On April 6, 1975, after 225 years of living in Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek died of a sudden heart disease at Shilin Official Residence in Taipei City. At this time, Zhang Xueliang , who was also under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek at his residence at 70, Fuxing 3rd Road, Taipei City, received a call from his friend Zhang Qun .
On the phone, the other party told him that Chiang Kai-shek had passed away. Afterwards, Soong Mei-ling, who also had a close relationship with Zhang Xueliang, personally picked up Zhang Xueliang and went to Chiang Kai-shek's mourning hall to pay condolences.
At the condolence scene, Zhang Xueliang met Chiang Kai-shek who was already lying in crystal coffin . After he gave him a pair of elegy couplets, he turned around and left the scene without saying a word.
Jiang Jingguo After seeing this elegiac couplet, it is said that his expression is very complicated, but there is no way to attack it on the spot. Zhang Xueliang's elegiac couplet clearly has sixteen words written: " care is like flesh and blood; political disputes are like hatred ".
Zhang Xueliang's elegiac couplet, from the perspective of people today, can be said to be "true and sincere". He did not beautify Chiang Kai-shek's death at all. At the same time, Zhang Xueliang also conveyed a message to the outside world through this incident.
That is, Zhang Xueliang admitted that during the decades when Chiang Kai-shek was under house arrest, Chiang Kai-shek was actually very good to Zhang Xueliang, which was so good that he could be described as care and sympathetic .
However, in the following sentence, Zhang Xueliang immediately expressed his attitude clearly. In terms of political views, the two were like mortal enemies. In the final analysis, Zhang Xueliang is opposed to Chiang Kai-shek, which is no wonder Chiang Ching-kuo is very embarrassed.
The relationship between Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang is very complicated in modern history. Especially in Xi'an Incident , Zhang Xueliang, who was Chiang Kai-shek's sworn brother, and Yang Hucheng suddenly launched a "military remonstrance" and seized Chiang Kai-shek with armed forces.
Moreover, during the armed seizure of Chiang Kai-shek, a brief firefight occurred, Chiang Kai-shek's guard captain was also his nephew Jiang Xiaoxian was shot dead by the 17th Route Army. According to the situation at that time, Zhang Xueliang and Chiang Kai-shek had completely broken their faces from this moment.
However, things were not as simple as imagined. Before the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang had a communication with Yang Hucheng. The main content was that he could not kill Chiang Kai-shek no matter what, otherwise he would have to go to Nanjing with Yang Hucheng to apologize.
From today's perspective, it is wise to Zhang Xueliang not kill Chiang Kai-shek. However, at that time, whether it was the 17th Route Army or the students in Xi'an, they wanted to kill Jiang to thank the world for their anger. In this process, not only did Zhang Xueliang's accurate judgment on the situation, but also showed Zhang Xueliang's original intention: to stop the civil war in and force Jiang to resist Japan.
In fact, after the incident, Chiang Kai-shek realized that Zhang Xueliang had no malice towards him, so he asked Soong Mei-ling to "go deep into the tiger's den" and participate in the subsequent peaceful negotiations.
When Chiang Kai-shek spoke, he agreed to fight against Japan unanimously, and Zhang Xueliang immediately released the person. In order to show his sincerity, Zhang Xueliang ignored everyone's dissuasion and made an extremely bold decision and flew back to Nanjing with Chiang Kai-shek.
After arriving in Nanjing, he was immediately prosecuted by Military Court on charges of "hijacking the commander-in-chief" and sentenced to ten years in prison. Immediately afterwards, Chiang Kai-shek personally ordered his "pardon" to be "pardoned". He seemed to be magnanimous and disregarded his past grudges, but in fact he added a sentence to the verdict, which should be strictly regulated. Afterwards, Zhang Xueliang began a house arrest career lasting more than half a century.
Zhang Xueliang, who was under house arrest, would never have thought that he would live a life of a quasi-prisoner for more than 50 years from now on. At first, in his opinion, he could restore his freedom by waiting until the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Unexpectedly, when the Anti-Japanese War had just ended and Chiang Kai-shek's personal prestige reached its peak in the country, he would not have thought that Zhang Xueliang had urged him to make a move, but instead put forward three conditions for Zhang Xueliang. As long as he could do it, he would agree to release Zhang Xueliang. Each of the three conditions
is very informative.These three conditions are: 1. Zhang Xueliang must admit that launching the Xi'an Incident was a trap of the CCP, which led to the subsequent situation. Second, hand over the secret telegram sent by Chiang Kai-shek to Zhang Xueliang during the September 18th incident. Third, go abroad immediately after restoring freedom.
From these three conditions, it can be seen that Chiang Kai-shek just wanted to use Zhang Xueliang's hand to get rid of his dark history.
Therefore, after Zhang Xueliang clearly rejected these three conditions, Chiang Kai-shek, who was angry, made up his mind to completely limit Zhang Xueliang's freedom. Therefore, whether it was the War of Resistance Against Japan or the War of Liberation, until Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan, although Zhang Xueliang's house arrest was changing, he never gained freedom.
However, Zhang Xueliang himself recalled that during the period under house arrest, Chiang Kai-shek could generally meet the requirements for living facilities and treatment.
One of them, Chiang Kai-shek suggested that Zhang Xueliang could fish and read books to cultivate his sentiment. As a result, Zhang Xueliang said that there was no fishing rod and asked for a telescopic fishing rod made in the United States. His move was to imply that Chiang Kai-shek should let him go. As a result, Chiang Kai-shek brought him an American fishing rod without hesitation. Zhang Xueliang broke the fishing rod in two in anger.
In addition, during the house arrest, Zhang Xueliang was seriously ill more than once, and everyone around Chiang Kai-shek was secretly happy, thinking that it was most in Chiang Kai-shek's interests to make Zhang Xueliang die of illness. Unexpectedly, Chiang Kai-shek did his best to send the best doctors and resources, which allowed Zhang Xueliang to turn danger into safety many times, and his life span was even far greater than Chiang Kai-shek himself. Zhang Xueliang also knew these things well.
After Zhang Xueliang moved to Hawaii in his later years, he publicly told reporters that his life was divided into two stages, one was before the age of 36, and the other was after the age of 36. From the age of 21, Zhang Xueliang appeared on the stage of Chinese history and forced Jiang to fight against Japan by relying on the Xi'an Incident, making his own unique contributions to the entire country. However, at the age of 36, as he was imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek, his life has actually ended since then.
During the imprisonment for more than half a century, Zhang Xueliang's mentality gradually changed. He broke up his marriage with his first wife, Yu Fengzhi , married Miss Zhao Si who had been with him, and converted to Christianity, and even his hot temper when he was young was gone.
The grievances and grievances that had been entangled with Chiang Kai-shek for more than half a century were also summarized with a sixteen-character elegiac couplet, which came to an end.
