He was a first-class general of the Kuomintang, 57 years old as the commander of the First Theater, and also the chairman of Henan Province, at the age of 67 with General Chen Mingren led the hunan "peaceful uprising telegram", the Kuomintang announced his expulsion from the party, 70 to serve as the governor of the new China Hunan Province, then who is he, what is his life? Let's review it together.
He was Cheng Qian, a native of Lianchong Village, the mayor of Beixiang Township, Liling County, Hunan Province, who was admitted to The Yuelu Academy in Changsha in 24 years, studied at the Yuelu Academy in Changsha two years later, was admitted to the Changsha Wubei Academy in 29 years, and went east to Japan to study the following year, where he met revolutionary party members Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren, Li Liejun, and others, accepted the ideas of democratic revolution, and soon joined the League to follow Dr. Sun Yat-sen to participate in the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal democratic revolution.
After graduating at the end of 1908, he returned to China and went to Sichuan to train the new army. In 1910 he became a staff officer of the Seventeenth Town. After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, he went to Wuchang to assist Huang Xing in commanding the artillery counterattack on Hankou (he had studied artillery at the Japanese Army Officer School). After the establishment of the Republic of China, he served as the head of the Hunan Military Department. After Yuan Shikai stole the success of the Xinhai Revolution, he went to Yunnan to join the Patriotic War, and was ordered by Cai Yi to recruit envoys for Hunan, and went to Hunan to gather his old troops against Yuan, and was promoted to be the commander-in-chief of the Xiang Army.
In 1917, Sun Yat-sen launched the Dharma Protection Movement, Cheng Qian contacted the old ministry to support it, and was appointed as the commander of the Hunan Protector Army.In April 1924, Sun Yat-sen appointed Cheng Qian, minister of military affairs, and president, and on January 12, 1925, He qian led the division commander to drive straight in and stationed in Shaoguan Maba. On January 6, 1926, the Kuomintang Political Committee decided to appoint Cheng Qian as the commander of the Sixth Army.
During the period of the agrarian revolution, he successively served as commander-in-chief of the Jiujiang Garrison, member of the National Government, member of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, chief of staff of the Military Commission, re-entered the military and political affairs, general of the army, and standing committee member of the Military Commission, and during the War of Resistance Against Japan, he successively served as a second-class army general, chief of the general staff, commander of the First Theater, chairman of Henan Province, and deputy general staff officer of the Military Commission, and commanded the famous Lanfeng Campaign.
In early 1949, he contacted our Party, and then on August 4, 1949, he and Chen Mingren led the announcement of the "Peaceful Uprising Electrification" in Hunan, and the Kuomintang announced his expulsion from the party. After the founding of New China, he served as vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, member of the Central People's Government, and governor of Hunan Province, and made great contributions to the cause of new China's construction and reunification. He died in Beijing on April 5, 1968, at the age of 86.