Taiwan's armed forces are now a very embarrassing presence on the island; on the one hand, the DPP's Tsai Ing-wen has greatly increased its armament budget and upgraded its weapons and equipment in order to "resist reunification by force." On the other hand, the Taiwan army has always been the sphere of influence of the Kuomintang, and veterans account for the vast majority of the current composition of the Kuomintang party members. In order to prevent the army from becoming the future second echelon of the Kuomintang, Tsai Ing-wen spent a lot of effort to cultivate "independence" within the Taiwan military. In addition to promoting a large number of loyal soldiers, she also began to recruit veterans. The means used are to bribe, co-opt, and recruit veterans who miss Chiang Ching-kuo in a high-profile way to commemorate Chiang Ching-kuo. These military personnel attacked the DPP on their heads, but in fact they saw the benefits and forgot their righteousness, and after receiving the dpp's benefits, they began to no longer be loyal to the KMT. What the specific situation is, I will tell you slowly.
The inferiority of the Taiwan military in seeing profit and forgetting righteousness has not changed for decades
The early components of Taiwan's army were the remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's army brought to Taiwan from the mainland, and we are naturally very familiar with these troops. Veterans beat and cursed new recruits, officers squeezed soldiers, generals at all levels tightened in the front and in the rear, and military discipline was wiped out. Some armed forces see money in their eyes, steal ordnance and military funds, and even use military vehicles to smuggle guns and ammunition instead of pulling guns and ammunition. Even Chiang Kai-shek himself recognized this, and he mentioned in a public speech in 1944:
"We have all the vehicles and horses in the army, which do not carry weapons, do not carry ammunition, but carry smuggled goods. During the retreat, the officers and men of a number of units harassed everywhere, and even raped and plundered, making the people miserable! Such an army still exists in today's China, how do we behave? ”
In the final analysis, it is precisely because corruption has become a common practice in the Kuomintang army, and it has been effective from top to bottom. This force is no longer fighting for ideals and beliefs, even in the face of the invasion of the Japanese Kou and the peril of the country, all they think of is profit. This also explains why a large number of Kuomintang troops surrendered to the Japanese in the course of the War of Resistance, and "seeing profit and forgetting righteousness" was one of the important reasons for the defeat of the Kuomintang army.
Chiang Kai-shek
After Chiang Kai-shek's defeat and retreat from Taiwan, he began to strengthen the internal management of the army, and he put forward the argument of "three points of military and seven points of politics." In particular, modeled on the mainland's "political commissar" system, a large number of political work cadres have been comprehensively installed in the military. The vast majority of these political work cadres came from the Fuxinggang Political Work Cadre School, which was personally established by Chiang Ching-kuo, and these people also had great respect for Chiang Ching-kuo and regarded him as a benefactor. At the same time, since the 1950s, the conscription system has been implemented on the island of Taiwan, and the regulation at that time was that the army should serve for two years, and the air force and navy should serve for three years. Taiwan's standing army also began to have a large number of Taiwanese faces, and the strength of the army at that time also reached about 600,000 people. To maintain such a large number of people, the military budget required is also rising, especially after Taiwan began to purchase weapons from overseas on a large scale, Taiwan's military expenditure has remained at a very high level. The more funds there are, the more right and wrong there are naturally. In order to get a piece of the pie, many people even embarked on the evil road, which also caused a number of major malpractice cases within Taiwan.
Chiang Ching-kuo
In 1989, the island of Taiwan wanted to purchase French Lafayette-class warships, but there was a large-scale corruption case in the military. Colonel Yin Qingfeng, who was in charge of the investigation, was mysteriously killed, and his body was found off the coast of Yilan. The origin of the malpractice was that the island of Taiwan intended to spend $2.5 billion to purchase six unarmed Lafayette-class frigates from France, but soon after an anonymous letter signed "Zhongyong Naval Officer" reported that someone had embezzled huge commission kickbacks during the procurement process. The spearhead was directed at Liu Heqian, the "chief of staff" on the island of Taiwan at the time, and his seven small groups. Colonel Yin Qingfeng was in charge of the investigation for many days, but he was mysteriously killed. The six people involved in the French side were also revealed to have died mysteriously after the fact. The investigation of this case still has no conclusion, which shows the darkness in the Taiwan military. For the sake of the struggle for interests, it is even possible to extinguish the robe. The warships purchased at great expense on the island of Taiwan have become tools for arms dealers and military moths to seek personal gain. The history of the Taiwan military in which profits are only interested in profits, and even recklessly takes risks, is shocking. It is precisely because such a trend is so rampant that only slogans are shouted loudly in the Taiwan military, and other internal qualities have long since collapsed, let alone the slightest loyalty to speak of.
