On the evening of September 16, 1969, several high-class cars sped into downtown Taipei from near Yangmingshan, and the vehicles were still unstoppable at the entrance of Taipei Veterans General Hospital, and several young people quickly opened the doors and got out of the car, and some of them had already strolled into the hospital and called for doctors and nurses.
When the doctors and nurses rushed to the stretcher and rushed to find that the people they wanted to treat were in a high position of authority, and they had only seen it in the newspapers, the man was Chiang Kai-shek, and the woman was Song Meiling.
Chiang Kai-shek sat in the back seat with a serious face, the corners of his mouth bleeding, his dentures had rolled down to his feet, and Song Meiling, who was beside him, was already unconscious.
The medical staff did not dare to be idle, and quickly carried the two to the stretcher and pushed them to the emergency room at a fast and steady speed. The attendants guarding the door looked at each other, their eyes revealing tension, uneasiness, and self-blame.
Acting guard chief Kong Lingsheng gradually regained his composure, he hurried to the hospital office, picked up the phone and dialed out, Kong Lingsheng's tone was still a little underwhelmed when the call, and even swallowed spit vigorously. After the call, Kong Lingsheng found that his legs couldn't help but shake a little, and he breathed a long sigh of relief, everything was left to fate!
▲Kong Lingsheng
Kong Lingsheng made a phone call to Chiang Ching-kuo, head of Taiwan's "Executive Yuan" and head of the intelligence system. Lao Tzu had a car accident, and he must inform his son that everything must be decided by Chiang Ching-kuo, otherwise no one can bear the consequences.
Jiang Chingguo was shocked to receive the phone call, the security work of the old man on weekdays is not leaking, how can it be a good end to the car accident, too late to think about it, Chiang Ching-kuo instructed the secretary to immediately prepare the car and rush to taipei Rongmin General Hospital.
Taipei Veterans General Hospital was established on July 1, 1958, mainly to undertake the medical security of the Chiang family and senior Kuomintang generals, for a long time, Taipei Veterans General Hospital was the best medical level hospital in Taiwan.
Jiang Chingguo, who came to the hospital, had a serious face, Kong Lingsheng saw that he was only nervous except for greetings, and Kong Lingsheng told Chiang Ching-kuo about the car accident.
In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek was defeated in Taiwan and temporarily stayed at the guest house of the Taiwan Sugar Company in Taipei City. When he first arrived in Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek was not very accustomed to the local humid and hot island climate, and Chiang Kai-shek, who was keen to enjoy the natural scenery, once felt cool when passing by a mountain on the northern outskirts of Taipei City.
Chiang Kai-shek asked the attendants for the name of the mountain, and when he learned that it was called Caoshan, he felt a little unlucky, and he could not help but think of the saying that the grass was Kou Yi, which was not in line with his defeat and retreat to Taiwan. Chiang Kai-shek revered Wang Yangming's teachings and changed the grass mountain to Yangming mountain.
Yangmingshan has since become a summer retreat place for Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling, located in Yangmingshan Fulin Road, shilin official residence, was built during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, then the gardening land of the Governor's Palace, after the Japanese surrender is still used for horticultural research.
▲ Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Mei-ling, Chiang Ching-kuo
After Chen Cheng arrived in Taiwan, he found that the place where the Shilin official residence was located was surrounded by mountains on three sides, with beautiful mountains and clear waters, and fresh air, so he rebuilt it into one of the important official residences of Chiang Kai-shek after he retired to Taiwan, and Chiang Kai-shek was also relatively satisfied. People living in Taipei know that the Shilin official residence near Yangde Avenue is Chiang Kai-shek's residence, and ordinary people dare not go near it.
Chiang Kai-shek gets up at five o'clock every morning, drinks a cup of warm boiled water, moisturizes the stomach and intestines, and then washes up. After sitting still for half an hour, with eye drops by the way, the attendants covered Chiang Kai-shek's eyes with a towel and massaged him. Chiang Kai-shek returned to his study and began to write the diary of the previous day, and in the morning his mind was relatively clear-headed, which was conducive to recalling and reflecting on the mistakes of the previous day.
