It is said that heroes emerge in troubled times, and in Taiwan in the middle and late last century, there was an underworld boss who leveraged the entire political situation in Taiwan, named Zhang Anle.
What's even more commendable is that although he is a reckless hero from the underworld, he is never ambiguous in family and country affairs.
Zhang Anle not only exposed the dirty acts of the Chiang government, but also made major contributions to the great cause of peaceful reunification between the two sides of the strait.
Join the gang and wield power
Zhang Anle's father was a Kuomintang officer, his mother was a university professor, and in 1949, the Kuomintang was defeated and fled, and Zhang Anle, who had just turned one year old, was brought to Taiwan by his parents.
Influenced by his mother, Zhang Anle has liked to read since he was a child, and his grades are also at the top of his class. In 1963, he contracted an illness that forced him to repeat his secondary school exams for a year, and his fate changed.
At that time, the children of immigrants from the mainland were especially not treated well by local students, and there were often frictions between the two groups.
Zhang Anle's repeater class is a place where dragons and snakes are mixed, fights and brawls occur from time to time, and within a few days, he was forced into a corner by a group of local students after school.
The other party saw that he was lonely, and he was about to slap him when he rushed up, but Zhang Anle was willing to admit it, and immediately beat everyone on the other side down.
Although the students in this class never dared to bully themselves again, they couldn't stand the fact that some students were involved in the gangs, and they were soon found by the local gangs.
Zhang Anle knew that two fists were hard to beat four hands, so he had to join the Bamboo Union Gang to protect himself. According to the rules of the Bamboo Union Gang, the nickname of the gang must have a beast name, and he has white skin and looks Sven, so he has the nickname "White Wolf".
Unlike most of the brothers in the gang, Zhang Anle usually loves to read, has a flexible mind and organizational skills, so he quickly stood out and became the protector and military advisor of the gang.
What really made Zhang Anle famous on the island of Taiwan was an 8-on-100 group fight, when the Bamboo Union Gang and another gang made an appointment in a Hong Kong Western restaurant, and the 8 members of the Bamboo Union Gang went to the place only to find that the other party had called hundreds of people.
Zhang Anle knew that there was no way back, and when he looked left and right, he found that there were a lot of decorative bamboos on the second floor, and he commanded his brothers to sharpen the bamboo and stab the opponent, and actually repelled hundreds of enemies, and since then the Bamboo Union Gang has completely gained a firm foothold.
How can you walk by the river without getting your shoes wet, Zhang Anle is a strong-blooded underworld boy in the end, and in the end he accidentally made a big mistake.
During a brawl, he slashed a gendarme in civilian clothes and was imprisoned, but his father bailed him out.
Zhang Anle's studies were not greatly affected, and he was successfully admitted to the History Department of Tamkang University and started his university life.
During college, he had a conflict with his classmates, and the two groups of young people couldn't suppress their anger, and soon turned into a gang fight.
At the critical juncture, another heavyweight of the Bamboo Union Gang, "Duck Tyrant" Chen Qili, arrived to repel the enemy, and the two have since become good brothers who share life and death.
In 1968, Zhang Anle convened a meeting of the gang in Yangmingshan, decided to reorganize the gang and expand its scale, and also stipulated that local branches must regularly hand over the "mother money" to the gang headquarters.
This stabilized the financial resources of the Bamboo Union Gang and allowed the gang to further expand, but the hearts of the people were greedy, and three years later, a traitor swept away the mother money of the headquarters and tried to escape from the gang.
Chen Qili, the head of the main hall, got the news and personally led people to chase people to the streets of Taipei, beheaded the traitor in front of the public, and then was arrested for murder and imprisoned for five years.
Zhang Anle was highly respected in the Gangne, so he was elected as the chief protector of the Dharma, temporarily taking over the power of the gang. During his time in power, he continued to deepen the institutionalization and organization of the gang, promoted many young and promising newcomers, and the Bamboo Union Gang became bigger and bigger.
As the gang grew in power and internal struggles became more intense, Zhang Anle was both disappointed and tired of it, so he left in 1975. Four years later, he traveled to the United States to open a restaurant, and later went to Stanford University.
Stirring up the political arena was arrested and imprisoned
As the saying goes, "people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes", Zhang Anle is like this, obviously he has quit the gang and doesn't ask about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, but who knows that the arrival of his old friend Chen Qili in 1984 will involve him in a bigger turmoil.
The story begins with Liu Yiliang, a Chinese-American journalist who once wrote a book called "The Biography of Chiang Ching-kuo" under the pseudonym "Jiangnan," which exposed many filthy histories of infighting between the Chiang family and various factions of the Kuomintang, causing a sensation on the island.
Therefore, Liu Yiliang became a thorn in the side of the Jiang family, and in order to take refuge, he obtained American citizenship early and hid in the San Francisco Bay Area to settle down.
The Kuomintang top brass still refused to let him go, and secretly ordered Chen Qili to go to the United States to assassinate this reporter who spoke ill of the Chiang family.
Chen Qili flew to Taiwan with Wu Dun and Dong Guisen and successfully completed the mission. After all, he is an underworld boss who has been in the rivers and lakes for many years, how can he not see the real purpose of the Jiang family sending him to carry out the assassination? He also knows that Liu Yiliang's death will make waves on the island and internationally.
