On June 23, 1946, the Shanghai People’s Petition Delegation for Peace in Beijing poses in front of the carriage before boarding the train. From right: Ma Xulun, Bao Dasan, Lei Jieqiong, Yan Baohang, Zhang B., Sheng Pihua, Hu Ying, and Kui Yanfang.
In the history books written by the Chinese Communist Party, the masterminds behind the “Shimonoseki tragedy” and the deaths of Li Gongpu and Wen Yiduo all point to the Nationalist government led by Chiang Kai-shek. However, evidence has surfaced that the Chinese Communist Party is the ghostly figure behind these three incidents, as it has an ulterior motive.
“Chinese Communist agents behind the “Shimonoseki Tragedy
According to the official Chinese Communist Party account, in June 1946, in the midst of the national wave of “opposing civil war and fighting for peace and democracy,” nine people, including Ma Xulun, Lei Jieqiong, Yan Baohang, Ye Duyi and Pu Xixiu, went to Nanjing as representatives of the Shanghai Federation of People’s Organizations to make a peaceful petition. When the delegates arrived at Shimonoseki Station in Nanjing, they were attacked and beaten by hundreds of Kuomintang agents in advance, resulting in Ma Xulun, Lei Jieqiong and others being seriously injured. Thereafter, the CCP used this to continue to slander the Kuomintang and incite the common people against the Kuomintang government.
However, some years later, the CCP party history accidentally disclosed the truth of this history when introducing Yan Baohang, an underground agent of the CCP.
Yan Baohang, character Yuheng, was born on April 6, 1895 in a peasant Family in the village of Xiaogao Lifang, Haicheng County, Fengtian (present-day Liaoning Province). 18 years old, Yan Baohang was admitted to the Fengtian two-grade teacher training college, and later converted to Christianity and was employed by the Fengtian YMCA. It was at this Time that his friendship with Zhang Xueliang began and he became one of the lobbyists for the Chinese Communist Party in the Xi’an military revolt he staged in 1936. Afterwards, Yan Baohang went to the University of Edinburgh in England for study and research, and after his return to China in 1927, he applied to Wu Lishi, the organization minister of the Manchurian Provincial Committee of the CPC, for membership in the Party, but he was unsuccessful because the connection was broken.
“After the September 18 Incident, Yan Baohang organized the Northeast People’s Anti-Japanese Salvation Association, appealing for anti-Japanese salvation and collecting money and clothes to assist the Northeast Volunteer Army to fight against The Japanese. His ability was appreciated by Song Meiling, Zhang Xueliang and other upper echelons of the Kuomintang, so he held important positions in the “Four Dimensions Society” jointly organized by Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang, and the “New Life Movement” propagated by Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling, and was recommended by Zhang Xueliang and appointed by Chiang Kai-shek. He was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the chairman of the Military Commission, the battalion counselor, and the design member of the Political Department of the Military Commission. Yan Bao Hang became the “red man” beside Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei Ling, which made a beautiful and gorgeous “veneer” for his later secret service work.
In 1937, Yan Bao Hang, who was in the Kuomintang, secretly joined the Chinese Communist Party and stole three major international strategic information, such as the German blitz against the Soviet Union, the Japanese raid on the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor and the Japanese Kwantung Army’s deployment in northeastern China, and thus he became one of the most outstanding agents of the Chinese Communist Party. He also used his position to attack the internal affairs of the Kuomintang and to point the finger at the Kuomintang for provoking the civil war. What he did played a very important role in the CCP’s eventual seizure of power.
In 1946, Yan Baohang was ordered to launch the “People’s Anti-Civil War Movement Conference” in Shanghai, and went to Nanjing as a petition representative. At Shimonoseki Station, Yan deliberately provoked a conflict with a disguised KMT agent. Yan Baohang was beaten up, and Lei Jieqiong and others suffered as well.
