Chiang Kai-shek has always paid attention to cultivating the concubine lineage, and Chen Cheng is one of the most successful representatives of his cultivation and consortship.
Since the 1920s, Chiang Kai-shek has deliberately cultivated Chen Cheng, allocated and reused his posts, cared for him in his life, and created opportunities for Chen Cheng to experience in many aspects of the party, government, and army.
After years of cultivation, Chen Cheng had a heart of retribution and a sense of gratitude for Chiang Kai-shek, but Chiang Kai-shek's order was to follow, and for a long time, the two were righteous as kings and sons, and they were in love with father and son.
"Although the name is subordinate, the flesh and blood of the grace are deep"
Chen Cheng once said that he and Chiang Kai-shek were "subordinates in name, but they are deeply flesh and blood." And his son
Chen Lu'an
Then it is considered:
"Father has always been an important choice for Chiang Kai-shek at critical moments. ”
Although Chiang Kai-shek and Whampoa graduates both had teacher-student friendship, they did
Whampoa Military Academy
Students come from all over the world, and only those who are reused by Chiang Kai-shek and willing to serve Chiang can become members of the Whampoa department. Only by being loyal to Chiang Kai-shek can these people be discovered, promoted, and appointed as cronies.
Chen Cheng, a chinese poet, was born in 1898 in Gaoshi Town, Qingtian County, Zhejiang Province, to a poor farming family. In 1918, Chen Cheng, who had studied as a teacher, was admitted to the 8th phase of the Artillery Department of the Baoding Military Academy, and after graduation, he joined the Guangdong Jianguo and Guangdong Army. 1924
Deng Yanda
Introduced, Chen Cheng entered the Whampoa Military Academy as an instructor.
Chen Cheng was discovered and appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek, first, because he was from Zhejiang with Chiang Kai-shek and fought in 1923
Feng Baochu
Heroic and seriously wounded in the battle, Chiang Kai-shek personally visited the hospital and was deeply impressed by him. Of course, although Chen Cheng attracted Jiang's attention at this time, he had not yet developed into a close associate of Jiang.
On August 13, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek published it
"Letter to the Members of the Central Executive Supervision Committee"
He announced his resignation as commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army and returned to his hometown in Fenghua via Ningbo. Chen Cheng, then commander of the 21st Division, was also dismissed.
Chen Cheng deeply felt that "the party has lost its center of gravity and the dragons have no leader," so he wrote to Chiang Kai-shek, suggesting that he accommodate the crowd and endure small grievances to become a big plan.
This is a letter of allegiance written by Chen Cheng to Chiang Kai-shek, and the time is on the eve of Chiang Kai-shek's reinstatement, which can be said to be just right.
In his letter, Chen Cheng made clear his attitude and determination to follow Chiang Kai-shek, leaving a deep impression on Chiang Kai-shek.
Soon after, Chiang Kai-shek personally received Chen Cheng, praised him as "an officer with lofty ideals", and after his comeback, promoted Chen Cheng to be the commander of the guard army, responsible for commanding three guard regiments and two gendarmerie regiments, including Gui Yongqing and Guan Linzheng, and accompanying Chiang to participate in the Second Northern Expedition.
Since then, Chen Cheng has followed Chiang Kai-shek to participate in the Chiang-Gui War and the Central Plains War, and has made many military achievements, and his position has been promoted from deputy commander of the 11th Division to commander of the 18th Army.
Chiang Kai-shek was also very satisfied with Chen Cheng's performance, and once wrote in his diary: "There is great hope for a general in rhetoric and pragmatism." "
In order to win chen cheng over, Chiang Kai-shek and his wife personally acted as matchmakers
In order to win chen cheng over, Chiang Kai-shek, in addition to promoting him from his post, also showed concern for his life. In January 1931, Chiang Kai-shek brokered Chen Cheng's role in bringing the daughter of Kuomintang elder Tan Yanlu and the daughter of Soong Mei Ling
Tan Xiang
Introduced to Chen Cheng.
