The revolutionary predecessors fought bloody battles to have today's life, and among these founding heroes, there is one who is very special, he is Tang Shengming.
Tang Shengming's life can be described as legendary and exciting, he was once a *** student, and he also lurked in the enemy camp, even if his identity was exposed, he could still sit with the enemy and drink and chat, before the founding of New China, he was uncompromising*** After the founding of New China, he became the deputy commander of the 21st Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Why was Tang Shengming able to become the founder of the country in a chic life?How did he end?
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Born rich
Tang Shengming was born in Hunan in 1906 in a big family, the family conditions are needless to say, his grandfather was a feudal official of the Qing Dynasty, and his father was the director of the Hunan Provincial Industrial Department during the ** period, Tang Shengming also had three elder brothers, two of whom became officers of the Kuomintang, and one was the director of the Printing Bureau.
Just look at this family relationship, Tang Shengming can go sideways in that era, Tang Shengming is the son of his parents when he is a little older, and the above brothers have all become talents, so the family's control of Tang Shengming is relatively relaxed, and most things can be done according to his temperament.
In such an environment, Tang Shengming undoubtedly became a gentleman, which was nothing to the Tang family at that time, after all, the family had money and power, even if Tang Shengming was chic all his life, he had this confidence. When Tang Shengming grew up, he still messed around with fox friends and dogs all day long, and every time he invited a teacher, he would be teased by Tang Shengming and leave those teachers alive.
My father saw that this was not good, and he had to have a degree if he liked to eat, drink and have fun, how could he indulge in these things all day long?But he is helpless against this son, is there really no one who can control him?
After Tang Shengzhi learned of his father's troubles, he proposed to take his younger brother Tang Shengming away, saying that he had a relationship with a young teacher at the school, and the teacher spoke very interestingly, maybe Tang Shengming would like it. The father who was exhausted by Tang Shengming's torture had no other way, so he had to let Tang Shengzhi take Tang Shengming away, Tang Shengzhi, an interesting teacher, was none other than our great leader***
Tang Shengming was 14 years old when he first met ***, and the chairman at that time was only 27 years old, it was the period when his ideas flourished, for some traditional culture and new ideas, the chairman can always put forward a point-to-point view and a different understanding, although the views put forward by the chairman at that time were somewhat "ridiculous" in the eyes of others, but Tang Shengming did not think so, he agreed with *** thinks that this young teacher is much stronger than those pedantic teachers in the past, and every time he listens to his lectures, Tang Shengming will put away those naughty actions and words, and listen carefully to the teaching.
Don't look at Tang Shengming's squirming all day long, he is actually very concerned about the development of the country, Tang Shengming likes to discuss national affairs with *** in his free time, but the chairman has not been teaching for a long time, and he took the initiative to resign and leave Hunan after a year.
The chairman only said that he was going to Shanghai to work, but Tang Shengming later learned that the chairman went to Shanghai to work, and he went to attend the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
After the chairman left, Tang Shengming continued to live a leisurely life, but compared to the appearance of the chairman before meeting the chairman, his brother Tang Shengzhi, who was more than ten years older than him, saw that he had reached the age of joining the army, and arranged him into the Kuomintang army through his own connections.
It took Tang Shengming a few years to become a deputy division commander in the Kuomintang army, perhaps because he had been his teacher, compared to the hostile attitude of other Kuomintang officers towards our party, Tang Shengming had more good feelings about our party.
Of course, Tang Shengming is not only good friends with ***, his relationship with Chen Geng is also good, in 1926 Tang Shengming entered the Whampoa Military Academy to study, his company commander is Chen Geng, the relationship between the two is very good, Tang Shengming even if he studied at the Whampoa Military Academy will occasionally show his stubborn nature, he once moved Chiang Kai-shek's yacht because of curiosity, causing Chiang Kai-shek to be furious, fortunately, Chen Geng and Tang Shengzhi interceded with Tang Shengming to save him from punishment.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup, and Tang Shengming, who was like a fish in water in **, could stay out of it, but he knew many members of our party and knew that our party was a party with firm beliefs, so he would also contact our party in private, and learned that *** planned to launch the Autumn Harvest Uprising, but there was not enough ** in his hand, Tang Shengming decided to help us.
Secretly help our party
Tang Shengming was an officer of the Kuomintang and his family was huge, so why did he choose to make friends with our party, which was backward in all aspects?
Before the Autumn Harvest Uprising, our party was under-equipped, and Tang Shengming decided to help our party after learning the news.
Tang Shengming found his brother Tang Shengzhi and said that the equipment of his troops was old and he wanted to replace it with a new batch of equipment. Tang Shengzhi was a little puzzled by this, the change of equipment for the troops did exist, and Tang Shengming's troops had not changed their equipment before, but he knew in his heart that Tang Shengming was not interested in the equipment of the troops at all, so how could he take the initiative to ask him for equipment?
