Chiang Kai-shek ruled the Kuomintang in China for half a century, and he tried countless times to transform China into a country full of oppression and injustice, in a vain attempt to realize his ambition of being a wolf son of the family.
After Chiang Kai-shek was beaten back to Taiwan by our party, he and his son Chiang Ching-kuo successively dominated Taiwan for 38 years, covering the sky with one hand, integrating party power, political power, military power, and economy.
When Chiang Kai-shek died in 1975, Chiang Kai-shek's son Chiang Ching-kuo died soon after, and the successive deaths of these two people brought the Chiang family to a collapse, but within a few years, the family plummeted, and then several generations of Chiang descendants also died in a short period of time.
From 1988 to 1997, the birthday of the "first lady" Song Meiling, the Jiang family was already sparsely populated, and it ended up in the tragic situation of "one family and six widows".
Song Meiling has gone through vicissitudes, she has seen the most glorious moment of this family, and she has also seen its most tragic situation. After the death of her last son, Jiang Weiguo, in 1997, Song Meiling reluctantly sighed that the Jiang family had no successor, and this family, which was unrelated to China, finally withdrew from the stage of history.
The fall of a generation of giants is inevitably embarrassing, and ending up in such a fate is probably a cycle of karma, and the pain and chaos brought by the Jiang family to China and the Chinese people is real, and they can never afford to repay this eternal scar in Chinese history.
But fortunately, the Communist Party of China has led China out of the darkness and towards the light, and countless party members and martyrs have used sacrifices to erase the damage caused by the Chiang family.
The first person in the Chiang family to die was Chiang Kai-shek, and the first "widow" was Song Meiling.
Chiang Kai-shek died on the day of the Qingming Festival in 1975, and he survived from 1974 to 75 years, but in the end he still could not resist the footsteps of illness and death. Chiang Kai-shek's death was not easy, and the perennial accumulation of illness tortured him to the point that he was unwilling, coupled with the unwillingness in his heart, he inevitably went in great pain.
If the total defeat in 1949 was a huge blow to him, then his defeat on the international stage was a fatal blow, and on June 21, 1971, Nixon announced the lifting of the 21-year embargo on the People's Republic of China, his special assistantKissinger made another surprise secret visit to China from 9 to 11 July.
Chiang Kai-shek was so angry that he couldn't help himself, but he was helpless, and now he could no longer make any waves, so he could only scold at the news at home to comfort his pathetic heart.
On October 25, the 26th session of the United Nations General Assembly formally admitted the People's Republic of China, expelled Chiang Kai-shek's representatives, and on February 21, 1972, Nixon visited China and issued the famous Sino-US Shanghai "Joint Communiqué"; September 25, 1972Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka visited Chinaand announced the normalization of relations between China and Japan.
With it, a large number of Chiang Kai-shek"regime"Former friendly allies have "severed diplomatic relations" with it.
Chiang Kai-shek's defeat was a foregone conclusion, and along with the defeat came these "insults", but fortunately Chiang Kai-shek did not have to be insulted for too long, he died shortly after being hospitalized in 1974, which was considered a bargain for him.
After Chiang Kai-shek's death, his son Chiang Ching-kuo remained in power and was elected chairman of the National Committee of the People's Republic of China and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Congress.
At the time of Chiang Kai-shek's death, there was not much hostility towards the Chiang family within the Kuomintang, and as time went by, there were more and more voices of opposition, and discrimination against the Chiang family became more and more prevalent. After eight years in office, Chiang Ching-kuo also unfortunately died.
In fact, Chiang Ching-kuo is a rare sober person in the Chiang family, and he has always been at odds with his father's views. In 1925, Chiang Ching-kuo, who was only fifteen years old, regarded himself as a "progressive revolutionary", so Chiang Kai-shek sent his son to the ** elementWu ZhihuiThere, let him get some education.
However, Chiang Ching-kuo not only did not change his mind, but also went to the Soviet Union to study through hard work, and after Chiang Kai-shek learned the news that his son was going to study in the Soviet Union, he called him "rotten wood cannot be carved".
In the Soviet Union, Chiang Ching-kuo was an active member of the school and firmly supported the Soviet left-wing leader Trotsky. In school, Chiang Ching-kuo and *** were classmates.
In 1927, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in China began to diverge, and the Communists were hunted down and killed.
InStalinAfter openly stating that he would "squeeze and discard Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang rightists like lemons", Chiang Ching-kuo, who was hesitant in his heart, finally stepped onto the podium at a meeting, declaring that "he would not speak as the son of Chiang Kai-shek, but as the son of the Communist Youth League", and denounced his father as a "traitor and murderer".
A few days later, the Soviet newspaper Izvestia published another article entitled "Father and Son", excerpting an open letter from Chiang Ching-kuo:"Now I want to say that revolution is the only thing I know, and I will no longer recognize you (Chiang Kai-shek) as my father. ”However, in Chiang Kai-shek's diary and any other documents, Chiang Kai-shek made no mention of the matter.