Chen's marriage not only enhanced Chen Cheng's status, but also further brought Jiang and Chen closer.
Tan Xiang's father
Tan Yanmin
He is a prominent figure in modern history, serving three times as the governor and governor of Hunan, and later as the minister of the interior in sun Yat-sen's Army and Navy Grand Marshal's Office in Guangzhou.
In 1920, Tan Yanmin's wife
Fang Rongqing
He died in Shanghai. At that time, Song Meiling had just returned from studying in the United States, and Sun Yat-sen intended to introduce Song Meiling to Tan Yanmin.
For this son-in-law, the Song family is also very satisfied. But Tan Yanmin refused this family affair. He said that he had made a vow when Fang Rongqing died of illness, saying that he would not continue the string, and if he married Song Meiling, he would be sorry for the dead Fang Rongqing.
Moreover, Song Meiling was raised by a Western-style education, the age difference between the two was 17 years old, if Song Meiling married such an old-fashioned middle-aged man as herself, would it be wronged her? But not agreeing to this marriage, and failing to live up to Sun Yat-sen's kindness, will also offend the Song family.
So Tan Yanmin had a plan in mind, and prepared a generous gift to come to the Song Mansion and give it to Mrs. Song
Ni Guizhen
After three kowtows, he worshipped Ni Guizhen as a dry bride, and by the way, he recognized Song Meiling as his sister.
Although Song Meiling has no love for this man, she is also deeply moved that he can consider himself. The relationship between this pair of brothers and sisters is even better than that of other brothers and sisters.
Seeing that Tan and Song's marriage was yellow, Chiang Kai-shek, who was serving as the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, was overjoyed, so he euphemistically asked Sun Yat-sen to be a matchmaker for himself and wanted to marry Soong Meiling. Sun Yat-sen wrote to his mother-in-law himself, asking her to seek the advice of Soong Mei Ling herself. But the Song family except
Song Xialing
In addition to the approval, the other family members are strongly opposed.
In order to do the work of the Song family, Chiang Kai-shek asked Tan Yanmin to go to the Song family as a lobbyist.
The Song family did not have any good feelings for Chiang Kai-shek, but the old lady could listen to Tan Yanmin's words. After Tan Yanmin's lobbying, the Song family finally made concessions and put forward two conditions: first, Chiang Kai-shek must sever his marriage with other women, and second, he must be baptized into Christianity. Chiang Kai-shek happily accepted both conditions.
On December 1, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling held a grand wedding ceremony in Shanghai, which Tan Yanmin attended as an introducer.
In September 1930, before Tan Yanmin's death, he asked Song Meiling to choose a husband for his daughter Tan Xiang. Because of the close relationship between the two families, Tan Xiang often visited Song Meiling, a dry mother, and also called Chiang Kai-shek his father.
The Jiang couple and Tan Xiang are also very close, and they regard her as if they were out of love for ten minutes.
For such a dry daughter to choose a son-in-law, the old Jiang couple still spent a lot of thought. Although Chen Cheng had married a relative in his hometown, Chiang Kai-shek knew that Chen Cheng's marriage with the original match, Wu Shunlian, had long since died in name only, so he also listed Chen Cheng as one of the candidates.
Chen Cheng and the original match
Wu Shunlian
The marriage was arranged by the parents, and the two had no feelings at all. The reason why Chen Cheng agreed to this family affair was that he looked at wu Shunlian's dowry for the dowry of her mother's family. He knew that with this money, he could go to Hangzhou to continue his studies.
So this marriage based on money is not secure at all.
In 1925, Chen Cheng received a telegram of his father's death and rushed back to his hometown for funerals. At this time, it had been exactly seven years since he and Wu Shunlian had last been separated. Wu Shunlian hoped that this time she could conceive Chen Cheng's child, and she would have a chance to rely on in the future. However, Chen Cheng used the excuse that he was injured and slept separately from his wife.