After breakfast, Chiang Kai-shek read some newspaper summaries, and at about 9 o'clock after everything was finished, surrounded by attendants, Chiang Kai-shek took a car to the office four or five kilometers away for half a day's work.
In order to ensure Chiang Kai-shek's safety, soldiers guarded the three outer three floors near the Shilin mansion, and martial law was required along the way to the office. "Chairman of Taiwan Province" Yan Jiagan deliberately built a bridge to facilitate the passage of Chiang Kai-shek's motorcade, and this bridge was named "Fuxing Bridge" by Chiang Kai-shek, the meaning of which is self-evident. For safety reasons, the small traders and hawkers under the bridge hole were also expelled, and it was forbidden to set up stalls and sell there.
After Eisenhower was elected president, the main vehicle of the president's motorcade was the Cadillac extended version, which was not prestigious. Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling, who have always admired Europe and the United States, also selected the car as a Cadillac and carried out special modifications. A few kilometers from the Shilin official residence to the office, the intersection where the convoy reached was still a red light for one second, and a green light immediately turned the next second.
On the morning of September 16, 1969, Chiang Kai-shek held a military conference at Yangmingshan, and all the generals and generals attended to listen to the instructions of the "Supreme Commander". Chiang Kai-shek was radiant, and if there was no special reason for the military conference, he would have been present; he had always wanted to firmly hold the military power in his hands, and he had had unrealistic illusions, hoping to one day counterattack back.
After the morning military meeting, Chiang Kai-shek left and did not participate in the afternoon group discussion. As his body ageed, the day-long meeting seemed to him a bit of a pain, and as long as he controlled the military power, some less important group discussions would naturally be worried about.
When Chiang Kai-shek returned to his residence, he and Soong Mei-ling had lunch together, and after his lunch break, his mental state looked good, so he proposed to Soong Mei-ling to take a car out for a ride. Chiang Kai-shek mentioned "inspection" many times in his diary, but in fact he and Soong Meiling went out for a ride.
After retiring to Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek liked to ride with Song Meiling in his spare time, and Song Meiling often nodded his head in agreement with such a request. Taiwan's unique geographical location has created different beautiful rivers and mountains, and the scenery is beautiful.
Chiang Kai-shek likes to look out the window during the ride, and the green mountains and green waters come into view, and his thoughts seem to return to the mouth of Fenghua Creek. In order to facilitate Chiang Kai-shek to enjoy the beautiful scenery through the car window, the vehicle did not replace the brown glass when it was modified, but only adopted thickened transparent glass, which was also a security problem that the attendants were more worried about.
As soon as the attendants heard that Chiang Kai-shek was going out for a ride with Soong Mei-ling, they immediately made intense preparations, and this kind of travel was the norm. The car will not drive too far, take a turn around downtown Taipei or the suburbs, and you will definitely arrive at the Shilin official residence before dark.
The convoy generally consisted of five vehicles, the front of which was a pilot car, which was carried by Chiang Kai-shek's attendants. The second was the cars of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling. The third is a spare car, on the one hand, to confuse the assassination operation, and on the other hand, in the event of a flat tire or malfunction in the vehicle in which Chiang Kai-shek is riding, the spare car can be replaced. Inside the fourth car were attendants, responsible for the security of Chiang Kai-shek and his wife. The fifth vehicle was taken by the secretary and other staff.
The motorcade slowly drove down from the Shilin official residence, and Chiang Kai-shek looked up at the window, looking down on the scene of downtown Taipei, bustling but bustling. It has been exactly twenty years since I retired to Taiwan, and my mentality is not as radical as it was at the beginning, and some unrealistic fantasies should be put aside. Combined with the actual situation, the son can smoothly succeed is one of them, and he can be buried in Fenghua Xikou after a hundred years. The first wish is to win under its own operation, and the second one depends on how to talk to the mainland side.
Jinxiu Mountains and Rivers came into view, and I felt that my breathing became extremely smooth. After the parade, Chiang Kai-shek's convoy began to return as originally planned, and everything seemed unremarkable, and Chiang Kai-shek sat in the right back seat, his hands on crutches, his eyes closed. Song Meiling, who was beside her, crossed Erlang's legs and closed her eyes to recuperate.
