In many film and television dramas, we will see such a picture: the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army are stationed in villages, and they must first do three things - sweeping the floor, carrying water, and chopping firewood.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army wore the costumes of the National Revolutionary Army, and the military hats wore the "Blue Sky and White Sun" badge.
After the defeat of the mainland and the retreat to Taiwan, many Kuomintang people were reflecting on themselves: Where did the Kuomintang lose?
Kuomintang officials basically attributed the reasons for the defeat to military strategic mistakes, official corruption, factional struggles, and army weariness, but they were ashamed to admit the fact that they had lost the hearts and minds of the people.
However, Mr. Jiang Weiguo, the second son of the Jiang family, is more realistic, and he has told several things he has personally experienced on many occasions, especially the fact that he was slapped twice.
Through these two ironic events, Jiang Weiguo came to a conclusion: I finally understood why ordinary people tended to the Communist Party.
Chiang Wai-kuo was not Chiang Kai-shek's biological son, but Chiang Kai-shek treated him as his own and was very fond of him.
Jiang Weiguo recalled in his later years: "From childhood to adulthood, my father would sometimes be rude to my brother, but he never touched a finger of mine. ”
However, Jiang Weiguo was slapped by the Kuomintang military police more than once.
What's going on?
Who ate the leopard's guts and dared to do something to the second son of the Jiang family?
Here's the thing.
In the 1930s, Jiang Weiguo was still studying at Dongwu High School in Suzhou, and every weekend, he would take a train back to his home in Nanjing.
One weekend, Jiang Weiguo took a train back to Nanjing, and across from him sat two beautiful girls in fashionable clothes.
As soon as the train started, two gendarmes came to the carriage, and they stopped next to the two girls.
The two gendarmes interrogated endlessly, and the two girls were also very cooperative, answering the gendarmes' questions one by one truthfully.
However, the two gendarmes were obviously looking for fault, and the more they asked, the more outrageous they became, and their words were full of ridicule and ridicule.
In the end, the gendarmes were so "addicted" that they had to get up and search them.
Jiang Weiguo really couldn't look at it, so he stood up and stopped, "You guys are too much!" ”
"Who are you?" Who are you? Put a finger in every pie! "The gendarmes didn't pay any attention to a young man who looked like a student.
Jiang Weiguo said indignantly, "Lawlessness like you can be stopped by anyone!" ”
When the gendarmes heard this, they immediately became angry: "This is a routine inspection, and you are not a little bold enough to obstruct us from carrying out our official duties!" ”
Jiang Weiguo sneered: "Are you a 'routine inspection'?" It's an insult to women! ”
The gendarmes' faces could not be hung up, and one of the gendarmes became angry, grabbed Jiang Weiguo's collar, and casually slapped Jiang Weiguo.
The noise in the carriage alarmed a government official in the next carriage, who hurried over and shouted to stop the troublemaking gendarmes: "Asshole! Must not be unreasonable! Do you know who he is? He is the second son of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek! ”
The two gendarmes suddenly turned pale with fright, and they were busy apologizing, and they almost fell to their knees and begged for forgiveness.
Naturally, these two gendarmes had no eyes and no pearls, and they dared to "move the soil on the head of the too old age", and it was inevitable that they would be blamed.
Jiang Weiguo wrote down the badge number of the gendarmes, and as soon as he arrived in Nanjing, he called the gendarmerie headquarters, and the two gendarmes were immediately detained.
Jiang Weiguo said: "If the person they hit was not me, things would have passed like that, and the military and police would have beaten people, cursed people, and bullied people at will, which has always been the case..."
The implication is that the Kuomintang military and police are commonplace in bullying people, and ordinary people can only swallow their anger and have no other way.
Coincidentally, in 1942, Jiang Weiguo was beaten again on the train from Xi'an to Tongguan, and he was beaten by a major in the Nationalist Army, but he was still slapped.
On that day, the train was very crowded, the aisles were full of people, and Jiang Weiguo had just sat down in his position when he saw a colonel officer of the Nationalist army walking towards him.
The colonel of the Nationalist Army stood still in front of Jiang Weiguo and pointed at Jiang Weiguo: "Hey, stand up and say what about you!" ”
Jiang Weiguo said inexplicably: "I have a ticket, which is the number of this seat." ”
The colonel of the nationalist army pointed to his own rank, and then pointed to Jiang Weiguo's rank: "What, you captain gave the colonel a seat, not too much." ”
Jiang Weiguo understood that he wanted to rely on his official rank to make way for him.
Jiang Weiguo said, "Sir, I..."
Before he could finish speaking, the colonel of the Nationalist Army slapped him and "snapped", and Jiang Weiguo's face suddenly hurt fiercely.
Jiang Weiguo's national qi did not come out, just wanted to attack, the colonel of the nationalist army had already pulled out a pistol, and the muzzle of the black hole hole was on top of Jiang Weiguo's brain.
"Good men don't eat the losses in front of them", Jiang Weiguo reluctantly gave up his seat and found an open space in the toilet door to sit on the ground.
Unexpectedly, after a while, the colonel of the Nationalist Army ran over in a panic, and when he saw Jiang Weiguo, he knelt down with a "poof" sound.
It turned out that a person in the carriage recognized Jiang Weiguo, and he told the colonel of the Nationalist Army: "You have caused a great disaster, and the person you just hit is the second son of Chairman Jiang!" ”
The colonel of the Nationalist army was half frightened and half dead, and quickly ran to Jiang Weiguo to beg for forgiveness.
He knelt in front of Jiang Weiguo, slapped his own face, and at the same time burst into tears, begging bitterly: "Forgive me for having no eyes and pearls, offending Jiang Gongzi, beg Jiang Gongzi to let me go, pity me, I still have an eighty-year-old old woman in my family..."
When talking about this past, Jiang Weiguo did not say the subsequent results.
However, having offended Chiang Kai-shek's second son, even if Chiang Weiguo did not pursue him, the colonel of the Nationalist Army would live in fear for a long time.
When recalling this past, Jiang Weiguo said with emotion: "At that time, this was the situation in the army, and the common people hid when they saw the soldiers. ”
In fact, Jiang Weiguo was only half right, and such a situation was not only strange in the Kuomintang army system, but also widespread in the Kuomintang governments at all levels.
No matter who it is, as long as they have a little power on hand, they can show off their might, even in the fish and meat town.
At that time, the common people and the Kuomintang government (army) were incompatible, while the relationship between the Communist Party and the people was fish and water.
Jiang Weiguo also said a very interesting sentence:
"We can't help but admit that our government and army have lost to the Communist Party in dealing with the people."
"The chinese people are very real, you are good to him, he will naturally be good to you, everyone knows this truth, the Communist Party has done it, the people will naturally be inclined to them."
Some people joked: The two slaps made Jiang Weiguo realize the truth of "why the common people are inclined to the Communist Party.", so that Jiang Weiguo did not lose money at all.
There are many reasons why the Kuomintang lost the hearts and minds of the people and finally lost Jiangshan, and what Jiang Weiguo said is only one of them.
History is a mirror, "with copper as a mirror, you can wear a crown; with history as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall." ”
Let's learn from history!