One evening in early June 1929, a young descendant came out of the Hunan Guild Hall in Guangzhou...
Just as he was hurrying along an alley, suddenly a thick voice sounded from behind him: "Tang Tianji! You've got a letter from home! ”
The young descendant stopped and smiled back, "Old Uncle Shao, I was about to go looking for you!" ”
Tang Tianji's original name was Tang Shiyong, and he used the names Tang Wenfa and Tang Tianji. Born in 1904 in Yangliutian Village, Anren County, Hunan Province. He began his studies in 1911, graduated from high school in 1920, and was admitted to the Hengyang Law and Politics School in 1921, but dropped out again because he could not afford to pay the tuition. Influenced by the May Fourth Movement, he joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1925, was admitted to the 4th phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, joined the Communist Party of China in 1926, and participated in the Nanchang Uprising and the Jinggangshan Huishi in 1927. He was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955.
Known as Shao Laobo is the father of Shao Jie, the propaganda director of the Xianggan Provincial Party Committee, who temporarily rented a house near the Hunan Guild Hall and was the head of the guangdong provincial party committee's contact point that remained in the mainland after arriving in Hong Kong. At this time, Tang Tianji served as the acting secretary of the Shonan Special Committee and was very familiar with Shao Laobo. Tang Tianji was ordered by Teng Daiyuan to go to Guangzhou alone to find the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee to contact the work, but unfortunately the provincial party committee organs were moved to Hong Kong.
Tang Tianji had to temporarily live in Uncle Shao's home, and at the same time wrote a letter to Nie Rongzhen, the head of the provincial party committee, to contact. However, the letter was sent out for more than 20 days, and Tang Tianji did not receive a reply, and his heart was very anxious.
Today I finally received a letter, very happy. Hurriedly dragged Old Uncle Shao to a tavern and reached out to ask for a letter. Old Uncle Shao also knew that he was very anxious, and did not say anything, and directly handed him the letter.
After reading the letter, Tang Tianji said to Old Uncle Shao: "The organization has decided to let me go to Hong Kong, and you have to worry about it during this time!" ”
"Comrade Tang, Mo said this, it is all revolutionary work, I wish you a smooth journey, and often write back!" Old Uncle Shao said reluctantly to Tang Tianji.
After Tang Tianji arrived at the Kowloon Pier, he ignored the police on the pier and calmly walked toward a young man wearing a straw hat and holding a newspaper in his hand.
"Sir, borrow a fire!" Tang Tianji took out his cigarette and revealed his contact code. As soon as the young man who was reading the newspaper on the other side looked up, Tang Tianji recognized that the person was Nie Rongzhen and was very happy in his heart.
"Is there a dog in the back?" Nie Rongzhen looked around.
"Everything was fine!"
"Well, come with me!" Nie Rongzhen put the newspaper in his pocket and pretended to be a stranger to leave, while Tang Tianji also left far behind...
Nie Rongzhen took him to his residence and asked him about the situation in Guangzhou while fetching water to wash his face. After Reporting One by One, Tang Tianji asked the Provincial Party Committee to arrange work for him.
Nie Rongzhen did not directly arrange the work, but comforted him: "Don't be in a hurry when you first arrive, when you can't finish the revolutionary work, rest for a few days first!" ”
Tang Tianji stayed in the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee for the time being. One day, he was calligraphing continuously in the room, and Nie Rongzhen came in with a middle-aged man.
Nie Rongzhen introduced: "He is Comrade Zhang who we sent to work in Waijiang, where there are more than 3,000 workers, all of whom are people from Your Hunan Leiyang, Anren and other places, in order to strengthen the work of the trade unions there, yesterday the provincial party committee held a meeting to study and decided to send you to work in the Waijiang Barbers Union. ”
Tang Tianji said very excitedly: "Everything is subject to the organization's arrangement, when will it leave?" ”
"Now you will go with Comrade Zhang, and I have already let people arrange it over there!"
