Sometimes it is quite interesting to think about Chiang Kai-shek, who has always had good respect for literati and politicians, but there are two heavyweight literati in the Kuomintang who are scolded to death by him, one is Chen Bray, who is known as "Wen Bi", and the other is "Iron Elder" Wu Tiecheng, and what happens even more coincidentally is that after these two people were scolded by Chiang Kai-shek, they all took sleeping pills when they returned home and did not wake up.
<h1>Iron shoulders bear morality, and Wu Tiecheng's righteousness towards Chiang Kai-shek</h1>
Born in 1888 in Xiangshan, Guangdong Province, Wu Tiecheng studied at the Jiujiang Tongwen Academy in Jiangxi in his early years, and joined the League, after the Wuchang Uprising in 1911, he went to Nanjing as a representative of Jiangxi to participate in the formation of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China, because he was a fellow villager with Dr. Sun Yat-sen, so he was left by Sun Yat-sen to work.
What kind of existence is Wu Tiecheng, a Kuomintang elder who died of anger because of his confrontation with Chiang Kai-shek?
When Sun Yat-sen established the Guangzhou revolutionary base area, Wu Tiecheng has always followed the left and right, from the Grand Marshal's Office to join the army once to achieve the post of guangzhou city chief of the city, is not a simple person, many people may think, guangzhou city chief what is great, to know that at that time the revolutionary base area was only in Guangzhou, the guangzhou city public security bureau chief was equivalent to the commander of the Gyeonggi garrison, in the pacification of the Guangzhou merchant rebellion and the eastern crusade Chen Jiongming, Wu Tiecheng played a huge role.
It was precisely because of Wu Tiecheng's strength that Chiang Kai-shek, who was also quite valued by Sun Yat-sen at that time, also hoped to win him over, and it was obvious that Wu Tiecheng and Chiang Kai-shek had ideological consistency and were not active in Sun Yat-sen's policy of "uniting with Russia, uniting with the Communist Party, and supporting peasants and workers."
With the basis of cooperation, the two men once became brothers in the trenches, when Chiang Kai-shek was founding the Whampoa Military Academy, often fell into a situation of financial difficulties, Wu Tiecheng often through various ways for the Whampoa Military Academy to get some "special funds", the old Chiang Kai-shek was quite moved.
In the subsequent "Zhongshan Ship Incident", when he wanted to show his skills, he was arrested by Chiang Kai-shek, and it turned out that after Chiang Kai-shek launched the Zhongshan Ship Incident, he was opposed by many factions in the Kuomintang, and Chiang Kai-shek did not want to make things bigger, so he let the "heavyweight" Wu Tiecheng carry the pot.
During his detention, Wu Tiecheng never betrayed Chiang Kai-shek.
After the storm passed, Chiang Kai-shek reactivated Wu Tiecheng, which shows that Chiang Kai-shek is not the lord who turns his face and does not recognize people, but is still quite interesting to Wu Tiecheng.
<h1>He persuaded Zhang Xueliang to change the banner and help Chiang Kai-shek complete reunification</h1>
In 1928, Chiang Kai-shek began the second phase of the Northern Expedition, fengshi was defeated, Zhang Zuolin decided to retreat to Shanhaiguan, hoping to slowly try again in the event of internal turmoil in the Kuomintang, but what was shocking was that Zhang Zuolin was actually killed by the Japanese on the way back, and through a brief struggle within the Fengshi, Zhang Xueliang won power in the northeast.
At that time, the situation in the northeast was very complicated, and the Bong clan had to face both the eyes of the Japanese and Russian empires and the oppression from the National Revolutionary Army in Guannei.
Faced with such a situation in the northeast, Chiang Kai-shek sent Wu Tiecheng to the northeast to persuade Zhang Xueliang to submit to the National Government in Nanjing, Wu Tiecheng was a typical cannon, known for its three-inch tongue, and after arriving in the northeast, he gave Zhang Xueliang a "speech therapy." After continuous negotiations, Zhang Xueliang agreed to change the flag and change the banner, so that Chiang Kai-shek did not spend a single soldier and completed the formal reunification of the whole country.
Since then, Wu Tiecheng has been acting as a messenger for Chiang Kai-shek and the northeast, and Wu Tiecheng once said that "if you don't go to the northeast, you don't know the breadth of China; if you don't go to the northeast, you don't know about China's crisis.", which is simply to Zhang Xueliang.
In Zhang Xueliang's act of changing the flag and changing the banner, Wu Tiecheng's role was undoubtedly enormous, quite a bit of Zhuge Liang's persuasion of Sun Quan to join forces with Liu Kangcao.
<h1>The Great War in the Central Plains co-opted Zhang Xueliang and boosted Chiang Kai-shek to the peak</h1>
Although Chiang Kai-shek completed the formal unification of the whole country under the circumstance that Zhang Xueliang changed the banner and changed the banner, in essence it was still a little bit less interesting, and many powerful local factions in the Kuomintang at that time obeyed Chiang Kai-shek.
Among them, the more powerful local factions all had the idea of replacing Chiang Kai-shek, including Feng Yuxiang of the Northwest Army, Yan Xishan of the Jin Sui Army, Li Zongren of the New Gui Clan, Bai Chongxi and other new warlords; when the Central Plains War broke out in 1930, Chiang Kai-shek single-handedly opposed the anti-Chiang Kai-shek alliance, although Chiang Kai-shek already had a certain military advantage, but on the whole the two sides were still in the stage of confrontation, and at this time Zhang Xueliang, who had 300,000 northeast troops, became the object of chiang kai-shek's co-optation with the anti-Chiang kai-shek faction.
