Speaking of Chiang Kai-shek, we can't help but think of Zhou Enlai's evaluation of him: "a clumsy tactician, a qualified strategist." Just 12 words, sentence by sentence, summed up Chiang Kai-shek's life vividly. As the supreme leader of the Kuomintang, his life was full of ups and downs. From an unknown little person, to being appreciated by Sun Yat-sen, gradually rising in the political arena, to fighting with Wang Jingwei, fighting wits and courage with the Chinese Communist Party, and finally retiring to Taiwan, the life of the old Chiang Kai-shek can be described as wonderful.
When he retired to Taiwan in his later years and finally had time to recall his life, he repeatedly mentioned in his diary in his later years: that is, he had believed in a wrong person, wanted to kill a person, misplaced a person, and loved the wrong person. In his lifetime, the great man does not know how many people of all kinds will be met, and what kind of people can make him regret until his old age? What kind of origins and stories do they have with Chiang Kai-shek?
This letter is wrong, it refers to the "little sixth son",-the young marshal Zhang Xueliang. Chiang Kai-shek himself once commented on Zhang Xueliang: "Small things are shrewd, big things are confused, the grasp is not firm, the mind is uncertain, and it is particularly sad." ”
As the eldest son of Zhang Zuolin, known as the "King of the Northeast", Zhang Xueliang received a good education from a young age, from a small family superior, he was weak, and the process of taking medicine for a long time gave him the idea of studying medicine and saving people in the world, but his father Zhang Zuolin wanted him to inherit his career, so he sent him to serve in his own army, knowing that he could not defeat his father's Zhang Xueliang had to accept his fate, and then the Northeast Lecture Martial Arts Hall. At the age of 19, he successfully graduated with the first place in the artillery section. Since then, he began to follow his father around the battlefield and became Zhang Zuolin's right-hand man.
It was not until 1928 that Zhang Zuolin was killed by the Japanese army in Huanggutun, and the young general began to take over his father's banner, succeeded Zhang Zuolin, continued to serve as the commander-in-chief of security in the three eastern provinces, and began to be loyal to the National Government of Nanjing with a statement of "Never Hindering the Unification Of Electricity". With the split of the Nationalist government in Nanjing, the contradictions between Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei continued to deepen. Zhang Xueliang began to be in a dilemma, and the strength of the army in his hands and the legacy of his father Zhang Zuolin made him the object of co-optation between the two sides. In order to protect Mingzhe' health, Zhang Xueliang used the excuse of recuperation to avoid Living in Huludao for more than a month, while Ming was recuperating from illness, but secretly observed the situation. With the capture of Jinan by Chiang Kai-shek's army in 1930, and Zhang Xueliang himself was already inclined to Chiang Kai-shek, he felt that the time had come, so he presided over the Northeast Supreme Council in Beiling, and then decided to support Chiang Kai-shek.
Thanks to Zhang Xueliang's accurate grasp of the situation, in the fierce Central Plains War, he did not hurt a single point, but because of this move, he successfully curryed favor with Chiang Kai-shek, and won more troops, the position of deputy commander of the Republic of China's army, navy and air force, and then the position of one person above ten thousand people after Chiang Kai-shek.
After that, Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang were undoubtedly like close brothers, and the first rift in this relationship was on September 18, 1931, when the Japanese Kwantung Army, which had long been eyeing the northeast, launched the "918 Incident", but Zhang Xueliang did not resist at all, strictly implemented Chiang Kai-shek's policy of "outside the country must first be at home", and retreated to Shanhaiguan. Zhang Xueliang was forced to give up his old territory, and later suffered accusations from many parties, which made him even more unbalanced. Later, Chiang Kai-shek sent him to suppress the Communists, and at that time, the enthusiasm of the whole country to call for resistance to Japan was high, and Zhang Xueliang also repeatedly advised Chiang Kai-shek to stop the civil war and unite to resist Japan, but they were all rejected.
However, the young general did not give up, and from October to December 1936, he wrote to Chiang Kai-shek several times and proposed to meet him, hoping that Chiang Kai-shek would stop suppressing the Communists, and the two even had many arguments for this reason. In order to stop Chiang Kai-shek's persecution of the Communists, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng decided to take extraordinary measures - to detain Chiang Kai-shek by force and force him to resist Japan. After the joint efforts of many parties, Chiang Kai-shek finally made a commitment to unite with the Communist Party to jointly resist Japan. Zhang Xueliang, on the other hand, began a 50-year life of house arrest.
In his later years, Chiang Kai-shek once said to Chiang Ching-kuo: "Zhang Xueliang has helped the Communist Party and the Japanese too much." More bluntly, he believed zhang Xueliang wrongly and ruined a good game of chess.
This wanted to kill a person, but could not kill, it referred to Dr. Sun Yat-sen's wife, Soong Ching Ling. From 1915 onwards, Soong Ching Ling married Sun Yat-sen, resolutely followed Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and began a difficult career of defending the republic and adhering to the revolution. After the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925, she inherited Mr. Zhongshan's legacy and continued to run around with the goal of "peace, struggle, and saving China" and seek new ways to save China. However, after Sun Yat-sen's death, Chiang Kai-shek violated Mr. Zhongshan's revolutionary line and even wantonly slaughtered the Left wing of the Kuomintang. From then on, the relationship between Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Ching-ling began to deteriorate.