Chiang Ching-kuo's death was very simple compared to his father's fanfare, and his death was really regrettable.
Song Meiling didn't say much about the death of this stepson, because Jiang Jingguo has never had a good impression of his stepmother Song Meiling, and the relationship between the two has always been very delicate. Although she has no feelings for Chiang Ching-kuo, she has a completely different attitude towards the death of another stepson.
Song Meiling has no children, and has always played the role of a stepmother in the Jiang family, and Jiang Weiguo is the closest one to her among several children, she has always regarded Jiang Weiguo as her own, watching the children die one after another, and the last one died in the special year of her birthday, leaving her alone, which makes it difficult for her not to have mixed feelings.
Chiang Weiguo, Chiang Kai-shek's second and last son, died of illness on September 23, 1997, at the age of 81. When he passed away, the second generation of the Jiang family came to an end, which made people sigh, and Song Meiling was even more emotional.
Jiang Weiguo was born in Shanghai, but there has been no accurate information about his biological mother**, but there are rumors that Jiang Weiguo is not Chiang Kai-shek's biological son.
Chiang Kai-shek was actually very good to this son, probably because Chiang Weiguo did not believe in communism like his brother.
Chiang Kai-shek would stay with Chiang Kai-shek every time he went home, cared about his studies and recent situation, and doted on him very much, and when Chiang Kai-shek took Chiang Kai-shek during the Northern Expedition, Chiang Weiguo was not Chiang Ching-kuo, it can be seen that Chiang Weiguo has a certain importance in Chiang Kai-shek's heart, and he has great trust in this son.
Jiang Weiguo. Jiang Weiguo was a Kuomintang general and graduated from the physics department of Soochow University. In 1936, he went to Germany as an army colonel to further his studies, where he was trained in the German Mountain Corps and entered the Army Officer Academy in Germany.
In 1939, he went to the Army Air Corps Tactical School in the United States for training, and also conducted an internship in the armored center.
Another year later, Jiang Weiguo returned to China when the Sino-Japanese War broke out. After arriving in Taiwan, Chiang Wei-kuo successively entered the regular class of the US Army Command and Staff College and the missile class of the Defense School for training, and also learned to fly and obtained a US civilian pilot's license.
Jiang Weiguo also received an honorary doctorate of law from Kyung Hee University in South Korea, an honorary doctorate of philosophy from Chinese Culture University, an honorary doctorate of philosophy from Northrop University in the United States, and was employed by the Chung Hwa Academic Institute for a bachelor's degree.
But in fact, Jiang Weiguo studied at the military academy and worked so hard to win so many honors because of his father, Chiang Kai-shek always wanted his son to make achievements in military affairs, so he simply pinned this expectation on Jiang Weiguo.
In 1978, Jiang Weiguo founded the Chinese Society for Strategic Studies, giving full play to his strengths in military science.
After that, Jiang Weiguo successively served as the Kuomintang Army's infantry and armored corps staff at all levels, chief and deputy commanders, commander of the armored corps, president of the Army Command and Staff University, president of the War College, president of the Tri-Service University, commander-in-chief of joint logistics, director of the joint training department of the "Ministry of National Defense", and secretary general of the "* Conference".
These dazzling positions show his achievements, and they also show that he has the same ** thoughts as his father, and it is no wonder that he is Song Meiling's favorite stepson.
Jiang XiaoyongBefore Jiang Weiguo died, he died in December 1996 at Taipei Veterans General Hospital, and he was not too old when he died, only 48 years old. Chiang Hsiao-yong is the grandson of Chiang Kai-shek and the son of Chiang Ching-kuo, born in Shanghai in 1948.
Jiang XiaoyongAt the beginning of 1996, Jiang Xiaoyong was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in a hospital in Taipei, and immediately cooperated with **surgical resection, chemotherapy, etc.** after discovery, and the condition was under control at first, but in December, Jiang Xiaowu's condition had a seizure and he was admitted to the hospital again.
After examination, the doctor found that the cancer cells had spread throughout the body, and it was useless to continue, Jiang Xiaoyong's physical condition deteriorated, and he died in the hospital a few days later.
The Jiang family already has no status in the **, and its influence has been greatly reduced. However, Jiang Xiaoyong has been active in the later years of his father Jiang Jingguo, and in the eight years after he took power, he became a representative of the Jiang family.
The Jiang family is in decline, and many people in ** despise them, so naturally Jiang Xiaoyong's life is not so good.
Later, Jiang Xiaoyong's family was forced out of Taiwan by Taiwanese political circles, and even if they left the world, Taiwanese politicians never let them go.
Taiwanese politicians did not give up on the Chiang family because of Chiang Hsiao-yong's torrent retreat, and the movement to liquidate the influence of the Chiang family and history did not stop for a moment, and some new ** and *** were attacking the Chiang family in a variety of ways.
After Jiang Xiaoyong's death, the Jiang family completely lost the opportunity to do something in Taiwan, before Jiang Xiaoyong's death, the Jiang family was "one door and five widows", and now the Jiang family has become "one door and six widows" How miserable.
