On April 24, 1949, the Chinese People's Liberation Army liberated Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. After lessons and lessons, the organization finally summed up and explored a mature management method, established a military management committee, and served as the director. When Taiyuan was in ruins, ** suddenly received an important secret report from the North China Bureau: It is necessary to rescue a special comrade.
**Looking at the name on the secret report, Zhao Zongfu. He had heard that before the liberation of Taiyuan, Zhao Zongfu was the director of the Shanxi Provincial Information Department and the director of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Education, and he was the Kuomintang. But *** guessed that Zhao Zongfu was not an ordinary Kuomintang, otherwise why did he organize a special telegram?
Sure enough, ** and others later learned that Zhao Zongfu was an underground party member lurking inside the enemy. On the occasion of the liberation of Taiyuan, Zhao Zongfu's identity was exposed, he was arrested by Yan Xishan, his whereabouts are unknown, and the organization cannot get in touch with him, hoping to find him as soon as possible!
Fig**Zhao Zongfu, born in 1915 in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, in a feudal bureaucratic family, his father Zhao Daiwen was a former Qing Xiucai, and later served in the Kuomintang as Minister of the Interior and other important positions, and was Yan Xishan's confidant.
In 1926, Zhao Zongfu was admitted to Jinshan Middle School, and these six years were an important stage for him to move towards revolution. At that time, it was in the revolutionary stage, and Jinshan Middle School was also a revolutionary base, and the Socialist Youth League was established.
Zhao Zongfu was very interested in the revolution and joined the Youth League organization, where a large number of progressive teachers propagated Marxism and other progressive ideas to the students, which had a great influence on Zhao Zongfu and changed his ideological concepts. In addition, Zhao Zongfu's father inadvertently created opportunities for him to have access to progressive books.
At that time, Wuhan national** sent Luo Yiyi to Shanxi to find Yan Xishan and persuade him to join the Northern Expedition. Yan Xishan was undecided, so he simply asked Zhao Daiwen to deal with Luo Yi. In 1927, the Great Revolution failed, and Yan Xishan locked up Luo Ren. Many of Luo Ren's books were left in Zhao Zongfu's house.
Once, Zhao Zongfu had nothing to do, he casually flipped through it, and it was out of control, as long as he was free, he would hide at home and secretly read these books. Among them, progressive books such as "Communist ABC" that propagated Marxism deeply inspired him by the revolution.
When he saw an article written by Guo Moruo exposing Chiang Kai-shek's betrayal of the revolution, he was deeply encouraged, and for the first time he became dissatisfied with the people, and began to question Yan Xishan and his father.
The September 18 Incident and the complete fall of Northeast China caused the people's non-resistance policy to cause dissatisfaction among the people of the whole country. In this turmoil, many young students were the first to stand up and set off a patriotic movement to resist Japan and save the country. Zhao Zongfu's Jinshan Middle School and various schools held demonstrations and sent representatives to ***
FigZhao Zongfu didn't expect that on December 18, 1931, "12.18" ** happened. The Kuomintang army's "volunteers" brutally killed innocent compatriots, Mu Guangzheng, a student of Jinshan Middle School.
Zhao Zongfu was shocked and saddened to hear that his fellow students had been killed by the Kuomintang. Mu Guangzheng was just an ordinary patriotic and progressive young man, but he was killed. This made Zhao Zongfu very dissatisfied with the Kuomintang authorities, and he took more active part in various patriotic activities.
After that, Zhao Zongfu got acquainted with Zhang Panshi, a classmate of his second sister in Japan and a member of the Communist Party. Under the influence of Zhang Panshi, he gained a deeper understanding of the Communist Party's propositions and began to establish the belief that only Marxism could save China.
In 1933, Zhao Zongfu was admitted to the Department of Journalism of Yenching University in Beiping, and had a closer relationship with Zhang Panshi, who was also engaged in underground work in Beiping. At school, he took part in revolutionary activities while studying. In May of the same year, Zhao Zongfu joined the Communist Youth League. In December of the same year, he officially became a member of the Chinese Communist Party and was assigned by the party organization to work in the Red Army of the Far East of the Third International.
During this period, Zhao Zongfu often returned to Taiyuan according to the orders of his superiors, inquired about the details of Yan Xishan from his father, and tried to cooperate with Yan Xishan to resist Japan. In 1935, Zhao Zongfu followed the instructions of his superiors to return to Taiyuan, established an intelligence agency, and successfully installed Niu Peicong beside Yan Xishan as a secretary.
