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Behind the Back of Su Yu, God of War (61)
In the previous section, we talked about why the central government moved from Shanghai to the Central Soviet Region, which in turn affected the course of Chinese history.
From the perspective of the Kuomintang, chiang kai-shek had two important things to do while encircling and suppressing the Red Army, one was to weaken the strength of the local powerful factions as soon as possible, and the other was to integrate his internal forces as soon as possible to consolidate his rule. Because at this time, Chiang Kai-shek's rule was not solid. If we look at chiang kai-shek's development process, we will find that there are three key nodes that are very important.
First, he took office as the president of the Whampoa Military Academy, and through the platform of the Whampoa Military Academy, a large number of people were drawn together, and the graduates of the Whampoa Military Academy formed the backbone of Chiang Kai-shek's troops.
The second was the Northern Expedition, through which Chiang Kai-shek's concubine power was rapidly expanding, forming a strength advantage over other warlords, which was the key to his victory in the Central Plains.
The third is the marriage of Jiang and Song. This key is often overlooked, in fact, the combination of Jiang and Song is essentially a combination of new warlord power and economic capital, and Song Meiling is the representative of the big consortium.
The process of Chiang Kai-shek ascending to the leadership of the Kuomintang was very difficult, and he also learned many methods of co-opting people, mainly economic temptations, promises at the post, and calling his son a brother and a brother, in addition to these common means, Chiang Kai-shek also used marriage to win over his confidants.
Marriage is actually a variant of the beauty plan. Ancient Chinese military books say: "The strong soldier attacks his general; the soldier wise man cuts his feelings." The meaning of this sentence is: attack his general for an enemy with strong troops, and strike at his emotions against a wise enemy. And a very important means of combating emotions is to use beauty. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wang Yun used the mink cicada to strike at Lü Bu's emotions, and as a result, Dong Zhuo was killed.
During the Three Kingdoms period, after Dong Zhuo grasped the power of the imperial court, he did whatever he wanted, and many people dared to be angry about it, an important reason was that Dong Zhuo's soldiers were strong and strong, especially Dong Zhuo's righteous son Lü Bu was the number one military general in the Three Kingdoms, and he was extremely brave.
Situ Wang Yun believed that Dong Zhuo was the source of chaos in the imperial court and that Dong Zhuo must be eliminated, but Wang Yun knew that if he wanted to get rid of Dong Zhuo head-on, it was a fantasy, and the only way was to create a rift between Dong Zhuo and Lü Bu, and use Lü Bu, who was easily agitated, to kill Dong Zhuo. In fact, at this time, the capital available to Wang Yun was very limited, and the only useful capital was the beautiful singer and sable cicada in his family. So Wang Yun used the excuse to invite Lü Bu to his home and let the mink cicada come out to persuade him to drink. Lü Bu was really fascinated at first sight. When Wang Yun saw Lü Bu's heart, he said that the mink cicada was his own dry daughter and was willing to give her to Lü Bu, and Lü Bu was naturally overjoyed.
A few days later, Wang Yun pulled Dong Zhuo to his house to drink. The mink cicadas poured wine and danced again. The lustful Dong Zhuo saw the beautiful mink cicada and immediately showed a salivating look. Wang Yun pushed the boat along the water and gave the mink cicada to Dong Zhuo. This naturally stirred Lü Bu's emotions.
In fact, Wang Yun used the mink cicada to make Dong Zhuo and Lü Bu a love enemy. If this happens in the West, two people will have a duel, and the winner will be beautiful. However, Chinese pay attention to "soldiers, tricks also", and as a result, the emotional Lü Bu killed Dong Zhuo, who was stupid and in a high position.
It can be said that Luo Guanzhong used the beauty plan to create a new era of the Three Kingdoms Scuffle.
