From ancient times to the present, there are countless strategists around the ruler, such as Zhuge Liang assisting Liu Bei, Liu Bowen assisting Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Liang assisting Liu Bang, and the most famous of them is Zhuge Liang, who is regarded as a model by scholars all over the world.
During the ** period, Chiang Kai-shek had a figure named "Poison Zhuge by his side", and he dedicated his plan to Chiang Kai-shek three times, and his cunning and insidious and unscrupulous nature was undoubtedly revealed.
Although others use the name "Zhuge " to recognize his talent, they use the word "poison" to warn him of his bad qualities.
Yang Yongtai, Chiang Kai-shek's right-hand man, today we talk about this once smash hit "wise man". Born into a wealthy family, Yang Yongtai was born in 1880 in Gaozhou, Maoming, Guangdong, to a wealthy family.
Since he was a child, he has been determined to study and enter politics, and he wants to assist Ming Jun and realize his ambitions like the ancient literati. His family supported his ambitions and tightly controlled his education, allowing him to receive an orthodox feudal education.
Yang Yongtai was extremely talented in reading, and at the age of 17, he participated in the imperial examination of the Qing Dynasty and successfully became a showman, which made many of his peers envious. However, a smooth life is not always a good thing.
He was young and ambitious, and his rich life made him unable to understand the suffering of the people. His original intention in politics was not for the well-being of the people, but out of personal ambition. That's why he came to be called "Poison Zhuge ".
When Yang Yongtai was ready to show his strength and embark on the road of official career, the times changed dramatically. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the situation at home and abroad was turbulent, and the influence of foreign invaders caused the Qing Dynasty to decline step by step, which also brought a lot of trouble to Yang Yongtai's career.
He was surprised to find that his previous feudal education could no longer adapt to this new era, and new learning and trends of thought were emerging. But Yang Yongtai is not an ordinary person, he quickly grasped this change, actively learned new knowledge, devoted himself to Western-style education, and the five years were fleeting.
At the age of 21, he was admitted to the Guangzhou Higher Education School, where he received a formal Western education, and soon transferred to the Beijing School of Political Science and Law to study modern law.
From this moment on, Yang Yongtai's thinking became more active.
Yang Yongtai, a smart person who is good at leveraging his strength. He used his position as a newspaper editor to showcase his political ideas, and soon established a positive persona on both sides of the Pearl River, allowing people to see his talent and ambitions.
When Dr. Sun Yat-sen led the anti-Qing revolution, and patriots from all over the world responded by setting up a provincial advisory bureau to promote the realization of a constitutional monarchy, Yang Yongtai saw his opportunity.
He actively participated in this movement, using his influence to attack feudal ideas and promote the constitutional movement. His efforts were well recognized, and in 1908 he was elected to the Guangdong Provincial Consultative Council, officially beginning his political career.
However, Yang Yongtai is not satisfied with this. He continued to refine his "personality", promote a clear political attitude, increase his influence, and wait for the opportunity.
In 1912, he rose to prominence and had the honor of being a provisional member of the Chinese Congress, for which he was overjoyed, and was promoted after only four years, and the future was full of possibilities.
One day two years later, the situation changed abruptly, Yuan Shikai came to power and abolished the National Assembly, and the constitutional monarchy suffered a heavy blow. In desperation, Yang Yongtai bid farewell to Nanjing, went to Shanghai to found a magazine called "Zhengyi", and co-founded the European Institute with Huang Xing and others.
During this time, the domestic situation became more and more chaotic, and Yuan Shikai's ** ambition was undoubtedly exposed, which ran counter to Sun Yat-sen's ideas. During this time, Yang Yongtai was gradually attracted by Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary doctrine, coupled with the influence of Huang Xing and others, and he firmly believed that Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary doctrine was the most in line with the reality of China's social problems and the only way to save China.
At the same time, Sun Yat-sen founded the Chinese Revolutionary Party in Japan, and Yang Yongtai devoted himself to following Sun Yat-sen without hesitation and working hard for the future of China.
In 1915, Yuan Shikai attempted to restore the feudal imperial system, and the whole country was in an uproar. Headed by General Cai Yi, patriots from all over the country stood up one after another and fired the first shot against the restoration, making the vigorous war for the defense of the country imminent.
In the spring of 1916, the four provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou successively declared independence, and established the Military Affairs Yuan in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, in response to the National Defense Movement. At this time, Yang Yongtai returned to Guangzhou, and was favored by Li Liejun of the Yunnan Army and served as the director of the Finance Bureau under the Liangguang Protection Command.
Yang Yongtai's ability was quickly demonstrated, and he used the connections he had accumulated in Guangdong in his early years to quickly prepare grain and grass, which made Li Liejun very satisfied, and soon promoted him to the director of the Finance Department of the Military Affairs Yuan.