Zhao Zongfu also took advantage of the contradiction between his second brother-in-law Xu Shiheng and Yan Xishan to actively do Xu Shixing's ideological work and let him join the anti-Japanese team. Huangtian paid off, and with the help of Xu Shijing, the work was better. It turned out that Xu Shiheng's business required frequent travel to Tianjin, Taiyuan and other places, and many important information obtained by Zhao Zongfu was passed on to the organization by Xu Shihui.
FigAfter the "77" incident in Yan Xishan, the people of the whole country stood up and took up the first day to fight against Japan. Zhao Zongfu gave up the opportunity to study in Japan, resolutely returned to China, and according to the order of the party organization, rushed to the anti-Japanese front line from his hometown Taiyuan. Soon, he received a new order from the organization to enter Yan Xishan's department to do intelligence work.
In February 1938, Zhao Zongfu used his father Zhao Daiwen to successfully enter the Political Department of Yan Xishan's headquarters. Zhao Zongfu used his department to set up an intelligence station, and the work was done very well. On February 16, in order to strengthen his rule, Yan Xishan convened an internal high-level meeting.
The meeting mainly selected "national revolutionary comrades", and unexpectedly, in order to be able to fight for the legal status in the army and better complete the work, Zhao Zongfu joined the meeting.
Soon after the meeting, the Japanese invaders occupied Linfen, and Yan Xishan was defeated by the Japanese army, but he vainly wanted to seize the leadership of our party's new army and forced *** to hand over military power. In order to uphold the party's leadership over the New Army, Zhao Zongfu made many efforts in Yan Xishan's struggle against the new army.
In 1939, Zhao Zongfu received a notice from his superiors and transferred him to Shanghai to work. In order to get rid of Yan Xishan's tracking, he pretended to go back to Sichuan to visit his mother, and secretly traveled from Sichuan to Kunming, and finally through Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.
In Shanghai, the party organization arranged short-term communication training for Zhao Zongfu, and after the end of the meeting, his superiors asked him to return to western Shanxi to set up a secret radio station. So, Zhao Zongfu returned to Shanxi, but unexpectedly, Yan Xishan planned the "December Incident" and withdrew the Political Department, and Zhao Zongfu's establishment of a radio station was not completed.
In 1940, Yan Xishan was more anti-communist**, and if he wanted to obtain important information, he had to participate in Yan Xishan's internal organization. The party organization found Zhao Zongfu again: "Penetrate into Yan Xishan, the deeper the better!" ”
In May 1940, Zhao Zongfu joined the Kuomintang according to the instructions of his superiors and received secret training. After that, he returned to Taiyuan and successfully broke into Yan Xishan's interior again and became a "cadre committee". In December of the same year, he served as the first counselor of Shanxi Province.
Yan Xishan once wanted to negotiate with the Japanese, but Zhao Zongfu used his identity to actively cooperate with Du Renzhi, another underground party member, to exert influence on Yan Xishan and report Yan Xishan's situation to his superiors in a timely manner. ** and *** and other superior leaders paid special attention to Zhao Zongfu's report.
FigDu Renzhi Du Renzhi, the leader of the special group of Zhongxi and Jinxi, is a member of the Shanxi Provincial Committee in his "public identity". In 1942, on the recommendation of Zhao Daiwen, Yan Xishan sent Du Renzhi to the Xiaoyi Regional Wartime Working Committee.
After arriving in Xiaoyi, Du Renzhi implemented the "New Economic Policy" in order to prevent the Japanese army from carrying out economic infiltration into the Yanxi Mountains. In April 1943, he once made a report on "The Current Food Problem in Xiaoyi Area" at the "Field Staff Training Class": "The people are hungry and have no food, and the troops have food but cannot eat it. Some officers sell grain and have to collect grain from the people, do the people still have a way to live? ”
This passage reached Bo Youcheng's ears, and he made a small report to Yan Xishan, saying that Du Renzhi wanted to carry out a "coup" in Xiaoyi. The officers of the local garrison knew that they also held a grudge against Du Renzhi, and they also slandered Du Renzhi to Yan Xishan, saying that he "stirred up military-civilian relations" and "engaged in false propaganda."
This made Yan Xishan angry, and immediately ordered Du Renzhi to be escorted back to the headquarters. After Zhao Zongfu found out, he sent a message to his father and asked him to find a way. As a result, Zhao Daiwen pleaded with Yan Xishan many times, and under Zhao Daiwen's protection, Du Renzhi was released.
