The "military command" was a notorious Kuomintang secret service agency before liberation, and the person in charge of the outside world had always been Dai Kasa. Usually, when everyone watches TV dramas, they always mention "Director Dai", so many people do not know that in fact, Dai Kasa's official title is only deputy director, and above him, there is another "director".
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This bureau chief was a Kuomintang political leader who took a name in the military command and did not handle specific affairs. However, at the beginning of those "bureau chiefs", Dai Kasa did not dare to offend. Later, the "director" changed people like a marquee, and it became a false position.
First, the origin of military unification
Before the birth of the military unification, there were two secret service agencies of the Kuomintang, one called the "Party Affairs Investigation Section (Division)" and the other called "Lixing Society." A large part of the subjects of supervision and investigation of the two are overlapping, so the relationship between the two departments is very complicated. In order to compete for favors, even the phenomenon of infighting often breaks out.
Therefore, in 1938, Chiang Kai-shek proposed to merge the two secret service agencies to become the "Bureau of Investigation and Statistics of the Military Commission of the National Government" . The bureau is divided into three places, one is the "Central Unification", the second is the "Military Unification", and the third is the management of posts and telecommunications. The first bureau chief of the "two unifications" at that time was Chen Lifu. Chen Lifu was a high-caliber student who returned from the United States, and he had followed Chiang Kai-shek since the Whampoa period and had been Serving as Chiang Kai-shek's secretary.
In 1928, in order to strengthen the internal control of the Kuomintang, Chen Lifu, at the behest of Chiang Kai-shek, set up a "club," and found a group of spies in the "club" to set up a "Party Affairs Investigation Section" to investigate the "left-leaning" people in the Kuomintang and take the opportunity to persecute our party. Since the English abbreviation of this "club" is CC, Chen Lifu, Chen Guofu and others are called "CC Series".
Chen Lifu
At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek imitated Mussolini's "black-shirted party" and gathered thirteen of his close disciples at the Whampoa Military Academy to form the "Thirteenth Taibao" to vigorously crack down on and persecute any forces opposing him in the Kuomintang.
Because of its closer ties to Chiang Kai-shek, the "Blue Jacket Society" had greater power, and sometimes it overstepped its authority to seize the case of central unification, resulting in disputes. In order to facilitate unified management, Chiang Kai-shek merged the two organizations in 1938 and unified them under the authority of Chen Lifu. However, in fact, the "military unification" of the two places could not have obeyed Chen Lifu's dispatch at all, because the "military unification" had a transcendent position from the very beginning.
To put it simply, although the "Central Unification" and the "Military Unification" are the same bureau chiefs and leaders, in fact they are equivalent to the existence of the "East Factory and the West Factory" in the Ming Dynasty. The East Factory existed first, but the leaders could not trust the East Factory, so they built the West Factory.
Second, the director of the Military Command Bureau is a fictitious post
When the two reunifications were established, it was stipulated that the organizational form and the appointment of responsible persons were stipulated, and it was decided that the secretary general of the Party Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee would concurrently serve as the secretary general. That is to say, whoever becomes the secretary general will concurrently serve as the director of the Central Unification Bureau. Since Chen Lifu was the secretary general of the Central Party Department at that time, he was also the director of the "military unification" card. But from this time on, the director of the bureau has been "virtual".
Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Kasa
This involves a tradition in ancient Chinese officialdom: in ancient Chinese officialdom, it was generally a deputy post. Since the Tang Dynasty, it is the deputy post that does the work for the imperial court, for example, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty is called "Zhongtongshu Menxia From Sanpin" or "Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi" and so on. This is because the power of the main office is great and it is never easily delegated.
Later, a habit was formed, upward and downward, and many of the local full-time officials were "nominal". Not to mention the political circles, even in the cultural circles, even now, you can find a well-known magazine to see, the president, the editor-in-chief, etc., are all nominal and do not do practical things.
Returning to this "military unification," after the first bureau chief Chen Lifu left, the director of the military unification bureau was changed to Chiang Kai-shek's "director of the attendant office." Their names are, in order: He Yaozu, Qian Dajun, and Zheng Jiemin, all of whom are not in name.
Dai Kasa never needed to ask them for instructions in handling affairs, but directly reported to Chiang Kai-shek. For the title of "deputy director", Dai Kasa himself did not mind very much. Because although he was born in the jianghu and had a general level of education, after being reused by Jiang, he let his secretary read history to himself every day, and he still understood that real power was more important than false names.
III. Brief Introductions of Several Bureau Chiefs
Earlier, I briefly introduced Chen Lifu, and then I will talk about the situation of several other military command bureau chiefs.
Let's start with He Yaozu. This man was a lieutenant general in the National Revolutionary Army, with the rank of general. He joined the Kuomintang in 1926, became the director of the Military Command bureau in August 1938, stepped down the following year as a special envoy to the Soviet Union, and then returned to China. In 1942, he left the military command and became the mayor of Chongqing, and in August 1949, he electrified an uprising in Hong Kong.
Qian Dajun, a Kuomintang veteran, was a lieutenant general in the Kuomintang Army with the rank of general. He was one of the early instructors of the Whampoa Military Academy, who contributed to Chiang Kai-shek in the Central Plains War and belonged to Chiang Kai-shek's "Eight Great Kongs". He successively served as the director of the Aviation Committee of the National Government, the director of the Military Command, and the commander of the Songhu Garrison.
Qian Dajun
Zheng Jiemin, a first-class general in the Kuomintang Army, graduated from the Second Infantry Section of the Whampoa Military Academy. After Dai Kasa died in 1946 due to a plane crash, Zheng Jiemin, who was the "chief secretary" at the time, was transferred to temporarily take over the post of director of the Military Command, helping the Kuomintang to continue its secret service work! On December 11, 1959, Jeong Jie-min died at home due to a heart attack!
epilogue
Since the birth of the military command, their agents have been active in the front line of espionage, although they fought some battles with japanese spies during the War of Resistance, and cracked some important intelligence, made some contributions to the War of Resistance, but the military command has also persecuted many progressive people, right and wrong, merit and fault, their own judgment!
At the same time, the successive directors of the military command are not small, and those who come from the military circles are generally at the rank of lieutenant general or above, or they are like Chen Lifu, who has been a close associate of Chiang Kai-shek since the Whampoa period. There are also "foreign ministers" like Shang Zhen. Although Dai Kasa had a little talent and contributed to Chiang Kai-shek, he was indeed not qualified to compete with these "bureau chiefs."