The Red Era: Living in Seclusion in a Siheyuan as a Boss

Chapter 536 Liu Tielin is a man of his own! ! !
In the study, only brothers Liu Zhiye and Liu Tielin were left talking.

"Isn't this case already settled? Why are you still so busy?" Liu Zhiye asked puzzledly.

Both brothers have taken up important leadership positions, and they don't have many opportunities to meet each other.

"This case is over, and now I'm faced with another difficult case..." Liu Tielin had a headache.

Liu Tielin muttered with a headache: "This case is considered to be settled, but now I have another troublesome matter..."

Liu Zhiye smiled and asked, "What kind of case is it that can make you, the deputy director, so worried?"

Liu Tielin responded: "This is a special case, the higher-ups take it very seriously!"

"Oh? Can you tell me about it?" Liu Zhiye hadn't encountered this kind of case in many years and was full of curiosity.

Liu Tielin nodded and said, "Others must keep it secret, but if you want to know, there is definitely no problem!"

So that's what happened...

One day three years ago, an enthusiastic Cyang resident sent a letter of complaint to the Municipal Bureau.

The letter said: Before the Chinese New Year, a lame old man named Li Jiaqi came from another place. When asked, he said he came to Yanjing to treat his leg disease.

But after being here for so long, I have never seen him treat illnesses. Instead, I often see him wandering the streets with a cane.

Recently, another person came from Hong Kong and found him twice. He brought him a color TV, a camera, a tape recorder, and a lot of fashionable clothes.

Li Jiaqi told others that the person who came to deliver the gifts was his sister's child.

What’s strange is that this “nephew” from Hong Kong never calls him “uncle”, but instead calls him “Mr. Li”.

Li Jiaqi has never invited this "nephew" whom he has not seen for many years to have a home-cooked meal at home. In short, this old man always makes people feel weird.

Hearing this, Liu Zhiye couldn't help but admire the high level of vigilance of ordinary people in Yanjing against enemy spies these days.
Even in later generations, the reputation of the Cyang aunties was well-known in the capital, and those who did bad things could not escape the eyes of the uncles and aunts wearing red armbands in Cyang District.

Liu Tielin continued to say...

The letter from the masses immediately attracted the attention of the Municipal Bureau, and an investigation team was set up, with Liu Tielin in charge.

So who is this Li Jiaqi?
After Liu Tielin investigated Li Jiaqi's information, he was shocked to find out that this person was once a colonel in the Kuomintang's Military Control Commission.

Li Jiaqi was born in 1927 and is from Feng County, Beihe.

He attended elementary and middle school in Yanjing at a very young age. Because his father died early, in order to reduce the burden on his family, he joined the Guo Party's "Xia Tiexue Anti-Traitor Group" at the age of 16.

The so-called Anti-Traitor Group was an organization of the Guotong Specialized in assassinations and kidnappings. Dai Li was very enthusiastic about it and in his early years he had organized assassinations of Wang, Yang, Tang, Wang and others.

Assassinations are usually carried out by action groups, most of whom are young people and those from the bottom of society. This is because these people are full of energy, have few scruples, and are easy to control mentally.

People who join the action team usually have the ability to kill without blinking an eye...

"Didn't this guy get arrested? How come he is in contact with the enemy spies again?" Liu Tielin felt that he might have come across a big fish.

Soon after a secret investigation by the investigation team, it was found that Li Jiaqi came to Yanjing from Haiqing in early December 79 to live with his fourth uncle, and he did not have any sister in Hong Kong at all.

Detailed information about him was quickly compiled.

李佳琪：16岁参加了果党军统“华北铁血锄奸团”；17岁就当上了军统豫东组上尉组员；19岁任军统燕京站少校组员；20岁被任命果党保密局沂蒙特别组上校副组长；47年被我军逮捕。

After liberation, he served his sentence in Haiqing and was released in December 75, staying on to work.

At the end of 79, Li Jiaqi came to Yenching University under the pretext of seeking medical treatment.

In view of this situation, Liu Tielin, who had rich experience in dealing with enemies, quickly judged that Li Jiaqi had a high possibility of committing a crime again.

This is exactly how events unfolded.

Subsequent investigations found that as early as May 1979, Chen, a prisoner who had stayed in the farm with Li Jiaqi for employment, applied to visit relatives in Fengche Country.

Chen mentioned to Li Jiaqi that he would go to Fengche Country via Hong Kong to visit relatives, where his son runs a restaurant.

Li Jiaqi, who was a spy, quickly captured valuable information. He enthusiastically stated that he was very familiar with Yanjing and had relatives there, and could accompany Chen to handle the procedures for going abroad.

