In March 1946, a Kuomintang plane crashed halfway up the mountain in Daishan, and Dai Li was unfortunately killed. Although it seems that this was an accident on the surface, there is widespread speculation behind Dai Li's death that there is something else to hide.
Some people believe that he was the master of high merit and was abandoned by Chiang Kai-shek; Some people also think that Ma Hansan designed to frame him, bribed Liu Yuzhu, and put a bomb under his landline. It wasn't until 1988, when Chiang Ching-kuo died, that an old woman's memoirs written on her deathbed revealed the truth, but no one still dares to believe it.
Dai Li, a legendary figure known as the founder of the "Kuomintang Investigation and Communication Group", his life was short, but it was full of mystery and storytelling. Beginning in 1930, the "Group of Ten" led by Dai Li gradually developed into the Lixing Society and the Fuxing Society, and eventually formed the notorious military command.
At that time, Dai Li's status was equivalent to that of the head of the East Factory or the West Factory in the feudal dynasty, and his work mainly included internal supervision, external assassinations and information searches, among which his assassination operations had the greatest external impact.
In the decade from 1933 to 1943, the military commanders secretly killed many well-known figures, including the traitor Zhang Jingxuan, military commanders Ji Hongchang and Wang Yaqiao.
In addition, Dai Li also assassinated Zhang Xiaolin, the leader of the Green Gang, Fu Xiao'an, the mayor of Shanghai, Gao Yuebao, the emperor's special envoy, and Yang Quanyu, the mayor of Chengdu. These assassins were a mixed bag, and it is difficult to simply make a conclusion.
However, Dai Li's notoriety was caused by this. Originally, it was expected that he would become a formidable opponent of our party in the war of liberation. However, his story ended in an unexpected way, and in 1946, he died in an unexpected plane crash on his way from Qingdao to Nanjing.
It is rumored that the plane was supposed to land in Shanghai, but due to bad weather, it had to turn to Xuzhou. However, while passing through the Daishan area in the western suburbs of Nanjing, the plane crashed unexpectedly, causing the famous Dai Li to fall and turn into a dry skeleton.
Dai Ji crashed in Daishan, and Yu Nong died in the rain. This was a popular phrase at the time, but not everyone agreed that it was an accident. Later, some people speculated that Dai Li's plane crash may have been due to his high achievements and was snubbed by Chiang Kai-shek; Some people speculated that Ma Hansan used a trick to plant a bomb under the plane seat, and some even believed that it was a conspiracy of the four major families.
All of a sudden, there were different opinions, and it was difficult to reach a conclusion. So what is the basis for these speculations, and is the truth really what people think? Let's find out the truth together.
2. The omen before Dai Li's death The cause of Dai Li's death has always been a major mystery in history. Some believe that he himself asked for it, others believe that he was assassinated.
However, from some clues, we can see Chiang Kai-shek's suspicion of Dai Li's and the possibility of attack. First of all, what we see is the antagonism and balance within the KMT.
Because Chiang Kai-shek liked to practice this model, the military command organization was full of intrigues. Although the military organization began with only a few thousand people, under Dai Li's leadership, its scale expanded rapidly, and by the time of Dai Li's death, it had grown to tens of thousands, and perhaps even hundreds of thousands of peripheral forces.
With the expansion of the organization, Dai Li's ambitions also grew, he was not only in charge of intelligence and assassination, but also extended his hand to the Anti-Smuggling Administration, the Cargo Management Bureau, and even wanted to take charge of military and naval affairs.
All this unnerved Chiang Kai-shek, and his suspicion of Dai Li became deeper and deeper. To sum up, Dai Li's death may have been due to his ambition and Chiang Kai-shek's suspicions, which led to his being targeted.
Dai Li's actions aroused dissatisfaction and suspicion among Chiang Kai-shek, especially his collusion with the Americans. This "fate" began with the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, when Dai Li cracked the intelligence and warned the Americans in advance, but it was not taken seriously.
