In 1960, due to the rapid change in thinking and active work, the party and state leaders wanted to grant amnesty to a group of war criminals who had changed their ways and were willing to serve the people, and Shen Zui was pardoned as the second group of amnesty war criminals. This Kuomintang minion, who had 17 years of spy career and 11 years of prison life, finally returned to the ranks of the general public.
On November 23, 1981, Shen Zui, as a representative, had the honor to participate in the Fifth Political Consultative Conference, and during the break of the meeting, he said: "30 years have passed with twists and turns!The party has changed me from an anti-people military spy to a patriot who loves the Communist Party and the people”
Drunk (first from right).
As a Kuomintang spy, Shen Zui served as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference three times in a row after the amnesty, and even enjoyed the treatment of deputy ministers in his later years, but behind these scenes there are little-known bitter pasts.
In 1913, Shen Zui was born in the family of a squire in Xiangtan, Hunan, his father died early, and his mother was an important member of the famous poetry society in the late Qing Dynasty. Under the influence of his mother, he was drunk in a landlord family and was not pedantic, and the ideal of participating in the revolution burned in his heart.
In 1932, at the age of 18, Shen was a student at Changsha Art and Literature Middle School, and he was deeply affected by the ideas of the Great Revolution, and he was expelled from the school along with his senior classmates for not obeying the school's instructions.
Drunk. After leaving school, his mother persuaded him many times to choose a new school, but Shen Zui thought that this was the time when the country was in danger, and after a fierce ideological struggle, he decided to continue to participate in the revolution and came to Shanghai alone to seek refuge with his brother-in-law Yu Lexing.
But his brother-in-law Yu Lexing is not a fuel-efficient lamp, he originally studied in Europe for 6 years, and met *** when he was in Europe, and became one of the heads of the European branch of the Communist Youth League. But after returning to China, he broke away from the party organization and joined the Kuomintang military command, and was the core backbone of the Fuxing Society's secret service.
Shen Zui, who came to Shanghai, hurriedly begged Yu Lexing to give him a "revolutionary job" so that he could contribute to the country, and under Shen Zui's pleading, Yu Lexing introduced him to the military command organization.
Before this, Yu Lexing had given him three days to consider, once he joined, he could not quit for life, and he finally swore to join the military command, so far his life has changed, and the patriotic young man in the past has fallen deeper and deeper, and it is difficult to turn back.
Many years later, Shen Zui wrote about this in his memoirs: "The ancients said: 'One misstep becomes a thousand years of hatred, and then look back on a hundred years. Today I understand the true meaning of this sentence. ”Shen Zui, who had just joined the "work", became a liaison officer, and his main task was to deliver and collect information in various concessions in Shanghai, and he was an inconspicuous little person in the crowd.
Until one day, Yu Lexing asked Shen Zui to go to Hangzhou to send a letter to "Boss Dai". At this time, Shen Zui had not seen this "Boss Dai", but most of the people around him were very afraid of Dai Li, which also made the young Shen Zui have a fear of the unknown.
Dai Lian and Chiang Kai-shek.
At that time, the Fuxing Society set up a base at the Hangzhou Police Academy, where Dai Li often worked. After coming to the police academy, Shen Zui took out the envelope, and several guards sent it to Dai Li. At this time, Dai Li was wearing a Mao suit, holding ** in his hand, as if he was ordering something.
As soon as he hung up **, the accompanying guard reported to Dai Li: "This is sent by the Shanghai Special Economic Zone, and I came to deliver the letter." ”
When Shen Zui heard this, he hurriedly handed the letter above his head with both hands, not daring to look directly at Dai Li. Dai Li looked at Shen Zui with a smile, and asked while opening the letter, "You just came, right?"In the face of Dai Li's inquiry, Shen Zui didn't dare to make a sound, and nodded mechanically.
Then Dai Li was not in a hurry, and chatted with Shen Zui after reading the letter, facing this little person with no background, Dai Li talked with him for an hour, and gave him some ocean before leaving, and said: "You can come to me often in the future, my son is the same age as him, and you can go to play with him during the winter vacation." In this way, Shen Zui was recognized by Dai Li.
In his early years, Shen Zui (third from left in the first row) took a group photo with his family and colleagues in Nanjing.
Under Dai Li's protection, he became the head of the Eighth Division of the Military Command at the age of 29 and the youngest major general of the Military Command at the age of 33. He was supposed to be promoted all the way, but because after Dai Li took a plane in 1946, he was regarded as an obstacle to his future by the new director Mao Renfeng, and was assigned to Yunnan as the head of Yunnan Station.
