After the founding of the state,He was appointed as the first Minister of Public Security.
At that time, he received his first major task after taking office.
In November 1949, the capital Beijing had entered the late autumn season, and the weather was slightly cool. **Busy with official business as always. Occasionally, an unsolved case from 18 years ago and the sacrifice of 11 martyrs came back to him, and he made a decision.
One day in November, in the Juxiang Book House, Comrade ** was flipping through the documents, with a cigarette burning in his hand. It was quiet inside the house.
FigSuddenly, there was a knock on the door, followed by a loud voice: "Report Chairman, Report!" ”
The person who came was ***
He straightened his hat and pushed the door in. After entering the door, he saw that he was working seriously at the table, and he saluted a military salute to ***, ** and the chairman have known each other for a long time, and the relationship between the two has always been good, but every time they meet, a military salute is indispensable.
**Let *** find a place to sit, and he himself stood up from his desk, frowning, looking a little worried.
There was silence in the office for a moment, and then I heard *** speak: ".Eldest son Luo, I am in a hurry to call you over this time, because I want you to help me untie the knot left by 18 years ago!
Hearing the chairman say this, ** naturally had doubts in his heart, but looking at the *** who was deep in thought, he did not immediately ask, but said to the chairman: Promise to complete the task!
Fig**This is the story of 18 years ago.
So, what happened 18 years ago that made *** haunted and difficult to let go? What about the outcome of the survey?
In 1931, a number of underground party members died in a ** theft case, which was an extremely sad thing for our party. At that time, the case was unsolved, which became a pimple in the hearts of Comrade ***.
In the winter of 1931, Gu Shunzhang, a senior leader of the ** Special Branch, defected to the revolution, he held an important position in the party, and his defection caused many important materials in the party to fall into the hands of the reactionaries, especially the comrades engaged in underground work, whose identities had been exposed and were quickly seized by the enemy. The surviving comrades were also seriously wounded after a fight with the enemy.
The party organization in Shanghai was in a predicament, and Comrade ** saw that the situation was critical, and in order to save the declining situation, he made a final decision:Ask for help from the **Soviet district。Immediately send a telegram to the Soviet District, inform the situation of the party organization in Shanghai, and strongly hope that the funds will be allocated to restore the construction of the liaison station in Shanghai, and more urgently to treat the wounded comrades and rescue the imprisoned comrades.
**When I heard the news, I didn't have time to get angry, but I felt that the matter was urgent, and quickly planned to allocate funds for the Shanghai party organization.
However, the economy of the **Soviet area is not rich, and it is not easy to raise enough funds immediately?
It is often said that people should give full play to their own subjective initiative, so that they can also find a way to break through the predicament.
Under the call of ***, the Soviet district began a "gold casting campaign" in full swing. The Red Army collected the metal trophies seized from previous battles and hired a blacksmith to melt them into 12 gold bars, each worth 10 taels, adding up to about 120 taels. 120 taels ** At that time, it was definitely a large amount.
The next thing is to plan how to deliver this batch of ** safelyShanghai Party Organizationin the hands of the person in charge. With a huge amount of money and **, it is eye-catching, and it is naturally indispensable to plan well along the way.
* The Soviet district brainstormed and finally came up with a good idea, and they decided to "move money with chess".
Lin Boqu is good at chess, so he made a chess piece overnight, this chess piece has a very special style, and it is an old chess piece that is difficult to forge.
The one-of-a-kind piece was divided into seven pieces and handed over to each of the seven transporters who were in charge of escorting them along the way. The road from Ruijin in the Soviet District to Shanghai was a long way, and for the sake of prudence, a total of seven transporters were arranged to be responsible for each section of the road.
At the time of handover, each transporter must check whether the successor is one-seventh of the old chess piece. This is the first step in verifying the downline's identity, and more importantly, the second step.
Each transporter's superior will give them a set of keys and locks, but the keys and locks do not match. Only when each transporter is handed over, the key in his hand can open the lock of the next transporter, in order to prove the identity of the downline, and the gold bar will be handed over to him. At that time, the seven transporters were only responsible for transporting, and they did not know what was inside the small copper box.
After the handover of the seven transporters is completed, in case of change, they also need to return the chess pieces to the **Soviet district. If, in the end, the *** of the Soviet District received a complete set of seven chess pieces, it means that the task has been completed, and this batch of gold bars has been successfully transported to the hands of the Shanghai Party organization.
