On March 17, 1946, the Chongqing Military Command Headquarters received a top-secret telegram, which read: Deputy Director Dai Li and his special plane disappeared.
After receiving the telegram, Mao Renfeng did not dare to neglect and hurriedly reported to Chiang Kai-shek. At the same time, he contacted military special agents in various places to search for Director Dai's whereabouts.
Chiang Kai-shek was worried that Dai Li’s plane had fallen into the liberated area, and asked Mao Renfeng to select a reliable subordinate to rescue him. Mao Renfeng called a meeting with his subordinates to discuss the urgent mission, but the scene was very quiet. .
Mao Renfeng’s subordinates all knew what it meant to go to the liberated areas. No one dared to risk their lives. Only one person stood up and said: "Director Dai treated me well back then. I will go ." This person is Shen Zui, one of the Three Musketeers of the Army.
Shen Zui was born in Xiangtan, Hunan in 1914. In the modern history of China, many revolutionary fighters came out of Xiangtan, the most well-known of whom is Chairman Mao.
However, Shenzui obviously did not choose the right path of revolution. Instead, he chose to join the Chinese National Renaissance Society when he was 18 years old and became a member of the military.
Shen Zui went to join his sister in other places, and his brother-in-law was Yu Lexing, the big boss of the military at that time, so he arranged his brother-in-law's job and asked Shen Zui to work with him in the military. This also changed Shen Zui's life. life trajectory.
The factional disputes within the Kuomintang have always been very serious. In addition to considering the subordinate's personal ability, superiors are more important to consider the person's factionalism, and Shenzui followed his brother-in-law Yu Lexing to let him follow. His promotion was smooth all the way.
Yu Lexing had previously studied intelligence business and secret security business in Moscow. After graduation, he was introduced to the military command by Dai Li and joined the military command. He was a veteran of the military command. Dai Lize introduced Yu Lexing to join the military command. He is the well-known deputy director of the Military Command Bureau.
Therefore, when Shen Zui followed his brother-in-law Yu Lexing into the military command, he indirectly connected with Director Dai. The Military Command Bureau was also well aware of Shen Zui's relationship, so it was natural that Shen Zui's promotion would be smooth.
In addition to Dai Li's relationship and Shen Zui's own strong business ability, Shen Zui soon became the youngest major general in the army at the time.
Before Dai Li's accident, Shen Zui's career was going smoothly, but when Dai Li's plane crashed, Shen Zui's good luck came to an end.
Mao Renfeng, the newly appointed director of the military command, is very wary of this young and promising subordinate and regards him as a serious threat to his future. Shen Zui can also feel Mao Renfeng's exclusion of him.
So Shen Zui approached Mao Renfeng and said that he would take the initiative to be transferred to other places. Afterwards, Shen Zui was assigned to Yunnan as the chief of the local military command station, but his main task was to monitor Lu Han, the then Chairman of Yunnan Province.
With the unfolding of the three major battles, the decline of the Kuomintang was fully apparent. Everyone knew that the end of the Kuomintang's rule was only a matter of time.
Lu Han, the chairman of Yunnan Province at the time, also saw this trend, and he began to actively contact the underground party. Soon the news reached the ears of Chiang Kai-shek, who was deeply touched by Lu Han's betrayal. disturbed.
In August 1949, Mao Renfeng also sent a secret message to Shen Zui, asking Shen Zui to get rid of several anti-Chiang subordinates around Lu Han. Of course Shen Zui knew that Lu Han was contacting *** behind the scenes. Party affairs.
But he also saw the decline of the Kuomintang and considered a way out for himself, so he adopted the "entrust" tactic in response to Mao Renfeng's orders and secretly helped several people escape.
Mao Renfeng was very dissatisfied with Shen Zui's slow action, so he personally flew to Yunnan to urge Shen Zui to speed up his action.
Shen Zui was disgraced by Mao Renfeng's personal arrival. Thinking about the various unfair treatments he had received since Mao Renfeng came to power, Shen Zui became angry and planned to poison Mao Renfeng. .
Just when Shen Zui was about to take action, Mao Renfeng came to Shen Zui's room, patted Shen Zui on the shoulder and said, "Old Shen, you have always been consistent with me over the years...", Shen Zui's loyalty. Hearing Mao Renfeng say this, he gave up his murderous intention.