Later events made the Americans realize Dai Li's ability, and the United States even offered to meet him in person. Since then, Dai has been responsible for U.S.-China cooperation, including the U.S.-China Cooperation Institute.
After Dai Li's failure to compete for the Minister of Police, he tried to use the power of the Americans to become the commander of the navy, which made Chiang Kai-shek very annoyed and suspicious. What is even more infuriating is that before the accident, Dai Li also sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, which read: "I am loyal to you and treat you sincerely, why did you force you to this step, even to the point of fratricide? ”
On the surface, it seemed to be a complaint, but it was implied with a threat, so that after receiving the telegram, Chiang Kai-shek slammed the table with the staff in his hand and became angry for several hours. As time passed, his emotions calmed down slightly, and he immediately summoned Xuan Tiewu and assigned him a mission, which may be related to Dai Li's accident.
There are also some people who speculate that Dai Li was bombed by Ma Hansan**. After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, when Dai Li interrogated Yoshiko Kawashima and other spies, he accidentally got two shocking secrets from her.
First, Ma Hansan, the head of Beiping Station, was captured by the Japanese during the Anti-Japanese War, and in order to save his life, he actually chose to betray and revealed all the information to the Japanese. Second, because of greed, Ma Hansan secretly withheld the Nine Dragons Sword that should have been handed over to Chiang Kai-shek.
If these things are **, Ma Hansan's fate will be inevitable. Although Dai Li, aware of the importance of the problem, he chose to pretend not to know and prepare to settle accounts with Ma Hansan later.
However, Ma Hansan also discovered this problem, and in order to continue to mix in the Kuomintang, he actually chose to kill people and devised the illusion of an accidental plane crash.
In 1948, classified documents accusing Ma Hansan of assassinating Dai Li were even handed to Chiang Kai-shek's desk, which gave this claim some credibility.
There is still some controversy about the cause of Dai Li's death. There is speculation that he was assassinated by one of the four major families. The reason is that he once ignored Song Meiling's warnings and planned to assassinate Song Qingling many times, and was even angered by Song Meiling and the Song family.
However, this speculation is not very credible. Now, more than 70 years after his death, the truth is no longer available. In 1988, a female ** named Chen Hua once came out to disclose the "truth" of Dai Li's death, but most people did not believe her statement.
Chen Hua's life experience is complex and extraordinary. She grew up in poverty and was sold into a brothel at the age of 13. However, a twist of fate came the following year, when she met Yang Hu, a nobleman.
Chen Hua was young, but he had a keen mind, and successfully persuaded Yang Hu to redeem her and become his third aunt. Through Yang Hu, Chen Hua became acquainted with Dai Li and became his right-hand man and lover.
Chen Hua used his wisdom and charm to persuade many people to join Dai Li's staff, including Liu Geqing, Li Fu and others. In addition, the situation of Sun Ke, Wang Jingwei and others was also monitored by Chen Hua for a time.
Dai Li once said: "My power today, Hua Mei should account for half of the credit!" Chen Hua's influence can be seen.
Chen Hua has a close relationship with Dai Li, and has some understanding of many of Dai Li's unknown inner thoughts. For example, before going to Peking in March 1946, when Dai Li felt that Chiang Kai-shek was beginning to be suspicious of him, he once said to Chen Hua: "If the old man wants to disband the military command, he doesn't need me, I will die myself." ”
Chen Hua was very shocked at that time, and had a bad premonition in his heart. Not long after, Chen Hua learned that the plane that went to pick up Dai Li failed to pick him up, so he blurted out: "It's over, the plane has fallen!" ”
When the people present heard Chen Hua's words, they were all dumbfounded, because this was tantamount to concluding that Dai Li had died without finding the wreckage of the plane.
Chen Hua did not respond to everyone's questions, but just left quietly. It wasn't until the news of Dai Li's plane crash came that everyone realized the deep meaning of Chen Hua's words. In fact, the reason why Chen Hua is so convinced is not only because of what Dai Li said, but also because Dai Li's remains were still in the posture of holding a gun when they were found.
