In other words, since Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan, this person's strength has become more and more narrow. Any veteran and important minister who disagreed with him in the past will be expelled from the decision-making circle and not reused; Or go straight to the cold palace and be imprisoned for life. Many generals who followed Chiang Kai-shek in and out of the territory for many years ended up with a bleak end.
As the saying goes, "the cunning rabbit dies, the lackeys cook", the Kuomintang heroes who sacrificed their lives and forgot to die for the Chiang family for decades were still kicked out of the decision-making circle by the Chiang family and his sons one by one in ......the end
He Yingqin is a first-class general in the Kuomintang Army, former premier and minister of national defense. He has followed Chiang Kai-shek since his time in Whampoa, and has made great contributions to his elimination of dissidents and attacks on the CCP. Chiang Kai-shek also praised him many times: "Over the years, he has been a military leader, a foreign commander, a loyal and diligent man, and an outstanding ......."”
So the question is, for such a Kuomintang veteran who served Chiang Kai-shek for half his life, why was he abandoned by Chiang Kai-shek after arriving in Taiwan?
One of the important reasons is that Chiang Kai-shek felt that He Yingqin was very unreliable!
In August 1927, He Yingqin joined forces with the Gui family to force Chiang to go into the wilderness, and fell into the well when the old Chiang was in the most crisis, which made Chiang Kai-shek unforgettable for life. In the "Xi'an Incident" in 1936, Chiang Kai-shek was detained in Xi'an, He Yingqin not only did not take the initiative to rescue, but sent planes to bomb Xi'an, in a vain attempt to put Chiang to death and replace him. Moreover, in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek went into the field three times, and Li Zongren of the Gui family appeared on the stage, and He Yingqin actually joined forces with Li Zongren to tide over the crisis together, which made Chiang Kai-shek very uncomfortable. Therefore, as soon as He Yingqin arrived in Taiwan, he was arranged by Lao Jiang to go to his home to "think about it behind closed doors".
Seeing that the Kuomintang had been defeated and that he was under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek, He Yingqin was very pessimistic about the situation in Taiwan and disheartened about the political affairs of the DPRK and China. On January 6, 1950, Mr. Si Rui, a reporter from "News Observer", visited He Yingqin and asked him what his views were on the current military and political affairs. He Yingqin said sadly: "There is an old saying in China, if you are not in your position, you will not seek your own government. As for the trade-offs between military and political affairs, which are changing rapidly, it is entirely necessary to give appropriate and timely decisions on the various elements in the development of the time sequence. ”
When the reporter asked He Yingqin what his hopes were, he said that he would definitely fulfill his obligations as a good citizen, be a good public servant when he was in power, and be a good citizen after that.
Perhaps Chiang Kai-shek was particularly generous to He Yingqin, who was in the best situation in Taiwan among the many Kuomintang veterans compared to others. He was first appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the director of the "** Government Strategic Advisory Committee", although he had no real power, but he was extremely honored. In 1952, he was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to send an envoy to Japan on behalf of the Kuomintang authorities in Taiwan in an attempt to establish diplomatic relations with Japan. In 1956, he participated in the "World Movement for Moral Reformation". This movement was a measure taken by Western countries after World War II to curb the development of communist forces throughout the world, and its content was extremely reactionary.
On October 21, 1987, this "anti-people giant" died of illness in Taipei at the age of 98.
Yan Xishan was the "Emperor of the Soil" who ruled Shanxi for decades and a former political enemy of Chiang Kai-shek. As a result, on the fifth day after Chiang Kai-shek re-ascended the throne in Taiwan, he dismissed Yan Xishan from his posts as premier and minister of defense. After the resignation, although Yan Xishan hung up a lot of false positions, such as the "first senior minister", the national review committee, the chairman of the "Executive Yuan Design Committee", and the "Revolutionary Practice Research Institute", he already deeply felt that Chiang Kai-shek was indifferent and ruthless to him. In order to save his life, he decided to move his family from Lishui Street in Taipei to the remote Jingshan Grassland in Yangmingshan. When he first moved, Yan Xishan's place of residence had neither electric lights nor running water, which was very inconvenient, but he felt that it was still relatively safe here.
