Chapter 9 Chapter 4 The Last Chance of Life

Zhu Jiahua went into exile in Taiwan from the mainland. Due to factional strife and discord with Chen Cheng, the powerful and increasingly popular chairman of Taiwan Province, Zhu gradually lost Jiang's trust. The post of acting president of the "Academia Sinica" was retained.At this time, the so-called "Academia Sinica", only part of the Institute of History and Philology and the Institute of Mathematics, moved to Taiwan. What a bright and bright appearance. Around 1954, when the site of the "Academia Sinica" in Nangang had a preliminary plan, Zhu Jiahua planned to expand the institute and look for the possibility of establishing other humanities research institutes outside the Institute of History and Philology. The establishment of the Institute of History and the Institute of Ethnology.The reason for this consideration is that, on the one hand, in view of the fact that the Kuomintang regime moved to Taiwan not long ago, it has a sense of urgency and guiding significance to reflect on the understanding and clarification of various intertwined and confusing historical transformation factors since the founding of the Republic of China; on the other hand, the Kuomintang Since the regime uses Taiwan as its base, it cannot be a duckweed in the water or a flower without roots. It must explore various local phenomena in Taiwan. It was crushed by the local Taiwan independence forces, lost power, and found it difficult to gain a foothold.Due to these two important reasons and urgent practical problems, in 1955, the preparatory plan of the two institutes was successfully approved by the authorities and opened.

When the two newly established research institutes dangled like newborn babies and stood up on the turbulent isolated island of Taiwan, the academic and political circles were excited.As a result, a series of Institutes of Physics, Chemistry, Botany and other research institutes were established one after another, and their popularity was comparable to that of Cai Yuanpei when he presided over the work before the Anti-Japanese War.At this critical moment from decline to prosperity, I received the news that Hu Shi wanted to buy land and build a house.Zhu Jiahua also did not dare to conceal and make decisions without authorization, so he reported directly to Chiang Kai-shek.When Jiang heard the news, he said on the spot that he would allocate a piece of land next to the "Academia Sinica" for Hu's real estate to build a house, and the expenses needed would be paid from his own manuscript fees to show his care and respect for Hu.This order made Zhu Jiahua and Li Ji a little embarrassed, but they couldn't refuse.Hu Shi, who was in the United States, was very disturbed when he heard the news. He thought that he was entrusted by his lord to come out to "take a look", but he didn't see anything. With such kindness and kindness, he insisted on purchasing the land with his own money.Just when the two parties were procrastinating for a few houses, real or false, a disaster happened against Zhu Jiahua.

According to Shi Zhangru’s recollection: “In the summer of forty-six years (1957), due to the hot weather, there were no outsiders. Especially on Saturdays and Sundays, colleagues often wore slippers and undershirts to work. On Saturday, August 4th, It was a hot and cloudy day. President Jiang suddenly came to the courtyard with Mrs. Jiang and his entourage after five o'clock in the afternoon. He probably wanted to trouble President Zhu Jiahua. When Jiang and his party arrived at the hospital, the hospital had already closed work. The concierge was locked, and the guards went directly to the office, where they ran into Mr. Yan Gengwang who hadn’t come home yet. Mr. Yan asked a group of people to sit in the conference room first, and then came to me to inform me about this. I just got home and took off my clothes. I put on my clothes and came out. When I arrived at the office, I only saw the backs of President Jiang and his party who had already left the office. I could not entertain them. Who knew that this would be a mistake. "Academia Sinica" has fixed working hours, and "President Jiang" It was already off-duty time when I came to the institute, so I can't say that the 'Academia Sinica' was lazy and didn't go to work. I don't know who said something later, and Dean Zhu Jiahua resigned in November."

Zhu Jiahua's sudden misfortune caused many rumors in the temple and the public, but none of them can be put on the table.Some people say that at an important historical turning point in 1948-1949, when the Kuomintang was over, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and other Guangxi warlords joined forces with Yan Xishan to take the opportunity to support themselves and force Chiang Kai-shek to step down.In desperation, Jiang had no choice but to submit, and Li Zongren acted as president.After Jiang returned to his hometown of Xikou, Fenghua, Zhejiang Province and lived in seclusion for a while, Li, Bai and other warlord groups began to cooperate with various bureaucrats such as Yan Xishan, Zhu Jiahua, Wang Shijie, Zhang Zhizhong, Wu Tiecheng, and assumed the overlord posture of "sleeping on the side of the couch". , forcing Jiang to go into exile abroad, and disappear forever on the Chinese territory.On March 3, 1949, Jiang received a request from Zhang Zhizhong to urge him to go abroad. He was very sad and indignant, and said angrily: "It is okay for them (South Press: Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi) to force me to go to the wild. No! After I step down, I will be an ordinary citizen, and I can live freely anywhere, let alone my hometown."

