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Preface
She is the top female spy, known as "the person who holds the lifeblood of old Chiang", after lurking by Chiang Kai-shek's side for more than ten years, she can still retreat safely, and can be called the undefeated rose of our party's secret front.
This heroine lived until she was 95 years old, and before she died, she said a word that was tearful.
Who is this heroine and what kind of legend does she have?
On June 16, 2010, in a residence in Beijing, a 95-year-old man muttered to himself as he lay dying: "I'm exposed, leave through the back door, they're coming to arrest someone immediately..."
The old man's name was Shen Anna, and these words when she was dying seemed to come from her subconscious worries.
When everyone present heard this, they couldn't help but moisten their eyes.
Because everyone knows that the old man Shen Anna used to be a sharp blade deep in the heart of the enemy, as an underground worker of our party, he lurked in the Kuomintang for 14 years, and even became a person who "grasped the lifeline of Lao Chiang" for a time.
Shen Anna was born in 1915 in a prominent family in Taixing, Jiangsu Province. Shen Anna's ancestors were all officials of the Qing Dynasty, and her father was also a Xiucai of the former Qing Dynasty.
Born into such a traditional and illustrious family, in fact, the path that Shen Anna would take in the future was very different.
The reason why Shen Anna took the opposite path to her family has a lot to do with her own character.
Under the teaching of the scholarly family, Shen Anna received a good education since she was a child.
But when she was seven years old, Shen Anna had a lot of trouble with her family because of one thing.
The elders in the family are feudal in their thinking, and they feel that girls must have to wrap their little feet. Therefore, when Shen Anna was seven years old, her elders forced her to bind her feet.
As a woman in the new era, Shen Anna has progressive thoughts, although she was only seven years old at that time, she already understood the truth of equality between men and women.
Therefore, Shen Anna, who has an independent consciousness and progressive thoughts, rose up to rebel against the family in order not to be small-footed, and had a lot of trouble with the family.
As she grows older, Shen Anna, who has been beautiful and has an outstanding temperament since she was a child, also has her own dreams.
Shen Anna wanted to become a movie star, and when she said the idea, she was immediately strongly opposed by the elders in the family.
The ideology of the family is feudal, coupled with the fact that there is a certain prejudice against the profession of actors in that era, the Shen family is also a scholarly family and a prominent family, and the elders will never allow Shen Anna to show up as a movie star.
Subsequently, the family arranged a marriage for Shen Anna and her second sister. Shen Anna naturally would not agree to this arranged marriage, in her opinion, this is a symbol of the old times, shackling people's thoughts and steps.
So, at the age of 16, Shen Anna and her second sister escaped from their homes and ran to Shanghai.
After coming to Shanghai, Shen Anna and her sister met their love.
After leaving home and coming to Shanghai, Shen Anna entered the middle school here. She has a good personality and good looks, and soon gets along well with teachers and classmates in school.
As if it was fate, on this day, Shen Anna and her sister were invited to the teacher's house to attend a party and met two young people.
As soon as Shen Anna entered the door, she saw Hua Mingzhi, who was wearing a gold-rimmed glasses, her hair was meticulously combed, and her speech was also polite.
Although there was no special meaning at that time, Shen Anna also left a deep impression on Hua Mingzhi.
And Shen Anna's second sister, Shen Min, also met her future husband Shu Yuexin at this party.
Several young people with idealistic aspirations and progressive ideas became acquainted.
In 1934, Shen Anna entered the Chinese shorthand school to study, she was talented in her own right, coupled with her hard work in school, her grades have always been among the best.
And all this is like fate, which has laid the best paving for her extraordinary life path in the future.
In this year, the love between the second sister Shen Min and Shu Yuexin also went to the palace of marriage.
At this time, Shen Anna learned that Shu Yuexin and Hua Mingzhi were both members of the Communist Party of China engaged in secret intelligence work.
And this also affected Shen Anna's life and set her on a path that she had never thought of before.
During her studies at the Chinese shorthand school, Shen Anna has always performed well. As she approached graduation, she began to hesitate about her future plans.
Most of her classmates worked as stenographers, and Shen Anna wanted to be a movie star since she was a child.
She began to wonder about the future, not knowing whether to make a film come true or become a stenographer.
At this time, an opportunity completely changed Anna Shen's life.
At that time, the Zhejiang provincial government needed a stenographer, and they sent someone to Shen Anna's Chinese shorthand school to select people. And Shen Anna, who had excellent grades, was selected at once.
Such a rare opportunity is something that many classmates can't ask for, but Shen Anna hesitated, she didn't know whether she should go or not, after all, going to work in the government is not a simple thing, and there are many things to face in the future.
Shen Anna couldn't make up her mind, so she went to her second sister Shen Min and asked her to help her come up with an idea.
Subsequently, Wang Xuewen, the leader of the Central Special Branch at that time, learned about this time. After thinking about it, Wang Xuewen thought that this was a rare opportunity, so he asked Shen Anna to accept the job.
Subsequently, under the influence of her second sister Shen Min and brother-in-law Shu Yuexin, Shen Anna became an underground member of our party and worked as a stenographer in the deliberation section of the Zhejiang Provincial Government Secretariat.
