People who enter the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery will always be shocked by the rows of tombstones that stand quietly, and they are silent, silently remembering the stories and characters that belong to that era, whether they are heroic, grandiose, sad, or beautiful. Walking into the details**, you can see that each tombstone clearly records the achievements of the master in this life and those deeds that will be remembered forever, although they have left, but the glory is still the same, the elegance is still the same, all those who join the party have the time to participate in the revolution and join the party, where there are contributions, everything is detailed, and everything is great.
However, among the many tombstones on this wall of merit, there is an abrupt large blank space, and only the following inscription is engraved on the tombstone:
"Comrade Yan Youwen, a native of Wanrong County, Shanxi Province, was born in ......He used to be the director of the Grain and Oil Production Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China, ............, a member of the Communist Party of ChinaComrade Yan Youwen has done a lot of work for the revolution in the past ......”In this simple inscription, there are many words that make people can't help but feel incomprehensible, since it has been stated that he is a member of the Communist Party, why is there no detailed description in the inscription when he joined the party? After the founding of New China and the War of Liberation, Yan Youwen's duties were explained very clearly, but his duties before the War of Liberation and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression were vague. Or is there some other unspeakable secret?
Part of the records before the founding of the People's Republic of China is summarized in just one sentence: "I have done a lot of work for the revolutionary cause in the past." Such a scribbled description is really thin in this meritorious Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, which makes people wonder what the owner of the tombstone did before the founding of New China? has received such high honors and awards, why is there no record? The owner of this tombstone is the hero of the story, lurking inside the enemy, and the trump card ** who was not revealed until many years after his death - Yan Youwen.
Yan Youwen was born in Ronghe Town, Shanxi Province in 1914, he grew up in a poor family, should have spent the rest of his life in the fields, but he was talented and very diligent, won the love of teachers, helped him complete his studies through a variety of channels, and he spent more than 20 years of stable student life under the care and help of many teachers. Later, he was admitted to the Law School of Shanxi University, and during his time at the school, after the Lugou Bridge Incident, the Japanese army's full-scale war of aggression against China began, and the war and suffering spread across most of China in just a few months. As far as the eye can see, the blood flows like a river, and the sorrow is everywhere. Yan Youwen deeply felt that the nation was in danger, and he felt that he should take action, put pen to paper, and contribute his strength to save the nation from fire and water. Later, he went to Yan'an with other like-minded patriots to study.
Yan Youwen has undergone long-term training organized and has achieved some success after a period of training in the intelligence department, just because it was during the first period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Yan Youwen was arranged by a member of the Northwest Bureau of the Communist Party of China to join the Kuomintang troops. Later, Yan Youwen found an opportunity to transfer to Fu Zuoyi's department. Since then, Yan Youwen has been lurking in the top echelons of the Kuomintang for nearly seven years as a secret member of the underground Chinese Communist Party.
Yan Youwen and Fu Zuoyi are fellow villagers, in this special era of war, the word "fellow villagers" represents too much, relatives, beauty, and peace. This makes Yan Youwen seem to have a unique advantage in front of Fu Zuoyi. In those days, college students were a scarce resource, and Yan Youwen wrote good articles. Under the deliberate proximity and closeness, Fu Zuoyi, who already appreciated him very much, trusted him even more and entrusted him with important tasks. He served as a clerk and confidential secretary in Fu Zuoyi's office.
In the second half of 1939, the Kuomintang began to covet the political rights of the whole of China, demanding that after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, all political power would be returned to the hands of the Kuomintang. Because of the oppression of the Chiang Kai-shek clique and the contradictions in all aspects, Fu Zuoyi's attitude also changed, and all the communist troops in the army were repatriated, but because the decision was too hasty, the time was too late, Yan Youwen directly lost the way to contact our party, and lurked alone in the enemy camp.
In the past few years of lurking in the ground, Yan Youwen has always fulfilled his obligations, firmly guarded the secret that he is an underground Communist Party, and in the long War of Resistance against Japan, he and Fu Zuoyi built a deep relationship. Yan Youwen was even seriously injured on the battlefield to save Fu Zuoyi, so the friendship between the two has reached the point where they are not relatives, but like relatives. Yan Youwen is kind and kind to Fu Zuoyi's subordinates, and he can almost respond to any request, plus he is a top student of the law school and is very talented, so he has good popularity and high prestige in Fu Zuoyi's army, and Yan Youwen's status is even more unshakable. During this period, Yan Youwen was never able to contact the party organization, although he was worried, he also knew that he could not be in a hurry, so he could only wait slowly.