In 1949, with the rapid development of the revolutionary situation, Lu Han, the "King of Yunnan", was determined to embark on the road of the anti-Chiang uprising, and secretly dispatched troops to prepare for the uprising. Shen Zui, who served as the head of Yunnan Station, also sensed Lu Han's thoughts, and said to his cronies:
"Now Guiyang is no longer safe, the People's Liberation Army is pointing directly at Yunnan, Kunming is in danger, and the Kuomintang has been comprehensively and completely caught in a desperate situation, which we cannot change. Luján is preparing to revolt, these have been signs for a long time, and if he really wants to revolt, we can only act with him and participate in his uprising. ”
Drunk (first from left).
Obviously, at this time, Shen Zui had already understood that the defeat of the Kuomintang was a matter of time, and he was going to choose an uprising for his own survival, but the development of things did not follow his thoughts.
At that time in Yunnan, although Lu Han served as the provincial chairman, Chiang Kai-shek was not at ease with Lu Han, he installed his own people in Kunming, the most special of which was Li Mi, the commander of the Eighth Army of the ** Army, and Shen Zui, who was ready to follow him to revolt, but Lu Han did not know Shen Zui's thoughts, in order to ensure that the uprising was foolproof, so Lu Han decided to strike first, and he wanted to put up a Hongmen banquet for these two people.
Old photo of Luján. Before Lu Han's banquet, Shen Zui had already begun to prepare for an uprising. He first arrested a large number of spies stranded in Kunming, and also arrested Xu Yuanju and Zhou Yanghao, the chief and deputy heads of the Southwest Region of the Kuomintang Military Command. Then he ordered his subordinates to put down **, and later telegraphed all the staff of the military command:
"I absolutely obey the orders of Director Lu Han, and I hope that all the staff will obey and stop all work from now on, so I will hand it over immediately, and shall not destroy any communication equipment, and if others seize it, take the initiative to go through the registration procedures, and do not escape. ”However, not long after he gave the order, he was detained by Lu Han on the pretext of holding an emergency military meeting in the new mansion, along with Li Mi, the commander of the Eighth Army of the ** Army.
Li Mi and his subordinates discuss the war.
However, because Li Mi was the commander of the Eighth Army, he had a group of elite soldiers and strong generals under him, and after learning that Li Mi was detained by Lu Han, he quickly assembled an army, as if he was also attacking Kunming, and Lu Han had no choice but to let Li Mi go. After Li Mi was saved, he did not dare to stay in Yunnan, because General Chen Geng was leading the People's Liberation Army to Kunming. He had no choice but to flee south with the ** army and enter Burma.
Back to Shen Zui's side, he was not as lucky as Li Mi, because he had been a spy and had a large number of Communists' lives in his hands, Lu Han imprisoned him in the Kunming Army Model Prison, and immediately transferred him to the Chongqing War Criminals Management Center after the People's Liberation Army entered Kunming, until he later entered the Gongdelin in Beijing to be reformed.
Fortunately, many years later, when Yunnan Province ** was sorting out historical materials, he found important files about the Shen Zui Uprising, and quickly reported the matter to **. However, these are all later words, and Shen Zui at this time is still being transformed in the merit forest.
When he was first sent to prison, Shen Zui was still very frightened, but after all, his years of spy career quickly calmed him down, unlike most panicked generals, he did a lot of psychological construction for himself, but he met Xu Yuanju and Zhou Yanghao here (it was Shen Zui who arrested them. ）
Originally, Zhou Yanghao and Shen Zui had a very good relationship, and their wives were even more sisters, but the two brothers who were originally in love with Jin Jian were extremely embarrassed to meet at this time, Zhou Yanghao once roared angrily:
If you hadn't given us the ticket with your ticket, we might have chopped sugar cane on Treasure Island right now. ”
For Zhou Yanghao's brother, Shen Zui still felt guilty, and in order to eliminate this guilt, he gave Zhou Yanghao the clothes, food, and banknotes sent by others. But Zhou Yanghao was very angry when he saw Shen drunk, and one day he finally couldn't help it. At this time, Shen Zui handed the pastries in his hand to Zhou Yanghao, but Zhou Yanghao didn't care about this, and immediately picked up a bench and flew to Shen Zui's body. You must know that Yang Hao is not an ordinary person this week, he is known as one of the three musketeers of the military command, and this time it is not comfortable. In the end, if Song Xilian hadn't blocked it with his arm, Shen Zui wouldn't have had a chance to write a book.