For a time, Zhang Xueliang became a fragrant feast, the forces from all sides tried their best to win over, the Central Plains battlefield rose and fell, and Zhang Xueliang's wine table was full of representatives of Chiang Kai-shek, Yan, and Feng forces.
At that time, the Northeast Army was killed because of Zhang Zuolin, internal contradictions widened, and the relationship between the Northeast Army and Japan was also tense, so many generals opposed the Northeast Army's participation in the civil war.
Wu Tiecheng was very good at analyzing the situation, there was no deal that could not be negotiated, only a price that could not be negotiated, and in order for Zhang Xueliang to promise to help Chiang Kai-shek, Wu Tiecheng obtained a huge amount of money from Chiang Kai-shek to buy Zhang Xueliang.
In addition to bribing Zhang Xueliang, Wu Tiecheng also understands the political situation in the northeast, nothing more than the dispute between the new faction and the old faction, no matter which faction, Wu Tiecheng will treat it all, the money is on the line, everything is good, the character of our northeasterners is like this, as long as the money is in place, the glass ballast is all dried up.
Zhang Xueliang himself was soft-eared, had no opinion, and everyone around him said good things for Chiang Kai-shek, plus Zhang Xueliang himself had no good feelings for Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan, and finally decided to enter the customs for "armed mediation."
As a result, Chiang Kai-shek completely established his authority in the whole country and consolidated his ruling position, and in this process, Wu Tiecheng's role as a link can still not be underestimated.
<h1>Why can Wu Tiecheng be called "Iron Elder" within the Kuomintang</h1>?
It is easy to mix an official in the Kuomintang, and it is more difficult to mix an "old" than to ascend to heaven, and Wu Tiecheng's seniority in the Kuomintang has definitely not reached the same level as these "old people" who are right-handed, and the most important thing is that he can do things, be good at communication, and be able to get to know more people.
Coupled with his help and loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek, Wu Tiecheng's status within the Kuomintang gradually improved.
After the Central Plains War, Wu Tiecheng was appointed mayor of Shanghai and became a veritable local official in the Kuomintang.
However, Wu Tiecheng was a bit unlucky, and just after taking office, there was a 128 War of Resistance, and Wu Tiecheng was suddenly pushed to the cusp of the storm.
Because of his resolute implementation of Chiang Kai-shek's policy of non-resistance, he signed the "Songhu Armistice Agreement" with Japan and was beaten by patriots.
After the end of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, Wu Tiecheng continued to serve as the mayor of Shanghai, and under Wu Tiecheng's governance, Shanghai had developed into the most developed city in China before the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, Wu Tiecheng became the secretary general of the Kuomintang Central Committee in 1941, and it should be known that the first secretary general was Chen Lifu, equivalent to the great steward of the Kuomintang.
It was not until 1948 that Wu Tiecheng was dismissed by Chiang Kai-shek, and Wu Tiecheng held this position for eight years, so he was frankly worthy of the title of "Iron Elder".
<h1>Because he bumped into Chiang Kai-shek, he was angrily scolded and died! </h1>
With Wu Tiecheng's contribution to Chiang Kai-shek and his position in the Nationalist government, Wu Tiecheng's political career can be described as smooth sailing, but with the kuomintang's gradual defeat and retreat on the battlefield of liberation, Wu Tiecheng was also implicated in the partisan struggle.
In 1948, the new Gui clan united with the United States to force Chiang Kai-shek to go to the field, Wu Tiecheng, as the iron rod of Chiang Kai-shek, should have sided with Chiang Kai-shek, Wu Tiecheng received the influence of Stuart Redden at that time, believing that if the Kuomintang wanted to get the assistance of the United States, Chiang Kai-shek had to go abroad and give up his position.
The bad thing is that Wu Tiecheng actually thought that Situ Leiden was right, so he persuaded the old Chiang Kai-shek to hand over real power as soon as possible, which was regarded by Chiang Kai-shek as a betrayal of Wu Tiecheng to himself, so he dismissed Wu Tiecheng from the post of secretary general of the Central Committee.
In 1949, Wu Tiecheng withdrew to Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek did not give up on him, gave a senior title to prepare for the pension in Taiwan, and also put up a style of relying on the old and selling the old, when Wang Shijie, secretary general of the Presidential Office, was dismissed from his post for exonerating old Chiang Kai-shek, and Wu Tiecheng, as Wang Shijie's friend, was bound to go to Chiang Kai-shek to reminisce about the past and intercede for Wang Shijie.
If this had happened before forcing Chiang Kai-shek to go to the wilderness, perhaps Chiang Kai-shek would have really sold his face, but Chiang Kai-shek had not forgotten the fact that he had joined forces with the New Gui clan to force him to go to the wilderness, and Wu Tiecheng had a confrontation with Chiang Kai-shek.
After Chiang Kai-shek's defeat in Taiwan, he thought about how he had failed every day and never thought about how he had reached the peak, so he directly scolded Wu Tiecheng with a bloody head and even dropped the teacup.
The reason why "Iron Old" is called "Iron Old", how big a qualification is it, where has been so angry, back home tossing and turning, the result is to take three sleeping pills at night, never to get up again.
It can be seen from this that if Chiang Kai-shek were to float up niang Xipi, Wu Tiecheng would also be scolded!