In 1965, Chen Cheng, who had been tortured by liver cancer for a long time, came to the last moment of his life, and this former hero was now exhausted, whether it was physical torture or complex political storms that destroyed his spirit, Chen Cheng felt tired. Chen Cheng, who knew that his time was short, called his son to explain his aftermath.
Chen Cheng's last wish had only one sentence: "Chen died and was cremated, with the principle of not occupying land." He ordered his son to write this on a note and give it to his wife, but Chen Cheng's only wish became a failure.
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Chen Cheng's life has been constantly on the downhill road since the Liberation War, first in 1947, he commanded the campaign in the northeast battlefield, but he was unable to turn the tide, which aroused an impeachment atmosphere in the government, and everyone demanded that Chen Cheng step down, fortunately, the old Jiang still attached great importance to this confidant, and only then did he save Chen Cheng despite the discussion.
The reason why Old Jiang kept Chen Cheng was, first, because of the friendship of many years, and second, because of his future plans. Old Jiang himself actually knew that this battle was very likely to fail, and if it failed, it was necessary to find a good way back and stay in the green mountains without fear of running out of firewood. In October 1948, Lao Jiang sent Chen Cheng to Taiwan and appointed Chen Cheng as the chairman of Taiwan Province, which obviously meant that Chen Cheng would lay a good foundation in Taiwan first, in case of future emergencies.
Chen Cheng also did not fail in his mission, and after he entered Taiwan, he carried out a series of reforms, so that the original chaotic Taiwan gradually returned to the right track. On the other hand, old Chiang Kai-shek also unexpectedly ushered in a defeat, and Taiwan became the last retreat for old Chiang Kai-shek.
Old Chiang Kai-shek, who came to Taiwan, was very satisfied with Chen Cheng's work, and soon Chen Cheng was promoted to vice president of the Nationalist government, becoming a veritable second-in-command under old Chiang Kai-shek. Although the National Government can only live in the square inches of Taiwan today, the identity of the vice president is still unlimited after all, and everyone says that Chen Cheng's good days have come, but where the blessings and misfortunes depend, the vice president is an honor, but he is also a full living target.
Chiang Ching-kuo, the son of old Chiang, is dissatisfied with the existence of Chen Cheng, because it is obvious that Chiang Ching-kuo will become the future successor of old Chiang Ching-kuo, but now chiang ching-kuo's foundation is still shallow, but Chen Cheng has profound seniority and a status far beyond Chiang Ching-kuo's successor.
The power struggle has always been the most cruel thing, Chiang Ching-kuo is eyeing the tiger, and Chen Cheng knows this well. Chen Cheng himself was loyal to the father and son of the Chiang family, plus Chen Cheng was old after all, even if he wanted to fight, his body could not support it, so after the end of his visit to the United States in the sixties, Chen Cheng proposed to Old Chiang that he wanted to dismiss the post of Chief Executive, but it was more complicated than the political struggle in Taiwan at that time, and there was really no one available under Old Chiang, so Chen Cheng could only continue to stick to his post, until September 1963, when Chen Cheng's body had completely collapsed, and Old Jiang approved Chen Cheng's resignation request.
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Chen Cheng's departure has also worried the mainland, because Chen Cheng's departure is not conducive to the great cause of the reunification of the motherland. After learning the news, Premier Zhou specially asked Fu Zuoyi to send a letter to Chen Cheng, asking Chen Cheng not to forget the great cause of the reunification of the motherland and not to let the United States meddle in it and disrupt China's sovereignty. Unfortunately, the letter was intercepted as soon as it arrived in Taiwan, and it was never delivered to Chen Cheng's hands.
Since his resignation, Chen Cheng's main activity is to recuperate, Chen Cheng's life in his later years is not too good, although he was once in a high position, but the illness made him tortured, and the attitude of the Father and Son of the Jiang family also made Chen Cheng feel shocked. When Chen Cheng was in office, his style was always clean, his family had little savings, and the government did not give more subsidies, so that the former vice president's life was tight, and even the children's tuition fees had to be cobbled together.
And Chen Cheng's condition did not have much hope of cure, in the early years, Chen Cheng's gastrointestinal tract has undergone major surgery, the duodenum has been removed, with the medical conditions of that era, Chen Cheng has experienced so many major surgeries to resist this age has been very tenacious. After leaving his job, Chen Cheng suffered from severe liver cancer, which was largely caused by overwork, and when the hospital diagnosed it, the cancer cells had spread, and they eroded Chen Cheng's body little by little.
Old Jiang still had a little conscience, after Chen Cheng's illness was critical, he arranged a hospital, so that the doctors must cure Chen Cheng's illness, but at this time, no matter how much effort was made to treat chen Cheng, he had missed the best opportunity, and Chen Cheng's body was weakening day by day. Lying on the hospital bed, Chen Cheng's heart was most helpless, not only for himself, but also for the current situation of the government.
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Chen Cheng is not an incompetent person, in fact, during his term of office, many good policies in Taiwan were formulated by him, and when he was young, why did Chen Cheng not have a great ambition to help the people through the world? Unfortunately, although he spent most of his life in the National Government, he was unable to save the overall situation; at first he was defeated on the mainland, and then he was defeated in Taiwan, and the National Government was worse than a day, but it was still struggling unceasingly in the midst of political struggle, and the more it declined, the more chaotic it became.
When his wife and children asked Chen Cheng's last words, Chen Cheng had nothing to say, and his only long-cherished wish was to cremate himself, but this wish was the most unlikely to be achieved. The reason is also very understandable, at that time cremation was still a very out of place funeral method, Chinese still pay attention to leaving a whole body, cremation is considered to be an undignified way of burial.
If ordinary people use cremation, it is not a big problem, but Chen Cheng is after all an official of the National Government, and if Taiwan uses cremation to do the aftermath for Chen Cheng, it will inevitably lead to a lot of discussion, and Taiwan is not willing to find this trouble for itself. Therefore, although this is Chen Cheng's last wish, the Taiwan government will never be able to agree to it.
On March 5, 1965, Chen Cheng died, and Lao Jiang personally presided over the funeral for him. Among the elders of the National Government, Chen Cheng's ending is a very good ending, although he has also encountered injustice and suppression, but he has not been liquidated by Chiang's father and son, which is probably the reward of his life of caution and loyalty.
Counting Chen Cheng's life, he is not a bad person, but he is not a good person. He had a sense of responsibility for the country, but he still made the wrong choice, and in the end he was inevitably involved in a more complex struggle, and finally ended up with a lamentable result.