One day in 1946, a strange person came to the door of Yan Youwen, deputy director of the Political Department of the 12th Station District of the Kuomintang, who claimed that he had come to find his brother, and only Chief Yan knew his brother's whereabouts.
After seeing Yan Youwen, the person who came easily told his details, and just when Yan Youwen was puzzled, the man excitedly shook his hand and said: Comrade Yan Youwen, I finally got in touch with you.
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Yan Youwen, a native of Wanrong County, Shanxi, was born in 1914, although his family was poor, but he was talented, intelligent, diligent and studious, and on the way to study, he also met a lot of nobles to help, he was 19 years old, with excellent results admitted to the Law School of Shanxi University. It was also then that he came into contact with advanced revolutionary ideas.
In the year he graduated, the "Lugou Bridge Incident" occurred, and he came to Yan'an with enthusiasm for serving the country. Because he is a college student, he has the courage and courage to do things, so not long after he arrived in Yan'an, he was favored by Pan Jiwen, an underground party member, and after a period of observation, Yan Youwen was secretly developed into an underground party member by Pan Jiwen in 1938, and joined the Communist Party of China in the same year.
After he entered the Yan'an Qilipu training class to study, after graduation was organized and arranged to enter the northwest warlord Ma Hongkui's troops for transition, with the identity of the Kuomintang, he was arranged to enter Fu Zuoyi's troops, with his advantage of being from Shanxi with Fu Zuoyi, he quickly gained Fu Zuoyi's trust, and began to serve as Fu Zuoyi's secretary in 1939. However, just when he was preparing to provide more information for our party, a series of orders issued by Chiang Kai-shek made Yan Youwen suddenly become a kite with a broken string.
In 1939, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly adjusted his strategic deployment, shifted the spearhead from the Japanese army to the Communist Party, and began to wantonly create friction between the two parties and restrict the activities of the Communist Party. Fu Zuoyi was an anti-Japanese patriotic general and had a good cooperative relationship with the Communist Party. In order to let Fu Zuoyi and the Communist Party get rid of relations as soon as possible, Chiang Kai-shek also sent people to supervise Fu Zuoyi.
In desperation, Fu Zuoyi cleared all the communists and non-party figures in his army, and these people were safely sent to Yan'an by him. Because the incident happened too suddenly, when the party organization left, he didn't come at all to communicate with Yan Youwen, who to contact in the future, and how to contact him, he didn't know anything, just like that, he became a kite with a broken string.
However, this loss of contact lasted for 7 years, until August 1945, when Wang Yu, a member of the Communist Party, received an order from his superiors to find Yan Youwen, who had lost contact. After Wang Yu received the task, he immediately began to act, he dressed up as a leather merchant, and began to inquire around for news, and finally he learned the news of Yan Youwen from one of Fu Zuoyi's old subordinates, so there was the beginning of the scene.
When Yan Youwen heard from Wang Yu that he was sent by ***, Yan Youwen was excited, for many years, he kept his mission in mind and waited quietly, just for the arrival of this day. After Wang Yu and Yan Youwen resumed contact, they opened a warehouse for the leather business nearby, and after all the arrangements were ready, Yan Youwen's line was officially launched.
In June 1946, Chiang Kai-shek tore up the agreement and launched the civil war again, although Yan Youwen sent the news in time, but because the deployment of our army at that time was not in place, coupled with the gap in strength, the Kuomintang troops still took the lead in several victories, Fu Zuoyi's troops attacked Zhangjiakou and successfully took Zhangjiakou, Chiang Kai-shek also named him the commander of North China's "Suppression Chief", and then he won the victory in the Battle of Jining.
After the Battle of Jining, Yan Youwen received an order that made him very embarrassed, and Fu Zuoyi asked him to draft an open letter to ***. After receiving such an order, Yan Youwen reported the situation to Wang Yu, and soon the matter was passed on to *** by Wang Yu, and after discussing with ***, it was decided to let Yan Youwen write boldly, how to write excessively.
Getting such a reply, Yan Youwen's heart calmed down a lot, and soon, a letter written by Yan Youwen "To *** Open Telegram" was published in "Struggle**", in order to express Fu Zuoyi's attitude and position, the letter wrote: As long as Mr. Mao participates in **, if you don't dislike it, I am willing to be Mr. Mao's subordinate and obey you absolutely and faithfully.
