Governor of the StateCrying about the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Jiang was furious
Imagine the scene of hundreds of officers lining up in front of the grave, crying loudly, what a shocking visual impact it would be. And this shocking scene was staged in front of the tomb of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1947.
In this mighty team of weeping spirits, there are even many high-ranking generals at the level of generals. These iron-blooded men who came through in the rain of bullets and bullets did not frown in the face of bloodshed and sacrifice, but at the moment they were crying like children in front of the leader's grave.
These graduates of the first phase of Huangpu who had made great achievements in the Chinese revolution left a deep imprint on their heroic deeds in the Northern Expedition and the War of Resistance Against Japan. It stands to reason that they should be the pride of the Kuomintang, but the situation they are facing now is puzzling.
The matter spread quickly, the whole country was in an uproar, and the doubts from all sides and the pressure of the society made the Kuomintang high-level fidget, and the continuous fermentation of the incident made Chiang Kai-shek even more angry.
After the baptism of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese nation was tenacious and unyielding, and was reborn from the ashes. People rejoice, and the country is in ruins. However, at this critical juncture when the whole people joined hands to rebuild their homeland, Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang made their own small calculations.
During World War II, the Kuomintang received assistance from the United States on several occasions, and with strong foreign aid, the Kuomintang army grew in size day by day. By the end of World War II, the Kuomintang Military Council had recorded a total of more than 4 million troops.
If the Kuomintang authorities could recognize the reality and use this huge national defense force to build the country, it would certainly bring great benefits, but this was obviously not their choice.
Chiang Kai-shek decisively launched a large-scale "disarmament operation". Undoubtedly, the rational dismantling of the armed forces after the war will be beneficial to the positive development of the country, but behind this disarmament and reorganization there are complex factors hidden behind it.
As for the disarmament action, Chiang Kai-shek and the National** gave a very official explanation: the huge amount of military expenditure accounted for a considerable proportion of the funds for post-war reconstruction, so disarmament and reorganization were inevitable.
By looking at the list of disarmaments, we can find that Chiang Kai-shek's descendants were not affected in any way, while the officers and men of the non-descendant troops were almost completely wiped out.
This fully shows Chiang Kai-shek's true intention - in order to cope with the attrition of the battle, expanding the army is his last resort. However, he feared that these new troops and commanders were not entirely loyal to him, and that they might turn back if a full-scale civil war broke out.
Therefore, the core layer of the Kuomintang carried out a merciless purge of non-descendant troops, which is a unique interpretation of "employing people without suspicion, and suspecting people without suspicion".
In order to solve the problem of reducing the number of soldiers, Chiang Kai-shek gathered hundreds of officers to participate in the so-called "party-state training activities", and these generals were appointed as lieutenant generals or major generals of the Central Training Corps.
In fact, these activities are just for them to go through the motions before they are disarmed and returned to the field.
While these people were in a trance, their troops were no longer under their control. Most of the soldiers during the war grew up in the barracks, and they devoted half of their lives to the rain of bullets.
Suddenly letting them take off their military uniforms and return to ordinary life is an unacceptable arrangement for anyone. They were not without resistance, and many expressed their confusion and doubts by sending letters, but these letters were silenced like mud cows into the sea.
You can't wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep, especially the one who gave you nightmares who made it all by their own hands.
Many of the members of the ** training group in this issue are loyal followers of Mr. Sun Yat-sen, who bravely threw themselves into the field during the Eastern Expedition and the Huizhou Campaign. However, these people could not escape the fate of being abandoned, Chiang Kai-shek was clearly unabashedly excluding dissidents, and the Kuomintang ** seemed to be just Chiang Kai-shek's word.
These people put all their lives and faith in the party-state, which never seems to remember them.
When the Kuomintang fired the first shot of the civil war, Chiang Kai-shek's argument for disarmament sounded like a black humor.
The hearts of the dismissed officers were filled with despair, and at this moment, they could clearly hear the voice of the collapse of faith in their hearts. Faced with this desperate situation, they had no choice but to go to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum to pay homage to the pioneers they followed, but this worship aroused the wrath of Chiang Kai-shek.
Professional soldiers who have experienced the baptism of war for half their lives are forced to leave the army they fought for, which is undoubtedly a kind of desolation of the death of a rabbit and a fox. Without the security of the army, they not only lose their income, but even the most basic livelihood security becomes out of reach.