He was worried that the three of them would be killed by Jiang Jingguo as a substitute for the dead, so he went to find his old friend Zhang Anle a few days before leaving. At the dinner table, he handed a wooden box to the other party, and said to this brother, who had a lifelong friendship:
"The video tape inside the box records the complete conversation between the Jiang family and the father and son who sent us to assassinate Liu Yiliang! I'm afraid that the government's words don't count, and they will use our brother as a substitute for the dead, so I will hand it over to you for safekeeping......"
Zhang Anle was dumbfounded when he heard this, but he still solemnly accepted the wooden box. As Chen Qili guessed, Liu Yiliang became an American citizen after all, and now that he was suddenly killed, Jiang's father and son always had to give Lao Mei an explanation.
As soon as Chen Qili returned to Taiwan, he was arrested and imprisoned by the military police, and not only that, but many high-ranking figures of the Bamboo Union Gang were also implicated and imprisoned because of this incident.
Zhang Anle, who was far away in the United States, got the news and immediately told the Jiang family father and son that he had a video tape in his hand.
The Jiang family knew very well that once the contents of the video were exposed, the Jiang government would lose face and collapse its image, and secretly offered to spend 1 million yuan to buy the videotape.
Zhang Anle decisively refused, and his attitude was very clear: either release the person or publish the content of the video. On the other hand, Liu Yiliang was a three-sided agent who obeyed the orders of the United States, so the United States was also investigating the secrets behind this matter, and soon found out Zhang Anle's head.
In the face of pressure exerted by the United States, he had to make a compromise and hand over the videotape, but just when the Chiang family and the US government were relieved, Zhang Anle suddenly revealed the contents of the video to the world.
The move of the fish to the death of the net completely slapped the United States and the Jiang father and son in the face, what is the result?
Zhang Anle was arrested and imprisoned by the US police for "drug trafficking" and sentenced to 15 years in prison, and he once vowed that "as long as I am still on the road for a day in my life, I will never touch the drug business."
One can imagine how deep the water is, whether it is a crime to be added or the evidence is conclusive, no one knows. Even in prison, Zhang Anle did not forget to study, and successfully obtained two bachelor's degrees.
After being released from prison, he moved to the business world and established the Taoluo Group with the "Xintang" people of the Bamboo Union Gang as the backbone, and has contracted more than 500 businesses. However, the Taiwan government did not let him go, and just one year later, he became a wanted criminal in Taiwan and had to come to the mainland to invest.
Strongly support reunification and oppose Taiwan independence
During this period, Zhang Anle witnessed the great changes brought about by the reform and opening up, and invested in Dongguan, Shenzhen and Jiangmen to set up factories.
At its peak, his helmet company ate 45% of the global market share and became the world's largest helmet manufacturer.
The better he develops on the mainland, the stronger Zhang Anle's sense of identity with the motherland will be, and he desperately hopes that he can also contribute to the reunification of the motherland. Not only did he have this idea himself, but he was also actively looking for young people on the island who shared the same wishes.
On May 9, 2004, Zhang Anle brought more than 20 like-minded progressive young people on the island to Huanghuagang, Guangzhou.
In the 72 Martyrs Cemetery, the group vowed to unite the forces on the island to resist the Taiwan independence elements and devote themselves to the great cause of the reunification of the motherland, and also established the "Alliance for the Protection of Greater China".
In October 2005, Zhang Anle renamed the organization the "Party for Promoting the Reunification of China" and told reporters: "Our goal is to go deep into all walks of life and grassroots units in Taiwan to propagate our idea of 'peaceful reunification.' ”
This proposition was recognized by many people on the island, and six years later it grew into a large party with more than 20,000 members and 76 branches, and made many contributions to the reunification of the motherland.
At the end of 2009, when the Taiwan independence forces learned that Chen Yunlin, chairman of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), was about to visit Taiwan, they secretly resorted to trickery in an attempt to obstruct it.
When Zhang Anle learned the news, he hurriedly dispatched more than 1,000 party members to the airport to greet and escort Chen Yunlin throughout the process, thus stilling the conspiracy of the Taiwan independence elements.
In the same year, the Dalai Lama visited Taiwan, and although the Party for the Promotion of Reunification failed to stop it, it also staged demonstrations along the way to protest. In order to escape the persecution of the Taiwan authorities, Zhang Anle always stayed on the mainland in those years.
It was not until Ma Ying-jeou came to power in 2013 and cross-strait relations warmed up rapidly that he took the initiative to communicate with the Taiwan authorities and decided to "surrender" and return to Taiwan.
On the afternoon of June 29, 2013, Zhang Anle's flight landed at Taipei's Songshan Airport, and as soon as he stepped out of the cabin door, more than 600 military police officers swarmed him and handcuffed him.
However, Zhang Anle looked calm, waving to the people who came to pick up the airport around him, and holding the thin booklet in his hand.
On this pamphlet, which he wrote by himself, reads "Peaceful Reunification, One Country, Two Systems -- The Best Guarantee for the Happiness of the Taiwan People," which condenses Zhang Anle's profound understanding and perception of the peaceful reunification of the two sides of the strait in recent years.
The police arrested him only as a formality, and he was released on bail a few hours later and returned to the cause of promoting reunification, where he is still fighting on the front line of opposing Taiwan independence......
It can be said that one person has stirred up the situation on the entire island of Taiwan and made great contributions to the reunification of the motherland. What do you think differently about this?
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