Prologue

In the winter of 1982, it was snowing in the sky of Beijing, and there was a round of white sun on the snowy sky. The Central Investigation Department (IDCPC abbreviated as the Central Investigation Department) held a memorial service for Comrade Huang Kexing in Babaoshan, Beijing.

A chubby, square-faced soldier in a military uniform delivers a memorial address.

"Comrade Huang Kexing is a loyal fighter of our party, an outstanding proletarian revolutionary, and a member of the Communist Party of China who has been tested for a long time. Comrade Huang Kexing's life was a life of fighting and believing in Marxism, and he made unremitting efforts to gain national independence and national independence, made an arduous struggle for the victory of the Second World Anti-Fascist War in the Eastern Battlefield, and made a lifelong effort to win the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the birth of New China. Today, we are here to mourn Comrade Huang Kexing, which is a review of faith and persistence in faith." The soldier finally raised his voice and shouted loudly, "Comrade Huang Kexing is immortal. ”

At the end of the memorial service, the square-faced soldier shook goodbye to my father, mother, grandmother and other people, and every time he shook hands, he said two words, "mourning".

Comrade Huang Kexing is my grandfather, but I am like attending the funeral of someone who has nothing to do with me. Because I don't know anything about my grandfather, as my grandfather, Comrade Huang Kexing is just a symbol, except for the blood relationship, I don't know what I have to do with my grandfather. I can't even remember what his face looked like, I can't remember what my grandfather gave me the warmth of being a grandfather, no, not at all, my memory of my grandfather is a complete blank. It was as if there was no such thing as my grandfather in my life. The incomparably correct words in the memorial speech are completely empty in my eyes, and I don't know what the actual content of these incomparably correct words is. Perhaps they involve state secrets. But it doesn't make any sense to me. My relationship with this Comrade Huang Kexing is that I am his grandson, his son's son, and I don't know what else to do with that.

Although the scene was very sad, I didn't seem to be happy or sad, but I saw my father kneeling in front of my father's portrait for a long time and did not get up, and when he stood up with my mother's support, my father's face was full of tears. In my memory, this is the only time I have seen my father cry. In my memory, my father was the kind of person who was never expressionless.

That afternoon, our family also attended the launch of a new book called "The Secret Front". It is said that this book is a biography of my grandfather's life.

There is a paragraph in the biography that says: "In 1937, Japan invaded China, which was a war to destroy China. In this year, after graduating from the Eastern University in Moscow, I was assigned by the Far Eastern branch of the Comintern to carry out secret work in Yunnan. Commissioner C of the Far Eastern Branch of the Comintern told in Shenyang: No matter how you exist, you only need to send out the information according to the code, and no matter what the situation of the Central Committee is, there will be someone who will receive your information until the final victory of the revolution. If you die during this period, then it means that you never existed. This is the party's principle of secrecy, and I will not repeat it. For your work, someone in the center will give you instructions. You have to understand that you are one of our trump cards. If the country becomes an island in this war. Then Yunnan could become the forefront of the war. Your first stop is Zosa in Yunnan, a city founded by caravans with roads to Southeast Asian countries, and your first task is to establish an intelligence network covering Southeast Asia. At present, this place has become the world's intelligence distribution center. Spies from all over the world came to this place and existed in various capacities. Information was transmitted through the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, the Burma Highway, and the Mabang Road. You are the head of this stealth base. The reason why the organization chose this place called Wasa instead of Xidu Gejiu is because this is a caravan city, a city that connects the world, and is conducive to long-term lurking. C told me that you have a week to prepare before you get to Wassa. It was our first and last meeting. I hope that when the war is over, we are all alive. ”

I don't know what kind of unit this Central Investigation Department is, and I don't know what kind of person this C is that my grandfather is talking about. I only know that the revolutionary work that my grandfather was engaged in was secret work. Or the kind of spy with a secret mission in the movie. In fact, the very existence of my grandfather is a secret, and in my memory, I only know that the unit where he worked is called Zero Letterbox. As for the rest, there is none. In other words, for this world, my grandfather never seemed to exist. But he seems to be a real existence.

