In the year, Yang Hucheng's grandson visited Zhang Xueliang, who was cold and speechless.
In June 1999, in front of a church in the Hawaiian Islands of the United States, Zhang Xueliang, who was in his twilight years, received a special guest. The guest's name was Yang Han, and he was the grandson of General Yang Hucheng.
In that year, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng jointly discussed launching a military admonition against Chiang Kai-shek in Xi'an, and the two were full of spirit. However, today, when they met, Zhang Xueliang remained silent.
In order to break the embarrassing atmosphere, Yang Han offered to accompany Zhang Xueliang to the beach for a walk. Although Zhang Xueliang agreed, he remained silent during the walk.
Back in China, Mr. Yang and his friends and colleagues were baffled by the situation. Why is Zhang Xueliang's performance so cold in the face of the descendants of his former friends?
Was it Taiwan's Chiang father and son who put pressure on him, or was there a contradiction between him and General Yang Hucheng when he launched the "Xi'an Incident"?
The Xi'an Incident was an incident launched by Zhang Xueliang and General Yang Hucheng in order to force the people to resist Japan and implement "military advice". They put Chiang Kai-shek under house arrest in the place where they lived, and decided to force ** to give up the suppression of the Communist Party and start the anti-Japanese war.
Chiang Kai-shek's face was gloomy after he was placed under house arrest, and at first he was unwilling to cooperate, and threatened Zhang Xueliang and others to either release him and continue to suppress the Communists, or kill him and directly join the Communists.
Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng felt that it was difficult to ride a tiger. Fortunately, when the Chinese Communists arrived in Xi'an in time, they used their wisdom and the intricate factional contradictions within the Kuomintang to successfully save Chiang Kai-shek's life, so that the Xi'an Incident had a better final result.
From then on, the "anti-Japanese national united front" was initially formed, and the first civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party basically ended.
Jiang is narrow-minded and selfish. Shortly after the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang was placed under house arrest by Kuomintang agents on his way to Chiang Kai-shek. Since then, his 54-year prison career has begun. Although he was imprisoned, he was finally freed.
General Yang Hucheng was not as lucky as Zhang Xueliang. In 1937, he was forced to live in France, and he asked the people to fight several times, but was rejected for various reasons.
General Yang Hucheng decided to go to Hong Kong, which was not under the jurisdiction of the National** and could support the war of resistance in the mainland. In November 1937, he departed for Hong Kong. But as soon as he arrived in Hong Kong, he received two strange telegrams.
One letter came from Chiang Kai-shek, who was glad that Yang Hucheng could return to China to participate in the anti-Japanese struggle, and hoped that he would go to Nanchang as soon as possible to meet with his "national leader" to discuss the next step of the "anti-Japanese war plan."
The other letter came from Dai Li, the head of the military command, who told Yang Hucheng that he had arrived in Changsha, Hunan, and hoped that Yang Hucheng would go to Changsha to find him first, and then the two of them would go to Nanchang together to meet Chiang Kai-shek.
After the attitude of the people who prevented Yang Hucheng from returning to China to resist Japan changed 180 degrees, Yang Hucheng became more vigilant about Dai Li's identity as a spy. He doubted the true intentions of the people, but for the sake of the great cause of resisting Japan, he still decided to meet Chiang Kai-shek.
Yang Hucheng's loyalty and courage were recognized by Wang Bingnan, a Communist Party member around him, but it also made his trip full of unknown dangers.
In the last moments of General Yang Hucheng, his patriotism was shown in his firmness and patience in going to the appointment. According to the agreement, he came to Changsha, Hunan, and in the face of Dai Li and Wang Lisheng, he still maintained the dignity and demeanor of a soldier.
Despite being arranged to live in a small building, he did not complain, but accepted it silently. In the end, he still failed to meet Chiang Kai-shek, but he still persevered and did not give up.
His patriotic spirit makes us feel admired and moved.
After the Japanese occupation of Nanjing, Dai Li used Nanchang as the location of Chiang Kai-shek's camp to carry out air raids on southern cities. During his stay in Nanchang for a few days, Dai Li, under the pretext of taking Yang Hucheng to Xiong Shihui's villa in the Meiling area.
