In the spring of 1928, Chiang Kai-shek was full of ambition and preparing for the Second Northern Expedition, at this time Chiang Kai-shek, although his troops were strong and strong, he deeply felt that he lacked strategists who could be like Zhuge Liang, and he found Huang Hao, who was then the minister of foreign affairs, to persuade him to end his career as a politician and build a "party state" with himself.
Listening to Chiang Kai-shek's words, Huang Hao smiled and said, "There is a prodigy in the sea, Mr. Yang Changqing... Wherever I can, Chang Qing can do nothing, and those who can do It, sometimes I can't do it...".
Chiang Kai-shek was very surprised to hear this, this Yang Changqing, named Yang Yongtai, is also a celebrity in the Republic of China, but this person is serving in the north, Chiang Kai-shek only heard his name, never met this person, heard Huang Hao say this, Chiang Kai-shek immediately saw this Yang Yongtai's mind.
Soon, under the recommendation of Huang Gao and Xiong Shihui, heads of the Department of Political Science, Yang Yongtai came to Chiang Kai-shek, and as soon as they met, Yang Yongtai put forward his own views on the current situation under the heavens, gushing a lot of words, and when he came, he also proposed three major methods to deal with the situation at that time: Feng Yuxiang, using economic disintegration, Yan Xishan, using political methods to solve, and Zhang Xueliang, using diplomatic means to sanction.
Yang Yongtai's words made Chiang Kai-shek suddenly enlightened, and the biggest problem facing him at present was the division of the princes, and Yang Yongtai formulated a policy for Chiang Kai-shek to solve these people in three words. Yang Yongtai was immediately appointed as a senator in the Military Commission of the National Government, and Yang Yongtai became a counselor of Chiang Kai-shek.
One or three inches of uncorrupted tongue persuaded Yu Zuobai to turn against him
Before Yang Yongtai defected to Chiang Kai-shek, he had planned to defect to the Gui warlords Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, and gave them a "Book of Ten Thousand Words", which was very reasonable, but because Yang Yongtai had successively defected to the Beiyang government, Sun Yat-sen, and the Southwest warlords in his early years, he felt that Yang Yongtai had a problem with his character and did not take care of Yang Yongtai, so in 1929, after the outbreak of the Jiang-Gui War, Yang Yongtai behaved very positively.
The reason why the Gui warlord Bai Chongxi dominated one side was because he had recruited three of Tang Zhisheng's troops, and at the beginning of the war, at the suggestion of Yang Yongtai, Chiang Kai-shek sent Tang Zhisheng to Tianjin with a huge amount of money to persuade his old subordinate Li Pinxian, Li Pinxian fell gui, and bai Chongxi was defeated without a single soldier.
At that time, Yu Zuobai, the fourth-largest figure of the Gui warlords, did not deal with Li Zongren and was forced by Li Zongren to run to Hong Kong.
At that time, Li Zongren's lieutenant generals Li Mingrui and Yang Tenghui were all old subordinates of Yu Zuobai, and Yang Yongtai personally ran to Hong Kong, met with Yu Zuobai, and said to Yu Zuobai: "As long as You can make Li Mingrui and Yang Tenghui overthrow Guigui, you are the chairman of Guangxi Province, and the members of the provincial government are decided by you!" ”。
At that time, Yu Zuobai also wanted to make a comeback, and the conditions for Yang Yongtai's expulsion were so tempting that he agreed to it in one mouth, and when Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army and Li Zongren's army came into contact, Li Mingrui broke away from the battle and caught Li Zongren by surprise, Li Zongren was defeated, retreated to Guangxi with Bai Chongxi, was surrounded by Chiang Kai-shek, and finally fled to Hong Kong.
In the Chiang-Gui War, Chiang Kai-shek listened to Yang Yongtai's advice for a great victory, and from then on he relied more heavily on Yang Yongtai, and Yang Yongtai became the number one adviser under Chiang Kai-shek.
Second, the outside must first be at home, forcing the Red Army to march
After the Great War of the Central Plains, Chiang Kai-shek encircled and suppressed the Red Army three times in succession, but all of them ended in failure, and during the fourth encirclement and suppression, Yang Yongtai summed up the reasons for the failure of the first three encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, believing that the reason for the failure was because Chiang Kai-shek regarded the Red Army as an army like a Beiyang warlord.
Therefore, Yang Yongtai gave Chiang Kai-shek a book of ten thousand words and put forward two points, the first point is that the famous outside must first be inside, and the second point is three points of encirclement and suppression, and seven points of politics.
Everyone can understand what it means to encircle and suppress three points and seven points of politics? Seven-point politics, that is to say, in the areas occupied by the Red Army, we cannot just blindly encircle and suppress the Red Army, but also vigorously draw salaries from the bottom of the pot, what are the supporters of the Red Army? Poor people!