Behind this disarmament reorganization, which seems to proceed from the overall situation, there are complex entanglements of interests. The three tragedies that occurred during this period have attracted the attention of the whole country and even the world.
Among them, Zhang Qingquan, a Kuomintang officer who had participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, was included in the list of dismissals because he was not a descendant, and this made people have deep doubts about this disarmament and reorganization.
Zhang Qingquan used to be a brave general, and the troops he led were incorporated into the ** army, and he himself became"Redundant officers"。However, since the ** training unity industry, he has not been properly resettled, and even so poor that there is no rice at home.
He could not live a prosperous and comfortable life, and even eating became a big problem. In the end, in order to survive, he had to sell his wife to a merchant as a concubine in exchange for some money.
What a tragic and dark thing it was, but Chiang Kai-shek turned a blind eye to it.
General Xi Ze, who once received the rank of lieutenant general, is both an overseas Chinese and a member of the League. In his early years, he did not hesitate to sell his property to support Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary cause, and was deeply appreciated by Sun Yat-sen.
However, this patriot who cherished the people, a veteran who participated in the Northern Expedition and the War of Resistance Against Japan, was ruthlessly excluded by the Kuomintang from the "people who can be used" and was evaluated as "getting old and unable to meet the tasks of wartime".
Questioning "Lian Po is old, can still eat" not only makes people feel chilling, but also provokes deep reflection on the wartime tasks in post-war reconstruction. The Kuomintang chose to break the jar and break the jar on the issue that could not be justified, and no longer reasoned.
This kind of behavior is like bandits and robbers, shattering the last hope of General Xi Ze, and his wife committed suicide by throwing herself into the river in despair of the rotten people. General Xi Ze's wife complained of all this in the most decisive way, but the loss of a fresh life failed to awaken the conscience of the top echelons of the Kuomintang, and this numbness and cold-bloodedness made people feel chilled.
Chen Tianmin, a student of the first phase of Whampoa, was the deputy commander of the 190th Division, who fought bravely in the Battle of Changsha and was wounded in many places all over his body, and was a real combat hero. However, despite this, because he was not a first-class military descendant and had no high-level background, he followed in the footsteps of Zhang Qingquan and Xi Ze and became a redundant officer.
At this time, his lung cancer was at an advanced stage, and the youngest child in the family was still in infancy. After retiring, life became increasingly difficult, seriously ill and the children cried day and night, Chen Tianmin lost his faith, and finally swallowed a large amount of sleeping pills while his wife was out to borrow money, ending his young life.
Chen Tianmin died young, and his family was so poor that even the funeral expenses were stretched. Fortunately, the former students of the Whampoa Military Academy heard the bad news and reached out one after another to raise funds to handle the aftermath.
At Chen Tianmin's funeral, the family mourned, and the cries of his wife and children echoed in the air, which was heart-wrenching. However, his lifelong loyalty to the people** did not even have a word of condolence.
All these tragedies made the other students of the ** training group feel deeply sad, and they couldn't help but sigh: "The birds are all gone, and the good bow is hidden; The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys cook. "They never imagined that one day they would feel this loss of abandonment.
During the wartime, the Communists actively searched for obscure heroes throughout the country, whose actions contrasted sharply with those of the Kuomintang. This made the trainees who were trained in the ** training group feel deeply dissatisfied and lost.
Although the Kuomintang claimed to spend more money on post-war reconstruction and promised to resettle them properly after training, in reality it was just a despicable conspiracy to "eliminate dissidents and strengthen the armament of their descendants."
Chiang Kai-shek's plan may seem grandiose, but in fact, behind every collision of beads is the rupture of the faith and family of professional soldiers.
The members of the training group, ruthlessly abandoned by the Kuomintang, had no choice but to accept the reality, and when they were about to be completely disbanded, some people proposed to go to the mausoleum of Dr. Sun Yat-sen for the last time to pay respects and say goodbye to the leader they had once followed.
Although they were not treated fairly by the Kuomintang, their deep dedication to the "Three People's Principles" still made them unwilling. Therefore, this suggestion was immediately unanimously approved by everyone, and the helplessness and sadness of this kind of "Lingling" turning into "weeping spirit" also quietly followed.
Huang He, who was originally a graduate of the first phase of Whampoa and became a lieutenant general in the army, stood out in everyone's democratic election and became the commander-in-chief of this Lingling activity. This spontaneous organization of activities and democratic elections allowed this group of people to truly experience the meaning of "democracy" for the first time.
