Among the kuomintang members under Chiang Kai-shek, there were four giants, namely How Yingqin and Gu Zhutong, as well as Bai Chongxi and Chen Cheng. Among these four giants, Chen Cheng's seniority should be the latest and the youngest. His intellect should also be the most mediocre.
In terms of military talent, Chen Cheng was certainly inferior to Bai Chongxi, and even Du Yuming was inferior. Du Yuming can still have a few moves with our Lin Zong in the northeast, and there are victories and losses for each other, what about Chen Cheng? It is completely passive to be beaten and trapped everywhere. Gu Zhutong was a student of the sixth term in Baoding, and He Yingqin was a senior student at the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School.
What about Chen Cheng? The imposter applied for the Baoding Military Academy, and the result was sun mountain. It's short in stature, and its grades are too poor. In the end, I actually went through the back door and entered through the relationship. It is too humiliating, and it can only be said that Chen Cheng's intelligence is as mediocre as xiaobian.
However, Chen Cheng's later achievements surpassed Gu Zhutong, He Yingqin and Bai Chongxi and others, becoming the most favored big red man in front of Chiang Kai-shek. Why? Of course, there are many reasons, and it is not something that the editor can say in one word.
In the editor's view, although Chen Cheng's intelligence is mediocre, he has many valuable advantages. For example, Chen Chengqinglian, he is a native of Qingtian, Zhejiang, Qingtian, Qinglian, it seems that the pronunciation is very similar. Most of the high-ranking Kuomintang officials were corrupt and degenerate, but Chen Cheng was an outlier.
He couldn't rub sand in his eyes. After succeeding Du Yuming in charge of the northeast, although Chen Cheng repeatedly lost military defeats, he had a very bright spot in politics, and as for corrupt elements, those who should be removed from their posts and those who should be killed are not soft and vigorous.
Chen Cheng was very opposed to the senior Kuomintang officials playing golf together, saying that when he saw the golf course full of cars on weekends, he did not know how the people felt! After all, there are still many poor people. Song Meiling once went to Chen Cheng's house and found that the couple actually lit a kerosene stove for heating. Cold so.
Chen Cheng is also a doer, capable and decisive, and has the courage to do things, which is probably an important reason why Chiang Kai-shek attaches more importance to him. Before the fall of the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek asked Chen Cheng to go to Taiwan in advance to pave the way for himself, and chen Cheng paved the road very smoothly in a year when he went to Taiwan, so that Chiang Kai-shek had no worries about the future.
The most rare thing is that Chen Cheng's family style is very good, and he is very successful in educating his children. The biggest fear of the giants is to cultivate a group of parasites that will only enjoy. Chen Cheng is an extremely popular subject in the Kuomintang, which can be said to be below one person and above ten thousand people, but he teaches his children to be self-reliant and self-reliant.
The children's homework, sometimes Chen Cheng has to personally go through the purpose. Sometimes the child is sick and cannot go to class, and Chen Cheng has to personally write a leave of absence note to send to the teacher. Chen Cheng's children are often the first to enter the classroom, clean up the classroom, and scramble to work.
This is very much in line with Chen Cheng's diligent and practical style. Chen Cheng uses this method of education to eliminate the children's privileged thinking, so that the children feel that they are also ordinary people, and they must work hard to gain everyone's respect, to make achievements, and absolutely not to be an old man.
Chen Cheng, who has four sons, wants the children to stay away from politics and rely on science and technology to eat. The four brothers are also more contentious, and they are all doctors from American universities. The eldest is a doctor in mathematics, the second is a doctorate in physics, the third is a doctorate in statistical mathematics, and the fourth is a doctorate in actuarial science.
Ah, Chen Cheng should be the best tutor among the senior officials of the Kuomintang. Although his father did not let them enter politics, Chen Lu'an later got involved in politics, returned to Taiwan as "defense minister," and also participated in the pseudo-"presidential" campaign.