1932: Playing with the Japanese Communist Party with a doll

I hope it's not what I imagined.

Fortunately, the sound of a dog barking came from inside the house, three short and two long.

Pan Wenyu finally breathed a sigh of relief, opened the door carefully and walked in. Sure enough, he saw Li Tiancai sitting on the sofa and his wife Liao Sudan pouring him tea.

Pan Wenyu didn't say anything more to his wife. He grabbed Li Tiancai and went straight into the study. After closing the door, he asked:

"Didn't you go back to Northeast China to hide? Why are you back again? Did something happen?

Li Tiancai was Zhang Xueliang's personal secretary and his chief intelligence officer.

Historically, it was Li Tiancai who figured out which members of the Northeast Army rebelled, which joined Chiang Kai-shek, and which fought against the Japanese. He collected a complete set of intelligence, which gave Zhang Xueliang the peace of mind to rush to Wuchang to serve as the "Deputy Commander of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Bandit Suppression Campaign."

This time, because they found the situation in Northeast China incomprehensible, Li Tiancai and another staff member, Wang Zhuoran, volunteered to go back to Northeast China to hide. It was they who obtained the important intelligence just now.

You were living well in Northeast China, why did you suddenly come back?

“Nothing happened, but…”

Li Tiancai looked as if he didn't know how to explain. He hesitated for a long time before sighing and saying:

"Forget it, I'll take you to see someone, and then you'll understand.

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Pan Wenyu, who had just returned home not long ago, was taken out of the house again by Li Tiancai and soon arrived at a place that was once very familiar to him.

"here it is..."

"Yes, it was one of the CCP's secret bases in Beijing.

As he spoke, Li Tiancai opened the door:

"Come in, he's waiting for you inside.

Pan Wenyu, feeling mixed emotions, met a strange man, who took the initiative to extend his hand to him and introduced himself:

"Hello, Comrade Pan Dongzhou, I am the head of the Peking Special Branch of the Central Special Branch of the Communist Party of China. My name is Wu Chengfang.

"!!!

After hearing this introduction, Pan Wenyu was so dazed that he even forgot to extend his hand to shake it back. After a long pause, he said bitterly:

"Are you here to root out the traitor? If so, can you please let me go home and say goodbye to my wife?"

"Hahahaha...M

Wu Chengfang laughed:

"Comrade Pan Wenyu, I'm willing to call you comrade, and I've come to see you alone. Do you think I'm here to kill traitors? On the contrary, I'm here to ask you a question on the orders of the organization."

Pan Wenyu finally calmed down and took a deep breath:

"Excuse me."

"Are you willing to rejoin the Party?"

"!!!

After realizing that the other party was not joking, Pan Wenyu blurted out without thinking

"I am willing! As long as the Party still trusts me, I am willing to continue working for the Party! Until my death!"

Wu Chengfang was not surprised by Pan Wenyu's answer.

As early as Pan Wenyu's attempt to translate Das Kapital, the Peking Special Branch had paid attention to him and investigated his behavior before and after his release from prison. The Special Branch made a judgment:

Although this person was forced to leave the party, he refused to betray the party's secrets or harm his party comrades. After being released from prison, he continued to study and promote Marxism. I am afraid that he only left the party physically, but still believed in communism in his heart.

Even so, a person who had surrendered before would never be able to take back the party organization according to Wang Ming's "left" politics. But now Wang Ming has fallen!

After Wang Ming fell and Wu Hao regained power, he conveyed new instructions to the Beiping Special Operations Group.

"When dealing with insidious and cunning enemies, the Special Operations Department cannot be too rigid. As long as it does not harm the interests of the Party, any method can be used. All available people must be used to work for the Party."

Guided by this idea, Wu Chengfang found Pan Wenyu again and brought him back to the party's front in less than a minute.

"Very good, we'll talk about rejoining the party later. For now..."

"etc!

Pan Wenyu raised his hand and pointed at Li Tiancai standing beside him:

"Before that, I have a question I want to clarify: why are you two getting together? According to Genius's personality, if you had approached him directly and asked to see me, he would never have agreed.

Really sharp.

Good, good, this is the kind of talent the Party wants.

Wu Chengfang's eyes were full of admiration as he explained the reason.

It turned out that Wu Chengfang, the head of the Peking Special Branch, was going to the Northeast to gather intelligence when he happened to meet his comrade Li Tiancai, with whom he had organized and participated in the May Fourth Movement and the February 7th Strike.

