There was such a person by Chiang Kai-shek's side, his name was Chen Bray,
Claimed to be Chiang Kai-shek's "First Secretary",
He accompanied Chiang Kai-shek for as many as 21 years, and he and Chiang Kai-shek were colleagues and friends.
However, as such an important person around Chiang Kai-shek, his youngest daughter Chen Lian turned out to be a Communist Party member, and not only that, but even Chen Lian's husband was also a Communist Party.
Chen Lian lurked around her father and the Kuomintang for many years as Chen Bray's daughter.
After the identity information was exposed, the Kuomintang father was embarrassed and difficult to choose.
Chen Bray
Why did Chen Lian betray his father and join the Communist Party? Is there any other reason behind Chen Bray's suicide?
Dissatisfied with his father and the nationalist army, he resolutely joined the Communist Party
Chen Lian was born in 1919, that is, the warlords were fighting, the people's lives were miserable, and the turning point of the new and old democratic revolutions was born in such an incomparably turbulent environment.
Chen Bray had a total of nine children, seven sons, and two daughters in his lifetime, and Chen Lian was the youngest.
Chen Bray family
Shortly after Chen Lian was born, her mother died of illness, and Chen Bray, who suffered the pain of bereavement, gave all his dissatisfaction
Blame it on the little daughter.
He felt that the birth of his younger daughter had caused his wife's death, so on impulse he threw her out of the house and sent her to her grandmother's house.
Chen Brei felt that every time he saw Chen Lian, he would remember what his wife looked like when she died, so the innocent little Chen Lian was abandoned in this way.
After losing her mother, she has always been cared for by her grandmother.
When Chen Lian grew to 6 years old, Chen Brei had already weakened the pain of his wife's death, so he thought about taking his daughter
Picked up back to raise in person.
Chen Brei knew that he owed something to his daughter, so he was particularly fond of her and gave her a nickname called "Pi'er".
Chen Bree told her that the reason why she gave her this nickname was so that she would always remember her mother.
Because Chen Lian grew up with her grandmother and was accustomed to an unrestrained life, she suddenly came to her father with a lot of discipline, which made Chen Lian very uncomfortable.
Chen Lian
Chen Bray's thinking can be said to be half feudal and half advanced, and Chen Brei has always favored sons over women in his bones.
He only let his sons go to all kinds of higher education, and felt that girls did not need to learn these things.
But because Chen Lian did not grow up with her father since she was a child, she could not listen to her father's advice.
Resolutely, he went to Hangzhou Higher School to study.
Chen Brei knew that there was no way but to let her go.
In terms of family education, Chen Bray is obviously not enlightened enough, but in the face of major right and wrong, Chen Bray is still clear.
For the anti-Japanese resistance, he will do what he can.
Chen Lian took the initiative to accept higher education because he went out of the house to ignore his father's objections, and his thinking was greatly emancipated, and he gradually came into contact with Marxism and many other new ideas.
Although Chen Lian was only a little girl, in the face of the critical situation in China at that time, Chen Lian's heart to save the country and save the people has been beating non-stop.
I want to contribute my part to saving the country.
Chen Lian gradually came into contact with the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the more he understood, the more Chen Lian felt
The Kuomintang is a high-sounding puppet government rife with corruption, arbitrariness and dictatorship.
The Kuomintang is corrupt
Although Chen Lian knew that her father was a Kuomintang official, she was unwilling to join such a corrupt organization like her father.
So Chen Lian later took the initiative to secretly join the Communist Party of China.
Ever since Chen Lian made this decision, it was doomed that she and her father would be enemies in both camps.
The difficult choice between the grace of knowing and the affection of father and daughter
Chen Brei's feudal thinking was not only reflected in his family education, but also in all aspects of his handling of people.
Chen Bray was a former editor at the Shanghai Newspaper and possessed a very high level of literary attainment.
