In recent years, many people in China have always compared Chiang Ching-kuo to Deng Xiaoping.
Regardless of the military capabilities of the two men, today's "Taiwan independence" elements alone are caused by Chiang Ching-kuo, and Chiang Ching-kuo is mainly responsible.
When Chiang Ching-kuo was dying in his old age, he was lying in a hospital bed for a short time, and he realized that he had misread Lee Teng-hui.
(Chiang Ching-kuo)
For Chinese, the idea of great unification was imprinted in their bones, from the family world that began in the Xia Dynasty, to the imperial society of Qin Shi Huang, to the temporary federalism of the Republic of China.
And this federal station, among which the representative figures are Yan Xishan, Chen Jitang, Zhao Hengti and others, and then there is chiang ching-kuo, the protagonist of our article today.
Great reunification is a deep imprint on the soul of the Chinese nation, and the father and son of the Jiang family also hope for China's reunification.
And Lee Teng-hui's road to power should be said to be the road of a liar... At first, at a private banquet, Chiang Ching-kuo had dinner with several friends, and Lee Teng-hui, who was from an agricultural background, attended the dinner.
Chiang Ching-kuo, who had been plotting how to realize the reunification of the motherland, discovered that Lee Teng-hui was a talented man.
There is no doubt that Chiang Ching-kuo is a good hand at engaging in the economy, and the more he talks with Lee Teng-hui, the more speculative he becomes, so he asks Lee Teng-hui to engage in agriculture, and after completing agriculture, he will solve the problem of congestion in urban areas.
Chiang Ching-kuo kept a very close eye on Lee Teng-hui, not only personally inspecting this person, but also dispatching his henchmen to monitor Lee Teng-hui and seeing his every move.
In 1978, Chiang Ching-kuo took power in Taiwan, and every time he went to the countryside to investigate, he took Lee Teng-hui with him and regarded him as his successor.
According to Mr. Nan Huaijin, the longer Chiang Ching-kuo and the elders around him stayed, the more they discovered the shortcomings of others; and the shorter a person like Lee Teng-hui stayed, the more he could discover the so-called "advantages" of this person.
Unexpectedly, however, Chiang Ching-kuo would have revealed his vicious fangs when Lee Teng-hui came to power, directly shaved off the old foundation of the Kuomintang, and colluded with the "Taiwan independence" elements, demolishing the bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek and removing Chiang Ching-kuo's portrait.
The Americans commented: After Lee Teng-hui came to power, he changed his former appearance as an elegant and modest scholar and gradually replaced him with a strong and domineering personality, and his betrayal of Chiang Ching-kuo's anti-Taiwan independence will make the political situation on both sides of the Taiwan Strait dangerous.
Immediately afterward, Jiang Weiguo's second grandfather Jiang Weiguo returned and tried to take down Lee Teng-hui, but he was killed by one punch, and he had no power to fight back.
Sadly, from the Xingzhong Association a hundred years ago to the League, to the Kuomintang's defeat in Taiwan, the foundation of several generations has been wiped out... The mistake is that Chiang Ching-kuo misread people and thinks that Lee Teng-hui can inherit his last wishes, but in fact it is just the opposite.
Therefore, the author believes that if you compare Chiang Ching-kuo with Deng Xiaoping, I am afraid it is not appropriate, right? Deng Xiaoping had a discerning eye and certainly would not have made such a low-level mistake.
Lee Teng-hui's big pig-loin face, even if the fortune tellers on the street saw it, knew that it was not a good person.
Having said the above, we will begin with today's article, and look at Chiang Ching-kuo's tortuous life and Deng Xiaoping's evaluation after his death.
And all of this has to start with Chiang Ching-kuo's biological father and mother...
When Chiang Kai-shek was thirteen years old, he married the eighteen-year-old Mao Fumei, and after visiting the heavens and the earth, the groom official went out to pick up firecrackers and play with his friends.
It has to be said that Mao Fumei has most of the advantages of Chinese women, is a typical virtuous wife and mother, diligent and thrifty to run the family and work hard and complain. But I don't know what happened, she is not compatible with Chiang Kai-shek's personality, so the two often fight.
The first time Mao Fumei became pregnant, it was because she was kicked by Chiang Kai-shek, so she unfortunately miscarried.
According to Chiang Ching-kuo's recollection, the father grabbed his mother's hair and hit it from the second floor to the first floor.
Judging from Chiang Kai-shek's personality, the typical killer is born, he is grumpy and fierce, so it is expected to fight with the original partner.
Moreover, after Chiang Kai-shek went out to run around, Mao Fumei honored his mother-in-law, took care of housework, and was diligent and earnest...
