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It is rumored that in 1949, before the Chiang Kai-shek couple evacuated the mainland, they successively transported nearly 3 million taels of gold to Taiwan in three batches.
In addition to gold, Chiang Kai-shek and his wife also had tens of millions of silver dollars.
And these properties were all obtained by them during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when they made a fortune and resold military supplies.
Relying on this windfall, the two of them lived an extremely luxurious life in Taiwan.
When many of the hidden insiders were revealed, people couldn't help but sigh that it was no wonder that the national army was defeated in a mess!
In 1926, Chiang and Song met for the first time in Guangzhou, and at that time, Chiang Kai-shek fell in love with this beautiful rich lady at first sight.
At that time, he had long been unable to restrain his heart, and launched a persistent pursuit of Song Meiling.
However, his marriage to Song Meiling did not go well.
The Song family was a wealthy family at that time, and it was the first batch of comprador bourgeoisie in Shanghai, opening a large number of factories, and its status in the rivers and lakes is self-evident.
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was notoriously lascivious and had married many wives.
In order to marry Song Meiling, he even divorced his original wife, and the Song family also knew that Chiang Kai-shek's pursuit of Song Meiling this time was probably to fall in love with the Song family's family background.
At first, Song Meiling didn't have any thoughts about Chiang Kai-shek, but her eldest sister Song Ailing strongly agreed that Song Meiling and Chiang Kai-shek were together, because in her opinion, Chiang Kai-shek would definitely be a person with power in the future.
So, she seized Song Meiling's love for weakness and counted the many benefits of marrying Chiang Kai-shek.
In this way, in 1927, the two held a wedding of the century at the Majestic Hotel, the most luxurious hotel in Shanghai at that time.
According to rumors, Chiang Kai-shek spent millions of dollars on the wedding and hired thousands of people to dress up and cheer up his wedding.
Under the turbulent social environment in China at that time, Chiang Kai-shek and his wife took out millions without blinking an eye, and it is conceivable how thick their family background was.
After marriage, the life of the two is even more extravagant to the extreme.
In order to please Song Meiling, Chiang Kai-shek specially paid a high price to hire a pastry chef to make desserts for Song Meiling.
Some desserts were only available abroad, so Chiang Kai-shek asked people to buy them abroad and send them back by plane.
And Song Meiling has been dressed and eaten since she was a child, her clothes are basically not the same, and every costume is customized.
On the other hand, the Chinese people at that time were living in dire straits, such a stark contrast, people can't help but sigh!
So where did the money come from for Chiang Kai-shek and his wife? Don't think too much about it, it was all looted from the Chinese people.
At that time, the war of aggression against China broke out, and the strength of the Chinese air force compared to that of Japan, it can be described as an egg hitting a stone.
At this time, Song Meiling stood up and bluntly said that she would participate in the construction of a Chinese air force to fight against Japan.
After that, she launched the "Aviation Coupon", calling on the general public to buy them to support national defense construction.
As soon as this remark came out, the general public felt that they could help the country by doing so, and that they could reap a lot of returns in the future, so they rushed to buy it.
In this way, Song Meiling took advantage of the patriotism of the people and raised a large amount of funds, which was enough to purchase hundreds of fighters. However, the money was deposited into a private account by her.
Many people expressed dissatisfaction with this, but Song Meiling said that the current situation is not suitable for the purchase of aircraft, and it is necessary to wait for the opportunity.
Whether Song Meiling thinks this way or not, we don't know.
But we all know the final result, the Japanese army invaded on a large scale, the national army was defeated, and the hundreds of crowd-funded planes did not appear on the battlefield at all.
And that large sum of money was finally completely put into Song Meiling's pocket.
Not only that, Song Meiling's family also used their own power to make a fortune in a national disaster, so that in 1948, the national army was beaten back again and again by the People's Liberation Army.
Soong Meiling went to the United States to ask for help, but was met with cold eyes from US President Harry S. Truman.
The US side frankly stated that the Nationalist Government was a representative of "corrupt officials" and "bad guys."
Because during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the two families of Kong and Song repeatedly intercepted the aid of the US military to the national army, and then resold it, and the money obtained was used to buy companies for themselves and seek personal gain.
During the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, they repeatedly reached out to the U.S. government to ask for money, saying that they wanted to buy military supplies to fight the People's Liberation Army, but the money was eventually invested in their own enterprises.
In this way, the United States, which has always liked to make small moves after being subjected, is not accustomed to it.
By 1949, the KMT's regime in Chinese mainland had completely collapsed, and Chiang Kai-shek was forced to flee to Taiwan.
It is said that at that time, Chiang Kai-shek successively transported nearly 3 million taels of gold and tens of millions of silver dollars to Taiwan in three batches.
In addition, Chiang Kai-shek and his wife were also found out by the United States, and in the 40s of the last century, the two had connived at the Kong and Song families, engaged in speculation in the United States, and evaded taxes as high as tens of millions of dollars.
After a thorough investigation by US President Harry S. Truman, they were found to be hiding illegal property of unknown origin in the United States.
Including gold, jewelry, currency, antique calligraphy and paintings, etc., the total assets have reached more than 2 billion US dollars.
At that time, the US side originally planned to freeze this large amount of their assets and make up for their tax evasion, but in the end, for unknown reasons, the matter was settled and became an unsolved case.
With a lot of illegal money obtained over the years, Chiang Kai-shek and his wife still lived a luxurious life after they went to Taiwan.
In 1975, after the death of Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Meiling left Taiwan for the United States, and then settled in the United States.
And her move this time is even more shocking, just her own luggage, it took 3 sorties of planes to transport, and the overall estimate is that the materials are as high as hundreds of boxes.
At that time, according to the regulations, all of Soong Meiling's expenses were paid by the Taiwan authorities, and they were reimbursed on the actual basis, and there was no upper limit.
In 2003, Song Meiling died in the United States.
According to the statistics of the Taiwan authorities, the medical personnel sent to the United States to take care of Soong Meiling at that time were each able to earn at least 1 million yuan a year, and Soong Meiling's average annual living expenses were at least NT$10 million.
As a leading figure of the Nationalist Government, he was so corrupt that he used the money he stole from the Chinese people.
Sponsor yourself to live a life of luxury. Now it seems that there are traces to follow in the great rout of the national army, and how can such an army stand the test of history.
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