Another passage in the biography reads: "I am a Manchu born in the north, and I only know that Yunnan is a province of China. In the legends of my fathers, Yunnan was a far away frontier. The girl in that place will put Gu medicine, if this girl likes a man, she will let this man eat the Gu medicine she has prepared to control this man's mind, then this man will never be able to leave her, can only stay by her side forever. I really found an account of Gu medicine in the "Four Complete Books", and such a custom exists among the ethnic minorities in Guizhou and Yunnan. But that's not my concern. In the "History of the Wild of Southern Yunnan", I found an account of Yunnan Huisa, which is similar to the "Qing Barnyard Copy" and "Wumeng Chronicle", which reads, "In the Ailao Mountain, on a mountain beam on the south bank of the Red River, the Mabang people built a city belonging to the Mabang people, called Huisa, which is 260 kilometers away from the provincial capital Kunming City and 150 kilometers away from the state capital Mengzi. "Huisa" is a branch of the Yi nationality "Serva" language, which means: drought and lack of water, the county still retains nearly 100 ancient residential buildings. After a hundred years of hardship, the Horse Gang has opened up 11 transnational trade routes to neighboring countries in Southeast Asia, and created the border trade in southern Yunnan. The caravan connected Desa to the world. Caravan culture is world culture. Caravan trade is world trade. Because the neighboring countries of Southeast Asia belonged to the British and French colonies at that time, under the influence of Western culture, the caravan family integrated the Western architectural style into the local architecture, in such a place where it does not produce building materials, it is also the horses that carry bricks, tiles, and wood, and build a castle building with a combination of Chinese and Western styles in the mountain city of Huisa, with distinctive characteristics of the blue brick and tile courtyard, Huisa is a legendary, European-style ancient town with Chinese and Western architectural styles. Some people call it the city of the world. ’

During the Qianlong and Daoguang periods of the Qing Dynasty, there was a boom in mining and smelting copper ore in Huisa. The mining and smelting of copper ore attracted the Han people from the hinterland, who brought advanced handicraft technology and business management skills, and promoted the prosperity and prosperity of various industries in the country. However, due to the long-term logging of timber and the over-exploitation of ores, the city has become a bare mountain, the environment has been damaged, and the drought and water shortage have become more serious. In the late Qing Dynasty, a variety of reasons forced the copper mines to close down, unemployed workers in order to find a way out, meet to organize a gang of horses, to Southeast Asia Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand and other countries to do business, because Southeast Asia and other countries are gentle, the dam is getting wider and wider, so the people of the Sasa to do business in these countries is called "the dam". And they traffick and resell tobacco at home and abroad, also known as the "tobacco gang". In addition to tobacco and soil, the Sama Gang also deals in gold, silver, medicinal herbs, salt, etc.

More and more people are doing bigger and bigger business, and some even live abroad for a long time, live in harmony with the locals, intermarry with each other, and become expatriates. Some came back to build luxurious private houses, built a lot of traditional courtyard houses and Chinese and Western buildings, because Vietnam, Laos and other countries were French colonies at that time, so the architectural style also showed French style. Moreover, it absorbed the advanced ideas and culture of the West, and brought back new items such as gramophones, umbrellas, soaps, and cigarettes. The prosperity of Wasa is better than that of the provincial capital Kunming.

Since the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the house architecture of Huisa has been famous outside the river, whether it is a traditional Chinese courtyard house, or an ancient building of temples and pavilions, or a combination of Chinese and Western castle buildings. The ancient buildings of the East Gate are located in the East Gate Street of the county seat, the ancient buildings are mainly composed of three parts: the city tower, the Chinese and Western dwellings of Yao Chuju and the labyrinth compound of Qian Erguan, the building complex is the most complete and beautiful and majestic Chinese and Western-style, traditional Qing style residential buildings in Honghe County at present, covering an area of more than 5,000 square meters, with a construction area of more than 20,000 square meters, it is the representative and epitome of the history and culture of the caravan in Honghe County. The border city of Wasa Ancient Town is a living specimen of ancient Chinese towns, its existence has historical, social, folklore, architectural and other complex meanings and values, its cultural value and the economic value of China and Southeast Asia is a historical model worthy of study.

It seems that there are too many secrets hidden in the castle that have not yet been explained, and the castle is a kind of castle built on top of the mountains. Geng Jun said from the Chinese feng shui point of view, the establishment of this sitting city, completely contrary to the view of Chinese feng shui, the red river flows from the foot of the mountain where the city sits, but the establishment of the city is not built by the water, but by the mountain, would rather lack water than build by the water, why is this?

There has always been a folk legend that there is a golden city below the city of Huisa, and the old tin and the tobacco soil of northern Myanmar have always been the source of wealth for the caravans to gain wealth. The caravans exchanged the wealth of these rich countries for gold, and they never knew how to preserve it due to the troubled times. In order to escape the loss of wealth caused by the troubled times, they began to build houses on the mountains. And under the house is the place where they hide their gold. Later this became a secret rule. Every caravan did it tacitly. Therefore, some people have always believed that as long as the underground of the city of Wasa is opened, it is equivalent to opening a city of gold.

At that time, I made annotations on this wild history. If there really is a city of gold, then how many guns will be bought for the revolution? ”

The second secret of the Zosa is the terraces on the clouds. If gold is not found in the underneath the city of Zosa, then the city of gold of the caravans is in the terraces above the clouds above the mountains.