And shortly after Yan and the others were sent to the hospital, Chinese Communist leader Zhou Enlai immediately rushed to the hospital to offer his condolences, and Zhou Enlai said to Yan Baohang, “Comrade Baohang, you have accomplished the task given to you by the Party!” Subsequently, Mao Zedong and Zhu De also sent messages of condolence. There is no doubt that the ghost behind the “Shimonoseki Tragedy” is the Chinese Communist Party.
It is also self-evident what task Yan Baohang, a member of the Chinese Communist Party underground, accomplished, which was to use the “Shimonoseki Incident” to provoke the discontent and even resentment of China’s uninformed intellectuals and ordinary people against the Kuomintang regime, and this purpose was indeed achieved, as Lei Jieqiong and others were kept in the dark until their death. As for Yan Baohang, who “completed the task given by the Party”, he did not end up well either: he died in the Cultural Revolution.
The National Government had nothing to do with the deaths of Li and Wen
Li Gongpu, a well-known educator in the Republic of China and an early leader of the Chinese Democratic League, studied in the United States and was influenced by Marxism-Leninism. Wen Yiduo, a well-known scholar in the Republic of China, studied in the United States and taught at Tsinghua University and Southwest United University. After Li Gongpu’s death, he delivered his famous “Last Lecture” at a mourning conference before being shot dead.
Who exactly was the murderer? The Chinese Communist Party pointed the finger at the Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek, arguing that it was Li Gongpu’s and Wen Yiduo’s struggle for democracy and against the civil war that made the Kuomintang kill them. Undoubtedly, the truth is not so simple, and the descriptions of how Li and Wen died are quite contradictory even in the history of the Chinese Communist Party.
In the article “Remembering Li Gong Park”, Zhang Man-kyun, the wife of Li Gong Park, recounted: We got off the bus and walked to the slope of the college, when we heard a soft “pop” behind us, and Gong Park fell down beside me. The tenth series of Zhuzhou Cultural History in 1980 is described as follows: Xie Jifang, the murderer who was caught in 1958, confessed that when Li Gong Park went out after watching a movie, Zhang Deming, Xie’s accomplice, fired a shot into the air, and in the confusion Li Gong Park walked into the left alley, and the murderer fired two shots at him.
Wen Lizhe, son of Wen Yiduo, writes in “Details of Dad’s Death,” “…… There was dead silence on the way, …… and suddenly the gunshots were loud and Dad had fallen to the ground… …” But in a 1955 interview with the Beijing Daily, Wen Lihe added that the gun was “an American-made silent pistol …… that was fitted with a silencer and just poofed, poofed, and the sound was so small that no one noticed it. ……”
Such a very different narrative is probably not a mistake in memory, but more like a correction for political reasons. What is the purpose of this?
As to who the murderer was, evidence suggests that the national government had nothing to do with the assassination. The assassination of Wen Yiduo was reportedly carried out by two junior gendarmerie officers, Tang Shiliang and Li Wenshan, who were part of the Yunnan police commander Huo Kui Chang’s establishment. They assassinated Wen Yiduo purely for the purpose of pleasing their superiors. The two were later executed (and actually transferred).
In addition, the KMT agent Shen Drunk also recorded in “Inside the Military Intelligence” that “when Chiang Kai-shek made a long-distance phone call from Lushan to Nanjing to question Mao Renfeng, Mao couldn’t answer what had done it, but could only say that he hadn’t asked anyone to do it.”
Li and Wen most likely died at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party
In 1965, Zhang Junda, a student of Yunnan University linguistics professor Zhu Jieqin, was smuggled into Hong Kong. In an article in the Daily News, he revealed that his “mentor” Zhu Jieqin was the deputy director of the Third Division of the Social Department of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, whose function was to carry out united war work against senior intellectuals. During a chance drink, Zhu Jieqin confessed that he had been involved in the secret work of deploying the assassination of Professors Li and Wen. He said, “Only by assassinating the democratic scholars who were loved and admired by the university students could we create an atmosphere of terror, arouse the impulse of the masses, and stimulate the rebellious thoughts of the nation’s youth, as well as divide the relationship between the state government and the United States, influence the U.S. policy toward China, and cause the U.S. to reduce its economic and military aid to the state government… …”
If what Zhang Junda says is true (and so far it is not clear why this was fabricated) – and the information shows that Zhu Jieqin did lean toward Marxism-Leninism and worked for the CCP – then in light of the situation and the CCP’s usual unscrupulousness, and after the assassination of Li and Wen It is easy to understand that “Li Wen’s death at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party” is not just a myth.
