On the night of April 7, 1949, the lights were bright in the ancestral home of the Chiang family at the mouth of Fenghua Xikou, and Chiang Ching-kuo knelt in front of Chiang Kai-shek and wept bitterly, while Chiang Kai-shek scolded Chiang Ching-kuo: "Incompetent, really incompetent..."
Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo
Just a few hours ago, a vigorous uprising suddenly broke out in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, and although the insurrection team was only a few thousand people, it shocked all the top levels of the Kuomintang, and Chiang Kai-shek not only dispatched dozens of planes and hundreds of tanks to carry out "encirclement and suppression," but also offered a reward of 50,000 silver dollars for the person who was "arrested."
The reason why Chiang Kai-shek was so angry that he scolded Chiang Ching-kuo for his "incompetence" was because the contingent of this uprising was the "First Kuomintang Pre-Cadre General Brigade," which was the "princeling army" personally managed by Chiang Ching-kuo, and it was also the last trump card for the KmT to prepare for defeat and victory, and the person who led this contingent in the uprising was Jia Yibin, Chiang Ching-kuo's most trusted confidant.
Jia Yibin
Who is this Jia Yibin? As a red man around Chiang Ching-kuo, why did he choose the path of uprising? What was the final outcome of this uprising? Today, Bo Ge will take everyone to review the key uprising that dealt a heavy blow to the "Chiang Family Dynasty" in that year.
From like-minded to becoming a crony
Chiang Ching-kuo once commented on Jia Yibin: "If the literati are not greedy for wealth and wealth, and the military generals are not greedy for life and afraid of death, then the world will be at peace, and Jia Yibin will have both, and if this person does not use it, no one will be available!" "Why did Jia Yibin, who was neither the second generation of the Kuomintang nor a Huangpu student, get such a high evaluation from Chiang Ching-kuo?"
Jia Yibin is only two years younger than Chiang Ching-kuo, but unlike Chiang Ching-kuo, the "prince" who came from a rich family, Jia Yibin has tasted the taste of the world since he was a child, worked as an apprentice, worked odd jobs, and was humiliated by relatives for borrowing money. Jia Yibin, who personally felt the hardships of life and the lack of a way to make a living, resolutely joined the army at the age of 18, but his war career was far more exciting than any general in the Kuomintang.
On August 13, 1937, the Battle of Songhu began, under the crazy attack of the Japanese army, the Chinese troops suffered heavy casualties, in order to defend the homeland and protect their compatriots, Jia Yibin, who had just turned 25, immediately rushed from Hubei to Shanghai. In this battle, Jia Yibin commanded the troops to engage in many rounds of bloody battles with the Japanese army, although in the end he failed to defend Shanghai, jia Yibin was promoted to lieutenant colonel because of his excellent command.
In the subsequent War of Resistance Against Japan, Jia Yibin participated in many large-scale battles such as the Battle of Wuhan, the Battle of Xuzhou and the Battle of Western Hubei, and his rank was also continuously improved, and by the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Jia Yibin had become the chief of staff of the 77th Division of the Kuomintang 73rd Army.
Jia Yibin and Chiang Ching-kuo met during their studies at the Army University, and on the occasion of graduation, Jia Yibin wrote a graduation thesis entitled "The Theory and Practice of the Preparatory Cadre System" with full of resentment, and it was this thesis that made Chiang Ching-kuo begin to pay attention to Jia Yibin.
At that time, at the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in order to form a young army with potential and strength, Chiang Kai-shek shouted out the slogan of "one inch of mountains and rivers and one inch of blood, one hundred thousand young people and one hundred thousand troops.", and he also made a promise to the intellectual youth: After demobilization, they can go to school free of charge; those who are willing to work can arrange high-quality posts; and they can also study abroad at public expense.
But Chiang Kai-shek did not expect that before his promises had been fulfilled, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and most of the young soldiers chose to be demobilized because they opposed the civil war. In order to retain these young soldiers, the Kuomintang set up a special Demobilization Management Office for the Youth Army.
In the Demobilization Management Office of the Youth Army, Chiang Ching-kuo is the director of the division, and Jia Yibin is the leader of the first group. During that time, Chiang Ching-kuo spent all day worrying about how to resettle these more than 3,000 young soldiers, that is, he could not leave it alone and could not use coercive means, and just when Chiang Ching-kuo was at a loss, Jia Yibin offered a brilliant plan.
Jia Yibin founded several youth schools in Chongqing, Hangzhou and Jiaxing, specifically for the enrollment of young soldiers, for a time, not only solved the problem of demobilization of young soldiers, but also could control the youth army without effort, but also experienced this incident, so that Chiang Ching-kuo appreciated Jia Yibin more and more.