On March 4, Wu Tiecheng sent Li Weiguo to Xikou again to convey Li Zongren's group's hope that he would go abroad as soon as possible. Li Weiguo was arrested and "decided".Chiang Kai-shek's back luck came here, and Li, Bai and other generations forced the palace to come here. The world is impermanent, and politicians are ruthless.Later, as the Kuomintang army abandoned Nanjing, Li Zongren led government personnel to flee to Guangzhou. On June 12, Yan Xishan became the Premier of the Executive Yuan and Minister of Defense, and Zhu Jiahua was appointed as the Vice President of the Executive Yuan. The new cabinet was used to check the power of Chiang's Kuomintang president.Chiang Kai-shek regarded Zhu Jiahua's actions as a rebellion against himself, so he held a grudge and waited for an opportunity to attack him.

On March 1, 1950, Chiang Kai-shek, who had fled to Taiwan and had just breathed a sigh of relief, was "persuaded" by "National Congress representatives" and people from all walks of life to kick him out of staying in the United States in the name of medical treatment. Li Zongren, who was also under house arrest and did not dare to return to Taiwan (according to the South: the Guangxi army was almost wiped out, and Li has lost his support), formally "reinstated his duties" in the "Presidential Palace" in Taipei to perform his "presidential powers."From then on, he became a "president" for life, and passed on his position to his son Jiang Jingguo.After Chiang Kai-shek "ascended the throne" in Taiwan, Li Zongren, who was far away in New York in the United States, heard the news and made a speech, saying that he was still the "acting president" of the Republic of China and was preparing to return to China to resume his post. Unexpectedly, Chiang violated the Constitution and declared It's amazing.When Chiang Kai-shek saw the newspaper, he immediately implemented countermeasures, and publicly called Li Zongren, ordering him as the "president" to "represent Chiang Kai-shek to visit the U.S. government and the public and return home as soon as possible."Li Zongren was disgraced, and four years later, Chiang Kai-shek, in the name of the constitution, formally dismissed the so-called "vice president" who had long been thrown out of the sky by the people of the country.Li Zongren in the United States stomped his feet and scolded his mother after hearing the news, but not many people are interested in listening to this defeated general and incompetent bureaucrat politician.

Compared with the ignorant Li Zongren, Yan Xishan, who is old and cunning, is much more clever and well-behaved.After Chiang Kai-shek was reinstated, Yan felt bad and took the initiative to resign from Chiang Kai-shek as the "President of the Executive Committee" (Southern Press: January 1950-March 1950, Gu Zhutong succeeded Yan as "Minister of Defense"), and Jiang vainly persuaded him to stay. , was finally approved, and Chen Cheng succeeded as the "President of the Executive Council".From then on, the Chiang regime in Taiwan began to form the "Jiang-Chen System", and Chen Cheng became the second most powerful person in Taiwan after Chiang.After Yan Xishan resigned, he was awarded the two false titles of Senior Minister of the "Presidential Palace" and a member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang.

