What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Dai Kasa was born on May 28, 1897, when he was a child, his name was Dai Chunfeng, when he was 14 years old, he took the academic name "Zhenglan", and did not change his name until he was 30 years old when he was admitted to the sixth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, it is said that this name change was because after the failure of the first examination in Huangpu, one of his friends who passed the exam thought that "Zhenglan" was not manly enough, so Dai Kasa thought of the verse in "Yue Song Song" "Jun rides, I wear Kasa, he meets every day to get off the car", so he took this name that later made many people feel chills. However, this title may not sound more manly at first, and for "Yue Ballad Song" and "Customs", the explanation is: "The more vulgar and simple, the first time to make friends with people, there is courtesy."
The powerful Dai Kasa received a new nickname from the Kuomintang's Western allies: "China's Himmler." But Dai Kasa is indeed not Himmler, although from the external effect, both men are creating hellish terror in the human world, but Himmler is a fascist through and through, he believes in and practices the dogma of fascism. Although Dai Kasa "supports democracy" and usually does not leave his mouth on the "Three People's Principles", judging from what he has done, who would really believe that he is a believer in Mr. Nakayama; if he is a fascist, it is not accurate, and in reality Dai Kasa is precisely in the camp hostile to fascism. Perhaps, as Dai Kasa's men privately called him "Boss Dai", he was more like a shrewd businessman, a pure businessman who only recognized money, no matter what doctrine, Boss Dai's business seemed to not care about any doctrine, he did not recognize money, but people.
When Dai Kasa always emphasized that he was the "Dai Kasa of the Commander-in-Chief", he had already made it very clear to the people of the world that the most important reason why he was able to move in the political arena of the Republic of China and call the wind and rain, and since 1932, he had been in control of the "Second Division (Secret Service) of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics" and later the "Military Command". As a result, the figure of "Commander-in-Chief Chiang Kai-shek" loomed behind this terrifying secret service leader, making the world more or less understand the true source of the secret service politics that created terror everywhere during the Republic of China period.
In 1935, a seminar of the Secret Service was held on the shores of West Lake, in which the parties "adopted the techniques of operation, espionage, and organization of the KGB or the Gestapo, but Dai Kasa rejected their organizational spirit." Dai Kasa stressed that China's secret agents must be based on China's concepts of 'benevolence' and 'righteousness', 'loyalty' and 'filial piety'. Our comrades are united on the principle of benevolence and righteousness, and our collective unity is established through loyalty and duty. According to this concept, a conspicuous slogan was hung in the Great Hall of the Headquarters of the Secret Service: "Uphold the leader's will, remember the leader's painstaking heart", which is the slogan put forward by Dai Kasa himself; In the song he later hand-picked, the words that most impressed him were: "Maintain the safety of our leaders." Dai Kasa knew very well that the "courtesy, righteousness, honesty, and shame" in the "New Life Movement" and the "dear sincerity" of the Huangpu Department, when they arrived at President Jiang, ultimately corresponded only to a word of "loyalty", loyalty to the principal, that is, loyalty to the party-state, and this order must not be reversed.
In Dai Kasa's loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek, "wisdom" is the first important element, and this so-called "wisdom" is actually nothing more than a calculation of people. Only by following the right person first can there be absolute obedience and complete devotion. Dai Kasa often associated his secret service with Zhuge Liang, who "had a chance to come out of nowhere", and regarded him as the earliest "spy king" in Chinese history, perhaps Dai Kasa also had some meanings associated with his knowledge of Meeting Principal Jiang and Zhuge Kongming's knowledge of Meeting Liu Xuande. Naturally, loyalty after this calculation never points to abstract things such as principles, doctrines, ideals, etc., but only to reality and not to concrete people in ideas. At the same time, this kind of loyalty will in turn require that the object of loyalty at least know the existence of such a specific loyalist as he Dai Kasa, which is considered effective loyalty, otherwise it will become a cash-loss transaction in vain. This pattern of allegiance could not be clearer than the political undertones of traditional human rule in the art of boss loyalty.