After Tang Tianji received the task, he immediately packed up his things, bid farewell to Nie Rongzhen, and followed the people to the Outer River. Just after arriving in Waijiang, after Tang Tianji settled his things, he immediately began to put into work, because the large troops were all fellow villagers, and soon, Tang Tianji and everyone became one.
At noon on this day, everyone saw Tang Tianji, and they clamored for him to paint, and Tang Tianji did not hesitate, and immediately painted a painting of a giant waving his fist and smashing a small flea-like local tycoon and inferior gentleman. The workers were all amused by Tang Tianji's exquisite paintings, but one of them did not laugh. This man was also from Leiyang, his name was Tang Sangui, he was once a guard of a landlord surnamed Chen in Leiyang, and after the Hunan riots last year, he came to Hong Kong with the landlord's son Chen Mazi, and is now working as a handyman in the barber shop opened by Chen Mazi.
He had long heard that there was a Mr. Tang from Hunan, who was very knowledgeable, so he came to observe with the mentality of taking a look.
As soon as he came in, he found that this Mr. Tang was the leader sent to Chen Mazi's house last year to liquidate his property, and quickly ran back to the barbershop.
"Boss Chen, report a message to you!" As soon as Tang Sangui entered the door, he was busy asking Chen Mazi for credit.
"What news, look at your mysterious appearance!"
Tang Sangui quietly came to Chen Mazi's ear and said what he saw today.
"Is it really him?" Hearing that it was Tang Tianji, Chen Mazi immediately showed a fierce gaze and quietly said to Tang Sangui: "Sangui! You keep an eye on him, don't let him slip away, after the fact, I will reward you heavily! ”
"Boss Chen! Don't fool me!" "Tang Sangui is a greedy person, and from then on he runs to Tang Tianji every day. At this time, a worker mentioned Tang Tianji, this Tang Sangui is not a good thing, we must guard against him, Tang Tianji nodded after listening.
After breakfast this day, Tang Tianji was planning to transfer some secret materials, and after disguising the materials, he went out, and when he saw the barber shop next to the street, he walked in.
At this time, a tall man of more than 30 people came out from behind the door, and Tang Tianji recognized who the other party was at a glance, it was really a narrow road, and he couldn't imagine that he had met on this occasion, so he turned around and planned to leave. Who knew that Chen Mazi directly spoke: "Hello Mr. Tang!" Please sit inside the house! ”
Tang Tianji saw that his identity had been exposed, so he pushed the boat along the water and said, "Boss Chen! I'm here to put it in your place! ”
"You're welcome! Get into the house for a drink! Chen Mazi was afraid that Tang Tianji had run away, and while reaching out and pulling Tang Tianji's sleeve into the room, he shouted loudly: "Mother! There are guests! ”
Chen Mazi's mother came out of the house, Tang Tianji looked at each other, wearing a pearlescent treasure, it turned out to be Chen Mazi's father's eldest wife, remember that last spring, Tang Tianji once led the peasant masses to burn down the house with 108 pillars built by her family to exploit the peasants' hard-earned money, and also divided her property, forcing their mother and son to flee to Hong Kong.
As soon as the other party saw Tang Tianji, he suddenly changed his face, pounced on it, grabbed Tang Tianji's collar and made a big fuss: "Surnamed Tang, you took someone to burn my family's house, divided my things, killed my family's people, this is not Leiyang, I fought with you!" ”
Chen Mazi was anxious as soon as he saw it, afraid that his mother would mess things up, so he thought of stabilizing him first.
Chen Mazi's small eyes turned, and he thought of an idea and pretended to be a smiling face: "Mr. Tang don't be surprised!" She is a woman and a Taoist family, she doesn't know the things in the world, and she still remembers those old bad debts! Leave her alone, we'll drink! ”
Saying that, he pushed Tang Tianji into the room, and Tang Tianji understood that this was a weasel giving the chicken a New Year's greeting, and he didn't have a good heart, but now he was already in the tiger's mouth, and he could only react to it, he pretended not to care, put down the box in his hand, and sat aside.
