On January 13, 1988, Chiang Ching-kuo passed away, and an anti-Chiang kai-shek figure became the leader of a new generation.
This change of political figures is not only an important moment for the Chiang family dynasty, but also a moment that needs to be remembered for Zhang Xueliang.
The new leader came to power, and Zhang Xueliang completely regained his freedom.
The once mercurial young marshal gradually lost his former style in the decades of captivity. The freedom gained in the twilight years was more like a kind of relief for him, a relief from so many years of imprisonment, and a release from the storms of this life.
But all this relief did not include the cause of death of his friend Yang Hucheng.
In the interview, the reporter mentioned the Xi'an incident. Zhang Xueliang told reporters: "
The Xi'an incident was definitely planned by me, and I was responsible for the whole incident, and Yang Hucheng just agreed.
"Friends who used to fight together, eventually separated from each other. A seemingly factual sentence, but behind it is the real cause of death of a friend. Recalling his friend, the young marshal still couldn't help but say:
I still don't understand why someone would kill him!
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How exactly was Yang Hucheng hurt? Even if he was already imprisoned later, he could not get rid of the situation of his family being destroyed? Why did he and Zhang Xueliang have such a big difference in treatment? Before entering the main topic, new friends can pay attention to it a little, not only not miss the wonderful content of the future, but also review the wonderful content of the past period.
Xi'an Incident, cooperation with Zhang Xueliang
Yang Hucheng was born poor, and when he was fourteen years old, his father was hanged for murder. He borrowed a trolley to walk 200 kilometers to transport his father's body home. With the help of the villagers, his father's body was buried in the ground. It is said that the children of the poor have long been in charge, and after Yang Hucheng came into contact with society, he felt that the decline of the Qing Dynasty was inevitable.
The corruption of society was a thorn in his heart, and the complex feelings that came to his mind when he thought of the unfortunate experiences of his childhood became the catalyst for him to actively devote himself to the revolutionary cause.
The key person who really immersed Yang Hucheng in the revolutionary cause was his third wife, Xie Baozhen. She was a person who served the motherland and the people wholeheartedly, cut off her braids, and took the initiative to join the army. As a teenager, she did not lose her energy to the soldiers. Xie Baozhen's charm deeply influenced Yang Hucheng.
The union of the two people not only carries the feelings peculiar to the revolutionary period, but is more like a kind of spiritual fit.
Xie Baozhen brought Yang Hucheng not only a spiritual impact, but also brought him connections. The understanding between Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang is based on Xie Baozhen's relationship. When Zhang Xueliang brought Zhao Yidi to Xi'an, Xie Baozhen did his best to entertain them warmly, and invited the two to their homes, and the four of them went on outings together many times. After several contacts, the four of them had the feeling of wanting to add very late, and naturally became very good friends.
Yang Hucheng has always been in the army since he joined the army
Passionate, single-handed
。 He relied entirely on his enthusiasm to allow himself to occupy a place in the Kuomintang.
When the relentless flames of war of the Japanese army had burned to the point of unbridledness in the land of China
Chiang Kai-shek still upholds"
Outside must first be inside
"Policy.
In Yang Hucheng's eyes, such a policy is not a good policy for saving the country and the people at all. He repeatedly called the Nationalist government in Nanjing to request resistance against Japan, but all of them were rejected. Under such circumstances, he and Zhang Xueliang launched the Xi'an Incident and promoted the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists to resist Japan. Unlike Zhang Xueliang, who has his back to his father's big mountain,
Yang Hucheng's launch of the Xi'an Incident became more pure.
Zhang Xueliang launched the Xi'an Incident
Out of their own personal feelings
。 That's why he did it
The most essential reason
It's from one person
heroism
and
Guilt over the fall of the three northeastern provinces
。 This accumulation of emotions in his heart made him have to launch an incident to repel the Japanese Kou and alleviate the complex feelings accumulated in his heart.
Yang Hucheng's personal feelings are not heavy,
He is an outsider who stands high in the air and looks down on this war, and he knows that this incident is the most important turning point of the Chinese revolution, and he is for the future of the motherland and the future of the nation. Under great love, there will be brave men!
The two men also had different views on Chiang Kai-shek's handling.
Zhang Xueliang did not advocate the killing of Chiang Kai-shek, and he even personally escorted Chiang Kai-shek from Xi'an back to Nanjing. At this time, Yang Hucheng had already anticipated the consequences that Chiang Kai-shek would bring to the two. Although Chiang Kai-shek made promises more than once in the negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communists. but
Chiang Kai-shek's personality cannot be summed up as a "gentleman", and Yang Hucheng's worries are not superfluous
。 On more than one occasion, he wanted to publicly execute Chiang Kai-shek, and under the persuasion of Zhang Xueliang, he finally had to agree to his release. Perhaps such a proposition became the reason for the two very different second half of Zhang Yang's life.
