In the 1970s, an old farmer in Shaanxi province panicked and ran to the police station to report to the police, and he wanted to report no one else, but his wife who had just died.
After seeing the "confession letter" left by his wife, the local police station personnel were also shocked and hurriedly reported, which eventually attracted the attention of the relevant departments in China.
Who is this "Shaanxi peasant woman" with eight children? Why did the revelation of the identity cause an uproar?
Confess on the deathbed in order to seek relief
At the end of 1949, a beautiful woman with a good temperament suddenly appeared in a rural area in Shaanxi, and because of her excellent appearance, she quickly attracted the attention of the villagers, and everyone gathered around the woman who was carrying a small bag.
"Who are you?" Where did it come from? ”
In the face of the villagers' inquiries, the woman behaved quite weakly and mournfully, first silently glancing around, and then answering.
"My husband was a soldier, he hasn't been home for a long time, plus the war has destroyed the village, so I brought some money to my husband, but when I got to the army, I learned that he was dead, and now that no one has found it, my money has been spent again..."
At the end, the woman even cried quietly, and the kind and simple villagers felt the same, so they warmly let her live in the village.
Beginning in 1950, China began the "secret agent sweep" operation in northern Shaanxi and other regions, and it was also in this year that the girl who lived in the village married a young man in the village and officially became a member of the village.
Time has passed for decades, the original young and beautiful woman has become an old woman with a wrinkled face, because in these years she has nursed 8 children and has been engaged in heavy agricultural work for a long time, so the woman has lost her good figure.
Fortunately, although her husband is an honest peasant man, he takes good care of her on weekdays, so the life of the two has always been extremely harmonious.
As the years passed, aging and disease gradually dragged down her body, and on the eve of her death, this old peasant woman who originally called herself an "ordinary widow" called her husband to her hospital bed, solemnly took out a letter from under the futon, and slowly handed it to her husband.
"There are some things I haven't told you, I've been in guilt all these years, and this letter is what I want to say to you, but I want you to promise me... I'll open the letter when I'm dead. ”
The old man was immersed in the grief of his wife's serious illness, and only thought that the letter handed over by his wife was her advice to the children she could not put down, so he solemnly agreed and received the letter in his arms, without opening it in advance.
And soon after, the seriously ill wife died, the old man took care of the aftermath for her conscientiously, and when he returned home after doing everything at night, he could not hide his thoughts about his wife, suddenly remembered the previous letter, and turned it over, but just learned the first two lines of the letter, the old man's face was pale.
"In fact, my real name is Zhang Chunlian, I was a secret agent of the Kuomintang in Yan'an 30 years ago, and when I married you, I also wanted to avoid the scrutiny of the Communist Party's agents..."
In this letter, Zhang Chunlian explained in detail her life, tasks and guilt over the years, although at first she did marry this old man purposefully, but after the old man lived for a while, she found that she had long been disgusted with her identity as a secret agent, and the rough tea and light rice were plain and happy, but it was exactly what she longed for, and because of this, she would directly abandon the task and raise 8 children for her husband.
After reading the letter, the old man fell into a struggle for a while, whether to choose to hide his feelings for his wife, or to choose faith to confess to our party?
After a night of hard thinking, the old man finally took the children to the local police station on the second day and reported everything he knew.
And to his surprise, after repeated verification, our party, instead of convicting his wife, commended the old man's ideological consciousness.
Why is our party so tolerant of Zhang Chunlian? It all starts with her personal experience.
Aspiring to serve the country, a life of ups and downs
As one of the most outstanding agents of the Kuomintang, Zhang Chunlian is extremely prominent in both appearance and ability. But what many people don't know is that in fact, she was born into a poor family, and her initial intention was not to become a secret agent, but to become a policeman.
The young Zhang Chunlian was admitted to the Kuomintang Women's Police Academy with her own efforts, and in the process of studying in the school, Zhang Chunlian also showed her hard-working spirit and top-notch talent, ranking among the best in all subjects of the school.
It is precisely because of this that in the process of Mao Renfeng being ordered to go to the school to select "secret agent seedlings", he immediately fell in love with Zhang Chunlian, and after a little inquiry, directly brought her into the Military Command Bureau.