Yin Qingfeng
In 2000, Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party came to power. This was the first political party rotation in Taiwan in fifty years, and the Taiwanese army, which had always been regarded as the core pillar by the Kuomintang, immediately announced its allegiance to the results of the election of Taiwan's regional leaders. After that, Chen Shui-bian began the process of wantonly bribing the Taiwan army, on the one hand, taking advantage of small favors and small favors to directly send money. For example, during Chen Shui-bian's tenure of office, he increased the vegetable money of officers and men, and in early 2008, Chen Shui-bian went to Kinmen to inspect, and during the Spring Festival, he began to send red envelopes to the officers and men of the troops. On the other hand, it is to use official positions to bribe high-level officers. Chen Shui-bian frantically promoted all kinds of generals, and during chen Shui-bian's eight years in power, he promoted a total of 347 generals and 30 "generals." This trick is simple and crude, but it is useful. Many people in the Taiwan military were bribed by Chen Shui-bian and joined the CAMP of the Democratic Progressive Party after they were discharged from the army. For example, during The Chen Shui-bian period, a hand-pulled confidant, Hu Zhenpu, the head of the army. Hu Zhenpu even kept in touch with Chen Shui-bian after he was imprisoned, and After Chen Shui-bian was released on medical parole and hosted an interview program in the media, Hu Zhenpu also became his guest.
Chen Shui-bian was given a large number of official titles
Tsai's bribery strategy, from material to spiritual
Compared with Chen Shui-bian's simple and rude bribery methods, Tsai Ing-wen's methods are obviously more sophisticated than the taiwan regional leaders who are also members of the Democratic Progressive Party. She retained Chen Shui-bian's bribery strategy, and after coming to power, she began to seal officials and worship generals. However, she did not indiscriminately seal officials in large numbers, but specialized in a few points, and deliberately selected people in the Taiwan military whose positions were very close to those of the DPP for recruitment. This is more effective than during the Chen Shui-bian period, the most typical of which is Tsai Ing-wen's confidant Huang Shuguang. Huang Shuguang rose from head of the Navy to "Chief of Staff" and presided over the "Submarine Self-Building Project" that Tsai Ing-wen attaches great importance to. It can be said that huang shuguang's sister Huang Shanshan is still the right and left hand of Taipei mayor Ke Wenzhe, and it is likely to run for mayor of Taipei in 2022. The delicate relationship between Ms. Tsai, Huang Shuguang, and Ms. Huang may have an impact on Taiwan's county mayoral elections to take place in November. Tsai Ing-wen's reuse of Huang Shuguang has also laid a dark stake in the entire Taiwanese political arena.
Huang Shuguang
At the same time, Tsai Ing-wen also vigorously reused the attendant officials around her, and Liu Zhibin, former chief of staff of the Navy, was considered to have a relationship with the Democratic Progressive Party because he had once served as an attendant to Chen Shui-bian. So Tsai Ing-wen reused Liu Zhibin as her own chief of bodyguards in 2016, and later let him serve as the "commander of the navy". In 2019, Taiwan's public opinion representative Huang Guochang broke the news that Tsai Ing-wen's attendants accompanied Tsai Ing-wen to buy tens of thousands of cigarettes when she "visited" abroad, and then smuggled tax evasion into Taiwan. This case once shocked the island of Taiwan, and most of the people involved in the case were severely punished on the surface, but in fact, they were dragonflies and even dark Chen Cang. Colonel Chen Minhua, the head of the squire group, was punished with a major offense, but was still promoted to major general in June 2020. Zhang Jie, the head of the guard who was transferred, also re-assumed an important position in February 2020 and became a "command member" of the Taiwan Army. Tsai Ing-wen's move is obviously to vigorously cultivate and maintain the attendants around her, so that they can become their own Tsai family army. Step by step, the core backbone of the Taiwan military has been bribed by Tsai Ing-wen and others, and Tsai Ing-wen herself has said that "the Taiwan military was not close to the DPP before, but now it is much better."
