Last century
At the end of the 1940s, when inflation was severe, Chiang Ching-kuo was preparing to make a "big move" in Shanghai. In order to show his determination to reform, Chiang Ching-kuo captured Du Yuesheng's third son, Du Weiping, the general manager of Zhonghui Bank.
Afterwards, Chiang Ching-kuo sent a telegram asking Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek deliberately sent a reply telegram to the "Declaration" and implored Du Yuesheng to support Chiang Ching-kuo.
Du Yuesheng was silent, secretly contacted the disciples of the Qinggang and the Shanghai tycoon, and opened a list of traitors.
He confronted Chiang Ching-kuo and said:
"The prince breaks the law and the common people are guilty of the same crime. My son is that I didn't teach well, but how do you deal with the 'Yang subsidiary' thing? ”
outcome
Jiang Jingguo checked that the owner of the "Yangzi" company was his cousin Kong Lingkan.
In order to show that "a bowl of water is flat," Chiang Ching-kuo detained Kong Lingkan. And his stepmother, Soong Mei-ling, made a phone call and asked Chiang Kai-shek to fly to Shanghai on the "Meiling special plane." Since then, Old Jiang has been ridiculed: "I don't love Jiangshan, I love beauty."
Chiang Ching-kuo's right-hand man, Jia Yibin, deeply felt that the Kuomintang was corrupt and incompetent, slapped the table, and angrily threw himself at our party. Du Weiping and Kong Lingkan each paid a fine and left Shanghai Beach.
First, the financial reform of "only fighting flies and not tigers"
In August 1948, Chiang Ching-kuo was preparing to do a big job in Shanghai, and he replaced the "legal tender" by issuing "golden yuan coupons". At a ratio of 1:300, it sucked up a large amount of deposits in the hands of Shanghai citizens and merchants, as well as gold and silver. A large amount of private wealth was looted into the name of the Kuomintang government, which aroused the strong dissatisfaction of the Shanghai merchants.
As a result of the decades-long internal and external wars, the country's economic crisis is serious, and the life of the people at the bottom is very difficult. Chiang Ching-kuo announced at the same time as he carried out financial reforms that some traders would be prohibited from raising prices, nor would any demonstrations and demonstrations be allowed.
Peace of mind,
Chiang Ching-kuo's move immediately won the support of many newspapers and public opinions. For a time, he was called "Jiang Qingtian" by Shanghainese.
Newspapers were all over the place, full of articles praising him.
But the good times did not last long, and he hit the tiger on the body of Du Weiping, the third son of Du Yuesheng.
At the beginning of things,
Du Yuesheng still pretended not to care too much, and said to people: Dead Du Weiping, I still have seven sons.
Since 1927, Du Yuesheng has been following Chiang Kai-shek, fighting the War of Resistance and entering the civil war. He didn't even think that Chiang Ching-kuo wanted to cut him. First, Chiang Kai-shek specifically called back in the newspaper to ask him to support Chiang Ching-kuo's reforms.
He issued a public statement in the "Business Daily", saying: "For twenty years, it is well known to support the leader and obey the government. Monetary reform can only succeed, not fail. ”
However, two days later, Chiang Ching-kuo said insinuated at a meeting that a small number of people were still speculating and hoarding. If he finds out, he will confiscate all property. This made Du Yuesheng's old face unable to hang up!
Du Yuesheng thought that he was not frightened by people, and he followed Chiang Kai-shek into death, and he did not know how many unsavory deeds he had done behind his back, and would Lao Tzu still be blackmailed by a junior at the end?
thereupon
Du Yuesheng found Jiang Jingguo and said: Du Weiping is my son, and I am not strict in discipline, so I admit it myself. In the matter of Yang's subsidiary, you also need a bowl of water to be flat, otherwise how can you convince the public?
