Text/Xu Yongchao
With the collapse of the Kuomintang regime, a group of senior Kuomintang officials followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan. On the strange island of Taiwan, what kind of life will they usher in?
The Chen brothers
During their time on the mainland, the brothers Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu controlled the kuomintang's organizational personnel and party affairs funds management power, forming the CC department. After the Nationalist government moved to Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek was determined to completely transform the Kuomintang, which meant moving the power in the hands of the Chen brothers. After some deliberation, the brothers decided to adopt a strategy of retreating to advance, that is, taking the initiative to admit their mistakes and taking responsibility for the defeat on themselves. Unexpectedly, old Jiang did not eat this set, took the opportunity to dissolve the Central Party Department, and then eradicated the public opinion position and economic pillars of the CC Department one by one. The power in the hands of the Chen brothers was all transferred to Chiang Ching-kuo.
In August 1950, Chen Lifu left Taiwan, and before leaving, Chen Guofu, who was seriously ill, pulled his brother aside and said, "My brother also wants to go to the United States with you, but now that I am sick and have more than enough strength, you and my brother are separated this time, I am afraid that there will be no more day to see each other, and the flesh and bones compatriots will be separated, is it not providence?" Sure enough, in August of the following year, Chen Guofu died of lung disease due to ineffective treatment, and the two brothers changed from one side of heaven to a permanent separation of yin and yang. Chen Lifu, who moved to the United States, immersed himself in the study of Chinese culture, and in his later years he even devoted himself to cross-strait exchanges. In 2001, Chen Lifu died.
Yan Xishan
Yan Xishan, zi baichuan, longchi, born in 1883 in Wutai, Shanxi. While studying in Japan, he joined the League. After the Wuchang Uprising, he organized a new army to launch an uprising and became a veritable king of Shanxi. After 1949, he became the commander of the light pole, fled to the island of Taiwan, and became the titular chief executive. On March 1, 1950, Chiang Kai-shek was reinstated, and Yan Xishan led the cabinet to resign en masse.
Yan Xishan, who was light and light, moved his family to Yangmingshan, a suburb of Taipei. He missed the cave dwellings in his hometown in Shanxi so much that he ordered the doors and windows of his residence to be built in the shape of a cave dwelling. After the construction, he rented a field nearby, planted various flowers, fruits and vegetables, and lived a hermit-like life. In 1960, Yan Xishan died of illness in Taipei at the age of 78.
Bai Chongxi
Bai Chongxi, born in 1893 in Lingui County, Guangxi, is one of the representative figures of the new Gui clan and is known as "Little Zhuge Ge" in the military. At the end of 1948, together with Li Zongren, he forced Chiang Kai-shek to step down. However, under the fierce offensive of the People's Liberation Army, the Gui forces were completely annihilated, and Bai Chongxi did not have a single soldier in his hands. With illusions about Chiang Kai-shek, he and his whole family of more than twenty went to Taiwan. Since then, he has gradually become a prisoner of the order.
When Li Zongren returned to Beijing in 1965, Bai Chongxi's situation became even more difficult. On the morning of December 2, 1966, the adjutant found Bai Chongxi lying naked on the bed, his body had turned green, and the autopsy results showed that Bai Chongxi was poisoned and died. However, the official statement is that he died of a heart attack.
Mao Ren Feng
Born in 1898 in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, his original name was Mao Shanyu (毛善余), a native of Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, and was a close friend of Dai Kasa's hometown. In 1934, Dai Kasa transferred him to the military command. After Dai Kasa's death, Mao Renfeng pulled Zheng Jiemin off his horse and became the new director.
In the later stages of the civil war, Chiang Kai-shek instructed Mao Renfeng to select the most capable 3,000 people to enter Taiwan to prevent the infiltration of the mainland's underground party. Mao Renfeng obeyed the order and made great contributions to stabilizing Taiwan's political situation. However, Chiang Kai-shek was jealous of his power in the intelligence system, and after the situation stabilized, he set up a data group headed by Chiang Ching-kuo, stipulating that all reports of intelligence units should be submitted by the data group. Soon, the data set was renamed the "National Security Agency", and such an operation made Mao Renfeng an empty director with no authority.
