Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

Wei Hongjun shook his head.

I understand what Xing Zhaotang means.

This is the same logic as the New Fourth Army. Ye Ting was the commander of the New Fourth Army, but he was not a Party member. The New Fourth Army was the Party's armed force, and Xiang Ying, then the deputy commander of the New Fourth Army, used this as an excuse to exclude Ye Ting from command of the New Fourth Army. Whenever there was an important matter, a Party committee meeting would be convened, and Ye Ting would not be allowed to attend.

Wei Hongjun also understood.

Ye Ting was at least a member of the Party and had participated in major uprisings, but Fu Zuoyi was only a general in the uprising, and many officials in the North China Bureau did not like him.

Wei Hongjun said, "Although Director Fu is not a Party member, he is the Director of the Water Conservancy Commission. He can attend future Water Conservancy Commission Party Committee meetings. The Deputy Director can also read Party documents. Director Fu is eligible to participate in decision-making at meetings involving Water Conservancy Commission work. Documents from the Water Conservancy Commission will not be accepted without Director Fu's signature. I want to convey this to all comrades on the Water Conservancy Commission. Tell them to respect Director Fu and cooperate with him on their work."

"it is good."

"Yes."

Several people nodded.

Wei Hongjun put the report down and said, "I won't approve this report yet. When you go back, discuss it with Director Fu and then submit a new report. I think there shouldn't be any problems with this report. Your Water Conservancy Committee can begin preliminary investigations and come up with a specific plan. In this way, we...

"dong dong dong"

"Deputy Secretary Wei, Minister Du of the Social Affairs Department and Minister Liu of the Urban Construction Department want to see you."

Wei Hongjun's secretary interrupted Wei Hongjun.

Wei Hongjun was stunned.

Du Liqing and Liu Ren are looking for me at this time?

Although he didn't know what the matter was, he knew that matters involving the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry of Urban Construction were not trivial. So Wei Hongjun told Xing Zhaotang and the others, "Go back and redo it. Just have someone send the report over."

"it is good."

Several people knew that Wei Hongjun had other things to do, so they left the office immediately.

After they left, Du Liqing and Liu Ren walked in. Both of them looked very unhappy and sat down in front of Wei Hongjun. Wei Hongjun smiled and said, "What's wrong? What happened?"

"Old Wei, something serious has happened."

Du Liqing said angrily, "Do you know what we just dealt with? The matter of fake party members."

"Fake party members? What fake party members?"

Wei Hongjun didn't react.

After the liberation of North China, there was nothing new. There were stories of cadres' romantic affairs, stories about their relatives, and posts expressing support for the revolution. In particular, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan regions had been involved in the revolution in North China for many years, so many local cadres emerged from the region.

After all, Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei and Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan regions have been important bases of the Eighth Route Army since the Anti-Japanese War.

Many of the cadres who participated in the revolution at that time, as long as they are still alive today, although they are not as good as the veterans of the Long March, many of them are indeed of high rank. Let alone other places, just look at the Yirecha built by Wei Hongjun.

The Hebei-Rehe-Chahar Military Region began to develop from Sheng County.

The most famous figure in Sheng County is undoubtedly Zhang Shan, a favorite of Wang Qiuyun and Wei Hongjun. He started out as a hunter before joining the Eighth Route Army in 1937. He served with distinction during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, rising through the ranks and now serves as a division commander under the 22th Army of the 78nd Corps.

There is also Zhang Shan’s sister, who was the first female cadre supported by Wei Hongjun in Sheng County.

I am currently working at the Women's Committee of the North China Bureau.

Many of those from Sheng County who joined the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, though not as quickly promoted as Zhang Shan, were still officers in the People's Liberation Army. Even a number of them rose to the level of regimental commanders. Now that North China had been liberated, their hometowns were in North China. As a result, everyone knew that their relatives had become high-ranking PLA officers and had become founding heroes.

They all hope that these PLA "big officials" can give them some good things.

It can be said that after the Battle of Pingjin and the Battle of Taiyuan, all kinds of strange things happened.