Under Tang Shengzhi's questioning, Tang Shengming had to confess that he wanted to support the uprising, Tang Shengzhi was shocked, he knew that this younger brother had always been bold, and the Communist Party was a big taboo in the eyes of Chiang Kai-shek, and he actually wanted to support the Communist Party. Tang Shengzhi thought about it for a long time, but still acquiesced to his younger brother's boldness.
After Tang Shengming's maneuvering, he finally won a batch of **, and more than 300 guns and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition were sent to the revolutionaries before the Autumn Harvest Uprising. In fact, before the Autumn Harvest Uprising, Tang Shengming also secretly supported the Nanchang Uprising and reached out to help our party when it was in the most crisis, which made *** and other revolutionaries remember his kindness.
Tang Shengming's things were very hidden, and they were not discovered by Chiang Kai-shek and others, and even Dai Li, the military commander, never doubted Tang Shengming, and the two were even good friends who called them brothers, and no one had ever doubted Tang Shengming's position. Of course, this is also the reason why Tang Shengming usually shows cynicism and has little interest in politics and the military.
Tang Shengming had a smooth ride in the first team, of course, he did not forget the difficulties of our party, he has been paying attention to the revolutionary process of our party, in 1932, Chen Geng accidentally injured his right leg in a war, our party quickly sent someone to send him to Shanghai, after arriving in Shanghai, our party needs to avoid the pursuit of national spies, but also faces the problem of insufficient medical funds, Chen Geng can only be in some small hospitals.
Of course, the effect of these small hospitals was unsatisfactory, resulting in Chen Geng's leg injury not being able to heal, Tang Shengming, who learned the news, took out a sum of money to Chen Geng without saying a word, so that he should not worry about money.
After Chen Geng's leg injury was healed, it was with the help of Tang Shengming that he escaped the pursuit of the spies and returned safely from Shanghai to the **Soviet District. Of course, Tang Shengming's legendary life was not only welcomed by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, but he was able to eat well among several major forces in China at that time.
Tang Shengming once served as the commander of the Changsha garrison, but Chiang Kai-shek soon transferred him to Changde, as the commander of the garrison there, at first Tang Shengming was a little unhappy, Changde's official ** is comparable to the official of Changsha, I didn't expect the new garrison commander to take over less than a year, Changsha fire, resulting in serious losses to the Kuomintang, the garrison commander was shot by Chiang Kai-shek in a fit of rage.
In 1940, Chiang Kai-shek gave Tang Shengming a secret mission, that is, to infiltrate Wang Jingwei's Wang puppet regime, Tang Shengming has friends all over the world, and he has always had a good relationship with Wang Jingwei.
Chiang Kai-shek wanted to take advantage of his relationship with Wang Jingwei to let him enter the Wang puppet regime, find out the news in it, plot against the important figures of the Wang puppet regime, transmit information about the Japanese invaders to our army, and at the same time cover the anti-Japanese troops in the rear. Although Tang Shengming did not like political struggles, wars, or anything, he understood that it was impossible to really stay out of troubled times, and as a Chinese against the Japanese invaders, he should also do, so he agreed to Chiang Kai-shek's request, but he had to plan well in this process.
After making a plan, Tang Shengming took his wife to Guilin, first played in Guilin for a few days, and then went to Hong Kong, as for why he didn't go directly to Wang Jingwei, Tang Shengming was not a fool, he left under the guise that the Kuomintang army was too tired to drink all day, and went directly to Wang Jingwei to enter the army, Wang Jingwei would definitely be able to guess his purpose.
Guilin feng shui is notoriously good, he took his wife to visit the mountains and rivers has no problem, Hong Kong is a British concession, and the British ability of that era is not bad, compared to the mainland, Hong Kong is indeed more prosperous, and it is suitable for him to do everything like this.
After Wang Jingwei learned the news, he had the idea of wooing Tang Shengming, firstly, Tang Shengming has a wide range of friends, and he has friends in many forces, which can help him win connections, and secondly, he is Tang Shengzhi's younger brother, Wang Jingwei once cooperated with Tang Shengzhi, and he knows that he is a talented person, if he can win over the cooperation, he will have one more general, and Tang Shengming can be the lobbyist who woos Tang Shengzhi.
In order to make sure that Tang Shengming had no second thoughts, Wang Jingwei specially sent his spy in ** to inquire about Tang Shengming's situation, and learned that Tang Shengming didn't care even if he was an officer, and he thought about drinking and having fun all day long, and he was not honest even in the army, and his brother Tang Shengzhi deliberately locked him in the room at night in order to make Tang Shengming more disciplined, but after Tang Shengzhi fell asleep, Tang Shengming still secretly ran out to play.
