Chapter 4 (4) Where is Zhou Enlai?

As the director-general of the Intelligence Unit of the Investigation Section of the Central Party Headquarters of the Kuomintang, Zhang Chong was frowning.The capture of Gu Shunzhang and Xiang Zhongfa once made him ecstatic.I thought that by catching these two people, we would wipe out all the leading members of the CCP, but unexpectedly, it was Huang Liang's dream!Gu Shunzhang is the person in charge of the CCP’s intelligence and security work, but his immediate boss is Zhou Enlai; Xiang Zhongfa is the general secretary of the CCP, but Zhou Enlai is in charge of the actual work in the CCP Central Committee!

Where is Zhou Enlai? Zhang Chong lit a cigarette, and while puffing, he paced around the office.This office is very spacious, the windows are all drawn with dark blue curtains, and only the desk lamp on the desk emits a bleak light.Walking up and down alone, like a ghost wandering in a deep cave.He walked around for a while, then returned to the case, took out a file from the drawer, and flipped through a thick stack of notes.After reading a few copies, he threw the files aside angrily.These transcripts are the confessions of Xiang Zhongfa, Gu Shunzhang and others. They seem to have said everything about Zhou Enlai, but they can't tell where Zhou Enlai is.I can't tell where Zhou Enlai is. What does he want these transcripts for?

"Bang bang bang..." The alarm clock on the wall rang twelve times.He didn't know whether it was twelve o'clock in the daytime or twelve o'clock in the night.It seemed that neither day nor night mattered to him.All he cares about now is one question: Where is Zhou Enlai? He sat quietly in front of the desk, finished smoking another cigarette, and took out another file from the drawer.This is the latest report from the subordinates about tracking Zhou Enlai.These materials were only recorded until Xiang Zhongfa was arrested, and no information about Zhou Enlai could be collected after that, not even a clue.Did Zhou Enlai ascend to the sky or descend to the earth?

Facing the dossier and meditating for a long time, he remembered something, grabbed the phone headset, and dialed a number urgently.Order to attack the target on Haining Road.Then, he lit a cigarette and started pacing again.From time to time, he looked at the phone on the case. After walking around for a few times, but the phone didn't ring, Zhang Chong began to get a little impatient.Walking to the front of the case, he grabbed the headset, thought about it, and dialed another number.The other party took a long time to answer the phone.The person who was woken up by him in the middle of the night was Huang Kai, his old partner.As soon as Huang Kai opened his mouth, he asked if he had discovered Zhou Enlai's whereabouts.not yet.If it was necessary, Zhang Chong would not be in such a state of mind.Huang Kai said a few days ago that Zhou Enlai was still in Shanghai.His judgment was that Zhou Enlai would not leave Shanghai as long as all the Communist Party organs were not smashed and all the Communist Party members in Shanghai were not wiped out.Zhang Chong said that Huang Kai's judgment this time may not be accurate.

Huang Kai immediately asked Zhang Chong, "Is there any information about Zhou Enlai's escape from Shanghai?" Zhang Chong let it go, saying that whether Huang Kai's judgment was accurate or not would be known in an hour.He confidently said to Huang Kai: "You once said that Zhou Enlai has been playing a mouse-and-cat game with us. I think this is the last time I will play this game today!" He smoked one cigarette after another, paced back and forth, looking anxiously at the telephone on the desk from time to time. "Boom," the alarm clock on the wall rang.He began to feel uneasy.Now he is looking forward to the phone ringing, but also afraid of the phone ringing.This time, it can be said to be desperate.What if Zhou Enlai slipped through the net again?If so... no!Don't think so!Don't think so!In any case, Zhou Enlai must not be asked to run away this time!

"Ding ding ding..." The phone rang.Finally it rang!He stared blankly at the phone, his legs seemed to be frozen, but he was just shivering and didn't take a step.The phone rang once, and then rang a second time, before he rushed over, and the drowning man grabbed the phone earphone as if he had caught a life-saving creature.The subordinate's report was that the house on Haining Road had changed tenants a few days ago. The people who left were a woman in her thirties and an old woman in her fifties. They were probably Deng Yingchao's mother and daughter.Zhou Enlai has not been seen for a month.

It really missed again!Sure enough, Zhou Enlai slipped through the net and escaped again!He dropped the phone earphone, and it collapsed on the sofa like a ball of mud, unable to move.He found that target after a lot of effort, and sent people to keep an eye on it day and night, always thinking that this time he was sure of it.Unexpectedly, Zhou Enlai was still allowed to run away!How did Zhou Enlai escape from the net he set up?Even if he grows wings and flies away from the sky, it is hard to escape the hundreds of eyes of his subordinates!Could it be that he will burrow into the ground and escape through the cracks in the ground?

Doorbell rang.The doorbell rang several times before Zhang Chong recovered from his depressed trance.He pressed a button and the door opened automatically.It was Huang Kai who came in.Huang Kai is a Shanghai-based investigator of the Investigation Section of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang. He was awarded by Chiang Kai-shek for arresting Gu Shunzhang in Wuhan.For this reason, Zhang Chong was very jealous of Huang Kai, and in his dreams he wanted to personally capture a leader of the Communist Party, a leader of the Communist Party who was older than Gu Shunzhang, so that Chiang Kai-shek would be awarded a more glorious medal than Huang Kai.Therefore, when he discovered Zhou Enlai's secret residence, he also kept it secret from his old partner, hoping to claim the merits for himself.Unexpectedly, the plan fell through!

