Chapter 110 Section 6

In August 1948, when the Kuomintang government issued gold round notes to collect people's wealth, Chiang Ching-kuo was ordered to go to Shanghai to supervise the exchange of private silver, gold, and U.S. banknotes.For this reason, Jiang Jingguo organized a "Youth National Salvation Group" in Shanghai, about thousands of people, who forced the people to exchange money separately, and investigated the merchants for selling luxury goods, arrested people, and sealed up the shops; Actions are affected.In less than three months, the value of the gold round coupons could no longer be maintained, and the people were panicked, the whole country was in a turmoil, and the public opinion was especially disturbing.Seeing that the purpose of seizing people's wealth had been achieved, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the withdrawal of Chiang Ching-kuo's exchange agency for the sake of common people's indignation, and ordered him to lead the "Youth National Salvation Corps" to Hangzhou to wait for orders.

Soon, Chiang Kai-shek "retired" and went to the field.At this time, a batch of surplus materials (arms) from the United States arrived in Shanghai.A group of Whampoa officers were overjoyed when they heard the news, and asked Gu Zhutong, chief of staff, to assign him.Gu asked Chiang Kai-shek for instructions, but Jiang Jian refused to wholesale.It turned out that Chiang Ching-kuo intended to use these beautiful weapons to equip his "Youth National Salvation Corps".Naturally, it was inconvenient for Chiang Kai-shek to send it to Chiang Ching-kuo at once, so he asked Gu Zhutong to transport the batch of ordnance to Quzhou, Zhejiang, and temporarily hand it over to Chiang Ching-kuo for safekeeping.Jiang Jingguo then ordered his deputy head to be responsible for the implementation.Unexpectedly, the deputy commander was a latent Communist Party member. Later, the People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River and rushed to Zhejiang and Jiangxi. These beautiful weapons were transferred to the hands of the People's Liberation Army intact.

The "Youth National Salvation Corps" has nothing to do in Hangzhou.This group of young people was originally a rabble, good and bad, and ran amok in the area of ​​Hangzhou. The residents were overwhelmed by the disturbance, and filed complaints with the Zhejiang Provincial Government.Provincial Chairman Chen Yi has received no less than hundreds of complaints from the people, and she does not know how to deal with them.Shi Jiang Jingguo came from Shanghai to Hangzhou to ask Chen Yi for supplies, and asked Uncle Chen for help.Originally, the provincial government's funds were tight, not to mention that the "Youth National Salvation Corps" was established privately and had not registered with the government. It was not easy to raise supplies for the sudden thousands of people.Chen Yi said sadly to Jiang Jingguo, "Since we have no skills to save the country, we should not spoil our hometown as much as we want. We really have no face to see the elders in Zhejiang." Said: "You can see that the crimes against the "Youth National Salvation Corps" are worse than those of the bandits."

Jiang Jingguo took it and flipped through it for a while, then turned away without saying a word.Chiang Ching-kuo fought tigers in Shanghai and ended in failure. He was depressed and had nowhere to vent.This time, not only did the request fail, but it hit a big snag.The already bad mentality became more and more unbearable.Angrily, he went to Xikou to sue his father, adding fuel and embellishment, saying that Uncle Chen's criticism of the "Youth National Salvation Corps" was like a group of bandits. In this way, Jingguo is the small leader of the bandits, and his father is the big leader of the bandits. .

When Chiang Kai-shek heard the words, without thinking about it, he was furious, and immediately called Chen Yi, scolding Chen Yi bloody.Before Chen Yi could answer, she hung up the phone.The next day, Tang Enbo was called to Xikou, and then rushed to Hangzhou to dismiss Chen Yi and take him into custody. The chairman of Zhejiang Province was replaced by Zhou Lei, commander of the 75th Army of the Tang Ministry. It so happened that at that time there was an idle officer who was a small fellow of Chen Yi and Tang Enbo who went to the provincial government to ask for an errand, but Chen couldn't arrange it, so he wrote a note and introduced him to Tang Enbo for employment at his discretion.Tang fabricated the facts and said that besides the note, Chen Yi also greeted Tang Enbo and said that the general situation is over, there is no need to corrupt the place, it is better to open a gap for the Communist army to cross the river.The idle officer was shot to silence him.This shocking news was disclosed by major newspapers in Shanghai at that time.