On the night before Chen was about to leave, Li Jiaqi saw him off. After a few drinks, he actually started crying sadly.

Chen asked quickly: "Lao Li, what's going on?"

Li Jiaqi said, "You and I have the best relationship here. If you leave, I really don't know how to live. Can you please do me a favor?"

Chen quickly said, "If there's anything I can help you with, just let me know."

Li Jiaqi did not beat around the bush and said, "You know my background. When you get to Hong Kong, find the Hongmian Restaurant and help me establish connections.

That was the secret contact point of the Bureau of Secrets in Hong Kong, and the contact person was Li Jiabao.
My alias is Zheng Chen, codename 1078. I have kept these words in my heart for decades, and this time I have to rely on you. "

Seeing that he was so sincere, Chen agreed immediately.

Soon, Li Jiaqi received a letter from Li Jiabao. When he saw these three words, he was so excited that his hands shook.

Li Jiabao is actually the code name of an enemy spy. On the surface, the content of the letter seems to be some words of concern, but in fact it contains many instructions written with secret writing potions, requiring Li Jiaqi to develop a spy organization and report the situation regularly.

Steganographic potion is a commonly used tool for covert work. The TV series "The Disguiser" mentioned a stealth writing potion produced in the United States. After writing, the words need to be burned with fire to be displayed, but it will disappear automatically after 5 minutes and needs to be burned with fire again to appear.

From then on, the enemy spies kept in secret contact with him in the name of his so-called sister Li Jiabao.

As the saying goes, "Extreme joy brings sorrow." Li Jiaqi was happy for only a few days before he broke his leg while riding a horse.

During the treatment, he thought that Haiqing was so remote, sparsely populated, and isolated from the outside world that he could not get any valuable information at all.

Why not ask for leave from the farm under the pretext of treating a leg injury and go to Yanjing to stay with relatives? It is the capital and more valuable intelligence can be obtained there.

At the end of 79, Li Jiaqi came to Yenching and stayed at his fifth uncle's home. During that time, he frequently contacted enemy spies stationed in Hong Kong and was eager to connect with them.

It was not until September of the following year that his leg injury gradually recovered and he was able to walk with the help of crutches. He then went to Guangdong Province under the pretext of treating his leg injury and met with a spy named Li Xiangcai.

Li Xiangcai gave him two tape recorders, cryptanalyst potion, a book for coding, and 1000 yuan in funding. In those days, the average worker's monthly salary was only around 50 yuan, so this was a lot of money.

During this meeting, Li Xiangcai also handed him a matchbox with secret instructions inside, but he accidentally burned it as if it were ordinary matches.

As fate would have it, Li Jiaqi did not receive the task and temporarily returned to Haiqing.

Soon, the enemy spies instructed Li Jiaqi through secret letters and radio stations to continue using his former spy alias "Zheng Chen" and change his code name to "7271", to sneak into Yanjing under the cover of medical treatment, quickly establish a spy liaison point, and resume his old business that he had stopped for more than 30 years.

Returned to Yanjing.

But after a long time, Li Jiaqi's fifth uncle discovered something unusual.

Li Jiaqi usually goes out for a stroll and then hides in his room to write quietly when he comes back.

He didn't work but always had endless money to spend. He often received letters from Xiangjiang, and he would burn them after reading them.

Uncle Wu knew his background and was afraid that he would be implicated, so he drove him away.

Li Jiaqi believed that in order to carry out work in Yanjing, he must have his own residence, and it would be best if he had a woman to cover him.

So he wrote a letter to the enemy spies for instructions.

Li Jiaqi was going to get married in Yanjing, and the enemy spies immediately sent a courier to give him 1 yuan.

Ten thousand yuan is a huge sum of money these days.

After having money, Li Jiaqi did not treat himself badly.

After all, he returned to the enemy spies just for the sake of enjoyment.

So Li Jiaqi spent 2200 yuan to buy several courtyard houses and a full set of furniture in Da'er Hutong.

One day in June 81, Li Jiaqi married a housewife who was six years older than him. From then on, No. 6 Da'er Hutong became Li Jiaqi's secret base for conducting espionage activities.

Following the instructions of the enemy spies, Li Jiaqi used the activity funds and clothing sent to him, and used small favors to build relationships and do favors, and tried every means to collect intelligence.

He also subscribed to various domestic newspapers, and took great pains to find what he needed between the lines.

During the day, Li Jiaqi pretended to be calm and strolled around the vegetable market and the park, and took a walk in the streets.

When passing by the gates of our party, government, military agencies and guesthouses, Li Jiaqi secretly observed various movements;

At night, Li Jiaqi drew the curtains tightly, wrote the intelligence he had obtained during the day into invisible handwriting, and mailed it to the enemy spies.

