Familiar with history can always make people feel a lot of truth in other people's stories. For example, the character we are going to tell today, his story is enough to alert everyone's life, he ruled in Ningxia for 17 years and is known as "The King of Ningxia" Ma Hongkui, his life is full of legends.
Ma Hongkui is a sleek man, always able to survive in adversity, and was able to be appointed as a nobleman. During the 17 years in Ningxia, he searched for a lot of money, which caused the people to hate him. After the defeat in 1949, He fled to the United States with three wives and nearly 8 tons of gold. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, it was too difficult to return to China. He had a bleak evening scene in the United States. Before he died, he said four words: I want to go home.
became a beneficiary in the warlord melee
Ma Hongkui was born in 1892, and his father Ma Fuxiang was a big figure who was born in a close relationship with span1, span1 and span2. In his family and environment, Ma Hongkui has been immersed in many ideas about revolution since he was a child, so he wanted to devote himself to the cause of revolution when he grew up.
Relying on a good family background, Ma Hongkui received the advanced education at the time. After graduation, he joined the league . He wanted to join the revolutionary cause. However, in an anti-Qing campaign, Ma Hongkui was unfortunately arrested by the Qing army. Afterwards, he was able to get out of jail smoothly by relying on his father’s management from all sides.
After this incident, his father was worried that he would get into trouble again, so he specially arranged him to join the army as a small officer. Later, Ma Hongkui led his soldiers to participate in the Bai Lang uprising because of the process of encircling and suppressing Bai Lang China was brave and decisive and made great contributions, so after the battle, he was awarded the title of admiral by Yuan Shikai,Follow Yuan Shikai.
After Yuan Shikai's death, relying on his father's relationship with Feng Guozhang, Ma Hongkui was able to continue to serve in the National Government, and the official position continued to rise. It can be said that the road paved by his father for Ma Hongkui is indeed quite smooth. In his career as an official, Ma Hongkui has witnessed too many vicissitudes of the world, and thus learned to be a smooth world. After the outbreak of the war , he devoted himself to Feng Yuxiang as a teacher.
In 1926, Feng Yuxiang was in Wuyuan swearing division . Ma Hongkui actively responded to the call for the Northern Expedition and served as the commander-in-chief, actively cooperating with our party in the Northern Expedition and fighting in Shaanxi, ensuring the victory of the Shaanxi aid campaign. Make great contributions. At that time, Ma Hongkui was deeply influenced by the Communist Party’s thinking in the process of cooperating with the Communist Party, and felt that the Communist Party’s future was limitless. Therefore, when Chiang Kai-shek ordered him to clean up the party, Ma Hongkui was not only unwilling to work, but also risking it. Take the Communist Party member Liu Zhidan and others out of northern Shaanxi.
It can be said that Ma Hongkui is quite smooth in dealing with these things. He leaves a way for others to leave a way for himself. As Chiang Kai-shek's power continued to increase, Ma Hongkui realized that it would be impossible to continue following Feng Yuxiang, so he joined the team that defeated Feng Yuxiang and was entrusted with heavy responsibility by Chiang Kai-shek.
Later, after the war between the Central Plains and broke out, Ma Hongkui thought at the beginning that Chiang Kai-shek might be at a disadvantage with one enemy and many enemies, so he accepted the encouragement of some people and decided to oppose Chiang. Just when he was about to make up his mind, Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling got married. With the support of the two big families of Kong and Song and the addition of many American weapons, Ma Hongkui felt that the odds of victory against Chiang Kai-shek were too small, so he decided to make a countermeasure.
Ma Hongkui secretly found Chiang Kai-shek and gave Chiang Kai-shek the list of those who admonished him against Chiang, so that the anti-Chiang plan had not yet started.It ended with the declaration of bankruptcy. With the credit of this whistleblower, Chiang Kai-shek trusted Ma Hongkui even more.
Relying on his sleek sophistication, Ma Hongkui succeeded in becoming the ultimate beneficiary during the warlord melee. We will find a problem along the way. Ma Hongkui’s method of doing things is to follow whoever is more powerful. The feeling of grass on the wall, and it was this style of doing things that led to Ma Hongkui's later bleak ending.
ruled Ningxia for 17 years, and it was very bad
In 1932, Chiang Kai-shek sent Ma Hongkui to the Communist Party. Ma Hongkui knew that the Communist Party had a serious future, so Chiang Kai-shek did not take it seriously. He was very dissatisfied and sent heavy troops to surround Xinyang, intending to take Ma Hongkui back and clean up. After Ma Hongkui's father Ma Fuxiang learned of the news, he immediately ran around regardless of his illness and pleaded for Ma Hongkui.