"The Political Department recently received a report alleging that some Party members in Shijiazhuang have questionable histories. They're not Party members at all, yet they now hold key positions in various factories in Shijiazhuang. Normally, this kind of thing wouldn't be a big deal, and it wouldn't be my concern. But this one involves a Shijiazhuang Municipal Party Committee official, so Lao Liu and I had no choice but to investigate in person. Do you know what happened?"

"what happened?"

"These people are talking nonsense. The cadre being reported was a veteran underground Party member in Shijiazhuang. He had joined the Party as early as the Agrarian Revolution and had made significant contributions on the covert front. However, this veteran Party member, known for his outstanding contributions, colluded with another cadre from the Municipal Party Committee and, before the liberation of Shijiazhuang, recruited a large number of Party members. Seventeen of them in total."

"How many?"

"Seventeen people. All of them joined in a surprise attack a few days before the liberation of Shijiazhuang."

"Shijiazhuang was taken over by Comrade Wang Zhi at the time. Didn't he notice this problem?

Wei Hongjun was shocked.

A sudden expansion of party members before liberation?

You only need to think about this to understand what it means. Du Liqing shook her head and said, "The underground party has its own discipline. Most of the connections are vertical, not horizontal. And to ensure safety, some organizational structures and lists of newly recruited members are not disclosed. After the liberation of Shijiazhuang, this part of them was affiliated with a line."

With the testimony of two senior underground party cadres, no one doubted it.

And because these people were from the factory, when they took over the Shijiazhuang factory, they all obtained higher levels in the factory.

Or maybe it was because one of them had been a puppet policeman and was recognized by other underground party cadres, so they reported him to the Political Department.

Chapter 735 Underground Party Issue 2

"This is a complete forgetting of Party principles. But how dare he target so many people? He's so bold. If just one person among so many people had a problem, then all would be exposed."

Wei Hongjun was really angry.

These people are so brave.

The more people there are, the more loopholes there are. But they really dared to come up with seventeen fake party members.

"They are locals and have worked in Shijiazhuang for more than ten years. They know a lot of people, have many friends, and have many relatives. Seeing that liberation was imminent, they started to have some ulterior motives."

"Damn it."

Wei Hongjun scratched his head.

Wei Hongjun really didn't expect such a thing to happen.

In my previous life, I'd only seen hidden heroes suffer injustices because they lacked the organization's trust in movies and TV series. Those stories were all about how these hidden heroes maintained their faith in the face of harsh circumstances. I never imagined such atrocities could occur in the early days of liberation. Some people were so audacious as to mass-produce fake party members to share the fruits of victory.

I'm not afraid of overeating them.

If you quietly recruit one or two of your own family members, it might be difficult to detect. After all, it's common to recruit relatives when doing underground work. Underground work relies on one-on-one contact, without horizontal connections, so sometimes it's not impossible to falsify information.

But creating seventeen fake party members at once is unacceptable. It's truly audacious.

Du Liqing smiled bitterly and said, "After the victory, everyone wanted to enjoy the fruits of victory and gain capital. And one person is not enough, they also want to bring their relatives along. After this incident, our Social Affairs Department and the Urban Construction Department did a simple investigation and found that there were more than one or two such cases. Our Social Affairs Department has discovered several party members who joined the party before liberation. Some people's files are still okay, and they truthfully wrote that they joined the party just before liberation. But some party members clearly joined the party recently, but their files show that they have been party members for many years.

“Isn’t this an isolated case?”

"Ah."

Liu Ren beside him nodded.

"The problem is more serious and complex than we imagined. To ensure safety, many covert front work is kept secret. Therefore, many members of the covert front work only on a single line. As a result, some of the upper lines were sacrificed, and the lower lines lost their organizational ties. Now, many members in this situation have found the organization and hope to restore their organizational ties."

"This situation must be thoroughly investigated. We must not allow our comrades to suffer any injustice, nor can we allow enemy agents to infiltrate in this way.

"It's very difficult."

Liu Ren smiled bitterly.

