After the three major battles, the main force of the Kuomintang army was almost wiped out by our Party, which also announced that the Kuomintang's rule on the mainland of our country had basically come to an end. Chiang Kai-shek knew that he had no place to stay in Chinese mainland, so he began to prepare for his escape to Taiwan, he took away many precious cultural relics when he fled to Taiwan, but after all, these are all external things, one day we will take back, but the 3 people he took away that year are much more important than gold antiques.
Although Chiang Kai-shek was forced to flee to Taiwan due to the situation at that time, he still did not die, and in his heart he still very much wanted to make a comeback in the future, defeat the Communist Party, and then take power on the mainland again. To this end, Chiang Kai-shek took away three people whose status was very sensitive. So who are these three people, and what is so special about these three people, which is why they have such a high value?
Mongolian Living Buddha
The first person Chiang Kai-shek took away was the Mongolian Living Buddha. The name of the living Buddha is Zhangjia Hukhutu. Although the Mongolian Living Buddha represents religion and does not seem to have much effect in the eyes of people now, the Living Buddha had great power and a very high status in those years.
You must know that in the Mongolian region of Tibet in our country, serfdom was still practiced at that time, and the top rulers of this system were their living Buddhas. Living Buddhas are the buddha's representatives in the world, and all words and deeds represent their supreme faith. It follows that no matter what he says, these backward religious believers will fully believe and spare no effort to carry it out. They are sacred and inviolable presence in the hearts of the locals. In that backward era, religious beliefs were above all else, and the status of the living Buddha was supreme.
At that time, in order to liberate tibet, the first thing the People's Liberation Army had to face was to first pull the religious living Buddhas down from the altar, and only in this way could it completely liberate serfs and completely abolish serfdom. Chiang Kai-shek was well aware of this, so he took the mongolian living Buddha away and wanted to use it as a chip. As long as we master the living Buddha, then we will have mastered a large number of people in Mongolia and Tibet.
But what he did not expect was that the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army captured Lhasa in Tibet in the second year after the founding of New China, and even more successfully liberated the whole of Tibet, serfdom has since become a cloud of smoke in the past, and since then the local people have turned into serfs and sung. When Chiang Kai-shek saw that his plan had failed, he was very angry, but he had no choice.
Taoist Celestial Master
The other person Chiang Kai-shek took away was Zhang Enpu, whose identity was very similar to that of the Mongolian Living Buddha, the sixty-third generation of Chinese Taoism. The reason why Chiang Kai-shek took him away was that he saw that Taoism had extremely far-reaching influence and appeal in our country.
Zhang Enpu was an extremely patriotic person, the Japanese invaders of that year once used force to try to make Zhang Enpu submit and help the Japanese do things, Zhang Enpu did not want to think about it and resolutely refused, and later he simply lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests, and did not re-emerge from the mountains until after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan. After leaving the mountain, Zhang Enpu was not buried in the sea of people, he established the Shanghai Taoist Association in Shanghai, called on many Taoist people from all over the country to come and participate, and won a lot of support. It can be seen that Zhang Enpu's influence in China is extraordinary.
Old Jiang attached great importance to Zhang Enpu's role, and for this reason he personally awarded Zhang Enpu the post of deputy commander of the Twelfth Army and gave him many benefits. Only in this way would the many Daoist believers in the Guotong area honestly listen to his dispatches. In addition, Chiang Kai-shek knew that in Chinese culture, the Heavenly Master was only passed on to his eldest son, so as long as he took Zhang Enpu away, then after a hundred years, only Taiwan would have a Heavenly Master, and from this, Taoism would basically take root in Taiwan, and the Center of Taoism might be transferred to the Taiwan region he ruled, so his chips would be even greater.
Of course, this wish of his has long been disappointed, and now people's belief in religion is very rational.
Descendants of Confucius
The third person taken away by Chiang Kai-shek has a more honorable status in the eyes of the world, and he is Kong Decheng, a descendant of Confucius. According to the titles of China's feudal dynasties, Kong Decheng was the last Yanshenggong in China. Confucius is a representative figure of Confucian culture in China, and his ideological concepts have deeply affected our lives until now, and it can be said that Confucius's status in the eyes of Chinese is a height that ordinary people cannot reach. As long as Confucius is mentioned, there will be no respect in the heart of the Chinese.
Successive feudal rulers attached great importance to Confucian culture, and most of China's monarchs also regarded Confucian culture as the basis for governing the country, and this is how the title of Yan Sheng Gong slowly evolved. In Chiang Kai-shek's view, as long as the descendants of Confucius are taken away, then the cultural foundation of the Chinese mainland will also be in his own hands, and his future great cause will be more justified.
But Chiang Kai-shek's wishful thinking was wrong, he was bent on supporting Confucian culture, but Confucian culture is not all the essence, and many of them bind the world. Therefore, after the founding of New China, Confucian culture began to be transformed, and people's attitudes towards Confucian culture became more and more rational, and not many people would blindly follow and worship Confucius anymore.
In addition, Kong Decheng was very clear in his thinking and concepts, and later he even requested that he directly abolish the title of his own shenggong, which had been passed down from generation to generation, and no longer let these false names bind his descendants. Slowly, although Confucian culture still has a very important position in the hearts of the people, extremely radical ideas rarely appear. In this way, the descendants of Confucius in chiang kai-shek's hands naturally did not have much threat.
brief summary
Chiang Kai-shek's ideology and concept have always stayed in the past and have always maintained a state of feudal isolation, which can be clearly seen from the fact that the few people he took away were representatives of China's feudal era. Whether it is the living Buddha of Mongolia, the sixty-third generation of Chinese celestial masters, or the last descendant of Confucius, this is the refraction of his ideas and concepts in reality.
From ancient times to the present, rulers of successive dynasties have hoped that their rule can last for generations, but we all know that this is impossible. No religion or ideology can always be convinced by the world, and nothing can be fixed to grasp such a huge society once and for all. Chiang Kai-shek's ideological concepts are not flexible, and he still wants to rely on such a backward way to grasp the ruling power, which is very absurd. He wanted to prove himself, but in the end he only let people know his stubbornness, and no matter how stubbornly he resisted, he could not resist the pace of history.