In the spring of 1937, at the age of 28, Chiang Ching-kuo came to Jiangxi. In January 1938, Xiong Shihui was appointed as the deputy director of the Major General of the Jiangxi Provincial Baozhi Branch and the chief of the Jiangxi Provincial Political Seminar Institute.
The academy was designed for the training of young exiles and was later reorganized into the Jiangxi Youth Service Corps. In May of the same year, he also served as the director of the Jiangxi Provincial Recruit Supervision and Training Department. The Recruit Supervision and Training Office was set up in The Hot Spring of Linchuan (Fuzhou), where it concentrated on training the newly recruited Zhuang Ding from Jiangxi Province, organized into several new regiments, and assigned them to supervise the training, which was actually a training supplementary regiment for the field troops. This is chiang ching-kuo's first appearance after returning to China, the first time to take the position of independent, naturally hope to show his skills and make a difference.
1. Chiang Ching-kuo's "Gannan New Deal"
Chiang Ching-kuo first proposed that the company should be economically open, rewards and punishments should be made public, that soldiers should not be beaten and cursed, that soldiers should not be withheld from food, and that attention should be paid to improving the lives of soldiers. Second, he actively took measures to carry out "recreational activities" to enliven the spirit of officers and men and create a vigorous atmosphere. For the education of officers, Wang Yangming's theory was repeatedly propagated. In accordance with his father's consistent practice, he also listed "Supplementary Quotations of Zeng Hu Zhibing", Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Ji Xiao" and "Record of Military Training" as books that officers must read.
He approached cadres and sometimes went deep into the company to work with officers and men. He compiled this section of the process of supervising the training of new recruits into a "Record of Hot Spring Military Training" to publicize his achievements in military training, and also to submit the first examination answer sheet to his father. In order to create public opinion for Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek instructed some troops to send people to visit the recruits' training office.
The Recruit Supervision Office was moved to Ganzhou in 1939. The local bullies in Ganzhou are very powerful, and the decrees of the provincial government have never been implemented. Commissioners and county magistrates in this region cannot stand untenable without colluding with local bully groups. At that time, the administrative inspector of Ganzhou was Liu Jida, a member of the Kangze system's revival society, who believed that he had Kangze as a backstage and did not pay attention to the local bullies, and as a result, he was surrounded by the bullies' minions during a tour and was placed under house arrest, and then Chiang Ching-kuo personally came forward to warn the bully Liu Jiadi before being released.
Liu Jida resigned because of this. Xiong Shihui took this opportunity to send Chiang Ching-kuo to take over as the administrative inspector of Ganzhou and the governor of Ganxian County (the county magistrate was represented by Yang Ming), hoping to use the authority of this "prince" to rectify the chaotic situation in Gannan.
In June 1939, Chiang Ching-kuo was appointed as the administrative inspector of Ganzhou and the commander of district security. At that time, he faced the problem of how to suppress local forces and establish his own prestige. At this time, Chiang Ching-kuo was 30 years old, and it had only been two years since his return from the Soviet Union, and the influence of revolutionary education had not yet completely disappeared, and he had not yet been infected with the old bureaucratic old customs and bad habits.
Mao Ningshao, as Chiang Ching-kuo's driver, had worked with him for 8 years, and according to his recollection, Chiang Ching-kuo implemented the New Deal during his stay in Gansu, with a simple style, and he still knew how to "go deep among the masses" and did not put up official posts. There was a matter of eating at the restaurant that left a very deep impression on him.
It was May and June, and the weather was getting hotter. One day, Jiang Jingguo and his attendants were wandering the streets, just walking to the door of the "Six Grills" on Yuzhang Road, when he suddenly offered to taste the flavor of Nanchang, so he walked towards the restaurant. As soon as I entered the store, I heard a scolding sound and the clanging of dishes and chopsticks from the next room. It turned out that an officer was arrogant and domineering, and because the waiter was a little slower to serve food, he was furious and hit the waiter with a bowl of rice he had brought up, and no one next to him dared to come forward to dissuade him.
Chiang Ching-kuo, who had always liked to be nosy, saw this scene and got up and walked over to accuse the officer of his rude behavior. Probably because Chiang Ching-kuo was wearing civilian clothes, the officer did not pay any attention to him at all, and said something like "less nosy." The guard standing next to him wanted to have a seizure, but was stopped by Chiang Ching-kuo. The officer was still full of spirits. In the end, Chiang Ching-kuo had to show his business card. As soon as the officer saw the business card, it was like a deflated leather ball, and the fierce appearance of the flaunting martial power suddenly disappeared without a trace, and he looked embarrassed. Chiang Ching-kuo criticized the officer a few times, wrote down his name and the number of his troops, and left without eating.
Later, in Jiujiang, Chiang Ching-kuo told Mao Ningshao: "After I told Xiong Shihui about the 'Six Pickpockets' situation, the officer was locked up in the squad for 6 months. "There are many more things like this. To this end, Chiang Ching-kuo also won the reputation of "private visits and sympathy for the people's feelings."
As soon as Chiang Ching-kuo arrived in Ganzhou, he either went to Chizhuling or to Wuyun Bridge, or walked the streets and alleys. At that time, the traffic in Ganzhou was not convenient, whether it was crossing the Zhang River or crossing the tribute water, people had to take the pontoon bridge car to transition boats, which was very inconvenient. Chiang Ching-kuo used to drive motorcycles, sometimes by bicycle, sometimes simply walking, and in a very short time he became familiar with most of the situation in Ganzhou.