Since Yan Xishan lived in seclusion in Jingshan, he has devoted himself to writing, closed his house, and never entered the market unless there was a major event or a summons from Chiang Kai-shek. He devoted himself to studying the domestic and international situation every day, and wrote a series of "such as "The Mistakes of the Communist Party", "Why the Communist Party Must Be Defeated", "The Future of Resisting Russia and the Question of Rebuilding the Country after the Mainland", "How to Recover the Mainland", "The Fundamental Conditions for the Restoration of the Mainland", "The Future of the Restoration of the Country", etc., to wave the flag and shout for Chiang Kai-shek in order to please Chiang Kai-shek, the owner of the island.
On May 23, 1960, when Yan Xishan was writing "** theoretical works" without sleep or food, he suddenly fell seriously ill and died in Taipei at the age of 78.
In contrast, the Gui warlord Bai Chongxi suffered the worst in his later years.
Bai Chongxi was astute and known as "Little Zhuge ", but at the critical moment when he decided the fate of his later years, he did not listen to the advice of his old friend Li Zongren, believed Chiang Kai-shek's promise, and came to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek, and lived a life that seemed like a human being.
In fact, at the beginning, Bai Chongxi also had some false positions on his head, such as the deputy director of the "Strategic Advisory Committee", the executive member of the National Association, the standing committee, and the "chairman of the China Muslim Association". But when Chiang Kai-shek's rule in Taiwan stabilized, he began to make things difficult for Bai Chongxi.
How did Chiang Kai-shek do it?
First of all, when the National Transformation Committee was established, Chiang Kai-shek crossed Bai Chongxi out of the decision-making circle. At the Seventh Congress of the Kuomintang, except for the members of the Standing Committee of the previous session, all the members of the Standing Committee of the previous session were elected as members of the Standing Committee of the current session, except for Bai Chongxi. For this matter, the Kuomintang elders felt quite unfair, so they recommended Yu Youren and Ju Zheng to meet Chiang and "ask him to try to remedy it, but Lao Chiang ignored it.
As the so-called house leak happened to rain overnight, what made Bai Chongxi most uneasy was that he was only famous by Chiang Kai-shek on the front foot, and his own house on the back foot was raided by the so-called "** Bureau" controlled by Chiang Ching-kuo, and those people even had to dig up the floor one by one to inspect it. The purpose of this inspection was obviously that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to find the correspondence between Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren in order to completely solve the Bai problem, and did not want to find nothing.
Bai Chongxi was extremely angry about this matter, and he immediately called Jiang Jingguo, who knew that Xiao Jiang claimed not to know about it. Bai Chongxi went to the ** Mansion to ask Chiang Kai-shek again, and Lao Chiang said: "I know this matter, not only for the two of you (the other is Xue Yue), everyone should do this once." In fact, Chiang Kai-shek did not search other people's homes.
After doing the above, Chiang Kai-shek's attack on Bai Chongxi did not stop there. He not only removed Bai Chongxi from his post of "chairman of the Islamic Association", but also mentally tortured him.
Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi both belong to the Gui family, and the two have an extremely close relationship. After Li Zongren returned to the mainland, he published an open letter in the "Pioneer Tribune" on February 12, 1964, advising the United States to change its China policy, which was undoubtedly a heavy blow to Chiang Kai-shek. In order to fight back against Li Zongren, Chiang Kai-shek forced Bai Chongxi to call Li Zongren and use Bai's mouth to strongly accuse and scold Li.
It's just that Bai Chongxi's attack on his friends did not win Chiang Kai-shek's favor. On December 2, 1966, Bai Chongxi died in Taiwan. Accounts vary as to the cause of his death, with many suspecting that Chiang Kai-shek sent someone to poison him.
After Chiang Kai-shek rejected the old and important ministers, in order to further consolidate the rule of the Chiang family in Taiwan, he aimed the contradiction at the new Kuomintang upstarts in Taiwan.
Chiang Kai-shek's first target was Wu Guozhen. A native of Hubei, Wu was admitted to Tsinghua University in his early years, studied in the United States after graduation, embraced Western bourgeois ideas, and received a doctorate from Princeton University. After returning to China, he was appointed by the Kuomintang with his outstanding talents, and successively served as deputy director of the Central Propaganda Department of the Kuomintang, mayor of Hankow, mayor of Chongqing and mayor of Shanghai, and then went to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek.