(Mao Fumei)
In the summer of 1909, Jiang's mother Wang Caiyu asked the fortune teller to fight, and the result was that the gentleman said: "You jiang family, this noble son, must be born with the original match... And your son is no problem, it will certainly be great in the future, the key is in the grandson..."
Wang Caiyu thought about it and felt that the fortune teller was too right, so he took his daughter-in-law Mao Fumei and went to Shanghai to find Chiang Kai-shek. Mother Jiang not only thought about the second generation, but also worried about the third generation, which led to Chiang Ching-kuo's shot.
Chiang Kai-shek said in his diary: I would like to become a monk... After seeing Mao Fumei, his whole body was covered with hair... Mother's life is hard to violate.
It is said that after Mao Fumei became pregnant, the mother-in-law quickly brought her daughter-in-law back to her hometown, afraid that the couple would fight again. On April 27, 1910, Chiang Ching-kuo was born in Xikou, Fenghua, Zhejiang.
Some historians also say that Chiang Kai-shek actually did not like Chiang Ching-kuo very much, for the simple reason that his son's personality and appearance followed his mother rather than his father.
On June 4, 1921, after the death of Jiang Jingguo, Chiang Ching-kuo saw his father return and brought a strange younger brother, in fact, Chiang Ching-kuo was quite strange to these two people.
The stepmother, Chen Jieru, is only four years older than Chiang Ching-kuo, so like a big sister, the relationship between the two is very good.
(Chen Jieru)
There is no doubt that Chiang Ching-kuo was happy in his childhood and was deeply loved by the women of the Chiang family.
Chiang Ching-kuo liked the Soviet Union and the revolutionary ideas of the Communist International since he was a child, and the elders of the Kuomintang also liked Chiang Ching-kuo very much, as if going to the Soviet Union to study was a better choice for this child.
During the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Dr. Sun Yat-sen raised a banner to unite with the Russian Communist Party and won the support and appreciation of the Soviet Union. After Sun Yat-sen's death, the Soviet Union decided to open a university to train young Chinese under the banner of Sun Yat-sen.
This led to the Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, and when the school enrolled students, Borodin had thirty places in his hand, all of which were given to the second generation of Kuomintang officials.
Chiang Ching-kuo never expected that his road of suffering was about to begin...
In October 1925, Chiang Ching-kuo entered Sun Yat-sen University and joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which was full of Chinese students.
Deng Xiaoping set off from France for the Soviet Union in 1926, entered Moscow on January 17, and joined the seventh class of Sun Yat-sen University.
There are many celebrities in this class, and the two most famous classmates are Deng Xiaoping and Chiang Ching-kuo, who actually have a very good impression. (Deng Xiaoping's name at the time was Deng Xixian)
Jiang Jingguo and Feng Yuxiang's daughter Feng Funeng fell in love and married, and had a sweet time on campus.
On April 12, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12" counter-revolutionary incident in China, wantonly arresting and massacring Communists.
Chiang Kai-shek was anti-communist at home, but his son Chiang Ching-kuo was in the Soviet Union and in the hands of the Comintern, and the results could be imagined.
His wife, Feng Funeng, wanted to reform her husband, Chiang Ching-kuo, and returned to China together; Chiang Ching-kuo wanted to transform Feng Funeng and throw himself into the embrace of the Communist Party together, and the relationship between husband and wife came to an end.
Papa was anti-communist and anti-Soviet, causing an uproar in The country, Chiang Ching-kuo immediately took a stand and cut off with the counter-revolutionary father. Chiang Ching-kuo issued a statement saying: Chiang Kai-shek was once my father and a friend of the revolution, as a revolutionary, he died, and now he is my enemy...
After the August 1st Uprising, Chiang Ching-kuo applied to return to China, because many people had left, but the Soviet Union did not approve it, because only Stalin could decide his business.
Coupled with the fact that Chiang Kai-shek was at home, he always annoyed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, so Chiang Ching-kuo was sent to Siberia...
Chiang Ching-kuo recalled: There are few people in history who are as bitter as me.
In fact, if you think about it, when you were a child, you were deeply loved by the women of the Chiang family, but in the Soviet Union, you entered Siberia, and the degree of difficulty can be imagined.
In 1935, Chiang Ching-kuo was already the deputy director of a machinery factory, and when he went back to sleep at night, he saw a group of hooligans blocking a young girl.
This girl is an orphan, her parents died when she was a child, and she looks very beautiful.
Chiang Ching-kuo's hero saved the United States, in fact, the two people should be said to have pity for each other, and they are the same fallen people at the end of the world, so they know and love each other, so they come together.
