In the history of the development of the Kuomintang in China, many backbone cadres were former Qing government officials, for whom they were no longer as simple as revolution, but were completely disappointed in the reform of the Qing government, and at the same time, they saw the success of the Western political system, so they chose to join the Kuomintang led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Later, as the Beiyang warlord government stole the fruits of the victory of the revolution, Sun Yat-sen had to go to the wilderness, but later he had to choose to continue fighting for the sake of the revolution, but he was criticized for choosing an heir, so why did he choose the leader of the reactionaries, Chiang Kai-shek? Here we have to say that it is a man whose appearance has made Chiang Kai-shek's later political future, so who is he?
Senior talents of Hanlin Academy
After Sun Yat-sen led the revolution, because he was preoccupied with revolutionary work, his deteriorating health warned him that he must find a suitable heir, in fact, Sun Yat-sen's initial preference was not Chiang Kai-shek, but another person, who was a senior talent who once served in the Hanlin Academy of the Qing government - Tan Yanmin. Speaking of Tan Yanmin, we have to say that he had political reforms in the late Qing Dynasty, and it was precisely because the reforms ended in failure that he finally chose the Kuomintang led by Sun Yat-sen.
Tan Yanmin was born in a family of scholars, which allowed him to receive a good education from an early age, and he also lived up to high expectations, and in 1904, he entered the army and began his career. The Qing Dynasty was already crumbling in Tan Yanmin's ZhongjinShi, so no matter how hard he tried to turn the tide in the Hanlin Academy later, he could not save the fate of the collapse of the Qing government, so Tan Yanmin, who saw through the corrupt nature of the Qing government, decisively contacted the revolutionaries at that time and officially joined the Kuomintang and participated in the armed revolution against the Qing court.
Seeing the continuous uprisings throughout the country and the usurpation of power by the Beiyang warlord government, Tan Yanmin, who had originally placed high hopes on the Xinhai Revolution, was extremely disappointed, and later he retained his position in the Kuomintang, but he had no interest in seeking important positions within the party, and in his view, the Kuomintang ceded power to the Beiyang warlords in the revolution was tantamount to putting China in the sea of fire.
Later, with the outbreak of the Dharma Protection Movement, Tan Yanmin considered the future of the country, and once again participated in the revolution at the request of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, which also allowed Sun Yat-sen to see the strength of Tan Yanmin's ability, so he had the idea of cultivating Tan Yanmin as his heir.
Cede power
After the establishment of the party organization, a unified revolutionary front began to be established, and the road of armed revolution began to prevail, which gave Sun Yat-sen the idea of forming the Whampoa Military Academy soon after the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists. After the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, who would be the principal was a problem, and the first name that came to Sun Yat-sen's mind at that time was Tan Yanmin, so Sun Yat-sen once again asked Tan Yanmin to serve as the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy to lead China to reunification and get rid of the unfavorable situation of warlord chaos. But this time Tan Yanmin refused, and he recommended another person, this person is Chiang Kai-shek.
At that time, Tan Yanmin not only recommended Chiang Kai-shek to be the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, but also pushed Chiang Kai-shek a family affair that Sun Yat-sen was going to recommend to him, so ThatOng Meiling, under the persuasion of Tan Yanmin, accepted Chiang Kai-shek and became Chiang Kai-shek's wife, and also benefited from this relationship, Chiang Kai-shek smoothly took over Sun Yat-sen's power and became the leader of the Kuomintang.
It has to be said that the consequences of Tan Yanmin's concession this time were disastrous, and it was precisely because of Chiang Kai-shek's ascension to the throne that his ambitions continued to swell, and he launched a coup d'état, which eventually brought China under the rule of the Chiang dynasty. However, after Tan Yanmin saw that Chiang Kai-shek later established a dictatorial government, he cut off all contacts, went deep into simplicity, and did not ask about political affairs, which made Chiang Kai-shek relax, but this also indicated that the Chiang family dynasty would collapse.
epilogue:
The choice of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's successor has always been criticized, and Chiang Kai-shek as an outright dictator has also been nailed to the pillar of shame in history. If Tan Yanmin can take over Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary cause, I believe that the revolutionary cause will be completed decades ahead of schedule, but this has also become a major regret in the cause of the Chinese revolution.