On August 13, 1927, after Chiang Kai-shek was "forced" to go down, he said the words "If he says a word, why should I step down?" He Yingqin has always been Chiang Kai-shek's most powerful right-hand man, but why did He Yingqin not have any retention in the face of Chiang Kai-shek's good play of going down in the wilderness at a crucial moment? This brings us to another important person, Bai Chongxi of the New Gui clan.
Li Zongren Bai Chongxi
Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were the number one "heroes" of Chiang Kai-shek's "April 1.2" counter-revolutionary coup. After this, they also vigorously supported Chiang Kai-shek in establishing the National Government in Nanjing, and fought against Wang Jingwei. Only then did Chiang Kai-shek ascend to the throne of the coveted "national leader." However, after this, Chiang Kai-shek went so far as to secretly order He Yingqin to disarm Bai Chongxi's department and restrict its development.
Bai Chongxi
Cunning rabbits die, lackeys cook. Chiang Kai-shek's means of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge made He Yingqin have to feel cold. After much hesitation, He Yingqin did not carry out this secret order, and also privately told Bai Chongxi, which also laid the fuse for the Gui clan to force Jiang to step down. At the moment when the Gui clan "urged" Chiang Kai-shek to step down, He Yingqin, who was accustomed to being an old and good man, did not want to offend the Gui clan, nor could he provoke Chiang Kai-shek, so he had to pretend to be deaf and dumb.
He Yingqin
On September 20, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek's "Letter to Huangpu Classmates" published after he went to the wilderness mentioned that the first major reason for the failure was that "the will of all the students could not be unified, the spirit could not be united, and they only had personal intentions regardless of the importance of the group." Some people said that these words were a cryptic accusation against He Yingqin.
Chiang Kai-shek married Soong Mei-ling three months later and became the brother-in-law of Sun Yat-sen, the father of the nation, and with this greatest political capital, coupled with the support of the United States, he once again seized the supreme power of the Kuomintang and continued to lead the Northern Expedition.
Newly married Chiang Kai-shek Soong Mei-ling
As soon as the news came out, all sides embraced electricity, and even Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan, who were not very good at that time, sent congratulatory telegrams at the first time, but Chiang Kai-shek sat firmly in his hometown of Xikou and refused to enter Nanjing for a long time. He was waiting for He Yingqin's support, because He Yingqin represented the entire Huangpu family.
When he was forced into the wilderness, He Yingqin did not support himself. Now, even a letter of support will not be sent. Annoyed, Chiang Kai-shek immediately sent Li Zhonggong, a compatriot of He Yingqin and then secretary of the Executive Committee of the Kuomintang Central Committee, to inquire, and He Yingqin reluctantly agreed.
He Yingqin and Chiang Kai-shek
In January 1928, as soon as He Yingqin's support telegram arrived, Chiang Kai-shek entered Beijing and was officially reinstated as commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army. As soon as Chiang Kai-shek was reinstated, he went straight to the General Headquarters of the Xuzhou First Army, removed He Yingqin from his post as commander-in-chief of the First Route Army, and replaced him with chief of staff of the General Headquarters. This move was brightly ascended and secretly descended, depriving He Yingqin of the actual military power in his hands. After that, He Yingqin no longer had actual military power. It was not until the Xi'an incident that He Yingqin was finally pushed from behind the scenes to the front of the stage.
Chiang Kai-shek Zhang Xueliang before the Xi'an Incident
After the Xi'an Incident, He Yingqin, then minister of the Military and Political Department, was the first to receive the news. Immediately, on the grounds that the situation was unclear, he immediately ordered the cutting off of all communications and transportation between Nanjing and the northwest, and completely blocked the news. For a time, the city of Nanjing was like poking a honeycomb, and rumors were spread one after another.
Curiously, He Yingqin blocked the news not only from the people in Nanjing, but also from the top figures in the Kuomintang. Even Feng Yuxiang, then vice chairman of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, was kept in the dark. It wasn't until noon that Feng Yuxiang learned the news through a phone call from abroad.
The three parties involved in the Xi'an incident
At 11:30 p.m. on December 12, 1936, the Party Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee held an emergency meeting. At the meeting, the opinions of the people were divided into two factions, and Feng Yuxiang and others held that Chiang Kai-shek's safety should be taken as the most important thing and vigorously advocated peace talks. He Yingqin, who usually obeyed Swen, said unusually and very strongly that Zhang and Yang dared to kidnap the supreme commander, had no party discipline and state law, and were like rebels, and it was not enough to zhang Faji without "crusading"!
He Yingqin is indecisive and rarely argues with people, known as "He Mother-in-Law". But this time, he was very unusually tough. Finally, with the support of Dai Jitao, president of the Examination Institute of the National Government, Wu Zhihui, a member of the National Government, and others, the "crusading faction" clearly had the upper hand. The meeting made a preliminary decision: "Zhang Xueliang was dismissed from his post to investigate and handle, and the army should be dispatched by He Yingqin." For a time, He Yingqin, who was in charge of military power, became the core of the city of Nanjing, and just when he was preparing to dispatch troops to attack Xi'an immediately, Song Meiling rushed to Nanjing.
Song Meiling
It is reasonable to say that Chiang Kai-shek, chairman of the Military Commission, was detained, and of course it was Feng Yuxiang, vice chairman, who was in charge. But He Yingqin was good, not only preemptively isolating Feng Yuxiang outside, but also disregarding Chiang Kai-shek's safety and openly contradicting Feng Yuxiang! All this has to make people speculate that He Yingqin has the great intention of taking advantage of the situation and taking Chiang Kai-shek's place in one fell swoop!
So what was He Yingqin thinking in his heart? For more exciting content, please pay attention to tomorrow's big reveal headline number!