In this way, from February 81 to this year, Li Jiaqi sent more than one hundred secret letters to enemy spies.

Because of Li Jiaqi's meritorious service, before August last year, the enemy spies had commended him twice and awarded him HK$8.

In less than two years, Li Jiaqi obtained spy funds equivalent to more than 3,000 yuan. The enemy agents also appointed Li Jiaqi as the "Special Commissioner of Xiabei Region."

The old spy Li Jiaqi made a profit of more than 3,000 yuan from the enemy spies in less than two years, which is equivalent to the cost of a meal in today's world.

But you have to know that at present, the average annual income of Xiaguo is only about 150 yuan, and the average worker only earns yuan a month.

Just 1 yuan can be used to treat a cold or fever, buy 20 popsicles, 7 kilograms of rice or dozens of kilograms of cabbage, or even go to the cinema to watch 5 movies or take the bus 20 times.

Just think about it, this spy earned a "huge sum" in less than two years, which ordinary people need to work hard for more than ten years to earn.
With such huge benefits, how could he not work hard for his master and do things that harm the interests of the country? !
Although Li Jiaqi, a veteran Kuomintang spy, was very cunning and his activities were very covert, he could not escape the sharp eyes of the people and public security personnel.

In January last year, based on Li Jiaqi's criminal facts, Liu Tielin believed that the time was ripe to arrest Li Jiaqi.

Just when the Municipal Bureau was about to arrest Li Jiaqi as planned, a new situation suddenly emerged.

In February last year, Li Jiaqi reported the contents of two confidential documents to the enemy spies in less than half a month.

After checking, one document was found to have words and punctuation that were exactly the same as the original.

Liu Tielin and other members of the special task force concluded that there was another accomplice who provided him with the documents.

Who is this person?

The task force decided to postpone the arrest of Li Jiaqi and reorganized its forces to launch a new investigation.

After extensive investigation, analysis and comparison, investigators found that among the people who had contact with Li Jiaqi, only Ma Hongmei, the adopted daughter of Li Jiaqi's wife, had the conditions to provide him with relevant confidential documents.

Ma Hongmei: 36 years old, married, works in the Supervisory Department of a bank head office in Xiaguo, mainly responsible for receiving, sending and keeping documents.

In June of the year before last, Ma Hongmei heard that she was going to meet Li Jiaqi, the man who was going to marry her adoptive mother. Li Jiaqi was a released school-level officer of the Guo Party. At first, she was worried.

But when they first met, the friendly and easy-going face that Old Man Li put on left a good impression on Ma Hongmei.

In this way, Li Jiaqi only used a 100 yuan gift to completely let down Ma Hongmei's guard.

In those days, one hundred yuan was almost equivalent to ten thousand yuan in later generations. It is conceivable that this sugar-coated bullet was quite heavy.

When Li Jiaqi learned that Qiu Ma Hongmei was the employee responsible for sending and receiving confidential documents, he slowly used emotional seduction and material inducement to keep her firmly under his control.

Ma Hongmei didn't know who her biological father was since she was a child, so Li Jiaqi pretended to be attentive and asked around for her parents' whereabouts;
Ma Hongmei had a serious stomach problem, so Li Jiaqi spared no expense in treating her.

In order to eliminate Ma Hongmei's vigilance against him, he lied: "I am just a small cadre in the Guo Party who is responsible for checking military discipline."

Li Jiaqi knew that the Ma family had two children and that they were not well off, so he pretended to love them.
He successively gave Ma Hongmei a washing machine, a TV, various clothes and other items worth more than 1000 yuan, which deepened their "father-daughter relationship".

In this way, Ma Hongmei fell unknowingly.

In the end, under Li Jiaqi's emotional enticement and the temptation of money and material things, she disregarded the party discipline and the country's laws and gave him the green light to steal confidential documents.

On May 5 last year, after Ma Hongmei started working, she went to the Discipline Inspection Commission office with a letter of introduction to collect three volumes of "Selected Important Documents on Combating Economic Criminal Activities".

This "Selected Documents" contains top-secret documents such as important agency documents and important speeches by leaders.

After Ma Hongmei received the documents, she sent out two of the "Selected Documents" and marked the other volume as being kept by Ma Hongmei in the document receipt and dispatch register.

In fact, this document has been confiscated by Li Jiaqi.

After Li Jiaqi obtained this "Selected Documents", he reported to the enemy spies several times in succession, claiming that he had obtained the original copy of the top-secret document and urged them to send someone to get it.

