After the liberation of Shanghai, he was appointed as the first mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People. However, he was greeted by a difficult situation: only 30% of the city's 12,000 factories were able to operate, 80% of the machinery industry was suspended, and the textile industry, which accounted for 74% of the city's total industrial output value, was paralyzed due to the lack of raw materials and sales channels.
In addition, there were more than 20,000 remnants of the Kuomintang defeated generals, more than 30,000 spies, and countless thieves, snitches, refugees, and beggars in Shanghai. In order to restore order in the city, ** soaked in the office every day and worked overtime.
One day, his secretary handed him a letter with the words "Received by Mr. **, Mayor of Shanghai".
* Opening the envelope, a brass-colored bullet slipped out and landed on the table with a crisp sound.
* Comrades bravely respond to threatening letters Comrades who received anonymous threatening letters not only did not be intimidated by the bullets, but told them as anecdotes. He calmly coped and threw the envelope into the trash along with the bullet.
A few days later, he also shared the incident as a joke with the staff of the city **. However, the two staff members reminded him with solemn expressions that the Kuomintang Secrecy Bureau had sent spies to infiltrate Shanghai to prepare to assassinate the main leaders of the party, government, and army in Shanghai, and the name of Comrade ** was at the top of the assassination list.
In the face of this news, Comrade ** did not panic, but decided to respond bravely and fight the enemy to the end.
After receiving the bullet warning letter, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Department immediately launched an investigation into the matter. Intelligence shows that Kuomintang agents are planning a conspiracy called "Firefly Operation", the goal of which is to assassinate the party, government, and military leaders of the East China Bureau of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai, as well as celebrities, including **, Zhang Chengzong, Zhu Xuefan, Rong Yiren and others.
The Kuomintang attached great importance to this action and specially organized 28 special forces led by Feng Qizeng, head of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Special Work Station of the Secret Bureau and commander of the "Jiangsu and Zhejiang People's Self-Defense Corps," to infiltrate Shanghai from Zhoushan.
However, due to the full preparation of our public security department, all of these spies were arrested shortly after they landed. Despite this, the Jiang bandit authorities still did not give up, and let Zhu Shanyu lead the second group of spies to land, and formulated two plans.
Plan A was to use a girlfriend who worked in the Shanghai Yue Opera Troupe to get closer**, but ultimately failed. Plan B was to cooperate with Pan Zhen, the leader of the remnants of Wuxi's "Southeast People's **Rescue**", and promised to give him heavy profits to come to Shanghai to cooperate with the assassination, but this plan also failed to succeed, and all the spies were arrested.
Mao Sen and Mao Renfeng recommended Liu Quande to the Revolutionary Action Committee of the Kuomintang, believing that he was the best person to accomplish their major mission. Liu Quande, a native of Jishui, Jiangxi, joined the Red Army at the age of 16 and worked as a defender.
He served as the commander of the special service company of ** and was very familiar with the defense and intelligence work of the Red Army. In 1933, Liu Quande was sent to Shanghai to engage in the underground party's hoe and rape protection work, but two years later in Wuhan** and defected to the enemy, joining the Blue Coat Society.
Because of his bravery and accurate marksmanship, Dai Li appreciated him very much and entrusted him with important tasks. Liu Quande did not disappoint Dai Li, and in 1943 he assassinated Yu Yu, the chief director of the telecommunications headquarters of Wang Wei's ** headquarters.
In the old Shanghai era, Liu Quande served as the head of the lieutenant colonel's guard team of the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou Garrison Command. When Shanghai was liberated, he was detained by the security department of the 20th Army of the People's Liberation Army.
However, due to a lack of sufficient intelligence, the PLA failed to confirm Liu Quande's true identity and background, and only held him for a week before releasing him. Liu Quande then fled to Zhoushan through the secret channel of the Secret Bureau, and then transferred to Taiwan.
Mao Sen considered that Liu Quande had served as the commander of **'s spy company and was very familiar with **, so he recommended him to Mao Renfeng. When Liu Quande received the task of being sent back to Shanghai to assassinate **, he was very happy, because there were many ** in Taiwan, and he was afraid that he might be marginalized in the future.
Therefore, he received the assignment without any complaints and quickly drew up a detailed assassination plan. Mao Renfeng was very satisfied with Liu Quande's performance and summoned him directly.
