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Chiang Kai-shek’s “consort” Lu Jiuzhi and his adopted daughter Jiang Yaoguang. (Picture source: Internet pictures/Look at China Synthesis)
cultural revolutionIn the early days, big-character posters were plastered everywhere in Shanghai. People living near Huaihai Road suddenly discovered such a big-character poster one day. The title of this big-character poster was: “Down with Chiang Kai-shek’s dogs.”Prince Consort Lu Jiuzhi! “, and there was a dog drawn below. Everyone was surprised and asked each other: “Which one isChiang Kai-shekofson in lawah? ”
Later, an old man with a medium build, a thin face, and slightly gray hair was criticized and beaten on the street by the rebels almost every day, with signs saying “cow ghost, snake spirit” and “dog spy”. Some people pointed at him behind his back: “Hey , He is Chiang Kai-shek’s son-in-law Lu Jiuzhi.” Someone else said: “Why has no one ever heard that he is Chiang Kai-shek’s son-in-law? He is really good at spy work.”
So, is this Lu Jiuzhi Chiang Kai-shek’s son-in-law? This starts with Lu Jiuzhi’s wife Chen Yaoguang.
Chiang Kai-shek’s daughter Chen Yaoguang
Lu Jiuzhi’s wife, Chen Yaoguang, whose real name was Jiang Yaoguang, was the adopted daughter of Chen Jieru, Chiang Kai-shek’s third wife. Chen Jieru and Chiang Kai-shek had no children after their marriage. During their stay at the Whampoa Military Academy, Liao Zhongkai’s wife He Xiangning took home a lovely baby girl when she visited Guangzhou Civilian Hospital. Chen Jieru came to Liao’s house to play and couldn’t put down the child. He Xiangning reluctantly gave up the girl to Chen Jieru. Chiang Kai-shek was also very happy and named the girl Jiang Yaoguang.
Later, Chen Jieru went to the United States to study, so she placed 2-year-old Jiang Yaoguang at her grandmother’s house. When Chen returned to China seven years later, he had already gone through the divorce procedures with Chiang Kai-shek. Chen Jieru took Jiang Yaoguang to his side and changed his name to Chen Yaoguang. Mother and daughter depended on each other. During this period, Chiang Kai-shek still took care of Chen Jieru’s mother and daughter in their daily lives.
When Chen Yaoguang grew up, he first married a Korean named An and gave birth to two sons. It’s a pity that An was a Japanese spy. As soon as Japan announced its surrender, he abandoned his wife and children and fled. From then on, Chen Yaoguang lived alone with his two sons, struggling to survive, relying entirely on Chen Jieru’s support.
At that time, Lu Jiuzhi was in Tang Enbo’s Third Front Army. His title was “Major General Senator” and he was the receptionist of the Kuomintang. Chen Yaoguang’s good friend Zhou Anqi is the wife of Tang Enbo’s secretary-general Hu Jingru. In order to help Chen Yaoguang get out of trouble, she introduced Chen Yaoguang and Lu Jiuzhi to each other. They held a wedding on Christmas Day 1946. Although the two were more than 20 years apart in age, they had a deep relationship after their marriage.
Lu Jiuzhi’s wife, Chen Yaoguang, whose real name was Jiang Yaoguang, was the adopted daughter of Chen Jieru, Chiang Kai-shek’s third wife. (Internet picture)
Lu Jiuzhi is already a red agent
Lu Jiuzhi was born in a family of officials in 1902. His father, Lu Han, was a close aide to Lu Yongxiang, the governor of Zhejiang Province, and later served as the director of the Military Law Department of Sun Chuanfang. He was a prominent figure.
Lu Jiuzhi was influenced by the CCP’s ideology very early on and loved reading the magazine “New Youth”. At the age of 18, when he entered Shanghai Baocheng Cotton Factory as a trainee, he met Cai Shuhou. In 1925, Cai Shuhou opened Shaodun Electric Company, and Lu Jiuzhi became his only clerk and assistant. Soon, Cai Shuhou joined the CCP, and Shaodun Electric Company became the CCP’s underground liaison station. Soon, Lu Jiuzhi was also guided by Cai Shuhou and became the liaison person for Zhou Enlai’s underground messenger.
Later, according to the instructions of the underground party of the Chinese Communist Party, Lu Jiuzhi infiltrated the “Unification Committee of Trade Union Organizations” and became an insider of the Chinese Communist Party. Because of the information he provided, both Chen Geng and Xiang Zhongfa were able to escape safely. However, Lu Jiuzhi also came under suspicion and was later fired.
Recommended by Lian Shenghai, who was Sun Yat-sen’s former secretary-general, Lu Jiuzhi became the secretary of the Shanghai Investment Promotion Bureau and the editorial director of the Aviation Industry Semi-monthly. During this period, Lu Jiuzhi made a request to Chen Shouchang, the head of the Shanghai Underground Party, to join the Communist Party of China. After Zhou Enlai learned about it, he asked Chen Shouchang to tell him: You are welcome to join the party, but if you don’t join the party, you can do more work that is beneficial to the party.
