Dai Li, who once served as the deputy director of the Kuomintang Military Command Bureau, was a personal bodyguard by Chiang Kai-shek's side.
Every time Chiang Kai-shek traveled, he would be accompanied by him, which gave Chiang Kai-shek a full sense of security and made him deeply trusted by Chiang Kai-shek.
Once, when Chiang Kai-shek traveled to Huizhou, Guangdong, to meet a senior monk on Luofu Mountain, it was also because of Dai Li's quick reaction and timely action that Chiang Kai-shek was able to escape.
It's just that because of Dai Li's action, there was a rift between him and Chiang Kai-shek, and he could no longer be as before.
Luofu Mountain has always had the title of Penglai Wonderland, the ancestor of the mountains of Baiyue, is the birthplace of the Southern Sect of Taoism, there are many Taoist priests on the mountain religious buildings and cultivation, and it is also regarded by many people as a sacred mountain.
Chiang Kai-shek originally liked to ask for immortals, and often went to temples, Taoist halls and other places to worship, this time I heard that there were foreign monks on Luofu Mountain, and he was very interested, so he didn't think much about it, so he set off with his attendants.
It is worth mentioning that Chiang Kai-shek's life was quite extravagant, and every time he traveled, he had to sit in a sedan chair to rejuvenate the public.
For example, in 1940, when he and his wife Song Meiling went to Qingcheng Mountain in Sichuan, they were accompanied by several local **.
The food they ate at noon was also quite expensive, Zhejiang cuisine specially prepared by a chef invited from Chengdu, and the ingredients cost nearly 1,800 yuan in legal currency.
During the meal, he spent money lavishly, and the tip he gave to the waiter alone was more expensive than the cost of the dish, spending a full 3,600 yuan.
This time, it was not so exaggerated that he went to visit this high monk, because the news was accidentally reported to him by someone below, and he didn't want to make a big fuss, so he only brought Dai Li, and a few close people around him.
It can also be seen from here that Dai Li's status in Chiang Kai-shek's heart is very high, and he can be said to be his most trusted and capable cadre.
There is another reason for Chiang Kai-shek's simple trip this time, that is, he is extravagant and wasteful, and he is disrespectful in front of the monks.
This time, what he wanted to ask the monk was his fate and future, which had a lot to stake, so it was better to be low-key and safe.
Moreover, the whereabouts of the monks are not clear, only to hear the people below say that on Luofu Mountain, which Taoist hall is it in, which temple is not yet known, there are many people, and it is not convenient to find.
Chiang Kai-shek's consideration was indeed reasonable, and when they arrived at Luofu Mountain, they realized how difficult the road here was.
The mountainous area here is very large, with towering peaks rising from the ground, very steep and densely wooded, and it is difficult for Chiang Kai-shek to walk on horseback, let alone bring more people.
That day, they looked around the mountain, the bottom of the mountain, and the top of the mountain, but they still did not find the figure of the monk, so they could only go home, ready to fight again in the coming day.
Chiang Kai-shek is a very stubborn person, he feels that sincerity is spiritual, as long as he does his best, the master has no reason not to see him, if he can't do it once, that is the second time, and he can always succeed.
After going back, Chiang Kai-shek thought about it for a while, thinking that maybe he didn't choose the right day, so he went in a hurry, and he was in a hurry, so he returned in disappointment.
So, he immediately asked people to choose an auspicious day for him, and then took a group of people to find the master, and this time there was naturally no shortage of Dai Li.
The hard work paid off, and this time they walked around the mountains and really met a person dressed as a monk.
The monk walked slowly towards them in the wilderness, and he really looked like a master of the world.
Chiang Kai-shek was very happy to see this scene, and hurriedly went up to meet him, and the senior monk saw him come forward, and he was also busy respectfully saluting Chiang Kai-shek, but suddenly Dai Li, who was beside him, made a move.
He said to the attendants beside him:"Danger! Take this man down. ”
Dai Li's personality has always been very shrewd, and he was able to make such a move, obviously because he had a premonition of danger and knew that the comer was not good.
Indeed, in the wilderness, a person suddenly appeared, although he was wearing a monk's robe, but how did he know that he was the rumored monk?
To put it bluntly, rumors are always rumors, and they may even be fake news, Chiang Kai-shek was superstitious about religion, and it would not be good if he was ambushed because of this.
