Chapter 61 The third section discusses Chiang Ching-kuo

Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo and his sons succeeded each other on the island, and Yan Jiagan was inserted in the middle, which was a deliberate arrangement, just as a buffer.The Yan family from southern Jiangsu is obviously one of the highest-ranking officials in the hometown of Wu Nong's soft language in Chinese history, but he is making wedding clothes for others.The most interesting thing is that his personal shape is exactly like a "master tailor" in Shanghai dialect.Chiang Kai-shek has a lot of people, so he naturally took a fancy to this little technocrat with neither political ambition nor political strength, and promoted him to be his "Vice President".Chiang Kai-shek died before the end of his fifth term, and Yan "Vice President" succeeded him.The fearful "President" Yan, under the "instructions" of Dean Jiang and the chairman of the party, managed to wait until the next "presidential" election in 1978, and immediately gave up the talents, and urgently called Chiang Ching-kuo's Shengde.This reminds us of the abdication of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. "Three Kingdoms" said: "Emperor Han, with the public's hope in Wei, summoned a group of officials and officials to report to the high temple, and envoy Zhang Yin, who is also a doctor of imperial history, to enshrine Ershou's Zen throne." ( See the first volume of the Chinese Punctuation Book, page 62) If we replace "Handi" with "President Yan" and change "Wei" to "Jiang", the same applies.The next thing is that Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty is still among the emperors of the Han Dynasty, Yan Jiagan only completed Chiang Kai-shek's fifth term, and the sixth term was Chiang Ching-kuo, not even a nominal term.

Jiang Nan pointed out in "The Biography of Chiang Ching-kuo" that in order to change his image, after taking some measures to introduce "young talents" and "benefits without cost", "immediately became famous and had a new look." (See page 234) As early as 1973, Xie Wensun, an overseas scholar, looked at Taipei from a distance in the "University Magazine" in Taipei, calling Chiang Ching-kuo a "great statesman" and "bringing a new era to Taiwan's political leadership." A new and bright new symbol". (See the July issue of the magazine "Looking from Overseas: What Does Chiang Ching-kuo Symbolize in Taiwan?") After Chiang Ching-kuo became the "President", the international situation has become worse and worse, and the opposition forces on the island are fierce. Some reforms have been made, some controls have been loosened, and all of this is dragging a donkey up a hill.In this way, when he died at the beginning of 1988 when he took office as the seventh "president", there were many praises at home and abroad, and some even praised him as "a great statesman unprecedented in Chinese history".

In fact, from 1939 when Chiang Ching-kuo served as the administrative inspector of the fourth administrative region of southern Jiangxi to his death in 1949 when he fled to Taiwan, the actual China he ruled was only 23,000 square kilometers in southern Jiangxi; In Taiwan, it is only 36,000 square kilometers, accounting for only 2/1000 to 3/1000 of the whole of China. It can be seen that there is a huge difference in the comprehensive rule of China.As the Director of the Political Department of the Youth Army, the Northeast Diplomatic Commissioner, and the Deputy Director of the Office of the Supervisor of Economic Control in Shanghai, he contributed to the traitorous "Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship" and harmed the whole of China. His other influences were only temporary and local. It's all negative, and there's nothing to talk about.To praise him from the point of view of China as a whole is naturally out of proportion.Tang Degang compared him to Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and other rulers of the entire China, which can be described as incomprehensible; Xu Zhuoyun said that "Mr. Jingguo's contribution has a glorious status in Chinese history." "Thousands of Years" because he surpassed Shi Jingtang, Jiang and his sons ceded Outer Mongolia to the Soviet Union, which harmed the whole of China. Compared with Jin Shi Jingtang who ceded Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures to Khitan five generations later, the damage was more than two or three hundred years old. No less.From the perspective of the proportion and history of China as a whole, Chiang Ching-kuo has nothing to say about it. May I ask whether the small imperial court he has been in Taiwan for forty years is still capable of "brilliant for thousands of years"?From the point of view of objective historians, Chiang Ching-kuo's achievements in running a small court in Taiwan for forty years are actually quite problematic.

