Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law was forced by Old Chiang Kai-shek to become a monk just because he looked at Soong Mei-ling a few more times that year, so what was going on?
This person's name is Wang Bailing, born in 1888 in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, a scholarLymendi, his grandfather and father are famous in the local area, specializing in lecturing young masters and young ladies in large local households, born in this kind of family, Wang Bailing received the baptism of cultural knowledge from an early age.
However, in addition to reading, he also liked to learn martial arts, and at the age of 14, he entered the Jiangsu Army Primary School in Nanjing, and was later guaranteed to the Army Accelerated School, the predecessor of the Baoding Officer School, because of his excellent grades.
During his time at school, he was fortunate to be exposed to the baptism of revolutionary ideas, the corruption of the Qing Dynasty made the aspiring young people at that time resentful, and the constitutionalists led by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao also failed, which made them realize that only by overthrowing the Qing Dynasty by force could they save the country.
In this regard, Wang Bailing, who was deeply concerned, became acquainted with Chiang Kai-shek, who was a fellow traveler, and both of them were young people with lofty ideals who were interested in revolution, and soon became brothers because of their similar interests.
In 1908, because of their excellent grades, the two obtained the quota of official students who were guaranteed to study in Japan, and after hearing the news, Wang Bailing was ecstatic, because Japan was a holy place for Chinese young people with lofty aspirations to study abroad.
It turned out that after Japan defeated the great power Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, it caused a huge reaction in our country, and the people of the country saw that Japan, which was also closed to the country before, was able to defeat the Western powers in just a few decades after passing the reform and reform of the law, and thought that Japan was very worthy of our study, so a wave of Japanese study abroad was set off in China, and both intellectuals and military cadets were proud to study in Japan.
Therefore, Wang Bailing and Chiang Kai-shek happily rushed to Japan, applied for the same artillery major, and studied at the Zhenwu School in Japan for three years.
After graduation, the two were assigned to the 13th Field Artillery Regiment of the 13th Regiment of the Japanese Army as non-commissioned officers as cadets, and because the revolutionaries led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen at that time set up the League Association in Japan, Zhang Bailing and Chiang Kai-shek, who were keen on revolution, agreed to join the League and follow Mr. Sun to engage in revolutionary causes.
Soon, the Xinhai Revolution broke out, and Chiang Kai-shek, who had a keen sense of political smell, hurriedly dragged Wang Bailing back to China and said that he wanted to do something important, and Wang Bailing returned to China with him out of trust in his good brother, threw himself into Chen Qimei's account, and participated in the battle of Guangning and Zhejiang, and the friendship between the two was also sublimated.
However, the failure of the second revolution to please Yuan changed the fate of the two, and Chiang Kai-shek planned to temporarily take refuge in seclusion and then continue to engage in revolutionary activities, but Wang Bailing was determined to go east to Japan again to study, and the two separated.
After graduating, Wang Bailing entered the tenth term of the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, and after graduation, he returned to China just in time for the War of Defending France, and on the recommendation of Chen Qimei and Chiang Kai-shek, he joined the Yuan Army in Shandong and continued to contribute to the revolutionary cause.
After the war, at the invitation of the Yunnan warlord Tang Jiyao, he served as the chief educator of the Yunnan TangWutang, where he taught for seven years and trained a large number of military talents.
In 1923, Dr. Sun Yat-sen ordered Chiang Kai-shek to organize the Whampoa Military Academy, and Chiang Kai-shek, who was at a loss for education, first thought of Zhang Bailing, who was experienced in education.
Zhang Bailing is a professional military education talent, but also his own good brother, is an absolutely trustworthy person, thinking of this he repaired a letter, asked Yunnan Daowutang to help build the school, Wang Bailing went happily, and also brought a large number of instructors to help.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, there was a shortage of talents and a lot of affairs, and the experienced Wang Bailing was appointed as a member of the Preparatory Committee and the director of the Professor department of the Whampoa Military Academy, with full responsibility for the establishment of the school.
The outline of the Whampoa Military Academy's education plan, the formulation of rules and regulations, and the compilation of teaching materials are inseparable from Wang Bailing; he actually worked 18 hours a day for the affairs of the military academy, and later established the Sun Wen doctrine Society, which can be said to have paid great efforts for the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, and is one of the well-deserved founders of the Whampoa Military Academy.
However, Wang Bailing was a talent in education, but his performance in the war was not satisfactory, originally because of Wang Bailing's outstanding contributions, he and Chiang Kai-shek together formed the power core of the early Whampoa Military Academy, and jointly controlled the party, government and military affairs of Huangpu.
In the early days, He Yingqin could not compare with Wang Bailing in terms of prestige and status, and it was not until later because of Wang Bailing's own poor performance in actual combat during the Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition that He Yingqin replaced Wang Bailing.
During the First Crusade of the National Revolutionary Army, Wang Bailing was responsible for leading the Teaching Second Regiment, one of the only two regiments of the Whampoa Student Army, to attack the City of Tamsui in Huizhou controlled by Chen Jiongming.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was supervising the battle, saw that it was not good, found a temple to hide, and fortunately, with the help of Ye Jianying's Second Division of the Cantonese Army and He Yingqin's teaching regiment, he barely won the Battle of Tamsui and saved the situation.