In June 1944, a large number of Chinese and foreign reporters went to Yan'an to visit, and after Yan Xishan learned about it, he sent Zhao Zongfu to visit as a major general counselor of the Governor's Department, and sent Secretary-General Xu Shiheng and Yin Suzhai to accompany the visiting group. After the delegation arrived in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region, the commander of the 359th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, who received the news, first received them in Nanniwan.
On June 9th, accompanied by **, the delegation successfully arrived and visited Yan'an, which was warmly welcomed by our party and people. On June 12, ** met with all the members of the delegation in person. In addition to following the delegation, Zhao Zongfu was also personally met by *** and other leaders, and ** also met with him separately twice.
FigBefore leaving, he called Zhao Zongfu alone and encouraged him: "Your father died (died in December 1943), although he is not our Communists, but they are all Chinese compatriots, and he is still on our side on the anti-Japanese front." Your mission isn't complete yet, be extra careful! ”
** Constantly encourage him to continue to lurk in Yan Xishan for a long time, and strive to let Yan Xishan embark on the road of resistance against Japan. In August 1945, Japan announced its surrender, and Yan Xishan turned his attention to the Communist Party and sent troops to attack the liberated areas in the southeast of Shanxi. In order to sabotage Yan Xishan's plan, Zhao Zongfu used the social connections accumulated over the years to remobilize important posts within the army.
First of all, Zhao Zongfu arranged for his own people to be the manager of the Yan Xishan Industrial Department through Xu Shijing, so that he could grasp the production of arms in the Yan Xishan Ministry, and he also transferred the Communist Party member Yin Suzhai to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to contact military officers and reporters from various countries to obtain information and provide important information for our struggle against the United States, Chiang, and Yan.
In 1946, the Taihang Military Region sent Wang Tianqing, an underground intelligence officer, to infiltrate Taiyuan to establish the Taiyuan Intelligence Station. In Taiyuan, he got in touch with Zhao Zongfu, and with the help of Zhao Zongfu, in 1947, Wang Tianqing successfully established the Taiyuan Station of the Intelligence Department of the Taihang Military Region in Taiyuan, also known as the Eighth Military Station of the Taihang Military Region, codenamed "909".
In February of the same year, Yan Xishan organized a re-selection, and Zhao Zongfu became an "alternate". He took advantage of this opportunity to go to the provincial ** news department as the director and also served as the editor-in-chief of "Industry and Commerce**". During this period, in addition to sending the information he obtained to his superiors, he also secretly published articles in major magazines, exposing Yan Xishan's internal political corruption, ** and other crimes, and alerting the people.
FigZhao Zongfu's article exposed the true face of Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xishan's delusions and active civil war, and also opened a special column of "Reader's Observation" and published many letters from readers who exposed the political darkness of the authorities, reflecting and listening to the voice of the people.
In 1947, prices were rising rapidly, and it became more and more difficult for students to take out rice loans. After Zhao Zongfu learned about it, he repeatedly asked the authorities to solve the problem, but there was no reply for a long time. So, Zhao Zongfu held a meeting with other schools and decided to take tough measures to negotiate with **.
Each school sent representatives to the Department of Education, the city and other places. Yan Xishan was frightened, and hurriedly informed each school that the rice loan would be increased from 21,000 yuan to 50,000 yuan.
In August 1948, after the victory of the Battle of Jinzhong, the party organization informed Zhao Zongfu that his work in Taiyuan had been completed and that he could go to work in Beiping or the liberated areas. But Zhao Zongfu replied to the organization: "I still have work to do in Taiyuan, and in order to be able to sacrifice less comrades, I am willing to continue to stay in Taiyuan." ”
As a result, Zhao Zongfu continued to serve as the director of the Department of Education in Yan Xishan**. Moreover, one thing has always made him unable to let go, and he has always wanted to peacefully resolve the Taiyuan issue through political negotiations. He once asked Yang Sicheng to speak, but Yan Xishan said: "A political solution is a lost momentum!" In the face of the People's Liberation Army soldiers approaching the city, Zhao Zongfu still wanted to try his best.