2. Chiang Ching-kuo's "Three Fires"
With the full help of his father, Chiang Ching-kuo vigorously set up the "three fires," put forward the slogan of "eliminating violence and being in peace," dealt a blow to the arrogance of local bullies, hooligans, and goons, and restored local order; he stressed severe punishment of corruption, straightened out the rule of officials, advocated the spirit of "public servants," strictly practiced smoking bans, gambling, and prostitution, and improved the social atmosphere.
He also put forward the slogan of "building a new Gannan", and it is necessary to establish a "model area of the Three People's Principles" in Gannan and "open up a new era in Gannan" and "build a new world of 'five haves' (everyone has work, everyone has food, everyone has clothes and clothing, everyone has a house to live in, and everyone has a book to read).
In order to rectify the corruption, Chiang Ching-kuo handled three more famous major cases in Gannan Province:
First, in 1940, ren Xizhang, the head of the enemy (Japanese) cargo inspection team, was shot in Ganxian County; second, in the summer of 1944, Huang Moumou, the mayor of Chijiang Township in Dayu County, who had perverted the law; third, at his suggestion, the Jiangxi Provincial Government removed Liao Shengtao, the governor of Dayu County, because Liao Shengtao had embezzled and committed illegal acts during his tenure as the governor of Chongyi County.
Chiang Ching-kuo's vigorous reforms in Gannan won the support of the common people. A new atmosphere has emerged in the Gannan region. Chiang Ching-kuo's own reputation grew.
He compared the "new Gannan" with Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia, but the rich and inferior gentry were extremely dissatisfied with this, and they secretly told the Kuomintang Central Committee that Chiang Ching-kuo was "engaged in redwashing" in Gannan.
To this end, Chiang Ching-kuo published a special article entitled "Right and Wrong" in the Zhengqi Ribao on April 1, 1940, listing the fact that the socio-economic order has been improved and the people have benefited after the ban, refuting the rumor-mongers, and finally concluding that "there is a public argument about right and wrong" and that the local people should evaluate it.
In fact, because he dared to take severe measures against all those who opposed him, the bullies and hooligans in Ganzhou temporarily relented, and the government decrees were basically passed, so that he won the title of "Jiang Qingtian" in Gannan Province.
3. Cultivate your own forces
Before June 1940, Chiang Ching-kuo was not a member of the Kuomintang and the Three Youth League. In June of that year, he was qualified as a party member because he took a job to the third stage of the party and government class of the Chongqing Central Training Regiment for one month.
Since then, his status in the Three Youth Leagues has risen rapidly, and in July he was appointed as the provisional central officer of the Three Youth Leagues, and in August he was appointed as the director of the preparation of the Jiangxi Branch of the Three Youth Leagues.
In order to train his own cadres and develop his own strength, Chiang Ching-kuo also founded the "Training Class for Cadres of the Jiangxi Branch of the Three People's Principles Youth League" in Chizhu, Ganzhou, and served as the class teacher himself. He combined the form of a set of mass movements learned from the Soviet Union with the spirit of the Qinghong Gang's righteous spirit, and in his life and training he emphasized "allegiance to the regimental commander (referring to Chiang Kai-shek)," "being the leader's eyes and ears," "establishing fraternal unity with one another," "sharing weal and woe with one heart and one mind, sharing hardships and hardships," and calling themselves "big brothers" and "little brothers" regardless of men and women, creating an atmosphere of "brotherly fever." This is the "Chizhuling Spirit" that he hyped up.
This cadre training course was held for a total of 5 sessions, each period of one and a half months, and a total of more than 500 cadres were trained. Chiang Ching-kuo used these cadres as backbones to gradually squeeze out Kang Ze's cadres of the Three Youth Leagues in Jiangxi. These backbones of Chiang Kai-shek later became Chiang Ching-kuo's "concubines within the lineage." Soon after, he also launched the "New Gannan Economic Construction Cadre Training Class", and he was also the director, and Fan Kuishu, chief of the Commissioner's Office, took on practical responsibilities, and trained hundreds of people successively.
In July 1943, he also held a youth summer camp in Hugang, Ganzhou, and trained nearly a thousand secondary school students, who personally presided over and advocated the "Hugang Spirit".
In addition, he also served as the principal of "Chung Cheng Middle School". In December 1943, Chiang Ching-kuo was transferred to Chongqing as the chief of education of the Central Cadre School of the Three Youth Leagues (the principal was Chiang Kai-shek), and the head of the Training Department of the Three Youth Leagues, and still nominally the Commissioner of Ganzhou (represented by Yang Ming). This was an important step taken by Chiang Kai-shek in preparing chiang ching-kuo to take over the power of the Three Youth Leagues.
In January 1944, Chiang Ching-kuo served as the chief of education of the Central Cadre School of the Three Youth Leagues, and in October of that year, he participated in the 100,000-strong youth campaign launched by his father Chiang Kai-shek, and served as the director of the General Political Department of the Youth Army.
During the period of vigorously publicizing the "Chizhuling Spirit" and the "Hugang Spirit", the "training class" and the "youth camp" also became popular, and they were even called the "Huangpu" in Gannan Province.
The once famous slogan, "Mo who is an official, please go out if you are rich" was written by Chiang Ching-kuo at the door of the youth camp, attracting countless people to watch and becoming a spiritual symbol.
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