The hollowed-out Mao Renfeng was unwilling in his heart, but he had no choice. In December 1956, Mao Renfeng died of depression at the age of 58. At first, Chiang Kai-shek did not say anything about Mao Renfeng's death. For this reason, Mao Renfeng's wife often went to Soong Meiling to cry and complain, and as a last resort, Chiang Kai-shek sent him to Bang Lian in a false manner and posthumously recognized Mao Renfeng as a second-class general in the army.
Wu Guozhen
Wu Guozhen (吴国桢), also spelled Zhizhi, was born in 1903 in Jianshi, Hubei Province, studied at Nankai Middle School and married Zhou Enlai yi. Later, the two parted ways, Wu Guozhen was admitted to Tsinghua University, studied in the United States after graduation, received a doctorate from Princeton University, and entered politics after returning to China. In 1946, he became the mayor of Shanghai. In April 1949, he came to Taiwan with his family. In December of the same year, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to win the support of the Americans, announced to the outside world that he would replace Chen Cheng as the new chairman of Taiwan Province.
During his tenure as provincial chairman, he devoted himself to promoting the building of democracy in Taiwan, and he also made many speeches to Chiang Kai-shek to implement the democratic system. In 1953, Wu Guozhen resigned as chairman of Taiwan Province and went to the United States with his wife. After arriving in the United States, Wu Guozhen made several remarks attacking the Kuomintang's one-party dictatorship and the abuses of the secret agents, and Chiang Kai-shek became angry and embarrassed, fabricated thirteen charges against him, announced his expulsion from the party, and proposed to the US Government to extradite Wu Guozhen, but the US Government refused. This is the sensational "Wu Guozhen Incident."
In 1982, the son-in-law brought back from the mainland a photograph of Wu Guozhen and Zhou Enlai. Looking at the photos and remembering his former friend, Wu Guozhen couldn't help but have mixed feelings and composed a poem: Seventy years of events, and now I witness it. Married as brothers, and later as a different lord. Dragons and tigers change, ups and downs. Although the direction is different, the purpose is the same as Kuangfu. I am unpaid, and I sprinkle the soil. Life is impermanent, and tears break the sand. Two years later, Wu Guozhen suffered a heart attack and died at home in the United States.
Zhu Jiahua
Zhu Jiahua (朱家骅), born in 1893 in Wuxing County, Zhejiang Province, is the founder of modern Chinese geology. During the Revolution, he went south to Guangzhou and became president of Sun Yat-sen University. At the recommendation of Dai Jitao, Zhu Jiahua was able to enter Chiang Kai-shek's field of vision. After the establishment of the National Government in Nanjing, Zhu Jiahua stepped from the academic circles into the political circles, and after serving as the head of the Kuomintang organization, he became the third person in the party.
After the defeat of the Chiang Kai-shek regime in Taiwan, Zhu Jiahua once served as vice president of the Executive Yuan. After his resignation, he devoted all his energy to academia and made many contributions to the reconstruction of the Academia Sinica. In 1957, Zhu Jiahua resigned as acting dean, and his position was succeeded by Hu Shi. In 1962, he attended the academy's meetings for the last time as an academician. The following year, Zhu Jiahua died of illness at his home in Taipei at the age of 70.
Yu Right Ren
Yu Youren, formerly known as Boxun, was born in 1879 in Sanyuan, Shaanxi Province, and was a Kuomintang elder and a famous calligrapher. In April 1949, yu's family went to Shanghai under the coercion of officers sent by Chiang Kai-shek, and then he was "helped" to board a plane to Taiwan. In order to decorate the façade, Chiang Kai-shek deliberately made him the president of the "Control Yuan."
When he arrived in Taiwan, Yu Youren was already a septuagenarian. With the passage of time, his longing for his hometown has increased day by day, and after participating in the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Republic of China, Yu Youren was sad and sad, and wrote in his diary that night: "After a hundred years, I would like to be buried in a high place with many trees in Yushan or Alishan, and I can look at the mainland at all times." "
A few days later, he wrote a poem "Looking at the Continent" at dawn:
Bury me on a high mountain, look at my continent;
The mainland is invisible, only weeping;
Bury me on the high mountain, look at my hometown;
The hometown is invisible and can never be forgotten;
The sky is clear, the wilderness is vast, and on the mountain, the country is ruined!
Two years after writing the poem, Yu Youren passed away at Taipei Veterans Hospital at the age of 85.