- [Preface]
In early September 1949, "Ningma" Ma Hongkui fled to Chongqing by plane. At this time, he was very anxious. The Ningxia War Zone was about to be defeated. He wanted to take another shot, but after receiving the news of Ningxia's liberation, he knew that he would never have a chance to turn over again. After
, Ma Hongkui called him sick and could not avoid anyone.
Until one day, a group of people suddenly came near the Lianjia Garden where Ma Hongkui lived, surrounding the Lianjia Garden. After a while, Jiang Jingguo and Qian Dajun appeared in Lianjia Garden one after another and told Ma Hongkui: Jiang Kaishi will visit you soon.
Ma Hongkui couldn't help but feel panic when he learned about it. As soon as he saw Chiang Kai-shek, he immediately rolled and cried in front of Chiang, hugged his thighs hard, and cried with tears.
Jiang Kaishi glanced at him with disgust and said: Don’t do this...
Yan Xishan was also comforting him. Only then did Ma Hongkui stop crying and put away his slightly exaggerated and hardworking "performance".
What's going on? Why did Ma Hongkui, the "King of Ningxia" who was once a mighty man, cry out so much? What is the purpose of Chiang Kai-shek coming to "visit the disease" this time? What is the final outcome of Ma Hongkui?
- [The Battle of the Northwest Kings of the "Qingning Two Horses"]
1949, Hu Zongnan of Chiang Kai-shek's troops was severely injured by the Northwest Field Army led by Peng Dehuai and retreated to Qinling . As soon as he retreated, Qinghai " Ma Family Army " Ma Bufang and Ningxia "Ma Family Army" Ma Hongkui had to face the gun of the Northwest Field Army.
Chiang Kai-shek couldn't sleep at night because of this matter.
If you want to repel the Northwest Field Army at this time, Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui must join forces, but the strength of the two of them should not be underestimated. If they are not controlled in the future after joining forces, Chiang Kai-shek will not be worth the loss.
In order to make Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui serve him without letting their power grow stronger, Chiang Kai-shek took advantage of their vanity and thought of a "loss move": he ordered the two Ma to form the "Ningqing Joint Corps", and at the same time promised that they would be the chairman of Gansu Province and the chief military and political affairs of the Northwest. As for who holds what position I will hold, you will fight for it yourself.
Sure enough, the second horses thought hard and tried their best to compete for the Northwest Military and Political Chief, the highest position in the Northwest.
However, Ma Hongkui is always duller than Ma Bufang. Ma Hongkui only knew how to invite military and political officials and social gentry to visit their homes and create momentum for himself, but he did not know that the cunning Ma Bufang had already used "gold diplomacy."
Ma Bufang knew very well that those who could decide this position were not those Kuomintang military and political officials, nor local gentry, but people like Li Zongren and Yan Xishan. There was a lot of gold in Qinghai. Ma Bufang has been a gentry for generations. His father had already started to plunder gold at that time. When he accumulated this generation, he had countless gold in his hands.
Because of his wealth, Ma Bufang directly connected the upper-level relationship and used gold to buy those big figures, making Li Zongren, Yan Xishan and others very satisfied with him. The position of the military and political chief of Northwest was basically decided on Ma Bufang.
And what was Ma Hongkui doing at this time? He was looking for an opportunity to "attack" Guo Jiqiao , who was temporarily acting as chairman of Gansu Province at the time.
Because Guo Jiqiao also has the opportunity to compete for the position of military and political chief in the Northwest, Ma Hongkui has to solve all those who threaten him in order to make his winning rate larger. Just so happened that he really got a chance.
At that time, Guo Jiqiao was preparing to issue large-scale public bonds . As soon as the news came out, it aroused public outrage. Ma Hongkui immediately used public opinion and pretended to scold Guo Jiqiao for plundering people's wealth. He also publicly accused Guo Jiqiao of being the first to fail at the conference, which made Guo Jiqiao unable to come. Due to the great pressure on public opinion, Guo Jiqiao did not have the opportunity to compete with Ma Hongkui.