A few days later, the enemy spies sent a courier to take away the original copy of the top-secret document and the film containing the top-secret document from Li Jiaqi.

After the important documents and intelligence were taken away by the courier, Li Jiaqi did not receive a timely response from the enemy spies.

So he wrote another letter to the enemy asking them to send another courier, preferably a female.

On January 17 this year, a direct flight from Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport to Yanjing just landed at the airport.

A middle-aged woman wearing a beige corduroy top and with curly hair walked off the plane.

She was Cai Ping, a female spy courier sent by the enemy.

Cai Ping: Female, 45 years old, originally from Jiangsu Province.

A few years ago, she married a flower wholesaler in Hong Kong and settled in Hong Kong.

On the afternoon of January 1, Cai Ping went to the Friendship Store to buy things and then went to the Overseas Chinese Building to exchange RMB.

In the afternoon, she took a taxi to No. 39 Dal'er Hutong.

"I'm from Hong Kong!" Cai Ping introduced himself as soon as he entered the room. "I came back mainly to visit my relatives and to do something for you!"

When Li Jiaqi heard that he was doing something for him, he asked impatiently, "Where's the money?"

"Here you go." Cai Ping handed over the money.

Li Jiaqi immediately counted with a smile on his face, "One thousand, two thousand, yes, a total of ten thousand Hong Kong dollars." As he said this, he kissed the pile of money.

Really desperate for money!
After paying the money, Cai Ping looked around and asked, "Is everything all right here?"

"no problem."

"Well, this is a letter from Li Jiabao to you. It is very important." Cai Ping handed Li Jiaqi a letter and gave him two pills (stealth drugs) wrapped in plastic paper.

The next morning, Li Jiaqi was overjoyed after developing the letter.

It turned out that the enemy spies gave him another "official title" and appointed him as the "Stationmaster of Yanjing Station."

Cai Ping and Li Jiaqi thought they had done a perfect job, but she didn't expect that she had been under secret surveillance since she came into contact with Li Jiaqi after getting off the plane.

Not long after, Cai Ping was detained by the Municipal Police in accordance with the law.

When the special case officer stood in front of her holding a detention warrant, her face turned pale and she trembled all over.

In the interrogation room, Cai Ping confessed her crime of coming to Beijing to deliver secret letters and spy funds to Li Jiaqi.

With Cai Ping's confession, Liu Tielin felt that the time was ripe and he decided to close the net.

That morning, sparse snowflakes fell in Yanjing.

Two police cars with flashing lights sped out of the Municipal Public Security Bureau and headed straight for Qianmen D'er Hutong and the Agricultural Bank of China.

A photographer with video equipment also went along with the vehicle.

The police car attracted a lot of onlookers at the door, and everyone thought it was a TV station filming a police and gangster TV series!
Several investigators jumped out of the car and walked quickly towards Hutong No. 39.

They rushed into the yard and found a short, fat, bald old man.

The old man was very flustered when he saw the investigators coming. He stood up shakily with his cane and said, "What are you...doing?"

An investigator asked, "Your name is Li Jiaqi, right?" The old man nodded.

The investigator then identified himself and produced an arrest warrant: "According to Article 97 of our criminal law, you are under arrest."

After a while, Li Jiaqi, with a bald head and a deathly pale face, was taken to the Municipal Bureau’s police car.

"Oh, so they are catching criminals." The crowd was talking.

After the undercover agent Li Jiaqi was arrested, investigators searched his residence.

The secret writing, developing chemicals and tools he used for his espionage activities were seized;

A diary containing the code name of the "Intelligence Bureau Yenching Station", the secret service's contact address in Hong Kong, the forwarding address reported to the secret service, and a list of secret service development targets;

Two books, Catalogue of Craft Trademarks and Zhan Tianyou and the Xiaguo Railway, used to decipher codes;

There were tape recorders and headphones for listening to enemy radio broadcasts, and other supplies for espionage activities, as well as a large number of other items.

With evidence of crime in hand and evidence of crime incontrovertible, spy Li Jiaqi finally fell into the people's legal net.

At the same time that Li Jiaqi was arrested, another police car drove into the Agricultural Bank of China, and public security officers detained Ma Hongmei in accordance with the law.

Ma Hongmei said dejectedly in the interrogation room: "I completely lost my vigilance against the enemy. I was lured by the enemy and could not extricate myself, leading myself to the path of crime."

In this anti-espionage case, Liu Tielin personally took charge and successfully cracked it.

Liu Zhiye was filled with emotion. He deeply felt that his younger brother was no longer the ignorant boy from the mountain village.

Today, Liu Tielin has grown up, shedding his former immaturity and displaying maturity and perseverance.

(End of this chapter)