For Chen Hua, the reason for the plane crash was that Dai Li shot and killed the pilot. In other words, Dai Li's death was not the result of someone else's conspiracy, but the result of his own choices.
For the next 40 years, Chen Hua remained silent about the matter, and it was not until after the death of the Jiang family father and son that he disclosed the whole story in his memoirs.
Although there is some truth in Chen's view, most people do not believe that Dai Li's death was a suicide. First of all, Chiang Kai-shek's attitude did not make Dai Li despair. Chiang Kai-shek wanted to abolish the military unification because there were calls for this among the civilian officials within the Kuomintang, and the Kuomintang and Communist negotiations also proposed the abolition of spy politics.
However, there is also a possible option to dismantle the military command into the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Military Command, and the Ministry of Justice. Since things are still turning around, Dai Li will naturally try his best to fight for it, rather than choose to commit suicide.
Secondly, according to Li Li, a lady who had an intimate relationship with Dai Li, Dai Li went to Shanghai mainly to meet her, because she was already pregnant with Dai Li's child at that time.
In Li Li's "Thirty Years of Misunderstanding My Wind and Moon", there is a detailed description of this part, and from this point of view, Dai Li's death is even less likely to be a suicide.
Fourth, why did Dai Li, the "king of **", end up with such a miserable fate? As early as in the conversation with Shen Zui, he ** to his end: either killed by the Communist Party or killed by Chiang Kai-shek.
However, why was Dai Li able to rise step by step in Chiang Kai-shek's trust and eventually become the king of military command? It all goes back to the "Xi'an Incident". At that time, Chiang Kai-shek, who could not hold out due to the civil war, was detained in Xi'an, and Song Meiling, Song Ziwen and others went to the rescue.
As an entourage, Dai Li's loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek touched him. Even in the face of reprimands, Dai Li insisted that as long as the chairman was safe, he felt very relieved.
This loyalty greatly moved Chiang Kai-shek, and allowed Dai to occupy a place in the core of power.
Success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He", for Chiang Kai-shek, a man of little heart, he always was"If it is useful, it will be kept, and if it is useless, it will be discarded", and he will only be nepotistic, not gracious.
After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the military command was about to disintegrate, and Dai Li was no longer of much use to Chiang Kai-shek, so it was reasonable that he would be snubbed and abandoned. Dai Li, who had participated in many secret incidents and knew many secrets of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang, had a foresight of his eventual outcome.
Indeed, after Dai Li's death, Chiang Kai-shek asked Mao Renfeng to arrange a big spy to find Dai Li's body. However, at that time, it was necessary to search over some of the liberated areas, so when Mao Renfeng asked who was willing to go, the scene was silent, and no one dared to accept this task.
In the end, it was Shen Zui who took the initiative to ask for help considering his past friendship, which prevented this task from going to the most embarrassing situation.
Dai Li's former followers and ** quickly switched to Mao Renfeng after Dai Li's downfall, which is also reasonable. After all, the people of that era had been completely corrupted, and the members of the military command were no exception.
When Dai Li founded the military command, he called on everyone to "unite as one and repay each other with virtue", but this was more like a slogan. After all, Dai Li himself was also born in a gangster, and he did all the bad things while managing the military command, which can be called a negative example.
Such leadership will naturally cause a miasma within the military command.
The only thing worth mentioning may be the special relationship between Chen Hua, Li Li and others and Dai Li. Although Dai Li's death has been gone for many years, they are still willing to reminisce about the past and publish books to document it, which may prove the sincerity of their feelings.
However, this sincerity must also contain indelible entanglements of interests. Just as it is difficult to find out who committed Dai Li's death or committed suicide, the emotional entanglement between them has become an unsolvable mystery.
I hope everyone can get a wake-up call from Dai Li's story, stay sober at all times, choose the right path, and don't go astray because of your own selfish desires, otherwise once you are wrong, it will be too late to regret it.