He said, "We recently encountered a situation. He also died on the line and lost contact with the organization. His identity is only known to three people, one of whom is his superior who has already died. Because this line is under the responsibility of the Enemy Work Department of the army, the other two people who know his identity are from the army and the Enemy Work Department. Later we went to investigate and found that one of them died as early as 1944, and the other one followed the army south, and now the army has been reorganized into the Second Field Army. The Political Department of the Second Field Army stated that the army is now gathering in the Central Plains to fight, and they have no time to investigate such matters. Besides, this cadre is just an ordinary Enemy Work Department cadre. Cadres were frequently transferred during the war. Even if the revolution succeeds and the world is peaceful in the future, finding a cadre will not be so easy.

Wei Hongjun understood.

Unless they are cadres of a certain level.

Otherwise, the department was constantly changing personnel, and there were no computers to search cadre files. Finding someone wasn't easy. You had to search through each file one by one.

Liu Rendao said: "Actually, judging from his report, we are quite confident in this comrade. But the problem now is that there is no one to prove it.

Without proof, we can't issue documents. Without documents, his history can't be confirmed. Furthermore, we're worried that enemy agents might exploit this situation and infiltrate our Party.

It's a very contradictory thing.

No one dares to blindly prove such a thing to others.

But without proof, no department or cadre would dare to guarantee that this person had no problems. However, if a proof were issued to anyone without authorization, and if this person turned out to be an enemy spy infiltrating the Party, the problem would be extremely serious.

This is a matter of principle.

However, this would likely wrong comrades who have fought on the covert front for many years. For example, even if someone who could ultimately prove his identity was found, success wouldn't necessarily be achieved.

Because the cadres of the Enemy Work Department have access to a lot of information about comrades on the hidden front.

After a long time, memories may not be so clear. Some people may think that these cadres must remember them. But for these cadres, they are just one of the many underground party members they manage, so they may not remember them.

Liu Ren continued, "Even if the organizational relationships of these comrades cannot be restored, and our comrades have suffered, it will not harm the revolution. However, those fake party members are directly affecting our revolution. These fake party members have no understanding of what revolution is. They join the party only for the power after liberation. Such people are the greatest enemies of the revolution."

Wei Hongjun nodded.

This problem is very serious.

It's no different from enemy spies infiltrating the party.

Wei Hongjun asked, "Do you have any ideas?"

Du Liqing hesitated for a moment, then said, "Old Wei, my idea is to conduct a comprehensive review of the history of all party members and cadres who came from the underground party in North China."

Wei Hongjun looked up at Du Liqing.

He was deeply impressed by his courage. Screening the history of underground Party members and cadres was no small matter; it was a very offensive matter. Underground, the Party was a very important faction. How many people would be offended by this? Wei Hongjun couldn't help but glance at Liu Ren beside him. Liu Ren was the Minister of the Urban Construction Department, and had previously assisted Marshal Nie. After Marshal Nie left the Urban Construction Department, Liu Ren had been in charge of it.

The cadres on the urban covert front in North China have been under the leadership of Liu Ren in recent years.

Moreover, Liu Ren was also the Minister of the Enemy Work Department.

Those underground party cadres active in the Kuomintang army were also cadres on Liu Ren's line.

Du Liqing wanted to thoroughly investigate the histories of these Party members and cadres, which would affect Liu Ren. Liu Ren nodded to Wei Hongjun and said, "Deputy Secretary Wei, I agree with Comrade Du Liqing's idea. We should carefully examine the histories of Party members and cadres who came from underground Party backgrounds, especially those before and after liberation."

Wei Hongjun nodded.

I felt more admiration for Liu Ren.

Although Liu Ren consistently collaborated with Wei Hongjun during the war, their relationship wasn't particularly close. This was primarily due to Wei Hongjun and Liu Huafu's professional disagreements, while Liu Ren and Liu Huafu enjoyed a close personal relationship. In their early years, both Liu Ren and Liu Huafu were Peng Zhen's two most trusted generals in the Northern Bureau. However, Liu Huafu was later marginalized, while Liu Ren, relying on his exceptional work savvy, remained a prominent figure in North China.

But Liu Ren's statement today showed his party spirit.

But Wei Hongjun is still considering it.

This is difficult to handle.

Although all members of the military, local, and underground parties were members, their approaches to work were different, and their understandings of revolution were different. Working together naturally created many conflicts.

If the North China Bureau conducts a large-scale historical screening of party members and cadres who came from the underground party, it will easily cause conflicts.

There are already a lot of rumors going around now.