In July 1948, the liberation of Shanxi was only a matter of time, and the remnants of Yan Xishan were entrenched in the city of Taiyuan, and there was no longer the best power.
Until this time, Yan Xishan still showed his determination, and he deliberately asked people to prepare a large number of *** preparations to lead his relatives and cronies to commit collective suicide after the city was broken.
However, those who are familiar with Yan Xishan know that all this is just Yan Xishan's appearance, and the fact is also the same, Yan Xishan realized that the general trend has gone, and has already begun to prepare for his escape.
Having been operating in Shanxi for many years, Yan Xishan's family is quite wealthy, but the huge assets do not have so much time to transfer.
Seeing that the People's Liberation Army's offensive was becoming more and more fierce, Yan Xishan could only let people hurry up and rush to buy gold and silver, and constantly smuggle them to Shanghai.
Finally, in early 1949, with the liberation of Beiping, Yan Xishan realized that his time was running out, and he left Taiyuan by plane on March 29.
At this point, the king of Shanxi left his hometown where he had ruled for decades, and he never came back.
A few days later, Taiyuan was officially liberated, and the Yan Xishan era in Shanxi came to an end.
However, Yan Xishan, who fled to the south, was not willing to be defeated like this, and he still longed to have a foothold in the southern regime.
After all, after being a warlord for so many years, he knew his current situation too well, whether it was Chiang Kai-shek or Li Zongren, these people had been his opponents in the past.
If you don't have power, no matter how much wealth you have left, you're just a lamb to the slaughter.
Therefore, Yan Xishan actively fought for power from the beginning and constantly leaned towards Chiang Kai-shek.
The move gave him hope for a time, and Chiang Kai-shek appointed him Minister of Defense.
Yan Xishan was very grateful in his heart, and deployed troops everywhere to prepare to hold Sichuan and other provinces, and also sent people to obstruct the negotiations between the CCP and Xinjiang and other places.
However, as the People's Liberation Army advanced to the southwest, Yan Xishan's remaining troops were defeated, and seeing that Sichuan could not be saved, he could only flee from Chengdu to Taiwan in embarrassment on December 8.
Yan Xishan also knew that Chiang Kai-shek would not really forgive himself, and in order to avoid the family being completely liquidated, he also placed part of his family in Japan, the United States and other places in advance.
Sure enough, after Yan Xishan arrived in Taiwan, he was not so valuable to Chiang Kai-shek.
With the restoration of Chiang Kai-shek, Yan Xishan could only resign from his position and keep two vacant positions and go home to retire.
Because his career had come to an end, Yan Xishan was afraid that he would be remembered by other people in the party if he was too ostentatious, so he moved to a somewhat remote Jingshan grassland with his family.
Chiang Kai-shek's attitude towards him was very subtle, and he showed all kinds of care for Yan Xishan on the surface, but he acquiesced to Yan Xishan's resignation and moving.
After moving, Yan Xishan basically lived a life of isolation, except for a few old subordinates who lived with him, his family was basically not by his side.
Yan Xishan knew very well that Chiang Kai-shek had put him under house arrest in disguise, and it was unlikely that he would get out of here in his life.
Fortunately, Chiang Kai-shek is already good to him, compared to the Chen brothers and Bai Chongxi.
Chiang Kai-shek did not confiscate Yan Xishan's property, and asked him to find a place to retire, which was already quite tolerant.
Yan Xishan is very knowledgeable, he lives his life here honestly, and tries not to contact the outside world as much as possible, even if it is a visit from the old ministry, Yan Xishan can also push it.
The area around Jingshan was originally very remote, and it was located in the Yangmingshan area, when there was no water and electricity, and the transportation was not convenient.
After a long time, Yan Xishan seemed to have evaporated from the world, and he no longer had any sense of existence. He quickly adapted to such a life, after all, he had brought a lot of possessions from China, and he packed more than a dozen large boxes of gold bars alone.
Although the conditions here are a little worse, but with such wealth, living in ** is not much worse. He spent money on it, hired people to build him a cave like his hometown in Caolu, and rented a lot of land and hired people to cultivate it.
After everything was settled, Yan Xishan began to devote himself to academic research.
Yan Xishan studied books when he was a child, and later went to Japan to study for further study, and among the warlords of the old society, he was a relatively literate person.
In the past, Yan Xishan was very fond of calligraphy and literature, and often found time to study these things.
Now that he is retired, he has nothing to do every day, so he naturally has a lot of time to study these things.
On weekdays, he often spends more than ten hours writing and writing books, and spends a lot of time studying various classics.
In his later years, Yan Xishan was very keen on philosophical research, Yan Xishan's brain circuit was different from that of many people, and he often published some shocking research results.
After the Kuomintang fled to Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek also brought a large number of experts and scholars, which also made the cultural atmosphere on the island very strong.
Relying on his talents, Yan Xishan soon gained a certain reputation in the academic world, and various scholars and professors often visited him and had some academic exchanges with him.
However, these things are difficult to hide Yan Xishan's depression, and from the moment he lost Shanxi, he knew that it would be difficult for him to turn over again.
Even so, giving up power to engage in academic research like this is not the life he expected, but after coming to Taiwan, he had to do so under the pressure of the situation. Although.
said that he had no worries about food and clothing, and lived a rather chic life, but the failure of his career still made Yan Xishan depressed. Naturally, he didn't dare to complain to Chiang Kai-shek, so he could only continue to use his writing to propagate the idea of ** in order to express his hatred for the CCP, but at this time, not many people were willing to deal with him.
In the last ten years of his life, Yan Xishan lived very lonely, and his wife, concubines, and children were not by his side. Many warlords in the same period basically had a group of wives and concubines and many children.
Yan Xishan's family is not much, he only has one wife and one concubine, and his wife has never given birth, and the relationship between the two is not so good.
After arriving in Taiwan, Yan Xishan bought an apartment for his wife, and the two basically had little contact.
His second room gave him many children, but only a few children survived, and both sons lived in the United States and had no chance to come back to visit him.
The second room died of illness during the Liberation War, and Yan Xishan did not remarry. Yan Xishan was very uncomfortable because he was never able to get together with his family, and he also asked Jiang to agree to him to get together with his family, but unfortunately he was refused.
In desperation, he could only live alone in the grass house.
On May 23, 1960, Yan Xishan died of illness, and before his death, he deliberately left 7 last words: "1. Funeral matters are frugal and not luxurious; 2. The couplets sent by the guests can be collected, but the banners shall not be collected; 3. Flowers and trees without flowers before the spirit; Fourth, the funeral should not be stopped for a long time after death; 5. Don't be too sad and cry out loud; 6. Paragraphs 100 and 128 of the diary are engraved on the tombstone; Seven or seven days, read his "Replenishing the Soul" every morning and evening. ”