Just like that, Ma Hongkui was messing with Guo Jiqiao here, and Ma Bufang was bribing the superiors there.
When Ma Hongkui heard about Ma Bufang's operations, he was immediately panicked. Later, in order to satisfy both of them as much as possible, they coordinated. The final result was that Ma Bufang served as the head of the Northwest Military and Political Administration and Ma Hongkui served as the vice chairman of the Gansu Provincial Government.
Ma Hongkui is not as smooth as Ma Bufang, nor is he rich as Ma Bufang, so he can only accept all this.
Later, in order to win over Ma Hongkui, Ma Bufang pretended to promote Ma Hongkui to the position of Chairman of the Gansu Provincial Government in the future, but secretly asked Guo Jiqiao to check and balance Ma Hongkui. Ma Hongkui believed it at first, but it was not until he saw that Ma Bufang had no intention of helping him, so he realized that he had been deceived and that the two of them had become a gangster.
[Lanzhou defeated and fled to Chongqing]
1949, under the command of Peng Dehuai, the Northwest Field Army was unstoppable, first defeating Lanzhou, and then forcing Xining.
Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui fled to Chongqing one after another.
Ma Hongkui knew that he had escaped. After arriving in Chongqing, he did not dare to see Chiang Kai-shek. He lived in Lianjia Garden, which was dozens of miles away from Chongqing. Those who accompanied him were his fourth concubine Liu Muxia, his fifth concubine Zou Deyi, and his sixth concubine Zhao Lanxiang. Not long after, the eldest son Ma Dunhou and the second son Ma Dunjing also flew to Chongqing one after another.
After arriving in Chongqing, it was not Chiang Kai-shek who came to find Ma Hongkui, but Xu Yongchang . He came with Chiang Kai-shek's order.
It turned out that Chiang Kai-shek wanted Ma Hongkui to transfer Ningxia troops to Hanzhong to assist Hu Zongnan. But Ma Hongkui was not willing, he didn't want to hand over the military power just like this. Xu Yongchang also knew how to understand Ma Hongkui, so when he first came, he still advised Ma Hongkui with kind words.
But seeing that Ma Hongkui never let go, Xu Yongchang lost much patience. He looked at Ma Hongkui without any doubt and his face became serious. Ma Hongkui was a "bare commander" in Chongqing at this time. He had no right to choose. After a while, he agreed to transfer troops.
But Ma Hongkui's army was at the end of his strength. Under the fierce offensive of the People's Liberation Army, Ningxia was soon liberated.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek had already begun to plan to go to Taiwan, and Ma Hongkui was very uneasy:
He was not sure whether Chiang Kai-shek would take him away. First, he was not Chiang Kai-shek's direct troops, and second, there was no troops now. If he doesn't take him away and stays in Chongqing, what should he do if the People's Liberation Army attacks in the future?
Ma Hongkui was anxious and simply said he was sick and stayed at home, and no one saw him.
But not long after, the Lianjia Garden came to the "uninvited guest". On that day, the Lianjia Garden was suddenly covered with staff from the Blue Clothes Club. Chiang Kai-shek's confidant Yu Jishi set up guards in every corner of the garden, and then several military and political officials rushed over one after another.
As soon as Ma Hongkui saw this scene, he knew that a big shot might be coming.
As expected, Jiang Jingguo and Qian Dajun got out of a bullet-proof luxury car. Ma Hongkui knew what their arrival meant. Chiang Ching-kui told Ma Hongkui that Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xishan would arrive soon. After hearing this, Ma Hongkui originally wanted to go to the door to welcome Chiang Kai-shek, but Chiang Ching-kui said that Chiang Kai-shek was thinking that he was sick and allowed him to stay in bed and wait.
Ma Hongkui no longer insisted.