In June of the same year, Yuan Shikai's dream of restoration was shattered and he died of illness. After Li Yuanhong took office, the National Assembly was restored, and the Military Affairs Yuan was abolished. The old Kuomintang organized the Political Science Society, and Yang Yongtai participated in the drafting of the constitution and became a part of it.
Sun Yat-sen launched the ** movement to try to maintain the "Provisional Covenant" and the parliamentary system, and Duan Qirui, like Yuan Shikai, tried to implement *** to arouse the dissatisfaction of the southern warlords.
Sun Yat-sen took a fancy to Yang Yongtai's wisdom and intended to promote him to director of the Department of Finance, but Yang Yongtai was suspicious of Sun Yat-sen because of his unfirm stance and the influence of the old Kuomintang.
In 1917, the ** army and the Beiyang warlords led by Duan Qirui fought fiercely. Seeing that victory was in sight, the Political Science Society joined forces with the powerful faction in the southwest to reorganize the **army**.
This group of people united to squeeze out Sun Yat-sen, changing the original generalissimo leadership system to a collegial system of seven presidents, so that Sun Yat-sen changed from a "leader" to "one of the leaders".
Yang Yongtai was one of the participants in the reorganization plan, and his betrayal of Sun Yat-sen angered many Kuomintang members. However, due to the protection of the southwestern forces, Yang Yongtai rose through the ranks, first as director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance, and then as governor in 1920.
However, the good times did not last long, the Cantonese army returned to Guangdong that year, and Sun Yat-sen was inaugurated as the Chinese **Da** the following year. Yang Yongtai knew that his betrayal made Sun Yat-sen unforgivable, so he brazenly fled to Beiyang ** to seek a job.
Yang Yongtai's political position wavered, first helping Sun Yat-sen deal with the Beiyang warlords, and then turning against him and turning to Beiyang**. However, this opportunistic behavior of his eventually led to the loss of all political status.
In 1922, due to the impact of the bribery scandal, the old parliament of the Beiyang Army** collapsed, and Yang Yongtai also lost his political power. In desperation, he could only go to Shanghai to live a reclusive life.
However, Yang Yongtai did not give up his political dreams because of this. In 1926, Chiang Kai-shek's Northern Expedition opened his eyes to new opportunities. He was active again and tried to return to the political scene.
In 1928, he was appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek and began to advise Chiang Kai-shek. His talents were put to good use, and he is best known for his three successive contributions, which showed his cunning and insidious nature.
Therefore, someone gave him a nickname - Poison Zhuge .
Yang Yongtai put forward three suggestions for Chiang Kai-shek after the end of the Northern Expedition, one of which was to "divide and reduce the feudal domain". Chiang Kai-shek was very troubled by the confronting of warlords everywhere.
He understood that if the power of these warlords was not weakened, the armies in their hands would become a hidden danger. However, he also feared that excessive persecution would provoke a revolt by the warlords, leading to a resurgence of fighting.
Yang Yongtai was well aware of Chiang Kai-shek's concerns, and he suggested taking advantage of the end of the Northern Expedition to "reward" these people, transfer them to Nanjing, and then wait for an opportunity to relieve them of military power.
However, Li Zongren, Feng Yuxiang and other warlord leaders had already prepared. When Chiang Kai-shek tried to deal with the problem by "releasing the military power with a glass of wine", the resistance of these warlords was fierce, and Feng Yuxiang even refused to come under the pretext of illness.
Feng Yuxiang cooperated with Chiang Kai-shek to break up the warlord forces by force. Yang Yongtai played a key role during this period, using a divisive strategy to divide the contradictions between the warlords, sending spies to infiltrate the warlords, and buying people's hearts and minds with power and money.
As a result of his efforts, Li Pinxian, a warlord of the Gui family, first betrayed his camp, and then Yang Yongtai used the same strategy to break up the alliance of warlords such as Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan.
In the process of cutting the feudal domain, there will always be rebellions within the warlords at critical moments, leading to the breakdown of the alliance. Chiang Kai-shek adopted Yang Yongtai's strategy and solved the warlord problem that had plagued him for a long time in only three years.
Second, Yang Yongtai suggested that Chiang Kai-shek use Sun Yat-sen's prestige to dominate the Kuomintang. There were many factions within the Kuomintang, and Chiang Kai-shek did not know how to govern them.
Yang Yongtai put forward the second suggestion: The Kuomintang was founded by Sun Yat-sen, and Chiang Kai-shek could "coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes" as long as he admired Sun Yat-sen, promoted the momentum through newspapers and magazines, and fashioned himself as the successor of Mr. Sun's revolutionary cause by buying people's hearts.
Who would disrespect Sun Yat-sen? Respecting Sun Yat-sen will naturally respect Sun Yat-sen's "successor". Overall, Feng Yuxiang's cooperation with Chiang Kai-shek, as well as Yang Yongtai's ingenuity, enabled them to quickly dismantle the warlord forces, unify the Kuomintang, and solve the warlord problem in just three years.