In the villa, Yang Hucheng found that there were more and more "security personnel" around him, at first only Li Jiajie, the head of the special police section of the Military Command Bureau, led some spies to lurk, and later there was an additional platoon of soldiers.
Yang Hucheng anxiously asked when he would see Chiang Kai-shek, but Li Jiajie could not answer.
Chiang Kai-shek imprisoned Yang Hucheng and his family in the Wu family mansion in Taoyuan County, Hunan Province, in January 1938, and Yang Hucheng confirmed that he had been imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek's order.
Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Li tricked Yang Hucheng into going to Nanchang to discuss the "anti-Japanese plan" together, but it was just a high-sounding excuse. The following year, due to the continuous air raids of the Japanese army on Taoyuan County, Dai Li decided to send Yang Hucheng to Xuantian Cave in Guizhou Province to be imprisoned.
The environment there was damp and cold, which made Yang Hucheng, a man from the northwest, very uncomfortable, and his wife Xie Baozhen also had serious mental problems because of her long-term house arrest.
However, in April 1947, one of Dai Li's spy chiefs told Yang Hucheng that Chiang Kai-shek was prepared to acquit him. Yang Hucheng, who had been imprisoned for more than ten years, heard the news, and his eyes flashed with two eager looks.
Yang Hucheng was imprisoned in the camp in Nanchang, but he was transferred to Chongqing, just in a different place. He saw the true colors of the Kuomintang spies and no longer believed in their promises.
Chiang Kai-shek announced his resignation under pressure from the warlords, and news spread in Chongqing that the new "Li Dai**" was preparing to release Yang Hucheng. Yang Hucheng ignited the light of hope, but he asked Gong Guoyan, a secret agent of the Secret Bureau who was in charge of guarding him, why Li Dai** ordered him to be released, but he was refused.
Yang Hucheng questioned the spy, if he wanted to kill him, he would do it directly.
Yang Hucheng didn't know that Li Dai** had given such an order, so he asked Gong Guoyan for confirmation, but Gong Guoyan replied with a hippie smile that he didn't know. Yang Hucheng then seriously accused Gong Guoyan of not being nosy, and should first examine himself.
Gong Guoyan defended that this news was not even published in the Kuomintang's "**", and it must be fake news. However, Yang Hucheng insisted that Gong Guoyan show him the "Ta Kung Pao," and the military commander's spies opposed this.
In the end, the two sides were at a stalemate, and Yang Hucheng was taken to Guizhou to continue his detention.
In September 1949, Kuomintang agents pretended to be Chairman Chiang and tricked Yang Hucheng into going to Chongqing to discuss the northwest issue. General Yang Hucheng arrived in Chongqing on September 7 of the same year under the deception of the agents of the Secret Bureau, and was brutally killed by the agents in the early morning of the next day.
Although General Yang did not see the day when China went to the light until his death, he said on his deathbed: "As long as China does not die, I will resolutely resist Japan." "Yang Zhengmin, the eldest son of General Yang Hucheng, joined the Communist Party of China and became an important pillar of New China.
Yang Zhengmin III: Following in the footsteps of Zhang Xueliang Yang Zhengmin, a person who inherited his father's "anti-Japanese righteousness", after he clearly realized the true face of the Kuomintang, he did not hesitate to go to Yan'an, devoted himself to Kang Da, and worked hard to learn Marxist theory and military knowledge.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he devoted himself to the construction of the Yumen Oilfield and made outstanding contributions to China's oil exploration. However, despite the fact that he has made so many contributions to the country, he has never forgotten his old friend Zhang Xueliang.
According to Yang Han's recollection, his father always wanted to see Zhang Xueliang, but due to political reasons, he was never able to do so. However, when Zhang Xueliang was finally released by the Kuomintang authorities in Taiwan, he was unable to meet Yang Zhengmin in person.
In 1998, Yang Zhengmin died in regret, and before his death, he repeatedly told his son Yang Han that if he had the opportunity in the future, he must go to see Zhang Xueliang and personally express the concern and condolences of the descendants of the Yang family to him.
