The grandson of the Jiang family applied for the Soul Migration Continent and spoke publiclyIn a word, follow Chiang Kai-shek's last wishes.
We appreciate your support by clicking "Follow" to discuss and share, as well as to give you a unique sense of participation. In 1996, Chiang Kai-shek's grandson, Chiang Ching-kuo's fifth son, Chiang Hsiao-yong, held a press conference while he was terminally ill.
At the press conference, he excitedly revealed the detailed process of *** and others to prevent the "Two Chiangs" from moving to the Soul Continent, and made two shocking words.
These two remarks by Jiang Hsiao-yong have deeply shamed Taiwan politicians and the people, and even though Jiang Hsiao-yong and others who participated in the motion to move the two Chiangs have passed away, the issue of "two Chiangs moving the soul" still plagues the Taiwan authorities.
So, what twists and turns did the two Jiang transfer process experience? What profound remarks did Jiang Xiaoyong make at the press conference?
In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan in defeat, and he once fantasized that he would be able to recover the mainland in a short period of time and realize the great cause of restoring the country, but the "Guoguang" plan dragged on for many years, but no substantive progress was made, and the situation in Taiwan became increasingly difficult.
However, even in his later years, Chiang Kai-shek still cherished the mountains and rivers of the mainland and the grass and trees of his hometown.
The flowers and plants at the mouth of the river are still the same, and the tomb of Fenghua Lu is the same as before; Taiwan's Golden Horse, lips and teeth depend on each other, the distant sky, I hope you take care. He earnestly hoped that the other side would be able to return to the mainland and realize the peaceful reunification of the two sides of the strait.
However, he could not let go of his obsession with attacking the mainland, so he was unable to make the trip in the end. In fact, he knew in his later years that he would not be able to realize this dream in his lifetime, but he still hoped that his descendants would help him realize this wish one day in the future.
He hoped to return to his roots after his death, so he chose three cemeteries during his lifetime, namely the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing's Purple Mountain, the Jiang cemetery in Fenghua's Xikou hometown, and his beloved Lushan.
Ironically, however, the Communist Party, which he hated, protected these three of his last wishes. Chiang Kai-shek died on April 5, 1975, at the Shilin Mansion in Taipei, and his family finally complied with his last wishes and did not bury him in Taiwan.
Chiang Ching-kuo decided to temporarily store his father's coffin in Cihu, a place where green hills linger, green trees smoked, terraced rice fields scattered, and streams gurgling, just like Chiang Kai-shek's hometown of Fenghua Xikou.
Chiang Ching-kuo renamed Buwei Cihu, on the one hand, to commemorate the loving heart of his mother, Mrs. Wang, and on the other hand, to miss Cihu in his hometown of Ningbo.
In the case of not being able to return to the mainland, Cihu Lake has become a place for him to express his emotions, and it is also the best way for his family to find it in desperation.
After learning of Chiang Kai-shek's last wishes, our party responded positively. In his speech commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution, ** made it clear that the mausoleum of Mr. Sun Yat-sen has been repaired many times, the tomb of Fenghua has also been restored, and the beautiful house of Lushan has also been carefully maintained.
He also welcomed the relocation of Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo's coffin to the Chiang cemetery in Fenghua. In addition, Liao Chengzhi was also assigned to write an open letter to Chiang Ching-kuo, promising that after reunification, Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo's coffin would be moved to his homeland, possibly Fenghua, Nanjing, or Lushan, in order to fulfill his filial piety.
** The influence of Chiang Ching-kuo and Chiang Ching-kuo's own reflection on the "liberation of the mainland" made him change his resolute position in the past and instead seek peace talks on the mainland, hoping to realize his father's wish for the return of his body.
However, fate was ruthless, and as soon as important progress was made in the cross-strait peace talks, Chiang Ching-kuo died in a hurry. Although his dream did not come true, he was convinced that one day, his father's coffin would return to his hometown.
Therefore, he left a will, hoping that his body would also follow his father back to the mainland.
Chiang Ching-kuo's greatest wish in life is to be able to stay by his mother's side and make up for the regret of failing to fulfill his filial piety. Therefore, after his death, his family complied with his last wish and temporarily placed his body in Touliao next to Cihu Lake, hoping that one day he could be buried on the mainland with his father and fulfill his wish.