The 82-year-old Chiang Kai-shek and the 71-year-old Song Meiling, although energetic, are also old after all, and every time at the end of the cruise, due to the long time in the car, the road is bumpy, they will feel slightly tired, and both will close their eyes to relieve fatigue.
When the vehicle drove to the vicinity of Yongfu Road on Yangde Avenue, there was a shuttle bus from the Highway Bureau parked on the side of the road waiting for the passengers to get on and off, just when the pilot car was getting closer and closer to the shuttle, suddenly drove out of the rear of the shuttle in the opposite direction of a jeep, extremely fast, climbing up the hill of the pilot car emergency braking, fortunately the two cars did not collide, but Chiang Kai-shek's car was not so lucky. Due to the emergency braking of the car in front of him, the car he was riding in crashed into the pilot car, and the front part of the car was knocked out of the large pit.
The entire convoy was parked on the side of the road, and the vehicle that caused the accident had long since whistled past and disappeared. The attendants hurriedly got out of the car and ran to Chiang Kai-shek's car, only to see that Song Meiling was already lying under the seat, her high heels had fallen off, and her mouth was constantly crying out in pain. Chiang Kai-shek was still sitting in his seat, expressionless, and due to the huge impact, he crashed into the partition glass in front of him, his nose and the corners of his mouth bleeding, and his crutches had been broken into two pieces.
Seeing this scene, the attendants quickly lifted Song Meiling up, and the accident also made them tremble with fear, and the most important thing at the moment was to send the two to the hospital for examination. The convoy turned around and drove at great speed towards Taipei Veterans General Hospital. With radio equipment they carried with them, the attendants informed the gendarmerie forces to block the Yangdd Avenue and the route to the "Presidential Palace" to which the jeep was headed.
On the way to the hospital, Soong Meiling had passed out, and Chiang Kai-shek was still serious. The two were taken to the emergency room, and the medical staff began to be nervously busy, hindering their identity, and the ordinary treatment together seemed to be a bit rushed.
Soon in the emergency room, she heard Song Meiling's Shanghai accent shouting in pain, and she asked the doctor to conduct a comprehensive physical examination for her. During the whole treatment process, Chiang Kai-shek tried his best to cooperate with the doctor, and did not speak much except for the doctor's necessary inquiries.
Kong Lingsheng, the acting head of the guards, remembered that he would quickly tell Chiang Ching-kuo the news, and Chiang King-kuo hurriedly hung up the phone and rushed to the hospital.
Kong Lingsheng recounted the whole incident, and Jiang Jingguo listened carefully, and he couldn't help but frown, and he asked Kong Lingsheng:
"Can you see the other person's license plate clearly?"
Kong Lingsheng was nervous, and at the time of the incident, he only cared to check the condition of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling, and the vehicle that caused the accident roared past too fast to see the license plate clearly. Kong Lingsheng swallowed his spit and his voice was slightly smaller:
"It was too fast to see clearly, it was a military jeep."
Chiang Ching-kuo was shocked by the military jeep, and his first thought was whether there were people in the army who wanted to make small moves in an attempt to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek by creating a car accident in order to achieve his own goals.
For Chiang Kai-shek, assassinations are no stranger. In 1912, Chiang Kai-shek was instructed by Chen Qimei to participate in the assassination of Tao Chengzhang, one of the founders of the Guangfuhui, and since then Chiang Kai-shek has been deeply trusted by Chen Qimei and gradually moved into the political arena and close to the core of power. After Chiang Kai-shek came to power, assassinations at his behest were not uncommon.
Similarly, Chiang Kai-shek was assassinated many times. Wang Yaqiao, known as the "Great King of Assassination," assassinated Chiang Kai-shek five times, but none of them succeeded. In 1935, Sun Fengming, an anti-Japanese patriot disguised as a journalist, planned to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek at a meeting of the Kuomintang, but Chiang Kai-shek sniffed the wind, and he left early to escape the disaster. Sun Fengming had no choice but to change his plan and assassinate Wang Jingwei, and after three shots, Wang Jingwei fell to the ground.
