager in Huzhou, he was shrewd and capable, erudite and good at socializing, and soon gained Xu Enzeng's trust. At the end of 1929, Xu En asked Qian Zhuangfei to follow him and gave him the post of secretary.
And Xu Enzeng, this person, spent most of his time in the dance hall and brothel of the Red Lantern Restaurant, and in the Confucius Temple, he chartered three famous prostitutes and two prostitutes in Shanghai. As a result, his daily work was mostly handled by his secretary Qian Zhuangfei. Qian Zhuangfei actually had the command of the Central Command to dispatch agents throughout the country to collect intelligence on warlords in various provinces.
According to records: The Party Affairs Investigation Section was suggested by Xu En to move to a two-story small stone building at No. 5 Zhongshan Road East Road in Nanjing. Xu En was once the chief treasurer here, and Qian Zhuangfei was the big housekeeper here. After the Investigation Section moved to the new site, all the documents and telegrams sent to Xu Enzeng were transferred here by the Central Party Department. The first person to see these telegrams was Qian Zhuangfei.
April 25 was a weekend, Xu En once went to the Shanghai Paramount Ballroom again, before leaving, he said to Qian Zhuangfei: "Old money, I will go to Shanghai immediately, old rules, I still come back on Monday morning, you are hard." The implication is to ask Qian Zhuangfei to act as an agent for all affairs.
Figure | Xu Enzeng
Qian Zhuangfei smiled slightly and said, "Director Xu, you can rest assured, you will work only when you rest, and only by resting well can you work better." Every time Director Xu returned to Nanjing from Shanghai, he was always refreshed and energetic. Unfortunately, I didn't have this blessing, not to mention dancing, and I still don't even know mahjong. Compared with Director Xu, it is too far away. ”
Xu Enzeng nodded and left contentedly. At that time, it was almost time for work, and Qian Zhuangfei wanted to lift his legs to go home, but the translator sent a telegram of "100,000 fires". Qian Zhuangfei casually placed it in the file marked "Special Reading", locked the drawer, and then closed the door and went home.
When he got home, he had just eaten from his rice bowl when the translator sent a second "very urgent" telegram. Soon after, he received a third of the same telegram.
Under such circumstances, Qian Zhuangfei was shocked in his heart: in a short period of time, three fiery telegrams came, which had never been done before. Thinking of this, the strings in Qian Zhuangfei's mind suddenly tightened, and an ominous premonition surged into his heart, and he felt that there must be something very big going on in the near future.
Without further ado, he hurriedly put down his rice bowl, took the two telegrams sent, hurried to the office, and opened all three telegrams.
The next second, Qian Zhuangfei was dumbfounded, and he found that the telegram was not composed of five Arabic words in the past, but only four Arabic characters in one word, which was a special message that only Xu Enzeng could translate.
The password was known only to Xu En, but where was the codebook? It was locked in a tin cabinet in Xu Enzeng's office, and although Qian Zhuangfei had his key, he did not know the password of the secret cabinet. If you don't have a password to open the secret cabinet, it's like "ascending to the sky".
Time passed minute by minute, and Qian Zhuangfei was anxious! Slowly, his forehead was covered with dense beads of sweat. What to do? Qian Zhuangfei's first thought was that if it was really a matter concerning the Communist Party, if Xu En had returned to decipher the telegram, then even if he had great ability, it would have been too late to inform the Central Committee.
In this situation, Qian Zhuangfei felt that he could not sit still! He immediately came to Xu Enzeng's office, staring at the password dial of the safe, while recalling the scene where Xu Enzen had opened the secret cabinet before. After half a day, he remembered that Xu En had dialed six times. The key is which six numbers? He didn't know.
Next, he went to the cabinet and tried to try it, he tried to dial 999999, and then dialed 555555... One by one, the doors did not move. He felt that if he tried it one by one, it would take two years, let alone two years. By then, the broccoli was cold.
