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When Lao Jiang learned of Mao Anying's sacrifice, he actually summoned his son Jiang Jingguo late at night to have a long talk, which was quite a kind of "you look at other people's children".
The reason why this is so is that Jiang Jingguo learned of Mao Anying's sacrifice, but he did not react and was indifferent.
So what did Lao Jiang say to Xiao Jiang? What did Xiao Jiang feel after hearing this? Why was he indifferent to Mao Anying's death?
The father and son of the Jiang family learned that Mao Anying had died
Chiang Kai-shek and Chairman Mao, as the greatest rivals among China's modern political leaders, will inevitably be compared in various aspects.
Of course, the descendants of the two are naturally also compared.
When the news of Mao Anying's sacrifice on the Korean battlefield reached Lao Jiang's ears, Lao Jiang was suddenly full of emotion in his heart.
On this day, Chiang Ching-kuo, as usual, came to greet Chiang Kai-shek and report to his work, but Chiang Kai-shek was obviously not in a state and did not listen very carefully, but asked Chiang Ching-kuo coldly:
"Do you know that Mao Anying, Mao Zedong's son, was killed on the battlefield in North Korea?"
Jiang Jingguo's face did not have any expression, he just nodded to indicate that he knew about it.
Chiang Kai-shek was a little puzzled by Chiang Ching-kuo's calm reaction, because even he himself, who had seen strong winds and waves, felt very unbelievable when he learned that Chairman Mao was willing to send his own son to the battlefield and died in battle, why did his son seem so calm?
As if to see Chiang Kai-shek's doubts, Chiang Ching-kuo explained:
"Father, it's normal for people to die on the battlefield, you don't have to worry about it. ”
After hearing this, Chiang Kai-shek was silent for a moment and then asked: "Did you know Mao Anying when you were studying in the Soviet Union? ”
Chiang Ching-kuo still didn't see any expression on his face, as if he was just talking about an irrelevant stranger, and replied in a cold tone:
"I don't know, I returned to China at the beginning of 1937, but he only came to the Soviet Union at the end of 1937, and we didn't meet. ”
When Chiang Kai-shek heard this, he was speechless for a while, and his heart was even more mixed.
After many years of studying his old rival Chairman Mao, he couldn't help but think of the poem that Chairman Mao wrote when he decided to leave his hometown in 1910 and go out:
"The child is determined to go out of the countryside, and he vows not to return if he can't learn to become famous. Why bury bones, there are green mountains everywhere in life. ”
It was precisely with the ambition to seek happiness for the poor people of the whole world and the courage not to be afraid of sacrifice that Chairman Mao succeeded in single-handedly creating New China and making the entire Chinese people stand up.
And his most important eldest son, Mao Anying, has always taken Chairman Mao as an example, followed Chairman Mao's footsteps, and embarked on the revolutionary road.
Mao Anying has asked herself countless times in her diary:
"As Mao Zedong's son, am I qualified?"
In order to be worthy of being Chairman Mao's son, when Mao Anying was studying in the Soviet Union, he took the initiative to go to the battlefield of World War II to fight against the German fascist invaders.
After returning to China, when the country decided to resist US aggression and aid Korea to guard the northeast border, he insisted on going to the front line despite everyone's obstruction, and also took the initiative to ask Mr. Peng, who was the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army, to fight.
Although Mr. Peng was unwilling to let Mao Anying take this risk, Chairman Mao admired his son's courage very much, and also took the initiative to persuade Mr. Peng:
"You just accept him! Who calls him my son of Mao Zedong, and who will go if he doesn't go? If I only send other people's sons to the battlefield, but my own son does not send him to the battlefield, how can I be qualified to assume the position of leader?"
In this way, Mao Anying became the first volunteer of the first Chinese People's Volunteer Army.
Before leaving, Mao Anying also mustered up the courage to ask Chairman Mao:
"Am I qualified as your son?"
Chairman Mao did not answer directly, but told him with a smile in his eyes:
"This is a question that Dad will tell you when you come back from the Korean battlefield. ”
But who would have expected that this farewell would be the last farewell of the father and son.
Before Mao Anying could return to China in triumph, he heard the answer from his father Chairman Mao and died forever on the Korean battlefield.
Before his death, he was still trying his best to salvage several important military documents.