However, the political situation in Taiwan exceeded the expectations of the Chiang family, and after coming to power, not only did they no longer make promises to the Chiang family, but they repeatedly dismantled the Taiwan of the Chiang family politically.
Under the banner of localization and democratization, it claimed that the Kuomintang was a foreign regime and pursued ** rule, which hindered the process of democratization in Taiwan. At his instigation, the people's attitude towards Chiang's father and son changed.
Some extremists even overthrew the statue of Chiang Kai-shek, erased his inscriptions, etc. Other parties have also begun to call for the abolition of administrative units, the reduction of funding and the abolition of the Guard.
Chiang and his son, who ruled Taiwan for nearly 40 years, are now both deceased, and at least the deceased should be respected. However, only a few years after Chiang Ching-kuo's death, the Taiwanese people treated the bodies of the two Chiangs in this way, and the indignation of the Chiang family was unimaginable.
The situation in Taiwan is beyond the control of the Chiang family. After Chiang Ching-kuo, the number of family members was decreasing, many of the six children had died, and the third generation had no successor.
Politically, the power of the Chiang family gradually declined, and his cronies were excluded, leaving only Jiang Weiguo to serve in the "National Security Council", but his health was worrying.
It is an indisputable fact that the influence of the Jiang family in the first place is weakening day by day. As a result, the issue of the resettlement of the remains of the two Chiangs in Taiwan has become increasingly complicated. Jiang Xiaoyong, as the eldest son, realized this and began to plan to move the remains of the two Jiangs to the Continent.
This will not only fulfill the last wishes of the two elders, but also protect their dignity. In 1995, Jiang Xiaoyong was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, and he knew that his time was running out, so he hoped to fulfill the last wishes of his grandfather and father before his death.
So, he told his uncle Jiang Weiguo about his idea, and the two coincided with each other and began to plan and execute this plan.
On July 8, 1996, Jiang Weiguo put forward a proposal for two Chiangs to move to the mainland at a high-level meeting of the Kuomintang, which caught him off guard. ** He has been preaching that the two sides of the strait are "special state-to-state relations", but if the remains of the two former leaders are relocated to what he calls "another country", then his theoretical basis will completely collapse.
Therefore, ** will definitely oppose the two Jiang Shifting Spirit Continents.
When Jiang Xiaoyong faced a complicated situation, he temporarily delayed the handling on the grounds that "this matter involves a major matter and needs to be submitted to the National Committee for discussion". However, unexpectedly, on July 25, 1996, he flew to the mainland with his family without his knowledge.
The mainland warmly received Jiang Xiaoyong and invited the best Chinese medicine doctor in the country to serve him. But at that time, Jiang Xiaoyong was already terminally ill, and Chinese medicine was helpless about it.
In this case, there was only one wish left in his heart, and that was to be able to return to his Jiang family's ancestral house to have a look. The authorities quickly approved his request and sent a special person to escort him to the mouth of the stream.
Jiang Xiaoyong, born in Shanghai, went to the mainland with his father as an infant and set foot on his ancestral home for the first time. This situation is exciting. Despite his physical discomfort, he insisted on walking every step of the Xikou and told his family: "This is the way home, this is the way to find the roots, although I have waited for so many years, I have to walk every step myself." ”
After arriving at the ancestral house, Jiang Xiaoyong couldn't help but feel emotionally moved when he saw that "the tomb of Fenghua Lu is still the same, and the flowers and plants in Xikou have not moved".
In any case, our Jiang family is Chinese. Jiang Weiguo's migration plan and Jiang Xiaoyong's return quickly attracted the attention of Taiwan, and for a while, there were heated discussions.
However, the migration plan was not realized, and Hyo-yong's speech caused regret among everyone. At that time, the majority of the Taiwanese people believed that the relocation plan for the descendants of the Chiang family was reasonable and in line with Chinese tradition, and other political parties mostly supported the Chiang family's motion, but the Kuomintang never made a clear statement.
** When faced with a difficult situation, one of the Jiang family's cronies, Jiang Yanshi, offered him a plan, suggesting that he should stop him by pretending to support Jiang Weiguo and then using Song Meiling's influence.