Chiang Kai-shek deeply identified with Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary ideas, and he believed that revolution was the core of political correctness and could not deviate from this idea. With the attitude of Sun Yat-sen's heir, he admired the revolution, won the hearts of the people, and his political status continued to improve, and finally became the supreme leader of the people.
One of Yang Yongtai's most famous tactics was to dismantle the Red Army's proposition of "three parts military, seven parts political." The existence of the Red Army has always been a pain in Chiang Kai-shek's heart, although he has successfully exterminated the Beiyang warlords and defeated Li Zongren and Feng Yuxiang and other warlords, but in the face of the Red Army, he has never been able to achieve complete victory.
Yang Yongtai pointed out that the reason why the Red Army was difficult to defeat was that they were different from other warlords and had unique beliefs and values. The Red Army closely linked the army to the people, was deeply loved by the people, and not only had great military power, but also had political advantages.
Therefore, in order to completely eliminate the Red Army, it is necessary to adopt both military and political means to carry out "political suppression", that is, "three parts military, seven parts political". At his suggestion, Chiang Kai-shek began to strengthen the management of the common people in the bandit areas, crack down on the bullies and local tyrants, provide assistance to the people, and at the same time carry out ideological division, improve the image of the Kuomintang in the hearts of the people, weaken the influence of the Red Army on the people, and at the same time supplement it with force to exterminate it.
Chiang Kai-shek had previously carried out four unsuccessful encirclement and suppression campaigns against the Red Army, and after adopting his opinions, the Red Army was almost cornered in the fifth encirclement and suppression, and the Red Army had no choice but to start the Long March.
After taking refuge in Chiang Kai-shek, Yang Yongtai completely convinced Chiang Kai-shek with three suggestions, and won Chiang Kai-shek's appreciation and attention. Virtue is not worthy of the position, and finally dies in a factional struggle. Chiang Kai-shek's trust made Yang Yongtai's career rise step by step, and after three contributions, he has become Chiang Kai-shek's most trusted staff, unmatched.
It is said that when Yang Yongtai was most trusted, Chiang Kai-shek gave him great power, he was responsible for arranging Chiang Kai-shek's itinerary, who to meet with and when to meet with him, and even all the military and political telegrams of the Kuomintang at that time had to be reviewed by him, and it was up to him to decide whether to present them to Chiang Kai-shek, which shows that Chiang Kai-shek had completely regarded him as a close confidant.
After Yang Yongtai was favored, he gradually became arrogant. There were many factions within the Kuomintang to which he belonged, and Yang Yongtai and others were once members of the old political science society, so they were called the new political science department.
Because Yang Yongtai was deeply trusted by Chiang Kai-shek, the status of the new political science department continued to rise, and the contradictions with the CC department, another major faction, became increasingly acute. Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu, representatives of the CC department, expressed strong dissatisfaction with Yang Yongtai.
They often refer to Yang Yongtai in a disdainful tone as "the first rat at both ends" and only "opportunistic". Although their evaluation is very accurate, Yang Yongtai's character is indeed inferior.
However, Yang Yongtai is not without merit. He is indeed very intelligent, so he has received the title of "Poison Zhuge ", which is also the best description of his character and mind.
Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu soon realized this, and they began to fight against Yang Yongtai in a factional battle. In the struggle, Yang Yongtai showed his superb intrigue and trickery, so that the CC department did not take advantage of it at all.
Instead, Yang Yongtai gained the upper hand in the struggle.
During Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu's tenure as provincial ** chairman in Jiangsu Province, Chen Guofu reported the list of personnel to Chiang Kai-shek in order to make his cronies serve as the director of the Department of Civil Affairs.
However, Yang Yongtai reminded Chiang Kai-shek that this would make Jiangsu Province the world of the CC system. Chiang Kai-shek was so impressed with Yang's words that he succeeded in recommending his cronies for the position.
Chen Guofu was extremely dissatisfied with this, and he and Chen Lifu decided to resort to intrigue and intrigue, wanting to secretly get rid of Yang Yongtai.
Yang Yongtai encountered a crisis, and Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu provoked internal contradictions, causing Yang Yongtai to face difficulties. Chiang Kai-shek, in order to prevent the aggravation of contradictions within the party, arranged for him to be the chairman of Hubei Province and let him temporarily leave the limelight.
However, just as he was returning from a banquet at the invitation of the Japanese Consulate in China, he was shot and killed by an assassin at the age of 56.
The news shocked the country, and there were different opinions about the cause of the killing, but in the end there was no conclusive conclusion. This "poisonous Zhuge " is indeed extraordinary, and he has offered advice to Chiang Kai-shek three times, which has helped him very much.
However, he was morally corrupt and ended up like this, which can be said to be karma.