Knowing that Mao Anying sacrificed, although Chairman Mao's heart was broken and his eyes were red, in order not to make the people around him worry and sad, he still fought hard to comfort everyone and said:
"War, there are always deaths... So many people's children have died on the battlefield, and Anying is just an ordinary soldier, don't take it as a big deal just because I am Mao Zedong's son. ”
As for Kian Ying's body, let's stay in North Korea with the remains of other soldiers, so many people's children died in North Korea and can't come back, and I can't be special just because I am Mao Zedong's son. ”
This situation and this scene undoubtedly correspond to the sentence written by Chairman Mao when he left the countryside when he was young: "Why bury bones in the mulberry ground, life is full of green mountains." ”
Mao Anying and Chiang Ching-kuo
Chairman Mao, as a staunch revolutionary, has long abandoned the hereditary concept of private ownership of "father to son, family to world", so he never gave Mao Anying the slightest special care because he was his son, and never thought of letting Mao Anying take over.
On the contrary, Chairman Mao hopes that Mao Anying can be trained into a person who can truly think about the country and the people and contribute to the country and society, which is enough.
In Chairman Mao's view, the more difficult the environment, the more people can be trained, so when Mao Anying just returned to China, he directly beat him into a "dirt road", let him eat and live with the people at the bottom, and do the most basic work, and in the future, he chose to send Mao Anying to the battlefield without hesitation, or even regardless of his safety.
On the other hand, Chiang Kai-shek's treatment of his son Chiang Ching-kuo was still a feudal hereditary ideology, and he always regarded Chiang Ching-kuo as the heir to his "throne".
For example, Chairman Mao sent Mao Anying to study in the Soviet Union, purely because of the tense domestic revolutionary situation and to ensure his personal safety.
And Chiang Kai-shek sent Chiang Ching-kuo to study in the Soviet Union purely to gild Chiang Ching-kuo.
When Chiang Kai-shek staged a counter-revolutionary coup d'état at home and wantonly hunted down and killed Communists, arousing the dissatisfaction of the CPSU, Chiang Ching-kuo, who was in the Soviet Union, had no choice but to make a public statement announcing the severance of father-son relations with Chiang Kai-shek in order to protect himself!
Although Chiang Kai-shek was so angry by Chiang Ching-kuo's feat, he was his own flesh and blood after all, judging from the content of his diary during this period, although Chiang Ching-kuo had already announced that he would sever the father-son relationship with him, Chiang Kai-shek still missed and worried about his son.
However, Chiang Kai-shek's concern for his son is mostly based on the feudal concept of "no filial piety has three, no queen is the greatest", for fear that if Chiang Ching-kuo could not return to China, he would be cut off from his children and grandchildren, after all, as we all know, Soong Meiling has no fertility, and Chiang Kai-shek's descendants are only Chiang Ching-kuo.
What's more, since Chiang Kai-shek broke up with Chiang Ching-kuo's biological mother Mao Fumei, there has been an estrangement between father and son, plus Chiang Ching-kuo went to the Soviet Union, the two have not seen each other for ten years, and Chiang Kai-shek does not know what his son's temperament is, so naturally he can't talk about how deep the father-son relationship can be.
Chiang Kai-shek tried his best to assume his obligations as a father in the letter, teaching his son how to read, and Chiang Ching-kuo also took the initiative to report to Chiang Kai-shek on his Xi situation, occasionally expressing his views on the current situation and showing his talent.
After Chiang Ching-kuo returned to China in 1937, compared to Chairman Mao, who asked him to go to the grassroots level to continue to endure hardships and experience after his son returned to China, Chiang Kai-shek painstakingly removed all obstacles in order to inherit the throne for his son.
Therefore, as soon as Chiang Ching-kuo returned to China, he quickly assumed a high position, and in a short period of time he achieved a position in the Kuomintang that ordinary people had to spend most of their lives to sit in, and began to display a series of his own ambitions.
After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Ching-kuo was directly involved in diplomatic work, negotiated the signing of agreements with the Soviet Union, and then began to serve as the director of the Reserve Cadre Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, and was also elected as a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, a proper successor.
In the later stages of the Liberation War, he was also appointed by Lao Chiang to rectify the problem of corruption in the Kuomintang at that time.
For this reason, Chiang Ching-kuo also set off a vigorous "tiger fighting movement" within the Kuomintang.
As a result, it was found that the biggest embezzler, the big tiger, was none other than a consortium headed by Song Meiling, and these consortiums had a relationship with the Jiang family that broke bones and tendons, and they couldn't shake it at all, so the "Tiger Fighting Operation" could only end in helplessness in the end.