**After hearing this, he was overjoyed and immediately organized a "Two Jiang Soul Migration Group", ostensibly to study Jiang Weiguo and Jiang Xiaoyong's plan, but in fact the members were carefully selected by him, and the research results were already in his hands.
** In order to silence the "pro-Lingling" faction in the Kuomintang, Zhang Xiaoyan, who was close to him, was recruited into the research group. Although Zhang Xiaoyan's surname is Zhang, he is actually Jiang Jingguo's concubine, and his relationship with the Jiang family is relatively estranged, so he can be used to build momentum.
Later, ** found Gu Zhenfu's wife Yan Mournyun and entrusted her to go to the United States to lobby Song Meiling. Soong Meiling has always advocated that Chiang Kai-shek's coffin be buried in the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing as "China's ** old **", but under the changes in the situation in the Taiwan Strait, it has become difficult to realize this plan.
After careful consideration, Song Meiling finally changed her attitude of supporting the relocation of the soul and agreed to the plan proposed by *** to conduct a "state funeral" in Taiwan first.
With Song Meiling's objections, there was no hesitation in the spirit shifting group, and all members, including Jiang Xiaoyan, expressed their support. They don't think it's the best time to move souls.
The people within the Kuomintang who supported the spirit moved saw that even Soong Meiling was against it, so there was no room for speech. Therefore, in the end, they unanimously rejected the motion put forward by Jiang Weiguo and others.
After learning the news, Jiang Weiguo was deeply saddened, but he did not give up. At the fourth meeting of the Central Committee of the 14th Kuomintang held later, he explained in detail the main reasons for the proposal to move the spirit.
He personally believes that this is the filial piety of the son of man, which is in line with the traditional customs of the Chinese who advocate the tree is thousands of feet tall, the fallen leaves return to their roots, and the soil is safe. At the same time, from the point of view of justice, this is also to break the deadlock and restore normal communication between the two sides of the strait.
Jiang Xiaoyong was very excited when he learned the news and immediately held a press conference. At the press conference, he denounced Chiang Ching-kuo's old subordinate Jiang Yanshien for revenge and shamelessly attacked him.
He also sarcastically said that Zhang Xiaoyan surnamed Zhang was "not qualified to talk about the affairs of the Jiang family". In the end, he angrily expressed his opinion: "The Kuomintang is no longer the real Kuomintang, and it is better for the two Chiangs to move to the Continent than to be whipped by their own people."
Each place has its own customs, and the custom in our hometown is to return to the hometown and settle down, so why politicize the relocation of the soul? ”
The Chiang family had been in power in the Kuomintang for 60 years, but everyone present today lamented that the Chiang family had fallen to such a point that they were even worried about whether their own Kuomintang would carry out a political reckoning with them.
Soon after, Jiang Xiaoyong and Jiang Weiguo died one after another, and a sensational spirit-shifting turmoil came to an end. However, the two sentences that Jiang Xiaoyong said at the press conference seemed to foreshadow all this.
The incident of moving the soul of the Wuzhishan Taiwan Army Demonstration Cemetery has sparked a politicized discussion. In January 2004, on the eve of the election of the leader of the Taiwan region, Chiang Ching-kuo's wife, Jiang Fangliang, and Chiang Weiguo's wife, Qiu Ruxue, sent a letter in the name of all their families requesting that the two Chiang Kai-shek be transferred to the Wuzhishan Taiwan Army Demonstration Cemetery under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of National Defense.
This made ***, who has been committed to "de-Chiangization", unexpectedly agree, and ordered the relevant matters to be handled by the state funeral law. Behind this soul-shifting incident is the pan-blue formation of the Kuomintang.
** Take the opportunity to brag that "foreign regimes also have to identify with Taiwan" in order to consolidate their own policy of "ethnic integration".
The Jiang family's request for the relocation of the spirit became the assistance of ***, which made the pan-blue camp of the Kuomintang oppose the relocation of the spirit of Wuzhi Mountain, and led to the abandonment of the Jiang family's mausoleum. However, in 2007, in order to prepare for the election, ** re-proposed "de-Chiangization", and forcibly removed the guards guarding the mausoleum and sealed the cemetery.
He declared that the mausoleum of the Duke of Chiang was a feudal product and should be abolished.