Tang Enbo's detention of Chen Yi happened at the end of February 1949, just after Chiang Kai-shek's third resignation in January 1949.The occurrence of this incident made people dumbfounded. Li Zongren, as the acting president, was removed from custody of the chairman of Zhejiang Province who was close at hand. He didn't know until the newspaper published it.Sun Ke, who was the Premier of the Administration at the time, was also unaware of this. Afterwards, Chiang Kai-shek called Sun Ke and asked him to ratify it at the Executive Yuan Council Meeting.Although Tang Enbo performed this matter on the surface, it was all instigated by Chiang Kai-shek behind the scenes.Tang's position is only the commander-in-chief of the Beijing-Shanghai garrison, but he actually arrested and replaced the chairman of the provincial government. This shows that personal arbitrariness under Chiang Kai-shek's autocratic system is bad.

Chen Yi's death is somewhat tragic. On the morning of June 18, 1950, Jiang Dingwen, an old acquaintance who had jointly promoted the "New Life Movement" with Chen Yi in Fujian, appeared in front of Chen Yi. This so-called "Five Tiger Generals" under Chiang Kai-shek was the host who accepted Chen Yi's death sentence .He walked towards Chen Yi sadly and said, "Chairman Chen, please go all the way." Chen Yi smiled lightly and said: "Death, what is there to be afraid of! Today, I have an old friend to send me off, and this old man is enough." Jiang Dingwen was so sad that he couldn't find an explanation for a while, and after a long time, he nodded solemnly and said: "Okay." Then he told the only one The portable cook bathes and changes clothes for Chen.

Chen Yi took it easy, had plastic surgery in the mirror, and tied the tie she had used for many years.Jiang Dingwen ordered the execution sergeant to bring a plate of food and a bottle of fine wine.Chen Yi stood up with a flick of her sleeves: "No need, let's go!" Two soldiers wanted to step forward to support him, but Chen Yi threw his arms, strode out, and got into the designated jeep.After arriving at the execution ground, Chen Yi got out of the car steadily, turned her head and said to the executioner, "Shoot me in the head!" Then she strode forward and said, "The spirit never dies." When Chen Yi died, she was 67 years old.

Another bigwig on the assassination list, Bai Chongxi, escaped Chiang Kai-shek's assassination on the mainland, but he was finally sanctioned by the military in Taiwan. From July 1949 to early 1950, hundreds of thousands of Guangxi troops were annihilated in the hands of the conceited Bai Chongxi. He wandered around Hainan Island. Chiang Kai-shek was afraid that he would go to the Communist Party, so he lied to him and said: "I cannot do without Jiansheng in the military. Brother." Bai Chongxi believed it was true, and went to Taiwan generously.After hearing the news, Li Zongren, who was far away in the United States, said disappointedly: "Jianshenghu fell into Pingyang, and the ending is worrying."

Sure enough, after Bai Chongxi went to Taiwan, he was dismissed from all public positions and was no longer used in any way, not even a "national policy advisor" job. In 1965, Li Zongren and his wife broke through obstacles and arrived in Beijing. They were warmly welcomed and treated with high courtesy by the leaders of the Communist Party of China, the government and the army. Li Zongren's return to China was a fatal blow to Bai Chongxi in Taiwan.Once Li Zongren returned to the mainland, Bai Chongxi's value of restraining Li Zongren disappeared, and Bai Chongxi could not protect himself.It is said that Bai Chongxi also understood the stakes, and said to the people around him in pain: "My neighbors have turned to bandits, and I will have no face to face others in Taiwan from now on."