After the Kuomintang was defeated and retreated to Taiwan, it set up the "Chiang dynasty" in Taiwan.
Chiang dynasty
After arriving in Taiwan Province, Chiang Kai-shek saw that his subordinates and cronies had defected to the Communist Party one after another in the War of Liberation, and he deepened his distrust of "outsiders", but he still felt that his flesh and blood relatives were the most reliable, so the "heart of succession" naturally became more urgent.
In order to facilitate Chiang Ching-kuo's early succession to the throne, Chiang Kai-shek first appointed Chiang Ching-kuo as director of the Kuomintang Party Department in Taiwan Province, and then handed over the political action committee originally held by Tang Zong to Chiang Ching-kuo, which means that Chiang Ching-kuo has since single-handedly mastered Taiwan's top secret service.
In the second year, Chiang Kai-shek couldn't wait to let Chiang Ching-kuo take up important posts such as director of the General Political Department of the Ministry of National Defense, and properly put him on the throne of the crown prince.
But it was also the year when Chiang Ching-kuo sat on the throne of the crown prince and the power was "one person under ten thousand people", Chairman Mao's son Mao Anying, who was only 28 years old, died forever on the Korean battlefield.
At that time, except for Mr. Peng and a few central leaders, no one even knew that he was Chairman Mao's son, because he never regarded himself as Chairman Mao's son, in order not to be special, he even specially named himself "Liu", everyone called him Secretary Liu, only knew that he was a down-to-earth, cheerful and lively intellectual.
Therefore, when Chiang Kai-shek, who was bent on passing on his son, learned all this, he had such mixed feelings, and he had some admiration for Chairman Mao, the sworn enemy who made him hate his teeth itching, and his own son actually died in battle.
After discovering that his son Chiang Ching-kuo had a mediocre reaction to Mao Anying's sacrifice, Chiang Kai-shek had another worry about his son, because he didn't know whether his son's reaction was indifferent, whether it was out of agreement with Chairman Mao to send his own son to the battlefield, or simply indifferent to all this.
If it is the former, then Chiang Kai-shek should reflect on whether he has let Chiang Ching-kuo's path go too smoothly. If it was the latter, Chiang Kai-shek would worry about whether his son would become an indifferent and heartless person.
With such a contradictory mood, Chiang Kai-shek avoided Soong Meiling that night and asked Chiang Ching-kuo to talk late at night.
When he talked about Mao Anying's sacrifice again, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly said to Chiang Ching-kuo in a serious tone: "Ching-kuo, you must take care of your health, you just need to live well." ”
At this moment, Chiang Kai-shek seemed to have temporarily abandoned his ambition and pursuit of power and status, and was just an admonition to his son as an ordinary father.
Perhaps before saying this, Chiang Kai-shek had imagined countless times in his heart that if he were to be himself, would he send his son to the front line of the battlefield like Chairman Mao.
But no matter how many times he conceived it, the answer Chiang Kai-shek came to was that he was absolutely reluctant to send Chiang Ching-kuo to the battlefield.
On the one hand, it may indeed be because of the long-term relationship between day and night, he has long been attached to Chiang Ching-kuo, which is also confirmed from his diary in his later years, and his love and praise for Chiang Ching-kuo are overflowing, and he is always concerned about Chiang Ching-kuo's health and safety.
On the other hand, Chiang Kai-shek was influenced by traditional ideas, and he was indeed unwilling to take the risk of losing his children and grandchildren. In addition, he was really worried that the Jiang dynasty he had worked so hard to build would come to an end.
But it was precisely because of this that Chiang Kai-shek faintly felt a kind of unease, so he discussed the current situation with Chiang Ching-kuo, and finally came to a conclusion: that is, with the current Kuomintang army, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to contend with the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
After all, the People's Liberation Army even dares to fight the US military, let alone the little soldiers of their national army?
Obviously, the overall situation has been decided, but Chiang Kai-shek still couldn't help but ask Chiang Ching-kuo, who is better than him and Chairman Mao?
Chiang Ching-kuo naturally flattered his father, but Chiang Kai-shek was only silent for a long time, and finally looked up to the sky and sighed: "I'm not as good as Mao Zedong!"
Obviously, Chairman Mao was able to give everything for the people, and Chiang Kai-shek only regarded the people and the country as his private property, so the people finally chose Chairman Mao and gave up Chiang Kai-shek.