The story of the Founding Marshal is certainly familiar to everyone, but do you know?He also has an older brother, who was once an adjutant in Chiang Kai-shek's chamberlain, with the rank of lieutenant general, and has a very high status in the Kuomintang system. This legendary figure is named Chen Xiuhe.
Chen Xiuhe was born in Lezhi County, Sichuan Province, his family is a very famous local family, powerful, Chen Xiuhe's father is the eldest in the family, and Chen Xiuhe, as the eldest grandson of the family, is naturally also pinned on high hopes. ** is the son of Chen Xiuhe's uncle, who has been smart and clever since childhood, and is as respected by the family as Chen Xiuhe, and later both of them have made a vigorous career, and they have not disappointed the family. In 1913, Chen Xiuhe was admitted to Chengdu Higher Industrial School to study mechanical engineering. While studying in Chengdu, Chen Xiuhe experienced the massive road protection movement, the Xinhai Revolution, and later the warlord scuffle, and began to think about the way to save the country. At first, Chen Xiuhe advocated "education to save the country", "science to save the country", and "industry to save the country", but later in reality, he ran into walls everywhere, and gradually realized that under the oppression of warlords and imperialism, it is difficult for science and technology to be truly useful. Chen Xiuhe figured out one thing: only by defeating the great powers and eradicating the warlords could he have a chance to build the country, so Chen Xiuhe went to Guangdong, applied for the Huangpu Military Academy, and became the fifth cadet of Huangpu.
At the beginning of 1928, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Whampoa Alumni Association to recommend.
The students of the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth phases were selected from each period to be the adjutant of his attendant room, and Chen Xiuhe was selected as the fifth batch of students. During his work, Chen Xiuhe reported to Chiang Kai-shek the situation that needed to be improved, and asked to go to the Shanghai Arsenal to personally devote himself to this work, and after Chiang Kai-shek agreed, Chen Xiuhe started from the grassroots level and worked for 5 years, and won Chiang Kai-shek's great trust and attention. In the summer of 1929, when Chen Xiuhe was serving in the Shanghai Arsenal, he went to Shanghai to report to the organization, but at that time, he was a person who was wanted to be arrested by the reactionaries, and his movement was very inconvenient, so he found his cousin Chen Xiuhe. Chen Xiuhe didn't say a word, secretly rented him a house, and also made a certificate for him, with this certificate, ** is much safer. **I hope to meet with Zhou Gong, which is a matter of losing my head under the circumstances at the time, but Chen Xiuhe agreed without saying a word. In the end, under Chen Xiuhe's arrangement, ** was able to meet Zhou Gong and bring back the famous "September Letter", which led to the later famous Gutian Conference, and the chairman was able to re-establish his leadership position in the Red Fourth Army. Later, Chen Xiuhe covered ** many times to meet with our party's comrades in Shanghai, so our party also respected Chen Xiuhe very much.
However, Chen Xiuhe's work in the arsenal was not smooth sailing, after the original director was transferred, the new director was a relational household, did not understand the military industry, and often made profits from it, Chen Xiuhe was not used to it, so he wrote to Chiang Kai-shek, but Chiang Kai-shek turned a blind eye, which made Chen Xiuhe very disappointed. However, Chen Xiuhe's position in Chiang Kai-shek's heart was not shaken, and when the Liaoshen Battle was about to end, Chen Xiuhe did not catch the plane, and Chiang Kai-shek personally ordered: "Transfer a special plane and bring Chen Xiuhe back at all costs." However, Chen Xiuhe would not go with him, and after the People's Liberation Army liberated Shenyang, Chen Xiuhe handed over the Shenyang Arsenal that had been protected to the People's Liberation Army. A leader once said to Chen Xiuhe: "You have protected the Shenyang Arsenal and returned the whole factory to the people intact, which is a great contribution!"After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chen Xiuhe continued to be entrusted with important tasks and made a lot of contributions to the economic construction of New China. In 1998, Chen Xiuhe died of illness at the age of 101.