Several other sons of Chiang Ching-kuoJiang Xiaowen, Jiang XiaowuHe died in 1989 and 1991 respectively, and like Jiang Xiaoyong, both died at a young age, upright and strong.
Jiang Xiaowen was born in the Soviet Union in 1935, is the eldest son of Chiang Ching-kuo, the eldest grandson of Chiang Kai-shek, he was born in the Soviet Union, only returned to China in 1940, as the eldest grandson of Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek also loved him a lot, and the name Xiaowen was also given by Chiang Kai-shek for him.
Jiang Xiaowen was very smart when he was a child, and his family had great expectations for him. In 1960, Jiang Xiaowen married Xu Naijin, a descendant of the former martyrs of the Xinhai Revolution, and this marriage caused quite a stir in the Taiwan Kuomintang.
But the good times didn't last long, and in 1965, Jiang Xiaowen got a strange disease, which injured his brain, making Jiang Xiaowen's intelligence drop like a teenager, and he couldn't even speak clearly.
Jiang Xiaowen. In the past, Chiang Kai-shek's expectations for this eldest grandson were very high, but since this illness, Chiang Kai-shek has shifted his love and attention to Jiang Xiaowu. Jiang Xiaowen has been sick for 20 years, and throat cancer was diagnosed in 80 years, after Jiang Jingguo's death, Jiang Xiaowen's wife has been taking care of him.
The Xu family had opposed it long beforeXu NaijinMarry Jiang Xiaowen, because Jiang Xiaowen has always loved to play, I am afraid that he will not pay attention after marriage.
Xu NaijinBut in fact, the Xu family guessed correctly, although Jiang Xiaowu did everything possible to please Xu Naijin's father before getting married, and finally let Xu Naijin's father relent, but not long after marriage, his true nature was exposed, and it was rumored that he had a strange disease because he was looking for fun outside, and as a result, he contracted "syphilis".
After Jiang Xiaowen's death in 1989, his younger brother Jiang Xiaowu died in 1991. The cause of Jiang Xiaowu's death is actually a bit strange, and the relevant records explain that it was because of sudden death, but the real reason is still unknown.
Jiang Xiaowu. On the morning of June 30, 1991, the doctors of the hospital went to Jiang Xiaowu's house to do some basic examinations for him as usual, and the results of the examinations at that time were not unusual, except for a slight discomfort in the pancreas, but there was no major problem.
After the doctor left, Jiang Xiaowu didn't care and worked as usual, but at about nine o'clock that night, Jiang Xiaowu suddenly had unbearable abdominal pain, so he immediately went to the hospital for examination, and the diagnosis was acute pancreatitis.
But after five o'clock in the morning, the doctor went to check again and found that Jiang Xiaowu had stopped breathing, and immediately carried out emergency rescue, but he had no surgery.
Jiang Xiaowu's death was really bizarre, and for a while there were different opinions, why Jiang Xiaowu died suddenly before returning to Taiwan to take over as chairman of "China Television". When the "imperial doctor" of the Chiang family in the Taiwan hospital talked about the dead people of the Chiang family, he was only vague about Jiang Xiaowu's death, and only said that he could not say the reason yet, and all kinds of mysteries made Jiang Xiaowu's death a mystery.
By now, the third generation of the Jiang family has all passed away.
Now we understand why Song Meiling lamented that there was no successor to the Jiang family, and the three sisters of the Song family loved money, power, and patriotism. This love of power refers to Song Meiling, so Song Meiling lamented that there is no successor after hearing the news of Jiang Weiguo's death is also a "successor" in politics.
The Jiang family, which once occupied an important page in China's modern history, gradually stepped off the stage of history after the death of the two Jiangs, Jiang Weiguo, Jiang Xiaowen, Xiaowu, Xiaoyong, and even Zhang Xiaoci, the concubine of Jiang Jingguo, passed away one after another, which made the men of the Jiang family wither one after another.
As for the widows of Soong Meiling and Chiang Ching-kuoJiang Fangliang, the eldest daughter-in-law Xu Naijin has passed away in recent years, which makes the outside world feel that the era of the Jiang family has passed after all.
But the world always relies on blessings and misfortunes, After a series of bad news, the men of the Jiang family have emerged one by one, As Chiang Ching-kuo declared, they are no longer involved in politics, but have their own development in other fields, which is also a good thing.
For the Jiang family, Jiang Jingguo once hoped that through the beautiful meaning of "Mei Lanju" and "pine and cypress evergreen", the incense of the Jiang family could be continued, and Jiang Jingguo also made it clear before his death that the people of the Jiang family could not get involved in politics in the future, and they would not participate in any election, and he knew that the Jiang family would not end well in politics.
This statement declared the end of the Chiang dynasty and allowed the Chiang family to step out of the political arena from then on.
Nowadays, the times are different, and the Chiang family has also gone through generation after generation, and we still hate Chiang Kai-shek when we mention him, but there is no such joint hatred for his descendants, and we have never heard any news about them again, which is the best and most prosaic historical necessity.