When it comes to Taiwan's history, we have to mention the Chiang family. From the end of the civil war and the defeat of the Kuomintang to Taiwan, the Chiang family, led by Chiang Kai-shek, has been in control of the largest party and government core power of the Kuomintang in Taiwan.
Their power is unmatched. However, on January 13, 1988, a major turning point occurred in Taiwan's history. On this day, Taiwanese leader Chiang Ching-kuo passed away, and since then he can no longer give advice to the Chiang family's political power in Taiwan.
Even Soong Meiling, who has always attracted international attention, as Chiang Kai-shek's wife, returned to Taiwan to mourn Chiang Ching-kuo. The first lady, who is unparalleled and highly revered, lost the battle and lost her former glory.
This day marks the beginning of the change of party and government in Taiwan. Since then, Taiwan's political landscape has undergone fundamental changes.
The original Chiang family forces in Taiwan collapsed overnight like a tree without roots, losing the core strength of the party and government. After the victory against Japan, China entered a three-year period of civil war.
The Kuomintang, which once dominated the country for a while, was forced to flee to Taiwan and became a new base of the Kuomintang. The Chiang regime wanted to use Taiwan as a transitional period to slowly accumulate strength and regain China's sovereignty.
However, Chiang Kai-shek's political power was more inclined to cultivate the next leader in power, and this leader had to be the Chiang family to ensure the Chiang family's position in the core power of the Kuomintang.
The Chiang family controlled absolute power on the island of Taiwan, and they excluded opposition politicians and elite elders from decision-making circles, allowing Chiang Ching-kuo to enter the core power apparatus of the Kuomintang.
During his tenure as director of the Information Unit of the Confidential Office, Chiang Ching-kuo demonstrated strong leadership and decision-making skills, which enabled him to gain absolute power in the security, intelligence, and secret service systems on the island of Taiwan.
Chiang Ching-kuo's ** people were trained by his father Chiang Kai-shek, and the father and son jointly managed the island of Taiwan, making the Chiang family a dominant family in the field of political power, and the scenery was infinite.
Chiang Kai-shek and his Chiang family may not have predicted that they would leave the political center by handing over power to non-Chiang family members after only half a century in power in Taiwan.
All of this stems from the Jiangnan case that caused a sensation in Taiwan in the last century. When Chiang Ching-kuo was in power in Taiwan, he had three sons and one daughter. According to Chiang Kai-shek's wishes, he could have handed over sovereignty over Taiwan to his son, but in the end it was not realized.
The reason for this has to mention the Jiangnan case. Chiang Ching-kuo's eldest son, Jiang Xiaowen, was deeply loved by his grandfather Chiang Kai-shek, and the Chiang family trained him strictly, expecting him to become a ** person.
However, Jiang Xiaowen's physical condition was not good, and he could only be paralyzed in bed in the end, which made him automatically give up the opportunity to be a ** person. Since the eldest son could not become a **person, Jiang Jingguo turned his attention to his second son Jiang Xiaowu, hoping that he could become a **person.
Chiang Ching-kuo attached great importance to the cultivation of his second son, and even sent Jiang Xiaowu to the Munich Institute of Political Science in Germany for further study. Jiang Xiaowu, who returned from his studies, entered Taiwan's intelligence system to work, and although he was inferior to his eldest son Jiang Xiaowen in political training, he performed well in his work.
If everything develops according to plan, Jiang Xiaowu should have no problem in the party and government. However, the "Jiangnan Case" in the critical period made Jiang Xiaowu deeply involved. This case caused a huge shock in Taiwan, brought irreversible pressure to the Chiang family, and disintegrated the Chiang family's power in Taiwan like a salary drawdown.
Liu Yiliang, known as Jiangnan in the rivers and lakes, his hometown is in Jingjiang, Jiangsu. At the age of seventeen, he resolutely followed the Kuomintang to Taiwan. There, he was first baptized in the army and then studied at Taipei Normal University.
Then, he devoted himself to "Taiwan**" as a journalist to write about social Vientiane. With his outstanding work, he was sent to various countries in Southeast Asia to continue his reporting career.
At the end of 1967, he was sent to the United States as a foreign correspondent, and since then, he has been a naturalized American. Outside of work, he has been writing. After taking root in the United States, he devoted himself to his work.
In 1984, he published Chiang Ching-kuo's biography, which was published in the Tribune in California.
In this book, Jiangnan collects and uncovers a large number of secret scandals involving Taiwanese authorities and the Chiang family, which have attracted widespread attention and discussion around the world, and have had a huge impact on the dominance of the Chiang family and their sons, as well as raising questions about them.
The Taiwan authorities were dissatisfied with this and tried to exert pressure on Jiangnan and the newspapers to which they belonged on several occasions, but without success. Under these circumstances, the Taiwan authorities have decided to take extreme measures -- killing people to extinguish their mouths.
Taiwan's intelligence bureau Wang Xiling instructed Chen Qili, as a member of the Bamboo Union Gang, to assassinate Jiangnan. However, Jiang Nan had become a U.S. citizen by this time and was killed in the United States.
Therefore, the United States** must investigate the matter.