In 1999, with his father's last wishes, Yang Han embarked on a journey to Hawaii, USA. His father once told him that Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng were good friends who talked about everything, and Yang Hucheng often took him to see Zhang Xueliang.
Zhang Xueliang has a high opinion of his father, and Yang Han is looking forward to how Zhang Xueliang will react when he sees himself, the "grandson of Yang Hucheng". Finally, he landed at the airport in Hawaii and found the church where Zhang Xueliang met according to the address he had inquired about in advance.
In June 1999, Yang Han met Zhang Xueliang, who was nearly 100 years old, wearing a black hat and walking on crutches.
Zhang Xueliang saw Yang Han coming, but he just turned his head and glanced at him, but did not speak.
Yang Han was puzzled by Zhang Xueliang's indifference in his later years, but still politely stepped forward to greet him, and Zhang Xueliang's answer was calm and mysterious, making it impossible for Yang Han to guess what was going on in his heart.
In order to alleviate the embarrassment, Yang Han took the initiative to invite Zhang Xueliang to take a walk on the beach. Zhang Xueliang smiled and nodded in agreement. The two walked on the beach in Hawaii, watching the seabirds in the distance, while each immersed in their inner thoughts.
Yang Han is looking for a topic to try to break the communication deadlock, but Zhang Xueliang is always silent. His answers were often seen as polite responses, which made Yang Han anxious. The meeting left him perplexed: how to break the deadlock?
Why is Zhang Xueliang unwilling to pay attention to him? In 2000, Yang Han was invited to participate in the 100th birthday celebration of General Zhang Xueliang. The celebration scene was very lively, Zhang Xueliang's speech was concise and clear, the logic was clear, and the state looked very good.
However, after the celebration, Zhang Xueliang did not have the opportunity to communicate with Yang Han in private, they just said goodbye in a hurry. In this meeting, Yang Han and Zhang Xueliang did not have the opportunity to talk in depth.
Yang Han once revealed to a friend that he thought that Zhang Xueliang might be because he was old and didn't want to talk to him more. He also tried his best and didn't expect anything.
Although he was not interested in this celebration and Zhang Xueliang's attitude towards him, he was curious. Therefore, driven by this mentality, he opened the relevant files of the Xi'an Incident that year, hoping to find the reason for Zhang Xueliang's indifference to him between the lines.
After in-depth study of Zhang Xueliangsi's diary, Yang Han received an exciting news: Song Ziwen's diary was made public! Soong Ziwen was a key figure in the Xi'an Incident and a relative of Chiang Kai-shek, so he may have many dusty secrets.
With anticipation, Yang Han began to look for answers in Song Ziwen's diary, and the results did not disappoint. Song Ziwen's diary details the great differences between Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng in the Xi'an Incident, providing new clues for revealing the truth.
Zhang Xueliang and Chiang Kai-shek once became brothers, and Chiang Kai-shek relied on Zhang Xueliang. Therefore, Zhang Xueliang had a trace of benevolence towards Chiang Kai-shek. However, Yang Hucheng's attitude towards Chiang Kai-shek was very different.
He believed that if he did not kill Chiang Kai-shek now, Chiang Kai-shek would definitely take revenge on them in the future, and it would be too late by then. He has repeatedly advised Zhang Xueliang to "fight quickly", but Zhang Xueliang hesitated.
Gradually, a disagreement arose between the two. In order to show his sincerity in releasing Chiang Kai-shek, Zhang Xueliang personally sent him back to Nanjing, where he was arrested by Chiang Kai-shek's men. Although Yang Hucheng went overseas, he could not escape Jiang's clutches.
Yang's judgment and understanding of Jiang was clear and clear, but poor Zhang Xueliang still had illusions about Jiang, which eventually led to the tragedy of the two.
Zhang Xueliang perhaps, during the decades of his captivity, Yang Hucheng's name has always haunted his heart. If he had listened to Yang Hucheng's advice at the beginning, maybe the outcome of the matter would have been different.
