In 1949, the founding of New China, along with Chiang Kai-shek's repeated defeats, Chiang Kai-shek had to lead the Kuomintang to retreat to Taiwan, and it was here that the Chiang family gradually moved towards complete destruction.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" >, rushing south – a power under strong control</h1>
Since the Liaoshen Campaign, Chiang Kai-shek's rule within the Kuomintang has had a tendency to be vaguely unstable, and the already factional struggles within the Kuomintang have been serious, and the frequent defeats in battles have made this contradiction have a tendency to become more and more intense.
This was Chiang Kai-shek's biggest crisis since he came to power in the Kuomintang, when Li Zongren had already been elected as acting president, and many people had already defected.
In the tacit understanding of everyone,On New Year's Day in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek was forced to issue the "New Year's Day Proclamation," in which Chiang Kai-shek for the first time expressed his willingness to go to the wilderness.
Faced with such a situation, Chiang Kai-shek did not easily concede defeat, first of all, he used his status as the most influential leader of the Kuomintang to frequently put pressure on Li Zongren, and the supporters of his concubines frequently created difficulties for the peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Republic.
Under all kinds of interference, Li Zongren ultimately failed to achieve the goal of peaceful coexistence with the Communist Party, and his own power was also reduced.
Under such circumstances, Li Zongren had to flee in order to save the last way to survive.
Chiang Kai-shek returned to the political arena of the Kuomintang with his superb skill of excluding dissidents, and retained his absolute right to rule.
However, the Kuomintang was already obviously defeated at this time; Chiang Kai-shek had always been good at conspiracy and had no unique experience in frontal battlefields; and the Kuomintang had always been unpopular, so Chiang Kai-shek began to plot a new way out for the Kuomintang and for himself.
This new way out is to retreat to Taiwan.
In fact, Chiang Kai-shek had already planned this retreat in his mind, and in order to consolidate his rule, he issued a final decree appointing Chen Cheng as chairman of Taiwan Province long before he left the wilderness.
Temporary
Chen Cheng was Chiang Kai-shek's confidant.
When Chiang Kai-shek first saw Chen Cheng, he thought that this person could be of great use, and quickly promoted him to the rank of major artillery captain, and then he was even more successful and prosperous all the way to the top level of the Kuomintang, and once had the title of "small committee chairman".
Therefore, when Chiang Kai-shek sent Chen Cheng to Taiwan, many people within the Kuomintang already understood Chiang Kai-shek's plan and began to secretly prepare their own luggage, just waiting for the south.
Although Chiang Kai-shek had arranged a retreat early, Chiang Kai-shek was unwilling!
Before being forced to go south, Chiang Kai-shek once thought about overturning the market, but failed every time.
In desperation, Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to secretly plot taiwan affairs and began to cause frequent trouble for the mainland.
First of all, he vigorously excavated intellectuals in Beiping, Shanghai and other places, and used the high-ranking official Houlu to lure these people to follow him to Taiwan.
Fortunately, most intellectuals were not overwhelmed by such low-level sugar-coated shells, strengthened their ideals and beliefs, and stayed on the mainland.
Subsequently, Chiang Kai-shek began to excavate the core figures of the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and brought them to Taiwan in an attempt to prove his orthodox status in case the subsequent counter-offensive division became famous.
However, one of Chiang Kai-shek's most heartbroken practices was to issue a large number of gold yuan coupons in Nanjing and other areas, and forced the masses and enterprises to use the gold yuan coupons.
It was through this means that Chiang Kai-shek squeezed the last drop of blood of the middle class and snatched a large amount of gold jewelry worth hundreds of millions of yuan.
Some people may want to ask Chiang Kai-shek why he is so crazy?
In fact, Chiang Kai-shek's move was not only to bring huge hidden dangers to the mainland's economic system, but more importantly, through this huge wealth, it was able to ensure that after the Kuomintang arrived in Taiwan, it could firmly control Taiwan's economic lifeline.
We all know that the economy is the material foundation of everything, and Chiang Kai-shek is well aware of this, and he wants to use this money to rebuild the Kuomintang's monetary system in Taiwan and to increase his rule in this way.
Obviously, Chiang Kai-shek achieved his goal.
Therefore, the first thing Chiang Kai-shek did after coming to Taiwan was to set up a village.
Even in Taiwan, it can be said that he died twice, and all this is deeply related to a series of operations after Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Taiwan.
And these are the so-called Taiwan's past events, the memories of that era.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="34" > second, the intensification of contradictions - the establishment of "villages"</h1>
Chiang Kai-shek has always been a man who is very good at infighting, after all, as early as the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he made the famous remark that "the outside must first be at home."
Under such an understanding, Chiang Kai-shek, who came to Taiwan, unexpectedly continued to engage in his old profession and infighting.
Suddenly, friction between people from other provinces and people from other provinces inevitably arose, and many people in the weak provinces were very panicked.
Faced with such a situation, as long as some "defensive talents" monarchs should think of appeasing the psychological conditions of the people in the province and speeding up the integration process between the two sides.