FigAt this time, Zhang Jin, counselor of the Sui Administration, found Zhao Zongfu many times, wanting him to ask someone to convey his suggestion, hoping to officially send someone to contact and negotiate the peaceful liberation of Taiyuan. Zhao Zongfu was very wary of Zhang Jin and never agreed, saying: "Yan Xishan hates the Communist Party very much and wants peace talks, but it is impossible!" ”
Zhang Jin refused to give up easily, saying: "The most important thing is what kind of method to take, in the past we released the prisoners to show our sincerity, but now, we can solve it with high-level leadership talks." Properly make concessions to Yan Xishan in terms of safety and interests, as long as he can get by with face, he can't be stubborn to the end. ”
When Zhao Zongfu heard this, he might as well give it a try. Once you have made up your mind, find a reliable way to communicate as soon as possible. At this time, Cao Ruiting was about to leave Taiyuan, and Zhao Zongfu asked him to tell his superiors the news, and also gave him a disguised intelligence document. In August, Zhao Zongfu told Cao Ruiting about the contact information in the liberated areas, and within a few hours, Cao Ruiting was arrested at the airport by Yang Zhenji and Liang Huazhi.
FigOn the evening of August 30, Yang Zhenji came to Zhao Zongfu's residence with the police, took out Yan Xishan's warrant, and took him away. In prison, Yang Zhenji took out all Cao Ruiting's confessions and wanted Zhao Zongfu to come into line. Zhao Zongfu looked at the confession, and felt chills all over his body, the traitor Cao Ruiting confessed that many progressive students were on it, and his friends who were close to him were also on it.
Zhao Zongfu was remorseful and painful, this was not just a matter of him going underground, Zhang Jin engaging in peace talks, and sacrificing the two of them, the situation was much more serious than he thought. Self-sacrifice is a trivial matter, how to save those comrades who are about to be **?
Seeing Yang Zhenji stealing the limelight, Liang Huazhi was very unhappy, and seeing that Zhao Zongfu didn't speak, he jumped out and said pretendly: "This matter involves too much, your affairs are easy to handle, please take a few days of sick leave, continue to work, don't care." ”
Zhao Zongfu said: "My motivation was originally very simple, it was Zhang Jin who told me that there was still a chance for peaceful liberation, so I wanted to give it a try!" ”
Zhao Zongfu stayed in prison and carefully analyzed the situation, but he was already in a desperate situation, what could he do? In the end, Zhao Zongfu thought that the only possible way to work was for him to bear everything. In order to make Yan Xishan believe him, he wrote a "confession".
Zhao Zongfu admitted that he was a member of the Communist Party and praised Yan Xishan on the "confession" to express remorse.
FigYan Xishan and Zhao Zongfu's "confession" really made Yan Xishan believe it, and informed Zhao Zongfu to return to the Education Department. Before going to work, Yan Xishan specially called Zhao Zongfu and reprimanded: "I know you are very smart, I am not as good as you." I am well aware of the affairs of the Communist Party, so you should not bother with it in the future, and do a good job in your education work. Continue to participate in the cadre meeting, but don't say anything about it! ”
After this day, the ** people were released one after another.
In 1949, the underground party organization of the Communist Party of China originally wanted to cover Zhao Zongfu and other 9 people who were doing underground work in Taiyuan to withdraw from Taiyuan, but unfortunately, the enemy found their traces, except for Zhao Zongfu**, the remaining 8 people all died. Zhao Zongfu was imprisoned again, and Liang Huazhi tortured him to extract a confession and asked him to tell all the Communists in Taiyuan. Zhao Zongfu knew that it was impossible to escape death, so he didn't say anything.
Yan Xishan also wanted to execute him, and thought of his friend again, and said to Zhao Zongfu: "You are the son of my friend, and I also treat you as my own son, I will not kill you." Yan Xishan did not give any order to dispose of him for a long time.
On March 29, 1949, the situation in Taiyuan became more and more severe, and the war situation was urgent, Yan Xishan used the excuse of the Kuomintang to negotiate with him on behalf of **, fled to Nanjing, and let his cousin stay in Taiyuan.
Liang Huazhi wanted to execute Zhao Zongfu while Yan Xishan was away, but Yan Xishan's cousin said: "Yan Xishan didn't execute him when he was there, why should you?" The old gentleman is such a lone seedling, why are you doing this? ”
On April 24, the People's Liberation Army launched a general attack on Taiyuan, and soon the People's Liberation Army rushed into the province, and Liang Huazhi knew that he would definitely die and was ready to commit suicide. Before committing suicide, he also gave the order to kill Zhao Zongfu, but the soldiers did not carry it out and protected Zhao Zongfu under artillery fire.
Zhao Zongfu, who survived, began the battle ...... to build a new Taiyuan