In 1945, Japan announced its surrender, and China, which had struggled for seven years, won the final victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, but unlike the imaginary peace, the Kuomintang coveted all the power in China, intending to provoke a civil war, eliminate and suppress the Communist Party, Chiang Kai-shek secretly dispatched troops and generals, formulated plans, and the civil war was about to break out. At this time, the Fu family army was already small in scale, although it could not be compared with other Kuomintang veterans, but after a long period of fighting, the scale of the Fu family army continued to expand, and there was a faint momentum to become the hegemon of one side.
In the two years after 1945, Fu Zuoyi, who was not powerful at that time, went to the Shanxi garrison army to resist our party's liberation army. From this time on, the Fu army grew stronger and stronger, and after the outbreak of a large-scale civil war, the Fu family army of the southern and northern wars officially expanded into one of the five major military groups of the Kuomintang with 600,000 troops. It has caused a great obstacle to the pace of our party's all-round development. Therefore, the party organization is very much in need of Fu Zuoyi's military movements and political attitude. So the party organization sent Wang Yu to Baotou to connect with Yan Youwen.
After the Spring Festival in 1946, Wang Yu came to Baotou. By chance, I met Xue Qilu of Fu Zuoyi's department. Wang Yu took the opportunity to inquire about Yan Youwen. From his mouth, Wang Yu knew that Yan Youwen was now being reused, and when Wang Yu learned the news, he knew that if Yan Youwen had not defected, then as Fu Zuoyi's secretary, he would have a huge role in the party. After many channels, Wang Yu learned Yan Youwen's address and visited him when there were few people coming and going. After Wang Yu asked Yan Youwen many questions one after another, he thought that he had not rebelled, Wang Yu stared at Yan Youwen and decided to say bluntly: "Comrade Yan Youwen, I am from Yan'an, and the party sent me to restart you." Yan Youwen couldn't believe it at first, and then said excitedly, "After waiting for so many years, I finally looked forward to the party's call." ”
After the two discussed, they felt that it was too unsafe to talk about it at home, so they came to the small shop on the street, Wang Yu told Yan Youwen about the purpose of the trip, and explained the task of the leader, in order to ensure Yan Youwen's safety, he could only contact Wang Yu in a single line, and the organization warned Yan Youwen not to act rashly, only Yan Youwen needed to listen to the major military intelligence about Fu Zuoyi's department, and political tendencies, and everything else was as usual, quietly waiting for further arrangements from the party organization. At this moment, Yan Youwen knew that the party organization had not forgotten and given up on him, and his existence played an important role in the party's victory and victory.
In June 1946, the Battle of Suidong began. Due to the strength of the Fu Jiajun, there is a great tendency to break the army, and our party has summed up that in the early stage, the root cause of successive failures is the ignorance of the enemy's strategic intelligence. However, now, with the help of Yan Youwen, who was deep in the enemy camp, to provide effective intelligence for our party, the North China Field Army avoided its edge and did not engage in a frontal battle with the Fu army, which greatly reduced the consumption and losses of our party's main army. In the face of the menacing attack of the Fu Jiajun, our party did not exert all its strength to stop it, but deliberately adopted the method of strategic retreat to advance by retreating, which made the momentum of the Fu Jiajun rise to the top and was in the limelight for a while.
At this time, Fu Zuoyi, due to the successive victories in the war, self-confidence has reached the peak, and he is determined to win the civil war smoothly and win the party, he found Yan Youwen and asked him to write a letter to the party, to express his determination to win, Yan Youwen because he is a member of the Communist Party of China, he is unwilling to insult the party and leadership he believes in, and under all kinds of difficulties, Yan Youwen conveyed his will to the organization. After many relays, finally *** instructed that this letter should be written, and our army that wants to be scolded is full of righteous indignation and impassionedness, and Fu Zuoyi, who wants to scold, has no one in his eyes and is arrogant. Yan Youwen received instructions from the party, put pen to paper, and after writing all night, he had the once sensational "To *** Open Telegram".