But Chiang Kai-shek did not do this, and he and the Kuomintang personnel under his leadership naturally carried a sense of superiority, believing that the native inhabitants of the island were backward and ignorant.
The so-called dependent village is the place where people from other provinces from the mainland live and live, they are a region of their own, they never communicate with the people in the province, in their hearts, they are just a passerby, after all, they want to follow Jiang Gong back to the mainland.
I have to say that Chiang Kai-shek's overconfidence is really killing people, and at this time, there are still people trying to counterattack the mainland, of course, this may be related to Chiang Kai-shek's own desire to return to the mainland.
Because of the establishment of the village, the province and outsiders missed the best opportunity for the first integration, and the two sides maintained absolute martial law at physical distance.
If it is only martial law in distance, what is even more dangerous is the ideological confrontation between the two sides.
The sense of superiority of the Kuomintang and his entourage made them not try to take the initiative to exchange cultural and ideological exchanges with the native residents of the island, and spread some advanced culture and ideology to them, and in the eyes of the locals, these people were always dangerous elements occupying the magpie's nest, and the ideological confrontation between the two sides gradually escalated.
But what fueled this antagonism was Chiang Kai-shek's one-sided unfair bill.
In these bills, Chiang Kai-shek unconditionally favored people outside the province, whether joining the army or participating in politics or in the treatment of citizens, the gap between inside and outside the province was very obvious.
Data show that in the decades of Chiang Kai-shek's rule, as many as a few thousand local Taiwanese residents were innocently killed, and in the 1956 Taiwan civil service examination, the admission rate of the province's people was as low as a pitiful 0.061%.
Even in the 1960s, the proportion of Taiwanese-born officers in the military was only 13.8 percent of the overall number of lieutenants, and the proportion of general officers was even less than 2 percent, and among these people, a considerable proportion of them were children born after the integration of people from other provinces and provinces.
Through this series of data, it is not difficult for us to see that the Kuomintang at that time was very strong in its opposition in Taiwan, and with the support of Chiang Kai-shek, this confrontation did not achieve any effective improvement.
At this time, the core view within the Kuomintang was that sooner or later we would have to attack the mainland, and Taiwan had nothing to do with it.
Because of the prevalence of this argument, the Kuomintang has always ignored the dissatisfaction of people in the province and the drastic social changes that this contradiction will trigger.
But will the Communist Party give the Kuomintang this opportunity? The answer is clearly no.
At this time, under the leadership of the Communist Party, the mainland has gradually moved toward self-reliance and self-reliance, and Chairman Mao's phrase "fight with one punch to avoid a hundred fists coming" and China's victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea have given China its own right to speak in the world, and the illusions of the Kuomintang will eventually be shattered.
Chiang Kai-shek finally realized completely that from the moment he chose to flee the mainland, his defeat was already predestined, and the morale of the Kuomintang suffered an unprecedented blow.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="57" >3, Jiangnan Case - The Complete Collapse of the Chiang Family Dynasty</h1>
Chiang Kai-shek knew that the general trend was gone, and at this time he could not bear to work hard for the Kuomintang, and was bent on how to let his child Chiang Ching-kuo succeed smoothly, because at this time, the struggle within the Kuomintang began to heat up again.
Chiang Kai-shek was full of thoughts of letting his children inherit his position and take charge of the Kuomintang, but Chen Cheng, a confidant he had sent to Taiwan before, now had his own ideas.
In his view, he was a meritorious minister who allowed the Kuomintang to successfully escape to Taiwan, and whether it was strength or seniority, he should take over Chiang Kai-shek's post, and it was time to remove a small word from the title of "little chairman."
As a result, the factional struggle between the two sides was on the verge of breaking out.
In 1975, when Chiang Kai-shek died, what was staged in front of Chiang Kai-shek's coffin was not fatherly kindness and filial piety nor weeping, but a hair-trigger battle for the throne, and the air was filled with not the smell of incense but the smoke of gunfire.
Fortunately, Chiang Kai-shek's supporters were as powerful as ever, and with the full support of Chiang Kai-shek's other confidants, Chiang Ching-kuo pretended to let Xian xian and successfully took over the position handed down from his father.
Although Chiang Ching-kuo, who was supported by Chiang Kai-shek, still had two brushes in the economy, under his leadership, the economy of the Taiwan region ushered in a high-speed leap forward, and was once known as one of the "Four Asian Tigers".
But politically, Chiang Ching-kuo's methods can be said to be very immature, and it is precisely because of his negligence that the fierce counterattack from the people in the province began.
It turned out that in the decades under the rule of the Kuomintang, although the people in Taiwan Province were greatly suppressed, a group of people still climbed up to the high places of the military political stage on the island step by step and began to compete with the Kuomintang.
When Chiang Kai-shek died, this situation became more obvious, and in order to fight for further rights and interests, many people in the province also began to demonstrate and protest, and the slogan of democracy and freedom resounded over the island.