Soong Ching-ling has repeatedly expressed his dissatisfaction with Chiang Kai-shek in public, which made Chiang Kai-shek very embarrassed, and the accusations in public were even worse after Chiang Kai-shek violated Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary line; Soong Ching-ling, as Sun Yat-sen's wife, her influence can be imagined, and her dissatisfaction had a great impact on Chiang Kai-shek. This became a thorn in Chiang Kai-shek's heart, and he even moved his killing heart.
The end of the three major battles in 1949 was already doomed to be that Chiang Kai-shek could not make any waves on the mainland, and before retreating to Taiwan, after a long period of thinking, he called Mao Renfeng, who is Mao Renfeng? One of the four famous spies of the Republic of China, known as the smiling face of the military command, Yan Luo, Chiang Kai-shek's killing machine. Chiang Kai-shek immediately handed Mao Renfeng a list of assassinations, Mao Renfeng looked at the names of the people on it, was surprised, and even broke out in a cold sweat, he hesitated for a long time, and finally made up his mind to call Song Meiling, Chiang Kai-shek's wife, and told her about it. It turned out that the person Chiang Kai-shek wanted Mao Renfeng to assassinate was Actually Song Meiling's own sister, Soong Ching Ling! Mao Renfeng himself knew how much impact Song Qingling would have if he died at his hands. When Soong Mei-ling heard the news, she immediately called Chiang Kai-shek and made it clear that if Chiang Kai-shek wanted to move Soong Ching-ling, she would be the first not to agree. Forced by his love for the pillow man, Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to give up.
This misplaced refers to Chiang Kai-shek's half-brother, Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek was 12 years older than Chiang Kai-shek, and this person was not good to Chiang Kai-shek; after the death of his father, Chiang Kai-shek, as the eldest son, presided over the separation of the family, and he took most of the family property for himself while Chiang Kai-shek was still young, and only gave Chiang Kai-shek's mother and son three rooms and 38 acres of land.
Later, after Chiang Kai-shek followed Dr. Sun Yat-sen in making a revolution and striving to become the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, Chiang Kai-shek changed his previous style and began to seduce Chiang Kai-shek and his mother Wang Caiyu.
When Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling were married, Chiang Kai-shek tried his best to persuade Chiang Kai-shek's original wife, Mao Fumei, to divorce Chiang Kai-shek, which made Soong Mei-ling feel good about Chiang Kai-shek. This is the fat difference of many people's hearts and minds. Jiang Jieqing originally loved prostitutes and gambling, as the saying goes, mud can't support the wall. During his term of office, he enriched himself and cheated for personal gain, which affected Chiang Kai-shek's reputation a lot, and finally aroused Chiang Kai-shek's dissatisfaction. He was sent to Xikou to serve as a tu emperor.
However, after the Xi'an incident occurred, Jiang Jieqing was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and he actually suffered a stroke and fell to the ground unconscious, and later he was sick and died. Chiang Kai-shek later officiated a funeral for him in his hometown and buried him in a beautiful manner. Chiang Kai-shek has lamented many times that if he had not let Chiang Kai-shek go back, would the outcome have been different?
This mistaken person refers to Chiang Kai-shek's confidante, Michiko Tsubuchi. When Chiang Kai-shek studied in Japan in his early years, he not only met his like-minded friend Dai Jitao, but also the outstanding-looking Michiko Tsubuchi. Both of them fell in love with Michiko at a glance, but Chiang Kai-shek's personality was originally silent and taciturn, not as good as Dai Jitao's ability to speak kindly and please girls, and soon Dai Jitao fell in love with Michiko and came together.
As a good friend, Chiang Kai-shek could only bless the two. Soon after, Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Jitao returned to China and began to plan together, planning to do something. Unexpectedly, at this time, Michiko actually came to China, and there was a baby boy who came with her. No need to guess too much, this is Dai Jitao's child. Unfortunately, Dai Jitao already had a family in China, and his wife was still notoriously jealous, and Dai Jitao did not dare to let his wife know. Chiang Kai-shek had to ask for help, and out of brotherhood, Chiang Kai-shek took in this child and named him Jiang Weiguo, and from then on he regarded him as his own and carefully cultivated him.
Compared with the strict requirements for the eldest son Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek was even more fond of the younger son, Chiang Weiguo. Because chiang kai-shek's relationship with his original partner Mao Fumei deteriorated, he rarely returned to his hometown, so he did not spend a long time with Chiang Ching-kuo, and the father and son were even more cold. In contrast, Jiang Weiguo gets along with his father day and night, and his feelings are deep.
After the eldest son, Chiang Ching-kuo, returned from studying in the Soviet Union, Chiang Kai-shek entrusted Chiang Wei-kuo with heavy responsibilities, and in the early stages he was mainly responsible for domestic and foreign affairs, and later Chiang Ching-kuo became Chiang Kai-shek's right-hand man, always serving left and right. Because Chiang Ching-kuo's ability was outstanding and the relationship between father and son became increasingly close, Chiang Kai-shek had the idea of letting Chiang Ching-kuo inherit his own cause.
While training Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek did not forget his beloved young son, Chiang Wei-kuo, and arranged for him to go to Germany for further study, and arranged for him to serve as the commander of the armored corps after returning to China. Both brothers held important positions in the military for a long time, and Chiang Ching-kuo became wary of his brother and always prevented the further expansion of his power. Jiang Weiguo used his position as commander of the armored troops to make the armored troops obey his orders and follow his own orders, which seriously threatened Chiang Ching-kuo's political status.
This made Chiang Kai-shek wonder if he had loved the wrong person when he was young, so that his sons could fight with each other and fight each other.