Yan Youwen is a natural scholar, with sharp language and brilliant writing, and a piece of writing is extremely sarcastic and sharp. Reprimanded *** for provoking a civil war, insulting words, making people angry when they heard it, and this is exactly in line with the mind of our party, our party officers and soldiers read this article are all filled with righteous indignation, because of the long-term retreat strategy and the low morale suddenly increased, ** is very satisfied with this effect, and is also deeply impressed by this article.
At the end of 1947, Fu Zuoyi sat in Beiping, but at this time the People's Liberation Army entered the first stage, North China is one of the main battlefields, Fu Zuoyi's movements have a vital role in the entire war situation, but except for Yan Youwen lurking around Fu Zuoyi, our party does not have any effective channels to obtain accurate news, so Wang Yu came to Beiping again, responsible for contacting Yan Youwen to obtain the accurate movements of Fu Zuoyi's department.
In October 1948, the victory of the Liaoshen Campaign has been decided, the Northeast region is basically liberated, and the next opponent is Fu Zuoyi, who has a military force of nearly 600,000, and the intelligence at the strategic level in North China has become an urgent need at the moment, and at this time Beiping, because the war is approaching and the atmosphere has become tense.
Yan Youwen reported that although Fu Zuoyi belonged to the Kuomintang, he had deep contradictions with the Kuomintang leadership class, especially Chiang Kai-shek, and analyzed that if the war in the Northeast was tight, Fu Zuoyi would not support the Northeast, but tried his best to preserve his own strength, after all, in this troubled era, preserving himself and preserving his strength is the way to survive, and it was because of Yan Youwen's important information that our party made the strategic decision of attacking the Northeast first, and then attacking Beiping, so as to realize the strategic decision of "closing the door and fighting the dog".
After the end of the Liaoshen Campaign, our party's People's Liberation Army was ready to enter the customs, during this period, Yan Youwen sent out the information that Fu Zuoyi's troops might go south to the south of the Yangtze River in a timely manner, and our party believed that once Fu Zuoyi's troops went south, it would have an impact on the smooth progress of the Liberation War, so it was decided to launch the Pingjin Campaign in advance, and the North China Field Army was divided into three routes, encircling the Kuomintang troops in Tangshan and Tianjin, encircling them on all sides, cutting off all Fu Zuoyi's retreats. A million-strong army surrounded Beiping, and Fu Zuoyi's troops faced a difficult choice.
Fu Zuoyi faced the precipitous situation of the million-strong army, and designed three back roads, but which one to choose was the best choice, Fu Zuoyi fell into a difficult choice. The People's Liberation Army outside Beiping is also thinking about countermeasures, Beiping is a century-old city, which contains the cultural heritage accumulated by China over the past 100 years, and it really can't bear to let this cultural ancient city endure the bloody wind and suffer from the torture of war, and at the same time, in order to save the soldiers on both sides from unnecessary sacrifices, our party decided to do its best to seek peace.
So, at this time, Yan Youwen, who was by Fu Zuoyi's side and trusted by him, played a key role. Regarding the three plans formulated by Fu Zuoyi, Yan Youwen tried his best to dissuade him, "First, our army is not Chiang Kai-shek's descendant troops, and it has many disagreements with him. The second, with the horse club, now the entire Beiping is surrounded by a million troops, if you want to go out, there must be a battle, so this road is not passable. The third way is even more unadoptable, if the confrontation **, the blood of the soldiers on both sides is not to mention, the ancient cultural city of Beiping will be devastated, and you will become a sinner criticized by the world for the ages. Eventually, Yan pointed out the fourth way – negotiating with the Communist Party. After many efforts and continuous indoctrination from the people around him, Fu Zuoyi finally agreed and accepted the peace agreement.
In January 1949, Yan Youwen announced the Beiping Peace Agreement. Since the peaceful liberation of Beiping, this ancient city was finally saved from war, and tens of thousands of lives survived. The liberation of Beiping was an excellent embodiment of the psychological warfare, the flexible use of troops who surrendered without a fight, and laid a solid foundation for our party to achieve the final victory in the civil war.