Chiang Kai-shek inadvertently saw the articles he wrote and admired his talent, so he recruited Chen Brei to his subordinates and reused them.
After joining the Kuomintang camp
Chen Bray became the pen holder of Chiang Kai-shek,
Many of Chiang Kai-shek's articles were written by Chen Bray.
Chen Bray stayed with Chiang Kai-shek for 21 years, and Chiang Kai-shek has always attached great importance to him.
Chiang Kai-shek
Although Chen Bray has always followed Chiang Kai-shek's side to serve the Kuomintang,
But there was still national righteousness in his heart.
When the Kuomintang persecuted progressives, Chen Bray repeatedly helped each other.
It is precisely because he has gained chiang kai-shek's deep trust that Chen Bray often risks annoying Chiang Kai-shek and repeatedly speaks to Chiang Kai-shek.
He wanted to persuade Chiang Kai-shek to give up the killing of progressives.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan,
Chen Bray also advised Chiang Kai-shek to put aside internal contradictions and unite with the outside world at this time.
Unfortunately, Chiang Kai-shek did not take Chen Bray's advice.
It is reasonable to say that a person like Chen Brei, who is well aware of the great national righteousness and puts the interests of the state first, should not have been putting up with the kmtone and three knives, and his appearance was inconsistent, and he should have quit the KMT a long time ago.
However, Chen Bray also had the stubbornness of an intellectual in his heart, and he felt that Chiang Kai-shek had the grace of knowing himself.
Therefore, even though there was a lot of dissatisfaction with Chiang Kai-shek's many practices, he still could not bear to betray Chiang Kai-shek.
Since joining the Communist Party, Chen Lian has kept her identity a strict secret, especially not to let her father know.
Chen Lian felt that his father was a person who was deeply valued by Chiang Kai-shek, and perhaps he could use his identity as Chen Bui's daughter to gain more valuable information about the Communist Party.
In 1939, Chen Lian officially entered the Southwest United University, and Chen Bray specially sent his daughter to school.
Before leaving, he also specifically told his daughter to study hard and not to easily get involved in politics.
But what he didn't know was that his daughter was already a Communist Party member at the time.
Chen Lian immediately retorted to his father's advice:
We are all sons and daughters of the Chinese nation, and it is the mission of each and every one of us to save the country and survive, if we are like the Kuomintang, we only care about our own interests and disregard the security of the country, then what future can we have in this country?
Chen Bray and Chen Lian
Chen Lian knew that her father was loyal to the Kuomintang, but she could not ignore the decay and decline within the Kuomintang.
Even if she no longer wanted to stand against her father, the reality seemed to have not allowed Chen Lian to make a choice.
Chen Lian not only learned a lot of new ideas and new knowledge at the Southwest United University, but also gained the love of her life, Yuan Yongxi.
His family situation with Chen Lian was almost the same, and Yuan Yongxi's family also had personnel working within the Kuomintang, but he still resolutely chose to stick to his faith.
Joined the Communist Party of China.
Chen Lian and Yuan Yongxi are connected by the same fate, because of similar experiences, the two have a good feeling for each other, and soon enter the palace of marriage.
Chen Lian and Yuan Yongxi
However, after the marriage, yuan Yongxi's communist identity was discovered, and Chen Lian's identity was also exposed.
A Kuomintang agent found a secret radio station in Chen Lian's home, and the couple was imprisoned together.
After Chen Brei learned of this incident, he only felt ashamed and embarrassed, and did not go to Chiang Kai-shek to intercede at the first time.
And Chiang Kai-shek, because he believed in Chen Bray,
So it didn't take long for his daughter and son-in-law to be released.
After being released from prison, Chen Lian continued to stay by her father's side, using her daughter's identity as a cover, but what she didn't know was that her father Chen Bray's heart had already collapsed.
The defeat of the Kuomintang and the double betrayal of his daughter and son-in-law were undoubtedly worse for Chen Bray.