In the high mountains of Eusa, all the terraces are built on the slopes of the hills, and the slopes of the terraces range from 15 to 75 degrees. In terms of a hillside, the highest number of terraced rice fields reaches 4,000 steps, which is rare in the terraced landscape of China and foreign countries. There are four unique terraces on the clouds: one is a large area, different shapes of terraced fields are continuous, each area is up to thousands of acres; The second is that the terrain is steep, from a gentle slope of 15 degrees to a cliff of 75 degrees, you can see terraces; The three must be many steps, and at most more than 3,000 steps can be opened on a slope; The terraced fields stretch from the river valley to the mountains at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters, which can reach the highest limit of rice growth. Ethnic groups are generally stratified according to altitude. The river dam area at an altitude of 144 to 600 meters above sea level is mostly inhabited by the Dai people; The canyon area of 600 meters to 1,000 meters is mostly inhabited by Zhuang people; The lower semi-mountainous area of 1000 meters to 1400 meters is mostly inhabited by the Yi people; The upper half of the mountain, from 1400 meters to 2000 meters, is mostly inhabited by the Hani people; The high mountainous areas above 2,000 meters are mostly inhabited by Miao and Yao people; Han Chinese mostly live in towns and along highways. Above each village, there must be a dense forest, providing a source of water, timber and charcoal, among which the sacred and inviolable village sacred forest is characteristic; Below the village are thousands of terraced rice fields, which provide the basic conditions for the survival and development of the Hani people: food; The village is composed of mushroom houses with a high degree of harmony between man and nature, sustainable development and virtuous cycle, forming a place for people to live in peace. This structure becomes a complete living system. The terraced fields, with the change of mountain topography, according to local conditions, the gentle slope is large, the large field is cultivated, the steep slope is small, the small field is cultivated, and even the ditch edge is under the stone gap, all strive to open the field. Therefore, the terraced fields are large and have several acres, and the small ones are only the size of a dustpan. There are often thousands of acres on a single slope. Folklorists, anthropologists, explorers, and photographers around the world are all studying the terraced rice fields on the clouds. These experts and scholars come from more than 10 countries, including the Netherlands, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Thailand. The French anthropologist Dr. Pisso praised the terraces as 'real land art, real earth sculpture.' ’

I don't think it's very likely that the caravan would hide the gold under the city of Zosa. If the legendary caravan of gold was built under terraced rice fields in the mountains, then there is a certain possibility, because, even if the Golden City did exist, it was almost impossible to find the Golden City in the mountains. Unless the caravan has a treasure map.

The third secret that Noshi describes to the Zosa, the Yiche people who live in the Zosa, some people say that they belong to the branch of the Hani tribe. But the national character of the Hani and Yiche people is completely different. The Hani people have a soft personality, and the Yiche people have a bold personality. Yiche women have the custom of exposing their breasts, with fat thighs, one breast is left for the lover to touch, and one breast is reserved for the married man, the lover can not be touched, and the married man can be touched.

The Red River between the valleys under the city of Wasa is a river flowing with history, originating in the territory of Weishan, traversing southern Yunnan, with a total length of 5,200 kilometers, flowing into Vietnam from the mouth of the river. According to the Chronicles of Kaihua Province, the Red River was a wide river in the past, and it was an important waterway to Vietnam.

From historical sources, we know that Yunnan is a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, picturesque scenery and strange customs, but at a time when a nation is in danger, it is natural that there is no interest in these scenery. However, intelligence is to catch the wind and shadows, and the customs of a place, the natural scenery, the weather and rain, the streets and alleys, the mountains and ditches, the ethnic language family, and so on are all the basic elements of intelligence. ”

Looking at the account in the biography, I still don't know what he has to do with my grandfather, but it just shows that in the spring of 1937, this man called my grandfather arrived in Yunnan. But it seems that this is the experience of any person in the world who has nothing to do with me, it is someone else's story, in my memory, this person called my grandfather did not even hold me with his own hands, it is such a man, how can he be my grandfather? I am a continuation of his life in this world, but his world has nothing to do with me. We don't seem to have any intersection except for the inheritance of blood. So, you say that if I met my grandfather on the street, how could I call such a strange man grandpa?

In the autumn of 1942, three strange incidents occurred in Gejiu and Huisa in Yunnan: First, Locke, director of the Far East Division of the US Strategic Intelligence Agency, Jayson, director of the Asian branch of the British MI6, Roman Lance, director of the East Asia Branch of the Second French Naval Intelligence Bureau, and Heyman, director of the Eastern Bureau of the German General Staff, were intercepted and killed in Gejiu, China. Second, the managers of old foreign banks, banks, commercial banks, and other institutions stationed in various countries around the world all died in a violent bombing case. The third is the destruction of the city in Huisa. After these three events, the Japanese Himaru Trading Company took control of an old tin mine. In accordance with the instructions of the Central Special Branch, my grandfather Huang Kexing set up a secret radio station covering Southeast Asia in the mountains of Zosa. But it wasn't easy to destroy the Hichimaru trading company. On the contrary, the radio base was frantically swept by the Japanese.