In January 1930, Lu Jiuzhi fled Japan in a hurry because his cover for Japanese Communist Party General Secretary Sano Manabu was exposed. In Japan, he studied at Waseda University and Railway School. At the same time, under the instructions of the Communist Party of China, he participated in the work of the Eastern Intelligence Station of the Communist International in Tokyo. Later, Xia Yan, Cai Shuhou, Sha Wenhan, Chen Xiuliang, etc. also came to Japan.
In 1936, Lu Jiuzhi developed a friendship with Xu Shiying, the ambassador to Japan, and got a job as a senior clerk at the embassy in Japan. Behind the scenes, he still collected various intelligence for the CCP. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Lu Jiuzhi returned to Wuhan with Xu Shiying and was hired as a commissioner by the Kuomintang’s “Institute of International Studies” and was assigned to engage in intelligence work in the occupied areas of Shanghai.
By chance, his good friend Okino Yao when he was studying in Japan introduced him to the Hai’an Company run by the Japanese Navy as the general manager, and served as the president of the “Huamei Morning News” controlled by the Japanese military. He used the Haian Company as a cover and, under the strictest supervision of the Japanese, transported many critical supplies to the New Fourth Army in the northern Jiangsu base area.
At the same time, he used his connections to open the “Xuan Palace Ballroom” and used the ballroom’s cover to deal with various people such as Wang Puppet officials, Japanese military officers, and business magnates, etc., and collect a large amount of intelligence.
During this period, he was a typical double agent. For example, he got the news that Gao Zongwu and Tao Xixian, who defected to Japan at the same time as Wang Jingwei, betrayed Wang Jingwei and fled to Hong Kong secretly. He immediately reported it to the person in charge of the Shanghai Station of the Kuomintang’s “Institute of International Studies” , and at the same time, he handed over a detailed copy to Liu Shaowen, the then head of the underground party of the Chinese Communist Party.
Lu Jiuzhi, who had three identities, was publicly the president of a newspaper and a company manager who had a special relationship with the Japanese Navy. His secret identity was that of a secret commissioner of the Kuomintang, but in fact he was working for the underground party of the Chinese Communist Party. Lu Jiuzhi’s experience, Enough to make a spy movie.
Chiang Kai-shek’s “consort” Lu Jiuzhi ended up extremely miserable while serving the Communist Party. (Internet picture)
Carry out important tasks of the Communist Party of China
In 1947, the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu wanted to pay allowances to soldiers before the Chinese New Year and needed to exchange a large amount of silver dollars and banknotes. They took a sack of gold and found the Shanghai underground party. Lu Jiuzhi took over the task of “if something goes wrong, everyone will be killed”, and successfully exchanged all the gold within three days and transported it to northern Jiangsu.
In 1949, the CCP urgently needed detailed blueprints of the fortifications built by Tang Enbo in Shanghai, and Lu Jiuzhi successfully completed the task.
In April 1949, the Shanghai Bureau of the Communist Party of China decided to instigate a rebellion against Tang Enbo, the commander-in-chief of the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou garrison of the Kuomintang, which was heavily armed. It was Lu Jiuzhi who performed this important task.
Tang Enbo and Lu Jiuzhi had a family relationship. Lu Jiuzhi’s father, Lu Han, had helped Tang Enbo during his studies and employment. Therefore, Tang Enbo had always regarded Lu Jiuzhi as a brother and trusted him deeply. But at that time, they failed to instigate Tang Enbo to rebel. For example, Tang’s military advisor Zhou Tianlu and Tang’s mentor Zhejiang Provincial Chairman Chen Yi all instigated rebellion against him, but they brought danger to themselves. Therefore, the task carried out by Lu Jiuzhi was extremely risky.
It took a lot of trouble for Lu Jiuzhi to meet Tang Enbo. During the conversation, he asked Tang Enbo to follow Fu Zuoyi’s example and revolt as soon as possible. Tang Enbo didn’t think anything of Lu Jiuzhi, but he obviously didn’t trust the CCP. Later, when the situation became urgent and Nanjing fell, Chiang Kai-shek and his son went to Shanghai to supervise the war in person, interrupting Lu Jiuzhi’s rebellion work.
In April 1950, after the founding of the Communist Party of China, Lu Jiuzhi accepted a mission from Wu Kejian, the head of the Shanghai Bureau of the Communist Party of China, and went to Tokyo to instigate Zhu Shiming, the head of the Kuomintang delegation in Japan. At that time, China and Japan did not have diplomatic relations and could not apply for a visa, so they had to sneak to Japan. Lu Jiuzhi passed by Hong Kong and bribed the foreman on a cargo ship. He smuggled himself to Japan and found his uncle Lu Juwu, who was the director of the telecommunications section of the delegation in Japan. At that time, Zhu Shiming had been suddenly recalled to Taiwan. In order to help him, his uncle took advantage of his position and secretly sent a telegram to Zhu Shiming in Taiwan. , said General MacArthur informed the meeting. Zhu Shiming took the telegram to ask for leave from Chiang Kai-shek, and was personally escorted by Chiang Ching-kuo before boarding the flight back to Tokyo.
