Li Zongren, the head of the Gui clan, wanted to serve as vice chairman of the people's congress in our party after returning to China, but why did the great man refuse after listening to it, and did not give him any position until Li Zongren died. It is reasonable to say that the Kuomintang generals who have a clear understanding of the situation in a timely manner and defect to our party will not be treated very badly, and Cheng Qian, Zhang Zhizhong, and others have also held the posts of vice chairman of the people's congress, so why did the great man finally refuse to let the great man continue to serve the country when he made a request that he wanted to continue to serve the country, who had made a higher contribution than them? Whether it is Chiang Kai-shek's conspiracy behind it, or whether he has a lingering feeling about what Li Zongren once did, and the friends who have not paid attention to it are bothering to pay attention to it, and listen to the brother of the detective for you to explain the reasons in detail.
On July 18, 1965, Li Zongren finally ended his exile and returned to China with his wife who had fought for most of his life. Two days later, the plane he was on landed slowly in Beijing, and the airport was already full of people who had come to greet him, non-party figures, the kmt leaders and members of the faction, and our party all extended a warm welcome to Li Zongren's return to China. The premier led Chen Yi, He Long, Ye Jianying and other leaders to hold a grand welcoming ceremony. On that day, this news became a sensational news in the world, and what surprised people was not only our party's acceptance of Li Zongren, but also a statement he read at the airport, saying that he was not old enough to continue to contribute to the cause of the reunification of the motherland. Although this acting president, who was once born and died for the Kuomintang, was attacked by Chiang Kai-shek's words and policies, he had a completely different treatment in our party; when Li Zongren and the great man's hands were tightly clasped together, the leaders of the old and new generations were also closely linked, creating a historic moment for the cross-strait peace and reunification plan, and at the same time calling on the former patriotic Kuomintang officers to return home in time.
Looking back at his young career as a horseman, Li Zongren had already joined the army at the age of 22, participated in the Northern Expedition, the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, and his military achievements were outstanding, although he was in the Kuomintang camp, he and Chiang Kai-shek had never dealt with each other, and joined forces with Bai Chongxi to force Chiang Kai-shek to step down three times, and finally became the acting president of the Nationalist government. However, Li Zongren, the acting president, is also superficial, his power is held back by Chiang Kai-shek everywhere, and the government's money is also all transported to Taiwan by chiang, in this situation of internal and external troubles, Li Zongren knows that if he follows Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan, he will be placed under house arrest like Zhang Xueliang and Bai Chongxi, so he used the excuse of recuperation to exile in the United States and began a 16-year exile in a foreign country, and his return time was also very clever. In 1965, which was the second year of China's successful development of the atomic bomb, Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Taiwan, was already worried, and when he learned that Li Zongren returned to China, he was even more restless and sleepless, which was harmful to his rule in Taiwan and did not benefit anything; in particular, Li Zongren also said that he wanted to contribute to the reunification of New China, which did not just touch Chiang Kai-shek's anti-scales, and the old Chiang Immediately asked Bai Chongxi to publish a newspaper criticizing Li Zongren's behavior and barely saving some of the dignity of the Kuomintang.
However, for Chiang Kai-shek's usual schemes, Li Zongren did not care at all, but continued to strengthen cooperation with the mainland, expounding his idea of returning to the roots of the fallen leaves, and the great man immediately expressed a warm welcome when he learned of it, and even set up a banquet to entertain Li Zongren's family and treat him as a guest of honor. In fact, as early as Before Li Zongren returned to China, the great man paid special attention to his affairs, and also considered that in case he was not used to life after returning to China, he could go back at any time, and this policy of coming and going freely was right for Li Zongren. Although Li Zongren is 74 years old after returning to China, his physical condition has always been very good. Therefore, I also want to use my last time to serve the country, then this will involve the treatment of Li Zongren, in fact, this problem has also made the Beijing headquarters think hard for a long time, but Li Zongren, he obviously has his own views. In a meeting with the great man, Li Zongren euphemistically expressed his thoughts and opened his mouth to want a vice-state position, but the great man only laughed and did not say a word after listening, did not give a clear answer, and refused Li Zongren's request, and then the matter was not resolved, so why did the great man have such a reaction?
Li Zongren, the leader of the Gui clan who had made great achievements in the war in his life, definitely did not casually put forward his own ideas, he wanted the post of vice chairman of the people's congress; after all, from a realistic point of view, Li Zongren's ideas were not excessive at all, his strength and influence were placed there, and the contribution brought during the war period was incomparable, and it was impossible to arrange a post lower than that of the vice-state level, and he was already old at that time, and even if he had an official position, it was basically only symbolic and would not have a decisive impact on the development of the country. This also shows the wisdom of Li Zongren, who avoided making the great man too embarrassed, and also saved himself enough face, and there is also Cheng Qian and Zhang Zhizhong, whom we mentioned at the beginning, who actively defected to our party camp during the liberation period, and after the founding of New China, they were also treated as due, and successively served as vice chairman of the people's congress. And whether it is seniority or status, Li Zongren has been in contact with the peak of power, and he is higher than these people no matter what, and if he wants a vice-state-level position, it is not a lion's big mouth.
Li Zongren has his own views, and the great man also has a consideration of the overall situation, and the reason for his refusal is not because of prejudice and reluctance, but because Li Zongren's request does not conform to the actual situation. Cheng Qian was a first-class general of the Kuomintang, and the peace general Zhang Zhizhong was only a second-class general, while Li Zongren became the acting president of the Kuomintang after Chiang Kai-shek stepped down. Now that a big figure with such a high status has returned to China and wants to continue to seek a career for the people, if Li Zongren is assigned the same position as them, it is obviously very inappropriate in terms of status and achievements. At the same time, the great man also felt that Li Zongren's request was too cautious, and the position of vice chairman of the people's congress was too low for him, so in the end he did not agree. But for a while, it was impossible to find a suitable position, and the matter could not be resolved with the passage of time. Later, the great man decided at the meeting that he should refer to the time when he conferred military ranks in 1955, and did not grant military ranks to Cheng Qian, Fu Zuoyi, and other major generals of the nationalist army, nor did he arrange any posts for Li Zongren, so as to avoid contradictions between the status of the main state or vice state level. After Li Zongren learned the origin of the matter, he understood the arrangement of the great man very well and calmly accepted the state of being light. On National Day in 1966, the tower of Tiananmen Square was the last meeting between Li Zongren and the great man. At the beginning of 1968, he was admitted to the hospital with rectal cancer, and from returning to China in 1965 to his death in 1969, Li Zongren's last four years were relatively relaxed, and for him it was also a blessing in disguise, and he could cultivate his body well.
Li Zongren's return to China not only indicates that New China is gradually strengthening, but also hints at the certainty that Chiang Kai-shek is bound to fail, and his return calls on other party-state generals to return to the embrace of the motherland. Perhaps the older he gets, the more he has the traditional Chinese concept of returning to the roots of the old man, and before his death, Li Zongren left such a letter to the great man: In this great era, being a member of the Chinese people is an incomparably glorious thing, and for the Kuomintang people in Taiwan and overseas and all the patriots, there is only one way for them to return to the embrace of the motherland like me. After watching this video, I don't know what different views you have on Li Zongren, welcome to share and discuss with Brother Tang in the comment area!