At first, Wu Shunlian thought that Chen Cheng was in a bad mood because of his father's death, but instead gave Chen Cheng kind words of comfort. But Chen Cheng was very impatient with her, and Wu Shunlian knew that her husband did not love him at all. In the long run, what does it mean to be alive? Wu Shunlian then picked up a pair of scissors and cut it at her throat.
Because the scissors were not sharp, and the rescue was timely, Wu Shunlian saved her life, but Chen Cheng hated her even more. Without waiting for Wu Shunlian to be discharged from the hospital, Chen Cheng returned to the army. Since then, he has made up his mind to divorce.
then
Hu Zongnan
He and Chen Cheng were both candidates selected by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife for Tan Xiang, and Hu Zongnan, who had no marriage history, had a slight advantage over Chen Cheng. However, for political purposes, Chiang Kai-shek and his wife eventually chose Chen Cheng, because Hu Zongnan was a "tianzi protégé", but Chen Cheng had a close relationship with Deng Yanda, so Chiang Kai-shek decided to use the marriage relationship to entrap Chen Cheng.
Tan Xiang had seen Chen Cheng, knew that Chen Cheng was only one meter six tall, and at first did not like him, Song Meiling enlightened her, saying that Chen Cheng was the commander of the Eighteenth Army, the first main force of the Nationalist Army (in fact, Chen Cheng was only a division commander at that time), and said that Chen Cheng would definitely get ahead in the future, and the future was immeasurable, Tan Xiang reluctantly nodded his head and agreed.
At that time, Chen Cheng was talking to a man named
Chen Deyi
Shanghai female college students are in love. In order to climb the tall branch of Tan Xiang, Chen Cheng tricked Chen Deyi into studying in the United States, gave her a sum of money, and ended their relationship by the way.
But female college students are good at sending off, what about Wu Shunlian, the wife of her hometown? According to Wu Shunlian's temper, she will definitely not agree to the divorce directly, and may commit suicide again. Chen Cheng wanted to come and go, so he had to send a telegram to Wu Shunlian's brother
Wu Ziyi
, ask him for help.
Wu Ziyi was serving as the quartermaster of the Eighteenth Army at that time, and his fat difference was exactly what Chen Cheng helped to operate.
Therefore, Wu Ziyi first cut and played, wrote a divorce letter for Wu Shunlian as the master, and declared on it: "Sister She is illiterate, so I will ghostwrite it, and I will be responsible for everything."
After many efforts, Wu Shunlian finally agreed to divorce. But she put forward the condition that divorce would not leave home. Chen Cheng immediately agreed, and also transferred all the property of his hometown to Wu Shunlian. After Wu Shunlian's divorce, the Chen family still respected her and still called her "big grandmother".
In 1932, Chen Cheng and Tan Xiang married in Shanghai and began a second marriage. From this time on, he became Song Meiling's "dry son-in-law" and ushered in the soaring yellow Tengda on his career.
Cross-border party, government, military
Among Chiang Kai-shek's Huangpu concubines, he Yingqin, Liu Zhi, Gu Zhutong, and Zhang Zhizhong, who served as local officials before Chen Cheng, were among those who served as local officials. Although Chen Cheng was only appointed chairman of the Hubei Provincial Government in June 1938, a little later than the above big men, his status was extremely prominent.
When he was chairman of the Hubei Provincial Government, Pingping, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Ningbo had fallen one after another, and only a few major cities in the country, such as Wuhan and Guangzhou, had not been lost.
In the minds of people at that time, "if Wuhan can be kept, then the country can survive; if Wuhan is not kept, the country will perish."
In order to ensure Wuhan, on January 1, 1938, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Chen Cheng as the commander-in-chief of the Wuhan garrison, and on the 11th he was also appointed as the director of the Political Department of the Military Commission, and on June 14, he was also the chairman of the Hubei Provincial Government.
For Chen Cheng, becoming chairman of the Hubei provincial government was the beginning of his transition from military to political circles.
