In 1973, a military dignitary died suddenly and violently in prison. **Order a thorough investigation into the matter immediately. The incident occurred on 22 January, when the jailer opened the cell door as usual, only to see a horrific scene.
The body of Xu Yuanju's spy was lying inside, his eyes protruding and his nostrils bleeding.
Xu Yuanju covered the sky in the southwest region with one hand, which made the citizens of Chongqing tremble. A brutal spy died suddenly in prison, what kind of secret is hidden behind this?
Explore the mystery of Xu Yuanju's tragic death together.
Xu Yuanju came from a squire family in Daye County, Hubei Province, where his father owned a lot of land and wealth. He studied in a private school, entered school at the age of 5, and entered a prestigious middle school in Wuhan at the age of 12.
Although Xu Yuanju came from a good background, his family went to tragedy under the education of his parents. Originally, he was supposed to be the next generation of heroes, but in 1926, an accident destroyed his family by the Northern Expedition and the mass movement.
In the struggle of the peasant association in Daye County against the local tyrants and inferior gentry, Xu Yuanju's father was paraded through the streets with a high hat, his family's land and property were confiscated and burned, and his family and servants were also **.
All this made Xu Yuanju feel deep fear and hatred, and he was full of hostility and fear of the mass movement, especially the rise of revolutionary forces, which made him feel uneasy and panicked.
Xu Yuanju joined the National Revolutionary Army after dropping out of school, and in 1928 he entered the Fourth Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army to study at the Battalion Officer School and became a student soldier.
This school was later taken over by Chiang Kai-shek and renamed the Wuhan Branch of the **Army Military Academy, which is the seventh phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and Xu Yuanju became a cadet of the Whampoa Military Academy.
At the Whampoa Military Academy, he received an education in the Three People's Principles, identified with the political ideas of the Kuomintang, and greatly admired Chiang Kai-shek's leadership. However, he was very disdainful of the purpose of our party and vowed to serve the first.
From this moment on, he went farther and farther away from the masses, and the pillars of our party were also initially formed.
After graduating in 1930, Xu Yuanju served as a deputy company commander in Chen Cheng's army. Chen Cheng was Chiang Kai-shek's confidant, and even the director of the Military Command Bureau like Dai Li, who had to be called "cousin" when he saw him.
Xu Yuanju confronted our party head-on for the first time in Chen Cheng's troops, and the encirclement and suppression operation in Jiangxi was the first step in his spy activities. During this time, he was not only responsible for commanding soldiers in battle, but also for gathering intelligence, interrogating prisoners, and infiltrating our ranks.
Xu Yuanju was ruthless and unscrupulous in order to achieve his goals, which won Chen Cheng's appreciation and also attracted Dai Li's attention. In 1932, Xu Yuanju left the army and joined the Military Command Bureau, where he officially embarked on the path of a spy under the direct leadership of Dai Li.
18-year-old Xu Yuanju is resolute and unrelenting. There were hundreds of torture instruments in his prison, and no one could escape. The military commanders built a base for him, with the center of gravity in Chongqing.
In 1947, he took down the entire newspaper, and everyone was in danger, but he didn't know that his end was coming.
Xu Yuanju's crime was shocking, in 1973, ** spy died tragically in prison, but before that, he had brutally ** the entire newspaper in Chongqing.
The roots of it all can be traced back to August 1947, when a farmer was digging wild vegetables in the mountains when he discovered a large pit full of decomposing corpses. These corpses were none other than the underground workers of our Party, who emitted an unbearable stench in the hot weather.
Shockingly, they were assassinated for publishing an underground newspaper called The Advance. This newspaper was published exclusively in the Kuomintang to expose the corruption of the people and encourage the people to unite in the war of resistance.
For the citizens of Chongqing, these reports are a long drought and nectar, but for Xu Yuanju, it is an intolerable crime.
In July 1947, Xu Yuanju sent spies to conduct an all-round search, tracking, and surveillance of the "Advance Daily", trying to find out where it was published and who was there. After several months of investigation, Xu Yuanju finally found the printing house and editorial office of the "Advance Daily".
Immediately afterwards, Xu Yuanju gave an order to completely surround the "Advance Daily", and all the staff present were arrested.
* After that, these staff members were subjected to brutal interrogation and inhuman torture, and Xu Yuanju used various forms of torture in an attempt to force them to confess the names and addresses of other comrades.
On the one hand, while torturing the members of the newspaper, he also publicly declared that the newspaper was an illegal newspaper and severely punished anyone who reads, disseminates or collects it.
Xu Yuanju succeeded in sabotaging the "Advance Daily" and caused huge losses to the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee. But he was not satisfied with this, he knew that the "Advance Daily" was only an organization of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee, and there were many other organizations and personnel operating in secret.
He decided to wipe out all the underground workers and kill them.
With the clues provided by the ** staff, he carried out a large-scale arrest operation. Xu Yuanju used his position as head of the Southwest Special Economic Zone to mobilize a large number of military and police forces to carry out a comprehensive blockade and search of Chongqing Municipality.