However, the Kuomintang Military Command Bureau at that time could be said to be a "jackal's den", and people like Mao Renfeng and Dai Kasa were not good people.
While comprehensively cultivating Zhang Chunlian, Mao Renfeng also developed Zhang Chunlian into his nominal secretary. Not only that, in order to please Dai Kasa and hope that his career would go smoothly, Mao Renfeng also introduced Zhang Chunlian to Dai Kasa.
Fortunately, Zhang Chunlian originally had no true feelings for Mao Renfeng, and at that time when the situation was turbulent, Dai Kasa was also a reliance to shield the wind and rain, but at this moment, Dai Kasa was killed on the spot in a plane crash in the Daishan area, and Zhang Chunlian lost her dependence and could only return to Mao Renfeng's side again.
Originally, Zhang Chunlian thought that with the relationship between the two before, Mao Renfeng would not treat her too harshly, but she did not know that Mao Renfeng, who had become the head of the Military Command Bureau, was quite jealous of her, a person who had a close relationship with the former person in charge, and not only did not mean to take in and protect her, but even openly expelled her.
Whatever the reason, Mao Renfeng's suppression of Zhang Chunlian was an open fact anyway.
In 1949, when the Kuomintang was defeated and forced to retreat to Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek asked Mao Renfeng to leave a large number of Kuomintang agents and lay the groundwork for the comeback of the Kuomintang; Mao Renfeng, who found the opportunity, immediately wrote Zhang Yulian on the task list, and Zhang Chunlian, although unwilling, could only go to the Shaanxi region to carry out the task.
After arriving in the Shaanxi region, Zhang Chunlian encountered the things we mentioned earlier.
Throughout her life, Zhang Chunlian originally wanted to devote herself to the police academy to defend the motherland, but under the wrong circumstances, she was selected by Mao Renfeng to enter the secret service agency, and while completing extremely dangerous tasks, she also had to endure the oppression of Mao Renfeng and Dai Kasa and others.
Zhang Chunlian's life can be said to be extremely bumpy. But even so, why did our party treat Zhang Yulian so leniently?
It turned out that although Zhang Yuchun was also a Kuomintang agent, unlike those spies who stole our party's intelligence and assassinated our party's military and political leaders, she did not do anything to harm the interests of our party. Not only that, she also made "two major contributions" to our party.
One of her contributions was that she had assassinated anti-Japanese traitors and traitors many times, and played an important role in the process of fighting the Japanese army and traitors;
The second contribution is that Zhang Chunlian has provided a lot of help to our party and secretly assisted our party in accomplishing many tasks.
From the letters left by Zhang Chunlian for her husband, it is not difficult to find that her mentality during the incubation period also had complex conflicts.
Disconnect and be willing to be ordinary
During the time when she first lurked in Shaanxi, Zhang Chunlian still missed the glorious and rich life, longing for Mao Renfeng to send someone to communicate with her and eventually take her away, and even Zhang Chunlian was thinking about these things in her dreams.
However, as time passed and most of the Kuomintang agents lurking on the mainland were purged by our party, Zhang Chunlian also began to understand that her chances of leaving were becoming more and more slim, and even knew that nature still became a role abandoned by Mao Renfenggong.
It was during this time that she met someone worth entrusting her life to and gave birth to 8 children. Her husband's kindness, dedication and the birth of her children have strengthened Zhang Chunlian's idea of taking root in Shaanxi, and it was from this period that she made up her mind to be an ordinary person.
The reason why she was able to complete the "perfect lurking" for more than 30 years was not unrelated to her reluctance to be a spy and completely immerse herself in the life of a peasant woman.
On the eve of her death, Zhang Chunlian could have completely brought her secret into the coffin, but she finally chose to expose everything to her husband and confess to the party.
This is because in decades of mainland life, Zhang Chunlian has completely completed her ideological transformation, and although she still bears the identity of a Kuomintang agent, her heart has long been washed away and transformed into a loyal communist believer.
It is often said that "if you don't know, unless you don't know it", but for Zhang Chunlian, whether others know it or not, as long as she does not reveal her identity, then she is guilty of her husband and our party.
Because of this, she finally gave the right to choose to her husband, and her husband did not live up to her hopes, completely washing her of the identity of "Kuomintang female agent", allowing her to leave a fair historical evaluation.