At this time, Ma Hongkui seemed calm, but in fact he was so nervous that he was so nervous that this meeting basically determined his life and death.
An hour later, five extended version Lincoln parked at the entrance of Lianjia Garden. Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xishan got out of one of the cars and went straight to Ma Hongkui's room. As soon as Ma Hongkui saw Chiang Kai-shek, he got up with his hands and feet, knelt in front of him with a "thump", hugged his thighs and began to cry loudly, and said in tears that he was sorry for Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Kai-shek was also confused by Ma Hongkui's operation, bent down with disgust, and while pulling Ma Hongkui, he said: Don't do this, don't do this... I have a responsibility.
When Yan Xishan saw this scene, he hurriedly advised Ma Hongkui: It's okay, it's nothing, it's just starting over.
Ma Hongkui stopped crying, put away his hard-working "performance", and began to communicate with Chiang Kai-shek and others normally.
Ma Hongkui briefly explained the battle situation in Lanzhou, and Chiang Kai-shek just listened to it and was about to leave soon. Ma Hongkui always wanted to ask whether he was going to Taiwan, but Chiang Kai-shek came and left quickly, so Ma Hongkui had no chance to ask. Finally, Ma Hongkui came out to see him off. Before Chiang Kai-shek got on the bus, he left a sentence, asking Ma Hongkui to go to Taiwan.
Ma Hongkui hadn't reacted yet. After confirming that he could go to Taiwan, he immediately went back to pack his luggage happily.
Later, Chiang Kai-shek sent someone to tell Ma Hongkui that it is okay to go to Taiwan, but he cannot take the Chennard plane. Chennard is an American, and Chiang Kai-shek's move proved that he had extremely distrust of Ma Hongkui and was afraid that his American plane would run away.
Ma Hongkui can only say one thing about this - "A defeated general is worse than a chicken or a dog"! After
, Ma Hongkui had to send someone to China Airlines. After many hardships on the way, he finally arrived in Taiwan.
- [The bumpy second half of life]
After Ma Hongkui arrived in Taiwan, his life was not as smooth as he imagined.
Chiang Kai-shek asked Ma Hongkui to serve as a member of the Kuomintang Central Evaluation Committee, but the good times did not last long. Soon someone impeached him and Ma Bufang to delay fighter jets on the battlefield in Lanzhou, resulting in defeat. Among the people who impeached Ma Hongkui, the one who worked the most was Guo Jiqiao.
The grudge between the two people really corresponds to the saying "It's not that I won't repay you, the time has not come"!
Ma Bufang had expected this. He arrived in Taiwan five days earlier than Ma Hongkui. At that time, when Ma Bufang met Chiang Kai-shek, he pushed the blame for his defeat on Ma Hongkui, saying that he preserved his strength on the battlefield, which led to delaying the fighter's opportunity.
Chiang Kai-shek originally did not trust Ma Hongkui. After Ma Bufang said this, he disliked Ma Hongkui even more.
Seeing that Ma Bufang and his son poured dirty water on them, Ma Hongkui naturally did not want to take the blame, so he immediately argued with Ma Bufang and his son, and no one admitted that defeat was his fault. After the incident of
was later spread in the newspaper, many people were thinking: It’s time to do so, so what can we do if we hold him accountable? The victory of the Communist Party is already the general trend. Even if Lanzhou is held, can the Kuomintang turn around?
Some people also say that so many senior Kuomintang generals have failed, so why do they impeach Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui alone?
In fact, everyone knows these issues. Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui are not Chiang Kai-shek's direct troops, and they once had a disobedient attitude towards Chiang Kai-shek. It doesn't matter whether such a general has any or not, so it will naturally be even more irrelevant to impeach or not.
Since this impeachment was really unnecessary, when someone defended Erma, the impeachment case was left unresolved.
But after experiencing this incident, Ma Bufang felt that if he continued to stay in Taiwan, there would be something going on, so he bought a passport for a lot of money and flew to Saudi Arabia for refuge. After that, he lived there until he died of illness.