After all, Ma Fuxiang was ill and he was very old. When he was about to go to Peking, he unfortunately passed away in the middle of the illness. This incident had a great impact on Chiang Kai-shek. Since Ma Fuxiang was also a politically influential figure, Chiang Kai-shek felt that if Ma Fuxiang died and continued to clean up Ma Hongkui, others would definitely think he was too stingy, so Chiang Kai-shek recalled the team that captured Ma Hongkui and appointed Ma Hongkui as the Ningxia government. Chairman, allow him to enter Ningxia with the troops of two regiments.
In fact, Chiang Kai-shek’s appointment was mainly to show his own atmosphere. He did not really want to let Ma Hongkui go, because he only allowed Ma Hongkui to bring two regiments into Ningxia. Such a small number of people, in the view of Chiang Kai-shek, treat himself Without much impact, however, Chiang Kai-shek underestimated Ma Hongkui's smoothness. He picked out the best soldiers in his army and put them together into two regiments to take away. The remaining old, weak, sick and disabled had no fighting power at all.
In other words, although Ma Hongkui only brought two regiments to station in Ningxia, because these people are elite, the fighting power still cannot be underestimated. It is with these foundations that Ma Hongkui ruled Ningxia for 17 years. During this period, He completely became the "Emperor of the Earth" in Ningxia, searching for the people in Ningxia,He earns a lot of money and is called the "king of Ningxia" by people.
So how does Ma Hongkui search the people? The most important manifestation is that he appointed all important positions in Ningxia as his cronies. In this way, he can monopolize all walks of life in Ningxia. Even the education industry, the only non-monopoly at the beginning, also passed Ma Hongkuiwu. After squeezing out the Director of Education for the second time, he successfully realized his ambitions. Since then, Ma Hongkui has completely monopolized all walks of life in Ningxia.
Even during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when the people were living in dire straits, Ma Hongkui still did not give up on searching for the people. He used the reputation of recruiting soldiers to recruit troops and demanded donations from the people. In the name of rebellion, Ma Hongkui has accumulated considerable wealth in Ningxia by these brutal and inhumane means. By the time he fled to the United States in 1949, he had already possessed nearly 8 tons of gold. The degree of wealth can be imagined.
Of course, it is precisely because of Ma Hongkui's ills during his 17 years in Ningxia. The people hated him so much that he laid the groundwork for his later bleak ending. Many things are not without good and evil, but the time has not come. That's all, the evil causes Ma Hongkui planted will eventually bear evil results.
I said before my death: I want to go home
In 1949, Liberation War had achieved great victory, and the Northwest region was also led by Peng Dehuai to achieve the ultimate liberation. Ma Hongkui caused Chiang Kai-shek because of the defeat in the Northwest region. After Chiang Kai-shek and others fled to Taiwan, Ma Hongkui also applied to go to Taiwan by himself, but was rejected by Chiang Kai-shek and dismissed him, leaving him completely powerless.
When in power, Ma Hongkui can do anything wrong. Now there is nothing left. If he continues to stay in Ningxia, he may be killed by the people. Therefore, after careful consideration, Ma Hongkui plans to flee. The United States, but at that time Chiang Kai-shek still sent people to monitor Ma Hongkui’s every move,It is not easy for him to escape to the United States.
Ma Hongkui came up with a sophisticated plan in order to be able to escape to the United States. He first sent his sick aunt Liu Xianxia to Hong Kong to see a doctor, and then he asked Chiang Kai-shek for leave to visit his aunt in Hong Kong. After arriving in Hong Kong, he invited a friend. Chennault helped with the "Republic of China Passport", created some false information, and fled to the United States with three aunts and nearly 8 tons of gold on the grounds of going to the United States for medical treatment.
Ma Hongkui, who originally had so much wealth, should be able to spend his old age in the United States, but what happened later completely exceeded Ma Hongkui's expectations. Not long after living in the United States, Ma Hongkui became old and sick, and handed over his property to the "secretary wife" Zou De to take care of it. However, Zou Deyi fell in love with a Chinese-American professor and eventually abandoned with a large amount of property. Ma Hongkui followed the professor, and Ma Hongkui's fortune instantly decreased a lot.
Later, Ma Hongkui opened a farm with his little property, and spent the rest of his time. In his later years, Ma Hongkui always hoped to return to the motherland, but every time he thought of this question, he would think about another question." Do the people of Ningxia still hate me?"
Conclusion
In 1970, Ma Hongkui died of illness in Los Angeles, USA. Before he died, he kept saying a word in his mouth: "I want to go home, I want to go home", just Unfortunately, sometimes, once you leave, it is difficult to come back again. Some things, once done, you have to bear the corresponding consequences. This is an indisputable fact that has been verified by the history of thousands of years!
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