In the revolutionary period, there were many heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country and died on the battlefield, but in that period there were also many traitors who betrayed the country and the people for their own selfish desires.
At that time, there was a member of our Party named Gu Shunzhang, who later surrendered to the enemy and rebelled, and Gu Shunzhang's defection caused very great losses to the revolution.
Gu Shunzhang later fought for the Kuomintang, but because his use value was almost gone, he was executed by Chiang Kai-shek. There are many traitors in history who mostly do not get a good ending, and Gu Shunzhang betrayed the Communist Party for his own selfish desires and was eventually punished.
Cai Mengjian, who captured the Communist traitor Gu Shunzhang, saved Wuhan University and the Wuhan First Spinning Factory during the War of Resistance, and later received Zhang Guotao, who after Zhang Guotao's death, helped Zhang Guotao's family take care of Zhang Guotao's affairs. Cai Mengjian has almost changed history twice, he is a long-lived man, living for 96 years.
Kuomintang member Cai Mengjian.
Cai Mengjian was born in 1905 in a small village in Luxi County, Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province. In middle school, Cai Mengjian secretly participated in the underground organization of the National Revolution led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Later, Cai Mengjian studied economics at Qingdao University, and after graduation, he went to Japan to study, and after graduating from Japan, Cai Mengjian joined the Investigation Department of the Organization Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Cai Mengjian actively participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan. In 1938, he participated in the very famous Battle of Wuhan, an important transportation hub in China, and after the fall of Nanjing, Wuhan became the temporary capital of the Nationalist government. At that time, Cai Mengjian served as the deputy commander of the Wuhan garrison, mainly responsible for the defense of Wuchang and Hanyang.
After the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Kai-shek once issued a call for a "scorched earth war of resistance.", for this call, there are two understandings in the army: First, destroy all production and living equipment, so that the Japanese army can get a scorched earth; second, fight with the Japanese army to the end, even if the Japanese army burns our country into a scorched earth, we still have to resist to the end.
Cai Mengjian once clashed with his superiors because of the understanding of this call.
Save Wuhan First Spinning Factory and Wuhan University
In the Battle of Wuhan, because the Combat Capability and Weapons and Equipment of the Japanese Army were stronger than those of Our Country, the Japanese Army bombed Wuhan later, and the casualties of the Nationalist Army were very large, and finally they could only withdraw from Wuhan.
The day before the withdrawal from Wuhan, Cai Mengjian received orders from his superiors to organize the bombing of the newly built Wuhan University and the Wuhan First Spinning Factory founded by Zhang Zhidong at the end of the Qing Dynasty, which was the largest factory in the country at that time, but the superiors ordered Cai Mengjian to blow it all up and raz it to the ground, and asked Cai Mengjian to personally command it and return the results after the blow-up.
After Cai Mengjian received Luo Zhuoying's order letter, he believed that it was not wise to bomb the school and bomb the factory, and the state invested a lot of money in Wuhan University, which was a place to cultivate outstanding talents for the country.
The Wuhan First Spinning Factory is a very valuable asset accumulated by China's modern industry, the Wuhan First Spinning Factory is still an enterprise that produces the necessities of the people's daily life, the spinning mill and the university are not military base facilities, and blowing them up will not be of any benefit to itself.
Not only that, but blowing them up will also destroy our national strength to a certain extent, affect the lives of the masses of the people, and then it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources to establish them later. Not only does the confrontation day have no benefits, but it also destroys the material conditions for resistance to the enemy.
Cai Mengjian has always dared to think and dare to do, "Will be outside, military orders are not subject to." This time Cai Mengjian recklessly and ordered his superiors to let his subordinates cancel the operation of bombing the school and bombing the factory. He preferred to pay the corresponding price for his actions, and later his superiors accepted Cai Mengjian's action to cancel the bombing of the school factory, and At Cai Mengjian's insistence, Wuhan University and the First Spinning Factory were saved.
During the Battle of Changsha shortly thereafter, the Changsha army set fire to some important buildings and residential areas without waiting for the enemy to enter the city, which later caused the people of Changsha to be displaced and homeless.
The people of Changsha City complained bitterly, and many people went to the provincial government and the Chongqing central government to petition, and for a while the people of Changsha City were panicked, and in order to stabilize the people's hearts and the hearts of the army, Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to remove the chairman of Hunan Province and shoot the commander of the Changsha garrison and the two chief officers. Only later did this storm calm down, and the facts proved that the decision made by Cai Mengjian before was very correct.
