Zheng Jiemin, a native of Wenchang, Hainan, formerly known as Ting Bing, Zi Yaoquan, and Jeff.
Born on September 11, 1897 in a family of broken landlords, he was admitted to the second phase of the Infantry Department of the Whampoa Military Academy in 1924, and participated in the organization of the Sun Wen Doctrine Society. In 1925, he studied political economy at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, USSR. In 1927, he returned to China and took the third term of the General Palace Class of the People's Army University. After graduation, he worked as an intelligence officer in Chiang Kai-shek's attendant room.
Although Zheng is from Hainan, he has a large physique. His face was dark, quite similar to that of northerners, and he often liked to wear a straight military uniform full of medals, full of spirit, and at first glance, he looked like a regular officer. When Zheng first engaged in intelligence activities in Nanjing, he did not show any special performance, but only collected a little intelligence from some classmates and fellow villagers. But not long after, in the struggle between Chiang Kai-shek and the Gui warlords, he showed his skills and became a blockbuster.
Differentiation of the Gui clan for Jiang to eliminate the disease
In the winter of 1928, after Zhang Xueliang "changed his banner" in the northeast, Chiang Kai-shek's world was ostensibly "unified", but the forces of the new Gui clan went from Guangxi to North China through Wuhan, and divided a lot of his territory. Chiang Kai-shek was very unwilling about this and always wanted to pull out this thorn in the eye.
Although Zheng Jiemin was a small attendant, he was the best at observing words and colors, and after pondering Jiang's thoughts, he revealed to his superior Wang Bailing that he and Li Zongren's brother Li Zongyi were classmates at Sun Yat-sen University in the Soviet Union and had a very good personal relationship, and volunteered to go to Wuhan to do the work of dividing the Gui clan. After Wang Bailing reported the incident to Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang attached great importance to it, personally instructed Zheng Mian to take the opportunity, and ordered him to leave for Wuhan immediately.
After Zheng sneaked from Nanjing to Wuhan, he pretended to be unemployed, deliberately stayed in a small inn, and made a poor appearance to go to the general headquarters of the Fourth Army to ask for Li Zongyi. At that time, the officers of the headquarters of the Fourth Army used to call Li Zongren "boss" and Li Zongyi "second general", and they were always respected by all sides in the general headquarters. Li Zongyi saw Zheng Jiemin's depressed appearance at that time and immediately agreed to take him in; When he went to see Zheng at the inn again the next day, he had no doubts and completely believed the lies he had made up, and asked him to immediately move into the general headquarters and live with himself. Li Zongyi then took him to meet Li Zongren and many of the officers in charge of the General Headquarters, and often accompanied him out to play. At this time, some people in the headquarters who wanted to curry favor with the "second general manager" were also particularly interested in Zheng Jiemin, and he slowly began to move. First of all, after clarifying the deployment and equipment of Li Zongren's troops, he secretly took pictures of the secret telegram books of the General Headquarters and all parties and sent them back. At that time, some confidential personnel of Li Zongren's headquarters were paralyzed and careless, and second, they were bribed by Zheng Jiemin, so Zheng found out the whole situation of the Fourth Army in Wuhan in a very short period of time.
After Wang Bailing constantly reported the situation that Zheng had obtained to Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang was very happy; He also asked Wang Bailing to inform Zheng Jiemin to seize the opportunity to divide and alienate the Gui generals. On the one hand, Zheng sent people to spread the words that "it is the Hubei people who are in power who make a fortune, but it is the Guangxi people who fight and fight desperately" to stir up dissension, deepening the contradictions between the Hubei and Guizhou factions; On the other hand, they sent people to win over some Hubei generals in the Gui clan and put forward the slogan of "Eren ruling Hubei" to them, and the E-generals Hu Zongduo and Tao Jun in the Gui clan all strongly agreed, and they tried their best to compete for local power. As a result, many Gui generals were greatly dissatisfied, and Zheng took the opportunity to expand the contradictions between them.
