Chapter 33 1. Go to Beiping to establish an underground work liaison station

According to the domestic situation after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Party Central Committee decided to first take over the Northeast and establish a solid base in the Northeast.Therefore, personnel on the first front (army) and the second front (underground work) must be transferred to the northeast as soon as possible. Zhao Yaobin, head of Xi'an's underground intelligence organization, plans to send people to Beiping to establish an underground work liaison station as the first step in moving to the northeast.But at the beginning of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the train from Xi'an to Peiping was still not available.The "receiving officers" who went to Peiping all took special planes.To send people to Peiping, traffic is a big problem. In mid-September, Zhao Yaobin came to my house and asked me if there was a way to go to Peiping?I said: Two days ago, Mr. Clark from the U.S. Air Force Liaison Station in Xi’an came to invite me to fly to Xuzhou with them to rescue the detained American pilot.When I arrived in Xuzhou, I could take the train to Peiping.Zhao Yaobin said: This is a good opportunity, you should contact the U.S. Air Force Liaison Station; we will talk again before leaving. In late September, Mr. Clark notified me of the date to fly to Xuzhou, and said: He came to pick me up by car and asked me to get ready.I immediately went to tell Zhao Yaobin.He left me to have dinner at his house, and said: After you arrive in Peiping, try to establish an underground work contact station.If you can accept an enemy or pseudo cultural unit, then run a newspaper or bookstore.

One day in late September, I flew to Xuzhou with several Americans.After getting off the plane, we drove directly to Hao Pengju's pseudo-provincial office.We explained our purpose, and the receptionist let us into the living room.Soon, Hao Pengju came with the American driver.The driver and the American who came warmly embraced. When Clark introduced my situation to the driver, the driver also shook hands with me warmly to thank him!When they were going to the airport, I told the Americans who came with me: I am not going back to Xi'an, I am going to Peiping.They asked: Does your wife know?Shall we bring back a letter to your wife?I said: She knows, don't bring the letter, thank you.They went back to Xi'an.I am going to take the train from Xuzhou to Peiping.

There are trains going to Peiping via Xuzhou every day. I think it is very easy to buy a train ticket to Peiping.Unexpectedly, the trains to the north were military vehicles for the withdrawal of Japanese troops (the railway was still controlled by the Japanese at that time), and there were no passenger cars.I went to visit Chief of Staff He Zhu Guobutian who brought the troops to Xuzhou. By the way, I mentioned that I was going to Peiping and there was no bus problem.He asked the staff office to inform the station master of Xuzhou Railway Station that a passenger car should be attached to the military vehicle going north.I took this bus to Peiping.The time is the end of September 1945.

At this time, Beiping was the time when the Kuomintang accepted the "five sons" (gold, tickets, houses, cars, and women) of senior officials.They competed with each other to receive the enemy's fake houses, cars and other property, and whoever snatched it would own it.A receptionist with the highest position occupied a famous Peking Opera actress.No one is responsible for the administrative management of Beijing, and the streets are full of garbage.There are thieves everywhere. A friend came to see me at night and put his bicycle in the courtyard. Within half an hour, the bicycle was stolen.Japanese expatriates are being concentrated, awaiting repatriation.A large number of furniture, clothes, bedding and other items of Japanese overseas Chinese are placed on the side of the road and sold at a low price.All the universities run by the puppet regime have been converted into university cram schools, waiting for the heads of the universities who moved south at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War to come back and take them over.Although there are no proper textbooks and no fixed source of funds in primary and secondary schools, those patriotic teachers still insist on teaching students.

I was dispatched to Peiping by the underground organization of our party. Since I did not have the cover of the "receiving officer" of the Kuomintang, I could not participate in the reception.Through my personal relationship, I rented a large courtyard house at the west entrance of Rongxian Hutong in Beiping, and set up an underground work contact station under the cover of my house. In the winter of 1946, Zhao Yaobin went to the Northeast to arrange work, and lived here when he passed Beijing back and forth.