Governance of Lanzhou
In 1941, Lanzhou was established as a city, and Cai Mengjian served as the first mayor of Lanzhou. At this time, Lanzhou's economic foundation and infrastructure development were relatively backward, and Lanzhou was very seriously destroyed during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Cai Mengjian resolutely decided to develop and build in the city first, as the saying goes, "if you want to be rich, first build roads", Cai Mengjian widened the road, improved the traffic situation, and vigorously engaged in greening.
Some of Cai Mengjian's practices have harmed the interests of some capitalists, who have made many stumbling blocks for Cai Mengjian behind his back. Despite these pressures, Cai Mengjian insisted on continuing to promote the urban construction and development of Lanzhou.
When widening the road, most of the houses along the road were managed by the chairman of Qinghai Province and the chairman of Ningxia Province, Cai Mengjian personally went to seek the consent of the two provincial chairmen, and proposed to the chairman of Ningxia Province to name the road after his father's name, and the chairman of Ningxia Province was very happy to hear that this was a matter that both parties could benefit from, and then agreed to Cai Mengjian.
Later, after the road was successfully completed, when Chiang Kai-shek came to inspect, he was very appreciative of Cai Mengjian's approach, and later built Lanzhou into a post-war demonstration city.
Twice almost rewritten history
In 1931, the people of Hankou came to a magic troupe, and the chief magician, Hua Guangqi, was about twenty-seven or eight years old and slightly fat. His performance skills are very high, and he has won the love of many people.
In fact, this chief magician was a secret agent, eliminated many traitors and killed many Kuomintang agents, he was very talented and witty, so he escorted Zhang Guotao and Chen Changhao. After completing the task, Gu Shunzhang violated discipline and wanted to make some money, so he stayed in Hankou and disguised himself as a magician.
The traitor You Chongxin recognized Gu Shunzhang and reported it to Cai Mengjian, who knew that Gu Shunzhang was a very important figure in the Communist Party and quickly ordered Gu Shunzhang's arrest.
Gu Shunzhang, who was arrested, was very calm and offered to see Chiang Kai-shek. After some consideration, Cai Mengjian decided to send a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek first, but he did not know that "a mistake has caused hatred through eternity."
Later, because the Communists' undercover agents in Wuhan intercepted the telegram in advance and sent the contents to the underground contact address in Nanjing, the Nanjing Communists deciphered the top-secret telegram and took countermeasures, which turned the danger into a disaster.
Premier Zhou has recalled many times that if it were not for the "Three Masters of Longtan", they would not be there long ago. Later, Chairman Mao personally ordered gu shunzhang to be wanted. By 1934, Chiang Kai-shek believed that Gu Shunzhang had no use value, so he ordered Gu Shunzhang's execution.
If Cai Mengjian had not sent a telegram to his superiors at that time but had secretly sent Gu Shunzhang to Nanjing, he would not have been discovered by the Communist Party agents around him. At this time, China's history is likely to be rewritten.
The Japanese officer Okamura Ningji had always been a sworn enemy of the Communist Party, and at the beginning of the founding of New China, Chiang Kai-shek wanted Okamura Ningji to do things for himself and trained some officers.
Cai Mengjian was the intermediary between Chiang Kai-shek and Okamura Ningji, who secretly traveled to Japan. Later, after this matter was exposed, the masses of the people vigorously opposed it, and public opinion at this time was very unfavorable to Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek pushed the matter onto Cai Mengjian, who had to flee to the United States.
If the plans of Cai Mengjian and Chiang Kai-shek had succeeded, much of China's history could have changed.
In 1948, Zhang Guotao and his wife defected to their son who was far away in Canada, and in 1976, when Zhang Guotao suffered a stroke, Zhang Guotao's wife went to Cai Mengjian to discuss how to get through the difficulties. Later, after Zhang Guotao's death, Cai Mengjian relayed to Chiang Ching-kuo that a few days later, Taiwan remitted 3500 US dollars to Cai Mengjian to let him deal with Zhang Guotao's affairs.
brief summary:
Once Cai Mengjian almost changed history, but due to various coincidences, he failed. Cai Mengjian later settled in the United States and died in the United States in 2001 at the age of 96.
From Cai Mengjian's deeds, we can see that Cai Mengjian is an officer with excellent military talents, he can sympathize with the suffering of the people, and has his own standards of judgment, dares to think and dare to do, has the courage to bear the consequences of what he does, is very resourceful and flexible, and is good at being flexible.
In the long river of history, there are many great heroes, but some of the "inconspicuous" characters we think of, they are flesh and blood people, they have left their own traces in history.
Therefore, we should have a pair of eyes that are good at discovering the excellent characteristics of historical figures. Figures like this, even if covered by the waves of history, still glitter in the corners.