Du Yuming and Shen drunk.
In 1956, Shen Zui was transferred from the Chongqing War Criminals Management Center to Gongdelin for reform. One day, Shen Zui was chatting with Du Yuming and several other war criminals, and suddenly a person hurriedly walked in front of them, and Du Yuming said to the man with a smile: "Nine hundred and nine, what are you doing this morning?"The man was displeased and immediately ran away.
Shen drunk and asked, "Brother Du, why do you call him nine hundred and nine?"”
Du Yuming explained that the nine hundred and nine is to say that a person is stingy, at the beginning Gongdelin's stamps were free, but because they did not want money, some war criminals wrote a large number of letters, which inevitably caused waste, so Gongdelin's stamps were changed to purchase. Although the stamps are not expensive, there are still people who are reluctant to spend money, and the person just now did not borrow Du Yuming's money, of course, this loan will not be repaid.
Old scene of Gongdelin.
Speaking of which, some readers are curious, do war criminals have money?How do I buy stamps?
In fact, the original People's Liberation Army implemented the rule of "confiscating the pockets of prisoners", and some war criminals would put money and goods on themselves. For example, Pu Yi will also put a little savings on the soles of his shoes, which are allowed to be kept by the war criminals, and when they encounter difficulties, they will exchange the US dollars in their hands for ** people's currency.
After hearing Du Yuming's explanation, Shen Zui blinked his eyes and said in a low voice: "I have a lot of US dollars in my clothes, can I take them out to exchange for RMB?"”
Du Yuming patted him on the shoulder and said, "Of course you can, but why have you hidden this dollar bill for so long?"”
Old photos of Du Yuming.
Shen Zui showed his "proud" side, it turned out that Shen Zui signed an uprising telegram with Lu Han before he was imprisoned, and Lu Han also allowed others to send him money and food before the People's Liberation Army entered the city, during which many people felt that he could be released quickly, and he was not supervised, and some people gave him US dollars, which Shen Zui did not refuse, and he was put in his clothes without luggage at the beginning, thanks to the "no confiscation of prisoners' pockets" regulations at that time, he was also considered a "rich man" in prison.
But after all, it is to accept the transformation, and it is inevitable to lose his freedom, he can't see his wife and family here, his beloved wife's nickname is Xue Xue, and Shen Zui has been calling her nickname to show intimacy. Drunk and missing his wife, he wrote in his diary:
Monday, December 10, cloudy with light snow.I won't write much about taking care of my single friends, but we can still see Shen Zui's longing for his wife.Last night, I dreamed of snow and snow again. Maybe it was because when she put on the sweater she wore yesterday afternoon, she thought about the past and reflected it in her mind. When I dream of her at night, I always feel comfortable ......Xue Xue, when will I be able to take you into my arms again and enjoy your warmth?
Shen drunk with his ex-wife Su Yanping.
But such a diary let him avoid punishment, Shen was only in his thirties at that time, and all the men in Gongdelin were male compatriots, and he missed his beloved wife for a long time in good health, and in order to solve personal problems, he had to exercise his body at night to divert his attention, but it was inevitable to leave sweat stains. So he had to wash his clothes while everyone hadn't gotten up yet, so as to avoid queuing.
However, at that time, a war criminal named Dong Yisan felt that Shen Zui had bad intentions, this person also happened to be from the military command, and when Shen was drunk, he found a management cadre and gave full play to his traditional ability to make small reports (the military command often made small reports). Falsely accusing Shen of being drunk and dishonest may be to flee.
The Octagonal Tower of the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center.
This attracted the attention of the management staff, in case Shen Zui really wanted to escape, we couldn't ignore it, he hurriedly called Shen Zui over and asked him if he had done something unseemly. Shen Zui was also exposed because of the events of the night, and his face turned red all of a sudden, but Shen Zui thought about it in a blink of an eye, thinking that his wife couldn't ask himself, so he shouted that he was wronged, and said: "I miss my wife, if you don't believe it, you can read my diary, and you can see how I write." ”
The manager took a look at it, and sure enough, then returned the diary with a smile.
In 1959, at this time, New China had spent ten years, and it was decided to amnesty a group of war criminals and ordinary criminal criminals who sincerely abandoned evil and followed good, and had obvious ideological changes.