In the course of the demonstrations, there was a bloodshed, and Chiang Ching-kuo, as the ruler of the Kuomintang, did not curb this trend in time; on the contrary, he began to promote the democratization of Taiwan and advocated a pluralistic political situation on the island, which was tantamount to digging his own grave.
Under such connivance, the DEMOCRATIC Progressive Party and other parties began to grow in Taiwan, and the KMT's influence and dominance on the island declined year after year.
An assassination case completely ruined the Hopes of the Kuomintang.
This assassination case is the Gangnam case.
Jiang Nan, a Chinese-American writer whose real name is Liu Yiliang, was represented as a biography of Chiang Ching-kuo before his death, and it was this article that made him lose his life.
It turned out that Liu Yiliang was originally from Jiangsu, and later followed the Kuomintang to Taiwan, and then went to the United States to study, serving as an FBI informant in the United States, and was a famous three-sided spy.
During his time in the United States, he began to use the pseudonym Jiangnan to expose a large number of shady scenes of the Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek father and son, which once caused great repercussions.
However, looking at the face of the Americans, the Taiwan authorities have temporarily endured Liu Yiliang's various behaviors.
It wasn't until Liu Yiliang decided to publish a biography of Chiang Ching-kuo that this article more bluntly exposed the dark tactics of Chiang Ching-kuo and others, involving a large number of scandalous anecdotes at the top of the Kuomintang.
Therefore, when Chiang Ching-kuo learned of this, he first chose to use a large amount of money to make Liu Yiliang seal his mouth and delete a large number of unfavorable words against the Kuomintang, and the other side initially agreed to this practice.
But later, when the book was published, the KMT top brass found that there were still large sections of unfavorable remarks against the KMT, which were extremely unfavorable to the Chiang family's rule in Taiwan.
Liu Yiliang's approach successfully angered the top Kuomintang officials, led by Chiang Ching-kuo.
On October 15, 1984, Liu Yiliang was shot and killed in a garage on the outskirts of San Francisco.
Liu Yiliang
The US high-level is furious, Liu Yiliang, as a US citizen, provides a lot of intelligence for the US FBI, and now that he is dead, he naturally has to be traced to the end.
Therefore, under the dual pressure of the Taiwan people and the United States, Chiang Ching-kuo bitterly promised that the descendants of the Chiang family would no longer hold the core positions of the Kuomintang, ruining the political career of his carefully cultivated child, Jiang Xiaowu, and the Collapse of the Chiang family dynasty.
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After the collapse of the Jiang family dynasty, the trees soon fell and scattered, and this large family that had once had hundreds of people could finally be said to have ended up in a white expanse and the earth was really clean.
Among them, the fate of Chiang Kai-shek's three grandsons and Chiang Ching-kuo's three sons is very tragic.
Jiang Xiaowen, the eldest grandson of the Jiang family, lived in the glory of the Jiang family since he was born, and he did not assume his due responsibilities as the family expected, but blindly ate, drank, and played, indulging in misconduct.
Jiang Xiaowen
How high Chiang Ching-kuo's expectations for this child were, how disappointed he was afterwards.
However, Chiang Kai-shek still very much loved this eldest grandson, and in Chiang Kai-shek's view, Jiang Xiaowen, who liked to play with guns, still had some ability.
It was this connivance that made Jiang Xiaowen a big mistake, once when playing with guns, the guard next to him dissuaded Jiang Xiaowen from playing casually, it was easy to get angry, and as soon as the words fell, the guards were shot to the ground, although after full rescue and treatment, they saved a life, but they fell into a lifelong asthma problem.
Jiang Xiaowen, on the other hand, slipped away to the United States under the protection of his family.
Later, when Chiang Ching-kuo announced that the Chiang clan members not only held the posts of the Kuomintang, Jiang Xiaowen was completely dead hearted and completely indulged.
In the end, Jiang Xiaowen played with himself at the age of 54, and coincidentally, the cause of his final death was throat cancer, which had to make people believe that everything had its own retribution.
Chiang Kai-shek's second grandson was Chiang Hsiao-wu, who was also Chiang Ching-kuo's all-out successor.
Although he tried to build his prestige under his father's cultivation, unfortunately, his ability was so inferior to that of his fathers that Chiang Ching-kuo could only reluctantly place him at the radio station at the beginning.
Later, with the fermentation of the south bank of the river, Jiang Xiaowu completely disqualified from entering the political stage, although his father deliberately arranged him to Singapore, but Jiang Xiaowu was already deeply hit, completely devastated, depressed, and finally died of rapid heart failure, at the age of 46.
Jiang Xiaowu
Chiang Kai-shek's third grandson was named Jiang Xiaoyong, and unlike his two older brothers, Jiang Xiaoyong had always concentrated on business activities and had a very pleasant life at the beginning.
He had to retreat in a hurry and move his family to the United States to escape the disaster.
Despite this, in the end, Jiang Xiaoyong did not live past the age of 50, and died of illness at the age of 49.