Chiang Ching-kuo
Soon after, the Youth Army Demobilization Management Office was abolished and replaced by the Pre-Cadre Bureau, and Chiang Ching-kuo, as the director of the bureau, in order to express his appreciation for Jia Yibin, also bypassed his superior Chen Cheng and recommended to Chiang Kai-shek that Jia Yibin be the deputy director of the pre-cadre bureau. In the usual management process, Chiang Ching-kuo handed over almost all the affairs of the Pre-Cadre Bureau to Jia Yibin with confidence, and for a time, Jia Yibin completely became a "red man" in front of Chiang Ching-kuo.
For his own Bole, Jia Yibin once thought of sincerely assisting Chiang Ching-kuo, but with the successive occurrences of the "Iron Blood Salvation Congress" and the "Yang Subsidiary Case", Jia Yibin became more and more disappointed in Chiang Ching-kuo and the Kuomintang, and finally had the idea of breaking with Chiang's father and son.
Estrangement arises, and the heart of insurrection arises
One day in April 1948, Chiang Ching-kuo suddenly found Jia Yibin and said to Jia Yibin very solemnly: "After a hundred years of my father, the two of us will be the ones who will decide the fate of China. But after Jia Yibin listened, he very firmly expressed his opposition, what exactly happened? Why did Jia Yibin willingly give up the great future?
In the spring of 1948, the Kuomintang army suffered consecutive defeats on the battlefield, but the People's Liberation Army was invincible. In the battlefields of northeast And North China, the Kuomintang army can be said to have lost the battle, but at this time Chiang Kai-shek was still dreaming of "turning defeat into victory", and he specially gave instructions to his beloved son Chiang Ching-kuo:
Using all the forces within the Kuomintang, a youth organization with strong mobility was immediately established.
After much deliberation, Chiang Ching-kuo finally decided to set up an "Iron Blood Salvation Congress", and in order to pull up the management team, Chiang Ching-kuo was the first to think of Jia Yibin, but he never expected that Jia Yibin would be so rejected by this idea of his own.
Jia Yibin originally chose to stand with Chiang Ching-kuo because he thought that Chiang Ching-kuo hated the chaos of the kuomintang's internal factions as much as he did, but Jia Yibin did not expect that the reason why Chiang Ching-kuo opposed the faction was mainly because those factions did not belong to him, but now that he was ordered to establish his own faction, he naturally exposed his true face.
Although Jia Yibin has expressed his opposition attitude, Chiang Ching-kuo is still obstinate, which also makes Jia Yibin begin to have a different view of Chiang Ching-kuo. However, what really disappointed Jia Yibin in the Kuomintang was the "Yang Subsidiary Case" in October 1948.
Under the corrupt rule of the Kuomintang, there was serious inflation and soaring prices in the Shanghai area. In order to stabilize the situation, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Chiang Ching-kuo as the supervisor of economic control in the Shanghai area, responsible for banning the hoarding of goods and diverting the supply of materials.
At the beginning, Chiang Ching-kuo was full of vigor, and no matter what he did, he was vigorous and vigorous, and he had the momentum to fight the lawbreakers to the end, but when he found out about the "Yang subsidiary," Chiang Ching-kuo had no confidence.
The Yang subsidiary is one of the biggest scourges disrupting Shanghai's financial market, but the company's behind-the-scenes operator is Kong Lingkan. Kong Lingkan is the son of Song Meiling's eldest sister Song Yiling, and if it comes to relationships, Chiang Ching-kuo and him are cousins.
Kong Lingkan
In order to express to the people of Shanghai the Kuomintang's determination to suppress corruption, Chiang Ching-kuo decided, after careful consideration, to investigate and punish the Yang subsidiary, and just when Jia Yibin was deeply pleased by Chiang Ching-kuo's immediate decision, the real trouble came.
On the night of the investigation of the Yang subsidiary, Kong Lingkan's phone call reached Song Meiling, and the next morning, Song Meiling hurriedly arrived in Shanghai by special plane to stop Chiang Ching-kuo's behavior, and what is even more ridiculous is that a few days later, even Chiang Kai-shek flew to Shanghai from Beiping, where the war was urgent, and criticized Chiang Ching-kuo's "confused" behavior. The final result can be imagined, Kong Lingkan's supplies were all returned, and Shanghai's economic chaos continued as always.
Witnessing this result, Jia Yibin questioned in front of Chiang Ching-kuo: "If Kong Lingkan has not broken the law, then who else is a criminal?" It was from this incident that Jia Yibin truly saw the corruption of the Kuomintang top brass and the secret collusion of the four major families. Chiang Ching-kuo may be different, but after all, he is a member of the Jiang family, and it is absolutely impossible for him to get rid of the influence of the Chiang family.
Jia Yibin (third from right)
On the one hand, Chiang Ching-kuo, who has the grace of knowing himself, and on the other hand, the corrupt Kuomintang, Jia Yibin's heart is full of contradictions, and he does not know how to choose. During this period, Jia Yibin even had the idea of seclusion, but in that era of frequent wars, even if he flicked his sleeves away, how could he be alone, in the end, Jia Yibin finally won the victory of reason over emotion, he decided to break with Chiang Kai-shek's father and son, and run to the Communist Party that people wanted.