Later, Shenzui was detained by Lu Han, the rebellious chairman of Yunnan Province. Later, he was treated as a captive war criminal by Lu Han and imprisoned in Kunming Army Model Prison. After the liberation of Yunnan, Shenzui was sent to Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center in Beijing.
When Shen Zui first started the transformation, he was very frightened and didn't know what his future would be like. But slowly, Shen Zui started talking to some managers and changed his original misconceptions.
What really touched Shen Zui was the occurrence of several things:
One thing was that Du Yuming was in very bad health at the time and planned to drag himself to death through illness. After discovering this situation, he immediately reported it, and then gave Du Yuming the best treatment. With careful care, Du Yuming's illness was almost completely cured. Du Yuming personally said to Shen Zui, "The Communist Party is my reborn parent."
In addition to China’s victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, some war criminals were also arranged to visit the construction achievements of New China, such as the creation of China’s first car.
These achievements greatly touched the senior officials of the Kuomintang who were full of resistance. For decades the Kuomintang ruled China, not a single car was built. However, in just a few years after the Communist Party established New China, With our own car.
In 1960, Shen Zui was pardoned by the Supreme People's Court and appointed as a commissioner of the Cultural and Historical Materials Research Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
After verification by relevant departments in 1980, Shen Zui signed the Lu Han Uprising electrification document and asked his subordinates to hand over their weapons and report to the designated place. Shen Zui's identity changed from a war criminal to a war criminal. The generals of the uprising enjoyed the treatment of deputy ministerial level and served as members of the fifth, sixth and seventh National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Shen Zui had three marriages in his life, and one wife had two sons and five daughters. However, in the turbulent war years, only one person was able to stay by Shen Zui's side.
Shen Zui’s first wife is named Mo Xie. Mo Xie’s father is a Kuomintang officer, but Mo Xie strongly agrees with the Communist Party’s ideas, so the father and daughter break up.
Mo Xie went to Shanghai alone, and it was here that Mo Xie met the high-spirited Kuomintang officer Shen Zui. However, the two had different intentions at the time. The two met, fell in love, and eventually had a son, but they never He never told the other party his true identity.
Shen Zui told his wife that his name was Chen Cang, and his wife Mo Xie said that her name was "Baiyun". Mo Xie was secretly a female editor of Shanghai Progress Magazine. Later, Shen Zui asked Mo Xie to resign and become a housewife but was rejected. The two separated.
In 1986, the old revolutionary female writer Mo Xie passed away. After reading her works, I realized that Mo Xie was his first wife "Bai Yun".
After the two divorced, Zhen Zui entrusted the child to be raised and devoted himself to his career. There was no historical record of this child.
In 1938, Shen Zui met her student Li Yanping again. At that time, Li Yanping was admitted to the National Military Officer School. The instructor who taught them was Shen Zui. Shen Zui fell in love with Li Yanping at the first sight. He fell in love with this beautiful woman and launched a crazy pursuit of her.
The two gave birth to one son and five daughters in one day after marriage. In his later years, Shen Zui only saw his second daughter Shen Yiyun, his youngest son Shen Duli, and his youngest daughter Shen Meijuan who was always with Shen Zui.
In 1949, amidst the roar of the People's Liberation Army artillery, the Chiang dynasty collapsed. Many senior Kuomintang officials and generals fled to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek, but Shen Zui was asked by his boss Mao Renfeng to hold on. Yunnan.
Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Shen Zui asked Li Yanping to take several young children to Hong Kong to escape. Shen Zui gave a friend five extremely precious plane tickets so that his family could fly to Hong Kong. .
The only reward Shenzui asked from this friend was to help support his wife and daughter after arriving in Hong Kong, but this friend left as soon as he got off the plane.
Li Yanping was waiting in Hong Kong for her husband to take her home, but there was no news. Li Yanping had no choice but to ask her brother to return to the mainland with his dementia eldest daughter and youngest daughter Shen Meijuan. After searching for her father, Shen Meijuan's uncle was shot as a spy, and Shen Meijuan suddenly lost her support.