Therefore, when Dai Li saw this so-called "high monk" coming, he already had an eye in his heart, and later saw his face clearly, so he immediately made a decision and immediately asked the people around him to do it.
So, what did Dai Li see?
It turned out that it was he who saw that the face of this senior monk was extraordinary, as if he was not Chinese, but from Japan.
After his men took down the eminent monk, he explained it to Chiang Kai-shek.
He said: "Principal Jiang, don't be anxious, you see that the face of this senior monk is really suspicious, it seems that he is not us Chinese?" ”
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek thought of carefully examining the face of the monk. At this glance, it really feels a little strange.
Compared with the Chinese, the facial features of the Japanese are more compact, whether it is the distance between the eyebrows or the middle of the person, it is shorter.
In addition, the face shape of the Chinese is relatively open, with a multi-faceted face, or a pear-shaped face, while the Japanese are much narrower and smaller.
There are also many differences between the eyes and the nose.
The Japanese nose is relatively high, with more hooked noses or straight noses; The nose of the Chinese is relatively low, many of them have a collapsed nose bridge, and they are relatively wide, and the southerners will be more obvious.
Chinese eyes, more double eyelids, round, or almond eyes; Japanese people have a lot less double eyelids, and their eyes look narrower.
In the past, Dai Li was trained to identify where people came from by looking at their facial features.
The Kuomintang has relatively high requirements for **, and Dai Li's own learning is also very attentive, and he will not forget it after learning, so this comes in handy.
He quickly judged that the senior monk in front of him was not Chinese, but a pure Japanese.
In addition, Dai Li's posture of bowing to the monks is also quite familiar.
His mother was a Buddhist and frequented the temple, and he met many monks.
These monks have their own set of rules for bowing, usually with their hands folded and bending forward slightly, but the monk in front of him is different.
When he saluted, he actually bent down 90 degrees, which is exactly how Japanese people meet and greet each other.
It was this action that made Dai Li finally make a judgment that the monk in front of him must be pretended by a Japanese.
In the past, there were not a few Japanese monks who visited the country, but in this special period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was certainly not a simple Japanese monk.
After listening to Dai Li's explanation, Chiang Kai-shek felt that it was very reasonable, and praised him for his accurate judgment and timely action, and then took the Japanese back and imprisoned him.
As for his trip to Luofu Mountain, this is the end of it.
Later, he even suspected that the news that there was a high-ranking monk on Luofu Mountain was originally released by the Japanese, and there was no accurate information about what happened to the subordinates who passed the news to him.
There is also such a little story about Dai Li's shrewdness and his loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek.
At that time, he was still young, and he met Chiang Kai-shek at the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and felt that he had an extraordinary bearing, could take him out of trouble, and was no longer just a gangster.
So, he made up his mind to be admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy, and during his time in school, he tried his best to get close to Chiang Kai-shek, and finally became used by Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Kai-shek originally didn't care about Dai Li, but when he saw that he was very smart, had strong insight, and had the talent to be a leader, he began to reuse him.
At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek also clearly understood that this person had a strong servile nature, and would not think of usurping power and seizing power, threatening his rule, and would not hide anything from himself, so a dead knot was tied between the master and servant.
Chiang Kai-shek trusted Dai Li and was grateful to him for saving his life this time, but he didn't expect that this eminent monk would also become the dividing point in the relationship between the two people.
After Chiang Kai-shek ordered the monk to be brought back and imprisoned, Dai Li began to interrogate him, wanting to know why the Japanese pretended to be a monk and whether he wanted to murder Chiang Kai-shek.
The Japanese were originally silent, but when they saw Dai Li's pressing step by step, they only said that they would only tell the truth when they met Chiang Kai-shek.
Dai Li thought about it for himself, asked him to search his body, and did not see anything that could be stabbed, but fortunately agreed to his request.
Dai Li invited Chiang Kai-shek over, and the senior monk glanced at the two of them, and sure enough, he began to speak.
He told Chiang Kai-shek:"Look at the face, this person next to you will be terrible in the future. ”
Chiang Kai-shek frowned, glanced at Dai Li, and said coldly"You're talking about this man. ”
"Be bold, you will bewitch the public again. ”Dai Li, who couldn't see others slandering himself in front of the leader, immediately became angry.
