In 1949, the Kuomintang civil war ended, and Chiang Kai-shek, as the supreme commander of the Kuomintang, had no choice but to retreat to Taiwan with his troops. Chiang Kai-shek understood that building a new region requires a large amount of materials and talents. Therefore, at that time, in addition to taking away a large amount of gold and silver treasures, Chiang Kai-shek also took away a large number of talents.
Chiang Kai-shek
According to statistics, chiang kai-shek went to Taiwan at that time and took away nearly a million people, including a large number of troops, as well as leaders in various fields. For example, the party and government talents within the Kuomintang, such as He Yingqin and Yan Xishan, who are Close associates of Chiang Kai-shek, needless to say, must be brought.
Yan Xishan
Then there are the representatives of the various schools. Among them were Kong Decheng, the head of the Confucian school, Zhang Enpu, the head of the Taoist school, and Master Xingyun, a representative figure of Buddhism. In addition, there were also leading figures in the cultural circle, when Hu Shi was entrusted by Chiang Kai-shek to invite many scholars with high cultural attainments for Chiang Kai-shek, such as Zhang Daqian, Fu Sinian and so on. Finally, Chiang Kai-shek also took away some technicians in the fields of science and technology and medicine through various methods. After following Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan, these people also lived up to high expectations and made outstanding contributions to Taiwan's construction.
Hu shi
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek could say that he wanted to take everything away, but there was only one kind of person, who he said that he would resolutely not take it away if he could not take it away. They are those who betrayed the Chinese Communist Party to defect to Chiang Kai-shek, who believes that today they can betray the Communist Party because of their interests, and tomorrow they can betray the Kuomintang for the same reasons.
Zhang Guotao
Before leaving, Chiang Kai-shek sent Mao Renfeng, director of the Secrecy Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense, to negotiate with Zhang Guotao, with the aim of allowing Zhang Guotao to stay on the mainland and reduce unnecessary burdens. When he was on the mainland, Chiang Kai-shek also set up an anti-rape organization specifically to monitor these people who had changed hands, and now Chiang Kai-shek knows that when he first went to Taiwan, his foundation would inevitably be unstable, and he had no time to guard against this group of people who might defect at any time. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek decided to try not to let the former traitors go to Taiwan.