Yang Yongtai is known as Jiang Zhongzheng's "Zhuge Liang", full of wit, literary and martial arts, proficient in both legislation and administration, and is a rare talent. He successively served as the secretary-general of the Kuomintang Military Committee, the secretary-general of the Wuchang camp, and the secretary-general of the Sichuan camp, and finally served Jiang Zhongzheng and became Chiang's chief think tank.
So, why was such a person, who was deeply trusted by Jiang Zhongzheng and could be described as covering the sky with one hand, being assassinated? Who is behind it?
In 1880, Yang Yongtai was born into a wealthy family in Maoming, Guangdong. Before he was born, his father died of illness, and his mother died when he was young, Yang Yongtai lived with his grandmother, and passed on to his uncle Yang Shiyun when he was a little older.
At the age of 7, Yang Yongtai entered the school, and at the age of 12, he was admitted to Xiucai, and two years later he entered Guangya College to study, and won the love of teachers and students with his "quick thinking and alertness", and was elected as the leader of the student union. At the age of 21, Yang Yongtai entered the Guangdong Higher Education School, systematically studied Western culture, and a year later came to Beijing Political Science and Law College to study law.
With the death of the old political science society, Yang Yongtai had no choice but to leave Guangdong and return to Shanghai to hibernate. At this time, Yang Yongtai often lamented that his luck was not good, and he had no talent but did not meet Bole until he got acquainted with Jiang Zhongzheng.
In 1928, under the recommendation of Xiong Shihui of the Department of Political Science, he met Jiang Zhongzheng and became his chief of staff.
During this period, Yang Yongtai gave advice to Jiang Zhongzheng, first using the strategy of "cutting the feudal domain", defeating various warlords in just 3 years, weakening the strength of the warlords who had been supporting the army for a long time, and relieving Jiang Zhongzheng's confidants.
After dealing with Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, Li Zongren and other warlords, Chiang Zhongzheng began to encircle and suppress the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. In the face of the growing Red Army, Jiang Zhongzheng could not sleep well and wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible, but he never understood why the Red Army not only failed to "suppress" it, but became stronger and stronger?
Yang Yongtai immediately planned a strategy for him to deal with the Red Army, that is, "three points military, seven points political." Yang Yongtai's move was indeed vicious, forcing the Red Army to embark on an arduous 25,000-mile long march. Although Yang Yongtai's attempt did not succeed in the end, and the heroic Red Army won a great victory against encirclement and suppression, it also caused heavy losses to the Red Army.
Later, Yang Yongtai also helped Jiang Zhongzheng gain a foothold in Sichuan, easily seized the "Land of Abundance", established a camp in Chongqing, and achieved the goal of unifying Sichuan.
As a result, Yang Yongtai's status in Jiang Zhongzheng's mind is unparalleled, and he is praised by Jiang as "contemporary Wolong".
So, why was such a man in the ascendant of the sun assassinated?
On October 25, 1936, Yang Yongtai, together with his aunt's wife and attendants, went to the American Consulate in Hankou after a banquet, and came to the special ferry terminal in Jianghan Province to return by boat.
This is Yang Yongtai who just left Jiang Zhongzheng and was assassinated less than a year after he became the chairman of Hubei Province, who is it?
A ** person named Chen Xieqi was arrested at the scene. After investigation, Chen Xieqi's original name was Tan Rongxuan, a native of Guizhou, who was originally the commander of the Guizhou Army, and later joined the National Revolutionary Army as a division commander. On the day of the assassination, he and another accomplice lay in ambush on the pier and drew their guns and fired Yang Yongtai as he walked down the stone steps of the pier, and were eventually captured by the police.
According to Chen Xieqi's confession, he was instructed by Liu Luyin to kill people. Liu Luyin served as the head of the National Propaganda Department and was sentenced to 10 years in prison after being sentenced to 10 years in Shanghai.
Yang Yongtai was killed mainly for the following reasons.
First, there are too many enemies and too many ambitions.
After Yang Yongtai gained power, he desperately expanded the strength of the Department of Political Science and took the opportunity to suppress other factions. Especially for the CC faction headed by Chen Lifu and Chen Guofu, Yang Yongtai spared no effort to take the opportunity to suppress it.
He took advantage of his position as secretary general of the Nanchang camp to play the slogan of "leading the government with the party, and the local party is integrated into the government", reorganized the Kuomintang organizations in Henan, Anhui, Hubei, and Jiangxi provinces, and easily seized the party and government power in the four provinces from the CC department, dealing a heavy blow to the CC department.
In 1933, a fire broke out at Nanchang Airport, which burned more than 10 new bombers that had just been sent from Italy. Deng Wenyi, who was in charge of the investigation, accepted a bribe from CC and characterized it as an accidental fire.
After the cunning Yang Yongtai saw the conclusion of the investigation, he was very suspicious, so he asked Jiang Zhongzheng and Dai Li to investigate again. As a result, the director of aviation, Xu Peigen, deliberately set fire to cover up the crime of misappropriation, intending to burn the ledger together. Unexpectedly, the fire got out of control, affecting the hangar and burning the plane together.
Jiang Zhongzheng was furious, not only shot the perpetrator Xu Peigen, but also removed Deng Wenyi from his post. This made the CC department very angry, and his hatred for Yang Yongtai increased a few points. Chen Lifu, Chen Guofu and others have publicly said: "How does Chairman Jiang take a fancy to Yang Yongtai at both ends of the first rat? What is his ability, isn't he just able to speculate? ”
2. Too arrogant and often offends people.
Since Yang Yongtai became Chiang Chung-cheng's chief of staff, all the documents would pass through his hands and then be forwarded to Chiang Chung-cheng. If anyone wants to see Jiang Zhongzheng, they must also ask for his consent in advance, even if it is Jiang's cronies. Once, Chen Lifu wanted to see Jiang with urgent mail, but was told by Yang Yongtai that Jiang was busy with affairs and had no time to meet him, and asked Chen Lifu to hand over the documents to him for forwarding, which made Chen Lifu, who was already resentful, even more dissatisfied with him.
Yang Yongtai is also arrogant to his subordinates, often pretending to be under one person, making his subordinates cower and complaining about him.
3. There are too many selfish desires and too many greed.
In the past few years by Jiang Zhongzheng's side, Yang Yongtai has tried every means to cultivate and support the Department of Political Science and install his own people in many ways. When Chen Guofu was the chairman of Jiangsu Province, he originally planned to promote his henchman Yu Jingtang to the director of the Department of Civil Affairs, but it was only because of Yang Yongtai's sentence: "Isn't this the kingdom of CC?" The candidate for the director of the Civil Affairs Department was replaced by his confidant Gu Renfa.
It is said that when Yang Yongtai asked Jiang Zhongzheng for instructions to report on his work, he would often prepare completely opposite strips in the pockets of his tunics, first test Chiang's opinions, and then take out the strips that met Chiang's wishes and present them.
Yang Yongtai had always coveted the position of the Kuomintang Executive Premier, and Chiang Chung-cheng finally gave this position to Kong Xiangxi in order to balance the forces of all parties. This made Yang Yongtai angry, so he resigned and went abroad, without Jiang's consent.
Subsequently, in order to avoid the deterioration of the contradiction, Jiang Zhongzheng transferred him to serve as the chairman of Hubei Province, but he did not expect him to embark on a road of no return, and finally returned to the Yangtze River.
References: "History of China", "Gao Shen Yang Yongtai", etc.).