1.Faced with the burial of the ancestors of the Jiang family, Jiang Jingguo and his wife Jiang Fangliang hoped that the ancestors could be moved to the mainland to show respect. However, given the sensitivity of *** and the possible impact on the 2008 election, the motion was temporarily shelved within the KMT.
Despite this, the KMT did not deal with this issue after it was elected, because "the KMT is no longer the KMT it used to be". After Zhu Lilun was elected chairman of the Kuomintang in 2021, he publicly stated that the Kuomintang was the leading political party and denied the "92 Consensus".
2.Chiang Ching-kuo and his wife Jiang Fangliang attached great importance to the burial of their ancestors, and they hoped to move their ancestors to the mainland to show respect. However, the motion was temporarily shelved within the KMT, considering the possible impact on the 2008 "** election.
Despite this, the KMT did not deal with this issue after it was elected, because "the KMT is no longer the KMT it used to be". After Zhu Lilun was elected chairman of the Kuomintang in 2021, he publicly stated that the Kuomintang was the leading political party and denied the "92 Consensus".
3.In order to respect their ancestors, Chiang Ching-kuo and his wife Jiang Fangliang put forward a proposal to move the spirit continent. However, the KMT had reservations about the motion due to the fact that it could provoke sensitive nerves and influence the 2008 election.
Although the Kuomintang was elected after the first day, the issue of soul transfer remained unresolved because "the Kuomintang was no longer the Kuomintang it used to be." After Zhu Lilun was elected chairman of the Kuomintang in 2021, he publicly stated that the Kuomintang was the leading political party and denied the "92 Consensus".
4.Chiang Ching-kuo and his wife Jiang Fangliang attached great importance to the burial of their ancestors, and they hoped to move their ancestors to the mainland to show respect. However, given the possible impact on the 2008 "** election, there were reservations within the KMT about the motion.
Although the Kuomintang was elected after the first day, the issue of the soul transfer remained unresolved because "the Kuomintang is no longer the Kuomintang of the past". After Zhu Lilun was elected chairman of the Kuomintang in 2021, he publicly stated that the Kuomintang was the leading political party and denied the "92 Consensus".
5.Chiang Ching-kuo and his wife Jiang Fangliang were very concerned about the burial of their ancestors, and they hoped to move their ancestors to the mainland as a sign of respect. However, the motion was temporarily shelved within the KMT, considering the possible impact on the 2008 "** election.
Despite this, the KMT did not deal with this issue after it was elected, because "the KMT is no longer the KMT it used to be". After Zhu Lilun was elected chairman of the Kuomintang in 2021, he publicly stated that the Kuomintang was the leading political party and denied the "92 Consensus".
He insisted that the so-called "consensus of '92" was a consensus without consensus, and threatened to engage in contacts and negotiations with the mainland on the basis of "principles." In his words, he has promoted "democratic Taiwan" and made great contributions to the development of the Taiwan region.
And on February 28, 2018, six "** elements" broke into the Cihu Mausoleum and poured red paint symbolizing "the blood of the victims" on Chiang Kai-shek's coffin, claiming that it was to punish Chiang Kai-shek for his crimes in the 228 incident.
For the first time after Chiang Kai-shek's coffin was placed in Cihu, it was damaged and, surprisingly, the audience watched indifferently and no one stopped it. The "gendarmes" who arrived later also seemed to ignore it and allowed the lawbreakers to do whatever they wanted.
Such a trend reminds people of the "whipping corpse" that Jiang Xiaoyong was worried about back then. Although Chiang Kai-shek imposed a reign of terror on Taiwan during his lifetime, he ultimately did not win the awe of posterity; And Chiang Ching-kuo, despite his many mistakes, led Taiwan to become one of the Asian Tigers.
The once beautiful Liang Jiang encountered such a bleak situation after his death, not only could he not return to his roots, but it was even difficult to find a resting place.
They can't shift the blame to others. If Chiang Kai-shek had not insisted on persisting in his delusional desire to ** the mainland, but had chosen peace talks, the two sides of the strait would not have fallen into the current stalemate.
If Chiang Ching-kuo had not pushed himself to power, he would not have left a cancer of independence in Taiwan society, and the cross-strait peace talks would not have been so tortuous. However, in any case, Taiwan has been a part of China since ancient times, and our determination to reunify Taiwan is unwavering, and it is still up to the mainland to fulfill the last wish of returning the two leaves to their roots.
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