Zhang Xueliang is a very controversial figure in China's modern history, he was born well, good looks, and had a decent scenery before the age of 35, but then he was placed under house arrest for 54 years, even if Zhang Xueliang was placed under house arrest, he almost had to spend a regiment of funds every year, but the old Jiang just did not let Zhang Xueliang go free, and before he died, he also had to explain to his son Jiang Jingguo not to release Zhang Xueliang.
It was not until Chiang Ching-kuo's death and Lee Teng-hui came to power that Zhang Xueliang fully recovered his personal freedom, perhaps in the time when he lost his freedom, Zhang Xueliang did not have much trouble, but he still got up at seven o'clock in the morning every day, lay down at ten o'clock at night to rest, and had a lot of time during the day to look up at the sky and remember his life, or to farm with a bucket, or to play ball with Miss Zhao Si who was with him, or to read newspapers or magazines...
In 1995, Zhang Xueliang lived in Hawaii, the United States, and has lived there since then, but Zhao Yidi had a major operation because of smoking, the lungs had cancer, so he underwent a major operation, and his health has not been as good as Zhang Xueliang, and in June 2000, Zhao Yidi passed away one step ahead of Zhang Xueliang.
When Zhang Xueliang was a hundred years old, Yang Han, a descendant of Yang Hucheng, arrived in Hawaii, the United States, and met with Zhang Xueliang, Zhang Xueliang did not know Yang Han at first, and he heard that Yang Hucheng died in 1949 with his young son and daughter, and when Yang Han introduced himself and said that his grandfather was Yang Hucheng, Zhang Xueliang reacted fiercely, and then only trembled and said four words: "Hello!" Hello! "After that, there was nothing more to say.
On December 12, 1936, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng still carried out "military advice" to Old Chiang in Lintong, proposing to "stop the civil war and unite to resist Japan", which undoubtedly seems correct today, but will Old Jiang think so?
Old Jiang was captured alive, Yang Hucheng's Seventeenth Route Army detained Chen Cheng, Shao Lizi, Jiang Dingwen, Chen Tiaoyuan, and other Kuomintang military and political leaders, He Yingqin threatened to use force to attack Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, and some people inside Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng advocated "killing" Old Jiang, but some people did not approve of taking Old Chiang's life.
In short, Lao Jiang himself felt that he was under great threat, which meant that things were resolved peacefully, and Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng might not have good fruit to eat, but Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng did not think that stopping the civil war was wrong to be unanimous, and they did not know enough about Lao Jiang's personality.
Zhang Xueliang sent Lao Jiang, Song Meiling, Song Ziwen, and others to Fly to Nanjing, but as a result, the plane was detained, and his Northeast Army was dismantled and disintegrated, and Lao Jiang could not act on Yang Hucheng at once, so he dismissed Yang Hucheng and sent him to Europe for "investigation," but Yang Hucheng's Seventeenth Route Army was canceled.
If Yang Hucheng stayed abroad, he might be able to save his own life, but Yang Hucheng wanted to resist Japan, and he did not want to die abroad, so after being refused to return to China by Old Jiang, Yang Hucheng planned to return to China through other means, but he received a telegram from Song Ziwen.
Yang Hucheng thought that the country was in trouble, and the old Jiang should not have thought about personal grievances first, but he did not know that Zhang Xueliang was still under house arrest, and it was not long after Yang Hucheng returned to China that he was lured to Nanchang and imprisoned, and since then Yang Hucheng has ushered in the tragedy of his life.
Although Yang Hucheng was put under house arrest later than Zhang Xueliang, but the situation was much more difficult than Zhang Xueliang, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Yang Hucheng thought that he would be released, but no, in September 1949, Zhang Hucheng and his young son, young daughter and his secretary's family were all stabbed to death with daggers by military agents, and also destroyed the body with nitrate water, but Yang Hucheng's eldest son Yang Zhengmin survived, and Yang Han was Yang Zhengmin's son.
Zhang Xueliang could still see Yang Hucheng's descendants again in his lifetime, his heart was full of mixed feelings and dark tides, but he didn't say anything to Yang Han in the end, probably he didn't know what else he could say, how to say it was good.