In 1915, there was a sensational case in Hong Kong: the richest man, Ho Tung, was sued in court.
He Dong is a rich man in Hong Kong, usually willing to be charitable, donated to build Donghua Hospital, distributed money for refugee poor households, and has a very good reputation in Hong Kong, so who is sued in the end?
The person who sued him was actually his son, He Shili, and the reason why the son sued his father was the issue of nationality.
(Pictured: The back left one is He Shili, the front left is He Dong, and the front right is the great British writer George Bernard Shaw)
When Ho Was 9 years old, there was a guest in the house: the new Governor of Hong Kong, Maxley. At that time, He Dong had just been awarded the Order of honor by the Queen of England and joined the British nationality, so the family's hospitality was very solemn.
Seeing that Ho Shi Li was different from other children, handsome and white, very polite, and well-spoken, He Shili pulled him aside, gave him a British gold coin, and asked him if he would like to join his father in British citizenship.
After he heard this, He Shili directly stuffed the gold coin back into Maxley's hand and said to him: "I am a Chinese, what do I do when I join the British nationality?" "It makes Maxley not embarrassed, and for a moment I don't know what to say."
He Dong felt that He Shili was rude, severely reprimanded him, and asked him to become a British citizen as a sign of apology. However, He Shili argued that he was born in Hong Kong, China, so why did he become a British citizen?
Afterwards, He Dong insisted that he become a British citizen, and He Shili, in a fit of anger, took his father to court.
In the end, the court ruled that Ho Shi-ri won the case and maintained His Chinese nationality, and for a time, Ho's national integrity sensationalized Hong Kong.
In 1923, He Shili accompanied his mother to live in Nanjing for a period of time, when the Nanjing warlord Qi Xieyuan sent He Shili to the Army Officers' School in order to curry favor with He Dong. This is exactly what He Shili wanted, because he had the ideal of saving the country by force since he was a child.
Later, He Shili was admitted to the Royal Military Academy of Hulez and the Lehir Artillery School in the United Kingdom, specializing in artillery, and after returning to China, he thought that the Japanese were eager to move in the northeast, and there would definitely be a conspiracy, so he left for the northeast to see Zhang Zuolin.
Zhang Zuolin knew that he was He Dong's son, and naturally took very good care of him, so he arranged him by Zhang Xueliang's side.
After listening to He Shili's analysis of the current situation, Zhang Xueliang, especially with his idea of transforming the Northeast Army, ordered on the spot that He Shili be made his senior staff officer and deputy chief of artillery, and awarded him the rank of colonel.
However, He Shili refused, saying that he had never brought soldiers and wanted to go to the grassroots level to exercise. Zhang Xueliang could not persuade him, so he arranged for him to be the commander of the artillery company of Wang Tiehan regiment in the north camp of Shenyang, and was awarded the rank of captain.
On the night of the September 18 Incident, the Japanese Kwantung Army secretly attacked the North Camp of the Northeast Army, and because of Zhang Xueliang's order not to resist, the officers and men of the North Camp could only be passively beaten. At the critical moment, Under the leadership of the regimental commander Wang Tiehan, He Shili led the officers and soldiers to fight with the Japanese and killed the siege.
Zhang Xueliang has always been worried about He Shili, so he escorted him to the Us General Staff University for further study, and after returning to China, he served as the captain of the northeast army's communications brigade, carried out communications transformation of the northeast army, and achieved efficient command. ”
After the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang was detained, and as his confidant, He Shili was also dismissed from his military post and left at home.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, He Shili immediately called the Nanjing government to request to go out of the mountains to resist Japan, and Chiang Kai-shek had long heard of his name, so he approved it, and He Shili was sent to Xue Yue's troops as an artillery commander.
In the Great Victory of Wanjialing, the artillery led by He Shili made outstanding military achievements, and when Xue Yue summed up the Great Victory of Wanjialing in his later years, he always praised He Shili, saying that he had made great merits at the crucial moment, "I applied for a first-class medal for him, but he resolutely refused to award it on the grounds that he could not get the same level of medal as me, in fact, he was the one who should receive the first-class medal the most." ”
In 1949, He Shili followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan, where he served as head of the military mission to the United Nations and was awarded the rank of general of the second rank. However, he was tired of the deceit of the officialdom, and coupled with the death of his father He Dong, He Shili resigned his official post and returned home, inheriting his father's property.
It turns out that He Shili is not only a military wizard, but also an economic wizard, and under his auspices, the He family's industry has become larger and larger, reaching 15 billion Hong Kong dollars at one time.
He Shili did not forget Zhang Xueliang, after Zhang Xueliang regained his freedom, He Shili went to the United States several times to visit him, and invited him to attend his grandson's wedding, and set the location on the mainland, Zhang Xueliang also agreed.
However, due to the sudden death of He Shili's wife, his grandson's wedding had to be rescheduled, and the location was also changed to Canada, so that Zhang Xueliang lost an opportunity to return to the mainland.
On 26 July 1998, the first anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, Ho Died at the age of 92.
History Inn Author: Desert Sand