Lieutenant General Huang He led a worship procession of more than 300 people to the Sun Yat-sen Cemetery in Nanjing with a heavy heart. Everyone in the ranks was dressed in military uniforms and had medals on their chests that they had been awarded before.
More than 300 soldiers expressed their silent accusations in their own way, they were defending their identity as soldiers, and they were also guarding the honor and last vestiges of dignity of the past.
According to the time and age of enrollment in the Whampoa Military Academy, they lined up in a phalanx and laid wreaths to Mr. Sun Yat-sen in turn. General Huang He read the memorial message to express his condolences. These soldiers bowed their heads collectively in front of the spirit and mourned in silence for three minutes.
After the silence, they lined up again and entered the mourning hall to pay respects to Dr. Sun Yat-sen's coffin. The atmosphere was solemn, and some people even sobbed in low voices. This silent accusation makes people admire.
After the procession retreated to the stone flat in front of the mourning hall, the grief and indignation were like the water that broke the embankment, surging. One after another, the officers walked to the front of the ranks, with passionate words and wept silently to denounce the corruption and darkness of the people.
They were hopeless about Chiang Kai-shek's ** rule, chilled by the reorganization policy, and confused about the future of the "Three People's Principles". These iron-blooded men who were once fearless in the rain of bullets and bullets felt deep emptiness and panic at this moment.
The medal on their chests, once their most cherished honor, now makes their hearts twist. Tears dripped down and moistened the medal, and the glory of the past has now become a pain in their hearts.
When these more than 300 officers tearfully represented themselves, they also represented the future of China under the rule of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang. This activity, which changed from a tomb to a weeping spirit, infected all onlookers.
The more than 300 officers understood that this might be the last time they stood here as soldiers, and that the future awaited them not only to lose their positions, but also to lose hope.
Chiang Kai-shek was furious when he learned of this, and he resolutely defended the foundations of his "Chiang dynasty", even if it plunged the country into civil war and the Kuomintang regime crumbling.
Chiang Kai-shek angrily questioned the weeping group, accusing them of lawlessness and evil intentions. His rhetoric was fierce, as if he were the biggest victim. However, he seems to have forgotten that "unjustified anger is a sign of incompetence" and that his actions lack a defensible position.
As the incident progressed, the attention and pressure from China and abroad increased day by day, and Chiang Kai-shek finally realized that he had to solve the problem as soon as possible.
At his behest, the Kuomintang Military and Political Affairs Department and the Military Commission formulated a policy of dismantling, reorganization, and resettlement that they considered "extremely appropriate." However, they are still dreaming of the Spring and Autumn Festival to block the mouths of the people.
The National** proposed a "solution" to convert first-class generals under the age of 50 to local civilian posts, generals between the ages of 45 and 50 to be transferred to the police or transportation departments, and generals under the age of 40 to be sent to the Army University for "further study", with an appropriate increase in the severance pay of older generals.
However, this seemingly sincere plan has exposed the consistent "fake big empty" officialdom style of the people, which has completely changed the views of the Chinese people and seen their ugly faces and hypocritical masks.
This "crying event" that shook the world ended in a helpless way with the passage of time and the departure of the participants. Chiang Kai-shek did not care about how bleak the mood of "loneliness and desolation, tears raining down" was, and this was never his concern.
* The creation and dissolution of the training regiment is more like a joke, and the people, who are far away from the people, naturally cannot escape the fate of collapse. The spontaneous weeping activities organized by the abolished and reorganized officer corps accelerated the collapse of the Chiang dynasty.
The truth of history will not change with the passage of time, and the anti-Japanese contributions of the Kuomintang will forever be recorded in the annals of history. However,"The light of the right path"It will not tolerate a long period of overstretched darkness covering the sky.
At a time when the country is in crisis, if the leaders and ** are only for their own selfish desires, they cannot get the real recognition and support of the people. The will of the people is firm and will not change because of any personal factors, which is a truth that Chiang Kai-shek has never grasped.
Whether it is the collapse of the Chiang dynasty or the collapse of the decadent and incompetent people, it is the inevitable result of the awakening of the Chinese nation in the process of development. We sincerely hope that incidents such as the crying of more than 300 officers will not be repeated.
References: "The Long Compilation of Chinese ** Historical Materials" and "The Crying Soul of the Remaining Officers".