Chapter 82 Communist counterattack

Of course, the Communist Party also has its own murder plans and practices.They have their own operational organization in the Shanghai Party's Secret Service, whose responsibilities include punishing traitors.During the 1930s, journalists of the time reported hundreds of assassinations of "traitors," workshop foremen, detectives, gang leaders, gangsters, and Molecules and KMT agents. The most sensational case was the murder of Gu Shunzhang's family because Gu defected to the Kuomintang in 1931.Gu worked in Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company and was the head of the Communist Party's secret service department. He worked first under Zhou Enlai and then above Zhou.Gu has a playboy air, belongs to the notorious Qing Gang, and is a veteran of disguise and deceit.He often appeared as a famous magician under the pseudonym Hua Guangqi, and he was able to operate secretly in a dozen foreign concessions without being discovered by the police, which made him legendary.His arrest by Central Union agents in Hankow was a terrible blow to the Communist defense establishment.The Communist Party was able to recover some losses by relying on their underground connections at the top of the Central Unification Bureau.However, Gu Shunzhang's defection (he later became the leader of the ex-communist "surrender" group in the Kuomintang secret service) led to the arrest and killing of a large number of Communist Party members, such as Xiang Zhongfa, the general secretary of the Communist Party.

Out of self-defense, the Politburo decided at a meeting in September 1931 to punish Gu and assigned the task of revenge to one of Gu's former subordinates, Wang Shide.Wang, who looked to foreigners like a "tuberculosis tailor," killed Gu Shunzhang's wife, his parents-in-law, and a brother, and buried their bodies under the ground of an apartment in the French Concession.Gu Young's son, An Sheng, was not killed.After Wang Shide was arrested by the authorities, he assisted the police in the concession to dig up Gu's body from the burial site.As a result, Zhou Enlai was accused of being a criminal and put on the most-wanted list of the Shanghai Municipal Police and Public Security Bureau.

Throughout the secret war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, each side vehemently denied the other's allegations.The Blue Shirts document published by Isaacs and published by Central News Agency was called baseless by the KMT spokesman as a lie fabricated by the communist "anti-government agency".Shanghai Mayor Wu Tiecheng even lodged a formal protest to the US Consul General in Shanghai for publishing an article defaming Blue Shirts in the Shanghai Evening Post Courier. Yet the murder policy has not been abolished, at least according to reports in the mosquito tabloids. On August 12, 1933, the "Little Gazette" claimed to have obtained a murder plan from the Blue Shirts, which showed that they had been training agents to deal with Chiang Kai-shek's enemies.

Since they returned to Shanghai from Lushan Mountain to wait for Chiang Kai-shek's instructions, the local killers in the society became more and more active.The headquarters of the agency is training secret agents in large numbers, and the process of selecting murder members to carry out tasks in all areas has also been completed. This careful plan listed 57 agents, who were divided into groups of 14, led by Dai Li and Zhao Yongxing: six groups in the French Concession, five groups in the British Concession, and three groups in the Chinese area of ​​the city.The terrorists are said to be armed with pistols, and most of them dress up as rickshaw drivers, fortune tellers, peddlers and other low-class people in the city.Their task is to find out the situation of the people on the commander-in-chief's blacklist and kill them at any time.

These sensational statements made the common people discuss and worry unceasingly.Whether or not these claims are true, there are plenty of indications that yet another key opponent of the government will be killed by Dai Li's agents.Regardless of the opposition of public opinion, Chiang Kai-shek had already ordered the murder of the second leader of the Human Rights Protection League: Shi Liangcai, the editor-in-chief of Shenbao, when these reports were published.