When Chiang Kai-shek's conspiracy was gradually completed, Li Zongren had not yet noticed that his basic strength had changed internally. In 1929, he also wanted to expand his territory and divide the world with Chiang Kai-shek, secretly trying to unite the Gui forces from Guangxi to central and northern China. However, Chiang Kai-shek was silent, secretly actively preparing, and only waiting for the opportunity to attack.
At the beginning of 1929, without the approval of the Political Conference of the Kuomintang Central Committee in Nanjing, Li Zongren directly removed the pro-Jiang Lu Diping from his post as chairman of Hunan Province in the name of the Wuhan Political Branch and appointed He Jian as the chairman of Hunan Province. At this time, He Jian first accepted Li's appointment, and then asked Chiang for instructions, and Chiang Kai-shek thought that the time had come to eliminate the Gui clan, so on March 21, 1929, He Jishen was placed under house arrest in Tangshan, Nanjing, and publicly announced: Li Zongren did not obey the central government and dismissed Li Zongren from all posts. Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi immediately sent a telegram against Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang became famous, mobilized a large army to besiege the Gui army, and personally rushed from Nanjing to Jiujiang to take command.
At this time, the Gui troops, which had long been divided by Chiang Kai-shek, did not fire a single shot and led their troops to retreat to the area of Pinghan Road Garden. Hu Zongduo and Tao Jun also sent a telegram to Xiaye and led their troops to retreat to Shashi and Yichang, and other Gui troops also withdrew from Wuhan, and the more than 100,000 people of the Gui clan in Hubei suddenly collapsed, and Chiang Kai-shek effortlessly captured Wuhan. Li Zongren, who was treating an eye disease in Shanghai at the time, did not expect to fail so quickly, and he returned to Guangxi from Shanghai via Hong Kong, and prepared to clean up the remnants and cooperate with Feng Yuxiang to fight against Chiang Kai-shek. Soon after the telegram was sent, Jiang instructed Chen Jitang's forces in Guangdong to enter and occupy Guangxi, and Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi had to flee to Hong Kong.
After the Gui issue was quickly resolved, Zheng Jiemin immediately returned to Nanjing to return to Chiang Kai-shek, and when Chiang received him, he clasped his hand tightly and even claimed to praise him for doing a good job. Zheng also took this opportunity to return on the spot the passbook of a huge unused special activity fee given to him by Chiang Kai-shek, which was even more praised by Chiang Kai-shek. Since then, Zheng Jiemin, who has begun to show his talent for espionage, has been deeply valued by Chiang Kai-shek and has soared to the top.
Immerse yourself in the spy elite
In the spring of 1934, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to emulate the fascist dictatorship of Hitler and Mussolini, decided to select a group of people to study, and Zheng Jiemin was also selected. In the summer of that year, Zheng Jiemin, Pan Youqiang, Du Xinru, Teng Jie and other 7 people went to Europe in the name of a military expedition, in fact, mainly to Germany and Italy. Chiang Kai-shek gave them the task, first, to learn the methods of fascist rule over the people and anti-communist defense; The second is the organization of the Development Revival Society in Europe. They successively went to Germany, Italy, Britain, France, Austria, Switzerland and other countries, and studied all aspects of the two dictatorships of Germany and Italy. Zheng used this to collect a lot of materials on the work of secret agents.
The trip to Germany enabled Zheng Jiemin to deepen his understanding of the fascist dictatorship. He admired Hitler so much that he asked for advice many times when he was in Germany, and after several twists and turns, he was allowed to receive him. Hitler was very arrogant when he summoned these disciples and grandsons who had come from far and wide to pay tribute to him, but they were satisfied that they could see the "Führer" side, and they all thought it was worth the trip. While in Italy, Mussolini was said to have received them in a much better manner than Hitler and encouraged them. After returning home. Zheng Jiemin often thinks that he has seen these two "fascist ancestors" and thinks that he is supremely glorious.