Wang Yun can be said to be a master of using beauty schemes, and in the narrow sense, beauty schemes refer to the use of beauty to achieve certain purposes, the most commonly used is to obtain intelligence, assassination, and so on. Beauty in a broad sense refers to the use of beauty to achieve a certain purpose, such as to co-opt a specific person to achieve the purpose of my use. Sun Yat-sen is very good at this aspect.
For example, after Sun Yat-sen married Soong Ching-ling, in order to win over Tan Yanmin, the governor and governor of Hunan Province, he introduced Soong Ching-ling's sister Song Meiling to Tan Yanmin, who was widowed and unmarried. At that time, Tan Yanmin was 45 years old, while Song Meiling was only 22 years old. Sun Yat-sen's purpose in doing so was to tie Tan Yanmin with beauty, so that he would have more strength.
However, the old pedantic Tan Yanmin did not agree to this political marriage, but he had a good relationship with Chiang Kai-shek, and in line with the principle that fat water did not flow to outsiders' fields, Tan Yanmin introduced Song Meiling to Chiang Kai-shek, and eventually promoted the marriage between Jiang and Song. However, Tan Yanmin soon drove to hexi, and before dying, he asked Chiang Kai-shek and his wife to find a good family for his daughter Tan Xiang.
Tan Yanmin has two sons and four daughters, of which Tan Xiang ranks third, born in 1906, also known as Man Yi, this name at first glance sounds like the name of the woman in the Qinglou, in fact, it is not, she and Song Meiling studied in the United States together, and Song Meiling has a similar temperament, the two have a very close relationship, from a generation point of view, Tan Xiang should be Song Meiling's dry daughter, so Song Meiling loves Tan Xiang.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek's entrepreneurial team had been formed, but it was not particularly reliable. In these two groups, there were 2 people Chiang Kai-shek who were very appreciative, that is, Chen Cheng and Hu Zongnan.
Chen Cheng was born in 1898, Hu Zongnan was born in 1896, from the age of Hu Zongnan is older, from the appearance point of view, the two are also similar, the figure is relatively short, from all aspects, the conditions of the two are similar, but Chen Cheng already has a family, and Hu Zongnan is single (his father forced him to marry a woman who did not love each other, so he ran away from home).
According to the old Chinese saying that "it is better to demolish ten temples than destroy a marriage", Chiang Kai-shek should choose Hu Zongnan. However, after careful consideration, Jiang and Song decided to ration Tan Xiang to Chen Cheng, on the grounds that Hu Zongnan was very reliable, and Chen Cheng was not very reliable, and Chen Cheng must be tied up with Tan Xiang, a beautiful person.
Some people have to ask, is Chen Cheng not a hardcore confidant of Chiang Kai-shek? This is also a good thing to say, but in fact, before that, Chiang Kai-shek admired Chen Cheng very much, but he did not trust Chen Cheng, and even thought that Chen Cheng was unreliable, and all this was caused by Deng Yanda.
Chen Cheng and Deng Yanda are both graduates of the Baoding Army Officer School, Deng is the 6th phase of engineering, Chen is the 8th phase of the artillery department, and Deng is Chen's senior. Shortly after graduation, Chen Cheng followed Deng Yanda south to join the founding of the Cantonese Army led by Sun Yat-sen, when Deng Yanda was the commander of the regiment and Chen Cheng was the lieutenant's aide-de-camp, and soon Deng Yanda promoted Chen Cheng to company commander.
In a battle, Chen Cheng was shot in the chest, bleeding profusely and fainting to the ground, Deng Yanda personally led someone to snatch Chen Cheng down and saved his life. Later, when Sun Yat-sen founded the Whampoa Military Academy, Chen Cheng entered the Whampoa Military Academy with Deng Yanda. At the Whampoa Military Academy, Chen Cheng was appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek. Deng Yanda successively served as deputy director of the Training Department of the Whampoa Military Academy and chief of education of the Whampoa Military Academy, while Chen Cheng successively served as an education adjutant and an artillery instructor, and was a direct subordinate of Deng Yanda.