Wu Chengfang showed no ill will towards this "former CCP traitor" and even tried to test his willingness to return to the CCP. Li Tiancai did not say so explicitly, but recommended Pan Wenyu, who had always been obsessed with the CCP.

Coincidentally, the Peking Special Branch has also been paying attention to...

"...That's what happened, so we went back to Peking to find you.

In fact, Wu Chengfang didn't finish his words, and neither did Li Tiancai.

The real reason why the two returned to Peking was that they became "colleagues".

Yes, that’s right, “colleagues” from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Five-Star Eastern Republic.

Both of them successfully broke into the Northeast from Peiping and were then sent back to Peiping from the Northeast to engage in intelligence work.

Working from home is like a certain Northeastern king.

There was one thing Wu Chengfang hadn't told Li Tiancai yet. It was that while he was infiltrating the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Five-Star Eastern Republic, he met a man who made him extremely confused and excited:

what?

The old boss turned out to be Wang Yong, the commander of the 129th Division?

I was wondering why this name sounded so familiar!

Good guys!

This must be the biggest communist spy in Northeast China!

Is it true that anyone who is called "King of the Northeast" is more likely to "recruit the Communists"?

Then, Chen Geng, who also recognized Wu Chengfang, conveyed some of Wu Hao's orders to him and sent him back to Beiping as the "Head of Intelligence for the Beiping Region of the Ministry of Internal Affairs". He also added Li Tiancai as his assistant.

"I see.

Pan Wenyu was not aware of the unspeakable secrets, so he nodded and bowed to Li Tiancai.

"Thank you for trusting me, genius brother.

"You're welcome, we're friends!"

"Ok.

Pan Wenyu did not express much gratitude to Li Tiancai, nor did he swear or anything like that;

Because he believes that words are pale and actions are the most important;

Just like in history, Zhang Xueliang deliberately let him escape, but in order not to implicate Li Tiancai, he returned as promised and was willing to die;

("Brother Li saved me, I won't run away. It was you who bailed me out of prison, brought me into the Northeast Army, and pushed me before the Young Marshal. I won't harm you. I'll die for my ideals, so I'll die! You still have life to live.")

"Comrade Wu, what is my first mission?

"Continue to lurk around Zhang Xueliang and obtain as much intelligence as possible about the Northeast Army."

“Okay, that’s no problem.

Pan Wenyu hesitated for a moment and then said:

"However, I request the party organization not to send me to do anything that would harm Zhang Xueliang. I was able to be rescued and have been safe and sound for the past two years. He has done me a favor."

“Well, don’t worry, the Party will never engage in political assassinations.

As Zhang Xueliang's chief intelligence officer and chief personal secretary, Li Tiancai watched this scene but did not stop it, nor did he think of reporting it to the other party.

As for him, although he had never thought about returning to the party organization and could not go back, he was not willing to harm his former comrades. Instead, he was willing to provide some help to the CCP when the time was right.

Moreover, there were quite a few Communists around Zhang Xueliang. Besides Pan Wenyu, there were several others who were very close to the Reds. Therefore, even if Zhang Xueliang knew that Pan Wenyu was a Communist, he probably would not have investigated further.

Most importantly, the CCP currently seemed to be the organization with the greatest potential to fight against the North. The "Li Desheng Corps" in the Yulin area, in particular, was a force Zhang Xueliang would need to rely on in the future. How could he easily offend them?

Li Tiancai knew that he had a stain, especially being involved in the murder of Mr. Li Dazhao. It was impossible for him to return to the party organization, but this did not stop him from doing something to help the CCP:

Apart from the reason of "investment", at least it can alleviate the torture of conscience.

是?

(Some say that Li Tiancai (i.e. Li Bohai) betrayed Li Dazhao, but he was arrested six months after Li Dazhao's death (some say that Zhang Zuolin deliberately released him to make him a traitor), so this statement is questionable)

(Compared to Zhang Guotao's confession, I think his suspicion is less serious. Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that Li Dazhao was betrayed by more than one person.)

(After liberation, Li Bohai was defined by the CCP as a "rebel and surrendered personnel." If he really betrayed Li Dazhao (and was caught with evidence), this definition is basically impossible.)

476 The Bloody Incident of the Cultural Relics Migration to the South

Zhang Xueliang didn't know that his two secretaries had their own "little ideas" and one of them had even started to be a Communist spy again. Even if he knew, he probably wouldn't care.

Because, after the short "daily Marxist course study" ended, Zhang Xueliang was faced with a dilemma no less serious than that faced by the "Jiangsu and Zhejiang warlord" Chiang Kai-shek, which was mentioned earlier:

The morale of the Northeast Army was unstable.