The uprising failed, the real success
At the end of 1948, with the end of the Liaoshen Campaign, the northeast region had all been liberated by our army, in order to disrupt the pace of the PLA's offensive, Chiang Kai-shek planned to form 30 armies in Jiangnan, the core of this plan was Chiang Ching-kuo's princeling army - "pre-dry corps", as the leader of the pre-cadre corps, Jia Yibin, at this time had already made up his mind to revolt, in order to ensure the success of the uprising, Jia Yibin immediately got in touch with Duan Boyu, who was then a staff officer of the Kuomintang major general. Who is this Duan Boyu? Why did Jia Yibin contact this person about the uprising?
Duan Boyu was ostensibly a major general in Chiang Kai-shek's attendant room, but in fact, he had joined the Chinese Communist Party as early as 1938. Under the instructions of Premier Zhou, he has been lurking within the Kuomintang, not only responsible for transmitting intelligence to our party, but also actively carrying out counter-insurgency work within the Kuomintang.
Jia Yibin (left) and Duan Boyu
When Duan Boyu reported Jia Yibin's idea of surrendering to the organization, our party attached great importance to it and immediately sent Li Zhengwen, a member of the Shanghai Counter-Rebellion Committee, to be responsible for specific matters. However, just when Jia Yibin's uprising was in full swing, Chiang Ching-kuo sensed something unusual.
In February 1949, Chiang Ching-kuo sent a secret telegram to the Secrecy Bureau of military command: "Jia Yibin's words and deeds are extreme, and we should be vigilant. This information was quickly learned by our Party, and in this critical situation, Jia Yibin realized that the pace of the uprising must be accelerated. Unexpectedly, at this moment, Chiang Ching-kuo suddenly called Jia Yibin and ordered him to go to Fenghua to meet Chiang Kai-shek. Although he had doubts, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the uprising, Jia Yibin still decided to rush to this "Hongmen Feast".
In the conversation with Chiang Kai-shek, Jia Yibin always maintained his composure and answered Chiang Kai-shek's inquiries like a stream, which made Chiang Kai-shek deeply pleased. That night, Chiang Kai-shek also invited Jia Yibin to listen to a opera called "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang". During the listening to the play, Jia Yibin had many ideas of pulling out a gun and killing Chiang Kai-shek, but for the sake of the overall situation, Jia Yibin finally curbed his inner impulses.
Jia Yibin and Chiang Kai-shek
Although Jia Yibin's performance did not make Chiang Kai-shek suspicious, it was not long before Chiang Kai-shek ordered Jia Yibin to be removed from all posts, and the keen Jia Yibin immediately realized that the time of the uprising could not be delayed any longer, and that immediate action must be taken.
On the night of April 7, 1949, in order to prepare for the successful crossing of the Yangtze River by the People's Liberation Army, Jia Yibin led a "pre-cadre corps" of only a few thousand people to launch an uprising in Jiaxing. When the news of the uprising reached Chiang Ching-kuo and Chiang Kai-shek, who were more than 100 kilometers away, the two were shocked at first, then Chiang Ching-kuo knelt on the ground and wept bitterly, and Chiang Kai-shek was angrily pointed at Chiang Ching-kuo's head and scolded him for his incompetence.
The "pre-cadre corps" led by Jia Yibin was chiang kai-shek's last capital to prepare to confront the PLA, and if the uprising was successful, it would certainly cause great losses to the Kuomintang.
Under the vigorous "encirclement and suppression" of the Kuomintang army, Jia Yibin led the "pre-cadre corps" and the enemy to fight hard for many days, but because of the huge disparity in strength, the insurrectionary team was scattered, and in the end, dozens of people in the pre-cadre corps were killed and more than 2,000 people were captured. In order not to be a prisoner, Jia Yibin jumped from the top of the cliff, and he thought that he would undoubtedly die, but he only broke 3 ribs, and finally was rescued by the local people and sent to the ccp's western Zhejiang guerrilla zone.
Later, Jia Yibin was sent to Danyang, Jiangsu, where he was also received by Chen Yi. After seeing Chen Yi, Jia Yibin said with great shame: "Commander Chen, I am incompetent and have not been able to bring the troops here..."
Chen Yi immediately interrupted Jia Yibin's words and said, "The fact that you can come here means that you have won the victory, and your patriotic behavior is commendable." ”
Although the uprising led by Jia Yibin of the "Kuomintang Pre-cadre Corps" was not entirely successful, his operation completely shattered Chiang Kai-shek's plan to form 30 armies. The uprising of the "princeling army" dealt a heavy blow to the corrupt Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek.
History has proved that only a political power that truly serves the country and the people, and only an army that truly fights for the country and the people can win the support of the people and become the victor of the people's hearts, and this party is the Communist Party of China, and this army is our People's Liberation Army.