Li Kenong

Li Kenong

Li Kenong (1899.9.15 ～ 1962.2.9), a Han nationality, was a senior general of the Chinese people's Liberation Army in Chaoxian county (now Chaohu City), Anhui Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1926 and served as director of the Political Security Bureau of the first front Red Army and director of the red army work department. After participating in the Long March, he served as director of the Liaison Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. During the Anti Japanese War, he assisted Zhou Enlai and Ye Jianying in the Anti Japanese national defense activities in the Kuomintang ruled areas During the war of liberation, he served as Minister of the Social Department of the CPC Central Committee, member of the CPC delegation and Secretary General of the executive department of the Beiping military Mediation Office; after the founding of the people's Republic of China, he served as vice minister of foreign affairs and Minister of the information department of the people's Revolutionary Military Commission. Since 1953, he has been deputy chief of the general staff of the PLA and director of the investigation department of the CPC Central Committee. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of general and was awarded the first level of 81 medal, the first level of independent freedom medal and the first level of Liberation Medal. He is a deputy to the first and second National People's congresses, a member of the Eighth CPC Central Committee, and a standing member of the third CPPCC National Committee. He died in Beijing on February 9, 1962.

Li Kenong is a long tested proletarian revolutionist, an outstanding social activist and diplomat, and an outstanding leader and organizer of the hidden front of our party and army. In his long revolutionary career, with the spirit of boundless loyalty and high responsibility to the party, he defended the security of the Party Central Committee at the critical moment, provided the Party Central Committee with decision-making information at the critical moment, and made great contributions to the cause of the liberation of the Chinese people.

Life of the characters

Early experience

It was born on September 15, 1899 at No.1 Majia lane, Jihe Street (formerly known as jiwo Street), Wuhu City. His father, Li zheqing, worked at the Yongjia town gate of Wuhu customs. He had three sons and was the head of Li Kenong.

From 1905 to 1909, Li studied in private school and Chaoxian primary school.

In 1910, when Li Kenong was 11 years old, he entered the primary school affiliated to Wuhu Anhui public school and spent four years as a classmate with a yingbian.

From 1914 to 1917, Li Kenong studied in shengyage middle school, a famous church school in Wuhu at that time.

In 1917, he worked as a publisher of popular weekly in Beijing, and Zhang Xun was forced to return to Wu. In 1917, he married Zhao Ying.

join the revolutionary ranks

In September 1918, introduced by Jiang Guangci and Li Zongye, Li Kenong and a Ying joined Anshe, an anarchist group mainly initiated and organized by students of Wuhu provincial No.5 Middle School. The flower of freedom, published by an she, flaunted against power, ethics and autocracy. It had a certain progressive significance at that time, and had a great repercussion in schools inside and outside Anhui Province.

In June 1919, when the May 4th Movement swept across the country, Li Kenong went to Anqing, the provincial capital, as a supplement to the national daily, after being introduced by Gao Yuhan, the supervisor of Wuhu No. Seven days later, after petitioning and protesting to the authorities by the Provincial Federation of students and other mass organizations, he was released and soon returned to Wuhu.

In 1921, Li Kenong and a Ying, introduced by Liu Xiping and others, went to Lu'an county together. A Ying taught in the third agricultural school of Lu'an province. Li Kenong served as the second section chief of the county government.

In May 1925, Wuhu students set off a wave of anti imperialist enslavement education. Later, Li Kenong, Gong Qiaoyan and Qian Xingcun founded Minsheng middle school and served as affairs director. After the May 30 massacre, he was appointed as the propaganda officer of the "foreign affairs support association" of Anhui Province. At the end of 1926, Qian Xingcun introduced him to join the Communist Party of China. In March 1927, the Wuhu County Party Department of the Kuomintang was established as a propaganda committee member. Later, on the instructions of the Wuhu special branch of the Communist Party of China, he joined the Wuhu Green Gang with a Ying and others. On April 18, the right wing of the Kuomintang in Wuhu planned the counter revolutionary incident. Li was informed in advance, which enabled the main backbone of Wuhu special branch of the Communist Party of China and Wuhu local executive committee of the Communist Youth League to hide. Kenong and others went to Chaoxian county and returned to Wuhu on November 27. They presided over the school affairs as the chairman of the board of directors of Minsheng middle school. This school became a secret activity spot of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. According to the instructions of the committee, they set up the "aid society" in the school.

On January 27, 1928, Wuhu County Public Security Bureau rounded up more than 40 people, including Wang Shaoyu, who was in charge of the society. On the morning of January 28, they surrounded Minsheng middle school and carried out a search. Li Kenong sneaked to Shanghai, and Chen Tiaoyuan, governor of the province, ordered him to be wanted.

In January 1928, Li Kenong escaped to Nanjing and was found by the enemy at Xiaguan station. During the pursuit, thanks to the rescue of Wang Zhenwu, a former colleague of Minsheng middle school, he got out of danger again.

Enter Shanghai

In the autumn of 1928, Li Kenong got in touch with Luo Qiyuan, then head of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee. According to the party's instructions, he and pan Hannian, the director of the Propaganda Department, founded a small newspaper, first running "armored car", and then running "common people's Daily", with Li Kenong as the manager and pan Hannian as the director. Around the beginning of 1929, Li Kenong was transferred to Huzhong district to appoint a publicity committee member.