There are two themes of the praisers, one is that Chiang Ching-kuo has created an "economic miracle", and the other is that he has created a "political miracle".With regard to the former, the error of the Gothists is exalted; with regard to the latter, it is nonsense.The development of Taiwan's economy is due to all the people on the island, not to Chiang Ching-kuo himself. Even if it is convenient to talk about personal credit, Yin Zhongrong and others are among the top dozens, and it is not Chiang Ching-kuo's turn.Chiang Ching-kuo studied in the Soviet Union and knew the GPU well, but he knew nothing about the economy. His economic policies were actually demon-possessed.There are so-called "petit mals" and "grand mals" in medicine. "Petit seizure" represents a kind of epilepsy (Epilepsy) attack, the symptoms are no general or local violent convulsions, and the time is very short, no more than a few seconds; "major seizures" are the opposite, the symptoms are general convulsions and loss of consciousness.The ancients did not know that this kind of attack was due to the comprehensive excessive discharge of cerebral cortical nerve cells, but thought it was demonic possession.The original meaning of the word in French is the great devil, that is why it comes.Chiang Ching-kuo "fighted tigers" in Shanghai 40 years ago. He called in the "Kanjian Brigade" and mobilized six military and police units (the Financial Management Bureau, the Police Station, the Inspection Office of the Police Department, the Gendarmerie, Jiangwan, and the Lianglu Police Station). To solve economic problems, it is the trick of demon possession.Can the laws of economics be suppressed by the police?Don't think that Chiang Ching-kuo's ignorant and reckless actions were just 40 years ago. In the early 1970s, Chiang Ching-kuo also claimed that he had "absolute confidence in the success" of the "price-limiting measures".As recently as 1986, the Kuomintang party newspaper "Central Daily" called on "everyone to play the ideal role of 'price police'".Forty years of Taiwan's economy, in fact, is advancing under the possession of the devil, just like the old man who rests on the young and refuses to get off in the fairy tale of "Arabian Nights", he is really a big burden in the progress .Without this burden, Taiwan's economic development today would not stop there.Therefore, when discussing Taiwan's economic development, wouldn't it be better to focus on the absence of Chiang Ching-kuo, rather than having him.In fact, given Taiwan’s own conditions, the foundations of the Japanese colonial era, a large amount of American aid, and the gold and talents brought by the mainland, economic development has been a matter of course for forty years. Leaders Certain results can be achieved with middle-class capital and inaction. Gu Hongming ridiculed Yuan Shikai, saying that all things in the world need knowledge except for the old lady who pours the toilet. However, it does not take much to develop Taiwan's economy to the present level. Advanced knowledge, of course, the knowledge of demon possession is not acceptable.U.S. President Harry S. Truman said that there are at least 200 people in the U.S. and some presidents would do as well as him. Looking at Taiwan's economic development, one should know that among the 200 mothers, there must be grass.Today, the credit of the world belongs to one person, and the beauty of Chiang Ching-kuo is so great. I am afraid that the two hundred mothers in Taiwan will not accept it?

As for saying that Chiang Ching-kuo created a "political miracle", it is too far away.In fact, Chiang Ching-kuo is the real scourge of Taiwan politics. The extent of the "political" scourge can be called a "miracle".Since Chiang Kai-shek's resignation in 1949, although Chiang Ching-kuo was nominally the chairman of the Taiwan Provincial Party Committee, the "Director of the General Political Department of the Ministry of National Defense", and a member of the Kuomintang Central Reform Committee, he was actually responsible for the "Political Action Committee". Responsibility, the actual responsibility of the "Presidential Confidential Office Information Group", commanding all party and government secret service agencies, and later nominally "Director of the National Salvation Corps", "Deputy Secretary-General of the National Defense Council", and "Counselor of Retired Officers and Soldiers". The chairman of the committee", the "political member of the Executive Yuan", the "deputy minister of national defense", the "minister", the "vice president of the executive yuan" and the "president", so that in the end he became the "president", no matter who he was Whatever he does in name, all the party, government, secret service and intelligence agencies in his heart are under his command and are actually responsible for all of them.In other words, Taiwan has been under 40 years of terror, 40 years of severe punishment and military martial law, 40 years of no guarantee of personal freedom, 40 years of persecution of freedom of speech and publication, and 40 years of restriction of freedom of assembly and association. , 40 years of high pressure on human rights, 40 years of democratic constitutionalism failed to thrive, 40 years of people with lofty ideals serving prison terms, heroes suffer, relatives look at their eyes, children feel sad, veterans cannot return to their homes...the formation of these situations , Chiang Kai-shek is definitely the culprit, and Chiang Ching-kuo is also the culprit, and in terms of execution, he bears more actual responsibility than his father.Especially in the past twelve years after his father's death, he shouldered an inescapable and absolute responsibility.Therefore, Chiang Ching-kuo is the real person in charge of the 40-year "Ice Age" in Taiwan, the 40-year freeze and retrogression in freedom, democracy, human rights, and constitutionalism.