After the defeat of Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek began to kick the Kuomintang elders and powerful factions out of the core circle of power, especially against those who might threaten Chiang Ching-kuo's succession. Chiang Kai-shek conveniently straightened out the army and solved the problems of concubines and miscellaneous armies that existed on the mainland, and the army became the concubines of Chiang Kai-shek's father and son.
Chiang Ching-kuo wondered whether there would be an undetected force that wanted to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek in order to achieve the goal of changing the political situation, and dared to move the soil on the head of the "too old man," and one day he would dare to attack him as a "prince." This was what Chiang Ching-kuo was worried about. Chiang Ching-kuo ordered the blockade of the road from Yangmingshan to the "Presidential Palace," imposed martial law on the entire city of Taipei, and investigated the whereabouts of military jeeps.
For a time, a tense air filled the air above Taipei City, well-informed people had begun to discuss Chiang Kai-shek's car accident, and the bold people even analyzed the black hands behind the planning of this car accident, and the melon-eating masses sat and waited for more explosive news to come out.
Kong Lingsheng went to the "Executive Yuan" every day to report the results of the investigation to Chiang Ching-kuo, and the results were consistent, and the whereabouts of the military jeep were not found. Jiang Chingguo was furious and rarely angry with Kong Lingsheng, asking him to find out the vehicle and the perpetrator of the accident, and if he did not check the water, how could he sleep peacefully, and maybe one day there would be things that he did not dare to imagine.
An old agent involved in the investigation suggested that since it was a military jeep, there was still a certain difference between it and a civilian jeep. First of all, it is more troublesome in the use of vehicles, to do a good job of vehicle use registration, it is better to follow this clue to investigate, query the military vehicle use records on the day of the incident.
Investigators immediately inquired about the records of the use of military jeeps on September 16, and soon the results were available, and a division commander had taken a car to Yangmingshan for a military conference, and his whereabouts were now unknown.
Chiang Ching-kuo controls Taiwan's intelligence system, and it is natural to find someone. The vehicle that caused the accident, the division commander, and the driver were found in the countryside in southern Taiwan, and Chiang Ching-kuo personally interrogated the commander of the accident and prepared to find out the "black hand behind the scenes" hiding in the shadows.
Seeing that the "Prince Prince" was personally interrogated, the master who caused the incident felt incredible, and his heart suddenly mentioned the throat eye, his future was finished, and if he didn't get his life, he would lose his life. Jiang Chingguo made a few simple inquiries, and the commander of the accident poured beans like a bamboo tube to pass through and discuss the incident.
It turned out that the division commander had attended a high-level military meeting held in Yangmingshan, and by the end of the group discussion, it was already about four o'clock in the afternoon, and he was anxious to go home to have dinner with his family, constantly urging the driver to drive fast on the road.
Chiang Kai-shek gave a lecture at the high-level military conference, and then returned to the Shilin official residence and did not participate in the group discussion held in the afternoon. After lunch and lunch break, Chiang Kai-shek invited Song Meiling to take a ride in the car with great interest, and Song Meiling gladly accepted.
▲ Shilin official residence
When the ride was over and ready to return to the Shilin official residence, the convoy drove to the vicinity of Yongfu Road on Yangde Avenue, the division commander who was anxious to return home was urging the driver to speed up, and the driver accelerated in reverse over the Highway Bureau shuttle bus waiting on the side of the road. Chiang Kai-shek's pilot car evaded urgently, and finally escaped a disaster, a sharp brake made the rear Chiang Kai-shek's car driver unexpected, and in a hurry, he also stepped on the foot throttle and crashed into the pilot car in front.
The military jeep flew away, and the commander of the accident division did not think so much. When in the evening, when the police in Downtown Taipei were loud and even sent out gendarmerie troops to block the road from Yangmingshan to the "Presidential Palace", he learned that 80% of the cadillac convoy that met his own vehicle had been in a car accident, and the cause of the accident was caused by the reverse overtaking of his own vehicle.