After the liberation of Beiping, Yan Youwen visited *** there, Yan Youwen met the leader, and knew many colleagues and found contacts. However, due to consideration of Fu Zuoyi's feelings and confidentiality work, Yan Youwen did not disclose his identity as an underground member of the CCP. Except for a few leaders such as Wang Yu, everyone believes that Yan Youwen joined the party in 1938 and has been separated from the Communist Party for many years. For various reasons, Yan Youwen did not disclose his identity.
On June 5, 1950, when the Korean War broke out, the U.S. Air Force invaded China's northeast territory, and many Chinese sons and daughters were indignant about it. When Yan Youwen accompanied the 23rd Corps to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he wrote in his diary on the Korean front: "If I die on the Korean battlefield, I have only one wish, that is, I hope that the party organization can disclose my party membership. It can be seen how much he wants to return to the party and to get a good name.
After the 23rd Corps returned to China, Yan Youwen returned to work beside Fu Zuoyi, although he also had the opportunity to disclose his identity, but he still did not act rashly after obeying the arrangements of the party organization, he did not have any dissatisfaction, and resolutely obeyed the party's arrangements. In 1961, Yan Youwen was transferred from the Agriculture and Water Bureau to serve as the General Administration of Grain and Oil Production Management of the Ministry of Agriculture. At that time, it was just in time for the three-year difficult period, and Yan Youwen did everything himself, and due to long-term work, he became ill due to hard work. Suffering from esophageal cancer, Yan Youwen left his last words to his wife when he was dying: "If there is something to find an organization." He died at the age of 42.
Although Yan Youwen was announced to be a member of the Communist Party in these years of work, he did not announce that he was an underground party member, so most people believe that although Yan Youwen joined the party in his early years, he broke away from the organization and joined the Kuomintang, and after the Liberation War, he was approved to join the party because of Yan Youwen's good performance. Yan Youwen was the one who was a secret member of the underground party members, and he died young, and there were very few people who knew about it, so gradually this matter was forgotten and sealed in the dust.
Yan Youwen had six children, and when he died, because he was still young, he did not take care of many children, and whenever the children went to the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery to pay respects to their father, they would be puzzled by the ominous text on the inscription, because the youngest daughter had peeked at her father's diary, so she knew that her father had become a member of the Communist Party a long time ago, and it stands to reason that there should be no problem with her father's identity. However, whenever it came to the political examination when a family member joined the party and was promoted, he refused to pass it on the grounds that Comrade Yan Youwen's historical issues were not clear. The children of the Yan family were deeply puzzled about this matter, but there were too few people who knew the truth back then, so the matter of finding out their father's true identity was shelved.
It wasn't until 1993 that the second daughter of the Yan family met Liu Guangren, the former deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. He worked in Beiping and was a reporter of "Pingming**" at that time, but his real identity was an underground member of the Communist Party of China, because "Pingming**" was Fu Zuoyi's newspaper, and Yan Youwen was Fu Zuoyi's secretary, so the two had a lot of contact. Although Liu Guangren did not know Yan Youwen's true identity, he was very impressed by him, admiring his talent and grateful for his care over the years. In 1993, Liu Guangren met his colleague Wang Yu and talked about Yan Youwen's descendants in the chat. Wang Yu told him that Yan Youwen was the red ** inserted by our party into the Kuomintang, who had been lurking for many years but had never been corrected, and that he was the real hero of the peaceful liberation of Beiping. Wang Yu said: "It's been more than 40 years, and Yan Youwen can be declassified. He is the real trump card**!
In 1993, Yan Youwen's heroic deeds were confirmed, and this red ace** gradually became well-known to the public, and the children of the Yan family were extremely proud and excited to learn their father's true identity. In 2009, Yan Youwen's portrait was displayed in the "Peking Peaceful Liberation Historical Materials Exhibition". Respected by thousands of people.
Since then, Yan Youwen has been completely corrected, and history will not forget loyal ministers, and the party and the country will not forget those who have made meritorious contributions. As the saying goes, don't talk about suffering, don't scream when you're angry, take into account the overall situation, and work hard. Comrade Yan Youwen interprets what is the Communist Party of China and what is the emotional worker of the Communist Party of China, and his life is not an exaggeration to describe it with the word legend, and it is worthy of the admiration of our generation.
Pure heart, no complaints, no regrets, forever in history, immortal.