After 40 years of strongman rule, the real person in charge, in the months before his death, in the midst of the disease, and under the repeated pressure of the Americans, only pretended.There are some gimmicks such as loosening party bans, reporting bans, and visiting relatives, and some dramas of lifting the law without changing the medicine. , using laws and regulations such as "violating the police" and "disrupting order", the scale is unprecedented), and has been praised at home and abroad, and regarded as the patron saint of freedom, democracy, human rights, and constitutionalism. It can be seen that Xia Zhiqing's so-called "the government has embarked on the road of democratic constitutionalism under the leadership of Mr. Jiang Jingguo", Yu Yingshi's so-called "he has become a symbol of China's democratic future", and Yang Liyu's so-called "Mr. Jingguo...created...a highly democratic situation" , Zheng Zhuyuan's so-called "Without Mr. Jingguo's wise leadership, it would never be so brilliant", Zhang Xucheng's so-called "has made a great contribution to Taiwan's democratization...", Dai Guohui's so-called "Mr. Jingguo has always been committed to promoting "Democratic reform", Lin Yusheng's so-called "President Chiang's status in history is no more than promoting democratic reform", Hu Ping's so-called "Jiang Jingguo has made great contributions to the promotion of Taiwan's democratization", etc., are intellectuals' beliefs. Flattering indiscriminately.

Some people may say: "Singing prostitutes have a good evening scene, and the fireworks for the rest of their lives will not hinder them; if a chaste woman loses her head, she will live in poverty for half her life." , praise praise.However, we believe that it is fine to praise anyone, but it must not deviate from the facts and the truth. Chiang Ching-kuo has spent 40 years of hard work, and only a few months before his death came a little gimmick. How can we take it lightly?This "sound prostitute" only announced after 40 years of being coquettish (note: it was just an announcement) that the old lady had quit her job. This kind of "conformity" in the last few months is too late and too short, right?

Amid the flattery, one of the most absurd claims is: Chiang Ching-kuo is the greatest leader in Chinese history.So what if Jiang Jingguo is Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty?Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty loved benevolence and righteousness inwardly, and three years before his death, he apologized to the Chinese people who had been ruled by him for fifty years, saying: "Since I came to the throne, I have acted rebelliously and made the world miserable, and I cannot regret it. From now on, anyone who hurts the people and wastes the world, let it go." Although Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty said so, in history, he did not ignore his 50-year disasters to China just because he felt guilty—History The conclusion is absolutely unambiguous and absolutely unceremonious.You can say that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty imposed heavy punishments and taxes, believed in gods and monsters, traveled endlessly, used military force, expelled the Xiongnu from the north, connected the Western Regions to the west, flattened Korea from the east, and set up nine counties in the south, because these are all true, but you cannot say that he was A peace-loving benevolent gentleman; you can say that Chiang Ching-kuo has imposed heavy punishments, believed in gods and monsters, paraded excessively, practiced martial law, sold Outer Mongolia to the north, passed old beauty to the west, flattered Japan to the east, and linked to Singapore in the south, because this is also true , but you cannot say that he is the patron saint of freedom, democracy, human rights, and constitutionalism.On the contrary, his life and deeds are the insulters and damagers of these great words. Praising him in this regard is the greatest blasphemy against freedom, democracy, human rights, and constitutionalism.A person steps on your foot for forty years, and finally his precious foot is raised, but you praise him instead. What kind of political ethics is this?What is right and wrong in the world?To praise, you should praise any objective pressure and change that makes his feet high, not his feet.As for the political prisoners Chen Yingzhen, Wang Tuo, Bo Yang and others, the flattery and flattery they made after Jiang Jingguo's death was even more out of character. , Now it is proud of chasing stink and not ashamed, it is too forgetful.