The door is not about nature, but it is certainly a talented woman. The two held a simple ceremony on March 15 and were given a very small house.
Regarding Chiang Ching-kuo's return to China, he would first like to thank Zhang Xueliang... Because Zhang Xueliang played the biggest role.
After the Xi'an Incident, the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was realized, and the two parties unanimously resisted Japan. Since the Kuomintang and the Communists cooperated, the Soviet Union would naturally release people.
There is a very important point: the Soviet Union and the Kuomintang must have the same interests, and both sides will jointly oppose the Japanese and protect the backyard of the Slavs.
And our CCP also helped from it, so on March 25, 1937, Chiang Ching-kuo's family of three, accompanied by Kang Sheng, a representative of the Comintern, returned to China.
Chiang Ching-kuo looked back on the past, spent twelve years in the Soviet Union, and said: The lessons this taught me are deeply imprinted in my heart and will never be forgotten.
At this time, it is up to Soong Mei Ling, after all, when Chiang Ching-kuo went to the Soviet Union, she still looked down on Chiang Kai-shek, and now she is Chiang Kai-shek's wife.
Chiang Ching-kuo was the only legitimate heir of the Chiang family, and this soon rose to the level of a major state affair. However, Chiang Kai-shek's family status is OK, as early as when he wrote his will in Xi'an, he told his son to be kind to his mother, and if old Jiang let him go, could Little Jiang Yan not listen?
So on April 20th, the Hangzhou meeting was held very smoothly, a big family relationship is very affinity, three prostrations and prostrations, Chiang Ching-kuo a mouth a mother, a mouth a mother, called a mountain sound ...
Song Meiling was never pregnant after the miscarriage, and now she has picked up a son, daughter-in-law and grandson, as for the taste in her heart, it is estimated that only she herself knows.
Song Meiling looked at her daughter-in-law, since she came to China, she would change her Chinese name, so she changed her name to Jiang Fangliang. There is also a saying that Chiang Ching-kuo changed his wife's name. Regardless of which of the two statements is true, in short, Jiang Fangliang's name is actually average.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Ching-kuo served as the county magistrate of Ganxian County in 1938. In his case, he can indeed make a big show in poor places. This is also one of the reasons why many people like Chiang Ching-kuo, after all, he has done a good job in Ganxian County.
But after Jiang Chingguo arrived in Shanghai, he began to run into walls everywhere, and a group of big guys in Shanghai did not eat This set of small Jiang. Old Jiang worked hard to get the Ningbo chaebol, bleeding the benefactor with one knife after another; Xiao Jiang also wanted to bleed, who would agree to these chaebols?
In short, in terms of economic development, Chiang Ching-kuo is not comparable to our chief architect, Deng Xiaoping.
If the two are compared, Deng Xiaoping's military ability is known to the whole world, Liu Deng's army swept through half of China, and then went to the southwest to suppress bandits, and the road of life went up and down three times.
It would certainly be a mistake to say that Chiang Ching-kuo did not contribute to China, and his contribution to Taiwan Province in our country is enormous, especially in terms of the economy.
Taiwan's economy, which is known as one of the "Four Asian Tigers," was mainly created by Chiang Ching-kuo, and today's "Taiwan independence" elements eat rice in a pot and scold those who cook. But that's a digression.
The longest martial law in the world occurred in Taiwan, and it was also Chiang Ching-kuo who single-handedly lifted it; during his administration of Taiwan, he attached great importance to local talents and employed a large number of local officials in Taiwan Province. Chiang Ching-kuo promoted five dishes and one soup, known as the "plum blossom meal", to curb the extravagant waste of Taiwan provincial officials.
Chiang Ching-kuo visits the countryside more than two hundred times a year, and he always likes to make private visits in micro-service, dress simply and simply, and go deep among the masses.
Once, when he was driving out alone, someone beckoned to take a ride, so he took the other party for a ride and talked happily along the way. When he got out of the car, the man gave ten dollars for fuel.
In fact, in 1973, Chiang Kai-shek had already retreated to the second line, and Chiang Ching-kuo was dealing with Taiwan's major and minor affairs; it was also in this year that Chairman Mao of our mainland made a comeback for Deng Xiaoping.
Deng Xiaoping and Chiang Ching-kuo, classmates of Sun Yat-sen University at the time, are now across the sea, and the two have engaged in a series of competitions.
Because Zhou Enlai was seriously ill, most of his work was done by Deng Xiaoping. There is a detail: When Zhou Enlai entered the operating room, he still took Deng Xiaoping's hand and said: You have done better than me.