This unstable military morale can be described in a general way as "homesickness", but if we look into it in detail, the content is quite complex and extensive.

Previously, Zhang Xueliang also thought that this must be because the Northeast Army had left the Northeast, everyone missed their hometown, hated the Japanese, and was uncertain about the future;

Therefore, he specially held a grand "special wine party" and invited a group of senior generals of the Northeast Army to attend, but everyone found that the wine glasses in front of them were empty, and there were only two unopened bottles of wine in front of each person;

Just when everyone was confused, Zhang Xueliang stood up and began an impassioned speech on reforming the Northeast Army and resisting Japan and saving the nation, and declared:

"...The 918 Incident was such a humiliating event that I could not bear it. Northeast China has not been recovered, and the hatred for the country and my family has not been resolved. I have no face to see my fellow villagers, nor do I have the face to drink and have fun."

"Therefore, I will give each of you two bottles of fine wine. Take them home and keep them safely. We are too embarrassed to drink today, but when the Northeast is recovered, I, Zhang, will drink with you for three days by the Yalu River!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the officers present were excited and in tears. Slogans rose one after another, and everyone swore to fight to the end and to die.

After this "performance", which cannot be completely called a "performance", was spread, it did restore a lot of reputation for Zhang Xueliang, who was denounced by the Chinese people as a "non-resistance general" and blamed by his subordinates.

At least, he no longer needs to disguise himself and be cautious when going out, and no children will rush out under the influence of adults and spit on the ground where he walks.

However, not long after, the "Northeast Massacre" and "Rehe Fall" disasters hit them one after another, and the reputation of Zhang Shaoshuai and the Northeast Army plummeted to the bottom.

The morale of the Northeast Army, which had been reluctantly united because their hometown was occupied by the Japanese and their fellow countrymen were enslaved by the Japanese, also plummeted to the bottom.

Faced with the desperate resistance of their fellow countrymen, the Northeast Army that "invaded" the Northeast fell into deep confusion:

Who is the invader?

Why don't our fellow countrymen welcome us?

If Zhang Xueliang had not begun to understand Marxism through Pan Wenyu at this time, he might have fallen into painful struggle again, relying on alcohol, opium and morphine to numb himself;

But it was precisely because he studied Marxism and understood theories such as "class struggle" that he discovered that many things before were completely different from what he had originally imagined.

Those generals who were clamoring to recapture the Northeast, whose troops had extremely poor discipline and even cooperated with the "Returning Home Corps" to kill the people of the Northeast without thinking that there was anything wrong, seemed to have had large tracts of fertile farmland, forests and mineral resources taken away from the Northeast;

In other words, like Zhang Xueliang, they suffered heavy losses in the Japanese invasion, and it can even be said that all their property was lost.

(The Japanese army seized almost all of the Zhang family's real estate. Doihara Kenji was still a human being and wanted to return the movable property, or floating assets, to Zhang Xueliang. The young marshal was furious and refused to take a single cent.)

Those officers who remained relatively calm in the face of Zhang Xueliang's incitement and whose troops had relatively good military discipline could be described as "having nothing to show for it" and later expressed dissatisfaction with the rape, looting and massacres committed by friendly troops;

The former hated Fujiwara no Kanezane and the Japanese to the extreme. Some even posted a portrait of the new Northeastern King at a shooting range and exchanged shots every day, looking like a "patriotic general."

However, the latter not only never publicly expressed their hatred for Fujiwara no Kanezane, some of the bolder ones even expressed their appreciation for many of his policies, believing that he had contributed to improving the lives of the people in Northeast China.

If Zhang Xueliang had not studied Marxism with Pan Wenyu and if Li Tiancai had not helped him collect intelligence, he might have really thought that the former was his backbone and the latter was a traitor and a collaborator. But after learning and seeing it, his view changed:

So that's how it is. Some people aren't "very patriotic" or "hate foreign enemies" at all, they just "hate foreign enemies for stealing their property"?

Does that mean that if the "foreign enemy" is willing to return their property to them, if the "foreign enemy" gives them even a little more benefits, they will sing praises or even betray them instantly?

Others, especially those grassroots soldiers, if their fellow countrymen in their hometowns continue to call them, will they also abandon their status as Northeast Army soldiers and "surrender to the enemy" like those officers and soldiers who have already fled?

Therefore, although there is a possibility of "surrendering to the enemy", there is still a big difference between "surrendering to the enemy" and "surrendering to the enemy".

This is the "class difference"...