Du Yuming was a rare general in the Kuomintang camp, but he had no choice but to choose the wrong camp, and as a result, he could only serve as the Jiang dynasty"Fire Captain", exhausted on various battlefields, and finally unable to get rid of the end of defeat.
In the war criminals management center, Du Yuming accepted reform, actively carried out reform, took the initiative to confess many of his crimes, and finally became the first batch of war criminals to be amnestied, and regained his freedom in 1959.
However, General Du Yuming kept a secret until five years after his death, that is, in 1986, when the book "General Du Yuming" jointly written by his subordinates Zheng Dongguo, Hou Jingru, Zheng Tingji, Yang Botao and others was made public.
It turned out that in the northeast, General Du Yuming had planned a plan with far-reaching implications. If his plan had been implemented, the war of liberation could have had a different outcome.
The Northeast region, with its vast land and abundant products, has been the "Land of Longxing" since ancient times. In the 20th century, Northeast China became the region with the strongest industrial base in China, and with rich agricultural and mineral resources, Northeast China had decisive strategic significance.
Therefore, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party sent elite soldiers and strong generals to the northeast to seize this strategic high ground. Our party selected outstanding military and political cadres such as ** and Peng Zhen, and the Kuomintang was not far behind, and sent General Du Yuming to serve as the commander of the Northeast Security Command, leading the two elite troops of the 13th Army and the 52nd Army to parachute into the Northeast.
At that time, the situation in the northeast was ostensibly favorable to our army, after all, the occupiers were the Soviet Red Army, which supported our party, but in fact, the Soviets were actually partial to the Kuomintang because of their selfish chauvinistic style.
Therefore, in the handover of the Northeast, the Soviets handed over many large cities and countless strategic resources to the Kuomintang army.
The people in the Northeast, who were emotionally biased towards the Kuomintang, made Du Yuming smooth sailing in the early stage of the war in the Northeast and achieved remarkable results. However, Du Yuming, as a rare rational figure in the Kuomintang camp, was well aware that these advantages were not stable.
The deep-seated corruption of the Kuomintang could wipe out these short-lived advantages at any moment. Therefore, instead of greedily pursuing wealth like other Kuomintang generals, Du Yuming decided to create a university to train military and political talents with both moral character and professional talent for the Kuomintang, and quickly deployed them throughout the Northeast.
Only in this way will the Kuomintang be able to gain the upper hand in the long-term competition with the Communists. Du Yuming, who has been in the Kuomintang army for many years, knows very well that the Kuomintang does not lack military personnel, but lacks all kinds of cadres who are fair and honest and have both ability and political integrity, and only such talents can go deep into the bottom of society and win the support of the people like the Communist Party.
Therefore, Du Yuming can undoubtedly be regarded as a rare wise person in the Kuomintang camp.
Du Yuming responded positively, he won over the elite in the education circles, and invited many celebrities from Northeast China to serve as directors, in order to allow more people to participate in the construction of the university and reduce the resistance within the Kuomintang.
This university has opened a number of majors such as the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Engineering, the College of Chemistry, and the College of Agriculture, which fully meet the needs of the developed industry and agriculture in the Northeast region. In Du Yuming's view, after graduation, these talents will become a powerful force in the development of Northeast society, go deep into every corner of society, change the public opinion of Northeast society, and ultimately have a positive impact on the situation in Northeast China.
In order to gain Chiang Kai-shek's support, Du Yuming even named the university "Chung Cheng University". Chiang Kai-shek was very happy when he learned about it and immediately gave him strong support.
At the beginning, the people of Northeast China had hope for the Kuomintang, and this university also carried their expectations, attracting many aspiring young people to sign up, and it became a major event in Northeast China for a while.
Mr. Du's start looked good, but the irreparable corruption of the Kuomintang soon began to erode the school. For example, although Chiang Kai-shek promised to provide the most important issue of funding, he was not heard from later, and he preferred to invest the funds in the army.
The so-called "directors" pay lip service to impassionedness, but when it comes time to pay for it, no one wants to. Du Yuming had no choice but to embezzle it from military spending, but there was no other income to make up for it, and once the military was tense, there would be problems with military spending.
As a result, Du Yuming was forced to withdraw from the Northeast, and his place was taken over by Chen Cheng, who had long been at odds with him.
When some students who were unwilling to give in were exiled to Beiping, they held a ** march, and were shot by the military and police because of the corruption of the Kuomintang, resulting in a tragedy. For Du Yuming, this is an unforgettable pain, but at the same time, it is also a past that he cannot change.
Although he confessed his crime at the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center, he did not say a word about that painful past, perhaps in his heart, this was not his "crime", but a hidden pain deeply imprinted in his heart.