Chiang Ching-kuo is not only the real person in charge of Taiwan's freedom, democracy, human rights, and constitutionalism, but also has another "miracle" in terms of "political miracles", that is, he, like his father, does not respect the political system , engage in personal dictatorship.Chiang Kai-shek was born as a gangster in blue Shanghai, and Jiang Jingguo was born as a red Soviet cadre. Their understanding of the political system was limited. The activities of small organizations such as "Yan Lian", "Iron Blood to Save the National Assembly", "Zhongzheng Institute" and so on, are all following the line of disrespecting the system and engaging in personal dictatorship.This made Taiwan's political situation, until the day of the death of Chiang and his son, still stuck in the characteristics of no democracy within the party, no separation of party and government, and one-man leadership.Kim Yoo-ki said, "Mr. Jingguo has fulfilled his responsibility in the process of democratic transformation, and played a positive role as a strongman." This is all false flattery.In fact, the "positive function" of the entire work of Jiang and his son is against the "transformation of democracy". The father is the "president" and the son is the "premier". What kind of "transformation of democracy" is this?What kind of "democratic transformation" is this called "democratic transformation"?When Chiang Kai-shek is the "president", it is the "presidential system", when Chiang Ching-kuo is the "premier", it is the "cabinet system", and when he is the "president", it is the "presidential system". What is this "democratic transformation"?Precisely because all transformations are undemocratic, everything is adapted to the convenience of this strongman rule and distorts the system.For example, Chiang Kai-shek had no military exploits, and he jumped from a senior soldier to a major general in the army. What kind of system is this?Chiang Ching-kuo has no military exploits and has never fought a war. What kind of system is this to be promoted from a commoner to a second-level general in the army?However, the Jiangs and their sons are openly star-studded, and they don't think it is different, nor do others dare to think it is different. There is no other reason.Lu Qiao said that Chiang Ching-kuo is "a leader who does not engage in a cult of personality", and Xu Yiming (an ignorant professor at Fudan University in Shanghai) said that Chiang Ching-kuo "does not engage in a cult of personality".Chiang Ching-kuo not only practiced personality cult, he was the essence of the threshold, and even surpassed Chiang Kai-shek.Chiang Kai-shek's personality cult made the people fear him; Chiang Ching-kuo's personality cult made the people confuse his relatives.Wu Sanlian, a Taiwanese who claims to have no party or affiliation, even said that Chiang Ching-kuo "benevolent people and love things, the country deserves credit"; Taiwanese politician Zhu Gaozheng said that Chiang Ching-kuo "is a respectable national leader". Its origin is not unrelated to Chiang Ching-kuo's "Show for the People".And this "show of being close to the people" is just Jiang Jingguo's personal statement.

