During the War of Liberation, after the three major battles, Chiang Kai-shek was driven out**, on January 21, 1949, Li Zongren replaced Chiang Kai-shek and served as the acting **, but the general trend has gone, not Li Zongren can be recovered, after Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan, Li Zongren flew to the United States in the name of medical treatment.
After many years of wandering, as he grew older, he hoped to return to his homeland, and in 1955, Li Zongren made public statements in the United States to support the reunification of the motherland, which is the problem of the Chinese themselves.
Li Zongren's statement showed a change in his thinking,** after learning about this situation, he sent someone to Hong Kong to get in touch with Li Zongren's personal secretary Cheng Siyuan, Cheng Siyuan was also eager to return to the motherland, and he was very excited when he learned that he had been invited back to the motherland to see.
On April 28, 1956, Cheng Siyuan returned to the mainland, and climbed the Tiananmen Tower on the day of Labor Day.
After Cheng Siyuan returned to Hong Kong, he sent a long letter to Li Zongren, detailing the experience of his trip to Beijing, but Li Zongren did not know what to do, and there was no reflection until 1958, when Cheng Siyuan's daughter returned to Hong Kong from the United States to visit relatives and told her father Cheng Siyuan that Li Zongren was not used to living in the United States.
Soon after, Li Zongren sent a handwritten letter to Cheng Siyuan, in which he said that he had a batch of cultural relics worth more than 110,000 US dollars, hoping to dedicate these cultural relics to the motherland, and at the same time expressed his nostalgia for his homeland.
In October 1959, Cheng Siyuan personally went to Beijing, explained the matter to ***, **praised Li Zongren's approach, and then contacted Li Zongren through Cheng Siyuan, and the cultural relics dedicated by Li Zongren to the motherland arrived in Beijing through Hong Kong, and immediately arranged for experts from the Forbidden City to sort out the cultural relics.
Unexpectedly, when the experts of the Forbidden City inspected the cultural relics, they found that only a small number of these cultural relics were real, and the rest were fakes, according to the estimation at the time, at most it was worth 3,000 US dollars, and then the experts reported the matter to ***, ** immediately reported the matter to ***, and suggested that Li Zongren be given 30,000 US dollars.
** After hearing this, he immediately laughed, naturally seeing through Li Zongren's careful thinking, and said: "He is testing us!" * went on to say: "We want to talk about strategy in our work, so we will give him 120,000 yuan, which is called throwing stones and asking for directions!" ”
**Generously approved Li Zongren 120,000 US dollars, which is 40 times the actual value of this batch of cultural relics,**Told Cheng Siyuan that bluntly said that some of the cultural relics sent by Li Zongren were genuine and some were fakes, considering that Li Zongren was not easy to live abroad, he specially sent him 120,000 US dollars to make a strong appearance.
**Personally explain to Liu Zhongrong to handle this matter, the money is all cash, not through others, not through the bank, must be handed over to Li Zongren in person, Liu Zhongrong took the money to Hong Kong, Li Zongren's wife Guo Dejie personally went to Hong Kong and took the $120,000.
On July 20, 1965, Li Zongren, the former "deputy of the Kuomintang", and his wife Guo Dejie returned to Beijing from the United States.