In terms of resolving the "Taiwan issue," Deng Xiaoping has long been prepared; he is very eager to realize cross-strait reunification, and he is also inclined to peaceful reunification, so he once told reporters: Give priority to peaceful means.
On our mainland side, there are many Kuomintang elders who have been contacting Chiang Ching-kuo on the other side of the taiwan strait in the hope of peaceful reunification and settlement of the Taiwan issue.
Chiang Kai-shek was already old and decaying, and Chiang Ching-kuo, who was in charge of Taiwan's military and political power, categorically rejected Deng Xiaoping's proposal for peaceful reunification and refused to have any contact with the mainland. When an American reporter went to Taiwan Province to cover an interview, Chiang Ching-kuo directly said that negotiating with the Chinese Communists was tantamount to suicide.
After Chiang Kai-shek's death due to illness, Chiang Ching-kuo became the "president" of Taiwan Province and, after the inauguration ceremony, with the support of the Americans, still rejected the goodwill released by the mainland.
In other words, Chiang Ching-kuo stood on the shoulders of the Americans and went to fight with the mainland. For Deng Xiaoping, it was imperative to draw salaries from the bottom of the barrel.
With Nixon's visit to China, Mao Zedong had already hammered Chiang Kai-shek on the other side of the strait; and with Deng Xiaoping's visit to the United States, he also talked about the Taiwan issue.
In the view of US President Carter, this multiple choice question is very simple, to save Taiwan Province? Or make friends with the mainland? Nature will not be confused on this issue.
Unbeknownst to Chiang Ching-kuo, Deng Xiaoping had reached a number of secret agreements with Carter.
The establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States has long been placed on the desks of the top leaders of the two countries, and only the names of the two countries are left.
At three o'clock in the morning of December 16, 1978, Chiang Ching-kuo was suddenly awakened by his subordinates in his sleep.
The so-called "ambassador" of Taiwan on the US side said that he had an urgent matter to contact Chiang Ching-kuo, and Chiang Ching-kuo answered the phone and learned that after dawn, China and the United States established diplomatic relations... Since China has only one China, the United States will no longer recognize Taiwan's "national" status.
Obviously, in terms of diplomacy, Deng Xiaoping punched Chiang Ching-kuo to the ground.
At the same time, this international secret was leaked to the stock market by unknown people, so that before dawn, Taiwan's stock market plummeted.
Chiang Ching-kuo was furious, but there was nothing he could do about it, because in the context of the Cold War, as long as the US president was not stupid, he knew that he would choose Chinese mainland, rather than China's small Taiwan Province.
The sun always rises, and after dawn, there is also the publication of the "Sino-US Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations," which seems to be the trend of the general trend of history. In this process, Deng Xiaoping's contribution was naturally great.
On this day, the United States recognized the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate government in China.
Chiang Ching-kuo was furious, but After all, Taiwan was a pawn of the United States, pushing the Kuomintang two steps when needed, and shelving it when it was not needed.
Marshal Xu Qianqian on our mainland side, as the Minister of National Defense, officially announced on January 1, 1979, that he would stop shelling Kinmen.
The famous "Letter to Taiwan Compatriots" was immediately published, and Liao Chengzhi on our mainland side wrote an open letter to Chiang Ching-kuo's elder brother, hoping to start the third Kuomintang-Communist cooperation.
(Liao Chengzhi)
The historical insider here is complicated, as follows:
The first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation was promoted by Sun Yat-sen, Liao Zhongkai, and others; the second Kuomintang-Communist cooperation was initiated by Deng Xiaoping and Liao Chengzhi, the son of Deng Xiaoping and Liao Zhongkai, after the Xi'an Incident, when the two parties unanimously resisted Japan and turned their guns on the outside world.
In terms of generations, Liao Chengzhi called Chiang Ching-kuo an old brother, which is also a matter of course, Liao Chengzhi wanted to go to Taiwan once and talk with Chiang Ching-kuo face-to-face.
Chiang Ching-kuo was angry and categorically refused Liao Chengzhi's visit to Taiwan; when he was interviewed by this reporter, he explicitly rejected the third Kuomintang-Communist cooperation, and he repeated the same cliché, picking up a remark by his father Chiang Kai-shek and smearing communism.
Anger turns to anger, and Chiang Ching-kuo also knows very well that the mainland now hopes that the people on both sides of the strait will have more contacts, and this will certainly be beneficial to Taiwan's economy.
In addition to the economy, there is also politics, chiang ching-kuo naively fantasized that if the people on both sides of the strait deepened exchanges, Taiwan's travel to the mainland, the mainland's tourism to Taiwan, and one after another, taiwan's influence on the mainland could be enhanced, and then the so-called "democracy and freedom" could be stimulated.