In the spring and summer of 1935, Zheng Jiemin and others returned from Europe. Chiang Kai-shek took a lot of time to listen to their oral reports and read their long-winded written reports, and his interest was extremely strong. Dai Kasa also kept asking Zheng long questions and asking him to make a report at the secret service, and he immediately became the most popular busy person.
Initially, Dai Kasa could not come up with a complete set of methods for how the work of the secret service should be done, and Zheng's inspection was of great help to him. At that time, the Secret Service Was reorganized into the Second Bureau of Investigation and Statistics of the Central Military Commission, and many of the activities carried out by the Military Command Bureau were carried out through Zheng's inspection and the set of things that Tang Zhong learned when he was a deputy military attaché of the National Government Embassy in Germany. Measures such as the control of traffic and communications through secret service organizations, the supervision of radio stations and radios and interference broadcasts, the infiltration of agents into government agencies, factories, schools, the strengthening of police institutions, etc., all drew on the German experience and played a role in later anti-communist work.
Soon after Zheng returned to China, he was promoted by Chiang Kai-shek to a higher rank and appointed as the chief of the Fifth Division of the Second Department of the General Staff Headquarters.
When Wei Fei admired Zheng's intelligence work, he loved to analyze the situation, study strategy and war situation, and often had profound analysis and unique insights on some major military strategic issues, which was also the experience he accumulated in intelligence work for many years.
After the outbreak of the Pacific War, China's War of Resistance entered a period of moving from fighting alone to alliance. In January 1942, British General Wei Fei, commander-in-chief of the Southwest Pacific Allied Forces, held a military conference of the Allied Powers in Singapore to discuss plans to defend Singapore, and Chiang Kai-shek, in addition to sending Du Yuming and others to participate, also sent Zheng Jiemin to serve as a liaison between relevant parties. After Zheng went, not only was he not taken seriously by Wei Fei, but even the British commander-in-chief of Singapore at that time was very cold to him. He only had contact with some senior staff members at Weiffer's headquarters and did not formally attend the meeting. Wei Fei, who has always been very proud, firmly stated at this meeting that as long as the defensive line is shortened and the troops are concentrated, it will be no problem to ensure that Singapore is no problem. Zheng Jiemin, however, gave his dissenting opinion to the staff of Wei headquarters. He believes that Singapore is isolated overseas, far away from Britain and the United States, insufficient resources, insufficient troops, unable to defend, it is better to concentrate on holding On Indonesia, making it a counter-offensive base for the Allies in the Southwest Pacific, and it is more certain to hold on to Indonesia than to hold On to Singapore. At the time, his remarks went completely unnoticed by Weiffer.
Zheng returned to Chongqing from Singapore and raised this opinion to Chiang Kai-shek, who trusted him so much that he formally conveyed it to Wei Fei, but it was also not adopted, and less than half a month later. The Japanese army then gathered a large number of navy, army and air force to attack Singapore. The so-called Far East's first Palembang, which had been operated by the British for many years and cost 60 million pounds, had more than 60,000 British troops defending. However, it took only more than ten days to be captured by the Japanese army in February 1942, and Wei Fei Cangchao led the headquarters to flee to The Netherlands, India and Java.
At this time, not only Chiang Kai-shek and those who had heard Zheng's opinion in Chongqing thought that Zheng was "like a god", but even Wei Fei expressed remorse for not listening to Zheng's words and suffering such a fiasco when he called Chiang Kai-shek. When Jiang sent Zheng to Java again to contact Wei, Wei Fei's attitude was completely different from before, and he personally went to the airport to meet him. But within a month, Java was also occupied by the Japanese. Wei fei fled to India alone, and the tens of thousands of British troops defending Indonesia and the officers of Wei fei's headquarters became prisoners of the Japanese army.
