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During the Republic of China, a shocking case occurred. Someone actually reported to Chiang Kai-shek that Kong Xiangxi had greedy for 2.6 billion. This incident made Chiang angry - My income in the Republic of China was only 800 million yuan in one year. Where did Kong Xiangxi get a huge sum of 2.6 billion yuan? But, what is the truth of the matter? Did Kong Xiangxi get 2.6 billion?
1. A ridiculous shocking case, Chiang Kai-shek: Impossible
When Chiang Kai-shek first received this letter of report, his first thought was impossible. The first and most important point is that the income was only 800 million yuan in the year of the Republic of China. Even if Kong Xiangxi wanted to get it, where did he get 2.6 billion yuan in a short time? So Chiang Kai-shek believes that this matter is logically unreasonable.
On the other hand, Chiang Kai-shek had a very good relationship with the Kong family. The reason why Chiang Kai-shek was able to marry Soong Mei-ling was actually largely because of Kong Xiangxi's wife Soong Ailing . Because at that time, the entire Song family , almost all other members opposed Soong Mei-ling's marriage to Chiang Kai-shek. , including Song Ziwen , Song Qingling and others, they almost firmly opposed this matter.
The reason why Chiang Kai-shek succeeded in the end was that in addition to Soong Mei-ling's persistence, the most important thing was that her elder sister Soong Ailing came out and said good things. Song Ailing believed that Chiang Kai-shek had great potential for development in the future, so if Soong Mei-ling married Chiang Kai-shek, she would be able to enjoy all her wealth and glory later.
This sentence touched Soong Mei-ling's meaning, so Chiang Kai-shek was able to embrace the beauty in the end.
And Soong Mei-ling helped Chiang Kai-shek's subsequent career. Soong Mei-ling's eldest sister's husband's family was also a wealthy family at that time, so naturally provided a lot of support to Chiang Kai-shek. Therefore, in his heart, Chiang Kai-shek had a good impression of his brother-in-law, so in the face of this scandal of his eldest brother-in-law, he naturally subconsciously refused to believe it.
The third reason is that at that time, there were many mountains within the Kuomintang, and Kong Xiangxi must have been Chiang Kai-shek's most confidant . This so-called case may be just a competitor, and it has specifically expanded a scandal to deal with Kong Xiangxi, and to deal with Kong Xiangxi to deal with Chiang Kai-shek.
Moreover, many related reports were still two ordinary young people, which made Chiang Kai-shek doubt his authenticity. However, with the huge demonstrations in society, Chiang Kai-shek had to send the then Minister of Finance to investigate the case, and the results of the investigation surprised Chiang himself: is really not groundless, 2.6 billion is indeed true!
2. Magical reality: Kong Xiangxi did get 2.6 billion
So, How did Kong Xiangxi get such a huge sum of 2.6 billion in the Republic of China, where only 800 million yuan is earning a huge sum of 2.6 billion yuan every year? Who exposed his affairs?
Actually, Chiang Kai-shek knew part of the whole story.
Episode 0 During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek and the National Government faced a serious financial crisis. At that time, the Kuomintang army had millions of troops under its command and needed to purchase various weapons abroad, so Chiang Kai-shek and others urgently needed a lot of money. The first way that Chiang Kai-shek thought of at that time was to borrow money from Americans. Americans were generous and borrowed $500 million to Chiang Kai-shek.
However, 500 million US dollars was only a drop in the bucket for Chiang Kai-shek at that time. To meet the various needs of the national army at that time, 500 million US dollars was obviously not enough. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek issued treasury bonds to borrow money from the people according to the common method at that time, but this method did not work.
On the one hand, the people at that time were almost too poor to afford to eat. even if they had some spare money, they had to use it to maintain their survival needs. ; on the other hand, Chiang Kai-shek's extremely credible team among the people was actually quite bad at that time. Those bosses with a little money were unwilling to buy national debts, for fear that they would not be able to collect anything they bought at that time.
So although Chiang Kai-shek issued the government bonds with great fanfare, he did not make much money.
For this reason, they had to hold a meeting to discuss how to get money to maintain the normal expenses of the national army. As the Minister of Finance at the time, Kong Xiangxi naturally had to bear the main responsibility. Chiang Kai-shek was also very much looking forward to the elder brother-in-law he trusted could give him a good solution to help him solve this real urgent problem.
Kong Xiangxi is worthy of being a big businessman. He soon came up with a solution - uses the US dollar loan lent to them by the United States as a guarantee for the treasury bonds at that time. If you hold the treasury bonds, you can directly exchange them for US dollars. so that the people will no longer not believe in the credibility of treasury bonds. After all, the US dollar was quite strong internationally at that time.
Even if Chiang Kai-shek's national debt is unreliable, the US dollar is definitely reliable.
When Chiang Kai-shek heard this, he thought this was a good idea, so they soon arranged for the issuance of this treasury bond. When the people heard that the government bond could be exchanged directly for US dollars, everyone began to rush to buy the government bonds. For a time, the Kuomintang army raised a large amount of money, which caused a new problem - currency depreciation.