In fact, Deng Xiaoping on our side, for these ideas of Chiang Ching-kuo, can be said to be the Chinese Communist Party, which knows the roots and is confident, how can it be afraid of this set?
The above is the historical background of the "cross-strait three links," and if this matter is compared to a big drama, Deng Xiaoping is the chief architect of the stage.
Let's talk about the last words first: The three direct links between the two sides of the strait are only the beginning, and if Chiang Ching-kuo can live for another ten years, the next step is cross-strait reunification... History, however, does not have as many ifs.
Deng Xiaoping was the first to show goodwill, and in 1981, he sent people to repair Chiang Kai-shek's former residence and ancestral tomb.
As mentioned above, Chiang Ching-kuo was born in Fenghua Xikou, and during the War of Resistance Against Japan, his mother Mao Fumei also died tragically under the bombardment of the Japanese Kou and was ripped out of the ruins
(Chiang Ching-kuo wrote an inscription for his mother, vowing to avenge the Japanese)
Chiang Ching-kuo was a great filial piety with his grandmother and birth mother, and after the mainland repaired Chiang Kai-shek's former residence and ancestral tomb, a group of photos were taken immediately.
In this big drama, Deng Xiaoping was the general director, and Liao Chengzhi seemed to be the protagonist on the stage, and then sent someone to send the group of photos to Chiang Ching-kuo in Taipei.
To sum up, Chiang Ching-kuo is hostile to the mainland and extremely vigilant.
How did Chiang Ching-kuo let go of his hostility? First, he admired Deng Xiaoping for the mainland's reform and opening up; second, Chiang Kai-shek always believed that the motherland was inseparable; third, at that time, Taiwan's economy was developed and the mainland was still backward.
And deng xiaoping, long before the reform and opening up, he said a few years ago: "Beijing is ready to negotiate with Taipei..."
After Chiang Ching-kuo saw the sincerity and boldness of Deng Xiaoping on the mainland, he gradually let go of the hostility in his heart. Since the KmT and the Communists want to negotiate, at this time they need to have an intermediary to pass the word back and forth between the two sides of the strait.
Chiang Ching-kuo believes that the most suitable candidate to be an intermediary is naturally Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who is the best choice, and the relations between the two sides are very good.
Prior to this, whenever Lee Kuan Yew came to Taiwan, he would have a long talk with Chiang Ching-kuo, each time for several hours, and the two naturally talked about China's reunification.
As for Lee Kuan Yew and Deng Xiaoping, the relationship was naturally very good, and when Deng Xiaoping was carrying out reform and opening up, he learned a lot from Singapore's experience.
Years ago, Deng Xiaoping asked Lee Kuan Yew to help convey his greetings to his classmate Chiang Ching-kuo at Sun Yat-sen University.
That is to say, Lee Kuan Yew has long been moving around the strait, and he is well aware of the importance of cross-strait relations.
On September 26, 1984, China and the United Kingdom reached an agreement on the return of Hong Kong, which seemed to have become a foregone conclusion of the policy of "one country, two systems" and would be implemented in Hong Kong in the future.
Chiang Ching-kuo naturally saw these major events in his eyes, so in 1986, he met Lee Kuan Yew in Taiwan, and the two of them had an in-depth conversation.
It was also on this day that Chiang Ching-kuo told Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore about his overall plan, and the two exchanged views with each other to correct deficiencies. This has also laid the foundation for the future and the three links between the two sides of the strait.
On October 14, 1987, tens of thousands of Taiwanese began applying to visit relatives on the mainland on the other side, which is exactly what Chiang Ching-kuo wanted to see.
Chiang Ching-kuo's idea is obviously very naïve, and he hopes that after the Taiwanese go to the mainland, they will be able to change the political system of the CCP from within the mainland. He believes that the reason is very simple: the mainland is not as rich as Taiwan, and if you want to be as rich as Taiwan, then change the system. Numerous well-known facts and Chiang Ching-kuo's expectations have proved to be the exact opposite.
Cross-strait reunification seems to be the trend of the times, and Chiang Ching-kuo also wants to speed up this process, but the biggest mistake in his life is to reuse Lee Teng-hui ... When he was seriously ill in his later years, he said that he had seen the wrong person.
On 13 January 1988, Chiang Ching-kuo died of illness in Taipei, and cross-strait reunification suddenly became complicated and difficult.
Deng Xiaoping said: "The Kuomintang and the Communist Party have had two experiences of cooperation in the past. I don't believe that there will be no third cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, but unfortunately jingguo died too early...".
If Chiang Ching-kuo were still alive, cross-strait reunification would by no means be as difficult as it is today.