So, he thought of some special numbers, such as Chiang Kai-shek's birthday, Xu Enzeng's birthday... But it still didn't work out.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="80" > Qian Zhuangfei cleverly used the Vernacular I Ching to unlock 3 secret reports</h1>
Just when Qian Zhuangfei was "helpless", his son-in-law Liu Qifu walked into the office. In fact, Qian Zhuangfei's family were all Communists and were assisting him in his work, and his family often sent information about Nanjing to Shanghai for him.
When Qian Zhuangfei saw that he was a son-in-law, he immediately told him about the situation. In this way, Liu Qifu and Qian Zhuangfei studied for half a day, and there was no result, the time passed quickly, and unconsciously it was midnight.
At this time, the son-in-law comforted Qian Zhuangfei and said: "Dad, it is also possible that these three telegrams have nothing to do with our party, I think it is better to find a way tomorrow!" ”
"No!" Qian Zhuangfei said firmly and decisively: "We must not have the slightest paralysis, and we must not have the slightest luck." Do you remember that in the first half of last year, Bai Xin sentenced the party, and in the second half of the year, Wang Jingyan rebelled, all of which were 100,000 urgent telegrams received. For the safety of the Party organs and Party members, we must try to open the secret cabinet! ”
After regrouping, the two put into research. I don't know how long later, Liu Qifu exclaimed as if he had discovered a new continent: "Daddy, you see, there is a book on the secret cabinet!" ”
Qian Zhuangfei reached out and picked up the book and said, "Is there anything famous about this book?" He looked down at the book, which was a vernacular I Ching.
Flipping over, Qian Zhuangfei saw a note, he excitedly opened it, and it turned out to be a blank piece of paper. For this result, he and his son-in-law's eyes immediately dimmed.
But as an agent who penetrated into the depths of the enemy, Qian Zhuangfei had a very sensitive observation. He thought, Xu En, a person who did not like to read books, why did he put a book on the secret cabinet, and why was it this "Vernacular I Ching"?
In an instant, Qian Zhuangfei saw that the note was sandwiched between pages 238 and 239 of the "Kangua" section. Only to see that on these two pages are three kangua numerical contents:
Six-three: Come to the bumps, dangerous and pillow, into the obstacles, do not use.
June Fourth: Bottle wine, gui 2, with the bottle, Na Jo self-made, in the end there is no blame.
Ninety-five: Kan is not profitable, only flat, no blame.
Qian Zhuangfei couldn't help but be surprised and said: "Xu En really wanted to, use the numbers in this book as a password, Qifu, it must be six three six four nine five, you try it!" ”
Liu Qifu deftly dialed these six numbers, only to hear the faint metal collision sound from the secret cabinet, and the door was finally opened.
After removing the codebook, there was no obstacle to the task of deciphering the telegram.
With the mutual assistance of Qian Zhuangfei and Liu Qifu, one read and one translated, and within half an hour, three telegrams were translated.
The content was sent by He Chengjun of Wuhan.
The first telegram was:
Director Xu Enzeng was transferred to Secretary General of the Party Department of the CPC Central Committee, and Gu Shunzhang, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC, was arrested and confessed important information, and was sent to Nanjing within three days.
The second telegram was:
Escorting Gu Shunzhang's warship, it has set sail and quickly sent people to the Shimonoseki pier for vigilance.
The third telegram was:
Gu ShunZhangyun, Investigation Section Qian Zhuangfei is a secret agent of the Ccp, and he was quickly arrested.
After the three telegrams were translated, both men's hearts went to the throat eye, and such important information would have been unimaginable if it had not been translated on the same day.
At this point, Liu Shufu said: "Father, Gu Shunzhang, a traitor, will go to Nanjing the day after tomorrow, and Xu Enzeng has also returned the day after tomorrow, Gu Shunzhang's purpose in coming to Nanjing is to arrest you, so you should leave!" ”
Qian Zhuangfei fixed his mind and said to his son-in-law, "Qifu, the enemy brought Gu Shunzhang here, not only for me, he came to report to Old Jiang." Once Chiang Kai-shek learns of the situation in our party, he will certainly go to Shanghai to carry out a mass arrest. Another 'April 12' massacre is about to take place. Therefore, the most dangerous thing is the security of the central organs of the CPC Central Committee, Zhou Enlai and other central leaders, and you immediately go to Shanghai. He told Liu Qifu the contact code.
