preface
With the People's Liberation Army liberating the mainland of the motherland in 1949, Chiang Lao had to return to Taiwan with the remnants and live on a small isolated island to plot his own plan to return to the mainland.
But for a variety of reasons, its plan was on the verge of being broken. In addition, Lao Jiang is getting older, and he misses the customs and customs of his hometown more and more.
So in 1965, he took the initiative to propose to Premier Zhou that he had the idea of returning to the mainland, but only if Chairman Mao agreed to six conditions.
It is said that Chairman Mao readily agreed for the sake of the overall situation.
But why has Taiwan not returned to this day? What conditions did Lao Jiang put forward?
Change policy
In the early days of our founding, we were still a very inconspicuous country, and the outbreak of the Korean War could be said to have made our newly liberated country worse.
But Chairman Mao felt that this was a new opportunity, and if we seized it, we could also establish ourselves in the world.
So when North Korea asked us for help, Chairman Mao agreed without thinking.
And Taiwan's affairs were also put on hold for this reason, but Lao Chiang was "thief-hearted" at that time, and still wanted to use this to buy Americans and take the opportunity to deal a fatal blow to Chairman Mao.
But often the imagination is very full, the reality is very skinny, and Lao Jiang's "ambition" has not been realized after all.
Later, Chairman Mao felt that force alone could not solve the problem, and immediately advocated that peace should be valued, and using the principle of "combining force with peace" to propose to return Taiwan to the embrace of the motherland through negotiation.
Therefore, Zhang Shizhao, as a deadly democrat who had participated in the Peiping peace negotiations, took the initiative to go to Hong Kong to negotiate with Lao Chiang, contribute to the "KMT-CPC talks", and strive to let Taiwan return to the country as soon as possible.
In addition, Chairman Mao had this intention at that time, so he agreed to Zhang Shizhao's request.
Inquire about the news
Old Jiang is also a smart man, plus Zhang Shizhao also specially asked him to bring a letter before he came.
So needless to say, Lao Jiang can also see a trace of our sincerity.
However, there were still some hesitations about Chiang Kai-shek's return to the interior.
After all, when the mainland was first established, he still wanted to turn over against the wind.
But faced with such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Lao Jiang did not want to give up. So he sent his disciple Song Yishan to Beiping to see what the central government wanted to do.
However, Song Yishan went to Beijing in the name of visiting relatives, probably to keep a low profile.
In addition, his cousin Song Xilian was captured during the Liberation War, so Song Yishan came under the pretext of seeing his cousin.
In April 1957, Premier Zhou also warmly received Song Yishan, and after some conversation, both sides were very satisfied, and Song Yishan also indicated the purpose of his visit.
So after returning to Hong Kong, he wrote a report of tens of thousands of words and handed it to Chiang Kai-shek, because after talking and observing Premier Zhou, he completely dispelled some doubts in his heart.
He Chengxiang was very dissatisfied after seeing it, because half of Song Yishan's report was praising the development status of the mainland. Therefore, Lao Jiang felt that this was not the best time for negotiations, and planned to wait a little longer.
Six unreasonable demands
Li Zongren, acting president of the Kuomintang government, returned to the mainland in 1965, and Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou, Liu Shaoqi and many other important state leaders came to receive and attach great importance to him.
As a result, the vinegar jar was overturned after Old Jiang saw it, because his status was higher than Li Zongren, so seeing Li Zongren enjoying such treatment, he could no longer sit still.
So in July of the same year, Lao Jiang secretly met with Cao Juren.
In everyone's eyes, he may just be a small reporter. But in fact, Cao Juren had many friends in the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, such as Zhou Enlai and Chiang Kai-shek, with whom he had a good relationship.
If he were to be appointed as a "messenger of peace" between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, it would be fitting because, after all, Cao Juren was still a democrat.
It is said that when Cao Juren came to see Lao Jiang, he also brought "Linjiang Immortal" written by Chairman Mao himself.
Later, after seeing it, the elder Jiang made it clear that he wanted Chairman Mao to agree to his six conditions, so that he would be willing to return to the mainland.
The six conditions are:
1. The president of the Kuomintang still holds the position of Chiang Kai-shek, and can settle in any province or region other than Zhejiang Province.
2. Taiwan is not allowed to accept U.S. aid, and if it encounters financial difficulties, it needs to be covered by the mainland's help.
3. The Taiwan Air Force and the People's Liberation Army are merged and are under the unified command and control of Beijing.
4. After Taiwan's return, official positions and the lives of ordinary people in Taiwan may only be raised and not reduced.
5. As a buffer and liaison area between the mainland and Taipei, Xiamen and Kinmen should be merged into a free city.
6. The governor of Taiwan Province should be his eldest son, Chiang Ching-kuo.
In this way, these conditions are indeed very tricky, but compared with Taiwan's return, they are nothing.
Chairman Mao also said after hearing this:
"Old Jiang is really smart!"
He then agreed to all six of Chiang Kai-shek's conditions, and Chairman Mao is said to have given Chiang Kai-shek an office or residence.
However, this is not a formal negotiation, but a secret talk.
As a result, in 1966, history entered a special decade, which brought about major changes in the form of the mainland, and Lao Jiang once again repented because of his indecisive character.
Later, Zhang Shizhao was going to go to Hong Kong again in May 1973 to negotiate. As a result, he fell ill just one month after arriving in Hong Kong and later died on July 1 of the same year.
Then the responsibility fell on the 75-year-old Chen Lifu, who also conveyed to us through secret channels around 1975 that Chiang Lao wanted to invite Chairman Mao to Taiwan for negotiations.
Later, in order to show its sincerity in negotiation, the mainland also released 293 war criminals and 95 US and Chiang operatives in 1975.
As a result, before Chairman Mao could leave, Chiang Kai-shek died in April of the same year, followed by Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou.
But it is no exaggeration to say that at that time, the distance between Lao Jiang and the mainland was only the last step, but unfortunately history did not give this generation a chance.
summary
It is said that at that time, in order to express his willingness to hold peace talks, Chen Lifu also wrote an article in a Hong Kong newspaper entitled "I am Chairman Mao," hoping to invite Premier Zhou and Chairman Mao to visit Taiwan.
The 1965 negotiations can be said to be the closest thing that the two sides of the strait are close to peaceful reunification, and they are also the highest conditions that the mainland can accept.
Until today, 58 years have passed since the incident, and now the mainland's conditions in all aspects have surpassed Taiwan, so if there is peaceful reunification, it may not agree to such high conditions again.
And the old Jiang's wish before his death was to return to the roots, and the descendants of the Jiang family have always wanted to bring the coffin back to their hometown, but unfortunately, the Jiang family dynasty has disappeared in the long river of history, and this wish has never been realized.