At this time, Chen Mazi took it out of his pocket and said, "Oh, there is no smoke on the body, you take a moment, I will go to buy a pack of cigarettes!" ”
Tang Tianji knew that Chen Mazi was playing with his heart, and he must have gone outside to shout at the police to arrest him, and sure enough, as soon as Chen Mazi went out, he locked the door and ran towards the police station himself.
Although Tang Tianji was very anxious, he still faced it calmly. He used the iron rod he was carrying to open the door and ran out.
Sure enough, there was the sound of Chen Mazi returning with the police behind, and Tang Tianji ran toward the mountain, but after running for a while, he remembered Nie Rongzhen's previous confession: "If you encounter danger in Hong Kong, you must run towards the street, that is, you will be arrested, the organization will also know, if you are secretly arrested, it will be difficult to deal with." ”
As soon as he thought of this, Tang Tianji turned around and changed directions, and ran towards the seashore, because the seaside cruise, if you can meet the boat to go to Kowloon, you can take the opportunity to get out, in case of misfortune, then jump into the sea, it is worth sacrificing yourself for the revolution, in short, it is not allowed to be caught.
At this time, Chen Mazi also followed closely behind him with several policemen.
Fortunately, there happened to be a steamship bound for Kowloon that happened to run to the beach, and just after leaving the dock, Tang Tianji seized the opportunity, jumped up violently, and immediately took off his coat and mixed with the passengers. At this time, Chen Mazi and the police were frustrated and frustrated on the shore, but they had no choice...
Tang Tianji was preparing to walk back to the mainland, and when he was about to cross the border, he was taken into the police station by the police. The director was an Englishman who couldn't understand Chinese, so he called an interpreter.
"How long have you been in Hong Kong?"
"I only arrived today!"
"Why did you go back today?"
"Alas! Boss, real back, my luggage and money have been stolen by pickpockets, what if I don't go back? black! There's no way to do it! Tang Tianji folded his hands and pretended to shake his head helplessly.
The police couldn't ask anything, so they let him go.
Although the police let him go, they still sent plainclothes to follow him, and Tang Tianji took the opportunity to get on the tram and successfully threw off his tail.
Tang Tianji, who had thrown off his tail, only had 1 yuan and 2 corners left on his body, and he did not dare to stay in a small hotel, where it was easy to be interrogated by the police and there was a risk of being caught. I found a palatial hostel and found the cheapest room for 4 cents.
After paying the money, the accounting office called out to him again: "Sir! Do you want someone to accompany you at night? ”
Tang Tianji understood what it meant when he heard it, but he also knew that once there was a prostitute in the room, then the police generally would not find trouble when they came to check the room, so he casually named a person.
Tang Tianji did not forget his work and did the ideological work of this prostitute, advising her to be a good person and an upright person. Just as the two were chatting, they heard the door "dangdang" ringing, and Tang Tianji signaled the prostitute to open the door.
The other party understood Tang Tianji's meaning, so he walked over and opened the door: "Who is it?" The man outside the door did not answer, but left a string of departing footsteps and left.
"It's the police checking the night." The prostitute said to him when she returned.
Tang Tianji waited for the police to leave and let the prostitute leave...
The next day, Tang Tianji successfully returned to the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee. Nie Rongzhen was very happy after seeing it, "I heard that you were caught and killed by the enemy, and I didn't expect you to come back intact, which is really worth celebrating!" ”
Tang Tianji reported his situation to Nie Rongzhen this time, and then said, "Secretary Nie, now that I'm back, the provincial party committee must give me a job!" ”
"Well, we're not leaving you either!" How about the organizational decision to let you leave Hong Kong and work for the Dongjiang Special Committee? ”
Tang Tianji was very happy after hearing this, and politely saluted Nie Rongzhen: "Resolutely obey the order!" ”
The next day, Tang Tianji left Hong Kong and began a new journey. #开国将帅 #