It stands to reason that many obstacles have been set up in the joint link during transportation, and the arrangement is very tight, but the accident still happened, and this batch of precious gold bars finally disappeared.
The Shanghai party organization has been looking forward to these materials for a long time, and they are waiting for them to alleviate the urgent need, which is related to the safety of the comrades. However, they waited for a long time and did not hear from the gold bars. Everyone's expectations are gradually empty.
And on that side, the **Soviet District recovered 6 chess pieces, only the chess pieces of the last transporter were not recovered, and he himself lost contact with the party organization, as if he disappeared out of thin air, and the 120 taels handed over to him were naturally missing, and they have not been recovered.
The Shanghai party organization lost its financial aid, and their rescue operation suddenly reached an impasse. Several underground party comrades did not succumb to the enemy's torture to extract confessions, and paid for the revolutionary cause with precious lives and heroic sacrifices, as well as comrades who were seriously wounded, because they did not receive timely medical treatment, their condition did not improve for a long time, leaving a serious root cause. The previous contact points of the party organization were destroyed, and there was not enough money on hand to turn around, so they had to be forced to move to other remote places. The atmosphere among the comrades suddenly fell into a low ebb.
The comrades in the Soviet district have always been very concerned about the situation of the party organization in Shanghai, and after the loss, the sad news of the loss of the lives of many underground party comrades came to his ears.
* There are many links involved in the mysterious disappearance, which link has the problem, and who is the obstruction? These mysteries may only have a chance to be revealed by finding the last missing transporter, and that person seems to have evaporated from the world.
At that time, the Kuomintang set off a wave of **, extremely unfriendly to the Communists, Shanghai was under the siege of the Kuomintang, in order to preserve its strength, the party naturally could not act rashly, otherwise it would fall into the trap of the enemy. In such a critical situation, the investigation of the theft case must inevitably go deep into the enemy's sphere of influence, which is tantamount to ".Go deep into the tiger's denDue to the obstacles, the theft case had to be put on hold for the time being.
However, this unsolved case and the lives of many comrades have not been forgotten, they have always been firmly cared for by one person, and this person is ***
This has become ***'s heart disease, in order to end this 18-year-old heart knot, ** found *** the then minister of public security, and entrusted the matter to him.
After listening to ***'s words, this passage is full of hardship. The two of them withdrew from the past, and realized that the heavy responsibility on their shoulders was related to the truth of the year.
Coming out of the office, I was planning in my head.
He had a grander idea in mind: It was necessary to gather together the unresolved cases before the founding of the People's Republic of China and hand them over to the public security organs in various localities for investigation.
** is a proper man of action, he immediately convened a meeting of the heads of public security departments in various places, informed him of his idea, and received a unanimous response.
As a result, in late November 1949, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Social Affairs issued a "".Confidential ElementsIn this element, it is noted that some important unsolved cases that occurred in our party and our army before the founding of the People's Republic of China are all cases that need to be re-investigated.
In 1931, the ** theft case was assigned to the East China Bureau, and the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau set up a special "unsolved case investigation office", which was personally coordinated by the director and immediately launched an investigation.
Fig** Attaches great importance to this case, and in order to step up the investigation, the four comrades sent to the investigation team of unsolved cases are also old comrades in the party, and they have quite rich investigation experience.
These four comradesJiang WenzengXu LidingXuxūDeshenwithWuwūHongAfter being transferred to the investigation team, he immediately threw himself into his work. The investigation team collected a lot of precious information about the theft of 120 taels **, and also found a few people in the case, but after all, after 18 years, some details have been blurred, after everyone's unanimous analysis, they decided to start with the last transporter who transported ** that year, but he has been missing for many years, and it is not easy to find out.
Since its founding, the party has had the excellent character of working hard and striving for self-improvement, and such difficulties naturally did not make the comrades retreat, and they chose to rise to the occasion. There's always a way to find the missing transporter, so how?
Based on their past experience in handling cases, these four comrades believed that the breakthrough should be placed on the other six transporters, especially the sixth transporter who had been in close contact with the seventh transporter back then.
However, the process of searching for the missing person has also gone through twists and turns. The first five transporters were successfully found without much effort, but only the important sixth transporter, due to the limited clues he had, made no progress. In the end, the investigation team finally collected a list of people who had done underground work through the relevant departments in Songjiang, and locked up one of the eligible comrades. It has been confirmed that this comrade is Liu Zhichun, the sixth transporter who transported ** that year.