Chiang Ching-kuo's "People's 'Show'" can be regarded as the most exciting performance in his life.During the four years from 1978 to 1981 alone, he went to the countryside 197 times and "have fun with the people" for 155 days.For example, he personally visited the mountain 21 times while driving the east-west highway; like Toyota Village, which is rich in watermelons, he visited five times in five consecutive years; he visited Foguang Mountain in the south for four times; thank. ...Praises and praises have repeatedly praised Jiang Jingguo's way of governing, but they don't know that this is a small way of governing rather than a great way.The avenue of political philosophy in China is: "Huainanzi" said "the most important thing is benefit, and the most important thing is violence". "Heavy" is not easy. If the ruler does not easily give small favors, it is the same as not easily doing bad things.The ruler must restrain himself and achieve the three nos of "wisdom", "incompetence" and "inaction". "Being ignorant, one can make all wisdom; incapable, so one can make all capable; inaction, one can make all do." It is precisely because the ruler himself does not show off his intelligence, does not show off his ability, and does not make decisions beyond the bounds. Only in this way can the masses play their responsibilities and talents and not be slaves.But Chiang Ching-kuo went the other way, he wanted to personally give small favors, and he left the government to himself.As a result, whether a seven-storey Ciyun Temple is considered illegal construction, whether a nine-hole farm should be demolished, whether a Mid-Autumn Festival should be a flexible holiday, whether a Xiaoliuqiu power plant should be salvaged and repaired, all must be "leaders" In the end, the "leader" will always be "tired all his life" and "follow the public with his strength". He is exhausted to death, but his slaves are extremely idle.

The emperor of the Han Dynasty asked the minister Zhou Bo about the administrative affairs. Zhou Bo was not clear, blushing and sweating, expressing ashamed; the emperor of the Han Dynasty asked the minister Chen Ping about the administrative affairs, but Chen Ping said he did not know, and asked professional administrators for these details. , don’t ask me, I’m a minister and I’m in charge of major affairs.Not only did Chen Ping not blush and sweat, but he was also contented.Chen Ping is the minister of the country, how can the minister care about the shit?Taking care of things will naturally affect the time and energy to do big things.Jiang Jingguo visited Dianji Palace on Rensan Road in Keelung City four times before his death, and played chess with the abbot twice. What is this for?A small temple, is it worth exploring the secrets of the people in this way to understand?It's not impossible to explore people's secrets, but if this happens frequently and out of order, what else is it if it's not a "show"?The records say that when Chiang Ching-kuo drove across the east-west highway, "he personally took risks, went deep into the barren mountains, overcame thorns and thorns, and went to survey the route." In fact, this was the work of an engineer from the District Highway Bureau. Why bother "big politicians" to do it himself?If this is the right way to govern, what should we do once we "counterattack the mainland" and "recover the mainland"?Taiwan, which accounts for three-thousandths of China, is built up, and Chiang Ching-kuo will be so busy that it will come to this point. Once nine hundred and ninety-seven per thousand comes, how can he get someone who can take care of the details and be able to separate himself?What's more, if Jiang Jingguo's way of governing can really solve the problem, that's all.In fact, he went door-to-door to express condolences during the Yongan coal mine disaster in 1980. Eight years later, the miners were still miserable; Fifteen years later, the female prisoner is still in prison.Spend more time going to the mountains and seas to do "people-friendly 'shows'", how about doing more people-friendly things behind closed doors?Solving the problem is worse than condolences to the lonely and suffering. Chiang Ching-kuo's diligence in government and love of the people, how much is it to get rid of hypocrisy? Our conclusion is: Jiang Jingguo has been busy all his life, but he has never understood the way of Jingguo.Now that he is dead, Qiu Hongda said, "It is a great loss to the country." I really don't know what the "country" "lost"?In 1950, Chiang Ching-kuo said: "Rejuvenation lives in China, and failure dies in Taiwan." His death in Taiwan now proves that his prophecy came true and that his failure was true.In the past forty years, the Jiang family had a good opportunity to calmly build a showcase of freedom and democracy, but they were too selfish, and they died first and then died, laughing at the world.In 1958, Chiang Ching-kuo said that they would "never follow the old path of the Zheng family's failures." In fact, they were not as good as Zheng Chenggong. Zheng Chenggong at least counterattacked to Nanjing and passed on to the third generation.Chiang Ching-kuo's announcement that "people from the Chiang family cannot and will not serve as president in the future" was a good story for a while, but why didn't he stop himself from being the second-generation president?Wouldn't that be more beautiful?He had an opportunity for forty years, another thirty years, another twenty years, and another twelve years after Lao Tzu's death. He was obsessed with it and lost it.In the end, the words of a dying person and being hopeless, even if they are words of repentance at the end of life, cannot escape the ruthless conclusion of history.