During the Republic of China period, there were many prominent people in the Kuomintang, and He Shili was one of them. Ho Sai Lee was born into a wealthy merchant family, and his father was not an ordinary rich businessman, but the richest man in Hong Kong's modern history, Ho Tung. As a businessman, He Dong did a lot of good things for society and received the title of knighthood from the Queen of England.
However, Ho Tung is British, with a typical Hong Kong mark, his father is a Dutch Jew, so he is of mixed blood, and naturally Ho Shi Li is also of mixed blood. Unlike his father, although He Shili is also a descendant of Europeans, his own national consciousness belongs to China and is a descendant of Yan Huang.
He Shili's sense of national belonging made his relationship with his father very awkward. When Ho Shi Li was 9 years old, he once saw a hong Kong governor named Maxley with his whole family, and among the nine brothers and sisters of Ho Dong, MaxLey took a fancy to Ho Shi Li and praised Ho Shi Li as different.
He Dong was also very happy, Maxley gave He Shili a British gold coin, and asked him if he would be proud of joining the British nationality, but he Shili did not give the governor any face, replied: "I am a Chinese child, this is not bad." This made his father He Dong very headache.
But what He Dong could not think of was that this son who thought he was a Chinese actually turned his face to his father for not wanting to become a British citizen, and the two actually went to court. As a result, even the court supported He Shili's Chinese identity, and as soon as the matter came out, all the newspapers paid attention to them, and He Shili became an example for Chinese to establish national integrity.
In 1923, He Shili accompanied his mother to Nanjing to practice Buddhism, and often came to the governor of Jiangsu who came to his family to propose to send He Shili to study at the Nanjing Army Officer School, He Shili was worried about how to serve the nation, and the proposal of the governor of Jiangsu was in the middle, so He Shili entered the military academy, and in the school he studied hard for the rise of China.
However, the Army Academy in Nanjing was stopped because of the warlord war, but He Shili never forgot to be a soldier, and after returning to Hong Kong, he successively entered the Royal Military Academy of Hulez in the United Kingdom, the British Lehir Artillery School to study artillery, and later went to the French Brewer Artillery College to continue to study as an artilleryman.
He Shili returned to the motherland in 1930, when the Central Plains War broke out in China, and he was very distressed to see that China was still struggling with each other at a time of internal and external difficulties, and it just so happened that He Shili, who was idle in Shanghai, received an introduction from Wu Tiecheng to go to Nanjing to find He Yingqin or Qian Dajun to seek an official and a half-job, but He Shili wanted to come and go but did not accept it, in fact, he made another plan in his heart.
He Shili was optimistic about Zhang Xueliang, and he was quite worried about the situation in northeast China, watching the arrogance of the Japanese Kwantung Army day by day, He Shili was very eager to go to the battlefield to kill the little Japanese. So he ran to the northeast to ask to see Zhang Xueliang, and as a result, Zhang Xueliang saw He Shili and had a feeling of meeting and hating the night, and it was simply difficult to ask for a good general, but today he sent it to the door.
He Shili gave Zhang Xueliang a lot of suggestions for guarding the northeast, and Zhang Xueliang admired it very much, and asked He Shili to be a senior staff officer and deputy chief of artillery staff, and to grant him the treatment of a colonel, but he Shili refused, because he wanted to start from scratch and take one step at a time. He Shili started from the company commander and the rank of lieutenant, experienced the "918" incident, saw the tragedy of not allowing the Northeast Army to resist, and allowing his army to almost be completely destroyed and lost to the northeast, but He Shili still stubbornly struggled with the Japanese in the army.
In 1934, He Shili went to the United States for further study, learning advanced combat technology from the United States, and arming the Chinese army back and forth, but in the year of the Xi'an Incident, He Shili was implicated, and He Shili believed that the Xi'an Incident had become helpless, but no matter how he thought that he was also an important figure in the Northeast Army, he was dismissed from military post and dealt with under surveillance, which made He Shili very sad.
Disheartened, He Shili originally planned to go home to do business, and later He Shili was appreciated by Song Ziwen and was appointed as the director of the Chaomei Marketing Bureau of the Guangdong Salt Administration, and He Shili did a lot of practical things in this position. The July 7 Incident made the whole country bent on resisting Japan, and He Shili finally waited for the day when he joined the army and reported to the country, and he once again resolutely went to the battlefield.
On the front line, He Shili participated in many battles, such as the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Lanfeng, and the Battle of Wuhan, and in the face of the Japanese armaments that were much more advanced than himself, He Shili was not discouraged, and used what he had learned in his life to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, and also used the personal relationship between his father and Song Ziwen to increase the advanced armament of the army.
Later, after the global allies joined the anti-fascist struggle, He Shili was responsible for rear affairs such as contacting the United States with supplies, which greatly helped the victory of the War of Resistance, and after Japan's surrender, he was also responsible for deporting Japanese immigrants and other affairs.
After the Kuomintang retreated to Nanjing, Ho also returned to Hong Kong in 1956 to inherit the family business, although he was already the chief representative of the United Nations military delegation and a second-class general in the army. In his later years, He Shili also advocated the one-China principle, and his patriotism was retained for a lifetime.