#暑期创作大赛 #
In 1936, young marshal Zhang Xueliang was 36 years old, the most crucial year of change in China's modern history, and the Xi'an Incident quickly put China on the road of resistance against Japan and salvation.
Zhang Xueliang personally sent Chiang Kai-shek back to Nanjing alone, but since then he has been imprisoned for a lifetime, under the system of the Kuomintang, unable to freely appear and move in public, only through very limited channels and opportunities to contact the outside world, the once spirited young marshal has since become a voiceless person.
He was sentenced to more than 50 years of "not guilty" by the Kuomintang government, and by 1988, this legendary figure who was claimed by the Kuomintang as "absolutely unlimited freedom", but he had appeared in public less than ten times, and even Song Meiling, who had a very strong relationship with Zhang Xueliang, said many times that they were sorry for Zhang Xueliang.
On December 30, 1936, the Kuomintang set up a special court with Li Liejun as the presiding judge, and conducted a military trial against Zhang Xueliang, who had just escorted Chairman Jiang back to Nanjing, and the next day he was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, seized public power for five years, and stripped of various positions, and was immediately sent to the Kong Xiangxi Mansion in Nanjing for imprisonment.
However, on January 4, 1937, the Kuomintang government issued a special amnesty decree, emphasizing that "Zhang Xueliang's sentence of 10 years in prison is specially pardoned."
However, the amnesty decree stressed that Zhang Xueliang needed to be "strictly controlled" by the military commission of the Kuomintang government, and Zhang Xueliang was immediately transferred to Jiang Zhongzheng's hometown in January, and Xikou Town, Fenghua County, Zhejiang Province, was officially imprisoned, which determined Zhang Xueliang's fate in this life.
It stands to reason that five years of strict discipline should pass in a blink of an eye, and Zhang Xueliang's civil rights are far less important in the eyes of those in power than suppressing his influence and punishing his actions.
Zhang Xueliang's place of imprisonment was moved from Fenghua to Anhui, Jiangxi Pingxiang, Hunan, and Guiyang. Zhang Xueliang began to study the history of the Ming Dynasty, and Miss Zhao Si also came to Guiyang from Hong Kong to accompany Zhang Xueliang in 1940, and began a lifelong acquaintance and cherished life between the two, and then because of the Japanese invasion, he was transferred to Tongzi County, Guizhou.
It was not until April 1946, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, that Zhang Xueliang was able to go to Guiyang for the first time, and after many years, he met with the father and son of General Jieshi and Chiang Ching-kuo again, but in November of the same year, he was sent to Caoshan, Taipei, Taiwan, and then transferred to Inoue Hot Springs, Hsinchu, and began his career as a young marshal in Taiwan.
In response to a question from relevant people about why Zhang Xueliang was not allowed to go free, Chiang Kai-shek only said that his purpose in imprisoning Zhang Xueliang was to "love and protect Zhang Xueliang."
Zhang Xueliang, who came to Taiwan in 1946, naturally experienced the "February 28 Incident" that occurred in Taiwan in 1947; Zhang Xueliang was in the mountains, and for a time lost contact with the outside world, and could only eat potato wrapped in belly, and it took about 10 days for Kuomintang troops to visit.
In October of the same year, Zhang Zhizhong secretly took the opportunity of a vacation in Taiwan to visit Chiang Kai-shek, and Zhang Xueliang expressed his hope that Chiang Kai-shek would return his request for freedom as soon as possible, and he wanted nothing else.
In fact, after more than ten years of imprisonment, Zhang Shaoshuai, who was radiant when he was young, only said that he only wanted to go to the university to explain the history of Ming, or to become a researcher at the Academia Sinica, so he gave a poem to Mo Dehui, saying that he "After the rest of my life, the only thing I want to study."
However, Chiang Kai-shek did not accept Zhang Xueliang's request, and even strengthened his control over Zhang Xueliang, and in the future, no one was allowed to see Zhang Xueliang except with his personal approval.
Even though Chiang Kai-shek left the field in 1948 and acting President Li Zongren ordered and sent people to immediately release Zhang Xueliang, Zhang Xueliang's imprisonment had always been handled by the Military Statistics Bureau, and without Chiang Kai-shek's order, any order would not be effective at all.
Therefore, Zhang Xueliang's illegal imprisonment continued, and Zhang Xueliang was transferred to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang, and then moved to Caoshan, which was close to Taipei. In addition to the fact that the bodyguards must record Zhang Xueliang's news and conversations every day, Zhang Xueliang's food must be inspected by the guards before it can be eaten.
In fact, during this period of captivity with dense secret agents, Zhang Xueliang still read newspapers and books as a pastime to pass the time, and also set up the desire to study Ming history, which was quite different from his military career in that year.
In his later years, he also said that studying the history of the Ming was one of a series of plans, hoping to study the history of the Republic of China from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and then to understand the reasons why China accumulated shortcomings and was bullied by the great powers.
Even in 1954, he wrote a 200,000-word "self-examination report," which was finally deleted and published in more than 5,000 words, which was still described by the Kuomintang establishment as "unruly" and "wanting to settle old accounts."
On the other hand, under the guidance of Chiang Kai-shek's English teachers Dong Xianguang and Zeng Yonong, Zhang Xueliang began to contact theology in 1955 and embraced Christianity, so he broke off his ambition to continue his research.
During this time, it is said that Zhang Xueliang also used metaphors to express his deep desire for freedom. In September 1957, he took advantage of Chiang Kai-shek's 70th birthday to give Chiang Kai-shek a watch, which meant that too much time had passed, and Chiang Kai-shek actually gave a "walking stick" in return, which already showed that Chiang Kai-shek had made up his mind and wanted to imprison him for life.