In the recent hit spy drama "The Forerunner", the protagonist Ma Tianmu joined the Revival Society through the relationship of his old classmate Tang Xianping in order to better carry out underground work.
Art is often based on life, and Ma Tianmu's joining the fuxing society is more realistic. In fact, during the revolutionary period, there were many excellent underground workers like him who, out of the need for their work, penetrated into the enemy's interior and delivered many important pieces of information to the Party.
For example, the one we are going to talk about today - Zong Yishou.
One day in 1932, major newspapers in Shanghai simultaneously published a "Statement on Renunciation", signed by Zong Yishou and his younger brother Zong Yimao. The statement said how he had gone astray, how he had been educated, turned back to the shore, and now expressed remorse and declared his separation from the Communist Party.
The person who dropped the money was Zong Yishou.
Zong Yishou photo
In fact, supra-party statements were not uncommon during that period.
During the period of the White Terror, the prospects for the revolution were bleak, and some of the party's weak-willed people and speculators could not withstand the test of the harsh environment, so in order to prove their innocence to the authorities, they published a statement in the newspaper to show that they had drawn a clear line with the party organization.
During the Republic of China period, everything that needed to be widely announced to others was popular in the newspaper, from warlords to the wilderness, to the people who broke off their friendship and divorce, they could find a newspaper, spend money to buy a tofu block page, and publish their own statements.
But just as the information on the Internet is difficult to distinguish between true and false, the statement published in the newspaper at that time also contained a lot of moisture.
For example, at that time, Premier Zhou, who had always wanted to arrest the secret agents of the Central Unification League, deliberately forged a "statement on leaving the party" in the name of Premier Zhou in order to alienate our party.
Zong Yishou's statement of departure from the party made many comrades feel unbelievable. He was an old party member who had already joined the party during the period of the Great Revolution and had gone through many tests, so how could he suddenly leave the party? After confirming it, I felt sad for him, but I still didn't stand the test.
But what hurt even more was the Zong Yishou brothers themselves. They would never have imagined that one day they would publicly announce in the newspapers that they were "disengaged" from the Chinese Communist Party, for which they were prepared to give everything. After the statement is released, how will comrades who do not know the inside story view themselves? How can one bear to help and abett the abuse, sit idly by and even help the enemy sabotage the party organization and arrest one's own comrades? In the future, how can we disguise ourselves so that we can get along with the enemy we hate in our hearts?
Perhaps you have already guessed that their departure from the party was a matter of orders, a decision of the party organization.
Ma Tianmu did not immediately agree after receiving the invitation to join the Revival Society, but first reported to the party organization and decided to join after the approval of the party organization. The Zong Yishou brothers were the same, who were also ordered to break into the enemy's secret service.
At the time, Shanghai was the center of white terror. In particular, after Gu Shunzhang's defection, our Party's organization in Shanghai suffered a major blow, and Longtan Sanjie, who was lurking within the Central Unification, was forced to give up lurking and transfer to the Soviet zone. For the sake of the next work, our Party urgently needs someone to penetrate into the enemy's interior.
Therefore, at the suggestion of Kang Sheng, chief of the Central Special Section Action Section, Chen Yun, secretary of the Central Special Section, nodded, and with the approval of the Central Bureau, it was decided to send the special section member Zong Yishou brothers to issue a "renunciation" statement to gain the enemy's trust and thus break into the secret service organs.
"Wu Hao's Statement on Leaving the Party" Concocted by the Secret Agents of the Central Unification
Here we first introduce the life of Zong Yishou.
Zong Yishou is a native of Yixing, Jiangsu Province, born in poverty, and graduated from Xushe Linjin Primary School.
In 1926, Jiangsu was still under the control of the Fengzhi warlord Sun Chuanfang, and in that year, he met Hou Shaoqiu, a member of the Chinese Communist Party. At that time, during the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Hou Shaoqiu was a member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of the Kuomintang and the secretary of the Cpc Group of the Provincial Party Department, and this time he was ordered to sneak back to Yixing to establish the Yixing Party Department of the Kuomintang.
After knowing Hou Shaoqiu, Zong Yishou was recruited into the Kuomintang and was responsible for the work of the Agricultural and Industrial Department of the Party Department of Yixing County.
It was also in this year that Zong Panlin, a student of Wuchang Normal University, returned to his hometown. Zong Panlin was also a member of the Communist Party of China and a fellow of Zong Yishou, who often borrowed revolutionary books and periodicals from him, and Zong Panlin was also an introducer to join our party.
After the defeat of the Great Revolution, Zong Yishou launched a peasant revolt in Yixing and established the first revolutionary regime in the history of Yixing, the Yixing Workers' and Peasants' Committee.
After the failure of the uprising, Zong Yishou risked being wanted to sneak back to Yixing to contact party members from all over Yixing and rebuild the party organization in Yixing County.
After July 1928, Zong Yishou was transferred to Shanghai, where the struggle situation was even more severe, because of his outstanding work ability. While working in Shanghai, Zong Yishou was arrested twice.
One was the 1929 Commemoration of the May Thirtieth Massacre.
At that time, the Party was carrying out the "Three Lines", which was a serious left-leaning adventurism. He demanded that the purpose of seizing power be achieved by holding grand commemorative activities with a view to publicizing and mobilizing workers, students, and citizens, and then by organizing riots in one or even several provinces.
This is typically a copy of the Soviet experience.
