The best thing history has given us is the enthusiasm it inspires
- Goethe
Zhang Xueliang's four bodyguards are Tan Hai, Jiang Huanan, Liu Duoquan, and He Shili, who will be introduced to you today.
Ho was born in Hong Kong in 1906 to his father, Sir Ho Tung, the richest man in Hong Kong at the time. He Dong had a total of nine children, most of whom had been British, but He Shili had not. It is said that at that time, the Governor of Hong Kong, Maxley (An Englishman), came to Ho Tung's house as a guest, and he saw that He Dong's nine children noticed He Shili, who was the fourth in line, and at this time, He Shili was still young, and the governor said to He Dong very politely in English: "I see that your fourth son has an extraordinary temperament, and I want him to become a British citizen, what do you think?" Just when He Dong smiled and was about to answer, the fourth prince, He Shili, replied in a righteous manner: "I am a Chinese, and there is nothing wrong with this." The Governor was speechless.
As a teenager, his father gave him British citizenship, and he took his father to court for national integrity and eventually won. It was a sensation at the time. Published one after another. Many people admire He Shili's national integrity and patriotic spirit, and Xiaobian also admires He Shili's little boy for being able to have such a backbone, and when he grows up, he will definitely become a big hero. In 1925, at the age of 19, He Shili was admitted to the Royal Military Academy, and in his heart he did not want to return to his homeland to expel the invaders. He trained hard in the academy, which was not enough, he also entered the artillery school to study hard, and 5 years later He Shili returned to China.
In 1930, the Central Plains War broke out, the war spread throughout half of China, He Shili looked at the devastated motherland, he felt that he could not wait any longer, he wanted to join the army immediately to serve the motherland, at that time, with his father's relationship and influence, he could easily go to a local army as a senior officer, and some people came to the door to let him take some false positions, but He Shili refused one by one, he wanted to sprinkle his enthusiasm in the motherland rather than a corner of peace, so he went to defect to Zhang Xueliang, a young marshal who had changed his mind in the northeast at that time. He felt that Zhang Xueliang was a patriot who worked hard to govern.
At that time, Zhang Xueliang specially received He Shili, who confided his plan to save the country to Zhang Xueliang and Pan, and Zhang Xueliang felt that this young man was not only flexible in mind but also had a very high military professionalism, so he planned to appoint him as a senior staff officer and chief of artillery staff. But He Shili shook his head and said, "I want to start at the grassroots level." In this way, He Shili became a small artilleryman under Zhang Xueliang. I have to say that He Shili really does not have the temper of a generation of rich men, and he is not afraid of hardship at all.
But He Shili is a gold, just as the so-called real gold is not afraid of fire to refine, within a few years He Shili became Zhang Xueliang's aide-de-camp, also known as our bodyguard. Later, when the September 18 Incident broke out, Zhang Xueliang led 200,000 northeastern troops to withdraw into the entire eastern three provinces of Guannei and fell, He Shili did not agree with the actions of his superiors, and once planned to leave the army, and later after the advice of his father He Dong, He Shili stayed behind to continue to expel the Japanese Kou. In 1934, Zhang Xueliang gave his gun to He Shili and escorted him to the United States for further study.
In 1936, the "Xi'an Incident" broke out, and at this time, He Shili just returned home to save his relatives, so he avoided a disaster, but because of this incident, he was forced to leave the army. He Shili, who had lost his military post, still did not forget his ideal of serving the country, and after some twists and turns, he participated in the Battle of Songhu, and he showed his skills under Xue Yue, seeing that the artillery battalion he trained beat the Japanese army without leaving a piece of armor and abandoning its armor. At this time, He Shili can calculate the atmosphere.
After the Liberation War, He Shili was "imprisoned" by Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan, but He Shili wanted to return to the mainland all the time, until 1956, when He Dong died, He Shili used the excuse of going home to send his father off, and he never returned to Taiwan, and chiang kai-shek could not eat for several days.
Ho returned to Hong Kong to inherit his father's inheritance, which experts estimate is around 15 billion. In the 1990s, he Shili, an old man who was already in the western mountains of the sunset, went to the United States to meet with the old chief Zhang Xueliang, and the two of them have always recalled the past, and He Shili has always stressed that he opposes the "two Chinas theory" and even more opposes "Taiwan independence", hoping to realize the reunification of the motherland at an early date. By the way, Macau gambling king Ho Hung-sin is the nephew of Ho Sai Lee, and he is going to kneel when he sees him.