In 1938, Chiang Kai-shek decided to establish the Three People's Principles Youth League, and assigned Chen Cheng, Chen Lifu, and others to form a preparatory committee, with Chen Cheng as the convener, and concurrently served as the secretary of the Provisional Secretary Of the Youth League Of the Central Committee of the Three Youth League. This is an important post second only to regimental commander Chiang Kai-shek.
Chen Lifu held that "Chairman Jiang's appointment of Chen Cheng as secretary general is to make him a leading figure in the Youth League, which can be replaced by the party in the future."
Participating in the leadership of the Three Youth Leagues made Chen Cheng's influence in the Kuomintang rise another level. In May 1945, the party and the regiment fought fiercely over the election of the congress in the "Six Congresses" of the Kuomintang, and Chen Cheng vigorously opposed the CC department's manipulation of the election and chen Lifu's appointment as vice president of the Executive Yuan, so that Chiang Kai-shek had to intervene personally.
In 1948, Chen Cheng was attacked by the party because of the fiasco in the northeast, and the disheartened Chen Cheng resigned from his post and moved to Taiwan on October 6, determined to stay away from the official scene. But on December 28, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Chen Cheng as chairman of the Taiwan provincial government. This appointment, without warning, caused quite a stir within the Kuomintang.
He Yingqin, Hu Zongnan, Zhou Zhirou, Guan Linzheng and others were quite dissatisfied with this appointment, and Chen Cheng himself was also quite surprised by the appointment.
The reason why Chiang Kai-shek hastily appointed Chen Cheng to take over Taiwan was because the domestic defeat had already been decided, and there was an urgent need for a loyal cadre to firmly defend Taiwan and establish a "counter-offensive base." Chen Cheng, on the other hand, was loyal to Chiang Kai-shek, worked in both the party, the government, and the army, and had a certain understanding of taiwan's actual situation when he was recuperating in Taiwan, and coincided with Chiang Kai-shek in his strategy of retreating to Taiwan.
At that time, Taiwan was flooded with a large number of scattered soldiers and brave soldiers, social order was deteriorating day by day, prices were rising, and the people were not happy. In order to build Taiwan into a "counter-offensive base."
To strengthen public order in Taiwan, Chen Cheng, in the name of "eliminating internal traitors," carried out "white terror" in Taiwan; a large number of ideological progressives and outstanding intellectuals in Taiwan were arrested and killed, and countless unjust, false, and wrongly decided cases were committed; Taiwan thus began a period of "martial law" that lasted for 38 years, setting a precedent for the longest period of "martial law" in Chinese and foreign history, and causing irreparable harm to the people of Taiwan.
In accordance with the provisions of the Martial Law, the democratic rights guaranteed to the people in the Constitution adopted by the National Congress in 1946 were frozen, and the people's personal freedom, freedom of residence and movement, freedom of speech, lecture, writing and publication, freedom of secret correspondence, freedom of assembly and association, as well as the people's right to subsistence, work, property, petition, petition and litigation, and non-active military personnel are not subject to military law, etc., can no longer be raised.
In addition, Chen Cheng also enacted the "Publication Law" to restrict the freedom of the press and the press under the "newspaper ban", there are only 29 newspapers on the island, and there are no different voices on the island.
In coordination with the implementation of the Martial Law, the Kuomintang authorities imposed secret service rule on the island. Chen Cheng told Chiang Kai-shek: "For the sake of Taiwan's survival, we should implement an iron-fisted policy, and as long as our actions are suspicious and reported by others, they will all be included in the list of dangerous elements and will not be killed." As soon as these words came out, "white terror" enveloped the whole island.
On a small Taiwan island, there were multiple secret service systems such as the "Bureau of Investigation," the "Secret Bureau," the "Military Intelligence Bureau," the "Gendarmerie," the "General Political and War Department," the "Second Department of the Ministry of National Defense," and the Taiwan Provincial Police Department. From party and government organs to primary and secondary schools, from the military system to all sectors of society, spies are everywhere and everywhere. Its high proportion of the total population and the density of its outlets are also among the few in the world.