Chen Bray saw clearly the corruption of officials within the Kuomintang, and the reason why he did not leave the Kuomintang was because he was grateful for Chiang Kai-shek's kindness.
But he also understood his daughter's act of joining the Communist Party, and Chen Brei knew that the fall of the Kuomintang was a matter of time, so he rushed before this.
He did one last thing specifically for his daughter.
One day in 1947, Chen Brei asked his aide-de-camp Ju Yiqiao to accompany him to Premier Zhou's residence in Nanjing.
Premier Zhou
However, he did not let Ju Yiqiao accompany him upstairs, but chose to go upstairs alone to find Premier Zhou.
Chen Bray and Premier Zhou talked for a full 2 hours.
Before leaving, Premier Zhou personally went downstairs to send Chen Bray, and the two men shook hands cordially to say goodbye.
Although Ju Yiqiao did not know what happened to Chen Bray in looking for Premier Zhou, considering the opposing identities between the two sides, there was no trouble, so he did not specifically inquire about the purpose of Chen Brei's visit.
However, Chen Bray had already sensed Ju Yiqiao's doubts and said directly to him:
Rest assured, I am looking for Premier Zhou for personal affairs, and has nothing to do with official affairs.
Many years later, Ju Yiqiao learned what happened to Chen Bray when he sought out Premier Zhou.
It turned out that Chen Bray had already predicted the future of the Kuomintang at that time.
He was afraid that his daughter would suffer some unfair treatment within the Kuomintang because of her status.
Therefore, I specifically begged Premier Zhou to help take care of it more,
Chen Bray did feel ashamed of his daughter Chen Lian in his early years, but he still cared about the father-daughter relationship after all.
Behind the suicide is unimaginable suffering
Although Chen Bray was a subordinate of Chiang Kai-shek, his usual mode of getting along with Chiang Kai-shek was more like a friend, so he also had nothing to say to Chiang Kai-shek and was frank and outspoken.
But ever since the incident with his daughter, he had always felt guilty about Chiang Kai-shek and always felt sorry for Chiang Kai-shek.
During the Liberation War, Chen Bray wanted to stop many of the Kuomintang's erroneous decisions, but his strong sense of guilt made him feel like a fish in his throat every time.
After the defeat in the Liaoshen Campaign in 1948, Chiang Kai-shek suffered a major blow and was hospitalized in one fell swoop.
Battle of Liaoshen
Chen Brei went to visit Chiang Kai-shek in the hospital, and he felt that he should be the loyal servant who was loyal to his word.
So he told Chiang Kai-shek:
This battle could not be fought any longer, the war of liberation was not necessary in the first place, and now the people were once again suffering from the devastation of life.
However, what Chen Bray said just hit The sore spot of Chiang Kai-shek, who was also angry with Chen Brei for the first time in so many years.
After this time, Chen Bray had completely lost hope for the Kuomintang and for Chiang Kai-shek.
One day in November 1948, Chen Brei went to the barbershop to tidy up his grooming.
Obviously, it was time to go to bed at night, but Chen Brei had freshened himself up and dressed himself up, and changed into clean clothes and shoes.
Finally, he told the people in the family not to disturb him, he wanted to sleep quietly, and after this sleep,
Chen Bray never woke up again,
It turned out that he had swallowed a large amount of sleeping pills before going to sleep.
In fact, from the moment he knew that his daughter was a Communist Party, Chen Bray's heart was already on the verge of collapse, and Chiang Kai-shek did not listen to his advice and persisted.
All this made Chen Bray's heart suffer greatly and painfully, and death may be his best choice.
Although Chen Brei has been in the camp of the Kuomintang all his life, he has not been half tainted by the corrupt atmosphere within the Kuomintang, and honesty and honesty have always been his label for people.
Chen Bray originally only wanted to be a good secretary of Chiang Kai-shek and do his job well, and getting involved in political struggles was not what he wanted, resulting in the fact that in the end he could only choose to use death to prove and liberate himself