In November 1929, Li Kenong watched and filmed in a film company in Shanghai. His old friend Hu Di, a native of Shucheng, Anhui Province, introduced Qian Zhuangfei to him.

In December 1929, with the approval of the organization, he was admitted to the Shanghai Radio Administration of the Kuomintang (the director was Xu enzeng), and served as broadcast news, and later as the head of the electric and telecommunication bureau. In the same year, the Kuomintang secretly set up a secret service organization and appointed Xu enzeng as the director of the general affairs section of the Organization Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee (actually the director of the investigation section). According to Zhou Enlai's order, Li Kenong, Qian Zhuangfei and Hu Di tried to break into the organization and form a special group of the party. Li Kenong served as the group leader and often traveled between Nanjing and Shanghai to guide work and contact the special service of the Central Committee.

In 1930, Li Kenong transferred the special branch work of the Central Committee, led by Gu Shunzhang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and contacted Chen Geng. Since then, the secret of the Kuomintang CC organization has been mastered in a planned and timely manner by Li Kenong's group.

In April 1931, Gu Shunzhang, the person in charge of the special branch of the CPC Central Committee, was arrested and defected. The enemy tried to use Gu Shunzhang to capture all the organs of the CPC Central Committee in Shanghai. At this critical juncture, Li Kenong got the information sent by Qian Zhuangfei and managed to report to the Party Central Committee. He made outstanding contributions to safeguarding the safety of the Party Central Committee and underground Party organizations and was praised by the Central Committee. Li Kenong is resourceful and brave in fighting against the enemy. He is known as one of the "four heroes of the party's secret work".

Entering the Soviet Area

In August 1931, Li Kenong was ordered to leave Shanghai and go to Jiangxi Soviet area. Because he was blocked by the enemy near Tai Po in Guangdong, he had to return to Hong Kong and did not arrive at Ruijin in Jiangxi until the spring of 1932. Ren Bishi, member and organization director of the Central Bureau of the Soviet Area, was assigned to Jiangxi Provincial Security Bureau as executive director. During this period, under the instruction of Li Fuchun, the person in charge of the provincial Party committee, he traveled to Shicheng, Guangchang, Yudu, Xingguo and pinganzhai in Jiangxi Province, carefully examined the problem of a large number of overstocked counter revolutionary suspects, corrected a number of wrong cases such as the so-called AB group, Social Democratic Party, reformist group and Trotskyist group, and let a large number of wronged comrades see the day again. When he returned to Ruijin, Zhou Enlai, the new secretary of the Central Bureau of the Soviet Area, was setting up the National Political Security Bureau under the leadership of the Party committee, and Li Kenong was appointed Executive Director of the Bureau. Soon after, he was transferred to the front and successively served as director of the political security bureau and Minister of the Work Department of the first front army of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army. Under his leadership, the political security sub bureaus of the first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth legions of the red front army were quickly established.

In October 1934, Li Kenong took part in the 25000 Li Long March. During the Long March, he led the reconnaissance troops to carry out ground reconnaissance along the way, and served as the garrison commander of the central column, which played an important role in defending the Party Central Committee. He also assisted Ye Jianying and others in their resolute struggle against Zhang Guotao's conspiracy to split the Party Central Committee.

In October 1935, after the central red army arrived in Northern Shaanxi, the Party Central Committee decided to implement the policy of Anti Japanese national united front according to the situation of world fascism rising and Japanese invaders invading China day by day, and put forward the proposition of "stop civil war and resist Japan together". Under Mao Zedong's instructions on doing a good job in the work of the Northeast Army and the northwest army, the CPC Northeast Army Working Committee was established. Zhou Enlai served as the director, and Li Kenong and Zhu Lizhi were designated as Zhou Enlai's assistants. Soon after, the Liaison Bureau of the CPC Central Committee was established, and Li Kenong served as the director of the Bureau, known as the foreign minister of the Soviet government. During this period, he assisted Zhou Enlai in holding training classes in Wayaobao. Under the leadership of Zhou Enlai and Peng Dehuai, he focused on Gao Fuyuan, the former commander of 619 regiment of 107 division of the 67th army of the Northeast Army. He often talked with him, which made Gao's consciousness quickly improve. He realized that only by uniting against Japan could there be a way out, and said that he would go back to do the work of Zhang Xueliang and others. Finally, Li Kenong and others introduced Gao Fuyuan to the Communist Party of China.

After the Xi'an Incident, Li Kenong served as the Secretary General of the CPC delegation, assisted Zhou Enlai, Ye Jianying and other comrades in the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident, and made important contributions to the formation of the Anti Japanese national united front and the realization of the second KMT communist cooperation.

After the victory of the Anti Japanese War

In the middle and late February of 1937, Li Kenong was ordered to fly to Shanghai by the plane of Zhang Chong, a member of the Kuomintang Central Committee, to carry out the work of Kuomintang communist cooperation.

On August 29th, 1937, Li Kenong was ordered to go to Nanjing to set up the Nanjing Office of the Eighth Route Army as its director. During his four months in Nanjing, he completed many urgent and arduous tasks. He once assisted chief of staff Ye Jianying to negotiate with the Kuomintang military organs for the Eighth Route Army about military pay, ordnance, medical medicine and other military materials, and to purchase and transport a large number of urgently needed supplies for the Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia border region and the Eighth Route Army. He has

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