Therefore, Yang Yongtai suggested that Chiang Kai-shek clarify the rule of officials in the areas occupied by the Red Army, exterminate the local tyrants and bullies, give relief to the poor, and improve the lives of the people in the areas occupied by the Red Army, so as to win the hearts and minds of the people and break the people away from the Red Army.
The three-point encirclement and suppression is to intensify efforts and concentrate forces to encircle and suppress the Red Army, and it is necessary to "eliminate the evil and leave no future troubles."
Chiang Kai-shek strongly agreed with Yang Yongtai's idea, and although the fourth encirclement and suppression failed, he immediately regrouped his forces and launched the fifth encirclement and suppression campaign, and it was also in the fifth time that Chiang Kai-shek forced the Red Army to start a twenty-five thousand-mile long march.
3. Seek sichuan
After Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army followed the Red Army, Liu Xiang, the king of Sichuan, of course did not want Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army to enter Sichuan, so he tried his best to encircle and suppress the Red Army, but the Red Army was extremely strong in combat, and Liu Xiang lost his troops.
And Chiang Kai-shek, after entering Sichuan, found that Sichuan has both dangerous mountains and rivers as a barrier, as well as such a rich place as the Western Sichuan Plain, and if there is a war with Japan in the future, this place is undoubtedly the best rear area, so he started to think of marching into Sichuan, and it just so happened that at this time Liu Xiang was defeated and asked Chiang Kai-shek for money for a gun.
Yang Yongtai then proposed to Chiang Kai-shek: "At present, the best way to capture Liu Xiang is to give money to guns, and if you want to control the Sichuan army, send a staff group to assist the Sichuan army in battle." ”。
Soon, with the help of the staff group, the Sichuan military government was formed, and Yang Yongtai issued a circular to rule the leaders of the big and small warlords in Sichuan, demanding the reunification of Sichuan, naturally no one dared to disobey, and at this time, Liu Xiang was still held high, and naturally could not close his mouth.
However, immediately after the great breach of the defensive zone, Sichuan was re-divided into 18 administrative exclusives, and Yang Yongtai and others were responsible for the training of the original officials, and tried their best to arrange pro-Chiang Kai-shek people to take up the post, and in a short period of time, they controlled the local administration of Sichuan.
In 1935, Tian Songyao, a garrison in northern Sichuan, was defeated by the Red Army and was directly dismissed by Yang Yongtai for investigation, and Liu Xiang returned to the taste, but unfortunately it was too late.
Fourth, the internal tilt, died of shooting
As Chiang Kai-shek's number one adviser and Yang Yongtai's officials, Yang Yongtai's officials are also getting bigger and bigger, and almost all important military and political documents of the National Government have to go through Yang Yongtai's eyes, and many people who want to see Chiang Kai-shek must go through Yang Yongtai's arrangements.
If Yang Yongtai is only a person, it does not matter, but Yang Yongtai also has his own faction, that is, the "Department of Academic Politics", although the "Department of Academic Politics" is very loose, but most of them are high-ranking officials, so it has caused the jealousy of members of other factions, especially the "CC Department".
The representative figures of this "CC department" are Chen Lifu and Chen Guofu brothers, and the government of the Republic of China has the saying that "Jiang Jia Tianxia, Chen Family Party", and the "Department of Study and Politics" is sitting on the throne, and the people naturally do not want to see it.
In 1935, the Nanchang airport caught fire, Chiang Kai-shek spent a lot of money to buy more than 10 Xiafei bombers were burned, Chiang Kai-shek was furious, sent Deng Wenyi, chief of the investigation section of the camp, to thoroughly investigate the matter, but under the control of the "CC department", it was characterized as an accident.
Yang Yongtai felt that there was something strange, and at the behest of Chiang Kai-shek, he secretly investigated with Dai Kasa, and it turned out that it was Xu Peigen, the director of the Aviation Administration, who had purchased gold at public expense, and the deficit could not be repaired, so he set fire to the warehouse to destroy the accounts, Chiang Kai-shek directly ordered Xu Peigen to be shot, and Deng Wenyi, who accepted bribes from the "CC department," was also removed from his post and investigated.
This incident greatly damaged the interests of the "CC system", causing the brothers Chen Lifu and Chen Guofu to be angry and began to gather factions dissatisfied with Yang Yongtai to deal with Yang Yongtai.
In October 1935, Yang Yongtai became the chairman of Hubei Province and was transferred away from the central government, and the "CC Department" finally had the opportunity to start a move, sending people to schools in the province to publicize it, saying that Yang Yongtai was a pro-Japanese faction, which triggered a student movement, but this matter was suppressed by Chiang Kai-shek.
On October 25, 1935, Yang Yongtai returned to Wuchang from Hankou after attending a banquet, where he was assassinated by assassins at the age of 56.
Afterwards, Chiang Kai-shek secretly investigated and learned that the matter was single-handedly operated by the "CC Department" headed by Er Chen, but Yang Yongtai was already dead, and Chiang Kai-shek was unwilling to fight with the "CC Department" and found a substitute ghost.