Wu Guozhen is not only a decent person, does not engage in small gangs, but also works seriously and efficiently; In addition, he also has a set of housekeeping skills, can give impassioned speeches, speaks fluent English, is amiable, and has a foreign style. When Chiang Kai-shek first arrived on Taiwan, the most prominent problem was to enlist American assistance, which came in handy because Wu had studied in the United States. On December 15, 1949, before the old Chiang was restored to his "** position", Wu was appointed chairman of Taiwan Province. Just when Wu was turning purple in Taiwan's political situation, he had a rift with Chiang's father and son.
One of the rifts was the openness of the contradictions between Wu and the "crown prince" Chiang Ching-kuo.
As early as 1948, when Xiao Jiang was a supervisor in Shanghai, Wu Guozhen was the mayor of Shanghai. Because of Chiang Ching-kuo's status as the "crown prince", he planned to make a name for himself in Shanghai, so he shouted the slogan of "only fight tigers, not flies". Who knew that there were "tigers" everywhere in Shanghai, and Chiang Ching-kuo used a high-pressure policy to pounce on the "tigers", but he was bitten by the "tigers", and finally fled in the wilderness. During this period, Wu Guozhen did not agree with Chiang Ching-kuo's approach, and the two had a disagreement. Later, Chiang Ching-kuo thought that Wu would not help him and pulled him back, so he put the account on Wu Guozhen's head.
In December 1949, Wu Guozhen succeeded Chen Cheng as chairman of Taiwan Province, and Chiang Ching-kuo also served as "General Political Director of the Ministry of National Defense". On the surface, the two of them do not violate the river water, but the arbitrary and lone Chiang Ching-kuo relied on Lao Tzu's support to engage in spy politics in Taiwan, arresting whoever he wanted and killing whoever he wanted, which made Wu Guozhen very disgusted. Wu Guozhen once approached Chiang Kai-shek and said that this practice must be changed, and that no organization should go through the security headquarters (Wu is the security commander), and it is forbidden to arrest people at will. After Jiang Jingguo learned about it, he thought that Wu Guozhen was competing with him for power, and since then, the contradiction between the two has become bigger and bigger, and no one looks at it well.
In addition to the issue of rights, Wu Guozhen did not look down on the extravagant consumption under the leadership of Chiang Ching-kuo.
You must know that at the beginning of the Kuomintang's move to Taiwan, the income of ** was almost equal to zero. At that time, all expenses depended on Taiwan Province**. Where did the money come from? It's not yet a tax for the common people. But how can that little tax be enough? At that time, Wu Guozhen was in charge of Taiwan Province, and in order to balance the finances, he had agreed with Chiang Kai-shek in three chapters to strictly control the expenses of various departments. In particular, Wu often unceremoniously rejected many extrabudgetary funding requests led by Chiang Ching-kuo that were not in the organization organs and spy organizations, which made Chiang Ching-kuo very uncomfortable. If you change to someone else, you will be open to this "prince" of the dynasty, but Wu's character is naturally very stubborn, and the official can not do it, but the principle must be observed. Because of this matter, Xiao Jiang hated it to the bone, and Wu Guozhen also knew this.
Then the two clashed head-on. The first is the Taiwan Match Company case, which took place in 1950. One day, when Wu Guozhen was holding a meeting of the provincial government, it was reported that the provincial security command had arrested Wang Zhefu, the general manager of the match company. Wu was very surprised that he, as the commander-in-chief, did not know about this. He immediately summoned the deputy commander, Peng Mengji, who claimed that it was "the order of **." After reading the case file, Wu was very angry and thought that Chiang Ching-kuo was doing nonsense.
Taiwan Match Company was originally a subordinate unit of the Shanghai Head Office. In May 1949, Wu Xingju, chairman of the Shanghai head office, joined the Communist Party of China, and Chiang Ching-kuo was angry that the Taiwan Match Company was a subordinate enterprise of the Communist Party of China, and arrested the manager of the Taiwan Match Company. If you talk about the law, Chiang Ching-kuo is untenable, but the arrogant little Jiang refused to admit his mistake and insisted on not letting go; Wu Guozhen believed that Wang Zhefu was innocent and should be released immediately, but neither of the two gave in, so Chiang Kai-shek had to come forward to solve the problem. After this incident, Chiang Kai-shek was dissatisfied with Wu Guozhen in his heart.