Shen Zui was not very disappointed in this, he thought that as long as he continued to work hard to reform, he would definitely be amnesty.
Amnesty Congress. On November 28, 1960, Shen was pardoned by the Supreme People's Court a year later. After Shen Zui came out of the merit forest, he actively inquired about Xue Xue's whereabouts, but before he could find it, the ** department invited Shen Zui and other second batch of amnesty personnel and the first batch of amnesty personnel to have dinner.
After the dinner, Xu Bing talked about the work placement of the first batch of amnesty personnel, he said: "For the first batch of amnesty personnel to work in the countryside for one year has expired, it has been decided to arrange for them to go to the CPPCC Cultural and Historical Archives Committee as commissioners, and the treatment is still good." ”Hearing that the Communists treated the amnesty people so favorably, this was beyond Shen Shen's expectations, and he was even more curious about where he was going.
After talking for a while, Tong Xiaopeng said to the second batch of amnesty personnel: "* I am going to meet with the second batch of amnesty personnel, I hope you can be prepared." ”
Shen Zui was very excited when he heard the news, after all, he used to be a spy, and he wanted to put him to death many times, but he didn't expect that *** at this time would have to meet him, which he didn't expect.
On February 21, 1961, **and**, in the West Flower Hall in Zhongnanhai, met with the amnesty personnel, and **first chatted with everyone. When *** walked up to Shen Zui, Shen Zui took the initiative to say: "* I want to ask you for sin." ”
**I was not surprised to hear this, but I still smiled as always and said, "What kind of crime please?."”
Shen Zui said: "When the prime minister was in Shanghai, Chongqing, Nanjing and other places, I led spies to conduct reconnaissance and surveillance activities on the prime minister. ”
After hearing this, he laughed, and took the initiative to chat with Shen Zui: "I know all this, I clearly knew that there were people watching on the left and right sides of the house, and the service staff were also your spies, but even so, I met and chatted with the comrades working underground in Shanghai every day. ”He asked again: "I met with the underground party comrades, what did you find?"Shen Zui replied: "I didn't find it, if I did, the spies would take you away." ”
** Only then did he say the trick of escaping from the surveillance of the spies: "When I was working in Shanghai, I often went to the movies, and at this time I would meet with my comrades, and at the beginning of the movie, it was all dark inside, and the spies couldn't find it, so I could only wait at the door so as not to disturb me, and I would be the first to come out at the end of the show, and the spies were attracted by me." The other comrades scattered and walked away. So spy surveillance has no effect on my work. ”
At this time, Shen Zui fell into deep thought, and then *** patted Shen Zui's shoulder and said: "You guys have never played a role in the past, you have become my entourage." ”
Shen Zui nodded slowly, admiring the prime minister's wit and wisdom in his heart.
At this time, he said solemnly: "The amnesty for you is also for the benefit of the party and the people, so I hope you must do something beneficial to the people in the future." ”
At this time, Shen Zui was a little confused, and said: "Prime Minister, can I still do something beneficial to the people?"”
**said: "Of course, you have worked in the military command for so long, whether it is what you have done or those ** revolutionaries you have seen and heard, and other unsightly things have been exposed, so that future generations can know the hardships of the revolution and let everyone know that the victory of the revolution is not easy to come by, and this is the red country that has been sacrificed for many talents!."Therefore, you have to write the inside story of the military command truthfully, and this is what is beneficial to the people!”
Shen Zui once rehabilitated seven underground middle-class members including Zhang Luping.
Many years later, Shen Zui listened to ***'s advice and published the book "What I Know About Dai Li", which truthfully revealed the inside story of the general's command, ** After reading the book, he shouted: "Shen Zui, you hurt me!".”
It turned out that when I was reading "The Dai Li" written by Shen Zui, I couldn't stop when I saw it, and the said that Shen Zui "harmed" him, and it hurt him to sleep less!Subsequently, under the instructions of ***, Shen Zui wrote one article after another, so that the black inside story of the military commander could be **....
For the author, although he is a spy, he is not a bad person in the strict sense. When he was young, he was high-spirited and willing to shed his blood for the motherland, but unfortunately he was led astray by Dai Li and others, which made people sigh. During the Yunnan Uprising, he led the team to revolt but "accidentally" entered the Gongdelin, but he also got a blessing in disguise, and his thinking changed during the years in the Gongdelin, and finally put the people in his heart.
Every time I think of this, I sigh and say: If he hadn't entered the military command at the beginning, but embarked on a red road, his life would have been more exciting......