It can be seen from this that Deng Yanda is Chen Cheng's senior, Bole and life-saving benefactor, so Chen Cheng has great respect for Deng Yanda. In terms of personal relations, Chen Cheng's feelings for Deng Yanda far exceeded that of Chiang Kai-shek.
Because Deng Yanda was very dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorship, he reorganized the original Chinese Revolutionary Party into the Provisional Action Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang and made himself the director general of the Central Committee in an attempt to establish a third political force. Chen Cheng gave not only economic support, but also political support. However, Deng Yanda, who was Chiang Kai-shek's opponent, soon secretly arrested Deng Yanda.
Chen Cheng, who was encircling and suppressing the Red Army on the Jiangxi front, learned of Deng Yanda's arrest and immediately sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek requesting Deng Yanda's release. Chiang Kai-shek, who had been full of chen chengxin, suddenly put a big question mark on Chen Cheng's loyalty: Is Chen Cheng still trustworthy?
If it were someone else, Chiang Kai-shek would certainly not hesitate to execute him. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek was also in a huge contradiction, on the one hand, he admired Chen Cheng very much, thinking that he was a very important figure, but on the other hand, he did not trust him. At this crucial moment, Soong Mei-ling suggested that Chiang Kai-shek could use the beauty plan and use Tan Xiang to keep Chen Cheng, an important figure, by his side.
Chiang Kai-shek's decision made Chen Cheng miraculously stand still only one step away from the prison and the execution ground, and Chiang Kai-shek's miraculous operation was jaw-dropping.
Under the arrangement of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling, Chen Cheng and Tan Xiang met, Tan Xiang is everyone's bridesmaid, and has studied in the United States, whether it is appearance, knowledge or family background, it is difficult for others to reach, Chen Cheng, who has been in the army for many years, saw such special things and immediately fell in love at first sight, while Chen Cheng, in addition to his short stature, was very outstanding in other aspects. The two quickly established a relationship.
So Chen Cheng decided to dissolve the relationship with the original match. His original name was Wu Shunlian. To say that this Wu Shunlian family is really good, Chen Cheng's expenses for studying in his youth are mostly from Wu Shunlian's family. However, with Chen Cheng's continuous study and broadening of his vision, he looked down more and more on Wu Shunlian, because Wu Shunlian had no culture, the two did not have a common language, and this marriage was useless and existed in name only.
Wu Shunlian's brother Wu Ziyi followed Chen Cheng for a long time, and when Chen Cheng was the commander of the 18th Army, he was the quartermaster general. So Chen Cheng found Wu Ziyi and his Qingtian compatriot Du Zhiyuan and dissolved the 13-year marriage.
On New Year's Day 1932, Chen Cheng and Tan Xiang held a grand wedding ceremony at the luxurious Cangzhou Hotel in Shanghai. When Chen Cheng, who was dressed in military uniform and short and tough, and Tan Xiang, who was wearing a wedding dress and holding a bouquet of roses, saluted Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling, Chiang Kai-shek showed a knowing smile, and Chiang Kai-shek felt that the beauty plan suggested by Soong Mei-ling was really clever, and he no longer had to worry about Chen Cheng's dissident heart.
Chen Cheng, who married Tan Xiang, was dead set on Chiang Kai-shek, and later he hosted the Lushan Training Regiment, posing a great threat to the Red Army, and Chen Cheng also rose to the top under Chiang Kai-shek's promotion and became the core figure of the Kuomintang army.
(Heavenly Selection Miscellaneous Original: This article uses some literary techniques on the basis of historical facts, to be continued)
References: "Su Yu's Life Deeds", "Su Yu's Biography", "The God of War Su Yu", "The Famous General Su Yu Zhen", "Chen Cheng's Biography", etc.
Tianxuan is the author's pen name, who has engaged in teaching and research at the National Defense University, and has studied history and philosophy