Chapter 107 Weng Guanghui Incident

In 1932, the police in the French Concession in Shanghai searched an underground stronghold of the Communist Party. Among the materials seized was a Communist Party report, which described the deployment and equipment of the Red Army in Jiangxi Province and other military situations.Fan Guangzhen, the captain of the Chinese Criminal Police Department of the French Police Department, is a member of the Youth Gang and is also on Dai Li's payroll.So he sent a secret report to his supervisor, Shanghai station chief Weng Guanghui.Weng Guanghui immediately realized the importance of this document, and decided not to convey this information to Dai Li, but sent this extremely important information directly to Chiang Kai-shek.

Weng Guanghui graduated from the third phase of Whampoa, and then served as the captain of a warship of the Revolutionary Army.He learned that a Chinese warship was being overhauled at the Shanghai Shipyard at that time, so he decided to take possession of the ship and sail it directly to Jiujiang, where he landed on Mount Lu and delivered the report to the Chairman himself.But as soon as the warship left Shanghai, one of his subordinates at Shanghai Station reported the situation to Dai Li. Dai Li was really furious. He ordered an airplane to be ready and flew from Nanjing to Jiujiang as fast as possible.When Weng Guanghui's warship entered the port, a special agent team led by Dai Li was already waiting there.As soon as the warship docked, Dai Li immediately went up and detained Weng Guanghui. He searched for the secret report and threatened the head of the spy station that he would be tortured.Weng Guanghui actually escaped the death penalty, but was dismissed.

[Note] Another theory is: Weng Guanghui got an important piece of information from the CCP and wanted to submit it directly to Chiang Kai-shek, but he was decapitated soon. From then on, Dai Li made sure that he had a spy in charge of internal surveillance in every secret service team. No one knew the names of these spies, so other spies did not dare to go around him and go to the chairman by themselves.In this way, Dai Li aggressively defended his essential role in Chiang Kai-shek's eyes while making himself the primary guardian of the security of the other leaders of Chiang's regime.So the military command took protective measures to the important officials in Nanjing who went to Shanghai for fun on weekends.Anyone seen loitering by their door or beside their car was immediately arrested by secret agents as a suspect.Almost invariably, the suspects, who turned out to be completely innocent, were kept in jail for several months as usual.The bribes paid by these men to get out of prison early during the long period of detention also provided extra income for the secret agents who held them.