He was arrested and deeply persecuted
After the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident, after negotiations by Zhou Enlai and others, the Kuomintang and the Communists stopped the civil war and jointly resisted Japan. All this from the overall point of view, everything is calm and calm, is developing in a good direction. But the turbulence behind the calm is something that ordinary people cannot appreciate.
Beneath all this calm surface is the tortuous and rugged second half of Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng's lives.
For Chiang Kai-shek, the launching of Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng was not a simple incident at all. As one's own subordinate, he forced himself to blackmail himself, betrayed himself at the most critical moment, even
I want to "divide and then fast"
This act directly angered Chiang Kai-shek. All this is seen by the public as an act of patriotism
In Chiang Kai-shek's eyes, it was rebellion
It is the provocation and dissatisfaction with his own general.
After Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Luoyang, the first thing he did was to imprison Zhang Xueliang. As for Yang Hucheng, Chiang Kai-shek seemed to hate this man even more.
In January 1937, Yang Hucheng struggled for the position he had obtained in half his life, and in a few words of Chiang Kai-shek, it was destroyed.
Yang Hucheng was dismissed from his post and retained in office, and Chiang Kai-shek forced him to go abroad to propagate his anti-Japanese ideas on the pretext of letting him go abroad for "investigation."
After the Lugou Bridge Incident, Yang Hucheng, who was bent on bathing in blood, repeatedly sent telegrams to Chiang Kai-shek, wanting to return to China to participate in the War of Resistance Against Japan and make his own modest contribution to the future of the motherland.
However, at this time, Chiang Kai-shek, who was still angry, naturally would not agree to Yang Hucheng's request. In desperation, Yang Hucheng moved from France to Hong Kong, hoping to return to the inland of the motherland from Hong Kong and actively participate in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
The news of Yang Hucheng's return to China without permission eventually reached Chiang Kai-shek's ears. This is undoubtedly tantamount to adding fuel to the fire, and the anger in Chiang Kai-shek's heart will not decrease but will increase.
Therefore, he ordered his men to lure Yang Hucheng to Nanchang. Yang Hucheng, who was bent on resisting Japan, felt that his long-cherished wish could finally be realized.
But he didn't know that this time, a feast at the Gate of Hongmen was enough to push him into the abyss
。 After arriving in Nanchang, Yang Hucheng and his secretary's two families were completely imprisoned.
They were also imprisoned, but the treatment of Zhang Yang and Zhang Yang could be described
Worlds apart
。 During his house arrest, Zhang Xueliang could interact with anyone and was well taken care of. Although he lost his freedom, he did not receive much persecution. Compared with Zhang Xueliang's house arrest,
Yang Hucheng's house arrest was more like a silent torture. Both in heart and in life it is a torture that destroys the soul.
Except for the large and small agents of the military command, he could not see anyone else. This is undoubtedly equal to Yang Hucheng
Kill your own life value
。 At the beginning of his imprisonment, Yang Hucheng and his family were locked up together, during which he also ushered in the birth of his daughter.
The growth of sons and daughters and the company of their wives are the only traces of warmth in this chaotic world. For Yang Hucheng, this wisp of warmth is more like a warm color in the dim life
。
As the domestic situation continued to develop, Chiang Kai-shek became more and more jealous of the Communist Party. This jealousy gradually transformed into hatred for Yang Hucheng. Chiang Kai-shek regarded Yang Hucheng as such
"A thorn in the flesh"
At this moment, Yang Hucheng's "want to get rid of it quickly" has become a silent and heavy torture in Chiang Kai-shek's heart, and what Chiang Kai-shek wants is to let Yang Hucheng suffer to the end, hit his soul and personality, and let him experience the taste of life is worse than death.
Sometimes death is a relief, but living is suffering.
Chiang Kai-shek not only understood this truth, but he was able to understand the profound meaning of this truth.
At Chiang Kai-shek's behest, Yang Hucheng and his wife were forced to be held separately. Chiang Kai-shek suspected that Madame Yang was a Communist, and it was precisely because of madame Yang's influence that he would do such a disrespectful thing to himself. Although the person in charge of the interrogation did not dare to torture Madame Yang, they continued to intimidate during the interrogation, resulting in Madame Yang's mental weakness
Although Yang Hucheng was not tortured, hearing the heart-rending cries of his beloved every day was like a torture for him.
In the darkness of her imprisonment, Mrs. Yang was frail and sickly and overwhelmed. Even so, Chiang Kai-shek ordered that no one should be allowed to see Madame Yang. Eventually, Mrs. Yang died.
