The death of a war criminal,** requires a thorough investigation.
In the cold winter of 1973, in the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center, Xu Yuanju lay on his bed as usual after finishing a day's labor. Soon after, a shocking snoring sound came from his bed.
However, in the middle of the night, the snoring suddenly stopped, replaced by the sound of rapid breathing. Xu Yuanju seemed to be in unbearable pain, tossing and turning on the bed, bruises on his forehead, eyes protruding, and bright red blood flowing from his nostrils.
Slowly, his movements stopped, and there seemed to be no sign of life. He was rushed to the hospital by the personnel of the War Criminals Management Center, where the doctor diagnosed him as having died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, and the rescue was ineffective.
Upon learning of Xu Yuanju's death, the prime minister immediately ordered a thorough investigation into the cause of death.
Xu Yuanju, a person from Huangpu and the second person under Dai Li, his death has attracted the attention of ***. He was born in a big family in Dazhi County, Hubei Province, his grandparents and parents were Jinshi and Xiucai, he was pampered since he was a child, smart and clever, and began to study in a private school at the age of 5.
Lao Xiucai's liking and praise for him made him believe that he could make great achievements in the future.
Xu Yuanju's notoriety is well known in his hometown, and his ruthlessness and spirit of fighting without fear of death make other children afraid to play with him. As he gets older, his ** behavior becomes more prominent.
During a Qingming Festival, he suspected that the old man had touched his grandfather's tomb, so he picked up a hoe and beat the old man to death. This cruel behavior frightened his father as well.
In order to keep him away from this environment, his parents introduced him to the Kuomintang military academy as a student soldier through relatives, hoping that this would make him change his bad habits. The following year, Xu Yuanju unexpectedly became a cadet of the seventh phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and after graduation, he became a deputy company commander in the Kuomintang army and participated in the battle plan to encircle and suppress the Red Army.
Xu Yuanju had been a member of the Kuomintang army, however, due to several defeats, he felt demoralized, and coupled with the conflict with the company commander above, he decided to leave the army.
However, just when he was feeling lost, Chiang Kai-shek gave him a chance. In 1932, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the establishment of a special service dedicated to espionage activities, and made Dai Li the director, which was the predecessor of the Military Control Bureau.
Xu Yuanju seized this opportunity and entered the special training class of the Kuomintang Secret Service, and because of his outstanding performance and top-notch results, he was set up as an excellent model by Dai Li, and won many golden pen awards.
The arrogant Xu Yuanju often hung this golden pen on his body to show off to other students.
Xu Yuanju has always had no one in his eyes, as if only Dai Li, the leader in the world, is worthy of his respect. His high-flying and domineering attitude makes people call him "Xu Mangzi" behind his back.
At the age of 18, he became a Kuomintang spy with excellent results. However, as a novice, due to his lack of background, he was not trusted and reused by Dai Li at the beginning, and he was a marginal person in the secret service.
On one occasion, he was also ordered to three months in prison by Dai Li, for a minor mistake. But all this did not defeat him, but strengthened his determination to become a master. In 1935, Dai Li decided to send him to escort the Panchen back to Tibet and let him carry out intelligence work in **, which was undoubtedly a test for him.
He knew his chance had come. In the past few years, he not only provided a large amount of first-class intelligence for the Military Command Bureau, but also established a local spy organization.
Under Dai Li's promotion, Xu Yuan rose step by step, and was known as the "Three Giants of Military Command" along with Shen Zui and Zhou Yanghao, serving the Kuomintang. After the outbreak of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, in order to suppress the Communist Party's "Advance Daily", Xu Yuan used unscrupulous means to arrest and kill many Communists, many of whom used torture and had their hands stained with the blood of Communists.
As a result, he gained the attention of the Military Command Bureau, and even established the Southwest Special Administrative Region, and he served as the head of the Special Administrative Region. After that, he became even more fanatical about ** and committed unforgivable crimes against our party.
The ruthless Xu Yuanju, on the eve of the liberation of Chongqing, still poisoned the "party rebels" in an attempt to eliminate the remnants of the Communist Party.
Xu Yuanju was one of the greatest, and according to Chiang Kai-shek's orders, Yang Hucheng must be executed. At the August 1949 meeting, Mao Renfeng and several of his subordinates discussed the execution of Yang Hucheng first.
Some people proposed to directly execute Yang Hucheng in Guiyang, but Xu Yuanju thought that the operation in Guiyang might leak the news, and suggested that Yang Hucheng be deceived to Chongqing before taking action. Xu Yuanju had a very high status in the Military Command Bureau at that time, and his suggestion was agreed to by others.
Zhou Yanghao met Yang Hucheng in Guiyang, and he claimed that Chiang Kai-shek was going to meet him in Chongqing and possibly send him to Taiwan. Yang Hucheng didn't doubt it and believed his words.
So, Yang Hucheng took his two children and Song Qiyun's family of three to follow Zhou Yanghao on the death train to Chongqing.
Xu Yuanju and several spies planned the assassination of General Yang Hucheng in Chongqing, and decided to use a dagger to assassinate him in the Dai Gong Ancestral Hall. After Yang Hucheng and his party arrived, his 19-year-old son Yang Zhengzhong had just stepped into the room holding his mother's urn, and a miserable scream "Dad" fell in a pool of blood before he landed.
