Chapter 57 Fuxingshe in Henan

Thanks to Liu Zhi's encouragement, Fuxingshe was able to develop an extremely extensive network in Henan, which spread to every school and most government agencies in the province.All the more important officials of every government agency, many mid-level officers in the army, most of the teachers and students in universities, middle schools and primary schools, as well as a considerable number of leaders of local martial arts groups and gang leaders, were absorbed into the Fuxing Society or the Blue Shirts Society. within its frontier organization.Many clerks, school teachers, and public officials believe that if they do not join the Fuxing Society, they will not be promoted, and a considerable number of people even believe that if they do not become members of the Fuxing Society, they will lose their jobs in the government.

In addition to the support of the governor, the Blue Shirts Society also has the endorsement of Ai Jingwu, a member of the Henan provincial government since 1930.Ai is a loyal believer of Chiang Kai-shek, and he firmly believes in the slogan of "one party, one leader, one country".When the Fuxing Society established a branch in Henan in 1932, its secretarial assistant Chen Qi persuaded Ai Jingwu to join the society, saying that it was not a sectarian group, but a core organization composed of Whampoa graduates and Chiang Kai-shek's cronies.Ai disliked organized groups because it was contrary to the "one party" theory, but he was sure that the Fuxing Society was composed of purely motivated and disciplined people who had the potential to "save" the KMT.So he dispelled his doubts and took an oath to join the society.Later he was invited to participate in the "Chinese Revolutionary Comrades Association".

The provincial headquarters of the Fuxingshe was initially set up in Kaifeng, and it was housed in a house near Donghuamen together with the Central Military Academy Alumni Investigation Office and the Henan Provincial Security Department's spy unit Investigation Office News Agency.Later, the two units jointly used the "news agency" as a cover. Feng Jianfei, secretary of the Fuxing Society, is also the head of the security department.Each county and town has branches and groups of the Fuxing Society. They have no right to contact other branches or groups horizontally, and the staff of each group cannot inquire about the situation of other members. They must fill out their "resume sheets" and write Sworn to keep the organization secret.They were told that once they became members, Chiang Kai-shek himself wrote down the life and death certificate for them: "If you enter the society, you will live, if you leave the society, you will die."

Two individuals assisted the Fuxingshe in infiltrating educational institutions: Wang Gongdu and Jia Guansan, both heads of the provincial education department.Teachers and students of many universities and middle schools participating in the Fuxing Society have investigated dissidents in their academic units and put them on the "blacklist" as members of the Communist Party or CC faction. The Blue Shirts have also infiltrated extensively into county-level government agencies.Almost all the heads and deputy heads of the security corps are members of the Fuxing Society, and about half of the county-level commissioners in Henan are also members of the Fuxing Society. In mid-1936, when the provincial electors participated in the National Congress of the Kuomintang, Henan Province established a "supervision office" under the supervision of Governor Li Peiji to monitor the election situation.The ZTE news agency was ordered to influence the election as much as possible.The director of the news agency at that time was Councilor Ai Jingwu, who was also the editor of Henan Evening News.Using the agency's authority, he and others in the Revival ordered the branches and cells to focus their efforts on electing representatives who thought like them.At the same time, the members of the Fuxing Society were ordered to work as teachers in the "training center". The "training center" was specially set up to train students sent by the rural "union insurance" and "township" to make them local administrators such as security chiefs or school principals.Once these lowest-level administrative cadres entered the training school, they either became members of the Fuxing Society or were invited to join the Loyalty Salvation Council, a front organization established by Dai Li's secret service in 1935.

Nanjing ordered Henan to set up a "Loyalty Salvation Congress" in the province in order to absorb "people from the lower classes of society", including the top figures of the "Guoshu Circle" and the Qinghong Gang.These "local tyrants and evil gentry" and gangsters were brought under the hands of Xiao Sa, one of the most powerful leaders of the Blue Shirts Society.Xiao Sa established in 1935 a network of military personnel, Kuomintang elements, workers and peasants, and local gangsters, who all gathered in the Donghuamen office, which became one and a half of the paramilitary Loyalty Salvation Congress. The public "bandit den".