The meaning of these words is obvious, as long as *** is willing to join the Kuomintang, Fu Zuoyi is willing to be ***'s subordinate. From Fu Zuoyi's point of view, this is his sincerity, but from the point of view of the Communist Party, this is a naked insult. For this reason, all Communists who read the letter would be angry at the contents of the letter, and Yan Youwen, the writer of the letter, was also pushed to the forefront for a while, and the Kuomintang praised him for his good writing, but the Communist Party regarded him as a mortal enemy.
With the advancement of the Liberation War, the balance of victory began to slowly tilt towards the Communist Party's side, at this time, Yan Youwen began to persuade Fu Zuoyi to let him negotiate peace with the Communist Party, although Fu Zuoyi wanted to relax several times, but in the end he could not make up his mind. And the main reason why Yan Youwen dared to do this was because he found that Fu Zuoyi had already seen through Chiang Kai-shek, although Chiang Kai-shek valued Fu Zuoyi very much on the surface, but he didn't trust him very much.
This can be seen from Fu Zuoyi's corps, Fu Zuoyi has four corps, but three of them are Chiang's descendants, Fu Zuoyi has no substantive command at all, the reason why Chiang Kai-shek will give him these three descendant corps, its main purpose is to monitor Fu Zuoyi, once he has misdeeds, these three corps can destroy him at any time, Chiang Kai-shek's thoughts, Fu Zuoyi has already seen through.
And Chiang Kai-shek's suspicion also caused a gap between him and Fu Zuoyi. Coupled with the chaos within the Kuomintang at that time, Fu Zuoyi was originally a patriotic general, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he made great contributions to the country and the nation, but now the party is corrupt, and he is also very disappointed in such a **. It was precisely because Yan Youwen saw this from Fu Zuoyi that he dared to boldly persuade him to negotiate peace with the Communist Party.
On November 29, 1948, the Battle of Pingjin began, and before that, Yan Youwen had handed over the information he had collected to Wang Yu, including the "Beiping City Defense Plan", "Beiping City Wall Battle Plan" and detailed maps and military strength, etc., and he also passed back his evaluation of Fu Zuoyi, and the contradictions between Fu Zuoyi and Chiang Kai-shek. And his information played an irreplaceable role in how to make decisions in Beiping, and also laid the foundation for the peaceful liberation of Beiping.
In January 1949, Fu Zuoyi was surrounded in Beiping, and it was on the basis of the information transmitted by Yan Youwen that our party formulated the principle and policy of "encircling but not fighting, and resolving it peacefully". After that, Yan Youwen also began to step up his efforts to persuade Fu Zuoyi to negotiate peace, and at this time, Fu Zuoyi's daughter Fu Dongju was also actively promoting peace talks. After much thought, Fu Zuoyi finally decided to send a representative to negotiate.
During the negotiations, our side showed great sincerity, but Fu Zuoyi was always unwilling to make a final decision. At this time, ** gave Fu Zuoyi a heavy hammer, saying that if he did not accept the conditions for the peaceful liberation of Beiping within the specified time, he would immediately attack the city.
On January 31, the People's Liberation Army officially took over Beiping, and Beiping was peacefully liberated.
After the liberation of Beiping, Yan Youwen thought that he could retire and return to the organization, but the organization did not restore his identity, but let him continue to stay with Fu Zuoyi and let him assist Fu Zuoyi in handling the reorganization of the troops. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Fu Zuoyi was appointed Minister of Water Resources, and Yan Youwen was appointed Director of the General Office of the Ministry of Water Resources, and he was still Fu Zuoyi's subordinate.
In 1961, Yan Youwen was transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture, and on September 25, 1962, Yan Youwen died of esophageal cancer at the age of 48.
On April 19, 1974, Fu Zuoyi died of illness, and he did not know the true identity of his most trusted secretary Yan Youwen until his death. Because Yan Youwen's identity has not been made public, it has also brought a lot of trouble to his family, and when his children are promoted, the political trial is always stuck, and there is only one reason: "Comrade Yan Youwen's history is not clear."
In order to solve this problem, they also specifically looked for the "** Ministry", but there was no Yan Youwen's name in the uprising list of the "** Ministry", which made his family puzzled.
In fact, the reason is very simple, Yan Youwen was originally a member of our party, how could his name appear in the list of uprisings. However, because Yan Youwen had always had a one-line connection with the organization at that time, there were very few people who knew about him, and his information was confidential, if the organization was not public, almost no one could find out.
And this matter did not take a turn until 1993, when Wang Yu, who maintained a one-line contact with Yan Youwen, mentioned Yan Youwen in a conversation with an old friend, and when he thought of Yan Youwen, Wang Yu's emotions became excited, and he said, "It's been more than 40 years, Yan Youwen's identity should be public."