Chapter 126 destiny

Pu Jiangqing, Chen Yinke’s assistant at Tsinghua National University and later acting director of Tsinghua’s Chinese Department, said: “At that time, there was a clear distinction between left and right, and it was difficult for middlemen to gain a foothold. He (Chen Yinke) did not oppose communism, but he did not approve of Russian-style communism.” This record , which is very similar to what Chen Yinke talked with his student Shi Quan at Yanda University in Chengdu during the Anti-Japanese War. This idea accompanied Chen's life. In December 1948, when the War of Liberation in Beiping started, Chen Xueping and others' "rescue scholars" plan also started. When Pu Jiangqing told Chen Yinke about this, Chen only said that he knew about it.Then Hu Shi approached Deng Guangming, an anonymous secretary in the President's Office of Peking University, and asked eagerly if he could find Chen Yinke. He said that the Nanjing government had called yesterday and said that it would send a special plane to Nanyuan Airport today to "rescue" Hu and Chen Yinke and other famous professors from leaving.Deng Guangming found Chen Yinke's sister-in-law (Chen Shizeng's widow), repeated Hu Shi's entrustment to Chen, and asked if he would leave Pingnan with Hu Shi.Chen Yinke replied quite simply: "Let's go. Many days ago, Chen Xueping had a special plane to pick me up. He is a bureaucrat of the Kuomintang, and he was on the plane of the Kuomintang. I will never go with him! Now I am going with Mr. Hu. I feel at ease. .”

That night, Deng Guangming went to Dongchang Hutong to say goodbye to Chen Yinke. Chen said to Deng meaningfully the following passage: "Actually, Mr. Hu must leave because of his political relationship; Everyone in the communist-ruled area eats millet, and I can’t bear it if I want to eat millet too. Besides, I’m sick and I can’t leave American medicine. So I have to go too.” In the early morning of December 15, 1948, Hu and Chen rushed to Zhongnanhai. In the afternoon, they changed to Fu Zuoyi's car in front of the Qinzheng Palace. They passed through Xuanwumen and arrived at Nanyuan Airport. They flew out of Beiping and arrived at the Ming Palace in Nanjing. Airport.When Hu, Chen and their families boarded the plane, Wang Shijie, Zhu Jiahua, Fu Sinian, Hang Liwu, Jiang Jingguo and others went to the airport to greet them.In the chaotic world, Chen Yinke only stayed in Nanjing for one night, and the next day he quietly went to Shanghai with his family and stayed at the home of Yu Dawei's younger brother Yu Dagang.A month later, Chen Yinke did not set foot on the ship to Taiwan, but transferred to Guangzhou Lingnan University to teach. Since then, he has stayed in the humid and warm land of Lingnan all his life.

According to Yu Yingshi, a Chinese-American scholar and "comrade of the Kuomintang" (in Li Ao's language), Chen Yinke and his wife Tang Yuan, who lived in Lingnan, had a fierce dispute over whether to stay or stay. Tang Yuan insisted on leaving, so he went to Hong Kong alone and lived in the "A private hotel without a signboard", Chen Xujing later sent someone to welcome it back after doing work.Afterwards, Chen Yinke deeply admired his wife's foresight, and regretted that he did not seek to leave early. "Liu Rushi's Biography" is Chen's confession.However, according to the research of Chinese-American scholar Wang Rongzu, Chen and his wife did not dispute whether to stay or not, so Yu's conclusion can only be classified as nonsense.