During the Republic of China period, there was a high-ranking politician with a high IQ and good management, not only the "victorious general" on the mahjong table, but also the multiplication of 3 digits by 3 digits of mental arithmetic, the speed was amazing, and it was called the "strongest brain" at that time. He is Wu Dingchang, the first secretary general of the Presidential Office. He saw very early on that the Defeat of the Kuomintang on the mainland had been decided, but he delayed Chiang Kai-shek's "broken ship." Why was this?
I. Three "Career Ideals"
Wu Dingchang Character Daquan, Bei shu Qianxi, ancestral home of Wuxing, Zhejiang, was born in 1884 in Huayang, Sichuan. In his early years, he studied at Chengdu Zunjing College. He studied in Japan in 1903, joined the League in Tokyo in 1905, and graduated from the Tokyo Higher Business School in 1910. After returning to China, he entered the chinese business department. He successively served as the general office of the Benxi Lake Iron Ore Bureau, a sino-Japanese joint venture, and the jiangxi branch of the Daqing Bank, and in 1912 he was promoted to the chief supervisor of the Bank of China in Shanghai and joined the Communist Party. In 1914, he became the president of the Tianjin Mint General Factory, and in 1916 he became the president of the Bank of China.
In addition, in the name of himself or his wife Wu Shiyun, Wu Dingchang directly established or participated in private enterprises, such as The Huaxin Spinning Mill set up by Zhou Xuexi in Tianjin, Weihui and other places. When Wu Dingchang was the vice minister of finance of the Beiyang government, the Ministry of Finance accepted a bribe of 800,000 yuan in the Shanghai opium burning fraud case.
At that time, the chief financial officer was Cao Rulin, and the ministerial affairs were under the responsibility of wu Dingchang. According to Zhang Shizhao, the bribe was paid by Wu Alone. In January 1922, Wu Dingchang was appointed as the director of the Four Elements Savings Association of Salt Industry, Jincheng, Zhongnan and Mainland China, and became the head of the financial group. In 1926, he purchased the Tianjin "Ta Kung Pao", served as its president, and was also the president of the "Guowen Weekly" and the "Guowen News Agency", and organized the "Ta Kung Pao" Xinji Company. He turned the Ta Kung Pao into China's leading newspaper. The following year, he also served as the director of the "National News Agency".
Wu Dingchang has three major "career ideals": opening a bank, running a newspaper, and developing a school. Wu Dingchang later became a well-known financial giant and news giant in Hainan, and during his tenure as chairman of Guizhou Province, he also paid attention to the development of education, and vigorously supported the establishment of Guizhou University, Guiyang Medical College and Guiyang Normal College, so that Guizhou education has achieved unprecedented development. Wu Dingchang not only fulfilled the "three ideals" of the mission, but also prospered in the political circles.
Second, the official fortune is prosperous
Wu Dingchang was not only a Beiyang bureaucrat, but also held important positions in the National Government in Nanjing, successively serving as a member of the National Defense Design Commission and the minister of industry. From 1938 to 1945, he served as the chairman of Guizhou Province, the deputy director of the Yunnan Qianqian Appeasement Office, and the commander of security in Guizhou Province. He has been a key member of the government for 7 years on the ruling side.
During Wu Dingchang's presidency of the Qianzheng Dynasty, it was during the eight-year War of Resistance, and Guizhou was the rear of the War of Resistance. In this particular calendar
In the historical background, Wu Dingchang put forward the slogan of developing Guizhou and supporting the great southwest. First of all, the Kuomintang bureaucratic capital was introduced into Guizhou, the Guizhou Enterprise Company and the Agricultural, Industrial and Commercial Adjustment Committee were organized, and then various local bureaucratic capital enterprises were established in Guizhou, including about 20 in various industries such as chemical industry, coal mining, and commerce, with an investment amount of hundreds of millions of yuan. Thus making Guizhou, known as "no one has three points of silver", become a rear base for merchants and merchants and economic circulation, which has effectively promoted the development of Guizhou's productive forces. Wu Dingchang also paid attention to the development of education, and founded Guizhou University, Guiyang Medical College and Guiyang Normal College to achieve unprecedented development of education in Guizhou.
Wu Dingchang advocated that "the key to provincial government lies in county politics", appointed a large number of talents, attached importance to people's livelihood, developed education, and because of his outstanding achievements in the construction of Guizhou, in January 1945, he became the chief civil official of the National Government, the sixth Central Supervision Commission of the Kuomintang, and concurrently served as the secretary general of the Central Design Bureau. Wu Dingchang went on to realize one of his famous sayings: "Political capital has three magic weapons: one is a bank; the other is a newspaper; and the third is a school. ”
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wu Dingchang offered Chiang Kai-shek a "brilliant plan": Invite Mao Zedong to Chongqing to participate in peace talks, and if he did not come, it would show that the Chinese Communists were not sincere; if they did not come, they could rely on the Kuomintang's powerful military strength and diplomatic superiority to let the Communist Party retreat despite difficulties, and the Kuomintang could win without a fight; if the peace talks could not persuade the Chinese Communists, they could win time to dispatch troops and make preparations for a military settlement. Chiang Kai-shek thought this plan was quite wonderful, but after Mao Zedong went to Chongqing, he felt that this plan was "rotten."
Third, I am afraid that old Jiang will turn his face
Wu Dingchang is shrewd in nature, good at calculation, not only is the "changsheng general" on the mahjong table, but also a master of heart speed, able to quickly calculate the product of three digits and three digits, the speed is staggering, can be called the "strongest brain" at that time. Because he was good at business, Wu Dingchang also accumulated a considerable amount of personal property.
In the later stages of the Liberation War, Chiang Kai-shek's regime was crumbling, and Wu Dingchang saw that the situation was not good, and judged that the defeat of the Kuomintang regime on the mainland had been decided. In 1948, Wu Dingchang was reappointed secretary general of the Presidential Office, so why would Wu Dingchang, who was so shrewd, serve as the secretary general of this "mess" when the Kuomintang army was defeated one after another and the general situation was gone? Wu Dingchang and his friends revealed their bitter feelings: "I dare not resign, if old Jiang turns his face, he can detain all my property." Now that I have boarded Chiang Kai-shek's ship, how can I get off so easily? ”
At the end of 1948, Wu Dingchang published a notice in the Ta Kung Pao, declaring his resignation as a director of the new record of the Ta Kung Pao. After the Battle of Huaihai, Wu Dingchang stepped up his own property and sent all the foreign exchange that could be transferred abroad. Although the property was transferred, Because of his important position in the Kuomintang regime, Wu Dingchang ranked 17th among the 43 war criminals announced by the CCP in 1948.
In December 1948, when Chiang Kai-shek was about to announce his "retirement," Wu Dingchang naturally resigned from all government positions, including the secretary general of the Presidential Office, and went to Hong Kong the following spring to work as a public servant, and died of illness in 1950 at the age of 66.