The cadillac convoy, the gendarmerie unit, the blockade of the road, all kinds of information came together, and the commander of the division who caused the accident thought that the person sitting in the car was not an ordinary dignitary, but most likely Chiang Kai-shek, who held the lifeblood of Taiwan, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he hurriedly packed his bags and ran toward the countryside in southern Taiwan, hoping to avoid a disaster.
The division commander frankly said that to say that he was instructed by others to harm Chiang Kai-shek was purely unjust, and he did not dare to do so by borrowing ten of his own courage; when he said these words, he trembled and trembled, and did not even dare to look at Chiang Ching-kuo more, everyone knew the identity and status of the "prince" in front of him, and his future prospects.
Chiang Ching-kuo constantly asked about the black hand behind the car accident, and the more he asked the division commander, the more he was afraid and more frank, and he did not dare to have half a cover, if he had not been trapped, he would have kneeled down to Chiang Ching-kuo long ago.
Looking at the trembling division commander in front of him, Chiang Ching-kuo's hanging heart finally let go, and it was better not a premeditated assassination operation, which was enough to show that their father and son currently had no powerful political enemies in Taiwan, and no force could stop Chiang Ching-kuo from succeeding him.
Chiang Ching-kuo informed Chiang Kai-shek of the results of the investigation, and he and his father discussed how to deal with those involved in traffic accidents. The commander of the division was removed from his post, the driver was held in prison, and according to the declassified archives, the name of the division commander was not mentioned, and the fate of the driver who caused the accident is ultimately unknown. The full-time driver of Chiang Kai-shek's car stepped on the accelerator in a panic, which was one of the reasons for the rear-end collision of the vehicle, but he was not punished.
Chiang Kai-shek's car is 6 meters long, 2 meters wide, originally seven seats, considering the comfort of Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling, the middle seat was removed when special modifications were made, and it was not a problem for the two of them to sit in the back row and fully straighten their legs.
▲Chiang Kai-shek's car
It is precisely because of the excessively long seat spacing that when a violent collision occurred, Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling crashed into the glass partition in front of the driver due to strong inertia, Chiang Kai-shek's lips were torn, his nose was broken, the blood was direct, the crutches in his hand were folded into two pieces, and Song Meiling lay straight in the spacious position between the seats.
Chiang Kai-shek had a habit of keeping a diary, and he recorded this in his diary on the day of the car accident:
Wednesday, September 16 The weather is sunny
He and his wife rode around the city, but unexpectedly it was dusk when they returned to the village, and suddenly the car collided with the leading car, when the wife had fainted, Yu Ze's mouth and nose were broken and bleeding, and his wife was seriously injured.
In his diary, Chiang Kai-shek wrote that he had more bleeding from his nose and mouth, and that Song Meiling had fainted from his serious injuries, and he focused on Song Meiling. It is certain that because of Yongfu's car accident, Chiang Kai-shek's health was greatly affected.
In November 1969, Chiang Kai-shek went to Taipei Veterans General Hospital for a routine physical examination, and the doctor found that there was a murmur in the artery of Chiang Kai-shek's heart, and the reason why the noise was produced was because in the process of the car accident, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly bumped into the front, resulting in damage to the heart artery valve, laying the foundation for his future heart failure.
As we mentioned earlier, Chiang Kai-shek's routine in his later years has developed a whole set of lifestyles adapted to his body. However, just after the car accident, Chiang Kai-shek's life rules were disrupted, and colds became the norm of his life, and he was even sometimes bedridden for physical reasons.
Yan Jiagan once visited Chiang Kai-shek at the official residence of Shilin, and Chiang Kai-shek said to Yan Jiagan with deep feeling:
"Yongfu car accident, reduce my Yangshou for twenty years!"
On the night of April 5, 1975, when the city of Taipei was filled with lightning and torrential rain, many people had already gathered in the Shilin official residence, and doctors and nurses rushed to rescue Chiang Kai-shek, who had a sudden heart attack, and he also died of heart failure and ineffective rescue.
The occurrence of the Yongfu car accident is by no means accidental, and the rampage of military vehicles in Taiwan is not a new thing, and the people can only shake their heads and sigh, there is no other way. As Chiang Kai-shek expected, Yongfu's car accident affected his health and hastened his death.