He said: "I have appointed you as the colonel leader of the Shanghai Action Group directly under the Secret Bureau, and you can pick any assistant you see fit, but you must complete the task within six months." ”
Mao Renfeng splashed ink and gave Liu Quande 2,780 silver dollars worth more than 30 taels**, and promised that if the task was successfully completed, he would be given another 100 gold bars worth 1,000 taels after returning to Taiwan.
Liu Quande embarked on the journey with full confidence.
Yangfan received a secret telegram that Taiwan's secret service sent Liu Quande and others to Shanghai to assassinate the mayor of **. After reading the telegram, he immediately jumped up, rushed into the office of the bureau chief, Li Shiying, and showed him the telegram.
Li Shiying attaches great importance to this matter, and even regardless of whether he has rested, he immediately picked up the red ** on the table and said eagerly: "Please **Mayor pick up**."
Fortunately, **still waiting**, as soon as he heard that Li Shiying had something important to discuss, he immediately invited the other party to meet at home. After the meeting, ** read the telegram carefully, but was not worried about the matter: "Lao Chiang's spies are coming, let them come."
If they come, you can't let them escape easily, and you must go all out to solve the case and not let any of them go. ”
According to our intelligence, Liu Quande is an ordinary man with curly hair and a full beard, known for his boldness, accurate marksmanship, and ruthlessness. He is currently in Shanghai with close contacts with the four.
After careful analysis, we determined that the high-speed cloud was the most politically reliable and the easiest for us to exploit.
When Gao Jiyun was asked if he knew a person named Liu Quande after he was invited over, he was taken aback. He immediately stood up, waving his hands constantly, saying that they had only met a few times in the 30s and had not been in touch since then, and that he had heard that he might have gone to Taiwan, and the specific details were not clear to him.
Then, the ** officer told him that Liu Quande was now moving back to Shanghai from Taiwan and trying to assassinate important leaders. Therefore, they hope that he can come forward and help find Liu Quande and expose his conspiracy.
After in-depth communication, Gao Jiyun was persuaded to be willing to become an "informant" of the first class. The reason why Gao Jiyun knew Liu Quande was because he was a student at the Political Defense School of Wang's puppet ** headquarters.
Once, Liu Quande was injured in a failed operation and ran to the Zhengbao School to hide, Gao Jiyun hid him with his roommate Shi Xiaofeng, and provided him with food and care every day.
Look who this is! "If it's not Liu Quande, then who else can it be! Liu Quande was unwary of Gao Jiyun, the life-saving benefactor, but he was worried that he would be "**, so he simply declared that he was here to do business, and held a banquet to entertain Gao Jiyun at noon, and kept persuading him to drink, trying to make him reveal the truth under the influence of alcohol.
In order to avoid suspicion, Gao Jiyun did not refuse to come, cup after cup, but he was afraid that he would be really drunk, so after drinking a lot, he took advantage of Liu Quande and Shi Xiaofeng's unpreparedness, bit off half of the cigarette in his mouth and swallowed it, and then pretended to vomit.
After that, Gao Jiyun pretended to be drunk and shook his head, and said vaguely: "I'm drunk, go back to sleep, and you can talk slowly." Liu Quande was not suspicious, just waved his hand.
Gao Jiyun staggered out of the door, turned to a place that Liu Quande couldn't see, looked around, and trotted all the way to the People's Liberation Army and traffic police who were directing traffic nearby: "Hurry up, follow me to catch spies!" ”
The three of them ran back to the vicinity of the "Fu Shunxing Cotton", Gao Jiyun was worried about startling the snake, so he asked the traffic police and PLA soldiers to wait by the window, and he went in by himself, and if Liu Quande was still there, he waved his hat by the window as a signal.
Then, Gao Jiyun swayed into the Cotton again, intending to deceive the two of them on the grounds that he was too drunk to ride a bicycle. But when I came in, I didn't see Liu Quande and Shi Xiaofeng, and I couldn't help but be shocked, and immediately went up to the second floor and found that Liu Quande was sleeping in the guest room.
The spy Liu Quande was arrested, and the public security department obtained important clues. Beijing successfully cracked the conspiracy led by Ji Zhaoxiang to assassinate the chairman, Guangdong cracked the case of premeditated assassination led by Huang Qiangwu, and Shanghai also arrested 19 spies.
On October 2, 1950, Liu Quande and the most heinous spies were sentenced to death in accordance with the law, and the rest of the people were also severely punished by the law.