Zheng Jiemin

Zheng Jiemin

Zheng Jiemin (September 18, 1897 - December 11, 1959), a first-class general of the Kuomintang army, graduated from the second infantry division of Huangpu Military Academy. Later, he participated in organizing the sun Wenshi society. After Dai Li's plane crash, he became director of the investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Military Commission of the national government. In 1954, he was the "director of the National Security Bureau of the Republic of China" in Taiwan and a member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang. On December 11, 1959, he died at home due to a recurrence of heart disease. Zheng Jiemin, together with his younger brother Zheng Tingfeng and cousin Zheng tingji, is called Wenchang Sanzheng.

Life of the characters

He was born on September 18, 1897 in Shuishui village, Baofang Township, Wenchang County, Qiongzhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province.

In 1915, after finishing primary school, Zheng tingbing was admitted to QiongYa Middle School of Guangdong Province. He secretly joined the QiongYa people's army organized by Sun Yat Sen and served as secretary. Later, he was detected by the warlords and was in urgent need of arrest. He changed his name to Jiemin and went to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to make a living. He worked as a bookkeeper in a fish farm and served as Kuala Lumpur's Yiqun daily. He wrote articles in support of the Kuomintang's revolutionary idea of saving the country and often regarded himself as an overseas Chinese working class .

In April 1924, Zheng Jiemin learned that Huangpu Military Academy was founded, but he and Huang Zhenwu went to Guangzhou to join the first phase of Huangpu Military Academy. Unexpectedly, he was not accepted. He had to temporarily live in his fellow countryman Xing senzhou's home and join the sergeant team of the guard Brigade (brigade commander Wu Tiecheng) in the base camp as a trainee. He actively studied his lessons and was ready to apply for the examination again. In August, when the second phase of Huangpu Military Academy enrolled students, Zheng Jiemin was admitted to the Department of infantry, In Huangpu Military Academy, Zheng Jiemin initiated the sun Wenshi society and began to engage in intelligence work.

In September 1925, Zheng Jiemin graduated from the military academy and studied politics and economy at China Labor University (Sun Yat sen University) in Moscow.

In August 1927, he graduated from the Soviet Union and returned to China. He served as the political instructor of the sixth corps of the Central Military Academy. He was soon recommended by Pan Youqiang to the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army as the Secretary of the political department (director Du Congrong).

After Chiang Kai Shek was reinstated in January 1928, Zheng Jiemin served as his assistant, specializing in secret service.

In January 1929, Zheng Jiemin pretended to be unemployed and went to Wuhan. He used his classmate relationship with Li Zongyi (Li Zongren's younger brother, known as the second president) to move around, alienate GUI troops, bribe GUI generals and collect intelligence. In March, Chiang Kai Shek successfully bribed GUI generals Li Mingrui and Yang Tenghui through Zheng Jiemin to submit to the central government. GUI troops soon failed, and Zheng Jiemin returned to Nanjing to resume his life .

In 1930, he served as the director of the Political Department of the 15th Army division (division commander Li Mingrui), and soon served as a member of the Guangxi provincial government. Later, he served as the director of the Political Department of the 57th Army division (division commander Yang Tenghui) to monitor the troops of the Guangxi Department. In April, Guangxi chairman Yu Zuobei responded to Zhang Fakui's anti Jiang campaign. Zheng Jiemin escaped from Guangzhou in disguise from Liuzhou, and returned to Nanjing from Hong Kong in December to serve as the chief of staff of the Military Commission .

In November 1931, Chiang Kai Shek prepared to set up the Chinese national rejuvenation society, and Zheng Jiemin asked to participate.

In March 1932, he was elected as the Secretary of the Council of the Chinese national rejuvenation society. On April 1, he also served as the deputy director of the secret service department (director Dai Li) of the rejuvenation society. Zheng Jiemin, a key figure in the military unification, was one of the thirteen Kuomintang Taibao of Chiang Kai Shek. He began to arrange special agents in the 19th Route Army. These agents played a very destructive role in the later Fujian incident.

In January 1933, the situation in North China was tense. Zheng Jiemin was also the head of Huabei district of Fuxing society. Under the cover of the colonel and staff officer of Beiping branch of the Military Commission, he readjusted and deployed the work of the secret service office in North China. In April, Zheng Jiemin went out in person, disguised himself as an overseas Chinese capitalist returning from Nanyang, and reconnoitered the activities of Zhang Jingyao, a former Army General of the Northern Warlord bought by the Japanese army, When the situation of Zhang Jingyao was clear, Bai Shiwei, the leader of the North China action team, was sent to mobilize Huang Yuqin and others. On May 7, 1933, Zhang Jingyao was killed at the Liuguo hotel. In the autumn, Dai Li sent Wang Tianmu as the head of the North China region and Zheng Jiemin back to Nanjing.

In 1934, Zheng Jiemin went to Europe in the name of a military expedition. In fact, he studied the methods of fascist rule, developed the organization of the society for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in Europe, and visited Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.

In 1935, Zheng Jiemin returned to China and tried his best to introduce fascism. For a time, he became a fashionable figure. He became the director of major general of the fifth division of the second Department of the General Staff Headquarters and still served as the deputy director of the secret service.

In March 1936, Zheng Jiemin was assigned by Chiang Kai Shek to come to Hong Kong from Nanjing via Shanghai. On the one hand, he arranged the work of assassinating Chen Jitang, and on the other hand, he paid a lot of money to buy Guangdong generals. However, the assassin group was caught by Chen Jitang's secret agents. In June, the Guangdong Guangdong incident broke out. Zheng Jiemin actively divided the army and air force of the eastern Guangdong to join Chiang Kai Shek In May, Zheng Jiemin acted as the Secretary General of the Chinese national rejuvenation society, member of the National Movement Committee and member of the national salvation Committee.