In addition to having "wisdom", there must also be "ability". In this regard, Dai Kasa, who was the sixth cavalry section of Huangpu, knew it well, and he admitted that he did not have the ability to lead soldiers to fight, but he had another set of skills that made the "headmaster" look sideways. When he first entered Huangpu, Dai Kasa "desperately tried to absorb information that he thought Jiang would be interested in." Every few days, he would send intelligence written in summary or list to Chiang Kai-shek's desk. At first, the 'principal' threw the reports into the wastebasket without looking at them. Dai Kasa would patiently pick up these abstracts, blanch them, and then put them back on Jiang's table. ”
In 1928, Dai Kasa was recommended by his old classmate Hu Zongnan to the "Huangpu Alumni Association Graduate Student Investigation Office", and then asked Chiang Kai-shek's aide-de-camp Hu Jing'an to introduce him and become a bodyguard of Chiang Kai-shek. So he repeated the same trick, "using his position as a guard at the gate of Chiang Kai-shek's headquarters, he handed these notes with secret reports written on them every time Chiang Kai-shek passed." Dai Kasa's hard work was rewarded, and the "headmaster" quickly noticed the value of the information provided by his protégé, and gradually began to entrust him with some important intelligence work, and Dai Kasa took the first step towards power.
In 1932, Dai Kasa entered the core circle of the right-wing group "Lixing Society" in the Kuomintang, but his qualifications were too shallow, and in the eyes of Teng Jie, He Zhihan, Deng Wenyi and other "Tianzi protégés" in the Huangpu Phase I of the Society, he was just a small role in charge of guarding during meetings. At first, Chiang Kai-shek relied heavily on the first four members of the Huangpu Society, but they "ignored Chiang Kai-shek's precious time and often presented Chiang Kai-shek with documents of thousands of words." Chiang repeatedly suggested to his new cadres that they should be concise and concise, but they ignored them, instigated them as they did, and even boasted to their friends about the length of the memorandums they had given to the leaders. Compared with these "big brothers" who also cannot fight but are known for their loyalty and nonsense, Dai Kasa's superb ability and pragmatic style in intelligence have made him stand out, and since then he has been particularly appreciated by Old Jiang, and his status has risen rapidly.
Not only with the right people, but also with the appreciation of the skills of the body, only to get the turn to be able to "completely dedicate" when necessary, this kind of daring act is called "righteousness" in the jianghu, and Boss Dai, who has crawled out of the hooligan pile on the beach, understands that this set of jianghu rules is equally important in political circles. In 1927, after Chiang Kai-shek left the wilderness and wanted to go to Japan for a strategic exile, Dai Kasa rushed to knock on the door of the "principal" who was transported and volunteered to serve as a bodyguard for him. After the Xi'an Incident broke out, Dai Kasa was determined to "go to the disaster" for Chiang Kai-shek and flew to Xi'an on the same plane as Mrs. Jiang and Song Ziwen. When he boarded the plane, he "took two revolvers with him, full of determination to live and die with the headmaster." When they finally arrived in Xi'an to see Jiang, he rushed forward, knelt in front of the commander-in-chief, hugged the leader's leg, and cried bitterly, scolding himself for his dereliction of duty to protect the leader. ”
Although Dai Kasa acted a little too much, he touched Chiang Kai-shek himself. And "the competitors who failed to come to the rescue of the leader during the Xi'an Incident fell out of favor in Jiang's eyes." For example, the chairman believes that the performance of Deng Wenyi and He Zhihan in those two weeks has been shaken. So when Jiang returned to Nanjing, he demoted them and others. Deng Wenyi has been pouring luck and entering the cold palace for more than ten years before he was reappointed as the secretary of the attendant room.
In the art of Dai Kasa's loyalty, there is also the most difficult point to do, that is, in addition to the trust between the master and the slave, it is also necessary to create an atmosphere of "closeness" and "intimacy" so that they can get along with each other freely and comfortably. In this respect, Dai Kasa did have the ability to "use different methods to make his master relax and to make Chiang Kai-shek's flaccid side manifest." For example, when Dai Kasa was young and poor, he could always maintain a well-dressed demeanor, but after following the principal's traces, he was "often dressed in wrinkled clothes, dressed badly, did not shave, and even a little sloppy." This gives the impression that Dai's careless temperament is in some ways just in line with the other side of Chiang Kai-shek———perhaps an inner and loose kingdom of his."
With this set of allegiance techniques, Dai Kasa was not only appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek, but also liked by Chiang Kai-shek, who often referred to him as "rain farmer", just like his own family. In the face of such a strong competitor, Deng Wenyi, a "Tianzi protégé" of Huangpu Phase I, had to sigh to herself and said sourly: "To be Himmler, only rain farmers are qualified."