After returning, Lu Jiuzhi began to instigate Zhu Shiming to rebel, but Zhu Shiming made it clear that he was tired of making waves in politics and just wanted to spend his old age in peace. Later, because Taiwan sent people to Japan to investigate the secret telegram sent to Zhu Shiming one week after Zhu Shiming returned to Japan, Zhu Shiming was afraid that the incident would be revealed and fled to the United States alone. Lu Jiuzhi’s attempt to instigate Zhu Shiming failed.
On the return trip, because he did not have a passport, Lu Jiuzhi had no choice but to sneak back to Hong Kong again. He boarded a cargo ship, and during a storm at sea, he unfortunately fell off his bed and hit his head on an iron object. He immediately passed out and almost died. Fortunately, he arrived in Hong Kong a few days later, received treatment, and saved his life. However, he suffered from sequelae. Due to concussion, his balance was abnormal, his head could not swing from side to side, and his right hand trembled when writing and holding chopsticks.
When Wu Kejian expressed condolences to him on behalf of the CCP, he said: “You were maimed in the line of duty, and the party will never forget your achievements.”
Homeless amid unjust imprisonment and criticism
After Lu Jiuzhi returned to Shanghai, he only lived in peace for five years, but Wu Kejian’s words still lingered in his ears. Unexpectedly, in 1955, Lu Jiuzhi was implicated in the “Pan Yang Incident” and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for “counter-revolutionary crimes” because he was Chiang Kai-shek’s consort.
Lu Jiuzhi’s mother-in-law Chen Jieru chose to stay in the mainland in 1949, and Zhou Enlai personally instructed her to be given a sinecure as a member of the Luwan District CPPCC. In 1961, she personally went to Beijing to find Zhou Enlai, believing that her son-in-law was innocent and should not be arrested and imprisoned because he was Chiang Kai-shek’s consort. Later, with Zhou’s intervention, Lu Jiuzhi was paroled early in 1962.
After Lu Jiuzhi was released from prison, he was hired as a librarian at the Shanghai Museum of Literature and History in 1965. Living in mainland China, the storm of the Cultural Revolution was inevitable. The “Cultural Revolution” that began in 1966 threw Lu Jiuzhi out. This is the scene at the beginning of this article. Lu Jiuzhi was accused of being a “Chiang Gang agent” and a “Japanese agent.” The Red Guards ransacked his home 37 times, “even turning over the roof tiles.”
Soon, he was kicked out and his family was driven to a house on Tamsui Road in Shanghai. Every day, the rebels ordered him to sweep garbage, carry bricks, and do hard labor in the kilns run by the street.
In 1971, Chen Jieru died of illness in Hong Kong. Hong Kong asked Chen Jieru’s only daughter, Chen Yaoguang, to attend the funeral, but the Shanghai rebel leader at the time ignored it. This caused heated discussion in the Hong Kong media. Zhou Enlai later personally approved Chen Yaoguang’s funeral in Hong Kong. Chen Yaoguang took his daughter born to Lu Jiuzhi to Hong Kong and never returned.
After Chen Yaoguang went to Hong Kong, Lu Jiuzhi’s house was sealed, and the seventy-year-old Lu Jiuzhi became a homeless old man. During the day, he wandered in public places in Shanghai, like a beggar. At night, he hid in the bathhouse bathroom to sleep. He got up and left immediately at dawn to avoid being seen through. The situation was extremely miserable.
Finally, with the assistance of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China, he was allowed to change his name and go into hiding until the end of the Cultural Revolution.
Cai Shuhou, the leader who guided Lu Jiuzhi on the road of “revolution”, was also implicated in the “Pan Yang Incident” and was labeled a “secret agent” during the Cultural Revolution. Cai Shuhou shouted “Unjustly Accused” in prison, but was ignored. He died in prison in May 1971.
Conclusion
Someone said, “Lu Jiuzhi was implicated and imprisoned as Chiang Kai-shek’s son-in-law and sentenced to 15 years in prison. This is the greatest tragedy of the hidden front.” The secret front refers to the underground party organization of the Chinese Communist Party, which is engaged in espionage work and is destined to have a tragic ending. Lu Jiuzhi’s status as Chiang Kai-shek’s son-in-law was not recognized by Chiang Kai-shek, but he was seized by the CCP and thrown into prison; the party said when Lu Jiuzhi was disabled while performing a spy mission, “The party will never forget your achievements.” , are all lies. Lu Jiuzhi’s experience can help more people understand that the CCP has always relied on lies and deception, whether before it took power or after it was established.
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