In July 1937, the Anti Japanese war broke out. In September, Zheng Jiemin was the director of the third division of the second Department of the General Staff Headquarters, in charge of the intelligence work of the war against Japan.

In January 1938, he served as the deputy director of the second Department of the military order Department of the Military Commission, in charge of military intelligence; after March, he also served as the Chief Secretary of the Bureau of investigation and statistics of the Military Commission, but Zheng Jiemin was absent, and was represented by the Deputy Chief Secretary Mao Renfeng.

In September 1939, Zheng Jiemin took the post and went to the first phase of the general class of the Army University for training.

He graduated from the Army University in April 1940 and concurrently served as the deputy director of the Sino Soviet intelligence cooperation Institute.

In January 1942, Zheng Jiemin was appointed as a representative of the Allied military conference in Singapore. At the conference, he made a statement about the war situation in Southeast Asia, but at first he was ignored. Later, his view was confirmed by the current situation. Fang Jiemin was treated differently by the commander in chief of the Allied forces. He was also appointed by Chiang Kai Shek to participate in the Sino US joint staff meeting held in Chongqing to serve as a liaison in intelligence. During this time, Zheng Jiemin was successively sent to India, Sri Lanka, Russia and Russia Indonesia and other places have put forward a lot of opinions in the Allied cooperative war against Japan.

On February 10, 1943, Zheng Jiemin was officially promoted to the post of major general of the army; on November 22, he attended the Cairo conference with Chiang Kai Shek and was responsible for Chiang Kai Shek's security work.

In February 1944, he was promoted to the post of lieutenant general of the second Department of the military order department and the liaison officer of the general command of the Southeast Asian allied forces. He often went to Calcutta to attend meetings. In August, Zheng Jiemin correctly predicted that the Allied forces would land in Normandy on August 18, which was praised by American officers as a clever plan.

In May 1945, he was elected executive member of the Sixth Central Committee of the Central Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang; in August, Japan surrendered unconditionally, and Zheng Jiemin served as a member of the compensation commission.

In January 1946, Zheng Jiemin became the representative of the Chinese Kuomintang in the executive department of the military investigation office. He began to secretly arrange spy activities in the liberated areas. In February, the Hebei Provincial refugee return petition group, which was based on the landlords and tyrants who escaped from the liberated areas of Hebei Province, went to the executive department of the military investigation office to petition. Zheng Jiemin ordered the spy hooligans to mix in and stir up trouble, demanding that the PLA immediately withdraw from Hebei and rush into the area On March 17, Dai Li was killed in a plane crash. On March 20, Zheng Jiemin succeeded as director of the Bureau of investigation and statistics of the Military Commission, with Mao Renfeng as deputy director. In April, Zheng Jiemin returned to Chongqing to take charge of the Bureau of military statistics. On June 5, he served as general of the second Department of the Ministry of national defense, in charge of intelligence work. On July 1, the Bureau of military statistics was changed to the Ministry of national defense Zheng Jiemin is still the director of the Security Bureau.

In 1947, Zheng Jiemin and Mao Renfeng organized the appeasement corps of the Ministry of national defense and sent them to north, northeast and South China to carry out group training, intelligence, operations and assault missions. In early September, Zheng Jiemin personally flew to Peiping to destroy the underground Party organizations and radio stations of the Communist Party of China. Later, he also served as vice chairman of the material supply Committee. In November, he commanded the spy to destroy the logistics supply station of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai, as well as the central China Bureau of the Communist Party of China and Jiangsu Anhui Province Zheng Jiemin, the joint office of the border region government and the central China bank in Shanghai, resigned from the post of director of the second Department on November 15 and became the executive deputy director of the Ministry of national defense on December 5, in charge of national defense materials.

In 1948, Zheng Jiemin resigned as director of the Security Bureau, specializing in U.S. military aid materials. On June 12, he served as deputy director of the Ministry of defense; on September 22, he served as Lieutenant General of the army. In January 1949, he flew to Beiping to try to obstruct Fu Zuoyi's peace uprising. In the same autumn, with the defense ministry stationed in Guangzhou, the situation was full of pessimism. In October, from Hongkong to the United States, the secret service took part in the Joint Chiefs of staff meeting, reported the Chinese mainland situation, tried to make the United States decide to continue its military aid to China, and November to Hongkong by Zheng Jiemin.

At the beginning of January 1950, Zheng Jiemin flew to Taiwan and served as the "deputy chief of staff of the Ministry of national defense" and director of the Mainland Affairs Office in Taiwan, director of the second group of the central executive committee of the Kuomintang, and member of the "Strategic Advisory Committee of the presidential office" in Taiwan.

On October 19, 1952, he was elected as an alternate member of the Seventh Central Committee of the Kuomintang and director of the second group of the Central Committee.

In October 1954, he became the first "director" of Taiwan's "National Security Bureau" (adapted from the former security bureau of the Ministry of national defense), but his health gradually weakened.

In 1955, Zheng Jiemin suddenly suffered from heart disease and went to the United States and West Germany for medical treatment.

On February 23, 1956, Jin served as the second rank General of the army.

On October 23, 1957, he was elected a member of the Eighth Central Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, and no longer concurrently served as "director of the National Security Bureau" in Taiwan.

On December 11, 1959, Zheng Jiemin was at home with a relapse of heart disease

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