During the investigation, it was surprisingly discovered that Jiang Jingguo's second son Jiang Xiaowu was the real mastermind behind the scenes, and Wang Xiling was only an intermediary in this case. This news caused an uproar around the world, and the sharp increase in ** has plunged Taiwan's political situation into tension and unease.
Although Jiang Xiaowen has repeatedly denied any involvement in the case, his dishonesty in political circles is irreparable. Due to the pressure and the need to stabilize Taiwan's political situation, Chiang Ching-kuo had to send the ** person he had just cultivated to Singapore.
However, as the case was further investigated, it was revealed that Chiang Hsiao-wu was not involved in the assassination of Jiangnan, and by this time it was already too late, and he left the center of power in Taiwan with no possibility of returning.
The outbreak of the Jiangnan case made Chiang Ching-kuo's eldest son and second son lose the opportunity. Because there were no suitable ** people among his other sons, and there was not enough time to cultivate and consolidate power, the Chiang family has greatly reduced its strength since then, and gradually lost its core power in Taiwan.
For those interested in the political situation in Taiwan, they may notice that there is a sharp distinction between "people from this province" and "people from other provinces" on the island. Chiang Kai-shek had always relied on his cronies, those from other provinces who had landed with him after the civil war, while the provincial political leaders on the island had been marginalized and had been slow to be reused.
Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek's ** ruling style has caused dissatisfaction among many politicians and the public.
After Chiang Ching-kuo came to power, in order to show his democratic and free governing style and win the hearts and minds of the people, he began to promote and reuse local elites in Taiwan, especially the people of the province on the island.
That's when a talent named *** came to the fore. As a talented man who returned from studying in the United States, he is low-key, humble and never puts on a show.
When he interacted with the provincial people who represented the old and important ministers, he was just right. As a result, he won Chiang Ching-kuo's favor and continued to rise politically.
Due to the promotion of "political localization", ** was able to take advantage of the favorable time and place, and the cause was in full swing.
Jiang Jingguo may have been confused by ***'s docile appearance, but he never expected that he was a despicable villain with wolf ambition in his heart. In the era when *** grew up, Taiwan had been occupied by Japan, and the local regime was powerless to confront it, so it could only accept a Japanese colonial education.
Therefore, Taiwanese children at that time had Japanese names, and they were very close to Japan in such an educational environment. And *** In this growing environment, he also has his own Japanese name - Iwasato Masao, who is also a pro-Japanese faction in his bones.
In 1942, he entered the Taipei Higher College of Liberal Arts, and in the second year, he went to Kyoto University in Japan.
Chiang Ching-kuo is not unaware of his pro-Japanese background, he believes that these past events have passed, and as long as he is correctly guided, he can change his thinking and reshape a talent who is beneficial to the Kuomintang.
Therefore, in the historical record, we can see that Chiang Ching-kuo continued to promote *** in the process of promoting political localization, he first made him the mayor of Taipei City, and a few years later made him the chairman of Taiwan Province, and even elected *** as vice president at the Third Plenary Session of the 12th Central Committee of the Kuomintang in 1984.
Chiang Ching-kuo is actually dismantling the core influence of the Chiang family in Taiwan's party and government by cultivating local elites politically, especially by vigorously promoting ***, a pro-Japanese thief.
Soong Meiling had expressed anger at Chiang Ching-kuo's reuse of people from the province to implement democratic policies, and predicted that his position in power would be hollowed out. Years later, her prophecy came true, and with the death of Chiang Ching-kuo and the loss of power of the Chiang family in Taiwan, Soong Meiling's prophecy unfortunately came true.
Although she had differences with Chiang Ching-kuo, her influence on the center of power in Taiwan could not be ignored.
With the death of Chiang Ching-kuo, the situation changed. In the absence of a leader, it makes sense to take over the position of ** as a deputy. Therefore, Soong Meiling had to act in order to restore Chiang's power in Taiwan.
As Chiang Kai-shek's wife and former mother, Soong Meiling still had great influence when she was in power in Taiwan. She first led Chiang Kai-shek's second son, Chiang Weiguo, to the Central Standing Committee to discuss the revision of the party constitution and the establishment of the post of vice chairman of the party.
The move was aimed at consolidating his and Chiang's position in Taiwan, while at the same time hollowing out his power. As a high-profile celebrity and first lady in the last century, Song Meiling's vision and actions are naturally more far-reaching than ordinary women.
Therefore, ** knows that if you want to compete for the ** throne, you can't ignore Song Meiling's existence.
Carefully designed, by taking advantage of Jiang Weiguo's simple personality, cleverly appointing him as a member of the council, and then sending him abroad on the eve of the meeting, avoiding his participation in the meeting.
In order to prevent *** from actively contacting Taiwan's elders, Soong Meiling opposed his ** campaign. However, the power of ** is too strong, and even Song Meiling, who has been away from the center of power for a long time, cannot compete with it.
In the end, the former loyal senators turned to support the election of *** to become the new **.
The former first lady now deeply feels the taste of people's tea. Soong Meiling has experienced too much war and prosperity, and as Chiang Kai-shek's wife, she witnessed the decline of the Chiang family in Taiwan.
The wheels of history are rolling forward, and no one can stop them. Only by truly sharing weal and woe with the people and working for the welfare of the people can we survive for a long time. We firmly believe that the green mountains will remain the same, and Taiwan, China, will complete its reunification.