Madame's departure seemed to take away Yang Hucheng's love for this world. But for the sake of his son and daughter, he must live, and he only hopes that there will be a day when the ban will be lifted, so that his children can see the day again and live. However, all this eventually became a luxury. When Chiang Kai-shek defeated and retreated to Taiwan, he was still unwilling to spare Zhang Yang and the two men. He took Zhang Xueliang to Taiwan to continue to be placed under house arrest, and for Yang Hucheng, he felt that the time had come and it was time to send him on his way.
On September 6, 1949, the Kuomintang abandoned Chongqing, and Mao Renfeng and others were ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to take action against Yang Hucheng and his family. In the end, Yang Hucheng, Yang Hucheng's son and young daughter, and Yang Hucheng's secretary's family all collapsed in a pool of blood. After the people's lives had returned to the west, Chiang Kai-shek's hatred could not be solved, and he ordered the destruction of these corpses with salt and gallium water, leaving them with no bones. That's it
A hero has since returned to the west, and the bones are nowhere to be found!
Zhang Yang and Yang, why their fates are different
As Zhang Xueliang said-
He didn't understand or understand why they were doing this to Yang Hucheng
。 In fact, this is just a kind of rhetoric, the world understands things, why doesn't he understand it?
In the face of this long-lost comrade-in-arms, he is more guilty and remorseful
。 Whenever he thought about the past, he would feel that if he had done all this himself, would Yang Hucheng still drink tea and chat with himself now?
The facts have become facts, but why did Chiang Kai-shek kill Yang Hucheng and always be kind to Zhang Xueliang? In Chiang Kai-shek's view,
His relationship with Zhang Xueliang was not only a relationship between superiors and subordinates, but more importantly, a friendship relationship, but Yang Hucheng was only a subordinate to Chiang Kai-shek
Friends have hurt you, and for the sake of friendship, you will still choose to forgive him. But a subordinate wants to take your first rank, which is an intolerable thing for Chiang Kai-shek. If it had not been for Zhang Xueliang's persuasion, Chiang Kai-shek would have been in a different place. Therefore, emotionally, Chiang Kai-shek is different for two people, one will choose to forgive, and the other will eventually be persecuted!
Chiang Kai-shek's hatred of Yang Hucheng has another layer to do with it. In the eyes of Chiang Kai-shek at that time, his grand blueprint was blocked by the Communists, so he went around mutilating and even hating the Communists. In his opinion, Yang Hucheng's wife is a communist, and sooner or later he will have to do something for his blueprint. At the time of the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Yang and Zhang Yang sang red faces and white faces, which would be a different situation in Chiang Kai-shek's view.
In Chiang Kai-shek's heart,
Zhang Xueliang launched the Xi'an Incident in order to jointly resist Japan. But Yang Hucheng was so desperate to execute himself, not just for the simple purpose of jointly resisting Japan, but also to join the Communist Party.
Such an idea will be deeply rooted in Chiang Kai-shek's mind once it is formed. Indeed, Chiang Kai-shek persecuted Lady Yang to death on the grounds that he suspected her to be a Communist, and finally ended Yang Hucheng.
The position of Zhang Yang and Zhang Yang in the Kuomintang is also an important reason why the two are completely different in the second half of their lives.
Zhang Xueliang's men were all obtained from his father, and they were all cronies who had been born and died with the Zhang family for many years, and they naturally had unspeakable feelings for the young marshal. Even if Zhang Xueliang threw himself into Chiang Kai-shek's command, if Chiang Kai-shek did something unfavorable to the young marshal, Zhang Xueliang's cronies would naturally not let Chiang Kai-shek go.
Taking this into account, Chiang Kai-shek naturally did not dare to use Zhang Xueliang easily. But Yang Hucheng was different, he did not have the protection of this level of relationship, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to move him, naturally it was as simple as stepping on an ant, without any concern. Even if Yang Hucheng had some followers, this force was not worth mentioning in Chiang Kai-shek's eyes, and in order to vent his resentment, he tortured Yang Hucheng little by little, watching him live or die.
Another point is that when Zhang Xueliang was placed under house arrest, he only took Zhao Yidi with him, but his other family members were not put under house arrest.
The social relationship between Yu Fengzhi and Miss Zhao Si is still there.
They use their social connections to do everything for Zhang Xueliang. But Yang Hucheng did not have such treatment, his family and his secretary were locked up with him, and no one could do anything for them.
Everything he cherished was firmly in Chiang Kai-shek's hands, so what would he do to negotiate with Chiang Kai-shek? What can you do to keep yourself and your family safe?
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