Wang Jingwei, who learned of these news, gradually disappeared from his suspicion of Tang Shengming, and he was ready to invite Tang Shengming to join his forces.
Fantastic experience
Wang Jingwei invited Tang Shengming to join his regime at a banquet in Shanghai, but Tang Shengming refused, saying that he only wanted to live a happy life with his wife all day, and did not have much interest in the army or the regime. Wang Jingwei is not surprised by Tang Shengming's answer, everyone knows his character after knowing him for so many years.
The life of Tang Shengming and his wife in Shanghai is very simple, summed up in four words, it is to eat, drink and have fun, there is no trouble at all, during this period, Wang Jingwei gave Tang Shengming a small building, Wang Jingwei recruited Tang Shengming several times, Tang Shengming pretended not to shirk or agreed.
After joining the Wang Jingwei regime, Tang Shengming did not change his unruly appearance, and spent all day with a group of people, and he was not attentive enough to his work; in fact, Tang Shengming had already heard a lot of important information when he was eating and drinking with important figures of the Wang puppet regime, and he would send this information to the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the two parties could even obtain the information of the Japanese puppet regime, which was very effective for us to take precautions.
Tang Shengming's undercover career is definitely not just about finding out intelligence, he made three sensational things during his undercover period, one is to rebel against Zhou Fohai, the second is to instigate the Japanese to kill Li Shiqun, and the third is to contribute to the Pacific War.
Zhou Fohai was the No. 3 person in Wang's puppet regime, and the Kuomintang also had the idea of wooing him, but the Kuomintang at that time had greater hopes for Li Shiqun, so the Kuomintang gave Tang Shengming the task of winning over Li Shiqun. As for Zhou Fohai, he inadvertently found that his attitude towards the Kuomintang was somewhat loose.
After Tang Shengming entered the Wang puppet regime, he had a good relationship with many of these important figures, and by chance he learned that Zhou Fohai was very worried about Hunan's family, and it happened that Tang Shengming was also from Hunan, so he used his identity as a fellow countryman to get close to Zhou Fohai, and revealed Zhou Fohai's heart to Dai Li, who immediately started with Zhou Fohai's family and successfully rebelled against Zhou Fohai.
Zhou Fohao and Li Shiqun are Wang Jingwei's right and left hands, there are a lot of open and secret battles between the two, Tang Shengming originally wanted to win Li Shiqun, but found that the person in front of him was loyal to the Japanese like a dog, and there was no possibility of rebellion, the Kuomintang decided to get rid of Li Shiqun after consideration, as for the way to get rid of Li Shiqun, Tang Shengming offered three schemes, let the Japanese attack, let the infighting of Wang's puppet regime kill him, or send military agents to assassinate him.
Among these plans, the Japanese had the best effect in killing Li Shiqun, and it would not cause any trouble. As for the Japanese officer who killed Li Shiqun, they chose Okamura of the Japanese gendarmerie, Okamura has always disliked Li Shiqun, and the Japanese officer who is good with Li Shi** is Qingqi Dazuo, and it happened that Qingqi was transferred away during that time.
Zhou Fohai sent his deputy Xiong Jiandong out of the horse, Xiong Jiandong and Okamura have always had a good relationship, with Xiong Jiandong instigating in front of Okamura, Okamura moved to kill Li Shiqun, so Okamura took the initiative to invite Li Shiqun to eat at home, poisoned his food, Li Shiqun was poisoned by the Japanese in this way, and did die in the hands of the Japanese in the end, how ironic it is for the traitor.
Through the killing of Li Shiqun, Tang Shengming rebelled against many important figures in Wang's puppet regime. In 1944, when Tang Shengming was drinking with Furukawa, a Japanese naval officer he was familiar with, Furukawa accidentally revealed that the United States was preparing to deal with the frontal battlefield of the Pacific War, but Japan had secretly assembled a fleet and was preparing to launch another surprise attack on the rear of the United States.
Tang Shengming did not react much at that time, and after drinking, he quickly told the Kuomintang the news, and the Kuomintang immediately informed the United States, and the US Navy saw that there was really something wrong with the Japanese fleet, and the number of frontal battlefields was very wrong, so they took advantage of the fact that the Japanese raiding fleet had not yet been assembled, and directly attacked, causing the Japanese fleet to suffer a devastating blow.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Tang Shengming and Tang Shengzhi were disappointed in the Kuomintang, the two secretly rebelled against many ** officers, and also sent some important information to our party, when Hunan was liberated, Tang Shengming took the initiative to lead the army to surrender to our party, in November 1949, Tang Shengming's army was reorganized into the 21st Corps of the People's Liberation Army, and he was also appointed deputy commander of the lieutenant general. Our party has always been grateful to this "gentleman."
Soon after this, Tang Shengming went to Hong Kong to do business, and he finally lived a leisurely life away from politics.