Immediately afterwards, Yang Hucheng was also stabbed with a dagger and fell to the ground. Song Qiyun and his wife, who were in the same room, suffered the same fate. Two young children witnessed the tragedy and were subsequently killed.
In order to cover up the truth, the spies also ruined the children's faces with nitrate water. Xu Yuanju not only participated in the assassination of General Yang Hucheng, but Jiang Zhuyun (Sister Jiang) also died at his hands.
Xu Yuanju was very skilled in interrogating and prosecuting, and many people became traitors after they could not stand his torture. Sister Jiang fell into his hands because of the traitor's betrayal, which made him deeply satisfied.
In Chongqing's Dregs Cave Prison, Sister Jiang was tortured with tiger chairs, chili water, slings, etc., but she always firmly adhered to her loyalty to the party organization and did not divulge any information.
Even though the agents brutally inserted bamboo sticks into her ten fingers, she still said with tenacity: "You can break my hand and kill my head, but I will not betray the organization." ”
Although Xu Yuanju tried to get her to submit through this cruel method, he ultimately failed and could only keep her in prison for a long time. Until November 1949, under the instruction of Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Renfeng, Xu Yuanju began a large-scale operation against Chongqing.
More than 300 revolutionary fighters, including Sister Jiang, were brutally shot to death by Kuomintang agents in Bai Mansion and Dregs Cave respectively, including some children who were still babbling.
Their blood stained the ground red, and the flames burned the cells of the scum caves, leaving only unrecognizable, charred corpses.
Xu Yuanju was anxious to flee to Taiwan after making a big mistake, but fate played tricks on him, and when he stayed in Kunming, Yunnan, it coincided with the uprising of Luhan, the king of Yunnan, to liberate Yunnan and throw himself into the net**.
Subsequently, he was sent to the White Mansion in Chongqing as a Kuomintang war criminal, and changed from an executioner with the power of life and death to a "lamb" to be slaughtered. However, Xu Yuanju couldn't accept the change of identity for a while, when he was arraigned, he knew that he was guilty, and although he could not escape death, he was still unwilling to explain his problems.
In addition, he lives in paranoia every day, fearing that his life will be taken away at any moment, and this mental and psychological torture makes him always cry out for the sake of being executed as soon as possible and not torturing him like this again.
When the war criminals were called for a meeting, Xu Yuanju learned that the Communists would impose a policy of leniency on the Kuomintang war criminals, and that they would not be punished as long as they could sincerely repent.
After realizing his situation, Xu Yuanju also showed a certain flexibility, believing that it was better to live than to die, so he decided to confess his crime. In 1956, Xu Yuanju was transferred to the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center in Beijing.
When he knew that ** saw his changes and that he was not far from the day of his release, Xu Yuanju was very happy. At the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center, he was more active in studying the works of ***, reflecting on his own behavior, and also writing articles exposing the problems of other Kuomintang war criminals.
This made others unhappy with his approach. Due to his fiery personality, he also often clashed with war criminals in prison. During this period, Wang Lingji, a high-ranking Kuomintang general, refused to admit his crimes, and Xu Yuanju wrote a special article to persuade him: "You'd better be honest and stop escaping reality like an ostrich." ”
Xu Yuanju was deeply mired in the desire for amnesty, and he continued to study and reform himself, diligently writing materials, hoping to obtain amnesty from the war criminals. However, when the first amnesty list was announced, he was defeated, much to his extreme disappointment.
Although other war criminals who had not been granted amnesty did not dare to speak up, Xu Yuanju insisted that he fully met the criteria for amnesty, and made a big fuss about it. Eventually, he calmed down after being reassured by the management.
After a long and arduous wait, Xu Yuanju finally ushered in a moment of calm, but he did not waste this time, but continued to devote himself to the writing of the report.
While in prison, he actively participated in manual labor and learned about farm work, sewing, and poetry. However, although his heart was filled with a desire for freedom, he was disappointed again and again, which made him feel extremely anxious and uneasy.
He began to feel hopeless, as if there was no hope to get him out of this cage. His mood became more and more depressed and irritable, as if his whole being was enveloped in anxiety and despair.
On January 19, 1973, Xu Yuanju's sewing products were asked to be reworked, and he became angry when he was unhappy, and the comfort of his friends could not calm his anger.
That night, he angrily took a cold shower and died in bed in the middle of the night, diagnosed with a cerebral hemorrhage. **After learning about it, I was worried that it was murdered, so I sent someone to investigate.
The results of the investigation showed that Xu Yuanju himself had high blood pressure, took a cold shower in the cold winter after arguing with others, and had a high fever in the middle of the night after getting cold, and his blood pressure rose sharply, causing his cerebral blood vessels to rupture and die.
In general, Xu Yuanju is self-defeating. He has done his best in his career as a secret agent, but he has committed many crimes and crimes.
Xu Yuanju was a spy of the Kuomintang and stood on the opposite side of the Communist Party. He abused torture and tortured and killed Communists, committing numerous crimes. However, good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and after being arrested, Xu Yuanju began to work hard to change, trying to reform himself in prison and reform himself.
However, his fate changed when he died of a sudden illness, and his death may be seen as a punishment for his crimes, but for the soul of Chongqing Da**, his death is far from enough.
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