In August 1948, Chiang Kai-shek sent Chiang Ching-kuo to Shanghai to reform the currency system in order to resist inflation and save the economy on the verge of collapse.
Chiang Ching-kuo arrived in Shanghai with ambition, and immediately set up the "Shanghai Youth Service Corps" of 10,000 people to crack down on illegal traders who hoarded their homes. However, this time fighting the tiger can be described as thunder and heavy rain, and finally Chiang Ching-kuo had to leave Shanghai in ashes, sighing that "there is no way to serve the country."
So what was the trigger for this?
Many people may say that this is because Chiang Ching-kuo seized the handle of Kong Xiangxi's eldest son Kong Lingkan and wanted to deal with him, but Kong Lingkan found Song Meiling, and Soong Meiling found Chiang Kai-shek, which has a series of stakes, and finally can only be eliminated, so that Chiang Ching-kuo will return without success.
In fact, this was not the initial fuse, the real reason was because Chiang Ching-kuo had offended a big man, that is, Du Yuesheng.
At that time, Du Yuesheng's son Du Weiping was the manager of Zhonghui Bank, and Jiang Jingguo found out that Du Weiping "hoarded goods and speculated in stocks" and sold 28 million shares of Yong'an Spinning Mill shares outside the exchange, causing a very bad impact, and Jiang Jingguo arrested him and killed chickens and monkeys.
This move immediately caused a sensation on the beach, and everyone was watching the hilarity to see whether Chiang Ching-kuo was defeated or whether Du Yuesheng, a big man on the beach, had closed his hand.
However, after Du Yuesheng knew that Du Weiping had been arrested, he did not come out to express his position. Chiang Ching-kuo knew that he must be cautious in dealing with Du Yuesheng's son, so several times when he met him, Du Yuesheng used the excuse that he was ill and did not see him.
On this day, Chiang Ching-kuo specially summoned relevant personnel to a meeting to explain the policy, and those with heads and faces on the beach came, and Du Yuesheng also came.
Unexpectedly, Du Yuesheng put a heavy cannon at the meeting, and when it was his turn to speak, he said to Chiang Ching-kuo: "My son has broken the law, and he will deal with it as he please, I absolutely obey, but please treat everyone fairly and justly." As far as I know, the goods hoarded by Yang's subsidiary can be more than all the companies in Shanghai Beach, please deal with it fairly. ”
This time, it can be fried. The Yang subsidiary was opened by Kong Xiangxi's eldest son Kong Lingkan, and Chiang Ching-kuo was suddenly very faceless, so he had to say to Du Yuesheng: "If there is really such a thing, I will thoroughly investigate it to the end and will never tolerate it." ”
In fact, Du Yuesheng has not done anything else these days, has been sending people to investigate the Yang subsidiary, and has sufficient evidence.
As soon as the meeting ended, he sent someone to seal the Yang subsidiary, and once he checked, sure enough, there was a large amount of hoarding, and Chiang Ching-kuo immediately sealed it
All the goods of the Yang subsidiary were prepared to take down Kong Lingkan.
Why would Kong Lingkan let himself suffer such a big loss? So, he found his aunt Song Meiling.
Song Meiling flew to Shanghai on the same day, and after seeing Chiang Ching-kuo, splitting his head and covering his face was a reprimand. At first, Chiang Ching-kuo's tone was quite stiff, saying that even if he went up the sword mountain and went down to the sea of fire, he would have to deal with this matter. Soong Mei Ling did not give up and went to chiang kai-shek to make a quarrel, and Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to personally come to Shanghai to solve this problem.
After Chiang Kai-shek came to Shanghai, he trained Chiang Ching-kuo, and Chiang Ching-kuo had to release Kong Lingkan, and of course Du Weiping. In the end, Chiang Ching-kuo could only hastily collect a few insignificant people and leave Shanghai in a gray and slippery manner.
It is said that on the day Chiang Ching-kuo left Shanghai, he cried loudly and said to his friends: "I really have no way to serve the country!" ”
Speaking of Du Yuesheng, although he saved his son, he also offended several powerful people, so he stung for a long time, and finally felt that he did not support the bottom, had to take his family to Hong Kong, never came back, and died of illness in 1951.
History Inn Author: Desert Sand