At that time, the situation in China was unprecedentedly strong, and our Party, because it had only been established for a few years, was weak and weak, and at present there was no soil for insurrection in big cities such as Shanghai. The enemy is not a fool, find out your routine, of course, will be focused on at some sensitive points in time, at this time to hold a commemorative event is tantamount to seeking their own death.
Sure enough, the commemorative meeting was sabotaged by the prepared concession authorities, and Zong Yishou was arrested for covering the retreat of the crowd to fight the enemy, with blood on his body. Fortunately, he was clever, made up a false confession and was quickly released.
One was when the party organization was in a meeting, and someone was attacked by the enemy because someone had informed the venue. He took advantage of the enemy's inattention to swallow the list of participants and was imprisoned.
At that time, under the pseudonym Song Bin, he did not forget to work for the party in prison, and together with other captured comrades, he set up a "prison party branch" in prison to unite the captured comrades to make good confessions and protect themselves.
Later, under the rescue of the party organization, Zong Yishou was sentenced to six months in prison.
Commemoration of the May 30th Massacre
After his release from prison, the party organization took into account his advantages of many work methods and flexibility in handling things, and transferred him to work in the Central Special Section until he received the task of leaving the party when he was ordered to leave the party.
At the beginning, the Kuomintang authorities arrested the members of our Party, whether they preferred to die unyieldingly or defected to the enemy, and afterwards they were all killed. Later, seeing that our party was not only not frightened, but that the revolutionary spark was even more like a spark, we changed our tactics and treated our party's traitors and high-ranking officials houlu in order to achieve the effect of knowing oneself and knowing the other.
In the early days, due to the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the line between the two parties was also blurred, and many people were both members of the Communist Party and the Kuomintang, so the Kuomintang authorities would not exterminate their own party members who had previously joined the Domestic Party.
For example, Yu Lexing, the elder of the military command, joined our party in his early years, and Huang Yigong, a close confidant of Mao Renfeng, was a traitor to our party.
In particular, because the Central Unification has been in charge of intelligence work against our Party for a long time, it has occupied a considerable proportion of traitors in our Party. For example, in the second group of the Central Bureau of Statistics, from the leader of the group to the members of the group, they were all traitors of our party, and even the concubines of Xu Enzeng, the head of the Central Unification Bureau, were all traitors of our party.
Zong Yishou was a former member of the Kuomintang, and he also secretly set up a Kuomintang party department, and he participated in the working hours earlier than Xu Enzeng, the head of the Central Unification Committee.
Therefore, after the statement "left the party," the Zong Yishou brothers easily broke into the Central Unification Secret Service Organization.
Not long after, several members of our party were caught by the secret agents and taken to prison. And all this was seen by Zong Yishou.
He was worried that these comrades would face the fate of being killed, and even more worried that if someone could not stop being tortured and become a traitor when the confession was extracted by torture, the harm caused would make the party organization that had already suffered a major blow even worse.
So he told the escort agents that these people were his old ways within our Party and were ready to serve as an internal line. The development of the inner line within our party is something that the central government and the whole party want to do in their dreams, so they believed Zong Yishou's words and released these people.
Zong Yishou reported the matter to the party organization. The Central Bureau considered that this incident might expose the true identity of the Zong Yishou brothers and endanger their safety, so it immediately decided to let them immediately withdraw from the Central Command and hide.
Although the expected medium- and long-term lurking purpose was not achieved, under the cover of the Zong Yishou brothers, they successfully rescued a group of arrested party members, eliminated possible dangers, and preserved the vitality of our party.
Fish and bear paws can not be combined, and it is already very good to be able to do this step.
Longhua Prison
Since then, the situation of struggle in Shanghai has deteriorated even more, and it is no longer possible to meet the needs of the Provisional Party Central Committee. In 1933, the Zong Yishou brothers moved to the Soviet District together with the Party Central Committee.
Zong Yishou later held an important position in the Advancing Division of the Red Army led by Su Yu, insisting on fighting guerrilla warfare in the mountains of southwest Zhejiang, and in June 1935, he died heroically in battle.
His younger brother Zong Yimao also died during the Long March.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Zong Yishou brothers were posthumously recognized as revolutionary martyrs. However, during the Cultural Revolution, the martyrdom certificate of the Zong Yishou brothers was forcibly withdrawn, and the family was beaten as a "traitor" and suffered many insults.
Due to the hidden and special nature of the secret work, the zong yishou brothers' past was known to a very small number of people at that time limited to the special branch and the central high-level, and by the 1970s, more than forty years had passed.
For such a long time, the central personnel changed frequently, and the original deceased people were scattered, and there was not much evidence that could clarify their names.
Chen Yun photo
In desperation, in 1977, Zong Yishou's son wrote to his father and uncle's old leader Chen Yun, asking Chen Yun to prove the historical problem for the Zong Yishou brothers.
After receiving the letter, Chen Yun sighed and did not hesitate to write down the proof materials of the Zong Yishou brothers in his own handwriting. In the materials, Chen Yun described in detail the revolutionary journey of the Zong Yishou brothers, emphasizing that the Zong Yishou brothers' statement of departure from the party was issued only at the suggestion of Kang Sheng and the decision of the provisional central government.
Finally, Chen Yun solemnly wrote: "Comrade Zong Mengping (Zong Yishou's pseudonym in the party) and his brother Xiaozong are both loyal members of the Communist Party of China, who have bravely sacrificed their lives for the revolution, and they are all revolutionary martyrs. ”