Under Xu Yuanju's leadership, the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee suffered an unprecedented blow. According to statistics, from July 1947 to October 1949, Xu Yuanju arrested and killed more than 130 underground workers.
In addition to this, he also vigorously suppressed the *** in Chongqing on May 4, 1948, which was the 29th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement. On the same day, people from all walks of life in Chongqing held a grand commemorative event.
Chongqing's primary and secondary school students actively participated in the commemoration, holding up slogans and banners, expressing their desire for peace with songs and slogans, and demonstrating in the hope that the Kuomintang would stop the civil war.
This *** aroused Xu Yuanju's vigilance, and in order to maintain his rule, he ordered a force to suppress it. Under his command, the spies rushed into the scene of the event and carried out brutal strafing and ** on innocent students.
The students, who ranged in age from 8 to 17, did not escape the disaster. Xu Yuanju burned the remains of the students, arrested many student leaders and teachers, and interrogated and executed them more brutally.
In addition, he closed many schools and societies and banned all student activities. Under bloody means, Chongqing's *** was ruthlessly strangled.
Xu Yuanju continued to persist in his criminal behavior after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Although on October 1, 1949, the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee issued the "Chongqing Liberation Declaration" to encourage citizens to embrace a new life, Xu Yuanju's panic grew day by day.
In the face of the retreat of **, he neither dared to run away nor surrendered, so he chose the most cruel way - collective**.
On the eve of the liberation of Chongqing, Xu Yuanju ordered all the "prisoners" detained in the prisons of Dregs Cave, Bai Mansion, New World Temporary Prison, and Southwest Governor's Work Office to be divided into batches.
He brutally killed these innocent people with guns, knives, poison, ropes, water and other methods, which is heartbreaking.
Between October 1 and October 22, 1949, Xu Yuanju caused a tragic incident, killing more than 3,000 innocent "prisoners", including the patriotic general Yang Hucheng, the revolutionary hero Jiang Jie, and Xiao Radish Tou.
He did not foresee that his inhuman actions would eventually lead to his own consequences.
Xu Yuanju's retribution came so quickly that only two days after the founding of New China, he collapsed in prison with darkness in front of his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself surrounded by Chongqing citizens, and the crowd around him was shouting angrily.
He knew that his situation was very dangerous, and once he was caught by the citizens, it would be difficult for him to escape the fate of the death penalty. Therefore, he decided to hide in his office and try to save his life through negotiations.
However, his plan did not work, and as the cries of the citizens grew louder and louder, he was forcibly taken away by our troops without having a chance to defend himself, and his retribution befell in this way.
He was sent to Gongdelin Prison, where the ** spies are held. Here, he was charged with a variety of crimes, including spies, **, and crimes against humanitarianism.
Every day, Xu Yuanju had to endure the scolding and accusations of the people, and even the guards and other prisoners in the prison disdained him and never gave him a good face.
While in prison, Xu Yuanju wrote "My Crime Record", a book detailing his spy career from 1928 to 1949 in thirteen chapters.
However, this is not a confession, and there are no words of repentance in the book, and Xu Yuanju has always believed that he is loyal.
Xu Yuanju, a war criminal who once held a position in the ** interior, failed to seize the opportunity after China issued an amnesty in 1950, and was finally excluded from the amnesty list and sentenced to death alone.
However, his execution was not carried out immediately, but was delayed. According to the regulations, the death penalty of all prisoners who have held positions within the ** will be delayed.
Xu Yuanju once served as the head of the Southwest Special Economic Zone, has a military academy background, and has a lot of information in his hands. Therefore, in order to preserve this information, his death sentence was postponed.
This delay lasted for nearly two decades, from 1951 to the '70s. However, although the death penalty was postponed, this did not mean that Xu Yuanju's life became peaceful.
In Gongdelin, the place where war criminals are held, it often happens**, and Xu Yuanju was also frequently beaten during this period. Sometimes, he would be poured into dirty water; Sometimes, they are locked up in a small, damp room.
During the decades-long torture, Xu Yuanju's body was damaged in many places.
Xu Yuanju's life and death in prison were uncertain, and although prison guards sent him to the hospital in time, his skull was seriously injured, and he was even delirious in the later stage. One day, he was criticized by an inspector at work for a product quality problem, and then got into an argument with the manager.
In the evening, he took a cold shower in the bathroom, but the next morning, the jailer found him dead. Xu Yuanju's bizarre death attracted the attention of ***, and he immediately ordered a thorough investigation.
However, as the investigation deepened, there were more and more suspicions. First of all, there was no sign of an outsider invasion in his room, and no one was touched during the shower. Secondly, although there are wounds on his body, they are all residual scars from the past.
In this closed prison, the only person who can contact Xu Yuanju is the prison administrator.
Xu Yuanju's death was completely self-inflicted, and the old disease of cerebral hemorrhage was the real culprit. The results of the investigation blocked the mouths of the crowd and relieved everyone. For underground workers, what happened to Xu Yuanju was just a small thing.