The comrades of the reconnaissance team came to him to explain his intentions, and after a long time, he pondered for a while before recalling to everyone that after receiving orders from his superiors to come to Songjiang, he lived in a family."Hanyuan Hotel"Li.
Not long after I checked in, I came out to wait for the offline, and saw a person wearing black clothes and black pants and a black hat, as soon as he came in, he asked the shopkeeper, saying that the guest with a Hangzhou accent lived in which room, and the boss pointed to me and said that this person is. ”
He then explained to everyone: "Because I was in charge of the journey from Hangzhou to Songjiang at that time, I myself spoke with some Hangzhou accents, which is easier to recognize, and most importantly, this is the joint code for our upper and lower lines." ”
At that time, the two took over the head, completed the first step, and took out their respective chess pieces, Liu Zhichun watched the other party's key successfully open the lock, and thought that he had verified the identity of the other party, and handed over the copper box to him with confidence.
It seems that the "Hanyuan Hotel" was the important place where the case occurred that year, and the comrades of the investigation team immediately rushed here, but fortunately, although 18 years have passed, this hotel is still in the same place.
The innkeeper rummaged through the account records of the year, and did not find the check-in record of the seventh transporter that year, since he did not take the ** and did not take the opportunity to stay in the hotel, then he hurriedly went to the **?
In order to avoid oversight, it is possible that the mysterious seventh transporter may choose to rest at another hotel. The four comrades began to make secret visits to the vicinity early the next morning, and they inquired about the past one by one, but nearly 20 years have passed, and the streets have changed greatly.
The clue is here, and it seems to be broken again.
But just when the investigation team was about to leave and plan to rediscover the clues, it ushered in again."Another village".
The movement of the reconnaissance team alarmed the leaders of the local troops, and the local comrades greeted them warmly and invited them to gather. Originally, the four comrades were worried about the case and had a lot of worries, so they planned to resign, but the other party was gracious, so they had to agree, and postponed the return trip by one day.
At the dinner table, the four comrades inevitably mentioned the case under investigation, and it was difficult to hide their worries between their words. The chef has lived in the local area for many years and is familiar with the changes in the city. He inadvertently mentioned that at the "Hanyuan Hotel", there is also an internal guest house of the security corps nearby, which can also be used for accommodation.
The comrades of the investigation team will not let go of one."Fish that slipped through the net”。The premonition in their hearts grew stronger and stronger, accompanied by a burst of joy at seeing the light of day. After the meal, they immediately set off to investigate.
The security regiment has only 50 beds, which are generally not easily rented to the outside world, and can only be moved in with the signature of the battalion commander.
This guest house is in disrepair and looks a little old, but the more this happens, the more it can be restored.
The hostel's ledger is kept in a location that is easily overlooked, but fortunately the housing records inside are kept very complete.
The team searched through the list of guests on December 3, 1931, and found that there was only one occupant that night. The man's surname was Liang, and his registered identity was a pharmacist at a pharmacy who had come to Songjiang from Shanghai to purchase medicines.
The comrades went to the pharmacy and found the owner, Mr. Wei, and learned from him that there was indeed someone in their store, but he disappeared with his family 18 years ago, and his whereabouts are unknown.
All the conditions match, and everyone does not believe that this is just a coincidence. It is very likely that this employee surnamed Liang is the mysterious transporter who disappeared. It was finally confirmed through a ** from many years ago.
The other clerks of the pharmacy, that is, Liang's colleagues back then, provided the investigation team with a group photo of them back then, and under Liu Zhichun's identification, they confirmed that this was the person who handed over to him back then, and also knew that this person was from Jiading, Zhejiang.
But he was no longer in his hometown, and when the comrades of the reconnaissance team finally found him, the family moved to Shanghai to live. His life is very poor, and it is not what everyone expected, so it can be seen that this batch of ** is probably not in his hands.
Liang started a small business in Shanghai and opened a watch shop, the business was not good or bad, and his family's life could only be supported by hardship.
When he was found, Liang could only honestly confess, it turned out that ** was indeed not in his hands.
And what about **went**?
Liang told the comrades of the investigation team that there was a ceramic jar under the stove at home, and there were two letters in the jar, which could prove his loyalty.
Back then, Liang got the copper box and immediately went to Shanghai, without any stops in between. But even so, he was targeted.
As soon as he got off the dock, he saw a rickshaw coming towards him. At that time, he didn't think much about it, and after reporting his address, he sat down.