Liu Qifu's tears swirled in his eyes, he was very worried about Qian Zhuangfei's safety, and when he left, he reluctantly said: "Dad, you must quickly leave Nanjing with your whole family, don't delay the time." ”
Qian Zhuangfei patted Liu Qifu's shoulder and solemnly said two words, "Take care." ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="107" > after receiving information, Zhou Enlai issued five measures</h1>
At noon on April 26, as soon as Liu Qifu arrived in Shanghai, he found Zhou Enlai according to the contact code that Qian Zhuangfei told him.
After Zhou Enlai received the information, his heart was very heavy. According to Comrade Nie Rongzhen's recollection:
When he heard the news that Gu Shunzhang had been arrested and betrayed, he was stunned. Usually not smoking, he made an exception to ask Chen Geng for a cigarette, smoked a few mouthfuls fiercely, and let the cigarette choke for a while...
Faced with this dangerous situation and tight time, Zhou Enlai quickly adjusted his mentality, and he immediately convened an emergency meeting and took five urgent measures:
First, the organs of the Party Central Committee in Shanghai, the organs of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the liaison organs of the Communist International in China were immediately transferred;
Second, all the party members Gu Shunzhang knew moved;
Third, the vast majority of CCP members are not allowed to live in their original houses for half a year, and can be transferred to the countryside as much as possible;
Fourth, the contact method known to Gu Shunzhang was immediately stopped;
Fifth, CCP members should try to have less contact with each other for a month or two, and try not to have any contact.
Zhou Enlai demanded that the above five measures be conveyed to every branch and every Communist Party member within three hours.
On April 26, Qian Zhuangfei did several contingency incidents, left Nanjing by train that night, arrived in Shanghai, and reported in detail to Zhou Enlai what had happened.
On the 27th, after Gu Shunzhang arrived in Nanjing, he saw that Qian Zhuangfei had disappeared, and immediately arrived in Shanghai with a large number of secret agents and began a crazy large-scale search.
Since most of the leaders, including Zhou Enlai, and the CENTRAL Central Committee organs located next to the Heavenly Toad Terrace had been transferred in a timely manner, Gu Shunzhang and his party gained very little. However, Xiang Zhongfa did not listen to Zhou Enlai's advice, and after transferring, he still lived with a prostitute and was caught by Gu Shunzhang. The agents repeatedly tortured the two men. The prostitute was a sentient and righteous person, beaten to death, and she knew Xiang Zhongfa's identity, but she preferred to die rather than reveal half a word. And Xiang Zhongfa didn't get beaten a few times, and he said it all. He said: "I, the general secretary of the Communist Party, am tired of doing it, as long as I can live, whatever they do." ”
Figure | Agent Huang Mulan
Although Zhou Enlai and others were transferred in advance because of Gu Shunzhang's whistle-blowing, they were not long after they were informed of their new addresses to Zhongfa, fortunately, another female agent named Huang Mulan stepped forward and informed Zhou Enlai and others of the situation, so that important leaders of the CPC Central Committee once again escaped the disaster. Those who rebel against the Party will not have a good end. Xiang Zhongfa was shot and killed by Chiang Kai-shek.
The opportunity to annihilate Zhou Enlai and others in one fell swoop was thus ruined by Qian Zhuangfei. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek can be said to have gritted his teeth in hatred for Qian Zhuangfei, so he ordered that the streets and alleys of Shanghai be plastered with notices for the arrest of money. At that time, Qian Zhuangfei had long obeyed the arrangements of the party organization, left Shanghai safely, and went to the central revolutionary base area in Jiangxi to continue to dedicate his strength to the party and the people...