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Speaking of Zhang Xueliang, I believe that many people should be no strangers. As the son of Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Xueliang has a better family environment than others since he was a child, in addition to the prominent military strength and huge economic support left to him by Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Xueliang also received a lot of teachings from his father.
On December 12, 1936, the Xi'an Incident broke out, and Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng carried out military advice and took control of Chiang Kai-shek. He also announced the cancellation of the order of the "Headquarters of bandits in the northwest" and sent a telegram to the whole country to demand the reorganization of the National Government in Nanjing, advocating the cessation of the civil war and the unanimous externalization. Zhang Xueliang's change in thinking made Chiang Kai-shek very angry, but it was not shown on his face at that time.
After the Xi'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek quickly put Zhang Xueliang under house arrest for various reasons, and the once spirited young marshal was reduced to a prisoner of the order. In addition to Zhang Xueliang himself being placed under house arrest, even Yang Hucheng, who conspired with him, was also retaliated against by Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek not only killed Yang Hucheng, but also killed his two minor children.
Chiang Kai-shek's house arrest of Zhang Xueliang lasted for 54 years. In this regard, many people can't help but feel confused, Zhang Xueliang is after all a former young marshal, in the past 54 years, he really has no chance to come out? This is not the case, Chiang Kai-shek once exchanged three conditions for Zhang Xueliang's freedom.
The three conditions were, first, recognition and public statement to the outside world that the Xi'an Incident had been launched under the coercion and inducement of the Communist Party. For this condition, clear-eyed people can see that Chiang Kai-shek has ulterior motives. The second was to ask Zhang Xueliang to hand over the secret letter sent to him by Chiang Kai-shek during the September 18 Incident asking him not to resist. The third is that once Zhang Xueliang is free, he cannot return to China for the rest of his life, but can only go to foreign countries.
These three conditions of Chiang Kai-shek, if he were to change to someone else, would probably agree, but Zhang Xueliang's wind and bones made him unable to achieve a single condition. In the end, Zhang Xueliang directly rejected these three conditions of Chiang Kai-shek, and Zhang Xueliang was still more willing to sacrifice his freedom than to undermine his own principles.
I have to say that although Zhang Xueliang has also done some wrong things, in the face of great right and wrong, he still has his own considerations and thoughts after all.