Prophesiing the allied landing of Chiang Kai-shek, Zheng had a good set of methods in dealing with the Allies, he also designated him to attend the Sino-US joint staff meeting in Chongqing. Wei Demai, who was then chief of staff of the Chinese theater and commander-in-chief of the US military in China, also had a fairly good impression of Zheng. In the summer of 1944, Zheng Jiemin and some American generals at Weidmer headquarters talked, and everyone predicted the time to open a second battlefield. Some U.S. generals say it is this year, and some say it is next year. When asked about Zheng Jiemin's opinion, Zheng said: "Probably in early June this year. As a result, most of the American generals laughed and thought it was absolutely impossible.
Who knows, not long after, the Allies did land from Normandy, France, on June 6. Many American officers who had heard Zheng's conversation immediately remembered that the date he had said beforehand was completely correct, and could not help but admire him from the bottom of their hearts, and could calculate the date of the Allied landing so accurately. When Weidmayer heard these words, he praised him in person for his clever calculations.
It turned out that Zheng Jiemin did study the time opened up in the second battlefield, and he analyzed it from the progress of the entire war situation. He believed that the opening of the second front could no longer be postponed, because the Soviet Union could no longer insist, repeatedly asked for Allied support, and all the Preparations of the Allied forces were ready. As for the date determination, he is based on the English Channel every year in early June before dawn to the highest tide. Landings on those days are most suitable. If the opportunity had been missed, the Allies would not have had such sufficient time to land before winter came.
When Chiang Kai-shek learned of this incident, he couldn't help but praise Zheng: "Things are like gods, and he is a military strategist and military theorist with both political brains and scientific training." This praise represents his growing position in Chiang's heart.
The spy wizard immersed himself in writing a book that Zheng graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, but he always regretted that he had not led the soldiers to fight, and the smell of "wu" was still worse, and on the one hand, he was obsessed with wanting to be a "Confucian general" . His strategic vision is precise and long-term, and he has a research spirit, and his writings are very rich. In the past few years, he has collected a lot of materials from the archives of the Military Command Bureau and the Second Department, and successively compiled books such as "Military Intelligence", "Draft Teaching Model for Espionage Service", "Research on Guerrilla Tactics", "Spy Service", "Military Intelligence", "Judgment on the Political Strategy of the Pacific Powers in the Sino-Japanese War", "Countermeasures against the Communist Party during the War of Resistance", and "National Strategy of Soviet Russia at the Present Stage". After the publication of the book, many officials in the Kuomintang admired his profound education and deserved to be an intelligence authority. Chiang Kai-shek was very appreciative of his spirit of study, and not only gave him explicit praise, but also awarded him a "Medal of Accumulation of Learning."
On March 17, 1946, Dai Kasa died in a plane crash, and Zheng succeeded him as the director of the Military Command, and in October, the Military Command Bureau was changed to the Secrecy Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense, and he still served as the director and director of the Second Department of the Ministry of National Defense. In order to cooperate with Chiang Kai-shek in launching a civil war, Zheng went all out to carry out anti-communist espionage activities. He instructed secret agents to crack the CCP's underground radio stations in Beiping, Shanghai, and other places, and arrested and killed many CCP underground workers. At the end of the following year, he was promoted to executive secretary of the Ministry of National Defense, in charge of international materials, mainly responsible for liaison with US aid.
Before the liberation of Guangzhou in October 1949, he also requested military assistance from the United States, but returned without success. In early 1950, Zheng Jiemin went to Taiwan, and since then he has successively served as "deputy chief of staff of the Ministry of National Defense", "director of the Mainland Work Office", "strategic adviser of the Presidential Office", "director of the National Security Bureau", and was promoted to "second-class general" in 1956. In Taiwan, Zheng presided over the dispatch of secret agents to the mainland to carry out various subversive activities such as assassination and explosion, instigation of riots, and spying on intelligence, which won the trust of Chiang Kai-shek's father and son. On December 11, 1959, Zheng Jiemin died at home in Taipei due to a heart attack at the age of 62. Chiang Kai-shek went to the funeral home twice to offer condolences and paid his respects.
On December 15, Chiang Kai-shek issued a "commendation order" posthumously promoting Zheng Jiemin to the rank of army general, making Zheng the highest-ranking person in the Kuomintang secret service system