At that time, the US dollar was a stable currency, and the amount of US dollars in Chiang Kai-shek's hands was quite limited; while the fiat currency used by the people to buy treasury bonds was relatively unlimited. This caused the proportion of fiat currency to USD, and soon a plunge occurred: can be exchanged for one dollar at the beginning of 20 fiat currency, and the latter can be exchanged for one dollar at more than 200 fiat currency.
This immediately made Kong Xiangxi feel moved. He and the Treasury Director Lu Xian discussed taking out the bonds that had not been issued in the Treasury yet. He thought that employees would issue benefits and other reasons, so he made a clever account. and then they sold them and directly made 2.6 billion French dollars. It can be said that they made a lot of money in one go.
The National Government's three-year finances have not received so much money.
3. Justice will not be absent. Kong Xiangxi's scandal was bizarrely exposed.
. Logically speaking, Kong Xiangxi himself is a veteran, and the people who took the accounts for him at that time were all the elites of them. The fake accounts they made should not be found; even if they were found, no one dared to expose this matter. After all, Who doesn't know the relationship between Kong Xiangxi and Chiang Kai-shek, and who doesn't know that Chiang Kai-shek is quite protective of his shortcomings?
However, this matter was really exposed.
I don’t know whether it was intentional or unintentional. A handwritten letter from Xiong Guoqing, former head of the Kuomintang Bond Section, was not sure why it fell into the Kuomintang Treasury Bureau. It happened to be picked up by two ordinary young men, who also worked here and felt quite righteous. After they opened the envelope and looked at it, they were both surprised and angry: Kong Xiangxi actually greedy for so much money!
This made the two passionate young people at that time determined to make this shocking case public.
They continue to search for relevant evidence and prepare all the information fully. However, these two young men are not nothing and know nothing. They know very well that Kong Xiangxi’s relationship within the national army is complicated. If they report it naked, it is likely that the news will not be made public yet, and the two of them will die inexplicably.
So they told the relevant content at that time that Chen Gengya, the political party member of the Political Association, . Chen Gengya is also a very good person. On July 7, 1945, the Fourth Congress of the National Political Consultative Conference was grandly held in Chongqing. At this time, important people from all walks of life gathered. Chen Gengya exposed the case at the conference and exposed the important information he collected.
This time caused shock to the whole country. The angry people even took to the streets and called on Chiang Kai-shek to thoroughly investigate the corruption case of Kong Xiangxi; It was under this pressure that Chiang Kai-shek had to take over the case.
He ordered the new finance minister to investigate. However, Kong Xiangxi served as the Minister of Finance of the National Army for a long time, and basically everything is his; even the new Minister of Finance cannot completely leave him alone.So Chiang Kai-shek sent the new Minister of Finance to investigate, but in fact he was prepared to find out that he could not find it.
As expected, because Kong Xiangxi was a good at accounting, and the "brothers" in the world all took care of each other. Although the case of was investigated for many days with great fanfare, no relevant evidence could be found. Chiang Kai-shek wanted to hold it high and let it go gently.
Who knew that the people were once again extremely dissatisfied and demanded that Chiang Kai-shek must thoroughly investigate the case.
4. Love a small family or a big world? Chiang Kai-shek's choice is very clear
, and this matter is linked to the US dollar, which actually affects the image of the national army in the eyes of the United States, and may even lead to Chiang Kai-shek's inability to borrow money in the United States in the future. So the importance of this matter has been escalated, and Chiang Kai-shek had to ask someone to investigate carefully and thoroughly, and there was no result in the final result of .
Chiang Kai-shek was also quite experienced. He resigned from the position of president of the Central Bank of Kong Xiangxi at that time from , which was considered to have covered up the public anger that was rebellious at that time. is an unprecedented case, and it was finally completely buried through this method.
From the short-term perspective, Chiang Kai-shek helped the national army through this trick. After all, Chiang Kai-shek began to borrow money from the Americans, borrowing money from the Americans to buy American weapons, and then began a civil war with great fanfare.
However, in the long run, Chiang Kai-shek's move is unwise.
Because of his cover in this case, Kong Xiangxi successfully avoided the sanctions he deserved, and the people also completely doubted Chiang Kai-shek's team's credibility and even began to stand opposite Chiang Kai-shek. After all, all the 2.6 billion yuan of fiat money was obtained from the people, and the people finally had to bear the blame for .
Chiang Kai-shek was unwilling to let Kong Xiangxi come out to take responsibility, that is, let the people fight with their own blood and tears.
In fact, this is also Chiang Kai-shek's usual routine. He has always liked his direct line. Even if he made mistakes for those who were close to him, he would raise up and gently put down ; while those local powerful people who were not his direct line, Chiang Kai-shek would try his best to deal with them, and even use a knife to kill people to completely defeat them.
So when Chiang Kai-shek's later period, many people didn't want to follow him anymore. His defeat in the War of Liberation was already doomed.
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