Tsai Ing-wen bribing the Taiwan military
In addition to bribing Taiwan military generals through material means, Tsai Ing-wen also hit Taiwan's veterans with a crooked brain. These people are the basic force within the Kuomintang and an important pillar of the Kuomintang, and they have long been dead set on the Kuomintang. They were loyal to chiang kai-shek in their early years, and after Lee Teng-hui, many of them relied on their past beliefs to support them to continue to support the Kuomintang. All these people have in their hearts is the last memories and obsessions of the two Chiang Kai-sheks. In addition, in order to crack down on the Kuomintang, the DPP has long stigmatized Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo's father and son. This made veterans hate the DPP to the bone, so they were once regarded as the most loyal group in the KMT. But now, the group is also being bought off and used by the DPP. The DPP's means are also very simple, it is to change its position and attitude, begin to publicize Chiang Ching-kuo in a positive way, and provide material support and positive affirmation for Chiang Ching-kuo's commemoration activities.
Chiang Ching-kuo Memorial Hall
On this year's Chiang Ching-kuo Memorial Day, the veterans of the Fuxinggang Political Warfare School, which Chiang Ching-kuo once hosted, organized the "Walking Through the Brilliant: Concert in Memory of Mr. Ching-kuo". Feng Shikuan, a beloved general who has always been highly valued by Tsai Ing-wen, was present, and as the director of Taiwan's Retired Military Officers' Counseling Committee, he also brought his own deputy, Li Wenzhong, a senior general in the Democratic Progressive Party, to the scene. Unexpectedly, the retired soldiers who have always claimed to be disgusted with the DPP have greatly appreciated this and even been quite moved. A former intelligence department official, a retired colonel surnamed Li, also openly declared: "In particular, Li Wenzhong was the first person in the DPP to publicly affirm Chiang Ching-kuo's political achievements.", and the people at the scene also responded with warm applause. The characteristics of the Taiwan military that "having milk is a mother" have been exposed. The Green Camp casually gave a good face and threw a bone out. These people are slaves, wagging their tails and begging for mercy, willing to be assimilated by them. What is even more ridiculous is that the colonel surnamed Li once claimed in September 2016 that Feng Shikuan was a clown in military history, but at this moment he was a "General Feng Shikuan", and the flattery was disgusting.
Feng Shikuan
Tsai Ing-wen used "commemorating Chiang Ching-kuo" to attack the kuomintang's foundation, and in addition, these retired personnel of the Taiwan military saw money and opened their eyes, and they were even more grassy and fell with the wind. A few days ago, Beichen, a former retired major general in the Taiwan army, quit the Kuomintang, which is likely to be just the beginning. The DPP now has all its political and economic resources, and its banknotes and official positions are inexhaustible. These mercenary Taiwan troops naturally could not hold on in the face of temptation. These people are the same as the style of more than seventy years ago, the slogans on their mouths are loud, and their legs are weak when they see interests. Some scholars on the island once pointed out that the Taiwan army is "a hard bone in the mouth, a soft bone in reality, and a bone in the banknote pile.", this statement is sharp but very thorough. The DPP has bribed veterans in the KMT through both material and spiritual aspects, and the foundation of the KMT has been pried, and the day of defeat is probably not far away. We must also clearly see that the real forces on the island have grown and that although the Taiwan military is rotten to the bone, the DPP is becoming more and more rampant and making fierce moves. Tsai Ing-wen and others closely surrounded the Americans, and the tricks were repeated. We should not dwell on Taiwan in the media and politics, where our advantages are not obvious. Instead, we should carry out a three-dimensional strike against Taiwan in the economic and military fields that are beneficial to us. Just as the so-called "use one's own strengths and attack the enemy's weaknesses, the heroic People's Liberation Army is facing the corrupt Taiwan army, and the results are clear at a glance. How the situation in the Taiwan Strait develops in the future will be something we will see.