When I reached an uphill road, suddenly two passers-by went over to help push the cart, and when Liang was feeling that he had met a well-wisher, he was covered by one of them with a handkerchief (wǔSniffling, he recalled, a feeling of dizziness hit him, and he soon fell unconscious.
When he woke up, he found himself transferred to a hotel, and the copper box he had carefully hidden was nowhere to be found, and he admitted that he was too panicked to know what to do, so he had to run first.
When he became more conscious, he found the innkeeper and wrote a letter of proof, which he had been hiding in a ceramic jar. He said that the letter would allow the innkeeper to testify to him that he had indeed been forcibly brought into the inn while unconscious, and that it was not his intention.
It is difficult to suspect that Liang's words and expressions may soon be in the hands of the three people who attacked Liang. However, there is a vast sea of people, and they have only had contact with someone Liang, so where can they go to find clues?
At this time, an old criminal policeman found the comrades of the investigation team and told them an important situation.
In Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai, a prisoner surnamed Bai is being held. This person has a violent personality, he once complained to the old patrolman, showing off that he knew the clues of a case, if he could make meritorious service and reduce his punishment, the patrol told him that it depended on what kind of case it was, and the young prisoner bluntly said that it was a ** robbery.
If the person does not say anything, the situation is an important development in the case.
The investigation team immediately interrogated the prisoner. The prisoner had a distant cousinJi Jiagui, has no serious profession, and often does some things like chickens and dogs. He still remembers that 18 years ago, this distant cousin, who had not been in touch for a long time, suddenly came to his house and wanted to borrow a rickshaw to go out to solicit customers. Strangely, within a few days, this cousin seemed to have suddenly made a fortune and spent money lavishly, and he was still puzzled at the time, but he didn't think much about it.
The investigation team felt that they were getting closer and closer to the truth of the theft case back then. The investigation team found the prisoner's cousin Ji Jiagui, and searched his house for a while, and finally the stolen goods were seized, and the copper box used to hold ** was also found.
Ji Jiagui was detained by the investigation team, and under the identification of someone from Liang, this Ji Jiagui was one of the three people who attacked him, and he was the rickshaw driver. Ji Jiagui was formally arrested. But there are still mysteries that have not been solved, Liang has hidden 120 taels of ** very secretly, and he doesn't look like a rich man, how did Ji Jiagui know that he had treasures?
In the interrogation room, Ji Jiagui told the investigation team that in addition to him, there were two other accomplices, namely Liu Agu and Zhuang Ke. The three of them are idle people who plan to cooperate to open a store, but they don't have enough capital and don't want to make money with their own hands, so they can only use some despicable means.
The dock is dense, and it is easier to get it, as for the target of Liang who has just arrived in Shanghai, it is pure coincidence. On that day, Ji Jiagui pretended to be a rickshaw driver and waited on the dock for a while, and they planned to go to the alley where there were few people, and the other two accomplices pretended to help push the cart. The three of them stole the 120 taels and started a business separately, and for so many years, there was little contact between the three people.
The comrades of the investigation team did not find any remaining gold in Liu Agu's house, only some scattered gold jewelry, and Liu Agu confessed that those were all cast by the batch of ** back then.
The perpetrator of the ** theft in 1931 was finally found, one of the accomplicesZhuang KeIn 1937, he joined the Kuomintang's "Anti-Japanese Special Army" and died in the battle between the army and the Japanese army. He gave half of his ** to his old mother, and when the investigation team found his mother, the 20 taels of ** were left untouched and kept there.
Ji Jiagui and Liu Agu also have to bear the punishment they deserve. Because of the greed of these three people, several comrades of the Shanghai party organization lost their precious lives. On November 18, 1950, Ji Jiagui and Liu Agui were executed, and Liang was sentenced to several years in prison for irresponsible absconding, but he was exempted from punishment in view of his dedication to the revolution.
This ** theft case 18 years ago has finally come to light, giving justice and an explanation to all the victims of that year, comforting the sacrificed underground party comrades, so that they can rest in peace.
FigThe case of the comrades was solved, a knot in the heart of the comrades was finally untied, and the four comrades of the investigation team also ushered in a short break after continuous exhaustion and non-stop running, and then they had to embark on another journey, using their brainpower and persistence to solve one mystery after another, and uphold justice and justice for the people.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the masses of the people have fought hard in their respective posts, maintained the good style of arduous struggle, and contributed to the construction of the country.