The reaction of the U.S. after Li and Wen’s death proves that the Chinese Communist Party was the murderer
In 1946, after the victory of the war, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which had been rejuvenated during the eight-year war, with the help of the Soviet Union and the left-leaning literati in China, quickly seized the areas controlled by the Kuomintang and began the process of overthrowing the national government. At that time, the United States, on the one hand, was bewildered by the propaganda made by the CCP internally and externally, and on the other hand, became dissatisfied with the corruption of the Kuomintang under Chiang Kai-shek’s leadership, and thus wanted to establish a coalition government consisting of the Kuomintang, the Communist Party, and democratic groups. However, based on the great role played by the Kuomintang under Chiang Kai-shek in China’s war effort, most of the U.S. aid continued to be provided to the Kuomintang. At that time, the U.S. government was proposing to provide a second round of aid to the Nationalist government, including a $500 million loan.
Upon hearing this news, Harvard professor Fei Zhengqing, who was in China, worked for the U.S. Information Service and was pro-Communist, met with Guo Moruo, a literary figure who worked for the Chinese Communist Party, and told him that the U.S. policy of aid to China would be detrimental to the Chinese Communist Party. If Chiang Kai-shek could not be proven to be practicing one-party dictatorship, there was no way to stop this aid program.
Soon after, Li Gongpu and Wen Yiduo were killed one after another. Immediately afterwards, Fei Zhengqing published a special article in The Atlantic Magazine in the United States, interpreting the whole incident as an assassination of democrats by the Kuomintang and accusing the Kuomintang of violating the spirit of freedom and democracy. In his writing, Chiang Kai-shek was a cold-blooded dictator. He also called on the White House to cut off aid to China.
As expected, the Chinese Communist plot reached its conclusion. Soon, the U.S. halted loan negotiations with China, while several cooperative programs, such as the renewal of the Lend-Lease Act, the transfer of surplus wartime supplies, and the training of the navy, also fell through.
However, this was clearly not enough. The U.S. military in China was still a major problem for the CCP, and in December 1946, the CCP concocted the incident of Shen Chong, a female student at Peking University and a member of the CCP underground, seducing U.S. troops, which led to a huge wave of anti-Americanism in the country. The U.S. military chose to withdraw from China and stopped its military support to the KMT, which also lost some of its young students.
In 1948, after the Chinese Communist Party had taken advantage of the Americans, a wave of anti-Americanism began again, and only then did the U.S. government wake up and resume aid to the Nationalist government, which had already lost its power.
As for why Li and Wen were chosen, it was probably because they were both scholars studying in the United States and had some influence in the Democratic League, and were influenced by Chinese Communist propaganda and criticized Chiang for fighting the civil war. In this way, assassinating them and framing the Kuomintang could not only gain sympathy from the Americans, but also influence a large group of intellectuals. The shooting of Wen Yiduo by Huo Kui-Chang’s men, the commander-in-chief of the Yunnan police, was probably an incidental act when the CCP was preparing to assassinate Wen Yiduo after getting rid of Li Gong-Pu. In this way, the Chinese Communist Party could have blamed the KMT for the murder of Li Gongpu. There is also a possibility that the assassin was already bought by the CCP.
Conclusion
It is obvious that the biggest beneficiary of both the Shimonoseki tragedy and Li Wen’s death was the Chinese Communist Party. These three incidents not only deprived the Nationalist government of American aid and political support, but also deceived many intellectuals and young people and led them into the arms of the CCP. After the Communist Party seized power, it continued to turn black and white and let Chiang Kai-shek “take the blame” to this day.
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