At that time, Shen Anna was only 19 years old, and what she didn't expect was that she would work higher and higher in this job for more than ten years.
After officially entering the Zhejiang Provincial Secretariat of the Kuomintang, everything Shen Anna had learned before played a role here.
Shen Anna, who was born in a scholarly family, has been teaching her family to write well since she was a child. Later, after studying at a Chinese shorthand school, Shen Anna mastered the skill of 200 words a minute.
In the position of stenographer in the deliberative section, Shen Anna's handwriting was fast and good, and she was clearly organized, and soon won the respect of her superiors and began to let her participate in some important meetings.
Shen Anna recorded all the materials at these meetings and reported them to the organization when she returned to Shanghai.
But how do you bring this information back to Shanghai?
If you want to cover up, it will arouse the suspicion of the enemy, and it is better to be open.
Shen Anna put all the important conference materials in her suitcase, swaggered to take the train, and then took them all the way back to Shanghai.
Shen Anna's bold and careful style was immediately praised by the leader Wang Xuewen, praising her for her courage and achievements.
While the career was progressing, the love between Shen Anna and Hua Mingzhi was also progressing steadily, and in the fall of 1935, the two officially got married.
After getting married, Shen Anna and Hua Mingzhi began to cooperate to transmit information.
It was a hassle to travel back and forth between Shanghai and Hangzhou, so I began to use the method of writing letters.
At first, Shen Anna used a special invisibility potion to write letters. However, due to various reasons such as paper, weather, and long distances, the handwriting sometimes appears automatically.
In this way, it is easy to be exposed, and Shen Anna can only write a letter with another plan.
For this reason, she pondered for a long time, and finally invented a code language that only she could understand, using code words to convey information, even if the letter was exposed, the enemy could not read it.
As Shen Anna gained a firm foothold within the enemy, the content of the information she had became more and more important, and Shen Anna's information was directly sent to Premier Zhou.
In 1938, when the situation was turbulent, Shen Anna didn't know whether she should continue to lurk, so she met Premier Zhou several times.
Premier Zhou praised Shen Anna's past work and encouraged her to continue to lurk.
After receiving Premier Zhou's instructions, Shen Anna immediately understood the importance of her task.
Subsequently, she found Zhu Jiahua of the Central Party Department of the Kuomintang in Wuhan at that time and asked him to help her arrange work.
Zhu Jiahua admired Shen Anna's ability, personally introduced her to the Kuomintang, and directly arranged her to join the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang as a stenographer.
In this way, Shen Anna suddenly came into contact with the enemy's more covert intelligence content.
Shen Anna has strong work ability and is careful, so she has been reused by the top level of the Kuomintang in the position of stenographer, and many core meetings will let Shen Anna record on the side.
And in this job, it means that Shen Anna will face more suspicion and danger, and if she makes a mistake, she is likely to lose her life.
In 1942, Shen Anna's upline Xu Zhonghang's identity was discovered. And Shen Anna didn't know about this matter, and she couldn't contact Xu Zhonghang for a long time, so she realized that something was wrong, so she took the risk of sending a letter to Xu Zhonghang's home to try it.
Sure enough, a few days later, the Kuomintang spies found Shen Anna and asked her why she had contact with Xu Zhonghang.
In the face of questioning, Shen Anna did not panic, but calmly told the spy that her child was sick and just wanted to borrow money from Xu Zhonghang.
Kuomintang agents were skeptical of this and began to investigate Shen Anna.
Because Shen Anna worked carefully and did not leave any suspicious clues, in the end, the Kuomintang spies investigated for a long time and found nothing, and found that Shen Anna was personally introduced by Zhu Jiahua, the head of the Central Unification spies, so the spies did not dare to investigate.
During the War of Liberation, Shen Anna, as a stenographer, often attended high-level meetings of the Kuomintang, and she sat next to Chiang Kai-shek when the meetings were held.
Anna Shen will record the contents of these meetings and pass them on to our party. Shen Anna's intelligence made a significant contribution to the victory of the war.
It was not until 1949, after the liberation of Shanghai, that Shen Anna received the retreat mission, ending her 14-year spy career.
Before retreating, Shen Anna also took a top-secret Nanjing city defense map.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Shen Anna has also been engaged in secrecy work.
In 2010, 95-year-old Shen Anna muttered to herself before she died: "I'm exposed, comrade, leave through the back door..."
More than ten years of underground intelligence work has put Shen Anna in danger every day, and when she was dying, she still thought that she was still in that era.
Today, we are in a peaceful and prosperous era, and it may be difficult for us to imagine the lives of our predecessors. But we should always remember history!
Information sources:
The "female version of Yu Zecheng" has been lurking by Chiang Kai-shek's side for 10 years! At the age of 95, before dying, her words shocked everyone......
Plain pen Danxin - 14 years of lurking for Shen Anna, an intelligence officer of the Communist Party of China--Party History Channel-People's Daily Online
Culture _ She was assigned by Zhou Enlai to lurk beside Chiang Kai-shek for 11 years without being exposed, and the four words of the red female spy Shen Anna before her death made people cry