Ma Bufang's departure also sounded a wake-up call for Ma Hongkui. He is now weak. If Chiang Kai-shek's direct descendants want to cause trouble for him, wouldn't it be easy? Thinking of this, Ma Hongkui felt that he could not stay for a long time, so he began to plan to leave.
Although Ma Hongkui is not as strong as Ma Bufang, he was once the leader of the army and still has some money in his hands. What makes him smart is that as early as two years ago, he secretly transported his money to Hong Kong and other places, and asked Chennard to deposit it into Bank of America for him. In addition, he also bought houses in Hong Kong, the United States and other places, so that one day he could have a place to stay when he had nowhere to go.
And his deployments finally came in handy at this moment.
So, Ma Hongkui lied that the fourth concubine Liu Muxia was treated. He took her to Hong Kong first, and then lived there. His other two concubines later came to Hong Kong. It was not until 1951 that Ma Hongkui took them to the United States.
When Zou Deyi, Liu Muxia and Zhao Sanxiang were not getting along well, and conflicts and frictions often arise. Ma Hongkui was also very embarrassed when he was sandwiched among the three of them, so he had to coax this and that for a while, and he also found it very difficult to do.
In 1956, after another quarrel, Zou Deyi couldn't stand it anymore. She didn't want to live such a life again, nor did she want things to make a big deal and let others laugh at them, so she directly found Ma Hongkui and told him that she didn't want to argue like this every day. After all, they were a couple. At this point, it would be easy to get together.
This move is exactly the same as Ma Hongkui's wishes, because he had enough, and he even felt that Zou De was understanding and gave him 5,000 US dollars, and the two divorced in a decent manner.
Later, Zou De met a university professor and soon entered the marriage hall with that university professor.
As the saying goes, blessings come unparalleled, but misfortunes never come alone. The fire in the "backyard" was resolved just a few years ago, and something happened to the "former dynasty".
In 1960, Ma Hongkui's second son Ma Dunjing had some economic disputes with his grandson Ma Jiahua (Ma Dunhou's eldest son). The uncle and nephew were in trouble due to property issues. This incident caused a lot of controversy at the time and became a topic of discussion for everyone after dinner.
says that family shame should not be made public. The uncle and nephew ignored the family's face and insisted on making a big deal. Ma Hongkui was very upset about this. What made Ma Hongkui even more heartbroken was that not only did he not persuade the uncle and nephew, he was also sued to court!
Ma Hongkui was so angry that he was suffering from all kinds of illnesses. Since then, his health has been getting worse day by day.
Ma Hongkui has had a lot of ups and downs in the second half of his life, especially after experiencing the affairs of Ma Dunjing's uncle and nephew, Ma Hongkui knew that he would be like this in his life. This mediocre second half of his life is basically about to see the head.
6
In 1970, Ma Hongkui had an attack. He felt that he might not have much time, so he told Liu Muxia and Zhao Lanxiang that he must send him back to his motherland for burial after he passed away. The two agreed with tears.
On January 14, Ma Hongkui died of illness in Los Angeles, USA.
The sixth concubine Zhao Lanxiang ran around for Ma Hongkui's last wish, and finally realized his last wish.
Ironically, after Ma Hongkui's death, none of his descendants in the United States were taking care of his body to transport his body back to the motherland. Even Zhao Lanxiang was the only one who escorted Ma Hongkui's body back. After
arrived in Taiwan, Ma Dunhou came to pick him up. When I went to the United States, Ma Hongkui's eldest son Ma Dunhou did not go and stayed in Taiwan. This time, Ma Hongkui came back, and Ma Dunhou brought his family and former Gansu fellow villagers to welcome Ma Hongkui's body.
Ma Hongkui's life is a pity. Did he think that when he passed away in the future, there would not even be many relatives and friends to see him off?