Second, Chiang Ching-kuo is still too young
Du Yuesheng's remarks made Chiang Ching-kuo feel a little overwhelmed. However, Chiang Ching-kuo soon figured out that it was his cousin Kong Lingkan's company. Kong Lingkan was the son of Song Xialing and Kong Xiangxi, and Du Yuesheng deliberately brought up his affairs in order to embarrass himself. But
Chiang Ching-kuo didn't think much of it at that time, so he ordered kong Lingkan's "Yang subsidiary" to be sealed first.
Chiang Ching-kuo was once a very idealistic and enthusiastic young man who studied in the Soviet Union as a teenager. Later, when he returned to Chiang Kai-shek's side, he was very worried when he saw the corruption and degeneration within the Kuomintang.
therefore
The matter of currency reform is not something he has been thinking about for a while, but something that has been brewing in his heart for a long time.
Just because relatives have broken the law, they cannot be ignored. But in this way, his stepmother Song Meiling did not do it.
The first time Kong Lingkan was sealed in the company, he found his aunt Song Meiling, and during the Mid-Autumn Festival of that year, Song Meiling called Jiang Jingguo and Kong Lingkan to open a family gathering in the Kong family.
Song Meiling wanted to make big things small, and she originally supported Chiang Ching-kuo's currency reform as long as it was beneficial to the country. However, Kong Lingkan is a person who cannot suffer losses.
When Chiang Ching-kuo saw that his stepmother supported him, he immediately asked Kong Lingkan to "take into account the overall situation." Unexpectedly, Kong Lingkan hinted that Song Meiling wanted to tear the skin,
Neither jiang nor song will look good.
Song Meiling therefore thought of her brother Song Ziwen's embezzlement of 800 million yuan in loans to aid China in the United States, as well as the various black materials that the Kong Xiangxi family bought and sold in China. If all these things were shaken out, old Chiang Kai-shek would completely lose trust in front of the people of the whole country.
Soong Mei Ling did not dare to make up her own mind, so she immediately dialed Chiang Kai-shek's phone.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was already in a state of distress in Beiping, suddenly handed over all the matter in his hands to Fu Zuoyi and flew to Shanghai on the "Meiling special plane." After seeing his son, the first sentence at the beginning called him "peace is precious.".
Jiang Chingguo's good friend Jia Yibin had a big quarrel with Chiang Ching-kuo on the issue of "Yang's subsidiary" and left his office disappointed. Within a few months, I was in touch with our party.
From then on, Chiang Ching-kuo's fight against the tiger in Shanghai was not resolved. The Shanghai newspapers that had made a big splash and supported Chiang Ching-kuo were also shut down.
Because Chiang Ching-kuo's reform method violated economic laws, after the termination of the currency reform, the financial market and the commercial market entered a retaliatory chaos, which instead attracted public resentment and boiled over. At the end of 1948, Kong Lingkan and Du Weiping finally paid a fine each, and both families moved to Hong Kong.
epilogue
Du Yuesheng's family went to Hong Kong, and later Chiang Kai-shek wanted him to go to Taiwan. As a result, no matter how much persuasion and intimidation, Du Yuesheng would never go until his death.
Du Yuesheng is a person who eats in the rivers and lakes with "righteous spirit". I wanted to fight for Chiang Kai-shek's life, and I once thought that after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, I could become the mayor of Shanghai and successfully enter politics, but finally I learned that I had been tricked by the old Chiang Kai-shek. Even if Old Jiang didn't let him enter politics, Xiao Jiang wanted to carry out reforms, and he still had to take the knife of his old Du family, how could Du Yuesheng still dare to believe in this family?
Chiang Ching-kuo knew where the ills of the national economy were at that time, but he did not know that they themselves were the biggest breeding ground for these ills. Du Yuesheng asked him to deal with the "Yang subsidiary", in fact, he was telling him that unless you set off your own old nest, many problems in this country will never be solved.
However, his friend Jia Yibin discovered the truth in advance and silently turned away.