After fleeing Taiwan, Chen Cheng became even more hostile to the Communist Party and assisted Chiang Kai-shek in repeatedly setting off an "anti-communist" upsurge on the island. Under the banner of the Three People's Principles, the Kuomintang instilled feudal ethics and morality, advocated the "four dimensions" and "eight virtues," established the "Chinese Youth Anti-Communist National Salvation League" in schools, and carried out ideological education on "anti-communism and anti-Russia."
What is even more bizarre is that Chen Cheng also transferred the system of "armor protection and joint sitting" that he had practiced during his time on the mainland to Taiwan, requiring Taiwan citizens to take an oath: "I myself will never collude with bandits, and I will not tolerate banditry by others, and if I violate this oath, I am willing to be punished by the people's assembly." Forcing the people to spy on each other and report each other, "all those who are spies and whose attitudes are not dark and ambiguous will be regarded as dangerous people and must be eliminated."
However, although Chiang Kai-shek trusted Chen Cheng, he was also wary of Chen Cheng. On May 16, 1949, Without Chiang Kai-shek's consent, Chen Cheng flew from Taipei to Guangzhou to attend a financial and grain conference convened by Li Zongren.
In this regard, Chiang Kai-shek was extremely uneasy and feared that Chen Cheng would be used by the Gui clan. In his diary, he wrote:
"I feel that the arrogance of the civil and military cadres is gradually worse than before, and their attitude toward Yu Zhi is gradually worse than before, and so are Guo (confessions) and Chen (Cixiu)."
Chen Cheng's family
In March 1950, Chiang Kai-shek officially restored the "presidency" in Taiwan, and the chaotic situation of the Kuomintang was stabilized. Soon, Chen Cheng succeeded Yan Xishan as the "chief executive" of the "National Government".
From this time on, Taiwan began to form the "Chiang-Chen system." Chen Cheng appeared in Taiwan's political arena as Chiang Kai-shek's right and left hand. In 1958, Chen Cheng held three important positions in Taiwan: "vice president", "vice president" and "chief executive", becoming the "number two person" of the Kuomintang.
After Chen Cheng and Tan Xiang married, they had six children: the eldest daughter Chen Xing, the second daughter Chen Ping, the eldest son Chen Lu'an, the second son Chen Luqing, the third son Chen Lubei, and the fourth son Chen Lujie. Most of these children did not enter politics, but engaged in economic or scientific research.
Chen Cheng's eldest son, Chen Lu'an, was the only one of his children to engage in politics, serving as Taiwan's "minister of economy" and "minister of national defense." Together with Lien Chan, Qian Fu, and Shen Junshan, he was known as the "four great princes" of the Kuomintang. In the 1990s, he withdrew from the Kuomintang and gradually faded out of politics.
After fading out of politics, Chen Gradually began to turn to Buddhist studies.
In 2002, Chen Lu'an's eldest son, Chen Yuting, married a Tibetan entrepreneur and singer Yang Jinlam at the Beijing Hotel. Chen Yuting, who was seven years old at the Chinese New Year's Eve, received a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University; Yang Jinlam is a Tibetan female entrepreneur and singer who studied in the art department of the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing and the art department of Northwest University for Nationalities in Lanzhou, and recently served as the deputy general manager of marketing of Qizheng Tibetan Medicine Group. After the two met in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, in 2001, they quickly fell in love.
Under the influence of Chen Lu'an, Chen Yuting believed in Buddhism in high school and tried to become a monk. But one of his high school classmates said to him, "You can't go out of the family, you have to pass on the lineage." This only pulled Chen Yuting back from the brink of renunciation.
However, Chen Yuting is still a Buddhist believer and has been actively preparing for Taiwan's largest Buddhist college, the Zhongtai Zen Temple Buddhist Academy, in recent years. This is a good thing, and I hope he can do what he wants.