He also hurriedly explained to Chiang Kai-shek, saying that he was sincere and that this monk was just sowing discord.
It's just that Chiang Kai-shek is suspicious by nature, and he can still listen to it, and since then, the gap between the master and servant has been planted.
If you want to say that the cleverness in Dai Li's personality is used in the right place, it can sweep away the crisis, but once it is used wrongly, it becomes impulsive.
For example, when he heard that the monk had slandered him, he immediately pulled out his pistol and corrected him on the spot.
This is simply not an appropriate course of action. In Chiang Kai-shek's view, it was simply three hundred taels of silver here, and Dai Li was destroying the evidence.
It is also because of Dai Li's impulse that the origin of this monk has become an unsolved case, and no clues can be found anymore.
After the death of the high monk, he also sent a handle to those who did not like Dai Li's eyes.
Mao Renfeng is a second-level general of the Kuomintang and the director of the Secret Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense, and he and Dai Li have always been mortal enemies.
After hearing the rumors this time, he also seized the opportunity to make a mistake in secret, and at every opportunity, he exploded Dai Li's black material in front of Chiang Kai-shek, wanting to completely bring him down.
Later, Dai Li's accident occurred, and he also took over Dai Li's position. Both of them have been spies, and they are competitors in front of Chiang Kai-shek, so it is no wonder that they will fight to the death, and their methods are more cruel than the other.
The discord between Mao Renfeng and Dai Li, which can also be seen in his attitude towards Dai Li's relics.
Dai Li's position in front of him climbed very high, and the houses and cars under his name were much more converged, and these hairy people didn't want it, and even felt unlucky.
If you want to say Dai Li's house in Shanghai, which one is not luxuriously decorated and priceless, but Mao Renfeng just can't look down on it, and would rather find a house to live in, and what he finds is quite simple.
That's where you live, and that's true where you work.
Because the office of the new building of the military command was designed by Dai Li, Mao Renfeng did not need to live or die, and specially found a master who knew Qimen Dunjia, and calculated a house with good orientation but very simple layout.
Others don't know Mao Renfeng's intentions, and think that he is honest and economical, but in fact, he doesn't want to have too much to do with Dai Li, and he is afraid that Chiang Kai-shek will care, so he will implicate himself.
Besides, Mao Renfeng was able to ascend to the throne later, also because he, like Dai Li, was very servile in front of Chiang Kai-shek.
During his time in Taiwan, he said that he relied on three words to become an official: forbearance, waiting, and ruthlessness.
He has always been obedient to Chiang Kai-shek, and he will not fight back or scold.
Chiang Kai-shek took off his shoes and hit him in the face, and he also said that this was a favor and a reward, and he did not want any personality at all.
In the end, Mao Renfeng's fate was not good, he suffered from cancer and went to the United States for treatment, but it still did not improve.
After returning to China, he was depressed because of the continuous deterioration of his relationship with Chiang Ching-kuo, which aggravated the spread of cancer cells in his body, and finally he died in 1956 at the age of 58.
Looking at the fate of Dai Li and Mao Renfeng, you can find that they are both smart and confused for a while, they are smart but mistaken by cleverness.
They groveled for Chiang Kai-shek all their lives, and did not return the corresponding trust and benevolence of the leaders.
After graduating from the Whampoa Military Academy, Dai Li, in particular, took the lead in establishing an intelligence group in China, set up an intelligence network, and helped train and promote many intelligence talents.
He also helped Chiang Kai-shek assassinate many opposition forces, and he was burdened with a lot of life debts.
He was also the mastermind behind the "White Terror" trend of the Military Control Bureau. In order to achieve his goal, he basically used any means, torture to extort confessions, buried alive, thrown into the river, and also came.
In short, under his leadership, the number of ** people in the Military Command Bureau is as high as thousands, some have been sentenced to death, some have been imprisoned, tortured, and some have disappeared.
His actions were ostensibly to maintain the rule of the Kuomintang and be loyal to Chiang Kai-shek, but in fact they were completely criminal deeds that only tyrants and *** people could do.
It can be said that from his young ambition to his later career, Chiang Kai-shek was an important pillar in his life, and he contributed a lot to it, and he also distorted a lot.
In the last years of his life, seeing himself and Chiang Kai-shek like this, he believed that there were a lot of grievances and depressions in his heart.