Shen Meijuan's eldest sister died in front of Shen Meijuan due to dementia and no one took care of her. After that, Shen Meijuan followed her uncle and lived a life of hunger and food.
All this took a turn for the better in 1960, when Shen Meijuan saw her father's name on the list of amnesty war criminals published by the "People's Daily".
Shen Zui was pardoned and released from prison in 1960. He tried every means to contact his wife and learned that her wife had remarried. The one son and three daughters who were still with his wife at that time also followed them. The uncle went to Taiwan to live, and Shen Zui felt as if he was alone and helpless in the world.
After many inquiries, Shen Zui learned that his youngest daughter was still in the mainland, which made him very happy.
Shen Zui wrote to his youngest daughter to reunite with her in Beijing, and also sent her a piece of clothing that he had altered so that the father and daughter could get to know each other. After all, when Shen Zui left, his youngest daughter Shen Meijuan was only 2 years old. Four years old.
When Shen Meijuan stepped onto the platform in Beijing, she looked around, looking for a tall, white, elegant and handsome middle-aged man. This was her imaginary father, but instead she saw a dark-skinned middle-aged man dressed as a farmer. The young man ran towards her happily, and Shen Meijuan couldn't believe it.
The week spent with her father was the happiest week in Shen Meijuan’s life. Shen Zui took Shen Meijuan to eat all the delicious food in Beijing and also took her to visit the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven and other scenic spots.
In 1962, after Premier Zhou's special instructions, Shen Meijuan left Changsha and went to a high school in Beijing. The father and daughter, who had been separated for a long time, were finally able to live together.
In 1965, Shen Zui and Du Xuejie got married. After the marriage, the two got along quite sweetly, but the only regret was that because Shen Zui was old, they had no children of their own.
When Shen Meijuan was about to graduate from high school, the novel "Red Rock" became popular across the country. It described the cruel persecution of Communist Party members by the Kuomintang authorities in Chongqing, and the villain in the book was named " Extremely drunk".
Soon Shen Meijuan discovered that others were pointing fingers at her, saying that she was the daughter of "Yan Zui". More than ten years of prison reform had transformed Shen Zui from a ruthless KMT military commander into a devoted Good ordinary people, but this cannot change the mistakes in history.
Because of her origin, Shen Meijuan was deprived of the qualification to join the Communist Youth League, and also because of her origin, Shen Meijuan was not eligible to enter university. Shen Meijuan burst into tears after learning about the situation.
Shen Zui approached the leaders of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and the Civil Affairs Bureau, hoping to get a chance for her daughter to take the exam. In the end, the leaders of the two parties promised that Shen Meijuan could apply for the exam the next year.
But the relationship between Shen Meijuan and her stepmother Du Xuejie was very tense at that time. At that time, the Ningxia Construction Corps came to Beijing to recruit people. In 1965, Shen Meijuan signed up to go to the Ningxia Construction Corps and stayed here for 10 years. .
In the past ten years, Shen Zui was imprisoned twice, and was released after five years in prison.
After organizational review in 1979, Shen Zui regained the title of uprising general and enjoyed deputy ministerial treatment. At this time, Shen Meijuan followed her husband back to Beijing and was assigned to the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Literary and Historical Materials Publishing House. Information clerk, accountant and other positions.
In 1980, Shen Zui and his daughter Shen Meijuan went to Hong Kong to meet his ex-wife Li Yanping. Their children in Taiwan also went to Hong Kong. The family finally reunited after decades of separation. The words they said to each other before they met were already spoken. Tears streaming down my face.
Shortly after returning to the mainland from Hong Kong, Shen Zui began to write memoirs with the help of his daughter Shen Meijuan, and published books such as "My Thirty Years" and "My Life in the Devil's Nest".
Shen Meijuan also began to try to publish her own works in 1982. After graduating from Beijing Radio and Television University in 1985, she was transferred to the Chinese Literature and History Publishing House of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference as an editor.
Shen Meijuan joined the Chinese Writers Association in 1994. In 1995, Shen Meijuan applied for early retirement from her work unit and settled in Hong Kong. She often travels between Beijing and Hong Kong. Now she spends her later years in Hong Kong. .