However, nothing can be changed anymore, only reality can be accepted. Facing Yang Hucheng's descendants, Zhang Xueliang could only silently pray for their happy lives. In addition, when Zhang Xueliang was released by the Taiwan authorities, his heart was full of gratitude to them.
As he later said in an interview, in his later years, in addition to living his own life, he also tried to avoid causing trouble to politicians in Taiwan, China. Yang Han's father, Yang Zhengmin, is a member of the Chinese Communist Party, and Yang Han himself is an important scholar in the "Xi'an Incident Research Field" in Chinese mainland.
Zhang Xueliang is more cautious about these people with official backgrounds on the mainland.
1.Zhang Xueliang's death aroused the attention of both sides of the strait. In October 2001, Hawaii time, Mr. Zhang Xueliang, a patriotic Chinese general, passed away peacefully in Hawaii at the age of 101.
After the death of General Zhang Xueliang, Mr. Yang Han, who was living abroad, expressed his condolences to Zhang Xueliang's family and devoted the rest of his life to promoting it"Xi'an Incident"research and both sides of the strait"Peaceful reunification"Career.
In 2013, coinciding with the 120th anniversary of the birth of General Yang Hucheng, Mr. Yang Han united"Xi'an Incident Research Association"A significant academic symposium was held in the ancient city of Xi'an, on the topic of his grandfather, Yang Hucheng.
Before the event began, he also specially commissioned a few friends to go to Taiwan to invite experts and scholars to attend the meeting, because as far as he knew, there was very limited publicity and records about the Xi'an incident in Taiwan, China.
He hopes to take this opportunity to show his grandfather Yang Hucheng to the world again"Loyal and patriotic"of a lifetime. 2.Zhang Xueliang's death has attracted attention on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
In October 2001, Mr. Zhang Xueliang, a Chinese national hero, died in Hawaii at the age of 101. After the death of General Zhang Xueliang, Mr. Yang Han, who lived overseas, expressed his deep condolences to Zhang Xueliang's family and devoted all his energy and time to promoting it for the rest of his life"Xi'an Incident"research and both sides of the strait"Peaceful reunification"Career.
In 2013, on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the birth of General Yang Hucheng, Mr. Yang Han united"Xi'an Incident Research Association"A significant academic symposium was held in the ancient city of Xi'an, on the topic of his grandfather, Yang Hucheng.
Before the event began, he also specially commissioned a few friends to go to Taiwan to invite some experts and scholars to attend the meeting, because as far as he knew, the propaganda and records of the Xi'an incident in Taiwan, China were quite limited.
He wanted to take this rare opportunity to show his grandfather Yang Hucheng to the world again"Loyal and patriotic"of a lifetime.
Restored on both sides of the strait"Tee"Later, Yang Han wrote many letters to the leaders of the Taiwan authorities, demanding that the Kuomintang apologize for the actions of its ancestor, General Yang Hucheng, for no reason. However, there was no official response from the KMT, and the matter was shelved.
In 2014, Yang Han proposed at the meeting to strengthen the protection of the site of the Xi'an Incident, especially"Xijing Guest House"with"Gao Guizi Mansion", because it was once the place where Chiang Kai-shek's soldiers and troops were imprisoned, and it has extremely high historical research value.
Since then, Yang Han has actively participated in various important meetings and made suggestions for the development and progress of our country. This may be his responsibility as a descendant of General Yang Hucheng.
Regardless of their beliefs, positions, or status, the three generations of the Yang family have always insisted on safeguarding the interests of the motherland and the people with practical actions, and this is the family style of General Yang Hucheng.
Although Yang Hucheng and his family in history have passed away, their righteousness and righteousness will always live in our hearts. A gunshot next to Huaqing Pond in Xi'an made the Chinese nation unite as one and face difficulties together.
Now, when we look back at the past, we will find that the Chinese nation has confidently stood tall among the nations of the world, and we are happier and stronger than at any other time in history.
As long as the Chinese nation is united, there will be no difficulties that cannot be overcome. Today, we are in the best period in history, and we have reason to believe that in the future, our people will be happier, our country will be stronger, and our path will be incomparably solid and broad.