Zhu Jiahua, who formed a cabinet with Yan Xishan in Guangzhou and served as the vice president of the Executive Yuan, since the defeat of a group of lonely officials of the Nationalist government moved to Taiwan, both the "Presidential Palace" and the "Executive Yuan" have their offices in Jieshouguan, Taipei.Because the "acting president" Li Zongren was still in the United States and could not come to Taiwan to watch the affairs, from February 19, 1950, Zhu Jiahua acted as the "president" power. This was the short moment when Zhu's power reached its peak in his life.According to Li Zongren's recollection: "Zhu Jiahua was a more general-minded person among the party members at that time... In order to maintain the 'silver dollar coupons', he flew to Taiwan twice and asked Jiang for instructions to transport a batch of silver dollars to Guangzhou. This move It can be said that it is purely for the sake of the overall situation, and it is far beyond the reach of Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu brothers. However, Zhu Jiahua may have touched Jiang's taboo because of this, and he has been embarrassed by Chiang several times in Taiwan." Li Zongren's words are generally not bad. He regards Zhu as a dissident and has the heart to clean up.After Chiang re-elected as "President", he knew that Zhu Jiahua, who was once an emperor and a courtier, like Yan Xishan, resigned from the post of vice president of the "Executive Yuan" with self-knowledge, and became a full-time adviser to the "Presidential Palace" and representative of the "Academia Sinica". Dean, to avoid the edge.However, Chiang Kai-shek did not forget that when he was most unlucky, what Zhu did in the previous dynasty that made things worse, he was always brooding and waited for it. In June 1950, the Korean War broke out. The Seventh Fleet of the United States sailed into the Taiwan Strait to prevent the People's Liberation Army from attacking.Under such a situation of deteriorating rapidly, Chiang Kai-shek, who had been holding back all the time, began to surgically attack and eliminate the "rebellion" of the previous dynasty.When Wang Shijie's "Presidential Palace" secretary-general was purged on the charge of "bluffing, cheating, and not fulfilling his duties" (South Press: Some people say that Wang said in front of Jiang, "I will do my best, and I will die later", which angered Chiang Kai-shek. Anger, which means that Wang regarded Jiang and his son as people like Adou, so Wang was dismissed), so he turned his target to Zhu Jiahua.At this time, the relationship between Zhu Jiahua and the hot and powerful Chen Cheng was getting worse and worse, so he accelerated the pace of his being swept out of the KMT power circle.Under the joint attack and pressure of the conspiracies and schemes of various dignitaries, Zhu Jiahua resigned from the position of acting president of the "Academia Sinica" on October 22, 1957, and was resigned on January 11, 1958. After the handover procedure, only a newly hired "National Policy Advisor of the Presidential Palace" was left with an empty crown to wear at home and hang it on the wall to express his nostalgia for the past and lament the impermanence of the world.

After Zhu's resignation, Jiang preferred Hu Shi to return to Taiwan to succeed him. Before Hu could not return for a while, he ordered Li Ji to temporarily act as the dean of the "Academia Sinica".Not long after, the "Academia Sinica" convened a review meeting to elect a new president according to the usual practice. The members of the review committee elected three people, namely Hu Shi, Li Ji, and Li Shuhua.According to Shi Zhangru: "Mr. Hu Shi, who was an ambassador to the United States and the president of Peking University, helped China a lot during the Anti-Japanese War. He was firmly anti-communist politically. The mainland liquidated Mr. Hu in the past 40 years (Republic of China), and Taiwan saw the mainland criticize Hu. , so he praised Hu and made Taiwan and Mr. Hu co-operate. If the mainland did not liquidate Mr. Hu, the president would not be at ease with his liberal stance. Since the authorities intend to arrange for Mr. Hu to be the president of the Academia Sinica, they will naturally wait for it , Mr. Zhu must resign."

Shi's memories once again confirmed that Chiang Kai-shek had long wanted to deal with Zhu Jiahua, but he was unable to do so without a proper excuse. At this time, Hu Shi proposed to go back to Taiwan to build a house and write a book, and Jiang was determined to use his own manuscript fee to do it. Fulfillment, which seems to be contrary to the rules, is actually a signal of defeating Zhu Fuhu.Zhu Jiahua may have been kept in the dark about this signal, or may have been alerted.But no matter what the situation is, it is not important at this time. What is important is the question of when Zhu will step down.When Chiang Kai-shek got impatient.So he seized the non-issue of the "lazyness" of the "Academia Sinica" personnel and fired at Zhu.Zhu was overwhelmed and fell to the ground, and the "Hu Criticism Movement" launched by the CCP in the mainland prompted Chiang to make a counterattack gesture and made a clear statement.In this way, Hu Shi, like the timely rain Song Jiang who was moored in Liangshan, successfully became the head of the "Academia Sinica" who had fallen into the isolated island of Taiwan.It can be said that "when the time comes, the heaven and the earth will help, and the heroes will not be free when they are transported". Such a tangled fate is beyond the expectation of Zhu Jiahua and Hu Shi himself.