During the Northern Expedition, Wang Bailing was then the commander of the First Division of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, which was considered to be a concubine of the Concubine Clan, and he led the First Division to conquer Nanchang, a major town controlled by the warlord Sun Chuanfang, and the future could have been bright, but Wang Bailing, who was overwhelmed, actually left his troops to spend the day and drink and covet pleasure.
At this time, Sun Chuanfang, who learned of the loss of Nanchang, mobilized heavy troops to prepare to retake the city, and when Sun Chuanfang's army launched an attack, the First Division could not contact Zhang Bailing at all, so the leaderless First Division lost the Niuhang station on the other side of Nanchang, and was then surrounded and defeated by Sun Chuanfang.
Zhang Bailing, who fell in Nanchang and knew that he had run into a catastrophe, slipped away again as early as when Sun Chuanfang's army was besieging the city, so Wang Bailing became a famous "fleeing general" in the Kuomintang.
After the war, Chiang Kai-shek, who hated iron and steel, dismissed him from his military post and let him go home to idle, but He Yingqin, who had no bad style and was good at commanding wars, was promoted by Chiang Kai-shek, and eventually formed the leadership situation of the Huangpu "Jiang He" department.
Although Chiang Kai-shek was greatly disappointed by Wang Bailing, after all, Wang Bailing had a deep friendship with him, and it was not long before Chiang Kai-shek promoted Wang Bailing to the commander of the Yangtze River Fortress in order to promote his comrades, and then to the director of the Construction Department of the Jiangsu Provincial Government.
Wang Bailing may really just not be good at fighting, but he does have a few brushes in other ways, and during the Jiangsu administration, he presided over the construction of the national highway from Nanjing to Hangzhou.
At that time, Nanjing's foreign transportation all relied on the Beijing-Shanghai railway and shipping, not to mention the huge traffic pressure, once the war broke out, it would inevitably lead to traffic interruption, at this time the threat of the Japanese army was approaching step by step, the National Government must always be ready to transfer manpower and materials to the rear, and Nanjing had no way to go to the south, so it was necessary to build a national highway connecting Nanjing and Hangzhou, and it was necessary to transfer to the rear through Hangzhou, but on the construction of the national highway, Wang Bailing had a fierce conflict with the local people and the central financial authorities.
Originally, from Nanjing to Hangzhou, there were many mountains and lakes, and it was necessary to take a detour to build a road, but Wang Bailing believed that this would increase the distance, and in order to save time and effort, it should be cut and straightened, and a national highway should be built in a straight line, but in this way, a large number of fields should be requisitioned, the mountains should be blasted, and the rivers and lakes should be filled.
The local people resolutely protested in order to defend their homeland, and the financial authorities protested that it was too expensive, but Wang Bailing ignored the opposition and implemented it forcefully, and finally built it according to the original plan, and later proved that Wang Bailing's idea was correct.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the equipment and materials transferred from Nanjing to the rear were transported from this Beijing-Hangzhou National Highway to Hangzhou, then to Jiangxi, and finally to the rear area, which laid the foundation for the future protracted War of Resistance.
During Wang Bailing's reign, he did not forget to build his hometown, and during his tenure, he raised funds to build a number of scenic spots and monuments such as wuting bridge and Tianning Temple.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Wang Bailing, who had a patriotic heart, did not want to continue to be a civilian official, and proposed to Chiang Kai-shek to lead troops to fight with the Japanese army, and Chiang Kai-shek could not believe in his military talent at this time, so he only gave him the post of commander-in-chief of the Shanghai Student Volunteer Army, allowing him to symbolically cooperate with the Shanghai 19th Route Army in the War of Resistance.
After the defeat of the Songhu War of Resistance and the fall of Jiangsu, Wang Bailing followed the Nationalist government to retreat to the rear, moved his family west, and fled to Luoyang, Henan, when Wang Bailing participated in the "National Disaster Conference" held by Chiang Kai-shek.
At the meeting, Chiang Kai-shek, who had offended Liu Zhi, chairman of the Henan Provincial Government, and who had completely disappointed Wang Bailing because of his generous and outspoken words, did not protect him this time, and this time he was completely idle.
After living in Chongqing, Wang Bailing recalled that from Jiangsu to Chongqing, he not only suffered from bumps and hardships in the wind and dust, but also encountered major setbacks in his career, and Wang Bailing, who was dreary in his heart, had to use religious enlightenment to liberate himself.
He chose to convert to Buddhism, and since then he has indulged in Buddhist scriptures, and often traveled to Yunnan to participate in Buddhist activities, and had close contacts with the famous monk Yin Guang at that time.
It is said that the real reason why Wang Bailing was left idle was not because he offended Liu Zhi at the meeting held in Luoyang, but because he looked at Song Meiling a few times at the meeting.
As the first lady, how could she tolerate someone offending her in this way, so she told Chiang Kai-shek afterwards, and Chiang Kai-shek decided to idle Wang Bailing for this reason, forcing him to believe in Buddhism and become a monk.
In 1942, Wang Bailing was transferred to a hospital in Chengdu for treatment due to advanced tuberculosis, and finally died of a serious illness on August 26 at the age of 54.
After the news of Wang Bailing's death came out, the Military and Political Leaders of the Kuomintang sent wreaths one after another to tie the knot, and those who could not come also sent telegrams of condolences and condolences; Chiang Kai-shek also sent a horizontal white cloth plaque with a special inscription, and sent a large amount of pensions and funeral expenses.
It was not until 1948 that Wang Bailing's ashes were buried in his hometown of Yangzhou.