Xiao Sa is a native of Henan, a graduate of the first class of Huangpu, and an assistant to the director of the Provincial Security Department. In 1934 he was appointed secretary of the Fuxing Society in Kaifeng Province.Over the next two years, with the help of his assistant secretary, Chen Qi, Xiao Sa turned the Fuxingshe into a tool of terror.The provincial headquarters occupied two large inner courtyards at the news agency, merged with the secret service station led by the brutal Wu Gengshu.Wu Gengshu is a murderer by nature, capable of the most barbaric and brutal acts.When Chen Qi expanded the personnel of "Loyalty to Save the National Assembly" and turned it into a guard of the spy station, Wu Gengshu received a message from the Fuxing Agency asking him to secretly arrest suspected elements of "revolutionary" activities and Lock them up in his office and torture them to death day and night.

The situation became so dire that the teachers and students who were recruited by the Fuxing Society refused to have anything to do with the Blue Shirts.The Fuxing Society was supposed to be people loyal to Chiang Kai-shek mainly from teachers and staff, but now it has the characteristics of a large number of "loyalty to save the National Congress" hooligans who joined the spy organization. And domineering.These "rogues" will enter restaurants and shops in Kaifeng City, eat whatever they want, take whatever they want, and then don't pay a penny, just say: "I'm from Donghuamen!" Not only the lower-level military units are afraid Rejecting them, these hooligans even dared to cause trouble with the secret service's office and county government officials.Xiao Sa and Chen Qi often wrote letters of introduction to local government commissioners with Fuxingshe background for the "loyalty to save the National Assembly".These commissioners dare not speak out because they are afraid of being harmed.By 1936, the Fuxing Society in Henan was no different from this kind of hooligans, and ordinary people could no longer distinguish between the activities of the Fuxing Society and the atrocities committed by the Wu Gengshu spy station.

The CC faction did not hesitate to take advantage of the chaotic situation in Kaifeng to directly file a complaint with Chiang Kai-shek, drawing his attention there.Jiang was very angry.He immediately ordered the Secret Service to dismiss Wu Gengshu as an official, and ordered Fuxingshe to dismiss Xiao Sa's position as Secretary of Kaifeng.Liu Yizhou, one of Dai Li's most trusted personnel, was sent to Henan to take over the secret service station with full authority, and moved the secret service station from Kaifeng, where the "local evil" and their supporters were powerful, to Zhengzhou, so that the secret service station could effectively exclude local interests. It is subject to the central control of the Secret Service at No. 53, Ji'e Lane, Nanjing.

At the same time, the spy station separated from the Fuxingshe Provincial Headquarters, which was still in Kaifeng.When Xiao Zuolin, who succeeded Xiao Sa, took office, he found that he was treated coldly by Liu Yizhou, the head of the spy station: Liu hadn't seen him for three consecutive months.When they finally met, Liu was condescending and extremely arrogant to Xiao.Moreover, although the agency of the secret service station in Zhengzhou was opposite the Kaifeng branch of the Fuxing Society, they did not communicate with each other.As the head of the spy station, Liu himself was also a member of the Fuxing Society's "Secretary Committee", but he seldom attended meetings, and when he did, he never mentioned spy activities.For the Fuxing Society, whenever a group or branch delivered political information, the information would not be handed over to the secret service station, but would be sent directly to the Fuxing Society headquarters in Nanjing, and then passed on to the secret agents under Dai Li.

Locally, the Renaissance Agency was deliberately kept in the dark about political arrests and searches.For example, in 1936, a middle school teacher mysteriously disappeared.Because he was a member of the Fuxing Society, the local representative of the society asked the Secret Service if they had any news about him.They said the Secret Service knew nothing about it.It was only after the teacher was released that Fuxingshe learned that Liu Yizhou's people had arrested him as a suspected Communist.Not only did the students recruited by the secret service station and other people sponsored by them stop attending the meetings of the Fuxing Society, the secret service station even had their latent personnel in the Kaifeng branch of the Fuxing society, who specially reported to Liu Yizhou and his accomplices about Xiao Zuolin and his deputies Case.