Soon after, Wu Guozhen was pampered and arrogant, and even more presumptuously said to Chiang Kai-shek what he did not want to hear. I don't know if Wu Guozhen was too naïve, or was brainwashed by Chiang Kai-shek's "tolerance", and even advised the old Chiang if he really loved his son, he would not let Chiang Ching-kuo take over the power of spies, otherwise he would definitely be hated by the people in the future.
He didn't want to think about it, this is someone else's biological son, how could Chiang Kai-shek listen to the advice of an outsider. What's more, at that time, Lao Jiang was already preparing to "pass on his son", and everything he did was to pave the way for his son. Wu Guozhen realized it later, and finally saw through the essence of Chiang Kai-shek - "The heart of love is better than patriotism; The heart of the son is better than the love of the people".
Later, Chiang Kai-shek sent someone to hint to Wu Guozhen that as long as Wu was willing to cooperate with Chiang Ching-kuo, he would be brought into the cabinet. However, Wu adhered to the principle of "not conspiring with each other if the Tao is different" and refused to reconcile with Chiang Ching-kuo. As a result, Chiang Kai-shek had the idea of getting rid of Wu.
At the beginning of 1953, Wu realized that the situation was not in his favor, so he wanted to retreat bravely. In early March, he submitted his resignation on the pretext of ill health. Jiang pretended to make a gesture and gave instructions to stay. But Wu had already made up his mind, so Chiang Kai-shek ordered Yu Hongjun to take his place.
According to Wu Guozhen, on Chiang Kai-shek's 65th birthday, Chiang Ching-kuo was ordered by his father to make a surprise attack on him.
On October 30, 1952, Wu Guozhen and his wife were invited by Chiang Kai-shek to have dinner at Caoshan in the suburbs of Taipei. The next day, when the Wu couple were about to leave, they suddenly found that their driver was gone, and they couldn't find it, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead. So, Chiang Kai-shek found them another driver to take them away. Not long after the car drove away, Wu Guozhen's wife felt sick to her stomach, so she immediately got out of the car and found a farmhouse. When they came back, they found that the screws on the wheels of the car were missing, which must have been tampered with! This means that if they hadn't found out, there would have been a car accident on the road today, and both of them would have died.
After returning home, Wu Guozhen made preparations to leave Taiwan for the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, of course, could not be easily released. In the end, it was Song Meiling who helped, and Wu Guozhen was able to accompany his wife to the most beautiful. However, the price paid was to leave the son and the old father as "hostages".
When Wu Guozhen first arrived in the United States, he did not dare to say anything for the safety of the "hostages", and he never said a word of dissatisfaction with the Chiang family and his son.
In January 1954, there was a sudden rumor in Taiwan that "Wu Guozhen fled with capital", and Wu Guozhen immediately wrote to Zhang Qiyun, secretary general of the National People's Liberation Army, asking him to refute the rumors in the newspapers and periodicals. Unexpectedly, Zhang was very careless about this matter, and handed it over to Wu Guozhen's father, Wu Jingming. Wu Ching-ming went to all the newspapers in Taipei, but no one dared to publish this revelation.
After a long time, Wu Guozhen saw that Taipei had not refuted the rumors for a long time, and he was also anxious, and directly scolded Chiang Kai-shek and his son across the sea. As soon as this incident came out, many newspapers and periodicals in the United States smelled it, vigorously reported the incident, and criticized the Taiwan authorities. For a time, Jiang's father and son were in an awkward situation.
On March 17, Chiang Kai-shek issued an order in the name of "**", saying that Wu Guozhen "betrayed the country, slandered **, vainly attempted to divide, and divided the relationship between the people and the motherland, and the relationship between the overseas Chinese and the motherland, with ill intentions, and his crimes were obvious, and he should be removed from his post as a political councilor of the Executive Yuan." Later, the Taiwan authorities again demanded the "extradition" of Wu Guozhen, but it did not come to pass. Soon, Chiang Ching-kuo was also transferred from his post because of this incident and became the deputy secretary general of the conference, and the "Wu Guozhen incident" finally passed.
Through the above examples, it is not difficult for us to see Chiang Kai-shek's character. Whether it is a veteran or a newcomer, Chiang Kai-shek crossed the river and demolished the bridge to fight against dissidents after overcoming the crisis. And all this is to support his son and pave the way for Chiang Ching-kuo in the future. In the final analysis, whatever the national interests and the people's suffering, Chiang Kai-shek has always been for himself and the interests of the Chiang family.