Seeing that Zhang Chong was downcast, Huang Kai seemed a little gloating, and said, "I said, Zhou Enlai is like an eagle, a mysterious eagle! He flies over our heads every day, but we lack a pair of piercing eyes." , no trace of him could be found." Zhang Chong poured wine and had a drink with Huang Kai.Then, he took a cigarette in his mouth, took a few puffs, and said slowly: "If we can catch Zhou Enlai, we will naturally be able to draw a successful conclusion to our plan to suppress the Communist Party. But things didn't work out, and we couldn't catch Zhou Enlai." Are we going to catch it like this? Are we going to hang it from a tree like this?"

Huang Kai opened his eyes and said, "You mean, we can't catch him, but we can find a way... By the way, we can kill him with a knife and get rid of him!" "It's really a hero who sees the same thing!" Zhang Chong raised his brows with joy, and hurriedly poured wine and drank a glass with Huang Kai. "Zhou Enlai is the actual power holder of the Communist Party. Once we give him the title of 'traitor'..." This move is vicious enough. Even if Zhou Enlai cannot be brought down, at least it can bring some remnants of the Communist Party inside. Chaos!The two of them toasted happily as if they had really accomplished it.

A few days later, that is, from February 16 to 21, 1932, Shanghai's "Times", "News", "Current Affairs News", and "Shenbao" successively published "Notice of Wu Hao and others leaving the Communist Party".The full text of the notice is as follows: On February 20, a leaflet entitled "Oppose the Shameless Rumors of the Kuomintang" distributed by the Propaganda Department of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China appeared on the streets of Shanghai.The leaflet pointed out: "The advertisement of Wu Hao and other 243 people leaving the Communist Party recently published in the piles of reactionary newspapers such as Times and News is an example of the shameless rumour-mongering of the imperialist running dog Kuomintang... No matter how much these bastards spread rumors and slander, they will not be shaken. The prestige of the Communist Party among the toiling masses!" On February 27th, the 11th issue of the party newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, "Real Report", published the "Wu Hao Announcement" written by the party, pointing out: "The "Wu Hao et al. The Kuomintang’s rumors and slanders against the Communist International, the Chinese Communist Party, and myself will definitely not save the Kuomintang from perishing!” At the same time, "Real Report" also published an article entitled "Another Specimen of the Kuomintang’s Rumors and Slanders", pointing out: "Crazy The white terror of the Communist Party of China and the despicable spread of rumors...in the name of Comrade Wu Hao to slander Comrade Wu Hao (one of the leaders of the Communist Party) and the Communist Party of China." These leaflets and articles from the CCP's underground organization were quickly delivered to Zhang Chong and Huang Kai through various channels.But the two of them dismissed these leaflets and articles.In their view, the spread of these leaflets and articles is limited after all, and they are justifications within the Communist Party, and have little influence on the outside world.But an advertisement published in Shenbao on March 4 caught their attention.The advertisement was published in a conspicuous position, with the title "Emergency Announcement of Bahe's Lawyer Representative Zhou Shaoshan", the full text is as follows: According to what Zhou Shaoshan Junlai claimed, he wrote a manuscript and used the alias Wu Hao. Recently, there was a report of Wu Hao and 243 people leaving the Communist Party. The name was never used for external activities except for writing texts. It must be that Wu Haojun is someone else. The fact that the so-called 243 people left the Communist Party at the same time has nothing to do with him.It is a matter of personal reputation, which is easy to be misunderstood, and it is even more fearful that some unscrupulous people will turn the truth around and use it as an excuse to make troubles. The special committee asked your lawyer to make a statement on his behalf, and thanked Qi You for the letter and telegram.According to this, she will publish the newspaper on her behalf, as shown on the left. Zhang Chong read the announcement in the "Shenzhen" several times in a row, and asked Huang Kai if this "Zhou Shaoshan" was Zhou Enlai?Huang Kai checked and found out that it was an alias of Zhou Enlai.Zhang Chong immediately sent someone to investigate the background of Ba and the lawyer.Mr. Ba He is the most famous French lawyer in Shanghai, and he is the perennial legal advisor of "Shenbao". After many investigations, he did not find any connection with the Communist Party.Could it be that he posted this announcement for Zhou Enlai without knowing it?Huang Kai said that it was the barrister Chen Zhigao who approached Mr. Ba He and asked to publish this notice.Chen Zhigao is the son of Chen Jieqing, who has been the chief judge of the criminal court in the French Concession for decades, and is quite famous in the Shanghai judicial circle.But as far as he knows, Chen has never had anything to do with the Communist Party.Weird thing!Isn't this Zhou Shaoshan Zhou Enlai?Both Zhang Chong and Huang Kai were puzzled. A few days later, their spies brought back a notice from the Jiangxi Central Soviet Area, which was issued in the name of Chairman Mao Zedong of the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet.The notice said: "Shanghai Current Affairs News, Times, and Shenbao published an impostor notice of 'Wu Hao and 243 people' for several days around February 20, 1932, claiming to have left the Communist Party. Not only is it absolutely not divorced from the fact of the Communist Party, but it will not publish the absurd and reactionary remarks in that notice, which are obviously rumors and slanders of the Kuomintang members who massacred workers, peasants and soldiers and betrayed China to imperialism." Only then did the two of them know that Zhou Enlai had left Shanghai for the Jiangxi Central Soviet Area.After being stunned for a long time, Zhang Chong shook his head helplessly, and murmured, "Zhou Enlai, you really are a mysterious eagle! None of us are your opponents..."